Chapter 182: Soldiers Descend on the City

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The eight Khitan divisions are Siwandan, Adahe, Gu Fufu, Yu Yuling, Rilian, Pilier, Qi Liushou, and Yuzhenhou, while Dahe Duluo is the eight Khans. With thousands to tens of thousands of strong men in each of the eight Khitan divisions, it would not be a lie if the maximum mobilization of 100,000 was not a lie, even if there was a discount of more than 50,000 at the moment.

Soon after, the news of the appearance of countless Khitan cavalry covering the sky and the sun north of Yuyi Town had reached everyone's ears. The elders of the tribe and the elders of the tribe were like ants on a hot pot, anxiously whirling. Eto, Ying Hefu also looked scorched, but he was more worried about the safety of Yuyi Town than Li Chongjiu. Yuyi Town is not only a city for the people of Murod Xi, but also a nail deeply wedged into the Wuhou Qin water. From Yuyi Town to their ancestral grazing hometown, it can be reached in two days by fast horses, and as long as they occupy this place, the herdsmen of the former Murod Xi Department by the Wuhou Qin River will continue to come here. Once Yuyi Town is lost, for Tong Jin, there will be no city to protect the tribesmen, and once the Khitans come, they will have nowhere to go in the vast grassland.

"What are our odds?" Chengtou Wu Deyun asked Li Chongjiu softly.

Li Chongjiu looked at the clear eyes of Deyun on the side, smiled and patted the back of her hand.

Mu Deyun was a little relieved, and said with wide eyes: "Eminem said that our room has to be Xi, even if we fight to the last soldier, we will not give up here." This Yuyi Town is the only chance for the revival of our Murod Xi Division. ”

Room Deyun's face was full of determination, and Li Chongjiu said: "Of course, a big war is coming in a while, and the danger in this city is very tight, you should follow your people and retreat to the southern valley, where it is safer." ”

"Don't go!" Mu Deyun shook his head resolutely, and said, "Where you are, I will be there." ”

Li Chongjiu's eyes narrowed and he smiled: "Naughty." ”

Mu Deyun said angrily on the side: "I don't know how the Han girl you like, didn't she just accompany you to assassinate Shibi Khan?" And today, the Khitan army of 100,000 is besieging the city, and I want to be here with you the same, and I will not lose to her at all. ”

Li Chongjiu's eyes flickered, and he said with a smile: "It turns out that what you have been caring about is this, this is jealousy." ”

Mu Deyun heard Li Chongjiu snort and said, "Where am I jealous." ”

Li Chongjiu smiled and said no more. And the wolf smoke of the high mountain fort three miles ahead suddenly appeared high and ignited. "Khitans," Mu Deyun grabbed Li Chongjiu's shoulders and said with a look of surprise on his face: "The Khitans came so quickly, I thought they would arrive tomorrow." ”

Li Chongjiu's face sank, and after hearing the news that the Khitan army of 100,000 troops had been dispatched three days ago. Li Chongjiu gave up Jiulian Fort, and instead sent 3,000 people to repair Gaoshan Fort for three consecutive days, and finally repaired the city wall to a height of more than two zhang, completed more than four-fifths of the entire project, and temporarily became the forefront of Dahong City, highlighting in the front.

To this day, these 3,000 people have withdrawn, leaving Murod Peak in the high mountain fort and 600 Xi troops stationed inside. At present, in the high mountain fort, three wolf smoke warnings were sent to Dahong City, indicating that the number of Khitan troops appearing in front was extremely large. Because of the limitation of his line of sight, Li Chongjiu only saw a black line in the distance of the grassland, which went straight through. Undoubtedly, as a frontier mountain fort, Murodefeng is more visually shocked.

"It's nothing to look at, but it's just a forward of the Khitans."

That being said, but only the forward has such a powerful force, if the army gathers, what is the scale, Li Chongjiu walked down the city, his eyes seemed to return to the scene of the beginning of the year Bi Khan outside the Yanmen, with 200,000 Turkic troops pressed the formation, and today he has to face 100,000 Khitan cavalry, how is this life and death?

"Too much to humiliate the royal department, and refuse to send reinforcements to us!" When Ying Hefu saw Li Chongjiu, he was a little disgraced at the moment. If he is willing to come forward to organize, it may not be impossible to unite the five tribes of the Xi people, and they can jointly fight against the encroachment of the Khitans to the west.

"However, Mu Kun Xi sent a thousand cavalry to help us, and he is a good man." Speaking of which, Wang Mahan has a light on his face, and Mu Kun Xi is Li Hu's sworn brother. Of course, when Tong Jin was willing to marry Li Hu, it was because when the Li Family Dart Bureau was selling to Mu Kun Xibu, it happened that Qi Jin's wife was sick, and Doctor Xue happened to accompany him at that time, so he saved Qi Jin's wife. After Dr. Xue saved people, he married Yunyou again, and Tong Jin thanked Li Hu for saving his life, so he married him as brothers. Over the years, Li Hu and the others have gone out of the fortress, and they have also consciously traded with the Mukun Xi Department, so that they can get a large amount of cloth and tea from the Central Plains, so in recent years, the power of the Mukun Xi Department has grown a lot among the five tribes of the Xi Nationality, but it is only temporarily succumbed to the humiliation of the Wang Department. Now knowing that the Khitan is powerful, although the Mukun Xi Department does not dare to mobilize with all its might, it is willing to send a thousand cavalry to reinforce Yuyi Town, which shows the kindness of Qi Jin.

"In addition, Bai Fei, some Xi people, and even a Murwei people have also joined our army, and they all have enmity with the Khitans, especially Bai Fei, like the Xi people, has fought many battles with the Khitan, and has long formed a mortal enmity. There are also many of them, all of whom are friends we have made over the years selling commercial goods in the grassland, and when they heard that the Khitans were coming, they also sent warriors from their clan to support them, so there were also a thousand people. ”

Li Chongjiu nodded, with these two thousand reinforcements, it is not much, but it is only with the help of his father and son who have been operating in the grassland for five years and spreading their contacts widely. For example, the Xi tribe asked for help from the strongest humiliating king of the Xi tribe, hoping that the other party could come to the rescue on the part of the same clan, but under the strength of the Khitan, what kind of love for the same clan, this is just a humiliation.

"With 2,000 troops, our army has a lot of confidence." Wang Mahan waved his fist, showing a bit of domineering. After hearing the news, he was slightly relieved, but the worry on his face did not decrease much.

Li Chongjiu said: "How is Huaihuang Town? Did the Turks plan to invade with the Khitans? ”

Wang Mahan said with a smile: "I haven't found it yet, I heard that the Turkic Shibi Khan has not healed his arrow wound for a year, and he can't even ride a horse, and now his younger brothers and sons are busy competing for the throne, so they have no time to look south to the Central Plains." ”

"This is a good thing, but if the position of the Turkic Khan is decided, it will inevitably invade south, and we must not take Huaihuang Town lightly now, these two thousand reinforcements are all deployed to the east of Huaihuang Town, and we are vigilant against the Turks." Li Chongjiu spoke.

"And what about Yuyi?" Hearing that Li Chongjiu had transferred reinforcements to Huaihuang Town, the female girl of the Xi Department hurriedly said anxiously.

Li Chongjiu turned his eyes to look at the people present, and asked rhetorically: "Do you think the Khitan army of 100,000 is coming, how should we meet it?" ”

After the words were spoken, everyone was silent. Li Chongjiu said: "If it's a field battle? With our army of 10,000 against 100,000 horses, there is no hope of victory, and now we can only rely on the fortified city to hold on, and the decisive battle will be fought under the city. ”

Hearing Li Chongjiu say this, everyone nodded. Li Chongjiu continued: "Now there are only two cities in Yuyi Town, Dahong City and Gaoshan Fort, Gaoshan Fort can garrison 1,000 soldiers, and Dahong City is only 3,000 people. So I decided to defend the two cities with 3,000 men, and then counterattack after the Khitans were blocked and fortified the city. ”

"This is a strategy of defending first and then attacking." Inghefer nodded.

When the night heard the news that the Khitan army was about to besiege the city, all the Xi cavalry withdrew, this time the Xi army made the largest mobilization, dispatched 6,000 people, except for 1,500 people with Li Chongjiu to defend the city, the remaining 4,500 cavalry deployed in the west of the city. In Yuyi Town, Gaoshan Fort has 600 Xi troops stationed, and Dahong City has a regiment of soldiers and 1,000 soldiers, and the rest is Eto's 900 Xi army. Wang Mahan took four regiments of cavalry out of the city and quietly stationed in the valley east of the city, of course, dozens of miles away, there were 1,000 garrisons in Huaihuang Town, and 2,000 reinforcements from various tribes, all of which totaled 11,000 people.

Before the battle, the city was already fully arranged. In the early morning of the next day, the main lineup of the Khitan army appeared outside Dahong City, and it was almost impossible to see the edge at a glance. Li Chongjiu and Etuo, after observing for a long time, believed that although the Khitans claimed to be 100,000 was an imaginary number, they also had 70,000 or 80,000 troops.

The Khitan Khan's White Horse Green Ox Daxu was erected a few miles east of Dahong City and Gaoshan Fort, and now the Khitan Khan wants to use this as a tooth tent. Looking at the top of the city, the city is full of Khitan people with hair, big earrings, and oblique animal skins. Considering that hundreds of years later, when this nation reached its peak, its ruling territory even exceeded that of the Northern Song Dynasty, and later Russians even regarded Khitan as Chinese, and even today China is still the pronunciation of the Khitan word in Russian.

However, at present, the Khitan bandits hundreds of years later, have not yet separated from the clan tribe, and the so-called khan is actually the leader of the alliance jointly elected by the eight tribes. They have no formal military organization, just rely on the call of the various departments to leave the Sumire, and the lower ones are the clans composed of blood relatives and geographical relatives to form an army, and the leaders are not first-class generals and captains, and they only give orders to a few highly respected leaders in the tribe. As for the Khitans, they wore coarsely sewn animal skins, and held hunting bows with horns twisted from rattan skins, and most of the skin bags were arrows made of animal bones and wolf teeth. Except for a few with swords made of meteoric iron, the majority still held bones and veritable maces.

Although poorly equipped and disorganized, the barbarism and bravery of the uncivilized people were enough to make up for it, not to mention that the Khitans were a '100,000' army.