With a loud sound, the blown up gravel and the stones on both sides of the city gate rolled to the ground one after another, and a huge opening appeared around the city gate of Linwei City.

The generals of the Liang Army, who had never seen the huge power of black powder, were all stunned, and even Xie Ai's eyes widened in shock, and he exclaimed incredulously.

As for the soldiers and civilians of Zhao who were defending the city, they had long been frightened, and many soldiers and civilians began to flee backwards.

Seeing that the city gate had been completely blown up, Hua An ordered loudly: "The whole army attack, rush ......"

"Kill ......" The main force of the Jin army roared, and the black pressure was pressed towards Linwei City.

The Zhao army in Linwei City was not elite, many soldiers were remnants of the Jin Dynasty, they were not willing to die for the Zhao court, seeing that the city could no longer be defended, so they threw away their weapons and knelt down to surrender, and the people who helped guard the city wall had already run out.

Hua'an strictly ordered that all soldiers of the Zhao army who surrendered should not be harmed, and all of them were arranged into prisoner camps for unified management.

Because the Zhao army did not have the will to fight, therefore, in a short period of time, Linwei City was completely taken by the Jin army, except for a small number of soldiers who died in battle, most of the Zhao soldiers surrendered to Hua'an.

After Hua'an settled the main army, he took the generals to climb the wall of Linwei City to look down on the situation in the city.

At this time, there were guards in the city who were responsible for pacifying the people and maintaining law and order in the city, and they would never allow people with bad intentions to take the opportunity to commit traitors and endanger the people.

Standing on the city wall, Hua An looked into the city and said softly: "The people of Linwei City still don't trust our army very much, and they are attacking the city at this time. Our army must strictly enforce military discipline and never allow any soldier to bully the people. ”

"Big brother, rest assured, the pro-guard army has completely controlled Linwei City and affirmed military discipline, I believe that such a thing will not happen." Wang San hurriedly expressed his position to reassure Hua'an.

Hua An nodded with satisfaction, looked to the north, and said softly: "Right now, the two counties of Tianshui and Luoyang have been taken by our army. The next step is for our army to move to Guanzhong. And the road to Guanzhong must pass through the street pavilion in the north, the main force of the Zhao army must be stationed in the street pavilion, and our army will definitely experience a bloody battle! ”

"General, go to Guanzhong. Is there only one way? Is there no other way? Yang An hurriedly asked.

Hua An picked up the map in his hand. He said softly: "According to the scout's reconnaissance for several months, there is only one way to Guanzhong from here, and you must pass through the street pavilion. No other roads were found. ”

"Big brother, don't worry, our army has more than 100,000 horses, and the street pavilion is not an easy and difficult checkpoint, and it is not difficult to break through the street pavilion." Zhao Wu said loudly.

Hua An said with a smile: "With the strength of our army, we can naturally pass through Guò Street Pavilion, but if the Zhao army is well prepared and the soldiers are fully able to resist, our army's losses must be not small, and if it loses tens of thousands of troops, it will be worth the loss." ”

"The losses of the assault are indeed relatively large, if only our army could send a small force to the rear of the Zhao army." Yang An said softly.

"There is no way out, how to make a detour back to the rear of the Zhao army." Hua An said helplessly.

Xie Ai looked at the map in Hua An's hand and said softly: "General, my Liangzhou army has 3,000 men and horses, and we can detour behind enemy lines and attack from behind the Zhao army. ”

Hua An was shocked when he heard this, looked at Xie Ai, and said softly: "There is no second way to Guanzhong from here, how does General Xie plan to fly across Longshan and reach behind enemy lines." ”

Xie Ai pointed to Weishui on the map, and said: "Weishui flows from west to east, just passing through Longshan, as long as our army goes down the Weishui River by boat, it can go straight behind the enemy without knowing it, so as to attack the Zhao army from behind the street pavilion." ”

Listening to Xie Ai's strategy, Hua'an and the generals were shocked, although Longshan could not fly, but Weishui did pass directly from Longshan, if you take a boat to the east, you can indeed cross Longshan into the Guanzhong Plain, but the problem is that in this section of Weishui through Longshan, the depth of the river is insufficient, it is difficult to pass large ships, and the river shuttles between the valleys, some places are open and gentle, but there are also some places that are narrow and the water flow is very fast, and there is even a large drop in the river section, which can be described as dangerous. If it was really very easy to cross, Zhuge Wuhou would not have taken a long detour to walk the street pavilion back then.

"General Xie, the Weishui is rugged and dangerous, how can the three thousand army pass through Guò, if the boat capsizes and people die, it will be too late to regret it." Hua An said softly, obviously, he didn't think that Weishui could pass smoothly.

"General, the road of Weishui has not been passed by a large army since ancient times, but it does not mean that it must not be able to pass guò, the last general is willing to give it a try, I believe that as long as the preparation is sufficient, it will definitely be able to pass guò, and once our army enters Guanzhong, the Zhao army's Jieting defense line will not be breached." Xie Ai still insisted on taking the Weishui waterway.

Seeing Xie Ai's insistence, Hua An nodded and said, "Okay then!" General Xie would have asked the baggage battalion to work day and night to build 500 small and medium-sized ships to supply the general's needs. ”

"Well, thank you for the fulfillment, general." Xie Ai hugged his fists and thanked him.

Subsequently, the Guanzhong scouts sent information that the Zhao army had indeed deployed a large number of troops in the direction of Jieting, built fortifications, and was actively preparing for war to deal with the attack of the Jin army.

At this time, Hua'an, on the one hand, hoped that Xie Ai could successfully cross the Weishui, and on the other hand, he was making various preparations for storming the Jieting, and when necessary, even if the sacrifice was great, he must also take the Jieting, so as to ensure that the main army could enter Guanzhong and respond to the four partial divisions, so as to fully control Guanzhong.

After several days of preparation by the soldiers of the Jin army's baggage battalion, all the 500 ships required by Xie Ai's 3,000 troops were built and handed over to Xie Ai, who immediately led his 3,000 troops to leave Linwei City and enter Weishui, preparing to cross Longshan down the river.

Before leaving, Hua'an sent a batch of black powder to Xie Ai, and taught the Liang army the methods to use to prevent Xie Ai's army from encountering insurmountable checkpoints after entering Guanzhong, so as to be suppressed by the Zhao army.

The 3,000 elites of the Liang Kingdom wrapped up the black powder and loaded it on the boat, and then under the leadership of Xie Ai, they marched eastward along the current of Weishui, and in order to control the boat, each soldier held a three-zhang long bamboo pole in his hand to prevent encountering the turbulent section of the river.

After Xie Ai's army left, Hua'an's main army stayed in Linwei City for three days, during which the Jin army did nothing to the common people and received their full support, and many of the people asked to join the Jin army.

In view of the enthusiasm of the common people to join the army, Hua'an recruited a group of men and horses, and incorporated all of them into the reserve, and a small number of generals from the main army to lead them.

Tianshui and Luoyang counties are both critical positions, for this reason, Hua'an decided to leave 10,000 reserve regiments, plus more than 10,000 regiments recruited and captured locally, a total of more than 20,000 men and horses, responsible for staying behind, and leaving Zhang Yu in Linwei City, let him be responsible for various things in the two counties, to ensure the stability of the two counties.

Three days later, the scouts in front had completely figured out the situation in the direction of Jieting, and Hua'an immediately made a decision and led 100,000 horses to kill in the direction of Jieting.

After several days of arduous marching, the 100,000 horses under the command of Hua An finally arrived near Jieting, and set up camp less than ten miles away from the fortification of the Zhao army, and led some generals to personally go to the direction of Jieting to investigate.

After some careful investigation, the situation of the street pavilion is basically the same as what the scout said, Zhao Jun's defense is quite tight, at first glance it is a veteran of the battlefield, if you want to conquer the street pavilion, you will indeed have to pay a lot of sacrifices and costs.

Hua An stood on a small hill, looked at a hill where the Zhao army was stationed, and said: "Zhao Jun Daxu is written on a hemp character, and its main general must be the famous general of the Zhao army, Ma Qiu, although Ma Qiu has been repeatedly defeated by Xie Ai in recent years, and his reputation has decreased sharply, but he is still a famous general in the Zhao army. ”

"Yes! Big brother, this Maqiu relied on the terrain to build a lot of hidden forts and arrow towers, and all the favorable terrain was occupied by the Zhao army, it seems that it really takes some thought to capture the street pavilion! Wang San said with emotion.

"General, General Xie Ai's 3,000 men and horses are going east along the Weishui River, maybe they have arrived in Guanzhong at this time, and the four-way partial division of our army may also enter Guanzhong, if one of these horses can attack behind the enemy, Maqiu's defense line can be broken by itself." Yang An Zhengse said.

Hua An nodded and said: "The situation of General Xie Ai is still unknown, the four partial divisions are all on the sheep's intestine path, I am afraid that they will not arrive in Guanzhong so soon, now, our army cannot completely pin their hopes on friendly troops, and must immediately prepare for a strong attack." ”

"Yes, I'll understand." The generals said together.

"Big brother, the Zhao army has discovered us, and a cavalry of two hundred men and horses is killing our army." Wang San hurriedly reminded.

Hua An glanced up and saw that the cavalry of the Zhao army had really killed, so he turned his horse's head and said softly: "Return to the camp immediately." After saying that, he rode his horse and ran in the direction of the camp.

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Xie Ai led 3,000 soldiers and horses under his command to march on the Weishui River, full of dangers, and experienced various dangers such as grounding, capsizing, and rapids along the way, and a few soldiers lost their lives for this, but in any case, after several days of marching, 3,000 men and horses crossed Longshan and arrived at the Guanzhong Plain.

After entering the Guanzhong Plain, the surrounding area is open, not long after landing on the shore, I saw the Chencang City in the east, at this moment, Zhuge Xiong's 10,000 Wudang Fei Army has been along the Lì Tong Guò Chencang Road, and crossed Weishui, from the direction of the East Gate began to attack Chencang City, the main force of the Zhao army defending the city is all gathered near the East Gate, in order to resist Zhuge Xiong's 10,000 Wudang Fei Army and 10,000 reserve men, the defense in the direction of the West Gate is naturally the weakest.

Xie Ai seized the fighter plane, led an army of 3,000, and quickly attacked the west gate of Chencang City, and used the black powder given by the Jin army to blow up the west gate of Chencang City. (To be continued......)