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Swear to sweep away the Huns without regard for themselves,

Five thousand mink brocade mourned Hu Chen.

Poor and uncertain riverside bones,

is still a person in Qin's dream.

Because of this poem by Tang Chen Tao, many people know that there is a river "Wuding River" in the world, but there are probably not many people who know when and where the Wuding River is.

Wuding River is a tributary of the Yellow River, located in the Yulin area of Shaanxi Province, originating at the northern foot of Baiyu Mountain in Hengshan, which can be said to be the dividing line between Hetao and northern Shaanxi.

The Jingbian, Mizhi, Suide, and Qingjian lines through which the Wuding River flows are the main strategic passages for Guanzhong to enter the Hetao.

Since ancient times, because the Hetao area is mostly in the hands of foreign races, and Guanzhong is the henchman of the Central Plains Dynasty, there is no room for loss, in order to compete for the control of this strategic passage, there have been countless heroic battles on the side of the Wuding River.

Until the Ming Dynasty, along the Wuding River was a nine-sided important land, and wars were frequent. The area that Daqin actually controls now is also to the Wuding River, and then it is the Dongtao area controlled by Qita.

Yan Xiaoman rode back to the Wuding River, took off his black hood, and threw it on his face, the cold river water made him feel tired a lot.

Later, Ye Guigen, Shen Daqian, Qi Yan and others, with two hundred cavalry, also rode to the river, and the roaring sound of iron hooves startled a small group of wild yellow sheep drinking water on the other side of the river and fled.

Yan Xiaoman straightened up and said to Qi Yan: "Head, the enemy's rangers have increased significantly today, and the range of activities has also deepened a lot, I think this may be a sign that the enemy is preparing to attack, we should report to General Su immediately." ”

Ye Guigen looked at the vast wasteland in the northwest and said: "Now that the cold has not subsided, the snow has not disappeared, and if Qi Ta is a large-scale attack, he will also face the difficulty of supplying grain and grass. Therefore, I think that the enemy is likely to respond accordingly because our army has increased its reconnaissance efforts. ”

Yan Xiaoman said: "No matter what, we should always report the situation to General Su." ”

Qi Yan said: "Of course. ”

At present, the Qin army does not have many troops on the front line of the Wuding River. The tens of thousands of soldiers and horses that the emperor brought back from Longyou last winter needed to rest, and at the same time, because of the arrival of winter, they were not immediately arranged to the northern front.

In general, the Qin army was still mainly on the defensive on the front line of the Wuding River, and except for the two cities of Lingwu and Yulin, the strength of the other walled cities was relatively weak.

Thinking of these, Qi Yan continued: "If you can't just rely on guessing, after replenishing grain and grass, this time you have to go a little deeper. Find out where the enemy is moving. ”

After everyone drank their horses, they returned to Lin Kezhai, replenished grain and grass, and after changing their horses, they soon set off again, and two hundred horsemen crossed the collapsed Great Wall, and then divided into four small groups and went deep into the vast wasteland.

In general, the north and south ends of the Hetao area are grasslands. In the middle is a wide desert, but unlike the deserts in the Western Regions, the deserts in the Hetao region also receive snow, but the amount of snow is usually small; In some places, it's like a thin layer of salt sprinkled on the desert. However, in some of the dunes, the snow is high enough to cover the horses' hooves.

Yan Xiaoman and Qi Yan took fifty cavalry, and after arriving at the edge of the desert, they looked at the originally golden desert covered with a layer of snow. Yan Xiaoman rode in, jumped down and shook the snow in the desert with a knife, turned around and shouted to Qi Yan, "Head." Take a look. ”

Qi Yan immediately rode over, looked at the snow that Yan Xiaoman had cleared, and immediately frowned. On hot days the desert is a natural barrier, and it is difficult for armies to cross during this season

"Head, if the whole desert is like this, and the snow inside is enough to provide enough drinking water for the army, and the enemy's rangers are increasing, and the army is not moving, head, do you think they will use the desert as a cover and suddenly cross over and attack."

"This possibility cannot be ruled out, immediately recruit the other three people, let's enter the desert to reconnoitre."

"Whoa."

Yan Xiaoman immediately sent someone to contact Ye Guigen and Shen Daqian, but the person who went to contact them had not returned, and a long black line suddenly appeared in the vast desert.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack, go! Qi Yan shouted, turned over on his horse, and galloped back.

It was as if a storm had suddenly rolled up in the desert, and a black line rolled in, and the scene was so spectacular that it was roughly estimated that there would be no tens of thousands of cavalry.

Qi Yan urgently sent people to warn the border walled city, and for a while, wolf smoke suddenly rose along the Wuding River, and feathers were scrambling.

This time, it was Hadan Batel who led the army across the desert to sneak attack, with an actual strength of 10,000, claimed to be 20,000, and also played the banner of Qitate to achieve the goal of confusing the Qin army;

After he suddenly came out of the desert, he did not attack important towns like Yinzhou and Yulin, but went straight to Linkezhai, Hengshan Fort, and Shilei Zhai, which were small forts with weak defenses.

The Qin army of these small forts is more than 300, less than 200, the defense is relatively weak, but it is an indispensable link along the entire Wuding River, and once it is broken, Hadan Batel can get the corresponding supplies, and can also send troops to cross the Hengshan and invade northern Shaanxi, causing greater shock.

Lin Kezhai is near Hengshan in the south, bordering Wuding River in the north, Wuding River is named because of the irregular flow, the depth is uncertain, and the turbidity is impermanent. In this cold winter season, the water is less than three feet deep in some places.

The 3,000 troops of Hadan Batel who came to attack Lin Kezhai easily crossed the Wuding River, and the rumbling hooves of the horses rolled in, and the remnants of snow splashed on the ground, frightening the beasts and the birds to fly away.

As soon as Qi Yan and the others retreated into Lin Ke Village, Hadan Batel trapped this small village, and then quickly cut down some trees to form a ladder, and immediately launched a fierce attack.

The whining horn sounded throughout the four fields, the black oppressive enemy army galloped wildly, a puffy arrow covered the wall like a dark cloud, and the light of the small Lin Kezhai was also dim, followed by a group of enemies roaring, the sound shook the sky, and rushed to the wall with a cloud ladder.

The enemy's attack came so urgently, so fiercely, like a storm, Qi Yan and the others, who had just withdrawn to the city, lay under the arrow stacks, blocking the top of their heads with shields, and the arrows whizzed down, making people's hearts flutter.

Yan Xiaoman nodded slightly, looking down from the arrow stack, but saw thousands of enemies carrying the ladder and rushing closer and closer, and soon rushed closer and twenty steps, "Boom!" Yan Xiaoman roared angrily, and more than 200 Qin troops on the city wall lit the earth-shattering thunder one after another and smashed down to the city.

Before some Qin troops could smash out the ignited sky-shaking thunder, they were shot by powerful arrows, and the sky-shaking thunder fell on the city and exploded, while more fell into the enemy formation rushing under the city.

Boom, boom, boom

Hundreds of earth-shattering thunderbolts and fierce explosions suppressed all the sounds on the battlefield, and the approaching enemy was blown up in pieces, killing and wounding everywhere, and the offensive was stalled.

And the enemy's cavalry rushed in from the two wings again, the rumbling iron hooves shook the head of the city, and waves of arrows rose into the air again, covering the head of the city, they were still forty or fifty steps away from the city wall, and the earth-shattering thunder of the Qin army was still less than such a distance.

In addition to the large-scale diffuse shooting of the enemy, there are also some people with accurate archery skills who specialize in shooting at close points, and the Qin army at the head of the city will often be shot through the face door by whizzing arrows as soon as they show their heads, penetrating through the bones.

Qi Yan saw that his soldiers kept screaming and falling, and the entire city was suppressed to death, while the enemy took advantage of the ladder on the rack and climbed up desperately, so anxious that his eyes were split. "Look at me, use the shield to block the arrow battlement" Qi Yan yelled while blocking the arrow battlement with his shield, only revealing a small gap in the lower part for looking;

After seeing the enemy situation under the city, smash the earth-shattering thunder to the place where the enemy is gathered.

Yan Xiaoman bowed and ran all the way along the city wall, "Quick, use the shield to block the arrow battlement, do what Qi Baizong does, hurry!" For those soldiers who were a little sluggish, Yan Xiaoman immediately snatched the shields from their hands, put them on the arrow stacks with a bang, and then pointed to the small gap below and shouted, "Watching the enemy from here, do you fucking understand, fuck it!" ”

One shield after another was erected on the battlements, and a series of earth-shattering thunderbolts smashed wildly on the heads of the enemies under the city, and fierce explosions occurred one after another, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the air, and shrapnel flew sideways.

Outside the city, Hadan Batel saw that his arrows were ineffective, and the earth-shattering thunder at the head of the city seemed to be smashed down without money, it was so dense and endless, and the men and horses besieging the city suffered heavy casualties, and the bones pillowed each other, and they couldn't help but feel numb in their scalps for a while.

This little Lin Kezhai believed in how many earth-shattering thunders there could be, and Hadan yelled hysterically: "Attack! Offensive! I can't take Lin Kezhai today, and the commanders will be beheaded" (to be continued......)