Chapter 344: Fierce Battle
"General!"
Drag is the supreme general of this team. His death in battle directly brought a heavy mental blow to the attacking Xiongnu army.
The attack of 5,000 people threw down more than 2,000 corpses under the city in the clouds, and one dragged dead. And the Han soldiers turned out to be unscathed, except, of course, the guy whose nose was hit by his own people and bled out.
And that's not all.
After dragging to death, the Huns retreated backwards.
But even if they retreated, the constant sound of flintlock guns on the city wall would also take away the lives of Hun generals or condor archers from time to time.
The menacing 5,000 Huns threw down more than 2,000 corpses and retreated in disarray.
The main force of the Huns, an army of 10,000 people, did not continue to press, but adopted a wait-and-see attitude. They looked at Cloud City, and never imagined that a once inconspicuous border city would become such a difficult bone to gnaw.
"I don't know what kind of material the walls of this cloud city are made of, and when the bow and arrow shoot at it, it only comes out of sparks, and it can't be shot into it at all. If this kind of city is built more by the Han Dynasty at the border pass, will our prairie eagle still have the sky to fly? "The one in charge of this attack is no longer the little king of the Xiongnu Monan royal court. It is the royal phase of King Zuoxian of the Xiongnu.
"Send a messenger to let King Zuoxian increase his troops." Wang Xiang seemed to feel the unusualness of Cloud City, and decisively asked people to go back to report it, and asked King Zuo Xian to send more people.
"In the clouds in the past, we took it with a cavalry team. It's so hard now. I don't think it's better to wait until evening, and we'll split up in four ways. Touch it from all sides. They only had more than 2,000 defenders in the city, and they couldn't always stop defending the city. Wang Xiang's staff said.
"Well, you have a point. In the evening, we took advantage of the darkness to attack Cloudsdale. Wang Xiang's hand clenched tightly.
Different from the gloomy clouds of the Huns, the soldiers and civilians of Cloud City were excited.
After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, in the face of the war of the Xiongnu, there were always more losses and fewer wins. Even if there are occasional small victories, they are also miserable victories.
But today's battle, which lasted less than an hour, killed nearly half of the 5,000 fronts of the Huns. The most amazing thing is that more than half of the enemy is killed, and there are no casualties on your side.
This cannot but be said to be a miracle in the history of warfare.
This kind of one-sided war can no longer be called a war, it is simply a massacre and torture.
The soldiers and civilians were excited, but Yan Ming and Wei Qing did not dare to relax.
"Although the Huns suffered more than 2,000 casualties, they were not yet wounded. I was sure that they would take advantage of the darkness to attack Cloudsdale. Wei Qing said.
Yan Ming nodded, in the night, the military crossbow is indeed not easy to aim and shoot. What's more, it was the beginning of the month, and when night fell, it was a dark day.
"Oil, lard and pine, there are reserves in the city, right?" Yan Ming asked.
Wei Qing nodded and said: "There are reserves, they are all pine wood materials left over from the time when the city was built, and some pine oil is too much to use." ”
What Yan Ming wants is wood with a lot of pine oil.
If there is a lot of pine oil, it likes to burn.
"After soaking the pine oil in lard, it was lit at night and thrown out with a catapult." Yan Ming said.
When Wei Qing heard this, he immediately knew Yan Ming's plan.
Pine oil mixed with lard and wood can be burned for a long time after being ignited. It can completely light up the battlefield.
"Remember, we only shoot incendiary items out of the city. No open flames are allowed at the head of the city. Yan Ming said.
Only the outside was lit, and there was no open fire on the top of the city. In this case, it is possible to aim for the open flame below at the head of the city. It is artificially created a favorable situation in which the enemy is in the open and the Han army is in the dark.
What the Huns didn't know was that at this time, Li Guang and Cheng Buzhi were rushing towards Yunzhong City from both sides with two Han armies.
It was night, and it was pitch black, and I couldn't see my fingers.
The catapults around Cloudsdale City were activated, and the burning lines of fire drew a beautiful arc in the sky and landed outside Cloudsdale City, becoming a source of light for firelight everywhere.
With these light sources, the situation on the outside is under control.
Contrary to the flickering fires outside, there were no lights on Cloudsdale.
Even the Hun camp on the opposite side had a flickering fire, but the city in the clouds was pitch black. It was as if it had disappeared in the night.
According to the plan, the Huns still launched an attack on the dark city of clouds.
In the dark wilderness, the Hu cavalry captains did not have the earth-shattering shouts of the Huns, they were under the background of the night, Chen Mo's shooting.
Each bow and crossbow would have caused the greatest harm to the Huns.
"Fire Thunder!" Yan Ming was in charge of commanding the fire and thunder.
The four sides of the city were full of people, and even the residents of the city spontaneously went to the city to resist the attack of the Huns.
Everyone understands that the Huns were killed too hard today, and if the Huns broke through the city wall, it would inevitably be a massacre.
Thunderbolts erupted from the surrounding walls. In the midst of the Huns' attacking ranks, a cloud of fire erupted.
The Huns fell one by one under the explosion of fire and thunder.
As Yan Ming said, Cloud City, like a meat grinder, has become a nail in the eyes of the Huns that cannot be pulled out, and has become the most feared nightmare in their hearts.
Wang Xiang began to swear to attack.
It was thought that taking advantage of the darkness of the night, 10,000 people would attack Cloudsdale City, which was only guarded by 2,000 people, and it would definitely be captured.
But the current situation made him feel a little hopeless.
Cloudsdale is unthinkably strong.
There is also the fire and thunder that flies from the sky, and it will bloom when it falls in the crowd. The strong body of the Huns only had the fate of being torn apart in the face of fire and thunder.
The scales of war finally tilted in favor of the Han army.
10,000 men attacked, 2,000 defended.
In this wilderness, two peoples who could have peacefully solved any problem through trade are solving problems in the most primitive, brutal and stupid way.
The Huns suffered heavy casualties, and the Hu cavalry lieutenant army was also exhausted.
This one-way slaughter war, at the insistence of Wang Xiang, lasted for almost a night.
The 2,000 Hu cavalry captains kept shooting, and even the military crossbows in the hands of some people were broken because they were used too frequently.
The Han army, which had no military crossbows, picked up bows and arrows and still participated in the battle.
When the sky was slightly bright, something happened.
The Huns rallied and tried to launch the last and most violent onslaught.
And at this time, outside the city in the clouds, on the vast grassland, two teams appeared.
These two teams appeared just right, just surrounding the Huns in the center.
"The Han people are the army of the Han people." After attacking all night, Wang Xiang, who had suffered heavy losses, reacted, and the fierce battle of the night had brought the Huns to death.
The so-called death and resurrection, this probability is extremely small. Therefore, the events of life after death in history will be solemnly recorded.
More people are put to death and really die, just like the kings of the Huns.