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Although it encountered the onslaught of the Turkic army, the Sui army defending the city thought that reinforcements were close at hand, and the Turkic army was about to run out of food, so they also thought that the victory was in hand, and the will to resist was more tenacious than before.

The Turkic army has been destroyed, and everyone understands that if they don't break the city, they will die.

However, the Sui army defending the city had high morale, putting on a posture of being trapped and fighting, fighting to the death.

So the tragedy of this siege was even worse than a few days ago. Both sides paid a heavy price for casualties.

On the first day after the resumption of the offensive, the Turkic army lost more than 20,000 men, which is about to be the sum of the casualties of the previous two days.

The Sui army defending the city also suffered heavy casualties, and the remaining more than 50,000 suffered more than 9,000 casualties, a reduction of 20%.

On the second and second day, the Turkic army lost more than 40,000 people, and the defenders also suffered more than 20,000 casualties, and now there are less than 20,000 Sui troops who can still defend the city. Even Wang Rengong was hit by a misarrow while defending the city, resulting in his dying life and had to be commanded by Pei Renji on his behalf.

At this moment, Yang Guang was already anxious, secretly thinking that there was only fifty miles away, why hadn't Yuming come over yet?

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"Don't worry, just wait another day!" Yu Ming stood on the top of the mountain, looking at the peak fire on the head of Yanmen Pass in the distance, as well as the tents of the Turkic army dotted not far away, and said to the generals who couldn't restrain themselves and came to ask for battle: "Now that our army is attacking, it will inevitably have a battle with the 50,000 pro-troops left behind by Shibi Khan to guard the camp. And these 50,000 Turkic pro-troops are all soldiers of the Turkic royal family Ashinabu, who are not only well-equipped and of high quality, but also far stronger than the ordinary Turkic army. If we attack now, we will be able to defeat the enemy, but we will suffer heavy losses. ”

"Your Highness, when will we be able to attack? Luo's hands are a little itchy! Luo Shixin said with a bitter face.

"Yes! My old Cheng's Xuanhua axe is about to rust! Cheng Yanjin also said with a depressed face.

"Hehe, don't worry! If my prediction is correct, early tomorrow morning, Shibi Khan will throw all his 50,000 pro-troops into battle, ready to complete the battle. Yu Ming said with a smile: "Although theoretically he still has a day, I don't think he dares to wait until the last day." ”

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At this time, on the official road more than a mile southwest of Yanmen Pass, a Sui army of more than 100,000 people was running. This army was a ragtag army forcibly recruited by Li Yuan's father in the original and surrounding counties. Among them, the only ones who really had combat effectiveness were the 10,000 soldiers in the original city and several nearby county towns, and the remaining 70,000 were just peasants who had just put down their hoes, and they were also forcibly pulled by him.

After receiving Yang Guang's Qinwang order, Li Yuan suddenly felt that this was a good opportunity for him to expand his troops. Although the 70,000 soldiers recruited temporarily had little combat effectiveness, he could include them in the army establishment of the Hedong region after losing so many Sui troops in the Hedong region and use them to fill the vacancies in the county soldiers in Dingxiang, Mayi, Yanmen and other counties. When the siege of Yanmen is lifted in the future, the above-mentioned counties can become areas under his control without realizing it. Create the conditions for the next step.

In the northwest, southeast and northeast of Yanmen Pass, there were also Sui troops rushing in, they were the troops of Qu Tutong, Wang Shichong and Luo Yi, each with 50,000 horses. After receiving the order of King Qin, they immediately organized a large army and rushed to Yanmen Pass as quickly as possible.

And the general's troops are divided into two armies.

The front army was all cavalry, and they marched at a speed of one or two miles a day.

The rear army was all infantry, escorting food and baggage, and marching slowly.

Among the troops, the fastest is the 10,000 Youzhou Iron Cavalry led by Luo Yi, who have entered the boundary of Yanmen County, and are only sixty miles away from the county seat of Yanmen.

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At this time, the siege of Yanmen Pass had entered a white-hot state, the battle was extremely fierce, both the Turkic and Sui armies were desperate, Shibi Khan had ordered not to rest at night, to attack day and night.

The offensive and defensive battle has entered the first night, the Turkic army has invested 150,000 troops to attack Yanmen Pass, with more than 80,000 casualties, and the Sui army has also invested 60,000 troops to defend the city, with nearly 50,000 casualties, but Yanmen Pass is still not lost.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

The huge drum beat outside the Yanmen City, the 50,000 Turkic army carried several ladders, and then rushed to the Yanmen City like a tide, the arrows flew through the air like raindrops, and it was impossible to distinguish between the city and the city, shouting and killing one after another, the Turkic army held the shield on the top of the city wall, and climbed up and impacted frantically.

The city was strewn with corpses and rivers of blood. More than 10,000 remaining Sui soldiers were still desperately resisting, knowing that reinforcements were outside the city and were about to arrive. Emperor Yang Guang also gave them a promise that after the victory in this battle, all of them would be promoted and rewarded with two silver rewards. These promises and awards gave the soldiers great courage and confidence.

The 100,000 forbidden troops with weak combat effectiveness have long been killed and wounded, and now almost all of the more than 10,000 people are the troops brought by Li Shimin and Wang Rengong when they retreated from Dingxiang.

Their morale was high, they put up desperate resistance, and after days and nights of bloody fighting, they no longer feared the Turks.

Although the Turks attacked in turns, they maintained good physical strength. But the Sui army also took turns to defend, and they were also very energetic.

When the Turks rained down too heavily with arrows from below the city to get close to the battlements to counterattack, they moved a certain distance away from the walls and threw the rolling stones downwards to reduce their own casualties.

The Turks, on the other hand, had no other siege equipment, so they had to climb up with ladders. For this only siege weapon of the Turks, the Sui army also found a way to deal with it. That is, you can use a hook to hook the edge of the ladder and pull it violently to the side to pull the ladder down.

In this way, the ladders fell at the base of the city wall with the concerted efforts of the Sui soldiers.

The Turkic soldiers also screamed one by one, and tumbled down with the logs and rolling stones smashed by the Sui army.

The two sides fought bloody and brutal battles in the non-stop use of various siege and defense methods. Under the city walls, there were rivers of blood, corpses piled up like mountains, and the city was also full of dead corpses, and the Sui army and the Turks had shed their last drop of blood.

Surrounded by dozens of Turkic nobles, Shibi Khan came to watch the battle not far from the city wall, his eyes flashed with irrepressible annoyance, he originally thought that Yanmen City would be breached in less than two days, he actually fought for seven or eight days.

And now his troops have suffered heavy casualties, but they have never been able to break through Yanmen City, and now the Turkic army has paid the price of more than 100,000 dead and wounded, if this battle of Yanmen can not be won again, and Yang Guang cannot be captured, then his khan position will be done.

"Pass my order to transfer the pro-troops who stayed in the camp to participate in the siege!" Shibi Khan said sharply.

"Ahh Father Khan, the pro-army is the last force to defend the large camp, and it is also the pro-soldier to protect your safety, if you let them come up, the large camp will be in danger. In case that Yuming takes the opportunity to sneak attack......" When Tu Li heard this, he hurriedly objected worriedly.

"Tuli, it's not okay if you don't do it now...... Shibi Khan said with a long sigh, "I've already received an urgent report. In addition to Yu Ming, several other Sui troops also arrived at the place within the Yanmen Pass. If we can't take the Yanmen Pass tomorrow, our army will be surrounded by the Sui army on all sides. Only by taking Yanmen Pass and taking Yang Guang hostage can our army have a chance to escape back to the desert......"

"Besides, I didn't send everyone out, and I still left the Wanqin Army to stay in the camp." Shibi Khan said: "Although it is a little difficult to resist Yuming's 100,000 army with 10,000 people. But it can also drag on for some time. I hope that in this battle against the Sui army, we can win! ”

After hearing this, Tuli didn't know how to comfort his father, so he had to nod and say: "That is the case, the child will lead 20,000 pro-troops to join the battle, and we must plant the golden wolf flag of our Turks on the head of Yanmen Pass before the sun rises tomorrow!" ”

"Good! is worthy of my auspicious son, there is no coward in Ashina! Shibi Khan slapped Tuli on the shoulder, and then said, "Go! I'm sure you won't let me down! ”

Tuli bowed and saluted, then turned over and got on his horse, and galloped towards Yanmen Pass with 20,000 pro-troops.

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At this moment, in Yang Guang's temporary bedroom, Yang Guang, who had survived the day in fear, was serving the palace maid, preparing to take off his nightgown to rest.

And at this moment, the princess, who had just recovered from his injuries, reported: "Your Majesty, Princess Luo Qi is waiting outside the door!" ”

"Invite her in!" After Yang Guang heard this, his face suddenly showed a look of expectation.

A moment later, Yang Luoqi walked in with lotus steps and a lilac Luo skirt.

She looked at the palace maid who was holding the pajamas in her hand and was about to change Yang Guang's clothes and said, "You guys go down first, I'll call you after I've finished talking to my father." ”

The palace maids hurriedly bowed and retreated, leaving only Yang Guang and Yang Luoqi in the room.

"Rocky, tie my hair up! I'll go to bed later! Yang Guang sighed.

Yang Luoqi then picked up the ivory hairpin on the table and gently combed Yang Guang's hair.

Under the bright light, Yang Luoqi clearly saw that there were already many gray hairs in his father's hair. Now Yang Guang is not yet fifty years old, and as an emperor, he has always paid attention to his image and is well maintained.

Yang Luoqi clearly remembered that before the Northern Expedition, his father did not have half a white hair at all, but at this time, his head was already full of gray hair, and he looked no different from an old man who was over the age of six.

"Father, rest early, don't worry too much, the gray hair on your head is much better. King Qin's edict has been issued, and it won't be long before the world's soldiers and horses will arrive......" She comforted Yang Guangdao.

"It's useless...... Luo Qi, this Yuming has already led the army to the side of the city, but he just didn't attack, and let the Turkic army attack the city. According to me, he wanted to wait for the Turkic army to break through the city, and then a yellow finch would come behind and wipe out me and Shibi Khan! Yang Guang said angrily.

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