Wang Yanzhang was choked by Han Qing's words, but he also knew that although Han Qing's words were a bit excessive, the right-wing army was far inferior to the Liang army on the left, which was also an indisputable fact.

Just as he was about to ridicule him, Li Si'an on the side saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly dissuaded him.

"Now that our army is still in danger, the two generals should not quarrel, hurry up and find a way to withdraw the army first!" Li Si'an persuaded.

"Humph!" Wang Yanzhang sneered and stopped looking at Han Qing, he knew that Li Si'an was right, now was indeed not the time to say this.

However, it is not so easy to retreat.

At the beginning, the Jin army built a pontoon bridge in Gaoyi, but when the Liang army entered the city of Gaoyi, the Jin army had already burned the pontoon bridge.

Therefore, the Liang army usually crossed the river through the pontoon bridge in Baixiang.

But at this time, the Liang army was defeated and wanted to go to Baixiang to cross the river, but it was likely to be intercepted by the Jin army on the way.

And once it is surrounded by the Jin army again, with the current morale and state of the Liang army, it is only afraid that it will be difficult to flee again.

Therefore, it is not a good way to cross the river in Baixiang, and it is too late to build a temporary pontoon bridge.

"Two generals, you must also know the current situation, if our army can't cross the river and retreat south as soon as possible, when the Jin army surrounds it again, our army will have no chance to evacuate at that time! I wonder what the two generals can do? Li Si'an asked with some concern.

"What's there to discuss, just wade across the river!" Wang Yanzhang said coldly.

"Wading across the river?"

"Not bad! The river is not deep, and it is not impossible to wade across the river. At most, in order to prevent the outside one, let the soldiers of each department take off their armor before crossing the river! Wang Yanzhang explained.

The Wild River was originally just a small river, and now that it is the dry season of winter, the river is indeed not deep.

The reason why the pontoon bridge was built before was because the river was too cold in winter, and the soldiers were prone to cold if they waded across the river; Second, although the river is not deep, the soldiers of the Liang army are not familiar with the northerners of the water after all, and if they directly wade across the river, they are prone to accidents.

In addition, in order to facilitate the supply of logistical baggage, pontoon bridges must also be built.

However, now that the situation is urgent, where can I take care of those things, it is naturally important to flee for my life.

Li Si'an and Han Qing also nodded in agreement after hearing this.

Li Si'an even complained: "Since General Wang already has a good method, why didn't he implement it earlier?" If the time is delayed and the Jin army comes, I won't have a chance to escape! ”

"Rest assured, Ben will have already explained, so that all ministries are ready to wade across the river. However, if the color had not completely darkened today, and the Jin cavalry had been wandering outside the camp, the general did not act immediately. Wang Yanzhang explained.

"I see!" Li Si'an breathed a sigh of relief.

Perhaps it was because of good luck, or because the Jin army had won the battle and was celebrating at this time, that night, the Liang army successfully waded across the river overnight, and the Jin army did not appear during the whole process.

When the Jin army full of victory came to the Liang army camp early the next morning, it was found that the Liang army had withdrawn overnight.

"If I had known this, I shouldn't have taken care of the casualties of the soldiers, if I had sent troops to besiege the enemy army overnight last night, now I think the Liang army would have been unable to fly!" Li Cunqiao looked at the empty Liang army camp and couldn't help but feel remorseful in his heart.

Although the Jin army won the first battle yesterday, its own casualties were not small, especially the Chinese army composed of the Zhao army and the Beiping army, which suffered heavy casualties; In order to take Wang Qianyu as soon as possible, the infantry of the Jin army led by Li Cunzhang also forcibly attacked regardless of casualties, and the final losses were also very large.

In addition, the soldiers of the Jin army were extremely tired, and it was also expected that as long as the road to the pontoon bridge was blocked, it would be difficult for the Liang army to escape, so Li Cunqiao ordered a night's rest.

Who knew that the Liang army was so cunning, wading across the wild river overnight, and it would be difficult to achieve results if it was pursued at this time.

"Don't worry, the king, after all, our army has achieved victory, not only destroying a large number of enemy troops, but also thwarting the Liang army's attempt at Hebei, this is a rare victory, the king should be happy!" Zhou Dewei persuaded on the side.

He was still quite satisfied with the result of this battle, because strictly speaking, the strength of the Jin army was not comparable to that of the Liang army, but in the end, he wiped out 40,000 Liang troops in one battle, which was already a big victory.

It's a pity that what he didn't know was that in the original history, the victory that the Jin army would achieve was much greater than the so-called victory now.

The battle of Baixiang in history can be called a complete victory, and more than 10,000 of the 70,000 Liang troops were able to escape back in the end.

What's more, the most elite of the Liang army, the Shenjie army and the Longxiang army, were all wiped out.

And now, although the losses of these two elites are also very large, after all, they have not been completely wiped out, and at most they have lost 15,000 people.

The escape of these two armies overshadowed the victory of the Jin army.

In addition, because this battle took place north of Yehe and belonged to Gaoyi County, the name was naturally not the Battle of Baixiang, but should be called the Battle of Gaoyi.

……

The news of the Battle of Gaoyi spread quickly and caused a huge impact on all major forces.

In the city of Jinling.

Yang Wu can be said to be the one that the major forces are most concerned about this battle, so although Jinling is far away in the south of the Yangtze River, Yang Wu is the fastest one to learn the news.

In the Wuying Palace, the ministers of civil and military affairs of Wu gathered together.

"I didn't expect the final result of this battle to be like this, it's really surprising! However, after this defeat, the decline of the Liang army is even more obvious, and presumably the battle situation will be more and more biased towards the side of the Jin State in the future! Yang Wu first sighed.

"What the king said is very true, although the strength of the Liang army this time is only 70,000, but most of them are the most elite troops; And because the Jin army still had to stay in Jinyang and other places, there were not many troops dispatched; In this case, the Liang army failed to win, and it will be really difficult for them to win in the future! ”

"King Zhao Wang Rong and King Wang of Beiping must have completely fallen into the side of the Jin Kingdom after this battle!"

……

The generals talked a lot, and they were all not very optimistic about Liang Guo.

Indeed, as the so-called prosperity and decline, the time when the Liang army was at its strongest has passed, while the Jin army is in the midst of prosperity, if there is no major change, the future situation will only become more and more unfavorable to the Liang State.

Of course, this result is not a bad thing, the overall strength of the Liang State is still above the Jin State, and after this defeat, the Liang State will completely lose the opportunity to unify the north.

And because of the lack of strength, the Jin army could not completely defeat the Liang State in a short period of time.

In this way, the two countries will move towards a long-term confrontation as Yang Wu had predicted, which is undoubtedly the most beneficial outcome for the state of Wu.

Thinking of this, all the ministers looked at Yang Wu with admiration.

"The king saw this situation many years ago, and I will not be able to completely determine the overall situation of the north until this time, and in this long-term vision, we are far inferior!"

Invisibly, everyone's awe of Yang Wu has increased, which is also an unexpected impact.

Yang Wu saw their thoughts, but he secretly felt funny in his heart: "If it weren't for the future generations, how could I see so far just by relying on the vision of this era?" ”

For him, the result of the Battle of Gaoyi is also very good, the historical Liang army suffered so heavy losses in Baixiang, the result can be supported for more than ten years, and now the losses are much smaller, maybe it will last longer in the future.

"That's it, you must be aware of the impact of the First World War in the North on the situation, and it has not exceeded our expectations, so let's do what we need to do next!" Yang Wu said.

"What the king said is very true!" The ministers said in unison.

At this time, Zhu Jin stood up and proposed: "King, in the first battle of Gaoyi, the Liang army was defeated, and the Jin army will definitely not miss this opportunity, and will definitely take the opportunity to attack the Liang country." ”

In this case, Liang Jun must have taken care of himself. The king might as well send troops immediately and seize Gangneung, so as to prepare for the future! ”

"Take Gangneung now? It's too early, right? After all, now our army has not even defeated Hunan, and the current battle situation in Tanzhou is still deadlocked, and reinforcements may be sent from the rear at any time, how can we start a war with Gao Jichang at will in this case? Li Chengsi frowned and retorted.

On the Hunan side, after Zhu Siqing successfully conquered Hengzhou, he left 3,000 forbidden troops to defend the city, and he led the rest of the army to the north and successfully joined Liu Xin.

The Chu army saw that there was no chance to take advantage of it, so it had to retreat temporarily.

At the same time, Yao Yanzhang saw that he could not break through the blockade of the Wu army from Qiaokou, and finally chose to make a detour to the south, joined forces with Qin Yanhui in Xiangxiang, and camped twenty miles west of Tanzhou.

The Wu army drove the sailors into the Xiangjiang River to block the Chu army's support for Tanzhou.

Insisting on the situation, Chu Jun also felt very helpless.

In the past, the Chu army also had an extremely powerful naval army, but more than two years ago, in the battle when the Wu State attacked Yuezhou, there was a big battle between the two naval armies, and finally the Wu State won the victory and burned a large number of Chu army ships.

After that, the center of gravity of the Chu State shifted to the southwest, where there were mostly barren mountains and mountains, and it was difficult for ships to reach, and only the infantry army could launch an attack through the mountain road, so the Chu army did not make great efforts to rebuild the naval army.

At this time, he could only watch the Wu army's naval army blockade the Xiangjiang River and there was nothing to be done.

Of course, the Chu army does not mean that there is no naval army at all, but the strength is difficult to compete with the Wu army, otherwise it can't even cross the Xiangjiang River, so how can it support Tanzhou City?

So now the situation in Tanzhou is a confrontation between the two armies, and at the same time, the Wu army began to prepare for the attack on Tanzhou, and a large number of Suzhou artillery was transported to the city of Tanzhou, ready to be assembled for the siege.

Obviously, the Wu army still made a lot of preparations for the attack on Tanzhou, and it paid more attention to it than the previous attack on Hengzhou.