Chapter 1389: Enemy Appears
Remember [New] in one second! After receiving the news from Youbeiping, Wang Men immediately gathered all the officials and generals in Chifeng City and announced the matter to them. What relieved him was that no one in Chifeng City had any objection to joining the King of Tang. Wang Men had originally prepared swordsmen and axemen, but in the end he found that all these preparations were in vain.
Soon, Luoyang received the order of the King of Tang, asking everyone to perform their duties, step up the recruitment of soldiers and horses, expand the military force, and prevent the invasion of the Xianbei in the north. Yanbei County also sent a batch of weapons and equipment as soon as possible. Just when everyone in Wang Men was relieved, an accident occurred.
On this day, Wang Men had just returned to the prefectural governor's mansion after inspecting the military camp. Because he had newly recruited two thousand soldiers, Wang Men had to go to the military camp almost every day to see the training of the newly recruited soldiers.
Who knew that not long after returning to the prefectural governor's mansion, the alarm bell rang in the city.
"Come here, where is the warning from!" Wang Men was shocked and asked hurriedly;
"Report to the governor, it seems to be the direction of the north gate. I will go and check it out." The guard general on duty outside the gate replied hurriedly;
Just as he was about to leave the governor's mansion and go to the north gate of Chifeng City to check, the street in front of the governor's mansion sounded with the sound of hurried horse hooves, and soon several war horses appeared in front of the governor's mansion.
Several scouts covered in blood rushed directly to the gate of the governor's mansion before stopping their war horses. Several people almost fell off the horse's back, and one of them even had several feather arrows stuck in his back.
"Report! The scout camp is asking for an audience with Xu Xiong!"
"Send!" Wang Men heard the words and hurriedly ordered the people to be brought.
Soon, a scout general was helped into the prefect's mansion. He didn't even bother to salute. When he saw Wang Men, he hurriedly reported: "General, the Xianbei army is attacking!"
"What?!" Wang Men was shocked and stood up, asking: "Where is the army? How many soldiers are there? Have you found out who is leading the army?..."
Although the scout was injured, it was not very serious. Hearing Wang Men's question, he reported to him in detail.
It turned out that their team of scouts was the scout team that started to explore the situation of the Xianbei people in the north yesterday. Since receiving the warning from Huangfu Chaobo, Wang Men has increased the patrol around Chifeng. He drew out 20,000 elite cavalry from his own 1,000 cavalry to monitor the situation around Chifeng.
Xu Xiong was one of the captains among the two hundred scouts. Yesterday, it was their turn to patrol the north. According to the previous requirements of the Wang family, the scouts only needed to reach a place more than fifty miles north of Chifeng. However, even though the Tang King's order came from Luoyang, asking the counties of Youzhou to pay attention to the movements of the Xianbei people, the Wang family increased the fifty miles to one hundred miles.
It was also these fifty miles that allowed Xu Xiong to discover the whereabouts of the Xianbei army.
On the grassland, if one side saw the whereabouts of the other side, it meant that the other side also saw their whereabouts, so the five hundred Xianbei cavalry quickly broke away from the majority and chased after Xu Xiong and his men.
Seeing this, Xu Xiong took a rough look at the situation of the Xianbei army and fled without hesitation.
Even though Xu Xiong and his men's riding skills were outstanding among the Han army, they were still inferior to the Xianbei elite. Therefore, Xu Xiong had no choice but to send troops to delay the speed of the Xianbei cavalry, but facing the Xianbei elite cavalry, the intercepting cavalry could hardly survive two rounds.
Finally, when Xu You escaped the pursuit of the Xianbei cavalry and fled to Chifeng City, only ten of the fifty scouts were left.
Fortunately, they finally brought back the news of the Xianbei attack.
"Quick, quick, pass the order, ring the alarm bell, close the four gates, soldiers climb the city, and prepare for battle." Wang Men was shocked when he heard Xu Xiong's report. The 50,000 Xianbei troops were attacking, and the vanguard troops were ten times their own. There would definitely be more troops to follow.
Soon, the whole city sounded alarm bells one after another, and the four city gates began to prepare to close. Teams of soldiers wearing armor and holding halberds began to climb the city and arrange defenses on the city. People outside the city also drove cattle and sheep back to the city, and the vendors in the city packed up their things and prepared to close their shops, and the residents on the streets also ran towards their homes.
According to the regulations, after the alarm bell sounded, the city gates must be closed immediately, the defending soldiers must climb the city within a quarter of an hour, and the streets in the city must be cleared within half an hour. The whole city suddenly fell into panic.
Wang Men summoned other scouts and carefully asked them about the situation they had found out. After confirming the whereabouts of the 50,000 Xianbei army they had discovered, he immediately asked people to write several letters for help, and then summoned a team of personal guards, handed them several letters for help, and asked them to split into five groups to ask for help from Chengde.
Soon, fifty cavalrymen left the south gate of Chifeng before the city gate was closed, and ran wildly towards the south in several directions.
"Come on, put on armor for me and climb the city to meet the enemy!" After the letter for help was sent, Wang Men did not stay in the prefectural mansion, but went to the north city under the escort of the personal guards.
Half an hour later, Chifeng City was quiet again.
An hour later, a black cloud floated over the grassland north of Chifeng, and the 50,000 Xianbei troops finally appeared in Wang Men's sight.
Standing on the city wall, looking at the 50,000 Xianbei cavalry approaching like a black cloud in the distance, many soldiers on the city wall were frightened and their faces turned pale, and some of the timid ones were even so scared that their teeth chattered.
"Haha..." Just when the soldiers on the city wall were panicking, Wang Men standing at the top of the city suddenly laughed. The generals and soldiers around him turned their heads and looked at their general in surprise.
A general asked: "General, why are you laughing?"
"Hmph, I think back then, I also led more than ten thousand warriors to besiege Chifeng City. Hundreds of thousands of Xianbei dog thieves attacked for more than a month, but they were unable to capture the city. In the end, reinforcements from the Yan State and the Tang State came. Attacked from both inside and outside, hundreds of thousands of Xianbei troops were killed and their blood flowed like rivers. They lost their troops and retreated to the depths of the grassland in embarrassment. "
"I didn't expect these Xianbei dogs to have such short memories. In just a few years, 50,000 miscellaneous soldiers dared to come to stroke the tiger beard of the Tang Dynasty king. It was really desperate. Now there are nearly 10,000 elite soldiers in Chifeng City, and this general has just arrived Several lines of reinforcements have been sent to ask for help. It will only take ten days and a half for the king's reinforcements to arrive at Chifeng. By then, these Xianbei dog thieves will be killed. "
"Do you think these Xianbei dog thieves don't know how to live or die? Hahaha..." After Wang Men finished speaking, he quietly winked at the surrounding generals.
Someone immediately reacted, looked at the hurried-looking soldiers around him, and laughed: "If the general doesn't say it, Wei Jiang really almost forgot that Wei Jiang also defended the city with the general. It was in that battle. , General Wei was killed at the sixteenth level, and General Wei was promoted from the commander of the army to the commander of the army. "
"Hey, I didn't expect that when I was worried that I didn't have enough military merit, the Xianbei dog gave us its head." As he said that, the military commander gently pulled out the ring-headed knife on his waist and stuck out his tongue to add a touch to it. , smiled and said: "Wei Jiang's sword is already hungry and thirsty."
The other generals also reacted, and they all pretended to be extremely excited, rubbing shoulders and hoping that the Xianbei people would come forward and kill them now.
The reactions of the generals were seen by all the surrounding soldiers, and they became the souls of the soldiers. Seeing the relaxed expressions of all the generals of the Wangmen, the nervousness of the surrounding soldiers immediately disappeared without a trace.
Wang Men suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and shouted loudly: "Soldiers, I have sent people to ask for help from the king. It will only take a few days for the king's reinforcements to arrive. By then, they will definitely kill Xianbei." The dog thief returns with a great defeat. I will definitely ask the king to kill him! Kill him!"
"Kill! Kill! Kill!!!" The soldiers at the top of the city raised their weapons and responded loudly. For a while, the entire city wall echoed with killing cries.