The 20,000 people of the Xianlingqiang Department have arrived outside Jiuyuan City under the command of their tribal leaders.

The war for grain and grass began from here.

"Boom!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

"Woo woo——!"

The first Lingqiang warriors beat the war drums, blew the horn of attack, and the dull and wild sound surrounded the land, and did not disperse for a long time.

"Phew!"

The enemy troops outside the city shouted in unison, and the shouts shook the sky!

They held horned shields and raised spears, and among the 20,000 enemy troops, a total of 10,000 foot soldiers were arranged in 5 infantry phalanxes, slowly advancing towards Jiuyuan City.

Ma Chao looked at the enemy's formation, and said with heartfelt emotion: "It is worthy of being the first Lingqiang who once founded the country, and it is completely different from the Qianghu we encountered before!" ”

Sima Cuo, who was observing the enemy's formation, stepped forward and said: "This battle must be a protracted battle, it cannot be achieved overnight, our army needs to be ready to fight at any time!" ”

Jia Xu shook the feather fan in his hand and said: "The plan has been implemented, as long as you hold it for a while, the next time is when our army counterattacks!" ”

Outside the city, the five phalanxes of the Pioneer Infantry had advanced to within range of the archers of the city walls.

Sima Cuo ordered: "Release the arrow!" ”

The first Lingqiang infantry phalanx raised its horn shields to block the arrows and feathers on the city wall, and protected the rows of siege soldiers from quickly approaching the city wall.

"Siege!"

The Qiang warriors held a long ladder and immediately set up the city wall, and the first warriors quickly climbed the long ladder and quickly approached the city wall guards.

"Splash oil!"

Su Dingfang instructed the guards to pour a large amount of fire oil on the enemy's long ladder, and then lit torches and threw them downward.

The fire exploded, and in an instant, under the city walls, there was a sea of flames everywhere.

A large number of Pioneer Zeroqiang warriors were in flames, and they screamed loudly and burned to the ground.

"Don't be afraid! Go ahead and besiege the city! ”

The pioneer general led by the Qiang people roared loudly: "The first to climb the wall of the Han army will be rewarded with a thousand gold and 1,000 shepherds!" ”

"Kill!"

There were Qiang warriors who were not afraid of death, and one by one, like monkeys in the sky, quickly climbed the city wall, and the guards didn't have time to smash the long ladder.

"Defend the walls!"

Zhang Liao waved the crescent halberd in his hand, stabbed a Qiang warrior to death with a halberd, and with a backhand swing, the heads of several Qiang warriors behind him were cut off by Zhang Liao.

The flames swept towards the sky with heavy black smoke, and on the city wall, the fire flew into the sky, and the Han and Qiang troops were killed together, unable to distinguish each other.

Ma Chao was furious: "He was actually climbed on the city wall so quickly, is this the strength of Xian Lingqiang!" ”

Jia Xu quickly picked up Ma Chao, got off the city wall, and ran wildly into the city: "Meng Qi, now is not the time to talk about this, let's retreat quickly!" ”

Outside the city, the drums shook the sky, the Qiang warriors were shouting loudly, and at the city gate, the city hammer was repeatedly hitting the gate.

The city gate was rushed to the ground, and hundreds of soldiers inside the gate relied on their own weight to prevent the city gate from being breached.

However, the mantis arm was used as a car, and in an instant, it was broken through the gate!

"Retreat!"

"Retreat!"

Su Dingfang had already led his troops out of the back door, culling the Xianlingqiang soldiers who came up, Zhang Liao and Sima Cuo were left and right, protecting Ma Chao and Jia Xu out of the city.

The first Lingqiang general shouted: "Catch the enemy generals of the Han army, don't let them run!" ”

The city gate was broken through, and thousands of Qiang warriors flew into the city like locusts, and Sima Coo was in the city, using the streets and other terrain to continuously arrange more than ten lines of defense.

However, the first Lingqiang soldiers were brave and unstoppable, and more than ten lines of defense barely allowed Ma Chao and the others to escape from Jiuyuan City!

"Get on board!"

Sima Coo hugged Ma Chao, Zhang Liao took Jia Xu, led more than 1,000 cavalry, and fled along a bloody road killed by Su Dingfang's department.

Ran all the way to a small road, Ma Chao wiped off the black ash on his face, opened the thermal imaging map, pointed in a direction, and said: "This road leads to Xi'anyang, let's go here!" ”

Wrong!

Ma Chao found that a large number of red dots representing the enemy suddenly appeared around him!

As soon as the words fell, there was a bang, and hundreds of Qiang soldiers were killed around, and Ma Chao exclaimed: "There are actually ambush soldiers!" ”

The ambush general who took the lead said fanatically: "Glorious Xianlingqiang soldiers, destroy this enemy army, take its head, and go back to receive the reward!" ”

Sima Coo protected Ma Chao: "Protect the young master!" ”

"Kill!"

Zhang Liao took the lead, killed the enemy with a halberd, and quickly broke through the ambush circle.

Seeing that there was a gap, Sima Cuo immediately filled it, killed the enemy who had retreated from the encirclement, and shouted: "Young master, go quickly!" ”

But they were few, and the war horses were quickly chopped up by the Qiang people, and without the war horses, how could they escape?

"Want to go? It's not that easy! ”

From behind, a cavalry team of Xian Lingqiang came, and the leading general drew the war horse wildly, and the war horse was in pain, and galloped towards Ma Chao.

"Not good!"

Sima Cuo raised the bronze sword in his hand with his backhand, and aimed at the horse's head was a flying sword.

"Go!"

Poof!

The head of the war horse was pierced by the bronze sword, and the horse lost its front hooves and fell directly to the ground, throwing the Qiang generals on horseback away.

The corpse of the war horse fell on the side in front of Ma Chao's body, and he could pass by the god of death, and then he came back to his senses and said hatefully: "First Lingqiang!" I remember you! ”

Before the enemy general could get up from the ground, Ma Chao and a group of people snatched the Qiang war horses and quickly fled from here.

Rushing all the way to Xi'an Yang City, Su Dingfang's department had already entered the city and began to act according to the plan.

Jiuyuan County is the seat of Wuyuan County, radiating the entire sphere of influence of Wuyuan County, Jiuyuan has a very special geographical location, just in the center of Wuyuan County, surrounded by other 8 county seats.

Jia Xu's plan was to disperse his forces to the other 8 county towns, leaving a small number of defenders in Jiuyuan City and pretending to defend the city.

When the Qiang people swarmed in, they used the strength of 8 county towns to gather and attack Jiuyuan City in the center!

The scouts had already set off and sent orders to 8 county towns, and soon, that night, Ma Chao's army divided his troops into eight routes, hunted and killed scattered small Qiang troops along the way, and returned to the outside of Jiuyuan City again.

Looking at the Jiuyuan City in front of mea, I saw that the city was brightly lit, full of laughter and laughter of the Qiang people.

Ma Chao crawled in the grass and sneered: "Let you be cool first, and then it will make you even cooler!" ”

"Master Jia, should there already be a code in the city?"

Jia Xu nodded: "Our army has made an appointment with the people in the city to raise a fire, and at this time, we are waiting for them to set fire." ”

The time has passed, but the Qiang people in the city are still singing and dancing, so it is not lively.

A burst of fire suddenly broke out at the west gate of Jiuyuan City!

There was a scream in the city, and the fire was so thick that it burned all over the sky, and the clouds above the sky were covered with fiery red.

Ma Chao was about to lead his troops to attack Ximen, but Jia Xu suddenly grabbed him and shook his head gently.

"Master Jia?"

When Ma Chao was still confused, there was a shout of killing in the city, followed by the sound of firefighting.

"This, this is?"

Have all the people in the city been killed by the Qiang?

At this moment, Jia Xu stood up suddenly, and in his eyes, the coldness turned into a severe cold and spread, and he ordered: "Sima Cuo, you can lead the army to shoot rockets into the city." ”

"Remember, only shoot rockets at the West Gate."

Hundreds of rockets were fired into the city, and with a bang, there seemed to be a burst of thunder in the flat ground!

The alchemy priests of the Western Han Dynasty have long discovered that the use of saltpeter, sulfur, realgar, orpiment, etc., put into a bamboo tube and refine it by water method, can be made into the earliest ignite, with a certain explosive power.

Under the west gate of Jiuyuan City, Jia Xu asked the people in the city to bury a large number of ignition materials, and then spread straw on them to avoid the enemy's sight.

Even if the Qiang people found out, they didn't know what it was.

In history, Dong Zhuo set fire to Luoyang, that is, buried these ignitions in various streets in the city, and burned down a fire, quickly burning down the entire Luoyang City in a short period of time, and the walls were cleared to block the Dong coalition army.

However, these igniters were not real gunpowder, so the Han Dynasty still mainly used cold weapons to fight.

Having said that, the West Gate was broken by Ma Chao's army, and the city was in flames, and there were burning people everywhere, screaming and fleeing in all directions.

Jia Xu sighed and said: "This trick is the most efficient method that Xu can come up with, but it is detrimental to Yin morality, I hope that Xu can live for a few more years in the future." ”

Fire attack Jiuyuan City!

The first Lingqiang soldiers who rushed out of the fire city were poked into hedgehogs by the Han army who surrounded them from all directions before they had time to rejoice in their escape.

Under the command of Su Dingfang, the scattered troops of the eight county towns gathered outside the city of Jiuyuan, circled the city wall, and repeatedly hunted and killed the Qiang warriors who escaped from the city.

The 20,000-strong Xianlingqiang army, after this battle, suffered more than half of the casualties, and could not hold Jiuyuan City at all, so they had to lead the army to break out of the encirclement and retreat to Xihe County.