Chapter 24: The Siege of Wuhuan
Chen Gong arrived with the people who came to the city tower to deliver food, and saw Li Huiyi sitting underground and said, "Huiyi is hard, Wuhuan has done his best to attack the city in this battle, it seems that they can't stay long"!
"Sir, why do you say that, I see that the siege of Wuhuan is like a locust crossing the border, and there is no point in life and death."
"Haha, Huiyi is so afraid, rest assured that this is Wuhuan returning to the light, after Guan Hai's front of the battle, Zhang He's stealing camp to burn grain, plus today's siege failure, Wuhuan has been drummed, and then declined, three and exhausted, rest assured that it won't be long before Wuhuan will retreat, Huiyi rest assured to go back to the house to sleep"!
"No, now in the middle of the war, I want to eat and live with the soldiers, and my husband and I will go to check the morale."
"Huiyi is going after eating, you haven't eaten for a day!"
At this time, in the Wuhuan camp, Badun said, "You have worked hard to attack the city today, although you have not taken it, but Xiangping is already crumbling, and it is all your credit."
The leaders below said, "Thank you, Lord Badun, but our troops have already suffered heavy casualties, and I am afraid that we will not be able to attack the city tomorrow."
"It's okay, tomorrow you will attack the east and west gates, and I will personally attack the remaining north and south gates, what do you think?"
The leaders replied, "All right, Lord Badun will succeed in his departure."
"Then everyone has worked hard today, go back early to rest, and prepare to fight in the coming day."
Seeing them finish, Badun said angrily, "A group of waste, so many Wuhuan warriors under your leadership can't even attack the small Xiangping County." I thought that tomorrow I would lead my headquarters to attack Xiangping and annex you, and set myself up as a king, so that I would not have to go to that bitter cold place.
The leader of Wuhuan walked out of the camp and came to another camp, where he was holding a small meeting collectively, and one of them said, "Bandun attacked the city today, and told us to go up and send us to death, and my own headquarters was left behind to recuperate." Now that we have lost most of our troops, we will not be able to face our people when we go back."
The rest chimed in, "yes, that's not the way to go."
One of them proposed, "We will only besiege the city tomorrow, and we will attack it when the city is broken."
"Okay, this plan is okay, anyway, we have already contributed, and the rest depends on the rest." After the discussion was over, they went back to camp.
At this time, Xiangping, Li Huiyi and Chen Gong were on patrol. When he saw the soldiers on the night vigil, he went up and patted his shoulders and straightened his clothes, and Li Huiyi saw a dozing soldier and said, "Brother, you are tired, work hard today, and we will be happy in the future."
The soldier said excitedly, "Don't be tired, when the lord took us all the way to Xiangping from Youzhou, we decided to follow the lord to the death."
"Okay, how many brothers do you have in your family, and now you can live a good life"?
"My family has three brothers, my eldest and I have joined the army, and the family now has land and food, and life is good."
"Okay, that's good". After saying that, he continued to walk forward.
I only heard a commotion in front of me, Li Huiyi and Chen Gong immediately stepped forward and said, "What's the matter, it's not good to keep vigil at night, why are you quarrelling."
I saw a strong soldier come out and point to another and say, "Lord, this person disturbs the morale of the army."
"Oh, why do you say that"?
"We are keeping vigil here, and he is crying there alone, doesn't this shake the hearts of the army"?
Li Huiyi stepped forward and asked, "Why are you crying, but there is something sad?"
The man replied, "My four brothers joined the army, and today I received the news that my brother and brother were killed in battle, so I can't help crying, please punish my lord."
Li Huiyi said, "Okay, we must be strong, our comrades-in-arms have fallen, in order not to let their blood be shed in vain, we must defend Xiangping." Remember, behind us are countless fathers and villagers, and if we fall, then they will be fish and meat in the hands of Wu Huan."
"Hold Xiangping, keep Xiangping".
Looking at the morale-boosting defenders, Li Huiyi and Chen Gong returned to the east gate. Li Huiyi said, "Sir, the morale is not bad, but unfortunately the casualties are too large, have you counted the specific numbers of Sir"?
"The losses of Gao Shun and Zhang He were relatively small, and the casualties of Guan Hai and Tuntian were relatively large, with a total of 9,000 casualties."
"Yes, half of it will be lost in one day, what will I do to defend the city next year"?
"Huiyi is fine, the losses of Wuhuan should be heavier than ours, there should be no less than 80,000 casualties, and the Wuhuan offensive will definitely fall tomorrow."
"I hope so! Oh, I forgot to mention, sir, I have found a talent in the city today, and I have been promoted to captain, and I will introduce you to you when the battle is over."
"Okay, if you can enter the eyes of Huiyi, you must be a great talent."
The sky was slightly bright, Wuhuan led the troops to start attacking the city, Li Huiyi waited for Wuhuan to attack the city at the east gate, but the Wuhuan soldiers under the city only surrounded the city and did not board the city.
Li Huiyi asked Tian Chou next to him and said, "Wuhuan won't play any conspiracy today."
Tian Chou said, "General, I don't know, if you want to invite the military advisor to take a look."
"Okay, if someone comes to invite the military advisor over, they will say that Wuhuan is only surrounded and not beaten."
After a while, the soldier who went to report to Chen Gong came back and said, "The military advisor said that the south gate is urgent, and the north gate is urgent, and Guan Hai has been ordered to go to the north gate to support, and asked the general to go to the north gate to support quickly."
"Okay, Tian Chou, I will lead five hundred soldiers to support, you guard the east gate, remember not to let a single Wuhuan soldier enter the city."
"Yes, don't worry, my lord, I am here, and the east gate is here."
When I came to the south gate, I saw that there were already 100 Wuhuan soldiers occupying a corner of the city tower. Zhang He was leading the soldiers to surround and kill, but the Wuhuan soldiers kept climbing up from under the city.
Li Huiyi saw the situation and shouted urgently, "Hold on, I'll bring someone to support you, brothers!"
Zhang He heard the voice and immediately shouted, "Brothers, the lord has brought people to support us, we can't let the lord look down on me, everyone will kill me!"
"Kill, kill, Lao Tzu kill you deflated calves" The Han army of the city tower let out an earth-shattering shout.
Li Huiyi's arrival greatly boosted the morale of the South Gate, and the gap that Wuhuan had just opened was blocked.
The city saw that the city wall that was about to be broken was taken back, and he drew his sword and hacked a retreating Wuhuan soldier to death, and said angrily, "Give me up, charge me again, whoever retreats, this is an example."
Under the persecution of life and death, the Wuhuan soldiers launched a suicide attack. I saw all the red eyes and shouting to climb up the city tower, the city tower Han army was beaten for a while and retreated, and the gap that had just been recaptured was reoccupied by Wu Huan.
Li Huiyi saw the situation and shouted loudly, "The husband has a life and death, wealth is in the sky, keep Xiangping, everyone will reward ten acres of fertile land, everyone will rush me"! After speaking, he took the lead in rushing into the enemy army, and for a while the Han soldiers shouted to kill.
At this time, the battlefield had entered the white heat, and a Han soldier was stabbed in the body and shouted, "The child is not filial, and he will not be able to accompany the second elder in the future." After speaking, he jumped off the city tower with a Wuhuan soldier in his arms. The soldiers on both sides are like crazy, you stab me with a sword and I stab you, as if the wound is not on their body, they only know that after killing the enemy in front of them, as long as there is a breath, they will fight to the end.
Finally, the old man couldn't stand it anymore and closed his eyes. It's dark, and Wuhuan has no choice but to withdraw his troops and prepare to fight tomorrow.