Chapter 126: The Bloody Battle of Guancheng

At the pass of the Great Wall in the northwest, Qin Yong, the general of the cavalry, looked at the Hun iron cavalry who kept shouting and galloping outside the city, and his face was full of ridicule. Since he took over the defense of the Great Wall from the hands of Tai Lieutenant Dou Ying, he sent 30,000 border troops to go south with Dou Ying, and sent tens of thousands of wounded soldiers to Shuofang for recuperation, and there are still 30,000 left in the newly formed border army, plus more than 100,000 troops brought by Qin Yong and the county soldiers with high morale, and now hundreds of miles of majestic walls in the northwest are now arranged with 150,000 troops. There was a steady stream of grain, grass and weapons arriving in the rear, and Qin Yong really didn't take the 50,000 Hun iron horsemen in his eyes.

Although the Great Wall in the northwest stretches for hundreds of miles, most of them are built on winding and steep ridges, and it is really difficult for the Huns who are not good at foot warfare to climb it. A small number of flat passages are towering and sturdy city towers, and a large number of Han troops are gathered in them, which are stuffed to the brim, making the Xiongnu iron cavalry useless.

Meng Tian of the Qin Dynasty, with only 100,000 original soldiers, was stunned to let hundreds of thousands of Hun iron cavalry defeat at the foot of the Great Wall, and did not dare to go south for more than ten years. Now although Qin Yong knows that he is not as brave and fierce as Meng Tian, he is also full of confidence in facing the right iron cavalry of the Huns, and even hopes that the right sage king of the Huns can personally lead a large number of reinforcements to come, and it will be a good battle.

There is a slang saying in Guanzhong, people are crazy and there is no good thing, and dogs are crazy to bricks. Xu is God heard Qin Yong's words, and the belated Xiongnu Youxian Prince led 50,000 elite iron cavalry to appear outside the pass, and those who came with the army also had more than 100,000 slaves forcibly recruited from the subordinate departments of the Xiongnu. Heshuo is rich in products, abundant water and grass, after the Xiongnu occupied, it became an extremely important pasture and grain production area, and it could not be abandoned.

The reason why the Xiongnu Youxian King came late to help was that he learned the lesson of last year's military minister Shan Yu's defeat at the Yanmen Border Fortress, not only forcibly requisitioned a large number of livestock and slaves, but also deliberately spent a great price to send people to borrow dozens of Han craftsmen from the military minister Shan Yu, ready to build siege equipment on the spot.

Now there are more than 100,000 Hun iron horsemen outside the pass, plus the slaves of the army, the camp stretches for several miles, looking from afar, the dense tents and cattle and sheep cover the grassland outside the pass, quite shocking.

Qin Yong heard the news, although there was not the slightest fear, but did not dare to slack off, standing in the city tower carefully observed, ignited the beacon fire, less than a day, the small Guancheng gathered nearly 50,000 Han troops, rolling logs and boulders piled up at the head of the city, only the Huns to attack. However, the right prisoner of Yulin behind him, Cang Su, had a relaxed face, and he didn't seem to take the Huns in his eyes at all.

In fact, Cang Su went out with the cavalry general Qin Yong this time, which was also a helpless move. Since Yulin and Hu Ben became schools, all the generals and officers have substantive official positions, but the military justice department specially set up by Liu Che has no place to settle them. In order to show the status of the Military Judge Advocate General's Office, according to the Han Dynasty's rule of respecting the right, all the positions of the right prison were filled by military judges. As the big leader of the Military Justice Department, Cang Su naturally sits firmly in the position of Yulin's right supervisor, second only to Yulin's servant Gongsun He, but his status is slightly higher than that of Yulin's left supervisor Qi Shan.

However, as soon as Yulin and Huben were expanded, they caught up with the battle of Heshuo, and Qi Shan, who was good at detecting the enemy situation and analyzing the situation, was sent to Heshuo to investigate, and also shouldered the heavy responsibility of assisting the Zhulu army in combat. And Gongsun He has to sit in Yulin and serve the prince, so naturally he can't follow the army. The only general who can really take charge of Yulin is Cangsu, who has served as the head of military law for two years and is familiar with Yulin tactics.

What's more critical is that this time, Yu Linwei cooperated with the cavalry general Qin Yong to fight, and the main task was to take care of and use the most secret weapon of the soldiers-high explosives. It is naturally very suitable to let Cang Su, who is in charge of military law, lead the army, not only to keep it secret, but also not afraid that he will be too impulsive and reckless and use it at will, causing immeasurable consequences.

Sure enough, in the battle to capture Xihe and Shuofang, the Han army had an extremely obvious advantage, and it was almost effortless. Cang Su never mentioned the high-explosive incident to his coach Qin Yong. Until now, Qin Yong only knew that the more than 100 Yu Lin Wei and dozens of craftsmen sent by His Majesty held a secret weapon in their hands, but they didn't know what it was. After more than a month of dispatching troops, the camp of Yulinwei was strictly guarded, and no one was allowed to approach within ten zhang, otherwise there would be no mercy. During the march, more than ten large vehicles were wrapped tightly with felt cloth, and more than 100 Yulin guards were firmly guarded, never leaving their posts without permission for half a step, and talking with ordinary soldiers more rigorously.

The generals under Qin Yong's command don't know the inside story, and they are still the sons of these heavenly sons who are pro-army, and they are from powerful families, and they earn military merits and accumulate qualifications with the army, so they can't help but feel a little disdainful. Cang Su naturally turned a blind eye, as long as it didn't interfere with his duties, he didn't care what others thought at all.

The day after the arrival of the Xiongnu Youxian King, he began to send slaves to cut down the giant trees in the nearby mountains. In just three days, dozens of Han craftsmen led tens of thousands of slaves to make more than 100 siege cones, ladders and hundreds of trebuchets. King Youxian couldn't help but be overjoyed, rewarded these craftsmen heavily, and thought about using the excuse of dying during the march to force a few after the war. Presumably, the military minister Shan Yu has nothing to say, after all, he still wants to unite the right tribes to suppress the ambition of the Xiongnu Zuoxian King to call Han evil, and he will not offend the Youxian King for a few Han craftsmen.

Tens of thousands of slaves braved the rain of arrows of the Han army, with sand and gravel and the corpses of their companions, all the trenches in front of the pass were paved, and then they pushed the siege cones and ladders, and rushed to the towering wall one after another.

The Great Wall Pass was built in the narrowest part of the valley, the front wall was not more than a mile, more than 100 siege equipment suddenly filled the wall, plus tens of thousands of slaves, the whole pass in front of the pass, a piece of Wuyang. The soldiers of the Han army did not need to aim at all, they only needed to shoot the arrows in their hands towards the city, and they would definitely be able to shoot a large number of enemy troops. The Xiongnu generals did not equip the slaves with armor at all, and even the weapons were mostly wooden sticks and javelins, which naturally could not withstand the metal arrows and sharp javelins of the Han army.

At the head of the city, the huge crossbow roared, and the thigh-thick crossbow arrows shot straight out, with a huge momentum, plowing out a bloody path in the slave group under the city. Many slaves huddled together were strung into flesh gourds by long crossbow arrows, and the slaves who had not yet breathed their breath wailed loudly, so sad and sad that everyone shuddered when they heard it. A small number of slaves who had never been on the battlefield couldn't help but crouch down and retched in pain when they saw such a bloody and tragic situation around them. However, the slaves who were driven up from the rear would knock them to the ground, and countless panicked big feet would immediately fall, trampling the fallen slaves to the ground, and the flesh and blood were blurred.

The Hun generals who were watching the battle from afar did not care about the huge casualties of the slaves at all, but excitedly watched as the slaves had pushed the siege equipment under the wall, and were constantly climbing up from the ladder, and the huge siege cone covered with copper skin also kept hitting the wall, releasing a dull loud noise. It has to be said that in the face of a large number of siege cones hitting at the same time, even in the solid bluestone city wall, it will cause great damage. The soldiers of the Han army standing on the city wall couldn't help but feel the constant huge tremors under their feet, and they had to divide their minds to stabilize their footsteps and prevent them from falling.

In this way, the slaves who climbed along the ladder only felt that the pressure was slightly reduced, and they climbed up harder, as if the ladder was the road to liberation. They were greeted by a boiling brood of lime and urine that peeled off large swaths of flesh when poured over the body. If you spray it down on your head, with a huge momentum, you will even see a lot of white bones that have all the skin and flesh falling off.

The terrible wail suddenly resounded throughout the valley, and before the slaves could react, huge stones and rolling logs fell from the sky and smashed down on the siege equipment under the city, and suddenly wood chips were scattered, and most of the more than 100 siege equipment were destroyed in less than a moment. The slaves beside the instruments were smashed into pulp, and the red and white liquid splashed onto the walls and the surrounding ground, like purgatory on earth.

The slaves were horrified, and the morale and luck they had accumulated quickly disappeared, and they threw away the rudimentary weapons in their hands, spread their feet and ran back. After that, the Hun iron cavalry who pressed the formation waved the saber in his hand and cut off the heads one by one, which stabilized the slaves who had lost their minds, and after regrouping, they continued the tragic siege battle.

When the Youxian King heard the news, he was not the slightest surprised, he had fought on the battlefield since he was a child, and naturally saw the strength of the Han people in defending the city, so he never expected the slaves to capture the city in one fell swoop.

At this time, the Han army has crowded the city, and the order is to go down, and the stone-throwing cart on the ridge will be smashed by the king to the head of the Han city! The slaves in the camp continued to make siege equipment, and when the Han army was tired, it was the time when my Hun iron cavalry went into battle! The Right Virtuous King raised his horsewhip and commanded confidently.

The guards behind him led the way, and a moment later, hundreds of stone-throwing carts that had already been assembled on the ridge in front of him rattled, and huge stones and wooden stakes were thrown high, making a whirring sound of breaking wind, and slammed into the distant wall.

The unsuspecting Han soldiers couldn't help but be a little caught off guard, but fortunately, the accuracy of the stone throwing machine was too poor, and most of the boulders smashed into the city wall, or crossed the wall, and directly smashed the mud in the city into deep pits, and beat a few times restlessly before stopping. Even so, the few stones that fell on the wall still brought great casualties to the dense defenders of the city, not to mention the immediate death of the middle, the soldiers affected by the splashed rubble were also crying out in grief, and those who were lucky enough to be lucky looked up at the sky, trying to avoid the huge objects falling from the sky.

Qin Yong, who was personally sitting in the city tower, pushed away the guards who tried to protect him from the city wall, raised the telescope on his chest, and looked at the hundreds of stone-throwing carts on the ridge in the distance. After a long time, he slowly put down the binoculars, his eyes were full of resentment, and he said fiercely: "I knew that the Huns had a siege weapon, but who knew that it was so sophisticated, and it was not a little weaker than my big man." If the old man knew who dared to collaborate with the enemy and betray the country like this, he would definitely carry a three-foot sword and wash his clan in blood! ”

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