Chapter 182: Soldiers approach the city
The eight Khitan tribes were Xiwandan, Adahe, Jufufu, Yuyuling, Rilian, Piriel, Chi Liushou, Yuzhenhou, and Dahe Duluo were the eight Khitan tribes. With the strong men of several thousand to tens of thousands of Khitan tribes, it would not be a false statement if the maximum mobilization of 100,000 was mobilized, even if there was a discount of more than 50,000 at present.
Not long after, the news that countless Khitan cavalry appeared north of Yuyi Town, which covered the sky and the sun, had reached everyone's ears. Shide Xi's tribe Qi Jin and the elders in the tribe were anxiously wandering around like ants on a hot pan. Etu, Ying Hefu also had a burning face, but he was more worried about the safety of Yuyi Town than Li Chongjiu. Yuyi Town was not just a city for the Shide Xi people, but also deeply wedged into the nails of Wuhou Qinshui. From Yuyi Town to their past grazing land for generations, it would take two days to reach. As long as they occupied this place, the herders of Shide Xi's former Shide Xi's tribe by the Wuhou Qinshui will come here to join us continuously. Once Yuyi Town is lost, for Shijin, there will be no city to protect the tribe. Once the Khitans come, they will have nowhere to go on the vast grassland.
"How much chance do we have to win?" Deyun, the upper room on the city, asked Li Chongjiu gently.
Li Chongjiu looked at Shi Deyun's clear eyes on the side, smiled and patted her back on the back of her hand.
Shi Deyun was a little relieved and opened her eyes widened and said, "Em said that even if we fight to the last battle, we will not abandon this place. This Yuyi Town is the only opportunity for our Shi De Xi tribe to revive."
Shi Deyun's little face was full of determination, and Li Chongjiuyan said, "Of course, the war is coming soon. The city is so dangerous. You should follow your tribe and retreat to the southern valley, which is safer there."
"No!" Shi Deyun shook her head firmly and said, "I will be wherever you are."
Li Chongjiu narrowed his eyes and smiled and said, "Naughty."
Shi Deyun said angrily, "I don't understand how the Han girl you like. Didn't she just accompany you to assassinate Shibi Khan? Today, the Khitan army is besieging the city with 100,000 troops, and I want to be here with you, and I am not losing to her at all."
Li Chongjiu's eyes floated and she smiled and said, "So you have always cared about this, this is jealous."
Shi Deyun heard Li Chongjiu's snorting and said, "I'm not jealous."
Li Chongjiu smiled and said no more. The wolf smoke from the high mountain fort three miles ahead suddenly appeared and ignited high. "Kitans," Shi Deyun grabbed Li Chongjiu's shoulder and said in surprise: "The Kitans are coming so fast, I thought they would arrive tomorrow."
Li Chongjiu's face darkened. After hearing the news that the Khitan army had sent troops three days ago, Li Chongjiu gave up the Jiulian Fort and sent 3,000 people to repair the Gaoshan Fort for three consecutive days. Finally, the city wall was built more than two meters high, and more than four-fifths of the entire project were completed. It temporarily became the frontier position of Dahong City and stood out in the front.
To this day, the three thousand people have retreated, leaving Shidefeng and 600 Xi troops in Gaoshan Fort. At present, three wolf smokes are warning Dahong City, indicating that the number of Khitan troops appearing in front is extremely large. Due to the limited vision, Li Chongjiu saw a black line in the distance of the grassland, spreading straight past. It is undoubtedly the visual shock of Shidefeng, which is the frontier Gaoshan Fort.
"Nothing good-looking, but the Khitan striker."
That being said, the vanguard alone has such a powerful force. What if the army gathers together, what if it is? Li Chongjiu walked down the city, his eyes seemed to return to the scene where Shibi Khan was outside Yanmen, with a 200,000 Turkic army under the ranks. But today he would face 100,000 Khitan cavalry. How about his life and death?
"The prefect of the King of the King of the King of the Xihe tribe is unwilling to send reinforcements to us!" Ying Hefu was somewhat disgraced when he saw Li Chongjiu. The King of the King of the Xi tribe is the most powerful among the five tribes of the Xi tribe. The King of the King of the Xi tribe is also vaguely known as the Khan of the Xi tribe. If he is willing to come forward to organize, he may not be able to unite the five tribes of the Xi tribes and can jointly fight the increasingly erosion of the Khitans.
"But Mukun Xi's army sent a thousand cavalry to help us, and they were all very heroes." When Wang Mahan said this, he was shining. Mukun Xi's army was Li Hu's sworn brother. Of course, when Qi Jin was willing to fight with Li Hu, it was because when the Li family escort agency sold it to Mukun Xi's army, Qi Jin's wife was sick. At that time, Doctor Xue happened to be with him, so he saved Qi Jin's wife. After Doctor Xue saved the person, he married him again, and Qi Jin was also married.
Thanks to Li Hu for his life-saving grace, he became brothers with him. Over the years, Li Hu and his friends have also consciously traded with Mukun Xi tribes, allowing them to obtain a large amount of cloth and tea from the Central Plains. Therefore, in recent years, the Mukun Xi tribe has grown significantly among the five tribes of the Xi tribe, but it has temporarily been the leader of the King of the King of the Xi tribe. Now, even though they know that the Khitan is powerful, the Mukun Xi tribe dare not mobilize with all their might, but they are willing to dispatch a thousand cavalry to reinforce Yuyi Town, which shows the kindness of Shi Jin.
"In addition, Bai Shi, some Xi people, and even a family of Wei people also joined our army. They had a grudge with the Khitans, especially Bai Shi and Xi people, who fought with the Khitans many times and had already formed deadly enemies. Many of them were friends we made in the grassland sales for many years. When they heard that the Khitans came, they sent warriors from the clan to support them without saying a word. There were also a thousand people."
Li Chongjiu nodded. There were not many reinforcements with these two thousand reinforcements, but they were all the father and son who had been operating in the grassland for five years and spread their connections to help. For example, the Xi tribe asked the Xi tribe the strongest Xi tribe for help, hoping that the other party could come forward to rescue the same clan. However, under the strength of the Khitan, the feelings of the same clan were just to bring shame on himself.
"With two thousand troops, our army is very confident." Wang Mahan waved his fist and showed a bit of domineering aura. The room was given Xi Shijin and his forehead was held. Ying Hefu was slightly relieved after hearing the news, but the worry on his face did not decrease much.
Li Chongjiu said, "What about Huaihuang Town? Do the Turks plan to invade with the Khitans?"
Wang Mahan smiled and said, "I haven't found it yet. I heard that the Turkic Shibi Khan had not recovered from an arrow injury for a year, and he could not even ride his horse. Now his younger brothers and sons are busy fighting for the Khan throne, so he has no time to look south to the Central Plains."
"This is a good thing, but once the position of the Turkic Khan is decided, it will inevitably invade the south. We should not be careless about Huaihuang Town now. All these two thousand reinforcements are deployed east of Huaihuang Town to be wary of the Turks." Li Chongjiu spoke.
"What about Yuyi Town?" Hearing that Li Chongjiu transferred reinforcements to Huaihuang Town, Shi De Xi's daughter, Shi Jin, said anxiously.
Li Chongjiu looked at the crowd of Xi people present and asked back, "You think the Khitan army is coming, how should we fight?"
After saying this, everyone was silent. Li Chongjiu said, "What if we fight in the field? We have our 10,000 troops to fight 100,000 troops, and there is no hope of winning. At present, we can only rely on the strong city to defend and fight decisively under the city."
After hearing what Li Chongjiu said, everyone nodded. Li Chongjiu continued to say: "Now, Yuyi Town only has Dahong City and Gaoshan Fort. Gaoshan Fort can station thousands of soldiers. Dahong City only has 3,000 people. If there are too many cities, the city cannot accommodate them, and the food and grass in the city are not enough to support it. So I decided to fight back in addition to three thousand people guarding the two cities, and wait for the Khitans to be blocked under the strong city."
"This is a strategy to defend first and then attack." Ying Hefu nodded.
After hearing that night that the Khitan army was about to siege the city, all the cavalry of the Xi army withdrew. This time, the Xi army mobilized the greatest mobilization and dispatched 6,000 people. Except for 1,500 people to defend the city with Li Chongjiu, the remaining 4,500 cavalry were deployed in the west of the city. In Yuyi Town, there were 600 Xi troops stationed in Gaoshan Fort, and in addition to a group of soldiers and a thousand garrison troops in Dahong City, the rest were 900 Xi troops from Ertuo. Wang Mahan took four cavalry out of the city and quietly stationed in the valley of the east of the city. Of course, dozens of miles away, there were 1,000 garrisons in Huaihuang Town and 2,000 reinforcements from various tribes, with a total of 1,100 troops.
Before the war came, all the formations in the city had been completed. The next morning, the main lineup of the Khitan Army appeared outside the city of Dahong City, almost nowhere to be seen. After observing for a long time, Li Chongjiu and Etuo believed that although the Khitans claimed that although 100,000 was an imaginary number, they also had 70,000 or 80,000 troops.
The Khitan Khan's white horse, green bull, was erected several miles east of Dahong City and Gaoshan Fort. Now the Khitan Khan wanted to use this as the place of the den. Looking over the city, the city was filled with hair, big earrings, and slanted animal skins. Recalling hundreds of years later, when this nation reached its peak, its ruling territory even surpassed the Northern Song Dynasty. Later Russians even regarded Khitan as Chinese. Even today, China was pronounced as the word Khitan in Russian.
However, the Khitan robbers hundreds of years later have not yet left the clan tribe. The so-called Khan is actually the leader of the alliance elected by the eight tribes. They do not have a formal military organization, but rely on the call of each tribe. They form an army of clans composed of blood-related geographical areas. The leaders do not have one-level generals and captains. The orders are only given by several respected leaders in the tribe. As for the Khitans, they wear thick sewn animal skins, holding cattle horn hunting bows twisted with vine skins, and most of the skins are arrowheads made of animal bones and wolf teeth. Except for a few people holding swords made of meteorites, most of them still hold bones and veritable wolf teeth maces.
Although the equipment is simple and the organization is messy, the barbarity and courage of the uncivilized nations are enough to make up for all this, not to mention that the Khitans are a "100,000" army (to be continued. Please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!)
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