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The leaders of the Black Horse Tribe and the Hongyu Tribe regretted it to death. Who would have thought that a small fort guarded by just a hundred people would be such a difficult nut to crack. Each of the two tribes lost nearly a thousand people in the battle before they were able to capture the two forts. This was so important to them.
For a small tribe, this is already less than half of their wealth.
Therefore, after taking the fort, the Black Horse Department and the Hongyu Department no longer participated in the attack on the main fort. They only occupied the guard fort and fired long-range suppressive fire at the main fort from the fort. At the same time, they looked forward to the gains after taking Shifeng Stronghold.
The spoils of war can be compensated.
When the fort fell, the main fortress was immediately besieged. It was impossible for more than a thousand soldiers to guard all the city walls. Therefore, several tax officials in Shifeng Village mobilized 5,000 young men to take the money sent by Tian Ming to distribute from the warehouse.
With swords and guns, five centurions, ten fire chiefs and a hundred veterans rushed directly to the city. They didn't even have time to train.
"Smash down the rocks, pour down the boiling oil, push down the logs, and cut down the enemies who climb up, that's all!" The centurion said loudly to all the young and powerful in the simplest words.
The blood on the top of the city, the corpses piled up under the city, and the arrows in the air that were as dense as locusts made these businessmen, farmers, and young men turn pale, their legs were trembling, and they could hardly move. The veterans became impatient and forcibly captured them.
They rushed to the city wall and pointed at the mountains of heads piled under the city: "Did you see it? Did you see it? If we can't defend the city, we will all die in battle, but the heads of you and your family will be piled up there."
Then he turned to the fort, pointed and shouted loudly: "Look there, two hundred brothers have just died there, but look at the fort, there are nearly two thousand Turkic dog thieves buried with them, is it worth it? It's too
It’s worth it.”
Some timid young men began to vomit, almost vomiting out the gall. After vomiting, they stood up. Although their faces were still as white and their legs were shaking, their eyes were firmer. The centurion and the veterans were satisfied.
As long as these people cut the first knife, poke the first shot, see blood, and kill people, they will forget all their fears. Although they are novices, they are defending the city after all. There is a strong city.
rely.
All the men, women, old and children in Shifengzhai went into battle to fight against the Turks. At this time, Zhangye County, Yongzhou, and even the Sui Dynasty court also exploded. In the past, they had always judged that the Eastern Turkic Khanate would not attack the city in a large scale, but now it seems
Wrong arrival. The Turks actually gathered tens of thousands of Turkic cavalry to attack Shifeng Village. This was a quick move. Once the Turks succeeded, it would open the door to the north of Yongzhou in the Sui Dynasty. The Turks could attack at any time.
You can come in and thresh the valley.
The urgent report was sent to Wang Junlin who had just arrived in Xifeng County. Wang Junlin was extremely speechless. Niu Jinda actually led his army out of the city to fight in the field and has not been able to return to the military stronghold. The current Shifeng stronghold is actually led by two regiments, Tian Ming and Ren Junshuo.
Guarded by more than a thousand soldiers, this military situation was already one day ago.
"Does this bastard think it's a group fight between green forest heroes?" Wang Junlin couldn't help but wonder whether he was right to place Niu Jinda in the position of guard of Shifeng Village. Maybe Niu Jinda would be a fierce general or even a good general in the future, but
It's obviously still far behind now.
"Send the order and set off in half an hour." Wang Junlin sighed and had to set off in advance. He rushed all the way from Zhangye City, day and night. He originally wanted to rest in Xifeng County for half a day to understand the situation in Xifeng County.
, judge the enemy's situation before making plans, but right now he doesn't care about that much.
As for whether he could rescue Shifeng Village after leading three thousand cavalry, or even put himself in a crisis, he had a certain degree of confidence in his heart. He also had a plan in mind and made some preparations. Of course, whether it would work or not,
We have to wait until we go to find out.
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Xiao Shizi looked at the river water with ice cubes and other things in front of him, sighed, and reported back to Wu San: "The boss, Captain Su, Captain Li, and Captain Jiang have begun to clean up the Tuyuhun tribe outside Tuyuhun."
Wu San asked curiously: "What did you find?"
Xiao Shizi said: "There is the smell of blood in the river, and there are corpses..."
Wu San looked at Xiao Shizi with a smile and said, "What do you think we should do at this time?"
Xiao Shizi bowed and said: "Intercept and kill the messenger!"
Wu San continued to ask: "Who do you think is the most suitable person to do this task?"
Xiao Shizi smiled ferociously and said: "Master, give me five hundred good men, and I guarantee that not a single messenger will go to Golmud from the direction of Su Duwei and the others."
Wu San smiled and said: "Okay, you have two hundred scouts under your command, and you can choose the other three hundred by yourself. If things go wrong, don't come back to see me."
Xiaoshizi had just led his men onto their horses and was about to leave the tribe where they were hiding in disguise. More than twenty tired horses came from the northwest carrying the tired Tuyuhun people. After seeing this tribe, the tired Tuyuhun people started to panic.
He opened his thirsty mouth and shouted: "Get out of here quickly, the damned Sui army is coming!"
Xiao Shizi said hello in Tuyuhun dialect, then he smiled and waved his people to greet him. He pulled the leader of the group to sit down on the horse that was foaming at the mouth. The Tuyuhun knight on the horse was very
Naturally, he jumped off his horse, grabbed the reins of Xiao Shizi's war horse and said, "Go quickly, the Han people are coming. They have already killed several tribesmen... Go quickly, spread the news and send it to the Holy City of Golmud.
We must gather a large army and kill all the Sui dogs..."
Little Shitou carefully pulled out the short knife inserted in the side of the Tuguhun rider little by little. He didn't want to get blood all over his body. There was no woman around him, and he hated washing clothes the most.
The Tuyuhun cavalry looked at Xiao Shitou blankly, and then found that more than 20 other companions were killed one by one by others behind Xiao Shitou. He had lost the ability to speak, and his eyes were full of doubts. Until now, he has not
Figure out what's going on.
"I am a Sui man!" Before the dagger was completely drawn out, the little stone whispered in the ear of the Tuyuhun cavalry.
The Tuyuhun cavalry fell to the ground, and the blood that quickly poured out of his ribs dyed the ground red.
"Let others come out and bury these bodies, and we will continue our journey." Xiao Shitou ordered.
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When it got dark, Xiao Shitou came back with five hundred people smelling of blood. They were already very tired. They felt a little energetic after sitting by the fire pit and drinking a sip of hot tea.
Wu San, who was sleeping with his eyes closed, asked in a low voice: "How many have been killed?"
Xiao Shitou whispered: "Three hundred and seventy-eight, the vast majority of these people are coming to the direction of our tribe. I didn't expect that the place we chose was the only way to go to Golmud, and
It is also a water supply point for the Tuyuhun people.”