Liu Xuewu saw that the Xianbei cavalry did not attack again, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, and ordered the night vigil to be divided into two batches of 500 people each, in case of a night attack. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info And Xianbei is not this, arrange manpower to guard, so a long night passed, just after dawn, Xianbei was arrayed outside the city, and it seemed that he was preparing to attack.

Liu Xuewu's side has sealed the north city gate, and he has no choice but to hold on and wait for help, fortunately, Xianbei's side is full of cavalry, and he came from afar without siege equipment, so he can only hit the city gate with a wooden stake and throw arrows at the defenders in the city, and there is no progress in attacking for several days. So they besieged it with a large army, apparently preparing to starve the defenders of the city to death. Fortunately, Liu Xuewu is not a lot of people, and the city is small, but he has half a month's ration, and it is okay. Winter will be in half a month, and Xiangbi Xianbei will also choose to retreat, not to mention that Lu Bu may come to reinforcements.

However, Liu Xuewu soon did not calm down, Xianbei actually piled firewood and all kinds of combustibles around the city wall, with the intention of burning the city.

Liu Xuewu, who was anxious, said to Zhang Liao on the side: "Wenyuan, it seems that Xianbei wants to turn us all into roast suckling pigs, why haven't the reinforcements arrived in a few days." Is the day going to end? I'm not willing!"

At this time, Fei returned to Shanwutong and ordered the counties to gather 5,000 soldiers and horses, but because the four gates of Mayi were closed, Xianbei was surrounded by tens of thousands, and could not be rescued, so he could only garrison in Jiangyin, which was closest to Mayi, and constantly sent envoys to urge Dingyuan and Lu Bu to reinforce the army.

Lu Bu's side is not unwilling to go to the rescue, Lu Bu is also from Yanmen, and now Xianbei bypassed the checkpoint where he was stationed and attacked Yanmen, he was also angry, and he had already arranged to lead 15,000 iron horsemen to come to the rescue, but was stopped by Ding Yuan.

In fact, Ding Yuan is selfish, firstly, Liu Xuewu is now too famous, and he intends to arrange his own people to serve as Taishou, Mayi and other places are important commercial counties, and horse dealers from the north and south gather here, which is related to his major interests. Second, Ding Yuan and Liu Xuewu's father Liu Yan are at odds, and they have a personal grudge against the old one, so why not borrow a knife to kill people. Sanlai Xianbei used his 50,000 elite cavalry to take revenge, and the only one he could fight was Lu Bu's 30,000 Bingzhou iron cavalry, if he had any accidents, Bingzhou might not be guaranteed. All kinds of selfish interests add up, Ding Yuan doesn't want to save Liu Xuewu, so poor Liu Xuewu is still waiting for reinforcements, but he doesn't know that he is nothing more than a stumbling block in the eyes of others.

Fortunately, Lu Bu received a lot of money from Liu Xuewu, and in the past six months, the two have been learning from each other in private, and their personal relationship is not bad. Thinking that Liu Xuewu insisted on more than 100 moves under his own hands last time, he felt that he had found his opponent's confidant, and he thought that after his debut, it would be difficult to meet the enemy of Shihe, and now he finally encountered it, but he was about to lose. Five days have passed, and he finally made up his mind when he heard that Xianbei was preparing to burn the city. By the time Ding Yuan received the news, Lu Bu had already set off for Ma Yi with 15,000 iron horses.

Ding Yuan was so angry that he knocked over the teacup and shouted to the sky: "The calf is mistaken for me, the calf is mistaken for me." ”

It takes three days to travel from Taiyuan to Mayi, and Lu Bu secretly said in his heart, Liu Xuewu, Liu Xuewu, you have to wait until I come alive. Duan Fei also knew that the situation was critical, and since he couldn't wait for reinforcements, he could only lead five thousand temporarily formed scattered cavalry to fight. At this time, Liu Xuewu was arranging for people to dig holes in the ground by the wells everywhere, trying to escape from Mayi by borrowing soil, while the Xianbei chief outside the city kept letting people place ignition materials around the city wall. It's not a matter of a day or two to burn down the city, so both sides are in a race against time.

Just when the Great Chief of Xianbei ordered the fire to be lit, Duan Fei, who heard the scout's report that Ma Yi was on fire, recklessly took the five thousand scattered horsemen with the determination to die, and came towards Xianbei to kill the general. This time also with Liu Xuewu's secret weapon thunderbolts, it turned out that Liu Xuewu had nothing to do in the past six months to see the saltpeter around Yanmen and pounded gunpowder, according to the modern recipe, saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal ternary system gunpowder, 2KNO3 + S + 3C = = = = K2S + N2 ↑ + 3CO2 ↑, the black powder that was pounded out was packed in the sun-dried bamboo tube, and the outer layer of gunpowder in the bamboo tube was added to the broken coal, sealed with cinders, left a lead, ignited and thrown out, just like a modern grenade, Although the power of gunpowder is not as powerful as that of modern gunpowder, it is more than a pole, and a bamboo tube is loaded into one, loud and fierce, and it is a sharp weapon to deal with cavalry.

However, there is no practical use on the battlefield, so all of this is to listen to Liu Xuewu usually blowing water with Duan Fei and others, how powerful it is, whether it can hurt the enemy, Duan Fei and others are also unprepared. But fortunately, under Liu Xuewu's production for half a year, there are still tens of thousands of stocks, so Duan Fei remembered these thunderbolts that were forgotten in the warehouse, because he had seen Liu Xuewu play this easy, like thunder, I hope to give some help.

Soon after the fire was lit, the north wind blew, and the thick smoke choked the Xianbei cavalry, and the big chief had to order a retreat of two hundred meters. But at this moment, there was a rumbling thunder in the rear army, and the big chief couldn't help but look up at the sky, the sun was high in the sky, and there was no rhythm of rain, why was there such a thunderbolt in the clear sky. Before he could finish his thoughts, there was a scream and thunder behind him.

"Report, report to the big chief, the Han army is coming from behind." A scout hurriedly ran over and said.

The big chief picked up the scouts who came to report from his horse, "Say, tell me quickly, what's going on with the thunder in front, and how many soldiers and horses the Han army has." ”

The scout, who was frightened into a cold sweat, hurriedly replied: "The Han army is almost 5,000 horsemen, and the sound of bombing and thunder is one used by the Han army, a..."

"A kind of whatever." The Great Chief yelled at the scout.

Before he finished speaking, several chiefs ran over in a panic, "Shout that the big chief runs, the Han army will do evil magic." ”

The big chief looked from afar, only to see the Han army counting money, holding a torch in one hand to light the bamboo tube in his hand, and threw it to the Xianbei army, and suddenly there was a thunder in the place where it was thrown, and a large amount of black smoke and sparks came out, and the surrounding Xianbei cavalry was close to the spot and exploded, killing and wounding countless people.

The Xianbei people, who had always believed in ghosts and gods, were so frightened that they ran around, and the stampede killed and injured countless people, and the big chief hurriedly shouted to withdraw his troops.

Just as the great chief was retreating in the direction he was coming and going, another army came out from the front, led by the general, and shouted: "I am Lu Bulu Fengxian, and the Xianbei barbarians will be captured before they are tied." ”

"Kill, reinforcements are coming, brothers kill the barbarian dogs." Seeing Lu Bu appear in front of him, Liu Xuewu in the city immediately ordered the removal of the red bricks at the city gate, and the whole army came out.

Under the siege of the three gates, the helpless Xianbei cavalry broke through to the west under the leadership of the big chief, which can be described as a mountain of defeat, and the 50,000 Xianbei elite cavalry were scattered in the coaxing and frightening of Liu Xuewu and Lu Bu. In this battle, 18,000 enemies were killed, more than 20,000 people were captured, and the big chief ran away with the remnants of more than 10,000 people.