Farmer of Shu Han

In fact, the conflict between Jia Xu and Guo Huai has a long history.

To be precise, Jia Xu has been dissatisfied with Guo Huai for a long time.

He thought Guo Huai was too cowardly, and was beaten to death by the Shu people in the battle of Xiaoguan.

Therefore, he has complained more than once in private that Guo Huai fears Shu like a tiger.

If it is Feng thief on the opposite side, it can be understood as being cautious.

Then after Feng thief withdrew from Qiaoshan, Guo Huai actually suffered from the other party's losses in the face of the unknown thief general, which was simply extremely incompetent.

Most of the generals in the army are at odds with the generals, which is probably a tradition in the army of the Wei State.

Back then, Zhang Liao, Le Jin and Li Dian were at odds, but they stayed in Hefei to guard against Sun Quan.

Cao Xiu and Jia Kui were at odds, and the two were often sent to fight against Jiangdong by Lord Wei.

Now Man Chong and Wang Ling are at odds, and at the same time, the two are also leading an army, guarding the front line of Yangzhou.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Jia Xu and Guo Huai are at odds.

At this time, after Guo Huai asked Jia Xu to break up, Jia Xu immediately felt that the other party was trying to retaliate against him, so he was naturally very upset.

It's just that the military order is like a mountain, Guo Huai is the main general in the army after all, Jia Xu is not angry, but he can only obey the order.

Jiang Wei, who had been observing the opposite mountain with a telescope, immediately noticed the large-scale mobilization of Wei Jun.

So he discussed with Li Qiu:

"I see the movements of the thieves, it's quite strange, I'm afraid they want to escape?"

In the past few months, Jiang Wei and Guo Huai have played against each other many times.

Jiang Wei has the sharpness of soldiers, Guo Huai has the advantage of many soldiers, each of them has their own victories, and they all know that their opponents are not easy to fight.

Li Qiu can now be regarded as one of the top figures in the Xinghan Association, and he is quite talented.

In normal times, he might not be able to obey Jiang Wei.

But my elder brother has always had the knowledge of people, and this time he ordered the general in person.

In addition, for the sake of the overall situation, he had no objection on the surface, but in fact he buried his dissatisfaction in his heart.

After several months of working together, after seeing that Jiang Wei fought with inferior troops so that the opponent did not dare to move easily, he finally let go of his prejudice.

Therefore, after Jiang Wei asserted that the thief Wei had the intention to withdraw, Li Qiu did not object, but asked:

"Why did General Jiang say that?"

Jiang Wei explained:

"I see that the thieves have made a lot of noise this time. It seems that the whole army is dispatched. If they are not preparing to dispatch to fight with us, they must have plans."

"However, in the past few months, the thieves and I have known that unless reinforcements arrive, the strength of each of these troops is not enough to shake the opponent's camp."

"So in my opinion, the thieves' movements are not aggressive, but they are probably preparing to retreat."

Li Qiu listened, with a thoughtful look on his face:

"In the battle to regain Guanzhong, the prime minister sent troops from Hanzhong, and the junhou led the army to attack Bingzhou. Could it be that there has been a change in Guanzhong?"

"This is exactly what I expected!" Jiang Wei's eyes sparkled with excitement, "Who in the world can stop the prime minister and the king from attacking from east to west?"

"So this time it must be that the prime minister or the prince has made progress, and Guanzhong is in a hurry, so the thief had to withdraw from Qiaoshan."

The Liangzhou army has traveled thousands of miles across the desert, and they are already considered elite soldiers that are rare in the world.

Even I didn't dare to think that after reaching Jiuyuan, the Liangzhou army would still be able to attack thousands of miles again.

It is even more impossible for Wei thief to think of it.

The Battle of Guanzhong has been going on for more than half a year. If the Junhou is going well, let alone win Bingzhou, if you are more daring, maybe you can try drinking the horse river.

As long as the prince enters Hedong, the Wei State may shake the whole country.

If the prime minister cooperates to hold back the main force of the Wei thief, then...

Thinking of this, Jiang Wei became more excited.

Although it was speculation, Jiang Wei's tone was extremely positive. Obviously, his confidence in the Prime Minister and Feng Cishi was much stronger than that of Li Qiu.

"Then... what does General Jiang intend to do?"

Li Qiu asked hesitantly.

Obviously, Li Qiu was more cautious than Jiang Wei before he got the exact news of the thief.

Jiang Wei's aggressive and adventurous temperament was fully exposed at this time:

"According to the art of war, if you want to retreat, it is best to retreat after winning, so that you don't have to worry about chasing troops."

"The second class is to show battle and retreat, which can make the enemy have doubts and dare not pursue with all their strength."

"The third thing is to retreat without fighting, and the rear army must be in danger; the last thing is to retreat after being defeated, and the whole army may be wiped out."

"So if the thieves go out to fight with great fanfare tomorrow, it's really a guilty conscience. We must fight hard, and it is best to win the battle so that the thieves dare not retreat easily."

"If the thief does not fight, you must pay attention to the fact that the thief has escaped. It is time for us to make great achievements."

Such a firm tone made Li Qiu a little worried:

"In case the thief didn't retreat..."

"It doesn't matter." Jiang Wei knew what he meant, and suggested: "If we go to battle tomorrow, I will personally lead the tiger infantry into battle. General Li, you can guard the rear camp. You can not only respond, but also prevent thieves from cheating."

The terrain of Qiaoshan is complicated, unless it is to attack from the surrounding mountains, otherwise, the two armies will fight between the mountains or valleys, ranging from a thousand to two or three thousand, and it will be difficult to deploy any more.

Even if they are divided into front and back echelons and take turns to fight, there will not be more than 10,000 people.

Under such circumstances, Jiang Wei, as a leading general, actually had to go into battle himself.

Li Qiu said euphemistically:

"General Jiang is the chief general in the army, how can he easily come to the enemy's line in person?"

"Eshun of Modao Camp is a strong general. Tomorrow, let him lead the current army of Modao Camp, and General Jiang can lead the Tiger Army in the middle. That way, there is nothing to worry about."

Before Governor Feng left, he left the entire Modao camp behind, especially the leader of the Modao camp, Eshun, who was born with supernatural powers, but he was ugly like a ghost.

Even if you don't wear a ghost mask, it can scare the timid like a ghost in the daytime.

With Li Qiu's support, Jiang Wei was overjoyed and said:

"It's so good."

On the second day, when we went up to three poles, when we saw a Wei army, they came to the flat ground under the Han army's stronghold to form an array, and at the same time sent people to provoke and shout.

Jiang Wei smiled at Li Qiu and said:

"The thieves turned out exactly as I expected."

Li Qiu couldn't help admiring him.

Seeing that Jiang Wei was eager to lead people to fight, he quickly reminded:

"If the thieves retreat because they want to win, it must be a fight like a trapped beast. General Jiang still needs to watch out for the ambush by the thieves."

Jiang Wei responded with a full mouth.

Just when Jiang Wei and Li Qiu were concentrating on dealing with the provocative Wei army, they didn't know that Guo Huai in Xinglong pass quietly led the army before dawn, and began to follow the Qin Zhidao and cross the bridge mountain The mountain behind the main peak.

The main peak of Qiaoshan Mountain where Xinglongguan is located is higher than other peaks.

The so-called climbing high and looking far, although the Han army can take advantage of the telescope to detect the movement of the enemy in advance.

But the telescope can't penetrate the mountain and see the real movement of Guo Huai behind the main peak.

Guo Mo, who rode away with Guo Huai, couldn't help looking back at Xinglong Pass, which was getting farther and farther behind him, with admiration on his face:

"How did the general know that Jia Xu would not obey the general's order to guard the camp, but went to meet the enemy without authorization?"

Guo Huai smiled triumphantly:

"Jia Xu, who talks a lot about my fear of the enemy, seems to despise me, but in fact he doesn't take the Shu captives seriously."

"Before I suppressed him, he refused to accept it. Now I deliberately let him lead the army alone. Before I left, I deliberately provoked him with words. How could he not be angry?"

"How can he listen to my words? As soon as I leave, even if he doesn't lead the army to fight without authorization, he will open his stronghold to meet the enemy when the Shu captives come to test him."

Having said that, he sneered:

"But he doesn't know, the more he is like this, the more he follows my will! Otherwise, how could he confuse the Shu captives and willingly cover us to withdraw?"

Jiang Wei understands the principle of retreating after victory or withdrawing troops after war, but how could Guo Huai, who has fought for so many years, not understand?

Jiang Wei guessed from the large-scale mobilization of Wei Ying that Guo Huai might retreat.

It was never expected that Guo Huai would retreat in this way.

It can even be said to be some kind of strong man cutting his wrists.

This wrist is a bit different.

A person with high emotional intelligence is more assertive and very persistent in doing things.

The saying of low emotional intelligence is a stick, a bit silly, and a head...

Since Zhuge Liang left Qishan for the first time after Liu Bei's death, Wei Guo never defeated the Han army on the battlefield again.

The emperor of Wei, the great Sima, the general, the governor, etc., were all defeated by the Han army.

But Jia Xu thought he could be an exception.

Guo Huai is not Jia Xu, he does not have Jia Xu's self-confidence, let alone believe Jia Xu:

"We have to go faster, otherwise, if Jia Xu loses too quickly, the Shu captives will soon catch up."

Guo Huai used Jia Xu as a bait to stop Jiang Wei's pursuit.

What he didn't know was that Sima Yi also used him as a bait, planning to use him to catch the soil turtle, the big soil turtle that was fishing by the river.

Not only that, while Guo Huai was retreating, he did not forget to follow Sima Yi's instructions to send fast horses to the northwest along the Jing River.

Let's see if there is a way to let Deng Ai, who is under Xiaoguan, try to return to Chang'an from Jingshui.

There is absolutely no way to return to Qian County.

In Guo Huai's view, Da Sima had already made plans to abandon most of Guanzhong, and was preparing to shrink his troops, relying on Chang'an or Tongguan, and fighting to the death with the Shu captives.

It's just that Xiao Guan is too far away from Chang'an, whether Deng Ai can lead the army back is still a question.

But this is not within the scope of Guo Huai's consideration, after all, he has problems in his own way.

As for Xiaoqi General Qin Lang, it was not something Guo Huai should consider, presumably Da Sima had his own arrangements.

But Guo Huai didn't expect that the arrangement was arranged by Da Sima, but in the eyes of Da Sima, not only he, Guo Huai, was a decoy, but Deng Ai, who was under Xiaoguan, was even more of a decoy.

As for Qin Lang... he is a bait bigger than himself, and this bait has already been swallowed by the prime minister.

Forty miles to the west of Wuzhangyuan, Wei Yan of the Han Army had already led the army around Weibei, and could cross the river at any time and insert Qin Lang's rear obliquely.

As for Qin Lang's two wings, because of the fine weather, the Han Army's North and South Second Armies, who had finally regained their mobility, had been wandering around, ready to go.

On the opposite side, the tiger infantry army was pressing on, constantly demolishing the periphery of Qin Lang's camp.

"General, the outside can't stop it!"

"I saw."

Qin Lang stood on the commander's platform in the camp, watching the last ditch being filled by the Han army, with a calm expression on his face.

He was originally born of the Du family, and inherited his mother's excellent genes. He is as his name suggests, with a handsome face, which is always a little soft on weekdays, making people feel like they want to get close.

It's not without reason that Cao Rui always likes to let him stay overnight in the palace.

It's just that Qin Lang's face at this time no longer has the usual softness, only calmness, with ashes in the calmness, and despair in the ashes.

It was agreed to attack the Shu captive army together, but after a heavy rain, it turned into the Shu captive army attacking himself together.

What about Da Sima? !

What about Sima Yi? !

How dare he? !

"Where is the person who sent for help today?"

Qin Lang asked in a low voice.

Until the Han soldiers approached the gate of the camp, Qin Lang still couldn't believe that Sima Yi just left him and ran away.

He would rather believe that Sima Yi was defeated by Zhuge Liang.

These days, he has been trying to find a way to ask for help from the outside.

"General... General, there are no soldiers willing to break out of the siege to ask for help, and so many groups of people have been sent out to ask for help. It has been so long, and no news has come back until now..."

The lieutenant general muttered, unable to continue.

To the north is the Wei River, to the south is the Qinling Mountains, and to the east is the army of Shu captives. Only Chencang in the west can go.

But there are only three thousand people in Chencang, so what can we do?

Even if all the defenders of Qian County came here, it would be nothing more than accompanying them to death.

The only thing that can really save the current situation is the east side.

"General? How about we..."

The lieutenant tentatively said something.

Qin Lang turned his head, his eyes were cold:

"What?"

The lieutenant swallowed a mouthful of saliva:

"Since there has been no news from Da Sima, why don't we retreat to Chencang?"

A bitter look appeared on Qin Lang's face, and he pointed to the front side:

"I can't go back."

There, it is the place where the cavalry army of Shu captives haunts.

If it was changed from the past, if he couldn't fight, at least he could run. After all, where did the horses come from in Shu?

But since the loss of Longyou, especially Liangzhou, the cavalry army of the Shu captives became number one in the world overnight.

Whoever dares to run away with the Shu captive on his back is a dead end.

If he was defeated and fled, he might not be able to turn his horse back.

When the lieutenant heard this, he also had a look of sadness on his face:

"General, what shall we do?"

"What should I do? The only thing I can do is repay the king with my heart!"

Qin Lang seems to have made a choice long ago, with firm eyes:

"We have been greatly favored by His Majesty, and we have already dedicated our lives to His Majesty. Now that we encounter a strong captive, we should do our best to kill the enemy and repay your favor!"

As he spoke, Qin Lang pulled out the sword from his waist and shouted:

"I, Qin Lang, swear here that I will share life and death with all the soldiers in this battle, but if there is one breath left, I will fight to the death with all the soldiers!"

Infected by the general's emotions, the guard generals standing around and under the high platform all roared angrily:

"Fight to the end!"

They were loyal to Cao Rui, and their family members were hostages in Luoyang, so there was no room for surrender at this time.

There was great resentment in Qin Lang's eyes:

Sima Yi, if I am lucky enough to return to Luoyang, I must avenge you for being dead today!

"Pass my military order, all the generals will return to their own camps, mobilize the elite, and obey orders at any time!"

"promise!"

Outside the camp, the Shu captives had already filled in the last ditch for a section of the road, and at the same time rolled out huge bridge carts to build two wide roads.

The crash car made of sharpened logs was pushed to the front of the trench.

It seemed that the Shu captives didn't want to give themselves a little respite at all.

Qin Lang clenched his teeth.