Chapter 39 The Huns enter the city
Hundreds of archers on the school field are repeatedly shooting arrows at the target, sometimes changing formations, sometimes alternating.
After more than a month of training, these people already had the qualifications for archers, Liu Fan stood at the top and nodded with satisfaction.
It has been more than ten days since Liu Fan returned to the barracks, and in these ten days, Liu Fan has worked hard to train the soldiers, without delaying for a moment, so that the quality of the soldiers has improved by leaps and bounds.
"In our army, there are 800 bows and 200 crossbows, as long as the plan to lure the enemy is successful, the enemy will be wiped out in an instant." Liu Fan said to everyone.
"Isn't it too costly?" Xu Huang said with some pity.
"No, as long as the Hun cavalry is eliminated, not to mention the loss of a hundred houses, it means that the entire Jiangyi is burned, so what? There is no house to build, on the contrary, I don't know how many soldiers and civilians will be killed or wounded? Liu Fan said firmly.
Liu Fan, who came from later generations, valued life very seriously, he showed no mercy to those who should be killed, and the lives of soldiers and civilians were more valuable than a city in Jiangyi.
"Today's scouts reported that there are many Huns on the other side of the Yellow River, and now the ice on the surface of the Yellow River is several feet thick, even if it is ten thousand horses galloping on the ice, it can be supported, I dare to assert that the Huns will definitely cross the Yellow River in two days. Yun Chang, are things ready for Jiangyi? Liu Fan asked Guan Yu.
"Shao Yang and many county soldiers have already demolished all the houses that may be affected by the fire, and three hundred cars are also ready." Guan Yu replied.
"Okay, order the soldiers to pull out the camp and withdraw the whole army into the city, get ready!" Liu Fan gave an order.
On the same day, all the soldiers entered the city of Jiangyi.
Early the next morning, the scouts arranged by Liu Fan flew to report that countless cavalry had gathered on the opposite side of the Yellow River and were preparing to cross the Yellow River.
Liu Fan immediately ordered hundreds of carts that appeared to be filled with grain to drive out of the West City Gate, stop two miles away from the West City Gate, and be guarded by three hundred soldiers.
The Xiongnu cavalry on the west side of the Yellow River gathered more and more, and even began to slowly cross the Yellow River, tying straw to the hooves of the horses to prevent them from slipping and falling on the ice.
The Xiongnu leaders only sent 100 cavalry across the Yellow River at a time, and they were afraid that there would be too many men and horses and the ice would break.
After more than an hour, all the Hun cavalry had crossed the Yellow River, a full two thousand horsemen, all of whom were wearing leather coats and hats, and were between twenty and forty years old.
"Sons, let's go home with a full load this time!" A richly dressed middle-aged Hun shouted loudly, he was the patriarch of the Helian tribe, Helian Wanzha, and his official position in the Southern Xiongnu royal court was the right big household, and he was also a high-ranking official.
As soon as Helenwanza's words fell, hundreds of horsemen came out of the crowd and rushed in all directions, these cavalry were equivalent to their scouts, and Helenwanza led the troops quite cautiously. Until the scouts came back to report the situation, Helian Wanza would not continue to advance towards Jiangyi County.
Two quarters of an hour later, more than a dozen Hun scouts came to the vicinity of Jiangyi City, and they suddenly saw countless cars parked in place, each car was full of sacks, each sack was bulging, one after another, and there was no end in sight. Each cart was pulled by three soldiers disguised as farmers, and three hundred soldiers stood by, led by a large man with a black face.
"That's the Hun cavalry, hurry up and enter the city!" The black-faced man roared, and the entire convoy hurriedly ran towards the gate of Jiangyi City.
As soon as the Hun cavalry saw this situation, they hurriedly turned their horses' heads and ran towards the road from which they came. There were only a dozen of them, and they didn't dare to attack the formation of more than 1,000 soldiers and civilians, and they had to tell their patriarch about this.
The Hun scouts quickly whipped their horses, and it only took a quarter of an hour to come to Helian Wanzha, because they ran too fast, even on the horses were tired and panting, and said: "Patriarch, there are many grain convoys heading towards Jiangyi City, and there are too few of us to stop them, so please go and pursue them quickly."
"Do they know that we are going to cross the river and gather all the grain around us and carry it to the city? So what are you waiting for, the sons of you will quickly pursue me, if they enter the city, we will not be able to do anything. The food is right in front of you, rush with me! Helenwanza commanded his opponent and took the lead.
When the Hun cavalry came two miles away from the west gate of Jiangyi City, 200 cars had already entered the city.
The sky was full of yellow sand, dust, and the sound of horses' hooves, and the soldiers and farmers who guarded the grain seemed to be like frightened birds, abandoning their vehicles and the grain on them, and hurried into the city.
When the Huns came to a place three hundred meters from the west gate, Helian Wanzha ordered the Hun cavalry to stop their horses, because they had already come into contact with the carts, and the hundred carts stretched for three hundred meters and stretched all the way here.
Helenwanza ordered the soldiers to open the bags on the carts, and the Hun cavalry used knives to pick open the bags of more than a dozen carts, and yellow millet appeared from the bags.
"Oh no, they're going to close the gates." A Hun hurriedly said to Helian Wanza.
Helenwanza looked out and saw a group of soldiers trying to move a car in the middle of the gate, and as long as the car was removed, the gate could be closed.
The Huns were nomadic people, who grew up on horseback, and were not good at attacking cities at all, not to mention that they did not bring any siege equipment when they came out to plunder, and if the door was closed, the most they could get was these hundred carts of grain.
"Sons, rush into the city for me, food, beauty, gold!" The caution in Helenwanza's heart suddenly disappeared, due to the limited manpower and time, he had not attacked the city for many years, and today the opportunity finally came. Interest blinded him.
The Huns chose to enter through the West Gate, and they were not afraid that the Han would escape from the other three gates, because they were cavalry, and they could catch up wherever the Han ran away.
Three hundred meters, for the horses can rush over in an instant, where did the soldiers who were carrying the cart dare to move again, and hurriedly fled for their lives. If Helenwanza had been in the city, he would have found them fleeing for their lives on horseback.
When Helian Wanzha led the cavalry to approach the city of Jiangyi fifty meters, dozens of people suddenly appeared on the city wall, sparsely firing arrows at the Hun cavalry, and the Huns ignored the dozens of people on the city wall and rushed to the city desperately.
"Fanyu, you take two centurions to kill the Han people on the city wall." Herenwanza said to his personal guard. The Han people on the city wall kept firing arrows and shot more than a hundred of them, which he could not tolerate.
By this time, Herenwanza had already rushed into the city, and in addition to the houses on both sides of the street, there were only grain trucks left in the city. Some of the Hun cavalry couldn't help but dismount and enter the house. But the houses were not only empty, but there was not even anything of value, and they thought that the Han people had fled to the city.
At the moment when the Huns were preparing to enter the city, the north and south gates of Jiangyi were opened, and countless soldiers poured out, running towards the west gate under the leadership of Xu Huang and Guan Yu.
When more than 2,000 Hun cavalry entered Jiangyi City, the more Helian Wanzha thought about it, the more wrong it became, they all entered the city for such a long time, why didn't they even see a single figure?
At this time, Helian Wanza's personal guard Fanyu returned, and Helian Wanzha asked Fanyu, "Have all the Han people on the city wall been killed?"
"After I climbed the city wall with 200 warriors along the stairs, I found that there was no one on it, and after searching, I found that the Han people on the city wall tied the rope to the female wall and went down the rope." Fanyu replied.
Helenwanza frowned, then looked at a grain truck beside him, felt that something was wrong, and drew his knife and slashed at the sack.