Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 69 Chapter 69 New Chapter [-]

Sakufang-gun

Shuofang City

clang clang-

The big bronze bell on the city wall was rang, and then a military officer rang the bell in his hand to wake up the soldiers who were sleeping on the city wall.

bell bell -

"The Huns are coming!"

"Get up!"

The soldiers who had woken up began to take precautions, and by the way, they woke up their comrades who were still sleeping beside them.

woo-

The Huns blew their horns, and tens of thousands of Han slaves charged Shuofang City with ladders and sandbags.

They were all captured by the Huns and forced to serve as siege cannon fodder by the Huns.

The Huns did not have siege equipment, and ladders and sandbags were already the better siege methods they could use. However, this siege method may be useful for ordinary county towns, but it is only good for a military town like Shuofang City. It's all about giving military merit to the Han defenders on the city wall.

The Huns naturally knew that it was impossible to capture Shuofang City by relying on these cannon fodder. They just hoped that these Han slaves could consume as much arrows and physical strength as possible of the Han soldiers.

"put!"

Shuofang City Lord General Wang Changzhi personally commanded the defense of the city, and he pointed the small flag in his hand at the Han slaves under the city wall.

Immediately, all the archers of the Han army fired their arrows.

call out!call out!call out!
呲——

"Uh-"

"what!!!"

A large area of ​​Han slaves without any protection was shot down by the rain of arrows. Many Han slaves had turned their heads and began to charge towards the Huns' army because they were afraid of being shot by arrows.

"Those who retreat, kill without mercy!"

Tread-tap-

Naturally, the Huns could not be merciful to the slaves. Many Huns cavalry rushed into the fleeing Han slaves from the flanks, and the sabers frantically harvested the lives of the slaves.

"Your Majesty, we are just wasting slaves in vain by attacking the city like this. I think it should be stopped." King Youguli frowned and persuaded Youxian King.

"Are you teaching me how to do things?" King Youxian snorted coldly.

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"The Huns are attacking Shuofang City, and there are no more than [-] defenders in Shuofang City. We must go to Shuofang City immediately to support."

In the military tent, Zhang Cigong suggested this to Wei Qing, because just now, Shuofang City sent scouts to their military camp to ask for help.

"No, wait!" Wei Qing shook his head, he had better plans.

"However, if the Huns capture Shuofang City, it will be a serious crime for us to refuse to save. Your Majesty..." Zhang Cigong worried.

"I believe Brother You'an can defend." Wei Qing said calmly looking into the distance, and added: "When the Huns are exhausted from attacking the city, it's time for us to attack and kill."

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"General, we don't have many arrows, but slaves are still coming under the city wall." A military officer reported the situation of supplies in the city to Wang Changzhi.

"I see." Wang Changzhi nodded, and began to think about how to repel the Han Chinese slave cannon fodder under the city wall while saving arrows.

Shouting at them, "We are all Han compatriots, how can you attack the city" is definitely not acceptable. It is useless to say such self-moving words at such a critical juncture of life and death.

"The reason why they attacked the city was because the Huns caused them fear, so as long as we can instill greater fear in them than the Huns, they will naturally retreat." Wang Changzhi said, compared with the so-called brotherhood For moral correction, blood and death are obviously more effective.

"The fear caused by the sparse arrows is not as good as the sabers of the Huns, so we have to take the initiative to go out of the city and use our sabers to inflict greater fear on them!" Wang Changzhi did not rigidly guard the city, but According to the principles of the art of war, the city should be defended as flexibly as possible. The defender does not have to be inside the city, but can also take the initiative to attack.

Offense doesn't have to be forward, you can also retreat, defense doesn't have to retreat, you can also advance.

"You continue to command the soldiers on the city wall to defend the city, and I will personally lead a cavalry unit of 300 to smash those siege slaves." Wang Changzhi ordered his deputy to stay in the city to defend the city, and then tied a military flag to his back Go up, leading three hundred light cavalry to rush out of the city from the west gate.

The reason for the west gate is because the north gate is being attacked, and the south gate is too far away, so you can only choose the east gate or the west gate.

"kill!"

The gate of the west gate was opened. Wang Changzhi took the lead and led [-] light cavalry from the west gate to the north gate, and rushed directly into the crowd of Han slaves who were carrying ladders to attack the city. The west gate was also closed immediately after Wang Changzhi left the city.

呲——

"Ugh!"

"I'm also Han, don't kill me! Ah—"

The slaves who were preparing to attack the city did not expect to be attacked by the cavalry of the Han army outside the city. They did not even have a shred of armor, and they would not form an formation. They were just a group of people charging towards the city wall without thinking.

If he was facing an infantry phalanx, Wang Changzhi would not dare to rush in with his cavalry to deliver the head, but the opposite side was just a group of unarmed slaves in tattered sackcloth, so there was nothing to worry about.

As for a few siege Han slaves who wanted to survive and said "I am also Han", it would be even more ridiculous. This is war, so there are so many reasons, the enemy is the enemy, it is as simple as that.

Under the impact of three hundred light cavalry, the slaves threw down the ladders and sandbags in their hands and fled backwards.

At the same time, the east gate of Shuofang City was opened, and Wang Changzhi did not dare to turn back and continue to charge after a round, because it would be easy to be caught by the thousands of Hun cavalry behind the slaves.

"Enter the city!"

Wang Changzhi led the cavalry of the Han army back to Shuofang City from Dongcheng. This time, the Han army did not consume a single arrow, but repelled the slaves' siege.

……

"kill!"

"Kill me!"

King Youxian was completely insane, his eyes were blood red, and he seemed determined not to give up until he captured Shuofang City, and ordered the Huns cavalry to slaughter the Han slaves who fled back.

"My lord, our Han slaves are almost exhausted. If these Han slaves die, who will farm for us in the future?" King Youguli was very anxious and kept admonishing him. The Xiongnu also reclaimed some farmland, which was not pure Nomads, but the farmland they cultivated was cultivated by Han slaves, which was a very simple and crude serfdom.

"Shut up! I don't need you to teach me how to do things!" Youxian King obviously fell into the trap of sunk costs. If he had just begun to attack the city, he would have made up his mind to retreat, but now so many slaves have died Now, if you retreat now, don't those slaves who invested before die in vain?

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"It's almost time, it's time." In the distant barracks, Wei Qing once again received news from the scouts.

"Go to rescue Shuofang City?" Zhang Cigong questioned, he didn't understand why he didn't go to rescue just now, but had to wait until now, what if Wang Changzhi couldn't hold on?
"No, go straight to Huanglong, surround Wei and save Zhao!" Wei Qing laughed.

"What do you mean?" Zhang Cigong was puzzled again.

"Attack Youxian King's court directly!" Wei Qing revealed his real plan.

"I should have gone just now to lure the Huns away earlier." Although Zhang Cigong agreed with this plan, he was still curious why it took until now to implement it.

"If we attack Youxian King's court from the beginning, then Youxian King will definitely return to rescue Wangting immediately. In this case, although we can save Shuofang City, we will have to fight because we are facing Youxian King. The main force had to retreat to Han, so we simply rescued Shuofang City, but we couldn't expand the results of the battle." Wei Qing explained.

"What do you mean?" Zhang Cigong continued to ask.

"When King Youxian attacks Shuofang City now, exhausting himself to the point where he can't advance or retreat, and then attack Wang Ting, You Xian King will hesitate, but given the importance of Wang Ting and Shuofang The city is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so he will still return to the royal court. At this time, we are only facing a group of Huns who have just experienced a siege battle and have no determination to fight a decisive battle. We can take the opportunity to win in a single battle." Wei Qing Continue to explain.

"This plan is indeed perfect, but there is a huge hidden danger, that is, what if Shuofang City cannot be defended?" Zhang Cigong said the flaws of Wei Qing's plan.

"So, we have to trust Brother You'an." Wei Qing has great confidence in the ability of his good brother.

(End of this chapter)