It is not difficult to judge with the wisdom of Wanyan Aguda that it will be difficult to capture Yanmen Pass at this time. But today, the Huns have no choice. A winter snowstorm has already caused heavy losses to the cattle and sheep that the Huns rely on for survival. If they do not capture Yanmen Pass and plunder the Han people's city, I am afraid that the Huns will starve to death sooner or later. Instead of It is better to let the warriors starve to death in humiliation than to die bravely on the battlefield to live up to the name of warriors.
But Wanyan Aguda was indeed Wanyan Aguda. Even in this situation, the Xiongnu came up with a way to save themselves. Therefore, he secretly offered several strategies to Yu Fulo. In the current situation, although Yu Fulo was a little duller, he was still not at the stage where the life and death of the ethnic group was a trivial matter. Naturally, he would not lose his temper with Wanyan Agu. Instead, he reluctantly accepted Wanyan Aguda’s suggestion.
Soon, Yuvluo issued several orders to all the Xiongnu tribes. First, he summoned a group of strong herdsmen again, and secondly, he summoned old and frail warriors and herdsmen from each tribe.
Recruiting the best is naturally to replenish the army, but recruiting already old warriors is to recruit cannons for destruction. On the one hand, it can drain the effective strength of the Yanmen Han army, on the other hand, it is to actively reduce the population and save more food for the tribe's strong men, women and children to survive. The purpose of keeping women and children is naturally for the future reproduction and development of the tribe, but the purpose of keeping strong is to ensure the number of warriors.
After all, the grassland is a place where the weak prey on the strong. No warrior is destined to be devoured by countless smelly wolves in the grassland. Even if they are also Huns, other tribes do not mind pounce on a weakened tribe and take a bite.
Ten days, exactly ten days, Yanmen Pass suddenly calmed down during these ten days. Although the Xiongnu did not withdraw, they did not take the initiative to attack. Compared to the Xiongnu's desperate attack a few days ago, it was completely different. The Huns were at peace, and Li Xiang was naturally happy. Although he and Wang Meng had guessed the Huns' intentions, they were not worried at all. For Li Xiang, as long as Yanmen is not lost, it would be better if the Huns have more troops, so that his next plan can go more smoothly.
It is worth mentioning that Xing Tian and Xiong Kuohai have now been promoted to captains, while Liu Yang and Lin Chong have also been promoted to the position of tooth general, that is, Sima of another department, due to their meritorious service in the war. By the way, Li Xiang was also promoted to the rank of general. After all, this battle relied entirely on the timely rescue of Li Xiang's men.
Of course, during this period, Li Xiang would inevitably have to run to Liu Yang and Lin Chong more often. Whether sincere or just for show, this is indeed a good way to win people's hearts. Li Xiang even personally brought medicine to the two of them, and then gave each of them a big gift. Liu Yang's was that Jin Wushu left the big ax behind when he escaped. Liu Yang was so happy that he almost fell asleep with the ax in his arms. Although there was nothing suitable to send Lin Chong as a gift, it was really unreasonable to send Liu Yang but not Lin Chong, so Li Xiang reluctantly spent 100 summoning points to choose a war horse for Lin Chong, Xiao Feng's Snow Pony. In this way, including the ancestral snake spear that Lin Chong carried, he was fully equipped. Then, looking at the moved expressions on Liu Yang and Lin Chong's faces, although they did not kowtow to worship, they would definitely obey Li Xiang's orders from then on.
"Ding, congratulations to the host for getting Lin Chong's 9 summoning points. There are currently 58 summoning points left, two random summoning cards, one historical beauty summoning card, and one magic weapon card."
Taking this opportunity, Li Xiang finally figured out the rules for purchasing the magic weapon, BMW, in the system store. There are a variety of magical weapons and weapons in the system store, including Horse of a Thousand Miles, all of which can be added with 1 point of force value, and the purchase price is also 100 summoning points. After that, there is also the magic weapon BMW that can be purchased with 120 summoning points. Although it also has 1 point of force, the magic weapon is stronger and sharper, while the war horse has better endurance, faster speed and stronger explosive power.
More than ten days passed, and the Xiongnu finally gathered enough troops again. Although the strong and strong only gathered more than 30,000, the old and weak gathered a full 100,000. In other words, at this time, a total of 250,000 Xiongnu troops were gathered at Yanmen Pass.
You must know that the Xiongnu are not in their heyday during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Under the attack of Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, as well as several campaigns after the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu has already declined day by day. Now there are only 150 Xiongnu left in the entire southern Xiongnu. The population of the Northern Huns was even worse, with only a little over a million remaining. But now, one-sixth of the population of the Southern Xiongnu is gathered under Yanmen Pass.
Although there were many enemy troops under the city, Li Xiang was not worried and even smiled secretly. Then he calmly said "keep dragging" and took Wang Meng and his newly appointed guard captain Qin Qiong to rest.
"Ding, congratulations to the host for gaining 9 summoning points from Qin Qiong, and the remaining summoning points are 67."
Of course, Xing Tianxiong Kuohai and the others stayed, after all, they wanted to prevent the opponent's generals from forming a group again to open a gap.
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"My sons, you are all descendants of the Prairie Wolf God. Pick up your scimitar, break through the unsightly city wall, and tear your enemies into pieces. As long as you attack it, as long as you attack it, you can get countless food. , women, honor, everything you need." Wanyan Aguda roared loudly.
As soon as he finished speaking, countless elite prairie warriors rode their war horses and rushed toward Yanmen Pass. Of course, they are not looking for death, they want to hit the city wall with their flesh and blood bodies.
Riding and shooting can be easily accomplished by herdsmen with a little experience on the grasslands, but in the Central Plains, even cavalry trained for several years are rarely mastered. Wanyan Aguda took full advantage of the grassland, and the two teams of cavalry alternated in cycles and continued to shoot arrows at the top of the city, causing huge trouble to Meng Tian who was once again in charge of the Yanmen city defense.
And because of the high-speed movement of the cavalry, even if the Yanmen Army counterattacked with bows and arrows, the results would be few and the damage would be limited.
Afterwards, the already elderly warriors of the Xiongnu charged forward in batches desperately. Even though the only siege equipment in their hands was some extremely crude ladders, and even though arrows rained from time to time in front of them and boulders fell, they still could not stop their desperate charge.
After all, every race has a group of people who are willing to sacrifice for the continuation of the race. In every race there are some people who are willing to sacrifice themselves for the survival of the race like an antelope crossing over.
There is no doubt that Wanyan Aguda's plan was successful. These desperate charging warriors did cause a lot of casualties to the Yanmen Army, and they did consume some of the Xiongnu's "useless" population.
In the evening, the battle that lasted all day finally came to an end, but at this time, the battlefield was already a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. On this day, the Xiongnu successfully replaced Yanmen's 3,000 elite troops with 20,000 old and weak casualties.
