Chapter 61: The Battle of Guishan

The eyes of everyone in the city were focused on Liu Ze, to see if he relied on yesterday's Yu Yong to kill the city and kill the Huns without leaving a piece of armor.

Liu Ze smiled slightly, although yesterday's success was not a fluke, but it could not be replicated, in the face of layers of dense Hun battle formations, now the probability of winning out of the city to meet the enemy is zero, unless his brain is in the water, he will think of competing with the Hun cavalry in the field. If you want to defend against the formidable Hun cavalry, only a strong city wall can do it.

Liu Ze showed a mocking smile to the Xiongnu Zuoxian King, who was constantly scolding under the city, and ordered the four gates of the city to be closed, and no one was allowed to go out of the city to face the battle, and the defensive army on the city wall entered a combat state.

King Zuo Xian shouted and cursed under the city for a while, his mouth was dry, and no one in the city answered, so he was even more angry, and ordered the army to attack the city immediately. The Huns abandoned their horses, carried the ladders, pushed the carts, and rushed towards Guishan City with shouts.

Liu Ze was not idle in this half a year, in addition to transporting a large number of stones to build the city wall three feet high, but also set up a wide pit under the city wall, digging deep trenches, rejecting horses, deer and other fortifications, and these facilities were not the same as the original Guishan City, no wonder it was difficult for the Western Regions to resist the attack of the Huns, and their city defense technology was at least five hundred years behind the Han Dynasty.

Before the Huns attacked the trench, many people had fallen into the pit, which was densely covered with sharpened wooden sticks, and once the Huns fell in, their bodies were immediately pierced into transparent holes, and the screams continued.

The horses and deer in front of the trench were densely covered, although they were mainly to defend against the attack of the cavalry, but they also caused great obstacles to the advance of the infantry, and King Zuoxian ordered the infantry to remove these horses and deer, but the lower end of the horse and the deer were buried deep in the sand, and if you want to move, you must first take away the sand at the lower end, and it takes tools and time to take the soil. But this area is just within the effective range of the bow and arrow on the city, as soon as the Hun soldiers approached the horse and the deer, the city was already raining arrows, and the Hun soldiers with only cowhide armor on their bodies were attacked by the rain of arrows, and there were countless casualties when they landed.

King Zuo Xian immediately ordered the archers to counterattack and cover the advance of the infantry, but most of the arrows shot by the Huns had fallen before they reached the battlements, and occasionally a few arrows could be shot on the city wall, but they had lost their strength and could not pose any threat to the defenders of the city.

The distance of these fortifications, Liu Ze has been measured and practiced many times, within the same bow and arrow distance, the arrows shot from the city can just cover this area and form an effective blow, while the arrow from the city to the city is difficult to effectively shoot to the city due to gravity. At this time, Liu Ze ordered free shooting, as long as the Hun soldiers in front of the trench became a live target, there was no power to fight back, and after leaving hundreds of corpses, the wolf retreated.

The first wave of the Huns' attack was repulsed, and the confidence of the coalition forces defending the city exploded, and the morale of the people was high. King Zuo Xian was furious, whipped the retreating Hun soldiers, gathered men and horses again, and attacked the city.

This time, most of the Huns chose the way of the wooden shield on their heads to resist the rain of arrows in the city, the wooden shield was very large, and it could cover several of them, but everyone had to hold the wooden shield with their hands, and their vision was blocked and they moved slowly.

Zhang Fei looked at the city and laughed: "Hey, look, don't those Hun soldiers crawl there with a turtle shell?" ”

As soon as he spoke, the people around him immediately burst into laughter. But no, who has ever seen the Huns cower forward like this, that time it was not riding a tall horse, whistling, like a gale, killing a life on the way forward, but under Liu Ze's fortifications, they could only move forward in this almost ridiculous way.

But even if the damage caused by the rain of arrows in the city was greatly reduced, many Hun soldiers swarmed up, the back squeezed the front, and the front faced the tall rejection horse and could not pass, and was squeezed and carried by the back, many people were squeezed to the sharp front end of the rejection horse, and were instantly pierced into the body, and the blood stained the rejection horse red. The Hun soldiers who crawled through the horses on the corpse were helpless in the face of a trench several zhang wide, and the dense arrows could always find an opportunity to hunt down the Huns one by one through the gaps.

After four or five rounds of impact, after filling the trench with corpses, the Huns had the opportunity to erect the ladder on the city wall and launched an attack on Guishan City. But at this time, the rain of arrows was more intensive, and the huge rolling logs and stones that roared down from the city wall were even more terrifying, and the Hun soldiers under the city were like ants, their lives were as fragile as straw, and they were vulnerable in the face of strong defenses. When night fell, the Huns were forced to retreat, and the remaining corpses were innumerable, lying there untouched.

Hudunshan's arrogant heart was greatly stimulated, and the next day he personally led his army to launch a fierce siege battle, and the battle once entered a white heat, and the swarming Huns did bring great difficulties to the defense of Guishan. Under the command of Liu Ze, the armies of all ethnic groups were united in their efforts to defend the city to the death, repelling the Huns' attacks again and again. In the face of the increasingly strong defenders, Hudun Shan Yu was also helpless, he did not understand why the always weak army of the Western Regions had become so tenacious, and his army had paid such a heavy price but was always trapped under the city and could not move forward.

For three days, after paying tens of thousands of lives, the Xiongnu also understood that they could not take Guishan City by attacking alone, so they retreated slightly and used the siege of the city on all sides to carry out siege warfare, trying to use a long encirclement to break the fighting spirit of the defenders and force the defenders to surrender.

Due to the unprecedentedly fierce battle, the casualties of the army defending the city were not small, after the Huns retreated, all the people were relieved, Liu Ze ordered to treat the wounded on the one hand, and ordered to strengthen the vigilance on the other hand, and his eyes were cast on the dark mountains in the east.

The men and horses led by Guan Yu were secretly moving forward on the rugged mountain road leading to Jiya Mountain. In order to avoid the Hun brigade on the main road, Guan Yu chose the mountain road near the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains. Although this road is bumpy and difficult, it is not easy to collide with the Huns and is relatively safe. After three days of continuous marching, the front of the reconnaissance horse returned, and it was less than ten miles away from the cliff mountain. Guan Yu ordered people to raise the banner of the Xiongnu and swaggered towards the Xiongnu grain and grass camp in Jiya Mountain.

The arrogance of the Huns was written on the faces of the soldiers of the camp of Jiya Mountain, which was far away from the front line, and the defense was extremely lax, and no one seemed to have thought that the army of Guishan City could fight here.

Guan Yu and other 200 Han soldiers were hidden in the ranks, and standing at the head of the team was a Wusun general disguised as a Xiongnu commander, who shouted loudly and ordered the guards to open the door, and the soldiers guarding the camp poked out their heads for a long time and asked them which team they belonged to.

The commander shouted: "We are from the forward Xiao cavalry battalion, and we are ordered by Hudun Shan Yu to see the right virtuous king, and quickly open the camp gate." ”

The soldier said: "By the order of the Right Sage King, in order to prevent the Western Regions from infiltrating the spies, no one is allowed to enter or leave the camp without a military order, can you have a token?" ”

The commander shouted: "Guishan City has been breached by Shan Yu, what kind of spies from the Western Regions are there." ”

The guards of the camp said happily: "So fast, the army has only been out for a few days to break through Guishan City?" ”

Qianfu said with a smile: "My Hun army is invincible, just a Guishan city, where it is said, as soon as the army arrives, the enemy army has already surrendered." Isn't this the evil general of Huhe, who was just rescued by Shan Yu from Guishan, and ordered us to escort him to the camp of Jiya Mountain for good resettlement. ”

He waved his hand, and the person next to him helped Hu Hexie over, and Hu Hexie looked at the Huns himself, and became excited, but his tongue was gone, and he could only make a snorting sound, and he also rushed forward desperately, but his heart was held up by a cold dagger, and he could only stay there honestly and did not dare to move.

"It's General Huhe, it's really him! Hey, why can't the evil general speak? "The guards recognized Huhexi, but it was strange that they couldn't speak to him.

The commander said: "The hateful people of the Western Regions tortured General Hu and extorted a confession, and also cut off his tongue, and he was beaten all over his body, so I specially ordered us to escort General Hu here to recuperate." ”

The guards no longer had any doubts, opened the camp gate, and a thousand cavalry entered the camp of Jiya Mountain.

As soon as he entered the camp, he was greeted by a few horses, and it was the right king of the Huns who was patrolling the camp, and when he saw a large group of cavalry pouring into the camp, he couldn't help frowning, and asked: "What kind of person is this, without following the military order, entering the camp without authorization!" ”

The soldier who led the way said: "Lord Hui, this is the brother of the forward Xiao cavalry battalion, and he was ordered by Shan Yu to escort General Huhe here. ”

"Huhe? Isn't he dead? Besides, no one is allowed to enter the camp unless he is ordered by the army-" King Youxian stared at the commander of the thousand commanders and said, "Riding the battalion? I think this Qian Zong is very raw, and he has come to take down their weapons and take a good look! ”

The matter was in a hurry, and the commander didn't know how to deal with it, at this time, Guan Yu slapped his horse forward behind him, and swung his sword straight to the right Xian King. That Youxian Wang was in his own camp, there were still hundreds of guards around him, and he didn't take any precautions at all, and when he saw Guan Yu rushing towards him, he realized that the situation was not good, but it was too late, Guan Yu's knife didn't know how fast, Youxian Wang felt a chill on his neck, and it was already dark in front of him.

Guan Yu killed the Right Xian King with one sword, and the two hundred Han cavalry under his command also rushed forward at the first time, killing the guards of the Right Xian King. When the guards saw that King Youxian was dead, they had no fighting spirit and fled in a hurry, and the camp was in chaos. Guan Yu ordered the troops to stop the pursuit, took out sulfur and saltpeter and other things that ignited fires, and set fires everywhere in the camp.

The camp of Jiya Mountain is stocked with the military rations and forage needed by the 100,000 troops on the front line, and it is the time when the spring wind is high, and in an instant, it is already a flame, the fire borrows the wind, the wind helps the fire, the flames rise dozens of feet high, and the smoke is even more straight to the clouds.

Guan Yu ordered the withdrawal of Jiya Mountain, leaving only those Hun soldiers who were guarding the camp crying in the sea of fire and calling their mothers.