Chapter 264 Blocking 2
Outside the west gate, on a mound about one mile away from the city wall.
This distance is not actually safe. From time to time, stone bombs thrown by catapults or giant arrows fired by crossbows whizzing past the earth mound with flames, and even hitting directly at the foot of the earth mound. The momentum was really terrifying.
However, the big flag inserted on the mound did not shake any of it. On the blood-red flag, a giant wolf opened his eyes wide open, opened his bloody mouth and soared into the air, revealing his sharp claws, with a fierce and ferocious expression, as if he was jumping out of the flag in the next second and biting off your throat!
Under the banner, several Hun generals were riding on the back of tall war horses, staring at the new city surrounded by countless torches, as if they were about to turn into ashes in the next second. The two generals in the lead were not tall but extremely strong, and they rarely saw beards on the jaws. Scars looked particularly hideous. This is a very typical characteristic of Hun men. Men will all grow beards, especially men in the cold zone. The beards are thick and dense, and they grow as wild grass by the river. The nobles may stay.
The strong beard is beautiful, but ordinary people do not have this leisure time. The beard is long and dense, so it is very troublesome to take care of it! Especially when they often go to the battlefield to chop people, it is even more troublesome to have a big beard. It is difficult to shave it off. If it is kept, it will be dirty. If it is injured, a few beards fall into the wound, and the wound will ulcerate. Therefore, the Huns often use a knife to scratch the beards of the jaw when their children are young, and they will destroy pores, follicles, etc. When they become adults, their beards will not grow.
The other one has a thick beard, tall and looks very different from the Huns. His nose is tall, his eyes are blue and fair, and he is a typical white man. He rides a tall and majestic yellow horse, staring quietly at the city wall and tower reflected by the flames. His expression is cold and his eyes are as quiet as ice water suppressing the excitement of wild beasts as they see their prey. The bloodthirsty aura on his body is shocking.
Time passed quickly, and seeing that an hour had passed, the Huns army still could not take down the city wall. Some extremely fierce suicides rushed forward, briefly killed a small section of Liangzhou army on the city wall, and planted the Huns wolf flag, but were then thrown down by people and flags. Seeing the army retreating from the city wall again, the tall white general slowly turned his head and looked at the general with scars beside him, and said in a fluent Hun language: "I was attacked late at night, and I was still guarding like a Tangchi Iron Fortress in a hurry, making it difficult for our army to cross the line. This Liangzhou army... is truly a rare strong army in Jin!"
The Hun general snorted coldly: "There is only one hard bone among the Jin people. When we smash this hard bone, the Jin people will have to kneel in front of us obediently and tremble!"
The white general said, "I'm afraid it's not easy..."
The Hun general sneered: "If they continue to defend Xionger Mountain to the death, I may have a little headache, but they were fantastic and took the initiative to go down the mountain to counterattack the new city. I would not be polite to them! At most three days, I will definitely kill Beigong Jing's son's head and use it to comfort my brother's spirit in heaven!"
The white general still shook his head: "I'm afraid it's not easy..."
The Huns general was furious: "Shi Shilong, what do you mean!?"
The white general bowed his hand and said, "General Huyan calmed down. I have no other intention. I just think that the Liangzhou army has strong combat power and relied on the strong city. It is not easy to destroy it."
This fierce and resolute Hun general was a capable general under Liu Yuan's command, Hu Yanyan. The birth and death of this gentleman was unknown. We only know that he was a genuine Hun and was very capable of fighting. When Liu Yuan raised his army, he immediately responded and surrendered to Liu Yuan's command. Under Liu Yuan's command, he fought south and north, annexed the state, and attacked Luoyang. He was invincible and defeated. He soon became one of the most highly trained generals of Liu Yuan. He became one of the most highly esteemed generals of Liu Yuan. He became one of the most powerful figures in the Han Dynasty of the Huns. It is said that one person was at the right time, and he was promoted to heaven. Hu Yanyan was appointed as the Grand Sikong, and he was appointed as the Grand Sikong, and his vanguard, and his brothers and nephews naturally benefited from it, and they all rose to prominence and had a prosperous official career!
However, his brothers and nephews did not have the ability of him, nor did he have the luck of him. In the second year of Yongjia, when the Huns army besieged Luoyang, these unlucky guys kicked Beigong Chun's titanium alloy steel plate. Although they had an absolute advantage in military strength, they were attacked by Beigong Chun, a madman, and a thousand death-death men. Hu Yanhao was cut off his head by Beigong Jing. Hu Yanyi died in the chaos, and his clan nephews were also killed or injured.
After a few years of defeat, the Huyan clan was covered in the Huns and Han dynasties for a long time and could not raise his head. This time, Huyanyan hated Beigong Chun, Beigong Jing and Liangzhou Army to the core. This time, Liu Can led 40,000 troops to attack Luoyang. His main purpose was not to capture Luoyang, but to destroy the Liangzhou army and kill Beigong Chun, Beigong Jing and his son to worship the spirit of the brothers and nephews who died under the sword of Liangzhou last year.
The white general had a bigger background than Hu Yanyan. He followed Liu Yuan much later than Hu Yanyan, and he was not from the Huns' headquarters, and he did not have many subordinates. However, he was regarded as his sharpest sword by Liu Yuan and the most terrifying nightmare by the Western Jin generals. At least half of the credit for the demise of the Western Jin Dynasty would be remembered in his account!
He was Shile, who was born in the Qiangqu tribe of the Huns. The Huns were a multi-ethnic ethnic group. Not only did there be a large number of Altai people who lived on the Mongolian Plateau for generations and Han people who fled from the Han area to the grassland to survive, but also a large number of small Central Asian ethnic groups who were enslaved by them. There were many white people there. Where did Shile's family come from? I guess he couldn't even say he himself. It might be the Sogdians who moved in Central Asia, or the Aryans who ran from North India. Anyway, it was very mixed. He was born in a humble background and even worked as a slave. Later, he took advantage of the Eight Kings Rebellion and started to fight against the Western Jin court. Due to his weak strength, his team soon collapsed under the attack of the Western Jin army. He fled to Shanxi with some lucky people who survived the butcher knife of the Jin army and defected to Liu Yuan.
At that time, Liu Yuan had just established the Huns and Han Kingdom. It was the time to use people that he naturally valued Shi Le who came to surrender. Shi Le did not disappoint Liu Yuan, subdued Fulidu, swept Bingzhou and Jizhou, and was invincible. The Jin army was defeated by him again and again with his troops that were far less than his own, and they regarded him as a demon. Every time he saw Shi Le's flag, he was frightened and was afraid before fighting. Shi Le became the sharpest knife in Liu Yuan's hand. Every time he was unsheathed, the Western Jin Dynasty would flow into a river.
Three months ago, Liu Yuan died of illness. Liu Cong killed Prince Liu He usurped the throne and ascended the throne. After stabilizing the situation in the court, he immediately used troops to complete Liu Yuan's unsuccessful career and completely destroyed the Western Jin Dynasty. In this battle, he sent 40,000 troops, led by his eldest son Liu Can, his cousin Liu Yao, the Grand Sikong Hu Yanyan and Wang Mi. Shi Le led 20,000 elite cavalry to join them and attack Luoyang together. Shi Le's performance in this battle was as eye-catching as ever. He annihilated several Jin troops in the field battle and killed tens of thousands of people. The various units of the Hun army were full of morale in the face of successive victories, and successively captured important places such as Mianchi, Xin'an, Kinmen, Yiyang, Xincheng, Heyin, etc., and had formed three sieges of Luoyang.
However, the Xiongershan Camp, which was defended by the Liangzhou army, was still like a sharp knife, pressing against the back of the Xiongnu army, which made them very uncomfortable. After experiencing the first year of Yongjia and two defeats in the second year of Yongjia, they knew very well what kind of strong troops the Liangzhou army was. If they dared to attack Luoyang despite the threat from the back, Beigong Jing would dare to replicate the Ximingmen Battle in the second year of Yongjia, select Liangzhou soldiers to attack at night, and stab them hard from the back. So dying, the Liangzhou army is not only proficient in cavalry, infantry, and mountain combat, and is also very good at mountain combat. They operate the Xiongershan Camp like the Tangchi Iron Fortress. The Xiongnu army is mainly cavalry and basically has a dark eye on mountain wars. After only two tentative offensives, they lost more than 3,000 people. There was no way, so they could only find another way.
After taking down the new city, Hu Yanyan knew that the Western Jin Dynasty would definitely not be able to calm down, so he left a hole to release the imperial envoy from the Western Jin Dynasty. At the same time, he retreated most of the elite soldiers and generals in the new city, leaving only a unit dominated by Qiang and Di infantrymen, which seemed to be large in number but not very strong in combat. He was waiting for Beigong Jing to lead the Liangzhou army down the mountain to counterattack. He expected that the Western Jin Dynasty was already panicked at this time and did not care about the Xionger Mountain Camp. He would definitely order Beigong Jing to recover the Xincheng and Yiyang regardless of everything, so he set up a net of heaven and earth early...
As he expected, the main force of the Liangzhou Army really went down the mountain and plunged into his net of heaven and earth.
But to his surprise, the Liangzhou army was seriously damaged in the city defense fortifications and was suddenly attacked at night. Relying on the broken city to fight to the death, the Hun army climbed into the city in batches, and turned into incomplete corpses and were thrown down, with heavy casualties. As time went by, the Liangzhou army reacted from the panic of the initial sneak attack and fought more and more orderly. Not to mention taking down the city wall, it became increasingly difficult for the Xiongnu army to climb the city!
Hu Yanyan knew that his Liangzhou army had not yet established a stable foothold, so he caught a turtle in a jar, and took the Xincheng and wiped out the Liangzhou army in one fell swoop. Seeing that his army could not capture it for a long time and was also injured, he couldn't help but feel anxious. He heard Shi Le keep talking sarcastic words on the side. How could he stand his bad temper? It would be fine if he didn't directly whip it!
Chapter completed!