My younger brother Lü Fengxian

Chapter 173 Impregnable
There are 100,000 shi of grain stored in Luwu.

Although some of it has been consumed.

But the surplus can still support the entire population of Luwu until next autumn.

However, Lu Yi knew that Hutuo's troops must not have carried much food and fodder.

This result is easy to infer.

Because, if the Xianbei people had sufficient food and grass, they would not have risked provoking a full-scale war with the Han Dynasty and brazenly invaded Hebei.

The current Han Dynasty is one of the periods with the most abundant martial virtues in the history of the Han nationality.

It is not an empty saying that one Han can defeat five Barbarians.

If the Han army were blocked inside the Great Wall, these 300,000 Xianbei people would suffer a great loss.

Therefore, when Lu Yi saw the flaws revealed by Hutuo's troops during their repair, he did not care at all and had no urge to take risks at all.

The difference between an expert and a gambler is that they know how to calculate gains and losses.

Even if a gambler has the best luck, unless he can guarantee to win forever, he may lose everything if he loses just one bet.

Lu Yi is adventurous, but he won't gamble when he is sure to win.

Isn't it enough to win peacefully? Why do all those fancy moves?
If Emperor Wu of Wei, Cao Cao, had not been so lucky, it could be said that he was destined to succeed.

Just based on his romantic spirit and wild personality, an ordinary person would have died a hundred times if he came here.

An hour passed slowly in the quiet and depressing atmosphere before the war.

Hutuo's troops took advantage of this time to rest and reorganize, and Lu Yi also took the time to order his men to patrol the city defenses and prepare supplies.

After Hutto's troops were repaired.

Huto immediately ordered a thousand men to dismount and become siege infantry.

The remaining 4,000 people are also on standby at any time.

If the vanguard can achieve success, the remaining 4,000 people will not need Hu Tuo's command as they will transform into aggressive greedy wolves and rush forward to flatten Lu Yi's Luwu.

Hutuo was not idle during this hour. He cut down a lot of trees nearby and built some simple siege ladders.

As for siege battering rams, they were too difficult for the raw meat-eating and blood-drinking Xianbei people to build.

"Siege!"

At Hutuo's command, a thousand Xianbei soldiers under his command rushed towards Luwu, biting their scimitars and carrying heavy siege ladders.

However, Lu Wu had made arrangements early and set up several defensive fortifications.

After these Xianbei people rushed to a distance of one thousand steps from Luwu, the Xianbei people in the front were caught one after another and fell into the trap disguised by Lu Yi.

These traps were not wide, each one was about five steps in radius, but they were very deep, about two feet deep.

There were also many sharpened wooden stakes stuck upside down in it.

These unsuspecting Xianbei people stepped on the traps disguised as the ground and fell into them with screams.

Except for a few lucky ones who managed to avoid the sharp tips of the stakes, most of the Xianbei people who fell into the pile were pierced by the stakes and turned into skewers of human flesh.

In an instant, the number of the 1,000 Xianbei people who were charging was reduced by 20%, and the number of people was immediately lost by 200.

After the first trap was exposed, the Xianbei people who had been charging forward with howling sounds were suddenly frightened.

Those Xianbei people who had not yet been hit hesitated to move forward, fearing that they would follow in the footsteps of their unlucky companions.

In the end, it was Huto, with a grim look on his face, who kept urging them, and these alerted pioneers launched another charge.

However, the unknown trap ahead slowed down their charge significantly.

With every step these people took, they would stab the ground in front of them with their spears, for fear of falling into a sudden trap.

After being alert, the Xianbei people achieved remarkable results, with almost no casualties, and they also discovered all the traps set by Lü Yi along the way. But Lü Yi's goal had been achieved.

The traps had been dug long ago, and at this moment they did not consume any energy from the auxiliary soldiers defending the city.

But he took away 200 fresh enemy troops, which was a small profit.

The greater gain was the change in the terrain, which not only consumed a great deal of the physical strength and morale of the remaining 800 pioneers, but also made it impossible for them to charge directly. They had to carefully take detours around the dense traps, which greatly reduced their charge speed.

Lu Yi's trap extended from a distance of one thousand steps to a range of one hundred steps away from Lu Wu.

The Xianbei people finally managed to escape the trap.

Three moats, three meters wide and two meters deep, appeared in front of them again.

Luwu is backed by Jiuli River on the south, so Lu Yi only dug three moats on the north, west and east sides of Luwu.

If the Xianbei people wanted to attack Luwu, they had to overcome these three obstacles.

They placed siege ladders on the moat and carefully crossed the river on them.

However, the crudely made siege ladders became very slippery when they came into contact with water and were difficult to move.

From time to time, the Xianbei people slipped and fell into the moat.

The moat was two meters deep, and the Xianbei people were good at riding horses but not good at swimming. Moreover, they were wearing heavy leather armor and weapons. Once they fell into the moat, they would basically sink to the bottom of the lake with screams of fear, leaving behind only a series of desperate bubbles.

Although not many unfortunate people fell into the water, their miserable situation caused the rest of the Xianbei vanguard to suffer tremendous psychological pressure, even worse than the previous trap.

The Hu people's fear of water is deeply buried in their bones and blood, and it can be said to be their most fundamental fear.

They would rather face several fully armed Han cavalry alone than face the unknown lake.

"Fire arrows!"

And Lu Yi would naturally not ignore these living targets.

Following his order, the auxiliary soldiers on the three walls of Luwu all shot their bows and arrows at a 45-degree angle into the sky.

It takes at least five or six years to train an elite archer to develop effective killing power.

But that was in a one-on-one situation.

Although the auxiliary soldiers in Luwu had only received two months of training, they had just learned how to bend the bow and shoot arrows.

Whether in terms of accuracy, strength or endurance, they are far inferior to elite archers.

But this is not a one-on-one duel.

It is a war of one group of people against another group of people.

After the scale is formed.

It is not necessary for a single archer to have great accuracy.

Thousands of arrows are shot at once. Even if they are not accurate, the arrow curtain attack can still cause terrible damage.

And without range it would be even simpler.

The auxiliary troops on the top of Luwu City were already in a commanding position and were shooting into the sky at a 45-degree angle.

It naturally increased the original attack range of dozens of steps to a hundred steps, perfectly covering the range of the moat.

As a result, the Xianbei vanguard who were cautiously crossing the moat immediately became a living target and experience bag for these auxiliary soldiers who had no practical experience.

After a round of arrow rain, the Xianbei people suffered heavy casualties.

And Huto, who was behind the battle, stood up straight in anger.

(End of this chapter)