Just when the enemy army was anxious when Chaisang City and Penkou Pass were besieged, several Jin troops were ready to attack the city, as long as the main general gave an order, they could immediately attack the city.

Under the basin pass, Hua'an gathered 10,000 horses and horses, ready to carry out a tentative feint, feel the reality of the enemy's army, so as to know himself and the enemy.

"Big brother, the three armies are ready to attack the city at any time." Wang San pleaded.

Hua An looked back at the nearly 100 thunderbolts behind him, stretched out his hand and waved lightly.

Suddenly, countless large and small stones flew to the city wall of the basin pass, and the stones hit the city wall and splashed a burst ......of dust.

The soldiers of Zhao State, who were directly hit by the stones, let out a terrible scream, and a few soldiers were stoned to death on the spot, and there was a commotion on the city wall for a while.

Hua An tilted his head slightly, and ordered: "Zhao Wu, Tie Niu, you immediately lead the army to attack the city." ”

"Yes, big brother." Zhao Wu, Tie Niu took the order.

"Soldiers, kill it......" Zhao Wu and Tie Niu shouted, and led their armies to attack Penkou Pass.

The shield soldiers held tall shields to resist the enemy's arrows at the front, the crossbowmen hid behind the shield soldiers and poured their bows and arrows on the city wall, and the ladders and siege vehicles pressed towards the city wall step by step under the protection of the giant shield soldiers.

The soldiers of Zhao on the city wall naturally fought back, and all kinds of rolling wood and stones poured down from the city wall like raindrops, causing certain losses to the Northern Expeditionary Army besieging the city.

After the ladder and siege vehicle framed the city wall, the enemy's counterattack became more intense, in addition to smashing down with rolling logs and gravel, and overturning the ladder with spears, they also poured fire oil on the siege vehicles of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and after the fire was ignited, the siege vehicles were surrounded by fire in an instant.

"Big brother, the defense of Penkou Pass is still tight, and it seems that it will not be able to attack it without killing thousands of people." Wang San whispered in Hua An's ear.

Hua An nodded and said, "The defense of the Zhao army is stronger than expected, I am afraid that the thousands of soldiers in front of me will be lost, and they may not be able to attack the basin pass." ”

"Big brother, let me go for reinforcements." Thunderstorm shouted for his life.

"No, cavalry is not suitable for siege." Hua An shook his head, looked sideways at Wang San, and said, "Order, Mingjin withdraws his troops." ”

"Mingjin retreats." Wang San roared.

......With the sound of gold, the soldiers who attacked the basin pass retreated one after another.

When the soldiers of Zhao saw that the Northern Expeditionary Army had retreated, they suddenly excitedly raised the weapons in their hands on the city wall and cheered loudly.

"General, the Jin army has retreated, will we go out of the city to pursue." A military lord asked.

Zhang Raccoon looked at Hua An, who was standing in the distance and calmly watching the battle, snorted at the corner of his mouth, and said: "The Jin army is obviously feintging, intending to lead our army out of the city, so the general will not be fooled?" ”

"Judging from the last general, it seems that the Jin army has really been defeated, not like a fraud." The other warlord wondered.

Zhang Raccoon smiled at the corner of his mouth, pointed to Hua'an in the distance, and said: "The Jin army besieging the city may have really been defeated, but you see, the main general of the Jin army is as stable as Mount Tai, and there are four thousand cavalry behind him, and in the dense forest on both sides, there is a faint murderous aura, and there must be soldiers and horses in ambush." ”

In fact, Zhang Raccoon did not see that there was murderous spirit in the dense forest outside the pass, he learned that there were 35,000 Jin troops outside the pass according to the information of the scouts, and at this moment Hua'an only led 10,000 troops to attack the city, and the remaining 25,000 soldiers were missing, so he guessed that he must be ambushed in the dense forest, ready to ambush himself.

"Big brother, this basin is really fucking difficult to fight, and the soldiers have lost a lot!" After the army withdrew, the Iron Bull sighed.

"Big brother, the loss of a frontal assault is too great, so you have to find another way." Zhao Wu said holding his arm.

Hua An looked sideways at Zhao Wu and said, "Zhao Wu, your arm is injured, quickly let the military doctor bandage it." ”

"It's fine, it's just a stone." Zhao Wu looked indifferent.

Hua An turned his head sideways, stared at the basin pass, and said in a deep voice: "The basin pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is really not easy to fight, but the enemy army has not much food and grass, so we will wait for three more days, and when the enemy army runs out of food, the whole army will attack, and take the basin pass in one fell swoop." ”

"Big brother is right, look at how this group of rabbit cubs fights when they are hungry." Iron Bull echoed hatefully.

After a while, the casualty statistics came out, and in a short siege, the casualties of the Northern Expeditionary Army Tie Niu and Zhao Wu's Second Army were about one-third, and a total of more than 200 people were killed.

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The news of Hua'an's attack on Penkou Pass soon reached the ears of Kui'an, who was sitting in Chaisang, and after learning that the Northern Expeditionary Army had abandoned hundreds of corpses and retreated in a hurry, Kui'an was a little relieved.

However, this can be regarded as a wake-up call to Kui'an, the Northern Expeditionary Army attacked the city at this time, most likely because they learned that they were short of food and grass, and carried out a tentative attack, although they were repulsed, but their lack of food and grass was a big problem, if the food and grass were cut off in a few days, even if the Jin army did not fight, the 40,000 horses under his command would gradually collapse due to hunger.

"General, our army is running out of food and grass, I'm afraid that in a few days, we won't be able to resist the attack of the Jin army." A subordinate reminded in a whisper.

Kui An nodded, walked to the map, and looked at the map in deep thought.

After pondering for two moments, Kui An said lightly: "Now, our army is surrounded by enemies on all sides, there are 35,000 Jin troops outside the basin pass in the east, and 50,000 troops in the west and south of Chaisang City are all strong enemies, and the ferry in the north is also blocked by the 2,000 water divisions of the Jin State, and the reinforcements are far away in Anhui City, and the situation of our army is not good!" ”

"General, the food and grass are running out, no matter what, our army must choose a direction to break through, and we must not sit idly by." A general affirmed.

"The enemy on all sides, the Jin army's naval division blocking the ferry is the weakest, so it is better for our army to break through from here." Another ministry will build yì road.

Kui An stroked his beard and frowned: "Breaking through from the ferry, the idea is very good, however, our army has 40,000 people, but there are only a dozen warships left at the ferry, and they can only cross a few hundred people at a time, and they will be intercepted by the Jin army's sailors, but I am afraid that they will be buried in the belly of the fish before they cross the river." ”

"General, this is easy to do, there are a lot of houses in the city, as long as these houses are all demolished, it should be too late to build hundreds of small wooden boats temporarily, and in addition, the soldiers can be allowed to swim across the river with a piece of plank." A general spoke out the countermeasures.

Kui An nodded slightly, and said helplessly: "It seems that this is the only way, you go to prepare immediately, give you a day and a half, and in the middle of tomorrow night, the whole army will secretly cross the river." ”

"Yes, the last general will prepare." The general clenched his fists and led the way.

Kui An breathed a sigh of relief, looked at a henchman behind him, and said: "You personally go to Penkou Pass and tell General Sù Zhang Raccoon that before half of tomorrow night, leave five hundred men and horses to defend the city wall, and all the main forces will withdraw to Chaisang and prepare to cross the river." ”

"Yes, General." The henchman clenched his fists and led his life.