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546 The Great Crisis of Zhang Pujin Crossing the Zhao Army (Second Update)
"What?" Ju Xin's shock was no small matter, and the calm demeanor before could no longer be maintained. He grabbed the messenger's shoulder and asked sharply, "What's going on?"
The messenger stammered and said, "General, a part of the Qin army raided Anmen Pass yesterday, and now the entire Anmen Pass has fallen. At least tens of thousands of Qin troops have crossed the Yellow River from there!"
"Sanmen?" Ju Xin froze as if struck by lightning.
He thought that the main force of the Qin army camped here, so the direction of the Qin army crossing the river must be near here.
In order to seek stability, Ju Xin even deployed a large number of patrol posts within a hundred miles upstream and downstream.
But Ju Xin never imagined that the people of the state of Qin crossed the Yellow River more than 200 miles upstream and conquered the Anmen Pass by surprise!
The gate of the shore is two or three hundred miles away.
Qin's army was clearly on the opposite side of Pujin Ferry, so how did they go to the upper reaches of the Yellow River hundreds of miles away to cross the river, and captured Anmen Pass by surprise?
Ju Xin was so shocked that he just stood there and was stunned.
After a full cup of tea, Ju Xin took a deep breath and forced himself to get rid of endless negative emotions.
At such a time, Ju Xin, as the coach, must be calm and calm, otherwise, it would be impossible to lead the [-] Zhao soldiers under his command out of the predicament.
Yes, dilemma.
With the landing of the Qin army at the bank, Ju Xin and the [-] Zhao soldiers he led are now facing a very serious crisis.
As long as one is not careful, then the troops under Ju Xin's command may be directly made dumplings by the Qin people, and will be wiped out by the Qin people in this Pujin Ferry!
Thinking of this, Ju Xin immediately grabbed the Zhao Jun scout in front of him and shouted, "Tell me quickly, how many of these Qin troops crossed the river?"
The Zhao Jun scout was taken aback by Ju Xin's sudden yelling, and he said after a few breaths: "Return to the general, because the shore gate has fallen when I arrived, so I don't I dared to observe closely, but only took a few glances from a distance. But what is certain is that the number of the Qin army is at least 1, and there are still many ships crossing the river continuously!"
After hearing these words, Ju Xin immediately frowned deeply.
If what the scout said is not wrong, then at least [-], no, [-] Qin troops quietly crossed the Yellow River and occupied Anmenguan, a hundred miles north of Pujindu.
Not good, very bad.
If this Qin army took advantage of the situation and went south after occupying Anmenguan, and together with the main force of the Qin army on the other side of the river, attacked Pujindu's Juxin from left and right, then the [-] Zhao troops at Pujindu would be It's really the turtle in the urn.
As soon as Ju Xin thought of this, he felt a chill coming out of his heart.
Mr. Wu'an, Mr. Wu'an, I didn't expect you to put your main force on the opposite side of Pujindu with great fanfare, but your real intention is to pass the gate!
Miscalculation, too miscalculation!
So Ju Xin hurriedly asked the scout in front of him again: "Can you see clearly the direction of the Qin army's advance?"
But this time, the scouts didn't come up with a satisfactory answer for Ju Xin.
Because this army of the Qin army did not rush to move out after capturing the Anmen Pass, but chose to repair it on the spot, so the scout of the Zhao army naturally had no way of judging the direction of the next advance of the Qin army, and could only hurry. The first time I went back to Pujin Ferry to report the matter to Ju Xin.
Ju Xin waved the scout back, and began to pace back and forth a little uneasy, thinking.
"Based on the time, at this moment, the Qin army should have set off from Anmen Pass, and their marching direction is likely to be Pujin Ferry!"
Thinking of this, Ju Xin could no longer calm down, and immediately summoned all the middle and high-level generals of Zhao Guo's garrison, and announced a fact to these generals very seriously.
"Immediately pass down the order, and the whole army will retreat after an hour!"
As soon as Ju Xin's order was announced, several Zhao Jun generals standing in front of him were immediately stunned.
Okay, why are you going to retreat all of a sudden?
Someone couldn't help asking: "General, why is this?"
"Why?" Ju laughed hard, with a bitter expression on his face: "Because the Anmen Pass has been occupied by the Qin people, if we arrive later, then the whole army may be buried here!"
The generals of Zhao Guo were shocked when they heard the words, no one raised any questions now, and they hurried back to deliver orders to summon their subordinates.
Following this order, the entire Pujindu Camp of Zhao Jun immediately jumped up and down.
You must know that this big camp has been run by Ju Xin for almost two months since the start of the war, and various military supplies have piled up like a mountain, let alone an hour, and even a day may not be able to fully sort it out.
But Ju Xin also knew that the situation was urgent at this moment, and if he didn't retreat, the whole army would be wiped out.
So after thinking about it, Ju Xin felt ruthless, and finally gave another extremely reluctant order.
"Burn, burn everything in the camp, including all the ships at the ferry!"
When saying this order, Ju Xin felt his heart was bleeding.
You must know that there are [-] stones of grain, [-] sets of armor, countless bows and arrows, and hundreds of bed crossbows made by Zhao's craftsmen in these days.
If used properly, Ju Xin can use these things to firmly block the main force of Qin led by Bai Qi on the west bank of the Yellow River.
But what Ju Xin knows better is that if these things are not burned, the Qin army will soon use these materials to continue to attack other places in Hedong County, and continue to kill and wound Zhao Guo soldiers under Ju Xin's command.
The retreat of the [-] troops was not a simple matter. After several hours, it was not until dusk that Ju Xin led the last batch of troops to leave the Pujindu Camp of Zhao State.
Perhaps because of guilt, Ju Xin rejected the proposal of his subordinates to retreat first, but personally led a thousand cavalry to break the rear.
Amidst the sound of horseshoes, the cavalry held torches and shuttled around every corner of the camp.
Countless torches were thrown into the camp, and the raging flames began to ignite, billowing thick smoke straight into the sky, and this scene could be clearly seen even tens of miles away.
The Qin army on the other side of the river obviously also noticed this scene, and soon hundreds of ships started to set off from the west bank and headed for the ferry on the east bank.
Outside the Pujindu camp, Ju Xin sat on the horse, staring blankly at the blazing camp in front of him, clenched his hands into fists, his fingernails almost sank into the flesh.
"Mr. Wu'an, what a Mr. Wu'an!"
Ju Xin knew very well in his heart that this time, he was the one who lost!
The people of Qin broke through the Yellow River in a place that he didn't expect at all, making all the arrangements of Ju Xin come to naught.
"Let's go back to Anyi!" Ju Xin no longer went to see the burning camp, but directly steered his horse towards the east.
Now that the Yellow River defense line has been lost, Ju Xin has no choice but to retreat directly to Anyi, and give up all the large plains west of Anyi to the people of Qin.
But this proud veteran will obviously not just admit defeat.
"Mr. Wu An, this is just the beginning. Let's wait and see. When the reinforcements arrive, I want you to know that my drama Xin Yi is not a person who has made a fool of himself!"
With the sound of hoofbeats, the figures of Ju Xin and his entourage headed towards Anyi in the east under the afterglow of the setting sun.
And a few miles behind Ju Xin, hundreds of soldiers of the Qin Army began to land in the thick smoke, and officially set foot on the land of Hedong County in Zhao State.