With the Xiongnu in the north and the rebels in the south, Chai Yue faces a difficult choice. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The commander of this Chu army is the general Cui Hong, if in peacetime, Cui Hong will never follow the advice of a junior, this time it is different, except for the general Yin, he handed over almost the entire army to Chai Yue, let him arrange, he sat next to him and nodded in agreement.

The few people who knew Cui Hong understood that the general had to flee back to the capital, which was the source of power, and as long as the Cui family wanted to continue to have power, they must win in the capital.

Chai Yue didn't want to do so much, the capital was a downtrodden place for him, and only in the army could he get the status and dignity he coveted.

"This battle can only be won and not defeated, and the Huns must be made to understand that the strength of the Chu army still exists, so that they can negotiate with it and change the emperor back." Chai Yue did not know the situation outside the Saiwai and Jincheng, and his plan was for the Huns to surround the emperor, and the Chu army would in turn force Da Danyu.

However, the Chu army was only seventy or eighty thousand after many replenishments, far less than the Huns, and the number of rebels behind it was not much.

Suffering from the enemy on the back is a dilemma for any general.

Chai Yue decided to take the risk.

"There is an old general of Laofang in the north to guard it, one day, I only need one day."

Fang Daye nodded, the more important the moment, the more reluctant he was to speak, and the more gloomy his expression became, but his promise was trustworthy.

Fang Daye commanded 10,000 troops, arranged along the mountain, and put up many banners to block more than 100,000 Huns, while Chai Yue led the remaining 60,000 or 70,000 people to attack the rebels who were approaching step by step, striving to end the battle within one day and turn around to support Fang Daye.

This is an extremely risky plan that requires delicate cooperation, and a mistake on either side of Chai Yue and Fang Daye will lead to the rout of the entire Chu army.

Chai Yue did not attack immediately, and the formation looked like it was going to be a decisive battle with the Huns, which was a normal choice for ordinary people, but he had already sent a large number of scouts to closely monitor the progress of the rebels in the south, and also sent an ambush to prepare to block the retreat of the rebels.

As he expected, the rebels were too immature, and they won several small victories on the way north, coupled with the encouragement of the Huns, thinking that this battle would be won, so they were greedy for merit, not like they came to fight, but like they came to pick up spoils, and the marching speed was too fast, and the ranks were relatively long.

On the morning of the third day of the ultimatum, the emperor was toasting to the ministers in Jincheng, the battle of Yan began in advance, the Huns attacked first, the Chu army did not have a city wall, only a temporary wooden fence, the Huns did not use siege equipment, galloped horses, and the Chu army met the battle with rolling wood and stones.

Chai Yue began to send out troops, which were small in number, only a few thousand, and it seemed that the Chu army could not draw manpower to confuse the rebels and lead them into the narrow strip that had been chosen.

More than an hour later, Fang Daye blocked the two charges of the Huns, and Chai Yue sent all his soldiers to surround the rebels and shoot them with random arrows - time was pressing, and Chai Yue did not want to keep prisoners.

The rebels paid a heavy price for their arrogance, and were blocked in a narrow valley, with Chu troops on the front and right, especially the Chu troops on both sides, condescending and firing a volley of arrows, and they had no way to dodge.

Fang Daye's side was quite difficult, many defensive lines were broken through by the Huns, he gathered the remnants of the army, and held on the mountain ridge without giving an inch, in order to attract the Huns to continue the attack.

The Huns made a huge mistake at this time, and the famous kings and nobles who commanded the battle did not see the movement of the Chu army behind the ridge, thinking that the Chu army on the ridge was the main force, and the Hun soldiers who broke through the defense line were eager to snatch the heads and banners for meritorious service, and did not care about other things at all.

Fang Daye personally held the bow and arrow, fought side by side with the soldiers, and held out until the evening, with only more than 1,000 people left around him, and the arrow stone was approaching, and the Chu army still refused to retreat or surrender.

It was only then that the Xiongnu commander discovered that the number of Chu troops was wrong.

Chai Yue's army finally returned in time, although the men and horses were running all day, but they took advantage of the victory to return, and saw the Huns in the distance, as well as the banner of the Chu army still standing on the mountains, the fatigue of the soldiers was swept away, they were supposed to be on the defensive side, but at this time they became attackers.

The battle of Yan will last for three days and three nights, and an unnamed mountain range will change hands more than ten times, and no one can completely defend it, and no one will give up.

On the same day, there were also battles outside the Cypriots.

After weighing it repeatedly, Da Shan Yu felt that the Chu army outside the Saiwai was stranded in Mayi City, which was not the most urgent threat, so he quietly transferred the main force of the Xiongnu to Yannan, preparing to eliminate Cui Hong's Chu army in one fell swoop.

Da Shan Yu didn't know that Deng Cui had arrived in Mayi City, and even if he knew, he wouldn't care, in the intelligence of the Huns, Deng Cui was just a deserter from the Chu army, kidnapped the concubine of the Right Xian King, and went all the way west, I don't know which Chu city to hide into, no one would have thought that such a person would be the general of the Chu army appointed by the emperor.

The Chu army outside the Saiwai first arrived in Yanguo, and the Great Wall checkpoint in this area was broken and occupied by the Huns from the pass, and most of the original defenders fled to Mayi City, which was in Deng Cui's army at the moment.

The Xiongnu did not leave many people to guard the pass, and they were not good at guarding the high walls, and they always felt that they were not as free as the flat grassland.

The first level was recaptured in less than half an hour.

Deng Cui suddenly realized that he had chosen a big bargain, as long as he was brave enough, he could continue to choose.

He couldn't make Deng Cui formulate an impeccable offensive or defensive plan, so every time he found an excuse to sleep and handed over specific affairs to his generals, but when it came to analyzing the general situation and making decisions on the spot, he had an almost perfect keen intuition, as if there was a god in the dark to help.

Deng Cui immediately ordered that all the Chu troops did not need to maintain formation, and advanced at full speed to seize the number of checkpoints, and they were not allowed to attack strongly, it would take an hour at most, and they would give up if they could not attack.

While the emperor was fighting hard with the Huns in Jincheng and Chai Yue in Yannan, Deng Cui's army was like a wild horse, advancing on two fronts inside and outside the pass, snatching the passes of the Great Wall occupied by the Huns.

Deng Cui actually lost an opportunity, in order to completely annihilate the Yannan Chu army, Da Dan Yu mobilized more than half of the Xiongnu army in the pass, from Mayi City to Jincheng, only a small number of Xiongnu troops were stationed, and the Chu army outside the Saiwai was completely able to drive into the city and go straight to Jincheng to rescue.

But at that time, no one knew about these situations: the Chu army did not know about the southward transfer of the Huns, and the Huns did not know that the Chu army outside the Saiwai was advancing eastward.

The few scouts who found the anomaly were running wild on the road at the moment, and the news was not believed at first.

The most ill-informed people were the besieged Jincheng soldiers and civilians.

The stone-throwing offensive of the Huns continued until the second half of the night, and the southern wall of Jincheng was already dilapidated, and the soldiers defending the city suffered too many casualties, so they could only retreat to the city.

The emperor also left the city, and like the ordinary soldiers, ate a few mouthfuls of dry food on his horse, ready for the final battle.

Outside the city was the territory of the Huns, and the Chu army did not plan to go out of the city, but to engage in street battles inside the city.

The old, weak, women and children were sent to the city of Beicheng with the city wall intact, and the soldiers of the Chu army lined up on the streets of the north city, except for a few generals, most of the people were on foot, and horses, cattle and sheep were arranged in front as the first line of defense in the city.

The Chu army was divided into two divisions, the eastern part was commanded by Fan Bangshan, and the western part belonged to the emperor, and Cai Xinghai handed over the responsibility of command, leading the few hundred remaining Su guards to protect the emperor.

At the darkest moment in the early hours of the morning, the Huns confirmed that the Jin city had been broken, ended the stone throwing, and sent troops into the city.

The Huns crossed the bridge smoothly, quickly sorted out the rubble in the gaps in the city wall, and then swarmed in.

The first "enemies" they encountered were not people, but a group of mad cows and horses startled by torches on their tails.

The Huns were shocked, and for a time the offensive was frustrated, but it didn't take long for them to regroup their ranks and burrow into the hive like long snakes.

Jincheng was not a big city, the streets were not very wide, a large number of earth, stone and bricks were piled up, the advantage of cavalry and bows and crossbows was gone, and the Huns could only dismount and fight with the Chu army step by step.

The street fighting lasted for an hour, it was already dawn, and the Huns were making slow progress, so they changed their tactics and began to set fires.

There were not many houses left in Jincheng, especially in the southern city, almost all of them were demolished to make room for the equipment in the city and provide earth and stone for the defense of the city, leaving only sections of uneven walls, so that the horses could not run at will.

But the fire burned.

The Chu army actually took the opportunity to launch a counterattack, driving the Huns who set fire to the edge of the city, and then used local materials to extinguish the open fires with soil piled up on the roadside.

The five siege engines in the city were all made of wood, and they were so large that they could not be moved, and they were difficult to extinguish after they were burned, so they had to be left to burn.

The flames soared into the sky, and the Huns outside the city were greatly encouraged, and entered the city again, forcing the Chu army back step by step.

Han Ruzi had already dismounted and was running around the streets, at this time the order was not important, the emperor himself was the most important means of boosting morale, most of the people around him were lost, only Zhang Youcai and Cai Xinghai and other eunuchs were left, and the others were fighting with the soldiers, even Meng E and other guards.

No one asked the emperor why he wanted to defend the city, not even the emperor himself, and everyone entered a state of almost unconscious madness, refusing to back down or surrender.

Han Ruzi felt that he didn't need to run around anymore, he hadn't been in direct contact with the enemy, and it was time to join the battle, so he said to Zhang Youcai: "You stay behind." ”

Zhang Youcai also carried a knife and shook his head vigorously.

"You can't fight, and if I'm injured, I still need your care."

Zhang Youcai reluctantly nodded at this time, and stayed with the other two eunuchs on standby.

Han Ruzi smiled at Cai Xinghai and said, "It's another street fight, do you remember that time in the palace?" ”

Of course, Cai Xinghai remembered that at that time, he fled with the emperor in the long alley, and more than a dozen Jianghu guests chased after him, and it was after that that he was dead set on the emperor, so he laughed and said: "The scene is bigger, and my leg is not injured, I can kill it as much as I want." ”

The two scrambled to run forward, and Zhang Youcai and the others followed behind, not letting the emperor out of their sight.

There were more and more soldiers of the Chu army in front, and occasionally cold arrows swept overhead, and everyone who saw the emperor followed behind, shouting loudly.

A group of soldiers blocked the streets, fighting with the Huns, Han Ruzi and Cai Xinghai could only squeeze forward step by step, there were people in front and back, left and right, but they couldn't see the enemy, but they knew that the enemy was more than a dozen steps away.

Every step was so difficult, and suddenly, the front was looser, Han Ruzi quickened his pace, and the others also quickened their pace, swords and guns were shaking, and he still didn't see the enemy.

After running a hundred steps, the emperor and a large number of Chu soldiers suddenly understood that the Huns were actually retreating. (To be continued.) )