Yao Xiang divided his troops into three ways to flee in the direction of Qingzhou, two of which were soldiers and horses attached to him in the direction of Qingzhou, and only one of the soldiers and horses led by him personally was his descendants, so that Yao Xiang divided his troops into three ways to flee completely in order to let the other two soldiers and horses as cover, so that his descendants could evacuate more smoothly.

After all, the enemy army fled from different directions, and it was necessary to divide the troops to pursue, and how to divide the troops was naturally not something that some small soldiers could determine, so they could only stop the pursuit and report it immediately.

Seeing that the army in front suddenly stopped pursuing, Hua An felt a little strange, and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter, why don't you chase it." ”

"Report, Wang, the enemy army suddenly broke and fled in the direction of Qingzhou in three ways." A ministry general immediately reported to Hua'an.

Hearing this, Hua An nodded, and immediately understood that the reason why the army under his command did not pursue immediately was because Yao Xiang's army had divided its troops and withdrew, and they did not know which direction to pursue.

"Your Majesty, Yao Xiang suddenly divided his troops and evacuated, this is to disperse the main force of our army! If our army divides its forces to pursue, Yao Xiang may continue to divide its troops, so that the main force of our army will be completely dispersed. Wang Wu reminded loudly, after all, he had suffered such a loss, and he was deeply touched by this.

Hua An disagreed, and said loudly: "General Wang is too worried, now the Yao Xiang Legion is already at the end of the strong crossbow and the division of troops to flee is just a fluke, as long as our army continues to pursue, even if the soldiers and horses are completely dispersed, it can completely annihilate the Yao Xiang Legion, pass the order, the army immediately divide the troops to pursue, and must completely take Qingzhou." ”

"Yes. The king. The generals shouted their orders and immediately divided their forces and launched a pursuit of the fleeing enemy.

Hua'an divided his troops to pursue, and never let the three-way soldiers and horses under Yao Xiang have any respite, on the west bank of the swimming water, the three-way soldiers and horses under Yao Xiang's command. All of them were blocked by the rolling water, and the pontoon bridge could not be built in a short time, for this reason, most of them had to swim across the river, in order to reduce the weight of their bodies, and had to remove their armor, and even some soldiers even discarded weapons and horses.

Of course, these are soldiers who are good at water. Those soldiers who were not good at the water had no way to swim across the water, so they had to flee along the shore of the water in the direction of upstream and downstream, and some soldiers who were very tired and unwilling to continue to flee immediately dismounted and surrendered.

Hua An and a group of soldiers and horses under his command soon arrived at the shore of the swimming water. And saw the spectacular scene in the water.

At this time, in the swimming water, many soldiers under the command of Yao Xiang who fled in rout. Efforts are being made to cross the water, and many horses are also swimming together, and people and horses are intertwined, forming a spectacular scene, of course, on the shore of the water. There were also many soldiers who surrendered on their knees.

"Your Majesty, the water is blocking the way, will our army also pursue the water by swimming in the water?" One of the generals asked aloud.

Hua An shook his head and said, "No need, the soldiers have been chasing for so long." It was already very tired, and the order was given, and the whole army immediately camped to rest, and sent a group of soldiers and horses to start building a pontoon bridge, and after the pontoon bridge was built, it would launch a pursuit. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The general commanded loudly.

Subsequently, most of the soldiers and horses under Hua'an's command began to rest, while a small number of soldiers were busy building pontoon bridges.

The reason why Hua'an is so arranged is that firstly, so that the army under his command can rest for a while, and secondly, because the soldiers under his command have worked very hard, if they swim in the water to launch a pursuit, it will definitely make the soldiers work harder, and even cause certain losses. This would also be too detrimental to the majesty, so the only way to do this was to rest for a while, and then launch a pursuit after the pontoon bridge was built.

Of course, Hua'an is not worried, these soldiers and horses will flee, because the 40,000 partial divisions sent out by Wang Wu have long been waiting for them not far away, and now, the tired division under Yao Xiang is completely incapable of fighting against these 40,000 partial divisions, so Hua'an certainly does not have to worry.

Because he had been tired for a day and a night, Hua'an and his soldiers felt very tired, and after a small number of soldiers and horses to build a pontoon bridge, Hua'an and his soldiers rested.

The soldiers and horses under the command of Hua'an were camping on the west bank of the swimming water, and Yao Xiang's three-way rout, but they did not dare to stop on the east bank of the swimming water, they dragged their wet clothes, stepped on the war horses with difficulty, and continued to flee in the direction of Qingzhou, of course, those soldiers who lost their horses when swimming had to march on foot.

Yao Xiang looked at the exhausted and unarmored soldiers under his command, frowned, crossed the water, the soldiers and horses under his command, and lost thousands of men and horses at once, and now, the soldiers who followed him were only seven or eight thousand, which was too much less than when he led the troops out of Qingzhou, and some of these soldiers lost their horses, and some lost their weapons and armor, which was completely a down-and-out tired army.

Yao Xiang doesn't have to think about how much combat power such soldiers and horses can have, and besides, there are already 40,000 partial divisions sent by Wang Wu in the direction of Qingzhou, which is also a force they must face, so how can Yao Xiang not worry.

"Fifth brother, our army has lost more than 2,000 horses, and now there are less than 8,000 soldiers and horses, and many soldiers have lost their weapons and horses, and have completely lost their combat effectiveness, I really don't know if our army can safely return to Qingzhou!" Yao Chang looked at Yao Xiang and said softly.

Yao Xiang frowned and said loudly: "No matter how difficult the road ahead is, our army must go on bravely, even if there are only a hundred men and horses left, as long as our army escapes, there is still hope." ”

"Yes, fifth brother, I understand." Yao Chang answered softly.

At this time, Yao Xiang can be said to have given up Qingzhou, and the reason why he led the army to retreat in the direction of Qingzhou was to flee to Liaodong County of Yan from the ferry port of Donglai County in the east of Qingzhou, so as to preserve the last force under his command.

On the west bank of the swimming water, after a few hours, the pontoon bridge was completely erected, and Hua'an and his soldiers were almost resting.

"Your Majesty, the pontoon bridge has been built, do you want to march immediately?" A subordinate general asked Hua'an for his life.

Hua An nodded, and said with a straight face: "Order the whole army to immediately cross the water and launch a pursuit of the enemy's rout." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The general received the order and immediately turned around and went to give the order.

Soon, tens of thousands of troops under the command of Hua'an began to cross the water along the pontoon bridge and launched a pursuit of the routed troops under Yao Xiang.

Hua An and several generals rode their horses on the shore of the west bank of the water, looking at the army that was crossing the water along the pontoon bridge, and they had to wait until most of the soldiers and horses had crossed the water, and then pass from the pontoon bridge.

"Your Majesty, you see, there are many corpses of horses floating in the water, these are all the people and horses under Yao Xiang's command, left behind when they were swimming!" A general pointed to the floating corpses of men and horses in the water and said loudly.

Hua'an naturally also saw the corpses of these horses, the reason why these soldiers were drowned was naturally because of the bad water quality, and so many war horses were drowned because these war horses were too tired, and after they got to the water, they didn't have much strength, and the heavy leather armor on the horseback and the soldiers in armor sternly increased their burden, which overwhelmed these war horses and were finally drowned.

"With so many corpses of men and horses, it seems that when crossing the water, Yao Xiang and his soldiers and horses lost at least more than 5,000!" Hua An said with emotion.

"Yes! Your Majesty, now the enemy's soldiers and horses have become fewer, and the three-way rout combined, I am afraid that there are only 20,000 horses, as long as our army increases its strength, it can completely annihilate Yao Xiang and all the soldiers and horses under his command. A general said confidently.

Hua An nodded, and said with a straight face: "That's right, Yao Xiang is now at the end of the crossbow, our army must eliminate all evil, completely wipe out Yao Xiang's army, and completely occupy Qingzhou." ”

"We will definitely follow the king, annihilate Yao Xiang, and take Qingzhou." The generals said excitedly.

Hua An nodded, he was very satisfied with the general's wholehearted obedience.

"Report, Wang, news came from the direction of Hebei, Murong Ke, the general of Yan State, personally led the main army of 300,000 to the south, and now he has broken through the defense line of Yishui and Rongshui, and arrived in Weichang City, Zhang Hao, the general of our army, led the troops to fight with the advance of Yan State, and now he has been defeated and retreated, and Weichang City has fallen into the hands of the Yan army." At this moment, the news of the unfavorable war in Hebei came.

Hearing this unfavorable news, Hua'an and all the soldiers under his command were a little worried, and they all recovered from the joy of defeating Yao Xiang's army, and felt that the situation in the direction of Hebei was very dangerous, and if they were not careful, they might suffer huge losses.

"Your Majesty, Murong Ke personally led an army of 300,000 to the south, which caused a very great pressure on our army's soldiers and horses in Hebei, and the last general was really very worried, in case General Xie Ai and his soldiers and horses could not resist Murong Ke's attack, wouldn't Hebei fall into the hands of Yan State." A general said worriedly.

"That's right, the situation in the Hebei direction is getting more and more dangerous, our army must do everything possible to exterminate the Yao Xiang army, and then draw troops and horses to reinforce Hebei to reduce the pressure on General Xie Ai." Wang Wu said loudly.

Obviously, Wang Wu intended to lead his army to reinforce the Xie Ai army in Hebei after defeating Yao Xiang, so as to reduce the military pressure on the Xie Ai army.

Hua An naturally agreed with Wang Wu's opinion very much, he looked at the soldiers under his command, and said loudly: "General Wang Wu is right, right now, the 300,000 army under the command of Murong Ke has caused a lot of pressure on our army's Hebei army, and our army must do everything possible to exterminate the Yao Xiang army and completely control Qingzhou, and then, we can draw out troops and horses to reinforce Hebei." (To be continued......)