Hua An nodded with satisfaction, and said with a straight face: "What is the casualty situation of the people in the city, and how many houses have been burned?" ”

Wang San replied: "Most of the people in the city have left in advance, leaving only a few thousand people, and our army is relatively timely to put out the rescue, so the casualties of the people are not much, only about 100 people, but the loss of houses is relatively large, and nearly thirty percent of the houses in the entire Xingyang City have been turned into ashes." ”

Hua An nodded and said with emotion: "This Cao Fu is really ruthless, knowing that he can't hold Xingyang City, he set a big fire to let our army get a charred empty city." ”

"General, when this Cao Fu is caught, he must be broken into pieces." Zhuge Xiong shouted loudly.

Hua An smiled at the corner of his mouth, looked at Wang San and Zhuge Xiong, and asked softly: "Cao Fu evacuated Xingyang City in a hurry, where do you think he will retreat?" ”

Wang San first said: "Big brother, according to the scout's report, Cao Fu's main force evacuated to the north, and it must have retreated to Ao Cang City, where Cao Fu's grain was stored. ”

"General Wang is right, the last general also thinks that Cao Fu has retreated to Aocang." Zhuge Xiong said.

Hua An pondered for a moment, and said: "You are right, Cao Fu retreated to the north, he must have retreated to Aocang, but Aocang City is backed by the Yellow River, and the territory is narrow, which is not enough to defend itself. ”

"Who does the eldest brother think Cao Fu will turn to?" Wang San hurriedly asked.

Hua An said: "Crossing the river from Aocang to the north, it is inevitable to enter the territory of the wild king Taishou Zhang Jin, Cao Fu and Zhang Jin were once the generals of the Zhao State. It is extremely likely that Cao Fu will take refuge in Zhang Jin. ”

"General, I heard that this Zhang Jin has 30,000 troops, and he returned to Ran Min two years ago, and his strength cannot be underestimated, if Cao Fu and Zhang Jin are allowed to join forces, it will be even more difficult to capture Hanoi County, so it is better to send troops immediately, and annihilate Cao Fu before he crosses the river." Zhuge Xiong said loudly.

Huaan shook his head, pointing at the exhausted soldiers around him. He said softly: "Soldiers put out the fire." It is already very tired, and the reserve of 20,000 infantry has not yet arrived in Xingyang, and at this time, it is not appropriate for our army to send troops immediately. The scouts have already gone to the direction of Aocang to reconnoitre. After figuring out the situation in Aocang. It's not too late to send troops again. ”

"Yes, General." Zhuge Xiong hurriedly responded.

Subsequently, Hua'an arranged for his troops and horses. They take turns patrolling the city and keep an eye on the fires that are still burning to prevent anyone from sabotaging and allowing the fires to spread.

In the evening, the follow-up 20,000 infantry arrived at Xingyang City and entered the city to station.

Seeing that the reserve soldiers and horses arrived in Xingyang City, Hua Anxin settled down a lot, and began to consider the next direction of the army.

At this moment, the two thousand enemy soldiers and horses of Dasuo City and Longcheng quickly passed from the periphery of Xingyang City, although their actions were discovered by the Jin army patrols, but when the news reached Xingyang City, the enemy soldiers and horses had already run away, Hua'an considered that the cavalry under his command was exhausted, so he decided not to pursue, and let the enemy's two thousand soldiers and horses leave, after all, the enemy's two thousand soldiers and horses were nothing to the Jin army.

In the Wild King City, after several hours of hard trekking, Cao Fu's henchmen and generals finally arrived here, and immediately went to Zhang Jin's mansion to ask to see Zhang Jin, the prince of the wild king.

"General, General Cao Fu asks to see you." A personal soldier guarding the gate of the mansion reported to Zhang Jin.

Zhang Jin paused for a moment and asked, "Cao Fu, which Cao Fu?" ”

"General Hui is General Cao Fu who guards Xingyang City." The pro-soldier replied truthfully.

When Zhang Jin heard this, he was greatly surprised, and said to himself: "Cao Fu and my well water do not interfere with the river water, and they never communicate with each other in normal times, what is the purpose of sending the department here?" ”

"Is he alone?" Zhang Jin asked.

The soldiers immediately replied: "Back to the general, the person who came also brought two retinues." ”

Zhang Jin nodded and said softly: "Let the people wait in the main hall, and his two entourages will arrange to eat and drink in the lower room." ”

"Yes, General." The soldiers responded with fists clenched and turned to leave.

After the soldiers left, Zhang Jin paced in the bedroom, at this time, it was getting late, Cao Fubu would be in such a hurry to see him, there must be something very urgent, otherwise, it would never be possible to pick this time to ask for a meeting.

But what is the important thing, Zhang Jin can't be sure for a while, but he has a faint premonition, after all, Hua'an's main force has been out of Tongguan, and a few days ago, the soldiers were under Chenggao Pass, Zhang Jin felt that it was very likely that the Jin army had broken through Chenggao Pass, and Cao Fu's troops were difficult to resist the Jin army, and he wanted to borrow troops from himself to resist the enemy.

Zhang Jin only cared about Hanoi County under his jurisdiction, so he was naturally unwilling to send troops to help Cao Fu, besides, the Jin army was strong, if the 30,000 soldiers and horses under his command were lost, he would become a general without soldiers, and Hanoi County would not be able to be saved.

Before meeting with Cao Fu's generals, Zhang Jin felt that it was necessary to understand Cao Fu's intentions in order to make corresponding countermeasures, at this time, he had roughly guessed Cao Fu's purpose of borrowing troops to defend against the enemy, and for this reason, he began to think about how to refuse Cao Fu's request.

"General, the guest has been waiting in the main hall for half an hour, are you ......" Seeing that Zhang Jin had not gone to meet General Cao Fu for a long time, the pro-soldier reminded softly.

"Oh, it's been half an hour." Zhang Jin was slightly surprised, paused, collected his thoughts, and strode towards the main hall.

In the main hall of Zhang Jin's mansion, Cao Fubu was pacing back and forth, obviously, he was already impatient, but at this moment, after all, he had a request for someone, he didn't dare to get angry, and he didn't have the capital to get angry.

Seeing that the generals sent by Cao Fu were as anxious as ants on a hot pot, Zhang Jin further affirmed his judgment, in addition to being surprised by the military situation, what else could make Cao Fu's generals anxious like this.

"Haha! It's really sorry to keep you waiting for a long time! Zhang Jin walked into the main hall and bowed his hand politely.

Seeing that Zhang Jin was finally willing to see him, General Cao Fu hurriedly hugged his fists and said, "The last general will meet General Zhang." ”

Zhang Jin hurriedly stepped forward to help General Cao Fu and said softly: "The general doesn't have to be polite, please take a seat, please take a seat." As he spoke, he motioned for General Cao Fubu to sit down.

"The last general has an urgent matter to see General Zhang, so he won't sit down, let's stand and talk!" General Cao Fubu shirked a sentence.

When Zhang Jin heard this, he was even more sure of his judgment, pursed his lips, and said softly: "General Cao sent you here, what is the urgency, let's say!" The tone was slightly cold.

General Cao Fu hugged his fists and said: "General Zhang, the main force of the Jin army has broken through Chenggao Pass, and our army has suffered heavy losses, not only losing Chenggao Pass, but even Xingyang City cannot be defended. ”

"What, the main force of the Jin army broke through Chenggao Pass so quickly." Zhang Jin pretended to be surprised and interrupted Cao Fu's words.

General Cao Fu continued: "General Zhang doesn't know that the main force of the Jin army is extremely strong, and the troops are sufficient, and only with my General Cao's soldiers and horses, it is powerless to resist the offensive of the Jin army. ”

Seeing that General Cao Fu was about to open his mouth to borrow troops, Zhang Jin hurriedly interrupted: "Since General Cao is powerless to resist the Jin army, I don't know where I plan to retreat?" ”

"Back to General Zhang, my general has given up Xingyang City, and led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to arrive in Aocang City, is preparing to cross the river to the north, take refuge in General Zhang, in the future, fight side by side with General Zhang, jointly resist the offensive of the Jin army, I don't know what General Zhang wants." General Cao Fu hurriedly said.

Zhang Jin was overjoyed when he heard this, he originally thought that Cao Fu was here to borrow troops, but he didn't expect that Cao Fu had given up Xingyang County and planned to cross the river to the north and take refuge in himself.

This is a great thing for Zhang Jin, although the Hanoi County under his jurisdiction has the Yellow River as a natural danger, but the Jin army's warships have already controlled the Yellow River, and may cross the river to the north at any time to launch an attack on Hanoi County, the 30,000 soldiers and horses under his command, in the face of the strong Jin army's main force, the pressure is huge, if Cao Fu's 10,000 soldiers and horses can fight side by side with him, against the main force of the Jin army, this will undoubtedly greatly share the pressure on his shoulders, so as to make Hanoi County more impregnable.

Zhang Jin nodded and said loudly: "From Aocang to the north, I entered Pinggao and Huaixian, these two counties are enough to garrison tens of thousands of troops, if General Cao is interested, the general is willing to hand over Pinggao and Huaixian to General Cao to garrison, in the future, the two armies will work together to resist the Jin army." ”

"Great, since General Zhang has agreed to our army entering Hanoi County, the last general will return to Ao Cang and let the main force of our army cross the river to the north as much as possible, so as not to be trapped in Ao Cang by the Jin army." Seeing that Zhang Jin agreed to his request, General Cao Fubu said excitedly.

"It's so late, let's go back early tomorrow morning!" Zhang Jin said politely.

"Thank you General Zhang for your kindness, the last general is worried that the Jin army will raid Aocang, so it is safe to return to Aocang immediately and take his leave." Cao Fubu clenched his fists and turned to leave Zhang Jin's mansion.

Seeing that Cao Fu was about to lead his soldiers and horses to take refuge in himself, Zhang Jin had an indescribable excitement in his heart, and after Cao Fu's generals left, he immediately sent his own soldiers to Pinggao and Huai County, telling the soldiers who were defending the city that after Cao Fu's soldiers and horses arrived, they immediately evacuated and gave Pinggao and Huai County to Cao Fu's soldiers and horses to garrison.

After Cao Fu's troops rode their horses away from Yewang City, they ran to the direction of Aocang City at the fastest speed along the road they came, and he wanted to inform Cao Fu of Zhang Jin's attitude at the first time, and let the remaining more than 10,000 soldiers and horses cross the river to the north, so as to avoid the threat of the Jin army.

Early in the morning of the second day, in Aocang City, Cao Fu was anxiously waiting, through the reconnaissance of the scouts, he had learned the news that the main force of the Jin army occupied Xingyang City, and Xingyang City was not far from Aocang, that is to say, the main force of the Jin army could launch an attack on Ao Cang City at any time, if it was not enough to cross the river to the north, once the Jin army surged and killed Ao Cang City, he and his more than 10,000 soldiers and horses would not be able to go.

"General, the main force of the Jin army may be killed at any time, so our army should cross the river as much as possible!" A ministry will build a yì road.

"Yes! The army crossed the river first, and then explained to General Zhang. "Another subordinate will build yì road. (To be continued......)