Zhang Yang is in his thirties, more than eight feet tall, has a delicate appearance, likes to read the art of war, and treats people generously. Deeply loved by the soldiers, he served as the captain of Shangdang County for several years, and was quite prestigious in Shangdang County.

There are 2,000 cavalry in Shangdang County, which is one of the few regular troops in the entire Bingzhou, which shows the importance of the imperial court to Shangdang County, Ding Yuan has written several times to ask Zhang Yang to transfer the cavalry to Taiyuan, but Zhang Yang refused. Now the Huns are attacking and merging the state, and the people of the state are panicking, and even the assassin Shi also ran to Luoyang for help, and refused to return to the state, which shows the attitude of the imperial court towards the state.

However, for the natives of Bingzhou, Bingzhou is their home, and the imperial court can give it up, but Zhang Yang can't give up going to the party. All the people around Wuxiang County moved to the county seat, and sent sentries to inspect everywhere, found a small group of Hun cavalry, and led the cavalry to encircle and suppress, encountered the main force of the Huns, and hid in the city, bringing a lot of casualties to the Huns.

Seeing that the midwinter was coming, he believed that the Huns would withdraw their troops back to the grassland in half a month at most, unless the Huns could capture the county seat of Wuxiang, otherwise, it would not be a good thing to spend the winter in the heavy snow.

Zhang Yang inspected the city wall, then walked towards the city, and handed over the patrol to Sima Yangchou.

Yang Chou watched Zhang Yang walk down the city wall, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and the black mole on the corner of his mouth was touched, but he was worthy of his name, it was really ugly.

Yang Chou is a native of Jizhou and used to be a thief in Wuxiang County. Later, he followed Zhang Yang to exterminate several small groups of cavalry, and Zhang Yangbi promoted him to be the military commander. He was in charge of the 1,000 defenders of the city and was responsible for the defense of the city walls. But just last night, Yang Chou received a letter from his cousin Yang Que, and he knew about Yang Que's defection to the Huns, which was no secret in the family.

But what he didn't expect was that Yang Que wanted him to surrender, and said that if he helped the Xiongnu enter the city and kill Zhang Yang, then the county seat of Wuxiang would be his, and the Huns would not be interested in the city.

Seeing that the sky was about to darken, he had already sent someone to inform Yang Que that at the fourth watch, he would raise the fire as a signal, and then he would lead his soldiers to open the city gate and welcome the Huns into the city.

Yang Chou looked at the sunset nervously, today's time seemed to pass very slowly, and the sky finally darkened. The inside and outside of the city were covered in darkness. The rooster had already crowed, and it was about to be the fourth watch, Yang Chou stiffened nervously, and led a few soldiers towards the north city gate.

Zhang Yang returned to the official office to read, but he didn't know how, but he couldn't stand it restlessly, so he had no choice but to get up and walk towards the city wall.

The official office is two or three miles away from the city wall, the city wall in the distance is pitch black, only an outline can be seen, suddenly, a fire light from the city wall, Zhang Yang was puzzled for a while, suddenly his face changed greatly, and he secretly screamed that it was not good. Hurriedly urged the war horses and rushed towards the city gate.

As soon as he arrived at a place, he saw a group of soldiers walking towards him, and Zhang Yang recognized them as the guards of the North City Gate. Grabbed the war horse and asked, "What are you waiting for the city wall guards to do?"

When the soldiers saw Zhang Yang, they hurriedly knelt down and said.

"Back to Zhang Taishou, it was Yang Sima who asked me to wait for me to enter the city, saying that Zhang Taishou was looking for me to wait for something" After the leading tun chief finished speaking, he also felt that something was wrong.

"It's not good, Yang Chou harmed me" Zhang Yang understood in an instant, it must have been Yang Chou who took refuge in the Huns and deceived the city gate. and the Huns should be in harmony with the outside world.

Then he ordered, "You wait with me to retake the north gate."

Then he ordered a personal guard to go and transfer the cavalry of the state. The rumbling sound of war horses outside the city woke up the sleeping people.

Zhang Yang was anxious and desperately urged the war horse, but when he arrived at the north gate, he still saw the scene he didn't want to see. The wide north gate opened violently, and countless Hun cavalry poured into the city.

Zhang Yang didn't care to settle accounts with Yang Chou, so he led his soldiers to rush forward and blocked the Hun cavalry on the street at the city gate, and the two armies fought in the night.

The defenders of the north gate originally had 400 people, plus more than a dozen of Zhang Yang's personal guards, barely resisting the Huns from continuing to enter the city, but the disadvantage of the infantry in the face of the cavalry was too great, and more than 100 soldiers fell in less than a while, and the cavalry of the Xiongnu was only killed and wounded dozens of people.

At the fourth watch, the night was the darkest, and the soldiers could only rely on instinct to stab the weapons in their hands at each other, Zhang Yang rode on the horse, and the spear in his hand kept waving, picking off the Hun cavalry in front of him.

Although the Huns said that there were tens of thousands of people coming, but the city gate was narrow, crowded together for a while, and the cavalry could not charge, and the cavalry outside the city was already a little impatient, desperately rushing to the city, making the city gate more crowded.

The defenders on the city wall, when they found out about the battle here, also ran over to reinforce, and as time went by, the casualties on both sides were much greater, at least more than 300 people were killed on Zhang Yang's side, and at least 200 people were killed on the Hun cavalry side. The ground was full of corpses, and there was no room for movement.

The sky gradually brightened, the battle at the city gate was already fierce, Zhang Yang had also been injured, his armpit was cut by the scimitar of a Hun cavalry, and the blood had infected most of his body, but he didn't know that he had brandished a spear and stabbed the Hun soldiers to death. But the Hun cavalry seemed to be boundless, and the defenders were gradually defeated, and now the defenders were less than a hundred, and there were already cavalry passing through, ready to outflank them from the rear and annihilate them all at the city gate.

Suddenly, there was the sound of horses' hooves in the city, two thousand cavalry rushed out of the city, and killed the Hun cavalry, seeing the arrival of the cavalry, Zhang Yang's heart was slightly relieved, and he felt a hot pain in his armpit. Hurriedly stabbed with spears, killed several cavalrymen who were entangled with him, pulled his horse backwards, and withdrew from the battle.

With the addition of 2,000 cavalry, the city gate was even more crowded, and neither cavalry could rush and sprint, but switched to hand-to-hand combat. Although the Hun cavalry was fierce, the Bingzhou cavalry was well-trained and well-equipped. In hand-to-hand combat, it also has a slight upper hand.

Zhang Yang stepped back and bandaged it a little, then ordered the archers to take bows and crossbows and fire arrows towards the city gate in the distance, but the number was too small to force the Hun cavalry out of the city.

The battle was at a stalemate, and the two cavalry fought at the city gate for nearly three hours, but the Hun cavalry never managed to break out of the streets. However, the cavalry of the state paid a huge price of casualties.

Two thousand and state cavalry has been less than a thousand, all the foot soldiers were killed, and the Hun cavalry also killed and wounded two or three thousand, the city gate piled up a thick layer of corpses, blood gathered, along the official road towards the city, more than 100 steps.