Eastern Jin Dynasty: My powerful father

Chapter 300 North and South Fronts
At the top of Yinchuan City, Xie Ai was also observing the Yu army approaching the city.

Although he had already made a move to defend the city, Xie Ai never thought about actually defending the city.

Since the old, weak, women and children were moved to Gaopingchuan, Yinchuan City could accommodate no less than 100,000 cavalrymen.

However, with such a large number of troops gathered in the city, the number of people eating horses and chewing every day must be astronomical. No matter how sufficient the food reserves are, they cannot last for too long.

In fact, Xie Ai's idea was very obvious, which was to defend the city for a period of time, and then go out to fight Fu Jian when the enemy's troops had lost their vigor.

He expected that Fu Jian would not dare to divide his troops. After all, Xie Ai had previously set aside tens of thousands of Xianbei and Xiongnu young men to defend Gaopingchuan.

Fu Jian had fewer troops and could not attack Gaopingchuan, so he had to guard against Baibao Xianbei's march south.

With more divisions, Xie Ai could cooperate with Deng Xia, who was wandering outside, to capture the enemy troops outside the city, and then encircle and suppress the partial divisions.

I believe it is impossible for Fu Jian to make such a low-level mistake.

After all, in the battlefield of Yinchuan, there is not a huge gap in the strength of the two sides. Even in terms of numbers, Liang Jun, the defender, still has an advantage, but the number of elite soldiers is much smaller.

However, although Fu Jian was a Di, spiritually he was an out-and-out Han Chinese.

Of course Fu Jian would not choose to storm the city.

Xue Zan was previously an important adviser to Fu Jianjian, but now the power of the Yu State has been transferred from Fu Jian's line to Fu Xiong's line. Logically speaking, Xue Zan, as Fu Jian's confidant, should have fallen out of favor with Fu Jian.

Fu Jian looked at the people accompanying him and said in a deep voice:
"Do you think there is any way to lure Xie Ai out of Yinchuan?"

"Now that I'm on the expedition in person, don't have any worries. No matter how much you make suggestions, it's up to me to decide whether to adopt them or not.

"I am not an irresponsible person. Even if the plan fails, I will never blame you."

With Fu Jian, an elite Han monarch, all capable Han people were entrusted with important positions after Fu Jian came to power, including Xue Zan, a Han from Taiyuan County.

Returning to the king's tent, Fu Jian lured Xue Zan into the tent alone.

Xue Zan was deeply moved when he heard this.

Yu Jun's camp has been moved to five miles north of Yinchuan. It is divided into three camps, in the shape of a pin, which can be considered to be heavily fortified.

Fu Jian looked at Xue Zan and said pleasantly:

Fu Jian also knew that it would be difficult to force them to come up with a practical solution now, so he had no choice but to withdraw his team and return to the camp.

The generals looked at each other, and no one said a word.

The towering city walls and solid defense in front of them were enough to smooth out the quality gap between the soldiers on both sides.

Xie Ai has such a good reputation, how could it be so easy for him to fall for the bait and be led around by others?

"Xue Qing, this battle is of great importance and there is no room for error. When you served Emperor Jingming (Fu Jian), you were known for your resourcefulness.

But he kept silent before, not because he was worried that Fu Jian would imitate Ran Min and his plan would fail to kill the counselor, but because he really couldn't think of a good way for a while.

Fortunately, Fu Jian didn't have to ask him to give him a solution before he was willing to let him go. He just gave him a few words of condolences.

At the same time, after Huan Xi crossed the Han River, he led Lang Wei and the guardsmen to gallop more than 800 miles in five days, and finally arrived at Hongnong County. Of course, this is still the result of Huan Xi cherishing the army and horses, otherwise with one person and three horses, the time can be further shortened.

To the west of Luoyang, although the Yellow River is long, there are only three places suitable for setting up pontoon bridges. From top to bottom, they are Longmen Ferry, Pujin Ferry, and Fengling Ferry.

Among them, Pujin Ferry, also known as Puban, is now controlled by Liang Guo.

Longmen Ferry is adjacent to Hukou Waterfall, only a few dozen miles away. It is controlled by the State of Yu together with Fengling Ferry downstream.

Fenglingdu, named after Fenghou, a minister of the Yellow Emperor in ancient times, was buried here. It is located at the turning point where the Yellow River flows from north to south to east to west.

Of course, what impressed Huan Xi the most about Fenglingdu was the sentence: "When we first met at Fenglingdu, we missed Yang Guo for the rest of our lives." '

At this time, Fengling Ferry had been occupied by Deng Qiang. Thirty thousand elite Liang troops crossed the Yellow River via five pontoon bridges. The Yu army on the other side collapsed at the first touch. The troops stationed in Hongnong County instead of Deng Qiang were brought by Zhou Chu. Thirty thousand state and county soldiers.

Huan Xi and his followers led their horses across the river, and Quan Yi was already following behind him.

After stepping off the pontoon bridge and onto the land east of the river, Huan Xi looked back at Quan Yi:
"Lü Polou, the governor of Hedong in the Yu Kingdom, is from the same hometown as Ziliang. How much does Ziliang know about this person?"

Quan Yi shook his head and said:
"Lü Polou followed Fu Hong and moved to Guandong in his early years. Over the years, he has been stationed in Hedong County. His deeds are not widely spread. I don't dare to say anything about his talents."

As he said that, Quan Yi seemed to remember something and reminded:
"However, I heard that Lu Guang, the eldest son of Lu Polou, has double pupils. This is a strange phenomenon. This son is now under his father's command, so Mr. Liang must be on guard against it."

Huan Xi nodded slightly when he heard this. Of course he would not take Lu Polou and his son lightly.

He also didn't know much about Lu Po Lou. He only knew that Fang Xuanling spoke highly of Lu Po Lou in "Book of Jin": Wang Meng, Lu Po Lou, Qiang Wang, Liang Pinglao, etc. were all talented as Wang Zuo.

In Fang Xuanling's words, Wang Zuozhicai seemed to have lost some value.

There are very few records about Lu Po Lou in the history books. They only say that he recommended Wang Meng to Fu Jian. This shows that Lu Po Lou at least has a reputation for knowing people.

Compared with Lu Polou, Huan Xi understood Lu Guang more thoroughly than Quan Yi said.

As a modern person, Huan Xi certainly knew that the so-called double pupils were just a manifestation of early cataracts, but the opponent was, after all, a famous general who led troops through the Western Regions in the original time and space, and was also the founding monarch of Houliang.

Even if Quan Yi didn't remind him, Huan Xi wouldn't be able to take such a person lightly, even if Lu Guang is only twenty-one years old now.

In the past, many opponents suffered big losses because they underestimated Huan Xi's age. How could Huan Xi make the same mistake?

Deng Qiang, who came to greet Huan Xi, suddenly said:
"I have also heard about Lu Guang. To be honest with Liang Gong and Quan Zhongshu, I want to see the power of this boy with double pupils."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yang An couldn't help but said:
"You can't kill a chicken with a bull's knife. If you meet Lu Guang, please ask Duke Liang to allow the last general to go to battle! The last general will kill the general and seize the flag for Duke Liang."

When Shi Yue and others heard this, they were also unwilling to be left behind and made bold statements one after another.

When Huan Xi saw this, he smiled and said:
"You must not take it lightly. Today's words are categorical. If you lose to a child with double pupils, I'm afraid you will be laughed at."

He kept saying that he was a child, but when Huan Xi said this, he completely forgot that he was only twenty-six years old and was only born five years earlier than Lu Guang.

After saying that, Huan Xi looked in the direction of Hedong County City. He thought that Lu Polou and his son should have received the news that they had crossed the river by now.

(End of this chapter)