Chapter 55: The Eight-nation Alliance attacked Hedong, and the Qipin County Magistrate went to the siege

The eight-nation coalition crossed the river, and Yan Han was unexpected. Even if you expect it, you can't imagine it at this time. Liuzhou was first surrounded by the Sala Army. Then came Mingzhou, where the access was completely cut off by the coalition forces, and the soldiers of the seven countries were surrounded by water.

In such a sudden situation, Liuzhou can still support it. Because Liuzhou was only across the river from Saratov, the capital of the Principality of Sala, the Yanhan court gave priority to strengthening the city defense for Liuzhou when organizing the military and civilians to operate the western line, and diverted water from the Volga River to dig the moat, making the whole defense system more rigorous. At this time, he was raided. Zhou Bolong, the town governor of the state, and General Beschuyylhev, held on to it, and Xiao Yu, the general of the town army, led the rescue. Xiao Lu's reputation for "God Arrow White Robe" was well-known, and he shot two barons and many knights in the Principality of Sala. The morale of the people inside and outside the Han army was greatly boosted. It was difficult for the Sara army to attack for a while, so they temporarily withdrew the siege and only built a base in the north to confront the Han army. Xiao Qian set up a camp outside the city, forming a corner with the city, and Liuzhou has been relatively stable for the time being.

But in Mingzhou, the situation is extremely dangerous. There were only 2,000 defenders, besieged by more than ten times the enemy, and far away from other state capitals in Yanhan, isolated and helpless. Mingzhou is a big city in Fudong, second only to Lianzhou. The wall is wide, unrepaired, and there is no moat, which is very difficult to defend. Thanks to the governor of Mingzhou, the brave and courageous tiger-winged general Lu, the bloody soldiers, and the hard work of the people in the city, this was barely able to support it.

In this era, the Russian nation has not yet been formed, and the Dongsi people in the city regard the Dongsi coalition outside the city as foreign invaders. Yan Han's policy has won the hearts of the people, with reasonable taxes and good social security. The Dongsi people in the six prefectures of Fudong are willing to regard Yanhan as their motherland and contribute to it. Thanks to this, Mingzhou was able to lose.

Wuda, the governor of Zhennan, who guarded Zanzhou, heard the news, took the order and arrows, and urgently transferred Ge Lishen, the governor of Yizhou, Su Midu, the commander of Lianzhou garrison, and Yao Zi, the captain of the Gezhou garrison army, to lead the reinforcements to the north and join forces with Xiao Lu. At this time, there are not many troops on the western line of Yanhan, and even Zhou, Gezhou, Zanzhou and other important towns along the river have to be guarded, which is really overstretched! Xiao Wei put together seven or eight reinforcements from all walks of life, less than 5,000 people, and with the garrison of Liuzhou, the total strength was no more than 7,000, which is less than half of the Sala army. Moreover, the supplies of the Sara army only need to be transported by ship from the capital near the other side; the supplies of the Han army need to be transported on the snow. The Han army is both good and difficult to supply. In any case, it can't push north to relieve the siege of Mingzhou.

If this stalemate continues, Mingzhou is becoming more and more precarious. At this time, the Han army had defeated Chahan Timur and still needed to confront Haidu. Lu Xiang returned to Anhanfu to serve as Jing Zhaoyin because he was killed by Chahan Timur's poison arrow. Knowing that Mingzhou was in danger, Lu Xiang couldn't settle down and asked Li Da Sima: "The lower official is willing to go to Mingzhou to contribute to relieve the siege."

Li Da felt embarrassed and muttered, "Lord Lu wants to save Mingzhou, I understand very well. However, half of China's soldiers and horses are in Cangling Pass; and the Ural River defense line and the capital must be guarded; Zanzhou and Lianzhou are also indispensable. If you want to help Mingzhou, there are no soldiers to send now.

Lu Xiang arched his hand and said, "The subordinates also know that there are no soldiers to send. Despite this, the upper is the country, the lower is the elder brother, and the lower official is loyal and righteous, and the lower officials really can't sit still. I would like to lead more than ten people to go on a starry night!"

Li Da thought about it again and nodded, "Great! Since adults are so ambitious, I can't help it. There are 300 strong men in my department, and I will call another 200 tigers and go with you.

Lu Xiang stood up and said, "Thank you, Sima Chengquan! However, Hu Ben is guarding the royal palace, and the order of the Lord cannot be used. It's enough for me to lead 300 heroes to go there. I feel the kindness of the big Sima!"

Li Du also got up and arched his hand: "If the lord is here, he will also praise your will. I made this decision because you were a tiger guard and good at controling tigers. If not, I'll take care of it, and my lord can go quickly.

Lu Xiang bid farewell to Li Dasu, led 500 strong men, and galloped out of Anhan Mansion. This area is covered with ice and snow melting, and the roads are muddy, which is very difficult to walk. Lu Xiang led his troops to Mingzhou through Yizhou, and reported that there were long hairy soldiers and horses blocking the road in front of him. It turned out that in order to take Mingzhou, the Eight-nation coalition forces had divided their troops to cut off the access to Mingzhou. Lu Xiang personally looked at the Changmao camp and saw that the deep ditch was high and difficult to attack. In order to rush to Mingzhou, Lu Xiang had to order his troops to go around to the wilderness and trek all the way.

The words are divided into two ends. The deer people resisted the enemy in Mingzhou and fought very hard. Two thousand soldiers have been damaged. After all, the people are not soldiers and their will is not so strong. At this time, they all feel that the general trend has gone and are very frightened. The deer is not good at strategy. For this reason, he can only break the net with the enemy with determination to fight to death.

Early on this day, the deer people stood on the damaged wall of the pheasant, looking hundreds of steps away from the enemy who were preparing to attack again with a large number of rushing cars. The rolling wood ring stone prepared at the head of the city has been used very little. The soldiers and civilians are chiseling hard ice with their thugs, and then they will smash the enemy with ice instead of stones.

A new round of enemy attacks began, and there were thousands of troops on this wall alone. The enemy hid under the wooden roof of the rushing car for fear of being injured by the crossbows in the city. The deer couldn't help smiling contemptuously. In fact, the crossbows of the defenders have already been shot, and these days they have repelled the enemy by hand-to-hand combat.

After a while, the two armies fought and killed them in the dark. The blood-stained city has added a lot of blood. The deer handed a wind knife and killed the enemy who climbed to the top of the city. There were waves of vibrations under his feet. It was that the rushing car was hitting the city wall, making people feel like sitting on a boat in the stormy waves. The bottom of the boat was hit by a giant beast and could be overturned at any time.

It was not easy to repel an attack. The enemy sat and gasped under the city. After a while, under the order of the enemy generals, the enemy soldiers stood up one after another, and there was a shout from behind them. The deer have been numb to this. No matter how many reinforcements they are, they will kill one by one until they are also killed! ... Unexpectedly, after listening for a while, Lu Yi actually heard that the voice was shouting in Chinese!

Is it your own reinforcement?! The deer quickly sent his own soldiers to the telescope given by the king and looked carefully. I saw a strange man and horse coming into the rear of the enemy! They drove an unprecedented chariot and sprinted on the ice and snow!

If those "cars" are chariots, why are they so low? The deer was very surprised to see it, and his mouth could not be close. After a while, the film "Let's go! Kill it!" The shout came to the front of him, as the first "car", and one person shouted harshly: "Under the flag of the generals, is it to suppress Lord Lu?"

The deer replied: "I'm right! Who are you?"

Hearing the sound, the man hurriedly bowed his hand in the car: "The subordinate is Chen Guinian, the county magistrate of Bei County, Oblast, and led the county's militia battalion to come!"

Lu Yi was overjoyed and quickly opened the gate to personally welcome Chen Guinian in. It turned out that Lin Mi served as the governor of Yuzhou Town, ordering each county to train militia, 300 small counties and 500 large counties. Bei County in Chen Guinian is a small county, but he is full of enthusiasm to serve the country, recruited 500 militiamen, and is personally responsible for training in the early morning and dark. The counties in Ouzhou are scattered, and Bei County is the closest county to Mingzhou - but this "nearest" is only relatively speaking. In fact, there is a long road in the middle, covered with ice and snow. In this case, it could not have been rescued, but Chen Guinian had a " magic weapon" - a sleigh.

In this era, ski poles have not been invented, and only the sleigh has a prototype appeared in the Nordic Kingdom of Norway. The word "Ski" in English in later generations comes from Norwegian. People in other places didn't know anything about skiing. However, Yanhan has a lot of titles such as "father of signal bombs" and "father of telescopes"! Zhao Jin ordered the craftsman's "research team" to come to the north, which has been covered with ice and snow for nearly half a year, to tell them the principle of sleds and let them develop this kind of equipment that is convenient for snow marching and logistics. The critical base is located in Bei County. Chen Guinian's militia battalion can be said to be "first-come-first-served" and was the first to get this new equipment. They have practiced skillfully this winter, which can be called Yanhan's first "snow special forces".

The hunting industry in the north is very important, and most of them are hounds. Chen Guinian's unit pulled a sled with a tall and powerful wolf dog, driving such a "car" that neither the enemy nor his own people had ever seen, traveled a long distance, and finally took the lead to Mingzhou!

"Bad dog! The vicious dog is coming!" The Dongsi allied forces were killed by the militia battalion for such a while, and they were so scared that they screamed wildly.

The enemy general doesn't understand: "What kind of vicious dog? Don't run around!" But when he rushed to the scene of the accident, he found a large group of low "cars" rushing. There were soldiers with long knives across the car, and wolves and dogs were jumping in front of the car! He was suddenly scared and ran back faster than anyone else - not because he was timid, but because the mount was instinctively afraid of the wolf dog.

As soon as the enemy general ran away, the enemy panicked and was suddenly rushed away by the militia battalion. Chen Guinian then successfully broke into the siege.

The reinforcements arrived in time, and the military and civilians of Mingzhou were extremely excited. Chen Guinian not only brought 500 horses, but also many crossbows loaded on the sleigh. Thanks to his familiar reading of the king's quotations, he understands that crossbows are the key materials for defending the city.

Chen Guinian is a native of Jiangxi in the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, Wen Tianxiang scattered all his wealth and recruited more than 10,000 righteous soldiers in Jiangxi, and Chen Guinian was also among them. He was originally a scholar. He abandoned literature and martial arts because of national difficulties and aspired to serve the country. However, he became a monk halfway and was not good at martial arts. He was captured and reduced to a hard force and exiled far away. It has been more than 40 years now, and my ambition has not changed. After Zhao Jin raised his army, Chen Guinian joined with blood, hoping to become a general and establish a career. However, Zhao Jin saw that he was not civil and military, and there was a shortage of civil servants in the country, so he asked him to hold a civilian position. Chen Guinian is not discouraged, but still works eagerly and studies hard. Later, he became a Qipin county magistrate and made the civil and military equipment of a county very good.

That night, Lu Yan discussed with Chen Guinian and decided to go out of the city to rob the camp. The Dongsi Army was shocked by the "bad dog chariot" during the day, and the shock was not determined. Unexpectedly, it would come again at night! So in the roar of dogs and horses, the Dongsi army killed another seven pieces.

With this turning point, the morale of the military and civilians in Mingzhou has been greatly restored and they continue to stick to it.

(To be continued in the 56th chapter: Jing Zhao sacrificed his brother, and the leader of the country rose to the six armies)