Chapter 15: A Lively Night
The distant earth fell into darkness little by little.
The Hun soldiers on Qusou City have also changed shifts.
A sleepy-eyed young soldier walked up the city wall with five people behind him yawning as usual, and officially began to watch the night.
"Ha~"
"The girls in the red house are really delicious."
"This is a day, and I almost folded my waist."
The slightly older man next to him showed a little envy in his eyes.
"There are not only local old Zhao women in that red house, but also blonde and blue-eyed things captured from the west, and the screams of tall horses are still ecstatic."
"It's just that the price is expensive, with our monthly salary, it's not enough to save half a year to go once!"
"Boss, when will we taste it!"
The leader of the soldiers smiled at the corner of his mouth and raised his eyebrows.
"Of course I hope to bring my brothers with me."
"It's a pity that I can't afford the money, and those merchants who want to pass the customs are not my little captain."
"Next time, if I have another chance, I will definitely find a way to call out to the brothers!"
The five people on his side all smiled.
Of course, they knew that Captain Wu was comforting them.
That kind of place, if it weren't for the fact that Wu Chang had a father who was in charge of the household and could get stuck in the business dealings, he wouldn't be qualified to go.
A few people can only listen to Wu Chang show off, and fantasize about satisfying their hunger by the way.
Wu Chang felt the envy of several people, and his heart was very satisfied.
He looked out of the city walls with a smile on his face.
His gaze swept over the empty wilderness, where there was no movement, but he sighed again.
How long will these boring days end?
The soldiers on his side seemed to see the melancholy of the commander.
"Commander Wu, I heard that the Huyan clan has arrived in Jiuyuan City, and this time it is going to start a complete war with Great Qin."
"If you are unwilling, why don't you join the Huyan Clan's crusade against Great Qin!"
When the young general heard this, he also sighed.
"Why wouldn't I?"
"But the royal court is strictly forbidden to have a conflict with Daqin before the beginning of spring!"
"Who knows what the consequences of the Huyan clan disobeying the orders of the royal court this time and attacking the Great Qin Yunzhong County?"
"If the time comes, if we are only to blame, those of us who join temporarily, will not be able to benefit from it, and will be questioned!"
The young man sighed.
"It's strange to say, I don't know where Daqin got the courage, while fighting the Qiang tribe, he still has the courage to come and provoke our Hu people."
At this time, the soldier beside him whispered.
"I heard that it was the young master of Huyan who was involved in the Qiang tribe's slaughter of the three cities of Great Qin."
"Caused the anger of the eldest son of the Great Qin teenager, and personally led 40,000 iron cavalry to attack and kill the defenseless Heyin station."
"Heyin was broken, and the head of the young master of Huyan was also cut off and given to the head of the Huyan family."
"That's why there is this one, a big battle that defies the will of the royal court."
The young man sneered when he heard this.
"It's so young and vigorous, I don't know what to say."
"If I were him, I would never be so stupid, what if Hu Yan Haoran was involved?"
"He didn't really send troops, and the eldest son can bear this breath."
"I'll talk about it when I get back to the Qiang after the fight."
"It's okay now, the anger is out, but it has attracted the revenge of the Huyan clan."
"Tens of thousands of iron horsemen, how much trouble do you have to cause to Daqin."
The soldier next to him also smiled.
"Yes, the army in the north of the Qin people is fighting the Qiang tribe, how can there be extra troops to resist the Huyan clan."
"Those generals received the news that their eldest son had found an opponent for Daqin, I don't know if they will be angry!"
The young man shook his head and sneered.
"Now I'm afraid Daqin is going to cut a piece of meat."
"Either the Great Qin prince will apologize for his crimes, or their Yunzhong and Shangjun will not be protected."
"It depends on how the First Emperor chooses."
The soldiers beside him raised their eyebrows, and some did not agree.
"Probably not, no matter what Daqin says, it is also the existence of sweeping the six countries, and it is impossible for his eldest son to die for this."
"Even if the Huyan clan army presses the realm, at most it will retreat a few points, and it really can't beat a few pieces of land to the Huyan clan!"
The young man refuted with some excitement.
"That's what you don't know."
"The young master of the Huyan clan who died is the only son of their current patriarch."
"That move by the eldest son of Great Qin is tantamount to putting him to extinction."
"I heard that the patriarch was already angry and let out his words."
"Whoever can take the head of the eldest son of Great Qin will personally put him in the position of Huyan patriarch!"
The young man's words made several people's faces look a little solemn.
"In this way, isn't it true that the Huyan clan is really going to start an all-out war with Great Qin?"
"Doesn't that mean that our Hu people are also going to war with Great Qin?"
The young man snorted coldly and said with some seriousness.
"Or else? This time, unless Great Qin conjured up hundreds of thousands of troops, he would block the Huyan clan's iron cavalry. ”
"Otherwise, no one knows what the consequences will be!"
"Prepare yott, our boring days won't be long."
When the words fell, several people all had their own worries.
But the young man suddenly burst out laughing.
"Look at you guys!"
"It's still early, even if it starts, what does it have to do with us."
"Qusou City is hundreds of miles away from Shangjun."
"Can Daqin still fight here?"
The young man pointed to the darkness of the city, and a sneer broke the stiff atmosphere.
Suddenly, several people also smiled again.
At this moment, the wilderness where the young man pointed suddenly heard the cry of a beast that he had never heard before.
The voice was dull but sharp.
And it's gradually zooming in.
The young man subconsciously turned around and looked.
Haven't been able to see anything yet.
"Whoosh~poof! Boom! ”
Facing the half of his face, he felt a scorching hot current.
His mouth slowly opened, his pupils dilated uncontrollably.
Slowly straighten your head.
The subordinates who were originally less than a foot away from him were nowhere to be found at this moment.
He looked back at the blood that had been spilled on the ground.
A long, stout, slender bolt was piercing straight into the corner.
And the subordinate who was still envious of him just now, but at this moment, his eyes were constantly twitching.
Blood was spilling from his mouth, and most of his chest had been torn off by a crossbow arrow.
This scene finally made the young people realize something.
In the distance, there was already a hysterical roar.
"Enemy! Raid! ”
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, thump! Boom! ”
The young man turned to look out of the city, full of incredulity.
He wanted to see where the enemy was.
But it was still pitch black outside the city.
Four hundred paces away from him, in the wilderness.
Huge crossbows are working wildly.
Heavy arrows pierced the dark night sky, and the defenders bathed in the firelight on the city wall couldn't lift their heads one by one.
Panicked screams filled the walls.
No one knows where the enemy is.
The darkness outside the city is like a devouring beast.
I don't know who shouted.
"Flameout!"
The young man's blank brain was left with only these two words.
He glanced at the brazier on the wooden frame beside him.
Kick it down hard.
The darkness that spread around him finally brought him a sense of security.
With all the courage he had, he looked out through the gap.
A figure was stepping out of the darkness into the firelight without hurrying.
They walked a hundred steps outside the city and sat down.
The next moment, an even more terrifying voice came.
"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! ”
The young man could feel it just from the sound of breaking through the air in his ears, and the crossbow arrows that covered the sky were falling wildly from the sky.
The young man's eyes widened and he shouted out in a lost voice.
"A strong crossbow phalanx?"
"Qin people! It's Qin Jun who came! ”
He couldn't believe it, weren't the Qin people fighting against the Huyan clan?
Where did they get so many troops? How did it end up here?
No one answered him.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! ”
Arrows that obscured the sky and the sun continued to fall on every corner of the city walls.
Every crisp sound of an arrow hitting a stone would make the young man shudder.
He didn't know which one would fall on him.
The sound of the heartbeat was infinitely amplified, and the whole world seemed to tremble and shake.
The blood of his corpses swirled around his feet.
The young man's heart almost collapsed, it turned out that fighting with the Qin people was like this.
This sense of fear that he had nowhere to hide made him no longer have the courage to stand up.
Finally, the rain of arrows seemed to have stopped, or maybe the Qin people were winding.
"Get up, get out of here!"
The angry shouts not far away gave hope to the young man.
He looked at the staircase of the city wall, which was only a few battles away from him.
A man climbed up with a large shield.
He wanted to see if the Qin people had started to climb the city wall, and once they had started, they could return to the city wall and give the Qin people a heavy blow.
The young man seemed to have found hope, as long as he ran with him when the man was withdrawn, there was a high probability that he would be able to escape.
The man, too, saw the young man, and ran quickly, holding his big shield in front of him, and looking down with half of his head exposed.
The Qin people who issued it had indeed stopped.
The man glanced at it and even let go of his big shield and threw it aside.
When the young man saw this scene, he was overjoyed that the Qin people no longer shot arrows and were ready to climb the city wall.
He picked up the weapon beside him and was about to stand up and regain his courage.
But the next moment, he saw that the man who had discarded the great shield turned his head, and his face was pale and frightened.
He didn't even have time to show a glance at him, so he turned around and wanted to run towards the city.
The young man was puzzled and turned around to take a look.
Behind the crossbow phalanx, towering huge artillery carts were revealed at some point.
"Hum~."
A huge stone smashed abruptly like that.
"Boom!"
The moment the young man flew out upside down, there were only a few words left in his mind.
"Is this Daqin?"
Huge stones smashed holes in the low walls on both sides of the wall.
Four cloud carts with ladders were pushed to the front.
Dozens of soldiers pushed the ladder above to the top of the city.
The crossbow phalanx behind them had already started shooting again, but this time, they raised the angle, and the arrows had already shot into the city.
As the soldiers ascended the city wall, they cleared out the few Hun soldiers who were still hiding in the corners and shivering.
At the city gate below, the sound of "boom" also began to sound.
The end seemed to be doomed, and under the bombardment of such heavy weapons, Qu Sou, which had only 10,000 defenders, only held out for less than two hours before it was completely broken.
The same scene was also staged in Xi'anyang.
The two cities behind the Huyan clan fell in this way.
Among the fleeing Huns, there were the remnants of the Huyan clan.
He looked at the 200,000 Qin army that had completely occupied the city with a horrified expression.
Fleeing desperately eastward on horseback.
He was going to report the news to the Huyan patriarch.
This is a trap, and Daqin didn't know when he had mobilized such a powerful elite division.
They didn't care about fighting on two fronts at all, and even the Qiang were just a cover for them to attack Henan.
If the fight continues, I am afraid that the entire Huyan clan will be encircled and suppressed in the Hetao area.
……
The cold wind howled.
At this moment, the Xiongnu are in the Manbo station.
The two branch leaders were sitting together discussing.
"Tomorrow, the patriarch will personally lead a large army out of the nest, and the 60,000 Yunzhong army will definitely not have the energy to pay attention to us anymore."
The man pointed to the map.
"We will take the army and soldiers to divide into two roads and kill the two cities of Zhenling and Nanxing."
"There are nearly 10,000 people in these two cities, but I don't recommend killing them all."
Another person was confused.
The narrator continued.
"What if I tied them all up and took them all to the frontal battlefield?"
This remark made the eyes of everyone around him light up.
The man smiled and continued.
"Bring their people to the frontal battlefield and call out to the eldest son of Great Qin to stand up."
"Kill him a hundred and ten every hour."
"I'm afraid that even if it's a shrunken turtle, I can't help but come out and say a few words, right?"
"Otherwise, he still has the face to bear the name of that son?"
The other leader also laughed.
"Good!"
"Just do it, when the eldest son of Great Qin comes out, whoever else can catch him will depend on his ability!"
Both sides smiled with satisfaction.
But they don't know.
At the moment, it is not far to the east of the station.
Xiang Yu led 20,000 cavalry and had already come to the rear of the hill.
Ahead, scouts abandoning their horses one by one and stepping forward to investigate.
Constantly report the environment of the route explored during the day and the distance from the enemy's station.
Xiang Yu had to choose the best direction of attack and find the most suitable charging distance.
He looked at the 60,000 Hun garrisons that flickered with a little fire.
His eyes narrowed unconsciously.
He turned around and glanced at the lieutenant general beside him.
"Remember, break up their camp in a moment."
"Set the horses and the vault on fire, and then kill after the chaos."
"Ben will personally seize their commander, tie him up and parade, and break the opponent's will to resist."
"You are a team of thirty, keep the formation, and don't stay where you are."
"If you rush back and forth twice, you are not allowed to enter again, otherwise I will be dizzy and lose a lot, and I won't be able to explain to my son!"
Behind him, the excited soldiers nodded one after another.
just waited to shout out that sentence that Gongzi is invincible.
Xiang Yu grinned.
defeated half of the opponent's army in one battle, such a feat will definitely be the main merit of conquering Henan this time.
And the southeast of the Hun garrison at the moment.
Erniu also showed almost the same smile.
Half an hour after Xiang Yu set off, he received the news.
Without saying a word, he followed from the other direction with the army.
He turned to look at the indignant soldiers behind him.
Poured a fire on it again.
"They want to eat alone!"
"How hateful!"
The soldiers behind him all yelled.
"General! If they are unkind, don't blame us for being unjust. ”
"We're stuck in front of them and rushing."
"As soon as they hesitate, they will inevitably not be able to keep up, and when the time comes, I will help you win the opponent's coach first."
"Let them steal chickens and rice!"
A smile appeared at the corner of Erniu's mouth and licked his cold lips.
But he shook his head.
"No!"
"In the face of foreign clans, if you are so willful, if you are known by the child, you will definitely be angry."
"We'll just follow and wait for them to finish their charge."
"The opponent's army of 60,000, how long do they have to kill?"
"Charge back and forth twice, and you're almost exhausted."
"If he turns in again, if he is killed by the counter-killing, he Xiang Yu will not be able to explain to his son."
Erniu's originally stunned eyes were very attentive at the moment.
"We're just here watching, waiting for them to kill for two rounds."
"The other party is completely messed up."
"Let's go and get all the horses, grain, and grass!"
"Childe likes to grab horses the most!"
Erniu smiled.
"When he returns, he will carry the head of the enemy general, and we will drive tens of thousands of good horses!"
"I can't say which one can please the son more!"
(End of chapter)