Liu Song Hanque

Chapter 17
The news that Helian Gui led a surprise attack on Chang'an was also discovered by the scouts along the way, and Qingqi immediately rushed to Chang'an to report.

Wang Xiu and Mao Dezu, who had just captured Shen Tianzi, had to send Du Ji again to chase Liu Yizhen who had just left.

So Liu Yizhen was dragged from the mansion by Du Ji to the Chang'an county government office with a dazed expression, and met Wang Xiu and Mao Dezu who just said goodbye just now.

"what's the situation?"

As a general, Mao Dezu probably guessed what was going on: "Duke Guiyang, it may be that Hu Xia's vanguard, Helian Gui, took advantage of the gap between Wang Sima and Liu Huibao, and came around from the north bank of the Weihe River."

Liu Yizhen's scalp tingled for a while, and the sleepiness just now disappeared completely.

"Wouldn't Helian Gui be afraid that his rear would be copied if he did this?"

The problem Helian Gui is facing now is similar to a very classic ancient military problem in later generations——

Why go to attack the city?Isn't it delicious to go around?

In fact, in any military operation, the most important thing is not to lead the soldiers to be brave or not, but to supply supplies.

Especially when fighting on the plains, it is very easy to bypass a city, but what should we do after bypassing it?
Where does the food that people eat and chew on horses come from?

grab it?

Sorry, the food and grass are all in the city.

Therefore, it is a very risky thing to go around the city and go straight to the enemy's rear. If you are not careful, you will lose everything, and the soldiers and horses in the headquarters will be starved to death.

So when Liu Yizhen heard that Helian Gui dared to bypass Wang Zhen'e, bypassed Xianyang, and even bypassed the Wei River to go straight to Chang'an, he was a little confused.

Is this how wars are fought?

You don't talk about Wude at all!
It's a thousand miles to send someone's head away!

But Liu Yizhen looked at the frowns of Mao Dezu and Wang Xiu and realized that the problem was not simple.

"Duke Guiyang, just in case, Wang Sima took most of Chang'an soldiers and horses away when he went to accept Shen Tianzi's army. Now there are less than 2000 Chang'an defenders."

???

2000 people?
Wang Zhen'e left so few people in Guanzhong Center?

What Liu Yi really didn't know was.

The reason why Wang Zhen'e took away so many soldiers and horses was because he wanted to integrate Shen Tianzi's troops and eliminate Helian Gui in one fell swoop.

But unfortunately, sometimes the one who defeats the king is not necessarily the king.

but bronze
Even after beating Wang Zhen'e to death, he would never have imagined that Helian Gui would actually commit a taboo in the art of war and go deep with his own army, which led to the consequences of Chang'an being besieged by soldiers.

Liu Yizhen looked at Mao Dezu with hopeful eyes.

"General Mao, all the soldiers and horses in Chang'an are under your command. Can you prevent Wang Sima from coming to help you?"

Mao Dezu is definitely a defensive ceiling-level fighter.

In history, after Liu Yu's death, the Northern Wei Dynasty took the opportunity to attack Liu Song. At that time, Guanzhong had been occupied by Hu Xiahelian vigorously, so Liu Song's northwest territory had been abandoned.

And Mao Dezu was stationed at Hulaoguan at that time, and he was already an abandoned son.

What he was facing at that time was the power of the whole country in the Northern Wei Dynasty!

But Mao Dezu didn't hesitate at all. Instead, he dug a tunnel from under the tiger prison and sent troops from the rear to kill Wei Jun by surprise.

Later, Mao Dezu used the strategy of alienation to let Xi Jin, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Wei Dynasty, kill another general, Gongsun Biao.

This attracted the Northern Wei Emperor Tuoba Si to personally lead troops to attack Hulao, and Mao Dezu built three walls to resist Tuoba Si.

The first wall breaks, retreat to the second.

The second wall breaks and retreats to the third.

When the third wall could not be retreated, Mao Dezu personally stood on the wall to supervise the battle.

In order not to relax their vigilance, Mao Dezu and his soldiers stared angrily day and night, which caused many soldiers to suffer from eye diseases.

Rao is so.

Rao is that there are fewer and fewer soldiers around.

Mao Dezu and the Song army in the city would rather die than surrender!

Later, Tuoba Si was forced to do nothing, so he cut off the water source of the underground river in Hulao, trying to kill Mao Dezu in Hulao from thirst.

So far, there is only one well in Hulao Pass, built on the mountain, with a depth of [-] feet, and the Song army relies entirely on this well for survival.

But Tuoba Si was even more ruthless. He directly asked people to dig up the mountains, cut open the mountains, and blocked the wells.

At this time of despair, Tuoba Si attacked Hulao again, but Mao Dezu still did not surrender.

To what extent was the Song army short of water at that time?
It has reached the point where the soldiers are injured and have no blood to flow out!
In this state, Mao Dezu still persisted, but his physiology had reached the limit, and he was eventually captured by the Northern Wei Dynasty.

It is worth mentioning that in the desperate situation at that time, 200 people from the Song Army broke out and returned to the south.

This shows that if Mao Dezu wanted to escape at that time, it was not that he had no chance.

But he still guarded the tiger prison, giving his soldiers a chance to break out, while he was captured.

But even if he was captured, Mao Dezu would rather die than surrender, and finally died in another country in the sixth year of Yuanjia.

This kind of loyalty is touching.

So before Liu Yizhen was willing to believe that Wang Zhen'e was also related to Mao Dezu.

Birds of a feather flock together and people are divided into groups. With such subordinates, Wang Zhen'e doesn't look like he would rebel.

But Mao Dezu didn't think so.

He was a little confused.

"Duke Guiyang, Chang'an. It's too big!"

In Chang'an City, the wall is 8 meters high and the wall base is 16 meters wide.The east wall is 5.9 kilometers long, the south wall is 6.25 kilometers long, the west wall is 4.55 kilometers long, and the north wall is 5.95 kilometers long, totaling 22.65 kilometers.

Such a long city wall, 2000 people
Can't stand enough!

What about defense?
According to intelligence, there are 3 people in Helian Gui. With so many people, the defenders who ran to death on the city wall could not defend them.

"Then don't you hurry up and send an order to Wang Sima to come back for help?"

"Scouts have been dispatched, and Wang Sima has probably received the information by now."

Mao Dezu reacted very quickly.

"Wang Sima is only half a day away from Liuhuibao to Chang'an, so there shouldn't be any problems, right?"

Maybe.
--------

Liu Huibao.

When Wang Zhen'e heard that Helian Gui led the troops to bypass Liu Huibao, he immediately thought of the safety of Chang'an.

Immediately, he began to rectify the troops, intending to bring all the troops back the next day to defend Chang'an.

"Boom."

After regaining Shen Tianzi's department, Wang Zhen'e planned to recuperate, but was awakened by the sound of thunder.

When he came to Liu Huibao's sentry tower and looked closely, he found that the outside was full of troops.

The master of this army - Helian is written on a big chess piece fluttering in the wind.

But what Wang Zhen'e is sure of is.

These are definitely not the vanguard troops of Helian Gui.

There is only one Hu Xia with an army of this size, and that is Emperor Hu Xia, King Da Xia, and the Great Chanyu of the Huns—Helian Bobo.

Wang Zhen'e's face was extremely ugly.

He is blocked!

But the worst was more than that.

Shen Tianzi's old department also learned the news that Helian Bobo's army had entered.

Under the leadership of Shen Jingren, a group of people came to Wang Zhen'e wearing heavy armor and holding swords and shields.

Shen Jingren was no longer the meekness before, but glared at Wang Zhen'e with a sword in his hand.

"Wang Sima, I just want to ask you one thing!"

"Are General Shen and Duke Guiyang still alive?"

Wang Zhen'e frowned: "What do you mean?"

Shen Jingren drew out his sharp blade in front of Wang Zhen'e.

"Wang Sima's golden seal. How did it come about?"

"Why did a Hu Xia vanguard go eastward as soon as Wang Sima left Chang'an?"

"Why did Hu Xia Shanyu Helian Bobo come personally when Sima came?"

"Why Sima. Forget it."

Shen Jingren is ready to sacrifice his life for benevolence.

"Wang Sima, if you don't give me an explanation, I'll wait for today."

"Punish thieves for the world!"

The Jin army still started infighting.

(End of this chapter)