The first thousand two hundred and sixty nine cruel Huns
On the 15th day of the fifth month of the sixth year of Yuande, the Xiongnu Yougu Li Wang Yishi's large banner came from the north of Zaoyang and attacked the Han Great Wall pass in Zaoyang County with great force.
The moment the Huns were discovered, the beacon tower immediately lit up the smoke, and the thick smoke rushed into the sky.
Then, behind the beacon tower, beacons and forts were lit one after another, and the smoke was lit.
Along the Great Wall, warning signals were immediately transmitted throughout the north.
Just an hour later, the Feihu Army, which had just left Changshan (Taihang Mountain) and entered the Zhulu County area from the Feihu Ancient Road, had already seen the wolf smoke coming from the north.
"Instruct the whole army to speed up!" Guo Mao, the captain of Feihu Army, immediately ordered: "Qingqi will go first, and the Qingqi vanguard must arrive at Juyang in three days!"
"No!" the lieutenants responded loudly with high morale.
Almost at the same time, General Li Guang and his party, who had entered Shanggu County, saw the mobilization situation of the entire Shanggu County on the side of the straight road.
The entire straight road was suddenly filled with traffic. A large number of mobilized county soldiers and militiamen advanced along the road, protecting and surrounding the people as they moved back.
The families of Lou Fanqi and Wusun Qi crowded together, driving hundreds of thousands of livestock, tens of thousands of ox carts, and sheep carts, transporting countless wealth, and retreated in an orderly manner under the protection of the army.
"Your Majesty..." Li Guang stopped an officer from Shanggu County who was on a mission and asked, "The Huns have invaded? How many people are there?"
The other party took a wary look at Li Guang and his entourage, and found that they were dusty and well-equipped with armor, so he couldn't help but become more vigilant.
A soldier beside Li Guang said quickly: "My lord is the old guard and general of light chariots. The emperor ordered the governor of Yuyang County to lead the lieutenant of Yan State to serve Li Guang!"
Hearing this, the other party immediately stood in awe and bowed: "I have met the general! I dare not hide it from the general. The Huns appeared at the Zaoyang place two hours ago. Then, a thousand Hu cavalry attacked the place guarded by our army.
At present, our army is entangled with the Huns on the Great Wall between Zaoyang and Shipi!"
"The currently confirmed troops of the Xiongnu invaders include the headquarters of King Youguli, the headquarters of King Outuo and the headquarters of the Xubu clan. In addition, there are ten thousand cavalry from the other four tribes, with a total strength of at least thirty thousand cavalry!"
"Thirty thousand cavalry?" Li Guang's eyebrows immediately raised. According to the intelligence, this time the main force of the Huns moved eastward, and there were at least 100,000 cavalry!
Now that there are 30,000 people in Zaoyang, where have the other 70,000 gone?
Without even thinking about it, Li Guang immediately got on his horse, raised his hands to the officer and said, "The king's business is urgent. Please send my regards to General Guan Gong of Loufan and Duke Ji, the governor of the county!"
Then he led his soldiers on horseback and galloped wildly.
Li Guang knew that the situation in Yuyang County would soon get worse.
"The total number of Yuyang's county soldiers is only three thousand. Including the Great Wall garrison, there are only seven thousand. Even if the army is expanded, it can only be doubled in these days, which is more than ten thousand, but their enemies may
More than 50,000!" Li Guang was really anxious in his heart.
If Yuyang is lost, the entire Zaoxiang defense line will completely collapse. The Huns can intimidate Yanji, fight the Han army in Jicheng, and even cross Yanji, march straight in, and approach Handan.
In that case, millions of Han people will face the harm of the Xiongnu cavalry, and the mountains and rivers thousands of miles away in the northern country will be full of fishy smell!
Even if the Xiongnu attack is frustrated, they who control Yuyang can still wreak havoc on the entire Zaoxiang and cause millions of Han subjects to suffer military disasters!
Therefore, Li Guang knew that he couldn't afford to wait.
He has to be faster!
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At this time, the Great Wall between Zaoyang and Shipi County was blocked.
Yishi looked at the Han troops who were waiting at the Great Wall defense line with an angry face, bows and arrows bent, and his face turned pale.
Originally, he thought that the building where Yang was built was annoying and he thought he could get some bargains, but he didn't know that this would be the case?
Looking at the defense line composed of Han people and Wusun people on the Great Wall, he gritted his teeth and called his confidant, Chief Tu Kermadan, and said to him: "Send someone to tell the Han people on the other side.
Chao Renlou is annoying, Wusun people: If you kneel down and surrender to me, the great Huns, you can survive, otherwise, once my army steps in with iron hooves, no chickens or dogs will be left behind!"
"Yes!" Kormartan bowed his head.
"Come here!" Yishi waved his hand and called a nobleman, and ordered: "Choose five hundred male slaves for me, give them weapons, and let them charge towards the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty!"
"Tell these damn slaves: If they die in battle with honor, then I will pardon their families, otherwise, I will kill them all!"
"Yes!" The nobleman immediately came to the camp of thousands of Loufan Nu who were driven by the Huns. Then he led his people and drove out more than a thousand men, women, old and young.
The former Loufan tribe was known as one of the three chariots of the Xiongnu Chanyu.
Tied with Aries and Zhelan.
At that time, on the grassland, Lou Fan's shooter's skills were admirable!
When the Loufan tribe was at its peak, it had thousands of towns, a population of nearly 50,000, and tens of thousands of slaves!
It is one of the largest tribes in the entire Munan!
However, the Battle of Mayi, when Lou Fanren surrendered after being surrounded, immediately changed everything.
The enraged Huns sent three thousand horses, rushed into Lou's annoying pasture, killed everyone who dared to resist, and then demoted all the remaining people into slaves.
Except for a few people who had friendship with Huyan Dangtu and other Xiongnu nobles, no one was spared.
Being a slave is the most painful thing on the grassland.
Not only do they have to bear extremely demanding and heavy burdens, they also have no status.
The tribal population fell to a low point within two or three years, and now it is even less than 10,000 people.
Others either died or escaped through various methods, either by fleeing or by kneeling down and becoming slaves to other tribes.
But the Huns still did not let them go.
Now, let's just use them as cannon fodder!
"Because your people dare to betray the great Xiongnu Great Chanyu, and now they dare to block the Great Xiongnu's army! So the great King Yougu Li decided to let you prove that you are indeed loyal to the Great Xiongnu's slaves!" A Xiongnu
With a ferocious look on his face, the noble said to the people who were dragged out: "You must rush to the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty. If anyone dares to retreat, all the slaves will be killed!"
Then, a handful of rough bronze collars or even wooden spears were thrown to these scrawny Loufan men.
The old, weak, women and children were all threatened by the Huns and knelt on the ground.
One by one, the executioners raised their butcher knives.
The men on the floor looked at each other, then silently picked up their weapons, lined up one by one, and walked forward.
Yishi was riding a horse on a hillside watching these poor people heading towards their end.
"Why did your Majesty let them die?" Xu Bu, the commander of the Ten Thousand Cavalry of the Xu Bu clan, asked in confusion.
"Hmph!" Yi Shi sneered and snorted: "I want to use these humble slaves to warn Lou Fannu and Hunxie Nu, so that they know what will be the consequences of betraying me, the great Xiongnu?"
"In addition, it is to let the people of the Han Dynasty know that it is wrong to resist our great Xiongnu!"
"People of the Han Dynasty should kneel down obediently, offer money and women, and serve me the great Huns respectfully!"
"Your Majesty is wise!" King Outuo on the side immediately said, "If Yin Zhixie had been half as wise as Your Majesty, he would not have ended up like that..."
"Hahaha..." Yishi smiled triumphantly.
During this southern invasion, none of the main troops of the Han Dynasty were present. This was a great opportunity for him to make a name for himself!
As for the people on the opposite side of the Great Wall, the Wusun people and the Han Dynasty people are just a bunch of rabble, just chickens and dogs!
In Yishi's eyes, the army he is now commanding has strong horses and strong bows, and is mighty, with a total of 30,000 riders!
The people of the Han Dynasty had no divine cavalry, so the only way other than defeat was to kneel down and surrender!
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On the Great Wall, Guan He held a telescope and watched the actions of the Huns' army.
"Are these Huns crazy?" Guan He looked at the hundreds of ragged Huns walking toward the Han army's Great Wall with weapons in hand.
This Great Wall is not an easy hill to break through.
You can see it from the terrain!
Zaoyang County is an endless flat grassland, but starting from the southeast of Zaoyang, the terrain begins to gradually rise. Between Zaoyang and Shipi, the mountains begin to rise, and four rivers meander in. The terrain is dangerous and difficult to defend.
attack!
Not to mention hundreds, but thousands of enemies, in a hurry, break through any pass on this line of defense!
At this time, an official came to report: "General, the Huns envoy is shouting under the fortress..."
When Guan He heard this, he smiled slightly and asked, "What is that Yi Di talking about?"
"Reporting to the general, the other party said: If we don't surrender, then the Huns will definitely leave no chickens or dogs behind..."
"Arrogant!" Guan He was furious when he heard this. The Huns didn't take him seriously at all. This made Guan He, who aspired to be as famous as his father and ancestors, intolerable!
However, Guan He knew very well that his current strength was limited. The entire Loufan army only had a strength of 7,000 people. Even if the strength of the Wusun tribe was added, the number was only over 8,000.
Now, the reinforcements sent by Juyang have not arrived yet, so he can only defend first and wait for Juyang's reinforcements to arrive before he can argue with these Huns and Yi Di!
However, Guan He could not tolerate the Huns provoking him like this.
"Order Captain Qiangnu to prepare for my general to shoot the Hun envoy to death as soon as he moves a hundred steps away from the fortress!" Guan He ordered sternly.
You pretend to be cool and still want to run away? No way!
Although Lou Fanqi does not have the divine arm bow, the latest equipment of the Han army's strong crossbow troops, they still have more than a dozen large yellow crossbows.
With the power of the big yellow crossbow, I can't believe that if it hits the target, the Huns will definitely die.
As for the reason why the two countries are at war without fighting...
He did not kill the messenger!
Since the opponent has left the Great Wall and completed his mission, he is not a messenger, but an enemy of the Huns.
Shooting enemies on the battlefield is normal!
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At this time, the Hun envoy did not know his fate.
He shouted arrogantly under the Great Wall: "Loufan is a slave! Wusun is rebellious! People of the Han Dynasty! Listen to me! King Youguli of the Great Huns has an order. If you open the city and surrender immediately, then bygones are bygones! If
If we resist to the end, when our great Huns cavalry breaks through the border fortress, we will definitely kill them all without leaving any chickens or dogs behind!!"
He even screamed, pointing at the Loufan slaves who were walking towards a pass on the Great Wall and said: "Loufan slaves, have you seen those people? They are the same race as you slaves! Because you
Because of these damn slaves, they can only die now! If you still have any sympathy for your fellow tribesmen, immediately put down your weapons and welcome me, the great Huns, into the pass!"
The defenders on the city wall watched in silence as he yelled and cursed.
Many people's hearts were filled with shock.
"Despicable Huns!" Many Loufan officers cursed in their hearts, and then watched their former compatriots dying.
From their perspective, although the appearance of those fellows in ragged clothes could not be clearly seen, they could generally see an outline.
These people stumbled toward the Great Wall, as numb as zombies.
The arrows on the Great Wall flew over like raindrops.
Shooting one man after another to the ground.
In just a moment, most of the hundreds of people fell.
But instead of being intimidated, the remaining people rushed up like crazy and rushed towards the pass of the Great Wall.
Zhao Meng witnessed this moment with his own eyes in an arrow tower.
He could even clearly see the faces of the men climbing up from the mountain.
He could even recognize a few of them.
Those people once grazed with him, played games with him, hunted with him, and talked about women together...
But now, they are dying.
"Why?" Zhao Meng thought in his heart: "Why do they have to sacrifice their lives for the Huns?"
The answer was soon revealed.
When almost all of these people died on the mountainside, a group of Huns cavalry drove thousands of people, old and young, to the foot of the mountainside, and then made them all kneel down.
One executioner after another raised the butcher knife in his hand and chopped down the desperate and numb old people, men, women and children one after another.
The head rolled on the ground, and the blood stained the turf red.
A Hun nobleman stood at the foot of the mountainside and loudly announced: "Despicable Loufan slaves, shameful Wusun rebels, please listen carefully! These people were executed because their relatives failed to attack!"
"The great Great Huns, King Yougu Li, has an order: If you continue to resist, then when I, the Great Huns, attack the Great Wall, I will kill you all!"
Zhao Meng looked at it, his eyes were red, and his fists were clenched tightly.
"Beasts!" Zhao Meng cursed. He looked at the poor people, those fellow tribesmen who died tragically under the Xiongnu's butcher knife. Zhao Meng swore in his heart: "I will definitely avenge you!"
At the same time, he was extremely grateful to the great Emperor Han in his heart.
He knew that if he were not the Emperor of Han, he would probably be one of those poor people at the foot of the mountain!
Even before that, he was starving to death.
It was precisely because he knew happiness and self-esteem that Zhao Meng was so grateful to the Emperor of Han for bringing him all this!
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I will rest as usual today and will continue to explode tomorrow~ (To be continued.)
