Long live the general

The situation on the battlefield was unpredictable, Li Yi stood on the city wall, frowning tightly.

"It's been two months." Li Hai said next to him. He looked at the densely packed Huns soldiers outside the city wall, and with a glance, there was almost no end in sight.The Huns cavalry wore brown coats, like moving clods, with human heads on the inner and outer layers.The outermost are catapults and archers, and the inside are cavalry.

While the banners were flying, a tragic siege battle had just ended.

The siege lasted for two months, and the city was nearly out of ammunition and food.The entire Jiuyuan County was surrounded by the Huns. This time, the Xiongnu dispatched [-] troops to fight for aid.

In addition to the cavalry, Li Yi also had [-] infantry stationed in Jiuyuan County. In two months, it was enough to eat up the entire Jiuyuan County.Li Yi couldn't let these soldiers go hungry? Fighting on their stomachs. First, they collected and scraped the food stored in Jiuyuan County, and then they had to go to the common people to "get" the food.In addition, after the fighting ceased every day, he ordered the people to send all the wooden beams, trees and bricks in the house to thicken and heighten the city wall to fill the loopholes opened by the Huns cavalry.

Before the city, three trenches were dug, filled with staghorn wood, strewn with barbed wire, and a whole row of horse-repelling stakes, sheep and horse walls, but after two months of attack, the outside The trenches are full of human bones and minced meat, blood soaked the soil, and the whole Jiuyuan County is filled with a rotten smell.

For Li Yi, defending the city itself is not difficult, but it is difficult to be trapped in Jiuyuan County and lack supplies.There were not enough wooden beams, bows and arrows, stones, and food. They even tore down the beams of the people's houses to supplement the wood.The Xiongnu surrounded the entire Jiuyuan County and cut off the reinforcements sent by Dayue. They could not attack for a long time and planned to surround the city with force.

Under such circumstances, the risk of going out of the city to fight is too high, even though Li Yi also wanted to go out of the city to fight a battle to destroy the prestige of the Xiongnu.

Li Hai gritted his teeth and said, "Or we can attack at night and rob the Huns of food and grass."

Li Yi shook her head: "Let's see in the evening. There is something wrong with Youri Zhuwang these days. It looks a little impatient. They may do something at night. Be more vigilant recently."

You Ri Zhu Wang is the commander of this encircled army. This man is a very powerful general under the military minister Shan Yu. He was the one who captured Zhao Ping'an before.

Li Hai: "Something's wrong?"

"Yes, they should attack soon." Li Yi saw the situation very clearly. He patted his son on the shoulder and walked down the city wall to arrange the post-war affairs.

Repairing city walls, making bows and arrows, treating the wounded, counting losses... these things? It's not as easy as fighting a war.

After the night darkened, Li Yi discussed with several captains for a long time. Someone asked how long he could stay. Li Yixin said that if there were enough supplies, he would be fine for ten years.

But the supplies officer gave him a disappointing stockpile count.

The main reason is that Jiuyuan is not located in any precipitous position, but is surrounded by plains, which are endless, easy to attack and difficult to defend, and the number of enemy troops is too large, so even a letter cannot be sent out after being surrounded?

At that time, the Xiongnu had already broken through Jiuyuan County, but they did not leave troops to guard it, so Li Yi led troops to occupy it again.

After those people left, Li Hai still hadn't left, and said: "General, His Majesty should send troops to support, and we should cooperate internally and externally..."

Li Yi sighed: "Your Majesty only has [-] cavalry at most, and even a hundred thousand Hun cavalry can't cause any trouble."

And he thought for a while, even if His Majesty sent troops, who could lead the [-] cavalry.

The only hope is to hold [-] cavalrymen to Huo Yi in the Hetao area.

"I don't know how General Huo is doing now." Li Hai also thought of this.

Li Yi said: "His combat target is the Hetao area. The Hetao area is thousands of miles away from here. Even if he takes it down and comes back to support it, two months is not enough time."

This battle is divided into two routes, one requires Huo Yi to quickly move to seize the Hetao area, and the other requires Li Yi to withstand the main attack of the Huns.

The emperor's arrangement is very reasonable. Li Yi is good at defending the city, Huo Yi is good at fast attack, and there is a fierce general like Qiu Hongguang under him-of course, Huo Yi is also very good at defending the city, not only that? Both the enemy and the marginal support are good players. When Huo Fengnian led the army to fight, Huo Yi held various positions.

But? The pressure on Li Yi's side is great, and the people in the city are also people's hearts? Floating, after fighting for so long, no one knows when the city will be broken. Every day, there are arrows and arrows flying around Stones, food is getting less and less?

Li Hai was more positive than Li Yi thought. He analyzed, "Youri Zhuwang has behaved abnormally in the past few days. He has attacked more frequently than before. Is there something wrong with Shanyu?"

"Where is the military minister Shan Yu?"

Li Hai said slowly: "The Xiongnu have a [-] army. They are not running and fighting on the grassland as usual. They also need material support. The daily consumption of [-] troops should be higher than ours. Much bigger."

"You mean Shanyu can't afford to support him anymore?" Li Yi asked enthusiastically.

Li Hai nodded.

Shan Yu wants to retreat, and You Ri Zhu Wang wants to continue fighting? This is interesting.

But these are just Li Hai's guesses. After asking the scouts in the watchtower today, he found that You Ri Zhu Wang had not received the usual supplies.Except that Shanyu cut off the support, it can only be that someone cut off the Xiongnu's support route.Li Hai thinks that the first possibility is better.

Siege warfare is a torment for both the defender and the attacking party. There are only so many siege methods. The core idea is to use human lives to fill the city. You can even pile up the corpses to fill up a road leading to the city wall. road.The defending side has completely lost the initiative, because the attacking side can attack at any time, any place, and in any way.And the defenders of the city must maintain absolute vigilance and guard all places tightly. Once the gap is opened, it will be fatal, and it will consume a lot of troops.Dai Viet has been the defending side for many years, and the entire border stretches endlessly, and the Huns can invade from any direction.Dayue can only invest troops evenly, but there are still bandits in the southwest and pirates in the South China Sea. If there is a war, it will bloom everywhere.

The only way for the defenders to win is to fight outside the city. Before the encirclement is completed, they can get support from the rear, at least to delay the formation of the encirclement.Another way to win a siege battle is to get out of the city and fight by surprise.

When the Xiongnu attacked and intended to attack the city, basically all the troops were surrounded on the city wall. If a cavalry raid could be arranged on the flank or rear, it would cause a great blow to the Xiongnu.

However, these two methods are not suitable for Li Yi. The first is that the opportunity has been lost, and the second is that he is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of military strength.

Li Yi didn't know when Huo Yi's army would come back, or even if he would come, but? He had to stay here.

Jiuyuan County is very close to Chang'an City, and the military minister Shan Yu chose to invade from this place at the beginning, just to frighten the emperor of Dayue.

In the early morning, there is still a trace of coolness in Jiuyuan County.

"Report--! The Xiongnu invaded from the south gate!" The scout's voice cut through the dead silence of Jiuyuan County.

The exhausted soldiers opened their eyes. Although they were hurt and hungry, they still blocked the city wall.

Today the Xiongnu's offensive is more violent than before, almost desperate and crazy.

Li Yi put on the battle armor, held a spear in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Hold it! Press it up!"

The pressure on the south gate was extremely high. Those Xiongnu stepped on the corpses of their compatriots and climbed up, hitting the city wall with huge boulders. , The densely packed human heads look extremely terrifying.

Li Hai personally led the troops to the south gate to support them. He held a long spear in both hands.

"Go up?!"

Li Hai roared?!

"kill!"

The small gap in the city wall and the small south gate are like a ruthless meat grinder. Whether it is the Huns or the Dayue soldiers, they all die in batches?Their flesh and blood melted into the city wall just like that, Li Hai guarded the gap tightly, and the spear/spear in his hand flew up, smashing the head of a Hun, blood spattered everywhere.

The next moment, countless flying arrows shot from behind the Xiongnu, regardless of enemy or friend, and once again harvested a large number of lives.

"Hold it!" Li Yi roared, "Press it up?!"

"General! The Huns are attacking the north gate!" The scout shouted sharply.

Li Yi squeezed the spear/spear in his hand, which is absolutely passive. If he mobilizes troops to the north gate now, the Huns are likely to intensify their attack on the south gate.It all depends on his own judgment.

"Let the north gate hold it!" Li Yi gritted her teeth and said, "Seal the city wall!"

Li Hai threw out the gun violently, splitting the head of the Hun on the opposite side into two. In front of him, there were still endless Hun soldiers.Think about it carefully, one hundred thousand Xiongnu soldiers standing? Let them kill until they are soft.

Another round of flying arrows, one of which pierced hard into his right shoulder.

Li Hai snorted, his face remained unchanged, and swung his spear again, reaping the lives of the Huns like a god of death.

"Kill!" he snapped, dripping with blood.

Even the Huns were terrified by this man's aura.

Li Hai and his men fought hard to kill the enemy, and they were hit by countless arrows, but the spear/spear in their hands was still deadly and powerful.It's just that the Huns kept coming and going, and there were fewer and fewer people around him. At the same time, the voices of scouts kept coming from his ears.

"The Huns attack Ximen!"

"The north gate can no longer be guarded!"

"The general is injured!"

"Kill! Go forward? Press!"

Li Hai's ears were buzzing, and he was killing the enemy purely by instinct.At this moment, he heard a deafening roar: "Da Viet support is coming!"

support? !

He looked out subconsciously, and saw a group of Xuanjia cavalry holding a "Yue" flag rushing from the northwest, piercing the left flank of the Xiongnu like a sharp knife.

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