"This is not water, this is wine. Where can I find water? I almost don't have any water to cook meat at home. Alas, when will these stupid enemy troops get out? I'm still waiting to take the folks with me."
Went outside to fetch water."
The prefect sighed.
Fan Kuan opened the gourd, smelled it, and found that it was indeed wine, so he quickly drank several sips, then smiled and said,
"It's so unreasonable of you not to take out this good thing sooner."
When the prefect heard this, he was about to snatch back his gourd. Fan Kuan laughed and handed it to the soldiers beside him.
"Thank you, Lord Sheriff."
The young soldier smiled shyly, took a cautious sip, and handed it to another person.
In this way, a gourd of wine was drank by several people in turn.
At this time, the enemy troops under the city had already started running and were preparing to attack the city.
The soldiers on the city wall began to draw their bows and arrows, and only waited for the enemy to enter the shooting range before releasing arrows to kill the enemy.
"Hey, the enemy's army is not withdrawing anymore. When will this hell end?"
The prefect sighed and wiped his sweat, feeling unbearably hot.
Hearing this, County Governor Fan Kuan sneered and said,
"I hope they won't withdraw their troops. I'm still waiting for reinforcements to arrive. We should cooperate internally and externally to defeat all the enemy forces."
"Reinforcements? Haha, the reinforcements are coming long ago. Why wait until now? As far as I know, the enemy has dispatched 800,000 troops this time. Only a large part of our Qinchuan army is attacking. There are 300,000 troops fighting.
Where is Yumen Pass?
Yumen Pass is too busy to take care of itself, so how can we have any troops to support us?
Besides, we don’t know if the detective horses we sent out to report the news were robbed or killed by the enemy troops. After all, there are enemy troops all over the mountains and plains outside."
For this period of time, Mangya City has been besieged, and it is difficult to get news from the outside.
Fan Kuan said nothing, picked up his bow and arrow, and pointed towards
The prefect was still complaining endlessly behind him, while dodging arrows shot from the city.
"If you don't get out of here, I'll throw you down and hit the enemy when all my arrows are gone."
Fan Kuan turned his head and cursed the prefect, then turned to look at the enemy army, frowning and saying,
"Something's wrong."
"What's wrong?"
The prefect was so frightened that he trembled all over and asked quickly.
"In the past, the enemy army would send out 10,000 to 20,000 people to attack the city in a symbolic way. Why did they all mobilize today? More than 100,000 people were sent out. Look, the enemy's follow-up troops are all spread out."
Fan Kuan pointed to the outside of the city and said quickly.
"What's going on? The enemy is about to launch a general attack? Can it withstand it?"
The prefect said in panic.
After Fan Kuan thought for a moment, he laughed and said,
"I understand. Reinforcements are coming. The enemy is making a final attack. They are fighting to the death. If they can capture it, they will capture it. If they cannot capture it, they will withdraw. Reinforcements must be coming."
"Lao Fan, are you telling the truth? Don't fool me."
The prefect frowned and said,
"Now I can grit my teeth and hold on, but if this news gets out and the reinforcements don't come by then, the morale of the soldiers will plummet."
"Don't worry, reinforcements are definitely coming."
Fan Kuan's decisive speed.
Soon, someone went to tell all the soldiers the news, asking them to defend with all their strength and not to worry about the arrows.
The war was still going on, and the exhausted soldiers fought off wave after wave of enemy attacks.
Finally, under the eager gaze of the soldiers and civilians of Mangya City, densely packed figures appeared on the mountain to the north of the basin.
Those figures stood proudly one by one, full of energy, holding high the banner with the word "Sichuan".
More than a month of marching and fighting did not make them tired. On the contrary, they became more and more courageous as they fought.
When they saw the large banner fluttering in the wind on the mountain opposite, the soldiers on the city top let out a roar of cheers.
Under everyone's gaze, a black torrent of steel rushed down the hillside, followed by tens of thousands of infantrymen, running wildly.
"Huh? What kind of cavalry are these? What kind of horses are they riding? Why are they so big? What is the number of the reinforcements?"
Fan Kuan frowned, staring at the torrent of black steel rushing down from the north, and loudly asked the prefect next to him.
The prefect rolled his eyes at him speechlessly, and secretly cursed in his heart, "You, the leader of the army, don't even know what kind of army the other party is, why are you asking me, a civil servant?"
Excuse me?
"The flag hanging on the opposite side is Zhenbei. Is that the Zhenbei Army of Zhenbei Hou?"
Fan Kuan said doubtfully.
It has been several months since Zhenbei was granted the title of Marquis. Major events such as the title of Marquis for military achievements would usually be spread throughout the country along with official documents from the imperial court.
Of course, this does not mean that various envoys were sent out to inform various places specifically for this matter, but that the imperial court had a routine that when issuing official documents to various regions, it would also inform various regions of the relatively major personnel changes in the imperial court.
Such important events as military achievements and the title of a marquis must naturally be reported to the world.
In addition, Yumen Pass is not far from the west of Qinchuan and is considered the western border, so Fan Kuan is quite concerned about this matter.
But he only knew about this matter. He knew that Han Yun had been granted the title of Marquis, but he knew nothing about the Zhenbei Army.
Under the watchful eyes of countless soldiers and civilians on top of the city, that torrent of steel rushed into the enemy's rear formation.
At this moment, everyone knew what it meant to be overwhelming and unstoppable.
The Western Region Allied Forces were not unprepared. On the contrary, when they launched a general offensive today, they learned about the arrival of Dachuan's reinforcements from defeated soldiers in various places. They also knew that Dachuan sent a group of steel cavalry and could not match them.
According to the enemy's speed, they will probably arrive tomorrow.
That's why they thought today, to quickly attack Mangya City. If they can defeat it, they will go into the city to drink and eat meat, and use the city defense to resist the enemy.
If we can't defeat it, then don't say anything and quickly withdraw your troops and return home.
But they never expected that the enemy troops would come so quickly.
When they were attacking the city, they suddenly appeared behind them.
Now it's better, they can't even use the camp to defend against the enemy cavalry.
Hundreds of thousands of people were all scattered in the flat basin, with no formation or structure at all.
Even if they saw the enemy coming behind them, it was too late to change their formation to meet the enemy.
The cavalry of the Zhenbei Army took advantage of the downward momentum on the hillside to reach extreme speed and plunged into the enemy army with their spears raised.
When charging, they dare not fire arrows at all, because their running speed has exceeded the flight speed of arrows. When they fire arrows, it is very likely that they will hit themselves when the arrow falls.
The Zhenbei Army rushed into the enemy troops with a devastating force. Wherever it passed, the enemy soldiers who were hit had broken bones and tendons, and died on the spot.
For a time, wailing sounds echoed throughout the entire place, and no matter how the enemy attacked or fired arrows, they could not shake the Zhenbei Army in the slightest.