Most of the cities of Wuyuan are built in the hinterland far from the border, the soldiers and horses of the Xiongnu have gone through a long march, through the desert, and enter the Wuyuan County of Bingzhou, and most of them are vast grasslands after entering Wuyuan County, occasionally you can see some scattered herdsmen, see the endless Hun soldiers, the herdsmen immediately fled in all directions, the Xiongnu army was in a hurry and did not order to chase and kill, only to some small villages to grab some grain, and finally saw many cities in the distance before going to the Yellow River. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Liu Bao, the king of Zuoxian, waved his hand to signal the soldiers and horses to stop, found a place to set up a village, and at the same time asked the generals and priests to come to his big tent to discuss matters.

Liu Bao looked at the dense city in the distance, and felt bored for a while, winter was coming again.

Every time the Huns fought with the Han Dynasty, most of them were to loot food and treasure, and they were always accompanied by a shortage of food in their own tribes, so they would divide a part of the strong men to form an army, and march south with a part of the extra people to loot food, so that it was best to grab the food, if they couldn't grab it, the gang was killed by the Han army, the tribe reduced the population, and the rest of the people successfully survived the terrible winter in Mobei.

Whenever it is winter in Mobei, it snows heavily, everything is not born, and what is more terrifying is the deadly low temperature, and the Huns who do not have enough heating fuel and leather clothes will not survive the long winter. Therefore, after the Xiongnu were unable to seize the land of the Han Dynasty, they used this cruel way to ensure the continuation of the race for generations.

This time, Liu Bao brought out such a force, although it was 200,000 troops, in fact, only 100,000 people accompanied him, and some of them were women and the elderly.

Liu Bao brought them out with the intention of taking advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains, breaking through several cities in Wuyuan County and stealing food, so he hurriedly took advantage of the winter to bring these people back to the tribe.

"Everyone, seeing that these Han cities are so dense and compact, and even far away between the two cities, if you send troops to one city, you will inevitably find troops from other cities to rescue, do you have any way to quickly break the city?"

Liu Bao sat in the big tent and asked the generals and priests present that when the Huns were at their strongest, they almost unified the entire grassland but did not conquer a few cities, lacked siege experience, lacked siege equipment, and the powerlessness of the city wall accompanied almost the entire history of this nation.

One of the priests at the head of the head said to Liu Bao: "King Zuoxian, it is better to divide the troops to besiege the city, and then let the warriors of our tribe storm the city wall, and the women and the old people will ride horses and arrows to the city in the rear, and the Han army will break the city in a few days." ”

"Well, okay."

Liu Bao nodded, anyway, he couldn't think of any better way, relying on the advantage of numbers to attack, it was better than using some superfluous strategy to be seen through by the Han army.

So after a simple rest, the Xiongnu immediately assembled the army, led by five generals to attack the five cities of Wuyuan, Jiuyuan, Yiliang, Chengyi, Xi'anyang, each of the five generals led 20,000 troops stationed near the city they were going to attack, Liu Bao was stationed in Xi'anyang, which was far away from other cities, and wanted to first knock down this farther city as a temporary stronghold.

"Boom"

I only heard a cannon sound in the barracks where Liu Bao was, and the soldiers and horses of the five parties were dispatched together, and the Hun soldiers dismounted as infantry, carrying the ladder and wielding a scimitar and running towards the city walls.

I heard a loud shout from the city: "Shoot the arrows!" ”

The sergeant guarding the city tower immediately drew his bow and arrows, and the Hun soldiers under the city rushed to the city wall like a black tide, and the city tower was densely packed with almost all people, and they could shoot at the Hun soldiers almost with their eyes closed.

After the first round of volleys, at least 100 Hun soldiers fell to the ground, but compared to his more than 10,000 people, it was not too much damage, and before they touched the city wall, the Han army could still carry out a maximum of five rounds of salvos, and if you calculated it, they could only kill more than 500 enemies.

There is a height advantage in shooting arrows downward on the castle tower, and the range will be much farther away, but almost everyone in the Huns can get on the horse and control the string, so there is naturally a way to make up for the gap in range.

Between the old men and women in the rear of the siege force mounted their steppe horses with bows and arrows in hand, formed a shooting formation and began to sprint at an accelerated pace, but they did not charge towards the city wall, they galloped back and forth in a large circle at the approximate range of the fire.

As the speed increased, they raised their bows and arrows and aimed at the tower, and fired their arrows collectively while the direction of the horse's speed was pointing at the tower.

"Woohoo"

With the speed of the horse, the bow and arrow could easily reach the tower.

"Ahh

Dozens of Han soldiers were immediately pierced through the chest with an arrow, and they let out heart-rending shouts.

"Shield!"

The general of the city guard immediately shouted, and immediately someone brought up dozens of large shields from behind to block the city wall.

"Tuk Tuk ......"

As soon as the shield was erected, a new round of shooting from the Huns arrived, which happened to be inserted into a large shield to protect the Han army defending the city, so that they could hide behind the shield and shoot.

However, because the shield blocked the view, the accuracy of the Han army's shooting had dropped greatly, and the pressure on the Xiongnu forward suddenly became lighter, and when the Xiongnu arrived under the city wall and began to build a ladder to attack the city, these shields could no longer be used, otherwise they would have deliberately helped the Xiongnu rush to the city.

After five rounds of arrows, the Huns rushed to the bottom of the city tower and began to build a ladder to attack the city.

The big shield was withdrawn, the bows and arrows of the Huns followed, and the Han army on the city tower hurriedly hid behind the battlements, carefully poked out their heads to stare at the progress of the Huns under the city, and a pile of falling stones behind them was ready, and the stones could be thrown down at any time in the gap between the Hun arrows and rain under the city.

But they did not immediately throw the falling rocks, they had to wait until the Huns set up the ladder, began to climb upwards, and then threw the falling rocks when they reached eighty percent high, which could not only hit the ladder but also kill the Huns.

The Xiongnu under the city wall saw that the Han army on the tower of the city was not moving, and they also knew in their hearts that they were waiting for them to erect the ladder and then throw the stone, but there was no way, the first day of the siege was to use human lives to consume the combat materials of the defending army, since the siege of the city must have the consciousness of death, and the men on the grassland did not have a trace of timidity at all.

The ladder was built, the first Hun soldier to climb the ladder was absolutely mortal, but the nearest Hun did not hesitate to climb the ladder, followed by a succession of warriors followed, if the number is not enough to threaten the extent of the defenders of the city, the Han army will not throw down the defending objects such as falling rocks and rolling wood, and the Huns who go up the ladder know that their fate is to consume the Han army's defending power, in order to finally capture the city and open the granary, so that the clansmen behind them can have food to continue to live, They have no complaints, no regrets, no timidity and hesitation.

"Boom!"

Finally, when the first Hun soldier was about to touch the city wall, the Han army defending the city struggled to lift a huge falling stone and threw it at the Hun soldiers who were close to him.

The two had no grievances in the past, but if the Xiongnu wanted to enter the city, there were parents and relatives of the Han army in the city, and if the Xiongnu could not enter the city, these people who came out of them would have to die in the desert winter without food.