The days when I pretended to be a cat in the Forbidden City[Comprehensive]

The location where they stopped was outside the detection range of the Han army. Da Shanyu first secretly arranged for a few short cavalry to disguise themselves and then drove the flock close to Mayi City to inquire about news.

Although the relationship between the Han and the Hungarians was tense, the Han army would at most drive away the few Hu people with their flocks, and in most cases they would take the initiative to trade with the Hu people.

This group of people took a trip and brought back good news-everything is normal, and the Yellow River is indeed frozen, and they can cross the river.The spies also said that they got in touch with the businessman, and the two agreed to do it tomorrow, when the businessman would chop off the head of the magistrate of Mayi County and hang it outside the city.

Another piece of good news is that the businessman brought a large amount of Mongolian sweat medicine. He used the excuse of buying the flock of the Huns to entertain the frontier soldiers. In the evening, he would sprinkle the medicine in their wine, and keep these soldiers in custody the next day. If you can't stand up, even if you can stand up, you will be a soft-legged shrimp, and you can't even lift your weapon.

"Okay!" The military minister Shan Yu was very satisfied with this news, and he even began to think about not taking this businessman back to the grassland, so how much trouble would it save them if such a businessman who can come here stayed in Dahan.

Of course, this is just thinking about it. After this time, there is no doubt that this businessman will definitely not be able to get along in the big man.

"Uh... But he has a request, that is, he wants to take his family with him when he leaves... After all, the Han people will definitely retaliate..."

This is of course no problem, the military official Shan Yu agreed, and he asked people to put the supplies brought back by the spies in the back, where there were boxes of cloth.For the Xiongnu army, these are just small additions that are better than nothing, and no one cares about them at all.

As long as Mayi City was captured, what would they gain more than just these cloths?

At night, the Xiongnu army quietly lurked three hundred steps away from the city gate. This is a safe distance, which ensures that they are not in the opponent's shooting position, and can increase their speed instantly.

Today's weather is gloomy, thick clouds cover the sun and the moon, the winter night is completely silent, and the howling north wind blocks all sounds and traces.

The next day, the sky was bright.

Corresponding to the time of encountering the devil, the time when the sky is about to light is also the time when people are most tired, but the Huns who have not slept all night and are full of excitement are not tired at all. As the sun rises bit by bit, they become more excited. Those with good eyes were pushed to the front.

Finally, just as everyone was expecting, a head tremblingly hung from the top of the wall. Although it could not be seen from a distance, it was certain that it was a man's head.

Just as everyone squinted their eyes, something suddenly fell from the top of the head.

"It's an official hat! An official hat of the Han people!" Someone with good eyesight immediately saw it clearly.

At this time, the city wall was still quiet, but he was able to lift the county magistrate's head out of the wall, which undoubtedly proved that the merchant had settled the city.The military minister Shanyu raised his hand to signal the whole army to get ready, and when he looked sideways, he noticed that his younger brother Yi Zhixie had a strange expression.

"Yi Zhixie, what's wrong?" He purposely called his younger brother's name at this moment.

Yi Zhixie had no time to straighten up her expression after being called suddenly.Therefore, when the Xiongnu army looked back, they saw the heavy face of their Zuoguli King, which was completely different from the joyful expressions of the surrounding soldiers.There was a sudden shock in everyone's heart.

Yi Zhixie's thoughts were interrupted by this sudden sentence, he felt a little embarrassed under the strange eyes of everyone, shook his head but said nothing after all.

Seeing this, the military official Shanyu smiled, "Don't be nervous, my brother. This is not much different from reaching into a pocket and taking out something that belongs to us."

Hearing this, the warriors of the tribe all burst out laughing, they seemed to feel very inconceivable that King Zuoguli would be nervous because of this battle.

What the Huns look down on the most is cowards, the military minister Shan Yu's unconscious words made Yi Zhixie leave a not so deep but not a good impression in the hearts of the left and right and the king's people.Yizhi's oblique face didn't change his face, nor did he argue, he just drew out his own bone knife, silently showing that he was ready.

Crossing the river was not difficult. The Huns were used to wading through frozen rivers. They moved forward quietly, without instructions, words, or tacit understanding.

The Xiongnu soldiers have always been in their own ranks. Unlike the Han army who also maintained a formation during the march, they advocated a certain degree of autonomy.This one is determined by the fact that they are cavalry and need more space to form formations.

Another reason is that they think grouping is the behavior of herbivores, which meat eaters would not do.At the same time, this is also the life experience given by grassland life.On the prairie covered by wind and snow, no one knows whether there is land or a river below. If a large number of people step on the weak part of the ice layer at the same time, it will easily cause the ice layer to break, which will cause a group of people to suffer, and march in batches This possibility can be effectively reduced.

Apparently the same is true when crossing the river. The Huns wading across the Yellow River, this mother river can no longer protect her children, and can only watch the villains pass over her body.

The Xiongnu corps came to the outside of the Great Han’s Inner Great Wall. They were numerous and powerful. The earthen walls here did not seem to have been repaired as carefully as the Outer Great Wall. It was easy to dig a lot. The main reason was that there were so many Huns, but they only needed a cup of tea. Just broke a few holes.At this time, even if the sun rises later in winter, it is already pale.

They were already outside the city gate, and they could clearly hear the movement inside the city, but it was still silent.Not only is there no sound, there are no patrolling people on the wall.

A group of Xiongnu soldiers ambushed on both sides of the city gate. They put their ears on the edge of the city gate and carefully listened to the movement inside. Suddenly, a man waved his hand and called the spies, "Someone seems to be talking inside."

After a while, the spy whispered to the soldiers, "Pull the door, the latch inside has been loosened."

Oh oh oh! ! !The Xiongnu soldiers were excited at that time. They took shovels along the door cracks to push the city gate out of the gap, and then took cloth and tied it to two weird wooden blocks on the door to pull it open.

The businessman's face was exposed just after a gap no bigger than a person's thickness appeared. His appearance surprised the spy who was observing carefully, and he waved his hand and hit him hard. The bloody nose glared at him.

The spy didn't apologize, he asked directly: "How is it?"

"They're all asleep, please be gentle." The businessman said in a low voice, "They're all asleep. It doesn't matter if you just keep your voice down when you come in. But I can only open this door, and there is another one inside that you have to open yourself. That door is too heavy, it is held down by iron blocks."

"Okay." The spies relayed these words to Da Shanyu, so this group of Huns who were accustomed to rough hands and feet all practiced embroidery kung fu with bated breath.

The spy looked again at the businessman's dripping nose that was bleeding continuously, and he didn't know whether it was because of his conscience or because he couldn't bear it, and said, "You better deal with your nose, it's just getting in the way."

Unexpectedly, the businessman refused, "It's okay, I have to watch something."

The spy frowned, "I will remember the merits for you. What are you afraid of?"

"I'm not for that," the businessman glanced at him, with an unknown meaning in his dark eyes, he smiled slightly, with a different posture on his chubby face than before, which made the spy Unconsciously looked away.The two of them stood side by side, watching the first pass of Mayi City open.

The Xiongnu soldiers scrambled to enter first. They first smelled the soaring smell of alcohol, and there were also Han soldiers lying on their backs in the corner. All of them were sleeping soundly, and some even snored.This appearance greatly dispelled the suspicion of the Huns, leading the troops to pass the news to the rear.

The businessman explained softly: "Because Mayi City is protected by the Yellow River, its defense mainly relies on natural moats, so the city walls here are not as fortified as those in the north."

"Okay, I know your merits, and I will write it down for you when the time comes." The spy interrupted him, "Where is the city gate?"

"Here." The businessman took them to a relatively hidden corner. "The gate of Mayi City is opened on the side, and the back of the gate is blocked by iron pillars. Normally, it can only be opened from the inside..."

"Okay, it's none of your business here, you go to the side, don't get in the way." After the spies reported the incident, they roughly pushed the businessman away, and then he directed a few slaves to start collecting wooden stakes on the ground. He stacked them to make battering rams, and at the same time, he arranged for people to move these Han soldiers to a place where they would not get in the way.

At this time, the Xiongnu army began to file in.The space square inside the city wall of Mayi City is quite large, but it is not enough to accommodate [-] cavalry. Because it is too dense, the horses are a little uneasy, and they have symptoms of stamping their feet on the ground and looking left and right.

This strange symptom soon forced the cavalry to dismount and grab the reins to forcefully quiet the horses.Afterwards, the military official Shan Yu also came in, and he frowned fiercely when he saw this, "You all got on your horses, who allowed you to dismount? Have you forgotten the first truth your father and mother taught you? Never leave your weapons and horses."

He turned his head and saw the Han people "holding corpses" beside him. He thought that these people had already been killed, so naturally he didn't pay much attention, but when Yi Zhixie saw these people, he thought for a moment and wanted to leave He was approaching, but at this moment he was called over by the military minister Shan Yu.

The monarch and minister Shanyu cared about the younger brother's recent life affectionately. The two brothers talked about the daily life without saying a word, as if what they faced was not the gate of the big man, but the vast grassland.

That is, during the chatter between the two, the crude battering ram was quickly completed.The Xiongnu cavalry did not often attack the city, but it did not mean that they would not. What's more, they were attacking in a completely free situation at this time, and their efficiency was greatly increased. Ten times, the city wall couldn't bear this part of the pressure and began to drop gravel bricks downward.While laughing at the rough city gates of the Han people, the Huns mounted their horses one after another and got ready to charge.

Sure enough, after four heavy blows, the city gate was pierced. If such a loud move did not wake up the Han army, it would be abnormal.The Xiongnu soldiers encountered resistance for the first time after breaking through the city gate. However, as they first learned, the Han army as a whole was like a soft-legged shrimp, unable to resist the cavalry charge, and could not stop the advance. The sudden Hun army.

The Xiongnu cavalry marched all the way, wrapped in the momentum of breaking bamboo, and the Han army retreated steadily under such approach, and withdrew from the gate.The leading Hun cavalry finally entered a wider space, and they let out a smirk.For the cavalry, the wider the space, the more beneficial it is, but before they can speed up, they will face the incoming big Han infantry team, which is also within their expectation.It would be strange if you didn't meet the Han army.

Now the Xiongnu army as a whole is in a more awkward environment. The front end is making breakthroughs, but the back end is doing nothing.This is the result of the city wall of the Han Dynasty. The city wall is not wide enough, there are fewer Huns attacking, and fewer enemies are let in through the small opening, which is more beneficial to the defenders.

But the Huns didn't intend to wait any longer, and things would change if they were late. The beacon fire had already been lit, and it would not take long for the supplies from Yanmen Yunzhong in the north to arrive. The Huns didn't want to delay for so long, so they "artificially" accelerate.

This method is very simple, that is, the Huns in the back oppress the Huns in front, like squeezing toothpaste, they must rely on the impact of the cavalry to break through the Han army's azimuth line.Of course, this method needs to pay the price of the frontmost Huns cavalry, but it doesn't matter, these people are just a "cannon fodder" formation composed of slaves and miscellaneous Hus, and they can be replenished at any time when they run out.

Don't sympathize with them because of this. For these people, as long as they can survive one or two battles and complete this task to prove their strength, they will soon be promoted and enter the regular army. It's just a means of selection.

Suddenly, near the rear of the army, a young cavalry soldier who was not assigned a task suddenly muttered, "Why do the outer city gates open outwards, while the city gates here are inward? There are no rules in the Han-made houses." ?"

The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional. Yi Zhixie was shocked when he heard this sentence. He suddenly turned his head to look at the rear of the queue, and saw that all the soldiers outside the city had entered the city without knowing it.

As if he had a flash of inspiration, he suddenly thought of why he always had a sense of disobedience before—why did the magistrate of Mayi, the businessman who went to kill him early in the morning, wear an official hat?According to what the businessman said earlier, he clearly wanted to seek a private meeting.Unless that head was not the magistrate of Mayi at all, but the businessman wore it on purpose to prove his identity.If it's real, why bother?

There are also gates that pull outwards. The gates of the Han army are all inwards. The wooden block that is convenient for them to exert force is obviously a gate bolt. This gate protects not the people inside the city, but the people outside the city!

Yi Zhixie's eyes were about to burst, "It's a trap!! Get out quickly!!"

He woke up too late, and he was also in the middle of the queue at this time, so the sound could not reach the back, and the Hun soldiers who vaguely heard the sound looked at him suspiciously.

At this moment, the city gate that they worked so hard to open was closed much faster than when it was opened.

Then they heard the click of a buckle.

At this time, no matter how stupid people were, they knew what was going on. The Xiongnu soldiers who were close to the door turned around and rushed to the door. However, they didn't have tools in their hands, and there was no way to break the door open with human impact alone.Almost at the same time, a row of crossbow soldiers appeared on the originally quiet city wall.

If you look down, the Mayi City of the Han Dynasty presents a figure 8 shape, and it built two urns.The geographical environment of Mayi is quite special. The north of it is the Yanmen Pass that needs support, and the west is directly bordering the Yellow River and the land of the Huns. Such a design of the double urn city can allow them to retreat when defending. Once the city of Mayi is defeated by the enemy Then they can go straight down to Taiyuan to plunder Taiyuan's iron resources.

The advantage of the Han army over the Xiongnu was that the big Han used iron ore. Therefore, although the city of Mayi is not well-known, its defense facilities are actually extremely complete.

The battle of Mayi this time was actually rehearsed several times by Emperor Jing and many generals.

In a valley just outside Mayi City, 20 Han troops led by Wei Shang, Zhou Yafu, Li Guang and others were ambushing there. They watched the Huns army pass by them, and then quietly caught up in the night.

The night covered the figure of the Huns, and it also covered theirs.

Under the banner of the beacon fire, the army outside the city was waiting for the moment when the Huns attacked the city, and the [-] infantry hidden in the city of Mayi were all bright swords.

The majestic horn sounded suddenly. This strange roar startled the restless Huns horses. They were almost uncontrollable and rushed to ram and stampede. The unprepared Huns cavalry was thrown off and trampled into flesh. mud.

The 20 Xiongnu army and the [-] Han infantry faced each other across a city gate, and there were [-] Han troops waiting outside the city.The soldiers on the city wall repeated the actions of winding, advancing, pulling the trigger, and retreating without stopping.From time to time, they also threw lime powder and burning wood blocks down, trying to reduce the number of this army as much as possible to reduce the pressure on the friendly forces.

But there were too many people below, and the Hun cavalry immediately searched for various things to put on the head after discovering that the bow and arrow were from top to bottom.

They have a large base of personnel, and the environment below is not spacious enough, so the defensive network formed in this way can block [-] to [-]% of the crossbow arrows.Moreover, the wind was strong today, and the arrow fell in mid-air and lost part of its strength, so its lethality was limited.However, the Huns below could not make an effective counterattack. If they put down the cover, they would definitely be hit by arrows.

At this time, the Xiongnu Shanyu had calmed down. He was wearing the strongest armor all over his body, so he was naturally not afraid of such a rain of arrows.He commanded people to break through backwards, and the military minister Shan Yu believed that the front must be prepared, but the rear only trapped them instead of killing them from the outside, which shows that the Han people were not so well prepared.

When he gave an order, everyone followed suit.In order to break through, the soldiers put down their defenses, passed the previously used battering hammer to the rear with both hands, and then began to attack the door.The queue here is close to the back end, where the king's tent and elite soldiers of the Xiongnu headquarters are located. They have assumed the work of the original slaves. Every round of arrow rain has people falling down. Every person who falls here is a warrior of the king's tent.

Jun Chen Shanyu's eyes were bloodshot, he couldn't help roaring, "Cunning Han people—"

And almost at the same time, the Hun soldiers who rushed out were shocked to find that a fire suddenly ignited around them.

"What's going on? Where did the fire come from?" They couldn't help but have this question in their hearts, but their instinct for survival made them flee to both ends, and suddenly they heard the roar of the same people, "It's those Han people, those people are setting fire!"

The "corpses" piled up on both sides when entering the city did not know when they had risen.When they were discovered, they had smashed several urns one after another. Seeing that the Huns noticed these corners, they laughed, and some soldiers simply raised the wine jars and threw them at the Huns.The unsealed wine jar spilled a piece of wine in the air, and then they threw torches at the crowd under the horrified eyes of the Huns.

The clothes of the Huns are all made of animal fur, which keeps them warm but they are afraid of fire. Clothes stained with alcohol will start to burn when they come into contact with a little spark. Some clever Huns tried to put out the fire by rolling, but he found that the fire was not only It was not destroyed, but burned more and more.

How is this going!

"There is also wine on the ground! The Han people sprinkled wine on the ground!"——This is the origin of the soaring alcohol smell.

At that moment, the Huns squinted their eyes and raised their bows to shoot at the Han people who were lighting fires everywhere, but it was already too late, and the fire was getting bigger and bigger.

"Are you crazy?" the Huns scolded the few Han people who were still alive, and now they knew that these people were all pretending to be asleep but actually ambush here, "You can't escape even if the fire burns!"

The Han soldiers actually didn't understand what they said, but at this moment he interjected: "Grandpa was originally a capital crime. Now Shangfeng gave us a chance to use the corpses of Hun soldiers to pave the way for Grandpa and me. Don't be too happy, Grandpa!"

After the rain of arrows shot, the Han soldiers threw the torch into a wooden box with their last strength.Then, he fell down, deliberately turned his face to the sky before falling, and he wanted to see the end of these Huns.

The Xiongnu soldiers didn't pay attention to the wooden box, let alone the viscous liquid slowly oozing from the bottom of the box.They tried their best to smash the doors at both ends, trying to escape from the burning urn.

However, their war horses made trouble for them at this time - the beast roars of the Han army had already made the horses restless, and the fire on the ground and the dense environment made it impossible for the horses to keep calm.The commotion of the horses aroused the emotions of the soldiers, and the Huns cavalry had to dismount one after another.

Yi Zhixie knew that the situation was not good, so he beheaded a few Hun soldiers who made trouble on the spot, and then joined the queue of ramming the door himself, so that the soldiers could calm down a bit.Unknowingly, the Xiongnu soldiers seemed to have found their backbone, and unconsciously followed Yi Zhixie.

The military minister Shanyu squinted his eyes watching this scene, he was well protected, without any scratches.At this time, his eyes fell on Yi Zhixie, and from this half-brother, he seemed to see the figure of his grandfather.

This is the spirit of becoming a king.

And this kind of temperament should not appear in a Zuogu Li king.

At this time, the loosening of the city gate caused the soldiers to be overjoyed. More and more people joined in the ramming of the gate. After more than a hundred times of ramming, the sound of wooden shattering finally appeared.Military officer Shan Yu squinted his eyes. He got on his horse and raised his bone knife, "Warriors, mount your horses, pick up your weapons, and prepare to charge with me!"

His sudden appearance attracted a large rain of arrows. The military officer Shanyu was completely fearless. He slashed with a horizontal knife one after another, cutting off the incoming crossbow arrows. The man laughed, "We are warriors on the prairie, don't forget We are the experts at playing bows, now, boys, let us teach the Han people how to use bows."

After saying that, he bent his bow towards the sky, and drew it to the full moon, only to hear a whistling sound and the bow shot out through the air, rushing towards the sky with the momentum of thunder, then crossed the city wall and deliberately built a shield to block the bow below, and pierced a Han Between the eyebrows of the army.

This shocking shot caused the Huns to gain momentum, and each of them raised their bows to reflect upwards, and the Han army immediately bowed down to seek cover. This move made the Huns less suppressed, and the Han army took the lead every time after that. There will be arrows raining down.

The wooden door let out a hoarse roar under the impact, and finally fell to the ground after sighing unwillingly. After all, it could no longer continue to block the enemies for the Han family men outside the city.

After paying the price of more than a hundred elite soldiers, the Xiongnu were finally able to file out, but what greeted them was the Han soldiers who had already lined up and waited for work.