Early in the morning, in the southeastern suburbs of the city, a sentry fort was enclosed, a sentry on the sentry tower yawned and climbed down the stairs, the winter night was very cold, there was no place to shelter from the wind on the sentry tower, he stayed up all night wrapped in a broken blanket, he wanted to go back to the room to bake the fire and sleep.

The wind that had been blowing all night suddenly stopped, and the snowflakes were gone, and the sun rose in the east, and the sun shone on the sentry tower, reflecting the bright yellow of its upper half, and the sentry felt the warmth brought by the sun, and couldn't help but slow down.

The end of the year is coming, the first day is not far away, he is in Yuzhou, Henan, missing his relatives in his hometown in Hebei, the official army has besieged the hanging gourd for several months, and he will continue to besiege the city, when he will be able to go home, it is not yet known.

And I don't know if I can go home alive.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, which brought him back to his senses, thinking of the warm brazier in the barracks, and he couldn't help but speed up his movement down the stairs, and at this moment, there was a piercing horn sound overhead, which frightened him almost to fall down the stairs.

"The enemy is out of town! The enemy is out of town! ”

The shout came from above, and the sentry looked up to see that it was a comrade who had just taken over the guard to warn, and he looked in the direction of the hanging gourd, but saw some black spots in the south of the city, and the black spots were more and more, converging into a thin stream and rushing towards this side.

The person who can be a sentry, of course, has good eyesight, and when he squints for a while, he can see that this is the enemy cavalry, as if he is about to break through, and soon the gong sounded in the sentry fort, and the smoke of warning soon rose.

The sentry fort on the left and right sides was also built on the long fence, and the gongs sounded loudly, and the whining horns sounded more and more, disturbing the east camp and the south camp, seeing this situation, the sentry hurriedly climbed up, he already had experience, and it was the safest to be on the sentry tower at this time.

If you go down now, you will definitely fight with everyone for a while, and when the time comes, if you are not careful, you will be shot down by a stray arrow, and it will be over!

The enemy has tried to send cavalry to break through the encirclement many times in the past few days, although the officers and troops have built a long perimeter to enclose the hanging gourd, and there is a trench on the inside of the long encirclement, but the cavalry of the opposing side has already rushed up the long perimeter with the help of long ladders several times, and they are about to break out, and finally the officers and cavalry who rushed to frighten them back.

After a few days of tossing, the defenders of the various outposts on the long perimeter were accustomed to this kind of sudden incident, and reacted quickly, and when the enemy cavalry approached, many soldiers had rushed out of the barracks with bows and arrows, swords, cards, and spears, and were soon ready.

In order to prevent changes, these soldiers can be called pillows, sleeping in armor at night, although this is very uncomfortable, but it is important to save their lives - in an emergency battle, it will definitely be too late to wear armor, in case they are shot by stray arrows, their lives will be gone.

Some soldiers cautiously poked their heads out to look out, and found that the enemy cavalry was dragging several special long ladders towards the long fence a hundred paces away, and when it approached the trench and slowed down, some people jumped off their horses and began to cross the wooden ladder over the long trench, and the defenders shouted and rushed out of the sentry fort, and under the cover of the sword player, they fired at the enemy.

Cavalry attempted to cross the long fence, some of them building wooden ladders to cross the trenches, while others rode their horses on both flanks and fired at the soldiers from the sentry forts on the long fence.

Xue Shixiong rode his horse close to the trench, ignoring the arrows fired by the enemy soldiers outside the ditch in front of him, and suddenly clamped his legs between the horse's belly, and instigated his mount to leap to the right front, crossed the trench, and landed on the slope of Changwei.

The war horse under the seat only tilted slightly to stabilize its body, and Xue Shixiong held the horse lance in his hand and slammed straight into the enemy soldiers gathered behind the shield in front of him.

The screams were mixed with a slight collision sound, and Xue Shixiong, with the weight of hundreds of catties of people and horses, was like a hammer that "smashed apart" more than ten enemy soldiers gathered together, and many of them rolled down the long circle with blood flowing.

Several more Anzhou cavalrymen jumped over the trench on horseback, stepped on the long perimeter, followed Xue Shixiong closely, and rushed along the long perimeter towards the oncoming enemy soldiers.

People with too straight brains will run back the same way, and those with more active brains will roll their heads outside the long circle and roll directly downhill.

Xue Shixiong did not ride his horse and rushed downhill, because there were dense wooden piles in the field outside the long fence, which was to prevent the Hanging Gourd defenders from sending cavalry to break through, and the other party specially laid a wooden pile formation.

The trees in the suburbs outside the city were cut down by the Anzhou army, and the enemy troops besieging the city brought a large amount of timber from Bebe, so they set up a circle of wooden pile formations outside the long wall, Xue Shixiong visually measured the thickness of the wooden pile formation, and pondered that it was not impossible to pass through these wooden pile formations, but it was necessary to ride the horse slowly.

But this will waste a lot of time and will not be able to break through.

There was a lot of dust in front, Xue Shixiong raised his eyes, but saw that many enemy cavalry were rushing to this side, this is the enemy cavalry wandering outside the long encirclement, and found that the Anzhou army broke through which, so he went to reinforcements, and rushed to intercept the breakthrough cavalry before it walked through the stake formation.

"Let's go!"

Xue Shixiong let out a loud shout, and after speeding up his horse for a while, he drove his mount to jump again, crossed the trench and landed firmly on the ground, and the rest of the cavalry also rode across the trench and returned to the inside of Changwei.

The Anzhou cavalry, who was building a wooden ladder to cross the trench, took the wooden ladder back again, turned over and dragged the wooden ladder back, and the end of the wooden ladder was equipped with wooden wheels, so it was not very laborious to drag.

After a while, the Anzhou cavalry, which rushed to the edge of Changwei to break through, returned home cleanly when the enemy cavalry was about to arrive, leaving those angry enemy cavalry to shout and curse outside Changwei.

The cavalry is not of much use when defending the city, the war horses of the Anzhou cavalry are enclosed in the city stables, and there are not many opportunities to stretch their muscles and run to their heart's content, and now everyone takes turns to walk their horses out of the city, and by the way, toss the other cavalry, although there is a risk of being injured and killed, but it is an excellent pastime for them.

Today, it was Xue Shixiong's turn to come out to walk the horses, tossing and turning, people and horses were sweating slightly, the activity was opened, and the appetite was good, Xue Shixiong rode the horse and raised the whip, shouting loudly: "Go, go back to breakfast!" ”

At the south wall of the city, the soldiers on duty waved and cheered to the returning cavalry, and Yuwenwen, the king of Xiyang, nibbled on the hot cooking cakes, looked at the cavalry who returned from the "morning exercise", and then looked at the direction of Changwei in the distance, and laughed a few times.

A few days ago, Yang Su offered a plan, suggesting that cavalry assaults should be sent from time to time to make it look like they were going to break through, so that Wei Chi was suspicious and interfered with the other party's decision-making.

Wei Chi has a large number of soldiers, and he surrounded the hanging gourd, but the number of cavalry in Yuwenwen's hand is not small, and they are concentrated together to attack, and their lethality is not small, and the other party has seen it.

The number of Anzhou cavalry in the city of Hanging Fortress exceeded 3,000, and they concentrated on breaking through from a certain place in the long encirclement, and Wei Chi Dun had to have at least 3,000 cavalry to intercept it, and if he wanted to intercept it in time and not let an Anzhou cavalry break through and run to deliver the message, he had to arrange cavalry in the four directions of southeast, south, and northwest.

Even if 2,000 cavalry were to be arranged in each direction, a total of 8,000 cavalry would have to be arranged around the long perimeter, and they could not be transferred outward.

To fight a war is to rely on a little calculation to accumulate opportunities for your own victory, and Yu Wenwen's tricks are more than this trick.

Not long after, the north wind was blowing, this was the third consecutive day of the north wind, Yuwen Wen finished the cooking cake, clapped his hands and turned around, looking at a few hot air balloons floating over a clearing somewhere in the city.

The practical manned hot air balloon was technically the first to appear in Huangzhou, and the model of the hot air balloon was presented to the Son of Heaven by Yu Wenwen as a juggling prop, but his Qiu Jiayu Culture was inspired by this model to make a hot air balloon to help the Son of Heaven escape from Yecheng.

was taken away from the title of "first", Yu Wenwen was a little depressed, but it doesn't matter, Yu Wenhua will be killed by him sooner or later, the honor of the first manned hot air balloon, don't do it.

As the horn sounded one after another, several bulging hot air balloons slowly rose, and after untying the cables, they threw down a few sandbags and rose higher and higher, taking advantage of the strong north wind, to float to the head of the hanging city on the south side.

When the hot air balloon floated over the city, the soldiers in the hanging basket poked their heads out and waved excitedly to their comrades at the head of the city.

These soldiers each had a letter written in secret script, carried dry rations, weapons, and took a hot air balloon to the south with the help of the north wind, and drifted to Gwangseong, two hundred miles away.

Yu Wenwen waved his arms and cheered loudly with the other soldiers to see off the warriors, the hot air balloon was the only device that allowed him to escape from the lonely city, but he would never sit on it, leaving his soldiers to run for his life alone.

Today's big scene is to remind Wei Chidun, who has seen hot air balloons, and make the other party suspicious: Yuwen Wen, the king of Xiyang, is very likely to escape from the hanging gourd in a hot air balloon, and take advantage of the north wind to go all the way south and escape to Guangcheng, more than 200 miles away, and then he will make wind and rain again!