Rock City is a very special city on the border of Qin, but it is also a very important city. Rock City is backed by the Qilian Mountains, to the north is the grassland desert, to the south is the hinterland of Qin, to the west is the western border of Qin, and to the east is the plains and continuous mountains and rivers. It is precisely for this reason that this no-man's land between Rock City and Blackwater City, which is not far from it, has become the first choice for the Huns to attack Qin.

The Qin army camp stationed in the middle of Yancheng and Heishui City is one hundred and eighty miles away from Yancheng and one hundred and twenty miles away from Heishui City, and there are less than 3,000 Qin troops stationed all year round, and Heishui City is responsible for the daily supply of soldiers and food and grass. And these 3,000 people are responsible for the security of the 300-mile border between the two cities.

In the barracks, a veteran leaned against a wooden building made of pine wood, preaching to a younger soldier who had just been sent from Blackwater City. said to be young, in fact, there are also in their thirties, compared to the veterans who are nearly half a hundred years old, they are young.

"Well, I say, how did you get here?" the old soldier licked his shriveled lips with his tongue, and with one hand he took a piece of flour from his improvised armor and put it in his mouth.

The new soldier, looking at the yellow earth outside the barracks, said in a hoarse voice: "I beat someone in the street, and my captain thought I had caused him trouble, and then I was sent here. ”

"Hit someone?" The veteran didn't believe in the newcomer's statement, it was not a common thing for a soldier to beat people in which city, and such a trivial matter would send him to this place of suffering and sin?

The veteran chewed the dry bread in his mouth and continued to ask, "Who did you beat? Who would think of throwing you here for such a trivial matter?"

The recruit sighed, and then said slowly: "I also heard from the person who sent me here after I arrived here, I beat our captain's brother-in-law, I saw him bully the market, and then I taught him a lesson, as if he had broken his arm." ”

After the veteran listened, he looked at the recruit in front of him with some cloudy eyes, no longer with the contempt he had before, but something inexplicable. "So that's the case, no wonder, offended his top boss. It's good to come here, there are more than 2,000 of us here, I don't dare to say that everyone here is a good person, but all of them who can come here are assigned here because of various things. Therefore, as long as you don't kill someone here, it's not a crime, but don't take it too seriously, because the people here are your brothers in life and death in the future. ”

The recruit nodded, he was thinking about his wife and children, hoping that they didn't know that they were here, although the military salary here was a little less, but he also knew that there were also advantages in this military camp, that is, he would go to the land of the Huns from time to time to loot some to meet the military salary of more than 2,000 people here, speaking of which, the military salary here is still more than that in Blackwater City.

The veteran was leaning against the wooden wall and nibbling on the bread in his hand, and there were only two of them on the wall in this direction, because this was the direction of the Qin State, so the garrison guard of this military camp only sent the two of them over.

The recruit looked into the distance, and he noticed that there was billowing yellow smoke rising in the distance, and it looked like it should be a team of horses. However, looking at the billowing yellow smoke rising, there should be a lot of people in this horse team.

"Old horse, you see, it seems that a team of horses is rushing over. The recruit patted the veteran named Lao Ma on the shoulder.

The old horse turned around and looked into the distance, he didn't hear the general say that other Qin troops were coming today.

The old horse looked at the team of horses coming in his direction for nearly half an hour, and he felt that something was not quite right. He said to the recruits: "Go and report to the general, so that the general is ready for battle!"

After listening to this, the recruit immediately prepared to go down the stairs to report to the general of the barracks, and before he could completely descend from the stairs, he heard a "whoosh", and then the sound of arrows inserting into the human body, he looked back, and the old soldier's body was carried down from the wooden wall by the force of the arrows, and then swept past him, and fell to the ground fiercely, and in his mouth, the last mouthful of bread mixed with blood foam spit out of his mouth.

"The enemy is attacking, the Huns are coming!" shouted the recruit.

After he finished shouting, there was silence in the barracks for a moment, and then suddenly it was like an explosion, and almost everyone rushed out of the camp, then picked up their weapons and rushed towards the wooden walls on all sides. 120

"Where's the enemy?" said a muscular man in armor, carrying a copper-ringed machete on his arm, which was as thick as a woman's thigh. He stood at the door of his tent and shouted.

The recruit said loudly: "General, the enemy is in this direction, most of them are cavalry, we should be able to hold it." ”

The general saw him, and then said in a loud voice: "Gather the archers, and give me to the south wall to defend against the enemy." ”

The archers, with bows and arrows in their hands and quivers on their backs, quickly assembled, and then methodically climbed the wall to the south of the barracks.

By this time, the Huns' cavalry had already reached the outside of the barracks to the south. As the recruits said, they were all cavalry, and for attacking a military camp with 3,000 people, they went up to give the Qin people their military exploits in vain.

Inside the barracks, the general stood on the south wall and looked at the menacing Huns outside, he didn't know why the Huns came in the direction of the interior of Qin. However, he then thought that yesterday during the day, a Hun cavalry of nearly 1,000 people passed through his defensive line, although he received the news of his soldiers, but there were only a few horses in their barracks to transmit information and haul grain and grass, and there were no horses available at all. So he just passed the news to the garrison of Blackwater City, and then until now he didn't find the news of the reappearance of yesterday's Hun horse team, it was obvious that the number of these Huns who came today was much more than yesterday's team, almost the same number as his own men.

He asked his archers not to release their arrows first, these Huns stopped at the place outside the barracks half an arrow and did not attack, he did not know what these people were fighting. In line with the principle that the enemy does not move, we will not move, he decided to observe the enemy's movements first.

The two sides were still for half a pillar of incense, and suddenly in the three directions of the barracks, north, west and east, an arrow rose into the air, and a piercing sound exploded over the barracks.

"What's going on?" the general asked aloud, it was obvious that it wasn't their arrow.

"Report, General, there are Huns in the south. ”

"Report, General, there is a brigade of Huns in the north. ”

The report from the west was the latest, and the result was the same, and the traces of the Huns were found. The general now understood why the Huns on this side didn't attack, they were waiting for someone to surround their military camp.

The Huns surrounded the barracks from all sides, and it was impossible to go out and ask for reinforcements at this time. The general instructed his cronies around him: "Go, all the wolf smoke in the barracks is lit, and report the enemy situation here to Blackwater City and Iwajo." ”

The cronies looked at the sky, and he said, "General, it's an east wind blowing at this time, and Iwajo may not see our wolf smoke warning." ”

"Don't worry about these for now, Rock City is where General Meng is stationed, where heavy troops are gathered, and we have to be released if we can't see it. Notify the garrison support of Blackwater City first, and tell everyone to guard this barracks for me!"

"Yes. The cronies understood the importance of the matter, turned and walked down the stairs.

The general waved the machete in his hand vigorously, this knife has followed him for more than ten years, and today he can finally kill freely. "Brothers, reinforcements will arrive soon, we must guard our barracks, people are in the barracks!"

"People are in the camp!" Not only the soldiers on the south wall, but also the soldiers on the wall in the other three directions also shouted this slogan, and everyone looked at the Huns who were slowly advancing towards the outside with hatred.