On the second day after Su Chen and his entourage left Jiuyuan, the scouts sent by Gao Shun sent back the news that Tanshi Huai personally led an army of 300,000 and marched towards Wuyuan County with great momentum, and it was already less than 30 miles away from the border pass. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After Gao Shun got the news, he immediately mobilized the army to continue to strengthen the city wall on the one hand, and on the other hand, he prepared rolling wood, stones, fire oil and other materials to prevent the enemy from attacking.

The enemy army is approaching, and there is no news of reinforcements, which makes the officials of the county guard very worried, and even many people have already moved the idea of abandoning the official and running away.

Gao Shun also sensed this undercurrent, so he ordered Guo Wen to investigate secretly, and finally targeted the officials of the original Cui family, the big tree of the Cui family has fallen, and the previous concerns were dealt with too much at once, which would lead to a backlash, but I didn't expect this group of people to be unrepentant and even want to abandon the official and abscond.

In the face of these unstable factors, of course, he would not be relentless, and immediately ordered his subordinates to arrest him, and in front of the officers and soldiers of the city, he showed these people to the public, which finally boosted morale and temporarily dispelled the panic of the people.

Su Wei, as a long history, is in charge of the military, so he is naturally fighting on the front line, because Su Chen took away several captains, these five troops and horses can only be personally commanded by him. To a certain extent, Su Wei's military power in this long history is too heavy, and his prestige faintly exceeds that of Taishou Gaoshun.

But no one felt that there was anything wrong, perhaps this was the result of the Su family's growing influence in Jiuyuan.

Seeing that the enemy army was encamped ten miles away, looking like he was not in a hurry to attack the city, Gao Shun became more and more worried when he saw this, he didn't know what medicine was sold in the enemy's gourd, looked at Su Wei on the side, and asked:

"Su Changshi, do you think the Xianbei army will attack the city today?"

Su Wei was also very worried, he had fought dozens of battles in his life, but it was the first time he had faced so many enemies, especially the enemy was outnumbered, the disparity in troops, and the famous Xianbei Khan King personally commanded the battle, and the prospects of this battle were not optimistic.

Now he couldn't help but put his hope on Su Chen and his party, if this trip could really destroy the Xianbei royal court and capture the families of the major leaders, then this victory would be a few percent more, just thinking of the long march and the long journey, the hope that had just risen immediately turned into worry.

Hearing Gao Shun's words, Su Wei replied with no confidence: "I hope they can delay the siege." ”

However, the longer the enemy army rests, the danger of the Han army increases by one point, the Xianbei army comes from afar, the soldiers are sleepy and the horses are lacking, once the rest is over, in the face of 300,000 iron cavalry, 50,000 foot soldiers in the Han military region, it is really difficult to compete with it.

"Do you have any news from the scouts sent for help?" If the reinforcements can come in advance, then the Han army can still fight, so most of Su Yu's expectations still fall on the reinforcements who are still ethereal for the time being.

"Nope!" Gao Shun was also very anxious in his heart, and only heard him say: "I sent a total of twenty groups of scouts before and after, but now there is no news, I suspect that Xianbei may have an internal response in the Han Dynasty, and the scouts we sent were intercepted and killed." ”

"What?" This answer was something Su Wei couldn't believe, "How is it possible?" Where does Xianbei come from? If so, isn't that even worse? ”

Gao Shun also didn't want to believe this fact, but he still noticed some clues from the undercurrent of Cui officials, if no one contacted behind his back, where did those gossips come from? Just a few petty officials who were scared? He would never believe in this answer.

Reminiscent of the defeat a few years ago, the Han army was defeated by Tanshi Huai, and in the end only a few dozen remnants of the defeated soldiers fled back, this defeat is also very strange, even if the Han army is hundreds of thousands of pigs, it will not only flee back dozens of remnants, so the things behind this are really scary.

"I hope my guess is wrong." Gao Shun didn't want to guess wrong, but at the moment, there was no other way than to take strict precautions.

The two discussed for a while, Gao Shun went down to the city tower, personally led the troops to inspect the city wall, every time there was a war, he would do everything to inspect the things on duty in the middle of the night, and he would never fake his hands to others, because this is often the key to determining the outcome of the war.

After some inspection, he did not find anything wrong, but the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense, and he lay down in his clothes that night.

At the third watch, the alarm bell suddenly rang, Gao Shun was immediately awakened, and hurriedly asked left and right: "What happened?" ”

"Back to the envoy, it was the city tower that sounded the alarm."

"Oh no, the enemy is attacking the city." Gao Shun picked up his portable weapon, got out of the big tent, stepped on the war horse led by the guards, and immediately galloped towards the city tower.

When he rushed to the city tower, it was already a mess, but except for the Han army, he didn't find any Xianbei soldiers, which made his heart go up and down, so he was not in a hurry.

"What the hell is going on? Is it a Xianbei project? He grabbed a soldier and asked hurriedly.

The soldier panicked, and when he saw the person clearly, he hurriedly knelt down and replied: "High envoy, the monsters are attacking the city, there are many monsters, there are many ......."

"Monsters?" Gao Shun was confused, three steps and two steps, jumped up to the city tower to see, only to see that the soldiers on the city tower were besieging and killing a ball of fireball, the fireball was about two or three places, he stepped forward with a gun, a shot stabbed at the fireball, the fireball screamed a few times, and fell to the ground instantly.

When the monster died, he took a closer look, and when he saw it, he was immediately startled, and said what kind of monster is this?

It turned out that the monster had horns on its head, a face like a horse, hooves like a cow, and a tail like a donkey, but the whole thing looked like a deer and not a deer, a horse and not a horse, a cow and not a cow, a donkey and not a donkey, and the whole thing was not like a donkey.

"Four don't like that?" Gao Shun suddenly thought that according to the records of the classics at home, the alien race worships the alien beast and worships it as a god, and some tribes use it as a totem.

He picked up his gun and killed the other two four people who attacked the city tower, and then came to the outer city, and then came to the outer city, and saw that the ground was a sea of meat and fire, and the eyes were full of stumps and broken arms, some of them were not like the four, and some were of the Han army, and the four were not like the fire oil and were dying and struggling under the city tower, and the wailing continued.

"Envoy, you are here, there are too many monsters, our Han army has suffered heavy casualties, and we urgently need reinforcements."

Gao Shun knew that Su Wei's words were not exaggerated, and immediately said: "You hold on for a while, I have already transferred troops, and reinforcements will arrive in an instant." ”

Of course, it is impossible for all the 50,000 troops to be piled up at the north gate, and 10,000 defenders are stationed at each of the four gates in the east, west, south and north, and the remaining 10,000 are used as mobile troops to rush to the aid of various places.

At present, the north gate has been attacked by monsters, and there are heavy casualties, and Gao Shun has already ordered someone to pass on the general's order.

"How come there are so many monsters? These monsters must not be allowed to break into the city, otherwise the people will be terrified, and the situation will be difficult to control. ”

"yes!" Su Wei empathized with these words and said: "I didn't expect the Xianbei people to be able to drive strange beasts, but these strange beasts should not be too many, as long as the fire oil is enough, they delusionally want to be able to climb the city tower." ”

Animals are afraid of fire, even if the alien beasts are the same, the fire oil is well prepared before, even if the alien beasts attack the city at night, only a few can climb the city tower sporadically.

However, it was these few who climbed up to the city tower, at least ended the lives of hundreds of Han soldiers, and the power of the beast can be seen.

Fortunately, the Han army is heavily guarded, and the number of strange beasts is not large, otherwise, the city will be destroyed tonight.

Reinforcements soon arrived, replacing the exhausted defenders, and the Xianbei people probably knew that the surprise attack was hopeless, and the strange beasts under the city gradually retreated, leaving only the ruins of the ground.

In addition to the three strange beasts on the city tower, the corpses of the strange beasts under the city were also dragged away by their companions, Gao Shun ordered people to put away the corpses of the three strange beasts, this strange beast is strong, the whole body is a treasure, which is quite helpful to the warrior.

"There shouldn't be any war tonight, Su Changshi, you go and rest, and this city tower will be handed over to me."

"Then it's troublesome for the High Envoy." After a big battle, Su Wei was physically and mentally exhausted, and it was only natural for the two of them to take turns to defend the city.

The next day, the Xianbei camp did not move, neither sent light cavalry to invite the battle, nor did it attack the formation, which made the Han army defending the city confused.

However, at night, the Han army was more guarded than during the day, and the soldiers of this era all had night blindness and could not see at night, and the more so, the more they could not be taken lightly.

Sure enough, at night, it was a foreign beast attacking the city, this wave of attacks was only stronger than yesterday, but the Xianbei people were playing a good calculation, using the foreign beasts to consume the strength of the Han army, and finally capturing the city, I have to say that although this tired strategy is simple, it is very effective.

The attack at night once again harvested the lives of thousands of Han troops, and it can be said that Jiuyuan was able to hold it, completely relying on human lives to fill it, and a sluggish atmosphere enveloped the entire Wuyuan County.

Jiuyuan, the once prosperous hub of trade and travel, has now become a battlefield, and the city is full of demolished houses, which are transported to the city tower to defend the city, and the people have all moved south.

Not only Wuyuan County, Dai County, and Beidi County were also attacked by Xianbei, although there were few soldiers, but due to the perennial slack armament, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers was too weak, Xianbei attacked all the way into the Han land, burning, killing and looting, doing all kinds of evil, how many Han children became slaves and even two-legged sheep.

After the court got the news, it was also a headache, and in order to please the emperor, the ten permanent servants reported the good news but not the bad news, and the chapter was suppressed like this, and then Qingliu saw that he was going to die, so he tried his best to let the emperor know the inside story.

Liu Hong panicked all of a sudden, and wanted to send reinforcements from the southern army and the northern army, but Yuanshui couldn't teach the near thirst, and finally ordered to let the border guards recruit troops according to the enemy.

Just when the imperial court order was issued, General Du Liao and Dong Zhuo, the general of the Huns, finally set off with a large army, and the destination was Jiuyuan County, which was besieged by the enemy.