To the right is Fufeng, inside the Han army camp.
Liu Yin was not having a good time now. Facing Guo Huai's attack, he frowned every day and thought hard about defensive strategies.
Sometimes, Liu Yin would also feel emotional.
Six years ago, he went to Hanzhong alone. After some setbacks, he was appreciated by General Chen Dao and served as the chief clerk in the army.
Six years later, he had become the governor of a county, taking charge of his own duties. Now he commanded more than 10,000 soldiers to block the attack of Cao Wei's famous general Guo Huai.
The difference between before and after is only two people.
One was General Chen Dao who discovered and promoted him, and the other was General Zhang Xi who entrusted him with important tasks.
Liu Yin has always been deeply grateful to these two people.
Man, being capable is never a way out. If someone is willing to let you show your ability, that is the biggest way out.
Liu Yin was really grateful to Chen Dao and Zhang Xi. Especially Zhang Xi, who seemed to recognize him. Within five years, he promoted himself from a military general to a prefect of a county. He could be said to be Liu Yin's benefactor. .
Therefore, Liu Yin did not dare to slack off at all during the period of governing and guarding You Fufeng.
Now, even when facing Guo Huai, the famous general of Cao Wei who is famous all over the world, Liu Yin still fights hard and thinks hard about how to retreat from the enemy.
But, to be honest, it's not easy.
Today, most of Youfufeng's soldiers are newly recruited county soldiers. Although there is no shortage of various military equipment, their training is insufficient. Many of them are not even satisfied with one year's training time.
You can fight, but your combat power and battlefield experience are really incomparable to a group of veterans.
But fortunately, there are about 5,000 soldiers left in Youfufeng. Most of them are veterans who followed the late emperor into Guanzhong. They are elites who came to Guanzhong to guard the border in rotation. Some of them are Northern troops who have not withdrawn.
Although there were not many of them, Liu Yin followed the method he thought of, using these veterans as the core framework, mixed the veterans and recruits, and accelerated the growth of these recruits as quickly as possible by using veterans to lead the recruits, supplemented by the experience of the veterans, and then Coupled with the fortifications that have been built for five years, currently, blocking Guo Huai's attack is not a big problem.
But Liu Yin always had an intuition and a sense of uneasiness, always feeling that Guo Huai's current offensive posture was not fully revealed.
Liu Yin has no direct evidence, but Liu Yin also has circumstantial evidence.
Although the Wei army's attacks under the command of Guo Huai continued, they always surrounded the dozen or so fortress areas in the direction of the Wuguan Road exit. Guo Huai did not attempt to penetrate and divide the defensive fortresses at the rear.
This is a place that Liu Yin still can't figure out.
On the surface, this is a manifestation of Guo Huai's lack of troops and his inability to penetrate deeply. According to intelligence, the number of Wei troops led by Guo Huai is approximately 10,000 to 15,000, which also confirms that the Wei troops are indeed insufficient.
However, Liu Yin had been in power in Youfufeng for more than three years, and had been fighting back and forth with Guo Huai in Youfufeng for more than three years, so he knew Guo Huai quite well.
In the past, Guo Huai would occasionally send out small groups of troops to infiltrate during daily small fights. Why did Guo Huai become a little conservative when it came to fighting in large groups? !
Therefore, Liu Yin always felt that Guo Huai was hiding some back-up plan, and the lack of depth in his current offense was just a way to confuse himself.
For this reason, Liu Yin always kept a mobile force of 3,000 men in hand to deal with possible changes, and did not dare to fully devote himself to You Fufeng's defense.
In the battle ahead, in addition to relying on the soldiers in the fortress group to hold on to the battle, Liu Yin just followed his past experience and asked Jufu and Zhuge Qian to lead two troops of 3,000 men each to respond back and forth to prevent the Wei army from breaking through the fortress defense line and going deep into the right flank. Fufeng.
But this kind of arrangement always made Liu Yin feel that there was something he didn't arrange very well. At the same time, Liu Yin felt increasingly uneasy.
Until half a month after the confrontation with Guo Huai's army, one day, at least ten thousand Cao Wei cavalry rushed out from Wuguan Road.
After these Cao Wei cavalry rushed out of Wuguan Road, they went straight towards the fortress fortifications.
However, these cavalry did not launch an attack on the fortification group. Instead, they took advantage of the speed of the cavalry and quickly began to intersect, bypassing the front of the fort, and cutting off the interconnection between the forts from behind or from the sides.
Once the defenders in the fortress try to come out to fight in the field, the cavalry's impact advantage on the plains of Youfufeng will be able to exert a combat effectiveness that far exceeds that of the infantry.
If the defenders in the fortress cannot hold out, the Cao Wei infantry following the cavalry will concentrate their superior forces and launch an offensive against the fortress that has been cut through and has no support.
In less than three days, more than 30 of the more than 40 fortress groups were breached, leaving only a few slightly larger fortress groups that were still struggling to hold on, but they could not last long.
What's even more terrible is that after learning that the frontline fortress was attacked, Jufu and Zhuge Qian, who were the response troops, immediately led their troops to respond, trying to open up the interconnections between the fortresses and re-establish the defense system.
However, both of them were attacked by Wei cavalry halfway to varying degrees.
Cao Wei's cavalry was not ten thousand, but a full twenty thousand. This was another misjudgment due to poor information.
Even though both of them were prepared, the advantage of the cavalry was too great when fighting in the plains. Almost immediately after the two faced each other, they had no choice but to gather their soldiers and start to retreat, trying to preserve their combat power.
But apart from impact power, the cavalry's biggest advantage is speed. It's impossible to outrun four legs.
In the end, Liu Yin used the reserve force he had been keeping in his hands, and he managed to rescue the two remaining armies from the cavalry pursuit.
However, the losses were still heavy.
After gathering his troops and counting their numbers, Liu Yin sadly discovered that the Youfufeng garrison, which originally numbered fifteen thousand, could now gather the number of people under his command, with only six thousand left.
It can be said that this was a decisive defeat.
And Liu Yin also knew very well that the main force of Yongzhou County soldiers was now in Zuo Fengyi, and there were less than 5,000 soldiers guarding Chang'an. With that small amount of troops, it was impossible to divide the troops to rescue You Fufeng.
Therefore, Liu Yin had to make a choice, whether to continue to hold on in Youfufeng, or to directly abandon Youfufeng and retreat to Chang'an.
Zhuge Qian and Jufu both advised Liu Yin not to waste the last bit of his troops on Youfufeng.
Now Chang'an is empty and lacks troops, and the Wei army has obviously broken through the defense line of Youfufeng's fortress group and entered the interior of Youfufeng.
Not to mention that we don't have enough troops now, even if we have the same strength, on the plains, if we have to fight the cavalry with the same strength of infantry, the chance of winning is still not good.
It would be better to give up You Fufeng temporarily and retreat to Chang'an.
As long as Chang'an is not lost, when the Northern Army and the Liangzhou Army enter Yongzhou, they can still deal with the Wei Army.
But if the last bit of force is lost here, the Wei army will directly besiege Chang'an after occupying Youfufeng. With the 5,000-strong garrison in Chang'an City, it may be difficult to stop the siege of Cao Wei's 40,000-strong army.
Theoretically speaking, Jufu and Zhuge Qian's suggestions are pertinent.
But in Liu Yin's opinion, it was a bit conservative.
It is true that Chang'an City only has 5,000 garrison troops, but if it is really necessary to deploy troops to defend the city, judging from the situation of the Han Dynasty's governance over the years, it is not impossible to recruit 10,000 people or recruit private soldiers from aristocratic families to defend the city.
Don't forget that in Chang'an City, in addition to soldiers, there is actually a hidden semi-military force - the caravans of various aristocratic families that smuggle food.
A caravan that can negotiate with enemy forces for smuggling is not an ordinary caravan. If you don't have the ability to lick blood with a knife, you can't do this job at all.
And with the prestige accumulated by Jiang Wan and Chen Zhi after so many years of governing Guanzhong, and their personal abilities, it is possible for them to persuade the Chang'an aristocratic families to help the Han Dynasty defend the city.
After all, if Cao Wei reoccupies Guanzhong Sanfu, these aristocratic families will no longer have the need to smuggle food, which will cut off their wealth.
If you ask these aristocratic families to really fall out with Cao Wei and fight to the death, they may not do it, but if you ask them to contribute caravans to defend the city, this kind of thing can be brushed aside afterwards, and these aristocratic families will not be implicated at all.
Therefore, Liu Yin believes that Chang'an may not be able to defend it due to lack of troops.
And if he withdraws, the Youfufeng area will be completely lost, and as soon as Youfufeng is lost, the communication channel between Guanzhong and Hanzhong will be completely cut off, and that is the most troublesome thing.
Therefore, You Fufeng still has to defend.
But the problem is that Cao Wei's cavalry has too much advantage in suppressing troops. If they use infantry to fight in the field, they will inevitably face another defeat. Field battles cannot be fought, and city defense battles must be fought.
In the battle to defend the city, the role of cavalry is not great. Unless Cao Wei is willing to let the cavalry dismount and fight on foot, otherwise, the only troops that can really carry out siege operations are the more than 10,000 Cao Wei infantry who initially besieged the fortress group.
Fighting a city defense battle with more than 6,000 infantry against more than 10,000 infantry, Liu Yin felt that he was still confident.
The only problem was that they needed to find a city with a solid city wall and sufficient defensive equipment, and they also had to rest and restore the morale of the Han army that had just experienced a major defeat as soon as possible.
With today's panic-stricken military morale, even if they fight a city defense battle with the advantage of the city wall, they cannot stop the first wave of Cao Wei's infantry attack.
Therefore, the decision must be made quickly, otherwise with the pursuit speed of Cao Wei's cavalry, Liu Yin would not have much time to react.
Liu Yin was the same Liu Yin. He had served as the prefect of Youfufeng County for more than three years. He knew the situation of Youfufeng very well and quickly found a suitable place to retreat.
The right Fufeng County is governed by Huaili County.
During the last Northern Expedition, the city walls of Huaili County were specially reinforced by Cao Zhen and Guo Huai. After the Han Dynasty recaptured Huaili, they repaired the city gates and walls, and the defense was relatively strong.
As a county government, Huaili County also has a special warehouse for storing city defense materials and military rations. It is not a problem to hold on in a short period of time.
Finally, Huaili County is located on the flank of Chang'an City and is not far from Chang'an City. Unless the Wei army chooses to besiege Chang'an, it will be impossible to completely cut off the connection between Huaili and Chang'an.
What a good place to hold on.
But the only problem is how to lead the remaining 6,000 defeated troops and retreat to Huaili before Wei's cavalry troops.
Liu Yin thought about it and felt that someone must take the initiative to stay and break up the family. But this was a death mission, and Liu Yin really didn't know who would be willing to do this.
However, Jufu stood up!
There was no time to sigh or talk nonsense, so Liu Yin gave Jufu a thousand soldiers to break up the rear. He and Commander Zhuge Qian led the remaining 5,000 men and quickly retreated to Huaili County.
As for whether we can see Jufu again, Jufu himself doesn’t have any hope!
Someone has to do what needs to be done.
(End of chapter)
