My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 259 The war in Xirong reignited
The stars on the grassland are dense and dazzling, and the passing clouds turn gray under the starlight. The surroundings of the huge and complicated tents are filled with the stinky smell of war horses and people, and occasionally a few lone wolves' long cries can be heard in the distance. howl.

In the quiet Xirong camp, many tribesmen who had traveled long distances had already gone to bed. There were also patrolling tribal warriors holding torches and walking past Luo Jingbin. They all knew that this Wei man was an aide to Xianyu Khan.

But few Xirong people knew his name. They only knew that the other party picked him up in a puddle and used him as a slave. They gradually discovered that he had profound talents and knowledge, and the tribal leader sent him to the Xieyu tribe.

From that day on, Luo Jingbin was appreciated by Xieyu and helped make suggestions, allowing the Xieyu tribe to take advantage of the locust plague in the east to annex two medium-sized tribes using both carrot and stick.

But he was not grateful to Xirong, let alone Xianyu Khan's support.

In a sense, he hated the Xirong people.

And the Yan country across the way didn't have the slightest favorable impression either.He was lucky enough to survive the attack on the Yelang tribe. He was determined to die, just to vent his anger on his close friend who had known him for many years.

A scholar dies for a confidant.

He wanted to avenge Qi Baoguo and drag the Xia King of Yan State and the Xirong people into the abyss.

"General... that King of Xia is like a fish in water. Jingbin is not capable of killing him, but he can still make him suffer. As for the people of Xirong, let the King of Xia teach him a lesson, and beat him with blood on both sides." !”

Luo Jingbin put his hands behind his back and looked up at the dense stars in the night sky, thinking this way.

……

The sky was dim and bright.

Yantang Pass, which had been quiet for a night, became lively again. The enlisted civilian workers went up the mountain to cut down the trees and removed the branches. The round tree body was carried down the mountain by the young men behind.

As the morning light rose into the sky, the cicadas began to chirp hysterically.

Bare-armed folk carried the tree and sawed it into two pieces, then put it on a donkey cart and pulled it to the pass. There were large pots on the road along the way. Amidst the clanking of iron, most of the passing folk would stop here to help. The woman scooped out a bowl of bone soup and gave it to them. The hot soup poured into their stomachs, which was a hearty and refreshing feeling.

This is the soup specially prepared by Lei Tong, the guard of Yantang Pass, for the drafted civilians. It relieves fatigue and hunger. It also provides one meal a day and a salary of [-] yuan. For the villagers who are idle in farming, this is a good job that they can only dream of. .

But regardless of wages, the Xirong people will invade the border. For the people living around Yantang Pass, even if the government does not pay them, they will do some things for free.

After all, barbarians entering the country would be a disaster for ordinary people.

What happened to the Qi family last year has already brought shame to them. If the Xirong people come in again, many young and old men will feel completely ashamed to live anymore.

After the order from the guard Lei Tong, almost all the people in the pass responded, helping out inside and outside. They guarded the city with heavy wood and stone, and even built several sword carts to prepare for street battles after the city was broken. .

Yunqi County heard that food was constantly being delivered to this side, and a large number of reinforcements were coming. The people inside and outside the pass had full confidence in defending the pass.

However, this afternoon.

On Youyan Mountain south of Yantang Pass, countless footsteps and horse hooves are crossing the mountains. They are wearing fur coats and fur hats, carrying bows and knives on their backs, holding war horses in their hands, following a group of thieves with different clothes and fierce faces. Walking down the mountain forest.

A group of soldiers from Yantang Pass who were patrolling the foot of the mountain noticed something was wrong immediately and quickly shot loud arrows into the sky. They were then overtaken and killed by bandits and Xirong people who rushed down the mountain forest.

The leading Xirong warrior was Yu Kun, a fierce general under Xieyu Khan. He looked at the dead Yan soldiers on the ground, raised his knife and licked the blood remaining on the edge of the knife.

He withdrew his gaze and turned his head to look at the tribal soldiers who were gathering one after another to confront the Youyan bandits who were collecting money. He used words that only Xirong people could understand: "These Yan bandits are so useful..." But warriors who are riding sideways on the tribe, don’t imitate them. We are here to conquer this pass in the Yan Kingdom. He blocks our way eastward and hinders our war horses! But it cannot stop the iron hooves of the Xirong people in the future!"

His voice was high-pitched, and the robber over there turned his head and continued to do his own thing.

Then... they were chopped into a pool of blood by the Xirong cavalry who were galloping towards them. The next moment, the horn sounded, and more Xirong cavalry stepped on the corpses on the ground and spread towards Yantang Pass. When they arrived at the village, they didn't have any extra words to say. They rushed directly into the village, causing a wave of blood. Then they burned the place with fire and continued to move forward after catching up with the main force rushing forward.

When a total of [-] Xirong cavalry appeared in the southeast of Yantang Pass, the sentries along the way had already received the news. They were surprised to hear that the Xirong people were coming around from Youyan Mountain.

Then one after another, the sentry teams tried to block them with horseback and fences. However, faced with such a huge group of cavalry, waves of checkpoints were bulldozed directly in the wilderness, and some of the assembled teams formed military formations. In the wilderness, they fought with the Xirong cavalry.

The news of the appearance of the Xirong people spread like wings. At this time, outside Yantang Pass, government officials and officers were dispatched one after another, on horseback or on foot, shouting along the way to ask people outside to enter the pass immediately.

But the news came after all, it was a little late. The people who heard the Xirong people appeared could not outrun the four-legged horses in the wilderness. They were chased from behind by the Xirong cavalry and chopped to the ground with a knife. Then they jumped off the horses and chopped off the bodies. His head was placed on the tip of the knife, and he let out a savage roar to show off to the surrounding tribesmen.

In the pass, soldiers and horses were mobilized urgently. Lei Tong was fully clothed, holding an iron gun and flying horses to the east city wall. At this time, the city gate was still open, and a large number of civilians outside were running in in panic.

"Horsemen, follow me!"

He turned around and shouted, among the three hundred soldiers, seventy cavalry immediately followed Lei Tong and rushed out of the pass. Along the way, there were many people running towards this side in panic. A few dozen meters away, several Xirong people The knight reined in his horse and stopped, watching from a distance General Yan and the seventy cavalrymen coming out of seclusion.They whistled in this direction, then laughed loudly, turned their horses' heads and ran away.

"Don't chase, escort the people here back to the pass first!"

According to the news, there were as many as six or seven thousand Xirong people who came over the mountains, almost all of them cavalry. But what he couldn't figure out was how these Xirong people who came from the depths of the grassland got in touch with the Yanshan bandits. shortcut.

He took seventy cavalry to escort the more than 100 people and husbands who had gathered and retreated into the pass. Around the city gate, there was a cry of people looking for their relatives.

The Xirong people suddenly came from behind and many people were killed or captured before they could retreat in time. Many of the civilians who had been cutting trees outside the pass did not come back.

"These Yanshan bandits..." This was the first time Lei Tong was so angry that he yelled out. Youyan Mountain was so steep that no ordinary person could walk on it, and there were more poisonous insects in the mountain.But just in case, he arranged patrols near Youyan Mountain at both points of the pass.

At present, both sides were under attack. Soon, Lei Tong issued an order to requisition some of the people's houses in the pass, especially those close to the city wall, and build them as rolling logs and stones to defend the city.

There were also many passionate people from the pass participating in it, and some wealthy households even took out their family grain and gave it to Lei Tong's generals to use as military rations.

On September [-]th, the Xirong army rested for two days and finally launched an attack on the city. For some reason, these Xirong people who were good at riding horses were extremely skilled in climbing the city to fight after hanging up the ladders. Lei Tong led six thousand people on the west wall. The officers and soldiers of Yantang Pass fought with them on the top of the city.The east wall was also caught in the whirlpool of siege.

On September [-]th, the Xirong cavalry outside Yantang Pass gradually swept away the surrounding areas. A grain transport team coming from Yunqi was turned around and was attacked by the chasing cavalry. No one in the grain team survived.

On September [-]th, two groups of Western soldiers from the west and east of the city launched another attack on the city. Lei Tong repelled a group of Western soldiers who came to the city, turned around and rode towards the east of the city, tired of running for his life,

That afternoon, the city wall was in danger. The Xirong army in the west of the city attacked extremely fiercely, almost allowing the opponent to gain a foothold on the city wall several times.

News of the need for help was difficult to send out.

The news that Yantang Pass was being attacked from both sides had actually spread. The first person to receive the news was Longyang County. Li Dian asked people to open the city gate. He took [-] of his own troops and [-] of the county soldiers to rush for reinforcements.

On the fourteenth day, eight hundred miles of fast horses rushed into Yanjing.

Zheng He led 100 people from the Police Factory, 50 people from the Embroidery Department, and [-] slave soldiers out of the capital and rushed to Yantang Pass. He had followed Chengzu Jingnan of the Ming Dynasty and had made meritorious deeds on the battlefield. He knew the battlefield better than Li Bai. many.

In Yunqi County, after hearing the news, Wu Huizhi, the Marquis of Yunqi, also went into battle and asked Tang Huaiyuan for 2000 men to go to Yantang Pass for reinforcements.

After hearing the news, the Fang family was in great mourning. White flags and lanterns were hung in their home, and a large memorial sign was posted.

The team transporting grain was attacked by the Xirong people, and no one survived. Fang Wenye received the news on September [-]th and fainted and fell to the ground.

When he arrived at fourteen, he gradually woke up. He was talking about the names of his eldest son Fang Jinyou and his grandson Fangling. Listening to his wife's choking voice, he talked about the tragic situation outside Yantang Pass. His son had lived so long. , dying for the country is a worthy death.

"Master... you can eat some..." The old wife brought the porridge and sat by the bed to feed him.

The old man's face turned blue, and he weakly raised his hand to push away the feeding spoon, "My son Jinyou and my grandson Fang Ling died while reinforcing the frontline soldiers. He and his son deserved no loss!"

His eyes moved slightly, he looked at the desk in front of the window lattice, and struggled.

"Grind ink for me..."

The old wife wiped away her tears and nodded, calling the maid to help her husband. She got up and walked to the desk to prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone for the old man.

The candlestick moved over and pressed against a corner of the paper.

The night wind that squeezed into the gap between the window lattice blew the old man's long snow-white beard. Fang Wenye tremblingly picked up the brush and calmed down. The moment the pen tip fell, he wrote slowly with firm strength.

"This letter is written to the King of Yanxia and his grandson-in-law Su Chen:

I heard that the king defeated 40 people in the Central Plains, defeated the Wei capital in half a day, and settled the hatred of the people of Fenzhou. I happily drank a pot to celebrate the king.In just a few days, I have thought a lot. What I want in this life is fame and wealth, opening up new territories, and leaving a name in history. I think I am righteous, but in fact I have wasted half my life, becoming a rotten scholar in the city..."

The old wife held the lamp and watched the old man's eyes wandering but writing like a god. She couldn't help but shed tears.

……

After the old man wrote this letter, he collapsed. He asked Sanzifang to go to school and deliver the letter as quickly as possible. It arrived in Luyang, Central Plains, and was delivered to Su Chen ten days later.

　Don’t blame Spring Breeze for being slow to update. These chapters are indeed a bit difficult to write. After all, it’s the end of the volume.

　　
　
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