The left and right flanks of Ran Min's soldiers and horses were about to become the target of the Xianbei cavalry, and at the same time, the frontal infantry phalanx advanced, and Ran Min almost fell into a situation where he was surrounded on three sides, so he immediately ordered to lead the army to retreat.

Murong Ping's army pressed the realm and chased after him, because he knew that behind Ran Min was Yi Shui, and the survival path of the left and right wings had been cut off by his cavalry, and in such a situation, Murong Ping had enough confidence to kill Ran Min.

Ran Min's 30,000 soldiers and horses retreated quickly, not confronting the Xianbei people head-on, it seems that they have not taken advantage of it for several days, and they are cowardly, of course, many Xianbei people also think so.

The army galloped for more than ten miles, and Ran Min's soldiers and horses had been forced to be helpless and began to cross the river. Because Ran Min's cavalry was mostly matched with good horses from the Western Regions, they were tall and fat, so the speed of crossing the river was very fast. The cavalry led by Murong Ke chased very closely, but Ran Min's soldiers and horses seemed to slow down suddenly, and they fought with Murong Ke's vanguard battalion, tens of thousands of cavalry fought in the river, this scene was very spectacular, and the river water was instantly stained red with blood.

About half a pillar of incense passed, the cavalry on both sides suffered casualties, and the Xianbei foot soldiers began to cross the river. Seeing this situation, Ran Min immediately ordered a retreat, the soldiers and horses under his command were strictly disciplined, no one was in love with the war, and retreated quickly, how could Murong Ke let Ran Min go? Hold on to it.

Just when most of Ran Min's soldiers and horses had just landed, there was a sudden sound of "boom" in the distance, like thousands of horses galloping, roaring between heaven and earth, Xianbei people were a little stunned, the momentum of the attack weakened instantly, and no one knew what was going on.

At this time, nearly half of Xianbei's foot soldiers were in the Yishui River. Suddenly, someone in the crowd shouted in horror: "Run! The torrent is coming! ”

Everyone looked at it together, and saw the turbulent waves like thousands of rivers returning to the sea, like thousands of tigers coming down the mountain, rushing forward, Xianbei people were shocked when they saw this, and hurriedly wanted to retreat, at this time, they didn't care about any formation, and they didn't care about the battle. Suddenly, the army's morale was disheartened, and when they fled, many soldiers were trampled to death by their own lives.

The water rushed down, Murong Ke hurriedly retreated, and Murong Ping, who had not yet led the army across the river, saw the situation in front of him, and then suddenly realized that he had once again fallen for Ran Min's scheme.

When tens of thousands of soldiers and horses retreated in a panic, they were directly flooded, and the scene was chaotic for a while, and the Xianbei army was in turmoil.

Those Xianbei people who fled west in a panic were lucky enough to go ashore, but they died at the hands of Ran Min.

Ran Min stood on the bank of the Yishui River and shouted to Murong Ping: "Murong thief! Are you convinced or not! ”

"Boy! Our contest has just begun! Murong Ping responded.

"Hahaha! Then let the horses come! After Ran Min finished speaking, he led the army to leave, although Murong Ping was already angry and almost vomited blood, but he was helpless.

In the battle of Yishui, Xianbei lost tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and the bodies of the drowned Hu people were floating everywhere in the entire Yishui, which was miserable. At the same time, the wolf cavalry commander sneaked into the rear of the Xianbei people, killed thousands of enemies and retreated, and the morale of the Xianbei people was greatly reduced, and the first battle of the southward invasion was lost, and Murong Ping had no choice but to withdraw his troops back to Jizhou.

It seemed that the crisis on Ran Wei's back was resolved, but ten days later, Murong Ping led his army south again, approaching Changcheng, trying to use Changcheng as a bait to attract Ran Min to come to the station, so as to grasp the initiative of the battle situation, so as not to fall for Ran Min's plan again. Ran Min led the army to aid Changcheng, and the sky in the north was once again overcast, and the fighters were about to attack.

In this battle, in order to exterminate Ran Min, Murong transferred 60,000 soldiers and horses from Youzhou and Jizhou to help, Ran Min still met with 30,000 cavalry, the two sides fought for more than ten days, Ran Min won nine battles and nine victories, morale was like a rainbow, and the balance of victory seemed to have tilted towards Ran Wei.

Murong Ke was quite frustrated, he sat on the grass, looking ahead in a daze, while Murong Ke was thinking hard about what to do to deal with the enemy.

Suddenly, one of his men came in a hurry, but accidentally tripped over a rope and fell to the ground in embarrassment.

Seeing this, Murong Ke angrily reprimanded the man: "Useless thing! Are you blind! You can walk and wrestle! How to fight! ”

The man knelt down in fear and explained, "Your Highness forgives your sins, and you have not paid attention to the ropes on the ground......

"What's so flustered!" Murong Ke asked.

"Your Majesty has come to the Holy Decree!" The man said and handed over the holy decree to Murong Ke.

Murong Ke opened it and looked at it, his face became even more ugly, and he said to Murong Ping: "Brother Huang ordered that if we can't take Changcheng within five days, we will be escorted back to Liaodong to punish the crime......"

Murong Ping didn't respond, he stood up, walked to the place where his subordinates tripped on his own, squatted down, looked at the rope, held it in his hand, and thought thoughtfully.

"Did I hear you talking to you?" Murong Ke asked.

"Don't make a noise!" Murong Ping responded coldly.

Seeing Murong Ping so indifferent, inexplicably staring at a rope in a daze, Murong Ke also felt strange, got up and walked over, and asked, "What are you staring at this rope?" If we can't think of a way to break the enemy, I'm afraid we'll have to ......."

"I've already figured out how to deal with Ran Min!" Murong Ping threw down the rope, clapped his hands, and stood up.

"Do you have a solution?"

Murong Ping nodded, and instructed his subordinates: "Let the blacksmith rush to make 10,000 iron chains overnight!" It must be done within two days! The day after tomorrow, face Ran Min! ”

"Chains? What do you want to do with chains? Murong Ke was puzzled.

Murong Ping sneered and said, "You'll know when the time comes!" ”

The successive victories raised the morale of Ran Min and his subordinates, on the one hand, because of Ran Min's excellent command and strategy, and on the other hand, these tens of thousands of elite soldiers were also tempered after years of war.

Early in the morning of the third day, Murong Ke personally led his troops and horses to call for battle outside Changcheng, and Ran Min was naturally fearless and led the army to battle.

Murong Ke first fought with Ran Min with 5,000 cavalry, Ran Min led 10,000 people to meet the battle, and after a while, Murong Ke was invincible and led the remnants to retreat, and Ran Min chased after him.

After chasing out for about ten miles, Murong Ke's cavalry suddenly scattered towards the two wings, and Ran Min fixed his eyes to see that there was another cavalry of more than 10,000 people coming in front of him. Seeing this situation, Ran Min was naturally fearless, and rushed forward with his men.

Just when the two armies were only two or three miles apart, the Xianbei cavalry suddenly opened up the distance between the left and right sides, about two zhang wide, and an iron chain was tied to the stirrups of each war horse. In addition, the war horses ridden by these cavalry were all wrapped in iron armor, like a galloping copper wall, and this situation, Ran Min did not discover in time, until the two armies clashed, he realized that the situation was wrong.

Tens of thousands of war horses have been chained, forming countless flexible tripwires, Ran Min's cavalry did not have time to deal with it, many war horses were tripped to the ground, and the soldiers on horseback pounced on the ground, either trampled to death by the horses' hooves, or died under the chaotic knives of the Xianbei people. Ran Min was shocked and immediately ordered to retreat, and the Xianbei people chased after him, killing another 2,000 people along the way.

This was the first time that Ran Min had suffered a crushing defeat since the war, and he fled back to Changcheng with only more than 3,000 people.

Murong Ping's stumbling horse and heavy cavalry caught Ran Min off guard, and suffered this defeat, Ran Min's morale was greatly reduced, but the confidence of the Xianbei people increased greatly, and the situation was reversed in an instant. Murong Ping immediately surrounded Changcheng with more than 100,000 heavy troops, and the defenders in the city were only 30,000, and for a while, people were panicked.

"Your Majesty......" Zhang Mufeng stood in front of Ran Min rather dejectedly.

Ran Min looked solemn and asked, "Have you counted them all?" ”

Zhang Mufeng nodded and said, "It's all counted, and only more than 3,200 soldiers came back from today's battle......"

"In other words, in this battle alone, we lost 6,800 elite cavalry!"

Zhang Mufeng nodded, and said, "There is not much grain and grass in the city!" ”

"How long is enough for us?" Ran Min asked.

"It's about ten days old!"

Ran Min got up slowly and said, "The city is besieged by heavy troops, and there is not enough food and grass in the city!" I didn't expect that I would have this day! ”

"What to do? Did you send a letter to General Wang, asking him to send troops for reinforcements? Zhang Mufeng asked.

Ran Min shook his head and said: "The war on the Western Front is tight, and the Di people have more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in Yongzhou, trying to advance eastward, and the third uncle has only 60,000 or 70,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, and he can barely hold it. ”