Chapter 238: Beacon Flames
As time passed, Dalugun in the dark could feel his heartbeat accelerating sharply, and seeing that the defenders still hadn't opened the door, in order to relieve the depression in his heart, Dalugun said, "What's the matter?" Why don't you open the door? ”
The generals at the head of the city are also anxious, on the one hand, they are violating the rules that are not allowed, and on the other hand, they are the sons of Shan Yu in the future. He couldn't be offended, and at this time he could only pin his hopes on the soldier who gave the order, hoping that he would come back quickly.
"Your Highness, wait a little longer, the last general has already asked people to go to the palace to ask for instructions from the Huyan clan, and they will soon be able to let you enter the city!" The Keeper replied from the ramparts.
As soon as he heard that they had gone to ask the Huyan clan, Dalugong suddenly became anxious. This Huyan clan can't get used to her father the most, so she knows that she will never allow herself and others to enter the city, in that case, wouldn't she only be able to attack hard?
"Bastard, why are you so inkblotted, it's hard to worry that I can't make a mess! My father is the future Shan Yu of the Huns, if you don't open the door again, after my father ascends the throne, he will kill your whole family immediately! Darugun threatened.
Hearing this cruel remark, the generals defending the city were frightened. The soldiers on the side also opened their mouths to persuade each other, general, the person outside the door is indeed the son of King Zuoxian. What are we fighting with him? Maybe he might be able to be a single Yu in the future?
When the general heard this, he thought, yes, this Hun will be his family in the future, why should he fight with them, and quickly ordered to open the city gate.
Just as the Praetorian Guards under the city heard the order and were about to open the city gate, a distant military trumpet sounded from the back room.
"What's going on? Where to blow the trumpet? When the general heard the trumpet, his face changed greatly. This came from the royal palace, and the trumpet could only be blown in case of emergency.
"Open the door. I feel like open the door, and if you don't open the door again, Lao Tzu will kill your whole family in the future! Outside the city, Dalugong knew that he couldn't take it off anymore, and shouted angrily. But the more fierce he shouted, the more the generals at the head of the city did not dare to open the city gates. People are not stupid, and they already feel that something is wrong.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for a palace guard to rush over under the leadership of Hu Yanran, and Hu Yanran, who was drawing the flesh and blood of the war horse under his crotch, shouted again and again, "King Zuo Xian has rebelled, intending to harm Shan Yu to be discovered." Now he wants to attack the royal city. All Janissaries were ready for battle. Never allow a soldier from the Zuo Xian Wang's army to enter the city! ”
Hearing this, the whole army in the city was in an uproar, they never thought that their son would rebel against Lao Tzu. It's crazy.
Dalugong, who was outside the city, heard the movement in the city, and knew that it was impossible to take the city without blood. Don't hesitate to do so at the moment. Directly ordered his soldiers to forcibly attack the city. Time. Tens of thousands of troops lying in ambush in the shadows rushed up, and without saying a word, began to attack the city.
Due to the strength of the Huns. For decades, there was no war in the Xiongnu mainland. The long-term tranquility and prosperity and the self-confidence of "the Huns are invincible in the world", the brave spirit of the Janissaries and palace guards in the royal city has long been washed clean, and the neat and mighty armor and the cold light flashing weapons are only powerful to the people of the Republic of China. In the Warring States Period, when there were continuous swords and soldiers, it was indeed rare to have such a "master soldier".
When the lights of the beautiful night market were still shining all over the city, the war drums outside the city suddenly shouted like thunder, and the army of Zuo Xian's royal army flew like a sky, and suddenly appeared under the royal city to attack! The panic in the city of Wangcheng can be imagined. If it weren't for the fact that the royal city had the widest and strongest walls in the world, and the inexhaustible longbows and crossbows, the royal city would have almost truly fallen.
From late night to mid-afternoon, the defender of the royal city actually sent six Kuaima envoys to Touman, who was far away on the front line, to ask for help!
After the main force of Zuo Xian's royal army arrived, under the command of Mao Dun, the army launched a more fierce attack on the royal city! In the huge army of the Xiongnu, the individual skills of the soldiers of the Zuoxian Wang's army were very good, spear throwing, swordsmanship fighting, bow and crossbow archery, and hand-to-hand combat, all of which were first-class. In actual combat, the group charge of the besieging side is often divided by the various counterattacks of the defending sergeants, and it is precisely the courage and technical ability of individual soldiers that are required to break through.
Maudun's infantry was good at it, and the power of the siege was no less than the attack of the Touman army on Yumen Pass. Moreover, because of the deliberate display of prestige, it was even more fierce than the battle of Yumen Pass in terms of momentum.
Touman didn't know if he was stimulated or what's wrong, he seemed to rather jump his big teeth than bite open on the Yumen Pass, completely desperately pressing all the bets, letting the cavalry dismount, turn into infantry, divide the army into several bands, and launch a terrifying attack on the Yumen Pass continuously.
Under the attack of the Huns who were not afraid of death, day and night, the female wall at the head of the Yumen Pass had been pasted into a red sauce by layer after layer of blood, and the blood flowed down the city wall like a murmuring stream, and the city wall more than three zhang high was scarlet and shiny in the sun.
In the face of the earth-shattering shouts and killings under the city, the tiger defenders were all steaming with blood, killing red eyes, shouting dumb, and they could only swing their knives and spears like dumb and slash fiercely! All the bows and arrows were soaked in blood, and they shot arrows that fluttered in the air like drunks. All the rolling wood, stones, bricks, and tiles piled up on the city wall were rolled down the city wall with blood, sweat, and slimy food scraps.
The sword had been cut to pieces, and it was turned into a piece of iron, and there was no bothering to change it. Every Tiger Sergeant was killed in the dark, and his blood was soaked through his armor. Later, he simply threw off his armor, was shirtless, and fought desperately with his cape! But in a moment, everyone turned into blood again, and even Bai Sensen's two rows of teeth became blood-red.
Over the years, the main energy of the Huns has been on the grasslands and the countries of the Western Regions, and there have rarely been large-scale battles with the Tiger Army, and there has never been a battle in which the number of troops participating in the battle on both sides reached hundreds of thousands. In the face of such a crisis, Xiahou Yong could only rely on his battlefield experience to deal with it with all his might. Because he didn't know where the army of the Zuoxian Wang Department of Lu Dao had gone, Xiahou Yong did not dare to easily let Yang Xuhui and Ye Peng transfer new troops to reinforce them, so he could only use Chinese soldiers to fight the Huns.
"Pass the order down, attack the Yumen Pass, and don't seal the sword for three days!" Touman looked at the Tiger Ben army who had lost and resisted, and gave all the Hun soldiers a shot in the arm. Suddenly, the morale of the Hun soldiers was boosted, and a charging tide surged up. But when he rushed to the bottom of the city, the bloody ladder hit the bloody wall, and he immediately slipped and fell under the city. Even if he was lucky, as soon as the soldier stepped on it, his feet slipped and fell. In addition, the defenders of the city continued to pull the ladder with a long hook, and the bricks and stones kept falling down, and there was no ladder firmly against the city wall for half an hour.
The army is fighting fiercely, and any absurd and magical kung fu will not come in handy. Even if a few people can fly up the walls. In the face of the surging battle to the death, the warriors must have turned into meat sauce in an instant. It requires strict coordination and overall strength, to fight with a knife and a gun, not something that any miracle can do on its own.
As a battle-hardened general, Touman naturally knows the truth. After receiving three urgent reports that he could not climb the city. Angrily shouted: "Stop the siege——! ”
A big gong sounded gold. The Hun infantry collapsed in the wilderness below the city at once.
The head of the city, the Tiger Army. also silently lay at the battlement of the city wall and gasped, and even had no strength to scold the Huns.
The sunset is still shining, Xiao Xiao and Ma Ming. The battlefield fell silent. The city was filled with smoke and fire, and blood-stained battle flags were slowly fluttering. Blood-red battle flags also fluttered slowly under the city, and fireworks filled the vast wilderness. There was blood everywhere, corpses everywhere, wounded soldiers everywhere, and even the flash of the blades was covered by blood.
Xiahou Yong stood in the arrow tower at the head of the city, and Touman stood on the high platform in front of the formation, the two looked at each other from a distance, stretched out their long swords and pointed at each other, but they didn't have the strength to shout again.
"The Hun army is attacking the city, and the Yumen Pass is in danger!"
"Tiger Ben has suffered heavy casualties, can you hold the city?"
Under the powerful intelligence transmission energy of the six gates of Dahua, the war in Yumen Pass quickly spread to the states of Dahua, and it was placed in front of the table of the bigwigs of the Ministry of War for the first time, and was quickly passed into the palace by the worried ministers for the Holy Lord to read.
At this time, Liangzhou Prefecture Mufang Zhiyi was also extremely frightened and panicked in the face of the Huns' fearless attack on death. In his impression, although his martial son-in-law was a little rude, he was still very talented in fighting. For so many years, the Huns have not been able to take advantage of him, so the people of Liangzhou have slowly forgotten the pain brought by the Huns when they broke the customs. But this time, it's only been a few days since the war? Xiahou Yong had already sent someone to give him an order, so that the people were ready to go to the city to assist in the defense at any time.
Mobilizing civilians to assist in the defense was a strategy used when the defenders were not strong enough. After all, the people have no training and cannot do the order and prohibition, except for helping to do some auxiliary work, other functions are only left to add chaos. But Xiahou Yong still gave this order, and it seems that the battle situation is very unoptimistic.
Master Fang is a literati, and what he is a literati is a man who knows the times. In the face of the powerful offensive of the Huns, the state pastor was panicking at the same time, but also began to think about arranging a retreat for himself. He has no intention of coexisting and dying with Liangzhou. Once the Huns broke through the pass, then Liangzhou was an undefended city for them. With the walls of several county towns, it is believed that it will not be able to stop the Huns who are like wolves and tigers.
While loading his family and the gold and silver that he had been greedy for so many years, he quietly transferred a team of elite government soldiers to be stationed in front of the yamen, and once he couldn't bear it in front, he immediately ran away.
In this siege battle, Touman invested enough blood, and the two armor horses that he was most proud of were pressed by him as bargaining chips, but unfortunately, the siege battle was not a plain duel. No matter how elite the cavalry is, he can only be an infantry, and he can only exert the limited combat power of the infantry, and what about the armored cavalry, he still suffers heavy losses.
Touman, who had been unable to attack for a long time, once again convened the princes and nobles to discuss countermeasures, but the princes led by the right virtuous king Uwei could only fight Haluha, and kept complaining that Touman was wasting the lives of the Hun warriors. For so many years, there had never been a battle in which the Huns suffered so much loss. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Touman is incompetent.
Tou Man knew that Uwei was clearly not working, but this was also a frequent thing for him. Since one of the tribes of Uwe was wiped out, the old boy's thinking has also undergone today's reversal. He suddenly found that in this world, it is better to rely on no one than on himself, as long as his own powerlessness is strong enough, who will come to me without eyesight to trouble? So Uwei changed his neutral policy and began to spend his blood to cultivate a powerful force belonging to his own Youxian Wang's department. to cope with all the difficulties that may occur in the future.
Touman summoned everyone this time, in fact, it was more of a mobilization to let the princes try out their milking strength. Capture the Yumen Pass in one go. His ideas are very good, but if his subordinates don't cooperate, no matter how good his ideas are, they are only on paper.
The father-son dispute between Touman and Maoton, as well as the overnight withdrawal of Maoton, made Touman's prestige of Shan Yu suffer a great blow, and the Huns only succumbed to the strong, but a series of actions made by Touman during this time undoubtedly made the Xiongnu princes secretly question whether the leader of the Huns was really old? Why would he make so many stupid moves. Because they were dissatisfied, everyone didn't notice that there was one person missing from the meeting, that is, Li Wujie, the king of the left school.
On the city wall, Xiahou Yong fought fiercely with the Huns. Inside the city. Li Mingyuan was not idle. With the help of the pervasive six doors, Li Mingyuan really connected with a big figure in the Huns, that is, Li Wujie, the king of the left school, and the two sat down and chatted for a long time. I was dumbfounded. Yas. The relationship is still the same race!
"Is Captain Li really a flying general?" Li Wujie looked at Li Mingyuan. The excitement was almost in tears.
Li Mingyuan nodded and smiled, "There is nothing to fake about this, I have a genealogy to prove it!" ”
Hear this. Li Wujie felt that his nose was sore, and his tears were about to stay.
"Captain Li, five hundred years ago, we were a family!" Li Wujie wiped the moist tears from the corners of his eyes.
Li Mingyuan: "? ”
Zhao Xin, who was guarding the door, suddenly felt that his entire three views had been ruined, the prince of the Huns was still shameless, and the relationship between five hundred years ago was embarrassed to pull out, compared with him, the tricks of the six doors were simply weak.
"After the prince turned out to be a Han Chinese, he was disrespectful and disrespectful!" After some conversation, Li Mingyuan found that this guy was not talking nonsense, he was indeed the same family as himself five hundred years ago, and they were all descendants of Li Guang.
"Hey, after so many years, I didn't expect to have the opportunity to meet my relatives!" Li Wujie didn't know whether it was the true feelings, or the superb acting skills, and his affectionate performance made Li Mingyuan a little sour.
After the two of them were polite, they got to the point, it turned out that Li Wujie was arranged by Tossel to have some consultations with the Han people, and if necessary, Li Wujie also hoped to meet with Yumen Hou Xiahou Yong and discuss important matters.
Regarding Li Wujie's request, Li Mingyuan naturally wanted to reprimand him harshly, even if he was one of his distant relatives. After all, national interests are at stake.
"Zuo Xiaowang, do you think it is appropriate for you to meet our Yumen Hou in this situation?" Li Mingyuan tilted the table and said coldly.
"Eh, why did Captain Li say this? I'm very sincere about what is not suitable! Li Wujie didn't dare to despise this young man, and hurriedly explained.
"Sincerity? Zuo Xiaowang, it's a bit too child's fun to say this, did you hear the deafening fighting outside the city? Do you know how many of our soldiers will sacrifice their precious lives in this war? If you go to see Master Hou now, I guarantee you will be chopped into meat sauce by him! Li Mingyuan shook his head and said.
Hearing this, Li Wujie smashed his mouth and stopped discussing this issue. In order to see Xiahou Yong, he put his own life on the line. This business is not cost-effective, it is not cost-effective, and you can't do anything!
"Actually, this time I came to be entrusted by His Royal Highness Tos, hoping to make some equivalent exchange with your army!" Li Wujie thought that Li Mingyuan and himself were also of the same clan and roots, and he had a close relationship with Xiahou Yong, so he told him that it must be okay to let him pass it on to Xiahou Yong.
"Deal, what deal?" Li Mingyuan suddenly became interested.
"This, the wall has ears, Captain Li, look!" Li Wujie pointed to Zhao Xin, who was standing guard outside the door, and said with some scruples.
Li Mingyuan knew that the king of the left school was worried that Zhao Xin would leak today's conversation, and it happened that Li Mingyuan was also worried that Zhao Xin would betray him, so he directly pulled Gao Zhiming, who was guarding outside the courtyard gate, out of the courtyard, so that only he and Li Wujie were left in the house, and I believe that even if Zhao Xin's ears are good, it is impossible to hear the conversation between the two people in the house outside the courtyard gate.
"His Highness Toth is very interested in the Tiger Army's repeater crossbow, and thinks that it is an incomparably wise weapon, and hopes to be able to buy a hundred from you. If you can, there are matching arrows, which are also purchased by measurement, and the price is twice the market price! Li Wujie finally said the important purpose of this trip.
Also known as the "Zhuge crossbow", according to legend, it was made by Zhuge Liang and can continuously fire crossbow arrows. However, due to the fact that the arrows used in the repeater do not have arrow feathers, the iron arrows will lose their balance and roll over when flying at a long distance, and the production of wooden arrow shafts requires high precision, and it is difficult to make them manually, and it is not easy to manufacture and use them in large quantities.
After discussing with Hu Yanhao, Toth felt that he was not an advantage in fighting for quantity at the moment, so he had to improve the quality and take the route of elite soldiers. The Toth plan is to create a loyal guard that is absolutely loyal to him, and when necessary, to carry out special tasks. In order to maximize the combat effectiveness of this guard, he was even willing to pay a high price for Li Wujie to buy it from the Tiger Ben Army. But whether it can succeed or not depends on the will of God.
Regarding Li Wujie's proposal to purchase a repeating crossbow, Li Mingyuan did not know in advance. However, after knowing that Toth wanted to buy it, he felt that it could be done better than business. Although the Dahua law clearly stipulates that even iron tools are not allowed to circulate abroad, the law is one thing, and whether the following people can enforce it or not has to be said separately! (To be continued......)