One of the three auxiliaries in Guanzhong, it is governed by Fufeng County on the right, outside Huaili County.
Guo Huai was a little worried.
After breaking through the Youfufeng fortress group, Guo Huai originally thought that this should be a devastating defeat or even a battle of annihilation. However, after the actual battle, Guo Huai discovered that things did not develop as he thought.
With the help of the cavalry, Guo Huai easily cut off the defensive connection between the Youfufeng fortress group. Using the cavalry as arrows, he easily broke through Youfufeng's overall defense and penetrated deep into Youfufeng.
Although he and Niu Jin parted ways midway, considering that the Shu bandits in You Fufeng had retreated and Niu Jin had left five thousand cavalry under Qin Lang's command, the march was considered smooth.
Although he was intercepted by more than a thousand Shu thieves on the way, the Shu general Jufu did cause some trouble for Guo Huai. However, under the impact of Qin Lang's five thousand cavalry, Guo Huai quickly dispersed the Shu thieves' interception. The team killed most of them and opened the passage to Huaili County, which is governed by Youfufeng County.
Until here, Guo Huai's march can be said to be quite smooth.
However, when Guo Huai led his troops to Huaili and began to prepare to regain this place that had embarrassed both him and Cao Zhen, he encountered obstacles.
Liu Yin, the governor of the You Fufeng Army, led five thousand remaining soldiers to take the lead in occupying this place. He did not know what method he used to arouse the desire of the Shu thieves to defeat their troops. Relying on the superiority of Huaili City's defense, they forcibly took down the Guo army. The 15,000 infantrymen commanded by Huai attacked for five days.
Under normal circumstances, if five thousand soldiers, with complete weapons and sufficient morale, could defend the city for five days against three times the enemy's attack force, it would not be a feat worth boasting about.
But Liu Yin was leading a group of defeated soldiers, and they were chased all the way by him and retreated to Huaili. Their weapons were incomplete and they had no time to rest and recuperate, and their overall combat morale dropped to the bottom. In this way, they could hold on for five days. It's a miracle.
Where did this Liu Yin come from? !
Guo Huai's understanding of Liu Yin was actually not very deep.
Although Liu Yin has been the governor of Youfufeng County for more than three years, in Guo Huai's understanding, Liu Yin should be just a civil servant. In the past three years, he has been fighting wits with his small-scale troops in Youfufeng Fortress Group. The brave men should be Jufu and Zhuge Qian.
Jufu has been defeated by himself, and his whereabouts are unknown now, and his life and death are unknown. As for Zhuge Qian, it is not because Guo Huai looks down on him. After all, Zhuge Qian jumped from Cao Wei to the Shu thieves. He still knows Zhuge Qian and Guo Huai very well. of.
This person has certain abilities, but compared to himself, he is not at the same level.
Therefore, if you want to say that the person stationed in Huaili County and blocking him for five days under extremely unfavorable conditions was Zhuge Qian, then Guo Huai would be the first to not believe it.
He doesn't have this ability, you know! ! !
So, is this Liu Yin a man with both civil and military skills? !
For the first time, Guo Huai began to wonder whether his intelligence system in the northwest was all rubbish. Guo Huai could not discover the information about such a key figure until after the war started, and he had to experience it himself.
Well, even so, Guo Huai is not really in a hurry.
No matter how good you are, Liu Yin, you will lead a defeated army of 5,000. Under the threat of the 5,000 cavalry led by Qin Lang, you will not dare to leave the city to fight in the field. There are a thousand cavalry and fifteen thousand infantry.
Liu Yin can hold it for five days, but he certainly can't hold it for ten days. He just needs to continue to attack.
But at this time, Guo Huai received the intelligence from the reconnaissance cavalry - Chang'an had sent a reinforcement force of nearly 10,000 people and was heading towards Huaili City.
Obviously, this is the Chang'an reinforcements coming to support Huaili County.
At this time, Guo Huai really wanted to directly kill the person in charge of Cao Wei's intelligence system in the northwest region - it was clearly stated that Chang'an could only have 5,000 soldiers garrisoned at most. Where did these 10,000 people come from? !
Unless he, Jiang Wan, was crazy, he couldn't send a mob of 10,000 people to rescue Huaili County, right? !
Guo Huai is so angry, why is it that when he comes here, the information is not accurate even once? !
When the Shu bandits attacked Guanzhong in the early years, Guo Huai suffered enough from the failure to convey the information properly. He was cheated by Xiahou Mao and Wang Shuang. As a result, he was cut off by the Shu bandits and trapped beyond Mei County. In the south, out of the last 40,000 elites, only 10,000 escaped.
Well, now, the intelligence clearly said that Chang'an was able to kill the five thousand county guards, and now Chang'an directly sent out ten thousand reinforcements. Guo Huai now seriously doubted whether there were ten thousand Shu thieves who had taken a detour to attack. Go directly to cut off your own escape route.
It's really not Guo Huai's delusion that he was killed. It's actually the information that caused Guo Huai to suffer a lot.
Moreover, Guo Huai's sixth sense was not wrong. There was indeed a Han army starting from Chang'an, bypassing Guo Huai's flank, and heading behind Guo Huai.
However, the number of troops is not 10,000, but only 3,000 or 10,000. There is no way to hide it from the eyes of the Wei army's scouts, but with 3,000 men, there is still hope that they can sneak in behind Guo Huai.
These three thousand men were led by Jiang Wan himself, and their purpose was to cut off Guo Huai's retreat.
In fact, when Zhuge Liang learned about Zhang Xi's response to Zuo Fengyi, he began to lay out Right Fufeng's counterattack plan.
The Northern Army led by Wu Yi, needless to say, must be the main force of the counterattack, and Huaili, which Liu Yin is holding, is a fishhook to hang the Wei army. It is necessary to ensure that Liu Yin can hold Huaili in order to contain the Wei army. , creating conditions for Wu Yi to lead his army to surround Guo Huai.
To ensure that Liu Yin can defend Huaili, reinforcements must be sent to Huaili to give Liu Yin and the defenders hope of continuing to hold on.
For this reason, Zhuge Liang had to summon the Guanzhong aristocratic families in Chang'an City through Jiang Wan, and made compromises to them in exchange for the command of the grain smuggling team in their hands.
Yes, what Zhuge Liang wants is not for the noble families to send troops to help the Han guard Chang'an. What he wants is the actual command of this grain transport team.
Of course, the aristocratic families in Guanzhong would not give in so easily.
But the problem is that the person who convened the Guanzhong families for discussion this time was not Jiang Wan, but Zhuge Liang. The meaning is completely different.
The Guanzhong aristocratic families did not know that Zhuge Liang had arrived in Chang'an a long time ago, so for them, Zhuge Liang's sudden appearance had a completely different meaning.
In the previous war in Guanzhong, the Han Dynasty was at a disadvantage. These Guanzhong aristocratic families naturally wanted to wait and see. But now that Zhuge Liang has arrived in Chang'an, it is hard to say whether the Han Dynasty will continue to be at a disadvantage.
Everyone knows that at the beginning of the year, Zhuge Liang led the Northern Army to quell the Qiang rebellion in Qinzhou. Now that Zhuge Liang has arrived in Chang'an, can the elite Northern Army of the Han Dynasty still be far away? !
Once the Northern Army of the Han Dynasty comes to help, the outcome of the war in Guanzhong is really uncertain.
Due to this consideration, some people in the Guanzhong families are already considering whether they should bet on the big man in exchange for greater benefits after the war.
And under such circumstances, Zhuge Liang made his own conditions.
The price of smuggled grain was increased by 10% and the tax on luxury goods was reduced by 10% in exchange for the temporary command of the smuggling grain team in the hands of the Guanzhong family, which would be returned after the war.
This condition is not just a 20% increase in income. For some aristocratic families with a relatively large scale of smuggling, this is even a good thing that makes an extra 50% profit out of thin air. At that time, some people wanted to agree.
However, the aristocratic family is always greedy. Since the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty would make such a concession at this time, it shows that the current situation has reached a critical moment. The food smuggling team in his hands may affect the situation in Guanzhong. , plays a decisive role.
Therefore, naturally some people want to increase their stakes in exchange for more benefits.
Zhuge Liang's attitude towards this was simple, he smiled slightly and drove him out.
Well, smart people can see this clearly. If the big man no longer controls Guanzhong, then there will be no need for anyone to do these so-called smuggling matters.
And to take a step back, even if Cao Wei is reluctant to part with luxury goods such as Shu brocade and needs to smuggle it from Shu, is it really the turn of the Guanzhong family to control this matter? The Hedong family does not have this strength? !
Therefore, it is most beneficial to the Guanzhong family for the big man to guard Guanzhong. If he wants to raise the price at this time, after the war, he will naturally not have the opportunity to continue to participate in this kind of smuggling.
In fact, few of the aristocratic families that can participate in smuggling are stupid. There are a few people who are just blinded by the benefits. Now that such people are expelled, the remaining people will be confused if they think about it. I understand, who is benefiting from this matter?
Therefore, an agreement was reached happily - after the war, the family received a 20% increase in the price of smuggled grain, a 10% reduction in the tax on luxury goods, and the surrender of the command of nearly 10,000 grain smuggling teams.
Yes, this group of aristocratic families took advantage of an extra 10% of the grain price from Zhuge Liang, and then released their grain smuggling team.
Zhuge Liang was also very angry, but he had no choice but to eliminate the unstable factors first.
Yes, Zhuge Liang asked the family to take control of the grain smuggling team, not only to let these people rescue Huaili County, but more importantly, he wanted to eliminate hidden dangers in Chang'an City.
Because next, Zhuge Liang is going to make a risky plan.
He first asked Chen Zhi to lead a smuggling team of ten thousand people to leave Chang'an City and go to rescue Huaili.
Privately, Zhuge Liang told Chen Zhi that it was not important whether the troops could be rescued in Huaili. The most important thing was to attract Cao Wei to divide their troops and prevent them from returning to Chang'an in the short term.
In other words, what Chen Zhi needs to do with this grain smuggling team is to use them as cannon fodder. It is best to reduce the pressure on Huaili. It doesn't matter if they can't. The important thing is not to let them run back to Chang'an.
Immediately afterwards, Zhuge Liang divided his troops into three thousand, led by Jiang Wan, and detoured from the flanks to insert behind Guo Huai's army, preparing to block Guo Huai's retreat.
In this way, Zhuge Liang only had 2,000 men in his hands to guard Chang'an. This is why Zhuge Liang must want to eliminate "hidden dangers".
Only two thousand people cannot suppress the Guanzhong family, which has nearly ten thousand grain smuggling teams in their hands. This hidden danger must be eliminated first.
Next, Zhuge Liang is waiting for the Northern Army led by Wu Yi to arrive in Huaili County and launch a siege against Guo Huai's army.
Guanzhong counterattack, success or failure depends on this.
(End of chapter)
