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Wuwei County has been going eastward. Without the nourishment of the melting snow of the Qilian Mountains, the land becomes drier, the farmland gradually disappears, the woods disappear, and large Gobi deserts begin to appear, with gravels of large and small covering the wasteland. You can occasionally see a cluster of drought-resistant shrubs. There is more or less rain here, and the desert is not formed in the end.

In the distance are rolling mountains, the Helan Mountains are the remnants of the Qilian Mountains in the north, and in the south, the two mountains are like two black dragons lying across this vast land, making the entrance of the Hexi Corridor form a huge trumpet shape.

In the endless gravel wasteland, a flat and spacious official road passes through it. Because pedestrians and caravans traveling across Hexi must rely on livestock. In the gravel-covered Gobi wasteland, horses and other livestock are difficult to walk, so they can only walk on the official road, which makes this official road seem important.

In the wilderness that stretches for several miles, not far from the Qilian Mountains, there is an oasis covering an area of ​​nearly a thousand hectares. A river originating from the Qilian Mountains flows, forming a small lake here. There is life with lakes, and grasslands and woods appear around the lakes.

This is a rare oasis on Hexi East Road. Pedestrians and caravans stopped and rested here. A city stands in the northeast corner of the oasis. This is Huixian County, known as the number one county in Hexi, and it also enters the first county in Hexi.

At this time, thousands of residents of Hui County had already withdrawn from Lingzhou north. Only thousands of Han troops were stationed in the county, led by general Wu Lan. They spent two months picking stones from the Qilian Mountains and increasing the city. The Han army installed forty simple trenchers in the city, and they could throw huge rocks directly outside the city from within.

As the vanguard cavalry of a thousand Qiang people appeared in Huixian a few days ago, the situation in Huixian became suddenly tense, and the army began to take turns to guard the city wall, closely monitoring the movements in the West.

At the fourth update, several Han army scouts rushed from the west. They rushed to the city and shouted: "Open the door, there is an emergency military situation."

The chief general Wu Lan was above the city. He heard the shouts, looked for a moment, and then ordered: "Let them come in with the city."

The city gate slowly opened, and several cavalrymen rushed into the city. After a moment, they were led to the city for the scout. He knelt down on one knee and bowed, reporting: "Report to General, Wei Zhi and his brothers, the main force of the Qiang people twenty miles away, with tens of thousands of people."

"What are they doing?" Wu Lan asked anxiously again.

"They were resting by the lake and did not raise an army to fight."

Wu Lan pondered for a moment, then ordered several people: "You go south to Jincheng County immediately to report to Governor Zhao, and the Qiang people began to attack east."

"Abide by the order"

Several scouts left the city again and rushed to the south. The soldiers were really worried about whether the small Huixian county could stop the attack of tens of thousands of cavalry.

Wu Lan was not nervous. He resisted the attack of Zhang Ren with 100,000 Huns in Gaonu County and had rich experience in defending the city. They knew that nomadic peoples were not good at attacking the city. As long as they defended properly, tens of thousands of enemy troops might not be able to capture Hui County.

"General, are you going to the city now?" a tooth general asked in a low voice.

Wu Lan glanced at the soldier who was sleeping in the city and shook her head, "Don't worry, let the brothers rest well and maintain their energy."

The sky gradually became brighter. When the sun shone through the heavy clouds and cast a golden light on the head of Huixian City, the warning bell finally rang at the head of Huixian City. Thousands of soldiers rushed from the city to the head of the city, holding bows and arrows and hard crossbows, waiting for it with sternness.

Under the city, two thousand young and strong men who voluntarily stayed behind checked the catapults and carried stones and turtle oil. These men had been cruelly trained for several months and could withstand half of the soldiers. Each of them wore helmets and sturdy leather armor. As long as they were not shot into the city, their leather armor could withstand ordinary arrows.

At this time, the war was approaching quietly.

Outside the city, the overwhelming Qiang and Di coalition forces had already come, with a total of 10,000 people, of which 15,000 were stationed in the camp, and another 15,000 were attacking the city with all their might.

The 15,000 coalition forces were divided into large square formations, and rushed towards Huixian County from one direction. The horns were blowing, and the drums were like thunder. Infantry, cavalry, archers, and the 15,000 army was like waves. They gradually stopped, about two miles away from the city.

Qiang Di soldiers wore leather hats on their heads, long leather armor dragged to their knees, and pair of leather boots made of sheepskin. Their weapons were swords and spears, and there were also a large number of bows and arrows.

Although the Qiang people created the brilliant Ming in the Middle Ages, there was a clear gap in the ancient Qiang in the pre-Qin period, and their Ming was not able to be left to their grandsons. On the contrary, after the Ming Dynasty in the Central Plains entered feudal society, their Ming still maintained a backward and barbaric tribal slavery.

This Qiang army with ten thousand people was not a direct army of horses, but an army pieced together by young and strong herders from various tribes. Its equipment was far inferior to that of the direct army and its training was relatively weak. It only went through several months of training.

They did not consider siege, and tens of thousands of troops had to put up simple siege ladders, no cloud ladders, no siege machines, no nest cars, and no siege rams. They were like barbarians from the grassland, with only the most primitive siege weapons in their hands.

The Qiang and Di coalition forces obviously realized the urgent siege problem. Staging stairs was not enough to capture Huixian County. Nangong Jing immediately sent several people to cut down a large tree that had been growing for thousands of years. They needed this thick trunk to hit the gate of Huixian County.

Nangong Jing looked coldly at the city in the distance. The city was covered with flags and densely packed with Han soldiers, holding strong bows and crossbows in their hands, waiting for the battle.

He didn't know that in the city behind the Han army, dozens of huge trenchers were deployed, standing high on the open space in the city. The long throwing rod had been opened, and huge rocks weighing dozens of kilograms and big fire cloth balls like millstones were placed.

Nangong Jing is not actually a fake. He is indeed the chief of the old chief Nangong. He was expelled from the tribe at the age of eight and returned to the Kushan Kingdom with his mother. His mother married a general again in the Kushan Kingdom, and Nangong Jing also entered the army from then on.

He officially joined the army at the age of sixteen. He followed his adopted father to fight in the south to India. He participated in battles of all sizes and kills countless people, and gradually formed his cruel and cold personality.

This time, he was ordered by the king and led 5,000 Kushan teams to Hexi to assist in the battle. He seized the position of chief of the Nangong tribe and was elected as the commander of the southern army. The glory came suddenly, which made him not yet come back from his high position.

Unfortunately, he had no experience in fighting with the Han army, nor did he expect that the Han army would defend the city, leaving the Qiang and Di coalition forces without any preparation for siege, and did not have the monster-like attack rams commonly used by the Kushan Kingdom, which made Nangong Jing full of worries.

"General Nangong Jing, the city bumper is ready," a thousand-man commander rushed to report.

Nangong Jing looked back and saw several war horses dragging a huge tree trunk, seven feet long and six feet in diameter. At least several people needed to hold this giant city-slamming tree.

Although Nangong Jing was still suspicious of the defense of the Han army, he also wanted to see with his own eyes how powerful the defense of the Han army was.

"Mindu Nobumen launches attack"

The Duye tribe is the army of the Di people. Now the Qiang people have the military power, so the Di people are naturally responsible for this task of taking the lead.

"The drum beats"

The drums of the "dongdong" attack sounded, and the five thousand Di troops located outside the northern city took the first move. The five thousand Di troops came like a tide. They carried dozens of siege ladders, waved swords and spears, and rushed towards the city gate with shouts.

Perhaps because of nervousness, the Di soldiers of the Di army shot arrows at the top of the city after a few steps away. The arrows were as heavy as rain, but they had no effect. They accidentally injured many of their own people.

Behind the tide-like army, an extremely large city-hit tree slowly transported to the city gate under the transport of several great men.

On the top of the city, the 1,55 Han troops opened their bows and opened their crossbows, quietly waiting for the moment of attack, while the first wave of the Han army's long-distance attack was the catapult in the city.

Forty trenchers stood high, controlled by two thousand trained civilians. Under the command of the commander of the tooth, the trenchers began to squeak open.

Since they attacked from inside the city and wanted to cross the city wall, the Han military craftsmen lengthened the throwing rod to make the throwing angle higher. They set up a clever lever to make the catapult no longer require two people to move, and only fifty people were needed to move.

The stones as big as millstones were put into the throwing bag. With the sound of the drums, forty trenchers shot at the same time. Forty huge rocks were thrown high, rolled in the air, crossed the city wall, drew arcs, and smashed into the dense crowd of Di soldiers.

There was a loud "boom" sound, and screams were everywhere. Several Di soldiers were avoided and were smashed into meat pie by huge rocks. The huge inertia caused the stones to roll in the crowd, extremely rapid, and rolled out more than twenty steps in a row. The Di soldiers desperately dodged to both sides, but more than ten people died under the collision of the huge rocks, and dozens of people were injured, with broken bones and broken tendons, and all forty huge rocks were smashed down, and the wailing sounded.

Immediately after the second round, the catapult was shot out. With the Han army's crossbow, arrows on the top of the city were like rain, and heavy casualties were killed and injured. Every huge rock was hit, which would bring dozens of casualties. It was simply a machine to massacre people, bringing a catastrophe to the Di army.

The role of the catapult in defending the city was unparalleled. In the original defense battle in the Anshi Rebellion in history, Li Guangbi, who had poor troops, killed more than 70,000 rebels with dozens of giant catapults, and achieved a brilliant victory in the original defense battle.

The same is true for dealing with the Qiang and Di coalition. The Han army used the sharpest catapult in the world to cause huge damage to the attacking Di army. The battlefield was full of corpses, with smashed bodies everywhere, smashed heads, and blood flowed into a river, dyeing the smashed big stones red.

At this time, the city-bumping wood was gradually approaching the city gate. Huining County had no moat. The enemy could directly use giant trees to hit the city gate. However, the experienced chief general Wu Lan knew how to deal with it. He buried a large amount of turmeric oil between two steps opposite the city gate before dawn.

At this time, he ordered five large trenchers to be transferred, aimed at the outside of the city gate, lit the turtle cloth ball, and five large fireballs threw the city wood one or fifty steps away.

The fireball hit the crowd and rolled on the ground, igniting the tincture oil buried underground. Outside the city gate, a sea of ​​fire became a sea of ​​fire, and countless people were ignited by the tincture oil and became firemen. They opened their arms and ran around wailingly. Without taking a few steps, they fell to the ground, and the fire burned them to the point of curling up.

The Han army's turbulent balls caused a fatal blow to the city-hit wood. As the fire spread, the huge city-hit wood was also ignited. A large number of soldiers transported to escape. The city-hit wood hit the ground and was engulfed by the raging fire.

After nearly 2,000 people were killed or injured, the Di soldiers finally collapsed. The surviving Di army turned around and fled. They retreated like a tide. The thick city-slamming wood did not play any role and was burned by the fire. Nangong Jing stared at the top of the city in a daze. Although he knew the power of the Han army's catapult, he did not expect that it would be sharp and the terrifying tinder oil weapon.

He punched a siege ladder with a sudden punch, gritted his teeth and said, "Transfer my order, stop the attack, the army bypasses the city and continues to move south."
Chapter completed!