Hua An nodded, and said softly: "The two countries of the Yan Dynasty were originally small countries in the north, but since the chaos of the Zhao Kingdom, many people in the Central Plains have poured into the Yan Dynasty in order to flee. ”

"Big brother, Yan State is still my Great Jin Shu Kingdom, waving his army to the south to attack Ran Min, also in the name of the Jin Dynasty, to recover Hebei for the Great Jin Dynasty, if Yan really recovers Hebei, what should our army do, what reason does our army have to attack Yan State?" Wang San asked softly.

"Yes! After all, Yan is the Shu State of my Great Jin, and it is a vassal king who listens to the tune and does not listen to the announcement, if he does not take the initiative to attack our army after recovering Hebei, our army naturally has no suitable reason to attack Yan State. Hua An replied softly.

"Big brother, if that's the case, wouldn't the land of Hebei belong to the Yan Kingdom." Wang San was surprised.

Hua An said softly: "This, you don't have to worry, the reason why Yan Guo willingly surrendered to the Great Jin is to attack the Zhao State with the Great Jin, after the Zhao State fell to the country, it is to attack Ran Min, and once Ran Min is also defeated, the Yan State and my Great Jin will become neighbors, in order to expand the territory, the Yan State must betray the Great Jin, and together with the Dai Kingdom and my Great Jin as enemies, when the time comes, once the two countries of the Yan Dynasty make the first move, we will have enough reasons to send troops." ”

"Big brother, there are 500,000 soldiers in the whole country of the Yan Dynasty, but there should be 780,000 people in the whole country of my Great Jin, and the strength exceeds the combined army of the Yan Dynasty, and the victory must belong to my Great Jin." Wang San said optimistically.

Hua An nodded and said, "That's natural, the final victory will definitely belong to my Dajin." However, the Great Jin Dynasty is bent on the south of the Yangtze River and is unwilling to recover the land of Hebei, which is very worrying! If the imperial court does not support the recovery of Hebei and is willing to divide the Yellow River with Yan State, the situation will be more troublesome, and the clan forces of the Great Jin Dynasty are not united, Huan Wen and Yin Hao have a dislike for each other, and the two of them are not of the same heart as me. If the main forces of the three roads of my Great Jin cannot cooperate with each other. To jointly fight against the two countries of the Yan Dynasty, it is up to our army to rely on its own strength, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to fight against the coalition forces of the Yan Dynasty, and there will be no way to talk about recovering Hebei. ”

"That's what the eldest brother said. The Yangzhou Legion and the Jingzhou Legion are among the few elite divisions in our Great Jin. The strength is second only to our army. However, the current situation is good, and the main army of the second route has entered Yanzhou and Qingzhou respectively. Standing on the same front as our army, the three-way army formed a strong defensive force, which was enough to resist the Yan Dynasty coalition forces that intended to cross the river to attack. Wang San said.

Hua An smiled bitterly and said softly: "Right now, Daiguo sent reinforcements to reinforce Yan, the strength of the Yan Dynasty coalition army is extremely strong, Ran Min is no matter how brave he is, in the case of shortage of troops and insufficient military food, it is impossible to completely defeat the Yan Dynasty coalition army, I am afraid that the day of defeat is not far away, and once the Yan Dynasty coalition army rapidly advances to the north bank of the Yellow River, then, millions of people in Hebei will become the people of Yan State, in this way, the strength of Yan State will increase greatly, this situation will be extremely unfavorable to the Great Jin, We must not sit idly by and watch such adverse circumstances occur, and we must take resolute measures. ”

"What's the big brother's plan, we all listen to you." Wang San hurriedly asked.

Hua'an Zhengse said: "Immediately gather the main force of troops and horses, cross the river to the north, first capture Hanoi County, and then according to the situation, continue to advance in the direction of Yecheng, in short, to arrive near Yecheng before the Yan Dynasty coalition army, we must not let the Yan army plunder millions of people in Hebei." ”

"Big brother, the imperial court has issued an order to let the border armies stand still, if our army rushes to send troops, wouldn't it be against the orders of the imperial court." Wang San reminded in a low voice.

Rashly sent troops to Hebei, Hua'an naturally knew that this was disobeying the orders of the imperial court, and hesitated for a long time, but the Hebei area was already in danger, if he blindly obeyed the wrong instructions of the imperial court, it would not be long before Hebei would be under the command of Yan Guo, and at that time, the situation would become very bad, for the benefit of the Great Jin, Hua'an finally made up his mind to cross the river to the north and capture Hanoi County.

"The general will not accept the orders of the foreign monarch, and in order not to let the Yan Kingdom take the lead, he will not hesitate to disobey the order." Hua An Zhengse said.

In fact, Hua'an knows that the court of the Great Jin Dynasty is built on the basis of the Shi clan, and the royal family does not have much power, and he has a large number of troops and enough land under his jurisdiction, and his strength is close to nearly half of the strength of the Great Jin Dynasty.

Hearing this, Wang San pondered for a moment, and said, "Since the eldest brother has made up his mind, then our army will immediately prepare for war now and be ready to attack Hanoi County at any time." ”

Hua An nodded, and said: "Our army has expanded and supplemented in Luoyang and Xingyang, and the total strength has reached 150,000, including 50,000 main forces and 100,000 reserve regiments. Prepare for the next step of advancing to Yecheng. ”

"100,000 soldiers and horses, how is the eldest brother going to transfer troops." Wang San asked.

Hua An pointed to the map in the big tent, and said: "This is Mengjin Ferry, here is Aocang Ferry, our army can attack in two ways, let Zhuge Xiong lead 10,000 Wudang Fei Army, 30,000 reserve regiments from Aocang Ferry, to attack the Cao Fu Corps on the opposite bank, and let Deng Qiang lead 30,000 elite and 20,000 reserve regiments to attack Zhang Jin's corps on the opposite bank at Mengjin Ferry, and 10,000 soldiers and horses of our personal guard army will go to the vicinity of Chenggao Pass to stand by, ready to board the ship at Chenggao Pass, and secretly cross the river from the direction of Chenggao Pass, and launched an offensive against the large armies of the enemy along the river.

After listening to Hua'an's arrangement for crossing the river, Wang San nodded and exclaimed: "The eldest brother will definitely absorb all the main forces of the enemy army on the other side of the river at the Mengjin Ferry and Aocang Ferry, and my personal guard army can sneak across the Yellow River without knowing it, and then raid the rear of the enemy army, easily break through the enemy's defense line along the river, and finally capture Hanoi County." ”

Hua An nodded and said lightly: "You're right, that's what the eldest brother thinks, but I'm afraid that the enemy army will also arrange heavy defenses at Chenggao Ferry!" If this is the case, our personal guards will not be able to smuggle across the Yellow River. ”

"Big brother, with the strength of our army, even if we attack, we will definitely be able to break through the enemy's Yellow River defense line, and finally defeat the enemy and capture Hanoi County." Wang San said confidently.

Hua An thought about it for a while, and said softly: "If it is a strong attack, the losses will be relatively large, but there is always a way to keep the enemy army from fortifying at Chenggao Ferry, you go first to convey the orders of the various armaments, go quickly." ”

"Yes, big brother." Wang San hurriedly responded, and then turned around and left the Chinese army's tent.

After Wang San left the big tent, Hua An took out a pen and paper, first wrote to the imperial court, explaining the current shape of the Hebei area, and the potential threat of the Yan Dynasty alliance to the Great Jin Dynasty, and showed that his disobedience to the expedition was completely for the consideration of the Great Jin Dynasty, not intentional, and begged the court for forgiveness, and then, Hua An successively wrote a letter to Huan Wen and Yin Hao, who had heavy troops, explaining the reasons for his northern expedition, and Jianyi and the two also crossed the river to the north together.

Of course, Hua An knew very well in his heart that these three letters were all written in vain, and the imperial court would not understand the reason for sending troops, and of course they would not dare to punish the crime, and Huan Wen and Yin Hao, for their own interests, would definitely not respond to their own troops in Hebei.

However, knowing that it was written in vain, for the sake of courtesy, Hua'an still had to write, and as soon as he finished writing, he sent three people to send the letter everywhere.

After that, Hua'an immediately dispatched scouts to quietly cross the river and go to the direction of Hanoi County to reconnoiter the enemy's situation in order to find out the deployment of the enemy troops on the opposite bank.

After just a few days of preparation, the 100,000-strong army under Hua'an's command was ready, and was assembled at the two ferries of Mengjin and Aocang, ready to cross the river and attack at any time.

Hua An and Wang San, personally led 10,000 elite personal guards, took advantage of the night to quietly enter Aocang City, and waited for the information sent back by the scouts on the north bank in order to make an order to attack.

After learning that the main force of the Jin army was massing at the two ferries of Mengjin and Aocang, the enemy generals Zhang Jin and Cao Fu immediately sent the main army to Mengjin and Aocang to defend at the ferries to block the main force of the Jin army from crossing the river.

Among them, the main army under Zhang Jin entered Mengjin and stationed, and the soldiers and horses under Cao Fu entered the Aocang ferry to defend, and the two enemy troops had already set up a posture to block the Jin army from crossing the river.

In order to prevent the Jin army from smuggling through the Chenggao Ferry, Cao Fu, the enemy general sitting in Pinggao City, sent 3,000 soldiers and horses to be stationed at the Chenggao Ferry, and was ready to personally lead the army to deal with all parties at any time.

The enemy's defensive arrangements were soon discovered by the Jin scouts, who immediately reported to Hua'an.

Seeing that the enemy's arrangement was basically the same as he expected, Hua An had a plan in mind, and immediately ordered Deng Qiang and Zhuge Xiong to lead the army to attack the defenders on the north bank of the Yellow River.

After receiving the order, Deng Qiang and Zhuge Xiong immediately led their elite men and horses to sail to the north bank of the ferry in a warship, and used the thunderbolts on the warships to bombard the enemy's defensive positions on the other side of the river.

However, due to the limited number of Jin warships, it is impossible for tens of thousands of troops to launch a river crossing attack at the same time, therefore, the Jin army launched an attack only a part of the elite men and horses, which are weaker than the enemy defending on the north bank in terms of troops, and the enemy army on the opposite bank has also arranged a large number of thunderbolts and arrow towers, so after a continuous day of attack, the soldiers and horses of the two Jin armies did not capture the ferry, but retreated back. (To be continued......)