Yanmen, north of Pingcheng, a continuous city wall stretches all the way from Youzhou along the mountains and rivers. At a glance, there is no end in sight. This is the Han Dynasty, in order to prevent the northern Hu people from disturbing the border in the south, a specially built city wall, the world called it ...... Great Wall.

The Great Wall, a symbol that belongs exclusively to the Chinese people, even if you have never been to the Great Wall, you can naturally appear in your mind. It has many, many meanings, some positive, but more often it is helpless and painful......

In the eyes of many people, the Great Wall was built by Qin Shi Huang, and the story of Meng Jiangnu has been passed down through the ages. However, in fact, most of the majestic Great Wall in later generations was actually the result of renovation and reconstruction during the Ming Dynasty. The entire Great Wall is the product of continuous construction and repair of successive dynasties in China since ancient times.

The earliest Great Wall may be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, when the Western Zhou Dynasty built a continuous array of dock forts to defend against the attacks of the northern nomads. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, because of the competition for hegemony among the countries, each country began to build walls to protect its own country in order to guard against the surrounding countries. In the north, the Qin, Zhao, and Yan kingdoms, because they are adjacent to the steppe nomads, have also built a lot of city walls on the northern border, which is called the Great Wall of Juhu.

Subsequently, successive generations of countries continued to repair the Great Wall to adapt to the current situation. After Qin Shi Huang ruled the world, he also built, renovated and demolished the city walls for the current situation to meet the needs of the Qin Dynasty.

In fact, this has been the case in all dynasties, and this behavior has not stopped until the time of the rat-tail dynasty. And the Han Dynasty is the same, as if the current road has been built by the Han Dynasty over the years.

Zhang Ren stood on the city wall about two zhang high, he silently watched the Xianbei army outside the city, his eyes were full of calm and fighting spirit. And beside him, a full 30,000 army spread across this endless city wall, quietly waiting for the arrival of war.

They seemed calm and didn't seem to have any worries at all. But it's also a normal thing. Because just behind them, Guo Yizheng, the guard of Yanmen County, is leading an army of 30,000 to garrison Pingcheng, and he can come to support at any time. At the same time, the troops in various parts of Yanmen are still being assembled, and the enemy is only 60,000 people......

Yes, Shuofang, Wushuang, and Yanmen, the least pressure is probably Yanmen County, and it can even be said that Guo Yi does not have any pressure at all. On the one hand, if needed, Guo Yi could even temporarily increase his troops to 100,000! At the same time, the Great Wall guarded by Zhang Ren and the Pingcheng guarded by Guo Yi have formed two checkpoints, and the people of Yanmen are loyal to Li Yi, so it can be said that they have taken advantage of the right time, place and people.

It can be said that as long as Guo Yi defends steadily, Su Li has no chance at all. And it just so happens that whether it is Guo Yi or Zhang Ren, they are quite stable people.

Outside the city, Su Li stood in front of the army, looking at the city wall in front of him motionlessly, a trace of helplessness and distress flashed in his eyes,

"Chief Sully, what now? Direct siege? The sound of an urn coming to Sully's ears, and when he turned his head, it was Micah, the leader of another tribe. In addition to Suli, the son of King Youxian, the Xianbei tribe in the east is the largest tribe of Micah and Que Ji

"Let's make some siege equipment first," Su Li said lightly.

"And then?" Hearing this, Micah looked at Sully in a bit of a daze.

"And then? Hehe, what do you think it will cost us to attack here with our 60,000 troops to be able to take it down? Hearing this, Su Li turned his head to look at Micah with a blazing gaze and chuckled.

"This ......," Micah said, not knowing how to answer for a while.

"Leader Suli, that's what you mean......" Que Ji on the side seemed to hear a hint of extraneous meaning.

"Just know it in your heart......" Su Li said in a flat tone.

Hearing this, Que Ji didn't say anything more, but just whispered to Micah, who was still a little incomprehensible.

A few days later.

Pingcheng.

"Hehe, it seems that this barbarian named Suli is not stupid......" Guo Yi chuckled as he looked at the information sent by Zhang Ren.

"Haha, the lower official hopes that he will be stupid, so that our army can also go to support other places as soon as possible~" Cui Lin on the side laughed when he heard this.

"I think that's what Wenxin thinks the same way, right? Hahaha~" Guo Yi laughed heartily when he heard this, and seemed to have thought of Zhang Ren's depressed appearance.

Yes, Zhang Ren was very depressed, thinking that he would have the opportunity to reap some credit, but now, the enemy just launched an offensive every day as if it was a routine, shooting arrows, roaring twice, and then occasionally dropping a dozen or dozens of corpses. Where is the meaning of siege?

Another day, more than 100 soldiers carried long ladders and ran in the direction of the city wall, their steps slow and their faces even more frightened. Obviously, they know what fate they are about to face. It's just that they don't dare to retreat at all, because if they retreat, those Xianbei people will kill them with sharp arrows.

Slowly approaching, when they entered the firing range, a rain of arrows suddenly shot from the city wall. No one gave the order, it was just the spontaneous actions of the soldiers. Some of them held their breath, others just yawned and shot arrows at random, and several soldiers made bets with each other on who could shoot more.

Zhang Ren and Xu Miao were standing not far away, and they did not reprimand the soldiers for their casual behavior and disobedience to orders, because they were too lazy to give orders.

This is the second offensive launched by the Xianbei people after two days, and it is just a small enemy...... If they were to treat it seriously, it would really make the two of them feel that something was wrong.

"Alas! I have long heard that the civil strife in Xianbei is very serious, but I can't imagine that now that they are going south, they still have ......their own ghosts," Zhang Ren sighed helplessly. "Obviously, the army is going south, and they want to take advantage of the opportunity of the lord to attack Chang'an to seize the state. But now, I really don't know what to say......" Zhang Ren glanced at the soldiers outside the city who were basically dead and wounded, and then looked at the Xianbei army in the distance who didn't care about it at all, and sighed helplessly again.

"When Xia Guan was in Youzhou, he often heard about these Hu ...... outside the Saiwai In fact, most of the so-called tribes of the Xianbei people do not have much contact with each other, and even attack each other...... It's just that I didn't expect that under Shan Yu's orders, they were still like this. A young man of about twenty-five or sixteen years old said respectfully beside Zhang Ren.

His name is Xu Miao, originally from Jixian County, Youzhou, but because of the chaos in Youzhou, he fled with his family all the way to Bingzhou.

"The lord once said that whether it is the Huns, the Xianbei people, or even the Qiang people or the Wuhuan people, their system is actually similar to that of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the tribes are vassal states, and they are the kings of Zhou. They will attack each other for grasslands and water, and even if they mediate, it depends on whether they are willing to listen or not. And people such as Mao Dun, Tanshi Huai and others are characters like the overlords of the Spring and Autumn Period. Their prestige is strong enough to command the entire steppe, but in reality, the tribes still have enough freedom and rights. Zhang Ren looked at the enemy troops outside the city and groaned.

"So, there is actually no difference between Hu and Xianbei people?" Xu Miao asked with some confusion.

"What do you think is the difference between them? It's like these people who were forced to come to attack the city or come to die, could they be Xianbei people? But it doesn't look too different from the Xianbei people. Maybe the language will be a little different, but if I speak the Shu dialect, can you understand it? Zhang Ren said with a smile.

"I see!" Xu Miao suddenly realized.

Maybe it's because of the interest, or maybe it's too difficult to do anything else on this kind of day, Zhang Ren kept talking about the interesting things he heard from Li Yi, "I heard the lord say that in the past, after Maodun and Tanshi Huai unified the grassland, they both wanted to create their own country's writing. But until after their deaths, it still didn't happen. ”

"Hehe, they don't produce, they only know how to plunder, even if such countries really develop writing, they are of no great use. And they can't be strong for long! Xu Miao sneered when he heard this, his tone was full of disdain, obviously very disdainful of Xianbei and these nomads.

Strictly speaking, however, this was also the general attitude of the scholars of the Han Dynasty towards the nomads outside the Saiwai. It's just like what Li Yi said, a group of barbarians...... No matter how strong it is, it is still a barbarian.

Speaking of this, Xu Miao suddenly remembered a question, and said with a somewhat strange face, "Speaking of which, the lord has been promoting the sinicization of the Hu people in the territory, but if they learn to farm, manufacture and even understand all kinds of knowledge, will they ......?"

Hearing this, Zhang Ren suddenly laughed and said, "Actually, I used to have the same idea as you, but after I came into contact with those Hu people with a relatively high degree of sinicization, I found that my worries were very unnecessary." Speaking of this, Zhang Ren paused and said with a hint of admiration, "At that time, but instead of taking the initiative to ask, I found that I couldn't feel that I was facing a Hu person at all." In this case, when their descendants grow up, what is the difference between them and us Han people? ”

Hearing Zhang Ren's words, Xu Miao fell into deep thought, and only after a long time did he sigh, "The lord is really far-sighted, and the lower officials are afraid that they will be extremely poor all their lives, and it will be difficult to reach one or two of the lords!" ”

"Haha, Jingshan don't be presumptuous. Your talent, even if you govern a state, it is more than enough. As for the lord's ......" Zhang Ren said this, looking up at the blue sky, a trace of longing and expectation appeared in his eyes, "That's a figure like King Wu and Emperor Qin!" ”

"Yes, I'm afraid that when that day comes, the whole world will usher in earth-shaking changes, right?" Xu Miao also responded with a hint of hope. He naturally heard the ambiguity in Zhang Ren's words, but he also had the same expectations. In fact, there are more and more people under Li Yi's command like Xu Miao who are looking forward to that day. Well...... Maybe it's because the situation in the world is getting clearer and clearer, right? Or maybe it's because the post-70s generation has begun to gradually step onto the stage?

But then again, although Zhang Ren and the others have been talking and laughing on the city wall, they have not slackened their vigilance against the enemy. In fact, in addition to this section of the Great Wall guarded by Zhang Ren's army, the Great Wall, including the neighboring Wushuang Kingdom, also sent many soldiers to garrison it in front. However, their role is more just for early warning, because there are neither roads nor people in those places, and even if Su Li chooses to take a detour, it is difficult to really bypass the surveillance of Li Yi's soldiers.

Zhang Ren and Xu Miao were talking and laughing, while Su Li was hiding in the tent and drinking.

"Chief Suli, not counting today, there are not many left...... And if it goes on like this, I'm afraid that Shan Yu will be blamed over there, right? Micah asked, a little worried.

"Humph! What is he to blame? Didn't we die so many people too? Isn't it counted as a husband and wife? Moreover, the strength of the enemy is so strong, and there are city walls as a geographical advantage, what can we do? Su Li took a sip of wine, and then said angrily.

"That is, although the people who died in the battle were all more than one man, in the past few days, hundreds of people have also died. The Han people have so many crossbow arrows, even if they are our Xianbei warriors, the casualties will not be reduced much! And today we are also stepping up the siege? Que Ji echoed loudly, but in the end, his face suddenly turned red, but he didn't know if it was because he was embarrassed or because he drank too much.

"That's it, how can it be possible to capture the city in a few days? Otherwise, what did the Han people do with such a long city wall? Moreover, the enemy's forces are not only not less than ours, but even more than ours. In this case, it is natural to be careful~" Su Li said with a sneer. "Moreover, if Shan Yu thinks that we can't do it, then someone else will attack it, and we can return to the tribe as soon as possible."

It can be heard that Su Li is very dissatisfied, very dissatisfied. This is also something that can't be helped, who let Bu Dugen let him attack Yanmen? Located in the eastern part of the grassland, Su Li is different from other Xianbei people, because of Gongsun Zhan's reasons, which led to civil strife in Youzhou, but let the Xianbei in the east take the opportunity to become bigger. Because of this, they often have some contact with Youzhou and know a lot about the Han people.

In fact, the tribes in the eastern part of the steppe did not want to participate in the war. It's just that Bu Dugen ordered in the name of Shan Yu, and raised the banner of revenge for Helian, and even invited a great shaman. This made many tribal leaders in the east really unable to find a reason or excuse not to send troops. It's just that in such a big battle, King Youxian only sent his son to command, which obviously shows an attitude.

And in addition to this, as Sully says, the distribution of the step root is very problematic. Let them Dongdong Xianbei attack Yanmen alone, which is obviously to take the opportunity to weaken them.

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