Chapter 377: Juyong Pass Attack and Defense
Let’s go back a little bit to two days after Hua Xiong defeated the Xianbei Hu people.
The Xianbei Hu people, who were being chased madly by Gongsun Zan, returned north under the leadership of the Northern Xiongnu and others. Even Huyan Lin did not expect that his escape would bring such serious consequences.
The Xianbei Hu people completely lost their will to fight in their defeat and did not dare to turn back to attack Bai Ma, so that a small team of only a few people from Bai Ma could chase thousands of Hu people, and anyone who was left alone would be ruthlessly killed.
Huyan Lin had no choice but to retreat. At this moment he realized that the Hu people and the Northern Huns were really two different creatures. Both were nomadic peoples, but the Hu people's performance was terribly shameful.
Gongsun Zan led more than 4,000 white horses to chase hundreds of thousands of Xianbei Hu people. If it were the Northern Huns, with the same strength, they would have killed Gongsun Zan at the cost of losses. At most, they would have lost 40,000 or 50,000 people. That would not be so embarrassing.
However, when Hu Yanlin led the Xianbei people to Juyong Pass, they found that the Han army was stationed above Juyong Pass, and countless traps were dug below Juyong Pass.
Huyan Lin was already in despair. With the shameful performance of the Xianbei Hu people, obstacles in front of him and pursuers behind him, he was doomed.
However, the Xianbei people once again surprised Huyan Lin. It seemed that the loss of Juyongguan destroyed the last glimmer of hope of the Xianbei people. The Xianbei people's bloodiness in attacking Juyongguan in an attempt to return north was completely unleashed.
"Brother, are these barbarians crazy?"
Xiahou Yuan looked at the crazy Hu people in the pass and felt a little bit unbelievable. Are all Hu people like this?
Could it be that the Hu people he knew before were all fake? If a group of defeated Hu people had such terrifying fighting power, then how strong was Gongsun Zan who defeated them before?
The various traps that Xiahou Yuan had dug with great effort did not hinder the Xianbei people at all. The Xianbei people simply killed their horses and threw away their armor to fill the pits. The work that would originally take at least a day was compressed into half a day by the Xianbei people.
Hu Yanlin didn't need to mobilize for the rest of the day. The Xianbei people were fearless and continued to attack Juyongguan, leaving an indelible impression on Xiahou Yuan's young mind.
"I didn't expect it would be so difficult to mobilize those five hundred long watermen."
Xiahou Dun understood it, after all, it was the hope of the Hu people to return north. He was also somewhat shocked by the bloodiness of the Hu people who were determined to fight to the death.
Changshui, who was originally intended to be a killer, was quickly transferred to the wall. After all, Zhongleiying's talent effect was to control the airflow and defend against long-range attacks.
The other Huben Battalion is fully responsible for close combat. Their talents are to release force, be stable, and make them resilient in close combat. Coupled with a complete set of chain mail and leather armor, they can be considered a qualified meat shield.
This was also the reason why Huangfu Song transferred them to Juyongguan. After all, what Jia Xu required was the troops needed to defend the city, and the combination of Zhonglei Camp, Huben Camp, and Changshui Camp, the three types of troops, were very effective in defending the city.
"Go ahead!" Huyan Lin looked at the defense on the city wall that was as solid as a mountain and gave orders to the elite Northern Huns around him.
Originally, he thought that the Hu people were irrecyclable garbage and were good for nothing except their numbers, but this time the Xianbei Hu people's bloodiness aroused him and made him see some new possibilities.
If they could capture Juyong Pass, this group of Xianbei Hu people could be thrown into the battlefield of Great Britain for training, and perhaps they could even serve as new members of their Northern Huns.
"God of Kunlun is above!" Lan Luan, Huyan Lin's deputy, roared loudly, followed by more than a thousand Northern Huns. They were all soldiers with dual talents, and were also the sand mixed in by the Northern Huns with the Xianbei Hu people.
However, at this time, Huyan Lin had to send the elite troops of the Northern Huns into the battlefield. After all, although he was worried about the losses of the Northern Huns, the Northern Huns would not be afraid of a war with the Han Dynasty.
If the Xianbei Hu people were brave and fearless, how could the Northern Xiongnu stand still?
Lan Shiluan carried a large shield and rushed towards the ladder. While the tilted shield bounced off the arrows and rocks, Lan Shiluan made several jumps and quickly rushed to the top of the city wall.
"Kill!" Lan Luan threw out a large shield and knocked away several soldiers from the Zhonglei Camp in front of him. Then he rolled over and killed the Changshui soldiers who did not retreat in time. Then he fought with the soldiers from the Huben Camp, causing a loophole in the defense of the city wall.
Many elite Northern Huns followed Lan Shiluan and jumped up. Then the Xianbei and Wuhuan warriors also rushed to the city wall, roaring and starting to fight with the soldiers defending the city.
With Lan Luan as a breakthrough point, a lot of people quickly gathered on the city wall.
"Die, you villain!" Just when Lan Shiluan wanted to continue to expand his victory, Xiahou Yuan roared and rushed directly towards Lan Shiluan. He couldn't let Lan Shiluan ruin the defense of the city.
Lan Luan did not retreat but advanced, rushed forward, and slashed at Xiahou Yuan with a knife.
Xiahou Yuan didn't even blink, he went straight to meet him. It was just that the internal energy left his body, which showed how much he looked down on him, Xiahou Yuan.
The two sides fought with their swords, and Xiahou Yuan fell into a disadvantage. Lan Luan's strength forced Xiahou Yuan to retreat three steps.
Xiahou Yuan could feel that the opponent's internal energy under the cloud was basically the same as his, except that his physical strength had a three-point advantage.
"You're still quite strong!" Xiahou Yuan showed a ferocious smile, then rushed towards Lan Luan again.
Under Lan Shiluan's shocked eyes, Xiahou Yuan's speed suddenly increased by 30%. He used his body to block Lan Shiluan's long sword, and then chopped Lan Shiluan into four pieces with three strokes.
"Bah!" After driving away all the people who were attacking the city wall, Xiahou Yuan spat in disdain, then staggered back to Xiahou Dun.
"Brother, luckily you have lived up to your destiny!"
After saying that, Xiahou Yuan seemed a lot more dispirited. It was not so easy to kill an opponent of equal strength in an instant. If he had not exceeded his limit and activated his innate speed, forcibly increasing his speed by 30%, Lan Shiluan would not have been killed at all.
Correspondingly, Xiahou Yuan's energy and spirit were almost gone, and he could only provide support with point-fire shots with a pale face using a bow and arrow.
"Lan Shiluan..." Huyan Lin's eyes were bloodshot. That was his deputy, and he was considered a childhood friend. Yet, he died on the city wall.
He only thought that Xiahou Dun, who was standing proudly in the center, was the one with internal energy leaving his body. He never expected that there would be another person with internal energy leaving his body, and Lan Luan couldn't even escape.
"Attack the city overnight and make sure to break through Juyongguan before dawn!" Huyan Lin roared. At this point in the situation, there was no point in being sympathetic or not. He had no way out.
As the Hu people continued to attack the city walls, the situation on the top of Juyongguan became increasingly worse, as if it was only a matter of time before Juyongguan was captured.
"Reinforcements are on the way, hold on!" Xiahou Dun also joined the battle. After stabbing and killing a Xianbei soldier with a spear, he looked at the Hu people who were gradually gathering in several places and couldn't help but think for a moment.
To be honest, he had never thought that the Hu people would be so crazy. After all, he had participated in the Battle of Hulao Pass. Suddenly he realized that the bloodiness of this battle might be even more pure than that of Hulao Pass.
"Miaocai, you're on the left and I'm on the right, push them back!"
Xiahou Dun looked at the setting sun in the sky and knew that he had to hold on. As long as he could hold on until night, his pressure would be much less.
After all, compared with the defending party, the attacking party will be subject to the greatest restrictions. Even if the enemy does not have night blindness and attack the city at night, the darkness will still restrict their actions. At that time, the pressure will naturally be much smaller.
In particular, this group of Hu people was a collection of multiple tribes, even with Wuhuan and Southern Xiongnu mixed in, and their languages might not be mutually intelligible.
As the sun set, night gradually enveloped the earth. As expected by Xiahou Dun, the offensive of the Hu people suddenly weakened a lot.
After all, they could not rush towards the gap like they did during the day, and could only communicate through language when they could not see clearly. The Wuhuan and Xianbei soldiers were not fluent in both languages, so they could only instinctively look for their own people.
Some Wuhuan soldiers and Xianbei soldiers even started fighting on the top of the city walls. The reason was that the two sides had no way to communicate and could only fight for their own safety.
"Let's go! It's time to let them see the real elite of the Northern Huns," Huyan Lin said with a sneer. Behind him, more than a thousand guards who were trained by the military soul and then kicked out the military soul were ready to go.
The death of Lan Shiluan forced Huyan Lin to be more cautious, fearing that Xiahou Dun had other cards in his hand. He could only wait until night, when all long-range troops were restricted, before he dared to rush towards the city wall with his personal guards.
The Hun military spirit has been passed down for hundreds of years. The Hun Guards, who have continuously inherited the skills of the previous generation of soldiers, have the same inheritance attributes as the Yulin Army, and are also the military soul legion that carries the will of the empire.
After all, the imperial will of the Xiongnu had never declined. When it was at its peak, it was shattered by Huo Qubing and was difficult to heal, so it could only passively integrate into the two military soul legions of the Xiongnu.
A legion of military souls was slaughtered in hundreds of years of blood feud, and the imperial will they carried was also absorbed by the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, the military spirit of the Huns could be passed on infinitely, becoming the foundation for the Northern Huns to remain strong and a barrier for them to be forcibly listed among the six great empires. However, the military spirit of the Northern Huns was actually as incomplete as that of the Vanguard.
The inheritance effect of the Northern Huns' military spirit is that they inherit the experience and skills of the previous generation and strengthen their skills. It can be said that everyone is a master of skills who has reached the pinnacle, and their combat effectiveness under the clouds is not inferior to that of the Yulin Guards.
Because what is passed down is skills, the Northern Huns also developed a series of fancy operations to kick the trained military soul soldiers out of the military soul team, although these soldiers will quickly lose their original extreme combat effectiveness.
However, relying on the feeling they once had, they can quickly refine the talents of this group of soldiers and promote them to become more powerful soldiers.
Of course, this would undermine the will of the empire, which is why the Han Dynasty did not do so. However, the Northern Huns could no longer care about so much. Either they would be killed or the will of the empire would be undermined. Their choice was obvious.
