This border city ushered in dawn, and the people in the city were as normal as ever. However, in the general's mansion in the city, several corpses had fallen. Among them, the former guard and his subordinates
Three of his close subordinates.
Not far away from the four corpses, Sun Fuhu, the commander of the Guiyi Army, was sitting on a chair with a golden sword. He seemed to have never seen the corpses in front of him.
This time they were ordered to enter Weicheng at night and take over all military affairs here. The Weicheng general had already been bribed and arranged to come here. Yesterday, he also met the Huns' messenger in person, and the two sides met very happily.
A secret agreement was reached on the handover of Weicheng.
They thought they were doing these things very covertly, but they didn't know that they had been under the secret surveillance of Long Ya for a long time. If they dared to betray Emperor Hua, there was no need to stay. After Sun Fuhu came here, he saw them still
If they wanted to resist, they would simply kill them all.
Not long after Sun Fuhu and Chief of Staff Rong Shaogang sat down, Wan Dingtian, the commander of one of his regiments, walked in. "Report to the brigade commander and chief of staff that all the soldiers in the city are under control. Most of them don't know.
But for safety reasons, they were all locked up.”
"Lock them up and leave the screening work to the Long Yahe Military Inspectorate Brigade. We have our own tasks. Order all the soldiers to change into the clothes of the soldiers and climb up the tower to prepare for the big show." Sun Fuhu stood up and said,
He said with a serious face.
If you look carefully, you can still see a hint of excitement in his eyes.
That's the fighting spirit when a big battle comes. Such eyes usually only appear in the eyes of fierce and brave generals.
The world has changed in Weicheng, including the city of An, which is also full of bloodshed. However, all the internal elements of the Xiongnu army have been dealt with in a short period of time. However, for all of this, those who came from outside the city have already left at the foot of Huashan Mountain.
The Huns army passed by but they were completely unaware of it.
It took a full day, and I don't know how many times I waved the whip, to drive the 200,000 Huns troops past the foot of Mount Hua. Finally, when Weicheng was visible from a distance, Qiao Xiong on the horse relaxed.
tone.
Looking at the time, it was not yet noon, and Qiao Xiong's face showed a winner's smile. "Everyone, speed up, we will arrive in Weicheng for lunch soon, hahaha."
"Hahaha." Amidst the laughter, other Huns generals also looked cheerful.
News has spread in Weicheng for a long time. Lunch has been prepared and they can enjoy it just waiting for the army to enter the city. Then after resting for a day in Weicheng, they will rush to Ancheng early tomorrow morning. When they think about it, it is the first place where Shaanzhou is governed.
, no matter how wealthy they were, all the Huns cavalry felt waves of body heat.
Some people with many ideas seem to have seen countless money and beautiful women waving to them, just waiting for them to harvest.
"Here they are, have they replaced the artillery?" Sun Fuhu put down his telescope and asked Rong Shao, the chief of staff standing next to him.
"We have already changed them, and we are just waiting for the enemy to appear." Chen Wei, commander of the third regiment of the second firearms brigade, ran over and saluted Sun Fuhu and Rong Shao with a military salute.
"Very good, don't rush to fire for a while, wait until the enemy is close before attacking." Sun Fuhu nodded with satisfaction. With the help of a firearms regiment, Sun Fuhu had already begun to imagine how embarrassed the Xiongnu would be when the shells fell.
The sun in July, especially at noon, shines on the earth, as if it can cook people. The so-called horse running to death at Wangshan seems not very far away, but it takes almost an hour to walk, and the time has come
At noon, the towers of Weicheng finally appeared clearly in front of Qiao Xiong.
When he looked around and saw that the east gate of Weicheng had been opened from the inside and had no intention of closing it, Qiao Xiong's laughter came out again. "Hahaha, brothers, did you see that the gates are huge?"
It's open, and they're waiting for us to go in. Let's go, we're entering the city!"
"Entering the city!"
There was a sound of shouting below. Whether it was the Huns cavalry or the slave infantry, they seemed to have regained their strength at this moment, and their speed began to speed up invisibly.
On top of the city tower, the soldiers of the Guiyi Army dressed in the appearance of government soldiers were staring intently at the bottom of the city tower. Seeing that the distance between the Huns and the Huns was getting closer and closer, their arms under the cover of the battlements began to tremble with excitement.
The Huns army, who were still completely ignorant, still came towards the east city gate. The distance was as close as five miles, then four miles... three miles... two miles...
When we were only a mile away from the city, there was finally movement inside the east city gate. A large number of government soldiers came out from inside, and then began to form a formation at the city gate, giving people the feeling that they were about to
Queuing to welcome.
Qiao Rong was walking at the front. He was very satisfied with the behavior of the soldiers in the city. When the Xiongnu army arrived, there should be a welcome ceremony. This was in line with their status.
Qiao Rong, who didn't notice anything strange at all, led 3,000 cavalrymen and kept approaching the city gate. When they finally reached less than a hundred paces and within the effective shooting range of the archers, the city tower originally stood there like a wooden pole.
The government soldiers suddenly took action.
They held strong bows in their hands, and then they started shooting with arrows.
The sudden scene caught all the Xiongnu troops off guard. As soon as Qiao Rong raised his head, he saw an overwhelming barrage of arrows coming towards him, covering everything around his position.
The arrow fell with no blind spots. Qiao Rong only had time to let out a shout before he was shot through like a honeycomb. His whole body fell off his horse and fell to the ground, losing his breath.
Qiao Rong died, and the three thousand Huns cavalry he brought also did not gain much. When a wave of bows and arrows numbering ten thousand people came down, at least nearly half of them were killed.
It was really too close, and I was completely unprepared. When I realized something was wrong, I couldn't hide or avoid it.
"Charge, charge!"
Seeing that something was not going well, the remaining more than a thousand Huns cavalry were just acting as targets, so they set their sights on the soldiers leaving the city.
They believed that as long as they could rush to the side of these soldiers, the enemy's archers would be wary. Even worse, they could catch a few of them before they died.
However, when they started to gallop forward on horseback, the Chinese soldiers standing under the city did not change their expressions and their hearts did not beat. They calmly raised their hands that were hanging down one by one, and then came one after another.
The compact Shen's small serial crossbow was held in his hand.
There are two thousand soldiers under the city. Each of them has a Shen's small repeating crossbow that can fire five arrows in a row. This is ten thousand sharp arrows. At such a close distance, when they start firing,
The arrows rushed straight in like a dense rain, forming a giant net that wrapped all the over a thousand Hun cavalry in it.
Amidst the bursts of screams, the more than a thousand Huns cavalry did not even get up from the waves, but plopped down towards their horses. Even when they died, each of them was like a hedgehog, with their whole bodies covered with bullets.
Arrow.
"What's going on?" Qiao Xiong, who was more than a mile away, looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief, completely confused as to what was happening.
It was clear that just now we were all good to you, me, and everyone, but suddenly they turned against each other, and all three thousand Huns cavalry died in such a short period of time, which made his heart bleed.
But what made him even more bloody was yet to come. The bronze cannon on the tower let out a roar, flew out of the barrel, and poured towards the Huns army directly in front.
The distance between the two sides was too close. The closest distance to the city was only more than one mile away. There were tens of thousands of Huns in just six miles. When the cannonballs fell into the crowd, every drop could take them away.
Several dozen or even dozens of corpses flew up.
"No, this is a trap, it's a trap, retreat quickly." After Qiao Xiong heard the roar of the artillery, how could he not know that this was basically a trap of the Chinese Army? Weicheng is not big, so it is impossible to do it.
With so many artillery installed, they still showed up here. There is only one result, that is, the Chinese army was well prepared.
In other words, their previous plans had long been known to the Chinese army, and they were just playing a trick to take advantage of the situation.
Since you are well prepared, it is obviously inappropriate to rush forward, so you have to retreat. After all, the attack range of artillery is limited.
Qiao Xiong hit his horse and fled backwards. The tens of thousands of Huns cavalry who followed him also turned around and fled. Amidst the rumbling gunfire, the cavalry rushed back, and the first thing they ran into was the neatly arranged slave army.
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The situation of the slave army is not much better. Cannonballs don't have eyes. They won't blow you up just because you are a gangster. If they fall next to you, they will cause great damage. At this time, under the influence of artillery fire,
Under the attack, the slave army suffered heavy losses and their formation was in chaos.
In the chaos, who would care about the Xiongnu army charging back?
In the face of life and death, everyone is equal, and everyone has the right to pursue life.
In this way, a scene formed below the city, that is, the cavalry and infantry were fleeing backwards, and the slave army had no intention of giving way to the Huns cavalry.
If you just ride a horse, it should be very fast to cover a distance of less than six miles. However, when the front is full of surging infantry crowds, the Hun cavalry will naturally not be able to go fast, which makes them have to endure more.
After multiple artillery fires, the number of casualties began to rise linearly.
"Kill, carve out a bloody path." Qiao Xiong saw that the slave army actually blocked his way of escape. He said tremblingly in anger, and was the first to raise the saber in his hand and move towards the man standing in front of him.