Liu Yan sat on the corpses of two barbarian soldiers, breathing heavily while slowly wiping the sword in his hand.
The sword was stained with blood, and the blade was chipped in many places. Liu Yan felt distressed while wiping the sword, and thought to himself that it was a pity that a good sword had been lost in vain.
At this time, a county official ran up the steps to the top of the city. When he saw Liu Yan and Feng Yi, his eyes suddenly lit up. He walked forward quickly, bowed his hands and said, "Congratulations, General Liu." , General Feng, successfully repulsed the invading barbarians, your Excellency has held a banquet at the Prefect’s Mansion to celebrate the two generals!”
Feng Yi almost laughed, laughing angrily.
Celebrating? He really didn’t know what to celebrate.
The barbarian army did not retreat. They were just outside the city, watching eagerly. They only fought for three hours today. However, as the defender of the city, the number of casualties was actually more than that of the attacking barbarian army. If we continue to fight like this, how long can we hold on? sky?
Liu Yan blinked, sheathed his sword, stood up, and was about to follow the clerk. He turned to look at Feng Yi, and saw that the latter was still sitting on the ground, wiping his sword seriously, without any intention of getting up. , he said: "Brother Gongsun, Mr. Wang has invited you, let's go over quickly!"
Feng Yi shook his head and said: "Maybe the barbarian army will come to steal the city tonight. I have to check it out in the four cities."
When the young official heard this, he immediately frowned and felt very dissatisfied. He said angrily: "General Feng, now the prefect has invited me. Do you want to ruin the prefect's face and affection?"
Liu Yan also felt that Feng Yi's approach was inappropriate and whispered: "Brother Gongsun, let's go over there!"
Feng Yi was still sitting on the ground, refusing to get up, and said: "Brother Bo Sheng, just go for me. It's just a meal, and we don't need to be there at the same time."
Just one meal?! The clerk's face turned livid with anger. He raised his finger and pointed at Feng Yi and said harshly: "What a ungrateful bitch!"
After saying that, he didn't look at Feng Yi again, turned to Liu Yan and smiled apologetically: "General Liu, let's go, please!"
Liu Yan also felt that Feng Yi's temper was like a stone in a latrine, smelly and hard.
He shook his head helplessly and followed the clerk to the prefect's mansion.
Here in Beicheng, there was a massacre of blood and flesh, and people fell on their backs, but here in the Prefect's Mansion, it was a complete scene of singing and dancing.
Wang Xun held a banquet at the prefect's mansion, and invited not only Liu Yan and Feng Yi, but also officials from the county government and the gentry in Hanzhong City.
In the lobby, Wang Xun sat in the middle, and the others sat on both sides. There was still an empty seat on the left and right sides of Wang Xun.
After the clerk brought Liu Yan in, he immediately trotted up to Wang Xun and whispered a few words in his ear.
After hearing his words, Wang Xun's old face also darkened. Feng Yi is really a shameless person who doesn't know how to praise!
But soon his expression returned to normal, and he returned to a cheerful smile.
He stood up, cupped his hands to Liu Yan and said: "Bo Sheng, today's battle has given me a lot of experience. Bo Sheng's courage is truly worthy of his reputation. How can I be afraid when Bo Sheng is here in Hanzhong City?" Those mere barbarians outside the city?"
Liu Yan bowed his hands and saluted, and said: "Your Majesty Wang, thank you very much. The fact that we can successfully resist the barbarian attack today is not due to Bo Sheng alone. Brother Gongsun..."
Before Liu Yan could say anything, Wang Xun laughed and said: "Bosheng is too humble, too humble! Come on, Bo Sheng, sit here, sit here! Bo Sheng has worked hard today and has made great achievements. If I entertain you If you are not careful, it will be a dereliction of duty on my part.”
Under Wang Xun's warm greeting, Liu Yan sat down next to his subordinate.
Wang Xun was so eloquent that he praised Liu Yan as much as he could in heaven or on earth. He praised Liu Yan to no end.
Liu Yan naturally likes to hear flattery, but he knows clearly in his heart that today he was able to withstand the barbarian army's massive attack, and his role was by no means as great as Feng Yi's. He did not dare to take credit for this first achievement.
He wanted to explain to Wang Xun several times that Feng Yi's absence was not because he did not want to show respect to the prefect, but because he wanted to inspect the defense of the four cities.
However, whenever he mentioned Feng Yi, even if he just started talking, he would be immediately interrupted by Wang Xun. After several times, Liu Yan could not say anything more. Now he could see that Wang Xun was narrow-minded and petty. , there is no room for tolerance, it is really a misfortune for the people of Hanzhong to have such a prefect!
The luxury of this meal made Liu Yan speechless. There were everything from flying in the sky, running underground, swimming in the sea, and delicacies from the mountains and seas. You must know that Hanzhong County is full of refugees and hungry people everywhere. It's almost cannibalistic, and the level of luxury here in the Taishou's Mansion is even worse than that of the peaceful and prosperous times.
The wine and meat in Zhumen stinks, and there are frozen bones on the road, nothing better than this!
Not long after the meal, Wang Xun asked people to bring in kabuki opera to add to the fun. The music was beautiful, and the dance was suspended for three days. The dance was stunning and beautiful. However, after eating this meal, Liu Yan felt that he didn't know how to taste it.
How can such a court, with its ruthless thieves and ignorant officials, make the people stop thinking about the Han Dynasty? One day, I will overthrow the tyranny of the ruthless thieves and restore the country of Han Dynasty!
Now Liu Yan has strengthened his belief even more.
This time Feng Yili was right again, and the barbarian army indeed stole the city at night. The barbarian soldiers did not attack the north city, but sneaked around to the south city, preparing to catch the defenders in the city by surprise.
The tactics of the barbarian soldiers are also easy to understand. The battle between the two sides was so fierce in the North City during the day, and our camp was stationed outside the North City. The defense focus of the defenders in the city was of course in the North City. The defense in the South City opposite the North City was naturally empty.
However, the barbarian army did not know that there was a man among the defenders, Feng Yi, who had the talent of a general and figured out their thoughts clearly.
The barbarian army chose to attack Nancheng secretly. As a result, Feng Yi deployed heavy troops to defend Nancheng. The barbarian army attacked at night and ran into an iron plate. Not only did they achieve nothing, but they also suffered nearly a thousand casualties and returned home in vain. .
After hearing the news, Xie Tu was furious and swore to the sky that when Hanzhong City was invaded, no chickens or dogs would be left in the city.
The next day, Xie Tu personally directed the battle, and the barbarian army launched a large-scale attack on Hanzhong City again.
In fact, the barbarian army is not very good at siege, and they do not have decent siege equipment, such as trebuchets, crossbows, rams, arrow towers and other large siege weapons. They are useless and rely entirely on manpower. After a hard charge, after two battles in the afternoon and evening the day before, the defenders also figured out the three axes of the barbarian army, and became more and more comfortable in dealing with them.
On the second day of the battle, compared to the first day, the casualties of the defenders were much smaller, and they were basically on the same level as the casualties of the barbarians.
After two consecutive days of fighting, the personnel on both sides were exhausted. On the third day of the battle, the barbarian army did not use all their strength and adopted harassment tactics. On the fourth day, the barbarian army's fierce attack began again.
This was the bloodiest day since the war between the two sides began. The barbarian troops outside the city were as if they had been beaten to death, and they attacked and killed the city without their lives.
In just one morning, the barbarian army tore through the defenders' defense line more than a dozen times and attacked the city. However, due to the desperate resistance of Liu Yan and Feng Yi, the barbarian army was also defeated.
In the afternoon, when it was getting close to dusk, the barbarian army launched another fierce attack, once again tearing apart the defenders' defense line in one fell swoop, and some of the barbarian army even successfully killed the city wall and entered the city.
Liu Yan left Feng Yi on the top of the city and continued to resist the attacking barbarians. He led a group of people into the city and started a street fight with the barbarians.
The battle was so fierce that there were more than 300 people around Liu Yan, and in the end only a dozen were left. Liu Yan relied on the nearby people to eliminate all the barbarians who rushed into the city. During the battle, the people They also killed and injured hundreds of people.
After the fourth day of fighting, the barbarian army still failed to break through the Hanzhong City defenses and had no choice but to retreat.
At this time, of the more than 4,000 defenders in the county, only about 1,000 were left, and among the more than 5,000 strong men who participated in assisting the city's defense, there were not even 500 left.
As the attacking barbarian army, its casualties were not small, more than five thousand people. At this time, Xie Tu was really anxious.
He originally thought that taking down the county city was just a matter of easy capture. After all, all the main army troops guarding the county city had been wiped out by him. The only ones guarding the county city were some rebels. To put it bluntly, they were just a bunch of rabble.
But Xie Tu never expected that it would be such a ragtag group of people in his eyes that would become a stumbling block for him to capture Hanzhong City, making him unable to capture Hanzhong City for a long time and causing countless casualties.
On the fifth day of the battle, the attacking barbarian army was exhausted, and the defenders were at the end of their strength.
The fierce fighting in the past few days has made it difficult for Liu Yan to support himself, let alone others. Seeing the barbarian army that was still crowded outside the city, everyone on the top of the city felt a sense of despair in their hearts.
When will this battle end?
The defenders on the city looked hopelessly at the barbarians in the outer city, while the barbarians outside the city looked at the defenders on the city and were helpless.
It was under this situation that Liu Xiu, Gai Yan, Long Yuan and others finally arrived at Hanzhong City.
When he learned that a group of enemy troops appeared behind him, with a total of about 300 people, Xietu, who was full of anger and had nowhere to vent, immediately ordered his general Salinen to go and annihilate this enemy army.
Shalineng is a fierce general of the Xie tribe. He is eight feet tall, has a strong back, dark skin, and a ferocious appearance. He has a broad forehead, short eyebrows, big ring eyes, a flat nose, a lion's mouth underneath, and a face full of beards and tattoos. At first glance, it looks like a green-faced and fanged monster.
He was holding a mace, which was made of fine iron and weighed at least more than a hundred kilograms. Ordinary people could not even lift it. However, in Salinen's hands, the mace was as light as nothing.
With an army of only more than 300 people, Salinon completely ignored him. He only led more than 100 barbarians to fight.
Salinen was one of the few people in the barbarian army who owned a war horse. He was tall and the war horse he rode was much larger than other war horses.
He led more than a hundred barbarian soldiers, walked out of the barbarian army's main formation in a swagger, and marched towards Liu Xiu and others in a hurry.
The two sides walked in opposite directions, and the distance between them became closer and closer. When the two sides were less than ten meters away, they stopped one after another. Shali looked to his left and right, then clamped his legs under the horse's belly, and the horse moved forward and walked out. A few steps.
Snapped!
Suddenly, an arrow flying from the opposite direction was nailed deeply to the ground in front of the horse's hooves, and the feathers at the tail of the arrow vibrated violently, making a buzzing sound.
Shali Neng reined in his horse and looked at Zhang Ping, who was shooting arrows on the other side, with a frightening look in his eyes.
Gai Yan said to Liu Xiu: "Uncle Wen, I'm going to meet him!" After saying this, he was about to leave the queue. Liu Xiu hurriedly took Gai Yan's arm and said: "Brother Juqing, we have Xiesang here.
You don’t have to fight the enemy with your hands!”
As he spoke, he turned back and nodded to Li Tong and Li Yi.
Li Tong and Li Yi understood each other, ran to the center of the team, and brought out the captured Xiesang.
Zhang Ping took two steps out of the team and said loudly in barbarian language: "The leader of the Xie tribe is here, why don't you come and greet me quickly?"
