Chapter 259: Weeping (Part II)
In Yanmen County, the swarthy city walls stand tall in the middle of the night, and red bonfires can be seen everywhere.
In the harsh winter garrison, even the army must have a bonfire, and the shift changes every four hours, and the soldiers who have been replaced are crowded around the campfire.
The spears, bows, and knives of the soldiers shimmered under the bonfire, and the soldiers roasted them on the fire, and baked the cakes hot.
In the city, groups of soldiers are constantly patrolling the city.
Several lieutenants flocked to Tian Wang to the city tower.
Tian Wang followed the general in the past, and now he is a general, and he is not more majestic than in the past, but in the past few years, his appearance has become more and more old.
The originally healthy body has suffered several injuries in the past few years and has been busy with affairs and has fallen into some diseases.
However, even if this is the case, Tian Wang, who has been fighting horses all his life, is still tough.
Although Liangzhou was poor in land, it had a vast area, a place for the production of horses, and it was also a route for trade and commerce, and it only occupied it for a short time, and the tax revenue had already made up for the loss of the Qin army.
The Qin army led by him did not dare to say that it was elite in a hundred battles, with at least 10,000 soldiers, and seventy percent of the veterans who had been on the battlefield, which was enough for a defender.
In the previous camp tent of Tian Wang, someone suggested to Tian Wang that it was best to temporarily recruit county men, and the locals were fierce, and it was better to accept it for their own use than to recruit the Hu people to attack the city.
Tian Wang felt that it was very good, so he recruited men from the county and got another 30,000 soldiers.
I didn't want to finish the collection, and the Hu army of Yanqi County braved the heavy snow to attack, and the first few county towns were naturally difficult to stop the attack of the Hu people, so that the Hu people were overwhelmed and approached Yanmen County.
However, due to the lessons of the past, the county town is heavily guarded, and it is impossible for the Belt Road Party to dismantle the platform again.
The war has not yet begun, just a few frictions.
The Hu people rode on foot, and it could be seen that there were only about 5,000 Hu people inside, and about 10,000 Han people surrendered to the army, and finally tens of thousands of people were in charge.
Looking at the continuous camps in the distance, Tian Wang's heart couldn't help but be blocked for a while.
The information that was already known was that because a large amount of grain was fed to the horses, there was a natural shortage of food, so this Balu was mad and drove the army to surrender and tens of thousands of people to attack.
It is naturally best to be able to capture it, but if you can't conquer it, you will lose tens of thousands of people, or there will be a new annexed army, and the food pressure will be empty.
And there were only 5,000 Hu people who came, but the number of people who drove was nearly 30,000, so that Tian Wang did not dare to underestimate it, thinking of the current situation, Tian Wang's face became solemn.
In the darkness of the night, when the city was very quiet, a group of soldiers walked up to the top of the city.
"General, when it's time for the changing of the guard, you better rest!" Tian Wang was thinking when a general behind him suddenly reminded Tian Wang.
"Is this time?" Tian Wang came back to his senses, and at this moment, several teams of soldiers came up and changed guards with the previous soldiers, Tian Wang looked at it and did not speak.
This is his order, in order to connect enough vigilance, every night, the guard must be changed twice, so that the soldiers defending the city have enough energy to defend the city at night, and others can also get sleep, and have enough energy to avoid the Hu people attacking the city.
"Let them all be vigilant, they will be cunning, maybe they will attack at night!" Tian Wang looked out of the city and said in a deep voice to the people around him.
Everyone should go down, and after the changing of the guard in the city, peace was restored.
Only the sound of people's breathing sounded softly in the city, and after glancing at the soldiers behind him, Tian Wang felt a little relieved in his heart.
These soldiers brought to Liangzhou can be regarded as the elite of Tian Wang's subordinates, Tian Wang can become a general, and he has some capital, and these veterans are the biggest capital.
Most of these soldiers have been involved in the battles of pacifying Qinchuan, in fact, they are not recruits who have not experienced the battlefield dagger, although they are not strong soldiers who dominate the world, they are definitely pawns!
Although the Hu people are brave and ferocious, with such an infantry team to fight, this Liangzhou may not fall into the hands of the Hu people.
At this time, the night was already a little deep, and as the commander-in-chief, Tian Wang couldn't stay in the city all the time, so when someone persuaded him again, Tian Wang agreed to go back and rest.
During the day, the two armies have already clashed once, but neither side has taken advantage, depending on the situation, unless these people live and die, the enemy will not retreat, and even if they retreat, they will come again tomorrow March.
At this time, when it came to Yin, Tian Wang also felt a little tired, it was time to rest, and only after resting well could he continue to command, but this matter was not sloppy at all.
Hu people are cunning and do not have the slightest carelessness.
"Tell me to go down, the patrol soldiers are careful, the soldiers have a good rest, and they will repel the Hu people tomorrow!" Tian Wang said to the following general, paused, and said to another person: "No matter who is in the city, if there is an abnormality, it will be killed!"
Far from the purge of the Belt Road Party, this person responded awe-inspiringly: "Yes!"
At the same time, in the continuous tent of the Hu people, a silver-roofed tent stood out from the crowd, and the front of the tent was densely packed with soldiers.
At this time, in the big tent, the generals gathered, and in the center was a rugged-looking Hu man, dressed in gold armor, which was extra eye-catching, but it was His Royal Highness Balu, who was giving orders.
"Listen, after dawn, immediately attack the city, test the Qin army of the Han people, attack in turn, you need to press up, the weather is cold, try to kill 10,000 Han people in two days. ”
"If you see a flaw in the attack, or if the Han defenders are swinging, and the Han people are all pressing, if you can't see the flaw within two days, you will withdraw your troops, and come next spring, and wait for the horses and warriors to be raised and fight again. ”
"Yes, Your Highness!" With Balu's order, General Hu bowed down to answer the order.
The next day, in the early morning, the horn of the camp sounded continuously, and a group of Hu cavalry came out of the camp and gathered together, with the Han people surrendering in the middle, and then the Han people in front.
Soon, the horn sounded again, and thousands of Hu horsemen marched in formation, forcing tens of thousands of people to slowly move closer to the city.
Tian Wang in the city was immediately woken up: "What's going on outside?"
"General, the Hu people have begun to attack the city!" Hearing the general's inquiry, a soldier said.
"The Hu people have begun to attack the city?" Hearing this, Tian Wang got up, put his armor on his back, put on his boots, and strode out.
He lived in a temporary mansion very close to the city, so that he could command the war in time.
Under the care of the guards and generals, Tian Wang boarded the city, and at a glance, his face changed greatly: "This group of Hu people will do this!"
I saw tens of thousands of people, stumbling, crying and screaming, and children, following behind their parents, grabbing the corners of their clothes, running to the road of death in a daze, standing at the head of the city, looking at the people surging under the city, Tian Wang suddenly pulled out a knife and slashed on the wall: "Crazy!"
The generals were silent.
Hu Ren's routine is very simple, but it is effective, and one move can change ten thousand methods.
"There is no need to worry about the general, although the Hu people attacked the city fiercely, but depending on the situation, it is just a temptation. Seeing Tian Wang's angry face, a senior general whispered.
Tian Wang looked at it, and for a moment, his anger turned into iron blue, and he said coldly: "Order, prepare!"
Except in the stories and commentaries, no army will surrender and retreat because of this situation, because once you give in, the enemy will immediately understand your weakness, and will seize the common people everywhere to force the city, which will only cause the disaster to become bigger and bigger.
When the crying Cangsheng ran to the city, an order came out: "Shoot!"
With a "hum", the sky darkened violently, the arrow rain fell drippingly, and the endless screams below immediately made Tian Wang's expression more and more gloomy.
On a high slope five miles outside the city, Balu was looking towards the city with a sneer.
Looking at the endless driving over in the distance, the endless people who were shot and killed, and some Han people surrendering to the army, Balu's face remained unchanged, and he just watched quietly.
The war horses not far away snorted inexhaustibly, occasionally kicking in place.
In front of the city in front of him, there was already a firelight, and the chaotic shouts and shouts continued to be in his ears, and countless people were shot in place in batches, but these were not enough to move him.
In the history of the earth, ninety percent of the Han people in the north of the Yuan Dynasty were killed, resulting in the Northeast being full of Hu people, and in the three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, the Han people in the Northeast were not dominant, and a large number of indigenous tribes were presented blankly.
When the Manchu Qing Dynasty consolidated and established, they killed all the Han people in the northeast, leaving no one, and only later compiled the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty.
Killing all the Han people is actually nothing to these Hu people.
"Your Highness, it seems that the Han defenders will not swing, such a siege, I am afraid that even if these Han people die, they will not be able to test the strength of the enemy army......" someone proposed: "I heard the Central Plains shaman mentioned, in the Han land, you can build siege towers and door knocking machines, and use the Han army to break the city in it, which can greatly increase the pressure on the enemy generals, if you create an opportunity, you can take advantage of the chaos to ride into the city, rush to kill and sweep, what does Your Highness think?"
Balu listened and thought for a moment: "I brought some siege towers and door knocking machines, and there is no shortage of craftsmen, just do as you say, tell you to go down, surround the city, and at the same time, build siege weapons ......!"
When the sun was fully rising, the tide of the offensive retreated, but there were already 2,000 more Han corpses under the city, and Tian Wang breathed a sigh of relief.
However, in the next few days, the Hu people quickly built siege weapons, and they were not innocent, and they were mixed with the Han army.
In particular, the tall towers, one after the other, could be filled with a group of archers standing in front of each of them, who could attack the defenders of the opposite city with bows and crossbows.
For a while, the battle formation was deadlocked.
Until seven days later, tens of thousands of people died, and another 2,000 Han people surrendered.
And Hu Qi basically only folded a few hundred people, and when he saw that the goal was achieved, the horn sounded one after another.
I saw a slight queue array, there were 25,000 people when they came, and only about 12,000 when they retreated, but although the number of people was less than half, but when I looked down on the city, I saw 5,000 Hu people lined up neatly, slowly pulling out of the camp, not afraid of someone sneaking attack, and not the slightest reduction in morale, still condensed with a terrifying bearing.
It came and went quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the Hu army retreated from view, leaving only a black line on the horizon, and the city was silent, as if the brutal fighting of the past few days was just a dream.
Just looking at the 10,000 thousands of corpses stacked under the city, all of a sudden, someone started crying, and as they cried, the whole army immediately cried.
Tian Wang, who was inspecting, was also sour, and burst into tears.
Those who died under the city were all Han Chinese. @