On September 16 of the third year of Jian'an of the Han Dynasty, in the middle of the day, the silver moonlight poured down from the sky, shining on an official road leading to Yiyang in Yuannan, making this two-piece wide avenue like paved with a layer of broken silver, which seemed so full of poetry.

But the sound of small footsteps suddenly came, breaking the silence on this official road.

A long procession, led by several bearded men on horseback, led the way up the official road. The men, all barefoot and dyed in linen of various colors, were still laughing and whispering to each other.

"Hehe, this time I captured Yuannan City, I must grab a few Han family ladies to go back, and let them give birth to a few more babies for me."

"That is, I heard that the ladies of the Han family are as long as shallots, white and tender, unlike our barbarian women, with rough skin and dark complexion, although they work hard, but the feeling of sleeping together is too bad, it's like hugging wood."

"Well, the Han family girls are really good, but our old guys don't rob them, what we want is the food of the Han people, as long as there is food, our family is not afraid of not surviving this winter, and the little cubs in our family are about to run out of food."

Obviously, this group of people is the barbarians that everyone has heard of, and they marched at night for only one purpose, that is, to capture the city of Yuannan and rob women and food.

These barbarians seemed to be in a good mood, joking with each other, as if the women and food of the Han family had been robbed by them.

However, their mood did not last long, because the barbarians walking in front suddenly felt a piercing pain under their feet, and hurriedly jumped up from the ground, and shouted: "Who is so lacking in virtue here? They put thistles and spikes on the road, and they punctured our feet. ”

And their sudden stop advancing made the soldiers behind them unable to hold back their footsteps at all, so they directly crashed into the front, and the barbarians behind did not expect the change in front, and directly crashed into the barbarians in front of them......

The brutes, who had been somewhat disciplined, now looked in disarray, and their leader had to make great effort to stop the commotion.

Next, these brute soldiers continued to move forward in addition to clearing the spikes on the road, but after the scene just now, some soldiers began to curse those immoral ghosts who sprinkled thistle, which also made everyone's originally tense nerves relax.

Not long after passing through the tribulus terrestris area, the soldiers in the front row suddenly felt a lightness under their feet as they advanced, and then their eyes went dark, and they fell into a large pit. The people in the back row couldn't hold their feet and fell in, knowing that after more than a dozen rows, everyone heard a creepy scream at the bottom of the pit, and then stopped.

"His grandmother's is a horse trap, which is full of sharp branches and antlers, and this pit alone has killed forty or fifty of our brothers!" A barbarian general cursed loudly in brute language. However, he only scolded a few words and stopped, because since it was a city that plundered people, he naturally had to be prepared to lose manpower. And in the history of the barbarians, such an experience is not once or twice. Although they have been succeeded by those cunning Han people every time, most of them have not returned with a big victory?

What's more, although the Han people are already familiar with their various methods of attack and plunder, they are actually more familiar with the methods of the Han people, although these tricks can bring them a certain number of casualties, but the number of casualties is extremely limited, as long as they attack the city and use giant trees to break open the city gate, those Han soldiers will only have to flee for their lives, and at that time, the entire city will be disposed of by everyone at will.

Therefore, although they encountered traps and antlers and other facilities laid by the Han people again and again, and also lost some men and horses, the barbarians finally came to the city of Yuannan before dawn, and the total statistics showed that the losses along the way were only hundreds.

The loss of hundreds of people is nothing at all for a barbarian army of thirty or forty thousand people.

"Listen to the Han people in the city, uncle (quickly) fled with your army, and we can spare your western (sexual) life, if you don't listen, as long as we break through the city and kill you all." The barbarian general, speaking an unfamiliar Chinese, shouted to the city.

Yuannan city lord Jiang Ban had already received the news that the barbarians were about to attack the city, in fact, long before that, they had already made preparations to defend the city, including those tribulus terrestris, traps, antlers and other facilities along the road were all laid by him, and he also led the people to strengthen the city defense, dig deep moats, and even buried a large water tank near the city wall, while the enemy dug tunnels.

And the equipment for defending the city, such as rolling logs and stones, was fully prepared, and he was now fully confident that he would be able to deal with the brutes for several months.

At the same time that the barbarian general was shouting under the city, Gan Ning on the side bent his bow and shot directly at the barbarian general, only to see the arrow like a meteor, and instantly came to the face of the barbarian general.

The barbarian general was frightened and hurriedly dodged, but was shot in the shoulder by an arrow, and he couldn't help but be furious, and immediately shouted: "Give me the order to attack the city, and after the city is captured in the future, you must cut off the head of the Han general who shoots the arrow to make a night pot." ”

As soon as the barbarian commander waved the flag, he saw all the barbarians immediately roaring and rushing up, and they threw bags of sand into the moat, ready to fill out a road to cross the river from here, and at this time only heard the sound of a bang on the city, and ten thousand arrows were fired in unison, and in an instant countless barbarians screamed and died.

However, this round of crossbow arrows aroused the ferocity of the barbarians, and they began the process of filling the river even more fearlessly.

After about half an hour, the barbarians filled in a road several zhang wide, and then the barbarian general waved the command flag, and tens of thousands of barbarians carried the siege ladder to the city wall and began close contact.

"Kill, give me the city ahead, everyone grabs food, money, and women." A barbarian general shouted in the national language.

Yu Ban's face was extremely calm, as a generation of famous generals, he can be said to have been used to such battles for a long time, not to mention that the siege methods of the barbarians are backward, even if it is the most elite siege equipment in the Central Plains, he has seen a lot, how can he be confused because of such an offensive?

"Roll the wood." Yu Ban saw that the enemy troops had gathered under the city wall, and began to set up ladders to attack the city, and immediately calmly issued orders one after another.

I saw a loud noise, and those thick rolling logs roared and smashed down, beating many barbarians to the point of bleeding, and some were even stoned to death on the spot, and the screams were endless.

And the more fierce battle came from the southern city gate, a group of brute soldiers used the thick giant wood as a battering ram, violently slammed the city gate, and the defenders on the city gate lost no time in throwing down thick stones, smashing the soldiers who hit the gate to death, and those elite crossbowmen were also pouring bows and arrows at the barbarian soldiers at the city gate, and from time to time to shoot at the archers who protected the siege.

After nearly half an hour, a group of barbarians finally climbed to the city wall, and were immediately besieged by those soldiers guarding the city wall, almost every soldier who attacked had more than a dozen defenders with swords in their hands to greet them, so those barbarians who climbed the city wall did not have time to breathe a breath of air on the city, and were killed by the defenders who swarmed up.

The battle lasted for more than two hours, and the time was already noon, and the barbarians lost two or three thousand men and horses, and finally did not climb the city wall, and the barbarian generals had no choice but to order the withdrawal of the army, rest the ranks, and wait for the next day to attack again.

This siege battle also brought a lot of losses to the defenders, the enemy's bows and arrows brought hundreds of casualties to the defenders, and there were many soldiers in the siege war.

Regardless of fatigue, Yu Ban personally patrolled the city, arranged for military doctors to treat the wounded soldiers, comforted and encouraged the soldiers from time to time, and instructed the soldiers defending the city to do a good job of inspection, and must not be successfully attacked by the enemy. Especially at night, it is necessary to prevent the enemy from digging tunnels and destroying the city pillars.

Gan Ning's appearance in this battle was also extremely heroic, he led his soldiers, especially the 800 Jinfan Army to personally guard the city, ruthlessly killing an enemy army close to the city, and because he injured the barbarian general with an arrow, the enemy's morale was sharply reduced, further reducing the difficulty of defending the city.

After a short rest in the afternoon, Yu Ban personally patrolled the city, but Gan Ning asked for the order to rob the camp at night.

Yu Ban was cautious, and after thinking about it for a while, he rejected Gan Ning's request.

But unexpectedly, Gan Ning concealed Yu Ban, and at night, he only took the 800 Jinfan army of his headquarters, drank open the city gate, and touched the barbarian camp.

After Yu Ban heard the news, he wanted to stop it, but it was too late, so he had to send a team to meet him, but he also ordered this team to just beat the drum as a suspicious soldier, and was not allowed to directly engage the enemy.

However, it was said that Gan Ning led the eight hundred strong men of his headquarters to enter the door of the barbarian barracks overnight, and launched an attack on the barbarians in the night.

Because it was close to late autumn, the autumn wind gradually rose, the weather was dry and dry, and the camp was mostly on fire, so it was soon full of fire, and those brute soldiers were suddenly attacked, and I don't know how many soldiers and horses came from the other side, plus there were fires everywhere, all of them were in chaos, trampling on each other, and there were countless casualties.

Gan Ning took 800 strong men and rushed back and forth in the entire barbarian barracks, and he was brave. A barbarian general saw that Gan Ning was powerful, and he mustered up the courage to lead the army to besiege him, but he was caught up by Gan Ning with a knife and cut off his head with a knife.

"Haha, this battle is really happy, everyone will kill for a while with the general, take advantage of the situation and burn the barbarian's grain and grass storehouse, see if he doesn't retreat, when will he wait?" Gan Ning laughed and said with a proud face.