Youzhou, north of the Great Wall, in the newly built fortress, the soldiers belonging to the Youzhou Governor's Mansion are hurrying to unload ordnance, grain and grass. After the self-defense Shuo entered the main Jicheng, the already lax defense line of the Great Wall was redeployed by it.

The Youzhou Governor's Mansion is a newly established sub-military institution of the Captain's Mansion, which is responsible for managing all the affairs of the government soldiers in Youzhou, and its military governor, the Governor of Youzhou, is temporarily concurrently served by Liu Yao.

According to the military system of Liaodong, the soldiers under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Governor's Office mainly undertook the task of garrisoning the passes in various important places. Along the northern Great Wall of Beiping, Shanggu, Yanguo, and Guangning counties, Wei Shuo hired people to build countless small forts with cement as the first line of defense against the invasion of the grassland peoples into the land of Youyan.

Most of the government soldiers who are loading and unloading materials come from the local people who have just been allocated land, although the salary of the border government soldiers is only half of that of the box army, but because their families enjoy tax exemptions and other benefits, and at the same time only undertake the task of garrisoning, so it has attracted a large number of young and strong people to join the government soldiers.

"Hurry up!"

The marquis in charge of the fortress wiped the sweat from his face with his hands, looked back at the mountains of supplies outside, and shouted at the soldiers under him.

The military marquis is a child of the Shu clan in Liaodong, because of his outstanding performance in the battle of Jicheng, he should have been transferred to the Xiang army, but later with the expansion of the Youzhou Mansion army, a large number of experienced veterans are urgently needed, so he was sent here as a military marquis.

"My lord, the Xianbei people are here!"

On the lookout, the soldier in charge of the sentry suddenly shouted to the military marquis who was busy below. The marquis looked up and saw that about fifteen miles from the fort there was dust and smoke, like a sandstorm sweeping in.

"Damn it!"

Seeing that there was an enemy situation, the young marquis cursed in a low voice, and then ordered the wagon, which had not yet finished loading and unloading supplies, to enter the fortress and take refuge. The marquis did not worry about the safety of the fortress, which now has a garrison of 300 men. The garrison was well-armed, equipped with fifty large bed crossbows, and the garrison was stocked with enough food to last for a month.

And as long as the beacon tower in the fortress is lit, the Jin army stationed on the Great Wall in the rear and responsible for the second line of defense will quickly gather troops to help. At the same time, the Xiang army stationed at the foot of the Great Wall in Junmi County will also send troops to rescue, so the military marquis did not take the Xianbei people who came to attack in his eyes at all.

Although the defenders occupied the right time and place, the military marquis still did not dare to be careless. On one hand, he had the entrance to the fortress sealed; While leading the robes to quickly enter their respective positions, ready for battle. With a creaking sound, fifty large bed crossbows were ready to shoot.

The power of the large bed crossbow is not comparable to that of the Divine Arm Crossbow equipped by individual soldiers, and its range reaches nearly five hundred paces away. Moreover, a bed crossbow can produce three spears at a time, and the power is huge, and within 500 steps, it is definitely a god to block and kill the god and the Buddha!

The military marquis looked at the Xianbei people who were slowly approaching under the black pressure, and his expression was nervous and excited.

At this time, a former Youzhou soldier Du Bo leaned into the ear of the military marquis, and said with a solemn face: "My lord doesn't seem to be a cavalry of the Yuwen tribe!" ”

"Not the Yuwen tribe? Where did that cavalry come from? ”

The military marquis frowned, on the northern grassland of Beiping County. Most of the life is the people of the Yuwen tribe, since they were stationed in the fortress, they have dealt with the Yuwen tribe the most, and now a cavalry unit of an unknown tribe suddenly appeared, how not to attract the attention of the military marquis?

"It's the Murong family's cavalry team, and the number is about two thousand."

At this time, a person belonging to Karasuma gritted his teeth on the side and said, If you want to say who hates Murong Xianbei the most among the Hu tribes of Liaodong, it must be the Karasuma people. Before Wei Shuo unified Liaodong. In order to expand the strength of their tribe, the Murong Xianbei people have been forcing the Karasuma people to join the Xianbei tribe by force.

"Isn't the Murong tribe active in the Changli area? When did you get here? ”

The marquis touched his chin and muttered to himself for a while. He quickly made up his mind, turned around and ordered: "Let the scouts send fast horses to report to the rear!" ”

Soon one man and three horsemen rode out of the fortress and galloped towards the rear.

Seeing this, the Xianbei people who were slowly approaching did not send people to pursue, as if they had not seen the departing Jin army scouts.

"Prepare for battle!"

With the order of the military marquis, all the government soldiers quickly made preparations before the battle. In groups of four, large bed crossbows were quickly activated, and spears were erected one by one to point at the Xianbei people outside the fortress. This is a large bed crossbow that can be equipped with three arrows at a time. Although it is inconvenient to equip field troops, it is a sharp weapon for defending the city, so it is heavily equipped to the front line of border defense.

Due to the extensive use of cement and the increase in steel production, reinforced concrete structures began to be widely used in Youping and Pingzhou. Don't look at the Xianbei people who have an advantage in troops. But the Marquis was not worried about the safety of the fortress at all. As long as there are enough arrows, fifty large bed crossbows alone are enough for the Xianbei people to drink a pot.

When the Xianbei cavalry came within 400 paces and entered the range of the large bed crossbow, the commander in charge of the military marquis quickly gave the order to shoot.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

As the bowstrings sounded, one hundred and fifty spear-like arrows swept through the Xianbei cavalry like lightning, bringing a rain of blood, and four or five Xianbei people were pierced into a string of spears like a string of sugar gourds, leaving the ownerless mounts scattered and fled on the battlefield.

"Ahh Poof! ”

The Xianbei people who were running at high speed only let out a terrible scream, and they were shot through by the speeding arrows. The leather armor worn by the Xianbei people was okay against ordinary archers, and it was almost like paper paste when it came across a large bed crossbow. Only one round of shooting cost the Xianbei people nearly one-tenth of the casualties, and suddenly deterred the invading Xianbei cavalry.

With anger in his eyes, Murong Ren stared directly at the Jin army fortress opposite, and the spears erected one by one equipped the fortress as strong as a turtle shell into a hedgehog that people had nowhere to start. He led his army south to Youzhou this time for no other purpose, that is, to test it on the order of Da Shan Yu.

Murong Ren thought that going south to fight the grass valley would be smooth and make a windfall, but he didn't expect to hit the iron plate headlong. Before he even touched a single hair, he had already lost nearly two hundred people, and the combat effectiveness of the Liaodong Army greatly exceeded Murong Ren's expectations.

Everyone in the Murong tribe of the Liaodong Army is no stranger, it was the powerful Liaodong Army that poached a large number of Liaodong scholars, and blocked the way for the Murong tribe to expand to Liaodong, forcing the Murong tribe to target the Yuwen tribe with the object of expansion.

This time, Murong Diao commanded 40,000 Murong cavalry, and took advantage of Liaodong's flawless northward movement to annex the entire Yuwen tribe in one fell swoop, nearly doubling his strength.

The great power of the bed crossbow forced Murong Ren to order the cavalry to temporarily stop attacking, and he looked around and found that each Xianbei cavalry looked at the large bed crossbow on the fortress with a look of fear.

This was the first time that the Liaodong Army and the Murong cavalry had fought each other, and the well-trained Liaodong Army deeply shocked the Murong cavalry, completely subverting the impression of the previous Jin army in their minds. Even the arrogant Murong Ren had to admit that it was no fluke that the Liaodong Army was able to defeat Shi Le and the Duan clan to occupy most of Youzhou.

However, although the large bed crossbow is powerful, it also has its insurmountable shortcomings, in addition to the inconvenience of moving, its rate of fire is completely incomparable to that of the longbowmen, fortunately, the first round of shooting deterred the Xianbei people, giving the Jin army in the fort enough time to prepare for the second round of shooting.

However, the Jin army in the fort obviously underestimated Murong Ren, and seeing that the fortress was difficult to break through and had achieved the purpose of the trial, Murong Ren decisively issued an order to withdraw his troops. Looking at the slowly retreating Murong cavalry, the military marquis had a grim face, the situation in the northern grassland has changed greatly, and it will inevitably have a huge impact on Youzhou, which has just stabilized.

A few days later, Wei Shuo received a military report that Murong Xianbei had appeared in the north of Youzhou, and he immediately brought Gao Zhan, Lu Chang, Liu Han, Han Shou and others to discuss. Most people thought that this was just a tentative move by Murong Diao, and in view of Youzhou's urgent need to recuperate, it was still mainly defensive for the time being.

"My lord, judging from the current situation, Murong Diao is afraid that he has no plans to invade Youzhou on a large scale, and his actions in front of him are just his temptation to us. Since the dispatch of troops to the Yuwen tribe, Murong Diao has fought and defeated Yuwen so much that he has no power to fight back. Through the annexation of the Yuwen tribe, Murong Diao gained a total of more than 50,000 new households, and his strength was nearly double that before the war. (To be continued.) )