Guo Huai's military order is actually not very responsible.
As a general, in less than half an hour, he issued two completely unrelated and even contradictory military orders, which could easily cause confusion among the sergeants during their execution.
The soldiers of the Chinese Army on the front foot were still trying to encircle Wei Yan, but on the back foot they suddenly changed the direction of the attack and chose to march forward to break out. What if Wei Yan seized the opportunity and held on to it? !
You ask Guan Qiujian to lead five thousand infantry and two thousand cavalry to delay Wei Yan, but what is the morale of the five thousand infantry, and how can Guanqiu Jian, who is on the periphery of the battlefield, pass through the Shu army sandwiched in the middle to command? You didn't give any explanation.
The most important thing is that the front army and the middle army have all changed the direction of attack. What should the thousands of people in the rear army do? ! Who is responsible for the withdrawal of Wen Qin's army who is responsible for breaking up the rear? !
Guo Huai's military order was very vague and irresponsible. It looked like Guo Huai had lost his wits.
After all, Guo Huai has lost his wits. There is nothing he can do.
Under Guo Huai's mental prediction, even if he could get rid of Wei Yan's entanglement and Wen Qin could block the pursuit of the Shu army from behind, he would still have to face the interception from the front led by Zhang Xi.
Therefore, Guo Huai must compete with Zhang Xi for time while ensuring his strength.
If given the chance, Guo Huai would of course want to take all the more than 30,000 Wei soldiers back to Chang'an, but now, under Guo Huai's imagination, Guo Huai believes that the Shu army will not give him such a chance.
After a brief weighing, Guo Huai had no choice but to ruthlessly abandon some of his soldiers and choose to preserve the Forbidden Army troops as much as possible. After all, even if the Forbidden Army troops retreated and fled like this, they could at least still have organization and combat effectiveness.
As for the other county soldiers, Guo Huai really couldn't care about them. He could only escape as many as he could.
Therefore, Guo Huai's military order, although it will be a bit confusing for the imperial soldiers with a relatively high degree of organization, it is not too difficult to execute after all. For county soldiers with an average organization, it is only as much as they can keep up with. , Guo Huai no longer cares.
As for the two young generals, Wen Qin, Guanqiu Jian and Guo Huai are really not worried about these two.
These two people are not incompetent. After seeing the purpose of their march, they will definitely understand their intentions and will never really stick to one side. The Guanzhong Plain is so big. If they want to find a way to escape, It's not that difficult.
Therefore, after Guo Huai's readjustment, the entire Wei army's offensive focus changed. At the same time, great chaos inevitably occurred within the Wei army.
These chaos were caused by the soldiers who did not know how to adjust their attack direction. Not only the county soldiers, but also some of the Cao Wei Imperial Army who were in the front-line combat sequence and were besieging Wei Yanjun had no time to adjust.
And Guo Huai did not wait for all these soldiers to be adjusted in place, and directly took the prospects of thousands of Forbidden Army soldiers who had been adjusted to counterattack in the direction of Wu Yi.
The other soldiers behind him could keep up but couldn't, and Guo Huai was helpless.
The sudden change of Guo Huai's army made Wei Yan, who was still fighting hard, somewhat unable to cope, let alone Wu Yi and Wang Ping, who were still working hard to attack.
Wei Yan was still struggling to block Wei Jun's encirclement and put on a defensive posture. But now, Wei Jun himself was in chaos. There was no threat from the attack, and he even retreated into a defensive formation.
Wu Yi was even more clueless.
A moment ago, Wu Yi was surrounding the defending Wei army and beating them up. Who would have thought that Guo Huai would suddenly come to the rescue with thousands of soldiers, and directly turn the defense into an attack, repelling Wu Yi's attack in one fell swoop, and repelling Wu Yi's army. After that, they did not pursue pursuit at all, but directly changed direction and headed towards the coast of the Weishui River.
Wu Yi was anxious at that time and wanted to follow the direction of Guo Huai's advance. But when he thought about it carefully, he only had 3,000 men, and the Wei army who broke out behind Guo Huai had at least 6,700, and this number may vary. As the breakout operation continues, the number continues to increase.
If you really want to push the opponent into a hurry, you may not be able to defeat the opponent with these three thousand people.
Since the enemy is so desperate, it is better not to chase him. It is better to go to meet General Wei Yan first and rescue Wei Yan from the heavy siege.
But Wu Yi's decision made Wei Yan angry and anxious.
What's urgent is that Wu Yi's judgment was completely wrong. At this time, Wu Yi should pursue and delay Guo Huaijun's escape at all costs, instead of coming to rescue him.
The angry thing is that if you think about it calmly, Wu Yi's approach is really right.
In the end, it was because he had too few troops, poor quality of soldiers, and insufficient combat effectiveness. If any of these three disadvantages were lost, Wu Yi would not give up chasing Guo Huai's fleeing army and instead come to support him.
This is what makes Wei Yan really angry - he can only watch Guo Huai lead his army to break out. With the few troops he has on hand, he can only delay Guo Huai to this point.
The only thing that Wei Yan is thankful for is that he delayed Guo Huai's advance for half a day. At the same time, when Guo Huai withdrew, he left behind at least 10,000 soldiers. After these soldiers were abandoned by Guo Huai, It has completely fallen into a state of chaos and collapse.
Since it is no longer possible to pursue Guo Huai, then Wei Yan would be very sorry for himself if he did not accept the "great gift" left by Guo Huai.
Therefore, Wei Yan also gave up the initial practice of defending in place and waiting for rescue, and turned to cooperate with Wu Yi and Wang Ping who were attacking from both sides, opening up the passage between the two, completing the joint forces as soon as possible, and then covering up the Wei army's rear. past.
Guanqiu Jian, who was supposed to be responsible for the containment, was so angry that he cursed after seeing Guo Huai leading his troops to break through alone.
This is not a retreat, this is a defeat, a large-scale defeat.
Guan Qiujian also couldn't understand Guo Huai's behavior of leading the imperial troops to escape, leaving most of the county soldiers to fend for themselves. This was not the responsibility of a head coach.
But now, no matter how much Guanqiu Jian scolds him, he has no choice. The situation on the battlefield has become one-sided.
Originally, there was a problem with Guo Huai's military orders. Guanqiu Jian was commanding the cavalry behind Wei Yan's army, but Guo Huai asked Guan Qiu Jian to coordinate the command of the 5,000 infantry in front of Wei Yan's army to contain Wei Yan's army. There is no mobile phone either. The cavalry and infantry are separated by two or three miles, and there is also a Wei Yanjun in the middle. How do you ask Guanqiu Jian to command it?
And speaking of it, if you, Guo Huai, don't retreat so quickly and give Guanqiu Jian some time, he can take the cavalry to take a detour and go to join the infantry, and there will still be a dozen. But you, Guo Huai, After giving the military order, he ran away without giving Guanqiu Jian any time to react. What could Guanqiu Jian do? !
Your coach has run away. Who among the infantry left to contain Wei Yan has the heart to fight for you? !
It's not that Guanqiu Jian didn't want to save him. When he saw Wei Yan trying to cooperate with Wu Yi to attack the 5,000 Wei troops who were left behind to contain them, Guanqiu Jian was anxious and desperately ordered the cavalry to prepare for an assault, regardless of casualties. In this way, Wei Yan's attack was contained and a way for the infantry to survive.
But this group of infantry was defeated too quickly.
According to Guan Qiujian's idea, he was the leader of the diversionary force left behind. Although he could not directly command the five thousand infantry in front, these soldiers should know where they were and at least hold on for a while, waiting for his rescue, right? !
But Wu Yi had just arrived over there, and Wei Yan here had not started a formal counterattack, so the infantry suddenly broke out into chaos, and then began to flee in all directions.
In that case, it is understandable that the soldiers chose to escape in order to survive. But you were defeated so quickly. Doesn't it mean that I was not prepared at all?
Guanqiu Jian was also speechless. After all, he had too little experience in the military. This was the first time he saw with his own eyes what it meant to be defeated like a mountain. Some things were really not something he could do if he wanted to.
And now for Guan Qiujian, there is still a fatal problem that needs to be solved - what should he do next? !
The infantry in front had collapsed. Once Wei Yan and Wu Yi joined forces, nearly 10,000 cavalry turned around and attacked. He only had 2,000 cavalry, and he was in a defeated army. The morale of the army was almost lost, and he would definitely not be able to defeat them.
Therefore, Guanqiu Jian also had to consider his own retreat.
At this time, Guanqiu Jian thought of the rear army.
There are at least seven or eight thousand soldiers in the rear army, and Wen Qin is in charge of commanding Wen Qin's ability is not bad at all.
As long as Wen Qin could barely maintain the morale and formation of his soldiers, it would not be difficult to break out with the cooperation of his two thousand cavalry.
When he thought of this, Guanqiu Jian immediately led his cavalry and quickly went to the rear to support him.
But Guanqiu Jian had just started to speed up his cavalry, and before he even ran two miles away, he saw a large number of defeated soldiers coming from the rear. They were all his own defeated soldiers.
Guanqiu Jian was stunned. Why was the rear army retreating faster than the central army? !
Defeated troops were everywhere, like a mess. After observing for a long time, Guanqiu Jian finally found Wen Qin's general flag, led his men and horses to kill it, and rescued Wen Qin.
At this time, Wen Qin probably had less than a thousand men and horses around him still listening to his command.
When the two met, they realized that their situations were actually similar.
Wen Qin wanted to be loyal to the country and led the seven to eight thousand troops in the rear army to try his best to stop Zhang Fei's pursuers and create conditions for Guo Huai to withdraw. But the problem was that Wen Qin overestimated his prestige in the army. .
After the blocking battle at Wuzhangyuan, Wen Qin had the illusion that as long as he was willing to die generously with the soldiers, the soldiers would never leave him.
This feeling is not necessarily wrong, but the premise is that you must be the only commander of this army. The soldiers have no one to rely on and can only rely on your orders.
But the current situation is not like this.
Guo Huai was the commander of the entire army, and it was Guo Huai who issued the military order for the entire army to advance and break out. What's even more terrible is that in the eyes of these Wei soldiers, General Guo Huai had already led his troops to open the breakout channel, and the soldiers behind only needed to If you keep up, you can escape.
In this case, who would stay with you, Wen Qin, to die! ! !
Therefore, the blocking troops in the rear army did not even see the shadow of Zhang Fei's army. When they heard that Guo Huai had led the army to withdraw, they immediately became confused and scrambled to escape.
After all, Wen Qin and Guan Qiu Jian lacked qualifications and lack of prestige in the army. They were completely unable to control the Wei troops who were scrambling for their lives. Even if they tried their best to gather the chaotic soldiers, they could only gather less than 3,000 infantry in the end. , plus the two thousand cavalry still in Guanqiu Jian's hands, there were about five thousand people in total.
Such an army cannot turn the tide of the war on such a chaotic battlefield.
As a last resort, Wen Qin and Guan Qiu Jian had to join forces and chose a direction to break out of the encirclement with all their strength.
(End of chapter)
