Murong Ba led the army to pursue a few hundred paces, ordered the pursuit to be stopped, and asked his cavalry to cross the river immediately, because the 10,000 infantry of the Wei army would soon be killed, and most of the nearly 3,000 cavalry under his command were wounded, which was simply not enough to resist the attack of the 15,000 Wei army.

The 3,000 Yan cavalry crossed the river as fast as they could, and withdrew to the west bank of the river before the 15,000 men and horses of the Wei State reached the pontoon bridge.

Seeing that the cavalry of the Yan State had arrived on the west bank of Rongshui, more than 10,000 men and horses of the Wei army did not dare to pursue, so they had to return along the same road, and sent a soldier to the south bank of Rongshui, and reported the specific battle situation to the main general Wang Wu.

In Wang Wu's camp on the south bank of the water, the main general Wang Wu was paying close attention to the situation on the north bank, and at this time, it was already night

Deep, but Wang Wu and the soldiers under his command did not dare to slack off in the slightest, for the battle that took place more than ten miles on the east side, Wang Wu and his generals did not know.

"General, our army has a great victory over the Yan army and beheads two thousand." Just then, a soldier came to report.

Wang Wu was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "What is the specific situation, tell me quickly." ”

When the soldiers heard the order, they put Murong Ba's army into the encirclement, and then found that the situation was wrong and immediately evacuated, and was shot nearly half by the Wei army, and then the lord was beheaded by Murong Ba, causing nearly 3,000 people and horses of Yan to escape from the water, and they all reported to Wang Wu in 1510.

Wang Wu listened to the specific battle process, nodded, and sighed softly: "The Yan army is really well-trained, and it is surrounded by three times the strength of our army, and most of it can be withdrawn, it's not easy!" ”

"General, I heard that Yan Guo went south this time and mobilized 200,000 elite troops. The strength should not be underestimated! Can my Great Wei Kingdom really resist it? The general was a little weak-hearted.

Wang Wu looked at this general, and said: "What are you afraid of, although our army is only 30,000, the strength of my Great Wei State in Hebei is not less than 200,000, besides, the elite of the beggar army under the command of the emperor is still there, and against the army of Yan State, my Great Wei State has enough chance of winning." ”

"The general is right, Murong Ke can be called the first general of the Yan Kingdom, and now. Didn't you also defeat our army! So. My Great Wei State will definitely be able to defeat the Yan army. Another general said loudly.

Seeing this, Wang Wu nodded with satisfaction, and asked his subordinates to strengthen their vigilance, because he believed that Murong Ke would not give up after this defeat. There will be retaliation.

The Yan army camp on the north bank of the water. Murong Ke ordered the main army under his command to fully prepare for war. and was ready to attack the Wei defenders on the south bank of the water.

At this moment, as long as Murong Ba's 5,000 partial divisions are killed, they will kill the rear of the Wei army. His main force could easily cross the water, so as to gather 100,000 heroes and attack Lukou City.

"General, it's already the middle of the night, why hasn't our army launched an attack on the Wei army yet?" A subordinate general looked at Murong Ke and asked suspiciously.

"Yes! General, it's been so long, and there is no news yet, has something happened to you? Another general had a sense of foreboding.

Murong Ke frowned, and said softly: "You don't have to worry, the fifth brother has been on the battlefield for a long time, and he will be fine, just wait!" After speaking, he continued to look at the south bank of the water.

In fact, in Murong Ke's heart, he was still very worried, after all, after such a long time, according to the speed of five thousand cavalry, he should have gone around the back of the Wei army a long time ago, but he had not launched an attack at this moment, which was really strange.

"General, you see, our army has returned." Just when Murong Ke was worried, Murong Ba led nearly 3,000 remnants of the army back to the main army camp.

Seeing that Murong Ba and the soldiers behind him were dejected, and there was no formation, Murong Ke knew that they had lost the battle, so he immediately led his generals to meet them.

"Fifth brother, what's going on" Murong Ke looked at Murong Ba and asked loudly.

Murong Ba hurriedly jumped off his horse, bowed his head and said: "Fourth brother, it's all because I was careless, I was ambushed by the enemy, and I lost two thousand soldiers, and most of these soldiers who fled back were also injured." ”

"Caught in an ambush by the Wei army? How many centaurs do they have? Murong Ke hurriedly asked.

Murong Ba said: "5,000 cavalry, 10,000 infantry, three times the strength of our army, and ambushed on the high ground on both sides of the road, when I found out that the situation was wrong, the Wei army fired 10,000 arrows, and our army was caught off guard, and it was suddenly miserable!" ”

"Oh, I see." Murong Ke nodded, and asked again: "Since you were ambushed by the Wei army, and the Wei army has a large number of troops, how did you escape back?" ”

Murong Ba took a breath and said softly: "Don't hide it from the fourth brother, our army has just entered the ambush circle and has not yet penetrated, so most of the soldiers escaped, and then quickly retreated to the ferry, the Wei cavalry pursued, I led the soldiers to kill their main general, and killed the leaderless Wei army, and then, taking advantage of the gap when the main infantry of the Wei army had not yet arrived, let the soldiers quickly cross the water, so they escaped." After saying that, I still had some palpitations.

Hearing this, Murong Ke nodded, and said softly: "In this way, the Wei army has been prepared for a long time!" They already knew that our army was going to cross the river and sneak attack their rear, so they set up an ambush in advance where our army must pass! ”

Murong Ba nodded, and said loudly: "Fourth brother, our army has lost so many soldiers, we must not just forget it, we must teach the Wei army a hard lesson, and do our best to capture Lukou." ”

"Lukou is a strategic place, naturally to be captured, but among the Wei army, some people can actually understand our army's intentions, this is too tricky, after that, our army must be cautious in its actions, and must not act rashly, so as not to encounter another ambush." Murong Ke said seriously.

"Fourth brother, rest assured, with this failure, I will definitely remember the lesson, and next time, I will never be ambushed by the Wei army again." Murong Ba swore an oath.

Murong Ke nodded, then returned to the Chinese army's big tent and began to study the map near Lukou and look for the best attack plan.

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In the direction of Hongnong City, the main army of Hua'an after a continuous day of rest, after leaving 2,000 reserve troops to garrison Hongnong, the main force left Hongnong City and continued to march along the Yellow River towards Luoyang.

Along the way, the cities along the way have taken the initiative to surrender, and the common people also warmly welcomed the arrival of the main army of Hua'an, and it didn't take long for more than 100,000 horses of Hua'an to enter Hejun and stationed in Heyin City north of Hejun.

Here, not far from Luoyang City, it can be said that the main army of Hua'an has entered the core area of the Central Plains and is about to recover the entire Central Plains.

Due to the extremely large number of cities in the Luoyang area, in order to find out the situation here, Hua'an hurriedly gathered the scouts and smart men who had been arranged here earlier, and asked them to truthfully report the situation near Luoyang to themselves, so as to obtain specific information about the Central Plains, which is conducive to a good control of the Central Plains region.

In order to prevent the loss caused by the rash advance, Hua'an stationed the main army in Heyin City, resting the main army while collecting intelligence in the Luoyang area.

After several days of understanding, Hua'an learned that the Luoyang area was extremely unstable, and the various forces were intertwined, and most of the warlords who controlled a certain army were all grass on the wall, and when they saw Ran Min establishing the Wei State, they called them ministers, and when they saw that the Jingzhou army of the Great Jin Dynasty had moved north, they called themselves ministers to the Great Jin, and Shi Yuan and Murong Jun joined forces to defeat Ran Min, then they had to be loyal to the Zhao State, in short, no matter who they were loyal to, the city was still theirs, and the money and grain taxes in the area under their jurisdiction were also theirs, and they nominally took refuge in the various forces, but in essence, none of them took refuge, and these warlords were completely semi-independent.

These semi-independent warlords had at least a few hundred forces in the Luoyang area, and the larger forces could occupy one or more cities, while the smaller ones could only occupy villages, towns, docks, and even an important mountain.

Dealing with these large and small semi-independent forces, Shi Yuan, Ran Min, and the Great Jin Dynasty have no particularly good way, in addition to pacifying, or appease, after all, their group is too large, if you want to send troops to exterminate one by one, it is difficult to work in a short period of time, and it will greatly consume troops and various military materials, besides, people have already announced that they have surrendered to you and bowed to you, if you send troops to encircle and suppress, it is equivalent to pushing these forces to their enemies, so that they fall into an extremely unfavorable situation.

Of course, the reason why this situation will occur is because this is a troubled time, whether it is the Great Jin Dynasty, Ran Min, Shi Yuan, or Murong Jun, they do not have the overwhelming power, and in this way, these warlord forces can survive in the cracks, and under the conditions of the balance of power of the great powers, they can obtain the greatest benefits with the capital they control.

This situation will definitely not occur in the peaceful and prosperous times, because when the world is unified, there is only one huge force in the world, if someone dares to be semi-independent, refuses to hand over the city, and privately appoints officials and generals in the jurisdiction, he will definitely be labeled as a crime of rebellion, and send a large army to exterminate it, and the matter of sovereignty is non-negotiable.

The world is in turmoil, the imperial power is declining, this semi-independent state will continue forever, Hua'an thought about it carefully, not only these large and small forces are in a semi-independent state, even the state assassins of the Great Jin Dynasty are only nominal Great Jin courtiers, but they live a life similar to independence, and completely control the taxes and official appointments in their respective jurisdictions, such as Huan Wen and Hua'an himself, is the largest warlord in the Great Jin Dynasty.

It's just that Hua'an and Huan Wen are not wall-to-wall grass, and they have never declared their allegiance to other forces, so they are still fundamentally different from the large and small warlords in the Luoyang area.

Hua'an has always been loyal to the Great Jin Dynasty, and compared with the large and small warlords in the Luoyang area, he has a better reputation, more strength, and naturally has more confidence.

In order to completely control the Central Plains region, Hua'an decided to study carefully with his generals how to deal with these large and small warlord forces, after all, many of them have nominally defected to the Great Jin Dynasty and rashly led the army to attack, which is obviously inappropriate. (To be continued......)