PS: The argument is misleading

Volume II, Chapter 34

At noon the day before Fu Hongzhi was scheduled to return to the Xianyang camp, the news that Helian Bobo led his army south reached Chang'an. Liu Yizhen convened the generals overnight, and a group of people quarreled from after lunch to the palm lamp, and they did not decide how to deal with the enemy.

At this time last year, Helian Bobo landed from both the east and north directions. The East Group was commanded by Wang Maide, which was intended to cut off the communication between Jiangdong and Chang'an, resulting in the trend of closing the door and catching turtles; The Northern Group was commanded by Helian Bi, intending to destroy the main force of the Jin army and take advantage of the victory to capture Chang'an. Due to the heavy losses suffered by Helian and the widow in Chiyang, and one branch of the pincer offensive was broken, Wang Maide was deeply afraid that the Jin army would take advantage of the victory to turn right and attack him, so he took the initiative to retreat to the territory of Great Xia.

This year the Huns did not follow the old path. Going from Chang'an to the east, the important places were not shocked, and not even a single horsehair of the Huns was seen. Helian Bobo's three spearheads, all pressed from north to south, and their sharp edges pointed directly at Chang'an, as if they were going to use four or five hundred thousand horses' hooves to kick down the north-facing city wall of Chang'an.

The command level of the Chang'an Jin Army was divided into three factions.

Fu Hongzhi's representative took the initiative to attack. He advocated adopting the evil plan of Wang Zhen, which was attempted last year, and sent a combination of cavalry and chariot cavalry to infiltrate the territory of Great Xia in reverse, threatening Tongwan in a false way, but in fact cutting off the enemy's grain route. Helian Bobo led the elite soldiers south, there were flaws in the rear, the bigger the ranger of the rangers, the more ruthless the killing and arson, the greater the pressure on Bobo. At the same time, the infantry was in a deep ditch and high fort on the first line of Xianyang, and engaged in a protracted confrontation with the Xia army. When Helian Bobo had to retreat due to the shortage of food and grass and panic in the rear, the infantry chased after him, and the rangers attacked him on the flank. Even if we can't win as much as last year, we can still attack and defend. Make sure Chang'an is safe. In Fu Hongzhi's view, as long as he can thwart Helian Bobo's main force. Chang'an is safe; If you can't hit him, then Chang'an will be a city of mixed gold, and using boiling water as a moat will sooner or later be in someone's pocket.

Liu Yizhen represented the Chang'an faction. He didn't think deeply, he only clung to one thing: If you take all the soldiers away, who will protect me in Chang'an? Chang'an is not a small fortress, and even the city wall is not satisfied with the lack of people. If you are entangled by one Xia army outside, and the other is free to attack Chang'an, what will I do?

Mao Xiuzhi is the third faction. He felt that Fu Hongzhi was too risky and Liu Yizhen was too conservative. In his opinion. The Jin army was less numerous than the Xia army, and the infantry and cavalry were mixed, so they could not be compared with the pure cavalry of the Great Xia. Field warfare is not conducive to our army, so it is necessary to use the fortified city of Chang'an to consume the enemy; But it can't be purely defensive, and it is still necessary to form a corps outside the city to counterattack the Xia soldiers, but it can't be inserted too far from Chang'an as Fu Hongzhi said. Since the Huns did not control the road to the east, they could just use this passage to wait for reinforcements from Jiangdong. The defenders of Chang'an took advantage of the city's strong food and long-lasting consumption of Xia soldiers. When the time comes, the inside and the outside should be combined, and it is a matter of course to break the enemy.

There are also people who think they are clever and say that we can use the Wei River to stop the Xia soldiers. The person next to him said that it would be better if it was summer, but now there is ice on the river. The Huns came over as soon as they raised their legs, what kind of blocking method did you have? The man said that we could send troops to cut the ice on the south bank, and that it would only take a strip of broken ice to flow one foot wide. The horses won't be able to come.

There are still people applauding!

Chen Song said that the ice layer of the Weihe River is at least three feet tall, and it takes a lot of effort to chisel it open! It's so cold again. Unless you're chiseling every moment, it must be freshly chiseled and frozen. Besides. The Wei River is so long, and it can't stop people at all. If the chisel is long, how many soldiers and men will you have to send!

This argument disappeared in a laugh, and there are still different opinions on how to break the enemy. The opinions of either faction will be attacked by the other two factions at the same time, and no one can absolutely control the field. In the middle of the night, Liu Yizhen came to the child's temper and said that he wanted to sleep and no one should disturb him. Flicked his sleeves and went to the back hall, leaving a cadre to look at each other. The Supreme Commander picked a pick, no matter how good the trick is, no one will make a decision, although they all know that the military situation is urgent, and everyone can only find a place to rest. Fu Hongzhi didn't feel sleepy, and found Mao Xiuzhi and then blended. They have realized that their disagreement is a disagreement on how far to go, and the disagreement between them and Liu Yizhen is a disagreement on whether to go out. If they can't convince Liu Yizhen, they don't want to step out, no matter how far or near they are. In the end, the two each took a step back and reached a consensus: the rangers would not go to Great Xia, and after strengthening their troops, they would guard the Xianyang line, and Chang'an would become a horn, and threaten the retreat and grain route of the Xia army.

Liu Yizhen woke up and found that Fu and Mao were already offensive and defensive allies, and he suddenly felt lonely. Hearing that the two of them said that they would draw some troops from Chang'an to strengthen the mobile corps outside Chang'an, they shook their heads vigorously. Since you all agree to be both offensive and defensive, then I won't say anything, but none of Chang'an's soldiers can be given; On the Xianyang side, just rely on the existing forces to deal with it.

Seeing this situation, Fu Hongzhi knew that it was impossible to move Liu Yizhen again, and the time was urgent, so he didn't want to throw another penny, so he got up and said that if this was the case, he would go to Xianyang immediately to make arrangements. He took Chen Song and Guo Xu and left Chang'an immediately. Mao Xiuzhi felt that the shape was sinister at this time, and it would be bad to blindly coax Liu Yizhen to be happy, and he wanted to help Fu Hong, but he couldn't disobey Liu Yizhen's military order, so he made a small move to lend a hand. He can't send the veterans under his command, but he can hand over the newly recruited 1,000 children of the upper reaches of Longshang to Fu Hongzhi. Even if you can't go into battle to kill the enemy immediately, it's still very effective to help build a camp.

Fu, Chen, and Guo walked out less than three miles with a thousand recruits, and Liu Yizhen sent people to catch up and ask the three to return to Chang'an immediately. The three of them didn't get the gist and couldn't ignore it, so they had to come back. Chen Song had a little more heart, and Fu Hongzhi left the recruits outside the city and let the soldiers continue to hurry.

Liu Yizhen was reluctantly persuaded by Fu Hongzhi and Mao Xiuzhi, but his heart was extremely cowardly. Fu Hongzhi broke into the Assassin's Mansion to rescue Chen Song and Guo Xu, which made him deeply aware that people still regarded him as a child in their bones, and he really made concessions in the way of a child. Thinking about it carefully, it was Fu Hongzhi who became a good person in the end, and he ended up being a villain. Without his order, Fu Hongzhi couldn't take people away no matter how fierce he was, but as the highest military and political governor in Guanzhong, he didn't know how to use his power. In the end, he retreated in such an ugly posture, and there was no prestige. There is no encouragement of kindness, neither goodness. and disobedience.

At this time, the aftermath was not settled, and Fu Hongzhi openly challenged his authority, and even Mao Xiuzhi boarded his thief ship. After Fu Hongzhi left, the more he thought about it, the more he held his breath, feeling that deploying troops like this was equivalent to admitting in front of all the generals that he was a war layman, a hairy child wearing a huge official hat and not dry. In the long run, the old oilmen of Beifu Bing all listened to the military leader. Who would take him, the supreme commander, in his eyes. He called Mao Xiuzhi over and scolded him bloodily. When the latter understood what he meant, he was annoyed and amused, but he also saw that if he could not save face, he was afraid that he would not be able to take off his little shoes for a while, so he used a little trick and came up with a harmless idea.

When Fu Hongzhi returned to the Assassin's Mansion, Liu Yizhen had already set up a formation in front of the mansion, and announced that Fu Hongzhi was not only the commander of the Xianyang camp. Moreover, to control the defenders of Chang'an, the Jin armies of the two places must echo and coordinate under the command of Fu Hongzhi; At the same time, he gave his sword to Fu Hongzhi, who could monopolize the officers below the lord of the generals. Following the ceremony, Liu Yizhen explained the combat strategy to the officers and men. Quietly turned this strategy into his own idea. Those officers and soldiers who did not participate in the deliberations of the Assassin's Mansion could not but reciprocate their ardent praise when they saw that although the Assassin was young, he was sober-minded and well versed in the way of using troops. Liu Yizhen did enough to make a scene and regain face. Only then did Fu Hongzhi go. Mao Xiuzhi saw that his mood was bright, and took the opportunity to tell him about the recruits. thought that he would be a favor, but Liu Yizhen was anxious when he heard it. Xianyang needs to repair the barracks. Doesn't Chang'an need manpower? No way! Call them back!

Fu Hongzhi was fiddled with by Liu Yizhen, and he could see that his little Jiujiu had already held his stomach, and he was about to squirt out at this time. Guo Xu interjected on the side, saying that we let these people go first, and it is estimated that it will be ten miles away from going out now, so don't let them turn around. Liu Yizhen's vision of this "brother-in-law" is different from the past, and he is quite reluctant to pretend to be colored, so he bluntly said Isn't it just to grind off a little more soles, and call me back immediately! Fu Hongzhi couldn't bear it anymore, took off Liu Yizhen's sword, poked it into the latter's arms, and took off the helmet with one hand:

"Since Lord Assassin Shi is so stubborn, then Fu Hongzhi doesn't want anything, please choose another good general!"

Liu Yizhen didn't expect Fu Hongzhi to come to this hand, and instantly realized that if he really offended Fu Hongzhi because of his stinginess with troops, after the latter resigned, he really couldn't find a future of his magnitude to calm Guanzhong. He smiled awkwardly and said that since the general had these soldiers, he would take them away and not have to recall them. Mao Xiuzhi played a round on the side, saying that we still have time to recruit some more. Fu Hongzhi's face was like frost, and he didn't give a salute, turned around and got on the horse and left.

The three of them caught up with a thousand recruits, went to Xianyang with a heavy heart, and when they walked for three hours to rest, the distant horizon was dusty. Fu Hongzhi sent a few personal soldiers to investigate, and after a while, the personal soldiers ran back to restore their lives, saying that the people from the Xianyang camp had withdrawn. The three of them were taken aback, they didn't care about the recruits, they rode up to meet them, and sure enough, they saw Hu Luzheng and Xu Zhihao running at the front of the team.

Just when the three parties of the Assassin Mansion were at a standoff, Yao Anbao had already taken advantage of the night to touch the Xianyang camp ten miles away. Yao Zhanbao reconnoitred the Jin army in Guanzhong many times, figured out their scout rules, secretly made the flag of the Jin army, and this time arranged the pockets, and took advantage of the opportunity for a small group of Jin army patrols to dismount and roast the fire, a surprise attack, and captured them all. After getting the information he wanted, he selected soldiers who were fluent in Chinese to pretend to be the Jin army, and took a team of men and horses to the north gate of Xianyang City with a swagger, and told the officers and soldiers guarding the gate that the Huns were moving, and the battalion sent people to strengthen the city defense. The guard took a torch and took a photo, and found that the people who started the head were all in the armor and uniform of the Jin army, and the color of the flag and the emblem were not wrong, and then interrogated, and found that not only the password of the night was correct, but also the names and ages of the heads of each building and team were all clear, and they knew that there was indeed a statement that the city was strengthened, so they ordered the door to open the door to welcome guests.

What followed was a short battle without suspense, and the city of Xianyang was held tightly by the Huns within an hour.

In this way, the flying cavalry, hussars and infantry were sandwiched between the main force of the Xiongnu and the city of Xianyang. Taking advantage of the fact that the camp was unaware of the fall of Xianyang, Yao Annihilation Leopard wanted to take it in one go. If the Jin army in the camp had the same four high walls as Xianyang City, they might have been more relaxed, and Yao had a much better chance of winning the leopard, but it was precisely because of the rammed earth wall that was only one zhang high, a ten-step-wide tribulus belt and a trench without water, that the camp was extremely heavily guarded, especially at night. Inside and out, there are bright whistles and dark whistles.

After learning the news of the Huns' dispatch of troops, the whole army was put under martial law. At night, people do not unsheath their armor, and horses do not unsaddle them. Officers and men carried three days' rations with them. At night, the Huns' spearhead pretended to be a scout and came all the way, and when they reached a mile from the camp, they were stopped by a sentry emerging from the grass. The fake scout gave the order, and while the sentry relaxed, he slashed his throat with a knife. Of course, they didn't know that this qiē was clearly seen by a secret sentry not far away. The latter knew that he would be exposed if he called the police, but he resolutely fired an arrow, and then fired several arrows at the place where the torch was, and drew his saber to meet the enemy. After taking down a Hun man, he was instantly chopped into a pulp.

The Huns failed to sneak up and changed to a strong attack, but they were greeted by huge clusters of arrows and terrible whirring sounds from the hard crossbows on the wall, these sharp weapons were like ghosts in the night, and each blow could pierce several people. You can hear the hurried military orders and miscellaneous footsteps in the Jin army's camp, as well as the neighing of herds of horses, but the Jin army just deliberately did not turn on the lights, so that the enemy could not tell how many troops they had. The defenders, trained in night fighting, threw torches in front. At the moment of illuminating the incoming enemy, it also poured out the rain of arrows.

Yao Zhanbao didn't want to fall into a death battle with the Jin army too early, and he wanted to keep his troops to take Chang'an City. Now that Xianyang is already in his hands, he can completely leave this hard bone of the Jin army. Leave it to Helian Bobo, who follows up. And if he is correct, Bo Bo will also bypass. Once Chang'an falls, the Jin army that can fight again will be a lonely ghost without support. Without beating, he fled to the gate. At that point, it would be very cost-effective to follow behind and kill. Tonight, he can sleep well in Xianyang City. Wait for the soldiers to recuperate enough, and then march to Chang'an calmly. The only one who really wants to kill is Helian Xuan, who is bent on revenge, and he can't see his father's abacus at all, and he doesn't see a big future. This time to the south, the reason why Helian Bobo did not block the road for the Jin army to return to the east was that the Han people called "besiege the division must be que, and return to the division must not be stopped", if Liu Yizhen is smart, it is best not to fall in love with the war and slip away quickly, leaving an undefended Chang'an to Helian Bobo, so that there are fewer deaths on both sides. Since Dafang Strategy intends to promote change with pressure, why should he compete with these difficult Jin troops?

Just as he was about to give the order, the soldiers ran to report that the two cavalry of the Jin army had come out from behind the camp and had spread their wings to outflank them. Yao Zhanbao has learned how hard the Jin army fights to the death, knowing that he does not occupy the land, and he does not occupy the sky in the dark night, the cavalry cannot gallop vertically and horizontally, if he is entangled by the cavalry on the two wings of the opponent, and then cut by the infantry in the middle, he is afraid that the first battle of the army will be defeated. Nai ordered Mingjin, and the whole army quickly withdrew from the range of the Jin archers, and with a roar, returned to Xianyang City.

At dawn, Hu Luzheng and Xu Zhihao led people to clean up the battlefield, found a living person in the pile of Hun corpses, brought back to heal and interrogate, only to know that the Huns came 50,000 people, last night this army of 20,000 people under the command of Yao Zhanbao, Xianyang has been lost. Fu Hongzhi couldn't come back for a long time, Chen Song and Guo Xu's whereabouts were unknown, and it would be a big danger for the army to stay for a moment. As soon as several people met, they decided to immediately abandon the big camp and form a formation to move south towards Chang'an.

The cavalry was on the two flanks, and the chariots were in two columns, protecting the infantry in the innermost. Hu Luzheng led five hundred elite cavalry, deliberately hanging far behind, ready to block the pursuers at any time and cover the main force to escape. The army burned the grain and straw, took only the dry food with it, and forcibly marched down.

There was no one in the way or catching up.

Yao Zhanbao had already judged that the Jin army would inevitably abandon the camp and go south, so he sent someone to follow him from a distance. The scout came back and described the retreating formation of the Jin army, Yao Zhanbao estimated it, knowing that he couldn't eat the opponent, unless he wanted to consume his strength hard, and finally crippled himself, and no longer had the strength to go to Chang'an to pick peaches, and spent a lot of effort to marry Helian Xuan. If you want to go, let them go, if they are all nested in Chang'an, it will be easy to deal with, and you won't have to go around to find them in a decisive battle!

When Fu Hongzhi learned the reason, he couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh.

If it weren't for the delay of so much time in Chang'an, he could have completed the deployment of the Xianyang frontline, the troops that should have been sent out, the soldiers who should have been left nailed to death, and the fortified camp that should have been strengthened would not have been so easily defeated. Now it is unrealistic to fight back and seize Xianyang, and it is possible to flank the Huns by finding a place to the east, but the eastern passes are too far away from Chang'an, and it is difficult to support each other in a hurry; If the troops remained outside Chang'an City, they would not have a strong fortified area and would not be able to withstand heavy attacks. After thinking about it, the only way to do this was to bring the army into Chang'an City first, and then discuss how to break the enemy.

Liu Yizhen almost got carried away. The battle situation slapped those who opposed his idea, proving that the only way to do this was to hold on to Chang'an, and he could finally sit on a large army. Make sure you have no worries. The next meeting brought out the double shelf of the governor and the assassin. Rejected any Jianyi who sent troops out of Chang'an, and re-established the command of the Chang'an army without saying anything. took advantage of the situation to deprive Fu Hong of the title of commander-in-chief of the front line, and designated him to be in charge of the defense of the north of Chang'an City, and there were people on each of the other three sides. Fu Hongzhi said that Helian Bobo is not a layman, if he attacks the city, he will not only attack one side so that we can deal with it calmly, it is bound to force the city on all sides, and there must be a unified person in the city to give orders. This is irrefutable, Liu Yizhen thought about it and said that Mao Xiuzhi should command it in a unified manner. Anyway, he is Sima, and he has an unshirkable responsibility. Mao Xiuzhi knew that he was okay in the field, but he was not good at defending the city, so he immediately resolutely refused, and built Fu Hongzhi to be the governor of the city. It is a matter of Chang'an's survival, the generals no longer play selfishly, and unanimously recommend Fu Hongzhi to take charge of the three armies, Liu Yizhen saw that everyone was like this, so he had to go against his will to make a letter of appointment.

Fu Hongzhi immediately proposed that he should immediately ask Song Gong for reinforcements. The real idea in his heart was to ask Liu Yu to quickly send a capable adult. Don't let this furry kid get in the way anymore. Although he didn't know what to say, Liu Yizhen had already felt it, and agreed with a gloomy face, and then excused himself to be tired. Interested, I went to the back.

The armies immediately assigned tasks to strengthen the city defenses, ready to smash the rolling logs and stones on the heads of the besieging enemy. I was nervous for several days, and I didn't even see the shadow of the Huns. Everyone can't help but feel a little relaxed. In the evening, Chen Song called Guo Xu, Hu Luzheng and Xu Zhihao and found a tavern near the defense area. The brothers drank for a long time. If it weren't for God's willing, men and women would do their best. Maybe Chen Song and Guo Xu are still in prison now, or even not in the world at all, everyone is toasted again, and there is infinite melancholy. The tavern is near the north gate, and the sound of the city watchman can be heard very clearly. Chen Song listened sideways for a while, put down the wine glass and sat up straight:

"Don't blame me for ruining my fun, I think we'll have it for today. After all, it's wartime, and if we really get drunk, the soldiers don't look good, and it's even worse for the superiors to know. ”

After a little groaning, he added:

"Now people are looking at us unpleasantly."

They are all people who understand, everyone picked up the bowl and touched it, saying that they would drink it after a while.

Several of them walked out of each other's arms, and after walking a few steps, Chen Song said I want to pee. Hu Luzheng said that they should be sprinkled, so let's go and sprinkle together. A few people were suddenly in a good mood, as if they were playing a prank, and found a small alley not far away, and the four of them washed the wall roots together. It was dark, they didn't notice that there was a window in the wall, and when the window was opened, someone held a candlestick and looked out, and saw a few old men so indecent under the window of his house, and raised their voices and cursed. Chen Song smiled and said I'm sorry, I won't be like this in the future. But the man did not give up, and leaned out and scolded even more fiercely. Hu Luzheng was angry, and was about to reach out to pull the man's neck, but was stopped by Chen Song. He reached out sharply, snatched the candlestick from the master's hand, and held it high above his head.

The light wasn't bright enough, but it was enough to see clearly: there was a long cart parked in the alley, and it seemed to be filled with firewood and dead branches.

Chen Song smiled and said to Guo Xu, what's wrong with the two of us? I always bump into firewood sellers at night.

Guo Xu also smiled, then you don't have to do it all today, my family's firewood is estimated to be not used up in three winters.

The owner scolded Chen Song and asked Chen Song to return the candlestick, Chen Song ignored him, took two steps forward with the candlestick, and several shadows appeared on and off the car. Chen Song put his foot on the wheel:

"You sell firewood? Come from Xianyang. ”

In the dim light, a person said that we came from Xianyang to sell firewood, and the Huns checked tightly on the way, delayed the hour, and it was already late to Chang'an, so we had to wait for tomorrow to sell it.

Chen Song said how cold it is for cats here, it just so happens that we need torches to defend the city, and what we lack is firewood, you go to the camp with me, and we will buy them all. By the way, how much does your car cost?

The other party hesitated, turned around and stabbed a person behind him, who said that it was all good firewood, 300 wen a car.

Chen Song was taken aback. Everyone sells it for 100 Wen, whether your firewood is inlaid with gold or can be eaten as meat, it costs 300 Wen! Give a real price, and the camp will ask for it all.

As he spoke, he took a step forward and reached out to draw firewood from the car. As soon as his hand touched the car, the people stepped up and protected the car with their bodies, as if Chen Song wanted to rob them of their things for nothing.

Chen Song was stunned for a moment, and then sneered, saying Look at your posture, it seems that you are selling children. That's it, since we can't talk about it, I don't want it either. Keep it for tomorrow and sell it.

After speaking, he turned around to leave, and his body shook. The candlestick let go and landed high on the woodcart beside him. The wax from the candlestick dripped on the top dead branches. A fire immediately burst out, and the man in the car hurriedly tried to put it out, but in an instant, the flames rose high, and the smell of burning grease came to his nose. It turned out that the dry branches and firewood were filled with grease. The branches and grass on the car were suddenly pushed open, and two or three people jumped out of the car screaming with flames on their hats.

Chen Song had already pulled out his saber to cut the person in front of him, but unexpectedly, the figure was very fast, and he dodged in a flash. A cat waist pulled out a scimitar from under the car body, and slashed at Chen Song with a glow in the light of the flames. The latter parried and shouted over and over again:

"Go and call someone, go and call someone, there are Hun spies!"

Xu Zhihao was at the rear, and immediately ran to the north gate at this time, and shouted to the soldiers who were napping in the city gate, and the soldiers picked up the gong and struck it violently, and in a blink of an eye, the soldiers came out of the city wall. Xu Zhihao led them to the alley.

At this time, Chen Song, Guo Xu and Hu Luzheng had been forced out of the alley. There were only three of them, but there were about forty enemies inside and outside the car, and they were not Huns, but Han Chinese who grew up on the Hun steppe. Otherwise, you won't get past the level. At this moment, they rushed over with a burning car, and the Chen Song brothers could only retreat. When I arrived in the open field, the shape shì was already clear. The Jin soldiers who came from all directions surrounded this small force. At this time, someone led the horse over, and Chen Song got on the horse. Relieved, he shouted for these people to surrender.

The spy who led the team stood in a car. gave an order to his subordinates in the Xiongnu dialect, and these people immediately formed a small formation, burst out with a shout, pushed the leader's command car, rushed towards the south of the city, and in a blink of an eye, they were in a scuffle with the Jin soldiers. At this time, Chen Song discovered that these were definitely not ordinary soldiers, but dead soldiers who were fierce and flexible in combat. They were very nimble in their fighting, with long and short weapons, some firing arrows, some using scimitars, some using long sticks with sharpened heads, and most surprisingly, some using lassoscopes. Three or five sets of horse poles were unable to prevent it, and they dragged the Jin soldiers by the necks and dragged them to their front, and the scimitar hand was killed with a knife. They screamed, jumped, laughed and rushed south, and people kept falling, but each one had pulled at least five or six pads.

Chen Song ordered loudly and asked someone to quickly mobilize the archers.

The enemy doesn't need to hear him to know what to do. They tightly wrapped around the Jin infantry, not giving them a chance to escape.

Chen Song quickly judged this qiē. Xianyang had already been occupied by the Huns, and they would never be so stupid as to watch the locals bring firewood to Chang'an. Ordinary firewood sellers, when they heard that someone wanted to get it all, they wanted to get rid of it immediately, but these people deliberately gave a high price, making it clear that they were unwilling to go to the army, because that could only be self-defeating.

Chen Song could imagine how these people hid people in the pyre and mixed into the city, but he didn't understand what they were going to do when they entered the city, if they were purely spies, they would have dispersed long ago and mixed in the sea of people in Chang'an City, and they could even take the opportunity to recruit new soldiers to swagger into the barracks. What exactly do they want to do in the alley near the north gate?

North Gate!

A bolt of lightning flashed over my mind.

At this moment, the brigade near the north gate has been led away by these dozens of enemy dead soldiers, a full two miles away.

Chen Song shouted to follow me, turned his horse's head and rushed towards the north gate.

Behind him, a low bull's horn suddenly sounded.

He didn't need to look back to know that it was the signal sent by the person in the car, and almost at the same time, dozens of people who rushed out from nowhere held torches high, each with a crossbow in hand, accurately shot the Jin army in front of him, and rushed to the north gate in a blink of an eye. A team fought against the horse wall to seize the winch of the drawbridge and the jack gate; The other team rushed into the gate and went to open the bolt.

At the same time, a succession of trumpets and drums sounded outside the door.

There was no need for Chen Song's orders, and his brothers would have understood what that meant. The officers overtook Chen Song on horseback, and threw all the lances and swords in their hands as they approached, and the soldiers ran as fast as they could in their lives, shouting and rushing to the horse road and the city gate. The dead Huns who had not been stabbed by the flying weapons formed a human wall with crossbows, shot the officers with their bare hands off their horses, and covered their men to open the city gates. Some of them were hit by arrows, and finally they pounced on the archers from their horses, knocking them to the ground. But the Hun dead soldiers were divided into two rows, the front row was shot to the back row to load the arrows, the rain of arrows seemed to never stop, and the dead Jin officers and soldiers were strewn at the gate of the city, making their comrades more staggering and easier to be shot. Amid the whistling of arrows and the roars of Jin officers and soldiers, a huge sound rang out, the sound of the heavy city gate being pushed open. Immediately, outside the city, there was a vast burst of cheers and shouts of killing.

As soon as another group of Xiongnu dead soldiers boarded the horse road, the Jin soldiers on the city wall began to race with them, and the soldiers who ran to the gate of the city tower first did not have bows and arrows, they surrounded the winch, and were all shot by the Xiongnu dead soldiers with beaded crossbows. The latter immediately put away the jack gate and cut the suspension bridge cable. The moat is frozen and can be crossed on foot, but it is bound to slip a lot of horses, and it would be much better to lower the drawbridge. Without the jack gate, the city gate is just an ornament. They completed the task of this exercise many times, and stood guard on the castle tower with a mortal heart.

The dead soldiers in the city have all been annihilated, their corpses have been thrown all the way, and the corpses of the Jin army have accompanied them all the way.

Chen Song's scalp was numb, and his whole body was sweating. After being in the army for so many years, it is not uncommon to encounter a situation, but it is not as heart-wrenching as tonight. He ordered the infantry to withdraw and commanded a brigade of archers to fire arrows from a distance into the hole in the city gate. Although the crossbow of the Xiongnu dead soldiers could be fired continuously, the range was short, and they were helpless in front of the longbow. After two volleys, there was not a single living person among the dead Huns above and below the city.

Outside the city, the Huns' spearhead had already rushed into the city gate. They wore shields and cats on their waists, touching them inch by inch. As soon as they had the opportunity to get close to rushing in front of them, the archers could only be slaughtered, and the cavalry that followed them could slaughter the city.

Chen Song roared angrily, holding a sword in one hand and pulling a lance from the soldier's hand with the other, ready to dismount and slash the enemy. At this moment, he heard the voices of Guo Xu and Xu Zhihao behind him:

"Big brother, get out of the way!"

The tacit understanding formed over the years made Chen Song not have to look back, he took the horse to the left, hid by the city gate, and almost at the same time saw Guo and Xu pushing two burning firewood carts and rushing into the city gate hole side by side. The car tripped over the corpses of the fallen brothers, and a group of brothers rushed up to push it, and the car, like a burning tiger of fire, jumped over the obstacle at once, crashing into the stunned Hun soldiers. Before the soldiers at the front could turn around, they were knocked to the ground, and their bodies on fire were run over by the huge wheels. The rest of the people let out a terrible scream and turned and fled out of the city gates.

The brothers did the same, turning all the firewood carts that the Huns had mixed into the city into an impassable wall of fire. They swung in a burning arc and curled against the gates, as if the flames were about to reach the sky. The Huns, who were crowded between the drawbridge and the city gate, were all red, and the wind blew the scorching flames at them, forcing them to retreat. Unwilling to let the cooked duck fly away, the captain brandished his scimitar and ordered his men to move the car out of the way. A few brave Huns tried to do so, but they were clear targets in front of huge torches made of dry firewood. Hu Luzheng stood at the head of the city, calmly, with one arrow and one life, until the Huns under the city did not dare to cross the drawbridge for half a step for a long time.

The gates were bolted again.

The jack gate has fallen.

The walls were filled with guards with bows and blades.

Fu Hongzhi had already heard the news and rushed to order the heads of the dead Huns to be cut off and hung outside the battlements.

The night was not the time to attack the city, and the Hun brigade failed to capture the gate, and no longer stayed, and withdrew in a queue in a trumpet.

In the dark, Helian looked at the torches and shining weapons on Chang'an City, and smiled coldly.

Yes, the surprise attack didn't succeed, but who's to say it wasn't a clever design?

When Yao Zhanbao was still in Xianyang, his Helian people had already stepped into Chang'an. Although the knife broke in a small trial, he was already convinced of his ability to control the next slaughter.

Don't worry, Chang'an is a ripe fruit, about to fall into his hands with the fragrance of victory. (To be continued......)