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Chapter 39 The Huns Enter the City

Hundreds of archers on the training ground were repeatedly shooting arrows at the target, sometimes changing their formations and sometimes alternately.

After more than a month of training, these people have already met the conditions for archers. Liu Fan stood at the top and nodded with satisfaction.

It has been more than ten days since Liu Fan returned to the military camp. In the past ten days, Liu Fan tried his best to train soldiers without delaying for a moment, making the soldiers' quality improve by leaps and bounds.

"In our army, there are eight hundred bows and two hundred crossbows. As long as the strategy of seducing the enemy is successful, the enemy will be wiped out in an instant." Liu Fan said to everyone.

"Is this too expensive?" Xu Huang said with a pity.

"No, as long as the Hun cavalry is destroyed, let alone the loss of hundreds of private houses, even if the entire Jiangyi is burned down, what if there is no house to be built, I don't know how many military and civilians will be killed or injured?" Liu Fan said firmly.

Liu Fan, who came from later generations, attached great importance to life. He showed no mercy to those who should be killed. The lives of soldiers and people are more precious than Jiangyi City.

"Today's scouts report that there are many Huns on the other side of the Yellow River. Now the surface of the Yellow River is several feet thick, and even the ice layer of thousands of horses can support it. I dare to assert that the Huns will definitely cross the Yellow River within two days. Yunchang, are the things on Jiangyi ready?" Liu Fan asked Guan Yu.

"Shaoyang and many county soldiers have demolished all the houses that may have been affected by the fire, and 300 cars are also ready." Guan Yu replied.

"Okay, order the soldiers to pull out the camp, withdraw the entire army into the city, be prepared!" Liu Fan gave the order.

On that day, all the soldiers entered Jiangyi City.

Early the next morning, the scout arranged by Liu Fan came to report that countless cavalry gathered across the Yellow River and were preparing to cross the Yellow River.

Liu Fan immediately ordered hundreds of seemingly full of food to drive out of the Xicheng Gate, stop two miles from the Xicheng Gate, and be guarded by three hundred soldiers.

The Hun cavalry gathered more and more on the west side of the Yellow River, and even began to slowly cross the Yellow River. They tied straw to the horses' four hooves to prevent the horses from slipping and falling on the ice.

The leaders of the Huns only sent a hundred cavalry across the Yellow River at a time. They were afraid that there would be too many people and the ice would break.

More than an hour later, all the Hun cavalry had crossed the Yellow River, with a total of two thousand cavalry. These people were wearing leather jackets and hats, aged between the ages of twenty and forty.

"My boys, let us return with a full load this time!" A middle-aged Hun man in luxurious clothes shouted loudly. He was Helian Wanzha, the patriarch of the Helian tribe. His official position in the Southern Xiongnu royal court was the right-wing master and he was also considered a high-ranking official.

As soon as Helian Wanza finished speaking, hundreds of cavalry came out and ran in all directions. These cavalry were equivalent to their scouts, and Helian Wanza was very cautious in leading his troops. Helian Wanza would not continue to advance towards Jiangyi County before the scouts came back to report the situation.

Two quarters of an hour later, more than a dozen Hun scouts came to the vicinity of Jiangyi City. They suddenly saw countless cars parked in place, each car filled with sacks, each bag was bulging, one after another, with no sight at a glance. Each car was pulled by three soldiers dressed as farmers, and three hundred soldiers guarded around, led by a black-faced man.

"That's the Hun cavalry, hurry up and enter the city!" The black-faced man shouted, and the entire convoy rushed to the Jiangyi city gate.

When the Hun cavalry saw this, they quickly turned their heads and ran on the way. They had only a dozen people and did not dare to attack the formation of more than 1,000 soldiers and civilians. They wanted to tell their patriarch about this matter.

The Huns scouts rushed to the horse and arrived at Helian Wanza in just a quarter of an hour. Because they ran too fast, they were exhausted and panting even when riding on the horse. They reported: "Class leader, there are many grain transport convoys heading towards Jiangyi City. There are too few people here and I can't stop them. Please ask the clan leader to go and chase them quickly."

"Do they know that we are going to cross the river and gather all the food around us to transport it to Jiangyi City? What are you waiting for? Let's go and chase me quickly. If they enter the city, we will have no choice. The food is right in front of us, and we will fight with me!" Helian Wanza's opponent ordered, taking the lead.

When the Hun cavalry came two miles away from the west gate of Jiangyi City, two hundred cars had already entered the city.

The sky was full of yellow sand, dust, and the sound of horse hooves, the soldiers and farmers who protected the food seemed to be like frightened birds, abandoning the food on the vehicles and the food on the vehicles, and hurriedly running into the city.

The Huns came to a place three hundred meters away from the Xicheng Gate. Helian Wanza ordered the Hun cavalry to stop their horses because they had already touched the cars, and the hundred cars stretched for 300 meters and continued here.

Helian Wanzha ordered the soldiers to open the bag on the car. The Hun cavalry company used a knife to pick up the bags of more than a dozen cars, and the yellow millet was exposed from the bag.

"No, they are going to close the city gate." A Hun said hurriedly to Helian Wanza.

Helian Wanza looked around and saw a group of soldiers trying hard to move a car in the middle of the city gate. As long as the car was moved away, the city gate could be closed.

The Huns were nomadic peoples. They grew up on horseback and were not good at siegeing cities at all. What's more, they didn't bring any siege equipment when they came out to plunder. If the door was closed, they could get at most these hundred trucks of food.

"My boys, rush into the city, food, beauty, gold!" Helian Wanzha's caution no longer existed. Due to limited manpower and time, he had not entered the city for many years. Today's opportunity finally came. Interests blinded his eyes.

The Huns chose to enter all from the West Gate. They were not afraid of the Han people escaping from the other three gates, because they were cavalry and they could catch up no matter where the Han people ran.

Three hundred meters, for the horses, they could rush over in an instant. The soldiers who were carrying the vans dared not move any more and rushed to escape. If Helian Wanza was in the city, they would find that they were running for their lives on horseback.

When Helian Wanza led the cavalry to approach Jiangyi City fifty meters, dozens of people suddenly appeared on the city wall and shot arrows at the Xiongnu cavalry. The Xiongnu ignored the dozens of people on the city wall and rushed into the city regardless of everything.

"Fanyu, you will take two centurions to kill the Han people on the city wall." Helian Wanza said to his personal guard. The Han people on the city wall kept firing arrows and shooting more than 100 of them, which made him intolerable.

At this time, Helian Wanzha had already rushed into the city. Apart from the houses on both sides of the street, there were only grain trucks left in the city. Some Hun cavalry could no longer help but get out of the horse and into the house. However, the houses were not only empty, but there was not even any valuable thing. They thought that the Han people had run into the city.

When the Huns were preparing to enter the city, the two gates of Jiangyi opened wide, and countless soldiers rushed out, and led by Xu Huang and Guan Yu toward the west gate.

The streets of Jiangyi City are narrow, with at most four horses riding together. When more than two thousand Hun cavalry entered Jiangyi City, Helian Wanzha became more and more wrong with it. He had entered the city for such a long period, why didn't he even see a figure?

At this time, Helian Wanzha's personal bodyguard Fanyu came back. Helian Wanzha asked Fanyu: "Do you kill all the Han people on the city wall?"

"After I took the 200 warriors to climb the city wall along the stairs, I found that there was no one above. After searching, I found that the Han people on the city wall tied the rope to the female wall and went down the rope." Fanyu replied.

Helian Wanza frowned, then looked at a grain truck beside him, feeling something was wrong, so he drew his knife and chopped it into the sack.
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