At this time, the 90,000 cavalry of Wang Meng's army was not far from the direction of Lukou City, and Murong Ke's main army was facing an increasing threat, so it was completely reasonable to take the initiative to evacuate, but it was not ruled out that the main force of the Yan army would feign retreat, so as to attract the vanguard of the Jin army to cross the river and launch a pursuit.

Of course, no matter how it is analyzed, the possibility of the main force of the Yan army feigning to retreat is not very large, especially the deployment of vigilant cavalry on the shore, which shows that the main force of the Yan army is really going to withdraw immediately.

Hua An looked carefully at the Yan army camp on the north bank of Tuoshui, and said loudly: "Pass the order, all the soldiers and horses will prepare for battle immediately, and the baggage battalion will immediately start to build a pontoon bridge. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The ministers will receive the order loudly and immediately go forward to deliver the order.

After the generals left, Hua An stood alone on the high platform on the south bank of Tuoshui, carefully observing every move of the Yan army on the north bank, in order to further determine whether the Yan army really took the initiative to evacuate, rather than deliberately feigning to retreat.

After receiving the order, the soldiers of the Jin army on the south bank of Tuoshui immediately began to prepare for battle, and the soldiers of the baggage battalion began to build a number of pontoon bridges separately, and made every effort to prepare to cross the river to launch a pursuit.

"Your Majesty, the whole army and horses have begun to prepare for battle, and the pontoon bridge can be built in an hour at the earliest, and the vanguard can launch a pursuit across the river." Wang San arranged the troops and ascended the high platform to report to Hua'an.

Hua An nodded, looked at the north bank, and said softly: "The main force of the Yan army has withdrawn on a large scale, I don't know if there will be fraud!" If this is Murong Ke's plan to lure the enemy deeper, but our army is unprepared. The consequences are very severe. ”

"Wang, the main cavalry of the Guanzhong Army has been reinforced, and there is almost no possibility for Murong Ke to feign retreat, the main force of the Yan army must have really withdrawn, and the king doesn't have to worry." Wang San said softly.

Hua'an naturally felt that the main army of the Yan State had really evacuated, but before Murong Ke evacuated, he would definitely consider that the Jin army would definitely cross Tuoshui to launch a pursuit, and for this, he would definitely be prepared.

"Murong Ke is the number one general of the Yan Kingdom, and he must not have the heart to underestimate the enemy. After crossing the Tuoshui. You have to be very careful. Hua An said softly.

"Don't worry, the king, I will urge the soldiers to pursue cautiously." Wang San opened his mouth and answered.

The Jin army on the south bank of Tuoshui began to build pontoon bridges, and the Yan cavalry on the north bank immediately discovered it and immediately reported it to its commander Murong Ke.

Murong Ke learned that the Jin army had begun to build pontoon bridges. There was not the slightest expression of surprise. After all. This was expected by him.

"Fourth brother, the main force of the Jin army has really begun to build pontoon bridges, how should our army respond?" Murong Ba asked loudly.

Murong Ke smiled faintly at the corner of his mouth. He said softly: "The main force retreats quickly and lures the enemy deeper." ”

"What the fourth brother means is to take advantage of the retreat of our army to teach the Jin army a hard lesson." Murong Ba said softly.

Murong Ke nodded, and said with a straight face: "That's right, now that the Jin army's reinforcements are about to arrive, the Jin army can be said to have the advantage, so it will inevitably be proud and underestimate the enemy, isn't this a good opportunity for our army to make a move?" Besides, our army's 50,000 iron rope cavalry, trained for more than a year, how can they just return like this. ”

"The fourth brother is right, as soon as the iron chain cavalry of our army comes out, the Jin army will inevitably be difficult to resist, this time, as long as the forward cavalry of the Jin army ventures to chase after it, it will inevitably be fatally hit by our army." Murong Ba said loudly.

Murong Ke smiled and said softly: "Pass the order, let the main army speed up the withdrawal, and let the 20,000 light cavalry in charge of the palace, after resisting for a while, then flee to the north to attract the Jin army's vanguard to risk a pursuit." ”

"Fourth brother, don't worry, I'll arrange it." Murong Ba replied loudly and immediately turned around to deliver the order.

Murong Ke stepped on the war horse, rode the horse to the north bank of Tuoshui, and stopped on a high ground on the shore, observing the Jin army camp on the opposite bank, seeing that the Jin army was building a pontoon bridge, Murong Ke smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, he thought that the Jin army must have a heart of underestimating the enemy at this moment, for this reason, as long as he adopted the strategy of luring the enemy deep, he could teach the Jin army's forward army a hard lesson.

A figure on the high platform on the opposite bank attracted Murong Ke's attention, from the armor shining with metallic luster all over his body, and the bright red robe behind him, Murong Ke could basically determine that the person standing on the high platform must be Hua An, the main general of the Jin army.

And Hua An, who was standing on the high platform, also saw Murong Ke riding a horse and standing in the wind on the mound on the other side.

Both discovered each other at about the same time, and both guessed each other's identities.

"General, the main force of our army has all been evacuated." A confidant lieutenant reported to Murong Ke.

Murong Ke nodded, and after observing Hua'an for a while, he rode his horse away from the mound on the north bank, and under the protection of his own soldiers, he headed due north.

The baggage soldiers of the Jin army were specially trained to build pontoon bridges, so it was easy to build pontoon bridges on Tuoshui, and several pontoon bridges were built in just one hour, less than ten zhang away from the north bank of Tuoshui.

The cavalry of the Yan State on the north bank of Tuoshui naturally did not let the Jin army's baggage soldiers build a pontoon bridge, and after the Jin army's baggage soldiers entered the firing range, they put cold arrows on horseback, thus causing certain casualties to the Jin army's baggage soldiers.

However, soon, the Jin soldiers launched a counterattack, the soldiers holding shields to protect the baggage soldiers continued to build forward, and the crossbowmen in the rear stood on the pontoon bridge to release arrows on a large scale, thus effectively suppressing the bow and arrow attacks of the Yan light cavalry.

The equipment of the Yan army's light cavalry was extremely simple, and it was naturally not the opponent of the Jin army's heavy crossbows, especially after the Jin army's bed crossbow advanced, the Yan army's light cavalry completely lost its advantage, so it had to retreat slightly backwards to avoid the attack of the Jin army's heavy crossbow arrows.

Under the protection of heavy bows and crossbows, the Jin army was heavily armed, and the pontoon bridge was soon built.

After the pontoon bridge was built, the infantry and charioteers of the Jin army first landed on the land on the north bank of Tuoshui, and while attacking forward, they quickly formed a powerful Qiyue array.

The task that the cavalry of the Yan army received was originally to resist for a while, and then fled, so naturally they would not attack the Jin army with all their might, and in this way, the progress of the Jin army seemed to be extremely smooth, and almost in a very short time, the Jin army gained a firm foothold on the north bank of Tuoshui by virtue of the moon formation.

Subsequently, the Jin army relied on the moon formation, sent additional troops and horses to the north bank of Tuoshui on a large scale, and immediately launched a fierce attack on the cavalry of the Yan army in charge of the palace.

The cavalry of the Yan army had already accepted Murong Ke's order to flee, so when the Jin army had just launched an attack, they began to quickly flee in the direction of due north.

The Jin army almost effortlessly defeated the 20,000 light cavalry of the Yan State, which can be described as a great victory, but Hua'an, who was standing on the high platform on the south bank of Tuoshui, was never excited, because the Yan cavalry was too exaggerated, almost a touch of the collapse, you know, the 100,000 troops under the command of Murong Ke are all the elite divisions of the Yan State, even if they are defeated, there should not be such an exaggerated comprehensive rout.

"Your Majesty, the cavalry of the Yan Kingdom has fled on all fronts, and our army has won a complete victory." The king ascended the high platform and said excitedly.

Hua An frowned and said softly: "Don't you think it's too weird that the Yan State cavalry failed?" As soon as our army launched an attack, it broke and fled on all fronts, is this still the elite soldiers and horses under the command of Murong Ke? ”

When Wang San heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then said: "The main cavalry of our army's Guanzhong Legion came from Bingzhou to reinforce, maybe it was because the soldiers of Yan State learned of this situation, and the army's morale was disheartened, so it is not surprising that there will be a phenomenon of collapse at the touch of a button." ”

Hua An shook his head and said softly: "The situation will not be so simple, Murong Ke is a famous general of the Yan Kingdom, and the soldiers and horses under his command are all the elite of the Yan army, it will not happen so easily with such a large-scale rout, this is most likely Murong Ke's arrogant strategy." ”

"The king doesn't have to worry, now, the strength of the Yan army is here, and our army is in an absolute advantage, even if the soldiers have the heart of underestimating the enemy, they will not be defeated by the Yan army." Wang San confidently persuaded.

Hua An nodded slightly, and said in a low voice: "It's better to be careful in everything, and after the main force of the whole army gathers on the north bank, then launch a pursuit, so as not to fall into Murong Ke's plan to lure the enemy." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang San replied softly.

After the collapse of the light cavalry of the Yan State, the main force of the Jin army began to rush across Tuoshui, and the cavalry, infantry, and charioteers marched to the north bank of Tuoshui at the same time with different pontoon bridges.

In just one hour, tens of thousands of Jin troops arrived on the north bank of Tuoshui and were ready to pursue the soldiers and horses of the Yan State.

The 30,000 cavalry of the Deng Qiang Legion was the first to cross Tuoshui, he looked at his subordinate generals and said loudly: "Soldiers, today is the day of our meritorious service, follow this general to hunt down and kill the Yan army." ”

"Yes, General." All the generals shouted their orders.

"Report, general, the king has an order, after all the men and horses have crossed the Tuoshui, then launch a pursuit of the main force of the Yan army." Just as Deng Qiang was about to launch a pursuit of the fleeing Yan army, Hua'an's order reached Deng Qiang's ears.

When Deng Qiang heard this, he was very dissatisfied and complained: "The main force of the Yan army has been evacuated, if it is time for all the soldiers and horses to cross the Tuoshui, the main force of the Yan army will have run away long ago, and immediately launch a pursuit." ”

"General, the king has ordered not to rush into pursuit." The general hesitated.

Deng Qiang frowned, and said loudly: "You should not have heard, don't you do it, besides, as long as our army annihilates a large number of Yan soldiers and horses and achieves a complete victory, the king will not blame us for the crime of disobedience, okay, pass the order, and the whole army will immediately launch a pursuit." After speaking, he rode his horse and pursued in the direction of the withdrawal of the Yan army.

Under the leadership of Deng Qiang, 30,000 elite cavalry under his command pursued the direction of the Yan army's rout at the fastest speed. (To be continued......)