Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Tiger and the Wolf
Ma Yue, who traveled around the counties of Dingxiang County, often thought that a man like himself, who was only rough about the army, could lead a group of brothers to travel hundreds of miles surrounded by the Xianbei people, and a heroic man like Ma Teng, who knew the art of war by heart, would have an easier life than him in this situation.
Unfortunately, he only guessed half right. If a blow in the field battle misses and escapes thousands of miles, Ma Teng is bound to play better than him. But Ma Teng was not in the wild, and the Xianbei Lord Putou surrounded Luo County with thousands of slaves, and Ma Teng was difficult to fly.
In other words, from the moment the Luo County beacon fire was ignited, Ma Teng never thought about leaving. Although Cheng Yin and the candidate persuaded Ma Teng several times to let him lead people to rush out through the north gate, he was unmoved.
There is not an empty city behind him, and since he sees it, he will be responsible for the lives of tens of thousands of people under the fortified city behind him. Even if he wants to rush out, it can only be the moment the city is broken, and there is no power to return to the sky, so he can allow himself to retreat. The so-called chivalry, saving one person is a great good, and saving ten thousand people is even more good.
Emphasizing righteousness and ignoring life, saving people's hardship is the foundation of Ma Teng's life based on Liangzhou's fame, and it is also his principle, he will not die for a day...... This creed will not change for a day.
"This should be the last attack of the Xianbei army."
Ma Teng thought in his heart, the long knife in his hand did not stop, blocking the scimitar slashed from the side, and then the enemy was kicked down by Ma Zong, leaving only a scream.
The battle at the head of the city was in full swing, although there were only 4,000 soldiers and horses left, the attack was extremely fierce, and the leader of the armor in iron armor had already stood under the city with sharp blades, and the slaves were beheaded if they took a step back.
Xianbei's slavery is deep-rooted, the nobles are all slave owners, and their soldiers and horses are all their own slaves, and the power of life and death is just a thought. Although the Han Dynasty was also a slave society, it was obviously much more civilized and much darker.
The slaves of the Han Dynasty were all in large households, and whether they were slaves or private soldiers, they would never participate in the war unless they had to, especially when dealing with foreign peoples. Compared with Lord Xianbei, the wealthy families of the Han Dynasty were much more selfish.
Pu Tou, who was in the prime of life, stared at the crumbling city tower with red eyes, and watched his slave soldiers throwing their heads and spilling blood on the city, and he did not have the slightest happiness in his heart. The blood on the walls was red, and his eyes lifted his heart.
He is the lord of the Xianbei tribe, one of the three adults under the sandalwood acacia tree, and the thousands of miles of plump horse grass north of the state are his pastures. With 20,000 slaves under his command as his subordinates, he led an army of 15,000 and his younger brother Budugen to ambush the main force of the Han army and won a complete victory. Fifteen thousand men, half of his entire army, no matter what the outcome of this battle, he will be greatly damaged when he returns, and he has decided to give up half of the pasture once he returns to the hinterland of Xianbei.
But no matter what, he's going to break through the city! He is not only a Xianbei person, but also a firm believer in Tanshi Huai, he firmly believes that under the leadership of Tanshi Huai, Xianbei will become stronger and stronger, whether it is Wusun, Dayue or Dongfang Fuyu and Xiongnu of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Western Regions, they will not be Xianbei's opponents.
Han Dynasty, only the Han Dynasty, a behemoth standing in the south of Xianbei, with strong national strength and advanced culture, and countless elite soldiers and strong generals, the Han Empire will be the biggest stumbling block in Xianbei. At this moment, Pu Tou no longer cares that his own troops are about to run out, what he cares about is the defenders in the city.
The city of Luo County is no more than four zhang high and no more than five miles wide. With hundreds of remnants and thousands of old and weak, this small city has been guarded by thousands of Xianbei soldiers for ten days without breaking it, and those who are not broken should be talents.
"It's a pity, it's hateful, such a talent is not from my humble background!"
After hundreds of years of fighting, the so-called best understanding of you is often your enemy, whether it is Xianbei or Xiongnu, it seems that they know the Han people better than the scholars of the Han Empire. They are more aware of the strength and shortcomings of the Han Empire.
It is not only the Han people who believe that 'those who are not of my race will have different hearts', but also Putou. There are many Han people who have taken refuge under the command of other Xianbei adults, and there is no one in Putou, and there are only pure Xianbei people under Putou's money leopard tail.
The leopard tail flag was hunted by the strong wind blowing on the grassland, and the sturdy Pu Tou, who was sitting on the sweat and blood horse king, pinched the horsewhip in his right hand and frowned, his knuckles were pinched white, and he murmured: "The west gate and the north gate are well defended, and the weak points are the south gate and the east gate, the east gate, the east gate..."
The young Xianbei warrior holding a leopard-tailed banner behind him looked at Putou and whispered, "My lord, let the clansmen retreat, there are already many people dead." ”
Putou suddenly turned his head and glared at the young warrior, his eyes flared out, and the blue tendons on his forehead were exposed. On the grassland, Putou and Budugen are called tiger and wolf brothers, Putou is in the prime of life, powerful and fierce, and Budugen is like a wolf king, young and vigorous. The tribes under the command of the two brothers each have tens of thousands of belts of armor, and they have been in the curtain for several years, and the male lord of the Xianbei area, Tan Shihuai, sometimes worries that his son has such two uncles alive...... Whether they can smoothly inherit their status and power in the future.
Facing the tiger's gaze, the young warrior looked at him for a few seconds and lowered his proud head slightly. He's just a slave, so what qualifications does a vassal have to refute the master?
Pu Tou smiled and said, "I told you before that the dead and the humble will be Han. The Han people often say that the Central Plains people are outstanding people, and they don't know all the spirits are only the cowards who know how to write poems. In my opinion, the real treasures of the Han Dynasty are not those literati, but the generals killed by these frontiers. These good talents, kill one, one less, what kind of outstanding people, I will kill the generals of the Han family cleanly, what will the Han Dynasty take to compete with my Xianbei? Ten years later, I will be able to herd horses in the Central Plains! ”
Pu Tou raised his left hand and scratched his nose, stretched out two fingers and pointed to the Sizhang city wall of Luoxian County, and said to the young warrior behind him: "Kebi, take my guards to the east gate." ”
The young samurai who was called Kebi forked his hand, and the leopard-tailed banner was pierced into the ground by a huge force, showing a circle of cracks around it, and the young samurai wearing bronze and iron armor turned over and dismounted, pulled off the war knife on his horse, and walked towards the east gate with a firm step.
Behind him, Pu Tou clenched his fists, the three hundred ironclad guards were the tall and strong people he selected from the tribe, and his younger brother Budugen once wanted to exchange thirty herdsmen for an iron guard, he was reluctant, this was his last family background. At this time, both sides have reached the verge of collapse both mentally and physically, and when will they wait? Sitting on the horse, he looked at the back of the young warrior and shouted: "Open the city gate, I will give you a tribe of a thousand people, and I will reward you with a thousand men and five hundred horses for cutting a guard!" Go ahead and take Luo County for me! ”
However, the Han army at the north gate, south gate and west gate of the county found that the offensive of the Xianbei people had weakened, and the hundreds of warlords wearing iron armor under the city were gone.
Especially the south gate, which was about to be occupied by the Xianbei people, the army and the people worked together to once again beat the Xianbei soldiers who attacked the city to the bottom of the city, the city head has been dyed red, and there are countless scimitars and Han swords scattered everywhere with broken corpses and broken arms, and the Han army finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Xianbei retreated, and they won. The people who survived were lucky enough to smile at the robes around them with the blood stains that had long since dried up, and the tense heartstrings of tens of thousands of people in the entire city were loosened at this moment in the afterglow.
Suddenly, a loud noise came from the east gate.
"Boom!"
The Xianbei Lord's personal guards mixed with the ordinary soldiers to attack the castle tower, and the three hundred Xianbei warriors in iron armor were not at all able to withstand the five hundred old, weak, sick and disabled people armed with wooden guns, and the east gate guard ran to the brass bell hanging on the gatehouse, and was only a few steps away by a flying spear through the back of his heart, and hit the giant bell with his body to make the sound of the bell ringing the roof tiles.
The young warrior in iron armor stepped on the corpse of the guard and pulled out his spear, and the thick-backed sword cut off the gate valve, and two rows of iron armor guards pushed open the gate of the city that had been held for ten days, and the only remaining more than 2,000 Xianbei soldiers rode into the high-headed horses, trampling the streets with horses' hooves, and wailing resounded one after another in the sky over Luo County.
Luo County, it's over...