CHAPTER XLIV
The remnant sun is like blood, and the wind and sand rolled up outside the city have made the heaven and earth have a trace of haze, and the blood-stained land under the city of Fuyang The dilapidated walls of Fuyang City are crumbling in the wind and sand.
"Phew! Damn Xianbei barbarian has finally retreated!" Han Qianfeng spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm mixed with wind and sand and blood foam, grabbed a piece of wheat cake, and tore off a piece of it like biting a Xianbei person, chewing and swallowing it.
It has been more than 20 days since the first Xianbei siege, and it is really thanks to Han Qianfeng that Fuyang City can still stand under the siege of 100,000 Xianbei iron cavalry, because after Han Qianfeng arrived, the Xianbei people changed their strategy and began to surround the point to send reinforcements.
In the wilderness, the advantages of the Xianbei iron cavalry were brought into full play, and the reinforcements requisitioned from the counties of Youzhou in the past ten days were scattered several waves, and the Xianbei people exchanged several waves of reinforcements for grain and grass with very small losses, which made the Xianbei army that was originally short of grain and grass have sufficient replenishment.
It wasn't until five days ago, when no new reinforcements arrived, that Xianbei began to launch a new assault on Fuyang City.
Since the Xianbei people launched a new onslaught on Fuyang City, the defenders of Fuyang City have been living like a year during this time, and they have to resist the onslaught of Xianbei people at least twice a day, but fortunately, Fuyang City is well prepared, and they can repel Xianbei people every time without danger.
The consumption of defending equipment and casualties in the city is the most serious problem at the moment, every time the Xianbei people attack the city, Fuyang City has to consume a lot of defending equipment, and as time goes by, the equipment to defend the city is slowly insufficient.
Compared with the city defense equipment, the consumption of the defenders in the city is the biggest problem in Fuyang City, hundreds of casualties per day are undoubtedly a catastrophe for a city with only more than 10,000 defenders, and now the defenders of Fuyang City are not slightly injured and cannot get out of the line of fire, just like that, the soldiers who can fight are less than 5,000, maybe before the defense equipment is consumed, there will be no soldiers available in Fuyang City.
"Da! ~Da! ~Da! ~" There was a rush of footsteps from far and near.
"General Han! The Xianbei people have retreated, you go down to rest and rest first, and this place will be handed over to me! Cheng An said to Han Qianfeng with a hint of exhaustion.
"General Cheng, how is General Cheng's injury?"
"General Lao Han is worried, the dog is fine, but it hurts his muscles and bones, I'm afraid it will be difficult to go into battle to kill the enemy for a while!"
Today is quite thrilling, Xianbei fierce general Tuoba Qi led the army to climb the city wall, seeing that the defenders of Fuyang City were about to be torn open by the Xianbei people, Cheng An took Cheng Xiong to fight Tuoba Qi desperately, and finally killed him back, but Tuoba Qi was too powerful, during the fierce battle Cheng Xiong was swept in the back by Tuoba Qi with a shot, if it wasn't for Cheng An to block it in time, Cheng Xiong estimated that he would have confessed here, but although Cheng Xiong picked up a life, he was also injured and difficult to recover in a short time.
"It's fine! I'll go down and eat and rest first, and I'll change you later!" "Han Qianfeng is really tired, although he did not participate in the killing of Tuoba Qi, but now there are flaws on the city wall, Cheng An's father and son fought against Tuoba Qi to reluctantly defeat it, so he didn't have the heart to take care of other places, and the other flaws on the city wall had to be made up by Han Qianfeng, and under the exhaustion, Han Qianfeng's consumption was not smaller than that of the Cheng family's father and son.
Compared with the fierce fighting during the day, the soldiers who had fought fiercely for a day sat together in twos and threes, or closed their eyes to recuperate, or replenished food, or bandaged and healed, and now the city was short of troops, so that there was no one on duty, and all the soldiers who could fight were sent to the city wall.
At the time of life and death, the people of the city also joined in the defense of the city, or to help defend the city, or to help bandage the wounded, or to transport food and ordnance for the soldiers, or to help repair the city walls and fortifications.
"General Cheng! What's going on now? After a simple rest, Han Qianfeng, who was not at ease, returned to the city wall.
"The spies came to report, the Xianbei people retreated to the village, it seems that there will be no more siege tonight, but the situation in the city is really not optimistic, now the defenders in the city are less than 5,000, and the city defense equipment has also consumed nearly eighty percent, if there are no reinforcements, I am afraid that in a few days, the city of Fuyang will be destroyed!" The situation in Fuyang City is not optimistic, and Cheng An is worried in his heart.
"There has been no news of reinforcements since five days ago, and the spies we sent out to ask for help have been lost, I'm afraid...... What's next for General Cheng? Han Qianfeng had the heart to persuade him, but he didn't know where to start, so he could only turn into a light sigh.
Cheng An looked at Han Qianfeng, a trace of struggle flashed in his eyes, and he said firmly: "General Han!" General Han's grace of galloping thousands of miles to help Cheng is remembered in his heart, but now that Fuyang City is about to be broken, General Han doesn't have to lose his life for Fuyang, it's better to ......"
Before Cheng An finished speaking, Han Qianfeng waved his hand to stop him: "General Cheng don't mention this matter again!" Although I, Han Qianfeng, am not a hero, I am not a greedy person who is afraid of death! Now I vow to live and die together in the frustrated sun! ”
"Why did General Han do this...... Ay! Cheng An still wanted to persuade again, Han Qianfeng preemptively said: "General Cheng is reluctant to frustrate Yang, reluctant to tens of thousands of people in the city, Han is not, although Han is not a person from Frustrated Yang, but after a few days of fighting side by side, Han was also deeply moved, and besides, Frustrated Yang is a line of defense against Xianbei, if this line of defense is broken, the rear Youzhou will lose the door, and there will be eggs under the nest, and then my Yuyang will also be under the Xianbei soldiers, where will Han hide, early death and late death are death, It's better to go on the road with General Cheng in this Fuyang City, and there is a good companion on the Huangquan Road! ”
Cheng Anhu had tears in his eyes, held Han Qianfeng's arm with both hands and said, "Okay!" With heroes like General Han by his side, Huangquan Road will not be lonely, but before that, I want to let the Xianbei people know that although Fuyang is small, it is not something they can break casually! ”
"Haha! Good! Such a heroic is the General Cheng I know, even if Fuyang City is broken, we will gnaw a piece of meat on the Xianbei people! ”
"Haha! Well said! ”
Sweeping away the haze in their hearts, Cheng An and Han Qianfeng were arrogant, and the two of them laughed loudly, and the laughter came far and wide in this silent night!
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A bright moon hung high in the night sky, the faint light of the stars flickering, more than ten miles outside the city of Fuyang, a team of tens of thousands of people was quietly moving forward by the moonlight, they tied their horses and moved in unison, except for the slight footsteps of walking, the whole team did not make any extra sound, the whole team did not see a torch, and the inky black night hid them perfectly.