Why did the Southern Hun cavalry who rushed out of the southern gate of Yanmen Pass retreated back and tightly blocked the southern city gate?

This is the strategy set by Han Cheng and Fu Zhi to stop the enemy.

The two thought about it: whether the army of the Southern Xiongnu pursued the Fenwu army or not, when a fire broke out in Yanmen Pass, the army at the north gate of Yanmen Pass would inevitably be in chaos.

Because there are troops at the north gate that have not yet entered the Yanmen Pass, and there are troops who want to go out of the Yanmen Pass, one in and one out, coupled with the fire persecution, even if someone reasonably coordinates in it, the chaos will not be lifted in a moment. If Han Cheng does this again, he will definitely know that the North City Gate at this time is like the school gate in the morning of the future, there are not many people, but how can it be blocked.

If there is chaos at the north city gate, the north city gate will be blocked, and the Southern Xiongnu soldiers in the Yanmen Pass can only rush out of the south city gate in order to escape.

At this time, the strategy to stop the enemy appeared - dig a deep trench not far from the southern city gate so that the cavalry could not pass, and then lead the army on the other side of the trench to meet the enemy: the soldiers of the strongbow battalion hid behind the shields of ordinary soldiers, suppressed the Southern Hun cavalry with bows and arrows, and did not ask how many Southern Hun cavalry were injured by bows and arrows, as long as the Southern Huns did not have time to fill the trenches.

After all, with the passage of time, a large number of Southern Xiongnu soldiers in Yanmen Pass must have died, and the scale of victory in this battle has gradually tilted towards the Fenwu army.

The sky is getting dark, and the fire in Yanmen Pass is still burning angrily, and this night will be a sleepless night.

On the south side of Yanmen Pass, in the Fenwu Army, looking at the raging fire, Han Cheng's heart was also burning at this moment; The firelight reflected half of the sky, and it also ignited Han Chengjun's heart in the world.

Because after such a fire, the people of Yanmen County can enjoy peace for at least two years, and they can develop vigorously in these two years; On the one hand, he led the army to the south and pointed at the Central Plains.

Looking at the raging fire, the heart of the frustrated professor also burned at this moment; This heavenly fire ignited the passion and heroism of frustration.

Because after such a fire, the name of the frustrated emperor will surely spread all over the world with the victory of the Fenwu army, no matter whether there is a Han Dynasty in the end, no matter who becomes the emperor in the end.

As long as it is the world of the Han family, it will be recorded in the history books:

One winter, the world was in turmoil, and the heroes competed for hegemony. The commander of the Fenwu army, Shi Fuzhi, designed and plotted to burn the Southern Xiongnu at the Yanmen Pass. It has made great contributions to the resistance of the Han people against ethnic minorities.

On the north side of Yanmen Pass, in the Southern Hun Army, the entire military camp was silent, just now the big leader Hu Chuquan was angry, and he couldn't help but behead the two thousand commanders at the north city gate to show the public, and no one dared to speak out in fright.

Hu Chuquan looked at the raging fire, his heart was not burning, but dripping blood.

Because after such a fire, although the central part of the Southern Xiongnu is still the largest tribe of the Southern Xiongnu, the overall strength of the Southern Xiongnu will inevitably be damaged.

Perhaps, due to the large reduction of personnel, the people of the Southern Xiongnu tribe will be able to survive this winter, but Hu Chuquan does not want to use such a humiliating way.

"The defenders of Yanmen Pass, I will definitely find out your bottom carefully, and next time, I will do my best to kill all of you to avenge the burning of Yanmen Pass." Hu Chuquan looked at the Yanmen Pass with his eyes, as terrible as he wanted to be able to spew flames, and secretly swore in his heart.

At this moment, Hu Chuquan suddenly heard his soldiers say, "General Red Niu Ling is back." ”

This Red Niu Ling General is worthy of being a "ruthless man". When a fire broke out in Yanmen Pass, the red cow spirit went out of the north gate several times, but was still blocked in Yanmen Pass.

Watching the Southern Hun soldiers around him die one after another, Chiniu Ling knew that if he still stayed in Yanmen Pass, the end would be the same as these soldiers, either he would be burned to death by fire or choked to death by smoke.

So, General Chiniu Ling didn't stop doing anything, climbed the city wall, and jumped down directly from the city wall.

At that time, the city wall of Yanmen Pass was more than five zhang high, but fortunately, there were two war horses where the Red Bull Spirit landed.

And the two horses were unlucky, they were directly smashed by the Red General who fell from the sky, and after the Red Niu Spirit left, the two horses only had the qi to come out, and there was very little qi to enter.

Thousands of troops are easy to obtain, and one will be hard to find, Hu Chuquan was very happy with the news that the red cow spirit could come back, and followed the messenger and went straight to the red cow spirit. Seeing Ai Jiang, a fluent Southern Xiongnu blurted out: "Chiniu Ling, my general, you can come back, it is the best news I heard today." ”

The Red Bull Spirit took off his fierce expression, and said with a guilty face: "Great Chief, I failed to bring back the three thousand warriors I brought out, and I have come to ask you for my guilt." ”

Hu Chuquan didn't care about this, and said to the red cow spirit: "It's good that you can come back." Don't take anything else to heart. ”

The fire burned for three hours before the fire gradually slowed down, and Han Cheng said to Fu Zhu, "Changshi, how many flammable materials have you got?" It's a bit of a fire. ”

Frustrated and embarrassed, he said: "The first time I prepared, the amount was a bit much, and it won't be like this next time." ”

The 3,000 Southern Hun cavalry outside the southern gate of Yanmen Pass clashed with the soldiers who came up with the Yanmen Pass - the soldiers outside the southern gate were so pressed by the rain of arrows from the strongbow battalion that they did not dare to step forward, so they could only block the door; And the soldiers in the pass were in a hurry to come out and desperately squeezed out.

It's all about life, and no one will let the other side take a step, so under the stalemate, there was a conflict, resulting in a large number of deaths and injuries.

And taking advantage of the night, the Fenwu army reoccupied Yanmen Pass overnight, and those who survived outside the south city gate became prisoners of the Fenwu army;

Most of the Xiongnu troops in the pass were either burned to death by fire or choked to death, and those who were lucky enough to survive were also choked by the fire and had no resistance and became prisoners of the Fenwu army.

After a fire, Yanmen Pass has become crumbling, dilapidated, and has no appearance of a majestic pass.

When the sky was slightly bright, the Southern Xiongnu army outside the northern city gate looked like they were about to attack the city.

Han Cheng and the sergeants of the Fenwu Army did not rest much for a day and a night, looking at the broken city wall and the Southern Hun army that was about to attack the city, they were very nervous.

At this time, Fu Zhu sorted out the situation of this prisoner of war and reported to Han Cheng: "My lord, this time the burning of Yanmen Pass burned to death more than 8,000 soldiers of the Southern Xiongnu, captured more than 4,000 soldiers of the Southern Xiongnu and more than 8,000 frightened war horses. ”

Speaking of this, the frustration of the face of happiness, plus the casualties in the siege of the city three days ago, the Southern Huns at least nearly 13,000 men and horses died, and the wounded were not 10,000, although the army of the Southern Xiongnu still has 20,000 capable of fighting again, but there are still 4,000 prisoners in their hands, and the people who do not believe in the Southern Xiongnu will ignore this group of prisoners and attack the city again.

Seeing the appearance of the Southern Xiongnu army under the city besieging the city, Han Cheng said: "Let people pull out 2,000 prisoners, as long as the enemy army under the city dares to attack the city, and kill this group of prisoners in front of them, I don't believe that their Southern Xiongnu people's hearts are not flesh and blood." ”

I saw more than 2,000 Southern Xiongnu soldiers with their hands tied, connected together with ropes, and came out of the north gate of Yanmen Pass.

Hu Chuquan scolded Han Cheng fiercely in his heart, but he had to accept this reality. "How can this be fought? They are all their own brothers. Leave them alone?"

Hu Chuquan could only send the Huns, who were proficient in Chinese, to shout at the pass: "The guard of Yanmen Pass, the two armies are fighting, and they don't kill prisoners, what do you mean by this?" ”

Han Cheng shouted loudly Pan Feng: "Retreat thirty miles first, and then send someone to negotiate." You go back and tell Hu Chuquan that I will kill these two thousand captives first before I dare to attack the city. I still have two thousand in my hand, and I will kill them again until they are all killed. ”

The Huns who shouted went back and told Hu Chuquan, who was in a dilemma. If you retreat like this, your majesty will plummet.

Looking at the crumbling Yanmen Pass, Hu Chuquan was depressed in his heart, and he was in a dilemma.

"After some hard work and a great price, Ma Xia was about to take this Xiongguan, but he didn't expect to be captured by the Fenwu army so many Southern Huns. If you save it, you don't have to attack the city, and you have to pay a great price; If you don't save it, your own big leader will also come to an end. ”

At this time, the leader of the right side of the Huns, the first "dog leg" Hunu in Huchuquan, came to his side and said empathetically:

"Great leader, let's retreat first, the captives on the opposite side are all elite warriors of our tribe, let them come back if you can let them come back.

This winter, we gritted our teeth and ate one less meal a day, and we were still able to get through. The warriors are gone, but they're really gone. ”

The moment Hu Chuquan heard the shouting, he knew that the defeat was decided, and the retreat was inevitable. It's just that no one came to give a step, and it would be a big sin for me to withdraw from the army rashly.

But now it's different, this "dog leg" of mine is really dutiful, not only giving himself steps, but also bearing the sin for himself, what a "leg".

Seeing that he finally had a reason to regain face, Hu Chuquan said: "I ordered to withdraw from the army first to save the lives of the warriors in these clans, and then send someone to negotiate with the defenders of Yanmen Pass." ”

Under the gate of Yanmen,

"My Southern Hun army has retreated thirty miles, according to the agreement, you should release the prisoners, right?" The black bone shouted loudly to the city.

Han Cheng said mercilessly to the black bones under the city: "Promise? What conventions? When did I say that you would release the prisoners when you withdrew your troops? You were defeated and captured, and you want to go home without paying a price, what about dreams? ”

"And what price do you want? Although it is brought up. As long as you don't hurt the warriors of our clan, I, the Southern Huns, will try my best to promise you. In the hands of others, the black bone had to bow his head and say.

Han Cheng continued with the same indifferent look: "Then I'll think about it again and give you an answer in a day." ”

"I hope the general will keep his promise in a day." The black bones were gnashed by Han Cheng's angry teeth, but to no avail.

This was the first conversation between Han Cheng standing at the head of the city and the right king of the Southern Xiongnu who was in charge of negotiations.

At this moment, a scout hurried to Frustrated's side and reported a message.

After hearing this, his face changed greatly, and he hurriedly walked to Han Cheng's side, and said in a low voice: "Lord, the big thing is not good, Lou Fuguan has been lost." ”

And the Southern Xiongnu army under the city also got the news. Hu Chuquan finally showed a rare smile, and said with great joy: "Finally, I have the weight of negotiation, and I ordered the army to drive to the city of Yanmen Pass and prepare to attack the city." ”