Daqin: You have a son to help Su

Chapter 168: Donghu Attacks, Ma County Falls

After Zhao Yong left Ma County.

In the early morning of the next day, Donghu people in Hu clothes appeared on the northern plain of Ma County, and there was no trace of fighting on them.

The county magistrate of Ma County seemed to understand something, but he still asked the remaining soldiers in the county to close the city gate and set up their bows and crossbows.

The attacking Donghu is a branch of the Rouran branch located in the north of Daijun. Recently, the Mobei Huns in the west have gone crazy for no reason. The good Qin Dynasty will not plunder and invade them.

The Donghu and the Xiongnu are equally wealthy, and there is nothing for them to grab. At most, they can capture more slaves, and the strength of the Donghu and the Xiongnu at this time is actually not much different.

It didn't come to later generations that Maodun came to power, the gap between the Huns crushing the Donghu, not to mention the fact that the Huns are now deprived of Henan, and the situation is even worse.

However, the Xiongnu's eastward invasion still had a considerable impact on Donghu, which was also the cause of the Rouran tribe's southern invasion of Ma County.

Otherwise, the nomads would not invade when the horses are tall and fat in autumn, but invade the south when the horses are not fat. Are they really full and have nothing to do?

However, during this southward invasion, the leader of the Rouran Department seemed to have noticed something was wrong. Qin’s scouts hadn’t seen any of them when they were marching on the road. At first, he was afraid that there might be a trap, but the more he looked at it, the more he felt that he was superstitious. up.

All the way to Ma County, no Qin troops were found gathering together.

Facing the menacing Donghu people, the county magistrate of Ma County could only choose a soldier who looked very young and head south.He still remembered that Zhao Zhi was driven away by his son Fusu, so he came to Ma county. He needed to send orders to ask his son Fusu for help.

And until the Rouran Department came to the front of Ma County, what was ushered in was just the painless shooting of the Qin State's bow and crossbow, which was very different from before.

You must know the power of Qin's bows and crossbows. The Donghu people who invaded south have tried it in the past few years, but let alone the bows and arrows shot today, they still look weak.

The county magistrate of Ma County looked at the leader of the Rouran Department viciously on the city wall.The eagle shooter who wanted to wear it among the Donghu people was not there either.

"County magistrate, the county seat can't be kept anymore, you should withdraw first!" Although the county magistrate has no real power under Zhao Zhi's intervention, he still has a few soldiers from his family to protect him.

"This time the county lieutenant took all the county soldiers out. Even if Ma County is captured, it is not your responsibility. Let the Patriarch operate it again, and it will definitely be fine!" The soldiers wanted to pull the Ma County magistrate down the city wall.

Unexpectedly, the county magistrate of Ma County swung him away forcefully. The county magistrate's name is Gan Li, who is a descendant of the Gan family. There is no small background.

"The magistrate of the county is Bailihou!" Gan Li stood on the city wall, still looking at the Donghu people below: "As the magistrate of a county, it is the responsibility of guarding the land."

"Besides, if I can run, where will the people of this county go!" This sentence was not a question, Gan Li gritted his teeth.

He knew that Zhao Yong didn't give him and the people time to retreat, since Zhao Yong had already known about Donghu's attack through the scouts.

"The whole army obeys my orders and shoots!" Even though there were only a few veterans on the city wall, Gan Li picked up his own bow and arrow.

Following Gan Li's order, sparse bows and arrows shot at the Donghu people.

The leader of the Rouran tribe looked at the arrows that could not even be called a rain of arrows, and laughed loudly: "Attack the city!"

"Kill!" Donghu soldiers rode horses and rushed towards the city gate with siege equipment.

It was half a day after Fusu received Ma County's request for help. In this day and a half, Dai County canceled many taxes that were just to satisfy Zhao Zhi's selfish desires, leaving only the normal agricultural tax and commercial tax and other main taxes. .

The county magistrates who received Xun Yu's approval all returned to their own counties, and they wanted to remove all kinds of exorbitant taxes as soon as possible.

Every county magistrate has a rough idea of ​​how many lives these exorbitant taxes can kill in a day.

Under Fusu's arrangement, the granaries in each county also need to help the people who have no food to live on. For the follow-up food, the son Fusu will be dispatched from other counties.

Just when Fusu felt that Dai County would be prosperous, the messenger from Ma County also rushed to Dai City.

When he was showing the badge to the soldiers at the gate, his voice was trembling, and his young face was full of sadness and anxiety.

"Save Ma County, Donghu people are here."

The gatekeeper soldiers who got the news didn't dare to neglect in the slightest, and ran back to the city directly to report to the gatekeeper Sima.

The gatekeeper Sima rode to the governor's mansion as soon as possible. After Fusu got the news, he directly asked Han Qinhu to dispatch the army.

"Aren't there county soldiers in Ma County?" After Fusu sent Han Qinhu out, he immediately changed into a military uniform.

The person he asked was Xue Li who had left Ma County before. Xue Li shook his head and said, "Although Zhao Zhi and Zhao Yong are incompetent, the soldiers of Ma County have been guarding the border city for a long time, and their combat capabilities are not bad."

But judging from the narration of the city guard Sima, the situation in Ma County was obviously very urgent, and Fusu stopped taking the carriage, and directly took Xue Li to drive to the city gate.

"Are you Xue Li?" The messenger soldier from Ma County obviously knew the leader of Ma County, and he was a leader with great military exploits.

"It's me." Now that Xue Li had changed into an officer's armor, which made it difficult for others to recognize him, he asked the messenger, "Where are the county soldiers in the county?"

"The county lieutenant led the county soldiers out of the city to meet Donghu," the messenger sighed.

This made Xue Li a little unbelievable, who is Zhao Yong?Zhao Yong, who took away his military merits from himself, dared to go out of the city to fight Donghu. If this was true, Xue Li would admire his courage.

"An incompetent person, go out of the city to fight? Can Ma County still be defended?" But young master Fusu obviously didn't think so.

Because there is no county lieutenant in Daijun, after Zhao Zhi is removed, the highest military officer in Daijun is actually the county chief Shi, but Daijun county chief Shi is a close friend of Zhao Zhi just like the county governor, so this position is Han Qinhu's agent.

Han Qinhu strode out of the city gate with the prepared county soldiers.

"Follow me the cavalry and chariots. Zitong, take the infantry and crossbowmen and hurry up!" Fusu finished the order and rushed towards the enemy with Xue Li.

"Dian Wei, you lead the chariot soldiers and follow the cavalry!"

The huge Dian Wei could only ride in a chariot, being left behind by Fu Su.

Rouran's attack on Ma County, which was almost unguarded, must be determined to win. It is because the experienced veterans on the city wall and Ganli, the county magistrate who is determined to die, still caused them a lot of trouble.

"All the soldiers in Ma County died in battle, so what about the magistrate of Ma County?" the leader of the Rouran Ministry asked after listening to his subordinates' report.

"He and his own soldiers also died on the city wall." His subordinates reported truthfully.

"He is also a warrior!" The leader of the Rouran Department admired: "Take his head away!"

"Warriors, all the money and food in this county belong to you!" the leader of the Rouran Department said to his subordinates.

It has always been their tradition to capture a place, burn, kill, loot, and capture young and middle-aged laborers, as well as fertile women.

(End of this chapter)