Yang Yanzhao and others on the head of the city are also full of joy, the Condor Archer and the Yue's Marksman are the most elite cavalry troops in the hands of the Huns and the Yue's people, in addition to the Hun heavy cavalry waiting for the Hun royal court and the Yue's warriors guarding the Yue's royal court, only the Hun Condor Heroes can beat this legendary army.

But the sparsely numbered Hun Condor Heroes would not appear on such a battlefield, and the Huns would not be willing to let such an army be the vanguard!

The Xuanjia Iron Cavalry in the Sui Army sent by Yang Yanzhao ago was just an ordinary legendary soldier in the Great Sui Army, and it was enough to be proud of fighting with the Hun Condor Archers without falling behind!

Although the final annihilation was due to the superiority in numbers, it was enough to make people satisfied, the Huns had Condor heroes who did not fight, and the Sui army naturally had stronger legendary troops that had not yet fought.

Unlike the grass carp, which is full of cavalry, the legendary troops of the Central Plains still have all kinds of foot soldiers, how can the steppe cavalry who dismounted from the horse beat the foot soldiers of the Central Plains?

With the captured enemy corpses, the cavalry who went out to fight returned victoriously, Yang Yanzhao naturally also sprinkled a rich reward that made all the cavalry cheer, and ordered the enemy heads to be gathered into a landscape to deter the follow-up enemy troops.

Yang Yanzhao looked left and right and said: "The morale of our army has been boosted, and the next step is enough to face the main force of the enemy!" ”

About two hours after the end of this battle, the earth began to tremble, and the dust in the far north rose loudly, and the billowing dust and smoke rushed towards Shuofang City like a tide.

The main forces of the front army of the Huns finally arrived.

And before they arrived, the city gate opened again, and 10,000 foot soldiers, dressed in armor and carrying bows and crossbows, rushed out of the city, and merged into the open space in front of the city wall.

There are also more than 5,000 Xuanjia elite horsemen on the flanks!

The prologue has just ended, and the main chapter is about to begin, but Guo Jia has no intention of continuing to read, but turns around and prepares to go down to the city.

"Strategist?" Seeing that Guo Jia was about to go down to the city, Bai Zhong next to him widened his eyes and asked.

"I don't look at it." Guo Jia turned around and shook his head, "I still have something to do, and I look at it in the city, but it's useless." ”

Both of them can be regarded as idlers now, Yang Yanzhao basically won't let Bai Qi's son go into battle, and Guo Jia's task is to check and fill in the gaps, but since the start of the war, Yang Yanzhao has not glanced at Bai Zhong and Guo Jia, and it seems that he knows that he has no intention of letting them get involved in this battle.

But having seen Yang Yanzhao's command ability and the courage of the army in Shuofang City to fight head-on with the enemy, Guo Jia has nothing to worry about for the time being, which is enough for him.

Yang Yanzhao is cautious enough, the march is also quite orderly, the Yang family's generals are brave enough, and the guards in the city are strict enough, Guo Jia naturally has nothing to do!

The first confrontation under Shuofang City during the day gave the Huns who were triumphant after easily breaking through the Sui army's border fortress, and the allied elite cavalry who were ready to give the Sui people a horse at the beginning was annihilated, and the next larger-scale battle once again made the Huns realize the strength of the Sui people's infantry army.

Thousands of hard crossbows with a killing range of more than 100 steps were fired at the same time, covering the sky like a flying locust-like scene, so that Liu Cong, who followed the front army and pressed the formation in the rear, was also frightened at this time, and thousands of wounded after the war made Liu Cong have a headache, just a contact with so many injuries, when it came to siege, the bow and crossbow in the hands of the defenders who occupied the geographical advantage were bound to be more powerful.

"Shi'er." Liu Cong called out to a person in the big tent of the Chinese army, "What do you think of the combat strength of the defenders of the Central Plains this time?" ”

Liu Fu is the son of Liu Cong, and he is also considered to be a talented student among the Huns, Liu Cong usually doesn't treat his son very much, but he also knows that there are not many of them among the Huns, so he still asks his son at this time.

Hearing Liu Cong's question, Liu Fu immediately shook his head: "My lord, the Central Plains people are strong and strong, but they are not easy to fight, and the Sui people, as the first power in the Central Plains, are said to have more than 100 generals like Ran Min, my lord, while there are not many casualties now, let's retreat!" ”

When he said this, Liu Cong's face changed, and he immediately stood up and pointed at him and scolded him, and then let people drive him out of the big tent!

"Although the Central Plains people are good at defending the city," after driving out his son, Liu Cong said to the generals in the account: "But our army is to defeat the Central Plains people in the field, I am afraid that there are at most 10,000 horsemen in this city, we are now besieging it, and then send 10,000 horsemen to attack the rear of the Central Plains people, the capital of the Central Plains people is not far away, I once attacked the capital of the Central Plains, and now I want to attack it again, even if it doesn't work, you can also loot it, what do you think?" ”

As soon as Liu Cong said this, the generals praised and echoed it, how powerful the Sui people were, although the Huns suffered a little loss, but they did not have a long memory!

The Huns of the Liu clan under Liu Yuan extinguished the Jin State, occupied the Central Plains, attacked the two capitals, captured and killed Emperor Huai of Jin and Emperor Chu of Jin, created the Yongjia Rebellion, and destroyed the Western Jin Dynasty, so they are naturally qualified to look down on the Central Plains!

There are not many wise men of the Huns, and Liu Cong's son can't stop him, so naturally no one dares to say more, if his son doesn't kill, others dare to kill!

In the eyes of the Huns, the Jin and Sui people are naturally the same, but they don't know that the countries are different, even if they are the same people, in different countries, they are naturally different!

In Liu Cong's eyes, I am afraid that Sanhu is a Sui, but I don't know how strong the Great Sui is now, and under one-on-one, he will definitely not lose!

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Counting today, it is the fifth day of the siege of the Huns, after five days of fierce offensive and defensive battles, although the casualties of the defenders in the city are not large, there are more than 500 people, but the generals in the city are now very confident in the ability to defend Shuofang City, Shuofang City is still intact, and even several small cities around Shuofang City are still there.

Even a fortress twenty miles behind to protect the grain road has not fallen now, which is enough to see the weakness of the Huns' ability to attack the city!

The banner of the Huns, the defenders on the head of the city saw it more than once, but the Shuofang City, which was high and deep, was never defeated, and Shuofang City was contained, and all the surrounding cities, the Huns did not defeat it either.

Once the Huns were ready to attack other cities, Yang Yanzhao did not hesitate to send troops to fight, so that the Huns could not advance smoothly.

The nearest Linrong is only fifteen miles away from Shuofang City, such a narrow battlefield, lacking space for two-sided combat, and Yang Yanzhao's active defensive posture is also the key to keeping each city so far.

Moreover, just three days ago, under the cover of the infantry array, a cart of fifty loaded with grain also rushed into Shuofang City, strengthening Shuofang City's grain and grass reserves.

The rest of the small cities naturally have grain and grass in, and the Sui army will successively send a small group of one or two thousand elite cavalry to harass or annihilate the small group of cavalry that the Huns came out to plunder!

Yang Yanzhao did not hesitate to stick to Shuofang City. The envoys who were sent in to persuade them to surrender, if they were Huns or Yueshi, then cut off their ears and noses and drove them out with their hands, and if they were from the Central Plains, they would directly chop up the city, and after Liu Cong sent a few envoys, he would never send people in to send people in to send him to death and look for abuse, but it turned into a strengthened offensive.

After these days of fighting, the whole city also understands that with the level of defense of Shuofang City, as well as the Huns' clumsy siege equipment, the Huns want to break through Shuofang City in a short time, which is equivalent to a fool's dream, in order to ensure that there will be no internal opening of the city, the city has already been cleaned up in advance.

Shuofang City is now more than three zhang high, the outside of the moat, as well as the sheep and horse wall under the city, although its defense is not as good as Chang'an, Xiangyang, which has been famous for thousands of years, but the current defense to resist the attack of the Huns is still no problem.

Unlike the Central Plains cities facing the Central Plains countries, most of the cities in the border fortress are like this, and the grassland Hu people are not suitable for attacking the city at all!

That is to say, there is an outlier - the Mongols, and among the steppe Hu people, only the Mongols have the ability to attack the city, and the rest of the ethnic groups cannot!

Although Shuofang City is not as good as those city fortresses in the Central Plains, the construction of the Great Sui for many years has also surpassed some state and county cities!

In addition, there are tens of thousands of defenders in the city, and the city can eat three months of grain and grass reserves, and the battlefield under the city is too narrow, and there is not even room for the cavalry to gallop through the horses, so that even if the Huns have an army of 70,000 or 80,000, they cannot send all the troops in their hands to attack the city.

Besides, in the face of the plundering and siege of most of the steppe people, the cities in the Central Plains were not actually attacked, but most of them were due to civil strife!

Shuofang City itself is safe, and there is confidence from top to bottom to stick to the end, but ...... The Huns still broke into the rear.

Yesterday's wolf smoke from the south, even if it was dozens of miles away, had become so faint that it had almost become a wisp of shadow in the sky, and it was still deeply imprinted in the eyes of Yang Yanzhao and others.

The detective also received information, this is the fall of Zengshan, which was guarded by the northern governor of Shuofang County in the rear, Zengshan is a military city, that is, there are no people, and the northern governor of Shuofang County is a general named Yang Qiao who was born in the Tianbo Yang Mansion!

Although the city of Zengshan is small, but it is backed by the mountain range, it is also easy to defend and difficult to attack, and each city in Shuofang County has enough material reserves, as long as the city is at ease, any city will not be able to fight for a while!

The fall of Zengshan was because of Yang Qiao's meritorious service, and after a cavalry army of more than 300 people under the city called the battle, he sent a thousand people to besiege it, but the Huns This cavalry is the strongest class of the Huns - Condor Heroes!

Thousands of people were defeated in a battle, and Zengshan, who was only half of the people left, could not hold it and was forced to abandon the city!

Got the news of the fall of Zengshan, Yang Yanzhao did not have any panic, from him, he can still be confident, because next, it is Hu Meng and Dacheng's southern and western captains to send troops together, Yang Yanzhao sent an elite cavalry of 2,000 people outside to defeat the Huns who captured Zengshan, although the Huns want to keep this result, but the Huns who got off the horse to defend the city, even if it is the strongest legendary soldier dismounted, it is an ordinary legendary army.

It was easy to capture Zengshan, which was occupied by the Huns, and the fleeing Zengshan defenders also returned one after another, and the defender Yang Qiao was killed by Yang Yanzhao's order.

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The soldiers have been under Shuofang City for more than ten days, and Liu Yuan is in a dilemma at this time.

Now that tens of thousands of elite Shuofang City are stationed in front, Liu Yuan cannot desperately bypass Shuofang City as Liu Cong said, so he can only divide part of his forces and make a detour to attack the south, and the main force is still placed in Shuofang City.

Moreover, where Shuofang City is located, there is no place for all the horses that come with him, and at most thirty or forty thousand soldiers have already filled this area, because the Huns have many horses, and the camp they need is much larger than the ordinary army.

The camp stationed in the field, and there is no wall like Shuofang City so that people can sleep at ease, and the camp tents of the various departments arranged cannot be crowded too tightly, and they must be divided into a distance, otherwise once there is a disturbance, it will be a commotion that affects the whole camp, and even turmoil.

Different from Liu Cong, Liu Yuan has to consider more, and look more comprehensively, as time passes, Liu Yuan has more and more energy to focus on the logistics of the army, the food consumed by the 100,000 army is an astronomical amount, according to the past experience, in the past, the Huns invaded the south, relying on the Central Plains people's city and fortress to get the grain storage, because the word food is the logistics method of the grassland army.

There is really no food, aren't there still people from the Central Plains? "Two-legged sheep" is what these Hu people call the Central Plains people!

But now, the two roads can't go, the city can't be beaten, then there is no food, the people everywhere are hiding in the fortress, there is no one and no food, and the Huns can't support it.

At least those alien races who were half-coerced and half-lured by Liu Yuan really couldn't hold on!

This time, the Huns sent out 70,000 people, and the remaining 30,000 people were all small ethnic groups attached to the Huns, and they were not dependent, but they were just taking the Huns as the leaders of the alliance, and the Huns couldn't command them at all!

Among the various ethnic groups that followed, the Qiang tribe was still a diehard loyalist of the Huns, among the 30,000 Zhuhu coalition army, only the Qiang nationality accounted for 8,000, accounting for more than a quarter, and among the Zhuhu coalition army, the most powerful Yueshi people only came 9,000 people, and the rest were 3,000 of the party's 3,000, Ding 03,000, Qiang 3,000, Di 3,000, and the remaining 1,800 people of various ethnic groups!

It was all under Liu Yuan's promise, thinking that after grabbing the Central Plains City, he would loot it on a large scale, but he didn't expect that just under a small Shuofang City, he had already broken his teeth!

(End of chapter)