The plan to cross the river by Zhang Ao and others was indeed very thorough. Ten thousand Zhao troops set out at the second update and began to cross the river in the third update. It was not until dawn that the first Han army scouts who went out to explore the enemy situation discovered this situation.

When the scouts of the Han army discovered this situation, it could be said that everything was too late. The front team of the 10,000 Zhao army had crossed the Mianman River and formed a solid formation to protect the ferry on the west bank. They also repaired some temporary fortification protection positions such as deer antlers and horses. Twenty strong floating bridges were built on the Mianman River, opening the road for the main force of the Zhao army to enter the west bank. At the same time, the Zhao army, who had sufficient preparations, had also launched a large-scale camp and was rushing toward the ferry on the torch. The Han army basically had no chance to attack the Zhao army halfway.

Fortunately, Uncle Zhou never considered seizing the opportunity to defeat the enemy from the beginning. At the same time, in Uncle Zhou's tactical plan, the Han army did not need too much early warning and responded to the situation, so Uncle Zhou was not panicked and just ordered the Han army soldiers to make meals and make more dry food for food in the formation. In addition, he also gave an order to the Xia Shun troops in the south, and then ignored the Zhao army's crossing the river and allowed the main force of the Zhao army to calmly cross the Mianman River under the cover of the front army.

Seeing this scene, the Han generals were of course surprised and asked one after another: "General, the traitor army of Zhao is crossing the river. It is a great opportunity for us to cross the bandit army halfway. Why haven't you sent troops out of the camp?"

"Attack halfway through? It's easy to say that the Zhao traitor army has formed a strong formation at the ferry entrance and hastily sent troops. How sure are we to break the battle formation of the traitor army?" Uncle Zhou asked back, and said with a smile: "Besides, even if we are all in our way, we are sure to break the battle formation of the Zhao traitor army, but we have driven away the front team of the Zhao traitor army. Where can we have the opportunity to fight head-on and annihilate the main force of the Zhao traitor army in one battle?"

"A decisive battle head-on? The main force of the Zhao traitor army in one battle?" The Han military and civil and military officials were all taking a breath and quickly said, "General Zhou, are we sure we can do this? The Zhao traitor army is above us, and most of our soldiers are new soldiers from Shangjun, Guanzhong, and their combat effectiveness may not be above the Zhao traitor army. If the head-on battle head-on, how confident can we have to annihilate the Zhao traitor army?"

Uncle Zhou smiled confidently and said, "On the battlefield, what determines the outcome is not only the number of troops and the strength of soldiers, but also a tactical issue is more important. If the tactics are used properly, our more than 20,000 troops may not be able to annihilate the main force of the Zhao traitor army."

The Han generals looked at each other, not quite understanding the strong confidence from Uncle Zhou. At the same time, some of the more careful Han generals said in their hearts: "Our more than 20,000 troops? Our 30,000 troops were divided into 3,000 troops and stationed in Jingxing City. In addition, the 4,000 troops mentioned by Xia, the troops are still more than 30,000? Why did General Zhou forget such an important point?"

At the same time, under the cover of the elite troops of the front army led by the Tian Shu, the main force of the Zhao army had already begun to cross the river in full. Under Zhang Ao's command, 35,000 Zhao army troops from the camp first divided the 5,000 troops north to the outside of Jingxing City, and closely monitored the every move of the three thousand Han army guards in Jingxing City. At the same time, they took into account the river surface to prevent the Han army from releasing fire rafts and fire boats to burn the Zhao army's floating bridge. The remaining 30,000 troops rushed through the not-so-wide Mianman River at the fastest speed, crossed the river to form a formation on the west bank, helped the front army protect the ferry, and gradually threw the troops into the west bank battlefield in an orderly manner.

Finally, when Zhang Ao personally led the chariots and cavalry to cross the Mianman River, Zhang Ao, Guan Gao and Uncle Tian and other Zhao army civil and military officials quietly breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that there was no need to worry about the Han army leaving the camp and rushing. Then, because the main force of the Han army was always huddled in the camp and did not come out, Zhang Ao and others immediately turned their eyes to the Xia Shuo Army camp in the southwest, and they all said: "When our army has all crossed the river, if the Han thieves don't go to fight, we will immediately take down the Xia Shuo Rebel camp and cut off the wings of the Han thieves first."

Nearly halfway through Si, the main forces of the 30,000 Zhao army were all crossing the Mianman River, and joined forces with the former army to gather 40,000 troops on the west bank of the Mianman River, establishing an absolute military advantage on the local battlefield. Seeing that the Han army still could not stand, Zhang Ao and Guan Gao did not hesitate, and immediately led the main force of the Zhao army to come to Xia's military camp. During this period, Zhang Ao and Guan Gao and others smiled grimly, and they all said in their hearts: "Xia said traitor, your death is here!"

It surprised Zhang Ao, Guan Gao and others. When they led their troops to the Xia Shuo camp, although the flags were everywhere in the Xia Shuo camp, and smoke was curling, and drums were heard from time to time, but above the camp and before the camp gate, there was no one in sight. Zhang Ao and others were surprised and discussed for a moment before they decided to send a thousand troops to launch a tentative attack, and firepower reconnaissance Xia Shuo's camp's virtual reality.

Then Zhang Ao, Guan Gao and others were shocked. A thousand Zhao troops carried the ladder that was originally intended to attack Jingxing County and launched a charge. They shouted and rushed to Xia Shuojun's camp without any effort. Then they broke through Xia Shuojun's camp gate and rushed into the camp. During this period, Xia Shuojun's camp not only did not shoot a single arrow to stop it, but also did not see a soldier launching a counterattack, as empty as if it was an empty camp...

"Major General, it's an empty camp! Xia said the bandit army slipped through the back door, this is an empty camp!"

The report of the front army completely stunned Zhang Ao and Guan Gao. After careful inquiry, Zhang Ao and Guan Gao and others learned in a daze that Xia said that the military camp was actually an empty camp at present. The soldiers in the camp had already opened the back door of the camp and fled into the Taihang Mountains from the back path of the camp by covering the forest. The drum sounds that kept coming were just the sound of Xia said that the soldiers tied the goats to the drum and the sheep's hooves hit the drum.

"Shameless traitor, knowing that he is not our opponent, he actually slipped away so shamelessly! We were fooled!"

It was too late to find out that it was too late to be deceived. Xia Shuojun had already left shamelessly. The main force of Zhao's army completely hit a ball of air. Even if some military supplies were seized, it was useless and could not achieve the purpose of attacking the morale of the Han army. In desperation, Zhang Ao could only ask Guan Gao hurriedly: "Mr. Guan, Xia Shuojun ran away shamelessly. What should we do next?"

Guan Gao, who had no idea of ​​this situation, frowned and thought for a while before saying, "Xia said that since the rebel thief has left and the Han thief has not been able to leave the camp, the best way is to retreat as soon as possible, withdraw the camp and continue to guard the danger, and then think about another plan to break the enemy."

The labor army finally mobilized the main force to lead the Mianmanshui, and he wanted to withdraw his troops without even seeing the shadow of the enemy. Of course, Zhang Ao was extremely unwilling to accept it. As a result, more than a hundred Han cavalry suddenly ran from the Han army camp, rushed to the Zhao army formation and cursed, greeting Zhang Er and Zhang Ao, the rich and beautiful woman who ran away with the Changgong. Zhang Ao was furious when he heard this and immediately sent five hundred cavalry to fight. However, just as he saw the Zhao army cavalry dispatched, the Han cavalry turned around and ran away. The Zhao army cavalry pursued her decisively, and was soon led to the Han army camp.

At this time, the east gate and the south gate of the Han army camp suddenly opened, and five hundred cavalry rushed out, wielding sabers and tying their sabers to tie the Zhao army cavalry left and right. The Zhao army had few cavalrymen, and the swords, halberds and long spears in their hands were not suitable for horse battles. Soon, many people were chopped over by the Han army cavalry one after another, and they were forced to flee in a panic. The Han army cavalry chased them wildly, but they stopped the war horses when the Zhao army battle formation was close to each other, and continued to loudly greet Zhang Ao's rich and beautiful mother who had an affair with her family slave.

There are not many unfilial sons in this era, and Zhang Ao is definitely not one of them. Seeing that the Han army repeatedly humiliated his biological mother, Zhang Ao was furious and refused to listen to Guan Gao's obstacles. In addition to urging the army to face the Han cavalry, he led the army north with red eyes. The Han cavalry still turned around and ran away, cursing and seducing the main force of the Zhao army to the camp of the main force of the Han army, and then rushed back to the camp to hide and rest.

It was the turn of the Zhao army soldiers to curse and fight outside the Han army camp. However, it was a pity that Uncle Zhou had been with Xiang Kang for so long, but had not learned any other strengths, but he learned his face to be thicker than the city wall. Therefore, no matter how the Zhao army soldiers insulted Uncle Zhou's rebellion against Wei and surrendered to Han, they were neglected in the Wei army. Uncle Zhou just smiled and refused to send one soldier to fight again. He just sent a scolding hand to Denglei to scold him and continued to anger Zhang Ao.

Not to mention, the Han army's scolding hands were not in vain. They could not bear the humiliation of the Han army's scolding hands. They also saw that it was still early, there was enough time, and the army's military strength was huge. In addition, there was enough weapons to attack, Zhang Ao gritted his teeth and made a decision, and simply activated the army to launch a frontal attack on the Han army camp. Guan Gao dissuaded, but Zhang Ao refused to obey.

Thanks to Zhang Er's confidant Zhao Wu and Zhao Jianjun, in order to make things difficult for Xia Shuo, he forced the Zhao army soldiers to build the Xiguankou camp to be extremely strong. The wall was three feet high and four feet high, which was not much different from the ordinary county walls. Xia Shuojun left sufficient guard supplies for the Han army without any damage. So needless to say, the Zhao army's strong attack was of course kicked to the iron plate. No matter how Zhang Ao urged the army to move forward, no matter how the Zhao army soldiers sacrificed their lives and carried the ladders to charge. They were still shot by the dense arrow rain of Han soldiers, and were hit by the rolling stones like hail and raindrops, and they were hit by the extremely heavy price. They never could shake the Han army camp, let alone killing and annihilated the main force of the Han army to avenge Zhang Ao.

In the afternoon of the fierce battle, he saw that the soldiers of the Zhao army were always blocked by the Han army and could not get close to each other. Guan Gao vaguely found that the situation was not good, so he hurriedly advised Zhang Ao: "Major General, the Han thief camp is too strong and the defense is extremely tight. It is meaningless to continue to attack hard. It is better to stop here."

"It's still early, let's take another shot." Zhang Ao replied unwillingly.

"No need." Guan Gao continued to persuade and said, "If we continue to fight, we will not only be destined to be more casualties, but our soldiers will also be more tired. When the time comes, we will withdraw our troops and retreat, and the Han thieves will send troops to counterattack, so it will be difficult for us to resist. Besides, when we withdraw our troops, we have to cross the Mianman River to return to the camp..."

"Mr. Guan, what did you say just now? Please say it again!"

Zhang Ao, who was still insisting on continuing to attack, suddenly turned around and asked in surprise, his expression suddenly became a little nervous. Guan Gao was puzzled and said, "I just said that when we withdraw our troops, we have to cross the Mianman River again before we can... to return to the camp..."

When he retelled this, Guan Gao's tone suddenly became hesitant and hesitant, and his wrinkled face began to turn white. Because Guan Gao suddenly thought of an important question, because there was no Han army blocking it, the self-army had successfully crossed the Mianman River, but what should I do when I go back? Then the Han army took the opportunity to send troops and attacked a large number of attacks. How would the Zhao army crossing the river resist?

"Singing the gold! Singing the gold!" Zhang Ao howled like a pig, and shouted wildly: "Hurry up, withdraw all our troops?"

The golden bells of ding ding ding ding ding , the Zhao army soldiers who were fighting hard but couldn't advance step by step as if they heard the sound of nature , quickly threw down the flight ladder and ran back to their original formation , and then under Zhang Ao's command , the Zhao army soldiers who had participated in the battle had already run behind the formation and lined up to retreat to the way they came . Uncle Zhou saw it at the middle and high ground of the Han army camp , and immediately laughed out loud , "I'm not stupid yet , I finally discovered the intention of this general. Unfortunately , it's too late . If you find that Xia Shuo is gone , you will retreat , but you have hope of saving more than half of the troops from the Mianman River , and you will retreat at this time , it's too late ."

After laughing, Uncle Zhou didn't even blink his eyelids, and immediately ordered the 20,000 Han troops who had not participated in the war to gather, carry dry food, drinking water and torches, and then the Zhao army had just retreated five or six miles away. Uncle Zhou immediately ordered the Han soldiers to beat the war drums, personally led the army out of the camp, gathered a little in front of the camp, and then immediately advanced eastward to launch a pursuit.

The situation suddenly reversed. The exhausted Zhao army had just retreated near the ferry. Before they could climb the floating bridge to cross the river to retreat, the 20,000 Han troops who had been preparing for a long time had already chased them near. They quickly arranged a formation in the open west of the ferry, waiting for the Zhao army to make the next move. Zhang Ao, Guan Gao and Uncle Tian and others were all panicked, knowing that once they began to retreat and their army was shaken, the Han army would definitely take advantage of the momentum to launch a strong attack and severely damage their crossing army. They had no choice but to gather together in a hurry and discuss how to deal with the current dangerous situation.

"I can only take a bet and fight back with all my might, kill the thieves first, and then cross the river and return to the camp!"

This is also the only way for the Zhao army to protect its main force. With no choice, the Zhao army, which was also arranged in formation, could only fly together with both wings, relying on its current military advantage to attack and rush forward to both wings of the Han army. The Han army soldiers held their positions under the command of Zhou Shu, and used long shields to cover the crossbows to attack the Zhao army's rushing forward. They shot the Zhao army soldiers who rushed over with their teeth and screamed constantly. Then they fought with the Zhao army in close combat, and fought with the Zhao army soldiers so hard that they were full of flesh and blood. The sky and the earth were dark.

At this time, the physical strength of the Han army gradually showed its strength. With the ability to rest and maintain sufficient physical strength in the camp, all the Han army soldiers were brave, strong, and fiercely waved various weapons to kill the Zhao army to death, retreating, and repelling several powerful attacks of the Zhao army. Even if the Zhao army soldiers did not participate in the attack camp, they stood for half of the day in spring and stood for half of the day, and their physical strength was inevitably affected, and their offensive was far less fierce than usual. No matter how the officers supervised the army urged and forced them, they could not shake the Han army's formation.

What's worse is that the Zhao army became more and more anxious as they fought. They knew that if they could not repel the Han army, the army would definitely suffer a crushing defeat, and their morale and confidence were seriously insufficient. The Han army was completely opposite. Everyone knew that as long as they could survive the Zhao army's death struggle and forced the Zhao army to cross the river, it would be difficult for the self-arms to not fight a big victory. The generals and soldiers were full of confidence, and naturally they became more brave and fierce in the fight, without giving the Zhao army a chance to disrupt the army's army.

The latitude problem was that just when the You hour was approaching, the sun in Jingxing had already begun to set. Seeing that there was not much time left for the self-army, the Zhao army, who had not even carried the torches, were inevitably panicked. At a loss, Zhang Ao gritted his teeth and made a decision, and simply activated the central army to launch an attack, rushing to the Han army's positions on three sides, and jumped over the wall to fight the Han army's soldiers to death.

It was still at this time that the calm Uncle Zhou asked the Han army to use the original grenade to suppress the Zhao army's last attempt. After the original grenade exploded one after another in the Zhao army crowd, the local army of Zhao, who had not seen gunpowder weapons, was of course screaming and panic, and the morale fell straight to the bottom of the valley. The front and the two wings quickly retreated one after another. Seeing that the time was ripe, Uncle Zhou no longer hesitated and immediately ordered the flag formation to beat the general attack drum and launch a full-scale counterattack, expelled the defeated Zhao army into free vanguards, and in turn attacked the Zhao army's positions.

At the critical moment, another hidden danger within the Zhao army suddenly broke out. The surrendered Zhao army soldiers who were previously dismissed by the Han army were discriminated against and excluded because of their dissatisfaction. Many people immediately shouted and fled, unwilling to continue to work for Zhang Ao anymore. The number was quite large, which made the Zhao army's grassroots generals and the supervisors team unable to restrain them. Influenced by them, the Zhao army soldiers were completely dissatisfied. Countless people began to look around to find a way to escape. Some soldiers who were extremely timid simply fled to the floating bridge and climbed over the river first to escape.

Under such circumstances, if the Han army could not rush into the Zhao army's array, then all the Han army should ask Xiang Kang to invent tofu in advance and let them commit suicide by hitting the tofu! With just one charge, the Han army broke down the wings of the Zhao army's position. Countless Zhao soldiers pulled their feet to escape, rushing to the floating bridge one after another. Among them, there were also many middle-level generals. Therefore, the Zhao army's floating bridge was soon filled with people and trampling on each other.

The Zhao army's central position barely supported for a while, but when the only three hundred heavy-armored Han soldiers under Uncle Zhou rushed into the enemy's formation and rushed into the Zhao army like human-shaped tanks, they immediately became the last straw that broke the camel's back. Countless Zhao soldiers who were panicking to the extreme screamed at the monsters, threw down their weapons and flags and fled in a panic. The number was as large as an ant colony, causing the Zhao army's central position to collapse instantly and completely collapsed.

We must praise Major General Zhang Ao for his courage. Even though the defeat had been decided, Zhang Ao was still trying to restrain his soldiers and attempting to organize a team behind the palace. However, the Zhao army soldiers who were extremely panicked did not want to listen to his orders anymore. They shouted and ran away faster than the other. Guan Gao also quickly grabbed Zhang Ao, shouting and shouting with red eyes: "Major General, it's useless, run away!"

After sighing, Zhang Ao could only turn around and leave with his personal soldiers, and rushed to the floating bridge ferry that was already crowded with people. In order to escape from the Mianman River as soon as possible, Zhang Ao also asked his personal soldiers to kill and drive out his own defeated soldiers who were blocking the road. At the same time, in order to be able to go up the bridge, the soldiers of the Zhao army had already begun to kill each other. In order to seize a position where they could go up the bridge, they fought with their brothers and companions. The battle was even more fierce and cruel than when they fought with the Han army. The soldiers of the Zhao army were also killed and injured, falling into countless rivers. The river surface was densely filled with Zhao army soldiers and dead bodies everywhere.

Unable to withstand the trampling of the crowd, coupled with the destruction of heavy armored soldiers of the Han army, the Zhao army's floating bridge collapsed one after another into the water. The soldiers on the bridge screamed in groups of water. In addition, countless Zhao soldiers rushed into the river and swam across the river to escape. The Mianman Water was even more like ant. The Zhao army soldiers who were struggling and calling for help could be seen everywhere, and then the bodies were stacked, so that Mianman Water, which had a large amount of water, almost did not flow.

The matter was not over. When it was dark, the Han soldiers who had torpedoed stepped on the bodies of the Zhao soldiers and continued to chase after him. As a result, the five thousand Zhao troops who were under Jingxing City had rushed to the rear to respond. However, the Han army in Jingxing City took advantage of the situation and attacked each other, and soon defeated the Zhao army on the east bank. The Zhao army collapsed completely and fled to the self-army camp at the intersection of the mountain road. The Han army pursued them firmly, and drove out the defeated Zhao army and rushed into the Zhao army camp. The Zhao army was defeated together, and they could only give up the camp and flee into the mountain road. There were countless dead and countless surrenders.

In this battle, the Han army killed more than 18,000 people at the cost of less than 3,000 casualties, and captured more than 13,000 prisoners, and achieved a complete victory. The Zhao army fell into the water and died, and the people died in a hurry were also uncountable. More than 48,000 Zhao army, but only more than 5,000 people escaped from the mountainous area by chance. What made the Zhao army even more frightened and panicked was that their commander Zhang Ao was still missing on the battlefield. I don’t know if he died in the chaos, fell into the river, drowned or fell into the mountain stream, and fell to death?

Zhang Ao was not dead. When it was dawn, just as the Han army soldiers were still cleaning the battlefield, under the surveillance of a group of Han army soldiers, several Zhao soldiers suddenly dragged a young Zhao army general wearing bronze armor to Uncle Zhou. While saluting Uncle Zhou happily, they couldn't wait to shout: "General, we have captured Zhang Ao for you. This is Zhang Ao, the son of Zhang Er, the thief Zhang Er."

After looking at Zhang Ao, who was covered in blood and resentful eyes, he carefully looked at the Zhang Ao seal presented by the surrendered soldiers of the Zhao army with both hands, and confirmed that the unlucky guy was indeed Zhang Ao, the precious son of Zhang Er. Uncle Zhou smiled at the surrendered soldiers of the Zhao army and said, "Thank you for your hard work, go down and rest, and prepare to receive a heavy reward."

"General, how much reward does it have?" A surrendered soldier from Zhao army said timidly: "Last time, when you dismissed us, you said that you captured the hundred-headed leader of the Zhao traitor army, rewarded thousands of gold, killed thousands of gold, and rewarded thousands of gold. This is the son of Zhang Er, the traitor of Zhao State, who rewarded…?"

"Reward ten thousand golds!" Uncle Zhou replied casually, and asked with a smile: "Are you satisfied?"

The surrendered soldiers of the Zhao army were not only satisfied, but also jumped up in excitement, hugged each other tightly, and shouted in a loud voice: "I've made a fortune! We've made a fortune-telling-!"
Chapter completed!