Seeing Hou Ba leading the rest of the men and horses towards the direction of the village, Zhuge Xiong was slightly surprised, because there was no road on the other side of the village here, and Hou Ba led the army back to the village, which was equivalent to walking on a dead end.

However, it soon occurred to Zhuge Xiong that Houba would most likely abandon his horse and flee from the steep cliff on the other side of the village.

"Soldiers, kill, don't let this gang of thieves escape." Zhuge Xiong shouted, led the army under his command, and chased in the direction of the village.

After entering the village, Zhuge Xiong and the soldiers under his command couldn't help but be even more angry when they saw the corpses of the villagers scattered all over the village, and accelerated to chase forward.

Hou Ba led less than 200 men and horses under his command to flee to the deepest part of the village, and saw Zhuge Xiong's men and horses chasing after him, and immediately ordered: "Soldiers, dismount and follow me." After saying that, climb up the steep cliff.

Since there were a large number of trees on the cliff to borrow, Hou Ba and the others climbed very quickly, and soon entered the top of the mountain with more dense trees, and then continued to flee into the distance.

Zhuge Xiong and his army chased to the end of the village, and when they saw Hou Ba and the soldiers under his command, they really gave up their horses and fled from the cliff, and immediately ordered: "Soldiers, prepare bows and arrows." ”

When the soldiers of the Wudang Flying Army heard the order, they immediately loaded the Zhuge Repeater with arrows, and picked up the Zhuge Repeater, ready to be launched.

"Arrows, arrows." Zhuge Xiong yelled angrily.

"Whoosh...... A rapid rain of crossbow arrows shot at the climbing dragon dead.

Although it was sheltered by trees, there were still many dragon dead soldiers who were shot by the arrows of the Wudang Flying Army. and rolled down the cliff.

After a few waves of crossbow arrows, nearly fifty of the Longteng Dead Soldiers under Hou Ba's command were shot down, and in addition, there were fifty Longteng Dead Soldiers who were shot by arrows, but they were not fatal, they were only injured by different Cheng Dù.

"General, let them run a part, do you want to continue the pursuit." A ministry general said.

Zhuge Xiong looked up at the top of the cliff, shook his head, and said softly: "The mountain here is steep. Now that Houba has fled into the mountains. Our army is only afraid that it will not be able to catch up, and in today's battle, most of the Houba was wiped out, and so many war horses were captured. It can be regarded as a brilliant result. There are only more than 100 people left. I believe that it will not be able to set off any big storms, besides, as long as Hou Ba does evil again. Our army will immediately attack and completely annihilate it. ”

Subsequently, Zhuge Xiong and his men and horses captured hundreds of war horses left by the Houba Legion, and buried all the bodies of all the people in the village to let the deceased rest in peace.

After cleaning up this qiē, Zhuge Xiong and his soldiers and horses left the village and went to the nearest Huai County, and set up a large camp outside the city of Huai County, sending scouts to explore the surroundings to grasp Hou Ba's next plan of action.

In Huai County, Zhuge Xiong learned of the crimes committed by the Houba army along the way, and he couldn't help but be even more angry, and regretted that he didn't pursue it with all his might, so that Houba could escape for the time being.

After Hou Ba escaped, he gathered more than 100 people under his command, hid in the mountains, and sent a small number of men and horses to the surrounding counties to reconnoiter to determine the location of the main force of the Jin army, so as to avoid the main force of the Jin army, and focus on the weak links of the Jin army's defense, so as to kill a group of ordinary people from time to time, so that the people of Hanoi County panicked.

After the men and horses under the command of Zhuge Xiong had just set up camp outside Huaixian County, the 10,000 personal guards led by Hua An also arrived here and joined forces with Zhuge Xiong.

In the big tent, Hua An listened to Zhuge Xiong's report, and learned that Hou Ba had committed such an unspeakable crime, Hua An angrily smashed the table in front of him, and made up his mind to do his best to exterminate Hou Ba and his Long Teng dead soldiers, so as to stabilize the shape of Hanoi County.

"Report, general, the northern scouts have sent back news that the Yan army broke Ran Min's elite army in Liantai and captured Ran Min alive, and now, Murong Ke led the main force of the Yan army and is rushing towards Yecheng." At this moment, a junior colonel rushed into the big tent and said loudly.

Hua An and his generals were shocked when they heard this, and gathered together to look at the topographic map of Hebei in the big tent and study the current emergency situation.

At present, if the Yan army is allowed to break through Yecheng, then most of the Hebei area belongs to the Yan State, which is extremely unfavorable to the Great Jin Dynasty, and it is necessary to take immediate action to ensure that the Yan army cannot break through Yecheng, so as to compress the Yan army in the area north of Yecheng, so that the main force of the Yan army cannot continue to develop to the south, so as to expand more strength.

"Big brother, without further ado, the main force of our army should immediately rush to Yecheng to prevent Yecheng from being occupied by the Yan army." Wang San said loudly.

"General, our army is willing to be the vanguard." Zhuge Xiong said loudly.

Hua An thought carefully for a moment, shook his head and said: "Don't worry, our army does not have the conditions to reinforce Yecheng now, at least the Wei court did not ask me for help, nor did it express surrender, so we rushed to Yecheng like this, shouldn't we have a bloody battle with tens of thousands of Wei troops?" And once our army and the Wei army have a bloody battle, they will inevitably suffer a lot of losses, and when the time comes, Murong Ke will take a big advantage. ”

"Big brother, what should we do? You can't do nothing! Wang San asked anxiously.

Hua An sighed lightly and said softly: "You don't have to worry, since Ran Min has been captured, the ministers of Wei must know that they can't hold Yecheng, and they will definitely send envoys to ask for reinforcements, we can wait for a few days." ”

"Big brother, I'm afraid that when we wait for the information of Wei asking for help, Yecheng has been surrounded by the Yan army, and I am afraid that it will be too late for reinforcements from our army." Wang San worried.

"Don't worry too much, Yecheng is easy to defend and difficult to attack, as long as the Wei soldiers do not surrender, it must not be so easy to be breached, besides, from Liantai to Yecheng, there are dozens of cities along the way, and the defenders in these cities will greatly delay the speed of the Yan army's advance, and the main force of the Yan army will not arrive in Yecheng in a short time." Hua An said affirmatively.

"General, even so, the main force of our army must make corresponding transfers, so that when the Wei State asks for help, it can do its best to reinforce Yecheng." Zhuge Xiong said.

Hua An nodded and said softly: "That's right, let General Deng Qiang's 30,000 main troops and horses immediately set off from Yewang City and go to camp outside Wude City, and also, our army is currently trying our best to exterminate Houba to eliminate the worries of marching into Yecheng." ”

"General, it's all to blame for the incompetence of the general, who failed to annihilate all the men and horses under Houba and his command." Zhuge Xiong hurriedly blamed himself.

Hua An waved his hand and said softly: "Zhuge Xiong, it's not your fault, it's that Houba is too cunning." ”

"Big brother, if Hou Ba and his party hide in the mountains and refuse to come out, how can our army wipe them out in a short time?" Wang San said suspiciously.

Hua An thought for a moment and said softly: "If Hou Ba and his group of beasts refuse to come out, then we will have to lure the snake out of the hole." ”

"General, how to lure the snake out of the hole." Zhuge Xiong hurriedly asked.

Hua An smiled and said softly, "You want to!" There are still more than 100 people under the command of Hou Ba, these people are hidden in the mountains, they have to eat and drink! There is no food in the mountains, so it is impossible for them to hide for too long, if the elite soldiers of our army pretend to be people transporting grain and grass, they will definitely be able to attract Houba to come and rob it, and when the time comes, Houba will naturally have no way to escape. ”

When Zhuge Xiong and Wang San heard this, they both thought that Hua'an's plan was feasible, so they expressed their full support.

Subsequently, Hua'an selected 500 soldiers with high strength from the Wudang Fei Army and the pro-military camp, and asked them to take off their military uniforms, pretend to be ordinary people, and transport grain and grass between Wude City and Yewang City.

Of course, in order to prevent any eventuality, Hua'an asked Wang San and Zhuge Xiong to lead thousands of men and horses respectively, and quietly hide near the possible location of the Houba Legion, so as to reinforce them at any time and completely wipe out the Houba Legion and not let anyone escape.

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In the palace of Yecheng, all the ministers of Wei gathered in the main hall, and they spontaneously came to the main hall after learning that Ran Min's elite army was completely wiped out and Ran Min himself was captured by the Yan army.

In addition to the ministers, Ran Min's wife, Empress Dong and the crown prince Ran Zhi, also sat in the main hall, everyone's expressions were extremely worried, after all, Ran Min is the king of a country in Wei and the backbone of Wei, and now, Ran Min was defeated and captured, which is a huge blow to Wei.

The ministers discussed on the top of the hall for a long time, but did not come up with a good solution, Ran Min's die-hard faction, regardless of the fact that Yan was strong and Wei was weak, strongly demanded to lead the army to kill Jicheng in order to rescue Ran Min.

Of course, this is impossible to do, for this reason, it has been opposed by more people, of course, there are also some people who support the crown prince Ran Zhi to ascend the throne in order to stabilize the situation in the country, but Ran Min's life and death are unknown, Ran Zhi rashly ascended the throne and became the emperor, which is naturally very uncourteous, besides, the Great Wei State has reached a critical moment, and asking for help from the Great Jin in the south has become the only choice at the moment, and once Ran Zhi is called emperor, he will lose the possibility of asking for help from the Jin family, so most ministers think that Ran Zhi cannot rashly claim the emperor.

Seeing that the ministers had been discussing for a long time, and they had not come up with a strategy on how to rescue Ran Min, the queen Dong couldn't help but sob, and the crown prince Ran Zhi looked at the ministers with a dull gaze.

Ran Min's confidant Jiang Gan, after discussing with the ministers in the main hall, hugged his fists and reported: "Queen Mother, His Royal Highness the Prince, at present, the main force of the Yan army is killing Yecheng, and the troops in Yecheng are insufficient, so immediately transfer all the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from Wei County and Ji County to Yecheng to defend, in addition, you can temporarily bend your knees and ask the Jin family to surrender in order to obtain the support of the Jin army, at least, so that the Jin army will not take advantage of the fire to rob." (To be continued......)