The military and political reform of the capital had not yet reached the battlefield of the Western Front at this time, and the Jingxi Army in Yangguan had recently been ruthlessly rectified by Gu Yao, and many unqualified soldiers were incorporated into the auxiliary army sequence and began to work as sappers and fortifications with prisoners outside the Xicheng Chamber.

The outermost layer is a dense trap for horses, which can trap not only the horse's feet, but also the legs of people. Behind the horse trap is a deep trench, which is more than a zhang wide. Behind the trench was a breastwork wall, made of the same earth and stone from which the trench had been dug. There is a space of five or six paces behind the breastwork, which is convenient for long-arm bows. Behind it is an earthen wall that is more than a foot high, and can be used to set up chain crossbows and incendiary bomb throwing vehicles.

In this way, a set of fortifications arranged in order across the city is regarded as an independent defensive body, and there is a gap of a few steps between each defensive body, which is blocked by a shield car as high as eight feet and shaped like a car, and there are eight-inch thick wooden clamp iron guards on each side, which are blocked by the four wheels below, and three layers of cowhide are also clothed on the top, and covered with mud and water quilts, which are invulnerable to water and fire, and can protect the Mo sword soldiers directly into the enemy formation.

These defenses are connected in a reverse arc to form a fortress with extremely strong defenses.

The original cavalry of the Jingxi Army, those who survived the intensive military training, could advance and retreat with the cavalry of the Zhenbei Army as they wished. After the Xiongnu assembled at Yangguan, they would go into battle lightly and go around the steppe behind them, preparing to outflank the guerrillas, mainly to burn the grain and livestock of the sea everywhere and destroy the enemy's living forces. Nearly 10,000 people from the capital to support the western front, including 5,000 Zhenbei Army, were ready to be the main force to resist the impact of the Xiongnu heavy cavalry, and were stepping up drills and fighting, in order to assist the two wings to annihilate the main force of the Xiongnu. The Xiongnu who were deflated at Yanmen Pass and Yumen Pass no longer divided their troops, and Yangguan was the first stop of their attack, and the soldiers and horses of Yumen Pass and Yanmen Pass were ready to reinforce.

Everything is just waiting for the Huns to attack.

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As for the Xiongnu side, they have not been able to take much advantage on the Western Front since the autumn harvest last year, and if it is delayed until this year's autumn harvest, the Yu army will have more adequate supplies, and they are really Yang Bailao. But how to fight, the three kings of the Huns have great differences of opinion, and the king who has just tasted the sweetness of victory, the second king who is disgraced and the three kings who are conservative do not speculate.

The three kings, whose strength has not been greatly damaged, feel that the Central Plains region can only defend and not attack them, and they can't catch up with their own cavalry. The two kings, who were frightened by the incendiary bombs of the divine fire from the sky, now have the least troops, and think that they should lengthen the battle line and plunder more small villages nearby, but they really can't go back to those small countries in the Western Regions to fight tooth sacrifices, and it is only right to supply slaves and grain and grass, and the people of the Zhenbei Army will not stay in the Jingxi Army for a long time, and wait for the morale of the Zhenbei Army to leave and then deal with the relatively weak Jingxi Army. The king successfully broke into Yangguan before, but the follow-up three kings and two kings ran to ask for help, he couldn't figure out the situation, and he was afraid of encountering strange soldiers, so he robbed the outer city and withdrew from Yangguan, so he didn't think that Yangguan could not be broken, and even felt that if the three kings took the still complete troops to help him protect the retreat and flanks, it would be no problem to take Yangguan. This time, as long as they can lure the defenders to the other gates and disperse, they will definitely succeed if they only attack one place.

The inner city of Yangguan is the people and the government, and the outer circle of the city is full of guards and military dependents. In the four city gates, outside the north city gate is the vast grassland, there is a wide cement official road leading to the Yanmen Pass, several villages that have been plundered the most before are within the official road, the south city gate is naturally the road to the Yumen Pass, the outer edge of the official road is not far from the mountains and mountains of the Kang-Tibet Plateau, and the inner side is the same scattered villages. The west city gate has always faced the Xiongnu army, the most sturdy, the most defenders, and now also repaired fortifications, easy to defend and difficult to attack. The east city gate is the grain road, and the rectangular high parapet wall that is one mile long, one hundred steps wide, can pass through the carriage and horses is built on both sides, and it is directly connected to Jingxi City and Tianshui City. Whether it is an official road or a parapet wall, it was built with special funds under the tide of road construction across the country in recent years, and now it comes in handy, and it also gives the border people confidence that the imperial court can defeat the Xiongnu army for the first time.

The king's idea was that the two kings were young and attacked the west gate and involved the main force of the Zhenbei army. Half of the three kings went to harass the North Gate all the way, and they could even tease Xia Ji in Yanmen Pass, Yanmen Pass was much closer to Yangguan than Yumen Pass, and they could also go to the villages along the way to get supplies. He himself took the other half of the three kings, rushed along the mountain range to the south gate, and then went to the Yumen Pass to stop the reinforcements, and then broke through the south gate with all his strength, it must have been very easy.

The second king strongly objected, he did not want to attack the city with a small number of soldiers, and it was a joke for the nomadic cavalry to attack the city! The third king didn't want to relive the nightmare, so he changed tasks with the second king.

The three of them began to dispatch troops, slowly arranged, and approached Yangguan.

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When the Xiongnu began to move, Po Lu and Fang Liangzhi set off with 5,000 cavalry lightly, wanting to go around behind the Xiongnu army. Coincidentally, they also chose a road close to the Kang-Tibet Plateau, and in order to avoid the Xiongnu's probing horses, they deliberately wrapped the horses' hooves and walked and stopped in the mountains and forests, so as not to expose the whereabouts of the frightened birds and beasts too often.

The Xiongnu naturally led a small group of men and horses of the three kings, and divided their troops to fight according to the plan. The front part played the forward, led by the king of the three kings to go straight to the Yumen Pass to feint, and the other part lagged slightly, under the leadership of a bone marquis, to grab the village and fight the grass valley. The main force of the king of more than 100,000 people gathered in the southwest corner of Yangguan, waiting for the three kings who remained in Yangguan to officially attack the west gate and immediately attack the south gate.

The group first found that the group of people and horses who went to Yumen Pass were probably less than 30,000 people, mainly heavy cavalry, and a small half were unarmored riders, who were unwilling to go, and were about to send someone to report the news, and the second group of more than 20,000 people who were happily preparing to rob their homes and houses were divided into four or five teams and scattered, these were all light cavalry.

Fang Liang looked straight and said that it was not good, this was going to the village.

Po Yu said, "Give you a thousand people, can you cooperate with Yumen Pass to intercept these 30,000 people?" ”

"What about you?" Fang Liangzhi was so excited that his voice trembled, he was the leader of a private army with no more than 200 people, and now he could lead a thousand regular light cavalry and command alone, this is pie in the sky!

"There is something wrong with this situation, the broken army will continue to reconnoiter with fifty people, and if there is a situation, they will immediately return to the south gate to report the news. The rest of me and I surrounded the stragglers one by one. ”

Such a division of troops, if not infighting, then there are other plans. Even if Yumen Pass is not afraid of the siege of these 30,000 people, if there are people and horses at the foot of the mountain and these 30,000 people are flanked back and forth, it is good that their 5,000 light cavalry will be wiped out, and they are afraid that the south gate will open the door to save them and send troops, resulting in the loss of defense.

Therefore, if you can break the encirclement and rely on the defenders of the two levels, it should not be a big problem.

Fang Liangzhi was excited, and said seriously, "This is not the best policy. We have no advantage over their light cavalry, but it must be no problem for the 5,000 men to sneak up on their squad into the village one by one, and there are soldiers in the village who can cooperate, so it is better for us to work together and annihilate them one by one. If there is a real siege of the south gate, our guerrilla attacks outside can make the defenders breathe a sigh of relief, as long as they can enter the woods, their cavalry is inferior to us. ”

"Good. That's it. Po Lu took his advice, and 5,000 men and horses quietly followed behind the smallest Xiongnu team.

The broken army continued to move forward, and after half an hour, he found the main force of the king and galloped back to the south gate to report the news. When Gu Yao heard the news, he frowned for a long time, sent scouts to Yanmen Pass and Yumen Pass to report the news, and then began to gather troops at the West Gate and the South Gate. The opening and closing of the south gate also attracted the attention of the Xiongnu king, and the army did not wait for the signal of the west gate, and began to send a part of the troops to approach the city gate. The three kings personally guarded the 60,000 people who stormed the west gate, and under the urging of the king several times, they also began to attack the gate. The second king was waiting on the left flank of the third king, and when he saw this, he directly waved his troops to attack Yanmen Pass.

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Fang Liangzhi was worthy of being a horse bandit, and first instructed dozens of people to take the trail to various villages to inform and inquire about the news, and the rest of the large army waited to divide troops from the flank to encircle and suppress the three or four thousand people in front.

The lightly armed Yu Dynasty cavalry had limited incendiary bombs, and alcohol was also useful in treatment, so they didn't bring much, and the first assault was almost like chopping vegetables, shooting the leading thousand cavalry commanders and hundreds of fierce elite cavalry, and successfully took it. According to the custom, the captives disarmed and asked the militia in the small village to tie them up, and they were dragged to Yangguan City together after the war. However, Fang Liang directly brought in the militia leader and whispered a few words, only to see that the militiamen began to scatter the captives and pull them to different places, and a few people unloaded the saddle stirrups of the Huns.

Po Lu looked at him and didn't speak, he explained with a smile, "There are many of them, but there are few people in the village, just in case." ”

"You can say it straight later."

“…… I also let them cripple the legs of the Huns......"

"Hmm. Do the same next time. ”

“……”

There were more enemies in the next village, and a 10,000-strong cavalry commander with six or seven thousand well-equipped cavalry, Fang Liangzhi first poured oil on a few wounded horses, and let them rush to the Hun cavalry who were storming the fort at the entrance of the village from the side, and shot a few incendiary bombs, and the horses that were on fire and rampage made the Hun horses startled together, and they began to harvest the heads with a round of arrows, and then then rode up and cooperated with the militia who rushed out to slash and kill.

No one thought of keeping the prisoners this time, these were clearly 'living forces'.

The matter of cleaning up the battlefield was left to the militiamen, and the heads were cut off, the legs were broken, and the prisoners and Fang Liangzhi and others replenished the arrows and other supplies, bandaged and rested for a while, and set off for the next village.

There are not many Xiongnu in this village, only a few thousand cavalry commanders with less than 5,000 people, but there is no effective militia organization in the village, and Gu Yao's order to form a militia has been disobeyed.

A middle-aged man who led the resistance, he was holding his little son who was beheaded in the waist and crying bitterly. At this time, a few young people who had fought bloodily and killed their relatives snatched the horses of the Huns, dragged the fleeing village chief and clan elders all the way back with horses, and the indignant villagers pulled them to the place where the corpses of their relatives were gathered and smashed them to death with stones.

Fang Liang straightened his head like watching a play, and sighed lightly, "I knew today, why bother at the beginning, your village chief changed someone earlier, and today there will be no major casualties like other villages." ”

The sergeants of the Jingxi Army all sighed in agreement, but seeing that the people of the Zhenbei Army were still expressionless and packed their things, they didn't care about the life or death of the villagers, so they didn't say anything more and went to pack up.

When leaving, Po Lu still left a dozen or so seriously injured people to help organize them to establish a militia, and sent people to notify the first two villages to come to help, before setting off for the largest village and town, where they would face the Gudu Marquis of the Xiongnu.

Fang Liangzhi didn't understand it in his heart, but he didn't dare to say nonsense, "They don't take General Gu's orders too seriously." If we hadn't happened to come here today, it would probably have been the end of Tu Village. ”

"Then why don't you wait for them to die?" Po Yu glanced at him faintly, "Just do what we have to do." ”

Fang Liang touched his nose and didn't say anything more.

The Marquis of Gudu, who led the raid, was the brother-in-law of the three kings, and he had the largest number of men and horses, with eight or nine thousand people going deep into the village closest to the grain road. When Po Yu and the others approached, Guduhou had already broken through the fortifications at the entrance of the village and rushed towards the village. At this time, there was no time to prepare any more strategies, so he divided his troops and waved his troops left and right, and attacked behind him. Under the explosion of incendiary bombs, the formation and speed of the Hun cavalry collapsed. Horses still have the nature of being afraid of fire, surrounded by raging fires, it is not easy for the Huns to break through for a while, and a large number of people are glued to shoot at the entrance of the village with the Yu army. In addition to the hundreds of people who pursued the Guduhou, the group of people and horses who entered the village first hid behind the defensive fort and fought back, relying on the range of the long-arm bow to effectively withstand the attack of the follow-up troops of the Huns. Fang Liangzhi led a team of people in the rear flank to encircle the Huns who wanted to raid, and threw incendiary bombs out as if they didn't want money, and the only two chain crossbows were also assembled, aiming at the place where the Huns had the most volleys. Many Huns jumped off their horses to avoid the dense rain of arrows, while others rolled left and right out of the fire and ran into the village to deal with the archers in the fort. When they dismounted and fought hand-to-hand with the Zhenbei army, they regretted that these soldiers were better at hand-to-hand combat than them.

The arrival of reinforcements made the villagers with the heart of death reborn their fighting spirit, and the resistance was more intense, and the militia worked together to drive the dismounted Huns to the side of the Zhenbei army, and the Huns were cut to the ground in a group of three with both offensive and defensive cooperation.

Guduhou didn't dare to look back in a panic, and just wanted to rush out of the village with a hundred or so people. Many of the common people who had closed their homes and hid also came out to help under the call of the militia's gongs, and set up roadblocks, tripping horses, sprinkling ash and oil on Guduhou and others who rushed into the villages and towns, and when they broke a knife and cut off the head of Guduhou, the deafening cheers made the remaining Huns who were still alive no longer have the fighting spirit.

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King Gu Li of the Three Kings family is his successor, and he is not not angry that he has taken on such an insignificant task this time. He thought so, his subordinates were in no mood to hurry, anyway, they didn't have a share in grabbing things, and they didn't have a part in killing the enemy, so let them cosplay the siege of the city that they were not good at at all, and they were very happy!

So the large army slowly approached the Yumen Pass.

Lao Guan stood on the city wall, looked at this group of unhurried Hun soldiers with binoculars, and listened to the report of the spies. 30,000 people around the Yumen Pass is simply not a matter, and it can block the West Gate, and where the rest goes is a big question. Lao Guan immediately made a decision, called two deputy generals, each with 5,000 people, and went out from the north gate, one went to Yangguan to report to the grain road, and the other went to see what the situation was in the villages on the road from Yangguan to Yumen Pass.

As for King Gu Li, in Gu Xi's words, we must teach them the truth of being a human being.

Lao Guan smashed his mouth and called a few sons and nephews, "Give you a big task, go out from the south gate, go around behind them, and burn the retreat." "Naturally, there are fortifications at the west gate of Yumen Pass, and because the south side is a mountain and forest path into the plateau, no one can walk on the monthly cutting day to cut firewood, so the south gate that is smaller than the county government gate has hardly been opened.

"Dad, are you kidding us?" The eldest son who spoke was very polite, "Carrying the oil drum up the mountain?" Splash it around again? Last time the grass burned out, don't waste oil this time! ”

"We can splash them on the mountain." The eldest nephew came up with the idea, he was the eldest son of Lao Guan's second brother's family who died in battle.

"The wind is not going the right way today." Lao Guan's second son interjected, the northeast wind is not suitable for fire attack, what to do if the mountain is burned, the last grassland fire was the southeast wind.

"Discuss it yourself, I just want them to not be able to escape." Lao Guan ruffian said angrily, "If you can do it, Dad will be able to wipe them all out." ”

"Gotcha!" The eldest son was about to go out, and the second son pulled his sleeve and turned around and asked Lao Guan, "How many people does Dad give?" ”

"Five hundred."

Five pairs of eyes bigger than the copper bell glared at him: Daddy (uncle), are you kidding us?

The second son pondered for a while and nodded, took the token and took the lead in walking out to order people.

Lao Guan smiled evilly, "You all listen to the third child for a while." Then he explained to the eldest son, "If the situation is not right, go into the mountains, don't be strong." ”

The remaining four teenagers nodded wordlessly and followed out the door.

The five teenagers sneaked into the mountains and forests from the south gate with five hundred people, but they didn't bring much with them, and everyone carried all kinds of tools in their hands except for their weapons.

King Gu Li stood leisurely outside the range of the crossbow, and pushed out two gravel carts and three throwing carts behind him, and began to load all kinds of stones, and after a while, they fell to the ground and threw them towards the west gate.

Lao Guan was furious, "Spicy chicken!" A grandson looks down on us at the Jade Gate!! Is this playing me like a monkey?! ”

The strategist next to him hurriedly followed Mao, "Chief soldier, this may be a trick to lure the enemy!" ”

"You're the enemy!"

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"Come, line, all standing in the trench!"

The herald took the order, and the strategist offered advice, "Do you want to get the shield ready?" ”

"It must be dropped."

Lao Guan quietly explained a few words to him, asked him to go down to arrange, and continued to look at the telescope by himself.

The boys on the mountain, with five hundred people, without horseback, walked behind the Huns along a path trodden by woodcutters. Since they chose to rely on the mountain to attack Yumen Pass, there must be a narrowest place as a key point to prevent a sneak attack, and of course the Huns sent people to guard it. They passed through this pass and continued forward, turned two corners, and made sure that the Hun defenders could not see it, and the second son of Guan Sancai, the third in line, asked everyone to stop, and then looked for a place to use.

"What are you looking for?" Guan Sancai's brother Guan Dayuan asked.

"Let's see where you can get more rocks down."

"There aren't enough people, how long do you have to carry it?" Second cousin Guan Shuanghua asked.

"I brought earth explosives and incendiary bombs."

"Then the big piece above and the one in front of it, it will take some time to blow up." Guan Sixi understood, instructed others to start digging pits and burying explosives, and his younger brother Guan Wufu went over to help, and took hundreds of people to start working.

The two of them are the sons of Lao Guan's third brother, and their father is in charge of the family's affairs. This earth explosive was pounded out of the fireworks, and it was not very powerful, and it was enough to blow up stones. The two have tried many times and have more experience.

Guan Sancai asked Guan Wufu to take most of the people to the opposite side of the road to bury explosives, incendiary bombs and various powders, and then told them to leave fifty people, and when they saw the Huns' men and horses coming, they covered their mouths and noses with wet cloths, lit the fuse and left immediately, depending on the situation, they ran up the mountain around the rocks, or ran to the grain road, in short, don't be caught up by the Huns' horses. Then he himself took Guan Dayuan, Guan Shuanghua and less than a hundred people to start arranging various barricades and traps in the mountains and forests, and when Guan Wufu got it done, he also joined them and continued the trap barricades all the way to the south gate.

These 500 people were busy, but the Hun soldiers at Yumen Pass and besieging the city were too idle to fight mosquitoes.

The 10,000-strong hoplites sent by Lao Guan stood in front of a trench in the innermost, and the first row of shieldmen held rectangular wooden shields more than one person high in a row, waiting for the battle. Behind the wooden shield, there are spears and sticks to support, not entirely by manpower, the stone crusher and throwing machine on the opposite side did not do much damage, after all, the bare land is not even grass roots, and it is not easy to find large stones. Seeing that the Xiongnu were about to go to the mountains and forests to move stones, Lao Guan ordered the long-range droppers of the city wall to throw incendiary bombs over, and it was best to burn those cars. The crackling porcelain vase fell in the Hun camp, causing a commotion, a stone crusher and a throwing cart were on fire, a throwing cart was knocked over by a frightened horse, and the remaining two hurriedly retreated.

At this time, there was finally a dense explosion in the rear of the Hun army, and the rumbling sound shook the dust.

King Gu Li was taken aback, and hurriedly sent a thousand cavalry commanders to lead the team to investigate, shrinking the entire camp. This team ran to the explosion site with the horses behind the palace, and saw that the cliff had collapsed, and a rolling stone blocked the way to retreat, so they hurriedly asked people to report back to the king of Guli, but the mound on their side began to sizzle, and the few horses who came forward to check had not yet reached the side of the road, and a series of small explosions startled their horses into four hooves. This time the smoke rose in all colors, and when the northeast wind blew, the horses were restless, and the people began to have sour eyes and tears, dizziness and chest tightness. A few people tried to open their eyes, and when they saw that Youyu soldiers were fleeing in the direction of the grain road, they wanted to chase after them, but they were stopped by the commander of the thousand cavalry, and immediately ordered all of them to retreat to their own formation.

At this time, except for the remaining fifty people who ran away, Guan San returned with the rest of the people. After Lao Guan found out, he asked a few small ones to come back, sent another striker, and then took a thousand people out of the south gate and quietly went to the forest to ambush.

When King Gu Li saw the embarrassed thousand cavalry commanders, his heart was cold, and he sent two other teams of two thousand men to return with them, waiting for the smoke to clear, and immediately clear the road. Then gather troops to press forward, prepare for a formal attack, and be sure to gain time to clear the retreat.

Lao Guan saw that they were finally willing to go to war, laughed heartily, and stood at the highest point of the corner tower of the city wall to command the battle, and the flag bearer on the corner tower played the flag and prepared for war in the whole city.

When half of the Hun cavalry rushed into range, the long-armed archers fired three arrows in a row behind the long wooden shield wall, shooting down a batch, and tripping over a group by the horse pit, and the momentum had slowed down. Seeing that the cavalry at the front had reined in and was ready to jump over the outermost trench, the ordinary bow and arrow fired three more rounds, and the remaining living cavalry leaned over the horse, about to jump to the shield wall, the shield hands retreated, a row of shield carts pushed forward, withstood their impact, and the long-handled Mo sword armor soldiers swept behind the shield cart, and the men and horses were shattered, and the vanguard cavalry was severely damaged. The Mo sword soldiers and shield chariots kept their formation and retreated, and the archers all stood behind the wooden shields on the breastwork, and continued to slash and shoot at the Huns who followed and pounced. Seeing that most of the Hun soldiers had advanced, Lao Guan solemnly raised his flag, and a row of chain crossbows was exposed on the earthen wall of the highest layer of the fortification, and the throwing machines on the city wall were also ready. The first batch of chain crossbows shot a dense rain of powerful arrows, with the whistling sound of incendiary bombs falling to the ground and bursting into flames, and the density of the Huns was significantly reduced. Then the second and third groups of chain crossbows took turns, and the dense and sharp arrows carried away waves of Huns and horses, including heavy cavalry.

The king of Gu Li in the back of the palace was so frightened that he forgot to order a retreat, and ran to the retreat first under the protection of his personal entourage. His escape caused the Huns who rushed forward to be confused, and they turned their horses and ran with them.

At this time, the north gate of Yumen Pass opened, and the five thousand cavalry who were recuperated pursued the defeated Huns.

King Gu Li with a few thousand men soon saw his men and horses clearing the road blocked by boulders and debris, and he did not hesitate to jump over the various small explosion craters on the side of the road and go in the direction of the grain road, preparing to bypass this road and join the Marquis of the bones who robbed the house. Unexpectedly, a neat and uniform group of Yu Dynasty cavalry came on, and as soon as they took a hit, they first threw a row of incendiary bombs, and then fired a volley with a long-arm bow. King Gu Li can only turn back, do not listen to the advice of his relatives to drill in the mountains and forests, other people who do not want to enter the forest began to fight and retreat, ready to return to Yumen Pass and the remnants of the convergence, maybe the hope of breaking through the siege is greater.

This team of cavalry of the Yu Dynasty that suddenly appeared was the team of broken captives, and after they rested and discussed, they sent people to explore the situation at Yangguan Pass, and came to Yumen Pass first. On the way, I saw a few Yu soldiers who fled to the village, asked about the battle situation, and quickly blocked King Guli.

The people who followed the king of Guli into the mountain were killed and wounded in an ambush, and the king of Guli himself was also killed by random arrows, and the cavalry of Yumen Pass was encircled, and nearly 6,000 Hun soldiers were captured.

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Compared with the situation that the front-line battlefield of Yumen Pass was scattered and fought freely, Xia Ji, who was guarding Yanmen Pass, was very depressed. In order to alleviate the pressure on Yangguan and protect several small villages that had been plundered along the way, Xia Ji first sent 3,000 infantry to the village to set up defenses, and then closely monitored the Xiongnu soldiers and horses from Yangguan. As a result, when the third wave of scouts returned, there were less than 40,000 Huns in this group, and it was the second king who suffered a big loss at Yumen Pass to lead the team.

The soldiers of Yanmen Pass are collectively angry! It's too contemptuous of people! Actually sent a mourning dog to take Yanmen Pass?!

As soon as the second king was preparing to attack the first village, the north gate and the south gate of Yanmen Pass were opened. The 8,000 cavalry at the north gate hid in the grassland and went around behind the two kings, and the 20,000 armor soldiers and chariots at the south gate rushed to the nearest village. These villages are not very large, and when they lost Yangguan last time, they were robbed by the three kings who fled and passed by, and suffered heavy losses. After Gu Yao reorganized the army, he temporarily moved the living residents to Yanmen Pass and implemented the clearing of the wilderness. Therefore, the two kings, who came in a hurry, only encountered a thousand soldiers and blocked him from the entrance of the village. However, no matter how down-and-out he was, the number was also superior, the Yu soldiers did not intend to meet each other in short quarters, and they retreated quickly by laying traps and barricades, and the Huns who were eager to grab things did not chase after them, but unfortunately there was not much harvest except for the old rice and rotten vegetables. The second king, who was angry, hurriedly waved his army to the next village, but still found nothing, but injured a lot of horses.

The third village encountered the serious Yu army, more than 20,000 heavily armored soldiers with a concave arc formation of chariots, protecting the archers behind them, fearlessly facing the army of the two kings, in the shape of a pocket.

The second king really didn't want his own people to be injured again, and seeing that these infantry couldn't catch up with him, he sent three or five thousand men to tease, and the other horses began to retreat. Unexpectedly, as soon as the team pulled away, a cavalry of 3,000 men suddenly appeared on the outside of the official road, cutting his 40,000 men into two sections, and almost 8,000 people in front of him were forced into the infantry formation. He hurriedly sent someone to rescue, and the reinforcements were about to approach the Yu cavalry, and when they could be included in the firing range, the cavalry suddenly scattered on both sides, and the chain of crossbows behind the heavy infantry fired a volley, and the reinforcements and the suppressed group suffered heavy casualties. The second king's heart was painful, most of the people who were burned to death by the grassland fire last time were heavy cavalry who couldn't run fast, and this time they didn't dare to let the surviving heavy cavalry move, so they sent light cavalry, where could they resist the arrows of the crossbow. He was so angry that he wanted to press revenge with all his might, but he was reluctant to have any more casualties, and when he hesitated whether to retreat, another group of cavalry was inserted behind him, and a bunch of incendiary bombs and oil bottles were fired at the most eye-catching royal flag. The men and horses who had been frightened by the fire once fled directly in all directions this time, and the first cavalry, which had been separated, turned around and joined the cavalry behind, specifically killing the panicked Huns at the periphery. The heavy infantry lined up neatly and slowly, armed with Mo knives, with long-armed archers and chain crossbows behind them, like a road steamroller, strangled all the Hun cavalry in front of them who had lost the advantage of charging.

The second king lamented that the general trend had gone, abandoned the royal banner and prepared to break through with his personal guards, but he couldn't, so he had to abandon his weapons and surrender, and nearly 10,000 Huns were captured with him.

Xia Ji let out a vicious breath, looked at the forward who commanded the cavalry to respond flexibly and praised, "You kid is good!" It's a miracle soldier! ”

The striker replied shamefully, "It's not the credit of the subordinates, it's the strategy of the subordinate Commander Rong." ”

Xia Ji turned his head to look at Rong Ba, who was so excited that he couldn't stand on his feet, and said with a smile, "It turned out to be you!" Yes, the tiger father has no dogs, and he has made a great contribution this time. ”

Rong Lin was about to laugh like a fool, he was defeated by Zhai Xiaoer and Zhong 13 with his fists and feet, but he couldn't stand his life! I thought it was to accompany the prince to study, but it turned out to be a shocking case, and I was sent to the second-line Yanmen Pass, thinking that I could only make a small fight and cooperate with Yangguan's action, but I didn't expect to have the opportunity to go to the battlefield to face one of the main forces of the Huns. Isn't this a bright flower!? Although he was trained very hard by the prince and the Zhenbei army, this striker was an acquaintance of his father, and he was brought to earn credit by sending troops this time, and he listened to his advice, and now he has captured the second king alive! He dreamed that he would use the cavalry so flexibly like Huo Quai, and today can be regarded as a meat! What is the boundary of Beiguan! The grassland is my brother's destination! Zhai Xiaoer, Zhong Thirteen, you just wait to look up at your brother!

However, before the Yu army collected its troops and returned to the city, the scouts came to report, and the beacon fire in Yangguan rose again.

The second beacon fire was lit in one day, indicating that the situation was very urgent, Xia Ji directly ordered this cavalry to go to reinforcements, and the remaining infantry immediately returned to defend Yanmen Pass.

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The battle of Yangguan is known as the 'Battle of Breaking Slaves', which began at exactly ten o'clock in the sun, and fought to the Jinwuxi slope, which is a battle in which Gu Yao has won the most honors, and it is also the second beginning of Dayu's transcendence of the two major soldiers of 'Feng Wolf Juxu and Le Shi Yanran' to the top of the table, 'Boundary Lingan Mountain', and the first beginning of the 'Battle of Extermination' has been completed by his son Gu Chong. It's just that Gu Yao doesn't know now that this battle will also become the heaviest casualties in his military career and the most tragic battle in the entire history of Dayu.

Ximen, who originally thought it was the main battlefield, did not make a big move under the command of the conservative three kings, and most of his light cavalry were sent out, and now he was surrounded by the most elite heavy cavalry, and the formation was always intact, effectively hiding outside the range of the crossbow and bow, only from time to time he relied on dozens of throwing vehicles and gravel vehicles to bombard the fortifications, contain the strength of the Yu army, and create conditions for the main force of the Xiongnu at the south gate.

There are also fortifications outside the south gate, but the level is not as much as the west gate, the Huns drove the hard labor and slaves to make sandbags in front, filled the trap pits and trenches in front of the door, the infantry behind the breastwork could not block the assault of the heavy cavalry, and shot back a wave of heavy cavalry together with the crossbow of the earthen wall and the city tower, so that they could return to the city to hold on, fortunately, the casualties were not very heavy. Gu Yao commanded directly on the wall of the south gate, and all the 15,000 troops at the west gate were handed over to the broken army and a staff general of the Jingxi army, with 5,000 troops at the north gate and 10,000 at the east gate, and the remaining more than 60,000 troops were all put into the defense of the south gate.

In order to protect these siege equipment, they also got iron sheets to wrap them, covered the cars with damp cotton quilts, and tied the water-soaked branches and wooden strips in front of them to resist incendiary bombs. The siege engines withstood the threat of incendiary grenades and advanced within range, and the living slaves continued to be driven forward, dragging the corpses from the road leading to the city gates, or piling them up into steps and pedaling horses for crossing the breastwork. Although many of the slaves were Han Chinese, even if they couldn't bear it, the defenders did not relent, and all living creatures that came into range were shot and killed. More and more slaves fell, and some wounded Huns also abandoned their horses and dragged the corpses up the ladder.

So far, the soldiers and horses of the three kings are in front, and the three kings have given the disabled and old and weak under their command to the king, and the king will naturally not be polite, and at this time, the king's hundreds of thousands of main forces have not made other moves, and have been waiting outside the firing range.

The south gate cracked open under the bombardment of stones, and the Hun army suddenly dragged out many wooden planks and door panels, which were thrown onto the human ladder by the riders, and the corpses were used as mats, building a way to attack the door. Heavy crash trucks were pushed over the earthen wall one after another, on several soaked quilts, or rammed at gaps in the earthen wall only a few steps apart, in order to widen the road for men and horses to pass through. Fuel bottles and incendiary grenades were being thrown at crash and siege engines at the gates, and shield carts with wheels stuffed with stone and sand were being stacked in the gates, leaving less than two feet above for archery and incendiary bombs. Barricades, traps, and archers on both sides began to be laid outside the city gate, and Gu Yao even ordered the south gate to prepare for street fighting.

The first time the south gate was broken by the Huns was at two o'clock in the afternoon, and the heavy cavalry under the king's tent saw the broken gate, and immediately blew the trumpet of the charge, holding wooden planks and other things that could protect the vital points, and rushed to the south gate.

The Hun cavalry was blocked at the city gate by heavy shield carts, and the follow-up troops were severely harvested by the dense rain of arrows and incendiary bombs on the city walls and in the door holes, before they retreated, leaving a corpse burning. However, the Yu army defending on the city wall was also injured by the rubble from the Xiongnu's siege engines. At this time, the west gate cooperated with the attack of the south gate, and at the same time pressed on the whole, and encountered the stubborn resistance of the Yu army led by the Zhenbei army behind the breastwork. Seeing that almost all of them had entered the range of the chain crossbow, the broken army ordered a rapid retreat, and the Zhenbei army threw out an incendiary bomb to curb the momentum of the Hun cavalry, and neatly shrank behind the earthen wall, and fired a salvo of chain crossbows and long-arm bows, destroying nearly half of the vanguard army of the three kings. At this time, the news that the south gate was broken came, and the broken army hurriedly ordered all to shrink back to the city, close the west gate, which was the most solid copper-clad and iron-cast, and take all the shield carts to support the south gate.

The three kings looked at the vanguard light cavalry and the closed west gate with more than half of the casualties on their faces, and hesitated whether to attack at another gate or go somewhere to join forces. At this time, his scouts came to report that although the south gate was broken, it was blocked by the shield cart, and there was no news of the two teams of men and horses who went to rob and feint to attack the Yumen Pass, and the two kings did not visit the horses to deliver the letter, so the king asked him to divide his troops to the north gate or the east gate. The three kings couldn't help but curse secretly, they are only 60,000 people now, and the other 50,000 are nowhere to be seen, a fart! This is a siege and not a defense, and the 30,000 people in it can withstand the encirclement of 300,000 troops!

The three kings were already thinking about whether to slip away as a respect.

The king's side also got no news from elsewhere, and regrouped in a frustration, intending to rush in with a crash instead of letting people immediately open the door. At three o'clock, the Huns began to attack the south gate again, the south gate without the city gate relied on shield carts, wood and sand bags to resist the collision outside, both sides relied on manpower, and the Yu army still had the advantage, and constantly strengthened the base. On the contrary, it was the Xiongnu siege vehicles that threw stones at the city walls, causing more casualties.

Gu Yao had a lot of wounds on his body, and insisted on not going down the city wall, at this time, the east gate came to report, and five thousand cavalry from Yumen Pass came to help, and another five thousand would come from several villages. He didn't bother to ask Lao Guan why he sent the main cavalry out, and immediately ordered the standard-bearers of the corner towers to start playing the sentence 'South, sneak attack, that is, leave'. The 5,000 cavalry at the east gate began to move towards the south gate, and the people who had already joined the other 5,000 people at the Yumen Pass also knew the battle situation and flag language at the south gate from the scouts, and immediately accelerated. The scouts of the Yanmen Pass cavalry saw the flag of the north gate from a distance and immediately reported back.

Seeing the increasing movement at the south gate, the king had a bad premonition, so he decided to rush open the city gate in one go, and ordered a group of sturdy riders to replace the underfed slaves to push the crashing carts. There are not many cavalry in Yangguan, as long as the heavy cavalry enters the city, the narrow lanes are not enough for the heavy infantry to line up in formation to resist the impact of the unity of men and horses, and the cavalry chops people up like chopping vegetables. This stupid decision caused a moment of confusion among the Xiongnu troops in the center of the battlefield, and the men and horses who retreated and advanced were mixed in a disorderly manner, and they were suddenly seized by two cavalry teams in different directions at Yumen Pass, one of them attacked the Xiongnu from the southeast corner of Yangguan and crashed with cars, and the other rushed to the siege vehicles from the flanks, and the incendiary bombs in their hands were thrown towards the wheels and other places, which made these cars and people burn into a raging fire. At the same time as the men and horses rushed through in unison, they cut down the frightened and frightened Hun cavalry on the scene and were unable to avoid it, and they did not even organize effective resistance. The king was furious and ordered the remaining army to come forward and encircle and suppress it. Without waiting for these Hun heavy cavalry to close, 10,000 horses quickly passed through the battlefield and galloped towards the west gate, and the army did not give up on catching up. Seeing that the city could no longer be broken today, the king gathered the remnants of his army to keep up, preparing to collect these most valuable cavalry of Dayu as today's trophies. At this moment, the captives suddenly inserted from the mountains and forests in the south, and dozens of wounded horses galloped and sprinkled oil at the head, and under the effect of incendiary bombs, they broke into the king's army, bringing a sea of fire.

Then a rain of arrows fell, harvesting heads.

The Huns who were attacked from behind rushed west to the steppe in panic, and the guards ran to the front with the scolding king, and sent someone to inform the army to return to help immediately.

At this time, the three kings had planned to smear the soles of their feet with oil, but when they saw a piece of dust rolling in, they recognized that it was the cavalry of the Yu Dynasty, there were not many of them, and there were the king's most elite pursuers behind them, so they hurriedly put on a posture to meet the battle, and even thought of trying to catch them alive as much as possible, so that they could exchange money and food with General Gu.

When the 10,000 cavalry of the Yu Dynasty was about to enter the range of the Xiongnu, they immediately divided their troops on both sides, and the three kings were about to let their soldiers also separate from the pursuit, when they saw the king's soldiers and horses suddenly blow the trumpet and turn around and run back.

Nima! Draw people here and retreat?! I'm X your mother!

The crazy and rude Three Kings were attacked by the returning Yu Dynasty cavalry, and hurriedly commanded the battle. Misfortune is not a single line, there is a more strange cavalry behind him, divided into two ways, inserted into the Three Kings Army like two arrows, and then each team is divided into one left and right, ten thousand arrows are fired in a volley, cutting the originally neat Three Kings Army into three pieces, and the middle begins to outflank, and the left and right echo with the two wings, and begin to fight with swords and horses. The three kings no longer cared about their calm command, and desperately ran in the direction of the retreat of the king's army and horses, hoping to hug their thighs. It's a pity that the cavalry on his right flank didn't agree, and while using the few remaining incendiary bombs to destroy the resistance of the Huns, he used bows and crossbows and short-handled Mo knives to put pressure on the direction of the team to the city gate, because the Zhenbei army ran to the edge of the trench with a chain of crossbows, as long as the Huns were in range, they would definitely not survive.

At that time, the king was protected by the army, as if blessed by Rulai, and finally calmed down and began to form a whole army. The moment he saw the Hun army returning, he immediately turned his horse's head and went to the west gate, and happened to greet the three kings. In the chaos, the three kings and their personal guards and other hundreds of people, who did not stop the car, fell off their horses one by one under the attack from several sides, not knowing whether they were alive or dead. The rest of the Huns either abandoned their weapons and surrendered, or began to desperately break through the siege, and the broken army on the city gate waved flags, so that they could be on alert quickly, and the king who had completed the army was still eyeing over there. The more than 20,000 cavalry of the Yu Dynasty did not pursue the defeated Huns, but only cut off the heads of the three kings, dragged the captives who surrendered to the west gate, and rested on the spot to confront the king who gathered the remnants of the three kings.

The sky under the setting sun was full of red clouds, and the unwilling king glared at the Yu Dynasty cavalry viciously, and retreated into the grassland ten miles away to camp.