Chapter 334: Lonely City (1)
Updated: 2013-04-14
The waves of offensives finally came to an end, and there were more than a thousand corpses under Jinchang City, mostly soldiers from various tribes outside the border. At this time, the civilians were transported from the city to the city and placed in a unified manner.
The infantry and cavalry of the allied forces outside the Frontier clearly retreated everywhere, and when they arrived at the far end, they formed a formation. The elite soldiers and generals replaced the retreating wounded soldiers standing in the front to show off their power. Every day at this time, the people of Jin knew what the next program was. That’s right, they were just persuading surrender!
The Han people and civil and military officials who defected to the Huns rode out in battle, shouting at the city wall from a distance with a righteous look on their faces. Some people recorded the sins of Sima, some moved them to understand them with reason, and some even used their survival of money, fame, wealth and power as temptations.
Everyone has at least one reason to throw away weapons and surrender to the Huns. But whether they can accept this reason depends on their own hearts.
The city gate, which had endured countless attacks, quietly removed all its defenses. The hoarse shouts outside sounded very disgusting. The general of Jin State, Zhang Yi, was covered with armor, and the hundreds of knights behind him were all lieutenants in the army. They were all figures who were very good at kung fu. At least there was no more powerful figure in Jinchang City.
Taking a deep breath to relax your body, Zhang Yi knew the danger of this battle, but the soldiers and civilians in the city had been shaken. If they continued, they would lose control of the entire city. Perhaps one night, without knowing it, someone would open the city gate without authorization and let the enemy enter the city.
The experience gained from long-term military career tells Zhang Yi that there is no other way except to take a risk. If he does not dare to fight this time, he will just wait for death.
What reinforcements and courts are simply insignificant for the military and civilians in the city at this time. The alliance forces outside the Frontier actually took more merciless political measures than the rule of Jin State for the occupied land and the people, and even the civil and military officials who defected to the Huns were promoted and valued.
It is true that everyone is afraid of the indiscriminate killing of innocent barbarians. However, how many people have a little sense of belonging and loyalty to the Sima family, who have been established for less than a hundred days ago, who have been exploited in the lower class for many years?
The city gate is so empty that no difference can be seen from the outside, but the murderous intent and fighting spirit hidden inside the gate are enough to shock the barbarians!
Persuading surrender is not a comfortable thing. Not everyone is willing to do it, but they have to do it. It is far away from the city, which is for the sake of safety. Even if you feel good about yourself, it is definitely not welcome in the eyes of the defenders on the city.
Being far away, I was about to shout at the top of my throat. I had to shout like this every day, which was so tired that the surrendered ministers of Jin State smoked their throats and their throats were swollen and sore, but they didn't dare not to sell their energy. I had already surrendered to the Huns, so I had to come to my senses, otherwise surrender would only delay the time of death. I was really not afraid of death and wouldn't surrender at the beginning...
The foreign alliance forces in the rear watched the movements ahead about a hundred steps away, but in fact they were just watching the fun. Using Han people to persuade the Han people to surrender was undoubtedly a matter of greatly killing the morale of the defenders of Jin State. Especially the current situation is extremely unfavorable to the Jin soldiers who are standing in this lonely city. The long-term persuasion of surrendering the Jin army was no longer as fierce as the beginning.
This is a policy arranged by Liu Yuan, the king of the Huns, and it is also a strategic choice made by using the resources in his hands as much as possible. Anyone with some status in the coalition knows that Liu Yuan, the leader of the Huns, is definitely not a Jin State, but the entire Central Plains!
Although this Hebei area has been destroyed by war, it has not restored half of its vitality under the control of the Sima family. However, in the eyes of people outside the border, it is already a rich place, and the wealth everywhere makes people salivate. Even a destroyed Hebei is so tempting, so what should the Central Plains that have developed steadily under the control of the Han Dynasty?
Use strategic means to make the Han people despair, use the Han people to convince the Han people, constantly absorb the Han people's power for themselves, and reduce the consumption of their own strength. All this is just for preparations for future wars, and even more for the ability to have a stable Hebei and a solid foundation!
"Hmm? This is it!" The soldiers and generals from the foreign countries at the far end were shocked when they suddenly saw the gate of Jinchang that was actually opened!
Could it be that someone in the city opened the city gate and wanted to surrender himself?
Obviously not, because the cavalry that came out were the cavalry, and there were only more than a hundred cavalry!
The general of Jin State, Zhang Yi, ran wildly and murderously. A terrifying murderous aura was far away, which made the traitors of Jin State who were shouting at the top of their heads and forgot to escape - or in other words, they were slow to escape in an instant.
"Swoosh swish swish!" In the blink of an eye, the shooting distance entered. Zhang Yi and more than a hundred Jin cavalrymen were all shooting their bows and shooting arrows, killing the traitors!
The traitors reacted with their own speed. As military generals, they were more agile and wanted to escape first. The civil servants and others reacted slightly slower. Before they could move, they were caught and died of a misfortune. But there was no absolute in the world. More than a hundred Jin cavalry kept rushing forward, but the arrows passed three rounds.
There were endless calls. More than a hundred Jin cavalry were composed of lieutenants and generals. Everyone had extraordinary arm strength and excellent shooting skills. There were more than 300 arrows in three rounds, and there were only more than ten traitors from Jin who persuaded surrender. Everyone had already become hedgehogs and died.
"Retreat!" Zhang Yi was overjoyed when he saw the goal achievement. This was faster than he expected. This time, the barbarians could see the greatness of the Jin people!
The Jin army in the city cheered in unison when they saw it. Zhang Yi's move was so pleased. The angry barbarians were naturally like this. He was shaken and joined in the fun when he saw it. Killing traitors has always been a joyful thing, and at least it was very pleasant for the Jin army that had been besieged for a long time.
Seeing that the Han people were shot by the other party, they were still shot while the army was looking around, all tribes outside the border were extremely angry and had already driven their troops to rescue them without giving orders. The clever riding skilled soldiers and arrows were leading the way and shooting hard, hoping to shoot the Jin generals.
More than a hundred Jin cavalry rushed back to the city like a whirlwind, and everyone felt excited and proud.
Seeing that he was about to reach the city, Zhang Yi suddenly felt something was wrong but he didn't have time to react. The horse fell to the ground and threw Zhang Yi away!
"General!!" The speeding Jin cavalry was shocked when they saw this and hurriedly went to save Zhang Yi. Zhang Yi was wearing a heavy horse and was ready to be unable to escape, but now he fell heavily to the ground due to the inconvenience of movement. He got up in a daze and struggled.
"Save the general quickly! The barbarians are coming!"
"Quick!"
"ah……!"
"Follow me to resist the barbarians!"
More than a hundred Jin cavalry had a division of labor in a panic. When the seventy or eighty cavalry saw the city gate, they turned around and turned to face countless cavalry outside the frontier! The remaining dozen people turned around and pulled Zhang Yi away and pulled Zhang Yi to the city!
"Shoot the arrows! Hurry up!" The Jin army on the top of the city was shocked by this sudden accident and quickly shot the foreign alliance troops who were hiding like a tide under the city!
The Jin people were blushing and wanted to steal Zhang Yi even if they sacrificed their lives. The alliance forces outside the Great Wall were also fierce and fought hard in the rain of arrows. In the blink of an eye, they killed the seventy or eighty cavalrymen of Jin who fought to the death. Some knights had already approached the city gate, shot arrows and stabbed them, and swearing to kill Zhang Yi!
The comrades' screams were extremely harsh, and the barbarians' iron hooves shook the earth. The target of the iron cavalry outside the frontier was no longer to kill these Jin cavalry, but to rush into the city of Jinchang!
"Close the door quickly!" Zhang Yi stood up violently, swept across the iron spear in his hand, and suddenly several war horses screamed and fell to the ground. The knight outside the frontier also fell to the ground and could not get up for a while.
"General, hurry up and come and resist!" More than a thousand Jin army infantry in the city rushed out with guns and spears, flew past Zhang Yi, and rushed towards the iron cavalry outside the frontier head-on!
When Zhang Yi saw this, he couldn't help but feel anxious and his eyelids twitched. He waved his spear and said, "Enter the city quickly, close the door, don't worry about me!"
The general of Jin, who led the troops, came to Zhang Yi's side, and regardless of the soldiers in front of him, dragged into the city, "The general is the pillar of Jinchang. If the general is not in Jinchang, he will die! The last general is willing to protect the general with his life, so please do not think about us!!"
"You guys!" Zhang Yi's eyes were red and his heart was cut like a knife. He didn't expect a burst of air to come. The Jin general who was pulling him had no time to look at Zhang Yi, and was smashed away by the body of a Jin soldier. His head was hit hard on the city wall, and his brain burst, and he seemed to be inactive...
Turning around and looking, countless iron cavalry outside the frontier were coming towards him! Under the iron hooves, there were soldiers and generals of Jin, who were stumbled without any sense of consciousness, and allowed the horse's hooves to trample on them!!
"You guys!!!!!!!!!" Zhang Yi was furious and uncontrollable. The fresh life that had just happened to be the bloody mud under the barbarians' feet in the blink of an eye. How could a man from the Jin Dynasty be humiliated to this point?
The dozens of kilograms of iron spear rotated with a murderous aura, covering all directions. Zhang Yi stood under the city gate to fight to the death, resisting thousands of troops!
The loud noise was the sound of the city gate closing, but it was Zhang Yi’s last feeling! Even though he was extremely brave and brave, he was a flesh and blood body after all. How can one resist thousands of troops with one's strength, and how can one make the trouble correct?
An iron spear was inserted into the chest of a general outside the Frontier, but Zhang Yiren was hit hard by the other party's war horse. The huge muffled sound covered the harsh sound of the sternum being broken. When the horse left, Zhang Yi's body was stuck to the city gate by his own flesh and blood, and the flesh was blurred below his head...
The Jinchang defenders cried and cried, and they were sad. The arrows, swords, guns, woods and stones in their hands were used to use all the tools that could be thrown out to kill the enemy. The Jin soldiers, like madmen, attacked the army outside the city. The troops outside the city rushed to the city with blood, but did not carry siege equipment. At this time, they were hit head-on, and they were only fleeing, and retreated one after another.
However, the impact was too fierce just now, and they were inconsistent with each other, and they trampled on each other and suffered countless casualties...
After the army outside the frontier retreated, all the soldiers and civilians of Jinchang cried bitterly. When the cavalry outside the frontier retreated, they took Zhang Yi's head on his neck, leaving only a bloody and unseen headless "corpse".
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The morale of the Jin army in Yunzhong was particularly low because Jinchang City had fallen! During the day, the Allied Forces outside the Great Wall carried the head of the Jinchang garrison Zhang Yi and wandered around the four gates. While showing off, they incited the Jin people to offer the city to avoid such an end. Everything else can be forged. Liu Hong, Zhang Chang and others worked with Zhang Yi for more than ten years, how could they not recognize Zhang Yi's head?
This day was very tormenting. Seeing the morale of the army falling, Liu Hong returned to his mansion in contemplation and silently. Zhang Chang stayed at the city wall to prepare for the night to set up defenses.
In the fierce battle of the Central Plains, Zhang Yi survived the severe situation in the previous battle, but now he is the hand of a barbarian. Zhang Chang couldn't believe such a fact in his sleep.
Turning around left and right, unable to sleep all night, I don’t know when Zhang Chang fell asleep in the military camp.
He could hear the noise and the sound of fighting. Zhang Chang suddenly sat up from the bed and listened in surprise!
"This... is not good!" He rushed out of the door, not forgetting to hold his big sword. He saw fires soaring into the sky, and there were countless barbarian troops on the top of the city, fighting with the Jin defenders!
"Why is this?" Zhang Chang grabbed a running captain and asked.
The captain was already panicked and frightened so much that he couldn't tell the reason. Fortunately, a general in the army arrived and realized the situation. It turned out that at the third anniversary, the East City Gate was actually opened and the barbarians outside the border entered the city. It was too late to find out that the Jin army guarding the city had to fight!
"Damn it! What's the situation of Lord Liu?" Zhang Chang gritted his teeth and was furious, but he was worried about Liu Hong's safety.
The deputy general said, "The situation is unknown to you. There are more and more barbarians in the city. What should we do if we general?!"
There were more and more people outside the Great Wall in Jinchang City. Obviously, the city could not be defended. Zhang Chang looked around but only more than a thousand soldiers gathered over and gritted his teeth and said, "I have fought with these beasts!"
A sentence contains so much bitterness and helplessness.
Zhang Chang led the Jin army to fight to the death in the city, trying to open a road to Liu Hong's garrison and rescue his old boss. However, the barbarian generals outside the frontier were everywhere and filled every road. After repeated rushing, the soldiers under Zhang Chang were constantly injured and killed, only more than a hundred people...
The tribes outside the Great Wall entered the city under the leadership of the Huns and occupied everything in Yunzhong City. Fewer and fewer Jin troops were fighting stubbornly. Some were killed when they could not defend themselves. Some fought until the last moment, and some knelt down and begged for surrender.
Zhang Chang was not a brave man, and there were only a hundred soldiers under his command. He rushed out of the siege and was covered with scars. Seeing that he had no hope of breaking out of the siege, Zhang Chang coughed blood and looked around with difficulty. The light balls and torches shone brightly around like daytime. He didn't know how many barbarian forces had gathered. He just felt that the places he could see were Hun soldiers and generals and soldiers outside the frontier.
"Hahahahahahaha! Sir, Zhang Chang will follow you again in the next life!" A smirk, blood was constantly flowing between the fingers that were covering his chest, and Zhang Chang fell to the ground and died in anger. The remaining soldiers sacrificed their lives to fight, and died one by one under the swords and axes of the Hun soldiers.
"How many righteous men in Hebei are there? Unfortunately, Sima is a nepotist and cannot be used more. Otherwise, why would he break the city so smoothly?" Among the crowd, Liu Yuan, the Great Khan of the Huns, was watching the battle, and said to someone beside him with emotion.
The man was dressed in Han clothes, with a shame on his face, and raised his sleeves to cover his face and cried in tears. It was Liu Hong, the commander of Yunzhong!
It turned out that seeing Jinchang lost and Zhang Yi was killed, Liu Hong knew it was difficult to persevere, so he secretly sent someone to affair with the Xiongnu Xiancheng. However, Liu Hong was afraid that Zhang Chang would not surrender with him, so he never told him. So a big battle in Yunzhong City, a large number of Jin soldiers and generals died in the city unknown, and Liu Hong led his confidants to surrender to the Xiongnu side.
The next morning, the city was covered with messy land, countless corpses, and people outside the border were cleaning and resting in an orderly manner. In the camp outside the city, Liu Yuan, the leader of the Huns, summoned civil and military personnel to discuss the follow-up matters. Liu Hong, as a newly surrendered Han official, naturally had to follow and obey.
All the civil and military officials outside the frontier were arrogant and were very satisfied with the battle last night. Liu Yuan sat down in the tent and said with a smile: "It is a blessing for the people to abandon the darkness and turn to the light. I originally wanted to continue guarding the clouds with Ji Ji, but I still rely on Ji Ji from time to time. I don't know what to do with Ji Ji?"
The civil and military officials of Jin, who had always defected to the Huns, are now the most outstanding in their status as Liu Hong. Ordinary officials rewarded them to calm people's hearts, and it is useless to keep them by their side. However, Liu Hong's status is transcendent and he is an important official in the Jin Dynasty. He knows a lot, so Liu Yuan naturally has to take them by his side.
After last night's storm, seeing Zhang Chang bravely die for his country with his own eyes, Liu Hong felt ashamed of his heart and bowed: "I am just following the instructions of the Great Shanyu, I am willing to follow the Great Shanyu."
Liu Yuan was quite satisfied with this and was not surprised by Liu Hong's condition. He looked around and said, "The clouds have fallen into the control of the lonely. What strategy are there next?"
Liu Yao glanced at Liu Hong who was not in a state and went out and said, "The so-called ironwork must be hot. My son thought that Lord Liu should be the pioneer and deceived Jinchang. Such a new five cities can be determined by the fourth one!"
The morale of Yunzhong was rising when the Allied Forces outside the Frontier captured. Liu Yao knew the way to use troops well, so he offered advice. Liu Hong, who was beside him, frowned and was shocked when he heard this.
At this time, Liu Yuan looked at Liu Hong and said, "Since he has surrendered to the orphan, can you be willing to take back Jinchang City for the orphan?"
Liu Hong said with a little hesitation: "The Great Shanyu Mingjian, hasn't Jinchang City been broken long ago? How could it be..."
As soon as these words were said, all the civil and military officials were laughing loudly and couldn't help laughing. Liu Hong was so surprised that he didn't know why, and he looked around and felt uneasy.
Liu Yuan gently stroked his beard and smiled without saying a word. When everyone laughed enough, Liu Yaofang walked up and patted Liu Hong on the shoulder and said, "It turns out that Lord Liu still doesn't know. Although my army killed Zhang Yi, it was impossible to break the city. Therefore, Lord Liu needed to go and take it!"
This statement seemed like five thunders thunders! Liu Hong's eyes suddenly became dark when he heard this, and his blood surged. He pointed at Liu Yao and others, and his body retreated several steps: "You!! This... I... you!!"
Chapter completed!