Wen Qiao didn't know that Zhang Bin and Shi Hu were going to calculate their lord Liu Kun, and he was surprised when he received that Shi Hu wanted to see him. This Shi Hu is unruly, not only to Wen Qiao, but also to Liu Kun in his words, which makes Wen Qiao very disgusted. Although Wen Qiao felt that it was wrong for Liu Kun and Shi Le of the Qian clan to conspire with the iron-blooded army, Wen Qiao still admired Liu Kun very much. Because of Shi Hu's attitude, Wen Qiao didn't follow Liu Kun's order to pick up Shi Hu and dry him up, but he didn't expect Shi Hu to take the initiative to see him.

Although Wen Qiao didn't want to see him, he had someone around him who was being monitored by Liu Kun, so he could only invite Shi Hu in. Shi Hu's attitude this time was very good, and he apologized for what he said, Wen Qiao didn't know what medicine was sold in Shi Hu's gourd, but because it was impossible for Wen Qiao to change his attitude with just a few words, Wen Qiao was still lukewarm to Shi Hu. Shi Hu found a topic to talk to Wen Qiao, Wen Qiao is also an old Jianghu, he talked to Shi Hu perfunctorily, and finally Shi Hu couldn't help it.

"Wen Sima, my uncle sent a letter from his old man, Zhao State (Xiongnu Han State was changed to Zhao State after Liu Cong ascended the throne) Jin King Liu Jian personally raised 200,000 troops to attack Xihe County, now is the time for us to act. After Shi Hu finished speaking, Wen Qiao was shocked.

Wen Qiao was a little sad for Chu Yun, the Huns, Shi Le and Liu Kun were targeted together, in his opinion, the iron-blooded army was definitely over. Even though Chu Yun had some grudges with him and he also had Liu Kun's orders, he still felt that he should not help the Hu people deal with the Iron Blood Army, at least in his opinion, the existence of the Iron Blood Army ensured the safety of the annexed states, and also contained the strength of the Huns for the Chang'an Imperial Court. However, he could only obey the orders of the lord Liu Kun, and he couldn't help himself in the rivers and lakes, Wen Qiao adjusted his mentality after a moment of silence.

Liu Kun's order to Wen Qiao was to follow Shi Hujun to pick up cheap, and Shi Hu's words were all in accordance with the original plan. Wen Qiao could only comfort himself, the lord Liu Kun got a million people in Shangdang County, maybe he would do no worse than Chu Yun.

"The lords of our two families have already discussed it, according to the original plan, you provide food and grass, and I will attack Shangdang County as the main force, you will follow us to receive it, I am determined to move troops tomorrow, I don't know what Wen Sima's opinion is?"

Seeing Shi Hu's expression, how could Wen Qiao feel that this Shi Hu was like a hungry wolf ready to turn his face at any time. Wen Qiao pondered for a long time, but he didn't find anything wrong with this, so he could only nod and agree.

"Okay, Wen Sima is refreshing, let's send troops on time tomorrow. Shi Hu stood up and said goodbye and left, Wen Qiao felt a little strange after thinking about it, but he really didn't come up with any flaws, so he found the two guards that Liu Kun sent to him, and personally wrote a letter to Liu Kun and sent it to him.

The next day, Wen Qiao led an army of 10,000 to converge with Shi Hu's 30,000 iron horsemen and slaughtered towards Nie County in the north of Shangdang County, which was surrounded by mountains on all sides, and only one road from Nie County from the north could allow the army to pass. And Cui Zhen, the commander of the 7th Infantry Brigade who was ordered to be stationed in Nie County, did not know that he would soon usher in a catastrophe.

Zhongyang City in Xihe County was surrounded by the Xiongnu Army, because Chu Yun had more important military affairs, so Zhang Tong was responsible for defending Zhongyang City on behalf of Chu Yun, Liu Wei fully learned the lesson of Huyanyan, he did not rush to attack the city, but built a strong camp on three sides of Zhongyang City.

Among them, 30,000 forbidden troops were captured by him to prevent Jin Ming, a fool, from acting privately, and there were also 20,000 Han auxiliaries in the east of his charge who were promoted to war soldiers, and these auxiliaries were no different from cannon fodder in Liu Ji's eyes. Another 20,000 Xiongnu elite infantry and 10,000 Han soldiers were deployed in the south of Zhongyang City, and 10,000 Xiongnu elite infantry and 10,000 Han soldiers were deployed in the west of Zhongyang City.

The remaining 20,000 cavalry were handed over to the veteran general Bu Yi by Liu Ji, who was responsible for the north gate of the city without troops to prevent the iron-blooded army of Zhongyang City from abandoning the city and escaping.

Liu Jian divided the battalion into three camps, southeast, and west, which prevented them from being attacked by the Iron Blood Army, and thus the whole army collapsed.

Three days later, Liu Ji officially issued the order to attack, and the first batch of attackers were more than 30,000 people who could not have imagined, these people have completed their mission, and raising them still consumes food and grass, so in Liu Ji's heart, this is a waste of use, but this move made more than 50,000 Han soldiers die and cry.

Many people don't even have weapons, they are wearing single clothes, under the supervision of the fierce Hun prison army, they rushed towards Zhongyang City, in front of the six-meter-high city wall, they simply came to send them to death, a round of arrow rain repelled their first wave of attack, but they couldn't escape if they wanted to, because they retreated without authorization, the Huns raised their butcher knives and killed more than three hundred people, which was more than they were shot by the Iron Army, they could only turn around and continue to rush to Zhongyang City.

Zhang Tong, who was standing on the city wall, clenched his fists tightly, how could Zhang Tong not see the sinister intentions of the Huns, these people were all unarmed Han people, and the Huns wanted to consume their materials for defending the city. But against them, Zhang Tong really couldn't do it, and the first wave of bows and arrows he ordered to be released was to persuade them to retreat, but it didn't seem to have any effect.

"Zhang joins the army, this is not good, you see that they don't, each of them carries stones, if they are allowed to come over, although our city wall is six meters, it will be filled by them sooner or later. This is the battlefield, since they attacked us, they are the enemy, Zhang can't be soft in the army. Fang Ai, the brigade commander of the Fourth Infantry Brigade, immediately went to find Zhang Tong, of course Zhang Tong also knew, but let him make plans, even if he died hundreds of thousands, he didn't care, but he still couldn't stand it when he saw his compatriots being killed by his own people.

"Brigade Commander Fang, I'll leave this side to you, you should know how to do it, I'll go to the other sides to take a look." Zhang Tong left the east city wall directly, but the other two sides were in the same situation, and Zhang Tong could only give authority to a few brigade commanders to let them do their own thing. Then he led the men to the north, where there were also troops stationed, and the siege of the besieging side was likely to turn into a strong attack on all sides, so there were also 2,000 men here. After looking around, Zhang Tong, who was a little tired, went down the city wall, and this was only the first day of siege.

In the next few days, the Huns continued to drive the people to attack the city, although they did not attack the city wall once, but they consumed a large number of arrows in Zhongyang City, and the people had already died a third because of the siege and hunger and cold.

In the camp, all the numb recipients of the minfu did not have a few grains of rice for dinner, and drinking these gruel would only make people more hungry, but it was better than nothing. However, compared to the numbness of most of the people, in the camp of the people in the west of Zhongyang City, there were dozens of people around a young man, and this young man was the young man Ran Liang who was valued by Bu Yi.

"Liangzi, we're going to run out like this, you have to think of a way. ”

"If you really can't do it, you will fight with this group of Hun beasts. ”

"What are you going to fight? We don't even have weapons?"

"Killing one counts as one. ”

There are constantly people who put forward their own opinions, and then they are rejected, but Ran Liang, who is the backbone, did not speak. This Ran Liang is a yellow man in Huazhou, born in a local wealthy family, learned martial arts since childhood, and at the age of 11, he led the clan to fight against the invading Hu people, familiar with horseback riding, good at shooting, brave and fearless. But the imperial court at that time was unreliable, let alone him and his people.

In a battle, Ran Liang was wounded, missed the clan and the Shile army that was in Yuzhou at that time, his people were almost wiped out, and he was lucky to escape, and later he became a bandit and constantly attacked the Huns, in the face of the encirclement and suppression of the Huns, Ran Liang's old wounds did not heal, and he was outnumbered and became a prisoner. Because of his young age, he was not killed by the Huns. In this battle, he was brought out of prison as a folk man and came to Xihe County.

I have to say that Chu Yun, a big butterfly, began to stir up its wings, this Ran Liang led his clan to join the beggar army in history, and even led his clan to cross the river from Wei to Sima Rui, the king of Langya, and asked him to send troops to the Northern Expedition, but unfortunately Ran Liang and Sima Rui did not see each other, so they had no choice but to return north. Later, during the battle of Hanoi, the beggar army helped the imperial court to defend the city, faced the siege army of the Xiongnu and Qianhu, in front of the two armies, shot and stabbed many enemy soldiers, and Shi Le, who watched the battle in front of the battle, was shocked, and praised: "This son is brave and commendable", and was later captured by Shi Le and became Shi Hu's righteous son. And the son he gave birth to is even more famous, that is, the famous and famous in history, and issued a killing order to save the fire of the Han people. But I just don't know if Ran Liang can give birth to such a heroic son now.

He doesn't care about other people at all, he can think of what these people say, but he vetoes them one by one in his mind, and it is better to think about it himself than to discuss with these people. The Huns treated them like slaves, because they needed them to attack the city, so they were well guarded against them, not to mention escaping, even if they had such thoughts, it was dangerous. There are always some scum among these people, who betray their compatriots in exchange for their own survival, and there are many people who want to resist like them, but most of them have become corpses hanging at the door of the people's camp.

Since escaping is death, resisting is also death, it is better to put it to death and live later, Ran Liang thought ruthlessly, but if he really does this, the hundreds of people who follow him, it is estimated that there are not a few left, but Ran Liang has no other way, he wants to take revenge on the Huns and the Qian, he must keep a useful body, he gathered the hundreds of people he has attracted during this time, and whispered to them.

Because Ran Liang has a great ability, and he saved the lives of many of them on the fierce battlefield, so the cohesion of his group is very good, so no one went to tell them, after all, Ran Liang drew a big pie for them, compared to living, it is nothing to please the Huns in exchange for some food.

The siege battle still started on time the next day, and it was Ma Hui, the commander of the Eighth Infantry Brigade, who was ordered to garrison the west gate. Ma Hui, like Zhang Tong, feels that cannibalism is very painful, but this is war, and he can't help it.

Many of these people were shot to death without getting close to the city wall, so there are not many stones piled up under Zhongyang City, far from allowing the Huns to climb, in Ma Hui's heart, today is another battle of defending the city without technical content, and Ma Hui wants to kill the Huns the most.

Just after the order of the Huns was issued, the people began to attack, and the Huns did not notice the strangeness of dozens of people. These people clutched their chests tightly, as if they were hiding something in their arms. Just as they were within range of the Iron Blooded archers, dozens of civilians took things out of their arms. Dozens of white flags were raised in the air, which immediately attracted the attention of Ma Hui, who was watching the battle. These white flags were torn and tattered by their clothes, but they still showed their actual effect, which was to surrender.

In the history of China and the West, raising the white flag and surrendering had the same effect, and the West raised the white flag from the perceptual perception of white—white—nothing—and a complete failure. The East came from the Qin Dynasty, when the Qin people took black as the "national color" and black to represent victory. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang entered Guanzhong, approached Xianyang, and Qin Ziying surrendered, so he surrendered to the reverse color of the Qin people's "national color" - white, which is the origin of China's "surrender color", and later the white flag was handed down.

Ma Hui immediately asked the archers to stop attacking these people, these dozens of people were Ran Liang and his henchmen, they quickly ran towards the city wall, and at the same time the Huns also noticed something unusual, they immediately opened their bows and shots, and many people were hit by arrows.

Just after Ran Liang and the others ran to the edge of the city wall, they immediately shouted for them to surrender, and immediately formed a human ladder, Ran Liang missed a hand, which made everyone in the Iron Blood Army shine. He jumped up early, stepped on the shoulder of a man standing by the wall, jumped more than a foot high, lay his hands tightly on the wall, and then climbed up with both hands.

"Good skills. Ma Hui shouted.

The soldiers of the Iron Blood Army surrounded Ran Liang, and Ran Liang saw Ma Hui who was protected in the middle, although he didn't know why this general was wearing the same armor as a soldier, but he was not stupid, he immediately knelt in front of Ma Hui.

"General, please save us, the Huns don't treat us as human beings, we don't want to go against your army at all, so we can only die and beg for life, please save us in the face of us all Han people." Looking at this young man kneeling in front of him, Ma Hui felt that he would help them after thinking about it, Ma Hui also suffered a lot back then, and in his opinion, these people couldn't make any waves.

In the face of the angry arrow rain of the Huns, a total of more than 90 people fled into Zhongyang City, and the 400 people who conspired with Ran Liang were only so many, and the rest died under Zhongyang City.

When Liu Wei learned of the resistance of the people, he was furious, he beheaded all the thousands of people in the west gate and cast them into Jingguan, of course, the other two gates did not escape punishment, the Huns drove them to attack the city continuously, in just a few days, more than 35,000 people almost died.

Liu Ji's goal was achieved, and in half a month, Zhongyang City's arrows were consumed by more than half, and in the face of real soldiers attacking the city, Zhongyang City could only shed more blood.

Just when Liu Wei continued to consume the defenders of Zhongyang City with his calculations, Chu Yun and 15,000 cavalry finally arrived at their destination, Pingjin Valley, and at the same time, Shi Hu and Wen Qiao's army also came to Qi County in Taiyuan County, which was next to Nie County in Shangdang County, and two major battles related to the rise and fall of the Iron and Blood Army broke out almost at the same time.