Why are you so anxious?

It was near noon, which was supposed to be the warmest time of the day.But dark clouds covered the sun, and the northwest wind mixed with goose feathers and heavy snow rushed past.It is exactly in response to Li He's sentence that black clouds overwhelm the city and want to destroy it.

The land that had been covered with residual snow and frost was once again soaked in blood. Looking down from the top of the ice wall, I could only see blackened and dried-up smudges on the white snow field, disgusting like dog skin plasters, broken knives, halberds, shields and counting sticks. Endless corpses were abandoned on the snow field.The Xiongnu barbarians, who had attacked the city twice but failed to survive, were guarding ten miles outside the city.

Suddenly he took the lead, facing the cold wind, looking at the icy wall that made him retreat from a distance, his eyes shone like a dark green light like a wolf on the grassland.He touched the blood on his face with his hand, pointed at the ice wall and said viciously, "I will push down that wall, I will kill all the people in that city, drink their blood, and eat their flesh." Can pay homage to the dead soldiers of my Huns."

A trace of fear flashed in the eyes of the tribal leaders behind him, but no one spoke.

Suddenly Zha asked again: "How much food and grass do we have left?"

One leader pondered for a moment, then said, "It's not enough for ten days."

Suddenly, a hint of ferocity flashed across Zha's face, and he said quietly: "Enough, we will be able to capture this city in just three days. By then, we will not only have food and grass, but also women and wealth."

He pointed to the city standing quietly in the distance and said, "Those will all be ours."

On the other side, Lin Hui and others guarding the ice wall also looked at the place where the Huns were stationed.Compared with the Xiongnu army who came from afar and lacked food and grass, the soldiers of the Northwest who were stuck in the city and waited for work were a little more relaxed.At least, after these two offensive and defensive battles, the Northwest Army has not suffered any casualties.It's just that the arrows and ice stones consume too much.Fortunately, those ice stones are all local materials, and they are inexhaustible. Thinking of this, Lin Hui slightly admired: "Fortunately, Shaoyou built such an ice wall that day, and it will be much easier for me to defend it. gone."

Zhuang Lin said: "The Xiongnu army invaded Dachu because of the snow disaster on the grassland. They must not have much food and grass. We don't need to open the door to meet the enemy. As long as we hold on like this, the Huns will not be able to hold on." "

Many generals nodded, and just about to speak, they only smelled a strong aroma of food. They looked around and saw Jun Shaoyou leading the city officials, military servants, a group of disaster victims, and a few The men in the doctor's house walked up to the city wall, except Jun Shaoyou and joined the civil servants.Except for the doctor, the remaining two people also worked together to lift a big food box half a person's height, and put it in front of people with great difficulty.

The north wind howled, and it hurt people's faces.Zhuang Lin turned his head to look at Jun Shaoyou's cheeks flushed by the wind, with tenderness in his eyes.Many soldiers might as well, the civil officials in the city actually followed up, and stood up quickly.

Jun Shaoyou smiled slightly, and said: "I was listening in the city, and I felt that the shouts of killing gradually died down, so I knew that the Huns had retreated again. It was almost noon, and everyone was almost hungry. So I took it with me. Someone will bring you food."

When Jun Shaoyou said this, he pointed to several other doctors and said, "These are doctors in the city who are good at treating trauma. I asked them to follow and bandage the wounded soldiers."

When many soldiers heard this, their hearts warmed up, and they looked at Jun Shaoyou with even more admiration.This civil servant from the middle of Beijing gave them a different feeling from others. He was worthy of being the daughter-in-law of General Zhuang, and he was really good.

Seeing Jun Shaoyou's orderly and calm appearance, Lin Hui nodded in satisfaction.He also exchanged a few words with the civil servants behind Jun Shaoyou, and all the civil servants responded with trepidation.A few timid ones kept looking at the Hun army stationed outside the city, showing fear on their faces.

They have been officials in the Northwest for many years, and they rarely come to the front line.I didn't intend to come this time, most of them came here to please Jun Shaoyou or out of face.You can't let others think that a young man dares to go to the front line to condolences to the soldiers, but these old oily people stick to the city instead, as if they are greedy for life and afraid of death.

Therefore, most of the people who went up the city wall this time were forced to do so.It was also to get close to the eldest prince Zhuang Lin and the great general Lin Hui.Unexpectedly, Lin Hui, who had always treated them coldly, would greet them in such a friendly way. Such a situation surprised many civil servants, and the smiles on their faces became brighter and brighter.

Jun Shaoyou was busy distributing meals to each soldier personally, and soothing and attracting people's hearts.But he has been paying attention to the movements of Zhuang Lin and his gang.Seeing those civil servants chatting and flattering Zhuang Lin and Lin Hui one by one, they couldn't help but smile.

Da Chu established the dynasty for more than ten years, now is the time when the officials are clear and the people are happy.It should be known that in troubled times, military generals are important, and in prosperous times, civil servants are all important.There is also a line of aristocratic families who are constantly agitating, so the status of civil servants has been higher than before in recent years, and their daily speech and behavior have also learned to be arrogant.As civil servants, they don't know much about military affairs, and they may not be very proficient in common affairs, but they look down on these soldiers who defend the country with their lives.I always think that these soldiers are just vulgar people.Jun Shaoyou scoffed at this.

The so-called slut is hypocritical, while enjoying the peace and prosperity that the soldiers put their lives into, at the same time despise these soldiers for their rough behavior and bloody hands... Jun Shaoyou has always felt that some civil servants think in a bad way.I have never looked down on these sour and incompetent people who pretend to be noble.Unfortunately, this trip to the Northwest allowed him to meet a few of them.

Of course, most of what they look down on are the low-level soldiers and generals.For Zhuang Lin and Lin Hui, who are of such noble background and high above, they show full admiration and admiration.In addition to flattery, he even lost his behavior.Looking at it like this, I'm afraid I can't find a way out because I'm fawning on him, so how dare I despise him?

Fortunately, not everyone is like that.

Jun Shaoyou took a gratified look at a handsome man in his 30s who was wearing a seventh-rank official uniform standing beside him.This person's surname is Zhao, his name is Sheng, and his style name is Zhongcheng. He is the county magistrate of this city.Although he is aloof and unfashionable as a literati, it is rare to be a good official who seriously considers the common people.At this moment, he was seriously distributing the meal to a young soldier who was resting under the wall.The young soldier was about to stand up with red ears, but he stopped him with his hand, and said gently: "You are fighting on the battlefield to protect the safety of the people in the city. I have no strength to restrain the chickens, so I can't follow you." Let us fight together. It is my heart to share some food for you here."

Jun Shaoyou stood aside, looked coldly at Zhao Zhong's appearance of admitting that he was really doing something, and then looked at the officials who surrounded Zhuang Lin's uncle and nephew like stars holding the moon, and shook his head secretly.

There is nothing wrong with a person wanting to be successful and famous, but he has to work hard and do practical things.Always trying to curry favor with others in order to get promoted...

Jun Shaoyou smirked, and ignored those officials who were eager for quick success.Only Zhao Zhongcheng and a group of handymen and victims went to the walls of the west gate and south gate and continued to deliver food.

After delivering lunch to the soldiers on the four sides of the city wall in this way, probably the Xiongnu had finished their lunch and rested enough, and suddenly Zha took his soldiers and horses and set up a formation outside the city, preparing to attack the city.Although Jun Shaoyou also wanted to stay on the city wall to show that he is not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and that he is willing to live and die with all the soldiers.But it's a pity that he is a civil servant, or an imperial envoy, and his body is not that strong. In order to prevent everyone from taking care of him while fighting hard, Jun Shaoyou had to go back to the city with a little regret.

What a great opportunity to win people's hearts and win a good name, but it's a pity that the broken body like Xiaoshou is too weak.

After returning to the city, Jun Shaoyou was not idle, but pulled a group of handymen and victims Dong Bingshi. The soldiers with thorns all over their bodies were really useful. The previous two times when they defended the city, they caused a lot of casualties to the Xiongnu army. , Jun Shaoyou consciously received the encouragement, so he led a group of people to wait in the city to prepare.

This fierce battle of defending the city lasted for three days.Even though Da Chu had enough food and grass, waited for work with ease, and was well prepared, under the fierce attack of the Huns, there were still countless casualties.

The casualties of the Xiongnu army were ten times and a hundred times that of the Northwest army.But suddenly Zha remained unmoved, and he even let the Huns attack with the corpses of his own people.In this way, the dense arrow rain of the Northwest Army was useless.The Xiongnu army took this opportunity to attack under the city wall, or they pushed heavy wooden carts to hit the city gate, or climbed up the city wall with ladders.When doing these things, they still carried the corpses of their clansmen on their backs.Most of the ice thorns thrown down by the Northwest soldiers pierced the corpses, while the Hun soldiers under the corpses were unscathed.

The strong city gate was knocked open, and the Xiongnu army swarmed into the city gate, but fell into the trap dug by Jun Shaoyou and the victims in the next moment.The thick iron plates originally used to cover the ground had been removed at the beginning of the war, and replaced with a thin layer of grass mats, and a layer of clear water was poured on it. After the clear water was frozen, it was covered with a layer of frozen soil and weeds.The Xiongnu army was caught off guard and stepped on it. The ice on the surface shattered, and they fell into a trap that had been dug long ago. There were sharp wooden stakes that had been cut off at the top of the trap, and the pointed ends easily passed through the Huns. The body of the army could only hear the screams, and the Hun army that attacked the city gate suffered countless casualties.

Seeing this situation suddenly, he almost went mad with anger.Immediately ordered the Huns soldiers to throw the corpses on the battlefield into the big pit.However, Jun Shaoyou took this into consideration when he dug the pit, so he dug the trap deep and wide. Suddenly, he couldn't let the soldiers fill the pit with the risk of arrows and rolling stones. to the ramparts.

He asked the soldiers of the Xiongnu to climb up the wall with ladders on top of the corpses of their tribesmen. The soldiers of the Northwest had no choice but to block the wall with their flesh and blood, stabbing downwards with spears and halberds, forcing the soldiers of the Huns back.However, these Xiongnu soldiers who could carry hundreds of catties of corpses and act quickly and agilely were naturally brave by force. Instead, they directly held the soldiers' spears and halberds and dragged the soldiers from the northwest off the city wall.The soldiers fell from the high walls and fell directly to the ground.The Xiongnu soldiers took this opportunity to break through the gap and climb up the ice wall for a while to fight.Caused all kinds of chaos in the defenders.If Xu Huaiyi hadn't led a group of soldiers to rescue from the west wall at the critical moment, it would have been unknown if the north wall would have fallen.

So far, the whole camp is more grateful for Jun Shaoyou's decision to build the ice wall that day, and when building the ice wall, he tried his best to break through all the ice walls in the southeast, northwest, and four directions, so that today's generals can communicate with each other while defending the city. Whether there is or is not, go directly, without having to go down the tower and then up the city wall as usual.In this way, the soldiers do not have to waste precious time on the road, which ensures that this frontier town is still impregnable under such a fierce attack by the Huns.

After several bloody battles, the battle became more and more stalemate.General Lin Hui looked at the casualty list of soldiers reported daily by his subordinates, his face became more and more gloomy.

Fortunately, the Northern Huns did not have enough food and grass. Three days later, they suddenly looked at the countless corpses and an unmoving ice wall in the wilderness, and finally gave the order to retreat.The hero didn't want to suffer the immediate loss, so he suddenly decided to bypass the city for the time being and attack elsewhere. He would come back again after raising enough food, grass and military supplies.

On the ice-built city wall, Zhuang Lin looked at the Hun army slowly moving into the distance, feeling the heaviness and uneasiness in his heart looming.After these few days of bloody fighting, he had a deep understanding of Suju Zha's cruelty, despicability and his extraordinary military talent.Just like defending the city this time, if it weren't for Jun Shaoyou's seemingly whimsical plan but perfect preparations, the Northwest Army would have suffered countless casualties.But Zhuang Lin has Jun Shaoyou, who are the other generals guarding the city on the border.

Will they be able to withstand such a frenzied attack suddenly?

Zhuang Lin sighed worriedly.Fortunately, as early as the beginning of the war, he had already persuaded Lin Hui to send a letter to several other generals defending the frontier.In the letter, he listed in detail the brutal means of attacking suddenly, and also attached Jun Shaoyou's method of building ice walls and making traps.I hope that what he has done can give those generals some vigilance and help.

Looking up at the blood-red setting sun, Zhuang Lin turned around and went back to the camp to rectify the army.He has no extra energy to sigh here, he has more important tasks to do.According to His Majesty's secret decree, he will set off northward with the eldest prince Kruyigan and others who have quietly arrived in the northwest frontier, and will go deep into the grassland while suddenly heading south, overthrow the base camp of the Northern Huns, and wipe them all out.