Gongsun Junsheng killed the traitors and took the lead, but after all, he was not very good at attacking the city, and the siege equipment he prepared was too crude. The hundreds of remaining soldiers who defended the city were Liu Yu's retainers, and later Qu Yi was fully responsible for their training.
Yi's Xianden camp has the flavor of a death squad, and after his training, these disciples can be regarded as veritable death warriors.
Juyong City is not big, which to some extent is conducive to the concentration of troops by the side with fewer soldiers. As a result, Liu Yu withstood Gongsun Zan's fierce attack.
Of course, the defenders were outnumbered after all, and the defense relied entirely on human lives. The siege lasted for more than three hours, and the casualty rates of the attacking and defending sides were almost equal.
Gongsun's army numbered as many as 20,000, and some manpower could be rotated, which could reduce casualties to a certain extent, but Liu Yu's army could only hold on until the last moment of his life.
The fierce offensive and defensive battle lasted from early morning to afternoon. The winter days were short, and the sun did not stay in the sky for long before it began to tilt to the west, as if it was frightened by the fierce battle.
Liu Yu knew very well that the closer to the night, the higher the hope of survival. A forced siege on the city in the winter night would do too much harm to the soldiers. Under the combined effect of darkness and cold, the non-combat attrition would increase significantly. As long as Gongsun Zan was still alive
If there is a shred of sanity left, one will not go crazy and attack the city overnight.
But this knowledge did not bring him hope. Even if he no longer understood military affairs, at the moment when the sun set, he realized that the end was coming.
Only the last twenty or thirty of his five hundred personal guards were left, but the enemies seemed to be endless and swarmed to kill them.
Although Gongsun's army had few ladders, the city wall of Juyong City was too short. Well-trained cavalry could easily throw hooks from their horses and swing directly up the city wall.
What was even more terrifying were the bows and arrows. Between every two waves of attacks, a hail of arrows covered the entire city, causing a lot of casualties. At least half of the more than a thousand people who were driven by the defenders to help with swords died in this way.
under attack.
What caused serious damage to the defenders were the cold arrows that shot up from time to time during fierce battles. The rate of sharpshooters in Gongsun's army was much higher than that of ordinary armies. The low city head of Juyong City was conducive to their comprehensive
play.
"I am a clan member of the Han Dynasty and an important minister of the court, and why did I die like this?" Liu Yu shouted unwillingly while leaning in front of the window of the tower.
He is not willing to give in. If God must temper himself, at least let him survive today, right? Xu You is running on the grassland, and Xianbei's army is gathering. As long as one more day, reinforcements will swarm in! How can God?
How can you be so stingy and not even grant yourself such a humble wish?
Maybe, as Zitu said, reinforcements won't come, right? He has been abandoned, so it doesn't matter whether he has that day or not.
But he still felt angry. With his identity, how could he die in this way and in such a place?
Even if a person like him is going to die, he should be in the golden palace and surrounded by ministers. After solemnly entrusting the affairs of the state, he will die peacefully, causing the whole city to cry and the whole world to mourn. Instead of hiding like a mouse.
In the city tower, if you are lingering for a while, you may be dragged out to the public like a dead dog at any time, and then be brutally cut into pieces.
Throughout the morning, Liu Yu's mind was filled with the scene of Wang Men's tragic death. His cold was very severe, and after suffering such stimulation, he fell to the ground and was about to die before his eyes.
Liu Yu was not worried about this. Instead, he was a little lucky. If he died like this, he would not have to endure the humiliation of Gongsun Peifu. In the future, history books will also record his glorious deeds of unyielding to death, supervising the battle despite being ill, and finally dying gloriously in battle.
He prayed silently in his heart, hoping that his guards would support him for a little longer, even just for a moment, so that he could become famous.
…
Tian Yu looked at the sky and then looked at the surrounding wilderness a few times. A trace of worry flashed between his eyebrows. Seeing Liu Yu's personal guards on the top of the city still resisting, he finally couldn't help but made a suggestion: "
My lord, Juyong City is alone outside, so it is not appropriate to stay for too long. Liu Yu is already in dire straits, so why should he insist on capturing him alive? It is better to set fire to the city tower and withdraw his troops as soon as possible."
"What are you talking about?" Gongsun Zan raised his thick eyebrows and looked at Tian Yu, with a look of dissatisfaction in his eyes. He pointed at the city wall with his riding crop: "This old man has been bullying me for a long time. If I don't drag him out to show everyone today, let everyone
Let’s see if he is just trying to gain fame or is he really the same as he appears, how can I be willing to accept it?”
"Xian Yufu and Yan Rou's group of miscellaneous men have been defeated by me in Jixian. I have been pursuing them all the way, but there is no sign of them. Apparently they have known the opportunity and fled outside the Great Wall. After Tan Shihuai's death, the Xianbei people have become powerful outsiders.
, even without Peng Ju’s sage brother’s army, how could they dare to make a mistake? There is no need to worry!”
"But..." Tian Yu wanted to persuade him again, but Gongsun Zan waved his hand fiercely and shouted: "No need to say more, let alone the Xianbei people may not come. Even if the leader and Qian Man reconcile and come side by side, why be afraid?
Yes? Although Peng Ju’s sage brother went north with great enthusiasm, he has been in northern Xinjiang for decades, so there is no reason to take refuge in others. If they don’t come, let them go. If they dare to come, I want them to see the might of the Han army! "
Tian Yu knew that he couldn't persuade Gongsun Zan, so he looked at the top of the city and pressed the hilt of his sword with a sigh. If he couldn't persuade Gongsun Zan, he could only resolve the battle as soon as possible. Among Liu Yu's remaining guards, there were quite a few who were highly skilled in martial arts.
If you get rid of these people, there won't be any more surprises.
Suddenly, the sound of horse hoofbeats was heard in the distance. Both Tian Yu and Gongsun Zan were stunned, thinking that they heard wrongly, and turned their heads to look around at the same time. Under the dark red sky, they saw a waving white flag.
, behind the white flag is a black line spanning the entire wilderness.
Although it is a white flag, no one will regard the other party as a volunteer who comes to serve, because there is a pattern on the white flag - it is a wolf, with its teeth and claws showing, and the ferocious wolf shows its fierce look!
"The flag of the King of Xianbei...is the leader!" Tian Yu cried out. The nomadic tribes on the grassland used many things as totems. Among them, the wolf, like the dragon in the Central Plains, has an extraordinary significance. It is qualified to use the wolf as a totem.
As a totem, the only people painted on the battle flag are the Xianbei people who dominate the grassland, and among the Xianbei people, the nominal king is the leader of the central Xianbei.
"Qian Man is here too. What a good thief, he actually reconciled!" Gongsun Zan's eyes flashed, staring closely at the black wolf flag that followed the white wolf flag. The wolf on the flag was not as big as the previous one.
Zhang Yang is like a wolf cub. The Xianbei master after Tan Shihuai is He Lian, and Qian Man is He Lian's son!
"Pass my general's order, the rear team will become the front team, prepare to meet the enemy!" Although Gongsun Zan was frightened, he raised his arms and shouted. Although the current situation is dangerous, he has fought in battles all his life and has experienced many similar dangerous scenes. How could he have experienced this?
Scared?
"Here!" The previous worries were swept away, and Tian Yu's generals readily agreed.
There are more than ten thousand enemies who have appeared. Look at this posture. There are at least thirty thousand Hu cavalry, and it is not surprising if there are more than fifty thousand. But it is nothing. As the most skilled frontier army among the Han army, why be afraid of being outnumbered?
"Prepare to meet the enemy!"
"Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ..." The attackers and the resisters blew their horns at the same time. One side was ferocious and determined to win, and the other side was determined and vowed not to bow down. It seemed like an evenly matched scene.
However, at the next moment, more trumpets and even bigger smoke suddenly rose from the northwest, soon filling the entire sky and blocking out the sun. Gongsun Zan and the generals in Tian Yu all changed their expressions.
In the smoke and dust, flags painted with various animals are constantly looming, including dogs, foxes, horses, rabbits, and even swans!
The painting work is very poor. The fox looks like a dog, the dog looks like a horse, and only the swan looks like the same thing. But the hearts of the generals in Youzhou suddenly sank. Behind these seemingly ridiculous tattered flags, there are representatives of
The meaning is not ridiculous at all.
The fox is the symbol of the most powerful Murong tribe in central Xianbei, besides the divided royal tent. Its leader Murong Hong is cunning and wise, and is known as the cunning fox among the Xianbei people. Among the leaders of Kuitou and Qianman
During the dispute, he kept swinging from side to side, reaping huge benefits and expanding his power several times in just ten years.
After Guitou and Qianman, the emergence of Murongbu represents the concentration of all the power of Xianbei in central China!
The totems such as dogs, horses, and rabbits represent even more astonishing meanings—Mika, Queji, and Suli, they are the three chiefs of Xianbei in the east!
Mika is loyal to Tanshihuai, so he calls himself a loyal dog; Queji is not good at change, but is down-to-earth and diligent; Suli is not tough enough in battle, but escapes quickly, and rarely suffers losses in tribal conflicts, so he is a rabbit... They
The emergence of Xianbei means that the two major Xianbei forces in the east and central China have joined forces.
As for the swan... Gongsun Zan was not very familiar with what it represented, but he had heard someone say that it seemed that the Tuoba tribe in Xianbei in the west used it as a totem.
In the west, Xianbei starts from Shanggu in the east and reaches Wusun in the west. The tribes are scattered over an extremely wide area. In less than a year, Gen could not complete the assembly. The Tuoba tribe was the closest, so they appeared...
After Tan Shihuai's death, the divided Xianbei tribe gathered together again!
Smoke and dust covered the sun, and the dust was so thick that the sky became dark. The Hu cavalry shouted and shouted, and the horses galloped. The entire wilderness was covered in an instant, and they rushed in boundlessly. All the Hu chiefs of Xianbei were here, with more than ten soldiers and horses.
Ten thousand?
"Hahahaha, God will not kill me, God will not kill me!" On the tower, Liu Yu, who seemed to have only breathed his last breath, jumped up suddenly, looked at Hu Chen in the sky with joy, and laughed wildly: "De Dao Duo Zhu,
I am an unjust man with few helpers, but I am a common man, will you die this time?"
Wei You was stunned as he watched, not because of the arrival of reinforcements, but because he was frightened by Liu Yu's madness.
How could such an army of Hu cavalry arrive at the last moment by such a coincidence? Impossible. No matter how optimistic you think, you can only conclude that the opponent treats Juyong City as a chess piece and uses the last strength of the defenders to consume Gongsun's army.
, and then launched an attack. Even the Tuoba tribe came, and the previous preparations took more than a few months?
Not only a chess piece, but also a discarded piece!
If the Xianbei people were determined to rescue Liu Yu, just an hour earlier, no, half an hour would be enough. They would not need to launch an attack. As long as Gongsun Zan discovered their existence, the latter would have no choice but to give up the siege of Juyong City.
But they didn't. They made use of Liu Yu's last remaining value... Well, maybe more than that. After Liu Yu died, they could still raise the banner of revenge for Liu Yu and continue to fight against the Qingzhou Army.
I heard that people's minds are particularly clear when they are about to die. Wei You felt that he was like this now, thinking clearly about the causes and consequences in an instant. But as for Liu Yu, he was so excited. Could it be that he thought he still had life?
Or...
"The country surrendered and the city tower was burned down!" Although he was aware of the critical situation, Gongsun Zan still couldn't stand the arrogance of his old enemy.
"Burn it, burn it! Even if you die, Gongsun, I will hold you with me!" Liu Yu waved his hands and laughed wildly: "I am a clan member of the Han Dynasty and a pillar of the imperial court, how can I..."
The sound stopped suddenly, and Liu Yu maintained the posture of baring his teeth and claws, and stopped all movements. It looked as if a cold wind blew by and froze his whole body.
"Lord!" Wei You was shocked and rushed towards him. He used his fingers to probe under Liu Yu's nose and found that his breath was already cold. The latter's last excitement turned out to be a flashback, and he died just like that.
Wei You finally understood. It turned out that the lord understood everything. He knew that he was pathetic and pitiful, but he just refused to admit it. His last crazy move seemed to be a mockery of Gongsun Zan, but in fact it was not a mockery of himself.
Tian Yu looked at Gongsun Zan, who nodded firmly: "Light the fire!"
With wisps of green smoke, dozens of rockets were shot onto the city tower. In the strong north wind, the fire was blazing. Gongsun Zan took one last look at Juyong City, turned around bravely, raised his long spear in his hand, raised his arms and shouted:
"My sons, follow me...kill Hu!"
"Kill Hu!" Twenty thousand border troops shouted in unison, facing the dusty sky, and resolutely charged forward!