Hanhou

At the junction of Wuyuan County and Yunzhong County, there is a former site of a Warring States military camp. It is said that it was built by the Qin army when it left the fortress, and was later destroyed by the beacon fire at the end of the Qin Dynasty. It was abandoned after the Han Dynasty.

Most of the camps are rammed earth buildings, and the surrounding earthen walls have been damaged. Walking among the remaining foundations, you can vaguely see the vertical and horizontal ditches, the martial arts arena covered with decaying grass, and the deep pits where flags were once planted.

In order to strengthen the defense and prevent the Xiongnu from going south by road, Wei Shang wrote a letter in his own hand and sent guards to Wuyuan County.Not long after, the prefect of Wuyuan wrote back, and the two chieftains of the border counties reached an agreement that a new fortress broke ground on the former site of the barracks.

The fortress is built with blue bricks and cement, and with the help of favorable terrain, the passage from north to south is blocked.

The master who presided over the construction of the fortress walked along the old site of the barracks, ordered the surrounding trees not to be cut down, and asked the army to drive away the prisoners and wild men, move a large amount of stones and soil, and build hills near the newly established fortress.

Backed by the fortress, the hills are arranged vertically and horizontally, connecting the sparse elm forest, and firmly blocking the southward pass.

Such defensive measures have little effect on infantry, but can hinder the advancement of cavalry.The effect is not as good as a tripping post, but it is more than enough to stop the cavalry charge and buy time for the defenders.

After the fortress was built, beacon towers were erected at a distance of fifty paces.The waiting officer led a team of infantry to guard here, and another three teams of scouts went north in rotation to investigate the situation on the grassland.

During the construction of the fortress, the prefect of Wuyuan County sent people to visit, who were amazed at the progress of the project.Knowing the role of cement, he immediately reported to the prefect on a flying horse. Within a few days, the prefect of Wuyuan sent people to Yunzhong City to learn how to make cement. Following Yunzhong County, he began to build a border fortress.

It's a pity that the Xiongnu came too fast. Yunzhong County moved two months in advance, and the various gates will be completed.Wuyuan County moved a little slower, only had time to fill the gap, and had no time to level the roads between the fortresses.However, compared with the past, the defensive strength has also risen to a higher level, successfully blocking the first wave of attacks, and keeping more than ten thousand barbarians out of the county.

This time when the Xiongnu went south, the military minister Shan Yu did not show up, but distributed the command to the four corners.Unfortunately, the "heavy task" of attacking Yunzhong County once again fell on Yizhi, the king of Zuoguli.

Zuoxian King Yudan, who had been suppressed many times before, was ordered to attack Yanmen County this time, Youxian King went south to Dingxiang County, and Youguli King went straight to Wuyuan County.

On the day she received the military order, Yizhi's face was gloomy, but she didn't take any action to resist the order, she just sat silently in the big tent, expressing her dissatisfaction and resentment appropriately.

Even the Youxian King and Youguli King, who were a little gloating at others' misfortunes, saw him like this, and it was hard for them to speak out when they hit the rocks.In the end, Yu Shan only said a few words indifferently, and felt that it was not interesting, so he changed the topic and focused on discussing how many cavalry to bring to the south this time, how to distribute the looted grain, cattle and sheep.

After the discussion was over, Yi Zhixie and King Youxian walked out of Shan Yu's tent one after another.

King You Xian patted Yi Zhixie's shoulder, taking it as comfort.

Yi Zhixie said suddenly: "Da Shanyu is getting old, and his suspicions are getting heavier and heavier. It was Yu Dan before, and now it's me. Who will be next?"

King You Xian stopped in his footsteps, looked at Yi Zhixie, first he was puzzled, then he was shocked.

Yi Zhixie achieved his goal, he knew that too much was too late, he immediately stepped forward, passed Youxian King, returned to the camp to gather cavalry, and prepared to go south to Yunzhong.

The sound of the horn sounded in his ears, King Youxian stood on the spot, raised his arms to stop the suspicious big household, and looked back at Shanyu's big tent, with a haze in his eyes.

However, just like Yi Zhixie suppressed his anger and gritted his teeth to take orders, King Youxian knew very well that after experiencing natural disasters, the tribe's survival was difficult, and the first task was to go south to grab food and livestock.Only when the warriors and herdsmen are fed can we have the energy to talk about other things.

Under the current circumstances, no matter what intentions and methods the military minister Shan Yu uses, and no matter how deep the rift between them is, they cannot have internal conflicts.

"go!"

King Youxian suppressed the shadow in his heart, left Longcheng after Yi Zhixie, and led [-] cavalry to attack the Han territory.

After the last fierce battle, King Youguli's troops suffered heavy losses, and their strength was the weakest in the four corners.Wuyuan County doesn't have much lucrative water to fish for, but compared to Yunzhong County, which has nowhere to go like a hedgehog, it is always much less difficult.King Youguli was not dissatisfied with the arrangement of the military minister Shanyu, he learned that King Zuoguli and King Youxian had set off successively, without any further delay, he ordered his troops to go south.

Compared with the other three, Zuo Xianwang Yu Dan looked very energetic.

He once led an army into Yanmen County, and all the prefects of Yanmen died at the head of the city.In his opinion, Yanmen is a big county on the border of Han, with rich oil and water, and average guarding power, it is really a piece of fat.As everyone knows, the prefect of Yanmen has already been replaced, and Yu Shan is destined to suffer a big somersault when he meets the goshawk flying from Chang'an.

When the north wind blew up, all the ministries of the grassland approached the Han side. Instead of launching a hasty attack, they sent out cavalry first to find out the strength of the Han army and find out the weak points before launching a strong attack.

The reason is not that they are afraid of the Han army. In fact, except for the cavalry in the clouds who are killing and killing in the grassland, there is no Han army that can make the cavalry of the headquarters run away.In fact, the current situation of the various ministries cannot be sloppy, and we must be cautious.

Drought and locust plagues invaded the grassland one after another. The grass died one by one, and the ones that did not die were eaten up. The cattle and sheep had no fodder, and a large number of them starved to death before winter. Those who survived were skinny and skinny. Bid money.

Life became difficult, the headquarters attacked the other tribes as always, and if the other tribes could not survive, they swung their knives at the barbarians.

In just one month, more than 20 tribes clashed, and a small tribe of 300 people was directly slaughtered.Whether it was the headquarters or other departments that started the attack has not been found out so far, and it can only be classified as an unsolved case.

In order to prevent further chaos, the military minister Shan Yu took a tough attitude and forbade the headquarters to rob other troops, nor allowed other troops to kill and plunder the barbarian cavalry.To obtain food, they all turned around and went south to the Han Dynasty to grab it!

Da Shanyu gave the order, and there was indeed not much to grab in the grassland, so the four corners of the royal court pulled up their teams and rushed south aggressively.Due to the difficult life of the various ministries and the vendetta against each other, it is inevitable that there will be problems when mobilizing military forces.

Faced with this situation, Yu Dan, the most reckless Zuoxian king, knew that he could not attack violently. The four corners of the royal court all adopted similar strategies. , to launch an attack at the weak point.

Zuo Guli King Yi Zhixie knew that Wei Shang was powerful, and there was no luck at the beginning of the battle. After probing, he attacked with all his strength and promised a heavy reward. He would not spare the lives of other savage cavalry or even the cavalry of his own team, and opened a passage in the border county.

Xu Buyong was defeated by Wei Shang's men several times. Before that, he took a detour into Yunzhong, but was beaten back by Zhao Jia and Cheng Buzhi's reinforcements.This time he went south, he vowed to avenge his shame, and took the initiative to ask for orders to attack the fortress, and vowed not to stop until he entered the land in the clouds.

Yi Zhixie agreed to his request, except his troops, and transferred another [-] cavalry from the headquarters and [-] wild cavalry from other troops, all of which were handed over to him to command.

With the army in hand, Xu Buyong's head was hot, and he almost issued a military order on the spot.Fortunately, his nephew stopped him, so the words did not come out.

Where is Yunzhong County?

Dangerous land and Jedi in the eyes of the Huns.

King Zuoguli kept what he said and did what he said, and he didn't show affection at all.If the military order cannot be fulfilled, it will inevitably lose its head.

Looking back afterwards, Xu Buyong broke out in a cold sweat.Rubbing his neck, he patted his nephew on the shoulder vigorously, promising to make him his heir after returning.

Two of his sons died in the hands of Wei Shang, and one died in Zhao Jia's livestock farm.Those who are still alive are either young or mediocre, unable to lead the tribe at all.Anyway, his eldest brother was dead, and his nephew was brought up by him, no different from his son, and he could feel at ease if he handed over the tribe to him.

Learning from the previous lesson, Xu Buyong was much more cautious in his actions. Unfortunately, the defense of the Han army was too tight, and the rangers were not able to bypass the fort. They were discovered by the opponent, and after an encounter, they were directly beaten back.

However, he sent more than one ranger, and soon discovered the reality of the Han army. It is expected that there is only one Han army guarding the fortress. Before the reinforcements of the Han army arrived, the fortress was completely destroyed.

It was his nephew who stopped him again, and suggested not to press the whole army, but to use part of the army to test first.

"For a fortress with less than 300 people, three or four times as many troops can take it. If there is an ambush, thousands of people can support it, and the pass can still be opened."

"it is good!"

Xu Buyong adopted his nephew's suggestion and sent the barbarian cavalry to attack first, but was repelled by the defenders.After testing out whether there was an ambush, he immediately pressed on with a thousand cavalry from the headquarters.Under the fierce attack, the fortress was not destroyed, and the situation was also precarious.

As early as the attack began, there were flying knights galloping out of the fortress, and what Zhao Jia encountered was already the second wave.

When Feiqi left the fortress, Xu Buyong's army was still far away.Therefore, he had no idea that the Huns who came were not more than 1000 people, but more than [-].

300 meters away from the fortress, Zhao Jia encountered a team coming from the east.

There were more than two hundred people, but they were not soldiers of the frontier army, but all the frontier residents in short brown clothes and bows and arrows on their backs.There are old and young among them, the only thing in common is that they are tall and sturdy.The leader was a strong man in his late years, with scars across his face, blind in his right eye, and half of his left arm missing.

When the two teams met, the man got off his horse and saluted.

"How about going to the reinforcement fortress? If so, please go with us!"

Zhao Jia glanced over the group of people, and said to the man, "Would you like to obey the military order?"

"Wish!" The man said seriously.

"Okay." Zhao Jia nodded, and pulled the reins abruptly, "Obey orders, return to the army!"

"Respect!"

With a wave of the man's hand, more than 200 people joined the team led by Zhao Jia.The man retreated to the back of the team, held the rein with one hand, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and in terms of riding skills, he was obviously better than all the young and strong present.

100 meters away from the fortress, there was a strong smell of blood in the air, and the sound of killing was clearly audible.Flames lit up in front of the fortress, and the Huns couldn't break through the brick and concrete defenses, so they had already started setting fire.

"Blow the horn."

Zhao Jia seemed calm, but the hand holding the rein was already sweating.

Huber raised his horn, and his desolate voice hovered over the battlefield.

"Reinforcements, reinforcements are here!" Hearing the sound of the horn, the defenders of the fortress cheered, full of fighting spirit.Relying on less than a hundred troops, they miraculously killed the Huns who had boarded the fortress.

With the last of their strength, several seriously injured Han soldiers rushed towards a Huns centurion, and rolled down the brick wall together with him regardless of the blade that was cut on them.

Baichang let out a roar after landing, and was about to kill the Han army.Not wanting to be bitten by the throat by the opponent, his eyes were protruding, and he stabbed the Han Jun's side with a knife, but he didn't let the opponent let go.

When the Huns cavalry heard the horn, they didn't know the number of reinforcements, and panicked for a while.

Xu Puyong was determined to take down this fortress, seeing that he was about to succeed, he didn't plan to retreat at all.Immediately release the black eagle to try to determine where the reinforcements are, and prepare to send cavalry to intercept the reinforcements.

Unexpectedly, the black eagle flew into the air, and was suddenly attacked by a golden-brown figure. It was not as strong as the opponent, and was dragged away by its locked claws. Afterwards, its neck was grabbed and its neck was broken, and it fell with a groan.

After the black eagle fell, the golden eagle fluttered its wings and screamed, and flew straight to the Hun cavalry. After locking the position, it circled high in the sky, and let out one cry after another.

The Huns shot their bows and arrows, but the golden eagles easily dodged them.Swooping down and scratching the eyes of the bow cavalry, the golden eagle quickly climbed up and continued to hover above everyone's heads.

Zhao Jia determined the position of the golden eagle, raised his right arm, and signaled to Uncle Hu and Uncle Xiong.The two nodded, and led a group of troops respectively, bypassing the black smoke rising from the fortress, and entering the sparse elm forest.

"Ao, go to the fortress and explain the situation to the defenders." Zhao Jia threw a wooden sign to Gongsun Ao.

"promise!"

Gongsun Ao originally wanted to attack with Zhao Jia, but the military order was so high that he could not hesitate.Immediately took the wooden sign and galloped towards the fortress.

Zhao Xin and Zhao Po Nu followed Zhao Jia, took off the strong bows on their horses, faced ten times the number of enemies, there was no fear in their expressions, only monstrous fighting intent.

"go!"

From Zhao Jia's point of view, the strength of the enemy and our troops is very different. With more than 200 people, entering the fortress is just adding fuel.Instead of this, it is better to take the risk of killing the Huns behind them.

The golden eagle locks on the position of the Huns, which is open and unobstructed, which is suitable for riding and shooting.Even though he couldn't capture the king in one fell swoop, he could effectively harass the Huns and let the Huns bleed.At the same time, buy time for the fortress, so that the defenders can breathe until the next batch of reinforcements arrives.

The premise is that these more than 200 people are determined to die and dare to charge and defend the Huns.

"Are you afraid?" Zhao Jia turned his head and looked at the young man who was following him.

Xin Zhao shook his head, and Zhao Puonu grinned.

"Follow Mr. Lang, don't be afraid!"

"it is good!"

Zhao Jia whistled, the horn sounded again, the Han cavalry divided into three groups, and rushed out from the forest at the same time.

Xiong Bo and Hu Bo led a hundred men respectively, and when they were less than fifty steps away from the Xiongnu, they opened their bows and shot arrows.Regardless of whether it hits or not, immediately distance itself, run outside the range of the bone arrow, and look for new opportunities to strike.

Zhao Jia led fifty young men to rush towards Xu Buyong, as if he was desperate to break into the opponent's army regardless of his life.

When the Xiongnu cavalry grinned and was about to take down the 50 men, the formation of the charge suddenly changed. The young men scattered, fearless of the bone arrows flying, picked up the rope, and threw the lit poisonous smoke tube out .

Fifty poisonous chimneys flew over one after another and fell into the ranks of the Huns. Some smoked poisonous smoke and burst into flames more than one meter high; There was a panic among the Huns.

Uncle Hu and Uncle Xiong seized the right opportunity and turned around, another wave of arrows rained down.Zhao Jia took the opportunity to lead people away, avoiding the front of the Huns, and galloped to the right flank, another wave of poisonous smoke pipes, which intensified the chaos.

If it were a general who knew how to deploy troops, Zhao Jia would not be able to take advantage of this.After the cavalry came out of the forest, they were shot in the middle.

It's a pity that Xubu Yong is not such a person. Although his nephew has some tricks, he is not a general. In addition, the attack target is already crumbling. In order to rush over in one fell swoop, Xubu Yong is gathering the remaining cavalry and moving forward.

This gave Zhao Jiake an opportunity.

A team of less than 300 people wandered around the Huns' army. Even though some people kept falling off their horses and their lives were in danger at any time, none of them retreated timidly, which really caused a lot of trouble for the Huns.

Gongsun Ao entered the fortress, handed out Zhao Jia's wooden card, and explained the situation in detail.

The head of the village, whose leg was cut off by the Xiongnu and could not lift his left arm, nodded, instead of taking the opportunity to kill the Xiongnu, he bit the opponent on the brick wall.

"Captain Zhao is not afraid of life and death, how can we spare our lives! He risked his life to attack for us, how can we hide behind the wall!" Still bleeding, he yelled, "Shaling reinforcements have arrived, and the reinforcements from the county are not far away, kill Hu!"

Accompanied by the roar, the head of the village cut off the enemy's neck with a knife.

Gongsun Ao picked up a bow and arrow, and shot two arrows through the left eye of a Hun, saving a wounded soldier.The wounded soldier grinned at him, stabbed the Huns, and spat blood from his mouth.

"Kill Hu!"

The remaining dozens of defenders in the fortress picked up their weapons, roared and rushed towards the opposite enemy, like a beast on the verge of extinction, completely sacrificing their lives.