39 defeated the Huns
The Qin army did not chase either, and slowly formed a phalanx in the sound of drums, protecting the dead and wounded in the middle, carrying the corpses, supporting the wounded, and slowly retreating to the defensive line.
This Qin-Hun war lasted for an hour and a half and ended with the complete victory of the Qin army. This matchup scared many people. The Huns left most of the corpses behind, while the Qin army suffered limited casualties and retreated, leaving not a single corpse.
Shan Yu had to give the order to defend and convene the generals to discuss countermeasures.
Bayar said: "In a head-to-head battle with the heavily armored infantry and heavy cavalry of the Qin army, although we have no chance of winning, we must rush out before the wall is repaired. Otherwise, we'll starve to death in Cloudsdale. ”
"As long as we can rush out, everyone will have a share in the gold and women in the court. After lunch, the army attacked north, and if we did not break through the Qin army, we would not give up, and the immortal heaven would protect us! Touman said.
In the afternoon, the Xiongnu army continued to rush north in batches, and the Qin army adopted a heavy infantry formation combined with heavy cavalry maneuvers, strangling the lives of countless Huns. The Xiongnu's proud bow and arrow shot at the heavy armor of the Qin army, and it could not penetrate at all except for the sparks. Although the heavy cavalry of the Qin army was far less fast than the light cavalry of the Huns, they were like a stream of iron, crushing the military formations of the Huns one by one. The Huns were not afraid of death, although they also broke through the Qin army's formation several times, bringing casualties to the Qin army, but they were never able to get close to the rammed earth wall that was constantly getting higher.
During the war, the Qin army did not stop working on earth, and a wall more than 60 miles long was gradually getting taller. Meng Yi's 200,000 people are coming from all directions. Countless steamers laden with wood, weapons, and arrows and grain swam down the river, and the first wooden boat was constantly damaged by ice that had not yet completely melted!
Standing on the sturdy wall of the clouds, Touman Da Danyu knew that time was running out for him! As soon as Qin's earthen wall was completed, Cloud City would become a huge coffin, and his twenty years of brilliant achievements would be lost in a battle!
Touman Shan Yu's military tent was still Mengtian's shogunate some time ago, and dozens of generals were speechless and lifeless. If you can't win the fight, you can't break through and you can't break through, will hundreds of thousands of people be trapped here alive!
Tou Manshan Yu said loudly: "Breaking through is our only way to live!" We still have 300,000 troops, constantly attacking the north, even if the copper wall is impregnable, we will knock it open, as long as we enter the grassland, we are still kings! No matter how strong the Qin army is, they can't catch up. ”
"Bump him away and rush out!" The generals shouted loudly! Tou Manshan wanted the spirit of this kind of trapped beast fight, and said: "Pass the order, the whole army will cook, and when they are full, they will rush out and return to the grassland." ”
In the big tent of Meng Tian, the morale of the generals is high! The legendary first hero of the grassland, Tou Mandanyu, the unparalleled Hun cavalry in the world, is not very good in front of the Qin army. Meng Tian was very calm, and ordered to speed up the construction of the earthen wall. Pour cold water on everyone! said: "A small victory will be fluttering, the Huns and others will definitely attack our defense line at all costs, can we withstand the impact of 300,000 people?" Besides, we don't know where they are attacking, so let them escape, and we're going to waste all our efforts. Everyone must cheer up the spirit, as long as they are trapped for two days, Yunzhong City will be the living coffin of 300,000 Huns! ”
In the evening, a new round of contest was about to begin, and the Xiongnu divided 100,000 men to dismount and collect all the shields, dismantle the door panels of the houses in the city, and make pieces of wooden shields one person high. Da Shan Yu roared loudly: "We fell for the tricks of the Qin people, they tried to trap us alive in this city, we are free wolves on the grassland, the reward for rushing out today is 100 gold, and the first one to rush out will be rewarded with 10,000 gold." The whole army is only allowed to advance, and those who retreat are immediately beheaded. Kill me north.
"Kill, kill, kill!" The whole army shouted in unison! Everyone knows that if you can't get out, there is only one dead end!
With the horn of "woo woo woo", 20,000 Huns rushed north on foot with shields, followed by tens of thousands of crossbowmen. The cavalry in the rear carried a bag of dirt and threw it in front of the base of the earthen wall under the cover of the infantry.
The Qin army had already prepared, and thousands of arrows were fired in a hurry, but this time everyone in the Huns was not afraid of death, the front fell and the back was filled, stepping on the corpses of their own people, advancing to the wall, and the bows and arrows behind were also shot to cover. For a while, he actually suppressed the crossbow arrows of the Qin army at the head of the wall. The Hun cavalry quickly rushed forward, and bags of dirt quickly filled the earthen wall.
Seeing that the north was about to be lost, Meng Tian hurriedly ordered the heavy cavalry to rush and kill. If it is a battle between two armies, the heavy cavalry relies on the three cavalry cones to gain the advantage, but the charge killing is different, it all depends on the heavy armor protection on the body and the personal charge kill! For a while, the two armies were inseparable, the heavy crossbow of the Qin army also lost its effect, and the Hun cavalry continued to rush through the earthen wall, but the number was not much, and the pikemen behind the soil picked off the war horse, and the Qin army's Changyu was as long as four zhang, specifically to deal with the cavalry's charge. During the melee, the Xiongnu's superb archery skills gradually appeared, and many Qin soldiers had just emerged from the earthen wall, and they were immediately hit by arrows in the face. The attack lasted for two hours, and both sides were red-eyed, and although they were almost broken through several times, they still blocked the attack in the end. When the Xiongnu retreated, the corpses of both sides had already filled in the earthen wall to the north. The Huns left 80,000 corpses behind this time, and countless people were wounded. The Qin army also lost more than 20,000 dead and more than 30,000 wounded! The heavily armored cavalry that rushed into the enemy line also lost more than 5,000 casualties.
At this time, the pawn wife camp brought by Montenegro came in handy! They were all dressed in white clothes, white hats and white masks, first disinfected the wounded with alcohol, then sutured the wound with needles and threads, smeared with gold medicine, and finally fixed and bandaged with sterilized bandages and wood chips. Treat every wounded wound neatly! Left a good reputation among the wounded soldiers, and at the end of the day, the wounded affectionately called them fairies in white!
Meng Tian summoned the generals again to discuss: "In the evening, the first battle was full of dangers, and the Huns' will to fight without fear of death greatly surprised me. Now though the enemy retreats, he will attack at night. What better can you do? ”
Yan Han stood up and said, "The large bed crossbow is already in place, we can build another one thirty steps outside the earthen wall of the north gate, and put a hundred bed crossbows on the platform, and I will only shoot them in turn at the place that they have filled in, so as to ensure that they cannot rush out." Even if we rush out, we can't escape the spears behind, so that the enemy's bow and arrow can't shoot us, and we can take advantage of the long shot. ”
"Okay, you can do it quickly! Then I will bring in the crossbows of all the cities in the vicinity overnight, and the earthen walls shall be tightened, and after tomorrow I will trap them alive." Meng Tian ordered.
From the generals have promised to go! Montenegro said to Meng Tian: "My light cavalry is suitable for long-distance sneak attacks, and the Xiongnu are trapped here, and I would like to ask a general to order the north to go north to Shan Yuting and kick their lair." Never again! ”
"This is very good, but there should be tens of thousands of horses in the royal court alone, and you have 10,000 people to run long distances, I'm afraid the troops are not enough, or I will send you another 20,000!" Meng Tian said.
"Our army is specially trained, and pretending to be the Hun army can confuse the real with the fake, 12,000 is enough! You might as well divide 20,000 to attack Daqingshan, maybe there will be a harvest! ”
"So good! Go ahead and prepare! Depart tomorrow morning. Meng Tian received.
That night, the Huns really took advantage of the night to break through from the north gate again, this time it was exactly what Yan Han wanted, a hundred bed crossbows, every ten at the same time, just enough to be continuous. Powerful impact force, skewering countless Hun cavalry into sugar gourds! That night, more than 10,000 corpses were left behind and returned to the city!
Early the next morning, Montenegro led 12,000 men and 24,000 horses to the north, and this time he specially brought on the masks that Xiao Heihe had made.
After a day and a night of hard fighting, more than 300,000 people have been killed and wounded, and last night's Qin army's bed crossbow completely destroyed the illusion of breaking through. Touman simply took all the military horses into the city to rest, and announced that he would only defend and not attack today.
Another day passed, Touman's hair was all white overnight, he couldn't fight, he couldn't rush out, and it was a dead end to defend without reinforcements, and he was thinking hard about a way out.
As the saying goes, there is no endless road, and when Touman was drinking and eating without thinking about sorrow, his beloved wife Natoya said distressedly: "We still have nearly 200,000 people, why don't we let everyone think of a way out together?" Maybe there really is a small soldier who has a clever plan to get out? ”
Touman was overjoyed and immediately ordered: "Everyone, regardless of generals, soldiers, grooms, slaves and maids. Those who can offer clever plans to get the army out of danger can be rewarded with ten thousand gold, ten thousand households can be sealed, and those who speak are not guilty. ”
The order was conveyed to everyone at once. For a while, the whole city was lively! Everybody is talking about all sorts of strategies. In less than half a day, people came to offer advice one after another, and Touman was overjoyed and personally received everyone's suggestions. It's not enough that he'll be annoyed soon, what kind of plan are you offering! Some suggested surrendering first and then rebelling back to the grassland, and some offered plans to give Touman's beloved wife to Meng Tian for a way to live...... None of them are reliable anyway. But Touman didn't stop asking people to give advice, but found five of his most trusted subordinates to accept everyone's suggestions, and reported to him if he felt that it was reliable.
Just when Tou Mandan was frowning, a cronie came to report: "There is a groom who claims to have a wonderful plan to help Da Dan Yu get out, and he will only say that Da Dan Yu will meet him in person." "Tou Manshan Yu Daxi, with his character, if someone dared to treat him so arrogantly before, his head would have been cut off and made into a wine vessel. But now it was very different, and he thought that this groom had the pride of great talent, and immediately ordered to meet this groom.
The groom was dirty and smelly, with a long beard, nearly half a hundred years old, and a pair of eyes radiating wisdom. Tou Manshan Yu didn't care at all, very modestly invited him to sit down, rewarded him with a banquet, personally poured him a bowl of wine, the groom ate a few pieces of meat, the amount of wine was excellent, even drank several bowls of wine, and then said unhurriedly: "Da Dan Yu can order people to demolish the houses in the city, use these timbers to build ships, and secretly order people to dig tunnels to lead to the outside of the city." The Qin army must think that you want to escape from the waterway, so they will relax their vigilance and pay attention to the defense of the big river, which is called repairing warships and digging tunnels. After the tunnel is opened, you can secretly go out of the city, and the inside and outside should be combined, and the attack will open the gap and save everyone from danger. ”
Tou Manshan Yu was overjoyed when he heard this, and said, "It turns out that you are the savior sent by the Immortal Heaven!" "At that moment, he named the groom as the prime minister, and rewarded the two maidservants beside his wife to this groom. Immediately summoned the generals to give an order and do it according to the plan.
It is said that not long ago, Touman sent a leader in Daqingshan to lead an army of 20,000 to kill the whole clan of Lou Fu, Touman was angry, only remembered that this leader was a cronie he helped up, and forgot that this leader was also another branch of the Lou Fu Department, this leader is usually closer to Prince Maoton, his name is Mo Bu, and he is still the father-in-law of Prince Maoton. Originally, there was nothing wrong with the close relationship between the general and the prince, but the prince rebelled, and Mo Buguo felt that he was in danger! It happened that Tou Mandan asked him to kill the entire Lou Fu tribe, and he was also shocked, remembering his relationship with Prince Maudun and the fate of Haburi. As soon as he left Daqingshan, he hid and sent people to inform the tribes of Habuzhi, and all of them fled to his territory. A few days later, he learned that Touman Dashan Yu was leading all his army to attack Cloudsdale. Maudun was still locked up in Daqingshan, so he sneaked back, gave the guards a lot of gold, and let Maudun escape from Daqingshan to join him. Maudon didn't run far, but hid to keep a close eye on the battle situation in Cloudsdale. Mao Dun had a hunch that there must be a big conspiracy in Cloudsdale, and this conspiracy was that someone deliberately arrested his stepmother and younger brother, and the purpose was to lure his father's head Man Da Dan Yu forward. Sure enough, the next day, the news came that Touman was besieged in Cloudsdale. Mao Dun tried to rescue the Xiongnu army in Cloud City, he tried to send people back to Shan Yuting to transfer the last 30,000 cavalry, and on the other hand, he contacted other big tribes, if he could gather 100,000 people, he would still have a chance of winning. The left-behind general of Da Shan Yu Ting was Mao Dun's maternal uncle, Mao Dun asked Mo Bu to send a few cronies to see his own jade pendant to see his uncle, and explained: "This jade pendant is a wedding gift from my uncle, so I said that Da Shan Yu was besieged in Cloud City, and asked him to send troops to rescue him immediately." ”
When Prince Maudon was twenty years old, he invented an arrow in which two holes were drilled and a whistle sound was emitted when fired. He picked up hundreds of his men who were good at archery, and wherever he shot the horn arrows, let everyone follow him! After a while, everyone's archery skills have become more sophisticated. Once practicing archery, he shot the whistle arrow at his favorite BMW, some of his subordinates followed, most of them did not dare to shoot, and Mao Dun picked out a few people who did not dare to shoot and killed. Soon after, Mao Dun got married, and married the daughter of Mo Buguo, a famous beauty on the grassland, and the two were very affectionate. Once, when Maudon was taking everyone to practice archery, his wife came running to him, and Maudun shot his beloved wife with a whistle arrow, and most of his men followed suit. The wife was immediately shot as a hedgehog and died with a whimper! Maudon found the men who didn't shoot the arrows and killed some of them! From then on, wherever Maudun's arrows shot, his subordinates did not hesitate to shoot them. His father-in-law, Mo Buguo, not only did not blame Mao Dun for killing his daughter, but followed him even more with determination. Some of Maudun's subordinates were killed by their father some time ago, and a large part fled into the mountains to hide! Maudun was quick to summon them to his side again.
Besides, Montenegro received a military order, all dressed as Huns and went north to Dadan Yuting (now Ulaanbaatar), four days later, the outpost did not find that there were several horsemen in front of him, and he did not take his men with his men, one rushed to kill, and killed a few, leaving two alive. Montenegro was overjoyed when he heard this, and asked about the number of letters and troops, and then killed the two men. Continue north. When they were about to arrive at Shan Yuting, Montenegro asked everyone to get off their horses and rest, and he took a few people to a valley not far from the road, there was a big stone in the valley, and the stone did not know what age it was, and a few lifelike wolves were drawn. The black slave said: "The Huns in this valley are called the Valley of the Wild Wolf, and there is a cave in the valley, and when they were merchant, they spent the night in that cave. ”
When you climb up in Montenegro, you can see that this is a good place to ambush and kill the enemy. Montenegro immediately sent a large army over and laid an ambush on the hills on both sides of the valley. Send Baturu and Na not, pretending to be the messenger of Maudun, and take the jade pendant of the prince of Maudun to the court of Dadan. It's not the first time the two have done this kind of thing, and they have long been familiar with it.
In less than half a day, he entered the court. He said to the guards guarding the door, "We are the messengers of Prince Maudun, and we want to see the chief of Burenpa!" ”
As soon as the doorman heard that it was the messenger of the eldest prince, he immediately went to pay his respects, and in a short time he saw the chief of Burenba. Baturu handed the jade pendant to the leader of Burenba and said, "Da Dan Yu fell for the tricks of the Qin people and was besieged in Cloud City, and the prince of Maudun wanted to ask the leader of Bu Renba to lead all the troops to join him to rescue Da Dan Yu. ”
Burenba was a very cautious person, and asked: "Who are you from the eldest prince, why don't I know him, and I want to transfer troops with a piece of jade pendant?" ”
"Chief Burenba, we are the people of the leader of Mobu, the eldest prince said that this jade pendant is a wedding gift from his uncle! You'll know it at first sight! Baturu said.
"Although you are the messenger of the Great Prince, I heard that the Great Prince has betrayed Da Shan Yu and has been imprisoned. How can I trust you? Burenba said.
"It was the Qin people who sent people to kidnap the young lady and the little prince, in order to lure Da Shan Yu to Yunzhong County to rescue them, so as to surround Da Shan Yu. Da Shan Yu suspected that the eldest prince and the leader of Habra did it, so he killed everyone in Habra in a fit of anger and imprisoned the eldest prince, and now the truth is revealed, but Da Shan Yu has been fooled and besieged. The leader of Mobuguo rescued the eldest prince, who was concerned about the safety of his father and the Hun army. Prepare to gather all the people and horses from all over the country to rescue with all your might, but if you can't save it, hundreds of thousands of Huns will have to die under the sword of the Qin people, and many of them are your clansmen. "That's not quite right.
Burenba has received secret reports from scouts many times! I don't know much about Daqingshan, but I don't understand it all! No more doubts. He decided to say, "I'll take everyone south right away." ”
"The chief of Burenba, the eldest prince confessed, in a place called Wild Wolf Valley, there is a cave behind the valley, and he has hidden some things in the cave for you to come with him." Baturu said again.
"Oh! The Great Prince still has a secret warehouse in that place? Burenba had some doubts, but he knew his nephew very well and knew that the eldest prince was ambitious, so he no longer doubted it!
Montenegro asked his men to ambush on the hills on both sides of the valley, asking everyone to remain motionless and not expose their targets! He hid in the outermost part with 3,000 men and waited for the arrival of Burenba's army!
Suddenly, Montenegro felt that the valley was too quiet, and when he first came in, there were many birds and beasts that were alarmed, and now they were all gone, and it would be difficult for Burenba to do it if he suspected it! He is only 10,000 people, and he will definitely be besieged by 30,000 people. Montenegro had an idea and ordered the rice brought by the army to be sprinkled on the large and small stones on both sides of the valley. The generals were puzzled, but they did it anyway! Spring is late in the north, and there is still a thick layer of snow on the mountains here. The rice stands out on the stones. It didn't take long for a small bird to fly down and peck at the rice, and at first it was cautiously guarded, and then there were more and more!
Just when his hands and feet were numb, Meng Hao came to report: "The Huns are here!" A few wolf howls immediately sounded at the mouth of the valley, and a few rang out in the valley at once! This is a code from the enemy!
Nearly twenty years after Touman unified the Xiongnu steppe, there had been no war in Yuting alone, and Burenba did not suspect an ambush at all, and the army entered the valley without hesitation! Once again, the wild birds on both sides of the valley were startled.
When Montenegro saw that all the Huns had entered the valley, he immediately ordered an attack! and ordered the mouth of the valley to be blocked immediately. The carpenter had already taken aim at Baturu and Burenba, who was not very close to him, and his personal entourage were all sharpshooters he had trained, and as soon as the attack began, he immediately shot at Burenba in a volley, and immediately hit countless arrows in his body, and his life was whimpered! Everyone is high and downward, the Huns' arrows can't shoot so high, there is no way to hide! In an hour, 30,000 people would be 30,000 corpses!