Liu Dan is unwilling to retreat in vain, how can he finally win another victory to save his reputation, and Ma Chao, who is far away in Longyou, is the same, gritting his teeth and unwilling to retreat.

You can't just retreat!

Ma Chao kept roaring in his heart, he must not retreat, he must not retreat in the name of failure, because once he retreats like this, the Qiang people who have not eaten meat will swarm him and tear him to pieces!

So what is the way out?

The Qiang cavalry of the brigade has gradually become like evil ghosts in the left and right of Ji County, and it is becoming more and more difficult to obtain food sources, and the increasingly cold climate makes these Qiang people miserable.

Every day, more than 1,000 people are scattered into a team of one or two hundred, driving out in all directions, going to the surrounding areas to search for food sources, but in fact, beyond forty miles away, even if they are fed, there is basically not much help, first of all, a round-trip distance is enough to choke, can not go back and forth in one day, it is equivalent to going out to find food The team has to sleep in the wild, if it is summer, it is easy to say, and now that winter is approaching, the small knives in the night of Longyou are soaring, and it will even fall below freezing in the middle of the night!

On the other hand, looking for food is a team, no matter how it is a small team of one or two hundred people, there is no problem in bullying ordinary farms and cottages, but if you really want to encounter the Han army city with high walls and deep forts, there is no way......

In addition, the Qiang people are currently very tired, these days they have been beaten and taken away, driven hundreds of miles, have no food to eat, no drink, and can only sleep in the wilderness, even if they are iron men, they have gradually dried up their bodies, and their energy and physical strength have been consumed to the limit.

Especially war horses.

Comparatively speaking, people's endurance is stronger than that of horses, so in such a process of consuming energy and physical strength, people can hold up more than horses, but what is the use of just holding on?

The Qiang people came, the total number of the main force was about 20,000 cavalry, and most of the rest were some women and children who accompanied the army, although they also got bows and arrows, after all, the combat power was a little worse, and the war horses brought could have been one person and two horses, but now, the war horses that can go into battle have greatly attenuated over time. A large number of war horses in the autumn are not easy to raise the autumn fat, consumed cleanly, and even exposed ribs, and if this continues, even if these horses can recover, they need to be raised for a long time to recover.

Now what can support the Qiang people to continue to stay in Liuji County is nothing more than a little extravagant thought that only exists in their hearts.

The Qiang people can endure hardship, so they gritted their teeth, like hungry wolves with their chests against their backs, drooling, cruising and wandering around Ji County.

There is still hope......

Yes, it must be.

Quinoa Xiangli was not as optimistic as Ma Chao, he stared at Ma Chao's figure in the distance, threw the bones that had been gnawed up in his teeth to the ground, bared his teeth that were still hanging with shreds, and said fiercely: "Han people...... The Han Chinese will not come to reinforcements...... It's ruthless enough......"

The Qiang are good at besieging cities, but not at sieges.

Not to mention the city, even if it is a white mountain that can be climbed in a large area, the fierce Xiongnu at that time was not able to attack it, although there are factors that each tribe of the Xiongnu has its own thoughts, but it can also be seen that the nomads are really not very good at conquering the city, like the later Yuan Qing, back to the artillery green camp army or something, in fact, more Han people fight themselves.

When the Han people faced the invasion of the Hu people, they did not use whips to urge them many times, because everyone understood that once the Hu people outside the city broke through the city, no one would be spared. Over the years in Longyou, the Qiang people have come and gone, and many people have learned the brutal methods of the Qiang people, so the city of Ji County has become a fortress for everyone, and this fortress protects not only themselves, but also their wives and children, without any choice, and without any luck.

So from the beginning, quinoa Xiangli and Ma Chao's siege of Ji County was extremely difficult and tragic, every battlement on the city seemed to be stained with blood, and the two sides were constantly exchanging lives, depending on which side could not hold it first.

The county system of the Han Dynasty has flaws, but it also has advantages.

Power is like a huge piece of meat, when the emperor of the Han Dynasty was strong, the knife in his hand was sharper, and he naturally snatched a lot of interests, and harvesting the world's rich was like cutting leeks, but with the gradual bluntness of the knife, the middle palace, relatives, and scholars also came up to grab meat to eat, and then you stared at me, I stared at you, holding each other's territory, and then staring at the meat in other people's bowls.

The county place is the meat in the right bowl of the Shi clan Hao.

For Ji County, the Jiang and Yang families are both surnames around Ji County and have a reputation, so when Jiang Jian and Yang Fu join hands to stand together, and face the current emergency with the people in Ji County, there will naturally not be many noisy voices. For the people of Ji County, Jiang Jian and Yang Fu are all on the front line, so what else is there to say about their own family?

Under such conditions, quinoa could not find any cheapness.

Quinoa Xiangli is the leader of Xian Lingqiang, and among Xian Lingqiang, he is even called the king of Qiang. Of course, the infighting between the Qiang people is also very ferocious, so this Qiang king or something, in fact, most of the other Qiang tribes don't admit it.

However, if you don't admit it, you don't admit it, but most Qiang people are still somewhat convinced by the quinoa that has been zero-Qiang.

During the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, Xian Lingqiang took the lead in confronting the Han army, and finally dragged the Han down, but Xian Lingqiang was also greatly injured, and all the other Qiang people moved some thoughts, but soon after, quinoa Xiangli was born, not only to stop the rebellion and seizure of power within Xian Lingqiang, but even to the surrounding other Qiang people who were about to move, and soon stabilized the situation and restored the status of Xian Lingqiang.

This time, Quinoa Xiangli and Ma Chao made a plan to besiege the city and send reinforcements, but they never expected that after such a long time, the Han army was like abandoning Ji County, and they didn't send any reinforcements at all!

Such a starving army and horses, wishing that the Han people would send reinforcements, so that the Qiang people could choose to use the methods they are best at in the wilderness to abandon the siege to attack the reinforcements, and once the other party is given the opportunity to attack the reinforcements, then what will be the consequences?

There are reinforcements from the Han people, which means that there is grain and grass, population, utensils, and countless baggage, and the advantages of the Qiang people in the field can also be fully demonstrated, so even if Ji County will not be able to attack for a while, it can also follow the baggage of the Han reinforcements, drag it down, surround it, and finally trap Ji County in the city.

However, now, the reinforcements of the Han people are nowhere to be found, and those who are dragged to death seem to be the Qiang themselves......

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Xu Huang was a little worried in his heart.

Li Ru still sits firmly in the government, every day as if he has long forgotten Ji County, and he doesn't seem to be worried about the safety of Ji County at all.

This Li Changshi, there should be a comprehensive arrangement, right?

Yes, it must be.

Although Xu Huang thought so in his heart, he did not receive the order to send reinforcements for a long time, which made Xu Huang very worried about Ji County. Without sending reinforcements, Xu Huang could almost imagine that this group of hungry and crazy Qiang people would use all means to attack the city, and this battle to defend the city would also be extremely tragic......

Although the Qiang people are not good at attacking cities, there is a very serious problem for people in Ji County, that is, military morale. As long as the party defending the city collapses psychologically, it will inevitably panic, and once it panics, it will almost certainly be breached, so that tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the entire Ji County will be finished.

Although he thought so, Xu Huang also knew that before he was ready, he sent reinforcements to rescue him at will, which undoubtedly gave the Qiang people a chance to replenish supplies.

So......

You can only watch from the wall.

My hands are itchy, and my heart is itching, but I can only endure it.

Meng Shu and the others have already arrived, but after these soldiers of the Meng clan arrived, they basically trained in a closed field in the school field, and basically did not show up, and Xu Huang didn't know what medicine was in the gourd of Meng Shu.

Compared with Xu Huang's somewhat uncertain, Li Ru seemed very stable.

Li Ru's familiarity with the Qiang people is like knowing himself, he has dealt with the Qiang people for half his life, and he deeply knows that the Qiang people are actually a group of guys who bully the soft and fear the hard, arrogant to the boundless, and humble when they are humble, so the best way to control the Qiang people is to prove that they are stronger and more powerful than the Qiang people!

Although Ji County must be under tremendous pressure at the moment, no matter how tired the defenders of Ji County are, Li Ru believes that as long as they can slow down the pace of the Qiang people, the price paid for these hours is worth it.

This time, those who followed Ma Chao to invade Longyou are all Shengqiang, that is, they were originally in the north of Xiliang, close to the Western Regions, and some of them are located in the high mountains and deserts, these people and the Han people have less communication with each other, and they are not connected to the king, if they can take such an opportunity to eliminate these Qiang people, or to be disabled in Ji County, then this war can be regarded as a complete victory!

From now on, the Qiang people must be frightened, and they will not dare to turn around for a long time, so for the overall situation of the general Fei Qian, who is the general of the expedition to the west, the room for maneuver and maneuver is naturally much greater.

What Li Ru needs is a complete victory, a complete victory like a miracle!

A cold wind whistled through the air.

Li Ru looked up at the sky, and now that the land and people are ready, he is waiting for the arrival of the heavens......

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The Qiang people's frenzied siege of the city for several days made the entire Ji County enter the most dangerous moment.

Jiang Jian and Yang Fu took turns on duty, leading countless soldiers and civilians to defend on the city wall, and the Qiang people who flocked to the city bent their bows and arrows on the earthen platform under the city and on the tower of Zha, shooting indiscriminately at the head of the city.

But the consumption of arrows is very large, in the later period, the Qiang people even have to secretly take advantage of the night, send people to the city of Ji County to pull out those arrows that are still intact to reuse, so that many Qiang people can only pinch the bow empty, wait under the city, and can't use their strength.

Some weak war horses also became food for the Qiang people before the siege.

The Qiang people were red-eyed, resentful in the direction of Ji County, and then the elders of the clan sang an unknown emphasis, cut off the horse's head, decomposed it and threw it into the pot, and then gave food and drink to the Qiang people who were about to attack the city.

Quinoa Xiangli became more and more anxious, at this moment, he even hoped that the reinforcements of the Han people would appear in front of his eyes, and even if the general of the tricolor banner attacked in person, he would rush forward without fear!

The Qiang people are like a knife, this knife has been sharpened in Ji County for too long, and it is necessary to find flesh and blood in order to vent the killing intent......

In order to vent these killing intents, Quinoa Xiangli even braved the bone-chilling wind of winter to organize the Qiang people to attack Ji County at night!

The Qiang people who braved the biting cold wind secretly put the cloud ladder on the city wall of Ji County, and those Qiang people who suddenly jumped out and climbed in the darkness cut it off at a glance, like a demon running out of hell!

Every Qiang person who attacked at night let out a hoarse roar from his mouth, and the reverberation became a ball, rushing to his face, almost swallowing the Ji County in front of him!

The soldiers guarding the city in Ji County were already exhausted for several days, and their spirits were inevitably a little negligent, and they thought that the Qiang people were sneaking to pull out arrows and go back to use, but they didn't care too much, but they never thought that the Qiang people who fought at sunrise and sunset for days launched a surprise attack on this night!

However, these Han soldiers on duty still fulfilled their responsibilities at the last moment, gritted their teeth, and at the same time sounded the warning gong, shouting wildly, "Enemy attack!" Enemy attack! ”

Anytime, as long as the soldiers are attacked when they are unprepared, the level of chaos is the same, even the elite soldiers will be flustered, but the difference is that the time required to change from panic to calm is different.

The Qiang people's unexpected sudden night attack, especially when Quinoa Xiangli sent his most elite armored warriors up, Jixian's defense was really like a thin fence, as if it would be pushed to the ground in the next moment!

The elite armored warriors of Quinoa Xiangli all have armor, and they hold long blades in their hands, which are extremely ferocious, and some even simply hold heavy long-handled maces, and when they are smashed, even the shield may not be able to carry it!

A tall figure appeared in the ranks of the Qiang people, jumping in the firelight, carrying a spear-like weapon in his hand, pulling the ladder with one hand, and climbing up quickly.

It was Ma Chao.

Ma Chao turned over the battlements and shouted: "Break the city today!" Three days of banning! You don't need to hand over what you earn! ”

The Qiang people were stimulated to the point that their blood was boiling, and they roared and wanted to completely extinguish the defenders of Ji County!

Maybe tonight, the deadlock will be broken!