Taking down a small Wuzhou is just a small action for Dong Zhuo's army of 50,000, and there is no sense of accomplishment at all.

After Wuzhou, it is Dingxiang County.

Dingxiang County is not large, there are only five counties under its rule, and the population is only more than 10,000.

The five counties are Dingxiang County, Zhongling, Luo County, Wucheng, and Tongguo.

One hundred miles west of Wuzhou, is Luo County.

After resting in Wuzhou City for a day, Dong Zhuo decided to divide his troops again, letting Ding Yuan lead 20,000 soldiers and horses north to attack Zhongling City, while Dong Zhuo himself led the remaining 30,000 soldiers and horses all the way to the west and advanced to Luo County.

The 30,000 soldiers and horses led by Dong Zhuo were mostly foot troops, and the marching speed was naturally slow, and the hundred-mile journey from Wuzhou to Luoxian was another three-day march.

However, the situation is obvious, the Xiongnu defenders in Wuzhou are still very efficient, and when Dong Zhuo's army arrives in Luo County, what awaits them is still an empty city.

I don't know how many Hun defenders there are in the city, but I don't think much, they have already fled.

For such a situation, even if Dong Zhuo had already prepared in his heart, he was still a little stunned.

"This Hun is too timid, why did they all flee with their tails between their legs as soon as they saw us coming?"

The most dissatisfied is naturally Xiao Ma Chao, he feels that he is in Bingzhou, and he has not lived a comfortable day without a day, marching, eating, sleeping, helping Dong Zhuo work, practicing martial arts, except for these, it seems that there is nothing else he has done in Bingzhou.

thought that he could count on killing a few more Hun warriors in the battle against the Huns to relieve the depression in his heart, but along the way, he didn't even see the shadow of the Huns.

Xiao Ma Chao's dissatisfaction with the Huns in his heart can be imagined!

Dong Zhuo naturally knew why the Huns' defense was so empty, it was now the end of September, and in a blink of an eye, it was the beginning of winter in October, and the winter in the north came relatively early.

The harsh winter is not suitable for war, not only people can't stand it, but war horses can't stand it. For the Huns, who depended on the war horse, the horse and the sword were all they had, and they could not allow their most faithful companions to suffer.

So at this time, the Huns could only shrink the defensive line, wait for the winter, and fight again in the spring of the next year, but they did not expect that the Han army would attack when it was about to enter winter, which was inconsistent with the Han people's habit of not fighting in winter.

Since Luo County was recovered without much effort, Dong Zhuo could only lead the army to continue to advance.

So, after resting for a day in Luo County, the 30,000 army advanced forward again, this time with the target of Tongguo County.

Tong Guo was placed in the Western Han Dynasty at the beginning, although it was not a big city, but there was a city wall three zhang high, and the Yellow River in the west, and the barren mountain in the north, it was really easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Tongguo County and Luo County are very close, but the distance of thirty miles, Dong Zhuo's army will come to Tongguo City in one day.

Far away, Dong Zhuo saw the banner waving in the wind at the head of Tongguo City.

Xu Jiang glanced at Tongguo, which was high in the city, and said quietly, "Lord, it seems that this Huns want to rely on Tongguo City to fight a decisive battle with our army!" ”

Dong Zhuo smiled and said, "If our army breaks through Tongguo and crosses the river, Meiji's Shan Yu Wang Court has no danger to defend at all, less than three hundred miles away, our army can ride lightly to the Xiongnu Royal Court in one day, such a simple truth, how can the Huns not know!" ”

Looking at the high city in front, Dong Zhuo and Xu Jiang understood that the Xiongnu defenders who wanted to come to Luo County were not completely fleeing from the wind, but should have been transferred to Tongguo to garrison, and wanted to stop Dong Zhuo east of the Yellow River.

Dong Zhuo did not attack the city directly, but set up camp five miles east of Tongguo City.

At this time, it is not appropriate to take the initiative to attack, Dong Zhuo is waiting for the Huns to start attacking first, but to Dong Zhuo's disappointment, the Huns in the city did not move all night.

The next day, Dong Zhuo ordered an army of 30,000 to surround Tongguo, since the other party did not take the initiative to attack, Dong Zhuo wanted to lure the Huns to attack first.

The siege of the army was about to form, but the Huns in the city still did not move, but the city gate was closed, and the Hun soldiers in different clothes stood behind the female wall and watched the changes of Dong Zhuojun, motionless.

Dong Zhuo was slightly disappointed, he had carefully designed a trap, although the movement of the army was scattered, but the route of travel allowed each other to echo, as long as the Hun cavalry planned to go out of the city to attack, several small formations could immediately quickly merge together, gather and annihilate.

But now it seems that the Huns are not interested in this, or they dare not be interested!

The first substantive attack was naturally provoked by Dong Zhuojun, and the location was in the northern city, where the city wall of Tongguo City was relatively low.

There was a low hill not far from the northern city, and Dong Zhuo could clearly see the movements of the Huns in the city.

Dong Zhuo wanted to use this attack to test the defensive level of the Huns.

This time, there were 3,000 Dong Zhuo's troops who were engaged in the attack, and they slowly advanced towards Tongguo City with a solid shield.

The beginning stage was very smooth, Dong Zhuojun advanced sixty or seventy steps in one breath, and the Huns above the city remained silent.

But when Li Shi led 3,000 soldiers and horses to approach the north gate of Tongguo for dozens of steps, suddenly a trumpet sounded, and hundreds of crossbowmen of the Shu army appeared behind the female wall at the same time, holding a big bow painted black.

The same dark arrow tip flashed towards the Han army below.

"Woohoo!"

Just listen to the sound of strings, hundreds of sharp arrows burst out of the air, shooting straight down according to the high momentum.

In an instant, Dong Zhuojun's hundreds of soldiers who rushed to the front let out a miserable groan, and they were all hit by arrows and fell in front of the city gate.

The archery skills of the Huns are never a joke!

When this volley was over, Dong Zhuojun, who was less than 3,000, got up again, hid behind the shield half-bent, and accelerated his speed to charge Tongguo City, which was guarded by the Huns.

But the Huns rotated archers faster than they did.

The archers who had fired in the previous round lifted the crossbow machine and took a step back, and another row of archers immediately followed up to fill in the gap, followed by another volley, this time because of the closer relationship, which caused more damage to Dong Zhuojun.

Dong Zhuojun, who was lucky enough to avoid the shooting, approached the city wall and set up a ladder to the city, but was stabbed by a sharp knife that suddenly stretched out from behind the female wall, and fell from the three-zhang high city head with a wail.

The attack lasted less than half an hour, and as a result, Dong Zhuojun lost nearly a thousand men and horses, and the others retreated in embarrassment.

The casualties of the Xiongnu defenders were less than ten.

Dong Zhuo had long expected this result, and it was never easy to fight a tough battle.

He instructed the retired sergeants to let Li Shi take him to the rear camp to rest and recuperate, and at the same time strictly ordered all troops to strictly guard their posts and not move rashly.

The bows and arrows of the Xiongnu defenders did not shoot in a wide range, indicating that they also knew that Dong Zhuojun's attack was just a tentative attack this time, and Dong Zhuo also knew that they needed to save feather arrows to deal with Dong Zhuojun's real attack.

The advantage of the Huns in bows and arrows has a tradition, and if there is anything in the Hun army that really makes Dong Zhuo feel jealous, I am afraid that it is these things that shine with dangerous light.