Dou Ying waited for the full moon, but did not see the arrival of reinforcements, so he had to stand on the beacon tower and light the wolf smoke with his own hands. Since a few days ago, the Xiongnu Aries King led more than 10,000 iron horsemen to the west, and 50,000 horsemen on the right side of the Xiongnu outside the pass attacked inside and outside, and attacked the Great Wall Pass, the situation has become more and more severe.

To defend the Great Wall for hundreds of miles, the 100,000 foot soldiers under Dou Ying's command are really stretched, even if Dou Yi gathers thousands of private soldiers in the Dou clan's candidate fiefdoms and comes to support, it is just a drop in the bucket, and can only be left as a reserve army, so as to rush to the aid of various passes at any time.

Dou Ying naturally understands His Majesty's calculations, even if he can finally hold the Great Wall Pass, the Dou family's private soldiers will not be able to return to the fiefdom intact, and it is best to bury all of them here, so that His Majesty will be satisfied. Just like the soldiers of the Liang State during the Wu Chu Rebellion, they fought almost alone, and Zhou Yafu, who had been standing still, marched eastward to exterminate the rebels. Now that he has changed places, Dou Ying finally realized the helplessness of King Liang, even if there is a cliff in front of him, he can only close his eyes and go all the way.

Thinking about it, at this time, the reinforcements sent by His Majesty were already in place, just watching from the wall, waiting for Dou Ying to be interested. Dou Ying clearly understood that His Majesty was reluctant to let 100,000 border soldiers be martyred for him, let alone lose the Great Wall Pass. If he insists on not letting Dou's private soldiers fight, when the border army suffers heavy casualties, His Majesty will eventually send troops to help. It's just that in this way, facing Dou Ying is a dead end, and even his wife and children will be harmed. Even with the protection of the Empress Dowager Dou, the Dou clan will not be connected, but Dou Ying, as a general who is a captain, according to the Han law, slacked off in battle and led to defeat, and it was inevitable that he would be sentenced to be a tyrant and his family would be raided, and his wife and children would be taken as official slaves.

The Dou family's private soldiers are related to the interests of the family, but compared with their own family, Dou Ying naturally weighs the importance of intimacy. Therefore, in the face of the Hun cavalry swarming under the city, when the city tower was in danger, Dou Ying decisively ordered all the private soldiers of the Dou clan to attack and defend it without retreating. The soldiers of the border army, who had fought in a bloody battle, retreated for a while.

Dou Yi, who knew it well, saw that his father finally made up his mind, and his heart was full of sorrow, the matter had come to this point, and he could only do it completely. At the end of this battle, the princes of the Dou clan regarded their father as a family rebel and wanted to eat his flesh raw. Father can only completely devote himself to His Majesty's camp and completely break with the Dou clan in order to avoid the disaster of annihilation. At this time, Dou Ying lit the wolf smoke for help, which was a vague expression to the reinforcements sent by His Majesty that he knew His Majesty's intentions, and tried his best to weaken Dou's private soldiers and protect the border army.

And outside Wuyuan City, hundreds of miles west of Cloud City, Li Guangzheng, the Taishou of Tianshui County, was looking at the winding Great Wall stretching on the ridge in the distance, his face full of uncertainty. Behind him, the general of the Hu cavalry, Gongsun Xiao, had a straw stalk in the corner of his mouth, lazily playing with the horse whip in his hand. Since the beginning of the battle, Li Guang led 30,000 fine willow cavalry to join Gongsun Xiao's 8,000 Hu cavalry, and stationed here, waiting for each horse to report back to the battle situation at the pass of the Northwest Great Wall.

"Is there a military order coming from the clouds?" Li Guang frowned and asked his personal guard Zeng Quan.

Zeng Quan shook his head helplessly, Li Guangshu asked more than a hundred times, and his anxiety can be imagined. However, in the edict of the Son of Heaven, Li Guang was strictly ordered not to venture, and after crossing the river to the north, he returned to the northern general Zhidu to control it. Although Zhidu is the Taishou of Yanmen, and his grade is equivalent to that of Li Guang, the Taishou of Tianshui, but in wartime, the name of the general of Zhidu's second-grade expedition to the north is a matter of course for him to control the border county Taishou.

Who knew that Zhidu not only did not let Li Guangchi come to the aid of Taiwei Dou Ying, but ordered him to lead his troops to the outside of Wuyuan City, converge with Gongsun Yu, and besiege the Huns in the city, but repeatedly said that the siege was sufficient, and the order could not be reached, and the city could not be attacked. The military orders of the Han Dynasty were like mountains, and even if Li Guang was unwilling, he had no choice but to rush to the outside of Wuyuan City, camp on the spot, and wait for the military orders of Zhidu.

Gongsun Xiao shook his head, loosened some stiff muscles, and comforted: "Li Taishou is not in a hurry, a few days ago, the king of Aries has led more than 10,000 iron horsemen under his command to the west, and only the 7,000 Hun cavalry of the left big household in Wuyuan City will contain us. ”

Li Guang frowned and looked at Gongsun Xiao, wanting to see if he was pretending to be stupid, anyone with a discerning eye knew that the key to the current battle situation was at Captain Dou. The mere Wuyuan City, including the 7,000 Hun Iron Cavalry, is just a small corner of the chess game, and it is hardly worth mentioning.

At this moment, a group of elite horsemen galloped from a distance, and after being identified by the guards cavalry of the Xiliu Battalion, they turned over and dismounted, and slowly walked towards General Li Guangzhu.

The leading young general bowed down and said, "Xiaguan Yulin School Left Supervisor Qi Shan, I have seen Li Taishou, General Gongsun!" ”

Li Guang waved his hand, signaling him not to be polite, then patted him on the shoulder, and praised him loudly: "Sure enough, the hero is a young man, and this official has already heard of it. This time he marched into Heshuo, and he was a pioneer, exploring the way to find the enemy for the army, which can be described as the first achievement! It's just that I don't know what the so-called matter is when Zuo Jian came this time! ”

When Qi Shan heard this, he said: "The lower official has the emperor's order this time, His Majesty issued a secret decree, and asked Li Taishou to lead the generals to quickly enter the account to receive the decree!" ”

When Li Guang and Gongsun heard this, they were shocked. Where do you dare to slack off, when Qi Shan is invited into the big tent, he ordered the guards to gather the generals under his command and quickly gather in the tent. That night, the 30,000 elite cavalry of the Xiliu battalion went west, and Gongsun led 8,000 Hu cavalry to monitor the 7,000 Hun cavalry in Wuyuan. Three days later, 40,000 Yunzhong reinforcements arrived and surrounded Wuyuan City. After the handover of the defense, Gongsun Xiao, who had already been ready to go, led his Hu cavalry to gallop to the northwest and chased Li Guangjun's army.

At this time, Zhidu, the general of Zhengbei who was in the clouds, had already received a message from Qishan's Harrier Eagle, and only then did he learn that His Majesty had issued a secret decree in advance, and Li Guang had rushed to the aid of Taiwei Dou Ying in accordance with the order. Zhi couldn't help but sigh that His Majesty acted unexpectedly, and thought that he would let him control Li Guang, but who knew that the real decisive person was actually a young general who had not yet reached the crown.

In fact, Emperor Jing discussed with the crown prince Liu Che for a long time, and then ordered his personal guards to travel day and night, and sent the secret decree to Qishan, the left supervisor of Yulin, who had just returned from Heshuo, to Shangjun, and ordered him to lead his troops to the Northwest Great Wall Pass to monitor Dou Ying's movements and battle situation at all times. If the battle situation is critical, or Dou Ying ignites the beacon fire, he will ask Li Guang for help with a secret order.

It can be said that Emperor Jing's handing over the secret decree to Qi Shan, a young general who has not yet reached the crown, is a big gamble, betting on his judgment of the situation, and betting on his loyalty to the emperor. If it weren't for Qi Shan's excellent reconnaissance ability and ability to analyze the situation in both Xiqiang and Shuofang, coupled with Liu Che's strong advice, Emperor Jing would definitely not gamble on such a game, but would have passed the secret decree to Zhidu. It's just that Zhidu is far away in the clouds, and he is more than a thousand miles away from Dou Ying, so it is inevitable that the military plane will be delayed. Of course, Emperor Jing's surname was cautious, and those who went with the secret decree were the four dead soldiers on the side of the long-term companion. If Qi Mountain is slightly abnormal, it will inevitably fall to the ground.

I have to say that Emperor Jing's gamble was a near-perfect victory. When Li Guang led the elite cavalry of the Xiliu battalion to rush to help, the thousands of Dou private soldiers who were sent to the city by Dou Ying as soon as possible to defend were already killed and wounded. The Great Wall, which stretches for hundreds of miles, and the fortified cities of dozens of passes, are piled with the corpses of the Huns. Because it was already summer, the battlefield that had not had time to clean up was emitting a foul smell and smelling sick.

The 100,000 border troops, after more than a month of fighting to the death, had less than 50,000 soldiers who could still fight a battle, and most of them were exhausted, their limbs were sore, and their faces were sluggish. They seemed to have forgotten their fears, and they no longer felt disgusted by the bloody scene, but just stood indifferently on the city wall, constantly waving the halberd in their hands, pushing the Huns' siege ladder away, and forking the Huns who attacked the city head down the city and breaking them into meat cakes. Due to the lack of troops, all the soldiers stayed on the city walls, eating, drinking, and lazar on the spot. When the enemy climbed the ladder, it was common for the Han soldiers to grab the feces on the city wall and throw them in the face of the enemy if they had no rolling logs and stones at hand.

And tens of thousands of Hun iron horsemen were also exhausted at this time. For more than a month, the Huns rode and shot tens of millions of arrows consumed every day. The prairie was already short of copper and iron, and after a few days, there were no metal arrows available. In this way, the arrows fired by the cavalry were almost inlethal to the armored Han soldiers on the high wall. Even in the end, the arrows carried were almost all gone, and the Hun cavalry was useless.

The 50,000 iron cavalry on the right side of the Xiongnu outside the city of Guancheng floated in the army's spirit, and the offensive gradually slowed down, and it seemed that there was a plan to withdraw the troops. And the more than 10,000 cavalry of the Aries King in Guancheng had already suffered more than half of the casualties at this time. In his eagerness to capture the Great Wall Pass so that he could join the reinforcements, the King of Aries attacked regardless of casualties, and even had his cavalry dismount and climb the ladder in an attempt to capture the city. Just because he has no way to retreat, Heshuo is already dead, and the 7,000 cavalry of Zuo Dadanghu will definitely not be able to hold the five plains; And Shuofang's King Lou Fu has been firmly nailed to death by the 20,000 elite cavalry of the Han army, and he does not dare to break through the siege and leave the city, and he can't count on it at all.

At this time, the king of Aries no longer expected the reinforcements on the right side of the Xiongnu to recover the land of Heshuo, but only wanted to open the pass in front of him, so that he could escape to the grassland outside the pass, in order to rise again. However, after half a month of strong attack, it still could not shake the Han army. More than 10,000 elite iron horsemen under his command saw thousands of robes fall under the strong wall, and they had already lost their strength and had no intention of fighting.

Just when the king of Aries was at a loss, the patrol rangers came to report, and a large number of Hun cavalry were found in the southeast, no less than 10,000 horsemen, under the banner of the king of Loufu. When the horse returned, it was less than half an hour away. The king of Aries was overjoyed when he heard this, although he didn't know how the king of Lou Fu broke through and asked the Han army to ride on it, but he still excitedly ordered to stop the siege, and all the soldiers returned to the camp to rest, and personally led the generals under his command to meet them.

The soldiers of the Han army on the city wall, seeing the Huns retreating, breathed a sigh of relief, and then collapsed to the ground, and they didn't care about the coldness of the city bricks, closed their eyes and fell asleep. When Taiwei Dou Ying heard the news, his brows furrowed. After many battles, compared with the perfunctory siege of the Xiongnu on the right outside the Guan, the Aries King on the inside of the Great Wall can be said to have tried his best, day and night. Now not only has the siege stopped, but all of them have returned to the camp, which is really weirdly tight.

(Huhu, I'm sorry, a few colleagues went to the house to drink today, I personally cooked a few dishes at noon, drank until more than six o'clock, today can only be more chapters, tomorrow three more compensation, huhu...... ）

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