In the direction of Jinyang City, in the face of the huge strength of the Yan Dynasty coalition army, Xie Ai and the main army under his command were under tremendous military pressure, but the soldiers had already made up their minds that no matter how great the morale of the enemy was, they would never abandon Jinyang City.

Fortunately, the terrain of Jinyang City is extremely dangerous, the city is tall and easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is not easy for the Yan Dynasty coalition army to break through Jinyang City.

In the eastern part of Jinyang City is the wide Fenshui, which is only a few miles away from Jinyang City, which greatly enhances the defensive advantage in the eastern part of Jinyang City. In the south and west of Jinyang City, there is the majestic Longshan, and in the north is the tall Mengshan Mountain.

Longshan and Mengshan are blocked in the west, south and north directions of Jinyang City, which greatly enhances the defense force of Jinyang City and makes Jinyang City a city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The only fragile is the Blue Valley between Longshan and Mengshan, the Blue Valley is sandwiched between Longshan and Mengshan, which is numerically wide, if the enemy attacks from the Blue Valley, the progress will be relatively smooth, and at the same time, the Blue Valley is also an important passage for the grain and grass in Guanzhong to enter Jinyang City, and the strategic position is extremely important.

In order to prevent the Daiguo army from attacking from the direction of the Blue Valley, Xie Ai ordered Yang An and Zhang Hao to each lead 20,000 main cavalry under their command, a total of 40,000 main cavalry to garrison the Blue Valley Pass, and take advantage of the favorable terrain to build strong fortifications to block the impact of the main cavalry of the Daiguo.

In addition, Mengshan and Longshan each sent 20,000 reserve soldiers to defend, and on the west bank of Fenshui, the main army of 20,000 under Zhao Wu was sent to defend.

In this way, the main army of 100,000 under Xie Ai. All entered the position, and the soldiers and horses stationed in Jinyang City only had Xie Ai's henchmen of 3,000 Liangguo cavalry and tens of thousands of infantry under Zhang Ping's command.

Xie Ai arranged the army in this way, and Jinyang City could be described as impregnable, but in the face of the Yan Dynasty coalition army with a strength of more than 300,000, the situation was still very critical.

In order to defend Jinyang City, Xie Ai ordered all armies to step up the construction of fortifications on the one hand, and sent a large number of scouts to inquire about the movement and deployment of the Yan Dynasty coalition army, so as to be well informed. Meantime. Send henchmen to Qi County to get in touch with the Hua'an Army.

The main army of the Dai State was arranged in the area of Mengshan, while the main army of the Yan State was all stationed on the east bank of Fenshui, across the wide Fenshui. Confront the Zhao Wu army on the opposite bank.

In order to coordinate against the Shea Legion. Murong Ke, the chief general of the Yan army. He led some of the generals to cross the Fenshui River by boat from the upper reaches and entered the Dai Army camp stationed in the north of Mengshan.

Seeing that Murong Ke, the commander of the Yan army, came to visit in person. Acting Wang Tuoba Shi Yijian naturally did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly led all the generals under his command to walk out of the gate to greet him.

"The last general, Murong Ke, meet the acting king." Seeing Tuoba Shi Yijian personally walking out of the gate to greet him, Murong Ke hurriedly jumped off his horse and saluted, and the generals behind him also dismounted and saluted.

"General Murong doesn't have to be polite, please come inside." Tuoba Shi Yijian stepped forward to help Murong Ke, looking extremely enthusiastic.

Now, the two countries of the Yan Dynasty need to work together in the face of a common threat, so it is not surprising that Tuoba Shi Yijian treats Murong Ke extremely politely.

"Acting for the king, please." Murong Ke will always look like a gentleman.

After entering the Chinese army tent of the acting king Tuoba Shi Yijian, Murong Ke first had a polite conversation with Tuoba Shi Yijian, and then reiterated his purpose of leading the army to Jinyang City.

Tuoba Shi Yijian was convinced of this, and decided to work with Murong Ke to completely defeat the Xie Ai Legion and the Hua'an Legion, removing the great obstacles they faced in advancing into the Central Plains.

Since the Yan army was facing the threat of the Hua'an army, the main task of attacking Jinyang City was still completed by the Dai Guo army, and the Yan army was only responsible for containing the Zhao Wu army on the west bank of Fenshui, so as to reduce the pressure on the Dai Guo army to attack Jinyang City.

Of course, even so, in the face of the natural dangers of Mengshan and Longshan, Dai Wang Tuoba Shi Yijian still had many doubts, and he hoped that he could cut off the supply of Jinyang City by means of the encirclement of the main army, so that the Xie Ai army would be defeated due to the lack of food, so as to greatly reduce the huge losses suffered by the attack.

To this end, he has sent 50,000 main forces to block the Blue Valley and cut off the land grain route of Jinyang City, and at the same time, let the Yan army be responsible for cutting off the downstream of Fenshui and blocking the water and grain routes of Jinyang City.

After discussing the specific strategy of besieging Jinyang City, Murong Ke got up and took his leave, led his soldiers and returned to the camp on the east bank of Fenshui.

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The shape of the direction of Jinyang City is precarious, and the direction of Yecheng is not optimistic, on both sides of the Zhangshui River north of Yecheng, Pu Jian and Jiang Gan launched a fierce battle of wits and courage.

Pu Jian's goal is to safely escort Ran Zhi and the others to Jicheng and hand them over to Murong Jun, the king of Yan, while Jiang Gan plans to intercept the team sent by Pu Jian to Yecheng, so as to rescue the captured Ran Zhi and others.

For several days, the men and horses sent by Pu Jian to Jicheng were all pretended, the purpose was to use the fools again and again to make Jiang Gan lose his patience to rescue Ran Zhi, and even more so to disturb Jiang Gan's sight, so as to finally successfully escort Ran Zhi to Jicheng and hand it over to Murong Jun, the king of Yan.

At this time, Wang Wu and his main forces had arrived on the north bank of Zhangshui and set up a large camp on the shore.

Wang Wu immediately went to Jiang Gan's Chinese army tent to discuss with Jiang Gan about rescuing Wei Wang Ranzhi.

"General Wang, for several days, we have all been tricked by Pu Jian, this hateful Pu Jian has decided to take refuge in Yan State, it is not a way to go on like this, our army should immediately cross the river from the upper reaches and launch an attack on Yecheng to rescue Wang Shang." Jiang Gan said angrily.

This kind of idea is naturally very unfeasible, and now the strength of the Wei army is comparable to that of the Pu Jian army occupying Yecheng, and there is absolutely no possibility of breaking through it rashly attacking Yecheng.

Wang Wu shook his head and objected: "General, Yecheng is easy to defend and difficult to attack, with the strength of our army, it is impossible to break through Yecheng at all, it is better to surprise attack Qinghe, Bohai, Pingyuan, Leling County, cut off Pu Jian's foundation, in this way, Pu Jian will inevitably divide troops to rescue, in this way, our army may still have a chance to turn defeat into victory." ”

When Jiang Gan heard this, he made some sense, so he said: "Okay, General Ben personally led 20,000 main cavalry to attack Qinghe, Bohai and other places, and General Wang led the main infantry to stay in place, remember, we must try to rescue Wang Shang." ”

"Don't worry, general, I will go all out." Wang Wu said loudly.

Subsequently, Jiang Gan, the general of Wei, personally led 20,000 main cavalry to the lower reaches of Zhangshui, because Pu Jian was not worried that the Wei army had the strength to break through Yecheng, therefore, the defense of Zhangshui was not tight, Jiang Gan's 20,000 main cavalry easily crossed Zhangshui, and went straight to the direction of Qinghe and Bohai.

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In Yecheng, Pu Jian was worried about how to safely send Ran Zhi to Jicheng, and the scout reported to Pu Jian the news that Jiang Gan personally led 20,000 main cavalry to attack the direction of Qinghe.

Pu Jian was naturally shocked when he heard this, Qinghe and Bohai are the places where they established their foundation, although at this moment, they have been attached to Yan Guo, but in the depths of Pu Jian's heart, belonging to Yan Guo is just to obey his father's orders and seek the necessary conditions for survival in the troubled times, as long as the time is ripe, he will still take action to dominate the world, and will not be tied because of Pu Hong's last words.

"Third brother, Qinghe and Bohai counties are where our foundation lies, if the Wei army is allowed to occupy it, the consequences will be unimaginable!" Puxiong also understands the importance of places such as Qinghe.

Pu Jian nodded and said, "Yes!" Qinghe, Bohai and other counties are extremely important to us, and they must not be occupied by the Wei army, fourth brother, you immediately personally lead 20,000 main cavalry to reinforce Qinghe County, and you must not let the Wei army occupy our foundation. ”

"Third brother, don't worry, leave it to me." Puxiong spoke loudly and immediately turned to prepare.

After Pu Xiong left, Pu Jian pondered carefully, he thought that the Wei army cared about Ran Zhi and Yecheng, and did not attach much importance to Qinghe and other places, and the reason why Jiang Gan led the army to Qinghe County was to let himself divide his troops to rescue, so as to weaken the control of Yecheng, and even, completely abandon Yecheng and retreat to the southeast of Jizhou.

Pu Jian knew very well in his heart that Ran Min had a very high prestige in the hearts of the military and people of Wei, and the existence of his son Ran Zhi could also greatly unite the hearts of the people of Wei, if he wanted to completely disintegrate Wei, the most effective way was to kill Ran Zhi and let all his descendants die, so that the army and people of Yan State would completely disintegrate, and form scattered armies, and they would no longer be able to make big waves.

Although killing Ran Zhi can greatly demoralize the soldiers and civilians of Wei, at this moment, Pu Jian has already taken refuge in Murong Jun, the king of Yan, so if he wants to kill the monarch of Wei, he must get Murong Jun's permission, otherwise, he will be charged with being the master of his own affairs, which will make Murong Jun suspicious.

For this reason, Pu Jian made up his mind that he must do his best to send Ran Zhi and the others to Jicheng safely and hand them over to Murong Jun, the king of Yan, to dispose of, and he will build yì Murong Jun to kill Ran Min's heirs in order to break the thoughts of the people of Wei.

After thinking about it carefully, Pu Jian planned to send two teams of men and horses to march in the direction of Jicheng at the same time, one of them was the bait team, and the other was the team that really escorted Ran Zhi.

In order to confuse the Wei scouts, Pu Jian asked Ran Zhi and other Wei royal families and important ministers to put on the armor of soldiers, and ride in a four-horse chariot, escorted by 3,000 cavalry, and march quickly in the direction of Jicheng.

In order to confuse the Wei scouts, Pu Jian would relax the control of passers-by and allow passers-by to have close contact with the prisoner car, so that the Wei scouts could observe these Wei ministers up close. (To be continued......)