Xiong Ba was taken aback when he received the news.

"What did Lord Murong say?"

"Your Excellency thinks that the enemy's reinforcements are three or four thousand, and they are led by the leopards of Lulongse, which is extremely threatening, so I am ready to send Lord Umon of the Coyote Tribe to intercept them and delay their crossing of the river."

"Your lord is still attacking the city?" Xiong Ba asked.

"Yes. Today, the western side of the city wall has been captured by us many times, and the destruction of the city is already a matter of time. The adults hoped that the attack at the East City Gate would be more fierce and that Tian Kai would be firmly contained in order to cover the opening of the gap in the South City Gate by the main force and successfully break through Yuyang City. ”

Xiong Ba was silent, lowered his head, and circled around the war horse.

"Tell your lordship that when the city is about to be breached, it is not advisable to disperse the forces on the main battlefield, but to concentrate all your forces to launch a fierce attack on it, and strive to achieve it overnight. I'd better send someone to the Baoqiu River to stop it. The Baoqiu River itself is a good defensive position, as long as it is held on the opposite bank, it does not need too many men and horses to achieve the purpose of delaying the enemy's crossing of the river. Xiong Ba thought about it for a long time, stopped, and said slowly to Murong Lin.

Murong Lin was overjoyed, bowed his hand to Xiong Ba, and flew away on his horse.

At noon, with a thousand soldiers, he hurried to the Baoqiu River. Xiong Ba asked them to bring enough arrows, and once the Han reinforcements crossed the river, they sealed the river with long arrows, so as not to start a frontal conflict with the enemy as much as possible to avoid unnecessary losses. Xiong Ba repeatedly warned Fang Bang to be careful of leopards and never despise him. He's not an idiot anymore when he just lost his memory.

Liu Yu wore a cloth coat and stood on the tower of Yuyang City.

In the afternoon, the enemy's offensive became more and more fierce, and the Han army was gradually unable to resist. He was anxious and anxious for reinforcements. It has been five or six days since he arrived in Yuyang City with reinforcements, and no other reinforcements have been seen so far.

The situation in Youzhou has suddenly deteriorated since the Yellow Turban riots last year. Although the great victory of Lulongsai at the end of last year helped them temporarily get rid of the unfavorable situation of being invaded by the Hu people, it did not help them obtain a large amount of money and food, nor did it help the poor people of Youzhou to survive the long and harsh winter.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion, which affected the entire Central Plains of the Han Kingdom, gradually subsided before the end of last year with the death of the Yellow Turban mob leaders Zhang Jiao Brothers, Zhang Mancheng and others, but its ferocity and madness seriously devastated the already weak Han Kingdom, causing its political, economic and cultural losses to suffer an unprecedented blow. The edifice of the Great Han Kingdom is about to collapse, and the empire is already on the verge of crumbling. There are not a few court members who are more soberly aware of the danger of the empire. Liu Yu is one of them.

Liu Yu was a native of Tan, Donghai, Xuzhou (now Tancheng County, Shandong), and was the sixth grandson of Liu Qiang, King Gong of the East China Sea. When I was a child, due to the turmoil of the times, the family road declined, although it was a clan, but it was also reduced to the same as ordinary people. When Liu Yu was young, he served as a small official in Tan County, and then gradually rose to the history of Youzhou Thorn. Liu Yu is an honest, fair and benevolent official, who has won the support of the people and has made remarkable achievements. But Liu Yu's kind and humble personality has caused a bad hidden danger, the Taishou of several major county governments, and the Minister of State do not sell Liu Yu's account very much. When they asked for money, they all came to complain, and when they asked them to contribute, they hid faster than rabbits.

This time the Xianbei people invaded Yuyang, and Liu Yu happened to be in Zhuo County. He hurriedly rushed to Yuyang City with the two thousand county soldiers of Zhuo County day and night. However, the reinforcements from Guangyang County, which is next door to Yuyang, have not arrived for a long time. Although Liu Yu sent Xian Yufu to Guangyang County to urge him to do it, there has been no news so far. The news from Lu Longsai said that the Xianbei people were outside the Chen Bing Pass, so the reinforcements from Youbeiping County were even more out of reach.

Liu Yu looked at the fewer and fewer Han soldiers on the city tower, and his heart was heavy.

From the morning, the western wall became the focus of enemy attacks. Despite the heavy casualties, the Xianbei soldiers attacked stubbornly and stubbornly. They organized assault teams of 100 men again and again, tirelessly attacked in turn, climbed the city wall by all means, and fought to the death with the Han soldiers. The Xianbei people exchanged a few lives for the life of a soldier on the defender, and dealt a heavy blow to the Han army, and there was a dangerous situation on the defensive surface of the western city wall. The soldiers of the Han army were killed by the Xianbei people on their own defensive points, and there have been several cases where individual defensive areas have been occupied by the Xianbei people.

The soldiers on both sides opened their blood-red eyes, slashed with knives and axes, picked up spears and stabbed with spears, and did everything they could, even biting their mouths and pinching their hands, anyway, they used all the means that could make the other party die.

Again and again, the Han army's reserve troops blocked the holes of the guns and pulled out the nails, and they engaged in brutal hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. The battle on the city walls was unprecedentedly fierce.

In the afternoon, the Xianbei people suddenly stopped attacking. With the low and loud sound of bull's horns, the soldiers began to quickly retreat from the city to safety. But instead of retreating to the barracks to rest, they regrouped their troops as if they were preparing for the next round of more intense attacks.

The walls were densely packed with corpses, blood overflowing, and a strong smell of blood floated in the air, filling the sky over the entire city.

Liu Yu walked slowly on the city wall, without a trace of blood on his shriveled thin face, looking old and sad. He looked at the remains of the soldiers lying on the wall in various postures, at the wounded soldiers who were leaning against the edge of the city wall and moaning loudly, his heart was extremely heavy, he could not express his sorrow and pain in words, and the flame of hatred in his heart was burning violently.

He has always adhered to a policy of softness towards the Hu people, and he hopes to live in peace with the Hu people outside the Saiwai area. With his sincere heart, he touched and appeased countless Hu nobles and ordinary people. Against public opinion, he opened many bazaars in Shanggu County, allowing the Huns, Xianbei, Karasuma, Buyeo, and other Hu people of various ethnic groups to trade with the Han here, bartering, exchanging goods, and improving the living standards of the Hu and Han people. He relocated a large number of Karasuma people to Daigun, Shanggu, Yuyang, Youbeiping, Liaoxi, and Liaodong, helped them build houses, taught them to cultivate land and raise silkworms, and did everything possible to make them gradually abandon their nomadic life and get rid of poverty for generations. He tried his best to establish good relations with the leaders of the tribes, and even though the treasury of Youzhou was extremely scarce, he still provided food and money to the Hu tribes who were in desperate need of help. He didn't understand why these Hu people not only did not thank Dade, but instead intensified their efforts to invade and plunder, and why did they do so much because he had done so many good deeds, including the very generous release of Uyan and several tribal leaders who had been captured in Lulongse, why?

Could it be that these Hu people are really jackals in nature, a wolf that can never be fed?

Liu Yu remembered the long history of Baima Gongsun Zhan, who served in the subject state of Liaodong. He once disputed his own efforts to appease the Hu people. He thought that the Hu people should be killed, and they should be robbed, until they were killed to the fullest, and they were as tame as dogs in the courtyard: they had nothing but to eat and survive, and only food was left in their heads. In this way, they will not have greedy hopes. Without Yu Wang, they would not have sent troops to invade the land of the Han Dynasty at every turn, wantonly robbing and killing and plundering the Han people.

Could it be that the cruel and murderous Gongsun Chan is right? Liu Yu was confused and painful. Why must two peoples have a vendetta against each other, conquer each other, enslave each other, and can't they live together amicably?

Liu Yu thought of his good friend, Yufuluo, the Zuoxian King of the Huns. After the Xiongnu were divided into two parts, the southern Xiongnu, with the permission of the emperor of the Han State, moved south to Yunzhong in the northern Xinjiang of Bingzhou, and lived in the Shuofang area, and the people of the two countries did not get along well for decades. After the Karasuma people moved south into the territory of the Great Han Kingdom to live and graze, didn't most of the tribes get along very well with the Great Han people? Why did the Xianbei people have to attack the Great Han Kingdom in a vain attempt to occupy the territory of the Great Han Kingdom? Since Tanshihuai unified the Xianbei tribe, the two countries have not stopped fighting, but who on both sides has benefited? What else is there besides the white bones, the blood of Yin, and the tears of countless orphans and widows?

But the bloody battlefield in front of him stimulated the old man to almost lose his mind.

When the city is broken, what will be the fate left for the people in the city? Burn and loot. Men will be killed, and women and children will become slaves of the Xianbei people. Houses will be burned down, and food and everything that can be exchanged for things will be moved back to Xianbei by these murderous barbarians. Therefore, Yuyang City must not be breached by the enemy.

Liu Yu saw the military Sima Yusui he had brought from Zhuo County. Yu Sui is a sturdy middle-aged man with a flat face and a pair of shrewd eyes. He was wounded, and his waist was wrapped in a thick cloth that had been stained red with blood.

"My lord, there are only six hundred soldiers left on the western wall. You should see if you need to draw some troops from the eastern wall, otherwise the defense on this side may be dangerous. Yu Sui saw Liu Yu and hurriedly ran over.

Liu Yu sighed and didn't make a sound.

The people of the city were organized and divided into several bunges engaged in logistics services. It was now between battles, and they were running out of their hiding places, consciously doing their jobs. Some of them ran up the walls to carry the corpses and transport the wounded. Some of the men gathered their weapons on the city walls and gathered together the long arrows scattered everywhere. More people carried stones, wood, bundles of arrows, and brand-new swords and spears to the walls. There was a time on the city wall where people came and went, and shouts were all in one.

"If we draw troops from the eastern city wall, their defense there will be weakened, which will make little sense for the defense of this southern city gate." Li Hong said in a low voice.

"My lord, I wonder what the situation is at the East Gate?"

"It must be very bad. There were only 1,500 people on his side, and it was indeed difficult to deal with Xianbei's army of 5,000 people. Xiong Ba is a famous general of the Xianbei people, with both wisdom and bravery. In one day of his fierce attack yesterday, Tian Duwei's troops lost more than 300 people, and it is estimated that the losses today will not be less than this number. ”

"My lord, the reinforcements are long gone, and I don't know when they will arrive. If we continue to wear and tear at this rate, in another two or three days, the soldiers will be gone. Without soldiers, how can we defend the western city wall? ”

"Absolutely." Liu Yu said confidently.

He pointed to the crowd shuttling in front of him and said, "Look at these people of Yuyang City, they are our last reserve and the last line of defense. Like us, they are closely related to Yuyang City, sharing life and death. So no one will give up Yuyang City. As long as you keep Yuyang City, everyone will have a way to live. ”

Yu Sui didn't speak, he glanced at Liu Yu with great respect and admiration, and then bowed and retreated.

Under the city, the sound of a huge bull's horn sounded again, and the enemy's attack began.