Chang'an City has been completely besieged.
Trenches were dug everywhere, and some even diverted water.
The nearby forests were cut down and turned into camps and walls, filled with "weird" soldiers.
Yes, this was Hou Feihu's first impression when he first saw them.
In terms of hairstyles, there are those with braided hair, some with braided hair, some with loose hair, some with buns, and some with haircuts.
In terms of faces, there are big plate faces, long faces, high noses and deep eyes, and all kinds of faces.
In terms of attire, there are some who wear linen clothes, some who wear shabby sheepskin jackets, some who wear moth-eaten leather armor, and some who even bare their upper bodies and draw ghostly charms on them...
In short, there are not many normal ones.
Of course, everyone knows that these are just young men who have been temporarily recruited, and their combat effectiveness is uneven.
No matter how poor the tribal leaders are, they can still collect dozens of armors and support hundreds of warriors, but these people are not willing to take action easily and are not willing to use them for consumption.
Hou Feihu's camp was located in Bashang, east of Chang'an City, which was actually a bit far away from Chang'an City. The troops stationed here had no intention of actively attacking the city, but more wanted to drive all kinds of soldiers and horses to attack the city.
Today (August 16th), he led thousands of sergeants from the Heijin Zuoying Battalion to inspect parts of the eastern part of the city.
Ten thousand soldiers from Longxi under Liang Xun's army were stationed here.
Longxi, as you can tell from its name, is a place where both Hu and Han people live together. It can even be said that there are far more Hu people than Han people.
The Diqiang are the mainstream of the local area, and there are also a few Xiongnu tribes - counting from the years they lived in Longxi, they can almost be regarded as "new aborigines".
In fact, in recent years, a group of Jie people have migrated here, which is very chaotic.
When Hou Feihu climbed up and looked into the distance, he saw a group of Huns cavalry charging towards him.
Liang Xun himself is not here, but his nephew and various ministers are still working hard, but this battle is really a bit...
A group of disheveled light cavalry (Qiang people) in the center came forward to fight with the Xiongnu. It was originally a good opportunity to outflank the Huns, but the people deployed on the left and right couldn't understand the flags. Can you believe it?
They sent someone over to deliver the order, but the language was blocked. After many people translated it, they suddenly realized it. Then hundreds of Jie cavalry and hundreds of Di cavalry armed with cavalry bows came up to meet them. However, the Huns had already defeated the Qiang cavalry in front and returned to attack near the city wall.
It's camp.
The Jie people and the Di people pursued fiercely at this time, and ended up being hit by a hail of arrows from the top of the city, and retreated in embarrassment.
Hou Feihu sighed deeply.
At this level, what kind of fight is there?
However, as soon as this thought came into Hou Feihu's mind, a relatively orderly troops came forward, with a total of three thousand people, marching through the walls to attack the Huns' camp outside the city.
Arrows were fired continuously in the camp, and the attackers held up wooden shields. People were shot to death and injured constantly, but the remaining people followed orders and prohibited them, and were more organized. They attacked for a while before retreating.
Hou Feihu counted silently and found that the attackers probably suffered more than 500 casualties, and the Huns also suffered nearly 300 casualties. It was actually a good fight.
"Who is this?" he asked.
Soon someone went to inquire about it. After a while, the messenger reported back: "This is a member of the Li clan in Longxi."
"Longxi Li family?" Hou Feihu was startled. Is there such a family in Longxi?
"Li calls himself a poor family." A staff member gently stroked his beard and said with a teasing smile on his face: "That's all he calls himself."
Hou Feihu shook his head and laughed.
In places like Henan and Hebei, if they had not experienced great chaos, the county genealogy certificates had not been lost, and the local gentry had not suffered a large number of casualties, it would generally be difficult to falsify one's identity.
You are obviously a powerful person, but you insist that you are from a poor family. If someone exposes you, you will lose your face.
But in places like Longxi, the rules are not so strict. In some places, powerful people are very eager to make progress, but they are constantly ridiculed and ostracized by the nobles. Over time, their mentality is distorted, and they will secretly poke and profess themselves to be poor in order to promote themselves.
Family status.
Hou Feihu can be regarded as a famous general in the world, but he has no family background. The Hou family of Donghai is just a powerful man now.
If his son could still be an official, he might be able to act shamelessly and become a low-ranking nobleman, but that's obviously not possible now.
"The fighting strength of the various tribes is uneven. We should focus on defense. First clean up the troops and then fight against the thieves." Hou Feihu looked away without interest.
Some tribesmen are actually quite courageous and dare to fight, but they have no rules and fight haphazardly. Someone needs to teach them how to fight.
Furthermore, the equipment was somewhat poor and the armor was extremely lacking, which greatly affected the combat effectiveness.
If there can be years of training and uniform distribution of sophisticated equipment, their combat effectiveness will improve rapidly - if the foundation is too poor, the improvement will be faster, while the improvement of elite soldiers like Heijin Zuoying will be much slower.
But it's not an easy task either.
How many years has it been since King Liang rectified the Five Battalions of the Yellow Head Army? Only now have we seen some results.
If a unit like the Yellow Head Army is placed here, it is actually a good unit.
They can only be used as auxiliary troops in front of the black army, but in the hands of the heroes in Guanzhong, they can be used as the main force.
"Captain." Zheng Dong, the governor of the fourth battalion of the Huangtou Army, came on horseback and met Hou Feihu under the high platform. He said: "The soldiers and horses of the tribes are noisy and the atmosphere is foul. Just now I was watching the battle in the north of the city. The Qiang soldiers of the Xuchu clan attacked the Xiongnu camp.
, retreat in defeat
After that, the rest of the battalions failed to save them. The Huns cavalry who came from Fuping even laughed loudly, and the Xianbei people even rode back, fearing that they would be swept away by the Di Qiang troops. In the end, Pu Hong's Di troops came forward and repelled the Tu various cavalrymen.
Chase."
"Is this happening?" Hou Feihu felt the seriousness of the situation as soon as he heard this.
In these days, the Guanzhong nobles who came under orders had no less than a hundred thousand soldiers and horses. They were very powerful, but their combat effectiveness varied. Some were fairly capable of fighting, while others were vulnerable to a blow and could not even be said to bluff people.
In fact, these are nothing.
The real problem was what Zheng Dongfang said. The friendly forces were defeated, but the others actually sat back and watched, and even laughed loudly!
Is this really friendly forces?
The troops are in chaos and do not belong to each other. To be honest, even if the King of Liang comes, it will be difficult to twist these complex troops into a unified force. This cannot be done in a short time.
What Hou Feihu is most worried about now is that a certain unit is defeated, and then suddenly someone shouts "Our army is defeated" and then runs away, causing a huge retreat in one direction.
It's not impossible for this kind of thing to happen, it's a big headache just thinking about it.
"Follow me to the north of the city." Hou Feihu frowned and sighed.
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Jin Zhun came to the city head and observed carefully.
At this time, the city of Chang'an was not big, and even Luoyang was not big enough.
If you don't take into account the messy attached buildings outside the city, the city of Chang'an is only about 20 miles in circumference, which is on the same level as Luoyang, but slightly smaller.
Luoyang really became big during the Northern Wei Dynasty, when all the construction areas outside the city were surrounded by city walls, that is, the outer city was built.
It was not until the Sui and Tang Dynasties that Chang'an became larger. The city's circumference reached seventy or eighty miles, but the city wall was very low, only about five or six meters long. It was also very thin and could easily be smashed by attackers.
Therefore, Chang'an in the Wei and Jin Dynasties could be defended, but Chang'an in the Sui and Tang Dynasties could not be defended.
But no matter how easy it is to guard, it still needs people.
There were twenty to thirty thousand reinforcements from various tribes, most of which were stationed outside the city.
The only combatable troops in the city are the remnants of the Forbidden Army, about ten thousand people, and now they are all under the command of Jin Zhun.
Jin Zhun knew very well that Chang'an could not be defended with only ten thousand people, so he recruited some of the strong men in the city to garrison in the city to supplement the shortage. He even let some of the imperial troops get rid of the defense and could go out to fight in the field.
The wealthy families in Guanzhong and the mixed soldiers and horses have gathered one after another.
The first to arrive were the troops stationed in the east of the city.
According to reports, Hou Feihu's camp was established in Bashang, and more than 10,000 people under Liang Xun's troops were expelled from Bashang. They dug trenches and erect fences in the east of the city and used old buildings for garrison.
Liu Xian, king of Runan, led his army to attack and found that they actually had no plans.
They were able to be defeated by the King's Master back then, and they all moved here, and now they can still be defeated.
There was no movement in the south of the city.
Zhao Gu led more than 20,000 soldiers to guard the fence. He only made a small attack and was repulsed and then died down.
Thousands of Zahu rebels from Beiyi Mountain joined forces with Zhao Gu and invited him to attack the city. Zhao Gu refused, so Zahu attacked alone and were defeated by Liu Yue, King of Guangping.
There are many bandits in the north of the city, no less than 50,000 in number, but their sources are complex and they cannot form a joint force.
Xu Chuquanqu sent troops to attack, but Liu Ce, the king of Anding, repulsed them.
The west of the city is more complicated than the north of the city. There are large groups of miscellaneous men gathered. You have one thousand, I have two thousand. The largest group is Lu Shui, Hu Pengtian, and his troops are guarding 10,000 people. The total is less than 30,000 troops, plus Feng Yi and Di Qiang's 20,000 troops.
, with more than 40,000 soldiers, they have not launched an attack yet.
Because of this, the officials and generals in the city actually had some expectations, thinking that they might be able to survive in death and force the besieging army to retreat.
But Jin Zhun didn't dare to think so.
There were nearly 200,000 troops besieging the city. Although they were not subordinate to each other and had no rules, they dug trenches and built strongholds and surrounded them with strong walls, which was enough to kill Chang'an.
What's more, with the chaos in Guanzhong, I heard that there are more people in Jingzhao, Beidi, Anding, Fufeng and other counties plundering everywhere. Now that all the elite soldiers of Tujie are in Chang'an, there are not many young people in the tribe, so they can really resist the rebellion.
A Hu Han traitor?
If they were to defeat them, they would take all the old, weak, women and children to Chang'an City, and the morale of the defenders would collapse right before their eyes.
Jin Zhun's own tribe ran in the direction of Anding, intending to go to Qinzhou and join the Qinzhou governor and Jiuquan King Shiwu's subordinates, but he didn't know where he was now.
If they were captured halfway, Jin Zhun didn't know if he would have the courage to resist.
Therefore, he thought about it and felt that if Hou Feihu, who was commanding the siege, had some ability, but he rectified his troops and did not rush to attack, after the chaotic situation was stabilized, Chang'an would definitely not be able to defend it.
In this case, it is necessary to consider the options.
Jin Zhun had no intention of being buried for the Tu Ge clan. He only thought about himself and his tribe.
He believes that there are many people who think the same thing as him.
Especially Jiang Ying (the Jiang family in Duling), You Ziyuan (the You family in Jincheng, living in Feng Yi), Xin Shu (the Xin family in Longxi), Hu Xun (the Hu family in Anding) and other Han officials and generals were originally from the Kansai gentry.
My disciples, if Shao Xun had not entered Guanzhong, they might still be serving the imperial court. But now that troops are surrounding Chang'an, do you think these people will rebel?
Hou Feihu was troubled by the chaotic siege army, and Jin Zhun was also troubled by the pessimistic situation.
Chapter completed!