Chapter 39: Arriving in Time
Liu Xuan sat on the corpses of the two brute soldiers, panting for breath as he slowly wiped the long sword in his hand.
The body of the sword was stained with blood, and the blade of the sword also had many broken blades. Liu Jiu felt distressed while wiping the sword, and secretly said that it was a pity, he was blind with a good sword.
At this time, a county government official ran up the city along the steps, and when he saw Liu Xuan and Feng Yi, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he stepped forward quickly, bowed his hands, and said: "Congratulations to General Liu and General Feng, for successfully repelling the attacking barbarian thieves, and your lord has set up a banquet in the Taishou Mansion to celebrate the achievements of the two generals!" ”
Feng Yidu almost laughed, laughing angrily.
Celebration? He really didn't know what to celebrate.
The barbarian army did not retreat, just outside the city, eyeing the tiger, only fought for three hours today, but as the own side defending the city, the number of casualties was even more than the attacking barbarian army, and if it continued to fight like this, how many days could it hold out?
Liu Xuan blinked, put the sword into the sheath, stood up, and was about to go with the little official, when he turned his head to look at Feng Yi, and saw that the latter was still sitting on the ground, wiping the sword seriously, without any intention of getting up, he said: "Brother Gongsun, Lord Wang is invited, let's go over quickly!" ”
Feng Yi shook his head and said, "Tonight, if you don't know if the barbarian army will come to steal the city at night, I'll have to check it out in the four cities." ”
When the little official heard this, he immediately frowned, his heart was very dissatisfied, and he said in a strange manner: "General Feng, now that Lord Taishou is invited, you want to sweep the face and affection of Lord Taishou?" ”
Liu Xuan also felt that Feng Yi's approach was inappropriate, and whispered: "Brother Gongsun, let's go over for a trip!" ”
Feng Yi still sat on the ground, refused to get up, and said, "Brother Bosheng, it's good that you go for me, it's just a meal, and there is no need for the two of us to be present at the same time." ”
Just one meal?! The little official's face turned blue with anger, raised his hand and pointed at Feng Yi, and said fiercely: "What a dog who doesn't know what to do!" ”
After speaking, he didn't look at Feng Yi anymore, turned his head and smiled at Liu Yi: "General Liu, let's go, please!" ”
Liu Xuan also felt that Feng Yi's temper was like a stone in a pit, smelly and hard.
He shook his head helplessly, followed the little official, and went to the Taishou Mansion.
The Beicheng side is full of flesh and blood, and people are on their backs, while the Taishou Mansion here is completely a song and dance.
Wang Xun held a banquet in the Taishou Mansion, inviting not only Liu Xuan and Feng Yi, but also the officials of the county government and the gentry in Hanzhong City.
In the lobby, Wang Xun sat in the center, and the others sat on both sides. On the left and right sides of Wang Xun, there is still an empty position left.
After the little official brought Liu Xun in, he immediately trotted to Wang Xun and whispered a few words in his ear.
Hearing his words, Wang Xun's old face also sank, Feng Yi is really shameless, and he doesn't know how to lift!
But soon his expression returned to his usual expression, and he returned to a happy smile.
He stood up and bowed his hand to Liu Xuan and said: "Bosheng, in today's battle, you have let this official gain insight, Bosheng's bravery, if it really deserves its name, I have Bosheng in Hanzhong City, how can I be afraid of those barbarian thieves outside the city?" ”
Liu Xuan bowed his hand and said: "Lord Wang has won the award, today's success in our side to resist the offensive of the barbarian army is not the work of Bosheng alone, Brother Gongsun is ......."
Without waiting for Liu Xuan to speak, Wang Xun laughed and said: "Bosheng is too modest, too humble!" Come on, come on, Bosheng, sit here, sit here! Today, Bo Sheng's hard work is high, if the official is not well entertained, it will be the official's dereliction of duty. ”
Under Wang Xun's warm greeting, Liu Xuan sat down next to his subordinates.
Wang Xun can speak well, and he praises Liu Xun as simply in the sky, but not on the ground, and he is boundless.
If he is flattering, Liu Zhuo naturally likes to listen to it, but he is like a mirror in his heart, today he can resist the large-scale attack of the barbarian army, and his role is by no means as big as Feng Yi's, and he does not dare to claim to be the first merit.
He wanted to explain to Wang Xun several times that Feng Yi didn't come not to save face, but to inspect the defense of the four cities.
However, as soon as he mentions Feng Yi, even if he just starts talking, he will be interrupted by Wang Xun immediately, and after a few times, Liu Xun will not be able to say anything, now he can see that Wang Xun is narrow-minded, small-bellied, and has no tolerance for people, and it is really a misfortune for the people of Hanzhong to have such a Taishou!
The luxury of this meal made Liu Xuan staggered, flying in the sky, running underground, swimming in the sea, delicacies from the mountains and seas, everything, you must know that the current Hanzhong County is full of homeless people, there are hungry people everywhere, people almost eat people, and here in Taishoufu, the degree of luxury is simply more peaceful and prosperous than the peaceful and prosperous world.
Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road, nothing more than this!
Not long after the dinner, Wang Xun asked people to call Kabuki to help the fun, the music was beautiful, the hanging beam was three days, the dance was amazing, and it was beautiful, but after eating this meal, it made Liu Xun feel that he didn't know the taste of food.
Reckless thieves have no way, hundreds of officials are mediocre, how can such a court make the people not think about Han? One day, I will overthrow the tyranny of the reckless thieves and restore the Han Dynasty!
Now Liu Jiu has strengthened his belief more and more.
This time, Feng was right, and the barbarian army really took advantage of the night to steal the city. The barbarian soldiers did not attack the northern city, but secretly went around the southern city, preparing to take the defenders in the city by surprise.
The tactics of the barbarians are also very easy to understand, the two sides fought so fiercely in the north city during the day, and their own battalion was stationed outside the north city, the defense focus of the defenders in the city was of course in the north city, and the south city opposite the north city was naturally empty.
However, the barbarian army did not know that there was a Feng Yi with the talent of a general among the defenders, and he thought about their thoughts clearly.
The barbarian army chose to sneak attack Nancheng, but here in Nancheng, it was heavily defended by Feng Yibu, and the barbarian army attacked at night, hitting the iron plate headlong, not only did not make any achievements, but also suffered nearly 1,000 casualties, and returned with a feather.
Xie Tu, who heard the news, was so angry that he swore to the sky that when he attacked Hanzhong City, he would not leave any chickens and dogs in the city.
The next day, Shetu personally commanded the battle, and the barbarian army once again launched a large-scale attack on the city of Hanzhong.
In fact, the barbarian army is not very good at attacking the city, they do not have decent siege equipment, such as stone throwers, crossbow beds, rushing cars, arrow towers and other large siege weapons, they are all useless, completely rely on manpower to rush up, after the previous afternoon and evening two battles, the defenders also figured out the three axes of the barbarian army, and they are more and more handy in dealing with it.
The casualties of the defenders on the second day were much smaller than those on the first day, and were almost equal to those of the barbarian army.
After two days of fighting, the personnel on both sides were exhausted. On the third day of fighting, the barbarians did not exert all their strength again, but adopted harassment tactics. On the fourth day, the barbarian onslaught began again.
It was the bloodiest day of fighting since the two sides began. The barbarian army outside the city was like a chicken blood, and they attacked and killed the city completely without their lives.
In just one morning, the barbarian army tore through the defenders' defense line more than a dozen times and attacked the city, but under the desperate resistance of Liu Jiu and Feng Yi, the barbarian army was also defeated at the head of the city.
In the afternoon, as it was getting to evening, the barbarians launched another all-army onslaught, tearing through the defenders' defenses in one fell swoop, and some of the barbarians had even succeeded in killing the walls and entering the city.
Liu Jiu left Feng Yi at the head of the city and continued to resist the barbarian army that attacked and killed, and he himself led a team of people into the city and started a street battle with the barbarian army.
This battle was so tragic that there were more than 300 people around Liu Xuan, and in the end there were only a dozen people left, Liu Xuan still relied on the nearby people to wipe out all the barbarians who rushed into the city, and in the battle, the people also killed and injured hundreds of people.
After the fourth day of fighting, the barbarian army still failed to break through the city defense of Hanzhong City, and had no choice but to retreat.
At this time, there were only about 1,000 of the more than 4,000 defenders in the county town, and there were less than 500 of the more than 5,000 strong men who participated in assisting in the defense of the city.
As the attacking side, the barbarian army suffered no small casualties, exceeding 5,000 people. At this time, Xietu is really in a hurry.
He thought that the defeat of the county town was just a matter of capture, after all, the main county army guarding the county town had been completely annihilated by him, and the county town was only guarded by some righteous troops, to put it bluntly, it was a group of rabble.
But Xie Tu never expected that it was such a group of rabble in his eyes that became an obstacle for him to take Hanzhong City, making him unable to attack for a long time, and countless wounded soldiers were damaged.
By the fifth day of the battle, the barbarian army as the attacking side was exhausted, and the defenders as the defending side had become the last of their strong crossbows.
The fierce battle in the past few days has made it difficult for Liu Jiu to support, let alone others. Looking at the barbarian army outside the city, which was still crowded with people, everyone at the head of the city felt a sense of despair in their hearts.
How long will this battle end?
The defenders at the head of the city looked at the barbarians outside the city in despair, and the barbarians outside the city looked at the defenders at the head of the city at a loss.
It was under this circumstance that Liu Xiu, Gai Yan, Long Yuan and others finally rushed to Hanzhong City.
Knowing that a group of enemy troops appeared behind him, with a total of about 300 people, Xie Tu, who had nowhere to vent his anger, immediately ordered his general Sha Li Neng to go and annihilate this enemy army.
Sha Li Neng is a fierce general of the Xie tribe, eight feet tall, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, dark skin, and a fierce appearance, a wide head, short eyebrows, large ringed eyes, a collapsed nose, a lion's mouth below, a full beard and tattoos, and at a glance, he looks like a monster with a blue face and fangs.
He was holding a mace, made of fine iron, weighing at least more than a hundred pounds, and ordinary people couldn't even take it away, but in Sha Lineng's hand, this mace was as light as nothing.
With an army of only more than 300 people, Sha Li Neng did not pay attention to it at all, and he only brought more than 100 barbarians to fight.
Sha Li Neng was one of the few people in the barbarian army who had a war horse, he was tall, and the war horse he rode was one size bigger than the other war horses.
He took more than 100 barbarian soldiers and swaggered out of the barbarian army's main formation, and marched towards Liu Xiu and others in a hurry.
The two sides went in the opposite direction, and the distance between them became closer and closer. When the two sides were less than ten meters away, they stopped marching one after another. Shali could look to his left and right, then his legs clamped between his horse's belly, and the horse took a few steps forward.
Syllable!
Suddenly, an arrow flew from the opposite side and nailed deep into the ground in front of the horse's hoof, and the feathers at the end of the arrow vibrated violently and made a buzzing sound.
Sha Li Neng grabbed the reins of the war horse and looked at Zhang Ping, who was releasing arrows on the opposite side, with a terrifying fierce light in his eyes.
Gai Yan said to Liu Xiu: "Uncle Wen, I'll meet him!" After speaking, he was about to go out of the ranks, Liu Xiu hurriedly grabbed Gai Yan's arm and said, "Brother Juqing, we have Xiesang in hand, and we don't have to fight with the enemy!" ”
As he spoke, he turned back to Li Tong and Li Yi and nodded.
Li Tong and Li Yi understood, ran to the center of the team, and brought out the captured Xiesan.
Zhang Ping took two steps out of the team and said loudly in barbarian language: "The patriarch of the Xie clan is here, why don't you hurry up and salute?" ”