In 74 AD, the Eastern Han Dynasty re-established the Western Regions Capital Protectorate and appointed Geng Gong and Guan Yu as lieutenants.
The following year, the Northern Xiongnu Sent 20,000 Elite Soldiers to attack cheshi.
Geng Gong led hundreds of people to garrison Jinpu City in cheshihouguo, firmly blocking the throat of the Tianshan Mountains leading to the Northern Xiongnu, and providing mutual assistance to his colleague Guan Yu, who was stationed in Liuzhongcheng, the former kingdom of Cheshi, to prevent the Xiongnu from invading the northern province of the Western Regions.
The Northern Xiongnu soon attacked cheshi and killed the Hou king.
Subsequently, the Northern Xiongnu single-handedly attacked the Han garrison and invaded the Han Dynasty.
At this time, Emperor Hanming had just died, and there was no time to rescue him.
Che Shiguo chose to betray the Han at this time, and 20,000 people besieged Jinpu City, while the Han army had only a few hundred people at this time.
Geng Gong was not afraid of danger, and stood at the head of the city with his sword, pointing at the Xiongnu army and shouting: "Han Family Arrow God, among which the sores will be different." ”
The Xiongnu have always been known for their bravery, how to listen to this set? The Xiongnu cavalry stepped up their siege.
When the Xiongnu reached range, a black pressure arrow was shot down on the city wall, and the Huns really cried wolf.
It turned out that Geng Gong let his subordinates apply poison to the arrow, and once shot, the pain was incomparable, and then the wound festered, and the history books recorded that it was "the one who captured the arrow, and the wound was boiling.".
At night, the wounds hurt more and more, and the Xiongnu camps were all wailing.
Then, with only a few hundred defenders, Geng Gong took advantage of the storm to rob the camp!
After approaching the Xiongnu camp, Geng Gong led a hundred soldiers to launch a surprise attack on the unsuspecting Xiongnu camp and defeated the Xiongnu army.
Several xiongnu leaders thought that the Han army was a god of heaven and earth, so they fled away.
Although this battle was a great victory, Geng Gong knew that sooner or later the Xiongnu would return, and Jinpu City could not be held, so he immediately took his troops to Shule City.
Sure enough, the Huns came again.
A brutal siege began.
The Xiongnu were absolutely superior in numbers, but there were countless casualties, so they turned into a strong siege and cut off the upper reaches of the river.
This trick is very poisonous.
The defenders began to run short of water, and at one point "drank the dung juice of the horse".
Geng Gong ordered the well to be drilled to fetch water, and when it reached a depth of fifteen zhang, there was still no water, geng Gong prayed and prayed, and a miracle occurred, "Flying springs rushed out, and everyone called long live."
A few months passed, and the city boiled and ate the strings of the crossbow made of animal tendons and the leather of the armor.
The warriors died one by one, but the fortress still did not fall, the survivors preferred to die, and the Han army flag flew high.
The Xiongnu sent people to persuade them to surrender, and Geng Gong went down with a knife, killed the emissaries, and made them into a barbecue.
Zhuangzhi was hungry for meat and laughed about thirsting for The blood of the Huns.
The enraged Xiongnu army began a new siege of the city.
At the same time, above the court of the Eastern Han Dynasty, hundreds of officials were arguing about whether to save the Western Regions Capital Protectorate.
At this time, Bao Yu, a famous minister of the ages, stood up, vigorously defied the public opinion, and tried his best to request reinforcements.
In the face of the emperor and the civil and military officials, he said a passage famous in history, which is still full of anger when he reads it to this day:
Now the people are in a place of danger, and they are abandoned in a hurry, and the outside is violent, and the inside is wounded and killed. If they are not saved at this time, if the Xiongnu re-offend Sai Wei Kou, what will His Majesty do? ”
This is not to give up and not to give up.
Bao Yu
Emperor Zhangdi of Han was also full of blood at this time, so he issued the warmest holy decree: All my great Han people will be saved from afar! Immediately send troops to the rescue.
In the first month of 76 AD, the 7,000 reinforcements of the Han Dynasty rushed to Liuzhong City, defeated the combined forces of the Xiongnu and cheshi, and successfully rescued Geng Gong's troops.
But the defenders of Shule City were able to set foot on their way home, and only twenty-six were left.
In March, they entered the Jade Gate Pass, and at this time there were only thirteen people left, "dressed in a decisive way, described as withered", and the Jade Gate Guard was moved to personally bathe and change clothes for them.
A heroic blood that has stood up to the ages, and a national backbone that stands tall in the sky!
This is the "Thirteen Soldiers Return to the Jade Gate" that swings back to the intestines.
Whenever I read this story, I feel that I owe a movie ticket.