Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 767 Against the Southern Huns
Wei Yan drove the Jingnan Battalion to storm Jinyang City for three days, but even with the assistance of various siege equipment and a large number of archers suppressing the high-ranking defenders on the city wall, they still failed to cause damage to Jinyang City. Too much of a threat.

The three-day war caused the Jingnan Camp to lose no less than 2000 people. Wei Yan had no choice but to slow down the siege of the city, but continued to leave cave carts digging under the city wall.

For now, this is the siege tactic that can reduce losses the most. As long as the city wall can be dug down, or the city wall can be dug through, it will be easier to attack Jinyang City.

At the same time, it is not a waste of time to go on like this, at least in the process of waiting for Jiang Wan to find Zhang Yan to help, Zhu Weijun can still cause some damage to Jinyang City.

As for whether Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Army will come, or how to attack Jinyang City if it comes, that's another matter.

Therefore, Zhu Weijun's Wei Yan Jingnan Camp and Zhang Liao Huyi Battalion Light Cavalry Units were temporarily caught in a continuous siege battle on the Jinyang City side, and they had no time to look around for a while.

At this time, Ma Teng had already led his troops to join Zhang Xiu's Huyi Battalion heavy cavalry in Hedong County.

Before that, Zhang Xiu also sent scouts to the territory occupied by the Southern Huns in Bingzhou, and found that the Southern Huns Shanyu Luan Tihu Chuquan had just gathered all the tribes of the Southern Huns, thus gathering nearly [-] Huns cavalry. The King's Court of the Xiongnu in Meiji County took the route of Baitu County, Yuanyang, and Yuanyin Counties to Sili Guanzhong.

Apparently, the Southern Huns were planning to go around the ancient Great Walls of Zhao and Qin in Shangjun and Xihe counties, to the two counties of Yuanyang and Yuanyin, then extend the Yellow River southward to Hedong County, and then enter the Guanzhong territory.

This is also the main route for the Southern Huns to go from Bingzhou to Sili Guanzhong, otherwise they would have to bypass the continuous mountains in Bingzhou and could only enter Sili Guanzhong from Liangzhou.

What's more, Bingzhou Shangjun, Xihe County, etc. are already controlled by the Southern Huns. When they pass by the Great Wall, they don't have to worry about being blocked by others, and they can pass smoothly.

So they naturally didn't want to detour to Liangzhou, and went all the way from Bingzhou to the south of the Yellow River, so that they didn't have to worry about water sources on the road, and they could walk comfortably.

After the two armies of Ma Teng and Zhang Xiu converged, they discussed and decided to send troops directly to the counties of Yuanyang and Yuanyin to resist the Southern Huns.

This time Ma Teng brought about [-] cavalry from Chang'an, mainly his own Ma Jiajun, and then left Zhang Heng and Liang Xing in Chang'an. As for the candidate, Cheng Yin, Li Kan, Cheng Yi, Ma played the five generals, and sent them to Zuo Fengyi to garrison troops separately, lest the Huns divide their troops from here.

So Ma Teng's Fubo Battalion plus Zhang Xiu's Huyi Battalion Heavy Cavalry Division, there are a total of more than 6000 cavalry troops.

As they traveled north along the Yellow River non-stop from Hedong County, about three days later, they arrived at Yuanyin and Yuanyang counties before the Southern Huns arrived.

However, the Southern Huns had already arrived at Baitu County in Shangjun at this time, and they were not far away from the two counties of Yuanyin and Yuanyang.

In fact, Baitu County, Yuanyin County, and Yuanyang County are all small counties established on the banks of the Tuwei River, a tributary of the Yellow River. The original population was not much. Now, after the Southern Huns invaded and occupied the Northwest County of Bingzhou, the Han people here basically All moved away.

Relatively speaking, Baitu County is on the upper reaches of the Tuwei River, while Yuanyin and Yuanyang counties are on the lower reaches of the Tuwei River, separated by a section of the Great Wall left by the Qin Dynasty to defend against the Huns.

Under the loess hilly landform here, the Great Wall was built along some undulating hills, blocking the invasion of the Huns like a giant dragon.

However, the Great Wall that originally belonged to the Bingzhou border guards led by Bingzhou Dingyuan has long since lost the guard of soldiers. Naturally, the Great Wall has lost its meaning of blocking the Huns.

Especially after the Southern Huns took this place as their happy horse land, they would naturally not let these Great Walls become an obstacle to their galloping horses.

As a result, some of the Great Wall nodes and passes between the hills have basically been burned and destroyed by the Huns, so that only those Great Walls that spread on the mountains can no longer stop the southern Huns from advancing.

Therefore, when the cavalry of Ma Teng and Zhang Xiu arrived here, they did not mean to rely on the Great Wall to defend against the Southern Huns, but directly prepared to face the Southern Huns in Yuanyin and Yuanyang counties.

At this time, looking for the original pass to garrison, it is better to play a head-on confrontation with the Southern Huns.

Although according to intelligence investigations, the Southern Xiongnu Shanyu Luan Tihu Chuquan gathered nearly [-] Huns cavalry to attack Guanzhong, but Ma Teng and Zhang Xiu were also from the northwest. They knew that most of the Xiongnu cavalry were ordinary tribal herdsmen. Changed on horseback.

Among the nearly [-] Hun cavalry, there are only about [-] at most, which can be regarded as real cavalry in armor and soldiers. Most of the other Hun cavalry are just mobs.

Many Huns did not have any armor to protect them. Some of them did not even have iron weapons in their hands. They just held their homemade bows and arrows, feather arrows using spikes or stones as arrows, and some sets of poles, forks and so on. as a weapon.

On Zhu Weijun's side, Ma Teng's Fubo battalion cavalry had just joined Zhu Weijun's establishment, and many equipment and other configurations had not kept up with it, but Ma Teng was also one of the northwest warlord forces after all.

Under Ma Teng's management, most of these Fubo camp cavalry, which were completely transformed from Ma's private army, were also wearing armor and holding various iron blade weapons.

In addition, during the period of repairing in Chang'an, Ma Teng also put horseshoes on all the horses, and equipped them with double-legged stirrups and some elevated saddles. The combat power of the wave battalion cavalry has definitely improved a lot compared to the original.

As for Zhang Xiu's Tiger Wing Battalion's heavy cavalry, let alone, it was a regular heavy cavalry unit armed to the teeth, with Zhu Wei's support, this heavy cavalry was also one of the best in the Central Plains armies.

Facing the [-] army of the Southern Huns in this way, although Ma Teng and Zhang Xiu's army was only half the number of the opponent, it was completely unambiguous.

After all, the Southern Huns were just hounds raised by the Han people before, and they were able to counterattack their masters before because they did not encounter a strong Han army. Now the cavalry led by Ma Teng and Zhang Xiu is by no means inferior to the regular army of the Han Dynasty. Then Facing these Southern Huns, they naturally have enough confidence to make them get down again.

After Ma Teng and Zhang Xiu made some preparations in the two counties of Yuanyin and Yuanyang, Shanyu Luan Tihu Chuquan of the Southern Huns finally entered the territory of Yuanyin and Yuanyang counties surrounded by the Huns army.

The two small counties of Yuanyin and Yuanyang are actually not far apart, that is, they are located on the east and west banks of the Tuwei River. It is better to say that they are two counties to protect the surrounding area when the Huns attacked. Fortress of the people.

So Ma Teng and Zhang Xiu are now only using these two small counties, which are almost abandoned and empty, as warehouses for stockpiling supplies, and have no intention of stationing and fighting in the county...

(End of this chapter)