Li Yanzhi's letter was not delivered to Han Pu in time. What he was worried about had already been staged in Longxi. Han Pu and Liu Yin held each other in Woganling for more than 70 days, and Wuxing Taishou Xin Yan said that our army was twice as large as the enemy, and we should advance with a large army. If all the tribes work together, the thieves will be unstoppable. Han Pu didn't accept this. When there was no food in the army, he sent Xin Yan to Jincheng to supervise the transportation of grain and grass. Xin Yan had no choice but to lead the soldiers of his headquarters to set off.

Just as Li Yanzhi was worried. Xin Yansuo led the Wuxing army to twenty miles away from Jincheng, and was attacked by 3,000 thieves and cavalry who suddenly came out. There are only about 2,000 people in Xin Yan's department, and most of them are foot soldiers. At this time, he suddenly encountered the attack of the strong thief cavalry, and the resistance only lasted about two quarters of an hour, and the whole army collapsed. Seeing that the situation was impossible, Xin Yan had to flee to Jincheng with more than 100 troops of the Qu family, and joined forces with the deputy general of Jincheng and could not hold out.

The rout of Xin Yan's troops fled back to the camp, bringing news of the attack on the grain road. When the army heard the news, the morale of the army was gradually becoming chaotic. In one day, Han Pu suppressed several incidents of soldiers and soldiers caused by lack of food. But it still can't stabilize this sloppy military spirit.

The chain reactions caused by the lack of food are still brewing, and Zhang Lang, the Taishou of Jincheng, and Dou Tao, the Taishou of Wuwei, are connected in series, and each leads the army out of the village and returns north on their own. Han Pu sent Sima to the camp to order the second general to return to the camp with military law, but to no avail. The second general ignored it completely, and just went back to the north. And all this did not escape Liu Yin's sight under the Wogan Ridge.

Knowing that this Liangzhou soldier could not last long, Liu Yin began his own series of arrangements. First of all, the cavalry of more than 3,000 people who wandered through the mountains and forests was activated, and only attacked the convoy that came from the south of Jincheng and wanted to transport grain and grass to Han Pu's camp. As for the soldiers of the Liangzhou army who fled north, whether it was the Liangzhou army led by a general and formed into a formation, or the stragglers who fled north without permission, they would not be intercepted. In this way, after another half a month, the elite of the Liangzhou army under Han Pu's command, which was guarding Woganling, was already discouraged to the extreme, as if with another fire, this army would completely collapse.

As Liu Yin's whole army pressed up and stormed the Liangzhou army camp in Woganling, Han Pu's department began to collapse in an uncontrollable situation. Nearly 20,000 people fled northward in an unorderly manner. The generals have long lost control of their soldiers. The 3,000 Zhao cavalry that had previously wandered behind the Woganling and the more than 10,000 Zhao troops who attacked the Woganling were flanked together, and the huge number of Liangzhou routs fell in Longxi like wheat harvesting, and fell on the way to flee north.

Faced with this unmanageable situation, Han Pu had no choice but to flee north. Of the 30,000 troops who had traveled here before, only a few hundred loyal soldiers were still sworn to serve him.

Han Pu saw the elite of the Liangzhou army who were being harvested all over the mountains and wilderness, and he couldn't help but feel sad for a while. He lamented: "Thirty thousand tigers and wolves came out of Longxi, and now they are running to Jincheng in embarrassment. Ming Gong believes in me, but I lost my teacher and fled north, how can I be worthy of Ming Gong! ”

At this moment of exclamation, the cavalry of the Zhao army wandering on the side was already shooting towards this side with a rain of arrows. Han Pu was embarrassed and fled to the other side.

Almost at the same time. Outside Lingju County, more than 2,000 county soldiers have been assembled. On the top of the hill opposite the school grounds, the herald waved the signal flag, and two thousand soldiers lined up neatly and set off slowly. In front of him are sharp-cutters dressed in leather armor and armed with long-bladed knives. Because the iron armor was too heavy to make the march unsuitable for the march, it was placed on the cart that escorted the baggage when it set out. Today, this team has expanded to more than 200 people.

Different from the iron-armored infantry soldiers led by Pang Sima in the Guangwu Army before, this infantry soldier that Li Yanzhi spent a lot of effort to train has better armor protection and better versatility of the bladed long knives he holds. However, although it has undergone strict drills, before it has been tested in actual combat, Li Yanzhi has no bottom in his heart.

The three hundred cavalry were divided into two parts, one at the front of the reconnaissance sentry, and the other at the end of the formation. In the middle of the long line were the auxiliaries who had been trained for more than two months, as well as the grain and grass that they protected at all levels.

This outing was a decision made by Li Yanzhi on the spot after hearing the sentinel's report on the situation in Longxi. Although it was a temporary intention, because the previous deployment of food, grass and ordnance had already been completed, the non-commissioned officers and those temporarily assigned auxiliaries had carried out long-term drills, and their combat effectiveness was also fully guaranteed.

Along the way, he saw those sporadic generals fleeing from the northwest of Longxi one after another, and Li Yanzhi ordered Tao Heng to take the cavalry to take care of these remnants. In one morning, after traveling only 20 miles, three or four hundred people had been contained. The remnants lost their armor, and many even lost their weapons, fleeing for their lives along the way. There was nothing left but the bag of dry food he was carrying.

Their eyes were full of astonishment, confusion, and incomprehension as they saw this majestic and mighty army marching all the way in the direction they had fled back to. The fiasco of Woganling left a deep shadow in their hearts. However, instead of seizing the time to flee for their lives, the county soldiers in front of them wanted to go to the distant battlefield to play with those murderous thieves!

After their astonishment and confusion, the remnants feared even more about their fate. There had only been a fiasco, and everyone had seen the ferocity of the thieves, and no one wanted to return to the tragic battlefield full of robes and corpses. However, this group of county soldiers drove to the front line, and they couldn't help but forcibly contain them, which made them feel a strong uneasiness.

Soon after, a county soldier general came over and asked them about the battle of Woganling. The soldiers answered truthfully. Immediately, the general summoned the soldiers beside him to the baggage of the Chinese army, took three days' worth of dry food according to the number of men, took them back and distributed them to them, and ordered his own soldiers to let them go. These defeated soldiers couldn't believe it for a while, and after repeatedly confirming with the surrounding county soldiers, they left the county soldiers who were going in the opposite direction in shock, and continued to move north.

Dou Tong reported to Li Yanzhi about the causes and consequences of the battle of Woganling that these soldiers had talked about, and he couldn't help but sigh again and again. If Han Pu had been more active before and took the initiative to lead most of his troops to take the offensive, the situation would not have been as passive as it is now.

The situation has fallen to such a detergent level, and the only thing he can do is to go to block Liu Zhao's pursuers, so as to gain more hope for the soldiers under Han Pu to escape.

As a general, Han Pu cannot be blamed for the serious consequences of his command mistakes, because the general's command mistakes caused the collapse of the whole army, and these soldiers are completely unresponsible. However, if Zhao Jun is allowed to chase and kill these remnants, then there will be very few people who can come back. These soldiers are basically all the elites that the state can send now. If it is defeated in a battle, all will be lost here, and in the future, the Zhao army will cross the river and attack on a large scale, it will be unstoppable.

Under Li Yanzhi's strict order, the auxiliary soldiers of the Chinese army, who had only undergone two months of training, advanced first. Together with some of the old battalion foot soldiers, they prepared to rush to the river with all their might, and chose a place to build a pontoon bridge for their follow-up troops.

Li Yanzhi thought about it carefully, if he rushed to the big river and formed a formation on the north bank to defend against the enemy, he would definitely sit across the river and watch most of the robes die in the enemy's hands. If you want to save the lives of most of the defeated soldiers, you can only build a pontoon bridge to cross the river and fight.

However, in order to cross the river and capture the thieves, it is necessary to determine the number of enemy troops active on the other side of the river. His 20,000 men scattered and fled, and these thieves must have pursued and killed them, and they would never be able to pursue them in a group. And the result of the scattered pursuit is bound to give Li Yanzhi a certain opportunity.

Li Yanzhi's plan was to build a fortress and hold it for a day and a half after crossing the river. Three pontoon bridges were built behind the camp for the soldiers to pass through. After most of the defeated soldiers return to the north, they will defend the fortress according to the situation, or burn the camp and retreat.

Under Li Yanzhi's strict order, the soldiers went to the baggage of the Chinese army to receive two days' food according to their affiliations, and then marched to the north bank of the river. Finally arrived at the north bank of the Great River before dark.

On the big river, Zhou Xing's auxiliaries who arrived first had built a pontoon bridge. Reflected in the last rays of the sunset, the sparkling river reflects a dazzling light. And above the river, there are dense corpses of Liangzhou soldiers. It looks shocking. Presumably, they were killed by the thieves' arrows in the river when they swam across the river on their own, or they choked on water and drowned.

On the other side of the river, there were also some sporadic Zhao army rangers, galloping back and forth, monitoring the movement on the pontoon bridge, and from time to time a dozen scattered arrows were fired in this direction. Another pontoon bridge is still being built, and it is half completed. Half of the auxiliaries stood on the other side of the river with their shields and guns, while the other half toiled back and forth, carrying all sorts of rough planks to the riverbank, while the repairers chained the boats with ropes and then quickly laid the planks upward.

Xu was afraid of the spears in the hands of those foot soldiers, and the scattered dozens of horsemen did not dare to approach. With the arrival of most of the troops led by Li Yanzhi on the north bank, these captives and cavalry turned their horses and retreated. However, they did not go far, but watched the situation on both sides of the strait from a long distance.

Li Yanzhi didn't have time to take care of them, but he just ordered the generals of each department to divide the work, and the cavalry gathered in one place, and Tao Heng temporarily took the position of a hundred generals, leading these 300 or so cavalry to drive away the Zhao army cavalry who were watching. And Zhou Xing led the old battalion foot soldiers to go to the logging and setting up a village. The crossbowmen of the new army were ready to attack under the protection of the guns and shields of the auxiliaries.

Half an hour later, it was dark. However, the work in the hands of the various ministries cannot be stopped. Under the leadership of Zhou Xing, the soldiers of the old battalion still worked hard to cut down the wood, remove the branches and leaves, sharpen the end, and transport it back to the river bank for later use. The auxiliaries who had previously grabbed the pontoon bridge also hurriedly completed the work of building the pontoon bridge, and came to the camp area selected by Li Yanzhi non-stop, and began to erect the timber into a camp wall. Under the leadership of Tao Heng, three hundred cavalry soldiers attacked in four directions, and under this huge invitation, those Zhao army sentry riders who had been hiding not far away and not close to spy here were beaten to death and fled, embarrassed.

More than 2,000 soldiers were busy in the middle of the night, and a sizable camp was erected on the south bank of the river. The place chosen by Li Yanzhi is far away from Jincheng County. While setting up the camp, he also sent a cavalry to Jincheng to contact the Jincheng defenders. Yet after all this time, the knight still hasn't returned. couldn't help but make Li Yanzhi feel even more apprehensive.

Seeing that the auxiliaries had driven away a lot of rejecting horses, they dug a trench half a zhang deep and one zhang wide around the camp, and dozens of triphorse ropes were set up in the camp. Looking at the time again, it was already the middle of the night. The soldiers were exhausted after completing this series of work. Zhou Xing arranged for a team of 100 crossbowmen to be on duty for the night, while the rest of the soldiers returned to the camp tent to rest for a while.

In order to prevent the enemy from attacking or burning the camp, the camp is now full of sand and soil, and it is only more than a hundred steps away from the river bank. Although the camp was built in a hurry, it was a strong fortress. Knowing that the enemy army would definitely gather to attack this camp tomorrow, Li Yanzhi did not dare to slack off, and took his armor to rest early, preparing to face the storms of tomorrow.

After sleeping for just over an hour, Li Yanzhi heard a loud bamboo whistle in his sleep, and when he got up, he took the helmet buckle, and went to the side to take the bladed long knife he used. Holding the bamboo whistle to his mouth, he blew a short whistle as he rushed out of the camp.

Although the battalion generals were tired, they did not let their guard down. Zhou Xing rushed out of the tent before Li Yanzhi, and immediately climbed the camp wall and looked to the south, only to see a dense field of torches, illuminating the space hundreds of steps away as if it were daylight. Under the reflection of the dense torches, it could be vaguely seen that they were driving a Liangzhou army with a thousand people, and they were coming in the direction of the camp.

"Crossbowman on the wall!" Zhou Xing immediately made a decision and shouted loudly. Following his order, the crossbowmen who had left the camp lined up and climbed the camp wall in an orderly manner.

"Control!" The command was given, and the crossbowmen skillfully took out their crossbows, stepped on the pedals with their feet, and struggled to wind the crossbow with both hands. Each of them drew a crossbow arrow from the quiver he was carrying on his back and placed it in the groove on the crossbow's body. The three-edged arrowhead glowing with a cold and cold light pointed straight at the dense torches that were getting closer and closer.

Two or three hundred steps away, the screams and howls of the remnants of the Liangzhou army who were being chased and killed began to reach everyone's ears one after another. Many of the crossbowmen looked at the torches angrily with sweat on their foreheads, and their right hands on the crossbow machine trembled, and they almost shot the crossbow arrows.

Zhou Xing was keenly aware of this emotion of the crossbowmen on the left and right. A long sound from his mouth sounded a bamboo whistle, reminding the crossbowmen around him that they had regained a little clarity. As the torches got closer and closer, the face of the enemy army chasing with fire was also displayed in front of the troops on the camp wall. They are all foot soldiers mainly of Han and Qiang people, and there is not a single horseman.

Many of the Lingju county soldiers who went into battle with crossbows for the first time on the camp wall had some sore arms because they had been holding crossbows for a long time. However, looking at the group of torches that were about to reach the firing range, and the screams of the Liangzhou soldiers who were being pursued, they were itching with hatred, and they tried hard to raise the crossbow machine in their hands, aiming at the Zhao army foot soldiers who were holding torches.

The general who led this Zhao army obviously saw the newly erected camp by the light of the torches. But before he could make a rational choice among the trade-offs, he was already in the middle of a stone's throw away. But the camp was still quiet, which made him feel a little more emboldened. In the end, the desire to hunt down the frightened Liangzhou army overcame the slight uneasiness in his heart, and he raised his knife and howled as he continued to hunt down the rout.

Seeing that the other party had entered the firing range, Zhou Xing raised his right hand, but did not give the order to release the arrow. The left and right crossbowmen waited impatiently. It wasn't until these torches had entered the land of less than a arrow that Zhou Xing waved his right hand violently, and at the same time, he whistled a bamboo whistle in his mouth, blowing out a short and loud note!

In an instant, hundreds of arrows were shot from the crossbow machine on the camp wall, and they rushed straight towards the Zhao army foot soldiers who were holding torches!