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One is to let Yang Guang's bait continue to work, so that the Turks will continue to give up their good mounted shooting and dismount to attack the city to increase consumption.
The second is to wait for Zhang Tiangang to cut off the Turks' food routes to increase the Turks' panic.
The last one was that the news about Li Xuanba raiding the Turkic lair reached the ears of the Turkic army outside Yanmen City, causing the Turkic army to disorganize their position first. That was the time for them to launch a full-scale attack.
But now, before the news came that the old nest was occupied by Li Xuan, a fierce dispute arose in the royal tent of Shibi Khan in the current Turkic camp.
"Khan, the gain outweighs the loss!"
"Khan, we have lost so many troops, and now we have only robbed five counties of Yanmen County in the Sui Dynasty."
"Khan, now that someone from the Sui army has cut off our food supply, how long can we hold on to our food supply?"
"But Yanmen City is about to be captured. If we don't continue to fight, the previous losses will be in vain. But as long as Yanmen City is captured and the Sui Emperor is captured alive, our previous losses will definitely be compensated."
Shibi Khan knocked on the table irritably, causing the noise in the big tent to calm down a little. He had not been the Khan for a long time, but this time he went south, but he suffered losses one after another. Unknowingly, his prestige had already
It is not as good as before, which can be seen from the tone and tone of the voices of the tribal leaders and generals.
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The food and fodder of the Turkic army were burned by the special forces, and the food routes were cut off. Although there was food and fodder previously looted from the five counties of Yanmen County, their army was quite large, so Shibi Khan still arranged for 30,000 cavalry and 2,000 men.
One team was wreaking havoc on the wilderness of Hekou County with a radius of hundreds of miles, doing what they were best at - threshing grass in valleys and plundering grain and grass from Sui villages and towns.
Of course, there are too many problems with this decision, such as what to do if these people go out and are surrounded and killed by Sui Dynasty reinforcements.
But the reasons for this decision are reasonable. After all, it is for long-term considerations. It is necessary to search for food and grass, and the Turks who perform this task like it very much, because this way, they do not have to attack Yanmen City.
In fact, Nie Xiaoyu asked Shibi Khan to issue this order.
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In the perception of the Turks, the people of the Sui Dynasty were much richer than they were.
Life was even more generous. In fact, this was true even in cold frontier counties like Yanmen County. They discovered that the wealth accumulated in an ordinary Sui Dynasty village actually exceeded that of a smaller tribe on the grassland. And this was still
Some wealthy households took their large amounts of property and fled into the villages and towns behind the city in advance.
In fact, what the Turks don't know is that this is still the situation that the Sui Dynasty was approaching in the past few years, and the people's lives were not as good as before.
Two thousand Turkic cavalrymen rushed into a small village in the mountains, waving their swords and making sharp and unpleasant whistles and laughter.
This small village is far away from official roads, and luckily avoided the large Turkic army. Refugees from nearby areas also took the trails to hide here, and now there are actually two to three thousand people crowded together.
The vast majority of these refugees are old, weak, women and children. As for the men in the family, they were either killed by the Turks or were killed by officers, soldiers or thieves before.
The Turkic cavalry gathered everyone together and began to search for the property in the room. However, the village was quite remote and relatively poor, so they did not gain much.
The Turkic cavalry was very dissatisfied and cursed angrily.
The old and weak women and children gathered in the center of the village all lowered their heads in silence. Only a girl in the arms of an old woman stared at these Turkic cavalry.
The girl was still young and did not know exactly what happened, but she knew that her home was burned down by the bad guys in front of her, and her father was killed by these bad guys who smelled bad.
So her eyes were full of hatred.
A Turkic cavalryman was angry that he had gained very little today. Suddenly he saw the girl's hateful eyes, and suddenly he became angry and walked toward the crowd with his sword in hand.
He raised the sword in his hand.
Several old people in the crowd stood up and cursed angrily, trying to stop him.
But the sword has fallen.
The girl was not hacked to death.
Because the sword fell to the ground, it made a crisp impact sound.
The Turkic cavalryman fell straight down with an arrow stuck in his eye socket.
The fletching of that arrow is the standard weapon of the Taiyuan County soldiers in the Sui Dynasty.
The Turkic cavalry were shocked. They remounted their horses in a short time, took off the bows and arrows on their shoulders, and looked warily at the forest behind the village.
The harsh sound that broke through the air suddenly echoed across a large area.
A hail of arrows from
Flying out of the mountain forest, nearly a hundred Turkic cavalry were shot off their horses.
Following the rain of arrows, Li Shimin led 10,000 soldiers from Taiyuan County to suddenly rush out of the mountains and forests. They were killing the Turkic cavalry like wolves and tigers!
"There's an ambush! Retreat!"
The Turkic cavalry who were still alive shouted in shock and anger, with a look of fear on their faces. They pulled the rope desperately, trying to turn their horses' heads and escape, but it was already too late.
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Heimat, a direct descendant of Shibi Khan, led 3,000 people and stopped by a river more than fifty miles east of Yanmen City.
Riding on the back of his beloved horse whose fur was wet with sweat, Black Horse looked to the northwest. A little further away was the target this time - a seemingly large-scale fort, which looked like the local people of the Sui Dynasty themselves.
The walls raised from the flat ground are much lower than the shortest military fortress.
Look at the sky. If we delay for a while, it will get dark.
"Since it's dark, let's just launch a night attack and easily capture the Sui people's fortress." Heimat ordered to drink water and rest, looking at the fortress in the distance, giving the order.
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Night finally fell.
The stars and moon in the sky are obscured by thick clouds, and the night without enough light is a dense darkness.
In the darkness, there is a mass of figures, half-crouching, half-kneeling, or simply lying down, looking at the fortress not far away. And in the dark wilderness farther away, there are more people.
The Turkic soldiers were lurking in this fortress where no one could see them, secretly gathering strength and waiting for the final order.
Accompanying them to the bottom of the city wall will be two short ladders. They are siege weapons built by the two Han craftsmen they led in the evening.
After all, it was a fortress for the common people of the Sui people. The Turks were not hindered or attacked in any way. It was obvious that they were not discovered by the Sui people in the fortress.
The Turks who had already sneaked in were still waiting, waiting for Heimat's order.
Soon, a war drum suddenly sounded, beating the Turkic soldiers who were eager to plunder the Sui people and molest the Sui women.
The drums sounded, and the three thousand Turks began to attack this seemingly large fortress. In their imagination, it should be easy.
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