Chapter 63: The Enemy Comes (I)
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The first year of Yongjia. (Please search Bayi Chinese Net, the fastest updated novel website!) March. Jiexiu.
The legend of Jiexiu Castle is named after the death of the sage Jie Zitui in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it is an important town in the northeast of Xihe County. The city is small, but it is strong.
In the late autumn of last year, the Hun army came here, Jiexiu ordered Jia Hun to defend the city, and after the city was broken, he did not surrender and died, and everyone sighed at his loyalty. After Yue Shigong defeated Liu Jingsuo's troops, the Xiongnu power shrank, and this place became the southernmost point within the reach of the Jinyang regime, facing the Xiongnu across the mountains.
In the southwest of Jiexiu City, not far from the Gaobi Ridge, it is the key pass of the soldiers to fight for the Bird Mouse Valley. This is a narrow valley that is split by Fenshui like a knife and axe between the lofty mountains and mountains, and the road is dangerous and narrow for dozens of miles in the valley, tossing and turning, and the steps are frightening, as if only birds and mice can pass safely, so it is named.
It is rumored that the Taifen of the nine stops in the world mentioned in "Lu's Spring and Autumn" is this Sparrow Mouse Valley. If you go north from the Hedong Plain to Jinzhong, this is the main passageway. After Liu Kun sat in Jinyang, he sent his general, Yokono General Lu Chang, to garrison here with 1,000 elite soldiers. and appointed Lang Shuo, a native of Pingyang, as the interim order to assist Lu Chang.
Lu Changzi Shize, from Fanyang Lu's Shuzong. He abandoned literature and martial arts in the Taiyuan period, followed Liu Kun to fight in the north and south, and traveled all over the banks of the river. His people can shoot left and right with a strong bow, and they are good at using broadswords, and their bravery is often the first of the generals. A few years ago, during the Battle of the River Bridge, he led his iron cavalry into battle, and although he defeated ten times the enemy, he was stabbed in the chest when he fought the enemy. Liu Kun was shocked by this, invited famous doctors to treat him, and personally examined the decoction.
In the end, although Lu Chang saved his life, he injured his lungs, and after that, he was short of breath and often coughed. Therefore, he gradually became less likely to face the enemy in person, and instead imitated the style of a general who commanded Ruoding.
Lu Chang has a calm and thorough personality, and since the town guard has been resting, he has organized soldiers to repair and strengthen the city and set up enemy towers and high bases. And every day in turn to send capable soldiers into the Bird Mouse Valley sentinels, the next day back and forth, will go deeper than 30 miles to rest, to prevent the Huns from sneaking over.
In the Spring Festival, hundreds of families moved from the deep mountains. These people were originally local residents, and they fled into the mountains to escape the fighting. Seeing that the situation was a little settled, after all, they could not leave their homeland, so they turned back one after another. Lu Chang placed them one by one. Seeing the small Jiexiu City, it gradually became a little popular.
At noon on this day, Lu Chang heard the noise of his subordinates as soon as he came out of the courtyard, so he went to drink and ask what the reason was. It turned out that a team of patrolmen sent yesterday failed to return to the city in time.
According to the custom of the past, this group went out at noon yesterday, camped for the night in the Bird Mouse Valley, and then set off for their return, and should have arrived in the city to hand over the next group of patrolmen. This is a common practice in the army to go out from afar, and everyone is very familiar with it, and there has been no mistake in the past two months. Who knew that half an hour had passed since today's handover time, and the previous team still hadn't returned.
When Lu Chang heard this, he was immediately furious: "Such a major matter must be reported to me immediately!" But you are making noise in private, don't you miss a big thing? ”
He raised his hand and slapped the most noisy soldier on his head, and then shouted: "I will lead the patrol guard on duty today!" All the generals in the city, immediately prepare the military horses and equipment! ……”
As Lu Chang ordered the price to go down one by one, the people in the entire Jiexiu City immediately became busy. In just a moment, everything was ready, and dozens of elite soldiers were neatly gathered. Lu Chang grabbed it again, and he was going to take the lead in leading the army out of the city.
Suddenly, I heard a hissing voice from the watchtower of the city wall: "Hu people! Hu people! The brigade of Hu people is coming! ”
Lu Chang hurriedly took the soldiers to the top of the city to look. I saw waves of military horses coming out of the Bird Mouse Valley in the distance, but in a moment, a huge military formation was gathered. Hundreds of military flags of various colors were flying in the military array, and all kinds of hideous beasts were painted on the flags, reflecting the infantry and cavalry like wolves and tigers. The armor soldiers of the whole army are shining brightly and murderous. The sound of a desolate and murderous horn sounded from time to time, and it was heard far away in the vast wilderness. Just look at the military horses in the field outside the valley at this moment, I am afraid that there will be no less than 30,000 or 40,000 male soldiers, and the people and horses in the valley are still pouring out, as if endless, and they will never stop!
This...... This is clearly the main force of the Huns! Lu Chang only felt a cool breath soaking up from the tail vertebrae, he knew that the Jinyang army and the Xiongnu were incompatible, and sooner or later there would be a series of bloody battles, so since he took office, he has been preparing for war day and night. But he never expected that when the spring was still cold, the Huns couldn't wait to move the army!
In spring, the war horses are thin and weak, and the second is prone to epidemics, so since ancient times, the Hu people in the north have inherited the habit of sending troops to fight only when the horses are fat in autumn. Mo said that it was Lu Chang, and even the civil and military officials of Jinyang, including Yue Shigong, did not expect that the Xiongnu would be so impatient.
Lu Chang carefully identified the banner of the Hun array, and muttered the identity and name of the leading general: "General He Tuyan of the Auxiliary Han!" …… Champion General Qiao Xi! …… Destroy the Jin general Liu Jing! …… Rebel against the general Hu Yanhao! …… Wuya General Liu Qin! …… Capture the general Hu Yanyan! …… Great Sima Huyanyi! ”
These people are all majestic enough to stop the children's night crying of the Huns, for several years, they crisscrossed the vast land from the south to the big river and the north to the Yin Mountain, killing the corpses of the Jin army like a mountain! Just a dozen names were reported one by one, as if it was a heavy boulder, and Lu Chang was almost out of breath. And the soldiers standing beside him turned even pale.
Before Lu Chang could identify it clearly, a huge and incomparably pure white body was erected high in the Hun army array. At that time, tens of thousands of Huns shouted like a tsunami, even if they heard it from afar in Jiexiu City, they felt deafening!
Lu Chang raised his eyebrows, gritted his teeth and signed up: "The Huns are big and single Yu Liu Yuan!" ”
When today's No. 1 rebel, the lord of the Xiongnu Han Kingdom, and the self-established King of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu Dadan Yu Liu Yuanhai actually led the troops in person!
Lu Chang held the battlement with his hand, carefully watching the enemy's military appearance. I only heard the sound of footsteps sounding hurriedly, and it turned out to be Jiexiu Ling Lang Shuo coming in a hurry.
Lu Chang asked, "But I didn't expect the thieves to attack on a large scale...... What does Lord Lang think of the enemy? ”
Lang Shuo muttered: "The thief is here with a teacher, and the army is extremely prosperous. The elite soldiers are all in the middle of it, and they should not be underestimated. ”
Lu Chang looked at Lang Shuo and said: "Now that spring is coming, the grass is barren and the horses are weak. Liu Yuanhai rashly raised troops at this time, and he fought the idea of taking advantage of the unstable foothold of our Jinyang army and going down with a drum. Hehe, it's a pity that the key to Jinyang is Jiexiu, but Delu is sitting at the head of Jiexiu City, so Hu people don't dare to peep north. ”
At this time, a horse galloped from a distance from the Hu army array, and it turned out to be a Han official who had surrendered to the Xiongnu to persuade him to surrender. The messenger immediately walked away a hundred paces, and just roared twice, he saw a silver star fly out, which hit him in the throat, and he immediately fell from his horse. Lu Chang's archery skills are also among the top five in the Jinyang army, which is full of good hands, and this arrow is really fast and ruthless!
At the head of the city, Lu Chang sneered and put down the special strong bow in his hand, and said sharply to the soldiers: "Since Lu followed the lord, he has experienced more than 60 battles, and he will fight bravely. Since I have been entrusted by the lord and led the city to guard the city, I should live and die with Jiexiu. The army must work hard, and those who shake the army's heart will be killed! Those who are ineffective in combat are killed! ”
A moment later, a few messengers galloped out of the north gate of Jiexiu, and then the soldiers and civilians in the city worked together to block the four gates with mud, stone and wood.
In fact, the key point of defending the city lies in the defense of the attack, and it is very important to maintain a strong counterattack force and a reliable counterattack channel. If the difference in the number of the two armies is not too great, they usually keep the four gates open for the purpose of attacking the troops and horses in the city. Unfortunately, the disparity between the enemy and me at this time was too great, and Lu Chang had to pay attention to it.
Lu Chang's arrow also provoked a lot of noise in the enemy formation. The Huns reorganized the army a little, and then sent men and horses to surround Jiexiu City.
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