The situation within a thousand kilometers is shown on Gao Shun's map, and as long as the red dots representing the barbarians do not move on a large scale, he will not care about them.

The cold winter is a severe test for those barbarians, and if they come to fight in the spring, he will have a great advantage; He believed that after winter, it was the time when the barbarian horses were at their thinnest.

The Huns, Xianbei and Dayue finally understood that the cunning of the Han people was not comparable to them, and that the Han people could build cities skillfully and quickly, which was very difficult for them; With the protection of the city, the conditions are relatively good; And they now have a large population, the ground is cold, the materials are poor, and the daily consumption of forage is astronomical, and in the spring of the next year, the people are tired and thin, so why should they fight a decisive battle with the Han people?

The infirm, sick and sick, the old and the young, died in large numbers, and a large number of livestock froze to death, demoralizing the coalition forces.

Ma Gui asked, "Your Majesty, how many officers and soldiers do you want to use?" ”

"According to the needs of the situation, we will complete our efforts in one battle and strive for total annihilation."

Ma Gui couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "According to the information provided by Ding Lingren, this Xianbei people have multiplied too fast, we have swept the grassland several times in a row, it has only been a few decades, and the Tuoba tribe has become so powerful and has developed too fast." ”

Gao Shun said with a smile: "Haha, fighting the grassland barbarians is a long-term and arduous task, and we must not slack off at any time, otherwise they will soon resurgence and the consequences will be serious." ”

"What about the Jiankun and Ding Ling people, how is Your Majesty going to deal with it? If we keep them, they will grow rapidly and become our great enemies. There are also the Wusun people, if they fill the gap of the Huns, it will be very disadvantageous to us. ”

Gao Shun said: "Now that the south is being developed, it won't take long to complete the development, I am going to refer to Li Wende's method, Ding Ling and the Jiankun people are our reserve slaves in captivity, and ask them to pay tribute to the beauties and young men every year to avoid their population expanding too quickly." "This is a policy that has been implemented before.

Gao Shun feels that the white mixed-race beauties are also very good-looking, and it is better to leave a little race, and they can't all be exterminated.

Time flies quickly, and in April of the following year, the Great Plain of Siberia will usher in the breath of spring.

The Huns and Xianbei were impatient and immediately gathered their troops and launched an attack on the Han army.

Hundreds of thousands of barbarians blocked the water of the small city built by the Han people. They asked the Jiankun and Ding Ling people to send troops to join the war, but when the war came, they could not care about dealing with them for the time being, and prepared to deal with them after the war.

The tragic siege began.

They thought that with only one or twenty thousand men in the city, they would be able to destroy them quickly.

Gao Shun arranged a thousand strong crossbowmen, five hundred bed crossbowmen, and two thousand high-ranking infantry on each side of the city wall, and no matter how many people there were, they could not be used on the city wall; The number is not much different from the barbarian estimates.

Ma Gui and others each led 20 senior generals to take turns on duty and patrol; He hoped to first consume some of the barbarian officers and soldiers in the siege battle; Two people were in charge of each side of the wall, divided into two shifts, night and day.

The Xiongnu and Xianbei people were prepared to learn a lot of siege skills in the long battle with the Han people, and they were very familiar with the siege.

They made a large number of siege equipment such as ladders, wells, and crashes.

Since it was a tundra, no moat was dug, which facilitated the attack of the barbarians.

The Han army defending the city fired rockets and set fire to the well car.

The barbarians covered the outside of the well with raw cowhide.

The Han army also used bed crossbows to fire huge clusters of arrows, destroying them.

The city is small, and 20,000 barbarians on each side attack together, which seems dense, and the killing is endless.

The barbarians have ignored the casualties and attacked madly; The Xianbei, Xiongnu and Dayue clans were each responsible for attacking a city wall.

Only the southern city wall has a city gate, which was mainly attacked by the Huns; The other three sides of the city wall did not have a city gate, but there were horse faces, and the Xianbei and Dayue clans who feinted to contain were responsible for the east and west walls, and they also suffered heavy casualties.

Large round logs, boulders, hot water, hot oil, etc., are constantly pouring down from the city, and sticking to them hurts and touches them to death. Ma Gui and others patrolled the city, and where there was danger, they appeared.

The shouts, moans, and pleas filled the city.

Sometimes the hot oil poured with torches was ignited, and with the previous rolling logs and barbarian wooden ladders, the city fell into a sea of fire, and the barbarians who did not retreat in time were burned to ashes.

The barbarians alternated resting and taking turns to play, and the attacks were very fierce day and night, and they knew that if they did not eliminate these Han people as soon as possible, their tribes would not be able to graze, and a large number of tribesmen and livestock would die at the hands of the Han people.

For the sake of the entire steppe nomadic tribes, and for their tribesmen to continue to reproduce on the grassland, as long as these Han people are eliminated and the threat is lifted, it is worth the number of casualties.

Every time a Han soldier fell under the city, it could cause bursts of cheers, and they felt that it was worth it for even ten soldiers to fight to kill a Han soldier.

Seeing the casualties of a large number of companions, the bloodiness of the barbarians was also stimulated even more, and the vast majority of people had put life and death aside; Including those Dayue people also went crazy to attack the city, they were expelled from the Western Liang Kingdom, and then expelled by the Northern Liang Kingdom, transferred thousands of miles, the Han people still did not let them go, and their people gradually decreased from millions to hundreds of thousands, the Han people deceived people too much, they had nowhere to go, they could not bear it, only to fight to the death.

Xianbei King Tuoba is a little eloquent, his son is a masterpiece, they are full of hope for the future, and hope is to go south, they have long heard the messenger introduced, the south climate is warm, there is a larger area, more fertile pastures, they all want to occupy, and they want to restore the glory of Xianbei that day.

They even planned to take the opportunity to kill the Huns after the war, integrate the Huns into their tribes, and strengthen their strength, otherwise, the Huns would be their biggest threat on the steppe sooner or later.

By defeating the Huns, they can subdue the Jiankun people, the Dayue clan, and the Ding Ling people, who are the overlords of the steppe.

Now the Huns are the strongest, and they just use the hands of the Han people to consume the strength of the Huns.

Therefore, although the Xianbei people fought fiercely and suffered heavy casualties, they were all officers and soldiers of other tribes they had recruited.

The Xiongnu and Xianbei people were so strong at the beginning, they were all beaten by the Han people and were about to be wiped out, the same experience, so that their union was closer, they even discussed the division of territory after the war, preparing to plunder the Han frontier together.

Now they have a small population and a huge territory after the war, so they will not have conflicts over turf for the time being.

Gao Shun replenished the casualties of the city defenders every day, keeping the personnel unchanged, the daily battle was very fierce, the city could be conquered at any time, but it was able to hold on every day, which not only gave the barbarians the confidence to attack the city, but also made them puzzled.

After ten days of continuous siege of the city, the barbarians suffered nearly 100,000 casualties, which had reached the limit of what they could bear, and their officers and soldiers were also exhausted and reached their physical limit.

Ma Gui suggested: "Your Majesty, the barbarians are sleepy and lacking horses, and it is the best time for us to attack. ”

Gao Shun thought for a while, and felt that the barbarians were almost consumed, and if they continued to attack the city, they would definitely be suspicious, so he decided: "Okay, tomorrow we will send someone to send them a war book, and we will go out of the city the day after tomorrow to fight them to the death." At this time, the infantry defending the city had already reached the limit of physical fitness, and Gao Shun didn't want to release more infantry for the time being, so he agreed to Ma Gui's suggestion.

Ma Gui smiled: "Haha, the barbarians are good at cavalry warfare, not good at siege warfare, this is exactly what they can't ask for, and they will happily accept our challenge." ”