Outside Zhangye City, the Xiliang Army has been besieged for three days, and the siege equipment built by Changshi Suoxian has arrived under Zhangye City from the Lejuan Operation, and the trees on the hillside east of Zhangye City have been cut down by the Xiliang Army.

In order to prevent the Hun army from raiding, Li Xin ordered the camp to be built like the Lejun camp, and the news of the Nanliang army and the Huns in Changsong came to the war, and now the tens of thousands of troops of Fuqu Yizi were pinned down by Nanliang and could not return to Zhangye.

In the big tent of the Chinese army of the Xiliang Army, Li Xin convened the generals to discuss, and most of the generals of the Xiliang Army gathered in the tent, and the generals under Li Yan and Ling Huqian and others sat on one side, while Zhu Yuanhu and Suo Xun sat opposite.

Li Xin, dressed in gold armor and with a long sword hanging from his waist, got up and said: "Generals, now that Nanliang is fighting with Fuqu Mashiko in Changsong, Zhangye City has now become a lonely city, and this governor has decided to launch an attack on Zhangye City early tomorrow morning and capture Fuqu Mengxun alive." ”

"His Royal Highness the Prince, is this too risky, now there are more than 20,000 Hun thieves in Zhangye City, plus the young and strong people in the city were driven by the Huns to defend the city, and there are no less than 40,000 warriors in the city. And now that the Xiongnu army has been prepared, if you want to forcibly attack the city, you are afraid that there will be heavy casualties, and the last general should think twice about attacking the city. When Ling Huqian heard this, he immediately got up and hugged his fists and said.

Since Zhu Yuanhu took over the 20,000 soldiers and horses in the northern camp of Jiuquan City, he has been loyal to Li Xin, and he obeyed Li Xin's words.

"General Linghu's words are wrong, the Hun thieves have been frightened in the first battle of Lejuan, and now the Hun thieves in the city are just surviving, if they don't attack the city at this time, do they have to sit and wait for the opportunity to be missed?"

"Humph! Zhangye City is four feet high, ordinary siege equipment can not kick on the city head at all, and the general has carefully observed, Zhangye City head Hun thieves are equipped with a large number of crossbow arrows, if the consequences of rash siege are unimaginable. Ling Huqian said coldly.

Ling Hu Qian was very angry that Zhu Yuanhu had been instigating Li Xin to attack the city all these days, and when he saw Zhu Yuanhu refute himself at this moment, he didn't get angry.

Many generals in the tent exchanged words one by one, and what Ling Hu Qian said was exactly what they were worried about, once the city was attacked, the sergeants under their command would have to rush to the city without hesitation, and there would be a lot of casualties.

"Enough! There is no need to discuss this matter again, the governor has decided to attack the city with the whole army early tomorrow morning, if anyone dares to violate the yang and the yin, the military law will be engaged! ”

Lei Ming on Li Yan's side wanted to get up to dissuade him, but he was pulled down by Li Yan fiercely and glared. Now that Li Xin has made up his mind, he doesn't listen to anyone's dissuasion at all, not to mention that Lei Ming is under Li Yan's command.

"Yes." The generals stood up and said in unison.

Li Yan returned to the camp and summoned the captains of the Zhenbei Military Academy and above to come to discuss the matter, and now Li Xin has ordered the siege of the city, and will launch an attack on Zhangye City early tomorrow morning.

"General, this Zhangye City is second only to Guzang among the cities in Hexi, and if you forcibly attack the city, won't you let the brothers go to death?" As soon as Lei Ming entered the big tent, he said angrily.

"That's it! If you hadn't stopped me from theorizing with His Royal Highness the Prince, it would be disgusting to look at Zhu Yuanhu's villainous appearance. ”

"Alright. All right! I understand what you said, and this battle will determine whether or not I can take the Hexi Prefectures. Early tomorrow morning, Iron Hammer you will lead the army to attack the northern city. Li Yan waved his hand, signaled everyone to be quiet, looked at the hammer on the side and ordered.

"Yes. Checkmate. Seeing Li Yan's order, Iron Hammer said in a muffled voice.

After Li Yan ordered the generals, Linghu Dezhao walked in, these days Linghu Dezhao has been responsible for supervising the transportation of grain and grass, after the Zhenbei Army entered the territory of Beiliang, the cattle and sheep of the Huns suddenly became the military food of the Zhenbei Army, and in a few days, the Zhenbei Army has obtained tens of thousands of cattle and sheep.

For this reason, there are also many objections in the Xiliang army, Li Wei has always governed the Xiliang with benevolence and righteousness, and now the Zhenbei army is like the Xiongnu army of the year as soon as it enters the territory of Beiliang.

Li Yan had a strict order that the cattle and sheep of the Huns in Beiliang should be forcibly requisitioned as military rations, and if they dared to rape and plunder the Han people, they would be severely punished.

"There are clouds in the art of war, ten are to surround it, five to attack it, and divide it into multiple times. Now my Daliang soldiers and horses are only twice as many as the Hun thieves, and if I forcibly attack the city, the casualties will be not small. Linghu Dezhao sighed and said.

"It is said that Nanliang defeated the Hun thieves in Changsong, and now Fuqu Yizi has led the army to flee to Guzang, once Nanliang takes Guzang, he will inevitably send troops to Xijun, and then I Daliang will not be able to take Zhangye, do you say that the meat eaten in the mouth by the bald Wei Tan will still be spit out?" Li Yan looked at the map in the tent and said in a deep voice.

"When the two countries formed an alliance, didn't they already agree that all the west of Xijun would belong to me? Could it be that the bald Wei Tan dared to be treacherous? ”

"That's just a piece of paper, the bald Wei Tan can even abandon his second son as a hostage in Zhangye, why be afraid of a piece of paper? Over the years, the bald Wei Tan has launched many attacks on Beiliang, not in order to be able to annex Beiliang and unify Hexi. ”

"I'm just a little worried......" Ling Hu Dezhao frowned, a little worried about this siege.

Early the next morning, the Xiliang army began to attack the city, the drums under the city of Zhangye were loud, the Xiliang army pushed the siege chariot and rushed to the city gate, and the trebuchet under the city smashed the huge stones to the city.

Because the city of Zhangye City is four feet high, many Xiliang troops were poured by the hot fire oil of the Huns from the cloud ladder, and the logs on the head of the city rolled down, smashing the heads of the soldiers of the Xiliang army and bleeding.

The corpses of the Xiliang army under Zhangye City were stacked with a thick layer, especially the crossbow arrows of the Huns, which killed the Xiliang army even more chillingly.

Iron Hammer personally led the Zhenbei army to attack the city, and several times he was about to attack the city and was killed by the Huns. These sergeants were his brothers, but now they are never seen again.

"Your Highness, this Hun has been prepared for a long time, and I am afraid that I will not be able to capture Zhangye for a while. Now that the battalions have suffered heavy casualties, His Highness has ordered the siege to be stopped. "The black armor on Suo Xun's body was stained with blood, and most of this blood belonged to the Xiliang Army.

"Your Highness, give the order." Zhang Jing, who was beside Li Xin, looked at the sergeants in front of him who were howling in pain after being seriously injured by the Huns, and his face changed.

"Give the order to go down and stop the siege." Li Xin was silent for a long time and spoke.

At the head of Zhangye City, Fuqu Funu looked at the mountains of corpses piled up under the city, licked his chapped lips, and said coldly: "Hmph! Ben will see how many soldiers you have! ”

"The Xiliang army has retreated! The Xiliang army withdrew. The Huns at the head of the city saw that the Xiliang army had stopped attacking the city, and cheered loudly.

In Zhangye City, the news of the withdrawal of the Xiliang Army spread, and the previous fear of the siege of the Xiliang Army was swept away, and in just one day, the Xiliang Army suffered nearly 10,000 casualties under Zhangye City, while the casualties of the Xiongnu soldiers were only 1,000.

The Xiliang army was defeated in the first siege of the city, with nearly 10,000 casualties, especially more than 4,000 casualties under Ling Huqian.