I heard that the truce in the Central Plains, Tufan will then send troops to attack the Western Regions, Chu Weitian's general army is impatient like ants on a hot pot, the strength of the county is relatively weak, King Yuwen took away 150,000 soldiers and horses when he went out, and now there are only less than 50,000 troops in the city, how to resist the hundreds of thousands of troops of Tufan.

What made him anxious was that the king of Zhenxi did not agree to send troops to help, but asked him to quickly contact the king of Yuwen to move back to the defense; second, he thought that the king of Yuwen had always been like a god, and this time he did not send troops to the south to attack the Central Plains as the king of Zhenxi wished, but to go north inexplicably.

Unexpectedly, at this time, the letter soldiers came to report that King Yuwen led his troops back to Tongyuan City, which was less than ten miles away from the county seat.

General Soldier Chu was surprised and delighted when he heard this, and hurriedly dressed up, led a group of people, and personally went out of the city to greet him.

The group was greeted two miles outside the city, and when they saw King Yuwen, Lord Chu hurriedly dismounted, stepped forward to greet him, and couldn't help but burst into tears for a while.

After a period of greetings between the two sides, General Soldier Chu found out that King Yuwen had only brought back 50,000 people, and he couldn't help but be suspicious.

Seeing this, King Yuwen sighed to General Chu and said: "Alas, I won't tell you anything, this time Tufan came to attack, it is several times the strength of our troops, and there is also a secret siege weapon, Tongyuan City is bound to fall, even if I transfer all the men and horses back, I can't defend it." So I left one hand and sent 100,000 troops to suppress the enemy from the rear in the future, so as to respond externally. ”

"Then the king knew that he couldn't hold it, so why did he come back to help?"

"If I can keep it or not, I have to come back to guard, the king of Zhenxi helped generously in danger, and Lord Chu also treated me well, I can't see death without help, and I will be scolded by the world, so I came back because of morality." King Yuwen patted Chief Chu's shoulder and said.

"I know that the king is resourceful, and there must be a way to solve it, so I won't watch hundreds of thousands of people suffer miserably. Listening to King Yuwen's words, General Soldier Chu was both very moved and anxious.

"Tongyuan City can't be defended, but the Xiama Pass can still be defended, we will concentrate all the soldiers and horses and manpower in the Xiama Pass, using the dangerous terrain of the Guancheng, you can confront the Tufan army, as long as the formation of a stalemate situation, we have a chance to crack, and even turn the tables. ”

"Are you saying you want to abandon Kirihara Castle?"

"Yes, at this point, we must unify, preserve our strength, and retreat to the lower horse pass. But Kirihara Castle is not for the enemy to be ceded to the enemy, so we have to 'feint to defend it'"

"What does 'feint' mean, I've only heard of 'feints', but I haven't heard of 'feints'. ”

"That's right, it's to put on a posture of strict defense, one is to cover the retreat of the main force, and the other is to lure the enemy to attack with all their might, so that they can suffer a little, and they can't bury Kirihara Castle in vain. The specific plan will be discussed slowly after we enter the city. With that, King Yuwen continued to lead his troops to advance towards Kirihara Castle.

After King Yuwen entered the city, he discussed with Lord Chu in the General Military Mansion for many days how to arrange the troops, and at the same time, he sent people to organize the people in the city to move to Xiamaguan and the surrounding counties in an orderly manner.

All the officers and men in Tongyuan County began to prepare for and drill in accordance with the formulated strategy, and the city was shrouded in a tense atmosphere before the war, but everything was carried out quietly and orderly.

Early this morning, General Chu hurriedly came to report the situation to King Yuwen, and he handed King Yuwen a letter and said, "This is just received today. ”

King Yuwen unfolded the letter and saw that it was written: The Tufan army has arrived at Qingfeng Gang, more than 100 miles away from Tongyuan, and it is estimated that it will arrive in two days. It is recommended that your army abandon the defense of Tongyuan and quickly withdraw to Xiama Pass. The payment is, a godsend from the virtuous nephew.

"This Tianci is the Taoist disciple I told before, who helped Kirihara repel the encirclement and suppression of hundreds of thousands of troops in the imperial court. He later joined the imperial army, resisted the invasion of Tufan in the Central Plains, and made many miraculous achievements, and is now appointed by the imperial court as the chief soldier of Quyang County, responsible for monitoring the war situation in the Western Regions, and the task is to prevent the Western Regions army from moving to the south after the loss of the Western Regions, that is, to prevent our troops from breaking through to the south. Chu Zongbing introduced.

King Yuwen thought for a while, nodded and said: "I know, it's that Ling Qianjin mentioned the young man who looks a little like me, this person is a hot-blooded young man and very insightful, I hope to have the opportunity to meet him soon." With that, he took a pen and wrote a few words on the letterhead: Thank you, hero for what he saw. The letter was then returned to the envoy sent by Heaven to deliver the letter.

Sure enough, in the evening of the next day, Tufan's army arrived at Tongyuan County, and set up camp dozens of miles outside the city, stretching for more than ten miles, and the scale of the people had already exceeded the time of the last imperial court's westward expedition.

In the early morning of the third day, tens of thousands of soldiers from the Western Regions who were waiting at the head of Tongyuan County were quietly watching ahead.

The early morning mist obscured the mountains and plains in the distance, and everyone could not see the situation in the distance, but everyone clearly felt the roar and rhythm of the advancing array of the Tufan army, which drove the air and the earth to shake regularly.

Finally, in the mist in the distance, the figure of the Tufan army appeared, and the black pressed one, advancing neatly and quickly. At the front were the crossbow troops, followed closely by catapults and siege troops.

As the Tufan army advanced, getting closer and closer to Kirihara Castle, the Tufan army began to sprint, and in a deafening shout, the troops in the front line rushed to the range of both sides, and nearly 10,000 crossbowmen fired thousands of arrows at the city wall.

The Tufan army did not expect that there was a more fierce counterattack on the city wall, tens of thousands of bows and arrows poured down like a rainstorm, and nearly a thousand trebuchets were also launched at the same time, and suddenly the bows and arrows and flying stones covered the sky and flew towards the enemy troops outside the city, and for a while, the enemy troops under the city only felt that the sky was dark.

After this round of counterattacks, the Tufan army retreated backwards after leaving a number of casualties, but did not flee in a hurry, but moved closer to the rear troops in a more orderly manner.

After winning the first round of counterattacks, the morale of the soldiers of the Western Regions was high, but they had to follow the order, and half of the officers and soldiers must immediately withdraw from the city walls and retreat to the west. They don't understand why they should take the initiative to retreat in such a good situation.

The remaining soldiers were also divided in two, half of them still holding on to the walls, and the other half retreated to the second line, ready to retreat at any time.

At this time, the soldiers on the city wall were shocked by the sight in front of them, and nearly a hundred huge objects slowly walked out of the enemy camp. What is that? These huge objects shimmered with metal, like metal chariots standing upright.

As the objects approached, the warriors on the walls saw clearly, they were giants covered from head to toe in metal armor, three or four men tall, walking forward in a neat and slow manner, each holding a tendritic weapon in his hand, no, not a branch, but a large tree. Some giants held up the big tree in their hands and waved it like a small stick.

The scene in front of them made the officers and soldiers on the city wall shudder, and they couldn't help but clench the bows and arrows in their hands, watching the giants walk towards the city wall step by step, and their palms couldn't help but be soaked with sweat.