Half a month later, the main army of 200,000 people of Yan State had been assembled in Xiangguo City, and the main general Murong Ke asked his army to start preparations immediately, and a day later, they began to march in the direction of Yecheng.

Before launching an attack on Yecheng, Murong Ke naturally had to understand the direction of Yecheng in detail, the specific situation of the Jin army and the Wei army, so as to know himself and the enemy, and sent a large number of scouts to Yecheng for this purpose.

The news brought back by the scouts was basically the same as Murong Ke's expectation, and the Jin army's military spirit had gradually stabilized, and together with the Wei army, they began to arrange defenses.

This situation made Murong Ke quite worried, more than a month ago, there was a good opportunity to attack, but Murong Jun let them attack Lukou, and now, Lukou City is considered to be a smooth lì was breached, but it also made Yecheng's Jin army recover its morale and military spirit, attacking Yecheng at this time, even if it is an increase in troops, but compared to before, it is still a lot more difficult.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Murong Ke spread out the topographic map of the surrounding Yecheng that he had just drawn on the case in front of him, and carefully observed the terrain and landforms around Yecheng, looking for a way to break through Yecheng.

"Fourth brother, Yecheng is close to Zhangshui, if our army wants to break through Yecheng, we must first cross Zhangshui, and before crossing Zhangshui, we must cross Zhangshui, Fushui and Zhangshui are two obstacles that our army must overcome, for this reason, our army must first capture Wu'an, Yiyang and other cities, and then approach the Linshui City on the north bank of Fushui, as long as the Linshui City is broken, our army can cross the Fushui smoothly, and then go straight to Zhangshui, after crossing Zhangshui, Yecheng is in the bag of our army." Murong Ba analyzed loudly.

When Murong Ke heard this, he replied softly: "Wu An and Yi Yang are at your fingertips. Linshui City is on the north bank of Fushui, it is not difficult to capture, but Zhangshui is wide, and there are not many positions suitable for the army to cross the river. ”

"What the fourth brother said is that our army is mainly cavalry, and it is true that we are most afraid of the river, but. Zhangshui stretches for thousands of miles. It is impossible for the Jin and Wei coalition forces to fortify everywhere, and our army can always find a position to break through. Murong Ba said loudly.

Murong Ke nodded and said, "Second brother has already made up his mind to capture Yecheng, even if there are many difficulties, we must overcome them." The armies were ordered to intensify their preparations. Tomorrow morning, we will march to Yecheng. ”

"Fourth brother, rest assured. I'll arrange it. Murong Ba nodded in response and turned to leave.

After Murong Ba left, Murong Ke looked at the map on the case. Mark the location of the Jin and Wei coalition forces detected by the scouts on the map, and think about how to break the enemy according to the terrain around Yecheng.

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Just when Murong Ke of Xiangguo City was about to lead the main army under his command to Yecheng, in the direction of Yecheng, the officials sent by the imperial court had arrived at the big tent of the Chinese army in Hua'an, and officially conveyed the grace of the imperial court, canonized Hua'an as the king of the north, and was fully responsible for all things in the metropolitan area.

After Hua'an was officially proclaimed king, all the generals under his command and the generals of the Wei State came to congratulate and gathered in the Chinese army tent in Hua'an.

"Congratulations to the eldest brother for being the king, no, I will be the king in the future, and I will meet the king at the end." Wang San said happily.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty." All the generals clasped their fists in congratulations.

"Congratulations to the North King, congratulations to the North King." The Wei soldiers called Hua'an the king of the north.

Hua An hurriedly waved his hand and said loudly: "You don't need to congratulate, now Murong Ke's main army of 200,000 has gathered in Xiangguo City, and there is a possibility of attacking Yecheng in the south at any time. ”

"Your Majesty, the officers and soldiers of our army are ready, just waiting for the Yan army to come and send them to death." One of the generals said loudly.

"King of the North, the army of my Wei State is also ready, ready to be dispatched by the King of the North at any time." Jiang Gan loudly expressed his obedience to Hua'an's orders.

When Hua An heard this, he was very satisfied, looked at the generals, and said loudly: "Generals, the army of Yan is about to go south in the near future, and our army must immediately prepare to meet the enemy, the main forces of Yan are all cavalry, therefore, our army must rely on Zhangshui and Fushui to defend and completely block the main force of the Yan army north of Zhangshui, so that the main force of the Yan army cannot cross Zhangshui one step." ”

"King Bei, just give the order directly! How should our army be arranged. Jiang Gan asked loudly.

At this moment, Murong Ke's main army was about to move south, and the main force of Hua'an's Jin army was the key to holding Yecheng, so Jiang Gan was willing to obey Hua'an's dispatch to completely block the southward army of Yan State.

Seeing that Jiang Gan was willing to obey his command, Hua An nodded with satisfaction, and immediately ordered: "General Deng Qiang, you lead the 30,000 cavalry of your department to the Hezhang ferry in the west of Yecheng to station, General Jiang Gan, you personally lead the 50,000 main force of the Wei army to Bokou in the east of Yecheng to station, nearly 20,000 horses under the command of General Wang Wu stayed in Yecheng, and the main force of our army is arranged at the ferry outside the north gate of Yecheng, and the armies will immediately return to the camp to prepare, and tomorrow morning, the armies will be in place immediately. After speaking, he looked at the generals.

"The last will obey." All the generals clasped their fists together to receive the order, and left the Chinese army's tent after speaking.

After the generals left the Chinese army's tent, Hua An, like Murong Ke, also studied the topographic map around Yecheng and thought about how to block Murong Ke's main army.

Not long ago, in the Jiaozhou and Guangzhou areas of the Great Jin Dynasty, due to the persecution of the Shi officials, many Yi people could not bear it, and under the leadership of the chief, they began to rebel against the Great Jin Dynasty and killed the officials sent by the court.

The rebellion gradually showed a tendency to burn the plains, and Jiangzhou and Ningzhou were also affected, and under the rebellion of many Yi forces, the rear of the Great Jin Dynasty was in danger.

To this end, Huan Wen led most of the men and horses, starting from Xiangyang City, marching in the direction of Jiaozhou and Guangzhou, preparing to extinguish Jiaozhou and Guangzhou and the rebellion, and taking advantage of the situation to include Jiaozhou and Guangzhou into the territory under his command.

Soon, the news of the rebellion in the south reached Hua'an's ears, and Hua'an was relieved to learn that Huan Wen and Yin Hao's main forces were marching south, and Hua'an was relieved a lot, so that at least when he fought with the Yan Dynasty coalition army, no one would stab him in the back, so that Hua'an could block Murong Ke's main army with more peace of mind.

Early in the morning of the second day, the main force of the 200,000 Yan army led by Murong Ke left Xiangguo City and slaughtered in the direction of Yecheng.

At the same time, the main force of the Jin army and the Wei army under Hua'an were also prepared accordingly and were ready to meet the Yan army at any time.

In order to understand the condition of the Yecheng ferry, Hua An led a group of personal soldiers to inspect the Yecheng ferry in person, and supervised the soldiers to build arrow towers along the river and high platforms large enough to install thunderbolts.

"Your Majesty, our army is well prepared, and it is expected that no matter how many soldiers and horses there are in the army of Yan Kingdom, it will be impossible to fly across Zhangshui." Wang San said loudly.

Hua An nodded, and said softly: "Even so, our army can't take it lightly, Murong Ke is the first general of Yan Kingdom, this person is powerful, you and I have seen it with our own eyes, back then, he could defeat Shi Hu's 100,000 main army with two thousand elites, this is enough to show his strength, our army must be extra careful." ”

Wang San nodded and said, "Yes!" Back then, we were still allies with Yan Guo, and we were still fighting side by side, but I couldn't imagine that more than ten years later, we actually became enemies, which is really unpredictable! ”

"That's right, the world is always unpredictable, in the past, we and Murong Ke were indeed friends, but now, we are each other's biggest opponents, creation makes people, creation makes people!" Hua An sighed softly.

"Your Majesty, do we really want to abandon all the defense lines in front of us and only defend the defense line of the Zhanghe River?" Wang San said softly.

Hua An heard Wang San's decision on himself, and seemed to have some doubts, so he explained: "The main army of Yan State is all cavalry, and north of Zhangshui, except for Fushui, is the terrain of Pingchuan, which is very conducive to the cavalry corps of Yan State to play an advantage, but the cavalry of our army is very insufficient, if you rashly fight with the main force of Yan in the north of Zhangshui, you must not take advantage, Fushui is a tributary of Zhangshui, the width is only a few zhang, it stretches for no more than 100 miles, and it cannot stop the attack of the Yan cavalry at all. The strength of our army is not as good as that of the Yan army, and only by guarding the Zhangshui defense line is the best way. ”

Hearing this, Wang San nodded, and said softly: "The main army of the Yan Kingdom will arrive in Zhangshui in a few days, I really don't know where they will choose to attack, Zhangshui stretches for thousands of miles, if the Yan army takes advantage of the loophole, it will be very bad." ”

"Your worries are very reasonable, it is precisely because we don't know where the main force of the Yan army will attack from, so we have to arrange defense lines along many places in Zhangshui, and send scouts to closely monitor the movement of the main force of the Yan army, as long as the main force of the Yan army is transferred in a certain direction, our army will also dispatch a large army accordingly to intercept, Zhangshui is a hundred zhang wide, and the water depth is also several zhang, the cavalry cannot fly, must rely on ships, or build pontoon bridges on the water, and whether it is large-scale shipbuilding, or build pontoon bridges, None of this can be done in a short period of time, and our scouts can detect these situations, so that our army can gain insight into the Yan army's intentions and be invincible. Huaan said loudly.

"The king is right, right now, the Yan army is in a hurry to cross the river to attack our army, but our army has no intention of crossing the river to attack them, therefore, our army has completely taken the initiative, and it is Murong Ke who is in a hurry to cross the river." Wang San said softly.

Hua An smiled and said softly: "I don't know what the situation is on the north bank of Zhangshui, why don't we lead hundreds of cavalry and go over to have a look." After speaking, he looked at Wang San.

"Your Majesty, the main army of 200,000 people of Yan State has gone south, and its forward corps may arrive on the north bank of Zhangshui at any time. Wang San opened his mouth to object.

Hua An waved his hand and said, "What are you afraid of, this king is just going to walk around, and he will come back soon, and nothing will happen." (To be continued......)