Time always flies, and the time is approaching, and night is gradually falling.

The stratus clouds that were covered in a huge amount of rain finally dispersed, so that at this time, there was still a trace of afterglow at the westernmost end of the dome. But the moonlight and starlight on the other side of the sky were dim, so that the plain forests on the horizon seemed to merge with the dark night sky. The fog on the surface of the river became thicker and thicker, and only the sound of the rushing water continued to pour into the ears from far and near, and from near to far, and the cycle was endless.

The battlefield has been almost cleaned, the ordnance that can be reused has been collected, and the captured war horses have been unified in one place. Some soldiers set up tents on the drier heights and lit blazing bonfires, the flames of which lit up the battlefield below the embankment and on the corpses that had not been collected in time, drawing a somewhat hideous and gloomy line.

The outline of the resolute face of Pingbei General Lu Yao is also constantly changing under the outline of the firelight. The young commander-in-chief stood motionless on the embankment with his hands on his shoulders.

Relying on Cao Wei's successful persuasion, the first section of the Jin army successfully recovered the two places of Baima Base and Baima County, and temporarily imprisoned the thieves who were originally guarding these two places, leaving them to be disposed of the next day. But Lu Yao did not rush to station, but continued to stay on the tall river embankment, guarding the important crossing with many soldiers.

Of course, there are special personnel to do all kinds of guarding, guarding and other specific work, at this time, Lu Yao just looked at the specially vacated space a little farther away. In the open space, the soldiers who were about to set off for the night attack on Wating had already assembled. Mai Zeming was walking back and forth in the queue, checking the equipment of the soldiers, and at the same time cheering everyone up and making the final mobilization before the departure.

This person was indeed an experienced veteran, and he was not in a hurry to set off as a whole after receiving the military order. He first reorganized his troops, organized a small group of light cavalry using captured horses, and then visited a number of captured prisoners, inquired in detail about the existing garrison in Wating, and finally communicated with his guide to determine the best route for a covert march at night. In this way, the departure time was delayed a little, but Mai Zeming had already explained to Lu Yao that he was setting off at this moment, just arriving at Wating in the early morning of the next day, which was the time when the defenders were the most lax and tired.

The task of Mai Zeming's subordinates was to capture the tile pavilion at night and hold on to it. This task can be said to be both simple and difficult.

The simple thing is to seize the tile pavilion itself. Because since the enemy general Wang Yan was ambushed, the main forces under his command quickly collapsed, and the Wating defenders had nothing to fear.

Although the troops subordinate to Wang Yan are all elite troops that have been entangled in the Central Plains for many years, they are unstoppable when they have the upper hand; But in any case, a thief is a thief. Once the shape was unfavorable, except for a small number of these cavalry who were killed by the Jin army on the battlefield, most of them fled with their armor unarmoured, and their rout was so fast that the foot soldiers of the Youzhou army could not catch up with them even if they had eight legs, and they could only watch them disappear into the woodland in the distance. This kind of rout of thieves can be used to rob homes and houses, and they can't continue to fight at all, and after the news of the lord's death is transmitted back to Wating, the situation of the thieves left behind can also be imagined. Although Mai Zeming is not known for his martial arts, as a general of the Youzhou army, he has enough troops to expel these miscellaneous fish and take the important land of Wating.

The difficulty lies in how to deal with the inevitable enemy counterattack after the capture of Wating.

This time, the Xiongnu Han Kingdom and the Shile King Mi Thief Kou joined forces to attack Jin, mobilizing more than 200,000 troops, and the sound shook the heavens and the earth. Not to mention that the Xiongnu and Han soldiers are approaching Luoyang, and their momentum is unstoppable; In the Central Plains, Shi Le and Wang Mi, the two dogs that were once lost, are now incarnated into lions and tigers, destroying everywhere they go. The hundreds of thousands of powerful troops in the world of the king of the East China Sea have been damaged in an instant, and the anointed lands of Yanzhou and Yuzhou with Xuchang as the core have all fallen into the hands of thieves, and the living beings have been poisoned.

It was only not so long ago that they stopped attacking from all sides. And this made the king of the East China Sea in the east and the guards of the Sizhou Pass in the west all breathe a sigh of relief; It is said that more members of the Luoyang court have bullet crowns to celebrate, thinking that the thieves are not strong and will not be able to escape after all. The famous Situ Wang Yan was accustomed to seizing the opportunity, so he hurriedly sold his favorite ox cart to show his brilliant vision and unruly demeanor.

But of course, Lu Yao knew very well that if the military judgment of that group of high-ranking officials and nobles was even the slightest bit accurate, it would be called hell.

Although Shile is a Qian, he is very sinicized, and he is not comparable to the foreign Qu Shuai who simply uses his own military force as the backbone. What he used to crisscross the Central Plains and move to the prefectures and counties was actually the one used by thieves for generations: everywhere he went, he would plunder on a large scale, completely destroy the local cities and forts, and then entrap the displaced people who had lost their livelihoods and expand their force. According to intelligence, in February and March of this year alone, Shile broke through more than 50 dock walls, and then abandoned all the old and weak, and selected 50,000 young and middle-aged men as sergeants. Obviously, the thieves are like a plague of locusts, once they rise, they will only expand violently, and there is no question of any lack of strength. The reason why they stopped their military operations must be to concentrate all their efforts to meet the Youji coalition forces moving south.

It's not the first time that Lu Yao and Shi Le have fought each other, the previous two encounters in Jinyang and Yecheng were all thrilling, Lu Yao narrowly escaped his life, and Shi Le's side also suffered a lot of losses. Lu Yao believed that Shi Le must see himself as a great enemy, just as he regarded Shi Le as a great enemy.

After a long time, the third meeting is about to begin. Lu Yao rose rapidly, and his command not only led the Youzhou Iron Cavalry, but also had the assistance of the people of Jizhou; Shi Le is no longer the unappreciated handsome man of the Xiongnu Han Kingdom. He has gathered half of the manpower and material resources of the Central Plains, and has become a giant who is enough to pry the Great Jin Dynasty. Therefore, this confrontation will not be a small episode of the battle as usual, but an unprecedented and decisive battle. Not to mention Luoyang, in this land of the Central Plains, whether it is the Luoyang court, the shogunate of the king of the East China Sea, Lu Yao's allies in Jizhou, or Wang Mi, the little partner of the Xiongnu Han State and Shile...... are all supporting roles, and the only ones who can decide the future direction are Lu Yao and Shi Le.

From that point of view, today's victory at Braidazin is not something to be too happy about. Although the Youzhou Army broke through the line of the Yellow River, the headquarters of Shile not only did not suffer any damage, but took advantage of this battle to ask for directions, and tested the combat effectiveness and direction of the Youzhou Army. Perhaps, this victory was simply a deliberate connivance of Schle. He was anxious to attack Luoyang with the Huns, so he was impatient with the situation of confronting the Jin army across the river. And Lu Yao's move to move his army south just gave Shi Le a chance to settle the battle.

In front of this huge chess board covering the entire Central Plains, Lu Yao and Shi Le are like two big players who are sitting in a daze playing against each other, Lu Yao tentatively threw the first son, although Shi Le has not yet responded, in fact, both sides have calculated the chess path, and they have reached a few or even a dozen moves.

Thinking of this, Lu Yao exhaled deeply. As his status grew, he commanded more and more troops, and the scale of his operations became more and more grand. He knew that there were almost no tricks to play in this kind of confrontation, and their respective strengths had been put on the bright side, and the flaws and weaknesses were also on the bright side.