In the early morning of the next day, when the sky had just dawned, and when more than 100,000 refugees who had been crying and crying all day were immersed in sleep, suddenly a faint sound like thunder came from the northwest direction, and the sound became louder and more intense, and then it sounded like a thunderbolt, and the ground was trembling slightly.

Before the large number of civilians who had been awakened from their sleep had yet to understand what was going on, the soldiers on guard at the head of the city opened their sleepy eyes and saw a cavalry of thousands of men rolling in from the northwest towards Shaqi City like a tidal wave.

"Woo~~"

The terrible sound of trumpets sounded wildly in the dawn, followed by the panicked cries, rans, and confusion of countless people.

The sound of shouting, shouting, and crying of terror caused chaos inside and outside the city in an instant, and a large number of refugees sleeping in the open air in the deserted suburbs outside the city began to desperately crowd the city gates, and the defending generals, who had already seen the enemy, ordered the soldiers to close all the city gates, because once the city gates were opened at this time, the city gates could no longer be closed under the impact of such a terrible flow of people, and in an instant the city of Shaqi would be finished.

"Stand back and shoot arrows to disperse the crowd!" On the city wall, the generals roared loudly, and the bewildered soldiers could only shoot at the refugees below the city with their bows and arrows.

With the screams one after another, the whole scene became more chaotic, under the crowd and trampling, countless women, children, old and children were cried by the refugees and drowned in the crowded crowd, but under the pressure of the bow and arrow at the head of the city, a large number of refugees also knew that there was no chance to enter the city to hide, so they could only abandon the goods and livestock and cry and run to the surrounding wilderness.

"Hurry up, my lord, there is an enemy army attacking the city~"

A forbidden soldier on night duty rushed into the post house with a pale face and shouted.

The mission was awakened in an instant, Li Shun and others hurriedly got up and dressed up, and the forbidden army hurriedly dressed up and turned over on their horses, and the swords were unsheathed and the arrows were wound to surround the entire mission in the center.

At this time, there was no need to go to the city to watch, because the sound of horses' hooves coming from the ground was like muffled thunder, the ground trembled slightly, and the whole Shaqi City seemed to be shaking.

"My lord, listening to the voice, the enemy has no less than three thousand horses, and the momentum is fierce, the northwest gate is definitely impassable, hurry up and get out of the city from the south gate, Shaqi City will not last long!" The leader of the forbidden army urged with an anxious face.

Although the officials of the mission had all mounted their horses in fear at this time, and Bagilla and Althea and the others had all mounted on camels, everyone's faces were extremely frightened.

"I'm afraid it's too late!" Li Shun hesitated and said.

Sure enough, just as the envoy was leaving the post house and preparing to go to the south gate, one of the city lord's subordinates of Thuram galloped on horseback with a pale face and reported: "Your Excellency, the enemy has reached beyond the north gate, and the city lord has asked his subordinates to come and tell him that the city gate has been closed at this time, and no one can leave the city, lest the enemy take advantage of it!" ”

"Let's go, go to the north gate wall to see the situation!"

At this point, Li Shun can only temporarily give up going out of the city, it's not that he doesn't want to, as long as he wants to go, with more than 100 forbidden troops at the moment, he will definitely be able to break through the city gate and escape, but once he does this, the city gate will inevitably be lost, according to the news heard in the past few days, this enemy is very ferocious, almost slaughtering adult men, and in an instant, this still prosperous small city will become a hell on earth, and tens of thousands of people will be slaughtered.

After Li Shun and the others came down to the north of the city under the escort of the forbidden army and climbed the city tower, although the sky was not bright, the situation they saw in front of them was already like a hell on earth, although the rolling enemies were dressed in strange shapes and weapons, but they were all majestic war horses, and the number was about three thousand, but the three thousand horse troops were scattered and the violent impact speed was like a flood that instantly submerged the civilians who were crying and fleeing in all directions, and a large number of men were cut to the ground by people on horseback with various weapons, There were terrible screams and blood splashing all over the sky, and there were more cavalry standing on the stirrups hundreds of feet away, stretching their bows and arrows and rushing straight towards the city, quickly surrounding this small city within a radius of only two or three miles.

"Bow and arrow preparation, shooting~~"

Before the enemy approached, there were already generals on the city wall who couldn't wait to give the order to attack, and a round of arrows flew down the city wall, most of them were weakly inserted in the dirt, and even many of them hit the refugees fleeing in all directions, and almost none of the enemy was injured.

A group of forbidden soldiers involuntarily covered their eyes.

Li Shun also sighed cheekily, and ordered all the forbidden troops to prepare bows and crossbows, and when the enemy rushed to the city and began to shoot arrows, the forbidden army began to counterattack, with the sound of the bowstring and the crossbow of Kaka, the sharp steel arrows pierced the time and space of dawn, and the sound of arrows entering the flesh continued to be aggressive, accompanied by terrible screams, thirty or forty enemies close to the city wall fell from their horses.

"Huh~~~" Seeing that the Qin army's counterattack was effective, many soldiers from Shaqi City around the mission let out excited shouts.

For nomads, siege warfare is not good.

If there is no good timing, and as long as the defenders are persistent enough, most of them will generally be the failure of the nomads.

The Chinese art of war also attaches great importance to the tactics of defending and besieging the city, in the case of equal numbers, the siege war has almost no possibility of victory, so the siege is known as ten times the siege, five times the siege of the saying.

However, for a small city like Shaqi City, the art of war in the Central Plains did not work.

First of all, the city of Shaqi is located in the forested plains of the river, where nomads have almost never been there, and therefore have never experienced the lightning tactics of the enemy in front of them.

The second is that the city of Shaqi is not a strong city, there are no high walls and arrow battlements, it is a temporary castle of Alexander the Great, the height is not more than two zhang, the city gate is also very weak, and the defense ability is not strong.

The third is that the quality of soldiers and generals is too low, almost all of them are temporarily recruited civilians, many of whom can't even use bows and arrows, and the bows and arrows are made very simply, in the eyes of Li Shun and others, they are completely no different from garbage, and it is completely impossible to rely on these people to repel the enemy.

And the most important thing is that there are too many refugees in Shaqi City at the moment, and the lord of Shaqi City has put in nearly 40,000 refugees in order to collect more money, these people are a time bomb, and after a few days, the city will run out of ammunition and food, and there is no need for the enemy outside the city to attack, only need to surround it for seven or eight days, and the refugees in the city will definitely explode.

In the face of Shaqi City, which has closed the city gate, the enemy troops outside the city began to retreat and repair after a tentative attack, obviously planning to come to the early morning to sneak attack and want to pick up a leak, but fortunately, the city lord listened to Li Xin's words and closed the city gate at night, otherwise Shaqi City has been broken at this time, and tens of thousands of people in the city will be slaughtered or reduced to slavery.

"Woo~~"

With a few horns, Thuram, the lord of Shaqi, hurried to the city wall in disorganized clothes under the protection of a group of elite soldiers, and when he saw the enemies outside and the refugees who were being chased frantically, his frightened and twisted legs almost collapsed.

"How...... What to do, I ...... I'm going to die, we're all going to die......"

Thuram, who already knew the enemy's ferocity, was about to collapse, trembling with the click of his teeth.

"City Lord, the enemy can't break the city at this time, don't panic, you must stop more soldiers from going to the city wall to help fight, and organize civilians to demolish the houses, move wood and stones to the city wall, and wait for the enemy to counterattack when the city is attacking......," Li Shun reminded Thuram, who was trembling with a black face.

"City Lord, the messenger is right, we must defend the city, or we will all die!" Another minister, who was still calm, also shouted.

"Yes, yes, defend the city, hurry up and recruit soldiers among the refugees, all adult men will go up to the city wall to help defend the city, and women will be responsible for transporting stones and wood......" Thuram, who slowly came back to his senses, almost did not give the slightest discount to his subordinates to do as Li Shun said.

The panic inside the city began to subside, and the enemy outside the city began to assemble and slowly try to attack the city after chasing the fleeing refugees, but the enemy had to retreat after leaving hundreds of corpses near the city gate under the almost impossible counterattack of a group of forbidden troops.

By this time, the sky was already bright, the red sun was rising from the southeast, and the situation outside the city was unobstructed.

The number of enemy troops should only be about three thousand, but the composition is complicated, these three thousand people have at least seven or eight races, and the flags are also messy, Li Shun held a monocular in his hand to scan back and forth in the enemy army, and finally his eyes stopped on one of the flags, and after he looked carefully, the telescope almost fell to the ground with a shake of his hand.

"Lord Li, be careful!" An official hurriedly held Li Shun up, and Li Shun observed again for a few seconds before handing the telescope to the leader of the forbidden army and said, "Captain Qi, look at the third flag on the right!" ”

"Yes!" Captain Qi turned out to be in the telescope, and after only one glance, he couldn't help but exclaim: "Yue's people? ”

"Yes, this banner was first seen in the Yue Clan's royal court, it seems to be a tribe of the Yue Clan, and the name has been forgotten!" Li Xin nodded.

"So these people are from the Yue Clan?" An official of the mission exclaimed.

"How is it possible, the Yue Clan has not been conquered, and now it has become a citizen of the Liang Kingdom!" Another envoy retorted.

"No, no, it's the Yue people who are good, but they are not from the Liang country, when Li Xin and General Jiang Hu conquered the Yue Clan, but there were still some people who defected to the Western Regions, and later they were expelled from the Western Regions to the Northwest Desert, when we were in the Western Regions, we heard about this when we were in the Western Regions, their leader was called Bi Kun, and he was the original King of the Yue Clan's Tunan!" Li Shun shook his head and said.

"Yes, yes, I have indeed heard about this, these people are hiding in the north of the Tianshan Mountains, calling themselves the Great Moon Clan."

"This banner is not the banner of the Tunan Wang's clan, but it must be the Yue clan who defected with the Tunan Wang......" Li Shun stroked his chin with a short beard full of doubts, "If it is really the group of tribes that call themselves the Dayue Clan, how could they suddenly come here for thousands of miles, and there are two big countries along the way, Kangju Dawan, is it ...... Kangju and Dawan are also finished......"

"It's hard to guess about this matter, although the Dawan Kingdom is not strong, but the capital is tall and sturdy, it is very difficult to break through, these grassland barbarians don't know how to attack the city......"

"I don't know how to attack the city, don't forget that this is not the Central Plains, it is not impossible for Dawan to destroy the country by surprise, at the moment this small city is not dangerous to defend at all, and there is not enough food, grass and weapons, it can last for ten days at most!" Li Shun shook his head solemnly and interrupted his subordinates' words.

"My lord, since we know that these people may be King Tunan's subordinates, then King Tunan may have also arrived in Great Xia, this guy regards our Great Qin as a mortal enemy, we can't go to Dawan through Great Xia, and we can't make a detour to Dawan in Anxi, I'm afraid that if we want to go back to Daqin this time, we must only go to Yunnan through body poison......" Captain Qi put down the binoculars and his face was extremely ugly.

The task of the forbidden army this time is to accompany and protect the Li Shun mission, if there is a problem with the mission, even if he returns to Daqin safely, he will inevitably be punished by the first emperor, the current situation is a complicated mess, and the rest of Great Xia will not let them cross the border safely, so taking Lingnan is the only way.

But don't think too much about a place like Lingnan, except for the Yue people, who are like wild people and monkeys, those who are accustomed to life in the plains, want to travel through the past is more difficult than climbing to the sky.