Puyang was abandoned, and Jiang Wei entered the city to put out the fire. He was unable to pursue Guo Huai's troops for a while, so he could only send military envoys to report the situation to Wei Yan, who had left the vanguard a day earlier, and reminded Wei Yan to pay attention.
Wei Yan wanted to intercept them, but the problem was that Wei Yan was withdrawing with the vanguard, and he could gather no more than 5,000 soldiers in a hurry to prepare for battle.
There are not enough troops and they rush to the battle. If they are defeated by Guo Huai, their morale will be damaged.
And with Guo Huai's ability, he will definitely be prepared to encounter Wei Yan's interception, and will definitely choose to avoid Wei Yan's direction to advance. It is not that easy to catch Guo Huai.
Therefore, Wei Yan thought about it for a while and decided not to cause unnecessary problems, maintain the current rhythm as much as possible, and go to Jujube.
Judging from the current marching speed, even if Guo Huai is more familiar with the geography of Dongjun and can reach Jujube earlier than Wei Yan, Wei Yan has already figured out how to deal with this old guy.
To be honest, what Wei Yan was more worried about was that Guo Huai directly abandoned the jujube defense and led his troops to strengthen Yanjin's defenses.
If this is the case, that will be a headache for Wei Yan.
At this time, Guo Huai was really considering whether to go to Jujube or Yanjin.
If there are sufficient troops, then there is no difference between Guo Huai's removal of wild jujube and his removal of Yanjin.
But now Guo Huai only has 8,000 soldiers in his hands. In this case, if he divides his troops to support the two places, it will purely give Wei Yan lives and military exploits. He must make a choice.
There are less than a thousand Jujube defenders. If he doesn't go, Suanzao will definitely fall in the face of Wei Yan's attack.
On the Yanjin side, Jiang Ji led 5,000 men to garrison. If he went there and joined Jiang Ji, he could basically guarantee the safety of Yanjin. However, if Suanzao was occupied by Shu thieves, it would be equivalent to nailing down the line between Yanjin and Chenliu. A nail.
Moreover, this nail is very long and can span almost half of Dongjun. From Dong'a to Jujube, the Shu thieves can advance and retreat freely.
Guo Huai suddenly realized that he seemed to have no choice.
Jiang Ji in Yanjin can still hold on for a while, and judging from the intelligence, the Imperial Army sent by the Emperor has already set off under the leadership of Cao Yu. It will take about ten to fifteen days to complete the crossing and arrive at Yanjin. .
But here, if Guo Huai doesn't go, the fall of Zizao is certain.
There was no other way, Guo Huai could only raise his troops and head towards the direction of Jujube.
I don’t know if Guo Huai is really lucky, or if the guides in Guo Huai’s army are very good. Along the way, Guo Huai tried his best to avoid the paths of Wei Yan’s army. Sometimes he had to take a detour, but even so, Guo Huai still got the chance. Before Wei Yan, he entered the jujube.
Guo Huai immediately began to organize the city defense of the jujube on the spot and made plans to hold on to the jujube.
As for Wei Yan, he arrived at Suanzao just one day later than Guo Huai. When he saw General Guo Huai's flag floating in Suanzao City, Wei Yan sneered and did not order an immediate attack on the city. Instead, he ordered the entire army to set up camp to the north of Suanzao City. .
In the next five days, Wei Yan still did not carry out any offensive, allowing Guo Huai to seize the time to deploy the city defense, but did not move his troops.
Guo Huai felt a little numb when he saw this situation.
No, what is this Wei Yan thinking? !
Zizao is not a big city like Puyang, and the height of the city walls and defensive facilities are not that complete.
In addition, Guo Huai only arrived at Jujube one day earlier than Wei Yan. There were many loopholes in the defense of Jujube at that time. With Wei Yan's ability, he could attack Jujube by force. The one who fell into passive position must be Guo Huai himself.
But Wei Yan not only did not launch a strong attack on the first day, but also did not launch an attack in the next four or five days.
Not only did he not launch an attack, Wei Yan didn't even send soldiers to chop down trees and build siege equipment. Guo Huai really couldn't understand what Wei Yan was waiting for.
Although he couldn't understand it, the reality was right in front of him. Regardless of the reason why Wei Yan did not launch an attack on the city, now for Guo Huai, he had no choice. It was always a good thing to have one more day to strengthen the city's defenses.
In this way, Wei Yan still stood still, while Guo Huai was seizing every day to strengthen the city defense of Zizao and prepare to defend the city with Wei Yan.
And all this lasted until Jiang Wei led his troops and arrived at Suanzao.
The people Wei Yan was waiting for were Jiang Wei and the ten thousand soldiers Jiang Wei had brought.
After putting out the fire in Puyang, Jiang Wei quickly calmed down the people in the city. At the same time, he mobilized Wen Qin to move to Puyang from Dong'a to ensure the stability of this intermediate node. After doing all this, Jiang Weicai led the remaining 10,000 soldiers to set off for Suanzao. And go.
Because of these delays, Jiang Wei arrived six days later than Wei Yan.
When they arrived at Suanzao, they saw that Guo Huai was constantly reinforcing the city defense, but there was not even a decent siege weapon in his camp. Jiang Wei also felt strange, so he immediately went to see Wei Yan.
After Wei Yan waited for Jiang Wei to arrive, he didn't waste any time and directly took out the battle plan he had thought of and prepared to discuss it with Jiang Wei.
This plan is actually very simple to put it bluntly, and there is no technical content at all - surround the point and call for reinforcements.
Wei Yan decided to let Jiang Wei lead 20,000 soldiers to attack Yanjin, while he led more than 12,000 soldiers to stay and block Guo Huai.
On the Yanjin side, only Jiang Ji led five thousand soldiers to defend it. Wei Yan needed Jiang Wei to attack Yanjin. It was best to completely defeat Yanjin in a short period of time.
Even if Yanjin cannot be conquered, Yanjin must be forced to be in a hurry and ask for help from Jujube.
As for Wei Yan, he could intercept Guo Huai's reinforcements outside Suanzao City and have a field battle with Guo Huai.
This was Wei Yan's plan to attack the city. Wei Yan never thought about it. He just wanted to force Guo Huai to rescue Yanjin and then fight in the field with Guo Huai.
In the siege battle, the most elite northern and southern armies of the Han Dynasty were unable to display their combat effectiveness at all, which was completely a bad idea.
Once you enter the field, let alone Guo Huai only has 8,000 men. Even if you have twice as many, it is impossible to defeat the 10,000 elite Northern troops commanded by Wei Yan.
Therefore, the core of this tactic is to force Guo Huai to take the initiative to fight, and if you want to force Guo Huai to take the initiative to fight, Yanjin is a very good bait.
This place is where Guo Huai has to save.
This is also the reason why Wei Yan is most worried that Guo Huai will retreat directly to Yanjin. If he really wants to retreat to Yanjin, Wei Yan's tactics will be useless.
After listening to Wei Yan's plan, Jiang Wei thought about it for a while and felt that it was feasible. He did not hesitate at the moment, and immediately went out to order troops without taking a rest.
Jiang Wei had just arrived at the military camp in the morning, and left the camp again in the afternoon, heading northeast with a mixed army of 20,000 people from the north and the south.
And Guo Huai. Guo Huai is such an experienced person. Jiang Wei left as soon as he came, and took away two-thirds of his troops in the direction of Yanjin. Guo Huai could not understand what was going on.
He had fallen into a trap and was tricked by that old man Wei.
But the problem now is that Guo Huai has entered Suizao, and this place cannot be easily occupied by Shu thieves.
Now Guo Huai can only hope that Jiang Jin can hold on longer, at least for ten days. In about ten days, Cao Yu should complete the crossing of the river with 30,000 Chinese troops and enter Yanjin.
Once this support force arrives, not to mention counterattacking the Shu bandits, at least guarding the front line of Suanzao and Yanjin to ensure their own retreat should be no problem.
Of course, Guo Huai did not forget to send the latest battle report to Sima Yi who was on the Chenliu front line, informing him of the current situation on the Suanzao and Yanjin front lines.
Although Guo Huai disliked Sima Yi very much and felt that it was Sima Yi who caused him to end up in this situation, at this time of life and death, Guo Huai was not so petty.
Sima Yi must be informed of the current retreat situation. At the same time, Guo Huai also hopes that Sima Yi can send some reinforcements to him to be prepared in case Jiang Ji cannot hold Yanjin.
Well, before the war is over, who knows if there will be any accidents.
Planning ahead is necessary.
Of course Sima Yi also knew this, but the problem was that when Guo Huai's request for reinforcements was sent to Yongqiu County, Chenliu County, Sima Yi was really numb.
Where can I find reinforcements for you? !
In a poor place like Yongqiu, it is already quite difficult for me to use 60,000 people to block the 120,000 infantry and cavalry coalition forces of the Shu thieves. Losing thousands of people in any place may mean that the entire defense line collapses. I Where can I get reinforcements for you? !
Sima Yi really wanted to catch Guo Huai such a slap in the face, but there was no way. Sima Yi also knew how difficult it was for Guo Huai now.
Originally, Guo Huai's troops were small, and the Shu bandits he faced were the most elite troops. To be able to fight like this is a reflection of Guo Huai's ability.
If you had been in Xia Houhe's place, I'm afraid you would have been defeated like a mountain by now.
Reinforcements, if available, should still be sent to Guo Huai. After all, there is really no room for loss in these two places, Suanzao and Yanjin.
At this time, Sima Yi also complained to some extent about how his reinforcements were moving at a snail's pace. It had been almost a month, and why were they still not in place? !
It would take time for the Imperial Guards to assemble and move south. This Sima Yi could still understand to some extent, but what on earth did his son do? Why haven't reinforcements from Hanoi County arrived yet? !
And this doubt is one of the reasons why the Wei army struggled so much in the Battle of Yanzhou. The communication efficiency between Yanzhou and Hedong was really low.
Until this time, Sima Yi didn't know that his precious eldest son had achieved a "great victory in Hedong" and was left in Hedong by Cao Rui.
The defense reinforcements led by Qin Lang were currently stuck in Hanoi County by Zhang Xi. They were unwilling to surrender and went to Wen County to change defenses.
After all, Qin Lang is not Sima Shi, and Sima Yi is not his father. Why is he so anxious? ! !
(End of chapter)
