While Budute was beating the slaves to vent his dissatisfaction, Sun Yu, the battalion commander stationed in Wujiabao, was overjoyed.
Just yesterday he really thought he was going to die for his country. Originally, the garrison in Wujiabao was only over 300, which was already considered small compared to the military forts on the border.
The commanders of other battalions are all reinforced battalions, and the establishment of five hundred people is only six or seventy-eight. The establishment of his battalion is only three hundred people.
There was no way, he could only support so many people after the money and food allocated by the court were withheld at all levels.
He's doing quite well. In the military fort where some greedy generals are stationed, I'm afraid only his less than a hundred servants in the entire military fort have real combat effectiveness. The rest are all captured strong men to make up the numbers, with little combat effectiveness. nothing.
This was the case at Gaoqiao Fort not far from him not long ago. He was stunned to take away half of the establishment of a battalion while knowing full well that his superiors were exploiting him at all levels.
In the end, the remaining money and food were enough to support his own servants who were in their early 100s. As for the other soldiers' salaries, what did they have to do with him?
When I asked, the imperial court didn’t send it and I didn’t receive it!
As a result, on the day of the Xiongnu attack, those soldiers who had not received their military pay mutinied and ran away. Before leaving, they blocked all the other gates of Gaoqiao Fort. When the commander of the Gaoqiao Fort camp reacted, he wanted to After running away, he realized that he could no longer escape.
Finally, after guarding for a long time, he and more than a hundred of his servants had their heads cut off, hung on their horses and taken away.
According to the tradition of the Huns, their heads may become the Huns' wine glasses.
This can be considered a different kind of drunk life and death, right?
Sun Yu, you may say that he has no courage or that he is pedantic. He was promoted from a young pawn based on his military exploits and could not do anything like embezzlement of military pay. As for the exploitation at all levels by the imperial court, he truthfully followed the example of his brothers and generals. .
Although everyone is angry, they can understand him, so he is still very prestigious in the hearts of his brothers.
Originally, even if there were more than 300 people, if the Tatars did not exclude a thousand-man team, they could still defend it relying on the military fortress.
But not long ago, a sudden order came from the front, saying that the Northeast had also encountered a Tatar invasion. In order to gather the troops to support them, the superiors had to allocate manpower from various military forts to support Liaodong County.
The guards of each military fort immediately began to act upon hearing this, and in order to prevent their manpower from being transferred away, they resorted to various means, including but not limited to bribery.
But he is not greedy for military pay, so where can he get the money and food to bribe the superiors.
result……
Not only do their military forts need to manpower, they also have to manpower double the number!
When I asked about it, I found out that he was already famous among Shangguan, and everyone gave him gifts. He was the only one in the entire army who didn't give anything, and was remembered by Shangguan!
In this way, the Wujiabao of more than 300 people was beaten down to a few dozen people.
Only then did the Xiongnu find an opportunity to capture his place.
Originally, after yesterday's day, Sun Yu was already prepared to die for his country today.
Who would have known that not long after the war started, news suddenly came that not only the two hundred people who had been transferred had returned, but the imperial court also allocated the supplies originally intended to support Liaodong to the northwest, and each of their military forts received supplies. of supplement.
I heard that His Majesty himself purchased this batch of supplies with money from internal funds, and was escorted to the northwest by the Imperial City Secretary, so no one could take advantage of them.
The manpower and supplies were replenished, and the pressure on Sun Yu to defend the city was suddenly reduced. All the positions that were not occupied and defended yesterday were arranged, and all kinds of defensive materials were moved onto the fort wall.
What kind of gold juice, rolling wood, stones, thrown arrows, etc. were all used.
Only then did the Huns finally be forced back.
This was considered the limit of Wujiabao. He would never dare to go out of the city to fight the Huns.
It's not that he doesn't have the guts, but that although the Huns only have a hundred men, they are all cavalry. He only has light infantry with good weapons but no good weapons, and no armor or even leather armor. Three hundred men against a hundred cavalry, they charge. It will be solved for you.
He was very satisfied just to be able to hold the military fort.
Seeing the Hun cavalry retreating, Sun Yu breathed a sigh of relief. Only then did he have time to smile and ask the deputy commander Meng Song, who had been transferred away with him and now has returned: "Lao Meng, aren't you being transferred?" Are you over there in the Northeast? Why are you back again?"
Meng Song immediately spread his hands after hearing this:
"I don't know either. We had already set off, but suddenly a father-in-law from the Imperial City Division suddenly came to stop the army. He said that the Tatars in the northeast had retreated. His Majesty asked all the troops to quickly return to their assigned troops. , and replenished us with supplies, and I just came back."
"The Tatars retreated?
so fast? Where did they grab it? "
This was Sun Yu's first reaction. He thought it was the Tatars who were rushing to buy it, so he returned it.
It's not his fault. These border barbarian invasions have always refused to retreat easily before they have plundered enough.
This is the same whether it is the Huns, the Tatars, or the former Yuezhi.
Almost everyone in the border areas has formed this understanding.
That is, once those barbarians retreat, it means they have robbed enough.
"No, according to my father-in-law, the Tatars were beaten back as soon as they arrived in Yunzhou County. They didn't get anything this time." Meng Song told the news he knew.
This immediately surprised Sun Yu.
Where is Yunzhou County?
After thinking for a while, he remembered that this seemed to be a county outside Liaodong County that was set up fifty years ago when the Tatars surrendered to the Song Dynasty.
But that place alone blocked the Tatar attack and drove the Tatars back. How is this possible?
How many soldiers and horses are stationed in Yunzhou County?
Sun Yu's surprised look made Meng Song, who had worked with him for a long time, immediately understand his thoughts and explained:
"Yunzhou County itself is nothing. Logically speaking, it cannot stop the Tatars. There is only Yunzhou City there. Generally speaking, the Tatars are just going through the motions.
But it has been different since six years ago. King Yun, the sixth son of the emperor, granted the title of Yunzhou County and became the vassal king of Yunzhou County.
I think the reason why the Tatars were repelled this time should be because of King Yun.
But I don't know the specific situation. "
After the deputy's explanation, Sun Yu finally had an idea of Yunzhou County. He didn't care how the Tatars were repelled, but if the Tatars hadn't retreated, how could the people he had transferred come back?
Then he will die today, no matter what the reason is, this is a good thing for him!
He immediately informed the whole fort that in order to celebrate the defense of the fort, he invited all the brothers to drink today!
He asked for a fee!
Just when everyone is happy.
But no one knew that a group of Tiger Hunters, the largest cavalry army on the Song-Hungarian border, quietly left the border at this time and headed towards the Hedong Corridor.
They want to go to the Tatar grassland through the Hedong Corridor, and take the Taiwei's order to question why the Tatar tribe suddenly retreated!
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(End of chapter)
