Great Han Empire

Chapter 39 Yanzhao Fengyun
The sun rose slowly, and the golden sunlight shone on the majestic pass, between the desolate and desolate grasslands and the mountains stretching for thousands of miles, driving away the mist and bringing a little light to the cold northern morning. Silky warm.

Xiong Ba hurried to the camp before dawn.After receiving the notification, Wu Yan immediately went out of the tent to greet him, and at the same time ordered someone to invite the two adults.He didn't dare to neglect this important minister of Xianbei.Last month at Tanhan Mountain, thanks to Xiong Ba's help, He Lian took care of Master Luoluoluo and his group of forces without much trouble.He Lian favored him very much and tried his best to keep him in Danhan Mountain.But Xiong Ba still returned to Murong Feng's side.

Sitting in Wuyan's big tent, Xiong Ba opened a large cowhide map and spread it on the ground.Wu Yan and Que Ji Suli surrounded him.

"Your Majesty, please look, my lords, this is Lu Longsai." Xiong Ba smiled, and said with his right hand waving back and forth on the top of the map twice.

"When the Han people built this fortress, they put a lot of thought into it. The whole fortress is a huge 'day'-shaped defense system. Even if the first defense is breached, there is still a second defense front that can be used. Stick to such a large A fortress needs troops, but they only have 600 troops in two groups now. Probably the Han people have not been attacked by us for a long time, and they have forgotten about us."

"The commander-in-chief believes that our frontal attack on Lulongsai will cause huge losses, and the gains outweigh the losses. He suggested that we carry out a feint attack on the front of Lulongsai, and use the main force to attack one of its wings. Break through one point first to disrupt the enemy's defensive line. Once the Han lose their flanks For protection, the pressure on their frontal defense will inevitably increase sharply. At this time, they can only deploy troops to retake the flanks. And we took advantage of the fact that the Han people could not take care of both ends, concentrated the main force, and gave them a heavy blow from the front. Once their defense collapsed, Luronce is ours."

"Can my lord explain it carefully?" Wu Yan said immediately.

"The first line of defense of the Han people is very threatening. The front wall is tall and wide, and the auxiliary walls on the two wings are built against the mountains. They are easy to defend and difficult to attack. Especially its auxiliary walls play a key role in the defense of the entire fortress. Protection and reinforcement. When the frontal defense of the fortress is in crisis, its two wings can immediately support troops. The terrain of the auxiliary wall is higher than the main wall, and the siege troops are just within its effective range. But there are advantages and disadvantages. Once If the auxiliary wall is lost, the defense of the main city wall is a huge threat, and all favorable conditions will become unfavorable conditions.”

"To reduce the resistance of the frontal attack, we must solve its auxiliary walls, Yunlou and Meilou. The Meilou on the left wing of the fortress is lower than the Yunlou on the right wing. When we pretend to attack the main city wall, we use a main force to attack the Meilou on the left wing. The Han people did not dare to give up their left flank while defending our frontal attack. They had no choice but to send out a reserve army. We consumed all his reserve troops on the Mei Tower. At this time, we will suddenly attack the highest ground Yunlou. The Yunlou without support will be taken down by us in one fell swoop."

"With the Han people losing the Yunlou, the right flank of the defending troops will be completely exposed within the range of our bows and arrows. At this time, we will attack the right flank of the main city wall with all our main force. The first defensive front of Lulongsai will collapse immediately. How long can the enemy, who has lost the first line of defense and suffered a major blow to their morale, hold on to Lulong Tower?"

"Therefore, in a frontal feint attack, we must grasp the number of attacks and the interval between attacks. We must not only make the Han people feel that this is the main attack direction, but also let the Han people feel that they can still defend and do not need the support of the reserve troops. The troops attacking Meilou must fight. Fight hard and fiercely, and consume a large number of Han soldiers, making the Han people mistakenly believe that we are going to break through from there. Remember, the key is not to occupy Meilou, but to force the enemy to pull all the reserve troops to Meilou and send them to us for consumption .”

Su Li yelled: "Xiong Ba, are you clearly trying to make me fight all my old friends?"

"Fatty, don't think that I don't know how many people you have come this time. What's your name after pulling out your hair? Your troops are facing the left wing of the fortress, and you are the bravest warrior of our Xianbei tribe. Of course, it is most suitable for you to attack. Does attacking a small Meilou insult your talent?" Xiong Ba said with a smile.

Su Li didn't make a sound, her face was a little unhappy.

"Don't worry, there won't be more than 200 enemies in Mei Tower, and your loss is not as big as you imagined?" Xiong Ba saw that he was unhappy, and hurriedly comforted him.

Su Li frowned immediately, "You didn't lie to me?"

Xiong Ba shook his head, "I'm not lying to you." Then he bowed his hands to Wu Yan and said politely: "Everything is ordered by King Khanlu."

Wu Yan glanced at the three of them and thought to himself: You three are sitting here and still listen to me?joke.He cursed bitterly in his heart, but he responded loudly: "Whatever it is, I will follow the commander in chief. Everything depends on the commander in chief."

Que Ji and Su Li exchanged glances, and said in their hearts: This kid is quite sensible.

Tian Jing stood on the city wall, looking at the camp of the Hu army in the distance, with a solemn face.

Behind him stood two officers in armor.The tall, black and thin middle-aged man on the left is Wang Jin, and the burly middle-aged man on the right is Chai Ting.They are the military commanders of the Lulongsai Frontier Army.Generally speaking, an army Sima leads at most 600 people.However, the establishment of the frontier army in the Han Dynasty is specific, with 800 people in one and two songs.As for the captain, the school captain depends on the situation, how many troops will lead the army.According to the usual practice, two battalions form one battalion, and two battalions form one army.In Lulongsai, Fenwu School Lieutenant Tian Jing led a battalion to guard the border.

Tian Jing dropped a whole five villages, 1000 troops on the frontal battlefield, prepared all the defense equipment, and prepared to fight the enemy to the end.A group of troops were arranged on the auxiliary walls of the two wings respectively, as backup and auxiliary defense.He only left a troop of troops as a reserve force, and the rest of the grooms and civil servants stayed at Lulong Tower and Xinyue Tower.The soldiers in his hands are limited, facing the attack of the enemy's [-] troops, he also feels stretched and there is nothing to cook.

Both Wang Jin and Chai Ting were battle-tested veterans. They followed Tian Jing silently, looking at the camp of the Hu nationality coalition army that stretched for several miles on the grassland outside the Great Wall, feeling heavy in their hearts.

Kuaiqi had already set off yesterday, and once again sent a request for help to Liu Yu, the governor of Youzhou, and Liu Zheng, the prefect of Youbeiping.Tian Jing knew clearly in her heart that with the current team, it would not be a problem to last for ten days and a half months, but it would be hard to say how long it would take.If the reinforcements from the two adults cannot arrive within half a month, the possibility of Lu Longsai's fall is still very high.

"My lord, the logistics and supply troops of the Karasuma people and the Xianbei people have all arrived in the morning. There are about several thousand people, escorting a large amount of forage and supplies, and stationed behind the Manzi's camp. The Manzi is determined this time. It depends on the situation. It's gone." Wang Jin frowned slightly, and said softly.

"The barbarians haven't launched such a large-scale invasion for several years. It's probably itchy and needs to be scratched." Chai Ting said bitterly.

"Are there any cavalry among the thousands of people who came with the supply troops?" Tian Jing observed on the city wall for a while in the morning, and went to Lulong Tower because of busy work, and did not see the enemy's logistics supply troops rushing to Lulongsai.He asked a little worriedly.

"No. From a distance, they are all ox carts and horse carts. They are probably old and young in the barbarian clan."

Tian Jing turned around, looked at them, and said solemnly: "This time the barbarians came prepared and aggressive, and their initial attack momentum will definitely be extremely violent. Tell the soldiers to resolutely resist the barbarians at all costs." Offensive, hit the arrogance of these barbarians hard. Let's see if the barbarians' swords and spears are sharp, or our copper walls and iron walls are more powerful."

Since the morning, Li Hong saw many Xianbei soldiers running to Meishan to look left and right, and then they gathered together and pointed at Meilou, discussing something.In the morning, the Xianbei soldiers began digging and bagging soil outside the range of the Han army's long arrows, and then piled bags nearby.Li Hong felt something was wrong, and immediately called Cheng Jie.

Cheng Jie lay on the wall, looked at it for a while, and asked Li Hong, "Heizi, is there something wrong?"

Cheng Jie was very strong, stronger than Li Hong, not tall, with a bearded face.Li Hong looked at him and expressed his doubts.

"What can the Xianbei people do with earth bags? It's nothing more than to fill in some place. The main city wall is five feet high, and the Xianbei people can't fill that height even if they dig soil for a month. If the enemy builds a platform with soil bags from the middle of the mountain and sticks to the base of the city wall, they will have a place to place ladders, and they can use them to attack us.”

Cheng Jie didn't even think about it, and said with a smile: "Don't think about it, lunatics would think of attacking the city wall from the mountain. The terrain on the mountain is sloped, not only can't stand, it's very difficult to replenish soldiers and equipment. Don't think that they barbarians are idiots, They are very smart. Even if there is a place where they can set up a ladder, how many people will they have to invest to attack? Impossible."

"But we only have 260 people, distributed on the [-]-step-long city wall. Not only is the force dispersed, it is difficult to carry out effective blocking, but once the enemy breaks through, it will be a disaster for the soldiers defending the main city wall." Li Hong Feeling that his idea made some sense, he tried his best to convince Cheng Jie.

"There's no one left, you know? There's no one left." Cheng Jie himself knew that he would definitely report any abnormalities, but what is the purpose of the report?It is nothing more than wanting people.

Seeing Li Hong's ugly face, Cheng Jie comforted him and said, "I'll go report, that's all right. Just keep watching here." After speaking, he ran along the city wall to the top of the mountain.Yunlou is on the top of this hill.

The head of the village, Zhou Hao, took it very seriously, and ran down like flying with two people.Zhou Hao is a typical northern man, tall and strong, with a bearded face.After listening to Li Hong's explanation, he looked at the figures of enemy soldiers busy on the mountain, pulled his beard vigorously with his big hands, thought for a long time, and said two words: "Look again."

At noon, Marquis Wu Fei came over with his entourage.Zhou Hao hurried up to meet him, and by the way, talked about his discovery in the morning.Wu Fei was very surprised and hurried to the area defended by the scout team.After listening to Li Hong's explanation, he patted Li Hong on the shoulder vigorously, and praised him: "Not bad, you have vision." Turning his head, he said loudly to his followers: "Report to Lord Sima Wang immediately, hurry up." The followers ran like flying gone.

Wu Fei is more than 30 years old, with a short beard, two small eyes, and always looks smiling.He looked at Zhou Hao, Cheng Jie, pointed at Li Hong and said, "This boss is very smart, smarter than the two of you." Then he left Li Hong with a smug face, and led Zhou Hao and Cheng Jie to the mountain. up.

Just after lunch, Li Hong immediately realized something was wrong.He found that the number of Xianbei soldiers on the mountain suddenly increased.The earth bags piled up like a hill have been divided into dozens of small piles by more soldiers, scattered on the mountainside.Cheng Jie came over and also found something unusual.He asked strangely, "What do these barbarians want to do?"

"We're going to attack." Li Hong said casually.

Suddenly, a huge ox horn sounded from the camp of the Hu coalition forces.The long and deep voice suddenly tore through the peaceful sky in Luronsai.

Then hundreds of horns sounded in every corner of the camp one after another, and countless battle flags shuttled back and forth in the camp. Soldiers came out of the tents one after another and concentrated towards their respective battle flags nervously and orderly.

The soldiers of Lulongsai on the city wall stood up one after another and looked into the camp of the Hu coalition army.All kinds of weapons were piled up in the fortress square, and the busy soldiers stopped their work one after another and looked towards the city wall.

Tian Jing, who was standing on the city wall, had already changed into a military uniform, black armor, black helmet, and black steel gun.He looked at the Hu army that was about to go out, and waved his hands behind him.The orderly behind him gestured to the standard-bearer on the inner wall.

Violent drums suddenly sounded over Lulongsai.

The horn of the war has been sounded, the drums of war have been beaten, and the prelude to the decisive battle is about to begin.

The soldiers on the side of Meilou looked at the movement of the Hu coalition army camp for a while, and looked at the main city wall of their own house for a while, with very nervous expressions.Most of the soldiers in Luronse had never participated in a real battle. They were holding their weapons tightly, their mouths were slightly open, and their hearts were beating violently.

Looking at their expressions, Li Hong couldn't help thinking of the scene when he participated in the battle for the first time in Mazuipo two months ago.At that time, I was also very nervous, and I was panting heavily.Li Hong couldn't help thinking of Marshal Murong Feng.As if he was afraid that people would discover the secret, he looked up into the woods with some guilt.

Li Hong's eyes suddenly opened wide, and he let out an earth-shattering roar: "Up the shield."

(End of this chapter)