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Life and death rescue in the capital of the western regions

In the first year of Zhang's reign in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the emergency documents of Guan Chong, the commander-in-chief of Wuji, who was stationed in the Western Han Dynasty, were sent to the hands of Emperor Zhang of Han Zhao, who just succeeded to the throne.

The situation is urgent: In March this year, Xiongnu Khan sent Zuo Wang to lead 20,000 troops to compete with the Han Empire for the Western Regions. The Xiongnu army was on a roll, breaking through the post-Cheshi country attached to the Han empire and surrendering to small countries such as Yanqi in the northern part of the western regions. The newly appointed governors of the Western Regions were all killed, and the Guan Chong Department stationed in Liu Zhongcheng and the Geng Gong Department stationed in Cheng Jinpu were besieged. Once these two forces are eliminated, the Xiongnu army will March into Shannan, and the whole western region will fall into the hands of Xiongnu.

However, the road is long and the traffic is blocked. When I received this distress letter, it was already 10 month! For more than half a year, no one knows what the western regions are like now. Do these imperial troops still exist against 20 thousand troops? Without the support of the castle, it is easy to be destroyed by the fast tarquin, what's more, it is already winter.

Ministers shook their heads. It seems that the loss of the Western Regions is inevitable. Only later will we look for opportunities, and those soldiers are doomed to sacrifice for their country! However, the minister represented by Stuart Baoyu insisted on the rescue, and his words deeply touched the young emperor's heart: the Han empire never cooled the blood of heroes, and even if the rescue was doomed to fail, it should be announced to the world that the Han empire would never give up the warriors who fought for him! The Han army came out of Yumen Pass in the snow and found that there was no hope 1%! The situation in the western region is deteriorating. After the siege of Cheng Jinpu, Geng Gong led the troops to launch a surprise attack on the enemy, and the enemy was losing ground, but a long-distance encirclement was still formed. Geng Gong and his men took the opportunity to escape from the encirclement. In May, Geng Gong led an army to Shule City because of the water problem. There is a stream flowing through Shule city, which can ensure drinking water in summer; At the same time, Shule City is just the main road between Shannan and Shanbei, which can prevent the Huns from raiding small countries in the western regions in Shannan.

Huns soon discovered the intention of Genggong Department and besieged Genggong Department of Shule City again. Shannan sent reinforcements and collapsed without fighting. The cruel siege has begun! At that time, all the countries nearby had surrendered to the Huns, and the situation was very sinister. Fortunately, Hou Wang's wife is Han Chinese. She was worried when she saw that the Han army had been besieged for a long time. She tried her best to send someone to secretly send them food, and told Geng Gong many times about the movements of Xiongnu soldiers. Therefore, the Han army can hold on for a few more days. In this way, a few months later, the Han army in the city was constantly killed, died of illness and starved to death. As a result, there were only dozens of people left, and no one was willing to surrender to the Huns.

The soldiers were so hungry that they had to put their leather armor in a pot, boil it soft, then cut it into pieces and share it to satisfy their hunger. Later, even the leather armor was finished, so we had to dismantle the crossbow and cook the thong stretched on it with the animal tendon used as a bowstring. Protective gear and weapons are undoubtedly the second life of soldiers, trying to fill their stomachs.

At this time, the Xiongnu Khan visited the city gate and knew that the Han army in the city was exhausted, but he did not surrender. Although the Huns are cruel, they are outspoken and respect heroes. Therefore, they respected Geng Gong and promised to make him king.

Geng Gong promised to surrender, put the Xiongnu emissary into the city, killed himself, and then cut and roasted the flesh of the corpse in front of the Xiongnu army in the city.

In the first month of the following year, the rescue troops finally arrived in Liu Zhongcheng, and Guan Chong's troops were completely annihilated. In such cold weather, the rescue army thought it was even more impossible for Geng Gong's department to exist, so all the generals decided to return. After all, they can't risk putting the whole army in danger. However, a man named Fan Qiang asked to go to Shule City. Although everyone thought it was impossible, they gave him two thousand troops.

Fan Qiang led the troops along the north side of the mountain in the snow. After all the hardships, he finally reached the gate. There are few Han troops left in the city, and those who are alive have no fighting capacity. In the middle of the night, I noticed that there were troops coming, thinking that the Xiongnu army was taking advantage of the snow and was frightened and desperate.

Fan Qiang shouted in the distance: I am Fan Qiang! Not an enemy, but the Han dynasty sent troops to meet a captain Geng and save you from returning home! Nothing is more exciting than such a cry! There were only 26 people in the city at that time! When the two armies met, they hugged each other and cried! On the way back, he was chased by tarquin, fighting and walking. In March, the army retreated to Yumen, and only 13 of Geng Gong's troops survived.

These people won great respect from their comrades-in-arms, and the generals in Yumenguan personally bathed and changed clothes for the survivors. They are worthy heroes!