Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Yufuluo, the Khan of Southern Xiongnu, was lucky but also unfortunate.

Fortunately, after rushing into Luoyang, Yu Fuluo was eager to search for Li Ji's whereabouts. He led 5,000 Xiongnu warriors from his tribe to search deeper and deeper, allowing the elite troops led by Yu Fuluo to escape the fate of being buried in the fire.
Unfortunately, Yu Furuo saw the people wailing and screaming in the raging fire, but less than one in ten of their tribesmen escaped. He realized that the Southern Xiongnu was not far from destruction.

The rules on the grassland are almost the naked truth of "survival of the fittest".

The reason why the Southern Xiongnu chose to rely on the Han Dynasty was because they could no longer survive on the grasslands.

In order to gain greater benefits from the Xianbei and Qiang people, Yu Furo went south and gathered all the young and strong warriors from the various tribes of the Southern Xiongnu.

Now, with the capture of Luoyang South Gate...

If it is said that only a part of the Xianbei and Qiang people entered Luoyang, then the entire Southern Xiongnu army was in Luoyang city.

The whole clan’s strength will be completely reduced to ashes in this fire.

Looking at the fire that was slowly engulfing the Hun warriors, Yufuluo understood... the Southern Huns were going to perish!
Even if Yu Furuo survived, even if Yu Furuo could return to Liangzhou.

But how many usable warriors are left in the vast Southern Xiongnu?

Even if the Han Dynasty did not retaliate against the Southern Xiongnu, the Qiang people, who lived next to the Southern Xiongnu, would not be polite at all and would inevitably choose to send troops to the weak Southern Xiongnu.

"The Xiongnu... are finished... The Xiongnu will perish in my hands..."

Yu Furo muttered with a dull look on his face.

"Father, the tribe still has a chance!"

Suddenly, a hurried voice was heard in Yu Furuo's ear. He turned his head and saw that it was his son Liu Bao.

Since in the early Han Dynasty, Maodun Chanyu married the daughter of Emperor Gaozu and he and Emperor Gaozu were brothers, many of Maodun Chanyu's descendants took Liu as their Han surname.

For example, the lineage of the Southern Xiongnu Chanyu who chose to submit to the Han Dynasty, such as Yufuluo, had the Xiongnu surname Luanti, but also retained the Han surname Liu.

When it came to Yu Fuluo's son Liu Bao, he directly took the Chinese name Liu Bao.

Being interrupted by Liu Bao at this moment, Yu Fuluo asked, "What other chances are there?"

In contrast to Furo's despair at the moment, Liu Bao's face showed a ferocity like a wolf cub, and he spoke.

"We are now trapped in the city by the fire, and a large number of Han troops have begun to come from Hulao Pass. The Xianbei and Qiang people must have already started to evacuate, and only we Xiongnu are trapped here."

"If we just wait, I'm afraid that by the time the Han Dynasty's reinforcements arrive in Luoyang, the fire may not be completely extinguished."

"Even if it is extinguished, we will retreat to Liangzhou. With such a loss of troops, I am afraid we can't save our tribe."

How could Yu Fulu not know all these things?
It was precisely because of this clarity that Yu Furuo felt so powerless and desperate.

For the Southern Xiongnu, it was tantamount to being trapped in a dead end.

"So the only way for us now is to risk our lives and capture the Prime Minister of Hanting. Only by holding on to him as a bargaining chip can we ensure the safety of our tribe."

Liu Bao wiped his smoke-blackened face, looking fierce.

After hearing this, Yu Furuo hesitated for a moment, then realized that there was no other choice at all.

Afterwards, Yufuluo gathered as many Xiongnu warriors as possible who had escaped from the sea of ​​fire, and explained the current situation to many Xiongnu who had escaped death, saying that the only way to survive was to break into the palace and capture the Han prime minister.

This also completely aroused the Huns' determination to fight to the death.

"Break down the palace!"

"Capture Li Ji alive!"

Under the call of these simple slogans, what Li Ji saw was a group of miserable Huns starting to frantically attack the palace walls.

The defense of the palace wall may be comparable to that of some county walls, but the height is only about 26 meters. For the Huns, the equipment needed to attack the palace wall can be dismantled from the surrounding houses and used directly for siege.

For a time, under Yufulo's constant encouragement and urging, almost the entire west side of the palace wall was filled with Huns attacking the city.

More importantly, the number of Huns is still increasing.

Among the nearly 200,000 Hu people, there were many lucky ones who were not affected or were able to escape from the sea of ​​fire.

From afar, the number of Huns attacking the palace was gradually approaching 20,000.

Relatively speaking, there were only about three thousand troops guarding the western section of the palace wall.

Seeing that the situation was becoming increasingly critical, Li Ji frowned slightly and immediately ordered to gather 1,500 troops from each of the two southeastern palace walls, which also had 3,000 garrisons deployed.

With the arrival of new reinforcements, the western palace wall was temporarily in a stalemate.

But Li Ji felt the determination of the Huns outside the palace wall to fight to the death, and his heart sank slightly, and he murmured.

"Yu Fuluo actually has the ability to boost morale with such desperate efforts?"

Immediately, Li Ji simulated the current situation and further deduced that the thing he was worried about was not far away.

Even though the palace walls, which had been repaired to a certain extent in advance, could hold out for a while, it was unrealistic to completely stop the nearly 20,000 Huns who were determined to fight to the death.

In half an hour at most, the palace would be captured by the Huns.

"Gong Jin!"

Zhou Yu hurried forward.

"Now that the Hu people outside Luoyang city have evacuated, immediately arrange for the people to evacuate from the north gate of Luoyang." Li Ji said in a deep voice.

Zhou Yu was slightly startled, then agreed and immediately made arrangements.

As for what to do specifically, Li Ji had already considered the possibility that the palace might not be defended for long, and he had agreed on an alternative plan with Zhou Yu in advance.

But when Li Ji said this, it meant that the palace might be lost.

After Zhou Yu left, Zhang Song also hurried forward and said.

"Why doesn't the Prime Minister go with the people?"

"The Xiongnu are targeting me. If I hide among the common people, the Xiongnu will chase me with their cavalry. The common people will suffer a great disaster, and I will not be able to escape either."

Li Ji answered calmly and gave orders to Xu Chu.

He asked Xu Chu to raise the big banner, and then Li Ji chose a high place and stood under the banner, exposing himself to the Huns.

At this moment, Zhang Song understood clearly that the Prime Minister was planning to use himself as bait to buy time for the people to evacuate.

As long as the Huns confirmed Li Ji's whereabouts, they would naturally not send troops to intercept the people at this critical moment.

Zhang Song was so anxious that his face turned red and sweat broke out on his forehead. He didn't think that the prime minister's choice was a wise one at all.

The best strategy is to use the people as shields to stop the Hu people from chasing and killing us.

But Zhang Song saw that Li Ji had made up his mind, and he knew that he could not persuade Li Ji, so he gritted his teeth, supported his sword, and stood under Li Ji.

Li Ji saw this and spoke.

"Gongjin may not be able to arrange it properly by himself, so I'd like to trouble Ziqiao to go and help, so that we can evacuate the people as soon as possible." (End of this chapter)