He is indeed dead, and Su Li's head is still hanging on the north gate tower of Xiangping City, inspiring Xiangping and even the entire Liaodong to fight to the death.
Is Suli really no longer alive?
I don't know, because the soldiers and civilians who fled back to Xiangping from Liaoyang all told about Suli's ghost-like figure.
Although Gongsun Du chose to block the news immediately after receiving the news, there were not many people who had no choice but to flee back to Xiangping City. How could the news be completely blocked for a while?
Judging from the speed at which the news spread in Xiangping City, it was probably as fast as the fire in Goguryeo City. It was so fast that one had to wonder whether there was some artificial influence deliberately spreading these disturbing news throughout Xiangping City.
inside and outside.
Human beings' awe of supernatural phenomena can reduce Xiangping City's fighting will to the lowest point.
After all, the Liaodong Army was not a Bingzhou Army that had experienced various situations, and Gongsun Du could not compare with Li Shushi, who had the "immortal" aura around him, nor would there be strange sights such as heavy snowfall, fire from the sky, or rain to consolidate people's hearts.
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Even though Xiangping City was not forced by a large army, it was already plunged into unprecedented civil strife.
But there was only one area that seemed not to be affected at all. It could even be said that it was as peaceful as usual.
In today's chaotic Xiangping City, this calmness always seems extremely eye-catching.
Some people who don't know the depth probably have the mood of "the pain alone is worse than the pain of many", and want to spread chaos to that area, but they find that the people there are not moved at all, but work together to bring those plans to this area.
Those who spread terror will be brought to justice, and Gongsundu is the best "example" of powerful suppression.
After a few times, no one dared to challenge this place. Even because of the unique calmness of this area, the surrounding people gradually regained their stability. Although they were still a little uneasy in their hearts, at least they had the courage to face the enemy.
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It's even a little higher than before.
What a group of amazing people.
It's a pity that these "magical" beings themselves don't have the same idea.
"Mr. Guan, why are you wading into this dangerous place in Xiangping?"
"Yes, back then you crossed the ocean from your hometown in Qingzhou and came to this land in Liaodong. Isn't it just to escape the chaotic situation? Now that the Xianbei army is pressing on the border, even if you feel that the Central Plains is still not very peaceful, you should still flee.
In the mountains and forests, even those barbarians who don't understand etiquette should be polite to you, so why bother to come to Xiangping's muddy waters?"
"The current government was tired and unobservant, and things gradually changed and everything was neglected. The people suffered from this. Therefore, they spread their horns to confuse the public, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion suddenly broke out, and the whole world was shocked. After several years, the Han Dynasty still could not regain its prestige.
, or one or two officials worked hard, but to no avail, so they moved away from their old land. Firstly, they did not want to be disturbed by treacherous people. Secondly, they were worried about the current situation and feared that their lives would be in danger.
The Gongsun family in Liaodong is certainly rebellious, and with my ambitions, I am not willing to be aligned with them, let alone be driven by them. But I watch the sky at night and divine good and bad luck, and I know that Liaodong will suffer a huge disaster this time.
Such a disaster cannot be avoided by running away. It is better to gather together and see if we can survive this catastrophe."
Hearing the follower's question, Guan Ning couldn't help but reveal a wry smile.
Although he is a noble person, he is not a perfect person. He is an existence with a bit of mental mysophobia. But because of this, he actually prefers to be alone instead of fighting for those who are a bit unworthy in his eyes.
the common people
He can influence the people who gather around him with his actions and is willing to teach them propriety, justice and shame. This is because compared with those people, he seems to be standing on the peak of morality, looking down on all the living beings at the bottom of the mountain.
But if it were someone he thought was qualified to be on the same level as him, he wouldn't be able to tolerate even the slightest moral flaw in the other person - for example, Hua Xin, who is also called him, showed his enthusiasm for officialdom and caused trouble between both parties.
There was a big rift in the relationship between them, but in fact, Hua Xin was an average choice in terms of his own cultivation, and he was by no means that unbearable.
Of course, because he was disrespectful to Liu Xie, who was still the emperor at that time, and Liu Xie's concubines, he called Hua Xin a so-called "moral stain" that was difficult to erase, which made people more willing to talk about the moral comparison between him and Guan Ning.
, to set off Hua Xin’s inferiority.
So in fact, Guan Ning did not originally want to reach Xiangping City this time. According to his original habits, "a gentleman does not stand under dangerous walls" is his code of conduct. When encountering this kind of thing, he will naturally
You can hide in the mountains and wait until the situation calms down before considering returning to your hometown, or you can simply hide in a safe and peaceful mountain and work alone as a quiet hermit.
But what makes him somewhat helpless is the reality he has to face now - he is no longer a loner, and he is no longer the same person in Qingzhou who was somewhat famous but was only slightly famous among various powerful families.
Qingzhou scholars, he
A large number of people are now united around him. They trust him and follow him, forming a force that even the Gongsun family will look at. They may not feel afraid, but they protect those people in terms of reputation and substance.
dependent on his people.
Reputation can bring you a lot of convenience at certain times, but it can also become a drag on a person at certain times.
If Guan Ning, who is deeply trusted by everyone, escapes, a large number of non-locals and a certain number of locals will inevitably escape with their families. Such a huge target would be considered a historical hero from another dimension.
Uncle Liu Huang could not stop the pursuit of Cao Jun's cavalry, not to mention that the Xianbei people were still superior to Cao Cao's army in terms of tracking ability, and Guan Ning was not as good as the man with more experience in escaping, both in terms of personal ability and the strength of his hands.
"Yellow book", oh no, it's the emperor's uncle.
But if Guan Ning were to give up those people who actively followed him and flee alone, the nobility in his heart would be tarnished.
After weighing the balance, this wise man who was supposed to be a quiet hermit in Liaodong finally led the group of leisurely and contented people living in the mountains to enter Xiangping City under this very special situation and became a guard.
Xiangping City, part of the fight against the invasion of the Xianbei army.
But then again, if you don't plan to escape, at least it seems that compared to Xiangping City, the rest of the places are not so safe. Even if you build a fortress, it will be a warning in front of the Xianbei army that surges like a torrent.
Can't afford the slightest bit of confidence.
For Guan Ning to be able to walk out of the mountains and enter Xiangping City, Gongsun was quite encouraged - in other words, in this person's changing mind, panic is always difficult to suppress. Guan Ning, who was originally
No matter how tempted Gongsun was by his high position and generous salary, he would still rather stay in the valley and be content.
This guy actually brought a group of people to help in the battle. This is extremely exciting news no matter how you publicize it. Even though Guan Ning still had a bad face when he came into contact with the Gongsun family, his words were neither humble nor arrogant, and he didn't want to be effective at all.
**, under the background of his behavior, he became cute in Gongsun's eyes.
No, although he did not ask for any special treatment, Guan Ning and the people who believed in him quickly used his series of performances to help the Gongsun family calm down and became a little worried because of the shocking news brought from Liaoyang City.
The chaotic situation in the city.
Even if the situation is still uncomfortable, at least people can see a little bit of light, right?
Under such circumstances, Xiangping City finally welcomed the arrival of the Xianbei army.
Of course, there are also those Karasuma people who want to take advantage of the situation.
It was another misty morning, and Xiangping City had already entered a state of wartime tension. After all, Liaoyang City was only seventy or eighty miles away from Xiangping City. In fact, if the Xianbei people had not needed to move some
It would also take at least three days or more to deliver the news to Xiangping City, and it would also take at least three days or more to carry out the looting. It was only a day's march from Liaoyang to Xiangping.
Even if you still need to cross the Xiaoliao River during this period.
In comparison, the appearance of the Karasuma people made everyone in the Liaodong Army feel a little helpless and resentful - after all, those Karasuma people can be regarded as the defeated generals of the Liaodong Army to a certain extent, even as a defender.
The Liaodong Army took a lot of trouble
It is appropriate that as long as a few strategic points are firmly defended, the Karasuma people's harassment can be resisted, but because of this, when the energy of the Liaodong Army was attracted by the Xianbei people, even if it still left some strength on the western front, it was completely
Unable to resist the arrival of the Karasuma people.
With a certain sense of mental superiority towards the Wuwan people, and full of resentment at being unable to stop enemies who had once been unable to cause much harm to their own country from invading their homeland due to the arrival of the Xianbei people, the Liaodong Army attacked the Wuwan people.
The mood can be described as extremely complicated.
What appeared at the gate of Xiangping City was not all the troops of the Xianbei and Wuwan people. Obviously, a city like Xiangping, which was not too huge, did not need so many soldiers and horses. Compared with placing the troops crowded together,
Qianman's method of spreading the excess troops to other places in Liaodong County for plunder obviously made the Xianbei tribes participating in this war happy.
But even so, in the thin mist, the shadowy feeling still continued to stimulate everyone's hearts.
Under the attack of these ferocious "shadows", Liaoyang City only lasted less than half a day before the city was declared defeated. Even if Xiangping gathered most of the best of the Liaodong Army and its allies, whether it could withstand the enemy's attack was still a question.
Disturbing questions.
The most important thing is that from the desperate news returned by many soldiers who had fought with the enemy before, we can know that the way the Xianbei people marched and fought this time was extremely different from the past.
The main goal of the previous Hu army's march south was to plunder, and the philosophy they pursued was to "avoid the real and use the weak", and fight only when they could. If it was necessary to waste huge troops and resources, or rather invest
If it is not proportional to the output, then these barbarians will never easily fill their lives into a bottomless pit.
This also means that for the defenders, as long as they show sufficient defensive strength and will, unless the commander of the Hu army forces an attack regardless of losses due to factors other than interests, it will not only cause great damage to one's own strength.
, or alienating one's subordinates from oneself, is more likely to affect the reputation and influence of the coach on the grassland. That's why it is said that the plundering of barbarians in the grassland, to a certain extent, is not good for the defender.
There are still many "advantages" and "conveniences" in language.
But this time the attitude of the Xianbei people was very unusual. They didn't seem to care about their losses at all. It seemed that as long as an "enemy" appeared, they would rush forward and fight bravely like sharks that smelled fishy smell.
The losses were heavy and there was no intention to change at all - if it happened once or twice, it could be said to be the willfulness of the Xianbei army coach. But if it is like this every time, then it is certain that Xianbei is deliberately seeking to get along with him this time.
The opponents engage in a decisive battle.
And this also means that if the Xianbei attack cannot be completely repelled, it will be impossible to win this battle with the tactics of delay or attrition as before.
Of course, there is another thing that no one except Gongsun Du and his confidants noticed, and that is - despite adopting such a fierce fighting method, even if the Xianbei army's personal combat effectiveness is very strong, but
Relying on the defender's advantages and familiarity with the terrain, the Liaodong Army and its allies also provided
The Xianbei army suffered considerable battle losses, not to mention the battle in Goguryeo City where more than 10,000 enemy troops were wiped out in one battle. Coupled with the total battle results of zero to zero, such battle losses reached this level at least.
The number of Xianbei troops who invaded the first time was one-tenth of the total, but the number of Xianbei troops did not seem to have decreased much.
It can be said that even without Su Li's "ghost return", the Liaodong Army has already noticed the biggest problem of the Xianbei Army this time.
If the root of this problem cannot be found, Gongsun Du believes that his ambition will most likely be buried in this battle.
So, in a rare move, after hearing the news of the enemy's arrival, Gongsun Du appeared at the top of Xiangping City wearing a light armored leather helmet.
Also appearing at the top of Xiangping City were Gongsun Mo, Liu Yi, Yang Yi, Han Zhong and other core members of the Liaodong Gongsun clan.
If this battle cannot be won, then one can imagine the fate of these core members of the Liaodong Gongsun clan.
But compared to the Gongsun family who insisted on defending Xiangping and personally visited the city to show their determination, the Xianbei army seemed not to be too concerned about this attack that should be regarded as the "final blow" to the Liaodong regime.
to attach too much importance to
The one who led this siege was a very angry-looking "middle-aged man" dressed in the usual Huns' attire. Not to mention Qian Man, even Su Li, who had previously been known as the "Return of the Dead", did not appear.
In front of the soldiers and civilians of Xiangping City.
Could it be because of the huge head that is still hanging on the city gate tower to this day?
All in all, compared to the Liaodong Army in Xiangping City, which was as tense as a bowstring, the army outside the city looked like they were strolling around, making people feel that they were not here to fight, but more like they were engaged in a grand battle.
An ordinary outing.
Such an attitude is really unpleasant.
However, such emotions quickly disappeared without a trace in the enemy's first tentative attack, which was probably just a tentative attack - although logically speaking, this attack should be carried out to collect various intelligence in the legend."
It was a "testing" attack, but it seemed that the 20,000 Xianbei infantry who participated in the attack had no intention of just "testing it". The crazy attack method that almost killed the enemy together made it almost impossible to tell who was the desperate defender.
Home Warrior.
Did the coach, who was probably a Huns, really not regard the Xianbei people under his command as human beings?
Do those Xianbei people really regard themselves as a human being? They are so crazy in such a situation that is not desperate.
These two thoughts sounded from the hearts of the defenders at almost the same moment.
Although the Xianbei people had to retreat temporarily after leaving nearly 5,000 people behind due to the defenders' complete reserves and the fairly good morale at the beginning of the battle, leaving only the gas still burning on top of Xiangping City.
The green smoke and the large number of corpses on the city wall proved how tragic the fighting between the two sides in this "tentative" attack was.
It was also during this "exploratory" attack that both Gongsundu and the other Liaodong Army and allies discovered several disturbing facts - the Liaodong Army as the defender was facing such a crazy attack by the enemy.
Although they were able to defend against the first wave of attacks, the cost was not only the regular defense tools, but also a rough estimate of nearly 10,000 battle losses.
Usually in a siege battle where the gap between the two sides is not very obvious, if the siege party adopts mindless offensive behavior during the war, the battle loss ratio between the attacking and defending sides is about 1:3 to 1:
Between 5 and 5, depending on the quality of the soldiers on both sides of the attack and defense and the skill level of the generals defending the city, which direction the specific number will tend to fall within this fluctuation range will be determined.
But what I didn't expect was that it was only the first attack, but it had already caused a battle loss ratio of nearly 2:1 for both the offensive and defensive sides.
Although only in terms of numbers, there are still more than 70,000 households in Xiangping City, plus the private population controlled by those powerful people that are not included in the census. There are approximately 378,000 people. According to the two-to-two exchange rate,
A ratio of one, no matter how you look at it, it’s still
It can consume the Xianbei army that invades the invaders. It can even be said that as long as the Xianbei army suffers more than 50% battle damage, Qianman, as the Xianbei Chanyu, probably can no longer bear such losses, because this will definitely threaten him.
dominance over the grasslands.
But that's just a numbers game.
In fact, the so-called 2:1 ratio was barely obtained by the Liaodong Army using its own and its allies' more elite troops to fight to the death. It may even be a "test attack" by the enemy - although this statement probably does not apply to the Liaodong Allied Forces.
The generals are willing to believe that if the enemy does not recall the Xianbei infantry in the end but allows them to continue the attack and then invest more troops, neither Gongsun Du nor anyone else believes that their side can maintain the battle loss ratio of 2:1.
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As for another fact that frightened and chilled Gongsun Du and others, and had even affected the morale of the defenders in the city, it was the corpses of the Xianbei infantry that emitted a disturbing black air and dehydrated and weathered in a short period of time.
Originally, there were many mysterious rumors circulating in Xiangping City. Although the Gongsun clan used various means to suppress them, the doubts of the soldiers and the people would not dissipate because of this. They were just buried deep in their hearts and prepared to attack at the right time.
Germinate again.
Obviously, the strange scenes happening in front of us are confirming the rumors that were originally considered to be fantasy.
As a result, in this era when prophecies are widely circulated, even if there are still a few knowledgeable people who do not believe in these things, the majority of ignorant people still would rather believe that they are true or false, let alone that they are not true.
This time, the supernatural phenomenon happened right in front of me. Even if I really wanted to refute it, I couldn't find even the slightest reason.
Perhaps intentionally or unintentionally, Qian Man used the trump card in his hand to continuously undermine the remaining morale of the Liaodong Allied Forces.
It seems that even if Qian Man does not take action, the Liaodong Allied Forces will probably fall into division after this.
If there are no accidents.
"A woodcutter in an unknown mountain is wearing plain white linen clothes.
The sharp ax captures the sky, and the broken blade shines in the sun.
Go up the mountain to eat deer and go down to the river to drink fish and shrimp.
Suddenly I heard that the thieves were coming, so I raised my knife and swung it forward.
For example, if you die in humiliation, what will happen if you behead your head?"
A person's singing voice rang out.
Hundreds of people sang.
Thousands of people sang.
Thousands and hundreds of thousands of people sang the same song.
A song is echoing throughout Xiangping City and beyond, a song that resonates with every living person inside and outside Xiangping City. The song is so loud, so powerful, and so uplifting.
human heart.
In this song that echoes the righteousness of a gentleman, those who were originally confused found their own path, those who were originally timid found the courage hidden in their chests, and those who were originally hesitant made up their minds to fight to the death.
The singing is soaring, the singing is echoing, and the singing seems to never stop.
Under this song full of fighting meaning, the Xianbei army, which hastily organized a second wave of attacks, found that their opponents had undergone earth-shaking changes. The originally extremely crazy Xianbei infantry met an opponent who was even more fearless of death. In this narrow encounter,
In a duel where the brave wins, the Xianbei infantry who are completely unafraid of death encounter an opponent blessed by a certain belief. Their reasons for fighting may not be the same, but their fighting will to fight against the same enemy can transcend the sky.
This is a battle between the living and the dead, and it is also a battle between faith and will.
Looking at the man who stood at the top of the city and sang loudly under the protection of the crowd, who was once thought to be just a hermit seeking fame, Gongsun Du remained silent for a long time. Perhaps at this moment, even he himself did not know what he was harboring.
How do you feel about the gentleman in white who saved the entire battle?
But no matter what, I finally managed to survive the first day of battle.
Pan Sen: I’m back from traveling, and I’m ready to relax. By the way, since I’m back early, I’m going to prepare a special episode for the May Day holiday. But I don’t seem to have much motivation, but I’m still having too much fun... (To be continued...