In the early morning, in the southeast suburbs of Xuanhu City, a sentry surrounded the stairs. A sentry on the yawned and climbed down the stairs. The winter night was very cold, and there was no place to shelter the wind on the stairs. He stayed in a broken blanket all night. He wanted to go back to the room to roast the fire and have a sleep.

The wind that had blown for a night suddenly stopped, and the snowflakes were gone. The rising sun rose, and the sun shone on the whistle, reflecting bright yellow on the upper half. The sentry felt the little warmth brought by the sun and couldn't help but slow down.

The end of the year is coming, and the New Year is not far away. He is in Yuzhou, Henan, missing his relatives in his hometown in Hebei. The government army besieged Xuanhu for several months and had to continue to siege the city. It is still unknown when he will go home.

I don't know whether I can go home alive.

Suddenly a gust of wind blew, which made him come back to his senses. Thinking of the warm brazier in the barracks, he couldn't help but speed up his downstairs. At this moment, a harsh horn sound came from above his head, which scared him so much that he almost couldn't grasp the stairs and fell down.

"The enemy has left the city! The enemy has left the city!"

The shout came from above. The sentry looked up and found that it was the comrade who had just replaced the club to warn him. He looked towards Xuanhu again, but saw some black dots appear in the south of the city. The black dots were growing, gathering into a thin stream and rushing towards him.

Of course, the eyesight of those who can be sentinels is not bad. He squinted his eyes and looked for a while and then he realized that this was an enemy cavalry, as if he was going to break through. The sound of gongs quickly sounded in the fortress, and the smoke of warning quickly rose.

The sentry castle, which was also built on the long fence on both sides, was also loud and loud, and the whistle horns were heard, disturbing the Dongdaying and Nandaying. Seeing this, the sentry quickly climbed up. He had already had experience, and at this time it was the safest place to be on the sentry tower.

If you continue now, you will definitely fight with everyone in a while. If you are not careful, you will be shot down by the rift arrow, and you will be finished!

The enemy has tried to send cavalry to break through many times in recent days. Although the government army built a long brigade and surrounded Xuanhu, there were trenches on the inside of the long brigade, the cavalry that broke through the long brigade had already rushed up the long brigade several times with the long brigade and had to break outward. Finally, the official cavalry who rushed to scare him away.

After a few days of hard work, the defenders who surrounded each of the sentry forts were already accustomed to this kind of emergencies and reacted very quickly. When the enemy cavalry approached, many soldiers had already rushed out of the barracks with bows, arrows, cards, and spears, and were ready soon.

To prevent changes, these soldiers can be called "being ready for the day" and sleeping in armor at night. Although this is uncomfortable, it is important to save lives - if you go to the battle urgently, you will definitely not have time to wear armor. If you are shot by a runaway arrow, your life will be gone.

Some soldiers carefully poked their heads out and looked outside. They found that the enemy cavalry was dragging several special long ladders toward the long encirclement a hundred steps away. When they approached the trench, they slowed down. Someone jumped off the horse and began to cross the wooden ladders across the trench. The defenders shouted and rushed out of the whistle fort, and shot against the enemy under the cover of the sword player.

Those who tried to rush through the long encirclement were all cavalry. Some built wooden ladders to cross the trench, while the other rode their horses and wandered on both wings, attacking the soldiers on the long encirclement.

Xue Shixiong rode his horse to approach the trench. Regardless of the arrows shot by the enemy soldiers in front of the trench, he suddenly clamped his legs and leaped his horse's belly. He mobilized his mount to jump to the front right, crossed the trench, and landed on the long-circuit slope.

The war horse under his seat just tilted a little and stabilized his body. Xue Shixiong held the horse spear in his hand and rushed straight to the enemy soldiers gathered behind the shield in front.

The screams were mixed with some collisions. Xue Shixiong and his horse weighed hundreds of kilograms, just like a hammer "slamming" more than a dozen gathered enemy soldiers, and many people rolled in blood.

Several Anzhou cavalrymen rode their horses across the trench and stepped onto the long circumference, followed Xue Shixiong and rushed towards the enemy soldiers running towards them. The enemy soldiers did not expect that such an outstanding riding skill could rush to the long circumference directly. They could not deal with it in a hurry and had to turn around and run.

People with too straightforward minds run back the same way, while people with more active minds carry their heads out of the long circumference and roll straight downhill.

Xue Shixiong did not ride his horse downhill because there were dense wooden stakes in the field outside the long encirclement. This was to prevent the Xuanhu defender from sending cavalry to break through, and the other party specially built a wooden stake formation.

The trees near the suburbs outside Xuanhu City were cut down by the Anzhou army. The enemy troops who besieged the city transported a large amount of wood from the outside, so they laid a circle of wooden stake formations outside the Changxiang. Xue Shixiong measured the thickness of the wooden stake formation and thought that it was not impossible to pass these wooden stake formations, but they just had to ride their horses and walk slowly.

But this will waste a lot of time and cannot break through.

The dust in front of him was shattered. Xue Shixiong looked up and saw many enemy cavalry coming here. These were the enemy cavalry wandering outside the Changwei. When they found that the Anzhou army broke through, they would reinforce wherever they could, and rushed to intercept the breakout cavalry before passing the wooden stake formation.

"Walk!"

Xue Shixiong shouted loudly, and after speeding up the horse to run for a while, he jumped again with his mount, crossed the trench and landed steadily on the ground. The other cavalrymen also rode their horses across the trench and returned to the inside of the long fence.

The Anzhou cavalry who was building a wooden ladder and crossed the trench, took back the wooden ladder and ran back with the horses on their backs. There was a wooden wheel at the end of the wooden ladder, so it was not very laborious to drag.

After a while, the Anzhou cavalry, who rushed to the edge of Changwei and wanted to break through, rushed back to the house when the enemy cavalry was about to arrive, leaving the angry enemy cavalry outside Changwei and scolded.

The cavalry were not used for much use when defending the city. The Anzhou cavalry's war horses were entangled in the stables in the city, and there was not much opportunity to stretch their muscles and run. Now everyone takes turns to walk their horses and toss the opponent's cavalry by the way. Although there is a risk of injury and death, it is an excellent pastime for them.

Today it was Xue Shixiong's turn to go out to walk the horses. After a while, the people and horses were sweating slightly. After the activity started, their appetite improved. Xue Shixiong rode his horse and whipped, shouting loudly: "Let's go back and have breakfast!"

On the walls of the south of the city, the soldiers on duty waved and cheered to the returned cavalry. Wang Yuwen of Xiyang gnawed the hot cooked cakes, looked at the cavalry returning from "morning exercise", and looked at the direction of the remote chief, and laughed a few times.

A few days ago, Yang Su offered a suggestion, suggesting that cavalry attacks from time to time and act like they were about to break through. With such true and false behavior, Yuchi Dun was suspicious and interfered with the other party's decision-making.

Yuchi Dun had many soldiers and generals, and surrounded Xuanhu, but Yuwen Wen had quite a few cavalrymen. He had gathered together to attack, and his lethality was not small, and the other party had seen it.

The number of Anzhou cavalry in Xuanhu City exceeded 3,000, and they concentrated on breaking through from a certain place in Changwei. Yuchi Dun had to intercept at least 3,000 cavalry. If he wanted to intercept in time and not allow an Anzhou cavalry to break through and send a message, he had to arrange cavalry in four directions, southeast, west and north.

Even if two thousand cavalry are arranged in each direction, there will be 8,000 cavalry arranged around the Changxiang and cannot be transferred externally. In this way, there will be fewer cavalry that Yuchi Dun can transfer externally.

In war, it is up to a little bit of calculation to accumulate opportunities for one's own side to win, and Yuwen Wen's tricks are more than this one.

Not long after, the north wind was blowing. It was the third consecutive day that Yuwen Wen finished eating the cake, clapped his hands and turned around, looking at the several hot air balloons floating above the open space in the city.

The practical manned hot air balloon was technically the first to appear in Huangzhou, and the hot air balloon model was presented to the emperor by Yuwen Wen as a juggling prop. As a result, his enemy Yu Culture and his friends were inspired by this model and made a hot air balloon to help the emperor escape from Yecheng.

Yu Wenwen was a little depressed when he was taken away from the title of "first", but it doesn't matter. Yu Wenjie will be killed sooner or later. It's better not to have the honor of being the first manned hot air balloon.

As the sound of horns rang one after another, several hot air balloons slowly rose. After untiing the cable, they threw down several sandbags, rising higher and higher. With the strong north wind, they drifted towards the head of Xuanhu City on the south side.

When the hot air balloon floated past the city, the soldiers in the hanging basket poked their heads out and waved to their companions on the city excitedly. There were eighteen soldiers with six hot air balloons. For the first time, they knew what it was to fly into the clouds and fog.

These soldiers carried a letter written in secret, carried dry food and weapons, and took a hot air balloon to the south with the help of the north wind, and drifted to Gwangju Gwang City, two hundred miles away. This trip might have failed due to various reasons, but for them, it was worth the death of this exciting experience.

Yu Wenwen waved his arms vigorously and cheered loudly with the other soldiers to see the warriors off. The hot air balloon was the only device that allowed him to escape from the lonely city, but he would never sit on it and leave his soldiers and run away alone.
Chapter completed!