There was a howling of ghosts and wolves from under the city. The Turkic soldiers gathered under the corners of the city were burned by the fire, and gradually burned to ashes, along with the ladders that had been erected on the city walls. The pressure of the Sui army to defend the city at the head of the city suddenly decreased, and a few Sui troops used the cover of black smoke to look down the city.

"The Tartars have retreated--- the Tartars have retreated---" Suddenly, there were bursts of cheerful shouts from the Sui army from Chengtou Mountain.

Liu Fang was slapping the ashes on his body at this time, and got up to look outside the city, only to see that the Turkic soldiers who were attacking the city were supporting the wounded soldiers to withdraw in the direction of the outside of the city. The Turkic cavalry, who had been shooting arrows in the distance, also withdrew to their positions. After the oil was burned, the black smoke gradually cleared, leaving corpses all over the ground and wounded soldiers still screaming. There was a chorus of joy from the top of the city.

"Count the casualties and hurry up to replenish the materials for defending the city, especially fire oil. The oil is really good. Changsun Sheng, who was watching the battle from the city tower, ordered to Liu Fang, who came to report. This first battle of attack and defense can be described as extremely tragic, and both sides have exerted their strength in bow and arrow shooting. The accuracy of the arches and arrows of the Turkic cavalry still made Changsun Sheng's generals feel a chill, but those who came up had a chance of hitting their arrows.

"Marshal, our army suffered 1,200 casualties, of which 600 were killed, all of whom were killed by arrows. The rest were all slightly wounded, and some of the wounded soldiers could still fight, but they couldn't shoot arrows. There were at least 5,000 casualties among the Tartars under the city, and not many wounded soldiers fled back. Liu Fang walked up to Changsun Sheng and replied.

"Good! This is only a tentative attack by the Tartars, and they have not used all their strength, and the fierce battle is still to come! It was ordered that the whole army should not go out of the city to pursue the enemy, and there was no need to go out of the city to clean up the battlefield. General Yuan, your department sent people to quickly seal the gates of the four cities with huge stones, even if the city gates are burned, the Tartars will not want to enter the city. Changsun Sheng said to Yuan Ying, the deputy general behind him.

After Yuan Ying got the order, he nodded and led a few relatives around him. Today, his troops are resting under the city to recuperate, and more generals, captains, and flag officers are observing today's offensive and defensive battles, so that they can learn from their experience when they go into battle tomorrow. The work of blocking the city gate with huge stones had to be done by them, the Sui soldiers who had no war.

The Turkic Chinese army is a big village.

Shabalio Khan was also summing up the gains and losses of this siege. The generals in the tent also looked gloomy and did not speak.

"In today's battle, our army lost more than 6,000 people. Almost all of the Han people who were taken captive with the army died. How was General Takhan going to attack the city next? Shabalu Khan stared at the Tiger Division's general Takhan and said, he was very dissatisfied with the outcome of the battle.

"Great Khan, the Sui army's fire oil is too powerful, seeing that my archers have restrained the Sui army archers at the head of the city, but if he doesn't prevent him from pouring fire oil, scalding and burning my soldiers too much, even the black smoke can make people faint, it's really hard to deal with!" Takhan slapped his thigh and said helplessly. This oil is different from the rain of arrows, which can still be covered with a shield, but this oil cannot be handled.

"Is there a way for the military advisor to deal with the oil of fire?"

"Great Khan, the fire oil is poured on the armor, once the fire is not extinguished, it can make the besieging soldiers take off their clothes and armor and climb the city, so that it is not easy to be burned to death. Then the sergeants were ordered to carry some dirt bags around their waists, and if there was fire oil on the ground, they immediately covered the oil with the oil in the bag, so that the oil could not catch fire. Dutley said slowly, twisting his goatee in one hand. He traveled back and forth to the Central Plains for a long time, and many Han people knew him, so he knew how to prevent fire oil attacks.

"Good! General Takhan could order his soldiers to do the same, and cover their mouths and noses with wet wipes to avoid inhaling toxic smoke. ”

"Thank you Great Khan, thank you to the military master, Ben will do it immediately. Hehe! ”

After noon, the sun is blazing overhead. The defenders at the head of the city were resting in the shade at the battlements. Just after lunch, most of the soldiers were sleeping against the wall, and only a few soldiers were watching the Turkic soldiers move in the distance. In such a high summer weather, the dead bodies under the city walls can quickly make people smell a suffocating stench.

"Quick, everyone, wake up, the Tartars are coming up, ready to fight." Suddenly, the flag officers of the junior colonels in each team began to beckon their respective subordinates to cheer up. For in the distance, a neat line of Turkic cavalry could already be seen approaching the city walls, and more infantry carried a pair of ladders between the cavalry. Among them, there are dozens of tall cloud carts that are pushed slowly over.

"General, you see that the Tartars are all shirtless, they don't even wear helmets, and they all cover their faces with black cloths, why is this?" A Chinese military academy officer saw that the Turkic soldiers were abnormal, and hurriedly reminded the main general Liu Fang. Liu Fang looked at it fixedly, and sure enough, he hurriedly went to the city tower to report to Changsun Sheng.

"Huh! All of this was burned by our military oil. Prepare the ranged crossbow arrows, and fire them as soon as the Tartar reaches 400 steps range. There is also the preparation of rockets to burn the Tartar cloud car. Changsun Sheng also saw the cloud cart pushed by the Turkic army, this cloud cart will be pushed to a distance of 100 meters from the city, there are 20 to 40 archers on the cloud cart, and the height of the cloud cart is level with the city head, or even higher than the city head, so that the Tartar archers on the cloud car can pull their bows and release arrows to fully suppress the archers of the defenders on the city head, which is more helpful for the attacker to climb the city head. The only way to deal with the cloud car is to fire rockets at it to ignite until it burns the cloud car, and burn the archers on the car to death.

When Liu Fang heard this, he immediately took someone to arrange it.

It is foreseeable that this wave of offense and defense will be even more tragic.

Let's put aside the fierce offensive and defensive battles of Wuyuan City for the time being, let's first talk about the general of the Turkic Army's Leopard Division, Taglie, who divided his troops to go to the Yellow River crossing to find a boat.

Tagelie galloped all the way with 20,000 elite horsemen, and did not encounter a single Han man along the way, let alone the Sui army. All the way to the ferry, the ferry town is occupied. There was no one in the town for a long time, and the Han Chinese here had crossed the Yellow River a few days earlier to take refuge on the south bank.

Tagre ordered his sergeants to search the river for boats, but to his disappointment, there was no boat left on the north bank, not even a small boat that had been fishing on the river for a long time. The sergeants sent upstream and downstream also returned empty-handed, looking at the surging river, Tagli had no choice, let alone the veteran Pei Renji who crossed the river to fight Shuofang City.

"General Kandar, you quickly return to the headquarters and inform the Great Khan of the situation, Ben will hold the ferry here, and don't let the Sui army smuggle in to attack. Ask the Master if there is a way to cross the river. Damn, it looks like we'll have to find another way to cross the river. At this time, Tagre had no choice but to make such an arrangement, and the river could not be crossed, so he had to wait for further instructions from Shabalio Khan, and his heart was depressed. Kandal is his lieutenant general, and he is also a strong martial arts general.

At this time, the offensive and defensive battle of Wuyuan City had entered a white-hot stage.

Dozens of tall Turkic siege cloud carts 100 meters outside the city had already ignited a fire, and the archers on the cloud carts were either on fire or jumping down. The threat of the cloud chariot was removed, but the Turkic archers on the cloud chariot caused great casualties to the Sui army at the head of the city, and there were already nearly a thousand casualties.

Because the archers were suppressed and the cooperation of the archers was lacking, the Turkic soldiers who climbed the city reached hundreds, but fortunately, these Tartars who climbed the city were killed by the prepared Sui army at the head of the city under the leadership of Liu Fang and other generals.

The effect of fire oil is not so obvious, no matter how it is splashed, but there are always Tartars rushing to the city, and the fire oil burning under the city is quickly extinguished by the Turkic siege soldiers, but the black smoke that covers the sky and the sun rises, so that the eyes of the Sui soldiers at the head of the city can not be opened. Fortunately, at the critical moment, the marshal Sun Sheng asked the reserve army to send countless limes to the city, which were splashed along the city wall, and the white mist in the sky directly burned the eyes of the Turkic soldiers who attacked on the back, which greatly reduced the combat power of the Turkic soldiers who landed in the city, and it was easy to be poked down the city by the Sui soldiers with spears to fall to death.

In two consecutive hours of offensive and defensive battles, there was no winner. The Turkic soldiers returned defeated after leaving nearly 10,000 corpses, and the Sui army defending the city also suffered heavy casualties, with nearly 4,000 casualties and lost their combat effectiveness.

It was getting late, and the two armies went back to lick their wounds. Each of them is also preparing to fight again in the coming day.

"Marshal, in today's battle, our army suffered more than 5,200 casualties, 1,800 people have been killed, and more than 3,400 people have been wounded. Liu Fang came to the Shuaifu with a body of gunpowder smoke and a few minor injuries to report today's battle damage to Changsun Sheng.

"General Liu has worked hard, go down and rest!" Changsun Sheng witnessed today's battle situation with his own eyes, as a long-term battle-hardened general, he was used to seeing life and death, and the battle losses of the defenders in today's first battle were still in an acceptable range, and more importantly, after a fierce battle all day, he saw the strength of the Turkic soldiers and the means of siege.

"General Yuan Ying, that's all for the Tartars' moves, tomorrow you can't exceed the intensity of today's siege, tomorrow you will lead your troops to the city, can you be confident?" Changsun Sheng asked the deputy general Yuan Ying, who was also watching the battle in the city tower all day, but his palms were nervous and sweating, and he even went out to kill a few Tartar soldiers who had landed in the city at a critical time.

"Dashuai, rest assured. Tomorrow, the Tartars will have no cloud cars to help them fight. The pressure on our defenders should be much less than it is today. Yuan Ying said softly.

"Yes! Tomorrow's battle is over, and it is time for the two armies of the enemy and us to cease fighting. Later, you will take your headquarters to the city to change the defense. Be careful tonight, don't let the Tartars steal the city. After speaking, Changsun Sheng got up and wanted to rest in the backyard house, and Yuan Ying bowed his hand and then led his generals to patrol the city.

After a desperate battle a few days ago, the city of Wuyuan has become a flesh mill, like purgatory on earth. After paying the price of more than 20,000 casualties, the Turkic army slowly died down, and the two armies of the Turks and Sui formed a confrontation in Wuyuan City.

The defenders of Wuyuan City also suffered nearly 10,000 soldiers after a few days of fighting, and Changsun Sheng has organized the young people in the city, numbering nearly 10,000 people, so that they can be used as the reserve force of the Sui army defending the city.

"Two generals, the Turkic Tartars have not attacked for three consecutive days, and I don't know what Shabalio Khan thinks at this time?" Sun Sheng, the head of the Marshal's Mansion, summoned the two lieutenants, Liu Fang and Yuan Ying, and asked.

At this time, Liu Fang's left arm was injured, and the white cloth covering the wound soaked out a blood flower, but from Liu Fang's face, people couldn't feel that he was an injured person.

"Marshal, no matter what the Turkic leader thinks, we just need to step up the maintenance of the city, prepare more materials to defend the city, and be ready for battle at any time. The walls of my Wuyuan City are thick, how can they be broken by tricks? Liu Fang said.

"Yes! Marshal, during this period of time, the Tartar offensive is fierce and I can't take this city, according to the last general, he has temporarily suspended his troops there, it is nothing more than that he needs time to rebuild morale, or the siege equipment in his army is insufficient and is being built, or it may be unknown that there is a shortage of food in his army. I only don't go out of the city here, so I don't change what happens. Yuan Ying also replied sharply.

"Well, you have a point." Eldest Sun Sheng said silently.

"I don't know the news of General Wang Xuan, my Wuyuan City not only absorbed 100,000 Turkic Tartars, but the enemy chief Sha Bolu Khan is also outside the city, it stands to reason that this is the best opportunity for Li Yuan, the Tang Duke of Jinyang, to attack his flank. It is impossible for Tang Gongzhi not to see such a fighter, why is there no news at all? Changsun Sheng got up and walked back and forth with his hands behind his back and whispered.

Tang Gong Li Yuan's immobility was full of weirdness in the eyes of Changsun Sheng, as if he was asking the second general, and more like asking himself.

At this time, Wang Xuan, the deputy general of Wuyuan, was running on the official road to Luzhou, Hedong County, with a few entourages pretending to be merchants.

Two days ago, Wang Xuan and the others arrived in Jinyang City, and what they saw and heard all the way through several cities made Wang Xuan feel strange, because the Turkic invasion of the south did not feel the panic at all in the city where Li Yuan's Tang soldiers were stationed.

After Wang Xuan and others entered Jinyang City, they did not go to Jinyang Wangfu to meet Tang Duke Li Yuan for the first time, but found an inn to live in first. But after only a banquet and a few Jinyang Tang soldiers were drunk, the news he got was enough to make Wang Xuan dare not go to see Li Yuan without permission.

A somewhat drunken Tang army commander actually suggested that Wang Xuan's caravan go to Dingxiangcheng to do business, saying that Dingxiangcheng had been ceded to Tang Gong by a letter from the Turkic Khan, and there was an urgent need for merchants to bring goods to sell.

Wang Xuan can conclude that this Turkic southern invasion must have made peace with Li Yuan, and if he dared to go to see Tang Gong Li Yuan, he might be directly detained and imprisoned by Li Yuan to avoid news leakage. After sending off a few drunken soldiers, Wang Xuan discussed with his cronies for a while, and immediately decided to go directly out of the city and go south to Luzhou, Hedong, to meet the king of Jin, Chitose.

Fortunately, all the city checkpoints along the way can be kind to the past business travel, and the road is smooth.

On this day, a group of several people had already entered the city of Neihuo County, Hedong County. As soon as he entered the city, Wang Xuan felt a tense atmosphere, many officers and soldiers gathered in the streets and alleys, and the entire city was already under martial law, which made Wang Xuan, who was originally a senior officer, feel a tense atmosphere of war.

"Brothers, that Jinyang is in a peaceful state when facing the Turkic army. Here is far away from the mainland, and the Turks are separated by Jinyang, but it is a fight, but why? Wang Xuan led the horse on the street and looked around, and asked a few relatives in a low voice.