Chapter 385: The Huns panicked
Just when Liu Biao was seriously ill with anger and Jingzhou hurriedly dealt with Cao Cao, Yang Zhao had already come to the city.
Those Huns really didn't expect that Yang Zhao would send troops to the Huns, and until the soldiers came to the city, they didn't react to what was happening.
As Yang Zhao launched an attack, the Huns guarded, and then it became clear that it was the Han people who called.
They hurriedly closed the gates, prepared their weapons, and tried to defend the city, but the thick shafts of the crossbows from the beds pierced the gates, which were not very strong.
Bang!
With a loud bang, the gates were bombarded open.
The Hun soldiers who forcibly wanted to close the city gate fell more than a dozen people on the spot, and the remaining ones who saw the arrows of the bed crossbow were about to shoot in again, turned around and ran, and could no longer care about the city gate.
"Kill into the city!"
The ladder that Yang Zhao had prepared was useless now.
Zhang He Gaolan led 2,000 troops respectively, as their vanguard, sword and shield men in front, archers in the back, and then followed by a group of infantry, quickly rushing towards the tattered city gate.
They first opened the gates completely, and then raised their shields, which were quickly stopped by the arrows from the enemy.
"Kill!"
Zhang He shouted.
The flag was waved in the army, the drums of the attack were beating, and the rhythm became more and more rapid.
"Kill!"
As the vanguard of the soldiers, after receiving the order, they advanced against the Huns.
"Don't let them into the city, kill them and resist them!"
The Xiongnu's guards also had more than 5,000 soldiers under them.
Seeing that the Han people were coming to attack the city, some of the people in the city also went back to pick up the guys, joined the guards, and fought back against Yang Zhao's attack together, and soon gathered more than 30,000 people in the old city.
The Huns have always been more fierce, and their nomads can achieve the state of all the people, and they have occupied the Hetao area for so many years, and they have long regarded this place as their homeland.
Seeing that someone was coming to attack their homeland, the people in the city directly rose up to resist.
As soon as Gao Ran led his troops into the city gate, he was met with a fierce counterattack by the Huns in the city.
A large number of arrows rained down on their vanguards, and although some of them were held back by their shields, some of them crossed the shields and shot many people.
"Push the bed crossbow up!"
Zhang He shouted.
This is the first battle that the two of them fought after taking refuge in Yang Zhao, they are not allowed to lose, and they must let the lord see their true strength.
The bed crossbow was quickly pushed up.
"Separate, shoot!"
Gao Ran ordered.
Sou!
As soon as the order was handed down, the sword and shield hands in front quickly separated.
The thick shaft of the arrow shot out again, facing the Huns in front, and a terrible scream echoed in front.
The Huns were overwhelmed by the shock when they saw that this weapon was so strong.
"Attack!"
Zhang He took this opportunity to once again pass down the order and lead his troops to kill him, this time in an all-out attack into the city.
"Zhong Kang, evil come, you lead the dragon and tiger two guards, and Wen Yuan also brings 20,000 people to follow them into the city to support them to seize the city."
Yang Zhao saw that the siege was almost underway, and gave another order.
"Yes!"
They received orders and led their troops into battle.
Xu Chu and Dian Wei entered the city first, only to see that Zhang He and Gao Ran's thousands of people had already started a fight with the Huns in the city, and they were not ambiguous, and the dragon and tiger two guards were divided into two groups, respectively on the left and right sides of the forward, and entered the enemy's military formation.
The infantry led by Zhang Liao followed closely behind.
More than 20,000 people were culled.
Their support entered the city, and the two Zhang He in the vanguard, the pressure dropped sharply, and at this moment the flag was waved, changing various battle formations, cooperating with each other to intercept and kill the Huns, and gradually advancing into the city.
"Yuanfu, you also lead 5,000 troops, go around to the city gate in the south, blast the city gate open, and kill the back of the Huns."
Yang Zhao said again.
Zhou Cang received the order, ordered 5,000 troops to go out of battle, and then brought several three-bow bed crossbows, rushed to the south city gate, and then launched an attack, the thick arrow shaft smashed the city gate, and successfully entered the city.
At the southern gate, only a few hundred people remained.
Most of the Xiongnu's troops were concentrated in the east gate, in response to Yang Zhao's strong attack, and the south would naturally be ignored, and they really didn't know much about defending the city and siege warfare, although it was gradually sinicized, but the Han people's art of war, etc., they could not learn much.
Zhou Cang's entry into the city was to kill indiscriminately, and soon killed near the eastern city gate, behind the Hun soldiers who were resisting.
Some of the Xiongnu soldiers had already discovered that there were also Han people at the south gate.
The generals who defended the city were divided into thousands of people to intercept and kill.
"With a bed crossbow!"
Zhou Cang shouted.
The soldiers around him quickly gave the order, and quickly pushed the bed crossbow up, and several arrow shafts were shot, and the Huns who came to intercept and kill fell a lot on the spot.
"Kill!"
After the crossbow arrows were fired, the Huns continued to kill desperately, and Zhou Cang saw that the distance between the two sides was being shortened, so he ordered the troops to kill them.
Zhang Liao and them, when they found that Zhou Cang had reached the rear, also ordered to encircle.
Flags are waved and drums are beating.
At this time, the attack is becoming more and more intense.
Yang Zhao's subordinates are all elites, and there are higher-level weapons, and their combat power is very strong, no matter how fierce the Huns are, they have also been killed and regressed.
The defenders of the Huns retreated again and had penetrated deep into the city.
Therefore, there are still some Huns living in Shangcheng, who have successively taken up arms and joined the guards.
Seeing this, Yang Zhao sent a large army into the city to suppress the Xiongnu residents in the city, drove them all out of the city, and killed them if they did not obey.
For those Huns, Yang Zhao couldn't do such a thing as killing all the people and slaughtering the city, so he could only drive the people away and take back the city.
Later, we will consider migrating people to the Hetao.
It's just that during the Three Kingdoms period, because of the continuous conquests, the population decreased sharply, and some people from the border counties would also introduce Hu people to maintain the sufficient population within the ruling area and ensure that the cultivated land would not be lost.
In the future, if he wants to relocate the population and govern the Hetao area, Yang Zhao is still a little worried about the problem of insufficient population.
But these, think about it later.
What needs to be done now is to kill the Huns in the city.
A large number of Huns were driven out of the city, and the Hun guards in the city, seeing that their people were getting fewer and fewer, were soon pressed to the west near the city gate.
The other city gates were occupied by Yang Zhao's troops.
"General, let's escape!"
A general of the Huns, seeing Zhang Liao push out the three-bow bed crossbow again, once this weapon is launched, they will kill a lot of people.
A group was consumed by the Right Xian King before, and the strength of the Southern Xiongnu was already insufficient, and now that there are more people dead, it will be even more insufficient.
"Get out of the city and go to Shan Yuting!"
The guard shouted and had to give up his old man, open the west gate and flee to save his strength.
None of them could have imagined that Yang Zhao, who had agreed to sue for peace, would use such a fast speed to raid their inner city and be caught off guard, and they had to send the news back as soon as possible, so that their Hu Chuquan Shan Yu would be prepared and defensive.