Chapter 317: Helpless
Xu Rong's cruel methods did anger Yu Fuluo, which made Yu Fuluo mobilize all the troops that the Xiongnu could mobilize in anger, and then gathered 50,000 troops, which were led by the son of the right Xian Wang Qubei to go to Niyang City and besiege a Niyang City.
"Xu Rong, as a famous general of the Han Dynasty, why are you so cruel, even the old, weak, sick and disabled are killed, if a villain like you does not die, there is no heavenly reason, today I led an army of 100,000 to besiege the city, not to try your city, the purpose is to capture you, and break your corpse into thousands of pieces, in order to repay the dead clansmen!"
Under the head of the city, he gritted his teeth at Xu Rong and scolded.
However, Xu Rong didn't care at all, and sneered: "You say that the people we kill you are cruel, but what about when you Huns slaughter us Han people?" Not to mention anything else, it's just that after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, how many tens of thousands of people did you kill us Han people? This time, in order to plot against my Niyang City, you brutally killed my Han Dynasty's Beidi Taishou Duan Xuan, and slaughtered 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers and civilians, we are doing this to take revenge on you, you also break through my Niyang City and slaughter our army, if you don't have this ability, don't talk nonsense, hurry back to your Xiongnu court. ”
"Good, good, you're guts! I hope that by the time I capture Niyang City, your mouth will still be so hard! "Go so angry that he jumped like thunder, and immediately ordered a large army to attack the city.
Only the sound of killing under the city was heard, and the Huns attacked the city like a tide.
However, the siege equipment of the Huns was rudimentary, coupled with the hasty siege of the city, but Xu Rong was well prepared, and the momentum of the soldiers under his command was high, and the final result can be imagined, the Huns stormed for two hours, except for harvesting three or four thousand dead corpses, there was no gain.
In desperation, Qubei had no choice but to order the troops to retreat, and then discuss the siege plan with the generals under his command.
In the process, he learned that there was a broken wall in the northeast corner of the city, and if he focused on attacking the city tomorrow, he would definitely be able to open a gap from here.
Qubei was overjoyed when he heard this, so he ordered to continue the siege tomorrow, and the focus was on the broken city wall in the northeast corner of Niyang City.
However, when he launched the attack the next day, Qubei was full of despair, because all the city walls were covered with a thick layer of ice, which blocked many swords, not to mention, and also made it more difficult for the soldiers who climbed the city walls.
"Who came up with such an immoral idea?" Seeing this, he couldn't help but curse angrily, and at the same time forced the soldiers to attack, and the result can be imagined, the Huns lost another four or five thousand people, and today's loss of four or five thousand people is different from yesterday, because more than a thousand of them fell directly down and died when climbing the city because the city wall was too slippery.
I don't know if I want to be humble, the person who came up with this idea is not Xu Rong, but Xu Rong's military advisor Lou Gui, this Lou Gui is also the first time to be sent abroad, but it has played a very important role in it, this method of pouring water into ice to repair the city wall is the clever plan proposed by Lou Gui, this strategy can make the Huns suffer a lot, but also let the Huns have nothing to do, and in the end there is really no way to humble but hate the retreat.
However, what is unexpected is that just after walking a few miles away, he heard the rumbling sound of horses' hooves behind him, and it was the Han army who took the initiative to pursue and kill.
Qubei did not take any precautions against this at all, coupled with the fact that he had just lost the battle, his morale was low, and when he saw the Han soldiers rushing like a tide, the camp of the Hun army was suddenly in chaos, and the soldiers fled by seizing the road, trampling on more than 10,000 people who died, and the blood stained the reckless snowfield red.
Qubei led an army of 50,000 to come violently, but he didn't expect to lose more than half of it in a few days, such a heavy loss made him tremble, and he didn't dare to stay anymore, so he directly abandoned the surrounding counties and led the army to flee back to Shangjun.
Although Shangjun nominally belonged to the annexed state of the Han Dynasty, it was actually under the control of the Xiongnu He, who operated here for many years and built many large pastures, which became the capital of the Xiongnu cavalry to go south.
He thought that after his army fled to Shangjun, Xu Rong would not continue to pursue his army, but he did not expect that Xu Rong would leave Lou Gui to lead a thousand soldiers and horses to restore the rule of the entire Niyang, but he personally led the remaining 4,000 people to tiptoe far behind the army of Bei, and when he went to the camp of the Bei army to rest at night, he launched a sneak attack again, this battle was different from the last time, the Huns have now become frightened birds, and they fled wildly without any resistance, In the process of fleeing, the Xiongnu soldiers trampled on each other due to fighting for roads and killing each other, and tens of thousands of people died.
This time he was so frightened that his soul was almost gone, the 50,000 army he brought was the limit of the strength that the Huns could put together, and he thought that he could defeat Xu Rong in one fell swoop and give the Han a dismount, but he didn't expect that the loss of troops would reach such an extent, and there were only less than 20,000 left of the 50,000 army.
So in desperation, he went to Beilian to abandon Diaoyin, Dingyang, Gaonu and other counties, and ran to the county of Shangjun in one breath, and later felt unsafe, and retreated to the area of Yuanyin and Yuanyang, which is close to the Great Wall.
The battle of going to Bei ran from the southernmost Niyang in the north to the northernmost part of the Great Wall in Shangjun, and the lost territory was 1,6700 miles from south to north, and later because of the Han Dynasty's merger with the state assassin Shi Pei Qing ordered Taiyuan Taishou Wang Ling to take the opportunity to occupy the Xihe County Zishi, Pingzhou, Zhongyang, Lishi, Lin County, Gaowolf and other counties in its western neighborhood, the land lost by the Xiongnu from the easternmost Fuping to the westernmost Zishi is also far away to about 1,200 li, a total of three counties of Beidi, Shangjun and Xihe, the loss of hundreds of thousands of people, countless grains and grass materials.
Even if he ran so far, he was not at ease, for fear that Xu Rong would chase after him again, so he was doubly careful, but fortunately, Xu Rong did not attack in the following time, which made his hanging heart finally let go slightly, but he no longer dared to be careless, and sent people to patrol closely every day, for fear that Xu Rong's army would appear in front of them like a divine soldier descending from the sky.
At the same time, he arranged for his generals to be responsible for guarding the camp, and he only brought a small number of retinues except for the Great Wall, and went to the northern Shan Yu royal court to meet the Xiongnu Shan Yu Fuluo.
"What? You, what do you say? Less than 20,000 of the 50,000 army remained? Go to humility, do you want to me off? Yu Fuluo was shocked when he heard the news, he really didn't expect that in just a few days, his army would shrink so much, after this battle, the strength of the entire Southern Xiongnu was greatly weakened, not to mention foreign captivity, even if it was difficult to protect themselves, and they also lost the vast territory of the three counties, which means that they lost the vast pasture, and it is almost impossible to develop again in the future.
"I have been planning to develop to the current scale, but I didn't expect to lose everything in a few days, this is humble, I really should kill ......" Yu Fuluo was anxious and angry, and he spurted a mouthful of blood under the anger of the attack, and actually fainted......