The Northwest Army sent troops north, but Wuping Mansion was already full of gunsmoke.

Dingwu knew the strength of the barbarians, but he had not had real contact with the barbarians on the battlefield before.

At the beginning, although he expected that the barbarians would raid the Hexi military camp stationed outside the city, but he thought that the Hexi Army was an elite general brought out by Feng Yuanpo after all, Feng Yuanpo was insidious and cunning, and finally rebelled and died, but his ability to lead the troops, Dingwu still admired it, and the combat effectiveness of the Hexi Army has always been not weak, even if the barbarians raided, the Hexi Army may not be defeated.

What's more, over the years, the Hexi army has repeatedly conquered the Mobei grassland, and the barbarians can be said to be defeated in every battle, and finally even succumbed to Feng Yuanpo's feet.

But the result was much beyond his expectations, the Hexi army stationed outside the city, under the sudden attack of the barbarians, almost had no resistance power, and soon collapsed, scattered and fled, and even thousands of people fled to the city of Wuping Mansion in a hurry, wanting to enter the city to hide.

Of course, Dingwu did not dare to order the door to be opened, behind the defeated army, it was the menacing barbarian iron cavalry, once the city gate was opened, the defeated troops of Hexi could certainly enter the city, and the barbarian iron cavalry could naturally rush into the city.

Seven thousand barbarian iron cavalry, although the strength of the army is not terrifying, but its destructive power must be amazing.

The defenders at the head of the city could only watch as the barbarian iron cavalry came up from the rear, and the nearly Qianhexi rout, which had no way out, was almost completely wiped out under the noses of the defenders.

The wailing sound under the city made the soldiers defending the city breathe fire in their eyes, and many people even asked for orders to go out of the city to fight to the death with the barbarians, but Dingwu knew that at this time, he must not be rash.

The barbarians slaughtered countless Hexi soldiers like slaughtering pigs and sheep, and the corpses under the city were piled up, and then they launched an attack on Wuping Mansion City, wanting to take advantage of the situation to take Wuping Mansion City in one fell swoop.

It's just that in the face of the strong city, the barbarians rushed to the city gate, trying to split the city gate with a big sword, but they got nothing, but the officers and soldiers defending the city lifted their spirits, bows and arrows fell stones, and the barbarians suffered heavy casualties and could only retreat.

After that, the barbarians launched several successive attacks, but the method of siege was simple and stupid, and they found nothing but a few hundred corpses at a time.

After several offensives, Dingwu also saw that the barbarians lacked skills in attacking the city, if these thousands of barbarians kept attacking the city with one tendon, they didn't have to go out of the city to fight, so they condescended to defend the city, and they could also consume the barbarians.

After all, the barbarians were not mentally retarded, and they couldn't attack several times, but they gave up attacking Wuping Mansion City and went to Tiangong to kill them.

The seven thousand barbarian iron cavalry is like a tyrannical hungry wolf, they can't take the city of Wuping Mansion for a while, and they lose their troops and generals, so they will naturally not give up and concentrate their forces to attack the Heavenly Palace.

It's just that the construction of the Heavenly Palace is already in a dangerous place, the road leading to the Heavenly Palace is steep and narrow, in the Heavenly Palace, there are still tens of thousands of strong men who Yao Chong led the evacuation in time, although there is no mention of weapons from the armory, but Yao Chong uses all the things that can be used in the Heavenly Palace, and guards the weak points of the Heavenly Palace.

After several battles, neither Wuping Mansion City nor Tiangong was captured, but thousands of barbarian cavalry were killed and wounded, and the barbarians had no choice but to withdraw and camp more than ten miles outside Wuping Mansion.

It's like a wolf seeing a tempting delicacy, but unfortunately it's covered with a layer of iron thorns, and the barbarians can't eat it at all, but they are reluctant to leave.

Nearly 10,000 cavalrymen, both men and horses, needed food, tossed back and forth for more than ten days, and the barbarian iron cavalry found nothing, but their own food had been eaten.

Fortunately, the solution of the people on the grassland for food is to take local materials, although Wuping Mansion cannot attack it, but the villages and towns in Hexi are as many as cattle hair, and the barbarians left 5,000 soldiers and horses to guard the city, but they sent thousands of cavalry to plunder the villages to obtain what they need.

The city of Wuping Mansion was besieged for more than 20 days, and Dingwu had already ordered to recruit strong men from the city, and seize the time to make bows and arrows in the city, and prepare a lot of stones to prepare for defending the city.

The means of the thousands of barbarian soldiers outside the city, Dingwu saw it in his eyes, and naturally understood that with these thousands of people, it was impossible to break through the city of Wupingfu, but he understood better that the crisis of Wupingfu was just beginning, and it would not be long before a large number of barbarian iron horsemen would come from the north.

Dingwu did not underestimate the barbarians in his heart, the thousands of barbarian soldiers outside the city, it can almost be said that the dragons have no leader, they belong to different tribes, just for the common interests, temporarily gathered together, but in the Mobei grassland, there are other strong tribes, among which there are also many capable people, when they come to the city, sooner or later they will come up with a way to attack the city.

Wuping Mansion was trapped, but there were no reinforcements to save it.

In the face of the advance of the Liaodong people, if you turn back to rescue, it is very likely that under the pursuit of the Liaodong army, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses will become a rout in an instant, and not only can you not rescue Wuping Mansion, but tens of thousands of soldiers and horses may collapse.

To the south of Hujin Meilong, Dingwu is not to think much, with Meilong's existing forces on hand, in the face of Hebei Qingtian King, are already stretched, obviously at a disadvantage, once Meilong transferred troops to the north to rescue, unless Qingtian King is stupid, otherwise he will not hesitate to lead the army straight into Hujin, and the situation will be even more severe.

Dingwu knew that the Qin State had come to the edge of the cliff by now, and there was no way out, no matter who hit Hexi, Wuping Mansion was a place that had to be taken, although he knew that the Qin State was exhausted, but he didn't want to let the Qin State be ruined in his hands, even if there was only a glimmer of hope, he didn't want to give up.

After all, the city of Wuping Mansion is as strong as a fortress, and there are still hundreds of thousands of people in the city, in addition to the weapons in the arsenal are very abundant, although the food in the official warehouse is not much, but the money and food of the rich families in the city are very sufficient, and when it comes to the last resort, Dingwu naturally does not hesitate to do anything about the money and food, and he has secretly ordered Ma Hong to come forward to collect money and food from the gentry and wealthy families, and he has made preparations.

This was his last refuge, and he had no way out, and he had no intention of retreating.

The barbarians were stationed outside the city, and although the people in the city were terrified, they also obeyed the decrees issued by Dingwu.

Although the barbarians did not dare to invade the south for many years, and were even beaten by the Hexi army for a time, the people of Hexi knew the cruelty of the barbarians very well.

Once the barbarians break the city, it will be a catastrophe for the city of Wupingfu, and the people in the city will definitely be devastated.

Although the people of Hexi did not have a good impression of Qin, in this situation, they could only choose to support their emperor, hoping that their emperor would lead them to resist this disaster.

Don't say that there is a decree issued by the emperor to recruit young and strong, but without this will, the young and strong in the city are bound to organize and fight to the death with the barbarians.

There were only 3,000 royal guards in the city as defenders, but after the conscription order, the young men in the city came in an instream, and in more than 20 days, there were already 10,000 or 20,000 young men who had been conscripted.

Fortunately, the barbarians knew that it would be difficult to conquer Wuping Mansion City for a while, so they had stopped their senseless attack on the city, and Dingwu also took this opportunity to transfer a small number of men from the already weak guards to train these young men.

In a short period of time, it is undoubtedly impossible to train such a group of young men with no combat experience into qualified warriors, so Dingwu only focuses on training them as a way to defend the city.

Think about how majestic and mighty it was back then, when Great Qin's iron-hoofed horses stepped on the world, destroyed countless countries, and was invincible, but in just a few decades, the last glory of Great Qin was trampled by thousands of barbarian cavalry, which cannot be said to be an irony.

Dingwu stood at the head of the city, looking at the sunset, his expression was still very calm.

When he was made the crown prince, he thought that one day he would inherit the Great Unification, and he would definitely build the Great Qin Empire into a prosperous and powerful empire, and let the prestige of the Great Qin Empire spread throughout the world.

Even after the fall of Luo'an Capital and his escape all the way to Hexi, he still did not give up hope.

He had also carefully planned, bent on recovering Luo'an and reviving Great Qin, but the situation in the world was obviously beyond his control, and from the moment Chu Huan broke through, his carefully planned revival plan had been declared bankrupt.

The sunset has not yet set, and the afterglow of the setting sun shines on the city, shining on his golden dragon robe, the dragon robe is dazzling and colorful, but the great Qin mountains and rivers are already not there.

"Holy Lord, you haven't rested for two days." Xuanyuan Shao, who had been undressed, looked at the emperor who was a little pale, and said softly: "The Holy Lord should go back to the palace to rest first, and it is important to take care of the dragon's body." ”

Dingwu finally showed a smile, turned his eyes to Xuanyuan Shao, put his hands behind his back, and asked softly with a smile: "Xuanyuan, do you guess who will break the city in the end?" Is it the barbarians, is it Xuan Ping, or is it Chu Huan? ”

"Holy Lord, no matter who it is, Wuping Mansion City is bound to be solid as a rock, and no one can take it." Xuanyuan Shao said solemnly: "Whoever wants to attack Wuping Mansion will kill himself." ”

Dingwu laughed, raised his hand and patted Xuanyuan Shao on the shoulder, and said, "I also hope so, but if the city is really broken and I die here, I don't know how future generations will treat me, the king of the dead country?" Then he shook his head with a smile and said: "Maybe my name will not leave a word, if there is really a name left, I only hope that future generations will know that I have also worked hard, and I have never given up!" ”