The king of Donghu was furious because of the Liang Dynasty's failure to pay tribute, and although he still maintained the trade of Datong Mansion, he was still obsessed with it, waiting for an opportunity to start a war, so that the Liang Dynasty would continue to pay tribute to him with gold and silver.

In fact, he also hated his subordinates for running to Datong Mansion to rob caravans, but the problem was that Donghu at this time was not completely unified, and the leaders of the two tribes were all detached from him, including several robberies.

King Donghu had considered sending troops to attack those two tribes, but he was worried that in the war, if the two tribes joined forces against him, he would be more troublesome. So he decided to keep his head in obscurity for a while, and when the size of the army reached 150,000, he would consider whether to completely unify the desert.

Like last time, he didn't plan to attack the Hexi Corridor, but he suddenly heard that the Turks in the west were fighting with the Golden Horde and the New Outer Khanate, and later heard that there was an unusual movement in the Jiuquan garrison, so he felt that the opportunity had come to seize an empty city and then negotiate with the Liang Dynasty.

This time he came to an empty city, so he marched very fast, and brought only 20,000 archers, archers are the standard troops of the Donghu people, when the distance is far away, archery, when charging or fighting, will also shoot two rounds, and then pull out a variety of melee weapons, among which the full moon scimitar is more common.

The Full Moon Scimitar is practical, but the only drawback is that it is short.

It's not that the Donghu don't want to use longer weapons, but because they have too little iron. If they had enough iron, they wouldn't have spared it this way. They also prepared some wooden weapons to increase the range of their weapons, but most of their archers did not like to wear them.

Facing the cavalry of the Donghu people, Tang Yuan also felt a headache, but the matter had come to this point, and he couldn't give in, so let Chen Bao rush into the city first, and occupy the city first.

"Report, General Chen Bao has entered Jiuquan City, and the east and west gates are all closed." Feng Pegasus said.

"What about the north and south gates?" Tang Yuan was puzzled.

"It has long been sealed by the pawn, and the general said that the road through Jiuquan is mainly east-west, and the north and south gates are left for what? Leave it for the enemy to attack? Later, the warden also demolished the Weng City at the north and south gates, and used them to increase the city defense. Now Jiuquan City is even higher than before, 10,000 people defend the city, and the enemy's 30,000 troops may not be able to take it. Feng Feima said with a grin.

"Okay." Tang Yuan said: "As long as the food is enough, we will consume him." But ......" Tang Yuan thought for a while and said: "No, once the city is closed, the impact on the caravan is too great, the war can't be fought for too long, I have carefully looked at the terrain of Jiuquan, there is a gourd mouth in the north, if time comes, maybe you can set up an ambush there." ”

"I'm afraid it's too late." Feng Feima said: "The enemy's marching speed is also very fast, it is estimated that they will arrive in front of our infantry, and when the time comes, let's not meet them in the suburbs, otherwise our infantry will suffer a big loss." ”

"Hehe, not necessarily." Tang Yuan said: "In order to deal with these Hu cavalry, I don't put a lot of effort into training in peacetime, our hedgehog array is enough for them to drink a pot, and the general is not far from us, I think he Donghu King is here to pick up the leak, if he can't pick it up, or touches the nail, he will leave by himself." ”

"Then do we still need to fight him?" Feng Feima was puzzled.

"Fight, of course you have to fight." Tang Yuan said: "The king of Donghu is on an expedition, and now his troops are exhausted. ”

"But we're tired too."

"They are Male, we are tired, after Chen Bao closed Jiuquan, he couldn't defend it. King Donghu will be trapped outside the city for a while, I guess he didn't bring much siege equipment, he may not dare to attack the city at all, can only play the siege of the city to send reinforcements. And we are the reinforcement, and I have already thought about it, so I jumped into his trap. Tang Yuan said with an oath.

Feng Feima was speechless.

Li Xian said: "My brother, are you crazy? ”

"You're crazy." Tang Yuan scolded: "On weekdays, I asked you to train the hedgehog formation, how are you training?" ”

"Huh? My brother, don't be kidding! Li Xian exclaimed: "Didn't you ask me to take a thousand people to set up a hedgehog array with the Donghu people, right?" ”

"What are you afraid of?" Tang Yuan said: "There are a lot of generals under you, all of them are your cronies you brought out from the Flying Tiger Army before, as long as your hedgehog array is firmly placed, with your shield, the enemy's bow and arrow will not be able to take you." With your spears, you can counterattack the enemy, a thousand of you can contain the enemy, and Tang Hu and I will sneak attack on both sides, and we will definitely have the power to fight. ”

Li Xian's eyes were glazed.

"What? Can't? Tang Yuan asked.

Li Xian suddenly slapped his chest and said, "Dare!" ”

"Okay, it's really a bit embarrassing for you to bring a thousand people, I asked Liu Zhan to take a thousand people to accompany you, Liu Zhan usually trains the hardest, and his troops are also very orderly. The two of you form two hedgehog formations, echoing each other, and will definitely hold out for a long time. ”

After receiving the order, Liu Zhan and Li Xian's troops separated from the large army, formed a double-headed snake formation, and advanced forward.

Tang Yuan asked Tang Hu to lead a thousand cavalry to ambush Hulukou, and told Tang Hu not to rush out, to see the situation clearly, and to send troops when the battle was the most anxious, Tang Hu agreed. Tang Yuan was not at ease with Tang Hu, and asked Zhang Jing to keep an eye on him, Zhang Jing handed over the troops to Tang Yuan to lead in person, and he only took the guards and left with Tang Hu.

There are still 5,000 people left, Tang Yuan with 1,000 people, Nalan Xin and Nahetutu with 1,000 people, Fu Ying, Chen Kai, and Liu Tan each with 1,000 people, maintaining an forward formation that can be set up at all times, and walking forward steadily.

Zahehan had already besieged Jiuquan City, and he had killed a man just now, because that man had misjudged the speed of his march, which caused them to fall short.

Chen Bao stood at the head of the city, scolding Zahehan, there are many foreigners in the city, who know some Donghu language, Chen Bao is now learning and selling, so he takes a few words and scolds in circles, he is tired of scolding, let the soldiers scold together, only look at Zahehan's army and roll his eyelids with anger, but he does not dare to attack the city.

I have to say that the pawn and the pawn brothers are indeed good generals, with limited funds, the city walls of the four counties of Hexi have been heightened and thickened a lot, Chen Bao stood on the towering city head, full of confidence, this is simply standing on the cliff to defend, the enemy climbed up from under the cliff, as long as he was pushed down, he fell directly into the abyss.

Defending this small city is the easiest task.

When the warden left, he took a lot of food and armaments, but he didn't bring any things for the infantry, and these things were turned out by Chen Bao and asked the militia soldiers to transport them to the city.