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The morning light in the sky shines on the iron-gray city walls, giving Longcheng a splendor that has been around for nearly a thousand years. The air is filled with a solemn atmosphere, heavy breathing and intense roars are mixed together, and the blood-colored sun seems to make the entire city burn.

"Kill--" Amid the angry shout, a Han army infantry's standard steel knife slashed hard on the enemy's chest. The leather-clad iron-clad light armor was easily divided into two halves under the impact of the fine steel blade. The enemy who had just climbed up the city wall from the cloud ladder, fell down with a scream before he could resist. Only bright red blood mist was left gushing out of the cracked chest and sprinkled on the iron-gray city wall.

At this moment, the moat and the city wall were filled with enemy corpses, and the Han soldier had not survived for long. The steel knife in his right hand had not been retracted. The broad sword in his hand that was climbing up the city wall had already pierced into his body. However, the Han soldier was very brave and rushed forward, allowing the sword to pierce the body. At the moment of losing consciousness, the short spear in his left hand had pierced into the enemy's chest.

"Ah--" With the enemy's screams, the Han soldier also fell to the sky, his pupils slowly dissipated, and a trace of unwillingness flashed in his eyes. The parents who were eagerly looking forward to under the tree of the hometown, and the girl who was waiting for him by the Hanshui River, all slowly turned into blood above the dragon city, and became fainter.

This situation occurs from time to time on the city wall. As ladders are pushed down, soldiers fall under the city, the enemy's offensive gradually becomes decadent, and people gradually begin to retreat. Then the entire team, squadron, and brigade of enemies begin to retreat. After all, they are just cannon fodders who are leading the battle and do not have too high fighting spirit. Many of them are just tenants in the aristocratic territory. They have the courage to stand at their current position entirely based on their desire for wealth. At this moment, the cruel and real blood and broken limbs on the battlefield have completely awakened them...

"Finally go down..." The Han army battalion commander who was responsible for the city wall defense, sat on the city wall, gasping heavily, regardless of the blood on it. At this moment, less than half of the people in charge of the city wall defense were able to stand up, and their commander, the regiment commander, had already been killed. As for the captain, squadron leader, squadron leader, and other subordinate officers lost as much as 60%.

And the battalion commander who sat down was already the highest-level officer on this section of the city wall.

Longcheng, the prefecture of the Han Empire's Anxi Province, is also the last barrier of the empire's landing northwest of the mainland highway.

Since the 13th year of the Empire, when the imperial team's tentacles extended to the Sinai Peninsula, the empire Taizu Cheng Yun ordered the construction of Anxi Province and the construction of the provincial capital of Longcheng. After nearly a thousand years of continuous improvement, it finally formed its current scale.

At that time, some people in the emperor opposed naming the city with the holy land of the Xiongnu, but a poem by Taizu and the Empire Ren Yuan convinced all the opposition - the bright moon in the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, and the people of thousands of miles of long march had not returned, but the flying generals in Longcheng were there, and the Huma did not ask him to cross the Yinshan Mountain.

The last two lines of poetry are even engraved in the middle of Longcheng City, on the Imperial Hero Monument to commemorate the soldiers of the Western Expedition.

The monument is 23 meters high, which means commemorating the 230,000 Han men who died in the Western Expedition.

There is also a monument in the imperial capital Jiangshan City, one west and one east, far away, and thousands of years passed by.

Nowadays, things change, and the city is still the same. The monument has long become a symbol of the supreme martial spirit in the hearts of the emperor, but I don’t know if the hero’s soul can still fight?

Longcheng City is eighteen meters high, trapezoidal, with a thickness of ten meters at the bottom. The horse road at the top of the city wall can accommodate four horses and drive together. It is the second strong city except the capital of the Han Empire, Jiangshan City, and is also a symbol of the majesty of the Han Empire on the west side of the mainland highway.

Longcheng has been built for nearly a thousand years, but it has been invaded by war. Many foreign cavalry have hated it under its iron-gray bricks and stones. Even though the blood makes the walls motivated, the dead soul can only face the flower world at the other end of the city wall and sigh. This is a city that carries the glory and dreams of many Han families, but it also buried many sad places with iron blood and pride.

At this moment, wolf smoke rose up and down the city walls, and a sea of ​​corpses and blood. At that time, it was mid-November 998, and in another year, the Han Empire would usher in the birth of its country for nearly a thousand years, but at this moment it also ushered in the biggest crisis since the construction of Longcheng.

Guan Zhongyun, the commander of the Han Empire's Sky-Breaking Legion and commander of the Longcheng City Defense, who was responsible for the overall defense of Longcheng, frowned, and his broad palms were pressed against the cold walls of Longcheng, staring at his robes that had been fighting for three days, and the seven-nation coalition forces outside the city from the west of the mainland highway.

Although the Han army repelled more than ten waves of enemy attacks within three days, and the casualties ratio between the enemy and us was as high as 4:1, which means that four Western coalition soldiers had only replaced the life of a Han soldier, Guan Zhongyun was not happy. Because he knew that the Western coalition sent only the cannon fodder troops to attack the city these days. Look at the composition of that unit - peasants, gangsters, criminals, wearing the lowest-quality light leather armor, some even went bare-handedly. For the so-called wealth of the Han Empire after the city was broken, and the titles given by the emperor, he followed the coalition to the east without hesitation.

After three days, more than 10,000 corpses and countless damaged siege equipment were piled up under the tall walls of Longcheng, and the Han army also lost more than 3,000 people.

However, the various knight orders of the Western Allied Forces that are famous on the mainland highway did not dispatch any soldiers, while Guan Zhongyun lost all the elite soldiers.

As one of the six major legions of the Empire, the Potian Legion currently has a standing military force of 30,000 three reorganized infantry divisions and 10,000 two reorganized cavalry divisions. Originally, these 40,000 troops, combined with Longcheng as a military fortress, to resist the only 300,000 temporary pieces of the foreign alliance forces in front of him. Although it is impossible to say that they are sure to win, they can at least hold on for more than a month until the arrival of reinforcements.

However, just a week ago, a group of 15,000 infantry divisions and a cavalry division under Guan Zhongyunbiao were sent out by Shangfeng to encircle and suppress a group of horse thieves who were recently active in Lashan, a province of the Imperial Anxu.

The group of thousands of horse thieves that appeared almost out of thin air had plundered the construction and trade fairs of several nearby empires, seriously endangering the safety of mainland highways across the east and west, and complaining about the journey and traveling, seriously affecting the empire's economy and reputation.

The temporary militia in the nearby small towns did not strangle, but the horse thieves had extremely high combat effectiveness. Not only did they destroy several militia teams that went to conquer them, but they even cut off the mainland highway from Longcheng to the southwest province of the empire. They also attacked a regular imperial infantry regiment in the city, and more than a thousand people were killed in battle from the regiment commander.

After the imperial army learned about this news, they transferred nearly half of Guan Zhongyun's troops and led by Ma Qianfeng, the commander of the First Cavalry Division, to suppress the bandits.

Less than three days after Guan Zhongyun sent the army out according to the orders of the military headquarters, the army from the west side of the mainland highway rushed to Longcheng continuously. According to Guan Zhongyun's plan to eliminate bandits within half a month and return to Longcheng within fifteen days, according to the expected plan of Guan Zhongyun to eliminate bandits within half a month for the bandit suppression army sent by him. In other words, Guan Zhongyun now has to rely on the 20,000 infantry in his hands and 5,000 cavalry to resist the coalition forces ten times his own ten-month under the city at least half a month.

Moreover, the main infantry guarding the city was seriously insufficient. After three days, many cavalry had to dismount, holding the infantry's steel swords to cooperate with the city guarding, and even some escorts of commercial regiments in the city helped defend the city. Even so, there are less than 15,000 infantrymen who can fight now. Whether to win or lose, even Guan Zhongyun, who has always been arrogant, cannot grasp it.

"I can only look forward to the military headquarters sending reinforcements as soon as possible!" But even Guan Zhongyun himself knew that this place was nearly a thousand miles away from Loulan City, the largest city on the border of the Han Empire. The Potian Legion is now alone. The only hope is to say that the 15,000 army that suppressed bandits outside, or the Lord of Loulan City was predicted before he could send a large army to support him in advance.

Although the empire has been constantly in conflict with countries in the Western Continent for a hundred years, such huge and sudden military operations are definitely unseen in a century, and no signs have occurred beforehand.

"Damn it, why haven't the army sent to suppress the bandits turned around for three days?" Guan Zhongyun thought a little angry. If he could add 5,000 elite cavalry, he could at least go out of the city to harass these Western coalition forces.

According to his calculations, as soon as the Western coalition arrived at the city, the army received news that the cavalry should be sent back in advance within two days, but now...

The bad situation in front of him cannot be said to be Guan Zhongyun's unscheming. Although he is not a talented person, he is also a general of war beaten by the fire of war. Many times, he has some urgent wisdom in the face of danger. However, the orders of the imperial department are not something that he, a legion commander, can disobey at will.

Who is the one who can be the highest commander of the six major legions of the Empire?

For example, Guan Zhongyun, his ancestor Guan Hai was the founding father of the Han Empire and the first commander of the Potian Legion. He was one of the inheritance families of the Empire. As the second son of the steward, he was famous for his courage since childhood. Although Guan Zhongyun had such a prominent family background, his elder brother Guan Jiyun obtained the inheritance rights of the head of the family after he graduated from the Jiangshan Army Higher Academy of the Han Empire as his honor, and then entered the Potian Legion as he wished. Even so, he started out as a battalion commander as he was a battalion commander. After 16 years, he was promoted to the deputy commander's land layer by layer. Of course, if this matter was placed on a civilian without Beijing, it would still be impossible.

The four civil system was proposed by Taizu. The four civil system of the empire has been established for thousands of years. Although it is known that the four civilians are equal, it is still the military and civilians in terms of their status.

The empire implemented a compulsory military system and could choose to serve at the age of sixteen. However, if you want to advance to a higher level and have no military achievements, you must go to a professional military academy for further studies and have a chance only once in three years.

Moreover, among the emperors, the most important qualifications are that even if they have military achievements and come from a noble family, they don’t even think about it if they want to be the commander of the legion for less than twenty years.

In order to win the glory and wealth, Guan Zhongyun received an order to defend Longcheng that others did not want to receive. Then several old men in the cabinet wrote a letter to the emperor and promoted him to the commander of the army.

And he was already the youngest legion commander in the imperial world. Guan Zhongyun was thirty-two years old, which was the most exciting time in his life.

Now, just on the eve of the empire's nearly a thousand-year celebration, just as Guan Zhongyun is approaching the top of his life, the storm is about to come and the city is about to destroy!

Note 1: Infantry equipment of the Han Empire: steel knives, short spears, shields, bamboo light armor.

Note 2: At that time, the weights and measures of the empire had been unified by the first Yuan Cheng Changfeng. For details, please see "The Flying Tiger of the Han Dynasty" and will not be discussed in detail later. Moreover, there were simple mechanical clocks and other instructions in the first parallel space of the empire, but there were no weapons and supplies that were too advanced, such as the appearance of muskets.

Note 3: The infantry in the Han Empire was divided into 15 people and a squad, three teams, 45 people and a squad, three squad, and a reconnaissance squad, a total of 150 people. The engineering squad of the third squad, and 50 people was the first battalion. The engineering squad of the third squad, 1500 people were the first battalion; the 1500 people in the third battalion was the first battalion, 4500 people in the third squad, and 9000 people in the third squad, 1000 people in the second division, and 3000 people in the second division, 4000 people in the first squad, and 4000 people in the second division.

The cavalry division has 5,000 men and one division, and the specific composition is converted in proportion, of which 1,000 are heavy cavalry. The cavalry configuration of the general legion is only 2 cavalry divisions. The Potian Legion belongs to the six major legions of the Empire and also to the Expeditionary Legion. Therefore, two cavalry divisions are arranged for maneuvering.
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