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The fire continued until the evening, when Ma Chao led 10,000 light cavalry on the hot ground and galloped eastward.

At the same time, an army led by Zhang Ren entered the city, and the entire new city was immersed in smoke and choking smells, and there were many fireheads making their final struggles.

Ma Chao led 10,000 light cavalry to chase all the way to the river, just saw the floating bridge burning on the river, in the moonlight and firelight, the opposite figure was longing, heading towards Hengren.

Ma Chao scolded in annoyance.

Ma Chao did not lead the army back, but set up camp by the river, and at the same time sent fast horses to report the situation to Cao Cao.

It was also on this night that Ma Teng's vanguard troops had an encounter with Wusun's light cavalry outside Hengren City. The battle lasted just over two quarters, with hundreds of men on each side lost, and there was no victory.

Later, Ma Teng's forward troops fought two more battles with Queen Wusun's light cavalry, again without a victory.

Early the next morning, Ma Teng led his 30,000 main forces to advance to a hilly terrain a few miles south of Hengren, and at this time, Queen Wusun's army had all entered Hengren City.

Ma Teng had already received Cao Cao's flying pigeon message, and at the same time, the scouts also reported the news that the main force of Queen Wusun's brigade had entered Hengren, so he did not take any action against Hengren, but ordered the army to rely on the terrain to set up camp on the spot.

Ma Teng took dozens of personal soldiers to climb a hill in the camp and look in the direction of Hengren, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "I can't imagine that a small Fanbang can build such a city!" ”

The scale of Hengren City in front of Ma Teng is really not small, and there are at least 100,000 residents living in the city. The whole is rectangular in shape, and the shape is almost exactly the same as that of the Central Plains. The walls are two feet high, and they are all made of blue bricks. Although it can not be compared with the city wall of Luoyang and Chang'an, but it is not inferior to the county town of the Central Plains, there are four city gates, and there is an urn city at the city gate, the so-called urn city is actually an independent space enclosed by the city wall behind the city gate, the city wall communicates with the main city wall, and there is also a city gate, through this city gate to really enter the city, when fighting. The defenders often deliberately welcomed the enemy into the urn and then shot them from all sides, which is the origin of the word "lure the king" into the urn.

Hengren Governance.

Queen Wusun had just agreed with the generals on the defense, and at this moment there were only Queen Wusun and a few personal maids in the hall.

Queen Wusun rubbed her temples a little rashly, got up and walked to the map shelf, her eyes wandered to the location of the Northern Protectorate of Great Wei, her eyes were fixed, and she murmured: "I hope you are true to your word!" If I fall down, will you be better? ”

Then. A herald came to Queen Wusun with a beaming face and reported: "Good news, Queen! The tooth pass was broken by General Yakuya! ”

Queen Wusun couldn't help but be stunned, and hurriedly walked to the herald. Hurriedly asked, "Really?" Are you sure? ”

The herald immediately presented a herald in both hands.

Queen Wusun took it and flew it again, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He muttered, "Good news at last!" ”

Then he asked the herald, "Is there any news from Shikoku?" ”

The herald shook his head, "Not yet!" ”

Queen Wusun nodded. Pan said: "Immediately spread the news of the good news of the tooth pass to the whole army!" ”

"Yes!" The herald answered and departed.

Queen Wusun thought for a moment. Before returning to the case, he quickly wrote a commendation order, called another herald, and hoped that he would immediately pass the commendation order to the person who had made great contributions.

The battle of Yaguan ended last night, and the base of the 5,000 Wei army was killed, but the Wusun army was not easy, with nearly 7,000 killed, plus the wounded, reaching 10,000, and the total number of this Wusun army was only 30,000.

Speaking of which, it is also that the combat effectiveness of this Wei army is not strong enough, if it is the elite of the First Army, not only will the casualty ratio not be like this, but also the tooth pass should not be lost at this time.

In addition to strengthening the garrison of the city, Queen Wusun also sent her cronies and generals to lead 20,000 people to build fortifications by the river to prevent the Wei army from crossing the river.

Cao Cao led the main force of the First Army to the river the next morning, and immediately began to prepare for the crossing of the river for battle, the most important preparation for crossing the river was to collect boats, which were not used for ferrying, but for building pontoon bridges

After discussing with the generals, Cao Cao asked the Imperial Forest Army around him to get a pot of tea. Cao Cao sat down and began to read the information that had just been delivered

At this time, a herald entered the big tent

"Your Majesty, the bodies of all the soldiers who died in Xincheng have been found!" The herald reported.

Cao Cao's expression suddenly became heavy, and he ordered: "Tell Xu Chu that you must not be lazy!" ”

"No!" The herald answered and was about to withdraw and send it.

"Wait! Did you find the body of General Lejin? ”

"I've found it, but I've been buried by the Wusun people!"

Cao Cao was silent for a moment and ordered: "Pack up General Lejin's body and transport it to Valhalla with the other fallen soldiers!" The herald clenched his fists and withdrew.

Lejin was the first to serve Cao Cao, even after that, the top generals in Cao Cao's forces increased greatly, resulting in the continuous decline of Lejin's status, but Lejin was still loyal to Cao Cao as always.

Cao Cao transferred him to the Western Regions in order to promote his position in the future, but he didn't expect that the Western Regions would become the burial place of Lejin.

The general died in a hundred battles, this was the only thought in Cao Cao's heart at this time!

"Your Majesty, the boats to build the pontoon bridge are ready, can you attack?" Ma Chao and Dian Wei and others will come in together, and Ma Chao can't wait to ask for instructions.

Cao Cao nodded and ordered: "Order the ballista team to immediately launch a fire raid on the enemy positions on the opposite bank!" After three rounds of shelling, the forward battalion attacked! Meng Qi, you will lead the cavalry to wait by the river, and once the pontoon bridge is built, you will immediately rush over to sweep the enemy army! The rest of the generals followed me to lead the rear army to suppress the formation! ”

"No!" The generals agreed in unison.

More than 100 ballistae are lined up on the bank of the river, these ballistas are the largest of the kind produced by the Wei army, and they are named Shenwei ballistas, and their power is extremely amazing.

At the same time, nearly 20,000 soldiers of the forward battalion were ready, and 10,000 light cavalry led by Ma Chao were also lined up in an open field by the river.

On the opposite side, the Wusun people built a temporary defensive front with horses and earth and stones, divided into three layers, the middle layer is very open and flat, on which nearly two hundred catapults are lined up, the role of these catapults is to block the river, in general, if you attack from the river, these catapults are an absolute nightmare.

Cao Cao was immediately on a small hill, Dian Wei and Xu Chu, who were the generals of the Imperial Forest Army, were also immediately on one side, their bronze bell-like eyes were full of warlike desire, and five thousand imperial forest troops surrounded the hill, protecting the entire hill impermeable.

As the Wei army ordered the flag bearer to wave the flag, the officer in charge of controlling the ballista immediately roared, and hundreds of soldiers were busy for a while, followed by a mournful sound.

Cao Cao's gaze couldn't help but move quickly to the other side, only to see countless pillars of dust suddenly rising on the opposite bank, many Wusun soldiers seemed to be strung together by a huge force, the fragments of fortifications and catapults flew all over the sky with the dust pillars, and in an earth-shattering sound, the frightened shouts from the other side could be faintly heard, and the Wusun people obviously did not expect that the Wei army had such a terrifying weapon.

In fact, in the past two years, Queen Wusun and her soldiers have learned through various channels that the Wei army has such a terrible weapon, but they did not believe the rumored description that seems to be exaggerated. (To be continued.) )