The sky outside the Great Wall is distant and vast, with few white clouds and a clear blue sky.
It was just past 9 o'clock in the morning, and the giant sun in the sky had already begun to release its innate light and heat unscrupulously, spreading countless hot rays that could burn the human body happily all over the outside world.
Every inch of land.
The water of Shule River is still flowing quietly to the east, neither happy for things nor sad for itself. Only it knows that its flesh and blood is rising silently under the baking of the hot sun.
Gurgling water, tall mountain peaks, endless vast grasslands, and a bit too bright sunshine. This is the unique and picturesque scenery of the Central Plains that is very different from Guanzhong and Guanzhong.
It's just the rich smell of blood floating in the air, the deafening shouts of death, and the roar of horse hooves that give the picturesque scenery outside the Great Wall a slightly strange flavor.
In the nascent Bijia City, on the roofless houses and empty streets, long arrow clusters can be seen everywhere, sinking deeply into the soil or into human bodies.
Everywhere in the empty Bijia City, you can see large pools of blood that have condensed into dark red under the sun. On top of these bloodstains, there are fallen corpses of Huns with their hair tied into wisps of pigtails. These corpses may have fallen.
On the ground, or looking up to the sky, without exception, the expressions on their faces are unconcealable horror and nostalgia for this world.
That is the last thing they leave in this world when death has come.
In twos and threes, Jiuyuan soldiers wearing black armor were directing the surviving Huns to clean up the corpses in the city. Under such a scorching sun, these corpses would probably rot and stink after being exposed to the sun for two hours.
Behind the unfinished prototype houses with only adobe foundations, more Huns were shivering and hiding behind, as if the small adobes could withstand the countless rain of arrows falling from the sky and protect them from harm.
Under the Bijia City wall, which is less than ten feet high, rows of soldiers from the Nine Plains Army are resting nervously. They don’t know when the aliens outside wielding scimitars and longbows will attack again. The only thing they can do is to hurry up
Recover your physical strength every minute and every second, so you can step forward to support at any time when the city is in a tight situation.
At the top of Beacon City, four majestic figures wearing black armor stood as tall as mountains.
"General, please go down to the city and have a rest. There is..."
"Don't say anything more. Let the brothers quickly go down to the city and rest in the shade. As expected, these barbarians from the Western Regions will attack again in half an hour." Guan Yi wiped away the sweat covering his eyelids and interrupted the two men behind him.
Five Hundred Words of the Lord.
"General..."
"Li Yue, go see how many casualties the brothers have suffered. Cremate Brother Jian and the other brothers who died in the battle. Well, also cremate the Huns who were killed. The weather is too hot here.
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Guan Yi waved his hand. He turned back and looked at the soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army on the top of the city who were still standing as straight as him and others under the scorching sun. His hard-as-iron eyes instantly softened.
"General, take your orders!" the general of the Jiuyuan Army who called Li Yue said with clasped fists in a salute.
As a captain, Guan Yi commanded 5,900 elite soldiers of the original army and 5,000 soldiers. According to the military system of the Qin Dynasty, there must be five 2,500 lords. Li Yue was only one of them, and there were four 2,500 lords and three
Wei was standing behind Guan Yi.
In short, he is the last of the two or five hundred masters and has been killed in battle!
At Chen time, the 20,000 strong Xiongnu in Bijia City had just begun their day's work. The scorching sun outside the Great Wall was far more powerful than that coming in Guanzhong, so most of the time Guan Yi and others started building the city at Mao hour (five o'clock in the morning).
As soon as nine o'clock to eleven o'clock passes, everyone goes into the tent to rest and eat. It is not until after three o'clock in the afternoon (three to five o'clock in the afternoon) that they start working again.
This was to conserve physical strength to the maximum extent, and also to prevent the Xiongnu who were responsible for building the city from dying of heatstroke in the scorching sun.
Such a gentle and humane approach was naturally ordered by Hu Hai. In fact, in the eyes of most people in this era, prisoners were equal to dead people, who could be beaten and killed. The Qin army, which was famous for its violent and bravery, would definitely not be able to do such a thing.
thing.
The attack suddenly came to Beacon City without any warning at the beginning of a day of work.
The cavalry who came out of nowhere suddenly appeared on the prairie only ten miles away from Bijia City. When the overwhelming sound of horse hooves sounded, everyone in Bijia City heard the movement.
Unfortunately, it was already too late at this time. The foreign cavalry wearing various costumes, waving scimitars and whistling and clapping their horses, rushed in overwhelmingly.
If it weren't for the troops, Shishi, and Tunjiu soldiers who were scattered around Bijia City and charged forward to face the rushing foreign cavalry without fear of death, then the 20,000 Xiongnu warriors would probably have been killed in the first battle.
There will be very few left during the wave attack.
The soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army saved the lives of most of the Xiongnu's strong men, but the casualties in this first battle reached more than 2,000. The 5,000 soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army under Guan Yi were all infantry.
If the two thousand and nine original army tribes could form the infantry phalanx commonly used by Da Qin's infantry, there would definitely be casualties, but against the cavalry in charge, they would definitely not lose so many.
And Jian Zhi, who was the leader of the 2500th Army, was killed in battle at that time.
This is a casualty that the Jiuyuan Army has never experienced in more than ten years.
Guan Yi didn't know which tribe these foreign cavalry belonged to and why they attacked Bijia City in Daqin, but he knew one thing, that is, he had to defend Bijia City no matter what, until Su Jiao, the captain of Hexi County, led the army.
This is related to the reputation of the Jiuyuan Army and even more to the majesty of the Qin Dynasty.
The number of cavalry outside the city was estimated to be at least 50,000, but now there were less than 3,000 Jiuyuan Army soldiers who had retreated to the embryonic Bijia City. Of course, there were also more than 14,000 Xiongnu who were still in shock.
Fortunately, Bijia City was built on a mountain, with Bijia Mountain close to its back and north, and the Shule River to the south. The cavalry could not deploy and only needed to guard against the city wall on the west side.
With more than 10,000 Xiongnu elite soldiers and less than 3,000 elite soldiers of the Nine Plains Army, Guan Yi knew that he would be able to hold on until Su Jiao's army arrived.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
The high-pitched horn sound came from far outside the city.
The foreign cavalry outside the city began to gather, forming a long and scattered fan and slowly rolling up towards Bijia City. Guan Yi knew that this was the preparation before the cavalry charge. Looking at the messy formation, Guan Yi felt in his heart
Unspeakably frustrating.
Such cavalry, even if they are not equipped with saddles, stirrups and horseshoes, the elite cavalry of the Nine Plains Army can kill them all with only ten thousand people. However, now he can only cower in Bijia City.
Taking a deep breath, Guan Yi suddenly roared.
"Where is the Jiuyuan Army!?"
"exist!"
"Can you fight?"
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
More than a thousand lonely black-armored warriors stood on the low wall of Bijia City, their roars condensed into the sky. (To be continued...)