Chapter 1 Before the War
The snow in winter reflects the dazzling sunshine, making people feel a little confused.
This is the first snowfall in Guanzhong this year, and the footsteps on it are clamoring. Lintong villagers stood on the side of the road, and a team of distinctly armored teams were passing through the Qingshi Road. The head of the Yun family is about to go to war again. This time the opponent is the Huns, who are known for their viciousness.
There were countless large carts, and the snow on the road had been swept away by the villagers overnight. It was piled on both sides of the road, like a dam, and the wheels were rolling over the bluestone slabs. The sound of horse hoofs was endless. A knight in black-clad black armor sat upright on a tall horse. A white leopard squatted on the carriage behind him.
The villagers in Lintong kept bowing to the marching team. There was no noisy scene, and the entire team was full of solemnity from the beginning.
It was so fucking cold that Yun Xiao's hands were a little numb. He really regretted being handsome and riding a horse. Isn't it good to sit in the carriage? At least he should wear that damn pair of sheepskin gloves.
Xiaobai squirted a breath of white breath, probably because he felt it was boring. He turned his head and arched into the car. Manniu sat in the wide carriage and saw Xiaobai coming in and moving his big butt to the side. The cold armor was grinding out loud.
The first snow and Hetao battle report came to Chang'an City at the same time. Liu Qi, who received the battle report, seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. Unlike before, this was a war that the big man carefully prepared for half a year. Three solid new cities were built on the edge of Hetao. With the cement of the Yun family, the speed of building the city was so fast that it was scary.
Li Guang built the wall and stored enough food, forage, weapons and weapons. He was waiting for the attack of the Xiongnu Shanyu.
The Huns proved that their past robbery achievements were strong as guarantee. Junchen Shanyu broke out a new city that Li Guang worked hard to build with one move.
The battle report said that the Huns' cavalry was overwhelming. There were many like sand in the desert, and the snow foam brought by horse hooves covered the sky and the sun. Li Guang estimated that the Great Shanyu concentrated all the Huns' cavalry to fight this battle. The estimated number of people exceeded 300,000, while Li Guang only had 80,000 Han troops.
The collection order was issued one by one from Weiyang Palace, Guanzhong, Yunzhong, Daijun, Shandong... Since Emperor Gaozu, the largest Han-Hungarian War began. Both sides put on a decisive battle, and both of them realized the importance of Hetao.
The Han Dynasty used the method of building cities in chains to squeeze the Huns out of Hetao step by step. If it had this natural horse-producing land, with the material resources of China, the Han army would have a powerful cavalry within ten years.
Junchen Shanyu knew this, so he brought all his cavalry and 350,000 troops. Of course, according to war practice, he also had a known number of people - a million army.
Of course, Liu Qi would not forget the boy who hooked up with his daughter. He gave him a glorious mission, interspersed behind enemy lines, and seized Yin Seoul, which had been occupied by the Huns for many years, Yinchuan, which was later generations.
If the Great Khan of the Huns did not return to rescue, they would probably let Yun Xiao cross the Yellow River. They would play with deserts in winter, and they would never give up if Yun Xiao was not played with insults.
The troops given to Yun Xiao were pitifully small, and there were only eight thousand Hui soldiers temporarily recruited from Longyou. Even the generals were too lazy to send to Yun Xiao. After Yun Xiao repeatedly requested, he sent Liu Cheng, the goods to Yun Xiao.
Obviously, Liu Cheng was very lucky in Jimo. His face was shiny and red, and his body became much stronger. He lost the fat meat he used to, and had a little more lustful energy.
The guard he brought was a Shandong man from Yishui. His mouth was a strong Shandong accent, so strong that no one could understand what they were saying.
The horses of these guys are pitifully few, with less than 200 horses in three hundred people. Most of them are still riding on the original two-wheeled carriage. They showed great interest in the Yun family's four-wheeled carriage and like this kind of carriage that is so spacious that it can sit on many people and is not bumpy.
Since my brother liked it, Yun Xiao waved his hand and asked Liu Qi for 500 vehicles. He asked me to go out to fight, but he couldn't even ask me to go out. In the past six months, the construction stewards will be based on the drawings of the Yun family and the assembly line production method mentioned by Yun Xiao. The four-wheeled carriage has been mass-produced, and it is no problem to produce four or five hundred vehicles a month. Now the four-wheeled carriage in Liu Qi is very rich, with more than two thousand vehicles.
Yun Xiao ran the farthest, so he naturally had to pay more.
Liu Qi disliked Yun Xiao very much and only gave Yun Xiao three hundred vehicles. Other supplies could be deducted as they could. Fortunately, Tian Fu finally got his wish and got his seat as the Northern Army Marine Command. He privately allocated some food and fodder to Yun Xiao and also weapons.
The Yun family is already very familiar with Yun Xiao's journey, and the supplies are constantly loaded onto a carriage. Yun Xiao's carriages are quite large, and a team of 1,000 people are equipped with nearly 900 horses. The Yun family's horses are also the best among the Han Dynasty. There are nearly 2,000 horses in the Huns alone, which is not the large number of carriages and pack horses.
All the village warriors rode horses, and all the empty carts were loaded with supplies. God knows how far they would go this time. If they took the Great Huns in Shencheng and did not return to the rescue, they would continue north along the Yellow River, and maybe they would go north to Lake Baikal. So they could still bring as much supplies as they could. As long as they left the Great Wall, they would never receive supplies from the Han army again.
Lan Xiang's children made a simple sand table according to the map given by Yun Xiao.
A white glass represents the Yellow River, lying in a winding manner. Yin Seoul is on the west bank of the Yellow River. Crossing the river in ice and snow this month should not be a problem. The difficulty lies in how to quickly occupy the city.
The Qin general Meng Tian led the Qin army to recover Hetao and built a city to guard the city. After seeing Nian Baideng's siege, Emperor Gaozu was occupied by the Huns. The Huns, who had no habit of building a city, turned out to be normal this time and recruited countless Han slaves to build this city closest to the Great Wall to serve as a fortress to raid the Han-Hungary border.
In recent years, almost all military operations invading the Great Wall in the western section of Hetao have been instigated here. According to the Han people who fled back, Yin Seoul has been built extremely tall and strong. The high city wall is more than ten feet long, and the wide moat is connected with the Yellow River. The wells in the city are everywhere, and the warehouses are filled with stolen food, so even if they are besieged by superior forces, they can last for a long time.
The Yun family's generals were all concentrated in Yun Xiao's study, and the situation before the war would be transplanted by Yun Xiao.
"That's what we know. Let's talk about what good solutions are there. After all, we can barely have enough 10,000 people. Such a strong city is difficult for us to deal with."
Yun Xiao rubbed his forehead. He had thought of many plans these days. However, he had overturned them one by one, either because of the damage to the city wall or because there were too many casualties.
The city walls of Yin Seoul cannot be destroyed. If the Xiongnu Shanyu returned, they would have to use the city wall to deal with them. The huge casualties were also unacceptable to Yun Xiao. Who knows what kind of fierce battles will be in the future. One more casualties will lead to a little less combat power.
There is no great hope for the soldiers from Longyou Hui. A group of farmers who could barely eat enough to eat. When would they go to war? If the farmers from the Han Dynasty were so powerful, they would not have let the Huns rage for so long, and Liu Cheng went to take over the Hui soldiers.
Judging from the letters sent back, the situation was not very good. According to Liu Cheng, these people did not know how to fight at all, and could only be used as civilians. If they had experienced an impact like the Hun men, they would probably run a ball without the cavalry rushing in front of them. What awaited them was one-sided massacre.
The ordnance was also very unsatisfactory, and many of the spears had rotten. The iron that made the spears was also rough, and many were actually bronze. Few soldiers could pull up three bows, and the crossbow arrows were even more crooked. As for fighting, don't think about it. Liu Cheng's letter said that one of the Yun family's townsmen could beat them eight.
There is no horse at all, and the soldiers' physical strength and morale are not very high. The lieutenants are all local Zhechong lieutenants and do not know how to lead troops. In short, there are many problems. It is a war with such an army, which Liu Cheng thinks is unreliable. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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