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And in Shuofang's Liang Shidu, he killed Tang Shizong, the Cheng of Shuofang County, occupied Shuofang County to rebel, proclaimed himself the prime minister, and borrowed troops from the Turks? Engage the Sui general Zhang Shilong and defeat him.

In May of the tenth year of the great cause, Liang Shidu sent troops to capture Diaoyin, Honghua, Yan'an and other counties, and then the emperor's throne, the country name was Liang, and the sacrifice was to heaven in the south of the city, and the seal was obtained when digging the ground and burying the jade, thinking that Fu Rui was established, and the name of the era was Yonglong.

The Turkic Luo Khan gave the wolf's head banner and gave him the titles of "Great Viga Khan" and "Relief Heaven". Immediately, Liang Shidu led the Turkic soldiers and horses to occupy the land of Henan and attack Yanchuan County.

In this way, the land of Guanlong, which was still controlled by the Sui Dynasty, was in a situation of facing the enemy. And Xue Ju, Li Liang and Liang Shi were still busy stabilizing their own territory, and they couldn't spare extra troops and horses to deal with the Sui army in Guanzhong.

The main enemy faced by the Sui army in Guanzhong was Li Yuan from Hedong. Li Yuan, Chang Jiancheng, and Ci Shimin waved their troops southward, successively broke through Huoyi (now Huoxian County, Shanxi), crossed the Yellow River, and advanced to the southwest. Yang Yu, the acting king, was so anxious that he had to ask for help from his brother Yang Tong, the king of Yue, in the eastern capital, and at the same time send two veterans, Song Laosheng and Qu Tutong, to meet the enemy.

As the saying goes: the veteran is out of the horse, a top two. After these two veterans arrived at the front line, they immediately rectified military discipline, strengthened defense, and arranged heavy troops at dangerous passes, so that Li Yuan's offensive could not help but be blocked.

Just when Li Yuan and Song Laosheng were inseparable, the news about the drastic changes in the situation in the Central Plains also reached Yuming's desk. It made him feel like he couldn't wait for me.

According to the original history, Li Yuan should have raised his troops in May of the tenth year of the Great Cause. But now it is two months ahead of schedule, which also makes Yuming have to launch a plan to attack the Central Plains in advance. Otherwise, after the victory and defeat of several major forces in the Central Plains, Liaodong, which is isolated outside the pass, will be powerless to resist.

The Liaodong Army wanted to attack the Central Plains, and Luo Yi, the governor of Youzhou, who was guarding Beiping, Zhuojun and other places, was a hurdle that Yuming had to cross. After all, the reputation of the Youzhou Iron Cavalry is there, and they have not tasted defeat against the Turkic cavalry, and they are recognized as the strongest cavalry of the Great Sui.

The area around Youzhou was the key area of the Sui Dynasty's defense, especially after Yuming controlled Liaodong and supported his own army, Yang Guang greatly strengthened the forces in this area. Youzhou originally had only 50,000 soldiers, but Yang Guang mobilized another 150,000 troops from southern Hebei, northern Henan, and Hedong to strengthen Youzhou's defense. In addition to the 50,000 people stationed in Linyu Pass, which is close to Liaoxi County, Juyong Pass, which faces the grassland, also has 50,000 people, while 70,000 of the remaining 100,000 people are in Beiping and 10,000 in Zhuo County. A barrier was formed for the defense of the Liaodong Army.

What worries Yuming is that the Linyu Pass between Zhuo County and Liaoxi County, known as the first Xiongguan in the world, has a high and thick city wall, and is the fortress that blocked the invasion of Goryeo in the Central Plains before, and now this fortress has become the biggest obstacle to the entry of the Liaodong army.

As long as the Liaodong Army can overcome this pass, it will be able to swing its division into Youzhou, relying on the superiority of troops, to occupy Hebei in one fell swoop.

In June of the tenth year of the Great Cause, 200,000 Liaodong troops arrived at Linyu Pass, and the 50,000 Sui troops guarding the pass, under the leadership of Luo Yi's younger brother Luo Shou, adopted the tactics of turtles not leaving the hole, blindly defending them.

Yu Ming ordered Luo Shixin to launch a tentative attack. Linyu passes, boulders and rolling logs fall like raindrops, more than 5,000 Liaodong troops have climbed to the middle with difficulty, the rolling boulders will smash the Liaodong army soldiers to the flesh and blood, one by one rolled down the city wall, the screams are endless, because the Liaodong army is crowded together under the city wall, there is nowhere to dodge, can only turn around and escape, but there are still more than 1,000 people who died tragically under the city, only to escape back to the people who can not succeed.

Luo Shixin said that if he wanted to forcibly conquer this pass, he would have to pay at least more than 100,000 casualties. And such a large casualty is something that the Liaodong Army cannot afford.

He put forward two options: one is to detour to the grassland and attack from the Juyong Pass in the north of Beiping, although it is also a pass, but the terrain is not as dangerous as the Linyu Pass, and the garrison of Beiping is Luo Yi's Youzhou Iron Cavalry, they are good at attacking but not defending. The certainty of attacking Juyong Pass is greater than that of Linyu Pass.

The second option was to adopt the method of crossing the sea to attack, transport the troops to the rear of Linyu Pass to land, and cut off the retreat of the defenders of Linyu Pass.

But this choice seems to be good, but it is difficult to form due to two major problems. First, the naval division of the Liaodong Army had just been established, and there were not many warships in the army, so it was not a problem to transport 10,000 men to land, but it would have to take a month to transport more than 50,000 people. And for such a long time, the enemy has already discovered. will transfer the Youzhou Iron Cavalry to attack their uncovered infantry. On the plains, the Youzhou Iron Cavalry, which is famous for its infantry, is tantamount to suicide.

Another big problem is that there is enough grain and grass in Linyu Pass, even if it is not a problem to keep it for half a year. Therefore, even if the Liaodong Army went around the back of the defenders, it was difficult to break through the pass, but was cut into two parts by the Linyu Pass, giving the enemy a chance to break through.

After listening to Luo Shixin's words, Yu Ming said with a clear gaze: "Shixin, in fact, it is not as difficult as you imagined to break through the Linyu Pass. Wait for the rest of the army, and when our army's catapults, well fences and siege vehicles collide, we will be able to break through the city! ”

"Okay!" Luo Shixin knew that in the future, Wei Chi Jingde would escort a large amount of grain, grass and baggage to the front of Chongqing Pass.

Later, Wei Chi Jingde arrived as scheduled, and after Yuming had a full meal for the soldiers, he ordered an attack.

At this time, from the Liaodong army formation, one catapult, one after another catapults, well fences and siege crash vehicles began to be launched.

"Woo-woo-woo", with a low horn sound, the Liaodong Army began to move and attack.

The Liaodong saber and shield soldiers in a phalanx of about 10,000 people walked forward in a neat march, slowly moving to a range of bows and arrows fifty zhang from the city wall.

And between the phalanxes, there are four tall arrow towers and two siege rams.

Luo Shou sighed and said: "This time, the Liaodong Army has crashed, it seems that it is going to storm our city gate, and it is estimated that it will be a vicious battle today." ”

The soldiers of the Youzhou Army defending the city were already elite soldiers who had been in battle for a long time, and without Luo Shou's orders, they had already pushed the ballista and catapult onto the city wall and began to bombard the square formation of the Liaodong Army.

The Liaodong Army was tasked with attacking the Shengjie Army. With the order of the main general Qin Qiong, the soldiers of the Liaodong Army rushed towards the city wall of Linyu Pass like a tide.

At the same time, the trebuchets under the castle began to return fire, and the arrow towers and siege engines began to move towards the city walls.

"Attention! All ballistas and catapults focus on enemy turrets and siege vehicles! Luo Shou ordered.

The catapults on the city walls began to shift their targets, throwing boulders at the Liaodong Army's arrow towers and siege engines. In the previous battles, the Liaodong Army also dispatched arrow towers. They condescended and inflicted a large number of casualties on the soldiers of the Youzhou Army on the city wall with bows and arrows.

Later, as soon as the Youzhou Army saw the arrow tower of the Liaodong Army appear, all catapults and ballistae would give priority to attacking the arrow tower.

As an elite unit handpicked by Yang Guang, the Youzhou Army, known as the world's first heroic division, has very high eyesight and shooting accuracy, which is far stronger than the ordinary Sui army soldiers. Several stones hit the first Arrow Tower.

However, the arrow tower only shook a little, but it was not destroyed.

The generals of the Youzhou Army on the city wall were all amazed, and they took a closer look, only to find that the arrow tower was actually wrapped with a thick layer of iron sheet, which greatly increased the strength of the arrow tower, and made the rocket completely ineffective.

There was originally a moat and two moats outside the pass, but they had long been filled in by the Liaodong army. The four towers continued to move slowly towards the city wall, entering the range of bows and arrows.

"Whoosh-whoosh!" The archers of the Liaodong Army on the arrow tower and the archers of the Youzhou Army on the city wall began to shoot at each other.

Just when the battle entered a critical moment, I saw Yu Ming holding a golden longbow and riding a white Ah Bo horse, and appeared handsomely under the city.

"Long live King Zhou! The Liaodong Army will win! The soldiers of the Liaodong Army cheered.

"It seems that Yuming really has a counterpart. All his soldiers shouted Banzai, and none of the officers stopped him! Luo Shou stroked the long beard under his chin and said with a gloomy face.

At this time, many Sui soldiers in the city fired arrows at Yuming. But helplessly, Yuming was still at least seventy zhang away from the city wall, and the farthest arrow they shot also fell more than ten zhang away from Yuming.

"Brother be careful!" A heroic female general exclaimed in the back.

This woman is Yu Yuqing, she saw that Li Xiuning and Red Sleeves had both enlisted as officers, so she also pestered Yu Ming and wanted to go to the battle. Yu Ming couldn't twist her, so he let her be a captain in his own soldiers.

"Yu Qing don't worry, I'll let you see my brother shoot arrows later!" Yu Ming laughed.

With that, he took the Sun-Shooting Bow from his back, and then pulled four more arrows from his quiver and placed them on the bowstring.

"No, it won't! King Zhou wants to shoot four arrows at a time? How do you get to know the right thing? ”

"Yes! Now it is more than 70 zhang away from the city wall, can you still shoot from the bottom to the top? ”

"I heard that King Zhou ejaculated the essence, but this is also a big deal!"

Most of the generals of the Liaodong Army had never seen Yuming shoot arrows, and when they saw this scene, they all whispered.

And the generals of the Sui army at the head of the city didn't take it seriously. Luo Shou's lieutenant walked to the side of the city tower and sneered at the officers beside him: "It seems that this Yuming is really dizzy, he is so far away, he wants to shoot four arrows at a time, and see how embarrassed he is in a while......"

Saying that it was too late, Yu Ming loosened the bowstring in an instant. Just listen to the sound of the bowstring "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh", and the four sharp arrows flew towards the city head of Linyu Pass......

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