All the ministers were shocked when they saw the sword of the Son of Heaven unsheathed, and pointed at Ma Hong with the front finger of the long sword, Ma Hong's soul was scattered, and he lost his voice: "The saint spares his life, and the ministers are for the sake of the saint's safety!" ”

"I know your thoughts." Dingwu Changjian was half-circled, and sneered: "You see that there are many barbarians, and you only think that the city of Wuping Mansion will be broken sooner or later, and at that time, you will die one by one and have no place to bury, so as long as you can ask for help, no matter who it is, you don't care, yes or no?" ”

All the ministers had already knelt on the ground and said in unison: "The ministers don't dare!" ”

"It's a pity that you don't know me, let alone Chu Huan." Dingwu put his sword pestle on the ground, and said lightly: "Until now, you still only think that Chu Huan just wants to be a vassal king in a corner of peace?" Since he has already been out of the customs, and even played the banner of anti-Qin, that is, he is determined to compete with me, what he wants is not a corner of peace, but I want the entire Great Qin country, even you haven't seen through this, I really don't know how you are an official to this day? ”

Everyone bowed their heads and remained silent.

"Chu Huan wants the world, so no matter what kind of conditions, he will not agree." Ding Wu sneered: "Although I can't get the news from the outside for the time being, I have already expected that the Northwest Army under his command will definitely come to Hexi, but he will not send troops to rescue Wuping Mansion City, at this time, even if he has countless male soldiers in his hands, he will only stand still, sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and when the time is ripe, he will rush out, and he can see the barbarians fighting and killing each other in a bloody battle, do you think Chu Huan will still be involved?" ”

Ma Hong was already with his head on the ground, and he didn't dare to gasp.

"To Ruozhen, Ma Hong, you are also wrong." Ding Wu sneered: "I am the Son of Heaven of Great Qin, do you think that I will use the respect of the Son of Heaven to ask for help from a thief?" I represent the dignity of Great Qin, and the moment I really ask him for help, the dignity of Great Qin will no longer exist, and without dignity, Great Qin will not exist. Since I inherit the Great Unification, I am the Great Qin, and the Great Qin is the Great Qin, as long as I live, I will not allow anyone to insult the dignity of the Great Qin, do you understand? ”

The ministers said in unison: "The ministers swear allegiance to Great Qin!" ”

Dingwu sat down slowly and said, "I know that the situation is very difficult now, and I also know that you are uneasy, but you should know that this is the last fortified city of Daqin, and there is no place to retreat behind us, even if the city of Wuping Mansion is really broken in the end, it will be after my death, as long as I am alive, this city will not fall." ”

He looked resolute, his eyes were cold, and he muttered to himself: "I said, never give up!" ”

Outside the city of Wuping Mansion, the barbarian soldiers and horses shouted and made a mess.

They attacked Wuping Mansion City, in addition to besieging Wuping Mansion City, more could only take turns to go out to loot and loot, and the entire Hexi Road was already in dire straits.

Although Tushi Khan has been temporarily recognized by the barbarian allies through various means, as the commander of the whole army to command the southern invasion, but he does not have much pride, he once rejoiced to be able to lead so many men and horses, but now he finally found that sometimes a large number of people is not necessarily a good thing, a large number of people are mixed, every time the siege fails, the generals of the various tribes will come over, shouting loudly, although afraid of the power of the Tushi Khan, do not dare to offend directly, but the meaning of the words, But it is obvious that the responsibility for the disadvantage of the siege is placed on the body of Thushi Khan.

For Tushi Khan, it is not important for the generals to complain, Tushi Khan has the most soldiers and horses in the alliance, and he himself is also a famous warrior in the desert steppe, although the tribes have some complaints because of the loss of troops, but they dare not do anything to Tushi Khan.

As a commander-in-chief, although there is a lot of authority, the responsibility is also not small.

Although a large part of the reason for this is that the elite of Tushi Khan actively led his headquarters to the south, although a large part of the reason is that he covets the gold and silver beauties in the Central Plains, but the more important reason is that he hopes to take this opportunity to improve his reputation among the barbarians.

Although the Chiyan tribe did not surrender, it was also beaten by the Hexi army to migrate around the Mobei grassland, like a lost dog, in the hands of the father of Tushi Khan, he once migrated to the far north, and waited until Tushi Khan inherited the position of patriarch, then led the tribe to slowly advance to the south, and the speed of advance over the years was extremely fast, annexing many small tribes. The Feng family focused on Mobei at the beginning, but over the years, they began to have other plans, and their attention to the barbarians has decreased a lot, and they don't take the Chiyan tribe seriously, which was like a lost dog, so Tushi Khan slowly grew stronger in Mobei.

Previously, Yiman sent soldiers and horses, as mercenaries to assist the Qin army to quell the chaos, Tushi Khan naturally would not participate in it, and when he learned that Hexi was empty, the Yiman soldiers rebelled, such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Tushi Khan naturally would not miss it, and immediately led the elite of the clan, day and night, to kill Hexi as quickly as possible.

After many years of accumulation, the Chi Yan tribe is strong and strong, this time there are twenty or thirty tribal alliances, there are fifty or sixty thousand people, and one tribe of the Chi Yan tribe has eight thousand cavalry, which is the tribe with the largest number of tribal troops, plus his own prestige in the grassland, without too much controversy, it is logical to become the commander of the attack on Hexi, for other tribes, this commander is only temporary, nothing more than a leader to gather the strength of the tribes, and lay down Wuping Mansion City, a golden mountain in their eyes, After this battle, it is time to go back to their own homes and go their own way.

Of course, the purpose of Tursh Khan was not to just want to command this war, but he wanted to take this opportunity to show his strength and make himself the true leader of the steppe alliance.

To achieve this goal, it must be to take down the city of Wuping at all costs, once the victory, the prestige spreads, and naturally become the first commander of the barbarian tribe in history to lead the army to capture the city of Hexi, and then the impact on the grassland, is bound to be incomparable, but once the loss of the army will be defeated, then not only can not shock the grassland, I am afraid that in the future it will become the object of ridicule of the tribes.

Therefore, Tushi Khan had already made up his mind that if he could not capture the city of Wupingfu, he would never retreat, and no matter what the price was, he would take the fortified city in front of him.

The barbarian soldiers are good at horse warfare, not long siege cities, this is clear to both the Qin people and the Tushi Khan himself, iron hooks and ropes, these simple siege tools, for the Wuping Mansion City in front of them, it is really no different from suicide, there are more dead and wounded, and the soldiers of each tribe have a lot less motivation, after all, they are here to seek wealth, not to send death.

Before, the tribes rushed to Wuping Mansion, even if it was through the cities along the way, it was also a whirlwind, for them, those villages and towns and small towns, there was really not much attraction, the real golden beauties, should be in Wuping Mansion City, but the siege of the city countless times, many casualties, Wuping Mansion City is difficult to shake, which makes many tribes begin to look back, thinking about whether to plunder elsewhere.

That's exactly what annoys Tush Khan.

As Ma Hong expected, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the barbarians, the daily consumption is indeed a lot, and they are indeed accustomed to taking local materials, sending soldiers and horses to loot food, but the villages and towns near Wuping Fucheng have been swept many times before, and when the barbarian army invades in a big way, the surrounding villages and towns are either looted, or the people flee in large numbers, and the traces are rare, and now if they want to supplement the supply of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses through looting, they can only go to farther places.

At this time, the tribes began to figure out, everyone is here to seek wealth, not to send their lives, since the attack on Wuping Mansion can only increase casualties, it is better in the name of supplementing logistics, go out to loot, all the tribes are unwilling to watch others to rob, are clamoring to loot, only ten days, people's hearts began to disperse, if so, even if it is another three or five years, I am afraid it will not have any effect.

Knowing that his morale must not be let go like this, he must find a way to continue the battle, not only to find a suitable siege method, but also to make proper arrangements for logistics.

For the generals of all ethnic groups scrambling to loot and supplement logistics, Tushi Khan can only use the oldest method on the grassland to solve the problem, that is, to draw lots, insert bamboo sticks of different lengths into the ground, and then the generals of each ethnic group pull out bamboo sticks from the ground, bamboo sticks elders, lead troops to plunder around the area, and those with short bamboo sticks can only stay and continue to attack the city.

Five or six tribes drew long lots, rejoiced, and each led the soldiers and horses of their headquarters, left the station, plundered everywhere, and tens of thousands of horses and horses left the brigade.

Even so, the strength of the barbarian army besieging the city was enough to trap the city of Wupingfu.

Although Tushi Khan came from the barbarians and did not read a few books, he was an extremely cunning man, and there were many captives in the army, and Tushi Khan gathered this group of Central Plains people and offered a reward in public, who could find a way to break through the city, not only could he return himself, but also a great reward.

He knows very well that the people who really understand the Central Plains are the Central Plains people, and I am afraid that only the Central Plains people can come up with a way to break through the city of Wuping Mansion.

Turish Khan asked the captives of the Central Plains for a plan, and there was really no way to do it, but his brilliant method played a great role, and soon the captives stood up and told the Central Plains that once the siege was made, there would be a large number of siege weapons as a reliance, and the Turish Khan, who had hardly carried out siege warfare, was really very unfamiliar with siege weapons.

Immediately he quickly made another difficulty, the siege weapon is easy to say, but it is not easy to make it, it must be completed by skilled craftsmen and carpenters according to the drawings, and among the captives, most of them are women, and a small number of men have no craftsmen among them.

Moreover, in order to capture such a strong city as Wuping Mansion, the number of siege weapons must not be small, and the number of craftsmen needed to create a large number of siege weapons in a short period of time is not a few?

Tushi Khan's first thought was to send troops to look for craftsmen in Hexi, but when the barbarian army came, the people in Hexi fled one after another, and with the mobility of the barbarian cavalry, it was of course easy to chase down the fleeing people, but to find craftsmen and carpenters among the countless refugees, it was a needle in a haystack.

The people did not write their occupation on their foreheads, so they naturally could not identify who the craftsmen were, and the number of craftsmen was not many, and it was already a very remarkable thing to find one out of a hundred people, and it was almost impossible to find a large number of craftsmen and carpenters in a short time to make siege weapons.

Although Thushi Khan was troubled by the craftsmen, he was also a man of his word, and when he proposed siege weapons, he not only released the prisoners as promised, but also rewarded them with an ingot of gold and a sack of grain.

Although most of the captives hated the barbarians in their hearts and never said a word, when they saw that the barbarians kept their promise and really let them go, some people had hope in their hearts.

Tushi Khan was still thinking about how to find craftsmen, but one person took the initiative to tell him that almost all the skilled craftsmen in Hexi were in the Heavenly Palace, and Feng Yuanpo forcibly recruited people everywhere in Hexi in order to build the Heavenly Palace, and a total of more than 100,000 people were recruited at the head and tail, and almost all the craftsmen in Hexi were recruited to the Heavenly Palace.

Although many strong men have been sent back to their hometowns since then, there are still tens of thousands of people in the Heavenly Palace, and there are countless craftsmen among them.

After the arrival of the barbarian army, the target has always been locked in the city of Wupingfu, which is the Khan of Tushi, and the attention has not yet moved to the heavenly palace, and now I know that there are a large number of craftsmen hiding in the heavenly palace, I only feel that God helps, and I know that in order to lay down the city of Wupingfu, there must be siege weapons, and to create siege weapons, there must be a large number of craftsmen, and to get a large number of craftsmen to manufacture siege weapons, we must first lay down the heavenly palace.

Immediately after Thushhan had rewarded the man, he gathered the generals of the tribes and told them how they had been obtained.

The city has always been attacked, and the morale of the people is low, and some people are even thinking that it is better to withdraw the army than to lose the army like this, and everyone is immediately excited, knowing that they can obtain a large number of craftsmen by capturing the Heavenly Palace, so as to force them to make siege weapons, the generals suddenly geared up one by one, shouting to immediately launch an offensive against the Heavenly Palace.

The barbarians have always done things neatly, since the Tushi Khan thought of a way, he did not hesitate at all, he was not a reckless man, I heard that the barbarian cavalry had attacked the Heavenly Palace earlier, and the loss of troops could not be attacked, knowing that to forcibly attack the city, it was nothing more than to continue to increase casualties, so he sent people to the area around the Heavenly Palace, surveyed the terrain, and then came up with a way to attack.