The night was gloomy, and in the darkness, the cold wind of the desert outside the fortress was like a talisman, coldly telling the Xianbei soldiers at the head of the city what their fate would be.

Under the city, thousands of Xianbei clansmen, who had no protective armor on their bodies, were forced by the bows and crossbows and spears of the Han army to advance towards the surrendered city. The Han army that instructed them clearly told them that they had no hope of attacking the city only if they broke through it, otherwise they would have to die at that time.

Between life and death, these persecuted Xianbei people chose to live, because they knew that if they didn't push the battering ram now, then they would die immediately, on the contrary, pushing the battering ram forward, they couldn't say that they could break open the city gate, let the Han army rush into the city, and eliminate the Xianbei nobles in the city, so as to get a way out.

At this moment, whether it is inside or outside the city, countless Xianbei people are insulting the meanness and shamelessness of the Han people in their hearts, this cruel way of besieging the city is completely different from the polite and courteous Han people they met together, these Han troops seem to have only one purpose, that is, to use the blood of the Xianbei people as their defensive props to break the city. They are devils, they don't know the preciousness of tribal life, and his Han generals who know that they forgive their invasion of the Han Dynasty are fundamentally different, but no matter how they curse, a cannibalism directly forced by the Xianbei clan is inevitable.

In the rear of the Han army, Fu Quan looked at everything under the surrendered city, and sneered, this is everything he wants, thinking of the foreign races in later generations, they are willing to use the blood of the people of the Han Dynasty as cannon fodder for them to break the city, and even in the Han frontier of this era, there is an invasion of foreign enemies, and there has been a situation similar to the Hu people who want to break the city, and they don't want to lose too much of their own tribe, so they use the Han people as cannon fodder.

In this regard, Fu Quan didn't know too much in his previous life, and now, as he led the division out of the fortress, he also encountered the same problem, on the one hand, how to dilapidated the surrendered city, but after all, it is also a city, and it is impossible to easily break it without paying a certain price. On the other hand, naturally because of those Xianbei prisoners, he didn't know what to do, after all, for these Xianbei people who originally bullied the Han people, Fuquan was useless at all, but if the Han army was asked to kill these Xianbei prisoners one after another, it would undoubtedly be a waste of time, so it was better to use the waste, let them first block the bows and arrows of the Xianbei soldiers on the city tower for the Han army.

Behind him, the crying of countless Xianbei women came, and Fu Quan knew that it was the cry of the Xianbei woman who was lucky not to be selected by the Han army to be cannon fodder.

When Shicai ordered the Xianbei people to be cannon fodder, Fu Quan ordered the young women and little girls among them to be selected, and the other Xianbei people, no matter who they were, even if they were little boys, should also go to the battlefield to be cannon fodder. The reason in this is naturally simple, young women and girls can be camp prostitutes and slaves, and they are the marching munitions of the army under their command, and even after the victory, they will be sold in the Central Plains, of course, they must be used well, not to mention that Fuquan is willing to do it, and the soldiers and horses under his command are probably reluctant to use these women as cannon fodder.

The cry of more than a thousand Xianbei women is naturally those Xianbei people who are about to die, there are their fathers, brothers and sons, but now they are separated forever and driven to death by the Han army, can they not suffer? It's just that, obviously, no matter how they cry, the fate of their relatives is destined to be unchangeable.

Although the defense of the surrendered city is strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, he also has his own weaknesses, after all, this city wall was originally built by the Han Dynasty to defend against the Hu people in the grassland, and it was naturally built completely according to the disadvantages of the Hu people.

Although the city wall is high but not thick, and it is an earth-rammed city wall, there is no masonry reinforcement on the inner and outer sides, if you use a battering hammer to conquer the city wall and the city gate, as long as the time is sufficient, and the cost is enough, the city gate or city wall can be directly pushed to destruction.

Of course, this is not to say that the rammed city walls are all flowery, the ancient cities were mostly built by rammed earth, and the city rarely has the tofu slag project of later generations. Many cities have abandoned the factors of self-recognition, and after the change of dynasties, continuous killings, bloody rain, and still humiliating Si, it naturally has its solid reason.

Rammed earth wall at this time is very particular, Mencius has a saying, "Fu said to lift between the plates", among them, the so-called version, but refers to the wooden plank, the ancients built a piece of prepared thick plank spliced together, every two planks outside the insert of a column called "Zhen", and between these columns, also tied ropes. It is similar to the scaffolding used in the construction of tall buildings in later generations, like a clamp stick to hold the planks in place so that they do not collapse, so that they are erected into four wooden walls to form a long and narrow box.

As for "building", it refers to striking the earth with a ramming pestle, because as the scaffolding similar to the "version" is built, the supporters of the construction of the city wall have to put the earth in the bamboo basket, and let people carry the wooden wall along those "scaffolding", and keep filling the wooden wall with earth, and when the inside is full of earth, they will send people in groups of three or four to pick up the heavy ramming pestle, and according to the loose mound, with all their strength to smash it, and Mencius's sentence "Fu said to lift it between the plates" means that the minister of Shang Wuding said, At the beginning, I also did the hard work of picking up a pestle and smashing rammed earth.

However, hard work is hard work, but smashing rammed earth is very important in the process of building cities in ancient times. Because this is not simply to smash the soil, but to smash the soil so that there is no gap at all, the loose dry soil is slowly tamped, more and more board, more and more hard, until the shovel can not be pryed, and then sprinkled with water, coated with a layer of mud, this is considered the construction is completed.

And if you want to doubt the quality of the wall, don't worry about it. Because as the soil on which the walls were built was rammed to a stone hard, the water stains on the walls were completely dried, and the self-belief factor was abandoned, only in the face of immeasurable attacks would it collapse, otherwise it would be difficult for foreign enemies to overcome.

Of course, if you take into account the natural factors, rammed earth walls like this will certainly not last as long as stone walls. At least tens of hundreds of years, more than thousands of years, this kind of rammed earth city walls will definitely be shortened by wind and rain, or even disappear directly, but their defense is good, can withstand the repeated bombardment of stones.

Therefore, if you want to conquer this kind of wall, the best way is not to use long-range weapons such as catapults, but to dig tunnels to raid the city or directly dig up the city foundation, or even send water to slowly soak the city foundation, and completely use time-killing methods to defeat this kind of fortified city.

The reason why the former Han Dynasty built a city in the desert outside the fortress was that in addition to the fact that this city was to accept the surrender of the Xiongnu nobles and tribes, which had extremely important political significance, and more importantly, if there were sufficient soldiers and logistics in this fortified city, it would be a bridgehead for the Han army to attack the fortress.

No matter how many people there are in the grassland, in this desert outside the Saiwai, where there is no sufficient water source for hundreds or thousands of miles, in the face of the Han army with abundant troops, sufficient grain and grass, and a large number of weapons, they can only look at the dust. It is almost impossible to dig a tunnel, as for digging a tunnel, it is also delusional, around a soft desert area, you dig a tunnel, although you can use wooden planks to strengthen the tunnel, but it will not be really insured, I can't say how long I haven't dug it, I have to pay a lot of soldiers first, buried in the sand to die.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that this surrendered city was a nightmare in the eyes of the Hu people at that time, after all, they had no other way than to storm the city and fill it with human lives, but to attack hard, in the face of the well-equipped Han army, they had to pay no less than several times the casualties of the defenders in the city to break the city.

It is precisely because of this that the Xianbei people in the city dare to have the courage to defend the city with weak troops and hold on until the reinforcements arrive.

Originally, Fuquan had used the "Broken Pillar Breaking City Method" to break the city in Jingzhou, and naturally he didn't care too much about the surrendered city, but now, obviously, if they did this, they couldn't do it at all for the entire Han army.

After all, firstly, it is very unsafe to dig tunnels now, and secondly, even if they can dig tunnels, the Han army does not have so much time to dig them. After all, with tonight's raid, many Xianbei tribesmen fled in a panic, and it was impossible to say that in a day or two, the nearby Xianbei tribes would get the news, and when the time came, they would gather their troops and come back to rescue the surrendered city. Although the western Xianbei had already received the troops of Helian and sent a lot of soldiers and horses to leave, it was a big Xianbei tribe after all, even if it was divided now, it could still get tens of thousands of people after all.

If Fuquan didn't want to fight hard with the Xianbei army at the beginning, he could only choose to fight quickly, so he couldn't do time-consuming things like digging tunnels or sending water, and he could only do things that took less time.

For example, this use of battering rams to storm the city wall, directly collapsing the wall foundation of the surrendered city, after hundreds of years, the surrendered city wall has already evolved with time, the war erosion, not good repair and a lot of low, and the city wall is not as hard as when the former Han Dynasty was built, and there is no moat outside the city to surround the defense, so as long as there is enough time, under the impact of the battering ram, it will eventually collapse.

Outside the city, that is, after a while, the Xianbei people who were pushing the battering ram to move were almost within the range of the bows and arrows of the defenders in the surrendered city, but the Xianbei people at the head of the city were at this moment giving full play to the nature of the grassland people who could give up everything in order to survive.

"Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! "Zhi Luo Luo first shouted at the head of the city, and let the men and women of the city shoot the arrows in their hands. There were disobedient soldiers, I don't know if they saw their relatives, or they couldn't bear to start, and they didn't move directly with their bows and arrows.

At this time, all the Xianbei people knew that if the clansmen under the city did not die, it was them, the Xianbei people at the head of the city, who died. It's just that no matter how they shoot, they can't kill all the Xianbei people in the city, and the Han army didn't give those cannon fodder Xianbei people to defend the armor, but it doesn't mean that the Han army didn't use targeted means to deal with the Xianbei people at the head of the city.

I saw that when the Xianbei people at the head of the city fired arrows at their own people under the city, the Han army, which had been following the Xianbei people who attacked the surrendered city, also sent out the bloodthirsty arrows that they had been waiting for at the Xianbei people at the head of the city after they reached a place where they could attack the head of the city.

"Ahh Yes! Ah......h

Whether it is the head of the surrendered city, or the surrendered city, the Xianbei people are constantly suffering casualties, the head of the city is okay, after all, with the help of the urn city, many Xianbei people who defend the city can still dodge, but under the city, the Xianbei people who attack the city wall and the city gate are encountering problems.

Because those Xianbei people who originally stayed under the city and were ready to slowly ascend the city with hanging baskets are now determined to die to stop the action of their fellow clans from attacking the city. However, because neither side has siege weapons, it leads to a stalemate between the two sides, but the Xianbei people who protect the city for the same clan at the head of the city may not have imagined that the Xianbei people at the head of the city, even if they know that they are blocking the Xianbei people who are attacking the city, still shoot arrows at them.

There is no other reason, since the Xianbei people at the head of the city have already shot arrows at the people who are besieging the city, they will naturally not be soft on other people, and the Xianbei people who are blocking under the city just give them the opportunity to shoot arrows and aim, at this time they don't care about the enemy or me, as long as they can kill all these Xianbei people who are besieging the city, and don't let them push the battering ram that can break through the city into the city wall, no matter what the price is, they are willing to try.

Standing in Fuquan outside the city, seeing the scene of the Xianbei people killing each other, he couldn't help but show a hearty smile, which was probably a sense of revenge for the misfortune of the Han people in later generations.

If the Confucian-dominated dynastic regime in the future only used their so-called benevolence and righteousness for the Han people, and used such an extreme racial policy for the Hu people, how could it be that with the development of the dynasty, the Han people from generation to generation had already lost the bloody colonial expansion method of the pre-Qin Spring and Autumn Period and their ancestors, and switched to the so-called benevolence and righteousness to govern the country. The "revenge" of the Han Dynasty, which originally allowed Confucianism to rise completely, has completely disappeared, and the righteousness of the so-called "Spring and Autumn Period" is that the minister does not please the thief and the minister, and the son does not take revenge and is not the son, but it is becoming less and less in the future.

To get back to the point, the Xianbei people in the surrendered city did not completely kill the Xianbei people outside the city in the end, after all, there were hundreds of Xianbei people left, to stop the Xianbei people who were forced to attack, the difference in the number of the two sides was huge, with the arrow coverage of nearly 3,000 soldiers at the head of the city, the Xianbei people who stopped the siege of the city died, and there were more than 2,000 people who attacked the city.

Soon, after paying the price of countless lives, those siege rams finally reached the vicinity of the city wall, but at the request of the Han military first, none of them went to hit the city gate.

They were all made improvised by the Han army, using several captured board cars made of wooden planks, with wheels installed at the bottom to move in the desert as the base, and then fixed sharp ramsticks on the front wall of the car, which was equivalent to a simplified version, without any defense, and at the moment directly hit the city wall.