My younger brother Lü Fengxian

Chapter 181 The Second Defense of Lvwu
The news of the Xianbei army's invasion was immediately brought back by Lu Yisa's scouts on the periphery.

To bring back this message.

Only half of the more than 20 scouts arranged by Lu Yi successfully returned to Luwu.

This shows the sharpness of the Xianbei light cavalry.

Lu Yi's scouts are all strictly selected elites.

If ordinary county soldiers guarding the city were to leave the city, they would surely be in danger of death.

However, Lu Yi was not panicked when he heard the news.

Although the Xianbei people were strong in field combat and had large numbers.

However, when it comes to city attack and defense, the Han people can be said to be the ancestors of the Xianbei people.

Over the past six months, whenever the Xianbei people left Jiuyuan, Lu Yi would seize the opportunity to build fortifications and collect resources for defending the city.

He learned from the experience of Hutto's troops cutting down trees on the spot to make siege ladders last time.

All the trees within the Jiuyuan Pavilion were burned and cut down by Lu Yi.

Whatever could be brought back to Luwu would be cut down and brought back, and what could not be brought back would be burned rather than aid the enemy.

Over the past six months, Lu Yi has also noticed the change in the Xianbei people's mentality.

At the beginning, they circled the city and attacked the suburbs in order to grab some food. If the Han army came in force, they would immediately return to the outside of the Great Wall.

But as the war continued.

They noticed the wealth of Hebei, especially Jizhou.

The poor field combat capabilities of the county soldiers defending the city also made them relax greatly.

The Han court's sluggishness further fueled their arrogance.

Therefore, the Xianbei people's war goal changed from grabbing and running away at the beginning to creating opportunities to completely occupy Hebei. At the very least, they had to seize Youzhou and Bingzhou as bridgeheads to facilitate their next attack on the Han Dynasty.

Hebei is so prosperous, the grain is so abundant, and the women are so beautiful.

How prosperous should the famous Central Plains be?

Greed was thus deeply rooted in the hearts of the Xianbei people.

And Lu Yi was their first target to conquer before conquering the Central Plains.

The Xianbei people were coming in force, so Lu Yi naturally would not sit there and wait for death.

During this period of time, Lu Yi has been training every day and has trained the two thousand soldiers defending the city from the inside out.

Although these two thousand auxiliary troops are still not considered elite soldiers, they can be compared with the county troops in the county city.

With the abundant reserves of city defense equipment, Lu Yi was confident that he could withstand the attack of 10,000 Xianbei people for half a year.

The reason why it is half a year is because the food in Luwu can only last for half a year.

But Lu Yi was not panicked. He knew that the Xianbei people had even less food than he did and would definitely not last more than half a year.

Also, don't forget that Lu Yi has a surprise force.

The eight hundred heavily armored cavalry led by Gao Shun had been hiding in the Taihang Mountains for a full six months.

In the past six months, Gao Shun has been training the 800 cavalrymen day after day. The 800 men, who were originally light cavalrymen, are still a little uncomfortable with being suddenly transferred to heavy cavalrymen.

But after half a year of hellish training by Gao Shun, they are now fully capable of fighting in heavy cavalry combat.

It is barely enough to call them elite.

Now, the 800 heavily-armored cavalrymen who had been dormant for half a year and consumed countless resources of Lv Yi had reached the time to show their strength. As soon as Lv Yi learned the news of the Xianbei invasion, he ordered his reliable men to go to the Taihang Mountains and immediately rushed to Lv Wu's aid.

After receiving the order, Gao Shun immediately led 800 cavalrymen, hiding during the day and moving at night, taking a detour through a small road and rushing towards Jiuyuan.

And just when Gao Shun was on his way.

However, Luwu had already welcomed a large group of 10,000 Xianbei people.

The leading general of the Xianbei people was actually Hutuo, an old acquaintance of Lu Yi.

After Hutuo failed in two consecutive sieges, Budugen was furious and was punished on the pretext of something. The 5,000 troops he brought from Hutuo's tribe outside the Great Wall were reduced to only 3,000 people.

However, Hutuo knew his shame and became braver, realizing that if he did not make some achievements, he would surely suffer a double blow from Budugen and Luohanyi after returning to the frontier.

Therefore, Hutto personally led his army to capture several dilapidated county towns regardless of casualties.

Although his troops lost a lot of people, it was a blessing in disguise that caught the attention of the Xianbei Great Khan Tan Shihuai and was rewarded by Tan Shihuai.

Not only did they send someone to commend Huto, but they also helped him to complete the size of his army to 5,000 people.

As a result, Huto immediately regained his previous momentum, and was even more powerful than before.

In the battle to destroy Luwu, Tan Shihuai personally appointed the general and sent Hu Tuo, who had already fought with Lu Yi once and suffered a small loss.

The reason is that the Xianbei people have never been afraid of danger and have always been sent back to where they fell.

In fact, it was a sign that Tan Shihuai was ready to strongly support Hu Tuo.

In this battle, Tan Shihuai not only dispatched two medium-sized tribes to merge 5,000 people to obey Hutuo's orders, but also secretly summoned Hutuo.

Tan Shihuai made a private promise to Hu Tuo that if he could live up to the trust and complete the order to destroy Luwu and kill Lu Yi.

Tan Shihuai would appoint Hutuo as the leader of Budugen's subordinates, and his status would be equal to that of Budugen's brother Luohan.

Hu Tuo was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately told Tan Shihuai that he would do his best to capture Lu Wu, kill Lu Yi, and present his head to him.

Therefore, when Hutuo led an army of 10,000 people and arrived at Luwu again.

He couldn't help but feel a great sense of pride in his heart.

As long as he could capture Luwu, not only could he avenge his previous humiliation, but he could also improve his status and become one of the Xianbei leaders, commanding several tribes and becoming a true big man who could stand shoulder to shoulder with Luo Hanyi.

Therefore, Hu Tuo secretly made up his mind that even if he had to fight to the death with all his troops, as long as he could capture Luwu and kill Lu Yi, he would win a great victory.

In any rising power, it is difficult to obtain promotion in official rank and title, and one can only be granted title and promoted based on military merit.

Although the Xianbei people had a backward political system, they were in a period of rise, so the position of leader was extremely difficult to obtain.

Even though Luo Han is Tan Shihuai's grandson, he gained the position of leader through military merit.

However, in a corrupt and foolish dynasty like the Eastern Han Dynasty, the titles that were originally awarded only for military merit during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han had now become a tool for Emperor Liu Hong to make money. As long as money was offered, anything could be sold; even a dog could attend court in a dignified manner and be named a general by Liu Hong.

Such an absurd thing would absolutely not happen among the Xianbei people at that time.

Just as Hutuo was looking at Luwu ambitiously.

Lu Yi was also standing on the top of the city, carefully observing this Xianbei army with ill intentions.

As the saying goes, there are tens of thousands of people, and they cannot be counted.

With an army of 10,000 in front of us, it is basically impossible to count them with the naked eye.

Therefore, when these ten thousand screaming Xianbei people surrounded Luwu on three sides, there was still a murderous atmosphere.

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(End of this chapter)