Outside Shangdang County, King Zuo Xian knelt down on one knee in front of Touman, and all the tribal leaders looked at King Zuo Xian with a sad face and Touman with a calm face.

"Hahahaha, Arut, you led an army of 50,000 to come, and it was inevitable that time was delayed on the way, this was originally to show loyalty to Ben Danyu, how could I blame you?" Da Shan Yu picked up Zuo Xianwang, who was kneeling on the ground, and patted Zuo Xianwang's dusty Da Yu because he was in a hurry.

"Thank you Da Dan Yu for your understanding, I, King Zuo Xian, am willing to serve Da Dan Yu to the death." King Zuo Xian lowered his head and said.

The other tribal leaders were also relieved to see the scene of this brother and brother, King Zuo Xian came two days later than expected, which also delayed their attack by two days, this kind of delay in the military plane, they originally thought that Touman would blame King Zuo Xian, but the reason why King Zuo Xian came late was also impeccable, just when they thought that the scene would be stalemate, they didn't expect Touman to give in and did not punish King Zuo Xian.

"But you can avoid the death penalty for delaying the fighter, and the living crime cannot be escaped, how about your Zuo Xianwang taking the lead in attacking the city in tomorrow's battle?" Touman looked at Zuo Xianwang and said. There was a coldness in his eyes.

The other tribal leaders looked at King Zuo Xian, and in the face of everyone's eyes, King Zuo Xian gritted his teeth and said in response although he was very reluctant

"This is what I should do! Although my Zuo Xianwang is a little tired after a long journey, he is also willing to go down to the city first for Da Dan Yu, but this time I led most of the cavalry and few foot soldiers, can Da Dan Yu allocate some of my foot soldiers for my use? ”

Siege is a matter of extremely high mortality, especially when Zuo Xianwang's department comes from a long journey, and a night's rest can't be slowed down at all, and most of the cavalry he brought this time is a pitiful infantry. Most of the Xiongnu soldiers were cavalry, and there were very few foot soldiers, and most of the Xiongnu foot soldiers were slaves, and these slaves included people from their own tribes, people from conquered tribes, and people they had captured from the Yueshi country and the Central Plains.

"Of course you can, in addition to you, there are also Youxian King and several tribal leaders who didn't arrive in time in Shangdang County this time, and it is enough for the foot soldiers of your several tribes to gather together, and this single Yu will also let the royal court guard mobilize a group of foot soldiers to support you, how about it?"

After Touman finished speaking, he looked at the silent Youxian King and several tribal leaders who did not arrive on time and said, Youxian Wang is Touman's uncle, who is now in his 40s, and his hair is a little gray. Seeing Touman looking at him, King Youxian did not shirk and said

"The Right Xian Wang's Department has no opinion, it's just a small city, and there are less than 5,000 soldiers defending the city, so it can be easily breached."

"We are willing to take the border city for Da Danyu!" Other tribal leaders said.

Touman looked at King Zuo Xian again.

"King Youxian is like this, I have nothing to say, tomorrow it will be a big order to take the city in front of us and open the gate for us to go south." When Zuo Xianwang saw that Touman had already finished speaking, he could only put one hand on his chest and said.

"Okay, King Zuo Xian will lead his subordinates down to rest. This list is waiting for the performance of the Zuo Xian Wang Department tomorrow. Touman said.

"Yes."

Touman then named out a few belated tribal leaders, and asked them to lead their soldiers to cooperate with the Left and Right Wise Kings to attack the city tomorrow. Subsequently, all the tribal leaders in the Xiongnu king's tent returned to their tribal garrisons to prepare for the siege of the city tomorrow.

At this time, in the border city, the border city guard looked at the continuous camp below, his face was pale, and his forehead was full of cold sweat.

"Where have General Wang Ben's reinforcements arrived?" The guard looked at his lieutenant and said.

"The spies are coming to report, and there is still a distance of forty miles." The adjutant replied.

"Have all the people been evacuated?" The Keeper asked.

"After we received the order from General Wang Ben, we have already sent people to evacuate the people, most of them have already gone south to Gaonu and other places, and some of the people who have not had time to evacuate have blocked all the roads in the village and relied on the village to form an earthen fort." Said the adjutant general.

Shangdang also experienced the threat of the Xiongnu at the beginning, and Shangdang was still Zhao at that time, so most of these villages and towns had the habit of leaving roads to close roads and build earthen forts, but they didn't expect to use them again now.

"These Huns have been besieged below for two days, and today another 50,000 people are coming, and tomorrow I don't know how many more there will be, so that the soldiers are ready to deal with the Huns attacking the city." The Keeper said.

"No!"

The guard looked at the Hun army below with a worried face, and could only pray for reinforcements to arrive soon.

At this time, the large army of the Qin State was hurrying day and night, Ziyou was sitting on the chariot, looking at the information provided by Luo Wang along the way, these are all the information obtained by Luo Wang in the Xiongnu in recent years, and Mo Yao was setting up a carriage.

Soon a cavalryman on horseback brought a package.

"Lord Warden, this is information sent, please take a look." The cavalry handed over the package to the guards on the chariot.

"Good work." Ziyou said.

The cavalry left away, Ziyou opened the information just sent, the reason why Ziyou checked the previous information was to find the person behind the head man to give advice, knowing himself and knowing that the other side would win all battles, looking at the intelligence of the Huns over the years, Ziyou is more and more frightened, and the current Xiongnu court is developing towards a small country.

In the past, the Xiongnu was an alliance country, not even a country, but now the core of the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu royal court has been completely accommodated, and Touman even imitated the system of the Central Plains, dividing the army under his command, abolishing the form of tribal leaders, but a separate general.

After seeing the Central Plains costumes and pleasures that were prevalent among some of the nobles within the Xiongnu, Ziyou was a little surprised. Suppressing the doubts in his heart, Ziyou opened the newly sent information, and in this information, Ziyou found the answer he wanted, the leader behind all this - Ram Order.

"The people of the Ram family!?" Ziyou looked at the intelligence with a complicated expression, and wanted Ziyou to believe that the people of the Ram family surrendered to the Huns, and was willing to be a traitor, it was better to make him believe that there was an elixir of life in this world.

"What happened to the people of the Ram family? Mr. Mo Yao turned his head to look at Ziyou.

"It's nothing, it's just something new." Ziyou shook his head and said. Then he took out a pen and paper from his bosom, quickly wrote down a line, and then handed it to the guard on the side

"You give this letter to the person who sent the information just now, and let them give it to the person who sent the information."

"Yes, Lord Warden."

Raven slowed down the chariot, and the guard jumped out of the chariot and rode on a horse to deliver the message, and when the guard returned, the Raven increased the speed of the chariot again.

"Lord Overseer, the marshal, please!" A knight came to the chariot and said.

"Okay, I'll go later." Ziyou nodded and said.

Ziyou jumped out of the chariot and came to the chariot of Wei Yi and Wang Qian, who were holding the map of Fu Shi in their hands and were studying how to defeat the Xiongnu and even counterattack.

"Dashuai, don't you know what to call me for?" Ziyou asked.

"The purpose of calling the prison army over is to discuss the affairs of the Huns, what is the internal situation of the Huns?" Wei Yu asked, they kept receiving information from Fu Shi, the camp of the Xiongnu army was continuous, and now there were more than 200,000 soldiers.

This is less than ten years from the original battle of Yanmen Pass, less than ten years of the Xiongnu will be able to gather more than 200,000 troops again, which is impossible in any Central Plains country, but in the Xiongnu is a very simple thing, the Huns are all soldiers, after the Huns were born, they learned to ride horses and shoot arrows from an early age, they grew up on horseback, and when they became adults, they were an excellent cavalry, which is the unique advantage of the Huns, they can only envy.

"The internal situation of the Xiongnu is now very complicated, and the current confirmed and useful information is that King Zuo Xian and Touman do not agree, after the battle of Yanmen Pass, King Zuo Xian began to constantly provoke the majesty of Touman, and it seems that he wants to ascend to the throne.

The information from Fu Shi that the Xiongnu army was assembled three days ago, and Zuo Xian Wang's department had not yet arrived, so he dragged Touman and did not let him rashly attack the border city, considering the time to transmit the information, now Zuo Xian Wang should have arrived at the Xiongnu camp, as for the siege I am afraid it will be in the near future. Ziyou said.

When he heard that King Zuo Xian and Touman were at odds, they even dragged the Xiongnu army to attack, which made Wang Jian and Wei Yi both move their minds, and the army was not in agreement, which was a fatal threat to the entire war.

"Our main enemy is Touman, we can let King Zuo Xian go for the time being, and it is more useful to keep King Zuo Xian." Wei Yu said.

Wang Jian and Ziyou immediately understood Wei Yi's thoughts, Wei Yi wanted to put the main target on Touman, and take advantage of the contradiction between Touman and Zuo Xian Wang to give priority to killing the people who posed the greatest threat to them, and keeping Zuo Xian Wang could also do the role of disturbing the Xiongnu.

"The royal court guards of Touman's headquarters are the elite of the entire Xiongnu, and Touman now controls the entire Xiongnu royal court, so that the loyal generals control all the armies, these armies are stronger than before, if the target is placed on them, if there is no absolute crushing, it is difficult to eliminate them." Ziyou said.

"With the battle of Yanmen Pass, I'm afraid Touman will no longer rashly enter the terrain like the mountains. Moreover, there are many plains and open places near Fushi, and there is no place to set up ambushes, if you rely on the current golden fire cavalry and army to fight them on the front and battlefield, what do you think? Wei Yu asked.

"The losses are too great, although the Golden Fire Cavalry and other cavalry have been replaced with Ma Sanbao, which can close the gap between our cavalry and the Hun cavalry's riding skills, but the archery skills of the Huns are also a must. Now the Golden Fire Cavalry and Yulinwei are equipped with repeating crossbows, and the combined number of cavalry of the two armies is less than one-fifth of that of the Huns. It's too much sacrifice to send another foot soldier. Wang Jian shook his head and said.

"It's a pity that the Mo Sword Formation that evolved according to the Iron Eagle Warrior Battle Formation is only practiced by Yu Linwei, and the Mo Sword Formation restrains the cavalry, but the number is too small." Ziyou also shook his head and said, the Iron Eagle Warriors have the ability to fight cavalry with foot soldiers, but the training of the Iron Eagle Warriors is extremely difficult, and it is impossible for all the three thousand Iron Eagle Warriors to be dispatched, so Ziyou got out the Mo Sword Array of the Tang Dynasty in the later generations, and equipped Yu Linwei with the three thousand Mo knives he built.

"At present, we can only dig ravines, build camps and earthen forts and consume the Huns in the field, the weather is getting colder and colder, and the Huns can't bear it." Wei Yu said.

Wei Yi chose to wait and see what happened, and then took the initiative to attack, Ziyou and Wang Jian also felt that this was the best way. If it was an ordinary Xiongnu Koubian, they wouldn't have to worry so much, but this time it was at least 200,000 Xiongnu troops, and the slightest carelessness would be seized by the Xiongnu, resulting in disadvantage.

They can only rely on the most conventional methods, build defensive facilities to constantly attract the Xiongnu to attack, so as to consume the opponent, the ability to attack the city is insufficient, lure them to attack these camps and forts, can continue to consume the Xiongnu cavalry. This was the most common method used by the Qin army in the face of large-scale Xiongnu Kou, relying on fortifications and equality of all beings under the rain of arrows.

The next day, when the Qin army was still attacking, a large number of Xiongnu soldiers gathered under the border city at dawn, these people were all foot soldiers, carrying some rudimentary siege equipment on their shoulders. The Huns were not stupid, they were not good at siege, so they let their slave foot soldiers practice siege, relying on craftsmen captured from the Yueshi country, the Central Plains and so on to build a lot of siege equipment.

On the wall of the border city, the general of the defenders led the defenders to wait for the battle, the strong bow in his hand was full, and the sharp arrows were aimed at the Hun army below that was ready to attack the city.

Standing on the wooden chariot platform, surrounded by cavalry, King Zuo Xian stood up and waved his scimitar as he looked at the army ready to attack the city

"Offensive !!"

The cavalry on the side passed the order to attack the city, and the horn of the attack resounded throughout the plain, and the charging sound resounded through the sky as countless Hun foot soldiers poured towards the border city like a tide.

The guard looked at the Hun army that was constantly surging below, silently calculated the range of arrows in his heart, and when the Huns were within the range of the bow and arrow, he shouted decisively

"Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrow!! ”

After the order was issued, the dense rain of arrows shot towards the Hun army below, facing the rain of arrows in the sky, the Hun army raised the shield in its hand, and continued to charge forward, the arrow rain fell, and the Hun army was suddenly killed and wounded.

When the defenders at the head of the city finished shooting a rain of arrows, the soldiers immediately retreated, allowing the archers who had been waiting for a long time to make up for it and shoot their bows and arrows again, while the retreating soldiers immediately took turns with their bows and arrows.

"Let our cavalry support the besiegers!" King Zuoxian gave the order.

Another horn sounded, and the Hun cavalry armed with bows and crossbows moved in the direction of the city, and after reaching the designated position, these cavalry immediately opened their bows and arrows and shot towards the city, and some soldiers who could not dodge were hit by arrows. But this did not stop the defenders, the wounded soldiers were sent off the city, and new soldiers were replaced.

A part of the defenders also aimed their bows and arrows at the Huns' cavalry, countless arrows were fired on the battlefield, and the casualties of the defenders with the city head as a cover were much less than those of the Hun army, and the Hun infantry who attacked the city suffered heavy losses under the continuous rain of arrows.

Looking at the tragic battlefield ahead, King Youxian, who was sitting on the chariot platform with King Zuoxian, immediately ordered the follow-up soldiers to continue to make up for the siege.

(End of chapter)