Wei Wuhou

Chapter 652 The Siege of Jingbei City

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On August 16, 21th year of Marquis Wei, Jingbei City.

The current situation in Jingbei City is very bad. As the administrative center of Yanshan, it is also the most eye-catching place for the Xiongnu.

For more than a hundred years, although the Hu people have entered Yanshan several times, they have never captured this place.

Based on this alone, every Xiongnu Chanyu would take this place as their dream to show off their martial arts.

Adaye is no exception. Although the Xiongnu Shanyu is now firmly established, he is not only satisfied with this.

Therefore, when Adaye beat the entire northern part of Yanshan Mountain to the point of being helpless, he focused his attention on this place.

When he learned that the troops in Jingbei City were not enough, Adaye couldn't bear it anymore, so on August [-]th, he formally dispatched a large army to surround Jingbei City.

At this time, Adaye was actually a little swollen in his heart. From his uncertainty at the beginning of the war to the current victories, Wei Jun did not seem to him to be terrible.

Of course, the Huns had the upper hand, and the internal conflicts of the Wei army were so numerous that Adaye selectively ignored them.

All in all, the current Jingbei City has been surrounded for two days, and the whole city can be described as terrified.

The person in charge of the defense of Jingbei is the county lieutenant Ran Xiayun, and he can only use [-] county soldiers, plus [-] civilian husbands called from the city.

Although he hadn't been on the battlefield for a long time, he had to say that Ran Xiayun was of a certain level as a military commander in Yanshan.

So he also made the most correct choice, sticking to the city and waiting for reinforcements.

Of course, Ran Xiayun also knew that waiting for reinforcements was a matter of no avail. After all, the garrisons all over Yanshan were suppressed by the Xiongnu in the city, so it was not easy to reinforce Jingbei.

Under such circumstances, it is inevitable that panic will spread in Jingbei City. Everyone is afraid that the Huns will come in and slaughter themselves and their families.

And Ran Xiayun, who has taken on all these, is really worried at this moment, and it can be said that there is no solution at the moment.

Since the seventh and eighth day of August, Jingbei City lost contact with the outside world under the harassment of Huns scouts and rangers.

In other words, Ran Xiayun didn't know the specific situation in Yanshan at this time, and it was even more impossible to know that Wu'an sent reinforcements, and Wei Wuji led the troops.

"My lord, the Xiongnu army has arrived at the city..."

When Ran Xiayun was discussing matters with several military officials, she was frightened by the news and stood up.

No wonder he reacted so strongly. If the Huns started to attack the city now, it is still unknown how long Jingbei City can hold.

Moreover, Jingbei City is now facing a more serious problem, that is, there is not much food in the city.

Since the Huns began to harass at the beginning of this month, the transportation of grain and grass to and from Jingbei has been cut off.

And this situation doesn't just exist in Jingbei. Most of the sites in Yanshan are now facing food shortages.

Even though grain from several nearby counties could be levied, the Huns were rampant in Yanshan County, and the Wei army could not send grain to the frontline army at all.

"Go and have a look..." Ran Xiayun said in a deep voice.

At any rate, he was also the chief military officer of a county, and the Xiongnu came with bad intentions, but Ran Xiayun was not frightened enough to lose his courage to fight.

And he is also very clear that if he, the county lieutenant, does not rush to the top of the city immediately at this time, it will also be a great blow to the morale of the entire army and civilians.

But Ran Xiayun obviously thought too much, because when he rushed to the top of the city, he found that the county guard Jiang Shixun had arrived one step earlier.

Seeing Ran Xiayun coming, Jiang Shixun turned his head and said, "Lord Ran, the Huns are not good at coming!"

Ran Xiayun climbed up the tower and saw that the large field outside the north gate of Jingbei City was already full of Huns cavalry.

Of course, there were a large number of ragged Wei people in front of the cavalry, but these people held weapons and ladders for siege.

Ran Xiayun slapped the city wall and said angrily, "These hateful barbarians!"

It turned out that during the two days when Yanshan was besieged, the Huns sent a large number of people to arrest people in various towns near Jingbei, intending to fill up the gully in Jingbei City with the bones of the Wei people.

Jiang Shixun's face was also very ugly at this time, unlike Ran Xiayun's anger, he was more worried.

According to the posture that the Huns are putting on now, how long can this Jingbei City last?Can the Hu people be defeated by the county soldiers alone?
"Master Ran, I think they look like they are going to attack, hurry up and pass orders to all the ministries and wait for it!" Jiang Shixun said with difficulty keeping calm.

In fact, at this time, after knowing the arrival of the Huns, the whole city's soldiers and civilians had already stood on the top of the city.

What these ordinary soldiers actually need more is confidence, the confidence to be able to resist the Huns.

Although Lord Wu Yang defeated the Xiongnu last year, the morale of Yanshan soldiers and civilians was greatly shaken, but the consecutive defeats in the past two months have shattered this confidence.

Therefore, when Ran Xiayun walked among the soldiers, he realized that the problem was more serious than he had imagined.

This changed the focus of his work instead. It is more important to calm everyone's fear and let everyone not be timid.

"Everyone, don't be afraid. Jingbei City has high walls and strong armaments, and the barbarians can't do anything to us!" Ran Xiayun said this every time he went.

However, even he himself did not believe these words, which made it difficult for them to be effective.

Even on the spot, someone said and asked: "My lord, the barbarians are bloodthirsty, and my life will not be long!"

These words revealed a strong lack of self-confidence and pessimism, which almost stabbed Ran Xiayun's cold heart again.

At this time, the dead silence under the city wall was broken, and the scolding of the Huns kept urging the Wei people in front to walk towards the Jingbei city wall with the weapons in their hands.

After killing dozens of people to establish their prestige, the people of Wei State who resisted in their hearts had no choice but to walk towards Jingbei City.

Also feeling tangled were the soldiers of the Wei army on the city wall. At this time, they didn't know whether to throw the weapons in their hands at the compatriots under the city wall.

Even the military officials who lead the army don't know how to give orders at this time, after all, they are their own fathers and fellow villagers!

However, Ran Xiayun was able to overcome this point. The so-called kindness does not command soldiers, he knew that if he didn't try his best to fight at this time, it would be these people in the city who would add weapons later.

"What are you still doing in a daze, shooting arrows..." Ran Xiayun said angrily.

It's a pity that these soldiers still stood still, and only a few of them released the arrowheads in their hands.

After all, they are county soldiers who have been at ease for a long time. Although they are extremely frightened, killing people is also extremely frightening to them.

Ran Xiayun couldn't help being furious, and shouted loudly: "If you don't shoot the arrow, you will all be corpses on the wall later!"

In the end, it was still the desire to live, which made everyone on the top of the city overcome their inner obstacles, knowing that they could only let the compatriots below them down.

"Shoot them..." You Junhou ordered in grief and indignation.

The hearts of the soldiers on the city wall were loosened. A dead fellow Taoist would not die a poor fellow. At this time, he could only sacrifice the compatriots below.

Just when the scene of compatriots killing each other was about to be staged, a scene that stunned Jingbei City happened.

The Xiongnu cavalry in the back turned their horses and moved slowly to the northwest of Jingbei City.

This scene also quickly made the Wei people under the city wall realize that those wolf-like barbarians behind them had actually left at this time.

With no threat from the Hu people behind them, these Wei people naturally dropped their weapons and ran towards the city wall, wanting the compatriots in the city to save them.

This scene made Ran Xiayun on the tower at a loss as to how to make a decision, who knew if this was a trick of the barbarians.

But when I think about it again, the barbarian's strategy is too clumsy, not to mention that even if it is a suspicious strategy, those barbarians have already left two miles away, this play is too real!

Just when everyone in the city was puzzled, cheers suddenly came from the east of Jingbei City, and after spreading, these cheers became more and more enthusiastic.

In the end, only one sentence reached Ran Xiayun's ears.

"Mr. Wu Yang is here, and Mr. Wu Yang has brought troops to rescue us!"

(End of this chapter)