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Chapter 8 Ratcheting Swords Section 16(1/2)

Yan Wuwei immediately ordered Lunliu to bring a thousand cavalry near the Gushui River floating bridge to restrain the Wuwan people's cavalry. If Tadun brings people into the city, Lunliu will burn the bridge.

Yan Wuwei ordered Xinhu to lead a thousand cavalry to guard the city gate. No matter whether this is a trap of the rebels or not, as long as the retreat is firmly controlled by him, it will be no problem to break through the encirclement.

"Mingzhi and I led three thousand cavalry to kill the government office and first killed Xian Yuchen. If the rebels lose their chief general, they will inevitably be in chaos. Yongnu City will be ready to go down immediately."

Duan Xuan disagreed. Duan Xuan said that Xian Yuchen's government office had heavy troops to guard. Once the attack was blocked, the rebels who came to hear the news would surrounded the cavalry. He believed that the troops should be divided first to seize the other three city gates, so that their cavalry would be invincible when they advance and retreat. Once the city gate was lost, the rebels thought that the Han army's troops would definitely lose their morale and would have no intention of resisting and fleeing everywhere.

Yan Wuwei said that we only have such a few people. Once we divide our troops to attack the city gate, we will inevitably disperse our strength and cannot defeat the rebels' counterattack. In addition, we have to take a long way to attack the other three city gates, and we cannot guarantee that our whereabouts will not be exposed. Once the whereabouts are exposed, the city gate cannot be defeated for a long time, we will be surrounded by the rebels. At that time, even if we break through the siege and escape, we will lose our troops. Another point is that if this is a trap for the rebels, we will not hit the rebels' wishes and be defeated by each one?

"We concentrate all our strength, accidentally, and directly capture the government office and kill Xian Yuchen." Yan Wuwei said firmly, "If the rebels lose their command, they will be at a loss. We will take advantage of the chaos and kill whatever we encounter, killing the rebels stationed in Yongnu City, so that their soldiers cannot find their generals and generals cannot find their soldiers. Even if there are ten thousand people in the rebels, they will be a mess of sand."

"If the attack is blocked..."

"We turn around and run away." Yan Wuwei said indifferently, "It is of course the best to be able to take down Yongnu City. If you can't take down, it will not cost us much."

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In the dark night, hundreds of torches on the northern city tower of Yongnu City were burning, illuminating the surrounding gates as bright as day. Suddenly, a pile of fires lit up on the city tower and flames soared into the sky.

Under Yan Wuwei's leadership, the Han army cavalry, who was ambushing a mile away, rushed out of the darkness at lightning speed, and quietly rushed to the gate of the North City.

Tian Yu hung his long sword on his waist and flew up nervously, "I have controlled the North City Gate. You can quickly occupy other city gates and kill the rebels."

Yan Wuwei made an admiring gesture to him, turned around and whispered: "Xinhun, bring three hundred people with you and occupy the city tower."

The heart fox waved back and rushed into the city gate first, and three hundred iron cavalry then entered.

"Sir, the rebel leader on duty on the North City Tower tonight is my father's old official, and it is absolutely reliable." Tian Yu said, "I also brought more than 30 strong servants, and they are all on the city tower now. Sir, please go to the city immediately."

Yan Wuwei glanced at him and smiled and said, "What are you anxious about? You seem to be impatient when you are like this, and you have to push me into a trap."

Tian Yu said anxiously: "Sir, don't tell jokes. The lives of dozens of people in my family, young and old, are all pinching in the hands of the adults. If the adults defeat them, they can turn around and run away. What should I do? Sir, hurry up."

Yan Wuwei patted the dust on his body with a horse whip and said slowly: "Your family only has dozens of lives, but I have five thousand brothers. In comparison, what are the lives of dozens of people in your family?"

Tian Yu glared at him and opened his mouth to say something, but when he saw the murderous aura in Yan Wuwei's eyes, he hurriedly swallowed the words back. He sighed in anxiety and turned around in front of Yan Wuwei's war horse.

The figure of Xinhu finally appeared on the city tower. He waved to Yan Wuwei, everything was right.

Yan Wuwei turned around and pointed at a fake Sima, "Take another 700 people in and control all the key parts near the North City Gate."

Seven hundred cavalry rushed in. Tian Yu couldn't help but shout, "Sir, when are you going to be delayed? So many people stood outside the city gate, once they were discovered by the rebels..."

"You go back and ride a horse and take us directly to the government office."

Tian Yu was stunned, "Sir, the government office is now the main camp of Xian Yuchen. There are heavy troops guarding it and the guard is very strict..."

"Why are you talking a lot?" Yan Wuwei smiled, "Aren't you very anxious? Why are you not anxious now?"

"Sir, it's too dangerous to directly attack the government office. If the attack is blocked, the rebels will come to hear the news and the city will not be able to take it."

Yan Wuwei ignored him and raised his hand to wave it behind him twice. The Three Thousand Iron Cavalry then made a slight sound, and everyone was unsheathed, and the arrow was rolled up, ready to attack. Tian Yu glanced at him angrily and ran back to the city gate helplessly.

The heart fox on the city tower waved hard.

Yan Wuwei roared, kicked the horse's belly hard, and the horse jumped up and rushed to the suspension bridge.

===

Although the three thousand war horses were covered with their mouths, the roar of running was still loud and the ground was trembling. People in the northern border were familiar with this, and they knew that a cavalry army was coming at the first glance. The confused rebel guards looked around in a daze, and they couldn't react for a while, and more soldiers were still sleeping in their dreams.

Three thousand people were divided into four routes and rushed towards the government office at the same time. The guards at the entrance of the government office were shocked. They saw the Qiang people with disheveled hair coming in a fierce manner. Finally, they realized that the Han army had entered the city. While turning around, they opened their mouths and shouted: "Han army...the Han army is coming..."

The chaotic shouts instantly tear through the tranquility of the night, and they were afraid and shrill. The silent government office suddenly woke up.

"Che... shoot me..." Yan Wuwei ran away from his horse and shouted wildly, raising his sword.

The long arrow roared and the harsh roar sounded particularly thrilling in the dark. It seemed that thousands of undead opened their bloody mouths at the same time and let out a terrifying long howl.

"Kill..." A roar like thunder resounded throughout Yongnu City.

Dozens of rebels who turned around and fled were hit by running war horses and flew all over the sky. Those who were caught in the arrow were trampled on by random hooves and had no flesh left. Seeing that the Han soldiers were coming, the rebels who were running outside closed the door in a hurry.

"Run in..."

Yan Wuwei knocked on the horse's fat buttocks with a knife back. The horse hurt and soared into the air, hitting the door of the mansion. With a loud "boom", the door of the mansion was broken, and several guards who were facing the door of the mansion were immediately hit and blood was fumbled. Another mouth was spitting blood and was knocked away more than a dozen steps away. The horse was injured and rolled and fell into the courtyard of the government office. Yan Wuwei was so dizzy that he was thrown into his eyes, and finally stood up barely. He was shaking here, and several rebel soldiers had already rushed up there. Yan Wuwei roared and cut down a rebel soldier casually, then showed his power, chopping down four or five in a row. Finally, he reached out to grab a rebel and shouted: "Where is Xian Yuchen? Where is Xian Yuchen..."

The rebels saw Yan Wuwei who was as fierce as a vicious person, so scared that they flew out of the sky and pointed their hands in a panic. Yan Wuwei killed two more again, lowered his head and asked again, but found that the man had been stuck to death by his big hands.

Qiang people flocked in, some passed the gate, some climbed over the walls of the mansion, roared like thunder, shouting and killing the enemy like tigers down the mountain, rushing around, kicking when they saw the door, chopping when they saw people, and their subordinates had no living. Many rebels were killed on the couch, and more people were cut down in the courtyard with disorganized clothes. Soldiers, servants, men, women, elderly, and children, as long as they were alive, they would all be killed. Qiang soldiers rushed in from the rear of the government office lit the woodshed, and the fire suddenly soared into the sky.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry, kill in, kill in..." Duan Xuan held a bloody battle knife in one hand and a bloody head in the other, roaring wildly, "Kill in..."

The people in the government office were crowded with people, and the sound of killing was shocking the sky. The screams of the rebels before their death, the shouts of fear of running around, and the roars of the Qiang people gathered into a terrifying blood.

The rebels stationed in the city gates and scattered near the city gates were awakened by the sound of killing and fire from the government offices. Everyone looked at them in horror, and they were extremely frightened. Did the Han army come in? Several rebel leaders hurriedly assembled the army and rushed to the government office to rescue them.

Xian Yuchen was surrounded by a group of personal guards and rushed left and right. Not only did he not break through the siege, but he suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat to the courtyard to stand for help. Yan Wuwei led a group of personal soldiers to launch a fierce attack on the courtyard gate. A group of Qiang soldiers were so anxious that they were in trouble outside the courtyard wall that they had no choice but to do anything. Several people then decided to chop down a big tree in the courtyard. Dozens of people hugged the big tree and hit the courtyard wall, knocking down a piece of the courtyard wall. The Qiang soldiers then roared in, and their swords, guns and arrows were like *, and in a blink of an eye, they cut down Xian Yuchen and more than 20 of his personal soldiers.

"Hold Xian Yuchen's head, we rushed to the west gate and put the recurring people in, hurry, hurry..."

A Qiang soldier raised his spear and inserted it hard into Xian Yuchen's head, then raised the head high, followed Yan Wuwei and rushed out.

The fire in the government office burned bigger and bigger, and the flames soared into the air, illuminating the entire Yongnu City.

The Han army cavalry rushed towards the rebels who came to support from the west gate and killed them, "Kill..."

"Yong Nu has been lost, Xian Yuchen has died, surrenders..."

"Those who surrender are exempt from death..."

Yan Wuwei and Duan Xuan rushed to the front with their own soldiers, shouting and slashing their swords. The Qiang soldiers didn't care about these, and they couldn't understand what the two adults and the Han soldiers called. They only knew how to kill and go forward.

When the rebel soldiers saw the fierce Qiang cavalry and Xian Yuchen's head, they immediately collapsed and turned around and ran, running wherever there was a road, hoping to grow four legs.

The Han army cavalry chased after him with his stern shouting all the way, slashing wildly all the way, killing blood flowing into a river.

The west city gate was wide open, and the nearby Zongliu led his troops to kill in. The army then rushed back and forth along the city road, unstoppable. The rebels lost their command and fought on their own. The chaos was in chaos. The fire in the government office, the head of the chief general Xian Yuchen, and the overwhelming Han cavalry made the rebel soldiers and their soldiers lose their hearts and surrender. Several rebel leaders opened the city gate and fled out of the city in a panic. Duan Xuan and Zongliu did not hesitate, and each led a team of people to chase them. Until no one was to chase them, they took the captives back to the city.

At dawn, Yongnu City was completely controlled by the Han army, and the city gradually became quiet.

===

Tadun outside the city was awakened by the fire and fighting sounds in the city in the middle of the night. He hurriedly assembled his troops to guard both ends of the pontoon bridge. Although he was worried, he did not dare to leave the pontoon bridge at all. He was worried that he would fall into the Han army's plan again and let the Han army burn the pontoon bridge.

In the second half of the night, the rebels who escaped from the city told him that the Han army had captured the city, and Xian Yuchen was also killed. Tadun was stunned. Without the food and livestock in the city, what would his five thousand men eat and drink? Tadun immediately decided to retreat.

"Send someone to Jicheng to tell the king Yongnu that he was captured by the Han army and that we have retreated to Tuyin City in Youbeiping."

Yan Wuwei stood on the city wall, looked at the dust rising in the distance, and laughed loudly, "This Tadun ran so fast that he didn't give us any chance."

Xinhu smiled and said, "Sir, do you want to chase him and hit him?"

Yan Wuwei shook his head, "Forget it, we can't fight anymore. This kid is very powerful, and after catching up, he will inevitably have a bloody battle."

He looked back at Duan Xuan and asked, "Mingzhi, what are our losses?"

"Thirty-seven brothers were damaged and more than one hundred people were injured." Duan Xuan said with great dissatisfaction, "We suffered a lot of losses to attack the government office, and the brothers died a little unworthy."

“How many prisoners are there?”

"There are about 10,000 people." Duan Xuan said, "The rebels basically surrendered and didn't run away."

"Where is my horse?"

"The horse can't do it anymore. I think it's in pain and it's already been killed. Do you eat horse meat at noon?"

Yan Wuwei said sadly: "The horse has been with me for more than two years..." He sighed and shook his hand, "You guys can't eat it. I can't eat it. You guys are so cruel. It's okay if you kill my horse, you still have to eat its meat..."

The heart fox smacked his lips and smiled and said, "What should I do if I don't eat it? You can't bury it, right?"

===

Li Hong and Liu Yu's army stayed in Jiting for rest. The two of them wrote to the emperor one after another, reported the military information and asked for food and wages.

The news about Lucheng and Yongnucheng was sent to the Northern Expedition Army camp. Liu Yu and Li Hong were very happy and ordered the soldiers to reward them and then the good news was sent to Luoyang. On that day, Li Hong was invited by Liu Yu to discuss matters in his camp. Li Hong took Pang De and a dozen servants out of the camp and walked slowly.

The battlefield of the Jiting Battle has been cleaned up. In addition to the unpleasant smell of blood floating in the air, and the dry and black blood-colored dust everywhere on the ground, it is no longer obvious that this was once a battlefield where more than 100,000 people were entangled together and fought fiercely. The bones of the fallen soldiers on both sides have been buried in the black land under the plain. As time goes by, they will all turn into dust.

In the distance, several Qiang soldiers knelt in front of the huge grave and cried. The miserable crying drifted in the faint blood with the wind, making people feel sad and crying.

Li Hong sat on the thick horse of the black panther, listening to the crying in the wind, countless fierce figures suddenly rose in his mind, familiar and unfamiliar faces flashed before his eyes, and his heart trembled, his eyes gradually turned red. He thought of Tielang, Tian Jing, Li Song, fists, and many dead brothers. He slowly lay on the horse's neck, tightly pressed against the black horse's mane, his whole body bent, and his shoulders twitched violently.

Pang De and Yi saw Li Hong in unbearable grief from the soldiers. Thinking of his dead brothers, each of them felt sad, tears in their eyes, and speechless.

The wind yells on the plain, just like countless heroes whistling to the sky.

The commander came, and he led the Xianbei army to the Han Kingdom. The army had his own brothers and friends. One duel was not enough, and it took two or three times. Everyone had to fight each other and kill them to death. Why do you want to do this? He wanted to shake hands with the commander, he wanted to sit with those brothers and drink happily, he wanted to see Fengxue. When He Lian died, Fengxue would definitely come back, and she would definitely be in Tanyue Valley in Dayan Mountain.

He had no confidence in the decisive battle with the Grand Marshal. In the past, the Grand Marshal turned defeat into victory under extreme disadvantage. The Grand Marshal's courage and courage were deeply engraved in his heart. The Grand Marshal was invincible. When the Grand Marshal came, the Black Eagle Iron Cavalry must have come too. Thinking of the Condor Hero's iron mouth, Li Hong's heart trembled, and a chill flashed unconsciously across his body.

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Liu Yu is going back to Zhuo County. He wants to go back to appease the people, rebuild the government office, and hurry up and plow the spring plow. If the seeds are not sown, the time will be missed. If there is no harvest in the fields this year, in winter, disaster relief alone will not be able to support many people. He wants to do everything possible to make the people of Youzhou live. "I don't want to see the hungry birds in Youzhou everywhere, and I don't want to see the people of Youzhou eat people."

Liu Yu wanted to hand over all the troops to Li Hong, and he wanted to be fully responsible for the suppression of Youzhou's rebellion.

"Sir, now that the Xianbei people have entered the country and occupied a large area of ​​land and cities south of Yanshan Mountain. Our top priority is not to continue to quell the rebellion, but to drive the Xianbei people out so as not to reconcile the mistakes of Bingzhou again. Once the Xianbei people rely on the tall and solidity of Yuyang City and stabilize the large area of ​​Yanshan Mountain, if we want to regain it, the price will be quite high." Li Hong said earnestly, "Sir, after Jicheng is taken down, I will lead my troops to Yuyang. Let's put the matter of quelling the rebellion for the time being."

"No." Liu Yu said firmly, "After Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun fled back to western Liaoning, there were still tens of thousands of rebels, plus the Wuwan people, and they still had nearly 100,000 troops. If they were not pursued by the victory and defeated them completely, they might make a comeback. Look at Jizhou, you should know how important it is to completely wipe out the ant thief. Suppressing rebellion is the top priority, and suppressing rebellion is the foundation for ensuring the rapid stability of Youzhou."

"The Xianbei people came in from outside, and we could block it step by step with cities and passes, but if the ant thief came from behind us, we would be powerless to stop it. The ant thief had refugees as support, and they would spread to more than 100,000 people anytime and anywhere. If the disaster was finally completed, Youzhou would be lost. At that time, let alone resisting the Xianbei people, even Youzhou was a Xianbei person."

"Sir, it's thousands of miles away to Liaodong in western and eastern Liaoning. Tens of thousands of troops traveled a long distance, and the transportation of food and grass is a big problem. Now the Xiongnu rebelled in Bingzhou and the Xianbei invaded the pass. The imperial court had to deal with the battles on both battlefields at the same time, and the treasury was unable to support it." Li Hong advised earnestly, "Sir, you don't know these situations, why do you insist on continuing to quell the rebellion?"

"We can imagine that when the army advances to western Liaoning, the rebels will definitely retreat to Liaodong, and the army chases to Liaodong again, which is a thousand miles away from Jicheng. If the court is unable to provide food and wages at this time, the army will only have two endings, either retreat quickly, lose troops and lose generals, or retreat, and be wiped out by the entire army. At this time, the Xianbei people only have ten thousand cavalry to occupy the entire territory of Youzhou."
To be continued...
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