Chapter 299: Guarding the Pass
This battle was not too fierce.
Because the Huns attacked the city, there was no order at all, and they did not pay attention to the art of war, so they rushed over in a chaotic group, and the soldiers guarding Yanmen Pass were not under much pressure.
The denser the enemy came, the more stones and arrows the Qin soldiers dropped, and the more people they killed.
After a while, the Xiongnu soldiers besieging the city were surrounded by the corpses of their comrades, but as if they could not see it, they did not care at all, and went forward to attack one after another.
"It turns out that the Huns, this is how they attacked the city?"
Seeing this, Ying Shu couldn't help but laugh.
I don't know how the Huns learned to attack the city, and they learned it in a mess, but this is the best, which is conducive to the Qin army to defend the city.
"It's normal for the Huns not to understand."
Bai Zhong said, his eyes narrowed, fell on the Hun general who spoke just now, and continued: "I have always had revenge, and since he dares to laugh at me, he will die!" ”
He took the strong bow in his hand, asked the soldier for a sharp arrow, and pulled it hard.
The bow was like a full moon, and the tip of the arrow was aimed at the Hun general, and he let go of his hand.
Sou!
A rapid sound of breaking the sky sounded, and sharp arrows shot at the opponent.
Before the Hun general could react to what was happening, an arrow pierced through the bridge of his nose, then through the back of his head, and by the way, through the war horse under his seat.
Bang!
When the Hun generals fell down and died, they didn't know how they died.
The Hun soldiers beside him shouted in a panic: "General......"
found that the Hun general was dead, and only a few people around him, and the other Hun soldiers, directly ignored the commander, and did not need to command, and rushed forward indiscriminately.
Bai Zhong said with a smile: "The boss is gone, and the Huns are still thinking about attacking the city." ”
Perhaps this is the characteristic of the nomads, they do not have a unified military law constraints, and they do not know the army's battle formation, discipline and other things, they only know to rush forward to kill the enemy, thinking that they can take Yanmen Pass by charging into battle.
They don't have the art of war to speak of, and they don't need to be restrained, and they can't learn anything from Yan in a short time.
After Bai Zhong finished speaking, he continued to pick up the arrow and shoot.
Several of the Huns' generals fell under his arrows.
The Xiongnu soldiers who were besieging the city continued to rush forward.
The siege battle and the defense of the city soon passed for more than an hour, so many Huns, not even one of them could go up to the city tower, at most they were just approaching, and they were stabbed by the Qin soldiers.
The impact of the Xiongnu generals being shot by Bai Zhong finally broke out, and the Xiongnu soldiers looked even more chaotic than just now, and seeing more and more dead companions, most of them were frightened and began to retreat.
As soon as the Huns retreated, the pressure of the guards at Yanmen Pass suddenly disappeared.
Yanmen Pass was easily defended, but this was only the first time to defend, and the Huns would continue to attack.
Even if it was a retreat, the Huns spent half an hour dropping countless corpses on the ground, and at this time the cold wind blew, blowing the smell of blood into the pass.
This smell is very bad.
Yikes......
A burst of birdsong rang out from the sky.
Some vultures nearby, suddenly found that there was so much flesh and blood below, and flew down from the sky one after another, and even called friends to prepare a full meal to gnaw the corpses of the Huns clean.
When many Qin soldiers saw this, they felt a little frightened, this was too bloody and cruel!
However, there is no mercy in war, and if you want not to be cruel, you can only destroy the war and end the war with war.
"The Huns lost about 40,000 casualties."
Bai Zhong saw the statistics brought back by the soldiers who went out of the city to harvest the battle exploits and dispose of the enemy's corpses, and said: "We have 50,000 people guarding the pass, killing 40,000 enemies, and no one has died, well done!" ”
Hearing the words of the general's chanting, the soldiers on the city tower were enthusiastic and high-spirited.
After boosting his morale, Bai Zhong walked down the city tower, found a person from the Black Ice Platform and asked, when will the army from Xianyang arrive?
"According to the distance and speed, it should be five to seven days, with a total of 400,000 troops."
The man said simply.
The attack of the Huns came too quickly, and the distance from Xianyang to Yanmen Pass was too far, and they had not yet made sufficient preparations, and the two sides had already fought.
"Five to seven days."
Bai Zhong calculated the time and continued: "You can wait, you can delay it any longer." ”
Time, and soon another day passed.
The soldiers came to report, and the Huns came to attack the city again.
Today's weather is colder than yesterday's, it should snow quickly, and the Huns also know that the snow weather is very unfavorable to them outside the pass, and they must take the Yanmen Pass as soon as possible and go deep into the Central Plains to avoid the cold.
As a result, the siege came in a bit of a hurry and a bit of a hurry.
When Bai Zhong came to the city tower, he saw that the soldiers of the Qin army had already raised their shields and erected them on the edge of the city tower, and some soldiers drew their bows and shot down.
This time the Huns attacked the city, obviously better than the last time, knowing that the Qin army had to use shields to cover by projectiles.
Outside the Yanmen Gate, the terrain is not flat.
The siege of the Huns was not easy, although the discipline and order were much better than the last time, but the effect was still not too good, but the pressure on the Qin army was greater than that day.
"Hold on!"
Bai Zhong shouted to boost morale, and commanded various defensive measures, picked up a long ge, and defended with the soldiers.
Ying Shu also took Changge, killing the enemy while directing and dispatching.
The Huns who climbed, constantly people were killed, fell from the ladder.
The vultures in the sky, with a full meal that day, seemed to be thinking about this place, smelled blood, and hurriedly flew over and circled, and wanted to go down and eat flesh and blood at any time.
When the battle was almost underway, Bai Zhong saw that the Xiongnu generals had changed again, and they knew how to command the battle better than the last time, so he picked up a strong crossbow and shot those Xiongnu generals from a long distance.
As soon as the general died, the confusion became even more obvious.
The soldiers of the Qin army were red-eyed at this time, and some people brought all kinds of stones from the Guannei and on the edge of the Great Wall, and some people struggled to throw the stones down.
The archer drew the bow, and his arm was numb, but no one stopped.
The soldiers braved the sharp arrows thrown by the enemy to behead and stab the Huns who climbed up one by one, and more and more Hun corpses fell.
Seeing that they could not break through the Yanmen Pass, the Xiongnu had to withdraw their troops.
At the end of this battle, more than 20,000 Xiongnu died.
The vultures in the sky knew that it was time to eat again, and they flew down.
The Huns would not even take away the corpses of their own companions, and let the vultures gnaw at them.
In the second battle, it was held again.
That night, the weather was even colder, and the sky was covered with snowflakes, covering the ground with blood, and the bones were buried under the snow, as if to hide the cruelty of the war.
However, on the second day.
"General, the Huns are here again!"
The soldier ran down from the tower, shouting eagerly.