The Zhao army rushed in with iron horses, and did not carry any supplies such as grain and grass, and if they could not quickly capture the city, they would be in a dangerous situation.

Zhang Raccoon and the soldiers under his command naturally understood this truth, so they all fought hard to attack the city, and after the north gate was opened, the soldiers of the department immediately fought bravely into the city.

The 10,000 soldiers under Mao Bao's command were unprepared, and they were not at all the opponents of the Zhao army's 20,000 iron cavalry.

"General Mao, Lord Fan is here." Just when Mao Bao was fighting with Zhao Jun, Xiyang Taishou Fan Jun braved the rain of arrows from Zhao Jun and rushed over.

"Lord Fan, it's too dangerous here, what are you doing here?" Mao Bao was impatient in his heart, and his tone was a little impatient.

Fan Jun frowned, and said hurriedly: "General Mao, now, tens of thousands of enemy troops have invaded Yicheng, and our army is afraid that it will not be able to resist, so it is better to plan early." ”

"Lord Fan, what do you mean by this, I was ordered to defend the city to the death, how could I flee without a fight." Mao Baoyi is speaking.

"General Mao, when is this, half of the soldiers have been dispersed, and it will be too late if you don't leave, as the saying goes, keep the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood, lose the city today, and take it back later." Fan Jun tried his best to persuade Mao Bao to retreat.

"General, what Lord Fan said is that the enemy army is prepared, and if they don't leave, our army will all be killed."

"General, whether you fight or not, the city of Yicheng will be lost tonight."

"Thirty-six plans are the upper plan, the general quickly give an order!"

Several generals under Mao Bao's command saw that the cavalry of the Zhao army had entered the city, and they all persuaded Mao Bao to temporarily retreat.

"More than 200 miles, three or four days away, did Zhao Guotie ride over? God really helps the ugly, don't help me to make a big jin! Mao Bao was a little suspicious in his heart.

"General Mao, now is not the time to be sad, let's go! A few of you hold General Mao, hurry up. Fan Jun instructed several personal soldiers to forcibly drive Mao Bao backwards.

"Let go of Benjiang, Benjiang will live and die with Yicheng." Mao Bao symbolically struggled a few times, and then retreated with his right-hand man to the south gate.

Not far out of the city is the flowing river, there are no big boats on the riverside at this time, only a dozen small boats, and the Jin army that broke out of the south gate is two thousand people, so many soldiers, close to these dozen small boats naturally can not escape.

"General, the enemy is coming, get on board." Fan Jun and Mao Bao, surrounded by several personal soldiers, stepped onto a small boat.

"Kill...... Capture the Jin General alive, capture the Jin General alive. The generals of the Zhao army, who chased out of the south gate, shouted and led their cavalry to attack the scattered Jin army.

"The enemy is coming, flee!" Two thousand routs swarmed up and rushed toward a dozen small boats anchored on the shore.

How could such an insignificant dozen small boats carry the bodies of two thousand defeated soldiers, and under the scramble of the defeated soldiers, more than a dozen small boats were all broken and turned into sections of planks.

Even the small boat that the general Mao Bao was riding was pulled by the soldiers who wanted to survive, so that it sank and shattered, and in desperation, the soldiers of the Jin army had to take off their clothes and armor and swim to the opposite shore with all their might.

"Shoot the arrows." General Zhao, who chased to the shore, ordered his soldiers to fire arrows at the rout of the Jin army that swam across.

After a rain of arrows, the Jin soldiers who swam across were hit by arrows one after another, and the casualties were extremely heavy.

Although these routs are all southerners, they are very familiar with the nature of the water, but there are very few soldiers who can successfully swim across the other bank, most of them are buried in the belly of the fish, and even the captured general Mao Bao and Xiyang Taishou Fan Jun are also drowning to death.

Yu Liang, who was sitting on the south bank of the Great River, saw that the fire was burning in the direction of Yicheng, and hurriedly ordered the scouts to investigate, and half an hour later, the bodies of Mao Bao, Fan Jun and hundreds of soldiers were sent to Yu Liang's eyes.

A whole 10,000 elite army, a few hours of fighting before the whole army was dispersed, easy to defend and difficult to attack the city has also fallen into the hands of the enemy, the iron-like fact made Yu Liang frightened, he ordered Mao Bao, Fan Jun to be buried thickly, while playing the court to show his own mistakes, asking the court to surrender.

Mao Bao's rout and the loss of Yicheng completely disrupted Yu Liang's Northern Expedition plan, and he originally planned to use Yicheng as a stronghold, and then march north to occupy the entire Yuzhou, then approach the Yellow River and confront Zhao across the river, and finally cross the Yellow River north to capture Yecheng and recover the entire Central Plains.

Now, the army has not really left the division to lose the generals, which is a big blow to the morale of the Jingzhou army, Mao Bao is a member of the Jingzhou army dare to fight and dare to kill the fierce generals, such a fierce general is vulnerable in front of the Zhao State iron cavalry, the Jingzhou army soldiers are afraid of the Zhao army for a while.

Seeing the defeat in the first battle, the morale of the main army was low, and the grain and grass in the capital had not yet arrived, Yu Liang, the general of Zhengxi, did not dare to rashly cross the river to attack Yicheng, but let more than 100,000 troops stand by near Wuchang City.

The main force of the Jingzhou army was on standby in Wuchang City, and the five-way vanguard of the Zhao State had gone west, attacking Nanyang, Yiyang, Jiangxia and other counties of the Great Jin Dynasty.

Soon, the vanguard of the Zhao army crossed the river from the upstream, entered Xiangyang, Nanjun and plundered, and forced the southern city, the defenders of the southern part of the city and the Zhao army fought a bloody battle, was defeated by the Zhao general Shi Min, the general Cai Huai was killed, the soldiers scattered between the mountains and fields, and finally the southern city was broken by the Zhao army, and the northern border of Jingzhou fell to the enemy.

Yu Liang saw that the northern border of Jingzhou was captured by the Zhao army, and he was horrified in his heart, fainted several times, and his body deteriorated.

In order to recapture the northern border of Jingzhou, Yu Liang made a desperate bet and sent more than 100,000 main forces of the Jingzhou army to launch a counterattack against the invading Zhao army.

At the same time, Shi Hu, the king of Zhao State, had personally led 60,000 Longteng guards and 40,000 Yecheng elite soldiers, leaving Yecheng to kill Huainan County in the Great Jin Dynasty.

At this time, Shi Hu's vanguard had already arrived in Yuzhou's Qian County, and it would not be long before he would invade Huainan County of the Great Jin Dynasty.

After entering the city, Shi Hu stopped in the city for a while, ready to rest for the night, and the next day led 60,000 Longteng guards to Huainan, and left 40,000 Yecheng elite soldiers in Qiaojun, and most of the grain and grass materials needed by the army were also hoarded here.

Attacking the Kui'an army in Jingzhou, good news came from time to time, which made Shi Hu quite satisfied, after dinner, Shi Hu, who was in a good mood, enjoyed the dance of the dancing queen with the generals in the big tent, and occasionally got off the stage to perform with the dancing queen.

"Report, Your Majesty, Yecheng is eight hundred miles in an emergency." Suddenly, a small soldier rushed in.

"Quick, bring it up." When Shi Hu heard that it was an urgent report, he didn't dare to delay.

After carefully reading the contents of the emergency report, Shi Hu couldn't help but be furious, and casually overturned the case in front of him.