Hearing this, Hua An nodded, and said, "Then where should our army march next?" ”

Li Yang took the map, pointed to the important town of Chaisang in the south of the Yangtze River, and said: "This is it, Kui'an's defeated army fled to the west, if the old man expected it to be good, it must be going to Chaisang City." ”

"Lord Li, my Northern Expeditionary Army only needs to rest for a day, and tomorrow we can set off and attack Chaisang." Hua'an is righteous.

Li Yang nodded slightly and said, "Okay, this official will lead five thousand elites under his command and march with the general." ”

"That's very good, Ben will go to order the three armies." After Hua An finished speaking, he turned to leave.

Early in the morning of the second day, the 30,000 soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army led by Hua'an and the elite troops of the 5,000 Jingzhou Army led by Li Yang joined forces and marched towards Chaisang, an important town in the south of the Yangtze River.

A few days later, the army arrived at the basin pass not far from the city of Chaisang.

"Big brother, five miles ahead is Penkou Pass, which has been occupied by Zhao Jun." Wang San pointed to the faint pass ahead and said loudly.

Hua An raised his right hand lightly and said loudly: "Stop advancing, and the whole army will camp on the spot." ”

When the officers and soldiers under his command heard the order, they stopped one after another, and the baggage soldiers looked for open space and began to build a camp, and after a while, a camp was erected, and the soldiers of the Jingzhou army not far away, under Li Yang's order, also set up a camp.

"Driving the ......" Li Yang and several powerful generals rode their horses towards Hua'an.

Hua An and Wang San hurriedly rode their horses to meet them.

"General Hua, would you like to follow me to the basin pass to investigate." Li Yang said.

"Hahaha! There is such a intention under the next, please. Hua An stretched out his hand to let Li Yang go first.

Li Yang smiled slightly, and rode his horse towards the basin pass. Hua An, Wang San and others rode horses to follow.

A group of more than ten people quickly rushed to the basin mouth pass and stopped beyond the range of bows and arrows.

"This is the basin pass, why is it called that?" Looking at the three big characters of 'Basin Pass' in front of him, Hua An was a little puzzled.

Li Yang smiled and explained: "This name comes from an ancient legend, according to legend, in ancient times, a stunning girl was in the river, and suddenly the river swelled, and the wooden basin in the girl's hand was washed into the water.

After listening to Li Yang's explanation, Hua An suddenly realized, looking at the majestic basin pass in front of him, everyone gasped, such a tall, easy to defend and difficult to attack pass, how to attack is a big problem.

"There is a trend of the Penkou Pass, how did the Zhao army break it." Hua An couldn't help but wonder again.

Li Yang sighed secretly and said: "On the day of the loss of Yicheng, the victorious division of Zhao State went straight down the river and attacked Chaisang, the defenders of Chaisang City were insufficient and unprepared, and they were broken by the Zhao army within a few hours, and the Zhao army searched for a talisman from the Chaisang garrison, so he sent a clever soldier to dress up as a soldier of our army, and transferred out the defenders of Penkou Pass with a talisman, and then surrounded and annihilated it under Chaisang City, and there was no soldier guarding Penkou Pass, so it was naturally occupied by the enemy. ”

"Hmph, the enemy army is really despicable enough to make a shady move." The thunderstorm behind Huaan shouted.

"This general is a big mistake, the soldier is treacherous, how can the two armies fight with common sense, it is our army that is negligent in defense, and it is no wonder that others." Li Yang disagreed with the thunderstorm's words.

"Stand down." Hua An also glanced at the thunderstorm.

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Hua'an and his entourage appeared at the basin pass in a big way, which naturally attracted the attention of the defenders of Zhao State on the pass, and the small colonel in charge of the guard immediately reported the situation to the main general Zhang Raccoon.

When Zhang Raccoon learned of this, he immediately climbed the city wall to check.

"General, these are the few people." The little colonel pointed to Hua An and the others who were closed.

Zhang Raccoon stared for a moment, and he had already guessed the identity of the people in the city, so with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, he ordered: "Open the city gate, Captain Shi, you lead three hundred cavalry archers out of the customs immediately, and you must kill a few people under the city." ”

"The last general commands." Captain Shi answered and immediately ran down.

"Click......" The gates opened with a screeching sound.

"Soldiers, follow me out." Captain Shi roared and led three hundred cavalry archers to kill outside the pass.

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"Big brother, it's not good, the enemy is coming." Wang San shouted.

Hua An naturally saw it a long time ago, he drew the hard bow on his back, aimed at an enemy cavalryman at the front, and said softly: "Lord Li, you go first, and I will break it back." ”

Li Yang had long heard of Hua An's bravery, so he did not shirk and said, "General Hua be careful. After saying that, he rode his horse and ran in the direction of the camp.

With a 'whoosh', Hua An shot an arrow, and an enemy soldier in the front was in the forefront.

The enemy soldier's turn over and fall directly caused the following cavalry to follow, but the soldiers behind rushed over again, and bent their bows and arrows, ready to shoot at Hua'an.

"Brothers, withdraw." After Hua An finished speaking, he rode his horse and retreated, and at the same time, he kept shooting at the enemy soldiers chasing behind.

Every time an enemy soldier was killed, Wang San and several people passed through Hua'an for more than a year, and their archery skills were not to be underestimated, and they shot at the enemy one after another.

The enemy army only chased 500 paces out of the city and lost more than a dozen soldiers, but Hua'an and the others retreated farther and farther.

Not far ahead is the camp of the Jin army, the Jin army that came to meet the news is not far away, the enemy pursuers have to give up, and the stupid Le Ma returns to the basin pass.

Because the Penkou Pass was easy to defend and difficult to attack, both Hua'an and Li Yang believed that it should not be forcibly attacked, so as not to suffer heavy losses, the army camped under the pass for several days, and sent scouts to the vicinity every day to inquire for information.

A few days later, Tongguò inquired in many ways, Hua'an had basically figured out the situation of the enemy army, at this time, Chaisang City was personally guarded by Kui'an's 30,000 horses, and the basin pass was garrisoned by 10,000 horses led by the general Zhang Xiang, and another 40,000 horses were in the north of Jingzhou, and the Jingzhou army was engaged in a tug-of-war.

Under the basin pass were the 35,000 men and horses of Hua'an and Li Yang, and the city of Chaisang was also surrounded by the 50,000 army of Yu Yi, the main force of the Jingzhou army, which was extremely unfavorable to the enemy army.

The Jin army can send scouts to probe the reality of the enemy army, and the enemy army will naturally send scouts to explore the reality of the Jin army.

Under careful interrogation, Hua'an learned that the grain and grass in Chaisang City could only meet the needs of the enemy army for a month, and after a month, the enemy army would inevitably run out of food.

Knowing that the enemy army was short of food and grass, Hua'an and Li Yang both thought that they should besiege but not attack, wait for the enemy army to run out of food, and then conquer the pass in one fell swoop.

For this reason, Hua An and Li Yang took turns to send soldiers to fight under the pass every day, bluffing, covering up their real intentions, and at the same time, cutting down trees around the camp to make catapults, siege vehicles, ladders, wooden shields and other combat equipment necessary for the siege.