There were the Huns in the north and the rebels in the south, and Chai Yue faced a difficult choice.

The commander of this Chu army was General Cui Hong. If Cui Hong was in normal times, he would not follow the advice of a junior. This time, except General Yin, he handed over almost the entire army to Chai Yue, let him arrange it, and sat beside him nodded in agreement.

A few people who know Cui Hong understand that the general is going to flee back to the capital, which is the source of power. As long as the Cui family still wants to continue to have power, they must win in the capital.

Chai Yue didn't think so much. The capital was a down-and-out place for him. Only in the army could he get the status and dignity he had always dreamed of.

"This battle can only be won but not defeated. The Huns must understand that the strength of the Chu army is still there before they can negotiate with him and exchange it for the emperor." Chai Yue did not understand the situation outside the Great Wall and Jincheng. His plan was that the Huns surrounded the emperor, so the Chu army in turn forced the Great Shanyu.

However, after repeated replenishment, the Chu army had only 70,000 to 80,000, far fewer than the Huns. The number of rebels behind them was not large, and cooperating with the enemy was also a big concern.

Being attacked from both sides is a dilemma for any general.

Chai Yue decided to take a risk.

"There is a veteran general in the north to guard the house. One day, I only need one day."

Fang Daye nodded. The more important the moment, the more reluctant he was to speak, and his expression became more gloomy, but his promise was trustworthy.

Fang Daye commanded 10,000 troops, arranged a number of flags along the mountain to block more than 100,000 Huns. Chai Yue led the remaining 60,000 to attack the rebels who were approaching step by step, striving to end the battle within one day and turn back to support Fang Daye.

This is an extremely risky plan and requires careful cooperation. The mistakes of either Chai Yue and Fang Daye will lead to the defeat of the entire Chu army.

Chai Yue did not attack immediately. The troops were deployed and the formation seemed to be about to fight the Huns. This was a normal choice for ordinary people, but he had already sent a large number of scouts to closely monitor the progress of the southern rebels and sent an ambush to block the rebels' retreat.

As he expected, the rebels were too immature, and they won several small victories on the way north, and the encouragement of the Huns, and thought they would win this battle, so they were greedy for me and made a rash progress, not like they came to fight, but like they were picking up spoils. The marching speed was too fast and the team stretched for a long time.

On the morning of the third day after the Great Shanyu issued the ultimatum, the emperor toasted his ministers in Jincheng. The battle of Yan State began early. The Huns launched the first attack. The Chu army had no city walls, only temporary wooden fences. The Huns did not need siege tools, and they rode their horses, while the Chu army fought with rolling wood and beating stones.

Chai Yue began to send out troops. At the beginning, there were not many people, only a few thousand people, which seemed that the Chu army could not draw out the troops to confuse the rebels and lead them into the narrow areas that had been selected.

More than an hour later, Fang Daye blocked the two charges of the Huns. Chai Yue sent all the soldiers in his hands to surround the rebels. The time for shooting with arrows was urgent, and Chai Yue did not want to keep the prisoners.

The rebels paid a heavy price for their arrogance and were blocked in a narrow valley. There were Chu troops in front, back and left and right, especially the Chu troops on both sides. They were condescending and shot thousands of arrows at the same time, and they had no way to hide.

Fang Daye was quite difficult, and many defense lines were broken through by the Huns. He gathered the remaining troops together and stood guard on the mountains to attract the Huns to continue attacking.

The Huns made a huge mistake at this time. The famous Wang Guiren who was commanding the battle never saw the movements of the Chu army behind the ridge. He thought that the Chu army on the ridge was the main force, and the Hun soldiers who broke through the defense were eager to steal the heads and flags to make contributions, and did not care about other things at all.

Fang Daye personally held the bow and arrow, fought side by side with his soldiers, and persisted until the evening. There were only more than a thousand people left by his side. The arrows and stones were approaching, and the Chu army still refused to retreat or surrender.

It was not until this time that the Xiongnu commander discovered that the number of Chu troops was incorrect.

Chai Yue's army finally returned in time. Although the troops were running all day long, they took advantage of the victory to return and saw the Huns and the Chu army flags still standing on the mountains. The fatigue of the soldiers was wiped out. They should have been the defensive side, but at this time they became attackers.

The battle of Yan State will last for three days and three nights, an unknown mountain changed hands more than ten times in succession, and no one could fully defend it, and no one would give up.

On the same day, a battle also broke out outside the Great Wall.

After repeated weighing, the Great Shanyu felt that the Chu army outside the Great Wall was not the most urgent threat, so he quietly transferred the main force of the Huns to the south of Yan, preparing to destroy Cui Hong's Chu army in one fell swoop.

The Great Shanyu didn't know that Deng Cui had arrived in Mayi City, and even if he knew, he wouldn't care. In the information of the Huns, Deng Cui was just a deserter of the Chu army. He kidnapped the concubine of the Youxian King and went westward. He didn't know which Chu city he hid in. No one would have thought that such a person would be a general of the Chu army appointed by the emperor.

The Chu army outside the border first arrived in Yan State. The Great Wall Pass in this area was breached and occupied by the Huns. Most of the original defenders fled to Mayi City, and at this moment they were among Deng Cui's army.

The Huns did not leave many people to guard the pass, and they were not good at it. They did not like to guard the high walls, and always felt that they were not as free as the flat grassland.

The first level was recaptured in less than half an hour.

Deng Cui suddenly realized that he had picked a big advantage and could continue to pick it up as long as he was brave enough.

He couldn't make Deng Cui formulate an impeccable offensive or defensive plan, so he would find excuses to sleep and hand over specific matters to his generals under his command. However, when it comes to analyzing the general trend and making quick decisions, he had a keen intuition that seemed to be helped by the gods.

Deng Cui immediately ordered that all the Chu army did not need to maintain their formation and advanced at full speed to judge the amount of the level of the competition, and that they were not allowed to attack vigorously. It took at most one hour and gave up if they could not conquer.

When the emperor was in Jincheng and Chai Yue was fighting hard with the Huns in Yannan, Deng Cui's army was like a wild horse, and advanced in the two lines inside and outside the Huns to seize the Great Wall occupied by the Huns.

Deng Cui actually lost an opportunity. In order to completely wipe out the Chu army in Yannan, the Great Shanyu mobilized more than half of the Xiongnu army in the pass. From Mayi City to Jincheng, only a small number of Xiongnu army were stationed. The Chu army outside the border was able to enter and go straight to Jincheng to rescue the horse.

But at that time, no one knew about these situations: the Chu army did not know that the Huns were transferred to the south, and the Huns did not know that the Chu army outside the frontier advanced eastward.

A few scouts who found an abnormality were running wildly on the road at this moment, and no one believed the news they conveyed at the beginning.

The person with the least informed information is the besieged military and civilians in Jincheng.

The Huns' rock-splitting offensive continued until the second half of the night. The south wall of Jincheng was already ruined, and the soldiers guarding the city suffered too much casualties and had to retreat to the city.

The emperor also left the city and, like ordinary soldiers, ate a few bites of dry food immediately, preparing for the final decisive battle.

Outside the city was the territory of the Huns. The Chu army did not intend to leave the city, but wanted to launch street fighting in the city.

The elderly, weak, women and children were sent to the northern city with complete walls. The soldiers of the Chu army were arranged on the streets of the northern city. Except for a few generals, most of them walked, and horses, cattle and sheep were arranged in front of them as the first line of defense in the city.

The Chu army was divided into two parts, with Fan Chishan in the east and the emperor in the west. Cai Xinghai handed over the command and led the hundreds of remaining guards to protect the emperor.

At the darkest moment in the early morning, the Huns confirmed that Jincheng had been broken, and ended up throwing stones and sent troops into the city.

The Huns successfully crossed the bridge, quickly sorted out the rocks in the gaps in the city wall, and then rushed in.

The first "enemy" they encountered was not a human, but a group of crazy cows and horses who were shocked by torches on their tails.

The Huns were hit, and they were in chaos for a while and their offensives were frustrated. But not long after, they reorganized their teams and drilled into the beehive like long snakes.

Jincheng is not a big city, the streets are not very wide, and a large amount of earth, stone, bricks and tiles are piled up. The advantages of cavalry and crossbows are gone here. The Huns can only dismount and compete with the Chu army step by step for the road section.

The street battle lasted for an hour, and it was already dawn and the Huns were progressing slowly, so they changed their fighting style and started setting fires.

There were not many houses left in Jincheng, especially in the Nancheng, which were almost all demolished to make room for the utensils in the city and provide soil and stone for guarding the city, leaving only uneven walls, so that horses could not run at will.

But the fire still started.

The Chu army actually took the opportunity to launch a counterattack, driving the Huns who set fire to the edge of the city, and then used local materials to extinguish open flames from all over the road.

The five siege tools in the city are all made of wooden, and are huge and cannot be moved. They are difficult to extinguish after burning, so they can only be allowed to burn.

The flames soared into the sky, and the Huns outside the city were greatly encouraged and entered the city again, forcing the Chu army to retreat step by step.

Han Ruzi had already dismounted and ran around the street. At this time, the order was no longer important. The emperor himself was the most important means to inspire morale. Most of the people around him were lost, leaving only a few eunuchs such as Zhang Youcai and Cai Xinghai. The others were fighting with the soldiers, even the guards such as Meng E were no exception.

No one asked the emperor why he wanted to guard the city. Even the emperor himself did not want to. Everyone entered a state of almost unconscious madness, and they refused to give in or surrender.

Han Ruzi felt that there was no need to run around anymore. He had not had direct contact with the enemy. It was time to join the battle, so he said to Zhang Youcai: "You stay behind."

Zhang Youcai also shook his head with a knife in his hand.

"You can't fight. If I get hurt, I still need your care."

Only then did Zhang Youcai nod and stayed on standby with the other two eunuchs.

Han Ruzi smiled at Cai Xinghai and said, "It's another street fighting. Do you still remember that time in the palace?"

Of course, Cai Xinghai remembered that he took the emperor to escape in the alley at that time, with more than a dozen tourists chasing him behind him. It was after that that he was devoted to the emperor, so he laughed and said, "The scene is even bigger, and my leg is not injured, so I can kill you as much as possible."

The two of them rushed forward, and Zhang Youcai and others followed behind, preventing the emperor from leaving his sight.

There were more and more Chu soldiers in front of him, and occasionally cold arrows passed by his head. Everyone who saw the emperor followed behind and shouted loudly.

A group of soldiers blocked the streets and were fighting with the Huns. Han Ruzi and Cai Xinghai could only squeeze forward step by step, with people in front, back, left and right, but they could not see the enemy, but they knew that the enemy was just a dozen steps away.

Every step was so difficult. Suddenly, the front was looser. Han Ruzi accelerated his pace, and the others also accelerated his pace. He still didn't see the enemy.

After running a hundred steps, the emperor and a large number of Chu soldiers suddenly realized that the Huns were actually retreating. (To be continued.)

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