At this moment, Wei Yan actually had no more 7,000 soldiers available.
Although part of the rear army withdrew, Guan Qiujian's cavalry attack caused considerable losses to the rear army. Although it was too late to elaborate, Wei Yan judged based on his experience that this was only a quarter of an hour of fighting, and the rear army suffered at least one loss. There were five hundred soldiers.
The advantage of cavalry over infantry is so obvious.
If Wang Shuang hadn't suddenly charged into the formation and succeeded, then in Wei Yan's knowledge, none of the two thousand rear troops would have been able to withdraw.
Therefore, when Wei Yan calculated and found that he could actually have more than 6,000 troops to launch an attack on the Wei army's center, he was quite satisfied.
As for Guanqiu Jian sending cavalry again to cut off his retreat, Wei Yan really didn't care.
This was originally within the scope of Wei Yan's calculations and was not an unacceptable fact.
This part of Wei Yan's soldiers was originally intended to lure the enemy. Their only way out was to wait for Wu Yi to lead his troops to defeat Guo Huai, and then take advantage of the chaos of the Wei army to fight their way out of the rebel army.
Therefore, now Wei Yan must launch an attack on the Chinese army as soon as possible, attract as much as possible the reinforcements from the front and rear armies of the Wei army, and create opportunities for Wu Yi.
This difficulty is actually very high.
The Wei army's central army has about 15,000 men. In terms of strength, it is more than twice the number of soldiers led by Wei Yan. In terms of combat effectiveness, at least half of these 15,000 people are Cao Wei's central imperial army. The combat effectiveness is definitely Above the county soldiers under Wei Yan's command.
In normal times, if Wei Yan wanted to focus on breaking through such a military formation and burning the baggage stored in the Chinese army, it would be an impossible task.
But now, the Wei army has been short of food for a long time and is eager to retreat. The morale of the army's sergeants will inevitably be greatly affected.
In addition, Wei Yan did not intend to engage in a full-scale battle with the 15,000-strong Chinese army. He just wanted to seize the opportunity to make a breakthrough. The outcome should be 50-50.
This judgment is enough for Wei Yan to take an adventure.
In fact, when Zhuge Qian led some soldiers to approach the middle of the Wei army, Zhuge Qian could also clearly see that some of the soldiers in the Wei army were in obvious panic.
Zhuge Qian did not waste this opportunity and directly attacked the panicked soldiers. From the very beginning, he opened a hole in the Chinese army's defense line.
But that’s where it ends.
Zhuge Qian has some abilities, but compared with generals like Wei Yan, there is still a big gap. He can detect opportunities on the battlefield, but he cannot seize this opportunity to expand his results.
The soldiers who panicked for the first time were the logistics troops in Guo Huaizhong's army responsible for ensuring the supplies. Not only were their combat capabilities weak, but the quality of the soldiers was also uneven, which gave Zhuge Qian the opportunity to break in.
However, as the Cao Wei Imperial Army left by Guo Huai quickly came to the rescue, Zhuge Qian's ability was only enough for him to stabilize the front and maintain the gap. He was not able to kill these Cao Wei Imperial Army and expand the attack path.
In addition, Zhuge Qian did not have enough troops, and he did not know when Wei Yan would be able to come for reinforcements. Therefore, Zhuge Qian felt very guilty, and from time to time he thought about whether to withdraw and look for opportunities to attack again.
Fortunately, due to Zhuge Qian's lack of ability, he could not make the right choice at the first time. After hesitation, Wei Yan finally arrived in time with the central and rear troops to support him.
After Wei Yan took over the command of the battlefield, he immediately made a judgment.
Not only did they not evacuate Zhuge Qian's troops, but instead asked Wang Shuang to lead troops to reinforce Zhuge Qian, and used Wang Shuang as an arrow to use Wang Shuang's ability to fight in chaos to drag Cao Wei's imperial army into the rhythm of chaos.
If we really want to set up a battle array to attack and defend, with the organizational ability of Cao Wei's imperial army, even if the army's morale is low now, it is not impossible to block the attack of Wei Yan's county soldiers.
As long as these forbidden troops block their own attack, as time goes by, when more Wei troops realize that the Han army's combat effectiveness is no more than this, the battle will really be unwinnable.
Therefore, Wei Yan must choose to fight randomly, disrupt the formation and organization of both sides, and compete with each other based on his personal bravery and bloodshed. The competition is about who is more desperate.
Today's Wei army is a Wei army that is eager to retreat, not a Wei army that is completely surrounded and has no way to retreat. They have no reason to fight for their lives. Seeing that the enemy is not easy to mess with, these Wei army's first reaction is definitely not to fight desperately, but It's time to retreat quickly.
Without a fighting spirit, no matter how high-quality the soldiers are and how strong their organization is, they will not be able to exert their due combat effectiveness.
On the contrary, for the Han army, if they cannot repel the Wei army in front of them, they will really be trapped in a tight siege with no way out. The Han army has enough reasons to fight hard.
Under the command of Wei Yan, a chaotic battle really made the Wei army's central defense line retreat steadily, and it felt like it was about to collapse at any time.
At this time, the general Wei Yan no longer stayed behind to command, but personally joined the battlefield with a sword. At this time, the general personally went to the battlefield, which not only greatly improved the morale of his side, but also used Wei Yan as an arrow to rely on. Wei Yan's personal bravery opened or expanded loopholes in the Wei army's defense on the battlefield.
All this was going quite smoothly, but when Wei Yan was about to break into the central army, kill the enemy's defense line, and set fire to the baggage, the three thousand former soldiers sent by Guo Huai finally arrived.
These three thousand soldiers were not only a new force joining the battlefield, but they also brought Guo Huai's order - the entire army stood firm, protected the baggage, and surrounded and killed the enemy.
When there is no clear military order, it is understandable that these sergeants would think of retreating or even escaping when they did not know what to do.
But now that Guo Huai's military order has arrived, all the captains of the Chinese Army must strictly implement it.
Although there is still no general to command these soldiers, the high degree of organization of Cao Wei's imperial army can be reflected at this time - under the command of various captains, Cao Wei's soldiers began to group into groups of hundreds and more than a thousand. Gather together and move towards the direction of the supply camp at the same time.
It is not difficult for Wei Yan, an experienced general, to break through such a defense one by one. But the problem is that there are too many Wei troops. Even if Wei Yan can break through them one by one, his purpose of burning down the enemy's baggage may not be possible. It was difficult to achieve for a while.
Not to mention, it would attract more soldiers from the front and rear armies to come and support the Chinese army.
Yes, 3,000 former soldiers have been sent to the Chinese army, but the problem is that according to the intelligence obtained by Wei Yan, Guo Huai's former army originally had 8,000 men.
Even if 3,000 men are sent now, Guo Huai still has 5,000 men, but Wu Yi has only 3,000 Northern troops.
Although the Northern Army is also known as the elite of the Han Dynasty, many of these soldiers have never been on the battlefield. No one can guarantee what the outcome will be in a real fight.
In the final analysis, the foundation of the Han Dynasty is still too weak. He dare not select the best from the troops with combat experience to form the North and South Army. For fear that this will delay the combat effectiveness of other troops, he can only recruit from scratch and choose Liang Jiazi to retrain. .
Therefore, not to mention Wei Yan, even Wu Yi, the chief officer who had been engaged in the training of the Northern and Southern armies, actually had no idea.
The safest way is for Wei Yan to work harder to defeat more Chinese troops and attract Guo Huai to send reinforcements to the Chinese army again.
But...it's really hard.
Wei Yan fought hard while thinking of a way, but after much deliberation, there was no other better way besides fighting desperately.
But at this time, Wu Yi couldn't wait any longer.
Because Wei Yan's troubles with the Chinese army really effectively diverted Guo Huai's attention, Guo Huai sent most of his scouts to the direction of the Chinese army to investigate the situation, resulting in a considerable reduction in the number of reconnaissance scouts in the front army.
Thanks to this, Wu Yi marched in a low-key manner with three thousand Northern Army soldiers, and actually moved to a place seven miles away from Guo Huai's former army's main formation.
But that's it. At this distance, Wu Yi was finally discovered by Guo Huai's scouts.
Now that Wu Yi has been discovered, there is no need to continue hiding.
Quickly arranging the army into formation, the whole army expected Guo Huai's front army to launch an attack.
When Guo Huai learned that Shu County had appeared seven miles away from him, he was also shocked. His mind turned quickly and he understood everything immediately.
Wei Yan of the Chinese Army was just a cover. This Shu army was ruthless enough to use an army general as bait just to sneak attack on their own front army.
However, when Guo Huai heard from the scouts that the Shu army on the flank of the former army was only two to three thousand strong, Guo Huai breathed a sigh of relief.
The former army is all the elite of the Forbidden Army, and there are as many as 5,000 people. Even if the military morale is low now, it is not something that two or three thousand people of the Shu army can do anything about.
Not to mention, now that the enemy general is still fighting in the Chinese army, as long as the one who comes is not Wei Yan himself, then Guo Huai is really confident that he can completely suppress this Shu army of only two to three thousand people.
This is really not Guo Huai's underestimation of the enemy, but Guo Huai's confidence in himself. According to the Mei County intelligence obtained by Guo Huai, in addition to one Wei Yan, the Mei County defenders also had Wei Yan's deputy general Wu Ban and a surrendered general Zhuge Qian available. .
If Wei Yan was personally commanding the attack on the Chinese army, then the leader of the surprise attack on the front army was most likely Wei Yan's deputy general Wu Ban.
Who is this Wu Ban? !
Have any of you heard of it? !
Guo Huai didn't believe it. He was not even afraid of famous Shu army generals like Zhang Xi and Zhang Fei. How could he still suffer at the hands of a small Wu Ban? !
When Guo Huai saw from a distance that the commander-in-chief of the invading Shu army was named "Wu", he became even more confident.
(End of chapter)
