"Whoosh ......" a rain of arrows shot out, causing certain losses to the attacking Zhao army, but it could not stop the pace of the Zhao army's attack.

The Zhao army and horses quickly killed in front of the Jin army's transportation of men and horses, but there was the blocking of the baggage carts, and the cavalry of the Zhao army could not rush into the Jin army's formation, but could only stop at the periphery of the baggage carts, and a large number of Zhao infantry followed, killing in front of the Jin army's baggage carts, and climbed on the baggage carts, attacking the Jin army's formation inside.

The soldiers of the Jin army's reserve legion, with the simplest spears and bows and arrows, resisted the Zhao army's crazy attack with all their might, and waited for the rescue of the main army.

In the reserve army of the Zhao army and the Jin army, not long after the fight, the 10,000 personal guards led by Hua An had already ridden their horses to kill, and the troops were divided into three ways, outflanking left and right, ready to give the Zhao army out of the city a fatal blow.

The scene of the fighting in front of him greatly stimulated the courage of the pro-guard army and made the blood of the pro-guard soldiers boil.

"Soldiers, kill ......" the generals of the pro-guard army all shouted and ordered.

Hearing the order, the soldiers of the pro-guard army accelerated their speed and killed the Zhao army in front.

Yao Guo, the general of the Zhao army, who was attacking the reserve army of the Jin army under his command, was very proud, and he had enough confidence in annihilating the Jin army's grain transportation team.

"General, it's not good, the Jin army reinforcements are here." Yao Guo was complacent, but he got the news that the Jin army reinforcements had arrived.

Yao Guo looked sideways, there was a cavalry in the west direction, judging from the banner, it was indeed the main force of the Jin army, and it was less than three miles away from here.

At the speed of the cavalry, it would only take a few moments for three miles. In other words, the main force of the Jin army will soon be killed in front of you.

"The general has long said that the appearance of the Jin army's food team is a conspiracy, don't believe it, and now the Jin army's ambush has finally appeared." Yao Guo sighed.

"General, what to do now, it's too late to retreat to the city." The general said anxiously.

The Jin army arrived in an instant, not only was it too late to retreat to the city, but even if it calmly evacuated the battle area. It's not an easy thing to do. However, if you do not withdraw and stay in place, you will definitely be flanked by the Jin army's reinforcements and grain carriers, and thus suffer a crushing defeat.

"Withdraw. The whole army retreated. "Yao Guo gave the order to withdraw the troops. After saying that, he rode his horse and marched north.

The Zhao army gave up attacking the Jin army's grain transport team. Begin to retreat north.

But only half of the 10,000 horses of the Zhao army were cavalry, and the remaining half were infantry. The speed of the infantry was obviously unable to escape the pursuit of the Jin army's personal guards, and besides, the reserve corps transporting grain jumped out of the baggage cart and launched a pursuit.

Soon, Hua'an's personal guards killed the Zhao army and surrounded the slow-running Zhao infantry.

"Spare the enemy cavalry and strangle the enemy's infantry with all your might." Hua'an gave the order to strangle the infantry of the Zhao army with all his might.

"Kill ......" the guards and reserve legions shouted and slaughtered the besieged Zhao infantry.

After a fierce battle, the infantry of the Zhao army suffered heavy losses and lost their combat effectiveness.

"Surrender or die, surrender or die." In order to end the battle as much as possible, Hua'an issued an order to persuade him to surrender.

"Surrender to avoid death, and surrender as soon as possible." The soldiers of the pro-guard army shouted loudly to persuade them to surrender.

Seeing that resistance was meaningless, the infantry of the Zhao army threw away their weapons one after another and squatted under the banner of the Jin army to surrender to the Jin army.

After finishing out the infantry of the Zhao army, the 5,000 cavalry of the Zhao army had already run away, and seeing that it was too late to pursue, Hua'an ordered the guards to escort all the prisoners and march towards Yicheng, and the reserve army followed.

After Hua'an's personal guards appeared on the battlefield, the Zhao soldiers and horses of Yicheng knew that the situation was not good, and saw that Yao Guo led the cavalry to flee, and the infantry was wiped out by the Jin army.

The Zhao army took the initiative to open the city and surrender, and it was the first time that the Zhao army fought fiercely in Hua'an for so many years, which is of great significance, which shows that after the death of Shi Hu, the civil strife in Zhao continued, and the soldiers and the people had lost confidence in the Zhao court, and longed for the appearance of the Ming Lord, otherwise, with the courage of the Zhao army, it was impossible to surrender so easily.

Seeing that thousands of Zhao defenders had thrown away their weapons and surrendered out of the city, Hua'an was very happy and comforted them with kind words, and then let the pro-guard army and the reserve army enter the city to completely control the city.

In order to confirm his guess, Hua'an summoned a number of surrendered Zhao generals and asked them why they surrendered, and as expected, as Hua'an expected, the reason why the Zhao soldiers chose to surrender was not because they were greedy for life and afraid of death, but because Zhao's civil strife continued, the people's livelihood withered, and there was no future.

After Hua'an's pro-guard army took control of the city, several small cities in the vicinity submitted their surrenders, expressing their willingness to submit to the Great Jin court.

Hua'an was naturally very happy about the voluntary surrender of the soldiers and officials of the Zhao State, and accepted them all, and let all of them be reinstated to serve the Great Jin court.

The soldiers and horses under the command of Zhuge Xiong and Li Liang, in the process of advancing westward, successively conquered Wugong, Xingping, and Shiping counties, and approached the foot of Chang'an, and confronted the main force of Zhao Guoleping Wang Shibao.

In order to fully defend Chang'an, Shi Bao transferred nearly 10,000 horses deployed in Lantian, Ducheng and other places to defend the direction of Meridian Road and Luogu Road back to Chang'an, so that the number of soldiers and horses guarding Chang'an was as high as 40,000.

But in this way, the Jin soldiers and horses killed from the Meridian Road and Luogu Road entered the Guanzhong more smoothly and went straight to Chang'an, thus forming a situation of encirclement of Chang'an.

The four-way Jin army, only the main force of soldiers and horses has 40,000 people, and the reserve men and horses have also arrived under the city of Chang'an, and the entire 60,000 troops are a huge pressure on Shi Bao who guards Chang'an.

Because Chang'an City was easy to defend and difficult to attack, the strength of the Jin army was not much different from the Zhao army defending the city, for this reason, the four-way Jin army did not immediately attack the city, but adopted the strategy of besieging but not attacking, in order to wait for the pro-guard army under the command of Hua'an.

Hua An led the pro-guard army to the vicinity of Chang'an, and the heroes and people nearby, hearing that the Jin army had arrived in Chang'an, came to greet them one after another, and asked about the Jin army's intentions, and asked them whether they would stay in Guanzhong for a long time.

For the inquiries of the heroes and the people in Guanzhong, Hua'an naturally understood the meaning, if the Jin army stayed in Guanzhong and never left, they would naturally follow the Jin army with all their hearts, but if the Jin army could not stay in Guanzhong and would give up Guanzhong, then they would not dare to come to serve the Jin army, so as not to be persecuted by the Zhao court after the Jin army retreated.

Hua An swore that after recovering Guanzhong, the army under his command would never give up, and would continue to attack in the direction of the Central Plains to recover the territory lost by the Great Jin.

Seeing Hua'an's vow that he would never give up Guanzhong, the remnants of the Jin Dynasty near Chang'an were the happiest, and they made efforts to help Hua'an's troops obtain various information about the Zhao army, and there were many ordinary people who asked to join the Jin army in groups.

Hua'an was very happy about Haojie and the people's enthusiastic help, but Guanzhong was unstable, and Hua'an had no plans to recruit new soldiers, so he had to refuse the people's request to join the army for the time being.

The Jin army gathered more and more, and the people in Guanzhong also began to support the Jin army, which made Shi Bao, who was sitting in Chang'an, fall into extreme anxiety.

It didn't take long for the scouts to hear the news that Tongguan had been breached by Xie Ai, and this news, like a thunderbolt, made Shi Bao's scalp tingle involuntarily.

Tongguan was breached, which means that there is no hope for reinforcements in the direction of Yecheng, that is to say, he will face the main force of the Jin army alone, and at this moment, there are only 40,000 men and horses under his command, and the soldiers and horses of the Jin army in Guanzhong are as high as more than 200,000, and there are nearly 100,000 horses near Chang'an alone, and the people of Guanzhong have fully fallen to the Jin army, in this case, Chang'an has absolutely no possibility of holding, except for retreat, there is no better way.

In the case that Tongguan was occupied by Xie Ai, Lantian Pass and Wuguan in the southeast were the only way for Shibao to escape from Guanzhong.

Shi Bao did not dare to delay, and immediately convened his subordinates to discuss the matter of retreating, and the generals had no opinion on withdrawing from Guanzhong from the southeast, after all, at this moment, they were surrounded by the superior forces of the Jin army, and there was no better way than to evacuate.

While the generals of the Zhao army were studying how to withdraw the army, Hua An and his subordinate generals were studying how to quickly break through Chang'an City.

At this moment, the Jin army scouts had made a detailed report to Hua'an on the news that Tongguan had been successfully taken by Xie Ai, so that Hua'an could not consider the Zhao army reinforcements in the direction of Yecheng, so that he could deal with the stone buds in Chang'an City without any scruples.

"Generals, the most elite 40,000 horses under the command of Shi Bao are all cowered in Chang'an and Xianyang cities, in this way, although the strength of the Zhao army is more concentrated, but it also allows itself to fall into a desperate situation, as long as our army is fully surrounded, without the support of reinforcements, the army under Shi Bao must be annihilated sooner or later." Hua An Zhengse said.

"Zhao Jun is now a turtle in an urn, it depends on how we catch it." Zhuge Xiong happily agreed.

"Big brother, Chang'an is the city with the strongest defensive strength of the Zhao army, and it is also the core of the entire Guanzhong, our army will go all out to break through Chang'an, and Xianyang and other cities will be self-defeating." Wang San said loudly.

"That's right, General, use a special thunderbolt to attack the city, so that Shibao can have a good look at the feeling of landslides and ground cracks." Zhuge Xiong also supported the first attack on Chang'an.

Seeing that the two of them all supported the first attack on Chang'an, Hua An hesitated, shook his head, and said softly: "No, Chang'an is the core city of Guanzhong and the western capital of the Great Jin Dynasty. (To be continued......)