Yang Qing knelt in front of Zhou Jin and was ordered to report in detail the passage of the Hu army crossing the river a few days ago, from beginning to end.

He was lucky, he was hit by an arrow at the ferry that day, but he didn't die - after all, he was the platoon leader, and he had armor to protect himself from arrows.

In terms of weapons and equipment, the cheapest ones were knives and spears, and the left and right were no more than forged iron pieces, and then equipped with wooden handles—the worst quality ones could be cut into leather armor and curled edges; The second is the bow and arrow, there are more parts, and there are many materials used, such as bamboo, wood, glue, lacquer, horns, tendons, etc., and the production should also consider the cold and heat, dry and wet climate, and daily maintenance is more difficult. However, the most expensive is armor, even the most ordinary leather armor, which needs to be spliced and connected with many pieces of tanned leather, which is both costly and complicated.

Therefore, even if Pei Gai is equipped with the heaviest soldiers, basically the auxiliary soldiers are not armored-or when they need to be in battle, they will be temporarily issued with a collar of leather armor for some backbones - only regular soldiers can have embodied armor, which cannot protect the arms above, and the crotch and thighs cannot be protected below. Only above the non-commissioned officer, the armor is relatively perfect, for example, Yang Qing, although he wears leather armor, but with a small shawl, which can protect the big arm, and a short armor skirt below, which can cover the crotch, in addition, the wrists, ankles, etc., are also tied with small pieces of leather protection.

The most important thing is the back, the leather armor of the general soldier only protects the chest, and two leather strips are crossed behind the back, and the back is basically defenseless. After all, Yang Qing achieved the platoon leader, and his body armor was wider, which could be wrapped from under the ribs to the back, and then connected with multiple leather cords. So he had an arrow in his heart that day, and this arrow was fortunate not to go through the armor, but to be in the middle of a piece of leather, which, though broken, did not penetrate the flesh very deeply, and was far from his heart.

In addition, the bows and arrows of these years are generally not very strong, and they are not very profitable, unless they hit the vital point, they will not be killed with one arrow - the first batch of Hu soldiers who landed on the shore in order to reduce the weight and facilitate the squeezing of a few more people in the boat, except for Xue Tao, all of them are soap and black, but they have no armor, and when attacking the Jin base, there are often dozens of arrows in the body and still do not fall, and there is still the strength to wield knives and spears.

However, these Hu Zhong elites, the daily use of bows is naturally very strong, but they each have a long knife, and they don't bring a bow and arrow at all, and the arrow that shot Yang Qing was originally a temporary pick up of the bow and arrow left by the Jin soldiers, and the accuracy is acceptable, but the power is much worse.

Therefore, Yang Qingzhong's arrow was dark in front of him at that time, and he fell to the ground, but it was relieved in a few breaths. He was also a ghost, and he didn't dare to jump up immediately, but he just kept his head down, his arms exerted, and slowly crawled towards the low-lying ground, a place that was not easy to see in the distance. Hu Bing was busy attacking the Jin base, and no one had time to come over to carefully check his life and death, so he escaped.

Not long after, Zhou Jin led the cavalry to kill, Yang Qing saw this, so he dared to get up, and took advantage of the opportunity of the Hu army besieging Jin to be dispersed, and staggered and fled to Zhou Jin's side. When Zhou Jin led these defeated soldiers back to Xiayang City and asked about the details of Hu Jun's landing, everyone pointed to Yang Qing and said, today should have been Yang Qing's platoon to guard the riverbank, he must have been clear.

Yang Qing had already bandaged the wound at this time, although due to excessive blood loss, resulting in mental fatigue and weakness of hands and feet, his life was not worried. So Wen Zhao knelt in front of Zhou Jin and reported in detail what he had encountered the enemy.

This guy is indeed clever, he knows that his biggest mistake is that he did not report to the official when he first saw the enemy ship, and if nothing happened, since there was an accident, even if he did not behead according to the law, he would be punished with a heavy whipping. So he deliberately concealed that he thought it was a merchant ship, and he wanted to be careful about the autumn breeze, but said: "Because I saw Xue Tao standing on the bow of the ship, I didn't prepare for it......"

In fact, Xue Tao also shrank in the canopy, and he didn't come out until the ship came ashore, Yang Qing looked at it from a distance, and only two boatmen in front of him and one behind him could be seen. But it is estimated that the platoon of his own on the guard bank of the river is basically dead, and it is impossible to get up from the ground and debunk the lie.

And before that, although Yang Qing knew Xue Tao, he didn't have the chance to see him, or on the way back, he heard from the mouth of Zhou Jin's tribe, saying that it was Xue Tao who led the attack this time, and the general was furious, and asked me to wait for someone who can take his head on another day, and count ten turns. Yang Qing then insisted, saying that he knew Xue Tao, because he saw him on the ship, he thought he was here to deliver the news, so he was not strictly guarded.

Then Xue Tao went ashore, and handed over the bamboo talisman token - the token Yang Qing has been pinching in his hand, but he didn't lose it, and immediately presented it to Zhou Jin with both hands, saying: "The villain was also surprised, so he asked Xue Tao, saying that in the past, the news was transmitted in small boats, why is today's boat so huge?" What's in the boat? As soon as the guy heard this, he immediately turned his face and shouted, 'Landing on the shore,' and a crowd of Hu soldiers rushed out of the boat......"

Zhou Jin took the bamboo talisman and glanced at it, and couldn't help but grit his teeth and said: "This fang pretends to collude with me, I think it's for this bamboo talisman!" Immediately threw the bamboo talisman to the ground, pulled out the knife and wanted to smash it, or did Ying Sima stretch out his hand to stop it, saying that this is evidence, how can it be destroyed at will?

Zhou Jin ordered Sima to put away the bamboo talisman, and suddenly wrinkled his brows, and said: "Since Xue Tao is attached to the thief, if he repeats his old tricks to deceive our army, how to deal with it?" After thinking about it: "While the Hu army has not yet attacked the city, we should send people to hurry to go to Haoyang or Dali from the small road to report the matter." ”

Yang Qing immediately asked for his life and said, "The villain is willing to go!" ”

In fact, he wanted to escape, seeing that the Hu army was strong, and the number of Xia Yang defenders was limited, and he was trapped in this dangerous city, I was afraid that the life of this little man who had just picked it up would eventually be lost. If you go faster and hurry around from the mountains in the west to the south, although the road is dangerous and difficult, even if your life is in your own hands, it is not handed over to the general Zhou in front of you - my life is up to me, if it is up to others, I really don't feel at ease......

Zhou Jin patted him on the shoulder: "You are really a loyal and brave man!" "But then I said, you are still wounded, and you can't go far, so I'll send the troops who are hiking around you—" Thou shalt go down to rest and recuperate, and soon Hu Kou will come to besiege the city, and you must help defend it! ”

Yang Qing scolded secretly in his heart, but he had no choice but to retreat in frustration.

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It wasn't until the afternoon of the second day of Xiayang's wading that Hu Hanjing's banner appeared on the horizon - the general Liu Ji, the Guanwei general Bu Xuan, and the Wuya general Li Jingnian led more than 10,000 elite soldiers to attack Xiayang.

Liu Ji is Liu Cong's sixth son, the king of Jinan, and Liu Cang is the closest among the brothers - unlike the second Liu Yi and the fifth Liu Fu, in fact, Liu Can's plot to depose Liu Yi is not impressed, but the admonition is ineffective - his person is eight feet tall, has a large belly and ten measurements, and is born very with a hammer, if he wears armor again, it is difficult for ordinary horses to carry it for a long time.

So Liu Cangguang galloped from the ferry to Xiayang City, and in less than ten miles, he had already changed his mount once - the general usually used no less than ten horses, and he had to follow at any time. When they arrived at the foot of Xiayang City, the soldiers camped and went into battle, Liu Ji looked at the city, couldn't help pouting, and said: "Such a small projectile, you can step on it if you raise your feet, why should the crown prince send a lonely man?" ”

General Guanwei Bu Xuan comforted: "What the general said is not right, in a certain opinion, Xia Yang's gains and losses are the key to this battle!" ”

Bu was originally a Xiongnu surname - the following four noble surnames of the Xiongnu royal family were originally Huyan (Huyan), Xubu, Qiulin and Lan, after the sinicization, Xubu was changed to Bu, Qiulin was changed to Qiao - the prominent position of the left and right frustration canal, but after Tu Ge usurped the government of the Southern Xiongnu, he also successively saw the four major surnames as Tu Ge, just like the "flag" of later generations. Therefore, this General Bu's family background is quite promising, and his identity is also quite noble.

He said to Liu Ji: "Feng Yi's territory is three crossings: Xiayang, Haoyang, and Puban, and it is expected that the Jin people will have heavy troops to guard the central Haoyang to deal with the north and south wings. Although our army has been crossed, it has not yet been able to move south into peace, and the Jin people will definitely rebel with the main force to block the future. If Xiayang can be captured, there will be support in Hexi, and grain can be continuously transported from Hedong and stored here. If you can't get Xia Yang, it will be like a thorn in your back, and the army will want to go south, and the road will be in danger. It was the crown prince who ordered the general to attack the city, and he was seeing the hope of hope. ”

Liu Ji smiled and said, "General Bu is very knowledgeable. I don't know the importance of Xia Yang, but seeing that the city is small and humble, it is not difficult to attack, and it is inevitable that there will be a sigh of slaughtering chickens with knives. ”

Wuya General Li Jingnian advised: "Today's Jin people are different from the past, and the general should be careful not to underestimate the enemy......

Liu Ji was dumbfounded and shouted: "How dare Hu'er put his beak in his mouth?!" ”

Li Jingnian came from the front of the Huns and had not yet obtained the qualification to "carry the flag", so Liu Ji always looked down on him. It is said that Liu Yuan is a self-proclaimed Chinese, and he also has the ambition of mixing a hundred ethnic groups, but in the two generations of Liu Cong and Liu Can, the mentality of ethnic discrimination has become increasingly serious, and the slaughter of various nobles often despises the Xiongnu. In their eyes, we are the masters of the people, and the Xiongnu, the Jin people, the Shihao, and the Diqiang dignitaries, especially the royal families, are our servants, and all the tribes below them are like slaves.

Of course, the Qianren are also slaves, even if Shi Legui is the Duke of Zhao, in the eyes of the Liu Cang brothers, they are just slaves of my family's herding horses.

So Liu Ji scolded Li Jingnian in person, and Li Jingnian was ashamed and apologized. But Bu Xuan helped and said a few good words: "General Li is also well-intentioned, and I hope that the general will not despise the Jin people too much, the Jin people have never been good at defending, and attacking the city is not my director." ”

Liu Ji sneered: "Since General Li is cautious, then take charge of protecting the camp, and General Bu can go to the siege with Gu - maybe the camp is not finished, and the city will fall, hahahaha." ”

At that moment, it took more than an hour to tie up some wooden ladders, and Liu Ji ordered Bu to take the lead in attacking the city. With an order, thousands of Hu troops lined up in a phalanx, with a big shield in front and archers mixed on both wings, guarding the central wooden ladder, and slowly advanced towards the Xiayang city wall.

Xiayang City is indeed not big, the city wall is only three zhang high, although there are sheep and horse walls and moats in front of the city, but there is no water in the moat - this is still Pei Cai introduced some later generations of city building methods, and the generals under his command have the same example, if Zhou Jin garrisoned Xiayang before, I am afraid that even the sheep and horse walls and dry moats are not complete. But for the more technical suspension bridge, Zhou Jin can't build it, and there are narrow dirt roads in front of the four walls, which can lead directly to the city gate.

It's just that the Hu army doesn't have big siege equipment, and Liu Ji is impatient to spend a long time building a crash, so the main target of the Hu army is not the city gate, but the city wall.

When I looked close to the moat, I heard a drum, and ten thousand arrows were fired in the sheep and horse walls and above the city walls. Bu Xuan put up a tent behind the battle, looked carefully, silently calculated, and came to the conclusion: The Jin people have a thousand bows, and the defenders should be less than three thousand.

And the bows are generally soft - after all, not everyone can afford those good bows that take at least a year of labor to make, most of the bows even if they are thrown, the distance of a hundred paces will be up to the sky, and ordinary arrow clusters are not heavy, and they can hardly hurt people a hundred paces away. In this round of arrows, Hu Bing only fell a dozen people, and it did not damage the array at all, nor could it stop the advance.

Bu Pump ordered the banner to be sharpened, and the speed of the Hu formation's march was accelerated, and the phalanx at the city gate was instantly narrowed and poured onto the dirt road, while the ranks of the trenches scattered left and right, giving way to the long ladder in the center and erecting the trenches. At the same time, the second round of arrows arrived, and the casualties among the Hu army, which was slightly loose due to the influence of the terrain, increased sharply. This is because the distance is closer, the arrows are easy to get accurate, and the lethality is gradually increasing, and more importantly, Zhou Jin has buried a lot of stakes in the moat, even if the arrow can't die, once it falls into the trench, it will be difficult to climb up again.

But this was still just a drizzle for thousands of Hu troops, and soon the Hu army braved the third round of arrows to rush in front of the sheep and horses. The Jin army in the Yangma Wall had already withdrawn when the enemy soldiers crossed the trench - from the left and right sides to the east and west sides of the city, and then up the city - because Zhou Jin knew very well that with the hundreds of soldiers he had placed in the Yangma Wall in front, it would be difficult to resist thousands of Hu troops, and it was even impossible to inflict great casualties on the Hu army, so why waste human lives in vain?

Hu Jun slaughtered into the sheep and horse wall, and began to erect ladders and ants. Wood and stones were thrown on the city, killing and wounding many Hu soldiers, but except for some of the Hu soldiers who climbed the city wall, the rest of the soldiers were surrounded into groups of different sizes on the inside of the moat, covering the archers with large shields, and shooting at the city.

The long ladder was erected, the Hu soldiers climbed up one after another, Zhou Jin personally commanded the soldiers, resisted with spears and hooks, and fought fiercely for a long time, but no enemy could successfully climb to the top of the city. When Bu Xuan saw it behind the battle, he couldn't help but bow his head, and said in his heart: "The Jin people are really different from the past, although the bow and arrow are soft, the skills of hand-to-hand combat have improved. ”

On the whole, the quality of Hu Bing is much higher than that of Jin Bing - mainly Liu Ji brought out elite this time, Tai Half Huns, and even a lot of Tu Zhu - but Pei Jun is well fed, trains day and night, and has very good weapons, if he fights one-on-one, Hu Bing may not be able to take much advantage. Besides, the edge ladder climbed the city one by one, but the Jin people in the city could have more spears against each other, so they steadily suppressed the Hu soldiers under the city wall.

After about a meal, Hu Bing's morale was frustrated and his physical strength was also declining. He came back to report to Liu Ji, saying that although the number of Jin soldiers in the city was not large, they were quite brave, and the command and dispatch were also lawful, and I am afraid that it would be better to rest for one night and build some siege equipment.

Liu Ji asked: "Do you know who Jin will be?" ”

The left and right reports said: "Pei Cai's heavy general Zhou Jin." ”

Liu Ji nodded: "This will be good, if you don't die when the city is broken, it can be said that it will come down." ”

Bu Xuan asked, "Why don't you just shoot the archery book into the city and urge it to open the city and surrender?" ”

Liu Ji said with a smile: "I forced the city with a large army, he was not afraid, and there was no omission in scheduling, which shows that the will is very strong." Since he is a heavy general of Pei, how can he be willing to surrender in the first battle? And after the rope is tied, it may be able to shake his heart. ”

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