Great Han Empire

Chapter 44 Yanzhao Fengyun
Ji Ming pointed to the barbarian camp in the distance, and asked Li Hong, "Would they still fight?"

"We will definitely fight. Although Wuyan lost more than 2000 people in Suli, he was not injured. He still has time and will find reinforcements. When they catch their breath and restore their morale, when they attack We will be there. But we have too few people. There are only a little more than 1000 alive and kicking. Standing side by side on this city wall, we can’t reach the other end. If reinforcements are not available, our situation is indeed very dangerous .”

Jiming sighed and didn't make a sound.

"Gongyi (Ji Ming's word), we will survive. You will definitely be able to go home and see your wife." Li Hong hurriedly comforted him.Jiming took out the sachet from his arms, looked at it again and again, his eyes were full of affection.

"Xiao Yu's life is very bitter." Ji Ming said suddenly, "She was an orphan, her parents were killed by barbarians. Later she was adopted by Mr. Gu. After Mr. Gu passed away, she was alone and alone, relying on helping others to sew and mend laundry. Day. Do you know how I met her?"

Li Hong shook his head.He saw that Ji Ming was very interested in talking and it was not easy to interrupt him, so he walked slowly on the city wall with him and listened silently.

The cold wind in the middle of the night was icy on the body, and there was a smell of burnt trees in the wind.The big banner over Lulongsai danced in the night, making a loud "pop" sound.Tomorrow, will tomorrow be peaceful?Li Hong looked at the enemy camp looming outside the city and thought to himself.

Li Hong has been promoted to head of the village.Because there were no soldiers, he and Jiming, the two bare commanders, were responsible for patrolling the city wall at night.

This time, Xiong Ba came back late at night.Wu Yan and Que Ji hurriedly took him into the big tent.Since Su Li's entire army was wiped out, the relationship between the two has improved significantly.War is not a child's play, and there is no room for personal feelings.The most important thing at this time is unity.

"Can the Han people have reinforcements?" Xiong Ba asked.

"At present, the flag of Tian Jing is still seen on the city wall, and there are no other battle flags." Wu Yan replied.

"What I'm worried about now is the reinforcements from the Han people. Once they reach Lulongsai in time, our operation will be considered a failure." Xiong Ba said worriedly.

"Where are our reinforcements?" Que Ji was most concerned about this.

"It will arrive in three days. The reinforcements arranged by the commander in White Sandalwood City have arrived at the fastest speed. Because the luggage needs to be transported at the same time, the time is a little later."

"Should we wait for the reinforcements to come to attack, or start attacking tomorrow?" Wu Yan immediately felt better when he heard that the reinforcements were coming.

"Let's start fighting tomorrow. The soldiers have recovered their morale in the past few days, and they are all full of anger. They want to kill Lu Longsai to avenge Suli's army." Que Ji took the words and said viciously.

"The soldiers are indeed in high spirits for war. In the past few days, several thousand commanders and centurion commanders have come to ask for a battle. I think we can launch an attack immediately and attack it continuously for three days in a row. Take Luronsai." Wu Yan looked excited, gestured with both hands excitedly, and said aggressively.

Xiong Ba laughed, "Everything is up to the king."

"Then what do you have to say?" Wu Yan knew that Xiong Ba was trying his best to maintain his authority, so his words were always nice.But Xiong Ba does have a way of fighting, and he still needs to explain some details of the battle clearly.

"Although we lost more than 2000 troops of Suli by accident, we did not lose in vain. Suli's troops completed the mission we planned, and it was completely completed. Now I guess Tian Jing has no reserve troops. In the In the first two days, we saw with our own eyes that his losses in the Mei Tower would not be less than 400. So we stormed Luronse with the current [-] army. There is not much left, not enough for our reinforcements to feed."

"We need to fight faster. It has been six days since we arrived in Lulongsai. It stands to reason that Xu Wucheng, which is closest to it, should send reinforcements." Que Ji added from the side.

"My lord is right. But Xu Wucheng's reinforcements are nothing to worry about. How many people can be sent to a small county town. 200 people are already a lot, and they are all infantry defending the city, so they don't have much combat power." Said again.

"This morning, we still divided our troops into two groups. My lord sent a centurion with 300 people, planted more flags in Yunshan, and pretended to be 2000 people to attack Yunlou. It's enough to show off, mainly to contain the people on Yunlou. Han army, don't let it join the main city wall battlefield, and at the same time increase the pressure on them, let them know that our reinforcements have arrived."

"Now the temperature in Meishan is as high as a stove, and so is Meilou. So Lulongsai's left wing has been completely scrapped. The frontal defense of the Han people has lost the support of the left wing, but for us, it has completely lost the flank and was hit. We can let go of our hands and feet and storm the left city wall of Luronse until it is knocked down."

the seventh day.On the seventh day after Wuyan led the army to the city of Lulongsai, Wuyan started the siege battle again.Soldiers from both sides fought indiscriminately above and below the city.

After the fear and sorrow of the Karasuma and Xianbei people passed away, the fierceness and warlikeness that flowed in their blood soon aroused their hatred of the Han people even more intensely.

For decades, or even hundreds of years, the Han people's policy towards the Hu people has been nothing but conquest and kinship, and the time of hatred and killing between them is far longer than the time of friendship during the kinship period.Right and wrong, right and wrong, who can tell clearly.To kill, to kill is to kill.In his heyday, Tan Shihuai, the great king of the Xianbei people, angrily refused to make a marriage.He wants to kill the Han people and invade the Han country.This is the inherent concept and attitude of every foreigner towards the Han Kingdom.Even if they got married temporarily, it was because they were not strong enough, and it took time to accumulate strength and prepare for the next attack.No leader of the foreign race would think of reconciling with the Han Kingdom forever.Because the Great Han Kingdom has never stopped expanding its territory.As long as there is a chance, the Han Kingdom will enter the desert and the grassland.Hu people have hated Han people for generations.

Li Hong held up a big stone with both hands, and aimed it at the enemy soldiers who were climbing up rapidly, and smashed it down.Today, I just smashed rocks, shot arrows, and carried a huge log with other soldiers and threw it on the ladder. I don't know how many times I have repeated it.Soldiers on both sides lost their minds a little.From morning to afternoon, even eating was stuffed into his mouth while running.The enemy made a breakthrough at several points and managed to climb the walls.Although he was beaten down quickly, it was a blow to the morale of the soldiers defending the city.

The soldiers on the Yunlou were at war with their swords, and they were very nervous confronting the enemy outside the auxiliary wall.The two sides shot arrows at each other from time to time, and the enemy was still digging soil and bagging it on the mountain outside the shooting range, as if they were going to start a big battle.After Tian Jing heard the report, although he suspected that it was the enemy's diversionary action, he was not sure, so he had to ask the soldiers defending the Yunlou to be careful and not to look aside other battlefields.

When the horn of the enemy's retreat sounded, the soldiers of the Han army on the city wall let out a long breath.A tough, bloody day is finally over.The Han army suffered heavy losses. Facing the crazy enemy, the weakness of the weak defenders was clearly seen.Although it is not likely to be in danger immediately, if the enemy attacks like this every day, in a few days, after most of the defenders' soldiers are lost, the main city wall will definitely fall.

The Han army once again lost nearly a hundred soldiers, including one village chief.

Tian Jing looked in the direction of the Crescent Tower, muttering non-stop.He was praying for the arrival of Han reinforcements soon.Calculated according to the time, if there is no accident, the reinforcements of the prefect Liu Zheng should arrive in three or four days.But why hasn't Xu Wucheng, who is closest to him, reinforcements arrived yet?
On the eighth day, as always, Wu Yan and Que Ji supervised the formation, and the soldiers launched a tide-like attack, with the momentum that they would not stop until they took the city.More enemies charged the walls that day.Army Sima Wang Jin led fifty soldiers with high martial arts skills, just like firefighters, wherever there was a crisis, they would fight.

Li Hong saw Wu Fei, the military marquis, was dead.Wu Fei is his favorite boss, he likes to see that smiling face, gentle and kind to others.Wu Fei also likes Li Hong, he always smiles when he sees Li Hong, and always wants to talk to him for a long time.

Wu Fei was slashed in the chest by the enemy, and his whole body flew out.Li Hong couldn't save him.He watched Wu Fei being hacked to death.Li Hong cried out weakly.Although he showed great prowess and killed four people in a row and rushed to the enemy who killed Wu Fei, ready to avenge him, more soldiers rushed ahead of him and chopped the enemy into several large pieces.Li Hong knelt beside Wu Fei, wanting to cry but without tears.

On the ninth day, the fighting was brutal to the point of heinous.Enemies are really crazy.They set up more ladders, and more soldiers were put on the battlefield. They did not rest, and they took turns to attack.

Wu Yan and Que Ji also seemed to lose control a little bit. They held their sabers and even stood a hundred steps below the city to supervise the formation.The last bit of strength of the soldiers was squeezed out by their respective leaders.They no longer think about life and death, only glory, only Luronse in their minds.

Tian Jing was covered in blood, and the black steel gun roared, flying back and forth among the enemies, tumbling and soaring, desperately eating away at the enemy's life.On the left side of the main city wall, Wang Jin and his subordinates led all the soldiers into a fierce fight.The enemies swarmed up, there were too many of them, no one had time to throw stones and roll logs, and could only fight the enemies hand-to-hand on the city walls.Chai Ting on the right side of the main city wall commanded the troops, but he was able to barely cope with the situation because his side was not the enemy's main attack direction.But even so, he did not have a single soldier to support the left battlefield.

It was getting dark, and the enemy slowly retreated into the camp.

On the walls and under the walls, there were corpses everywhere.The soldiers of the Han army were exhausted, sitting on the top of the blood-stained city wall one by one, enjoying a rare rest.

Tian Jing looked at Wang Jin and Chai Ting, the three were silent.The loss of troops has reached such a level that the defense of the entire city wall cannot be maintained.Now there are only more than 500 soldiers who can stand on the city wall and continue to fight, including the 80 soldiers on the Yunlou Tower.Under the fierce attack of the enemy for three consecutive days, there were only more than [-] soldiers left on the left city wall.Tomorrow the fortress may be breached by the enemy. 
"My lord, the enemy's losses are also very huge. The number of troops they withdraw will not exceed 2000. We lost half, and they lost more than half. Everyone is basically balanced in terms of numbers." Chai Ting said slowly .He was comforting Tian Jing, and he was also comforting himself.

"Yes, my lord. Wuyan's troops have lost a lot. Tomorrow he will not be able to spread out all the attack surface, and he can only choose the method of focusing on the attack. If this is the case, we can focus on defending his attacking part .Tomorrow can still support the past.” Wang Jin said in a hoarse voice.

"The enemy's reinforcements are coming soon." Tian Jing said softly.

Chai Ting and Wang Jin were dumbfounded.

"My lord, do you have any basis?" Chai Ting asked after hesitating.

"Wu Yan's attack regardless of the consequences and casualties just exposed that he has support behind him. If he continues to fight like this, his troops will soon be exhausted. He is not an idiot. He wiped out his own people, and the same benefits No, would he do such a stupid thing?"

"What should we do?" Wang Jin looked at the soldiers lying all over the ground and asked helplessly.

Tian Jing was speechless.What can he do?Without support, without soldiers, there is no way to continue this battle, and it will soon be over.

"We will become sinners of the Han Dynasty." Tian Jing said sadly, "The future generations will bear this shame that will never be erased for us."

At this moment, dense drums sounded from the direction of the Crescent Tower.

The soldiers on the city wall were stunned for a moment, and then burst into appalling cheers.The reinforcements, the reinforcements whose eyes were full of hope, finally came.The soldiers suddenly became excited, they cheered loudly, and swarmed to the inner side of the city wall, looking towards the direction of Lulong Tower.

A knight in full body armor and holding a broadsword suddenly appeared on the square in Luronce.The soldiers shouted again, and the joy from the heart was extremely released from one roar after another.

Tian Jing's face suddenly changed from ecstasy to grief, a kind of grief of extreme disappointment.

(End of this chapter)