Qin Shizhi's Confucian junior master

Chapter 269, Battle of the Siege

Outside Shangdang County, King Zuo Xian knelt down on one knee in front of Touman, and all the tribal leaders looked at King Zuo Xian with a sad face and Touman with a calm face.

"Hahahaha, Arut, you led an army of [-] people here, and you inevitably lost time on the way. This is to express your loyalty to Ben Shanyu. How could I blame you?" Da Shanyu helped King Zuoxian, who was kneeling on the ground on one knee, and patted King Zuoxian's cloak that was covered in dust from the rush.

"Thank you, Da Shanyu, for your understanding. I, King Zuoxian, am willing to serve Da Shanyu to the death." King Zuoxian said with his head bowed.

The other tribal leaders were also relieved to see this scene of brothers and sisters. King Zuoxian came two days later than expected, which also delayed their attack for two days. They originally thought that Touman would blame King Zuoxian for the delay of the military plane, but the reason for King Zuoxian's late arrival was also impeccable. Just when they thought the scene would be stalemate, Touman also gave in and did not punish King Zuoxian.

"But you can avoid capital punishment for delaying the fighter plane, and you can't escape the crime of living. How about your Zuo Xianwang's troops taking the lead in attacking the city in tomorrow's battle?" Touman looked at Zuo Xianwang and said.His eyes were full of coldness.

The other tribal leaders looked at King Zuoxian. Facing the eyes of all the people, King Zuoxian was very unwilling, but he still gritted his teeth and said
"This is what I should do! Although my Zuoxian King's Department has been traveling for a long time and is a bit tired, I am willing to go to the city first for the Da Shanyu, but this time I lead most of the cavalry and very few infantry. Can the Da Shanyu allocate some of my infantry for my use?"

Siege is a matter of extremely high mortality rate, especially for those who traveled such a long distance from King Zuo Xian, they couldn't rest for a night's rest, and what's more, most of the troops he brought this time were cavalry, and there were very few infantry.Most of the Xiongnu's soldiers were cavalry, and there were very few infantry. Most of the Xiongnu's infantry were slaves. These slaves included people from their own tribes, some from conquered tribes, and some they plundered from the Yuezhi Kingdom and the Central Plains.

"Of course, you are the only one who didn't arrive in Shangdang County in time this time. Youxian King and several tribal leaders. The infantry of your tribes is enough to gather together. Ben Shanyu will also ask the Royal Guards to mobilize a group of infantry to support you. How about it?"

After Touman finished speaking, he looked at the silent Youxian King and several tribal leaders who did not deliver on time and said, Youxian King is Touman's uncle. He is now in his 40s, with a little gray in his hair.Seeing Touman looking at him, King Youxian did not refuse and said
"Youxian King's Ministry has no objection, it's just a small city with less than [-] guards, so it can be broken easily."

"We are willing to win the border town for Da Shanyu!" said the other tribal leaders.

Touman looked at Zuo Xianwang again.

"Youxian King is like this. I have nothing to say. Tomorrow, Da Shanyu will take down the city in front of him and open the gate for us to go south." Seeing Touman, Zuo Xianwang had already finished speaking, and he could only put his hand on his chest and said.

"Okay, King Zuo Xian will lead his men down to rest. Ben Shanyu is waiting for the performance of King Zuo Xian's men tomorrow." Touman said.

"Yes."

Touman then pointed out several belated tribal leaders, and asked them to lead soldiers to cooperate with Zuo Xianwang and Youxian Wang to attack the city tomorrow.Afterwards, all the tribal leaders in the tent of the Huns returned to their tribal camps to prepare for the siege tomorrow.

At this time, in the border city, the guard of the border city looked at the continuous camp below, his face was pale, and his forehead was covered with cold sweat.

"Where did General Wang Ben's reinforcements go?" the guard said, looking at his lieutenant general.

"The spies are coming to report, there are still forty miles away." The lieutenant replied.

"Have the people already withdrawn?" the guard asked.

"After receiving the order from General Wang Ben, we have sent people to evacuate the people. Most of them have already gone south to Gaonu and other places. Some people who have not had time to evacuate have blocked all the roads in the village and rely on the village to form an earthen fortress." The deputy general said.

Shangdang also experienced the threat of the Huns at the time. At that time, Shangdang was still the State of Zhao, so most of these villages and towns had the habit of leaving behind road closures and building earth forts. Unexpectedly, they have used it again now.

"These Huns have been besieged below for two days. Another 5 people came today. I don't know how many people will come tomorrow. Let the soldiers be ready to deal with the Huns attacking the city." The guard said.

"promise!"

The guard looked at the worried faces of the Xiongnu army below, and could only pray for reinforcements to come soon.

At this time, Qin's troops were on their way day and night. Ziyou was sitting on the chariot, looking at the information provided by Luo Wang along the way. These were all the information Luo Wang had obtained from the Xiongnu in recent years, and Mo Ya was driving the carriage.

Soon a cavalryman on horseback delivered a package.

"Master Supervisor, this is the information sent, please have a look." The cavalry handed the package to the guard on the chariot.

"Thank you." Ziyou said.

The cavalry handed over and left. Ziyou opened the information that had just been sent. The reason why Ziyou checked the previous information was to find the person who advised Touman behind the scenes.

The Huns used to be a union country, not even a country, but now the core of the Huns, the Huns royal family, has been completely integrated. Touman even followed the system of the Central Plains, dividing his army into divisions, abolishing the form of tribal leaders, and becoming individual warriors.

After seeing the Central Plains costumes and enjoyment popular among some nobles in the Xiongnu, Ziyou was a little surprised.Suppressing the doubts in his heart, Ziyou opened up the newly sent information. In these information, Ziyou found the answer he wanted, and the leader behind all this--Gongyang Ling.

"People from the Gongyang family!?" Ziyou looked at the information with a complicated expression. If Ziyou believes that the people from the Gongyang family surrendered to the Huns and is willing to be a traitor, it is better to let him believe that there is an elixir of life in this world.

"What happened to the Gongyang family? Sir." Mo Ya turned to look at Ziyou.

"It's nothing, it's just something new." Ziyou shook his head and said.Then he took out a pen and paper from his pocket, quickly wrote a line, handed it to the guard beside him and said
"You give this letter to the person who sent the information just now, and let them pass it to the person who sent the information."

"Yes, Lord Overseer."

The ink crow slowed down the speed of the chariot, and the guard jumped off the chariot and mounted a horse to deliver the letter. After the guard returned, the ink crow increased the speed of the chariot again.

"Master Superintendent, the commander-in-chief welcomes you!" A knight came to the chariot and said.

"Okay, I'll go later." Ziyou nodded.

Ziyou jumped off the chariot and came to the chariot of Wei Liao and Wang Jian, holding Fu Shi's map in their hands, they were studying how to attack the Xiongnu, and even counterattack.

"Marshal, why did you call me here?" Ziyou asked.

"The Supervising Army was called here to discuss the matter of the Huns. What is the internal situation of the Huns?" Wei Liao asked. They kept receiving information from Fushi.

This is less than ten years since the Battle of Yanmen Pass. In less than ten years, the Huns were able to gather more than 20 troops again. This is impossible in any country in the Central Plains, but it is very simple for the Huns.

"The internal situation of the Xiongnu is very complicated. The current and useful information is that King Zuoxian and Touman are at odds. After the Battle of Yanmen Pass, King Zuoxian began to constantly challenge Touman's majesty. It seems that he wants to rise to the throne.

According to the information from Fu Shi, the Xiongnu army was assembled three days ago, and Zuo Xianwang's troops had not arrived yet, thus holding Touman back from attacking the border town rashly. Considering the time for delivering the information, Zuo Xianwang should have arrived at the Huns' camp now, and the siege of the city may be in the near future. " Ziyou said.

When they heard that Zuo Xianwang and Touman were at odds, they even delayed the attack of the Xiongnu army. This made Wang Jian and Wei Liao both think. Disagreement within the army was a fatal threat to the entire war.

"Our main enemy is Touman, we can let King Zuo Xian go temporarily, and it will be more useful to keep King Zuo Xian." Wei Liao said.

Wang Jian and Ziyou immediately understood what Wei Liao was thinking. Wei Liao wanted to focus on Touman. Taking advantage of the conflict between Touman and Zuo Xianwang, he gave priority to killing the person who threatened them the most, and keeping Zuo Xianwang could also disrupt the Xiongnu.

"Touman's royal court guards are the elite of the entire Xiongnu, and Touman now controls the entire Xiongnu royal court, allowing his loyal generals to control all the troops. These troops are more capable of cooperating than before. If they are not absolutely crushed, it will be difficult to destroy them." Ziyou said.

"With the Battle of Yanmen Pass, I'm afraid Touman won't rush into terrain like mountains again. Moreover, there are many open plains near Fushi, and there is no place to lay an ambush. If you rely on the current Golden Fire Cavalry and army to fight them head-on on the battlefield, what do you think?" Wei Liao asked.

"The loss is too great. Although the Golden Fire Cavalry and other cavalry have replaced the horse three treasures, which can narrow the cavalry gap between our cavalry and the Hun cavalry, the archery skills of the Huns are also excellent. Now the Golden Fire Cavalry and Habayashi Guards are equipped with continuous crossbows. The combined number of cavalry in the two armies is not as good as one-fifth of the Xiongnu. It would be too great to send infantry." Wang Jian shook his head and said.

"Unfortunately, the Modao formation evolved from the Tieying Ruishi battle formation was only practiced by the Habayashi Guards. The Modao formation restrained the cavalry, but the number was too small." Ziyou also shook his head and said that the Tie Ying Ruishi had the ability to fight the cavalry with infantry, but the training of the Tieying Ruishi was extremely difficult. It was impossible for all three thousand Tieying Ruishi to be dispatched.

"At present, we can only dig ravines, build camps and earthen fortresses, and spend time with the Huns in field battles. The weather is getting colder and colder, and the Huns can't bear it," Wei Liao said.

Wei Liao chose to wait and see what happened, and then take the initiative to attack. Ziyou and Wang Jian also felt that this was the best way.If it was an ordinary Hun who invaded the border, they would not have to worry so much, but this time there is at least 20 Hun troops, and a little carelessness can be seized by the Hun, resulting in a disadvantage.

They can only rely on the most conventional methods to build defensive facilities to continuously attract the Huns to attack, thereby consuming the opponent.This is the most commonly used method by the Qin army in the face of large-scale Huns. Relying on fortifications, all living beings are equal under the rain of arrows.

The next day, when the Qin army was still on the attack, a large number of Xiongnu soldiers gathered under the border city just after dawn. These people were all infantry and carried some simple siege equipment on their shoulders.The Huns were not fools, they were not good at siege, so they let their slave infantry practice siege, relying on craftsmen plundered from Yuezhi Kingdom, Central Plains, etc. to build a lot of siege equipment.

On the wall of the border city, the general of the defenders led the defenders to stand in battle. The strong bow in his hand was fully drawn, and the sharp arrows were aimed at the Hun army below who were about to attack the city.

King Zuo Xian stood on the wooden chariot platform, surrounded by cavalry guards. Seeing the army ready to attack the city, King Zuo Xian stood up and waved his scimitar
"attack!!!"

The cavalry on the side passed the order to siege the city, and the horn of attack resounded throughout the plain. As countless Hun infantry rushed towards the border town like a tide, the sound of charge resounded through the sky.

The guard looked at the Huns' army constantly coming from below, silently calculated the range of the arrows in his heart, and when the Huns were within the range of the bows and arrows, he decisively shouted:

"Release the arrow! Release the arrow!!"

After the order was issued, a dense rain of arrows shot towards the Huns below. Facing the rain of arrows, the Huns raised their shields and continued to charge forward. When the rain of arrows fell, the Huns were killed and wounded.

After the defenders at the top of the city finished shooting a wave of arrows, the soldiers retreated immediately, allowing the archers who had been waiting for a long time to fill up and shoot bows and arrows again.

"Let our cavalry support the attackers!" Zuo Xianwang gave an order.

Another horn sounded, and the Hun cavalry with bows and crossbows moved towards the city. After reaching the designated position, these cavalry immediately shot towards the top of the city with their bows and arrows. Some soldiers who could not escape were shot by the arrows.But this didn't stop the defenders, the wounded were sent off to be replaced by new ones.

A part of the defenders also aimed their bows and arrows at the Huns' cavalry. Countless arrows were fired at each other on the battlefield. The defenders with the city head as a cover had much fewer casualties than the Huns' army.

Looking at the tragic battlefield ahead, King Youxian, who was sitting on the chariot platform with King Zuoxian, immediately ordered the follow-up soldiers to continue to attack the city.

(End of this chapter)