The 2,000 Zhao troops who had eliminated the ferry, the Jin army's crossbowmen lined up along the river, and fired arrows continuously at the Zhao soldiers in the crossing, and a round of arrow rain caused fatal damage to the enemy troops not far from the ferry, and at least 500 Zhao soldiers died under the arrows.

Ordered to attack the thunderstorm at the west gate and the south gate, Zhao Wu had easily killed a thousand enemy troops at the two city gates, and opened the city gate.

In a night battle that was not too large-scale, the Jin army won an absolute victory, destroying more than 4,000 enemies, most of which were the credit of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and the Jingzhou Army under Li Yang was only an auxiliary.

In addition to the 4,000 men and horses wiped out by Hua'an and Li Yang, the death squads that lured the enemy were all wiped out, and many of the soldiers who swam across were swept away by the turbulent river.

After the army reached the north bank, Kui'an counted the men and horses and retreated in the direction of Yicheng.

After Yu Yi entered the city, he naturally praised the results achieved by Hua'an and Li Yang, and then, the generals of the various armies gathered together to discuss the route of continuing the march, and all the generals were full of confidence in defeating the enemy of Jingzhou's invasion.

"General Hua, Liyang urgent." Just as everyone was discussing how to kill the enemy in Jingzhou, a soldier running from the direction of Liyang broke in.

Hua An's heart tightened, and said, "What's wrong with Liyang, tell me quickly." ”

"Back to the general, Liyang City is surrounded by 60,000 elite enemy soldiers, and the shape is in danger."

"What, 60,000 elite soldiers, it seems that Shi Hu has finally been dispatched." Li Yang said lightly.

"General Hua, your troops rushed back to help, and General Li and General Li continued to pursue Kui'an's men, and as soon as the battle in Jingzhou was settled, reinforcements to Liyang were immediately reinforced." Yu Yi said.

"Okay, the end will immediately reinforce Liyang." After Hua An finished speaking, he looked at Wang San and said, "Pass the order, the army will rest for an hour, and then immediately go to Liyang." ”

"Yes." Wang San clenched his fists and went to give the order.

An hour later, at dawn, Hua An led 30,000 Northern Expeditionary troops to the east, and two days later, the army arrived at Shicheng.

In these two short days, Hua'an gradually calmed down, and he realized that directly reinforcing Liyang and fighting against the 60,000 elites of Zhao State may not have a chance of winning, but it is better to go behind enemy lines, and cut off Shihu's grain route like the Battle of Changli.

More than ten miles across the river is Anhui City, at this time, Anhui City has been occupied by the Zhao army, but there are not many troops, only 3,000 people, as long as the river crosses the river to capture Anhui City, and then marches into Lujiang and Hefei, the soldiers are pointed directly at Yinling, when Tu, in this way, you can completely cut off the grain road of Shihu.

In the big tent, Hua An told the generals what he thought in his heart and asked the generals for their views on this matter.

"The general's plan is the best policy, but if you make a detour behind enemy lines, it will inevitably delay time, and Liyang City doesn't know how long it can hold out." A general asked questions.

"The general's plan seems a bit risky, but you can give it a try." Another general said.

"Big brother, where you say to fight, we will fight, we will all listen to you." Thunderstorm and Zhao Wu fully supported Hua'an.

Hua An pondered for a while, and said: "Before the expedition, the master told me that Liyang City is unusually strong, and there is no problem in defending it for two months, but now, Shihu has only been attacking the city for half a month, and we have at least one and a half months to go, and it should be too late to detour behind enemy lines." ”

"We will obey the general's orders." The general clenched his fists in agreement.

In the middle of the night of the same day, the 30,000 main forces of the Northern Expeditionary Army quietly crossed the river from the ferry north of Shicheng, and after all the 30,000 troops were assembled in Jiangbei, Hua'an gave an order, the army rushed for fifteen miles, launched a strong attack on Anhui City, it took less than an hour for Anhui City to be breached, half of the 3,000 enemy troops defending the city were annihilated, and the rest of the men and horses scattered and fled.

Hua'an ordered Lei Storm and Zhao Wu to lead more than 3,000 troops under their command and rush to the Lujiang River first. The main army rested for an hour and followed.

Anhui city is more than 100 miles away from the Lujiang River, two days later, the thunderstorm that rushed to the attack, Zhao Wu, launched a surprise attack on the Lujiang City with only 3,000 defenders, due to the lack of preparation of the enemy, the Lujiang City was easily breached.

Subsequently, Hua'an's main force was stationed in Lujiang City, due to the long march, the army body was depleted, and the Northern Expeditionary Army rested in Lujiang for a day, and only marched to Hefei on the second day.

A few days later, the army arrived in Hefei, and because the city of Hefei had 5,000 defenders and the city was strong, the army hit a nail under the city and lost hundreds of soldiers.

In order to break through Hefei City, Hua'an made a small plan to let the main army go around the city and move eastward, while Hua'an himself personally led 3,000 elites and ambushed outside the west gate of Hefei City.

The enemy defending the city saw that the Northern Expeditionary Army was going around the city, and their defenses suddenly relaxed a lot, and the enemy commander was even more bold to gather all the main forces defending the city near the east gate, intending to sneak attack the main force of the Northern Expeditionary Army on the march.

Seeing that the defense of the West Gate was lax, Hua An and his three thousand elite soldiers lurked throughout the day, and after dark, with the cover of night, they suddenly launched a surprise attack on the West Gate of Hefei City.

At the same time, signaling to the sky, the main force of the Northern Expeditionary Army heading east did not go far, and after seeing the signal, they held torches and killed at the east gate of Hefei City.

The elite soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army raided, the main force helped, Hefei City was quickly breached, most of the enemy troops defending the city broke and fled, and countless people were killed.

After capturing Hefei City, the army rested in the city for a night, because the geographical location of Hefei City was extremely important, early in the morning of the second day, Hua'an led the main army to the east, deliberately left two thousand soldiers and horses to garrison Hefei, in order to ensure that Hefei was no longer occupied by the enemy.

Dongcheng and Yinling were each guarded by 2,000 enemy troops, and in order to quickly break the enemy, Hua'an decided to divide his troops into two routes and raid these two cities respectively.

A few days later, Tongguò made some efforts, and Dongcheng and Yinling were captured one after another, and the enemy troops defending the city were scattered.

After capturing these two cities, Hua'an had two choices in front of him, one was to directly lead the main army to the south to rescue Liyang. The second is to lead the troops north to capture Dangtu, completely cutting off the grain and grass of Shihu's 60,000 army.

After thinking about it again, Hua'an decided to leave 8,000 men and horses to garrison Dongcheng, and the main force of 20,000 horses marched to Dangtu.

A few days later, the 20,000 main forces led by Hua'an personally arrived at the city of Dangtu, because the grain and grass of the Shihu army on the front line were hoarded in the city of Dangtu, and the enemy troops guarding it were extremely vigilant.

When Tucheng is a small city, it can be captured if it is attacked, but the men and horses under Hua'an will suffer heavy losses, and it is very likely that thousands of people will be killed.

Just when Hua'an was entangled and uneasy, he suddenly thought of Han Huang and Ma Xiong of Erlong Mountain, if there were more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Erlong Village to help, the casualties of the siege would be greatly reduced.