Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2251: Driving the people to attack the city, Tianxiang is determined to die

Dunhuang County, Jiuquan County and Zhangye County. Dunhuang County is located in the westernmost part of Liangzhou, but it is adjacent to Xizhou.

It is the most important one among the three counties at present, but it is also the most troublesome one to rescue.

Therefore, Meng Tian gave this place top priority.

Fortunately, according to the news from Fushuifang, Dunhuang County Magistrate Han Qi already had certain military talents, and Dunhuang garrison commander Meng Ao was no pushover.

With the cooperation of the two people, although the Dunhuang soldiers and civilians suffered heavy casualties, they still temporarily blocked the offensive of the enemy general Mahamu.

Although there were only 3,000 defenders at Yumen Pass, they were Ju Yi's vanguard soldiers. With the advantage of Yumen Pass, his situation was much better than that of Han Qi, the governor of Dunhuang County, Gao Gong, the governor of Jiuquan County, and Wen Tianxiang, the governor of Zhangye County.

Not only did he repel the attacking Mongolian army several times, but Ju Yi also carried forward his style of daring to fight and kill, and took advantage of the cover of darkness to launch a small-scale night attack. Before leaving, Ju Yi also shot and killed the Mongolian general Miqin Mubei.

Since ancient times, pass fortresses have been built in places with dangerous terrain, easy to defend and difficult to attack. People often choose very dangerous places to build pass cities according to the terrain, such as Juyongguan, Jiayuguan, Shanguanhai, Yanmenguan, etc.

However, the Yumen Pass of the Han Dynasty was built in the endless Gobi Desert.

Due to geographical factors, the area around Yumen Pass is flat and uninhabited. Especially when you look down at Yumen Pass from the air, you will find that there is nothing to block the view, and the location of the pass is not dangerous.

However, the greater power of Yumen Pass is "locking water".

In the early Western Han Dynasty, the land near Yumen Pass was not dry and barren like in later generations.

At that time, the Shule River was much wider, and the river water gushed out from the ground from time to time, forming lakes of various sizes, dense swamps and reeds.

The Qin Great Wall blocks the border from east to west, the Mazong Mountain stretches to the north, and the south leads all the way to Yangguan. Beyond the wall and beacon towers is a daunting desert.

Yumen Pass is like an island in the middle of a lake, with lakes on the east, south and north sides, and only a land road on the west leading to the Gobi Desert.

Setting up a pass here can, on the one hand, solve the problem of water supply for the soldiers stationed in the city, and on the other hand, utilize the lake as a natural barrier to protect the safety of the city and lock the water source, thus giving us the confidence that "no one can break through."

In ancient times when camels and horses were used as means of transportation, if you wanted to cross the desert you had to travel by water. The Shule River flowing along the Great Wall became the military defense line of Yumen Pass.

Therefore, if the Yuan Mongols wanted to send troops from Liangzhou to cooperate with Kublai Khan and Murong Ke's troops to attack Su Dingfang in Xizhou, Yumen Pass would be an obstacle they could not avoid.

With the help of Yumen Pass, Ju Yi, with only 3,000 soldiers, managed to block 25,000 Yuan Mongolian troops, and was able to launch a counterattack occasionally. The Yuan Mongolian army had invested 250,000 troops in Liangzhou, but now it has lost more than 30,000, of which more than 3,000 were killed by Ju Yi.

However, how to support Jiuquan County and Zhangye County next is a headache for him!

According to Meng Tian's plan, in order to allow Dou Xian's troops to safely pass through the grassland and reach Dunhuang, Meng Tian also wanted to take advantage of the situation to come up with a combination of real and fake strategies.

The strategy of using the false to guarantee the real has always relied on the false to guarantee the real. However, the problem is that all of their current target areas require the real.

However, after this strategy was implemented, the safety of Dou Xian's troops was naturally improved, but the troops supporting Jiuquan County and Zhangye County were in greater danger.

Especially among the two places, Zhangye County, Jiuquan County and Zhangye County, is now in danger. The one who attacked Zhangye County was Temujin's own son Tolui, who was also the commander of the other army after the Yuan and Mongolian division.

Perhaps it was for this reason that Zhangye County faced the largest number of Mongolian troops and also concentrated many powerful Mongolian generals.

Although Zhangye County Magistrate Wen Tianxiang and garrison commander Ma Long were determined to serve their country till death, they were powerless.

Just when Meng Tian was preparing to take the risk of bypassing Temujin in front to support Zhangye County, he received shocking news that Zhangye County was completely lost, and Zhangye County Prefect Wen Tianxiang and defending general Ma Long both died for their country.

Zhangye County has Wuwei as its barrier in the east and northeast, and Jincheng in the southeast to defend against the plateau. Therefore, the defense here is indeed far inferior to that of Wuwei.

If Wuwei had not been lost, Zhangye would not have been in any danger. But the problem was that Wuwei had been lost.

Of Tolui's 50,000 troops, 40,000 were knights from the Yuan Dynasty, and only 10,000 of the 50,000 were from the vassal army of the Western Regions. The Zhangye garrison had only 7,000 men, with only two generals, Ma Long and Wang Bi.

With such a huge gap in strength, even if Wen Tianxiang and Ma Long tried every possible means, they could only continue to fight hard and there was no improvement in the overall situation.

Seeing that the city was about to be lost, Wen Tianxiang awakened his skill of death in desperation.

This skill effect once existed for Zong Ze, who had already died in battle.

Although the conditions for activating this skill are too restrictive, once it is activated, the effect is indeed terrifying.

Although the effect of Wen Tianxiang's skills was slightly inferior to that of Zong Ze's skills, it still gave them the final power to fight back in desperate situations.

It was the activation of this skill effect that caused the originally favorable situation of the Yuan Dynasty to become stalemate. In addition, the sky was getting darker at that time. As a last resort, Tolui temporarily ordered his soldiers to call off the troops and withdraw from the city wall little by little.

Although they repelled the Yuan and Mongolian army once again, Wen Tianxiang and Ma Long could not be happy at all. Almost every soldier in the city was injured, and there were heavy casualties.

The young men who were temporarily called up by Wen Tianxiang suffered even more serious casualties. Many of them could not even survive a day.

However, what Wen Tianxiang and Ma Long did not expect was that on the next day, the Yuan Mongolian troops began their siege as usual.

However, those who were at the forefront were not the Yuan and Mongolian troops, but rather a large number of ragged people from Liangzhou.

"mean!"

The eyes of Wen Tianxiang and Ma Long seemed to be able to spit out fire. If looks could kill, these Yuan Mongolian troops would have been slaughtered many times.

"Lushan!"

"Should we shoot or not?" Ma Long couldn't make up his mind for a moment, so he simply threw this difficult problem directly to Wen Tianxiang and simply obeyed Wen Tianxiang's orders.

If he says release, then he releases!

(End of this chapter)