The Hu people are not good at attacking cities, and they have been like this since ancient times. The reason is actually very simple, the Hu people are on the prairie most of the time, and whether it is the Xiongnu in the past or the Xianbei now, most of the time they are in the situation of loose tribal alliances.

Occasionally, there are heroes such as Maotun or Sandalwood Locust, but the scenery is limited to when they are alive. Just like the Xiongnu, although the Xiongnu were still a unified force on the surface after Mao Dun's death, in fact, Shan Yu's rights were not comparable to Mao Dun's existence in the world. After all, the fact that the future generations are also awesome does not mean that the future generations are also awesome, and before the results are made, how can the leaders of the various tribes be convinced?

Just like today's Xianbei, after the death of Tanshi Huai, various tribes soon continued to make various small moves. Because of this, the struggle for hegemony in the grassland is actually the main theme of the Hu people in the north, whether it is the Xiongnu, Xianbei or any other tribe. In this case, who is in the mood to study any siege techniques?

On the other hand, Xianbei has been living in Tanshi Huai for more than ten years, and it stands to reason that there should be many opportunities to confront the Han people. But in fact, as mentioned earlier, the Hu people went south, mainly to plunder, they traveled lightly, quickly bypassed the Great Wall of warning and entered the border of the Han Dynasty, and then quickly left after looting, and they would not fight the Han Dynasty army at all, let alone attack the city.

But! Just because you're not good at siege doesn't mean you can't attack a city! After all, I have dealt with the Han people for so many years, and there are not a few Han people who have been plundered by Xianbei. They still know the basic siege methods and techniques.

"Inform down, all departments will set up camp in place, and at the same time send scouts to check the surroundings, don't let the sinister Han people calculate!" After observing the county seat of Jiuyuan, He Lian ordered, "In addition, send someone to quickly make a wooden ladder to hit the wood, and we must take Jiuyuan before the Han army's support arrives!" ”

"Yes!"

On the other side, on the wall of Jiuyuan City, Du Zan was also giving orders in an orderly manner. Although there are only 2,000 people, Kuhara Castle, as the county seat of Gohara County, is also an important border town, although it cannot be compared with the world's famous fortified cities, but it also has strong walls and insurmountable moats.

The only question is, how many casualties can Helian endure? Although the Hu people are not good at attacking the city, but this time Helian led more than 40,000 troops after all, if it really does not count the casualties, Du Zan is not sure to hold Jiuyuan. It was for this reason that he did not veto Li Yi's proposal in the end.

In the woods, Lu Bu and Cao Xing looked nervously into the distance, where a group of Xianbei people were making siege equipment overnight.

"Ignore them, even if it is useless to stop them from destroying siege equipment now, we are just such a small number of people, we have to appear at a critical moment." Regarding the report of Lu Bu and others, Li Yi said lightly.

The day passed quickly, and the next morning, He Lian commanded the army to launch an attack on Jiuyuan City.

I saw that in the direction of the battlefield, more than a dozen Xianbei soldiers carried a wooden ladder of about 4 zhang and rushed towards Jiuyuan City with the large army, and there were more than ten of them. At the same time, another group of people followed closely with a large log 3 or 4 feet wide, accompanied by countless Xianbei soldiers, and after rushing into range, nearly half of them remained in place, bending their bows and arrows, and constantly shooting arrows at the city wall to cover their own troops.

"Building ladders to climb the city walls, building crashing wood to knock on the city gates, and archers to suppress them remotely, it's really simple and rude......," Li Yi complained secretly in his heart.

Li Yi watched the play here, but the governor on the city wall over there was constantly commanding the troops, "Shield hand protection!" Archers ready! When the Hu people get close, shoot freely! Du Chan ordered loudly.

Although the siege method of the Xianbei people was simple and rude, if Helian attacked without counting casualties, it would be very difficult for Jiuyuan County to deal with. Because of the geographical environment, although the location of Jiuyuan City is important, it is not protected by a wide moat, and the entire city wall is exposed under the noses of the enemy. Coupled with the scarcity of troops, it is very dangerous to be rushed by the enemy.

Soon, the Xianbei people rushed to the city with a wooden ladder, and after struggling to set up the wooden ladder, they held a wooden shield to defend the arrow in one hand and quickly climbed to the city wall with the ladder in the other. And the Xianbei soldiers who were holding the crashing wood struggled to keep banging on the city gate.

"Falling rocks!" Du Chan shouted, and as he commanded, soldiers kept throwing stones the size of their heads downward. In this way, once you hit the enemy's head, you are basically certain to die, because even if you are not stoned to death, you will fall to death. Even if it hits the opponent's wooden shield, it will cause a lot of damage to the opponent. And as long as the other party can't stand on his feet because of this, then the fall is basically the same.

Because it is located on the border, there are a lot of reserves of falling rocks, rolling logs, and arrows in Jiuyuan County, which is also Li Yi's confidence that Du Zan can be guarded for about 3 days with 2,000 people.

Outside the city walls, screams rang out incessantly, and one after another Xianbei people were hit by arrows and falling stones, and then fell down the wooden ladder. The enemy who hit the city gate was treated favorably by the Han army, and a large number of arrows fell on them, and soon, the soldiers responsible for hitting the city gate were killed and wounded. But this situation did not make them fearful, on the contrary, the blood and death of their companions inspired them to be bloody and murderous.

I saw them screaming, filling in the gaps of the ladder and hitting the wood, as if they had not seen the arrows and stones that kept falling.

"Speak!" Du Chan suddenly shouted.

"Yes!" Zhang Sheng immediately responded, and then immediately led dozens of soldiers armed with ring-headed knives to the city wall. They were all made up of highly skilled and well-armed soldiers, and they would be the biggest obstacle for the Xianbei people to climb the walls.

Behind the city gate, more than a dozen soldiers used giant trees and their own bodies to stand against the city gate. At the same time, there were more than 100 troops armed with spears, bows and arrows, and set up a formation to surround the city gate, once the enemy broke through the city gate and rushed into the city, they would immediately be attacked fiercely.

"The upper army is plotting, the second is the enemy, the second is the army, and the next is to attack the city, and the method of attacking the city is a last resort......" Li Yi looked at Jiuyuan City and sighed. The war had just started less than a moment, and dozens of people had already been killed on the Xianbei side, and the price of these dozens of people had not even touched a single hair of the Jiuyuan defenders.

It seems that this is just sending the soldiers to their deaths in vain, but in this day and age, if you want to forcibly attack the city, you must get used to this sacrifice. Because even the Han Dynasty, which had the equipment to attack the city more first, had to pay several times the price of the opponent when carrying out a forced siege.