Chapter Ninety-Three: Forcing the Bone Duhou to Surrender
The large tribal garrison in the west was in flames, and countless Hun cavalry turned over and dismounted, crawling up like ants. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info A rain of arrows swarmed from the city walls, and countless Hun soldiers fell in pools of blood.
One of the cavalrymen, who was outside the battlefield, saw that the defenders were gradually losing strength, turned and galloped back. Seeing Zhou Yafu on the war horse, he hurriedly reported: "General Qiyu, after the Hun cavalry returned to the army, they stormed the tribal garrison and our army gradually lost its support."
"The two sides have been fighting for the middle of the night, and this is the time for our army to attack in a big way. The order goes down, and the whole army attacks". Night had already fallen quietly unconsciously, and Zhou Yafu immediately gave an order to the army behind him.
"No". The herald galloped behind him, and in a short time the army behind him was dispatched in unison, and he rushed straight ahead.
Outside the tribal station, Guduhou stared deadly ahead. Seeing a Hun soldier killed by an arrow, his heart gradually became anxious. The two Hun generals followed behind and hurriedly said: "Hou Ye, the last general please order the troops to attack."
"The last general is also willing to lead his troops to attack." Another general saluted to the Gudu Marquis and asked for an order at the same time.
Guduhou turned to look at the remaining three thousand people phalanx behind him, and just as he was about to speak, there was a deafening shout of killing, and countless Hun soldiers attacked the city wall. Guduhou was overjoyed in his heart: "Quasi".
The two generals bowed and rushed over with two thousand-strong phalanx. Just when the Hun soldiers thought that they were about to win a great victory, weeping came from the city wall, and the families of countless Hun generals were tied up and driven forward under the threat of sword soldiers.
The Hun soldiers on the city wall stopped fighting and took a few steps back in horror. A group of Xiongnu generals jumped like thunder, but they were helpless. Outside the garrison under the city wall, Guduhou felt a slight chill in his heart when he saw this. At this moment, the sound of dense horses' hooves came from behind him, and countless Donghu servants rushed in like a tide.
Thousands of Hun cavalry immediately pulled out their weapons to block the rear of the Gudu Marquis. In the front, the Hu people in the east of the fortified city drove their families to open the way, and then there was a large army of chasing soldiers. At this time, there is only one way to preserve, and I thought of this Gudu Hou discarding the sword in his hand. The sound of the weapon landing made the Hun soldiers' hearts shocked, and their eyes showed an incredible look.
Guduhou didn't seem to see the soldiers surprised, and quickly turned over and dismounted, kneeling in the direction from which the sound of horses' hooves came. The thousand cavalrymen who were blocking the front instantly woke up, turned over, dismounted, and fell to the ground. When the Hun soldiers on the city wall saw the scene below, they were immediately dumbfounded.
When the Donghu servants saw the Hun soldiers kneeling on the ground, they hurriedly pulled their horses, and the battlefield stopped strangely. Zhou Yafu rode a war horse slowly surrounded by the generals, and the Marquis of Gudu looked up and saw Zhou Yafu and the armor he was wearing, and was suddenly stunned: "You, you are not from Donghu."
"We are Han Chinese". Zhou Yafu did not refute, but generously admitted it.
Guduhou suddenly thought of something, didn't care about kneeling on the ground, and hurriedly asked loudly: "Some time ago, before the order to transfer troops, I heard that there were medium-sized tribes colluding with the Donghu people. Attack the rest of our medium-sized tribes, but there is no evidence for that rumor, so my tribe did not send troops to exterminate them. I don't know if that force is you."
"Yes, that force is us. At the beginning, Xiongnu Shan Yu and Dong Hu Shan Yu issued an order to transfer troops at the same time, and it was we who hid the army, which led to today's scene." The victory was decided, and the Seoul belonged to it without any intention to hide it after this battle. At this time, of course, Zhou Yafu will not shirk and explain directly.
Guduhou suddenly stood up and pointed to the east: "It's so calculating, it should be like this on the Donghu side at this time."
"I, the general of Hancheng, have led 300,000 troops to Donghu, and after this battle, the central grassland will be owned by my Hancheng." A sense of pride rose from Zhou Yafu's heart, and it was time for Seoul to appear.
Guduhou's eyes were uncertain, and he had just made up his mind to take refuge in Donghu in order to save the lives of his family and the soldiers under his command. But I didn't expect that there was a third force, but what could be done about it at this point. Thinking of this, Gudu Hou knelt down heavily: "Xiongnu Lan clan, Gudu Hou Lan Zhengqing begged to surrender."
"Why? At this time, your army has more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and the tens of thousands of cavalry in the land where grain is hoarded are not without the strength to fight." Zhou Yafu looked at Hou Lan Zhengqing in front of him suspiciously, in fact, when he just said those words, he was ready to give the order to attack. But now it seems that he is too careful.
Lan Zhengqing looked up. showed a wry smile: "The families of my subordinates have fallen into the hands of the general, and at this time, only surrender can save their lives."
"Although the words are reasonable, but at this time, this reason is still a little insufficient, the name of my Seoul has not resounded in the grassland, and you have not seen our strength. At this time, if you are just for the sake of your family, can you willingly bet the lives of these tens of thousands of people to us? āć Zhou Yafu looked directly at Lan Zhengqing, as if he wanted to see what he really thought in his heart.
Lan Zhengqing thought of what happened to him in the clan, and showed a trace of sadness: "I can't hide it, my Lan clan is also a famous family in the clan." However, because I was born in a side branch and my status was a little embarrassing, I was not treated well by the clan. In the royal court, he recruited people for the official and rejected them, so he had to come to the central grassland. At this time, it is a foregone conclusion that our troops will lose their garrisons and land for grain storage, and the majority of the governors will definitely kill our troops in order to appease the army, so the only way to go at this time is to surrender."
"How can you make Ben believe that what you say is true". Although Zhou Yafu vaguely believed it, as the main general, he couldn't trust his intuition in this matter.
Lan Zhengqing pondered, and said for a while: "Our department is not stationed in the station, so we will regroup here." At the same time, the small waiter sent people and ordered Dajiqu, the land where grain was hoarded, to lead the troops and horses of his headquarters, and at that time, the general took us as the vanguard and went to the south to attack the headquarters of the governor of the capital."
"Good". Zhou Yafu was overjoyed, it seemed that he had finally won the first credit.
Lan Zhengqing hurriedly stood up and ordered the generals kneeling beside him: "You go and order Da Youqu to lead the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to come and converge, and hand over the place where the grain is hoarded to ......."
"Give it to the Donghu people". Zhou Yafu saw Lan Zhengqing hesitate and hurriedly added. This is not yet the time for Seoul to be completely exposed.
Lan Zhengqing immediately added: "Yes, hand it over to the Donghu people who besieged him."
"Yes". The general hurriedly stood up, turned on his horse and ran to the place where the grain was hoarded.
Lan Zhengqing looked at Zhou Yafu, saw that he had no objection, and ordered the Hun soldiers kneeling on the ground again: "Send the order to go down and assemble the whole army."
"Yes". The Hun soldiers hurriedly got up and ran to the back. After a while, a long horn sounded.
Countless Hun soldiers climbed down from the city wall and gradually converged behind Lan Zhengqing. More than 10,000 Xiongnu soldiers have been assembled in a short time.
More than an hour later, Da Jiqu led 10,000 Hun cavalry to arrive. Zhou Yafu looked at Lan Zhengqing.
Lan Zhengqing understood, slapped his war horse heavily, and led more than 20,000 Hun cavalry to the south.