In the first year of Yongjia, March, Jiexiu.
The legend of Jiexiu City is named after the death of Jiezi, a sage in the Spring and Autumn Period. It is an important town in the northeast of Xihe County. Although the city is small, it is very strong.
In late autumn last year, the Huns' army arrived here. Jiexiu ordered Jia Hun to seize the city and defend it. After the city was broken, he died of resistance and rebellion. Everyone at that time sighed about his loyalty. After the Duke of Yue Shi defeated Liu Jing's troops, the power of the Huns shrank, and this place became the southernmost end of the Jinyang regime's order, confronting the Huns across the mountains.
The southwest of Jiexiu City, not far from Gaobiling, is the key pass that military strategists must fight for. This is a narrow valley between the mountains and ridges, split by the Fen River like a knife and axe. There are dozens of miles of roads and narrow roads in the valley. They are scattered and pass by in a row, and they are terrifyingly moved step by step, as if only birds and rats can pass by safely, hence the name.
It is rumored that Taifen, the leader of the nine barriers in the world mentioned in "Lüshi Chunqiu", is this Jushi Valley. If you go north from the Hedong Plain to Jinzhong, this is the main channel. After Liu Kun took charge of Jinyang, he sent his general, General Lu Chang, the Hengye General, to garrison him with a thousand elite troops. He appointed Lang Shuo, a native of Pingyang, as Jiexiu, to assist Lu Chang.
Lu Chang's courtesy name was Shize, and came from the Lu clan of Fanyang. During the Taiyuan period, he abandoned literature and military affairs, followed Liu Kun to fight north and south, and his footprints spread across the river. He was able to shoot with strong bows and shoot left and right, and was good at using big swords. He was always the first generals. During the Battle of Heqiao a few years ago, he led the iron cavalry to trap the battle. Although he defeated ten times the enemy, he was penetrated by a white blade when fighting with the enemy. Liu Kun was shocked by this and invited famous doctors to treat him, and personally inspected the decoction.
In the end, although Lu Chang saved his life, he injured his lungs. After that, his breath was rapid and he often coughed continuously. Therefore, he gradually stopped facing the enemy himself, and turned to the style of commanding the general who was determined.
Lu Chang has a calm and meticulous personality. Since guarding Jiexiu, he has organized soldiers to repair and strengthen the city and set up high enemy towers. He also sent elite soldiers to explore the Gu Shujiu every day. The next day, he must go back and forth to more than 30 miles to stop, and strictly prevent the Huns from crossing secretly.
When the New Year season was in full swing, hundreds of households moved from the deep mountains one after another. These people were local residents, but they fled into the mountains just to avoid the war. Seeing that the situation was a little settled, they were unable to leave their hometowns, they turned around one after another. Lu Chang placed them one by one. Seeing that the small Jiexiu City gradually gained some popularity.
At noon that day, Lu Chang had just come out of the courtyard and heard the noise from his subordinates, so he went to ask why. It turned out that a team of patrol troops sent yesterday failed to return to the city in time.
According to past habits, this team set off at noon yesterday, camped in the Gumaki Valley for a night before leaving for a trip. At this time, they should go to the city to hand over the next group of patrolmen. This is a common case of long-distance sentry detectives from the army. Everyone is very familiar with each other and has never had any mistakes for two months. Who knew that half an hour had passed today, and the previous team has not returned yet.
When Lu Chang heard this, he was furious: "You must report this big thing to me immediately! You are making noise in private, wouldn't it be a big thing?"
He raised his hand and beat the most clamored soldier, and then ordered: "Today, I will lead the troops to set off! All the generals and soldiers in the city will prepare military and horse equipment immediately!..."
As Lu Chang issued the orders and prices for the whole city of Jiexiu immediately became busy. In a moment, everything was ready, and dozens of elite soldiers were tied up. Lu Chang was so proud that he would take the lead and lead the army out of the city.
Suddenly, I heard a loud roar from the looking building on the city wall: "Hu people! Hu people! A large group of Hu people are attacking!"
Lu Chang hurriedly took the soldiers to the top of the city to look out. He saw waves of military horses coming out from the Bakushi Valley in the distance. In just a moment, a huge military formation gathered. Hundreds of military flags in the military formation were waving and flying, and all kinds of ferocious beasts were painted on the flags, which set off a team of infantry and cavalry like wolves and tigers. The entire army was full of armor and swords, and the murderous aura was filled with murderous aura. The sound of desolate and solemn trumpets sounded from time to time, spreading far away in the vast wilderness. Just looking at the military horses on the fields outside the valley at this moment, I am afraid there will be no less than 30,000 to 40,000 soldiers, and the people and horses in the valley are still gushing out, as if endless and never stops!
This... this is clearly the main force of the Huns! Lu Chang felt a cold air soaked up from the tailbone. He knew that the Jinyang army and the Huns had no power, and sooner or later, there were bloody battles, so since he took office, he had been preparing for war day and night. But he never expected that when the spring was still cold, the Huns could not wait to launch a large army!
In spring, the horses are thin and the disease is prone to epidemics. Therefore, since ancient times, the Hu tribes in the north have inherited the habit of sending troops to fight when the horses are high and fat in autumn. Not to mention Lu Chang, even the civil and military officials of Jinyang, including Yue Shigong, did not expect that the Huns would be so impatient.
Lu Chang carefully identified the flags in the Huns' formation, and murmured to report the identity of the leading general, with his name: "General He Tuyan, the auxiliary Han general!... General Qiao Xi, the champion general!... General Liu Jing, the general Liu Jing, the destruction of Jin!... General Hu Yanhao, the general Hu Yanhao!... General Wuya, Liu Qin, the general Hu Yanyan!... General Hu Yanyan, the general of the capture of the enemy!... Grand Sima, Hu Yanyi!"
These people are all famous Hun generals who are powerful enough to stop children from crying at night. For several years, they have crisscrossed the vast land from the river south to the Yinshan north, killing the Jin army like mountains! Just a dozen names were reported one by one, as if they were heavy rocks, which made Lu Chang almost breathless. The soldiers standing beside him were even more pale.
Before Lu Chang could clearly identify it, a huge pure white flag was raised high in the Huns' military formation. At that time, the Huns' tens of thousands of mountains and roared like tsunamis, even if they heard it far away in Jiexiu City, they felt deafening!
Lu Chang raised his eyebrows and gritted his teeth and signed up: "The Great Khan of the Xiongnu" Liu Yuan!"
When the great rebel who was the number one in today's number one, the lord of the Huns Han Kingdom, and the great Xiongnu Chanyu Liu Yuan and Liu Yuanhai, who proclaimed himself the king of Han, actually led his troops to come!
Lu Chang held the chalk in his hand and carefully watched the enemy's military appearance. He heard footsteps sounding rapidly, and it turned out that it was Shuo Shuo who was rushing to come.
Lu Chang asked, "But he never expected the Hu thief to invade a large amount... Lord Lang thought the enemy was in power?"
Lang Shuo pondered and said, "The Hu thief came from his army with great strength. All the elite soldiers and generals are there, and they should not be underestimated."
Lu Chang glanced at Lang Shuo and said, "It's time to spring, the grass is barren and the horses are weak. Liu Yuanhai rashly came to the scene at this time, and he was the idea of ​​taking advantage of our Jinyang army's foothold and not firmly established. Hehe, it's a pity that the key to Jinyang is Jiexiu, but Lu was at the top of Jiexiu's city, so he asked the Hu people not to peek north."
At this time, a cavalry came from the Hu army formation. It turned out that a Han official who surrendered to the Huns came to persuade him to surrender. The envoy immediately ran a hundred steps away. He just shouted twice, and saw a silver star flying in his throat and immediately fell off his horse. Lu Chang's archery skills were also ranked among the top five in the Jinyang army, and this arrow was really fast and ruthless!
On the top of the city, Lu Chang sneered and put down the special powerful bow in his hand, and sternly said to the soldiers: "Since he has followed the lord, he has been fighting for more than 60 battles, and he must fight bravely. He only wishes to return with the horse and corpse. Since I have been entrusted by the lord, I will lead the city guard and live and die together with Jiexiu. All the troops must work hard, and those who shake the morale of the army will be killed! Those who fail to fight will be killed!"
After a while, several messengers rushed out of Jiexiu's north gate, and then the soldiers and civilians in the city took action together and blocked the four gates with mud, stone and wood.
In fact, the key point of defending the city is to have an attack in the defense, maintain a strong counterattack force, and a reliable counterattack channel is very important. If the number of the two armies is not too different, the four gates will usually be kept unobstructed as the use of troops in the city to attack. Unfortunately, there is too much difference between the enemy and us at this time, Lu Chang had to make sure that he could not hide.
Lu Chang's arrow also caused a loud noise in the enemy's formation. The Huns rectified the army a little and sent troops to surround Jie Xiucheng.
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It seems to be on the new book list and the strong promotion list... Could this be the so-called naked running? Ahh, the crab is fat, please do not laugh at it.
Running naked is a good opportunity. You can calm down, write slowly, and write well. The prelude to the Jinyang War is about to begin. Please come with me to pay attention to this war that is rarely recorded in historical records but is of great significance.
Chapter completed!