On November 12, a few days later than expected, good news came from all walks of life that six counties in the north had been captured.

These days the barbarian army is in full force. As soon as the army arrives at the city, they directly attack the city. The people in the six counties have long known that the barbarians have rebelled and are very powerful.

Those who can walk should quickly take all their belongings with them and either hide in the deep mountains and old forests and wait for the barbarians to be wiped out before coming back, or flee directly to other places.

Therefore, except for a few county soldiers who are still holding on, there are not many people in each county, the old, the weak, and the small rich who are unwilling to leave.

The most ridiculous thing is that in Zengshi County, the last county in the north, as soon as the barbarians arrived, the county soldiers opened the city gate. When the barbarian army entered the city, they found that there were only about a hundred or ten county soldiers in total, and none of them were officials.

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On this day, Shamoshen was very happy. After waiting for the troops from all walks of life to return, he directly held a banquet to celebrate. After drinking wildly for a day and night, on the third day, he directly organized his troops and distributed weapons and armored guards captured from various counties.

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Fan Fu also suggested that Shamo Shen collect all farm tools and iron tools and directly recycle them into swords and guns.

Samoshen readily adopted it. As for the Han people who no longer have tools for farming, who cares?

After taking over six counties in the north, the local barbarians had been suffering for a long time and could no longer survive, so they joined Shamoshen's barbarian army one after another.

Therefore, the power of the barbarian army has been further strengthened, with a total of more than 60,000 troops. Excluding the more than 22,000 people defending each county, the mobile force has reached 40,000, which is a force that cannot be ignored.

The number of people usually exceeds 10,000, and they are spread all over the mountains and plains.

Fan Fu suggested that Shamocan capture Han Chinese and barbarians who were unwilling to "submit" and serve as handymen to transport marching supplies.

The barbarians started the second strategy and marched towards Cangwu's frontier Gaoyao.

On November 20th, the barbarians gathered an army of 40,000, known as 100,000, and attacked Gaoyao.

The county magistrate of Gaoyao hurriedly sent people to Guangxin to seek support.

Congratulations to the magistrate of Gaoyao County, named Yuncai, who belongs to a local family. In order to prevent the city of Gaoyao from being destroyed, he directly announced that the barbarians would conquer the city and would massacre the city.

Therefore, it can be said that the Gaoyao City was united as one, and the city was destroyed and the family was destroyed. Thinking about this kind of tragedy makes people shiver down their spines.

Fortunately, Guan Wen, in the name of the county guard, had already ordered Gaoyao places to prevent the barbarians from attacking.

The expedition horse dispatched by Congratulations had informed the barbarians of their marching route one day before. After learning and discussing with his subordinates, he directly told the rural tribes fifty miles around Gaoyao County to migrate to the county overnight, taking with them their food and livestock to prevent

The barbarian army supplies supplies on the spot.

In autumn, when the weeds turned yellow, they sent people to burn down all the weeds and trees within three miles of the county seat to ensure a clear view and prevent barbarians from suddenly attacking the city with the cover of vegetation.

All the people in the county went into battle to reinforce the city walls and prepare rolling stones, logs, gold juice, etc. for defense.

Gao Yao originally had more than 500 county soldiers, but these days he recruited more than 1,500 soldiers. After 20 days of training, they were qualified for medical use. Together with the more than 2,000 soldiers mobilized by Guan Wen from the rear, the total number was 4,000.

In addition, more than 3,000 local civilians volunteered to join the defense.

The grain and grass supplies collected in this month are enough to feed the defenders and the people for three months.

Therefore, taking the initiative to attack is not enough, but in terms of defense alone, it can at least ensure that the barbarian army can defend for at least a month and a half without losing a fight.

One and a half months is enough time to manage the temperature response, prepare troops, and send reinforcements.

In ancient times, it was emphasized to surround three times and attack five times.

A siege battle can be described as a nightmare for the attacker. Usually, without five times the strength, it is not enough to break through the city.

Therefore, on the morning of October 25th, when Shamo Shen led his army to one kilometer outside the Gaoyao City, he saw the heads of people on the Gaoyao City Wall. He did not panic at all. He suddenly started to beat the drum and wondered if he could invade Cangwu.

Correct.

However, it is meaningless to think about this. There is no turning back when you shoot the bow, you can only go all out.

Order your troops to attack Gaoyao after lunch.

At the end of the afternoon, the barbarian army blew the horn of attack. Under the leadership of their leaders, the barbarians attacked on three sides and rushed towards Gaoyao City like crazy.

The siege on three sides was proposed by Fan Fu in order to give the Han army a sense of luck and reduce their resistance.

Gaoyao is not a big city. It has no moat and the city wall is not high. After these days of construction, it is only three and a half meters.

Therefore, as long as you rush to the city wall and use two people as a ladder, you will have a continuous supply of energy to send the barbarians up the city wall.

Congratulations can be regarded as taking the lead. When the barbarians invaded, he stood on the west gate of the tower and gave orders. The other three gates were also guarded by his trusted people.

The Han army was very nervous. Many of them were temporary recruits with little combat experience. Even veterans, the barbarians had not rebelled in more than 20 years and had hardly fought any battles.

When the barbarians were only eighty steps away from the city wall, they congratulated and shouted:

"Fire the arrow!"

For the bows and arrows of the Han Dynasty, an adult soldier holding the bow with one hand could probably hit an enemy fifty to sixty meters away. If he had good arm strength and bow and arrow, he could hit an enemy a hundred meters away.

Eighty steps, almost sixty or seventy meters, just within the effective range of the bow and arrow.

The east wall is about 200 meters long, and there are at least three or four soldiers and two young men per meter. Two of the five can shoot arrows.

Every five meters there is a large pot with boiling golden juice.

There is a soldier every ten meters who is responsible for delivering orders.

When the messenger does not wait for more than five breaths, the order to release the arrow has been passed on.

In an instant, arrows rained down like rain, and the vanguard of the barbarians fell down one by one.

Because the barbarians charged together, the Han army did not need to aim at all when firing arrows. They could hit the target in the general direction.

There were also many Han soldiers and young men who missed their shots because they were too nervous.

But it doesn't matter. The barbarians who attacked Ximen first were no more than a thousand at most. After a hail of arrows, at least one-fifth of them were wiped out.

After rushing forward for dozens of steps, we were still ten meters away from the city wall. During this period, we had enough soldiers to draw their bows twice more, and another quarter of them were wiped out. Only a little more than half of the thousand people were left.

However, just when the barbarians thought they could rush to the bottom of the city wall, the front row rushed so hard that they fell directly down.

Yes, Congratulations sent people to dig a large number of pits two meters deep at a distance of five to ten meters from the city wall. The pits were previously covered with a thin layer of dust and straw, and the bottom of the pits were densely packed with sharpened barbs from branches and moso bamboo.

If you fall down hard, if you are unlucky, you will be directly pierced by barbs in your vital organs and die on the spot. If you are lucky, you will be pierced through the thighs and limbs, and you will be almost alive.

The vanguard barbarians were suddenly frustrated. Seeing that they were in a dilemma, some barbarians simply dropped their weapons and ran away.

When Samoshen saw that he could not go on like this, he quickly blew the horn and asked people to retreat first.

Not only Ximen, the other two attacking forces also faced the same problem.

Shamoshen watched with a cold face as the group of people retreated, less than 400 of them, many of whom were injured.
Chapter completed!