Chapter 929: The "Army" Siege
Chang'an City has been completely besieged.
Trenches were dug everywhere, and some even diverted water.
The nearby forests were cut down and turned into camps and walls, filled with "weird" soldiers.
Yes, this was Hou Feihu's first impression when he first saw them.
In terms of hairstyles, there are those with braided hair, some with braided hair, some with loose hair, some with buns, and some with haircuts.
In terms of faces, there are big plate faces, long faces, high noses and deep eyes, and all kinds of skewers.
In terms of attire, there are some who wear linen clothes, some who wear shabby sheepskin jackets, some who wear moth-eaten leather armor, and some who even bare their upper bodies and draw ghostly symbols on them...
In short, there are not many normal ones.
Of course, everyone knows that these are just young men who have been temporarily recruited, and their combat effectiveness is uneven.
No matter how poor the tribal leaders are, they can still collect dozens of armors and support hundreds of warriors, but these people are not willing to take action easily and are not willing to use them for consumption.
Hou Feihu's camp is located in Bashang, east of Chang'an City, which is actually a bit far away from Chang'an City. The troops stationed here have no intention of actively attacking the city at all. They want to drive all kinds of soldiers and horses to attack the city.
Today (August 16th), he led thousands of sergeants from the Heijinzuo Battalion to inspect the eastern part of the city.
Ten thousand soldiers from Longxi under Liang Xun's army were stationed here.
Longxi, as you can tell from its name, is a place where both Hu and Han people live together. It can even be said that there are far more Hu people than Han people.
The Di Qiang are the mainstream of the local area, and there are also a few Xiongnu tribes - counting from the years they lived in Longxi, they can almost be regarded as "new aborigines".
In fact, in recent years, a group of Jie people have migrated here, which is very chaotic.
When Hou Feihu climbed up and looked into the distance, he saw a group of Huns cavalry rushing towards him.
Liang Xun himself is not here, but his nephew and various ministers are still working hard, but this battle is really a bit difficult——
In the center, a group of disheveled Qingqi (Qiang people) came forward to fight the Huns. It was originally a good opportunity to outflank the Huns, but the people deployed on the left and right couldn't understand the flags. Can you believe it?
They sent someone over to deliver the order, but the language was blocked. After many people translated it, they suddenly realized it. Then hundreds of Jie cavalry and hundreds of Di cavalry armed with cavalry bows came up to meet them. However, the Huns had already defeated the Qiang cavalry in front and returned to attack near the city wall. Camp.
At this time, the Jie people and the Di people chased fiercely, but they were hit by a wave of arrows from the top of the city and retreated in embarrassment.
Hou Feihu sighed deeply.
At this level, what kind of fight is there?
However, as soon as this idea came into Hou Feihu's mind, a relatively orderly troops came forward, with a total of 3,000 people, marching through the walls to attack the Huns' camp outside the city.
Arrows were fired continuously in the camp, and the attackers held up their wooden shields. People were shot to death and wounded continuously, but the remaining people followed orders and prohibitions, and were more organized. They attacked for a while before retreating.
Hou Feihu counted silently and found that the attackers probably had more than 500 casualties, and the Huns also suffered nearly 300 casualties. It was actually a good fight.
"Who is this?" he asked.
Soon someone went to inquire, and after a while, the messenger reported back: "This is the Li clan in Longxi."
"Longxi Li family?" Hou Feihu was startled. Is there such a family in Longxi?
"Li calls himself a poor family." A staff member stroked his beard lightly and said with a teasing smile on his face: "That's all he calls himself."
Hou Feihu shook his head and laughed.
In places like Henan and Hebei, if they had not experienced great chaos, the county genealogy certificates had not been lost, and local nobles had not suffered a large number of casualties, it would generally be difficult to falsify one's identity.
You are obviously a powerful person, but you insist that you are from a poor family. If someone exposes you, you will lose your face.
But in places like Longxi, the rules are not so strict. In some places, powerful people are very eager to make progress, but they are constantly ridiculed and ostracized by the nobles. Over time, their mentality becomes distorted, and they will secretly poke at people who claim to be from a poor family in order to improve their family status.
Hou Feihu is considered a famous general in the world, but he has no family background. The Hou family of Donghai is just a powerful man now.
If his son could still be an official, he might be able to act shamelessly and become a low-ranking nobleman, but that's obviously not possible now.
"The combat power of the various tribes is uneven. We should focus on defense. First clean up the troops and then fight against the thieves." Hou Feihu looked no longer interested.
Some tribal soldiers are actually quite courageous and dare to fight, but they have no rules and fight randomly. Someone needs to teach them how to fight.
Furthermore, the equipment was somewhat poor and the armor was extremely lacking, which greatly affected the combat effectiveness.
If there can be many years of training and uniform distribution of sophisticated equipment, their combat effectiveness will improve rapidly - if the foundation is too poor, the improvement will be fast, while the improvement of elite soldiers like Heijin Zuoying will be much slower.
But it's not an easy task either.
How many years has it been since King Liang rectified the fifth battalion of the Yellow Head Army? Only now have I seen some effects.
If a unit like the Yellow Head Army is placed here, it is actually a good unit.
They can only be used as auxiliary troops in front of the Heiyi Army, but in the hands of the heroes in Guanzhong, they can be used as the main force.
"Captain." Zheng Dong, the governor of the fourth battalion of the Huangtou Army, came on horseback. He met Hou Feihu under the high platform and said, "The soldiers and horses of the various tribes are noisy and the atmosphere is foul. Just now I was watching the battle in the north of the city, and the Qiang soldiers of the Xuchu clan attacked the Xiongnu camp. , after the defeat, the rest The camps did not help. The Huns cavalry from Fuping even laughed loudly, and the Xianbei people even rode back, fearing that they would be swept away by the Di Qiang troops. In the end, Pu Hong's Di troops stepped forward and repelled the pursuit of Tu's cavalry. ”
"Is this happening?" Hou Feihu felt the seriousness of the situation as soon as he heard this. During these days, the Guanzhong tycoons and tribesmen who came under orders were no less than a hundred thousand soldiers and horses. They were very powerful, but their combat effectiveness was uneven. Some were fairly capable of fighting, while others were vulnerable to a blow and could not even be said to be bluffing.
In fact, these are nothing.
The real problem was what Zheng Dongfang said. The friendly forces were defeated, but the others actually sat back and watched, and even laughed loudly!
Is this really a friendly force?
The troops are in chaos and do not belong to each other. To be honest, even if the King of Liang comes, it will be difficult to twist these complex troops into a unified force. This cannot be done in a short time.
What Hou Feihu is most worried about now is that a certain army has been defeated, and then suddenly someone shouted "Our army has been defeated" and then ran away, causing a huge rout in one direction.
It's not impossible for this to happen, it's a bit daunting just thinking about it.
"Follow me to the north of the city." Hou Feihu frowned and sighed.
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Jin Zhun came to the city head and observed carefully.
At this time, the city of Chang'an was not big, and even Luoyang was not big enough.
If you don't take into account the messy attached buildings outside the city, the city of Chang'an is only about 20 miles in circumference, which is on the same level as Luoyang, but slightly smaller.
Luoyang really became big during the Northern Wei Dynasty, when all the construction areas outside the city were surrounded by city walls, that is, the outer city was built.
It was not until the Sui and Tang Dynasties that Chang'an became larger. The city's circumference reached seventy or eighty miles, but the city wall was very low, only about five or six meters long. It was also very thin and could easily be smashed by attackers.
Therefore, Chang'an in the Wei and Jin Dynasties could be defended, but Chang'an in the Sui and Tang Dynasties could not be defended.
But no matter how easy it is to guard, it still needs people.
There were twenty to thirty thousand reinforcements from various ministries, most of which were stationed outside the city.
The only combatable troops in the city are the remnants of the Forbidden Army, about ten thousand people, and now they are all under the command of Jin Zhun.
Jin Zhun knew very well that Chang'an could not be defended with only ten thousand people, so he recruited some strong men from the city to go up to the city to garrison to supplement the shortage. It even allowed some of the Forbidden Army to get rid of the defense of the city and go out to fight in the field.
Guanzhong's wealthy families and miscellaneous soldiers and horses have gathered one after another.
The first to arrive were the troops stationed in the east of the city.
According to reports, Hou Feihu's camp was set up in Bashang, and more than 10,000 people under Liang Xun's troops were expelled from Bashang. They dug trenches and erect fences in the east of the city and used old buildings for garrison.
Liu Xian, king of Runan, led his army to attack and found that they actually had no plans.
They were able to be defeated by the King's Master back then, and they all moved here, and now they can still be defeated.
There was no movement in the south of the city.
Zhao Gu led more than 20,000 soldiers to guard the fence, and only made a small attack. After being repulsed, he died down.
Thousands of Zahu rebels from Beiyi Mountain joined forces with Zhao Gu and invited him to attack the city. Zhao Gu refused, so Zahu attacked alone and were defeated by Liu Yue, King of Guangping.
There are many thieves in the north of the city, no less than 50,000 in number, but their sources are complicated and they cannot form a joint force.
Xu Chuquanqu sent troops to attack, but Liu Ce, the king of Anding, repulsed them.
The west part of the city is even more complicated than the north part, with large groups of miscellaneous people gathering together. You have one thousand and I have two thousand. The largest force is Lu Shui and Hu Pengtian's guard of ten thousand people, which totals less than thirty thousand troops. In addition, Feng Yi and Di Qiang's twenty thousand troops total more than forty thousand troops. They have not yet launched an attack.
Because of this, the officials in the city actually had some expectations, thinking that they might be able to survive in death and force the besieging army to retreat.
But Jin Zhun didn't dare to think so.
There were nearly 200,000 troops besieging the city. Although they were not subordinate to each other and had no rules, they dug trenches and built strongholds and surrounded them with strong walls, which was enough to kill Chang'an.
What's more, with the chaos in Guanzhong this time, I heard that more people from Jingzhao, Beidi, Anding, Fufeng and other counties were looting everywhere. Now that all the elite soldiers of Tujia are in Chang'an, and there are not many young people in the tribe, can they really resist the Hu Han thieves who are causing trouble?
If they were to defeat them, they would bring all the old, weak, women and children to Chang'an City, and the morale of the defenders would collapse in front of them.
Jin Zhun's own tribe ran towards Anding, intending to go to Qinzhou to join the Qinzhou governor and Jiuquan King Shiwu's subordinates, but he didn't know where he was now.
If they were captured halfway, Jin Zhun didn't know if he would have the courage to resist.
Therefore, he thought about it and felt that if Hou Feihu, who was commanding the siege, was somewhat capable, but he rectified his troops and did not rush to attack, after the chaotic situation was stabilized, Chang'an would definitely not be able to defend it.
In this case, we have to consider our options.
Jin Zhun had no intention of being buried for the Tu Ge clan. He only considered himself and his tribe.
He believes that there are many people who think the same as him.
Especially the Han officials and generals such as Jiang Ying (Jiang family in Duling), You Ziyuan (You family in Jincheng, living in Feng Yi), Xin Shu (Xin family in Longxi), Hu Xun (Hu family in Anding), etc. They were originally the nobles of Guanxi. Disciples, if Shao Xun had not made it to Guanzhong, they might still be serving the imperial court. But now that troops are surrounding Chang'an, do you think these people will rebel?
Hou Feihu was troubled by the chaotic siege army, and Jin Zhun was also troubled by the pessimistic situation.
This battle is so "strange".
(End of chapter)