Wei Yan drove the Jingnan battalion to storm Jinyang City for three days, but even with the assistance of various siege equipment and a large number of archers to suppress the high-ranking defenders on the city wall, it still failed to pose much threat to Jinyang City.

After three days of fighting, the Jingnan battalion lost no less than 2,000 people, and Wei Yan had no choice but to slow down the siege, but continued to leave the cave house car to dig the roots of the wall under the city wall.

For now, this is the most effective siege tactic to reduce losses, as long as the city wall can be excavated, or the city wall can be dug through, then it will be easier to attack Jinyang City.

At the same time, it is not a waste of time to continue like this, at least in the process of waiting for Jiang Wan to find Zhang Yan to help, Zhu Weijun can still cause some damage to Jinyang City.

As for whether Zhang Yan's Montenegrin army will come, or how to fight Jinyang City if it comes, then let's talk about it.

As a result, the light cavalry headquarters of the Wei Yanjing South Battalion and the Zhang Liaohu Wing Battalion of the Zhu Wei Army were temporarily caught in a continuous siege battle on the side of Jinyang City, and they had no time to look aside for a while.

At this time, Ma Teng had already led his troops to join Zhang Xiu's heavy armored cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion in Hedong County.

Previously, Zhang Xiu also sent scouts to the territory occupied by the Southern Xiongnu in Bingzhou, and found that the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu Luan Tihu Chuquan had just gathered all the departments of the Southern Xiongnu, thus gathering nearly 50,000 Xiongnu cavalry, and took the route of Baitu County, Yuanyang, and Yuanyin County from the Xiongnu Wangting of Meiji County in Xihe County, and came to Sili Guanzhong.

Obviously, the Southern Xiongnu were preparing to go around the ancient Great Wall of Zhao and Qin in Shangjun and Xihe County, and then extend the Yellow River south to Hedong County after reaching the two counties of Yuanyang and Yuanyin, and then enter the border of Guanzhong.

This is also the main route for the Southern Huns to go to Sili Guanzhong from Bingzhou, otherwise they need to bypass the continuous mountains in Bingzhou, and can only enter Sili Guanzhong from Liangzhou.

What's more, the places such as Shangjun and Xihe County have long been controlled by the Southern Huns, and when they pass by those Great Walls, they don't have to worry about being intercepted, and they can pass smoothly.

Therefore, they are naturally reluctant to detour to Liangzhou, and go south along the Yellow River from Bingzhou, so that they can not worry about water sources on the road, and walk comfortably.

After the two armies of Ma Teng and Zhang Xiu converged, they discussed and decided to directly send troops to the counties of Yuanyang and Yuanyin to resist the Southern Huns.

This time, Ma Teng brought about 20,000 cavalry from Chang'an, mainly his own Ma family's army, and then left Zhang Heng and Liang Xing in Chang'an to garrison, as for the candidates, Cheng Yin, Li Kan, Cheng Yi, and Ma Play five generals, they were also sent to Zuo Fengyi to garrison, so as not to divide the Huns from here.

Therefore, Ma Teng's Fubo Battalion plus Zhang Xiu's Tiger Wing Battalion Heavy Cavalry Division, a total of about 26,000 cavalry troops.

As they rushed north along the Yellow River from Hedong County, about three days later, before the Southern Huns arrived, they came to the location of Yuanyin and Yuanyang County.

However, the Southern Xiongnu had also arrived in Baitu County, Shangjun County at this time, and they were not much away from Yuanyin and Yuanyang counties.

This Baitu County, Yuanyin County, and Yuanyang County are actually small county towns established on the bank of the Balwei River, a tributary of the Yellow River, and the original population was not much.

Comparatively speaking, Baitu County is in the upper reaches of the Balwei River, and Yuanyin and Yuanyang counties are in the lower reaches of the Balwei River, and there is also a section of the Great Wall left to defend against the Xiongnu during the Qin period.

Under the loess hilly terrain here, the Great Wall was built along some undulating hills, like a giant dragon to block the invasion of the Huns.

However, the Great Wall, which originally belonged to the border guards of Bingzhou led by Ding Yuan of Bingzhou, has long been guarded by soldiers, and this Great Wall has naturally lost its significance of blocking the Huns.

Especially after the Southern Huns took this side as their Happy Valley, they naturally would not let these Great Walls become an obstacle to their galloping horses.

As a result, some of the Great Wall nodes and passes located between the hills have basically been burned and destroyed by the Huns, so that only the Great Wall that spreads on the mountains is left, and it can no longer stop the advance of the Southern Huns.

Therefore, the cavalry of Ma Teng and Zhang Xiu rushed to this side, but they did not rely on the Great Wall to defend against the Southern Huns, but directly prepared to meet the Southern Huns in Yuanyin and Yuanyang County.

At this time, looking for the original pass garrison, it is better to play a head-on battle with the Southern Huns.

Although according to the intelligence investigation, the Southern Xiongnu gathered nearly 50,000 Hun cavalry to attack and disturb Guanzhong, but Ma Teng and Zhang Xiu were also from the northwest, and they knew that the vast majority of the Hun cavalry were just ordinary tribal herdsmen riding on horses and transformed.

Among the nearly 50,000 Hun cavalry, there are only about 10,000 at most, which can be regarded as real cavalry in armor, and the vast majority of other Hun cavalry is also a rabble.

Many of the Huns had little armor on them, and some of them didn't even have iron weapons in their hands, but only held their homemade bows and arrows, feathered arrows using wolf teeth or stones as arrows, and some sleeves and forks of wood as weapons.

Although the cavalry of Ma Teng's Fubo battalion on Zhu Weijun's side had just joined the Zhu Weijun establishment, and many equipment and other configurations had not kept up, Ma Teng was also one of the warlord forces in the northwest after all.

Under Ma Teng's management, most of these Fubo battalion cavalry, which were completely transformed from the Ma family's private army, were also dressed in armor and armed with various iron-bladed weapons.

In addition, during the period of repairing in Chang'an, Ma Teng also nailed horseshoes to all the war horses, and also equipped double-foot stirrups and some elevated saddles, which did not take much time to complete, but Ma Teng's Fubo battalion cavalry combat power was definitely much higher than the original.

As for Zhang Xiu's Tiger Wing Battalion heavy armored cavalry, not to mention, it is a regular heavy armored cavalry unit that is completely armed to the teeth, with the support of Zhu Wei, this heavy armored cavalry is also one of the best in the Central Plains armies.

In the face of the 50,000 army of the Southern Xiongnu in this way, although the army of Ma Teng and Zhang Xiu was only half of the number of the other party, it was completely unambiguous.

After all, the Southern Huns are just hunting dogs raised by the Han people before, and they were able to fight back against their masters because they did not encounter the strong army of the Han people, and now the cavalry led by Ma Teng and Zhang Xiu is by no means much worse than the regular army of the Han Dynasty, so in the face of these Southern Huns, they naturally have enough confidence to let them lie down again.

With Ma Teng and Zhang Xiu preparing in Yuanyin and Yuanyang counties, the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu Luan Tihu Chuquan finally entered the territory of Yuanyin and Yuanyang County under the support of the Xiongnu army.

The two small counties of Yuanyin and Yuanyang are actually not far apart, that is, they are located on the east and west banks of the Balwei River.

Therefore, Ma Teng and Zhang Xiu are now only using these two small county towns, which have almost become abandoned cities and empty cities, as warehouses for stockpiling materials, and they have no intention of stationing and fighting in the county......