With Shi A's overnight action, more than 300,000 plundering teams left from the east of Pinggang and approached the grasslands in the north, and their direction went straight to the Xianbei people's birthplace, Xianbei Mountain.

Receiving the report, none of the scouts sent to the east returned, and immediately guessed that the Jizhou army had moved, so he led 10,000 cavalry to investigate, and a wide and solid road was trodden out of the snow leading to the north. Micah was a calm man, thought about it, sent his own soldiers, returned to the camp to give orders, mobilized 20,000 soldiers and horses, followed the road he stepped on, and slowly returned to the camp.

20,000 Xianbei cavalry, under the leadership of Shadan, faced the rising sun, beating horses and galloping. The marauders were also armed, and they had only run about sixty miles on their legs, and were now resting under a leeward hill, chewing beef jerky and drinking burnt knives. Feeling the shaking of the ground, the leaders of dozens of tribes immediately gathered together to discuss, and at this time, the raiders in charge of the lookout came to report that about 20,000 cavalry of Xianbei were pursuing this side. The leaders showed disdain on their faces, 20,000 cavalry dared to pursue 300,000 people, Micah's head was rusty, and the leaders quickly did a good job of dividing the labor.

Shadan galloped in front of the team, and saw a figure on the snow that was black and oppressive, sitting crookedly on the snow, and the anger in his heart rose to the ground, these must be the aliens who plundered the grassland, they killed their compatriots, snatched all the supplies they could carry, and took away all the beautiful women in the clan. Shadan roared, "Brothers, kill all the aliens in front of you and avenge our people." "Twenty thousand cavalry rolled up snowflakes in the sky and pounced on the plundering party.

The marauders were unhurried and walked around the hills. Shadan's team soon saw the figure behind the plundering team, Shadan couldn't stop whipping the war horse under the crotch, 20,000 cavalry whistled around the hill, Shadan's war horse suddenly fell, fortunately Shadan was good, hurriedly jumped off the war horse, hid to the side, only to avoid the rumbling horse hooves behind. The cavalry in the rear was not so lucky, and after falling, they were directly trampled into meatloaf by the galloping war horses. When Shadan looked closely, he found that the road ahead was sprinkled with thistles, Shadan hurriedly waved his hand to stop the attacking team behind, pushed a soldier off his horse, turned over and rode on, and shouted: "Bypass the road ahead, and divide up to cover the past." The Xianbei cavalry ran all the way to the hills, all the way around the area full of thistles, and chased forward.

Shadan looked at the raiding team that fled in a hurry, full of the power of revenge, and didn't notice that more than half of the alien brigade in front of him was gone. Seeing that he was about to catch up with the plundering team, Shadan shouted excitedly, and on the hill in front of him, countless boulders suddenly rolled down and rolled towards the Xianbei cavalry. Shadan lifted the reins of his horse and dodged a boulder, and the galloping cavalry team was hit by the boulder, and the speed suddenly slowed down. The fleeing raiders turned around and killed, and Shadan roared and commanded the Xianbei cavalry to meet them. Soon, Shadan sadly found that his 20,000 cavalry had been submerged in the sea of people, and 300,000 against 20,000 were fighting together in the vast snow. At the cost of 50,000 people, the plundering team completely annihilated 20,000 Xianbei cavalry. The plundering team did not forget its true nature, almost stripped off the clothes of the Xianbei cavalry, took away the war horses that could still move, and continued to plunder.

Micah didn't receive news from Shadan for a long time, and his heart sank, it seems that Shadan is more auspicious. So it was decided to challenge the Jizhou army. Early in the morning of the second day, a large army was organized and drove outside the Pinggang wall, and the whole army shouted together. At the head of Pinggang City, Liu Ze looked at the Xianbei army that poured out, and said slowly: "The whole army is cautious and vigilant, and no military orders are allowed to go to war." ”

Miga's challenge for three consecutive days was ignored by the Jizhou army. Micah was angry in his heart, the army went on the expedition, each person only carried seven or eight days of food, and it was about to be eaten up, urging the rear, and there was no news of the people who went, so he had no choice but to ask Helian for help, and let Helian send troops to bring food. It would take three to five days to go back and forth, and seeing that the food was almost exhausted, Micah decided to storm and ordered the soldiers to cut down the timber and make ladders. It is said that it is a ladder, a bit exaggerated, the soil enclosure on the periphery of Pinggang is only about one zhang, and the weather is getting warmer at this time, and the soil enclosure still has a tendency to become a little shorter.

Liu Ze looked at the chaotic scene of the Xianbei army, and said to Guo Jia with a smile: "Mijia can't hold his breath anymore and plans to attack." Guo Jia said: "Yes, Ming Gong should give an order to let the army prepare." Liu Ze nodded, returned to the city, and beat the drum to gather the generals.

The Xianbei army prepared for a day, and early the next morning, Micah ordered the soldiers to be fed, 30,000 people to guard the camp, and the remaining 180,000 troops to the periphery of Pinggang. With a wave of his hand, the 20,000 Xianbei army, divided into five squares, abandoned the long and short, got off the warhorse, lifted the ladder, and ran bravely towards Tuweizi. The Xianbei army entered the range of bows and arrows, and the Jizhou archers began to exert their might, and the rain of arrows in the sky shot straight towards the heads of the Xianbei soldiers. The Xianbei soldier carried the ladder in one hand and the shield in the other, and struggled forward. The 20,000 Xianbei troops, unable to withstand the baptism of arrow rain, left more than 10,000 corpses behind, and fled back in embarrassment. Miga was furious and wanted to behead a few of the leaders of the team. Tuoba Duozhi, the leader of the Tuoba tribe, said: "The marshal is angry, the arrows in Jizhou are sharp, our army is unprepared, and the casualties are so serious, it is better to return to the army, make wooden shields, and cover them with cowhides." Shielding the arrows with wooden shields, the army followed. Mega was overjoyed and said, "Tuoba Tou is really the reincarnation of the Taigong." ”

Early in the morning of the third day, the Mega army arrived in Pinggang again, and the Xianbei army adopted the method of Tuoba and multiple branches, with 5,000 soldiers holding huge wooden shields in front, and more than 10,000 soldiers lying behind the wooden shields, shooting at the Jizhou army, and 20,000 soldiers carrying the ladder to follow up slowly, and pressed towards Tuweizi. In this way, Xianbei's casualties were greatly reduced, and Micah was overjoyed as he watched his army get closer and closer to Tuweizi.

Guo Jia waved the order flag, hundreds of bed crossbows were suddenly launched, the wooden shield penetrated, and the people behind him were nailed to the ground like meat skewers. Seeing that the power of the bed crossbow was so huge, the Jizhou army greatly increased their morale. The bed crossbow shot thousands of arrows, many wooden shields were smashed and shattered, and the exposed Xianbei soldiers were hit by the rain of arrows, but the Xianbei people were already very close to the earth fence, and the soldiers who carried the cloud ladder shouted, regardless of the arrow rain, ran forward, and put the cloud ladder on the earth wall. Guo Jia gave the order again, the archers withdrew, and threw arrows at the Xianbei people in the rear, and the sword and shield soldiers went up to the wall, and the real bloody battle began.

Led by thousands of veterans, the recruits of Jizhou fought with the Xianbei people, flying with stumps and blood-stained robes, and only by letting the enemy fall could they survive. Seeing that his army was seriously attritional, Micah immediately ordered 50,000 soldiers to attack and expand the results of the battle. Seeing this, Guo Jia ordered 10,000 archers to replace the archers whose hands and necks were sore and numb for the long time ago. Fifty thousand Xianbei soldiers braved the rain of arrows to rush to the wall, and when they reached the wall, they quickly climbed down the ladder. The Xianbei people are a people on horseback, and they are absolutely invincible in cavalry and archery, and now they are used to attack the city, and the casualties are not ordinary. The Jizhou recruits went from being timid at the beginning to watching the enemy's head and body under their own attack, or their heads flying around, or their bodies bleeding, and the bright blood red stimulated these Qingzhou soldiers.

Guo Jia kept waving the command flag, sharpening these recruits and letting them take turns to fight. Zhang Fei, Xu Chu, and Dian Wei saw that Guo Jialao did not let them go into battle, and watched Yu Ban, Zang Ba, Zhang Liao, and Gao Shun command the troops to continue to fight back, and fire was about to burst out in their eyes. Liu Ze smiled on the side: "Don't be impatient, you can fight the battle." ”

Seeing that the wall was simmering under the soaking of blood, Tuoba hurriedly said to Micah: "Marshal, quickly order the soldiers to carry the giant tree and hit the wall. When Micah saw this, he was overjoyed, and ordered two thousand soldiers to carry seventy or eighty thick tree trunks and slam them against the wall. Guo Jia saw it and said to Zhang Fei, Xu Chu, and Dian Wei: "Order the three of you to lead the alien brigade to attack the Xianbei camp, and after breaking the camp, counterattack the Xianbei rear team." The three of them were overjoyed and went down to the city in a hurry. Guo Jia said to Guan Yu and Zhao Yun again: "Yun Chang, Zilong, rate the cavalry, flank the Xianbei army, and when Yide and others attack the enemy's rear team, they will fight with Xianbei." At this moment, more than thirty tree trunks that rushed to the fence began to hit, and the earthen fence slowly shook, boomed, and fell a large section.