Touman came to the camp. King Tuli was wrapped in white cloth on the bed. Two wizards were applying some special ointment to King Tuli. The anger in Touman's heart dissipated instantly, and his face was full of surprise.
The same was true for Touman's followers. King Tuli was also a dignified king of the tribe, so how could he be so badly burned by the fire.
"King Tuli, what's wrong with you?" Touman asked in surprise.
"Reporting to the Great Chanyu, last night when the Qin army attacked the camp and set it on fire, my royal tent happened to be directly set on fire. I was unable to escape in time." After King Tuli finished speaking, his old face under the white cloth was filled with emotion. shame.
Touman looked at King Tuli. Although he knew King Tuli was lying, he could not expose his subordinates' lies in public, otherwise King Tuli's majesty in the tribe would be affected. King Tuli was his confidant.
"You are a good student, I will avenge you." Touman said.
"Thank you, Great Chanyu." King Tuli said.
The curtain of the camp tent was opened, and the clean King Hunxie walked in. After seeing Touman, he immediately knelt down and said
"Meet the Great Chanyu!"
"Tell me, what were you doing when the Qin army attacked the camp last night? Why did you let the fire spread and didn't organize soldiers to put out the fire!" Touman asked.
King Hunxie glanced at the miserable King Tuli who was lying on the bed, and said with a complicated expression.
"The Qin army's attack on the camp was sudden last night, and the water source of my Hunxie King's tribe was not enough, so I could only put out a small part of the fire. The rest of the fire, my subordinates were unable to do anything."
Looking at King Hunxie, Touman slammed his whip onto the table beside him. The table with gorgeous carvings suddenly split into two halves. The sound of the table breaking into pieces shocked everyone present. King Hunxie even more He was so frightened that his whole body trembled, and King Tuli showed a look of pain in his eyes. He bought this table with more than a hundred slaves from other tribes, and it was destroyed by Touman. How could he not feel distressed? ?
"Damn the Qin army, this Shanyu will kill them all to sacrifice to the Wolf God." Touman said coldly.
After Touman said that, he left directly. After Touman left, King Hunxie and King Tuli breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at King Tuli who was covered in burns, King Hunxie shook his head. The reason why they didn't The timely prevention of the Qin army's attack on the camp was not what they said, but that he accepted King Tuli's invitation to attend King Tuli's banquet last night. After the banquet, he and King Tuli's generals brought He took the woman down to sleep, and then he did not immediately lead the soldiers to form an effective attack and put out the fire.
"King Tuli, please rest well."
After King Hunxie finished speaking, he left the camp. King Tuli didn't say anything else and let the wizard apply ointment on him with peace of mind.
Wang Ben stood on the top of the city and looked at the empty city. He breathed a sigh of relief. After attacking the camp last night, they had completely angered the Huns. They expected that they would usher in a more violent attack from the Huns today. Just before Wang Ben Before they were completely relieved, they saw a large number of cavalry running towards the border town carrying unknown objects on their backs. As the Hun cavalry approached and threw their belongings to the ground, Wang Ben knew what the other party was going to do.
A large amount of sand was thrown outside the city, and soon it was two people tall. The remaining cavalry were still throwing sand.
"Shoot the arrows and don't let them build mountains of earth!" Wang Ben said.
After hearing Wang Ben's order, the soldiers immediately shot at the Hun cavalry below. However, facing the rain of arrows, unlike the charge of siege warfare, these Hun soldiers immediately dispersed and ran out of the range of the Qin army's bows and arrows. , only some cavalrymen who didn't have time were shot.
"Stop and wait until the enemy soldiers stabilize the mountain before shooting." Wang Ben said.
Huns cavalry kept bringing sand to the outside of the border city, throwing the sand over, and then running away quickly. Soon soldiers and craftsmen came to the foot of the mountain, and started to build the mountain with the piled up sand. The soldiers and craftsmen who were building , they were attacked by the Qin army before they could take action. These soldiers and craftsmen huddled behind the sand mounds to avoid bows and arrows.
Seeing the Hun soldiers who continued to build mountains of earth after the attack, Wang Ben gave up the act of washing the ground with arrows, and instead mobilized a group of elite archers to use the Hun soldiers and craftsmen as targets for shooting arrows.
Over the next day, the Huns continued to send soldiers to build mountains of earth, and the Qin army also continued to shoot arrows to prevent the Huns from building mountains of earth. However, the mountains of earth were still built by the Huns who continued to fill in human lives.
It was still the same in the morning of the next day, but in the afternoon, when Wang Ben thought that the Huns would continue to build Tushan, the entire Huns army appeared outside the border city again. King Zuo Xian saw that the construction would be completed in half a day. Tushan felt very helpless.
He gave his men a day and a half to build earthen mountains, which made Touman impatient to wait. The Qin army's attack on the camp made Touman very angry, and his passive behavior in attacking the city made Touman even more angry. Furious, he called him and reprimanded him, and then asked King Hunxie and King Tuli to lead soldiers to participate in the siege.
"King Zuoxian, please give the order to attack the city." King Hunxie said.
King Zuo Xian glanced at the golden sword guards of King Hunxie and King Tuli and could only ask the order soldiers around him to blow the siege horn. Although King Hunxie and King Tuli were nominally obeying his orders, But in fact, these two people were sent by Touman to monitor him. Touman's purpose was to let him spend enough soldiers to capture the city and weaken the strength of King Zuoxian's tribe.
A fierce siege battle began again. Faced with the Qin army's arrow rain attack, most of the first wave of Xiongnu soldiers who attacked the city were killed or injured within a short time, while the remaining people continued to rush towards the border city, while the Qin army The distance between the arrows was obviously much longer. In order to capture the border town quickly, Touman sent people to surround the entire border town. Facing the Huns' attacks from all sides, the men in the border town were immediately scattered, and the defense was not as tenacious as before.
Wang Ben looked at the steady stream of Hun soldiers attacking below, and looked at the defenders beside him. Due to the dispersion of manpower, their manpower was insufficient. Although the earth mountain was not completed, it had become a platform that could effectively causing damage to the soldiers on the city wall.
As night fell, the siege stopped again. The entire city wall was stained with blood. Some soldiers were carrying the bodies of the dead soldiers into the city. Wang Ben bit the white cloth and wrapped the wound on his arm, his face The Huns attacked the city risklessly, and their casualties were also very heavy.
Dun Rui, General Chen and the deputy general all came to Wang Ben. The three of them all had a lot of wounds on their bodies, especially Dun Rui. Now Dun Rui could only walk with the support of a spear.
"These Huns actually used bronze hammers. They were unprepared for a moment and were hit." Dunruo said.
"How many people can we use now?" Wang Ben asked.
"There are only three thousand people on my side who can still move," Dunruo said.
"I have about three thousand here." "Nancheng suffered a weak attack, and there are still four thousand left."
"I still have 3,500 people who can move here." Wang Ben said with a heavy face. In one day, they suffered nearly one-third casualties, and the Huns' side was even more tragic. There were a large number of heaps under the city. It has become as high as a hill, and the Huns are clearing the battlefield.
Looking at the Huns below who were transporting corpses, Wang Ben ordered
"Let the soldiers have a good rest. Tomorrow the Huns' attack will be even more brutal than today."
"promise!"
The peace under the night was soon broken. As the sun just rose the next day, the Huns attacked again.
King Zuo Xian looked at the city that had been unable to be captured, and he became a little irritable. Today was the last day he promised Touman. If he could not capture the city, Touman would definitely take revenge on him. For this reason, Zuo Xian The king asked his own soldiers to join the siege.
Looking at the charging Huns below, the Qin army was originally able to occupy the city head, but as the Huns soldiers set up more ladders again, the Qin army and the Huns began a battle for the city head.
Seeing his soldiers attack the city, King Zuo Xian immediately stood up and said
"Let all the troops come forward, we must take the city head!"
The most critical part of the siege is the attack and defense at the top of the city. Whoever occupies the top of the city will be the final winner of the siege. An offensive and defensive battle on the top of the city begins again, and the Huns continue to climb up the city. The head of the city was recaptured by the defenders, but was lost again under the attack of the Huns.
Wang Ben pierced the Huns in front of him with his sword. He used the corpses of the Huns in front of him as a shield and rushed towards the Hun soldiers in front. The blade of the corpse pierced the soldiers behind him. Wang Ben pulled out his sword. The two men were pushed off the city head. The fallen soldiers were smashed by their corpses, and the defenders captured the city head again.
Looking at the Hun soldiers below who are still rushing up.
"The Qin army is victorious! People are in the city!" Wang Ben shouted, raising his long sword.
"As long as the people are in the city, the Qin army will be victorious!!" the soldiers behind Wang Ben shouted.
Wang Ben led the defenders to rush towards the Hun soldiers who climbed up the city wall. After repelling the Hun soldiers who rushed up the city wall, there were not many defenders left around Wang Ben. They looked at the steady stream below. Wang Ben looked to the southwest at the charging Hun soldiers, with determination in his eyes.
Just when Wang Ben was ready to live and die with the city, the sound of thousands of horses galloping sounded, and a dark cavalry was rushing towards the battlefield. The galloping horses made the whole earth tremble.
King Zuo Xian stood up suddenly on the platform of the chariot and looked at the cavalry rushing out from the right. King Zuo Xian was fascinated and looked at the opponent's flag. Then his face suddenly changed and he shouted
"Send men to stop them, the Qin army's reinforcements are coming."
On the top of the city, a soldier also spotted the reinforcements and shouted excitedly
"General, our reinforcements have arrived, they are General Meng Wu's Golden Fire Cavalry!!!"
Wang Ben looked over and saw Mongolian characters written on the black flag. The black cavalry rushed towards the Huns army without stopping. Seeing the arrival of reinforcements, Wang Ben was motivated again.
"Brothers, reinforcements are coming, follow me to guard the city!!"
(End of chapter)
