This small border town is called Huxiang City, and it is a very common one among the many border towns of the Sui Empire. Compared with border towns that are famous all over the world due to certain events, such as Baishui City, which is only a hundred miles away, Fenghuangtai in Dongjiang, and Fangu City in Xijiang, the name of Huxiang City may not be destined to be popular. Most people know.
However, here is a group of passionate men like those frontier soldiers in Baishui City, Fenghuang Terrace, and Fangu City. In the days after they lost supplies and lost backup, they relied on themselves to go hunting, relying on saving food and clothing, and relying on a heart to defend the people behind them to the death, they never left.
Even if they are surrounded by tens of thousands of enemies.
When people of later generations discuss this war, they will often discuss those exciting battles very excitedly, but few people remember how many unknown men fought to the last moment in such a border town. And the names of these frontier soldiers are also destined not to become the protagonists of history.
But each of them is worth remembering.
The frontier soldiers in the city of protecting the countryside failed to protect the hometown behind them, but each of them is still doing what they think is right and worth doing. Maybe people can't think about it, when the supplies in a border city are so poor that they can't even light a torch, what do these people rely on to survive. Maybe people can't believe that when the living people in a border city put the corpses of their comrades who died in battle on the city wall to confuse the enemy, none of them thought of opening the city gate and surrendering.
This is a very magnificent history full of contradictions everywhere. In the prosperous Central Plains, almost those who have the ability and courage to raise the flag of rebellion have already done so, and no longer respect the empire called Great Sui. But in the most difficult place in the border town, these soldiers still held their weapons tightly to guard the fierce red battle flag on the city wall.
The Nanyan army outside the city was cut open from the middle by the cavalry of the Black Banner Army, and then the Black Banner Army began to charge the grass in groups as units, pushing the chaos of the Nanyan army into the depths of the Nanyan camp. The cavalry of the Black Banner Army used a boiling soup and snow attack to completely destroy the resistance that the Nanyan people had barely assembled in haste.
Those Nanyan soldiers began to flee, fleeing aimlessly.
In the dark night, they couldn't tell where the safe direction was, but they kept telling themselves to run and not stop if they wanted to survive. The night made them lose their vigilance and caused many people to lose their lives, but it was also because of the existence of the night that many of them survived.
Because the number of Nanyan troops had already posed a threat, Fang Xie ordered the cavalry not to stop attacking after defeating the enemy. Because ending the battle prematurely will give the defeated soldiers more time to reintegrate faster. The cavalry controlled the speed of their horses and kept pressure on the Nanyan army. In this way, where is there any chance for the Nanyan army to stop and regroup
They can only keep running forward.
So much so that after dawn, when the Black Banner Army had withdrawn their troops and returned, the frightened Nanyan soldiers were still running forward desperately, not even daring to turn their heads.
Even though Fang Jie called out his identity at the base of the city last night, the frontier soldiers in the city of Huxiang still didn't open the city gate immediately. When the east became white, the soldiers of the frontier army could clearly see the fierce red battle flags of the Black Banner Army and the familiar armor they were wearing, and then the frontier army opened the gate of Huxiang City.
A man dressed like a team rushed out of the city gate with a haggard but unconcealed excitement, ran to Fang Jie out of breath, and gave the most standard military salute.
"See General!"
The team's face was dark and dark, and they didn't know how long they had been smoked by the beacon and hadn't washed their faces for a long time. There were many holes in his clothes, and blood was still clearly visible in several places.
"Humble job Zhou Ping, the army guarding the countryside and the city!"
His lips were so dry and chapped that they looked like dry land with no rain. His hands were trembling slightly all the time, and he didn't know whether it was because he was too tired from running out or because he hadn't had a full meal for too long and was hungry. And his excitement was so cautious, because he didn't have enough physical strength to support enough excitement, so Fang Xie felt a little sad.
"Are you the highest-ranking person in the city now?"
Fang asked.
"yes!"
Zhou Ping nodded: "On the third day when the Nanyan army besieged the city, don't kill Li Ershui. He was shot in the eye socket by a cold arrow. On the thirteenth day, Cui Leng, the school captain we elected, was hacked to death by the enemy who attacked the city wall. He suffered at least a dozen knives. Before he died, he jumped off the city wall with two Nanyan soldiers in his arms. .The two of them died and didn't even keep a body, and now I can't find it."
"On the fourteenth day of the siege, Captain Dong Yao was cut off by the attacking enemy. One left arm and two legs were chopped off. When we rushed over to support him, those Nanyan soldiers were dissecting his stomach, and his intestines were pulled out. , he called his mother in pain but refused to beg for mercy. We killed the attacking enemy and looked at him again. He was stuffing intestines into his stomach with his right hand with only two fingers left. He died when it was finished, and I helped stuff the rest back."
"On the night of the fourteenth day of the siege, Captain Zhang Jun asked someone to let him down from the city wall with a rope. He wanted to retrieve some feather arrows and weapons. I saw that he and the other three brothers who went down killed more than a dozen scouts of the other side, and then we tried to pull him up, but he refused. He untied the rope and continued to collect feather arrows. When the reinforcements from the other side came, he collected a total of I bought seven hundred and twenty-three feathered arrows, and after I counted them carefully, none of them were missing, because these feathered arrows... were not easy to come by."
"At the last moment, the enemy rushed forward, and we shouted at him to fasten the rope! He looked at the bundles of feather arrows he had just tied, hesitated for a moment, then tied the rope to the feather arrows and asked us to pull them up. When he rushed to another rope, he was shot by the enemy's arrows like a hedgehog, and his body was full of arrows... He went to pick up feather arrows, and finally his whole body was covered."
"Don't die, captain, captain, the captain is dead, the captain is on... I am the last captain in Huxiang City."
Zhou Ping grinned, but there was a flash of sadness in his eyes: "General, it would be great if you came a day earlier... The last team died yesterday morning, and there were more than 30 wounds on his body... He was a leader when I joined the army, and he was still a leader when I became a leader. I didn't expect him to die before me... That guy kept mumbling that he had saved enough money to go Yongzhou went to a brothel once... hehe... "
He was laughing and looking a little silly. He was obviously talking about his comrades who died in battle, but he was still laughing.
But is he really stupid
Fang Jie went over and patted him on the shoulder, then handed over a pot of water: "Clean up and follow me."
"General!"
Zhou Ping was stunned: "Why don't you ask me how many brothers are still alive in the city?"
Fang Jie stopped for a moment: "Even if it's just you, I will come."
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Nanyan Army Camp
With a livid face, Murong Yongduo looked at a military newspaper that had just been delivered, and then threw the teapot on the table on the ground with a bang, the water in the teapot splashed everywhere, and the fragments flew far away.
"waste!"
He kicked the table over: "A bunch of trash!"
"Why is the general so angry?"
An aide asked hastily.
"Four days!"
Murong Yongduo said angrily: "In just four days, two large camps were leveled consecutively by someone, with a total of more than 50,000 people, and they were defeated without even seeing the origin of the opponent! Even the latter The men and horses are all new recruits, but doesn’t it mean that the general who leads the army doesn’t know how to set up secret rangers? Doesn’t he know how to guard against night attacks? Burn it to the torch... His Majesty asked, how should I explain!"
"The general calm down!"
The aide's face changed when he heard this: "This matter... this matter can't be blamed on the general who led the troops behind. No one could have imagined why a cavalry suddenly appeared, as if they had emerged from hell, without warning. They followed behind, and it was even more unexpected that someone would attack at night, after all, the Sui army in Pingshang Road was basically wiped out."
"This is no excuse!"
Murong Yongduo said: "Even if it was unexpected, could it be that this happened once before, and the others didn't think to prevent it? Two camps were broken down one after another, and the luggage was burned..."
After a while, he sighed and said, "Where did this cavalry come from!"
At this moment, another soldier from outside ran in quickly: "General... some soldiers have reported for duty!"
Murong Yongduo snatched the military report, and his face that recovered after reading it immediately turned blue again: "Four days... that cavalry has rescued the Sui army trapped in three border cities , Although the total number of people rescued is less than a thousand, it is not a matter of how many people are there! Once the news spreads, the morale of the Sui people will immediately be boosted!"
The staff said: "The cavalry of the Sui army came and went without a trace. It is really hard to guard against. But speaking of it, I don't know what kind of person would do such an incomprehensible thing. With a cavalry alone Go deep, just to rescue those frontier soldiers who are already starving to death?"
"Unless General Sui, who is leading the army, is a lunatic?"
He glanced at Murong Yongduo.
Murong Yongduo was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "If he is really a lunatic, he is also a lunatic to be feared... Pass my military order to let everyone behind give up those cities that have not been taken, and all come to fight with him." Let me meet up. Our troops are too scattered, and it is easy to be divided and attacked... I don't believe that all the troops are gathered together. With less than 10,000 cavalry in his hands, he dares to fight directly!"
"The general is wise!"
The staff member praised: "As long as we gather all the scattered troops, counting the slaves and He people we have captured, there will be more than 100,000 people. There were only ten thousand people in the house, so we had to retreat."
He had just finished speaking when someone came running in from outside again: "General, King He sent someone to ask if he knew where the cavalry came from. In the past few days, two batches of cavalry sent by King He to send back to the tribe have been burned. The spoils, King He was furious, but he couldn't find where the cavalry was."
"Send someone..."
Murong Yongduo said: "Go and tell the person sent by Tuhunduo, let him go back and tell Tuhunduo not to gather the troops too, not to disperse too much. The Sui general who led the army just saw how scattered our troops are. He dared to go on the rampage like this. Tell the He people not to send back the seized luggage for the time being, and store it in the camp. Now we lack cavalry, so we can only guard against it first!"
"yes!"
The soldier ran out quickly.
"This man... this cavalry... what is the origin of this man!"
Murong Yongduo bit his lip resentfully, his face was solemn.
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Chen Xiaoru wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at the fire rising into the sky and said with some distress: "This is the third batch of burnt supplies sent back by the He people, I feel a little bit reluctant to see this fire subordinate. "
The fire turned Fang Xie's face red, he smiled and said, "It's a pity that it will be burned, it's for the sake of bringing back more in the future... With these three fires, it doesn't matter whether the He people or the Nanyan people, They don’t dare to send back supplies easily. Especially the He people, who live in the deep forest, if they want to take it back, they won’t be able to get it back. The best way is to make them dare not send back. As long as we stay, we will have a chance Get it back."
"in addition… "
Fang Jie stroked the white lion's head and said: "During these night raids, Murong Yongduo and Tuhunduobie didn't dare to disperse their forces. The brothers in the frontier army can go back in peace, as long as they avoid the enemy's large The battalion is fine. In addition, we should go back. The Nanyan people and the He people have been forced to shrink their troops and shrink into a ball...then smash it with a hammer."