In the depths of the night, most of the soldiers in the city had already slept, but there were also many soldiers in the city who were on duty at night. The people in the city fled, only the soldiers and horses brought by Han Jian, and when they arrived in Kangzhou, Han Jian's 50,000 horses were only 30,000 or 40,000, of which more than 20,000 were people who accompanied the army, responsible for carrying and cleaning up. After Han Jian entered the city, he placed several warehouses in the city to store grain, and from the outside, the inside was no different from an ordinary warehouse, there was not much grain stored inside, but he used a lot of fake sacks to make the illusion that it was full of grain.

Just after midnight, when the city was still silent, the sound of riding boots stomping on the ground came from outside Han Jian's sleeping tent. Han Jian had to get up in the middle of the night to check, and it was rare for Song Suqing to come over, but he had to leave the beauty country in the middle of the night, get up and put on his clothes and come out. Outside, the soldiers were already waiting for him.

"Your Majesty, there are Di Yi people approaching Connecticut, the number is estimated at three or four thousand, and at most half an hour can reach Connecticut." The general who came to pass the ceremony said respectfully.

Han Jian nodded, he expected that it was time for Xianbei people to make a move. Since they knew that his grain and grass were stationed in Kangzhou, and many of the deserters were scattered and captured by the Xianbei people before, the Xianbei people already knew that the number of men and horses in Han Jian's army on this road was not as many as 50,000 horses as advertised, and it was only a matter of time before the Xianbei people came to attack Kangzhou and burn the grain and grass. Han Jian is also on guard these days, and Han Jian also knows that there are also Xianbei people's fine works mixed with the people in the city, Han Jian deliberately does not let people check, and it is also an opportunity for Xianbei to let out the wind.

Han Jian immediately ordered: "There is no need to alarm the soldiers in the city, and the granaries in various places should be withdrawn so that no one will be killed or injured." ”

Since the Xianbei people are to be fooled, Han Jian needs to make dangerous moves, Kangzhou was opened several gaps in the city wall under the attack of the right Khan King before, and the Xianbei people are ready to sneak attack with fast light horses this time, just to take advantage of the night to kill from the gap. Then, with lightning speed, the granaries in various parts of the city were burned to the ground. In the end, how much can be withdrawn, as long as the grain and grass in Connecticut are burned, then this war will be tilted, and the Xianbei people are equivalent to sending a cavalry team of dead soldiers to complete the heavy task of burning the grain and grass. Since he knew that this group of people came with the intention of death, Han Jian also knew that he could not be a tough enemy, except for setting up an ambush in the city. To be prepared for the problem of how to cut off the rear route of the Xianbei cavalry after the granary was burned down is to ensure that there will be no major chaos among the soldiers in the city. Although it is said that the soldiers cannot be alarmed, before the official start of the war, it is necessary to dispatch all the soldiers in the city to guard together, otherwise after the war starts, the thousands of defenders in the city who are on duty at night are likely to be given a big victory by the cavalry who come to sneak attack along the way.

When he first arrived in Chou, Han Jian had already appeared in person at the head of the city to supervise the battle. The Xianbei cavalry was still nowhere to be seen in the distance, but there was already an aura of slaughter enveloping the city. The soldiers also knew that they were facing thousands of Xianbei elite soldiers who were attacking the city today, although these soldiers and horses were not as brave as the iron cavalry of the left Khan of Xianbei and the cavalry of the Khan of the right side, but at least they were also elite soldiers who were good at horse warfare in Xianbei, and they were more wolfish than the soldiers of the Central Plains. And the Central Plains soldiers' fear of death is much higher than that of the Xianbei people, after all, the Xianbei people are licking blood at the knife edge, while most of the Central Plains soldiers are concerned about having a way out, and they don't have much actual combat experience, and it is easy to break and flee when encountering a war.

In the ugly time, all the dispatches in the city have been completed. In order to prevent the city from passing on the news. Martial law was imposed everywhere in the city, and the camps of the people in the city were strictly guarded. Wait until you hear the sound of horses' hooves in the distance. The soldiers at the head of the city also became nervous. The Xianbei people finally came to kill in the dark, and there was not even the lighting of the torches, and the visibility was not high under the high moon and wind, and when the Xianbei people came, the soldiers could not even see the shadow of the enemy, and could only use their ears to feel the surging of the Xianbei cavalry.

The number of Xianbei cavalry is estimated to be three or four thousand. Judging from the information obtained before, this road of soldiers and horses was killed from the east road of the Suting Xia Defense Area, and that side was also the weak point of the Beiguan Defense Area. Due to the dangerous terrain of the East Road in the Beiguan Defense Area, even if a few key passes were taken by the Xianbei people, Han Jian still did not send a large number of men and horses to supplement the defense. After all, there are still several cities in the eastern district that are still being guarded, and the Xianbei people dare not easily go around. But if Han Jian hadn't sent a large number of scouts in advance to check the movements of the Xianbei people in the northern direction of Connecticut at any time, he would not have known that the Xianbei people were approaching.

"Your Majesty, there is danger on the city wall, you better go back and rest first, I can wait here." A general came up to persuade him. After all, the Xianbei cavalry has already been killed under the city, and Han Jian, as the emperor of the imperial expedition, even if he wants to avoid the front line, he must also take care of his identity. But Han Jian didn't have so many worries in his heart, from the beginning he made a false impression to make the Xianbei people think that the grain and grass of the Wei Dynasty were stationed in Kangzhou, just waiting for the Xianbei people to attack, and now that the Xianbei people are really coming, he naturally has to command the battle on the front line, in addition to making the soldiers more confident, but also to control the overall situation in order to make arrangements and arrangements for the battle.

Han Jian didn't even reply, and the general felt stupid and didn't dare to mention it again, and then more people and horses were dispatched to the city, but they didn't have much defense against the defects in the city wall. Han Jian just wanted to attract the Xianbei people to the city and then capture them, if they fought in an open place outside the city, this battle would not be able to fight, although Han Jian had more than 20,000 horses and the Xianbei people only had three or four thousand horses, even if Han Jian had heavy cavalry, he could not compete head-on with the Xianbei people's sneak attack on the road.

The Xianbei cavalry quickly rushed forward, and various prompt signals began to be emitted from the city walls. In this way, the Xianbei people also felt that the defenders in the city were defenseless, because the soldiers and horses themselves were under the command of the Right Khan, and their sneak attack was at the behest of the Right Khan, they were very familiar with the situation around the city of Kangzhou, and many of them were soldiers who followed the Right Khan to attack Kangzhou before, and they were also responsible for leading the way. When the soldiers and horses were killed under the city, the city symbolically launched a round of resistance, and then the cavalry of the Xianbei people had already entered the city. There was a great chaos in the city.

Each Xianbei soldier arrived at the city of Connecticut on two horses, so the number of soldiers was twice as small as that of horses. That is to say, the Xianbei people sent to the sneak attack of the men and horses are only about 2,000 soldiers, the Xianbei horses and soldiers are tied with tung oil and ignited fire folds, at the same time that the Xianbei people kill into the city, the Xianbei people in the city also try their best to cooperate with these Xianbei people, and suddenly there are a lot of "people" who lead the way on the street, so that the Xianbei people know which direction to go.

Xianbei people's way of communicating is unique. Because of the language barrier, they couldn't understand what the Central Plains soldiers said. But as the Xianbei cavalry continued to enter the city, fires began to break out everywhere in the city, and the fires were everywhere, and the defenders in the city were also extremely nervous, and the people stationed in the west of the city heard that there was a war. They had already fled in all directions and tried to escape from the city, but the gates of the city were closed, and they could only hide in the east of the city.

There was chaos in the city, but there was order in the city. Han Jian's plan to catch turtles in the urn has just begun, and now the Xianbei people have been attracted to the urn, and when the Xianbei cavalry entered the city in the follow-up, the defenders in the city have begun to resist, and gradually cut off the "back road" that the Xianbei people want to desperately defend. A large number of arrows flew down from the city, and the hundreds of Xianbei cavalry in the gap in the city wall did not expect the city wall to be so well prepared. Before he could inform his companions in front of him, he had already died in the city.

The shouts of killing started again, but this time it was no longer the Xianbei soldiers who were clamoring to kill the city, but the more than 20,000 defenders in the city. The gap in the city wall was blocked by a large number of falling stones, and the corpses of soldiers and horses on both sides were piled up under the city wall, so that even the Xianbei cavalry could not get out of the city through the gap even if they finished burning the granary, and the defense of the city gates became the top priority. The Xianbei people set fires everywhere in the city, and when they got to the back, they were no longer just looking for food and grass, whether it was a house or an ordinary school field. Even the camps where the soldiers were stationed were burned down. Then Han Jian sent men and horses to begin to separate and surround them, so that the Xianbei cavalry was scattered in the city and could not form support. Then he began to encroach with heavy cavalry, driving the remaining Xianbei cavalry in the city to a dead end little by little.

In the spread of the fire, the entire city was full of fire, and the Xianbei people tried to break through from the direction of the city gate several times, but they were repelled by the soldiers at the head of the city who were personally supervised by Han Jian. In the end, the Xianbei soldiers in the city gave up the plan to break through, and the trapped beasts began to kill people in the city. Even the humble and humble people in the city who were dressed as civilians did not let go. The people who fled in the city had been killed, and they would not have been in any danger if they remained in their tents, but now they were destroyed.

There was no one to put out the fire, and there was no water well or big river in Connecticut, so the fire was too big to be saved. As the shouts of killing in the city gradually weakened. The cavalry that Xianbei entered the city only fought in small groups, and even fought alone in the back. Then Han Jian opened the gate in the west of the city, and some of the remaining Xianbei cavalry finally found the direction to break through, and they gave up resistance and fought out from the gate in the west of the city, and more than 2,000 horses entered the city, and only a few dozen horsemen went out of the city. Han Jian didn't send anyone to chase after him, and the key was to stabilize the situation in the city immediately, and by the way, he had to count the losses. Although there was no large amount of grain and grass in the city, there were still a lot of food and grass for the army, but fortunately, the soldiers basically brought their own dry food for more than five days before, even if all the grain and grass in the city were burned, it was not a problem for the soldiers to withdraw to Shangzhou with the existing rations.

When the sky was dark, the light of the fire in the city still overwhelmed the light of the day. The soldiers defending the city began to clean up the battlefield, in addition to treating the wounded, they also had to capture and kill the remaining Xianbei cavalry in the city. It was a battle in which there could be no prisoners, and all the Xianbei cavalry were caught and immediately killed. By the time Han Jian came down from the city, the sun had already risen, and Han Jian was most concerned about the safety of Song Suqing and Fa Yi. Although the two of them had also been notified to move to the city before, he hadn't seen it with his own eyes after all, and he hadn't been with him yet.

When Song Suqing and Fa Yi appeared in front of Han Jian in military uniforms, Han Jian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Your Majesty, all the granaries in the city have been burned down, and there are not a few losses of grain and grass." The generals under his command came to pay their respects, and their faces were worried. Han Jian had almost hidden it from everyone before, and few people in the city knew the specific situation of the grain and grass in these granaries. Han Jian used the trick of blinding, false and real, so that both his own people and the Xianbei people thought that there were hundreds of thousands of stones of grain and grass stationed in the city, but in fact, the real grain and grass in the city was only tens of thousands of stones, and the large amount of grain and grass that was really transported from Shangzhou had been transported to the defense area of Lin Zhan's department before the Xianbei people were not identified, and the handover was completed.

Han Jian didn't say much, now is not the time to make the matter public, since the whole army doesn't know how much it has lost, there is no need for him to tell it, after all, he has to hide the Xianbei people and make the Xianbei people think that the victory is in their hands. Han Jian immediately raised the tent to discuss the matter, but the smoke in the big tent was still dispersed, the fire in the city had not yet been extinguished, and the gains and losses of this battle could not be counted immediately.

Han Jian didn't talk nonsense, and when the generals who were not on the front line basically arrived, Han Jian said directly: "Now that the grain and grass have been destroyed, Kangzhou can no longer be stationed, and the soldiers and horses will leave to withdraw to Shangzhou on the same day, and everything will be discussed in the long run." ”

The generals present were all a little worried, and the confidence that they had finally gained from the battle of Beichuan City had a tendency to collapse in an instant. It was the second time that the Xianbei people had burned the granary in the rear of the Wei Dynasty, but the first time was real, which caused Lin Zhan's department to fall into a crisis of lack of food, but this time it was a scene arranged by Han Jian, so that the Xianbei people could slack off, which was also to prepare for the subsequent counterattack.

After the end of the account promotion meeting, the soldiers and horses in the city had to count the losses and prepare for the withdrawal of the whole army. Han Jian chose to withdraw his troops in the city, in order to prevent the Xianbei soldiers and horses from sneaking up again, Kangzhou has been unable to form a complete city defense system, after the end of this battle, the ruins in the city are everywhere, and if the Xianbei people want to attack Connecticut on a large scale, Connecticut is almost impossible to preserve. But in fact, at this time, the Xianbei soldiers and horses in the north were restrained by Su Tingxia's troops, and they would not be killed in Kangzhou for the time being. The Xianbei people also knew that a large number of men and horses would be discovered by the Wei Dynasty's soldiers and horses, so even if the soldiers and horses seemed to be wiped out after a great victory in Kangzhou, there would be no follow-up soldiers and horses to support and expand the results.

In this battle, the losses of the Wei Dynasty's soldiers and horses were very serious in the eyes of outsiders, not only the grain and grass were burned, but also thousands of soldiers hated Kangzhou. But in fact, among these thousands of soldiers, mainly the people in the city, the real soldiers lost very little, or even less than 100 people. Compared with the Xianbei people who were caught blind in Connecticut, they had studied the "retreat" and stayed in Connecticut for more than ten days, and they knew how to escape from the city. (To be continued......)