Chapter 100: The King Leaves the Great War at Gaoque Pass
The military camp of the Huns was under Gaoque Pass, and they confronted the Qin army in the city. One day, King Youxian came to the city again. When Wang Li heard the news, he also came to the gate, and saw that the ten phalanxes of the Huns were arranged very neatly, and they were exhaling with a soaring murderous aura, obviously not attacking the gate and vowing not to give up. Wang Li was not ambiguous, so he fought a duel with Lan Bronze Bone. But the difference this time is that Lan Bronze Bone has a pair of meteor hammers tied to his waist, and two knives are flying in both hands. As soon as they met, they didn't say anything more, and they fought. The two fought together and fought for dozens of rounds. Lan Tonggu suddenly stopped. Wang Li was surprised, so he stopped the weapon in his hand and asked, "If you can't resist it, will you surrender?" Lan Tonggu yelled, "Who said they were going to drop you? I have a 60-pound sledgehammer at my waist, and it's incredibly powerful, do you dare to try it? Wang Li said: "What kind of weapon have I not seen?" Go ahead and see. Lan Tonggu threw his double knives, untied his pair of sledgehammers from his waist, and smashed them straight at Wang Li. Wang Li hurriedly raised his hand to cover it, and sure enough, there was some weight, and the two fought in front of the battle for a hundred rounds, still without a win. Wang Wei thought: This man is brave and indeed brave, but he is not scheming, and when he threw down the knife and changed the hammer just now, I could rush over and cut him. But I can't take advantage of the danger of others, because it would be dishonorable to kill him, so it would be better to defeat him with a trick. After thinking about it, he pretended to be defeated, then turned his horse's head and ran straight west. The soldiers of the Qin State thought that the king was defeated, and they were so nervous that they held their breath. Seeing that the king had run away, Lan Tonggu howled and chased after him. Wang Li deliberately slowed down, and was about to catch up, when he suddenly turned around and stabbed him, Lan Tonggu couldn't dodge, and the blade had already penetrated his armor, and drove straight in, leading into the tendon flesh on his shoulder, and the blood was suddenly like a pour. Lan Tonggu was taken aback, and hurriedly turned his horse's head and ran towards the main formation. Seeing this, King Youxian and the Hun soldiers were taken aback, and everyone's shouts stopped abruptly.
When Wang Li saw that Lan Tonggu had run away, he shouted at the position of the Huns: "Who of you still dares to challenge? After several questions, the Huns' position was silent. King Youxian was also shocked, and when he saw that the warriors of the Xiongnu did not dare to challenge, he shouted to Wang Li: "General Wang, you will win today's heads-up, but you may not be able to stop our siege troops." Wang Li replied loudly: "Your Excellency, the Great Wall built by the people of Qin is like an iron wall, if you can open a few holes, you will be a cow!" When King Youxian heard this, he was so angry that he had nothing to say, so he had to say, "Okay, let's stop here today!" I will see how strong your walls are in the future. Hum! Retire! Retire! The Hun soldiers retreated to the camp again under the order of King Youxian. When the king saw this, he also collected his army and returned to the gate.
In the next few days, both sides were actively preparing for the battle. A few days later, the right Xian Wang waited until the fifteenth day of this month, and he led the Huns to come to the Gaoque Pass again, they lined up in a neat line, kicked the earth trembled, and the soldiers shouted together: "Kick the Great Wall!" Retake the steppe! Kill! Kill! Kill! ......" shook the sky, and the arrogance was very arrogant. The Huns were divided into ten phalanxes, four phalanxes served as the head of the siege troops, and thousands of siege vehicles roared to the city first. When they were about three hundred paces from the city, they galloped forward. I saw that on the defense line of the Great Wall, which was dozens of miles long, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the roar was like thunder. After the enemy's siege carts came to the city, they approached the city wall, and their vehicles were equipped with ladders, so the Huns put the ladders on the high city walls and began to climb the city walls.
However, on the entire defense line of the Great Wall, Wang Li had long been ready for a counterattack, and they had already placed thousands of ballistae on the flat ground on the south side of the Great Wall. Under the command of the general at the head of the city, the sergeants aimed thousands of rockets at the enemy formation, and the rockets fell on the Huns' positions in unison, and columns of smoke suddenly appeared in the sky, as if they were fireworks, and the rockets were as dense as raindrops, and the whole sky was darkened. Although the Hun soldiers also had soft armor and shields to cover, but there were fireballs on the arrows of each arrow, and the arrows pierced into the enemy's soft armor, which naturally ignited a fire, and the arrows were burned to the point of crying and crying for their mothers, and scurrying everywhere. At this time, the Qin army in the city had also fought with the enemy, some of them shot arrows, some threw wood, some poured oil, and some stabbed each other with long weapons. The Huns charged continuously, the people in front fell, and the back were replenished, the offensive was extremely fierce, and there was a momentum of not hitting the south wall and not looking back.
This battle was fought until the evening, and the corpses on and under the city had piled up into a mountain, and the right sage king was still supervising the battle. The reason is that the moon is round and bright tonight. The Huns were very superstitious and believed that they would win when the moon was full, so they continued to fight. The two sides killed for another hour, and suddenly the fire behind the Hun soldiers was soaring, and a magical team appeared there. After this magical team entered the position of the Huns, it rushed towards the headquarters of the Central Army of the Right Xian King. One of the leading generals was very brave, and he shouted loudly as he charged: "I am Zhao Hai, the general of the Qin State, where did Chief Hu escape?" When King Youxian heard this, he was shocked, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers on the left and right to step forward to meet the attack, and he himself took up his weapons and prepared to defend himself.
It turned out that Wang Li had long known that this was a large-scale defense battle, and in order to achieve a complete victory, he secretly transferred the deputy general Zhao Hai and asked him to lead 50,000 warriors to kill from Lian Mo Pass in the east and attack the camp of King Youxian. Although King Youxian was surprised, he was the commander of the army after all, and he had the ability to deal with emergencies. At this time, when he saw the army of the Qin State appearing on his position, he shouted loudly: "Don't panic, everyone! The siege continues! Those who retreat without permission, slash! So he personally led the Chinese army to meet Zhao Hai. Zhao Hai raised his spear and stabbed at the Right Xian King. The right king parried with a Hun knife on the high chariot, and the spears and bayonets on both sides chopped and killed. However, the Huns also had many generals, and they all went out at this time to protect their commander, so Zhao Hai still did not kill King Youxian.
The battle went on for one night, Wang Li saw the ten phalanxes of the Xiongnu from a distance, four of them came to attack the city, and a Chinese army was in the center of the command behind the siege troops, but they had been strongly attacked by the Zhao Hai army, the queue had changed, and the remaining five phalanxes were still standing there, and the torches were bright. In order to completely solve the battle and defeat the Huns, Wang Li organized five groups of men and horses, each team of 2,000 people, from the gate to kill, and they together to attack the solid Xiongnu army formation. After the king left his relatives and led the first way out of the customs, he went straight to the camp of Lan Tonggu; Su Jiao led the second way to attack the camp of Huyanqu; Shi Xian led the third way to attack the camp of Su Bumin; Wu Ming and Cao Shu respectively led two ways to attack the remaining two army formations. In this way, they stormed all the military formations of the Huns. The Xiongnu's siege force was directly commanded by King Xian, and at this time all the siege troops were nervous when they saw the Qin army out of the pass, but they had already received an order not to retreat, so they continued to attack the city.
At this time, the soldiers of the Qin army were fighting with all their strength on the battlefield, and the Right Xianwang and Hu Yanping were forced to have no way out under the hard impact of Zhao Haijun, so they had to rush left and right in the crowd. At this time, a Hun soldier suddenly came to report that the left general Lan Tonggu had been killed by Wang Li. It turned out that the blue bronze bone had already been hung with colors, so he was incapable of fighting, so he was killed by Wang Li on the battlefield, and the military formation was also scattered. It is this person that the Right Virtuous King relies on, and now that this person is dead, the Right Virtuous King panicked in his heart. There was not much time, and two more people came to report, saying that Qin killed Su Jiao, the left commander, Hu Yanqu, and the right commander, was also killed by Shi Xian. At this time, King Youxian received defeat and bad news one after another, so he panicked and said to the prison army: "I didn't expect General Qin to be so powerful? Could it be that this attack on the Qin State is going to fail again? Hu Yanping said: "King Xian, all our troops have been impacted by the Qin army, and they are becoming more and more passive, why don't you withdraw from the battle?" As soon as he finished speaking, the sky suddenly darkened. King Youxian suddenly looked up and saw a large black cloud covering the moon, so he hurriedly ordered: "Hurry! Remove! Fall back! When the herald heard the order, he immediately asked the sergeant to blow the trumpet of withdrawal. When the Huns heard the order, they escaped from the rabbit and fled. Wang Li led the crowd to chase and kill again, and did not dare to rush into the desert, so he collected his army and returned to Guanshang.
After dawn, Wang Li cleaned up the battlefield with the soldiers of the Qin State. When they came to Guanwai, they found that there were still many siege engines that had not been burned, so they transported them all to Guanshang, and also captured many trophies of the Huns. Wang Li saw that he had gained a lot, so he asked people to count the corpses on the battlefield, and they found the corpses of 20,000 Qin soldiers and 50,000 Hun soldiers. Although the Qin army won, they all wept sadly when they saw so many corpses. The soldiers mourned in silence before burning and burying the remains of both sides, and then returned to the gate. When Wang Li saw that the battle was won again, he offered victory to the imperial court.
King Youxian led the remnants of the defeated army to the foot of Yin Mountain, and the sky was already bright at this time. When they came to the camp, King Xian also asked people to count the number of people, and found that half of the 100,000 troops had been lost, so he said bitterly: "Wang Manzi is well versed in the way of soldiers, and he is worthy of being the grandson of Wang Qian, and this person should not be underestimated in the future!" Under the leadership of His Majesty Dadanyu, we worked hard to manage the various departments for nearly ten years before we formed this army, and now we have been defeated by the Qin army, which is really a great shame for my Huns! How do I explain to His Majesty? "I can't stop mourning. Hu Yanping, the Marquis of the left bone, said: "King Xian doesn't have to be sad, success or failure is a common thing in soldiers." Now the power of the Qin State Border Fortress is still very strong, and it is difficult to break through in a hurry. However, the matter is man-made, I heard that Qin II is a faint king, spending all day drinking, not asking about political affairs, this is a harbinger of defeat. After a while, the rebels in their country will become the climate, and the Qin State will definitely transfer Wang Manzi away from the Great Wall, and then we will go out of Yinshan again, and the land of Henan will not be owned by the Qin State! After listening to Hu Yanping's words, King Youxian turned his worries into joy, and he looked forward to the chaos of the Qin State as soon as possible. An hour later, the Huns, who were defeated by the Qin army, disappeared again at the foot of the vast Dayin Mountain.
Ten days later, Wang Lizheng and his soldiers were discussing things in the palace of Linhe City, and suddenly reported that the envoys of the imperial court had arrived. Wang Li hurriedly came out to greet him. When the envoy entered the hall, he read out the edict in public: "Wang Li, the commander of the Great Wall Army, listened to the edict: You killed the left general of the Huns, Lan Tonggu and others, and defeated the Huns. Now that the Huns have retreated, nothing will happen in a short time. However, the domestic situation changed abruptly, and the people of the six countries rebelled one after another. Now there are Hebei rebel generals Wuchen sent troops to attack the pass is very urgent, Jing Cheng is the throat of Yan and Zhao into Hedong, if it falls into the hands of thieves, the counties of Hedong will not be owned by Qin. I order you to immediately hand over the task of guarding the border fortress to the deputy general Zhao Hai, and then transfer the army to the south, and go out of the well to quell the rebellion of Yan and Zhao. ”
Wang Li took the edict and said to the envoys: "Lord Angel, although the Huns have retreated, after I divide the troops, I am afraid that they will come again!" The envoy said, "There are so many rebels in the country, how can they take care of external troubles?" Thou shalt carry out the edict and shall not disobey it! Wang Li saw that the envoy's tone was tough, so he had to obey. After the envoys left, Wang Li handed over the task of guarding Gaoque Pass to the deputy general Zhao Hai, and ordered the deputy generals Liu Kun and Zeng Jun, and the lieutenants Li Xin and Zhou Ren to help him. Wang Li dispatched 50,000 Qin troops from Yunzhong and Yanmen to Mayi to stand by, and then brought the generals Su Jiao and Shi Xian, the generals Wu Ming, Wang Su, Wang Ang, Guo Cheng, Meng Xiang, Cao Shu, Maoqu, and Hehuan, as well as dozens of scribes, a total of 50,000 border guards left Linhe and marched to Mayi. When Wang Li came to Mayi, the reports of the defeat of Jingcheng Pass had been delivered one after another, saying that Du Yu, the commander of Guan, had been killed by Li Liang. Wang Li was shocked. After the soldiers and horses of Yunzhong and Yanmen arrived, he led the army directly to Jingcheng Pass.