Xiong Ba was shocked when he received the news.

"What did Lord Murong say?"

"The Lord believes that the enemy's reinforcements have three or four thousand, and it is the leader of the leopards of Lulongsai, which is extremely threatening, so he is preparing to send Lord Wumeng of the Coyote Tribe to block the attack and delay their time to cross the river."

"Your lord is still continuing to attack the city?" Xiong Ba asked.

"Yes. Today, we have captured the west side of the city wall many times, and it has been a matter of breaking the city. I hope that the attack at the East City Gate will be more fierce, and I will firmly restrain Tian Kai to cover the main force to open the gap at the South City Gate and successfully break the Yuyang City."

Xiong Ba pondered silently, lowered his head and circled around the war horse.

"Tell you, my lord, when the city is about to be broken, it is not advisable to disperse the troops on the main battlefield, but should concentrate all your strength to launch a fierce attack on it, striving to achieve it overnight. Let me send someone to the Baoqiu River to block it. The Baoqiu River itself is a good defensive position. As long as you guard the other side, you don't need too many people to achieve the goal of delaying the enemy's crossing the river." Xiong Ba thought for a long time, stopped and said slowly to Murong Lin.

Murong Lin was overjoyed, bowed his hand to Xiong Ba, and flew away on his horse.

At noon, Yu Bang brought a thousand soldiers and rushed to the Baoqiu River. Xiong Ba asked them to bring a lot of arrows. Once the Han reinforcements crossed the river, they would use long arrows to block the river surface, and try not to start a head-on conflict with the enemy as much as possible to avoid unnecessary losses. Xiong Ba repeatedly warned Yu Bang to be careful of the leopard and never underestimate him. He is no longer an idiot when he just lost his memory.

Liu Yu was wearing a long cloth coat and stood on the city tower of Yuyang City.

In the afternoon, the enemy's offensive became more and more fierce, and the Han army gradually could not resist it. He was anxious and eagerly looking forward to the reinforcements. It has been five or six days since he led the reinforcements to Yuyang City and now, and no other reinforcements have been seen yet.

The situation in Youzhou suddenly worsened from the Yellow Turban riot last year. Although the Lulongsai victory at the end of last year helped them temporarily get rid of the unfavorable situation of being invaded by the Hu people, it did not help them obtain a lot of money and food, nor did it help the poor people in Youzhou to survive the long and severe winter smoothly.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion that affected the entire Central Plains of the Han Dynasty gradually subsided before the end of last year with the deaths of the Yellow Turban Mob leader Zhang Jiao brothers, Zhang Mancheng and others. However, its fierceness and madness seriously destroyed the already weak Han Dynasty, causing its political, economic and cultural impact to be hit by an unprecedented blow. The Han Dynasty was about to collapse, and the empire was already on the verge of shaking. It was clear that there were not a few officials of the imperial court who saw the empire in critical condition. Liu Yu was one of them.

Liu Yu was from Tan, Donghai, Xuzhou (now Tancheng County, Shandong Province). He was the sixth-generation grandson of Liu Qiang, the King of Gong of Donghai. When he was a child, his family declined due to troubled times. Although he was a royal family, he was also degenerated as ordinary people. When Liu Yu was young, he served as a small official in Tan County, and later gradually became the governor of Youzhou. Liu Yu was an honest official, fair and kind and kind, and was deeply loved by the people, and had significant political achievements. However, Liu Yu's kind and humble personality caused a bad hidden danger. The prefects of several major county governments did not sell Liu Yu's account very much. When he asked for money, he came to complain, but when he asked them to work, they all hid faster than rabbits.

This time the Xianbei people invaded Yuyang, and Liu Yu happened to be in Zhuo County. He hurriedly brought the two thousand county soldiers from Zhuo County to Yuyang City day and night. However, the reinforcements of Guangyang County, which were next to Yuyang, had not arrived for a long time. Although Liu Yu sent Xianyu Fu to Guangyang County to urge him to handle the matter, there has been no news yet. The news from Lulongsai said that the Xianbei people were outside the pass, so the reinforcements of Youbei County were even more out of reach.

Liu Yu looked at the fewer and fewer Han soldiers on the city tower, and his heart was heavy.

From the morning, the Western City Wall became the focus of the enemy's attack. The Xianbei soldiers attacked tenaciously and stubbornly despite the heavy casualties. They organized a team of 100 people to attack tirelessly and tirelessly, climbed up the city wall with all kinds of means, and fought desperately with the Han soldiers. The Xianbei people used several lives to exchange for the life of a soldier on the defensive side, and gave the Han army a heavy blow. The defensive surface of the Western City Wall once appeared in danger. The Han army soldiers were killed by the Xianbei people at their own defensive points, and some defensive areas were occupied by the Xianbei people several times.

The soldiers on both sides opened their blood-red eyes, chopped the sword, slashed the axe, and slashed the spear, and used all the best, even bit their mouths and pinched them with their hands. Anyway, they could use all the means of death to the other party.

The Han army's reserve troops blocked the gun holes and pulled nails again and again, and they engaged in a cruel hand-to-hand battle with the enemy. The battle situation on the city wall was unprecedentedly tragic.

In the afternoon, the Xianbei people suddenly stopped attacking. Amid the low and loud sound of the horns, the soldiers began to retreat from the city to safety quickly. But instead of retreating to the barracks to rest, they gathered together again, as if preparing for the next more fierce attack.

The city walls were densely filled with corpses, blood was everywhere, and a strong smell of blood floated in the air, filling the sky above the entire city.

Liu Yu walked slowly on the city wall, his shrunken face without a trace of blood, looking old and sad. He looked at the remains of the soldiers lying on the city wall in various postures, and looked at the wounded soldiers leaning against the city wall moaning loudly. His heart was extremely painful. He could not express his sadness and pain in words. The flame of hatred in his heart was burning violently.

He always insisted on adopting a policy of gentleness towards the Hu people, and he hoped to live in peace with the Hu people outside the Great Wall. With his sincere heart, he moved and appeased countless Hu nobles and ordinary people. He resisted the opposition and opened many markets in Shanggu County, allowing the Huns, Xianbei, Wuwan people, Fuyu people, and other Hu people from all ethnic groups to trade with the Han people here, bartering, sharing with each other, and improving the living standards of Hu and Han people. He moved a large number of Wuwan people to Dai County, Shanggu, Yuyang, Youbeiping, western Liaoning, and Liaodong to help

They built houses, taught them to cultivate land and raise silkworms, and tried every means to gradually give up their nomadic life and get rid of poverty for generations. He tried his best to establish good relations with the leaders of various tribes. In the extremely scarcity of the Youzhou treasury, he still provided food and money to the Hu tribes who were in urgent need of help. He did not understand that he had done so many good things, including the generous release of Wuyan and several tribe leaders captured in Lulongsai. Why are these Hu people not only unhappy, but also become more and more serious about invading and plundering, and why?

Are these Hu people really the nature of jackals and a wolf that will never be filled with?

Liu Yu remembered the chief of the White Horse Gongsun Zan who served in a vassal state in Liaodong. He once raised objections to his practice of appeaseing the Hu people. He believed that the Hu people should be killed and robbed, until they were killed with courage and were as gentle as dogs in the courtyard: they had nothing to eat, they only knew how to eat and survive, and only food was left in their minds. In this way, they would not have greedy hope. Without the hope, they would not have sent troops to invade the Han territory and rob the Han people at will.

Could it be that cruel and bloodthirsty Gongsun Zan was right? Liu Yu was very confused and painful. Why did the two ethnic groups have to fight against each other and conquer each other and enslave each other? Can't they live together in a friendly manner?

Liu Yu thought of his good friend, Yu Fuluo, the Zuoxian King of the Huns. After the Huns split into two tribes, the Southern Xiongnu moved south to Yunzhong and Shuofang in the northern border of Bingzhou with the permission of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty. Hasn't the people of the two countries got along well for decades? After the Wuhuan people moved south into the territory of the Han Dynasty to live and grazed, did not most tribes get along very well with the Han people? Why did the Xianbei people have to attack the Han Dynasty and try to occupy the territory of the Han Dynasty? Since Tan Shihuai unified the Xianbei people, wars have not stopped between the two countries, but who has gained the benefits? Apart from the pile of bones, earnest blood, and the tears of countless orphans and widows?

But the bloody battlefield in front of him stimulated the old man almost lost his sanity.

What will be the fate of the city being broken? Burning, killing, looting, men will be killed, women and children will become slaves to the Xianbei people. Houses will be burned, and food and all items that can be exchanged for things will be moved back to the Xianbei country by these vicious barbarians. Therefore, Yuyang City must not be broken by the enemy.

Liu Yu saw Yu Sui, a military Sima he brought from Zhuo County. Yu Sui was a strong middle-aged man with a flat face and a pair of shrewd eyes. He was injured, and a thick layer of cloth was wrapped around his waist, and the blood had dyed the cloth red.

"Sir, there are only 600 soldiers left on the west city wall. Do you think you should draw some troops from the east city wall? Otherwise, the defense on this side might be very dangerous." Yu Sui hurried over when he saw Liu Yu.

Liu Yu sighed without saying a word.

The people in the city were organized and divided into several civilians engaged in logistics services. Now during the battle, they ran out of their hiding places and consciously did the work they should do. Some people ran up the city wall to transport corpses and transport wounded soldiers. Some people packed up weapons on the city wall and gathered the long arrows scattered everywhere together. More people carried stones, pounded wood, bundles of long arrows, brand new swords and spears on the city wall. For a moment, people came and went, and shouts were connected.

"If we draw troops from the east city wall, their defensive power will be weakened, which means nothing to the defense of the south city gate." Li Hong whispered.

"Sir, I don't know what's going on at the east gate?"

"The situation must be very bad. There are only 1,500 people on his side, and it is indeed difficult to deal with the 5,000 troops of the Xianbei. Xiong Ba is a famous general of the Xianbei people, both wise and brave. He attacked fiercely for one day yesterday, and Tian Duwei's troops lost more than 300 people, and today it is estimated that the losses will not be lower than this number."

"Sir, the reinforcements are no longer visible now, and I don't know when they will be able to come. If we continue to lose money at this speed, the soldiers will be exhausted in two or three days. Without soldiers, how can we defend the west wall?"

"Of course." Liu Yu said confidently.

He pointed at the crowd that was shuttled back and forth and said, "Look at these people in Yuyang City, they are our last reserve team and the last line of defense. Like us, they are related to Yuyang City and share life and death. So no one will give up Yuyang City. As long as you guard Yuyang City, everyone will have a way out."

Yu Sui didn't say anything. He looked at Liu Yu very respectfully and admirably, then bowed and bowed and retreated.
Chapter completed!