It does take some time to build a large pontoon bridge, but building a small pontoon bridge can be completed in a matter of hours.

At the same time as the three cavalry battalions launched the attack, in the upper reaches of the Wuma River, the operation of building pontoon bridges was already quietly underway, and a cavalry team of 1,000 people had already waited on the bank, and only when the pontoon bridge was completed, they could immediately cross the river and launch a pursuit of the remnants of Sima Jun.

Although the taste of waiting is not pleasant, but the Bingzhou army is relaxed, because the news from the front confirms that although a remnant of the Sima army was lucky to cross the Wuma River, but lost a large number of war horses, at this moment their escape, can only be carried out on foot, as long as the Bingzhou cavalry crosses the river and catches up with them, it is just a matter of time.

The sappers of the state army were already trying their best to catch up with the schedule, they sweated like rain, and tried their best to build the pontoon bridge, and finally shortened the normal time by nearly half an hour, and the pontoon bridge was successfully built.

After the pontoon bridge was completed, the thousand-man cavalry rushed through and quickly reached the west bank of the Wuma River, and followed the river all the way to the south, launching a pursuit of the fleeing Sima army.

Don't look at the Sima army walked a few hours in advance, but the marching speed of the infantry cannot be compared with the cavalry at all, not to mention that the Sima army that has just completed the crossing of the river is sleepy and tired, and its physical strength has been seriously overdrawn.

Sima Zhao is worried at the moment, at this rate, he will come to the Year of the Monkey and the Moon of the Monkey! If there is no chasing soldier behind him, then Sima Zhao doesn't need to worry, but the cavalry of the Bingzhou army is behind him, and he may catch up at any time.

Sima Zhao rode on his horse, shouted loudly, and ordered the soldiers to speed up their pace, and when they encountered those who were sluggish and abrasive, Sima Zhao unceremoniously whipped the horsewhip and beat him with his head and face.

In fact, you can't blame these soldiers for not using their strength, it's really that they are sleepy and weak and can't support, and everyone knows that if they walk faster, they may have a chance to escape, and if they walk slowly, they will probably lose their lives, but at this moment, their legs are like lead, and they can't take a step if they want to.

Many of the soldiers fell to the ground as they walked, never to get up again.

Sima Zhao looked at the back worriedly, and suddenly saw the dust and smoke flying in the distance, and couldn't help but be shocked, the stirring dust and smoke was no stranger to him, it was the signal that the cavalry was chasing and coming, although the scale of the dust and smoke was not too large, and the number of cavalry in the state should not be too much, but with the current situation of the Sima army, the cavalry of the governor did not need too much, and it was enough to kill them without leaving a piece of armor.

Now the cavalry that Sima Jun can muster is only more than 300 cavalry, and the rest of the more than 10,000 people are on foot, and at the speed of infantry, they can't escape the pursuit of the Bingzhou cavalry.

Sima Zhao gritted his teeth, discussed with Hu Fen and others, and decided to separate the infantry and cavalry, leaving more than 10,000 people behind, and the three hundred cavalry evacuated first, so as to ensure that at least the three hundred people could break through smoothly.

In fact, none of them knows that after leaving 10,000 infantry to break off, it can only be death and no life, but if they don't give up more than 10,000 people, none of the 300 cavalry can be spared, so at the moment of life and death, they should give up.

Now the most difficult thing is how to settle Sima Yi, Sima Yi is seriously injured, and before that, the soldiers could only take turns carrying stretchers, and the speed of movement could barely keep up with the large army.

But now that Sima Zhao is ready to break through on a light horse, then Sima Yi must be allowed to ride a horse, and everyone else can give up, but Sima Yi must not be left behind.

But now Sima Yi's body is so weak that he can't sit up, let alone ride a horse, riding on a horse, maybe he will fall off immediately, Sima Zhao is so anxious that he can't sit up, what can he do.

Or Zhong Hui thought of a way, selected the best war horse, and the best rider, and then fixed the saddle stirrup captured from the state army to the back of the horse, let the rider sit in front of the saddle, helped Sima Yi to the saddle, and tied Sima Yi and the rider in front of him with a few strips of cloth, and even Sima Yi's feet were tied to the stirrups.

In this way, Sima Yi will not fall off the horse.

Sima Zhao couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, it seems that at a critical time, he still has to count on Cao Liang's things to escape with his life.

These three hundred horsemen are basically the personal soldiers of the military attache above the rank of lieutenant and Sima Yi, and those ordinary soldiers can only watch them go away.

Before leaving, Sima Zhao gave the more than 10,000 infantry a final order, telling them to take up arms and fight to the end with the Bingzhou army.

In fact, this order is a joke, now that the people with heads, faces and status of the Sima army have run away, only those ordinary soldiers with low status are left, let them continue to work for the Sima family, why?

Those soldiers are actually angry to the extreme, and at the critical time, the officials have all run away, and there is no one to command, they are completely scattered, what to fight?

What's more, the 70,000 male cavalry under the command of Sima Yi himself have all suffered a crushing defeat, and now only they are left with the remnants of the defeated generals who have no war horses, no armor and no weapons, how can they be the opponents of the Bingzhou army.

"Let's surrender!" A Sima soldier angrily threw his weapon to the ground and shouted loudly that there was no longer an official to restrain them, and even if they shouted the slogan of surrendering to the enemy, there would be no military law to punish them.

Sima Zhao and the others fled in a hurry to survive, so Sima Bing, who stayed in place and was desperate and helpless, also wanted to save his life, it was impossible to escape, not to mention that they were exhausted, even if they were energetic, two legs could not run on four legs anyway.

So if they want to survive now, it will definitely not work to continue to fight against the state army, and the only way to do this is to surrender, I'm afraid it is their only chance.

When they were fleeing for their lives before, it was not that no one thought about surrendering, but on the battlefield, the war horses were galloping, thousands of horses, and the roar swept in, and they swept everything, whether they were stubborn or intentionally surrendered, they were all swept into the iron hooves and trampled.

So it wasn't that Sima Bing didn't want to surrender, but that there was no chance of surrendering, so they were forced to cross the river to escape.

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