The Wei soldiers guarding Da'e Mountain watched the fire engulf the fort gate, even if the fort gate was a foot thick, it was wooden, where could it withstand the fire?

During the burning of the fort gate, the scorching temperature made the defenders have to leave the female wall on the top of the fort, and the smoke produced during the burning caused the defenders to shed tears and cough.

By the time the fire had weakened and the gate of the fort had been burned open, under the leadership of Princess Tuzhen, hundreds of Rouran soldiers quickly rushed into the fort, and crossed the stones piled up behind the door to kill the defenders who had lost most of their combat strength.

Da'e Mountain Fort was breached, and the captured Wei soldiers reached more than 50 people, if it wasn't for Princess Tuzhen to stop it in time, I am afraid that these Wei soldiers would be killed by the murderous Rouran soldiers.

Following the Da'e Mountain Fort, Princess Tuzhen led the troops to attack the Tunqi Mountain Fort, and the Da'e Mountain Fort and the Tunqi Mountain Fort that were built in a hurry have a lot of defensive defects, and various factors were not fully considered in the construction, so the defense loopholes abound, and these loopholes were discovered and exploited by Princess Tuzhen.

Unlike Da'e Mountain Fort, after the Tunqi Mountain was breached, the defenders carried out a fierce resistance under the leadership of the team leader, and finally all of them were killed, and Princess Tuzhen also lost more than 70 people.

The battle against Tunqi Mountain Fort was a tragic battle for Princess Tuzhen, and the fierceness of the Wei soldiers here was completely different from when she led her army to attack Da'e Mountain.

Seeing the corpses, stumps and severed arms and arrows, knives, and spears scattered everywhere all over the fortress, Princess Tozhen took a deep breath and ordered: "Gather them all together and burn them all, and destroy this fort!" ”

"Yes, princess!"

For the soldiers of any army, a general who can lead them to victory is worthy of loyalty and sincere support, even if Princess Tuzhen is just a woman, but she has this ability and personality charm to make these Rouran soldiers not afraid of death.

For two or three days in a row, the news that the two big forts of Da'e Mountain Fort and Tunqishan Fort were successively breached by the Rouran people came back to the Jinling camp, and the Wei army of the Jinling camp did not even have time to react, and the two fortresses were razed to the ground.

Zhao Junsheng was assigning the task of escorting grain and grass materials to his baggage troops, and he was also about to personally lead the team to send grain and grass materials to Nantianbao, which was guarded by Mulan, when he heard these two unfortunate news.

Zhao Junsheng, who heard the news, was in a state of confusion, and immediately went to the camp of the Zhenshu Army to ask for Wandu's return.

"War master, now that the two big forts of Da'e Mountain and Tunqi Mountain have been broken and burned by the Rouran people one after another, as the most prominent Nantian Fort in the north, it must also be the target of the Rouran people's attack, they will definitely send troops to attack the Nantian Fort in the next step, please send troops to reinforce the Nantian Fort as soon as possible, otherwise Mulan and they will be in danger!"

Wandu got up and poured a bowl of hot water for Zhao Junsheng to comfort him: "Don't worry, drink a bowl of hot water and listen to what Ben will tell you!" ”

Zhao Junsheng took the pottery bowl and said anxiously: "My military master, how can I have the heart to drink water now, I can't wait to fly to Nantian Fort immediately, it is only half a day's journey from here, and it will not take two hours to send cavalry over to reinforce it!" ”

Wan Dugui was not affected by Zhao Junsheng's anxious emotions, and said in a deep voice: "Woye Town and the Right Guard Army have sent people to check Da'e Mountain and Tunqi Mountain to check the scene of the Rouran people's attack on these two big forts, and the Rouran people have not sent a large number of soldiers and horses, at most only five or six hundred horses!" Why is that? There are three possibilities in General Anda's analysis: first, the Rouran people are luring our army to counterattack; Second, the Rouran people are preparing for the next big attack! Thirdly, the forts we have built have left the Rouran people in the throat, and their purpose in sending troops is only to uproot these forts, and they do not want to make a big move. Now the imperial court has formulated this year's combat strategy, and the main offensive focus is on the Guanzhong area, so we can't take the initiative to provoke a large-scale war with Rouran, we can only defend, if we take the initiative to send troops, we don't have this strength now, and we don't have enough troops to fight! ”

"After the Rouran people broke through the Da'e Mountain Fort and the Tunqi Mountain Fort, they did not send troops to garrison them, but destroyed them, General An Da believes that the purpose of the Rouran people should be the second and third possibilities!"

"Now, we haven't received Mulan's distress signal, which means that she is still safe for the time being! Even if the Rouran people sneak attack Nantian Fort, she will have enough time to send out a distress signal, the loss of Da'e Mountain and Tunqi Mountain is actually not all due to the strong attack power of the Rouran people, in fact, it is also related to the slackness of our defenders, but I believe that Mulan will not be like this! ”

Speaking of this, Wan Du Gui walked to the map and pointed to the location of Nantian Fort and said: "You see that the terrain of this Nantian Fort is not suitable for the enemy to launch a large-scale attack, even if the Rouran people have more troops, they can't use it, it is not easy for the Rouran people to easily capture the Nantian Fort, and the Nantian Fort is too small to accommodate too many troops, and it is already very crowded with fifty people in the sky, even if we send more people, what's the use?" ”

Zhao Junsheng didn't speak for a while, and after a long time of tea, he suddenly asked: "Military master, the garrisons in the defense area are rotated every two months, and Hua Mulan and they should be about to reach the time, right?" ”

"There are three days left until the rotation period!"

Zhao Junsheng couldn't wait for a moment at this moment, and clenched his fists and said, "Military Master, I have to go to Nantian Fort to have a look, and by the way, I will send them this batch of grain and grass materials!" ”

Wan Dugui looked at Zhao Junsheng, weighed it and agreed: "Okay, it's okay for you to go and have a look, if there are really Rouran people attacking Nantian Fort, if they can't hold it, let Mulan light the beacon fire, and will send people to reinforce it!" ”

Zhao Junsheng understands that Wandu Gui does not send reinforcements now, on the one hand, he did not receive Mulan's distress signal, but the training of the Huaishuo Town Garrison has not been completed, if the Rouran people are really determined to break through Nantian Fort, he sent troops over to reinforce them is actually to send them to death.

On the other hand, Nantianbao does not have enough space and defenses to accommodate reinforcements, how many people should be sent? How can we send troops before the enemy has come over? If you send too much, you can't fit it, and if you send too little, you can't use it, so you have to wait for the enemy to appear and determine the number of enemy troops before you can send troops.

"Subordinates say goodbye!"

After Zhao Junsheng left the camp of the Zhenshu army, he immediately led a baggage team of more than 100 people to escort the horse convoy full of grain and grass materials to the direction of Nantianbao.

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Nantianbao.

At this time, Nantian Fort was already very different from when it was first built more than a month ago, and the large-scale melting of ice and snow gave Mulan and her soldiers great convenience.

On the slopes of the north and south sides of the Nantian Fort, Mulan and her soldiers have dug hundreds of traps and traps, and countless horse pits, and they cut thorns and spikes and threw them on the hillside, and sharpened many spiked wooden stakes and inserted them upside down on the hillside, leaving only one path for one person to walk on the north and south slopes leading to the Nantian Fort on the hill.

Hundreds of Rouran cavalry had arrived on the plains north of the hill, and since they had crossed the mountains and forests a few miles to the north, Mulan's secret sentry there had pulled ropes to warn the fort.

At this time, all the defenses in the fort were prepared, and all the soldiers were waiting under Mulan's orders.

Hua Mulan held the female wall on the top of the fort with one hand, and the hilt of the sword in the other hand to observe the Rouran cavalry arrayed a mile away from the hillside, and she found several generals in iron armor riding in front of the cavalry formation, and there seemed to be a female general among them.

The status of the Rouran generals in iron armor in the Rouran army must not be low, and what is more interesting is that there are female generals in this group of Rouran cavalry, and the Rouran people will not send women to fight even if all the people are soldiers, unless this woman is the daughter of a tribal leader!

The head of the soldier, Huahai, walked to Mulan's side and hugged his fist and reported: "Tooth master, everyone is in place!" Is it to light a beacon fire to warn the rear? ”

Hua Mulan thought about it and shook her head: "There is no need for the time being, now this Nantian Fort is not so easy to attack, only one team of people can come up at a time, and it is not too late to light the beacon fire when there is a real problem in defense!" You go and transfer all the soldiers who are good at archery here, and send someone else to replace their original posts! ”

"Yes!"

The four soldiers with good archery skills were transferred to the top of the fort and stood together behind the female wall facing north under Mulan's orders.

A mile away from the hillside, in front of the Rouran cavalry.

She Lun tapped his palms with a horsewhip and asked Princess Tuzhen: "Princess, I have always understood one thing, since you have captured Da'e Mountain Fort and Tunqi Mountain Fort, why do you want your sons to destroy them?" Wouldn't it be good for us to send troops to garrison ourselves? ”

Princess Tuzhen turned her head to look at Shelun, continued to look at the fortress standing on the hill opposite, and said, "Will your cavalry defend the fortress?" Even if I leave these two forts and ask you to send people to defend them, the Wei soldiers will inevitably send troops to capture them, they will attack the city much more than our army, and our people will definitely not be able to defend it, so wouldn't it be in vain for us to send troops to defend the fort? ”

She Lun was dumbfounded by Princess Tuzhen's words, so he had to point to the Nantian Fort opposite: "How do you plan to attack this small fort?" ”

Tuzhen said with a serious face: "This little fort is not easy to fight, they are full of thorns and stake barbs on the hillside, these things are too dense, it is too much time to clean up, and I don't know what else is on the hillside besides these!" ”

Wu Lu suddenly asked out loud: "Daughter, is it possible that we just watch like this, we can only watch and not fight?" ”

She Lun proposed next to him: "If you want me to say that you don't care about this small fort, you can directly send a large army to march to Jinling from Da'e Mountain and Tunqi Mountain, and defeat the army they deployed in the Jinling camp, which will save much trouble!" ”

Tuzhen immediately objected emotionally: "No, absolutely not, only by taking this Nantian Fort can we attack Jinling with peace of mind, if we don't take this small fort, if we rashly attack from Da'e Mountain and Tunqi Mountain, once the Wei army sends a force of soldiers and horses from here to the north to block our army's retreat, we are likely to be surrounded, and it is not impossible for the whole army to be annihilated!" ”

Wu Lu suddenly pointed to Nantian Fort and said: "But this small fort is like a hedgehog, our strength can't be used, we can only go up a dozen people at a time, I'm afraid that all of them will be shot before we go up, how is this good?" ”