Liu Xiang stood up from the shaft of the chariot and looked ahead. The cavalry troops led by Zhao Yun had already set off and rushed towards Qiuguo City.
He loudly ordered: "Form the team and assemble."
Failed to cheat the city?
Then beat it down.
The Qiu Kingdom was very small. It was originally a fiefdom of the county marquis. In modern times, there is no edict to enfeoff the Qiu Marquis. The Qiu Kingdom Prime Minister is respected, and he is actually a county magistrate, not as good as a county magistrate. The leader of the country is Qiu Guowei, whose rank is the same as the county captain.
Same, it can be stronger in terms of military power.
Kingdoms and princely states have independent territorial military power and belong to the county military system, which is at least stronger than the county soldiers who take turns to serve.
The city of Qiuguo is no more than three miles in circumference and has a population of less than 10,000 households. The city walls are in disrepair and there is no moat. When we plundered the countryside before, we did not want to waste time, so we did not attack this small city.
When Liu Xiang arrived at the south gate of Qiu Kingdom, Zhang Yi was scolding people outside the city.
The troops had retreated, but Zhang Yi was still within the enemy's firing range, pointing at a bearded man on the tower and shouting curses, circling around the enemy's female relatives.
The man's face was red with anger, but his voice was not as loud as Zhang Yi's, and his words were not as sharp as Zhang Yi's. He was obviously not his opponent. I have to admit that when it comes to scolding, the loudest voice is the truth.
People around him ignored him.
What's even more outrageous is that there is a man dressed as a military commander beside him, smiling and watching the fun.
"What's going on?" Liu Xiang asked Zhao Yun curiously. Why did this scene look so strange? It didn't look like the plan had failed at all, and it didn't look like he was being repelled.
"My lord, Zhang Yi was discovered. The man on the city was the county magistrate of Gu'an. He saw Zhang Yi's soldiers seizing the city gate last night and took advantage of the chaos to escape. Instead of running to Wuruan Pass, he ran away.
Xiang Qiuguo is going to Zhuo County to complain to the prefect."
"Is this man going to Zhuo County to die?"
"I heard that we are going to mobilize the soldiers and horses of Qiu State to go to Zhuoxian County for rescue."
He is a thoughtful person who knows that he is outnumbered and knows how to pull in a scapegoat.
Liu Xiang loudly ordered: "Modify the vehicles, set up formations, and besiege the city."
The fang flag is set, the trumpet flag is fluttering, and the sentinels and their feathers are carrying orders everywhere.
This time, thousands of carts were brought with the army. After some temporary modification, a large oar was added to become a cart; a bracket was set up and a bumper was hung to form a bumper; the bottom baffle was removed, the roof was covered, and the side walls were put up, which was a cart.
Cart.
This kind of temporary modification is of course not as good as the carefully manufactured one, but it can still be used in combat and is much more convenient and faster.
A group of infantrymen unloaded their pack horses, packed their baggage, and pushed the carts into the formation for modification. Officers also distributed arrows, shuttles, wooden shields, and flying ladders in preparation for the siege.
The army below the city was busy. The oars were renovated the fastest and had been pushed to the front of the formation. The crossbowmen were in place.
The soldiers began to shout, and the infantry carrying flying ladders and large shields marched in groups, preparing to siege the city.
The crash car and the car at the back are being refitted.
Liu Xiang took the loudspeaker and shouted loudly: "Zhang Yi, return to our formation and prepare to attack the city."
Zhang Yi circled his horse in a circle, with an anxious look on his face. He looked at the nervous defenders on the city, raised his finger and pointed at the general on the city tower, and shouted loudly: "Yuan Heng, do you want to die? Now is not the time to fool around, kill that guy
Old dog, Kaicheng surrenders."
The general named Yuan Heng in the city unsheathed his sword without hesitation and slashed the neck of Gu'an County Prime Minister. Perhaps because he didn't use enough force, the sword got stuck on the County Prime Minister's cervical vertebrae and only cut half of it in.
Therefore, before the Prime Minister of An County could scream, his windpipe was cut off and his voice was stuck in his throat, turning into blood and water gushing out.
Blood spurted out more than three feet away, splashing all over Yuan Heng's body and face. The parapet and battlements in front of him were also dyed blood red.
Yuan Heng complained about "bad luck" and kicked the Prime Minister of Gu'an County off the city wall. He pointed his blood-stained ring-headed sword at the Prime Minister of Qiu and shouted: "Kaicheng, surrender."
The Prime Minister of Qiu State stopped the guard who was drawing his sword and shook his head helplessly: "I have long known in my heart that apart from surrendering, there is no way for us to survive."
After speaking, he shouted to the city: "We surrender."
He also asked people to take out the white flags with the word "surrender" written on them that had been prepared, and led the people down to the city.
After Liu Xiang finished shouting, he looked at this series of changes and felt irritated. Why did he go there so early? How many cars have I dismantled? Who will pay for this loss?
He quickly ordered: "Stop the refitting immediately." However, the troops besieging the city were not called back, and the crossbowmen who were in position were not removed.
Not long after the order was passed down, the Prime Minister of the Qiu Kingdom, together with Ling Shi and a group of envoys and other officials of the Qiu Kingdom, opened the city gates with white flags, holding atlases and seals, and went out to ask for surrender.
Everyone knelt in front of Liu Xiang's horse, and the Prime Minister said: "Everyone in the country is willing to surrender. Please accept it, general."
They had already surrendered, and Liu Xiang didn't want to lose his temper. He said loudly: "Please get up, please, and ask the garrison in the city to come out of the city to accept the surrender."
The officials of Qiu State are very honest.
The surrender and taking over the city defense went smoothly. The captured weapons were used to equip new infantry soldiers with wooden weapons on the spot.
With the support of Gu'an and Qiu, Liu Xiang had more than 5,000 infantrymen equipped with iron weapons.
The surrendered troops returned to the camp and the officials returned to the government office. Liu Xiang also followed him into the city and came to the government office. He sent away the surrendered officials. Liu Xiang looked through the yellow books and files in Nuange.
I haven't done anything else in the past two days. I'm either flipping through the pornographic albums or on my way to flip through the pornographic albums.
It makes my brain hurt to watch.
Liu Xiang calmed down and thought about business. Now, only Zhuoxian and Wuruan Pass are left.
There is no need to elaborate on the importance of Zhuoxian County. Wuruan Pass must also be captured as soon as possible.
Xianbei ravaged Daijun in Youzhou, and Yanmen and Yunzhong counties in Bingzhou. Shanyu and Lian were greedy and often went south to plunder. Beware of them taking Feihu Trail to Guangchang, and then entering from Guangchang via Puyin Trail.
In Zhuo County, Wuruan Pass is the gate guarding the passage.
In autumn, the grass is dry and yellow, and the horses are fat. It is the season for the nomads to go south. The Xixi Defense Line and the Wuruan Pass in Zhuojun are right under Xianbei's nose, so they must be guarded against.
The time window to expand his power was about to close, and Liu Xiang felt more and more pressure.
The Wuhuan and Xiongnu were no longer strong enough to withstand Xianbei's attack. The Hu people's defense line outside the Great Wall established by Emperor Wu had been breached by Xianbei. The northern border counties of the Han Dynasty had to face the pressure of Xianbei cavalry.
In the sixth year of Xiping (AD 177), the Han army made a three-pronged Northern Expedition and was defeated by Tan Shihuai, the previous Xianbei chanyu. More than 30,000 cavalry were wiped out. The offensive and defensive momentum on the northern border was completely changed, and the Han people became passive.
Days of defense.
The Five Husbands disrupted China, and the root of the disaster of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties was laid at that time.
In the following decades, the Han people have been struggling in the war, and they have caught up with this group of weird people like the Sima family, and everything north of the Yangtze River is completely over.
"Xianbei, I can't do it now." Liu Xiang slapped the table in frustration.
"Sooner or later I have to beat them up. This tone is absolutely intolerable. I want to avenge my ancestors a hundred years from now."
Well, this is very logical.
For a logic genius like Liu Xiang, this is his truth, and it is also the truth to break the rules.