Chapter 53: The Straw Man Borrowed an Arrow

"Kill me angrily! Huang Xian Xiao'er deceived me too much, the old man will definitely take revenge! Break through Liujiabao, I will kill you and leave you alone!" In the call of the generals, Tuoba Xiong gradually regained consciousness.

"Commander, please take care of your body, how can the small land of Liujiabao be able to defeat my thousands of troops! Breaking through the city is only a matter of time or time, and the commander doesn't need to be angry about the momentary gains and losses!" Tuoba Jue hurriedly stepped forward to comfort his uncle.

"I vomit blood and fall from my horse, the enemy will inevitably come to rob the camp, pass my general order, all battalions must be careful, prevent the enemy from attacking!"

"Yes!" Tuoba Jue obeyed Tuobaxiong's instructions and spread his dictation to all the camps.

According to Zhao Wanming's request, in less than an hour, Liu Yan prepared two hundred straw men, eight cauldrons, and five bags of charcoal and dried cow dung.

Two hundred straw figures were neatly arranged under the North Gate Tower. These straw figures are dressed in ordinary clothes, and they are made vividly, and two straw figures are connected together by a flat pole.

Next to the straw man are eight cauldrons, with charcoal lit in the pots and several bags filled with dried cow dung placed beside them.

"Let's go!" Liu Heng gave an order, and Liu Yan led one hundred and thirty bunkers with shields to go down the city wall. He had a hundred men carrying straw men, sixteen carrying cauldrons, ten carrying bags, and four people interspersed to fill the cauldron with charcoal and cow dung.

Liu Heng rode a horse to command from the side, opened the city gate, and marched towards the enemy camp, after adding cow dung to the five cauldrons burning with charcoal, thick smoke kept coming out, and two hundred straw men were shrouded in smoke, looming, like heavenly soldiers descending from earth.

Liu Heng personally led 200 cavalry to ambush on both sides of the city gate, and once the strategy was discovered by the enemy soldiers, he rushed up to resist the enemy and cover Liu Yan and others to withdraw to Liujiabao.

Liu Heng did not let Huang Xian lead the team in this sortie, and he couldn't always let a guest from Liujiabao charge into battle. He arranged for Huang Xian to command the burgers to beat drums and shout on the tower of the city to cheer for the soldiers who disturbed the enemy.

Seeing that Liu Yan's straw man team was approaching the enemy camp, Huang Xian ordered the drums to be beaten and shouted.

Dozens of drums were beaten at the same time, hundreds of people shouted together, and the sound of war drums and shouting and killing was heard for more than ten miles.

"Report!" A small colonel hurriedly broke into Tuoba Xiong's sleeping tent and knelt on the ground: "Qiyu Dashuai, something is wrong!"

"What's the alarm?" Tuoba had just waited for Tuoba Xiong to drink the decoction, when he suddenly saw an urgent military situation and hurriedly asked.

"The enemy is coming to rob the camp!"

Tuoba Xiong and Tuoba Jue were taken aback, listened attentively, and sure enough, from the direction of Liujiabao, there were rumbling war drums and shouts of killing.

"Wait for me to see the enemy situation for myself!" Takuma Xiong struggled from his sickbed.

"Handsome and don't worry, your nephew can go, and it is expected that he will not be able to play any new tricks!"

"Don't act recklessly!" Takubaxiong admonished.

Tuoba Jue obeyed the order, returned to the tent and hung it neatly, got on his horse and galloped to the gate.

The sound of war drums and shouts also reached the other three Hu soldier camps at the same time, these Hu soldiers have not rested since the fourth watch last night, and they are exhausted by the continuous high-intensity siege of the city, when the leader in charge of the sentry enters the tent to report the enemy's situation, saying that he only heard the sound of war drums and shouts, and did not see the appearance of the Han army, Tuoba Huai, Tuoba Qi and Tuoba Hui did not take action, and only let the sergeants patrolling the camp and sentry strengthen their vigilance.

Tuoba Jue came to Yuanmen, climbed the ladder and looked out, couldn't help but gasp, only to see not far outside the camp, the smoke was misty, the shadows were full, there seemed to be thousands of troops and horses, in the sound of war drums and shouting to kill, was slowly killing to their own village.

Tuoba Jue wanted to order troops to meet the enemy, but he was afraid of being ambushed, and when he was in a dilemma, he suddenly saw a small colonel running to give an order: "The commander ordered you not to go out to battle without authorization, in case you fall into the enemy's tricks." Tuoba Xiong was disturbed by Liujiabao's successive raids and sneak attacks.

Tuoba Jue was helpless, thinking: I can't wait for the enemy army to attack Dazhai and then find a way, hey, there is. He immediately ordered 500 crossbowmen to be brought in, and he shot arrows at the enemy from within the village.

Tuoba Jue gave an order, and ten thousand arrows were fired in unison, and the arrows flew like flying locusts towards the Han army in the smoke.

Sure enough, the sound of war drums and shouts of killing suddenly disappeared, the smoke was misty, and the men and horses gradually receded in the fog and swamp.

Tuoba Jue breathed a sigh of relief, arranged for the patrol soldiers, dismissed five hundred crossbowmen, and returned to report the enemy situation to Tuoba Xiongyu.

"Be careful at night, be more vigilant, Hugh will fall for Huang Xian's tricks, and wait for the old man to set foot in Liujiabao in the future. Tuoba Xiong repeatedly told his nephew.

"Handsome and relaxed, there is a nephew, nothing goes wrong!" Tuoba Jue comforted Tuoba Xiong, returned to his camp, and just lay down to rest, when he suddenly heard the sound of war drums and shouts of killing outside Dazhai, and the movement was louder than last time.

Tuoba Jue hurriedly dressed neatly, rode to the gate, pedaled the ladder and looked out, the situation was the same as the previous time.

Tuoba was furious, and thought to himself, "This Han dog is really tenacious! Let's see if I can shoot you!" and then ordered another 500 crossbowmen to shoot back the Han dog.

After a bowstring sounded, the drums of war and shouts of killing stopped again, and the men and horses retreated again.

When the third war drum sounded, the leader of the patrol camp entered the tent and reported: "General Qiyu, only the war drums and shouts are heard outside, and there is no movement of the Han army!"

Tuoba suddenly realized, and ordered: "This is a plan by the Han dog to disturb the enemy, we don't have to care, as long as they don't come to attack, we don't have to pay attention to him." ”

The leader of the patrol camp took the order and left.

But he said that Tuoba Hui was sleeping, and suddenly someone broke into the big tent and reported: "General Qiyu, something is wrong, the Han army has come to rob the camp!"

Tuoba Hui was shocked, and hurriedly dressed neatly to inspect the Yuanmen, only to see that the smoke outside was misty, and among the shadows, there seemed to be thousands of troops and horses killing Dazhai.

When he was about to go out of the village to meet the enemy, he suddenly remembered the commander's instructions to be cautious in case he fell into the enemy's tricks, and he had an idea and ordered the crossbowmen to shoot arrows at the enemy.

In a short nutshell, Tuoba Hui repelled two attacks by the Han army, and the Tuoba Huai camp at the west gate and the Tuoba Qi camp at the east gate both repelled the two attacks by the Han army, and it was not until dawn that the Han army stopped beating drums and shouting.

Downstairs at the east gate of Liujiabao, dozens of bundles of carved arrows were neatly stacked, each bundle was as many as a few hundred branches, and one hundred and thirty sergeants were so tired that they sat on the ground, but their faces were filled with the joy of a great victory.

Overnight, Liu Yan led them from the North Gate Tuoba Xiong Camp to the South Gate Tuoba Hui Camp, and from the West Gate Tuoba Huai Camp to the East Gate Tuoba Qi Camp, every time they attacked, the enemy army used bows and arrows to deal with, these soldiers put down the straw man to accept the feather arrows shot, and they held up their shields to avoid the arrows, after the enemy stopped shooting, they picked up these straw men full of carved arrows back to Liujiabao, unloaded the feather arrows and then returned to continue to pretend to be ghosts to attack and harass the enemy.

Looking at the tens of thousands of carved arrows stacked under the southeast and northwest city towers, Liu Heng was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth: he no longer had to worry about not having weapons to resist the siege of Hu soldiers. While ordering people to reward Liu Yan and the forts who went out of the city to harass the enemy, he arranged for people to move the carved arrows to the city wall and distribute them to the soldiers defending the city.

When the soldiers defending the city saw that so many arrows had been sent, they were all overjoyed and their morale was greatly boosted.