When Zhang Ji's army retreated, Yang Rui's troops got the opportunity to clean up the battlefield before Tongguan. After confirming that Zhang Ji's troops retreated from near Tongguan, Yang Rui ordered the soldiers of his troops to clear the battlefield, and obtained a total of more than 7,000 copies of various 5th-level skill books.

Most of them are skill books related to infantry soldiers, but there are also hundreds of skill books for cavalry, which is beyond Yang Rui's expectations.

The actual situation is unknown. After Zhang Ji's army retreated, Yang Rui, in addition to sending soldiers to clean up the battlefield, also continued to send explorers to investigate the upstream and downstream of the Yellow River and various tributaries.

Especially in the Yellow River section below Tongguan, Yang Rui sent a large number of small survey ships to investigate the movements of Zhang Ji's army at any time.

The surveying ship quickly gave back the information. After Zhang Ji's subordinates evacuated from Tongguan, they kept heading towards Lingbao County, without even a pause in the middle.

Yang Rui did not understand the intention of Zhang Ji's army for a while, but he felt that he had missed an opportunity to annihilate the enemy. He was very impressed by Zhang Ji's army's ability to discover clues in time and evacuate Tongguan.

There must be people with vision in Zhang Ji's army, otherwise they would not have withdrawn from Tongguan under absolute "advantage". At least from the surface power comparison between the offense and defense, Zhang Ji's army has a clear advantage.

Yang Rui's defenders have never exposed their number. During the process of Zhang Ji's research, Yang Rui's defenders have always maintained a certain scale and have not increased the number of soldiers directly participating in the war. Zhang Ji's army should not see what it is.

The problem is that there may be people in Zhang Ji's army who can see through the current situation. Yang Rui thought of Jia Xu who was probably by Zhang Ji's side. The actual situation was not what Yang Rui imagined.

At present, Jia Xu is indeed under Zhang Ji's subordinates, but at this time Zhang Ji went to Chang'an, Jia Xu took the initiative to stay in Yongzhou area east of Tongguan and did not come with the army.

As for Jia Xu's current specific situation, it is unknown.

The actions of Zhang Ji's army looked like they were returning east, so Yang Rui felt that this time blocking Zhang Ji's advance westward might have changed the process of participating in the game of the little emperor Liu Xie's return to Luoyang.

However, based on the news sent back by the ship surveying day after that, it proved that Yang Rui's consideration was unnecessary. After Zhang Ji's army retreated to Lingbao County, they soon began to gather various nearby ships and prepare to cross the Yellow River to Ruicheng on the other side.

If Yang Rui wants to stop him at this time, he just needs to mobilize the naval army leaders to stop him. With the strength of Yang Rui's various large ships and scaled water soldiers, it is not difficult to stop Zhang Ji's subordinates from crossing the river.

If the timing is properly grasped, it would not be possible to cause a lot of losses to Zhang Ji's subordinates. Yang Rui had enough confidence in this regard.

However, after Yang Rui's repeated consideration, he did not send a navy army to stop Zhang Ji's troops from crossing the river. Zhang Ji's troops should have a specific historical mission to go to Chang'an City, and the same should be true in the game.

Yang Rui wanted to temporarily protect the strength of Zhang Ji's tribe to avoid too many changes in the game process, so he temporarily let go of Zhang Ji's tribe crossing the river and kept paying attention to the next actions of Zhang Ji's tribe.

Ruicheng is actually not very far from Tongguan. After Zhang Ji's subordinates crossed the Yellow River, it was actually very difficult to follow Yang Rui's boat. After all, Zhang Ji's subordinates could not stay near the bank of the Yellow River all the time.

Yang Rui was still a little confused. After crossing the Yellow River, Zhang Ji's subordinates still could not cross Tongguan and reach the vicinity of Chang'an City. Yang Rui was somewhat unable to see through Zhang Ji's intentions, and at the same time stepped up the investigation of various tributaries of the nearby Yellow River.

With the movements of Zhang Ji's army, if it were not for trying to cross several Yellow Rivers and rugged terrain in Yongzhou, its previous movements would be meaningless.

Facts proved that Yang Rui's speculation was relatively accurate. Just two game days after Zhang Ji's army crossed the Yellow River, Yang Rui's navy army discovered the figure of Zhang Ji's army near Pubanjin.

Before the traces of Zhang Ji's army were found, Yang Rui was not aware of the existence of Pubanjin. The almost abandoned ferry crossing is located between the surrounding mountains and terrain, which is generally unfamiliar to ordinary people.

After discovering the traces of Zhang Ji's army, Yang Rui's naval army's mission, on the one hand, inquired about the situation of Pubanjin Ferry from the surrounding NPC, and on the other hand, they also conducted a comprehensive on-site investigation of Pubanjin Ferry.

Through understanding and exploring Yang Rui's troops, it was learned that Pubanjin, as an ancient ferry, has undergone some changes in the terrain with the surrounding environment, but it can still be used as a ferry.

The news was soon passed to Yang Rui. After discovering the whereabouts of Zhang Ji's army, Yang Rui and Taishi Ci commanded the naval army and rushed towards Pubanjin, leaving Zhang Ning, Han Dai, Ding Yao and tens of thousands of iron guards to defend Tongguan.

When further information came from Pubanjin, Yang Rui had reached halfway. Finally, when Yang Rui arrived at Pubanjin, Zhang Ji's army had already collected a lot of ships nearby and started crossing the river.

Yang Rui also obtained the news first and stopped the naval army troops in advance at a location away from the Pubanjin Ferry, and took a small visiting boat with Taishici to investigate near Pubanjin.

This time, Yang Rui actually didn't want to do it either, and the purpose was also due to the role Zhang Ji played in the game process.

Since Zhang Ji's search ships were limited, the number of soldiers on each ferry was very limited. Even if Yang Rui's navy attacked, he could only attack one of them.

Once the Yang Rui navy emerges and launches an attack, Zhang Ji's army will not be so stupid that they still insist on crossing the river. The result of the attack can only cause very limited losses. At most, it can divide Zhang Ji's army on both sides of the Pubanjin Ferry.

In this way, Yang Rui could only get a limited plot point. With the scale of Zhang Ji's army, Yang Rui could not launch a scaled and water-armored pawns to go ashore to fight the divided Zhang Ji army.

It is precisely because of this that Yang Rui chose to watch and did not interfere with Zhang Ji's army's crossing the river.

This also created a fighter opportunity for Yang Rui. When most of Zhang Ji's troops crossed the river from Pubanjin, Yang Rui found that all his food and grass were placed at the end for transportation!

At present, the food and grass of Yang Rui's troops were in short supply. In this situation, Yang Rui would certainly not watch the wall anymore. Taking advantage of the inability of Zhang Ji's army to take care of and all the food and grass were loaded on the ship, Yang Rui launched an attack on the ship that transported the food and grass at Zhang Ji.

"Swoosh!swoosh!swoosh..."

“…”

The soldiers of Zhang Ji who escorted food and grass were originally very limited, let alone on the river surface.
Chapter completed!