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All the scouts dispersed and continued to search for other secret passages. Others work in teams of 100 to take turns clearing the rubble of the mountain stream to see if they can open up this secret passage. Pei Yuanqing ordered.

The scouts soon disappeared into the forest, and the army rested partly while clearing the mountain stream passes.

Half a day later, all the scouts returned, and no one found a second secret passage.

Pei Yuanqing was extremely anxious in his heart, he knew how difficult it was for Shuiquan Pass to attack from the front, and as soon as he remembered what the Metropolitan Governor said when he sent him to find the secret passage yesterday, he knew that the Metropolitan Governor must be anxious at this time.

But it's useless to be anxious, maybe there is a secret passage to the north of Shuiquan Pass, but a few miles ahead there is a bottomless, east-west canyon that is more than 100 miles long, and to pass through this mountain range, and then bypass that canyon to reach the north of Shuiquan Pass, it will take at least ten days and half a month, and most of the time is too late. However, if the Shuiquan Pass can't be captured for half a month...... Pei Yuanqing was very entangled at this time.

What Pei Yuanqing didn't know was that Wang Junlin had already started to look for the secret passage in the north, but he hadn't found it yet.

Just as Yujuluo was about to start attacking Shuiquan Pass with 5,000 dead soldiers, Wang Junlin led 5,000 men to climb a high mountain twenty miles northwest of Shuiquan Pass.

Looking at Shuiquan Pass from afar, Wang Junlin can be similar to the tragedy of the attack and defense in the south of Shuiquan Pass. It's not that he didn't think about cooperating with Yujuluo to attack Shuiquan Pass from the north, but in the end he vetoed it, first, their troops were too small, and second, the north side of Shuiquan Pass was easier to defend and difficult to attack than the south.

Frowning and pondering for a while, feeling the strong wind blowing from the northwest, Wang Junlin's heart moved, and he suddenly thought of a way, a way to kill the 40,000 Turkic army in Shuiquan Pass. It's just that this method is too cruel, and he is a little hesitant.

Wang Junlin remembered the cruelty of war in World War II after the artillery, missiles, and airplanes were built in later generations, and Jiang directly broke the Yellow River in order to block the heavenly army, causing millions of people to suffer, and millions of people drowned, starved to death, and died of plague. In particular, the rice country gave the country of Wa Guoyuan. Child. The dropping of the bomb is even more cruel and indescribable.

"War is inherently exhaustive, as long as the goal of victory is achieved, what is it to burn a mountain forest, and what can be done to burn thousands of animals?"

"It can be said that wildfires are inexhaustible, and spring breezes blow and regenerate."

The thoughts in Wang Junlin's heart turned, and finally turned into a touch of determination and ruthlessness in his eyes.

The order went down, each person collected a bundle of dry firewood, and secretly piled up the dry firewood on the hillside two miles northwest of Shuiquan Pass, which took half a day to complete. Afterwards, Zhou Hu led the scout team to stay, and the others went down the mountain to ambush on both sides of the valley mouth north of Shuiquan Pass.

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"Pei Yuanqing has no news yet?" To the south of Shuiquan Pass, in the camp of the Sui army, Yu Juluo's face was ugly, and he asked in a deep voice.

"Qiqi Grand Governor, just now Pei Yuanqing sent someone to send the news, they found a secret passage, but the Turks have already taken precautions, blocked the secret passage with stones, and sent troops to defend it, Pei Yuanqing is trying to find a way to open the secret passage, and at the same time look for other secret passages." Yuwen Hanfeng hurriedly said.

Yu Juluo sighed, did not speak, walked towards the five thousand dead soldiers, he gave the five thousand dead people a toast of life and death, promised their wives and children, the old and small court would make proper arrangements, and then with an impassioned word, the heart of the five thousand dead soldiers to die was completely aroused.

However, just as the five thousand dead soldiers shouted killing and rushed towards Shuiquan Pass with a resolute and tragic face, suddenly a thick smoke appeared from the northwest direction of Shuiquan Pass, and the smoke became bigger and bigger, and soon enveloped Shuiquan Pass. The panicked shouts of the Turkic soldiers at the head of Shuiquan Pass could be heard from afar, and Yujura decisively ordered the five thousand dead soldiers to stand by.

Two miles northwest of Shuiquanguan suddenly burned a big fire on the mountain, the northwest summer is dry and dry, the wind is continuous all year round, and it is mostly the northwest wind, the fire borrows the wind, the fire burns rapidly, when the nearly 40,000 Turkic army of Shuiquanguan reacts, the raging flames are swept by the wind, the mountains and forests next to Shuiquanguan all burn up quickly, the houses above and below the city tower are mostly built of wood, and soon they are also engulfed by the flames, the barracks and buildings are red flames flying, and the whole Shuiquanguan turns into a sea of fire.

In Shuiquan Pass, nearly 40,000 Turkic troops cried and shouted for their fathers and mothers, in the raging fire, they trampled on each other, screamed miserably, and rushed to flee for their lives, in the south of Shuiquan Pass, 5,000 dead soldiers felt the scorching heat more than 300 steps away from the city wall, and quickly retreated under horror and joy.

There are only three ways out of the water spring, two are naturally the north and south city gates, and the other is the secret road that was once found by Pei Yuanqing, under the fire, the Turkic soldiers panicked, or they had no choice, there were 15,000 people stationed under the south city gate, and under the pressure of the fire, they opened the south city gate and fled outside the city gate where the Sui army was stationed.

Yu Ju Luo was ecstatic, ordered the army to intercept and kill, not to let go of one, the Turkic soldiers knelt down and begged for mercy, but these days the Sui army attacked Shuiquan Pass and suffered heavy losses, and had already played a deep hatred and boundless murderous aura, although the three imperial history supervisors shouted that they could not kill the surrender soldiers, but including Yu Juluo, no one in the whole army listened to them, and all the 15,000 people who ran out from here were killed by the Sui army.

And the north city gate was only stationed with 5,000 people, and after being burned to death hundreds of people, they escaped from the north city gate nearby, but when they escaped, many horses did not ride, and the weapons did not have time to bring.

There were originally nearly 20,000 people on the city, but the way they went down to the city to the city gates on both sides had been blocked by fire, and the only way to survive was a secret passage leading to the cliff next to the city, which was also the secret passage that Pei Yuanqing found.

More than half of the 20,000 people were burned to death, and nearly 10,000 of the remaining people escaped through this secret passage.

Five miles away, on the other side of the mountain stream, Pei Yuanqing led the five thousand Sui troops who were desperately trying to move the mouth of the mountain stream that had been sealed, and suddenly a soldier shouted that the water spring was on fire, and just when everyone was stunned, they heard panicked shouts and running sounds from behind the sealed stones.

Pei Yuanqing pondered for a while, his eyes lit up, and said: "Hide on both sides, and listen to my orders when the Turkic soldiers come out." ”

The military order was passed down, and soon the five thousand Sui troops were hiding, and at this time, Pei Yuanqing saw that smoke began to rise from the cracks in the blocked stones at the mouth of the mountain stream, and there were people inside coughing desperately. He knew that it was not that there was a fire in the mountain stream, but that the water spring at the other end of the mountain stream was too big and flowed down the mountain stream. Pei Yuanqing suddenly had an idea, if he asked people to block the mouth of this mountain stream, would the Sui army inside be choked to death inside.

However, he thought about it, even if these people were released, there would be no resistance left, and they would be killed, and there would be beheading, otherwise they would all be choked to death, and the battle merit could only be the one who set the fire.

It didn't take long for the stone at the exit of the mountain stream to be removed from it, and a Turkic general-like man with a face blackened by smoke and fire, came out of it with a confused face, and even crawled to the side and began to squat down and cough, tears flowed out, and he was followed by the same people as him, who did the same actions after coming out.

Soon thousands of people rushed out of it, and Pei Yuanqing saw that the Turkic soldiers who rushed out first were about to recover, so he shouted: "Shoot!" ”

A rain of arrows enveloped these unsuspected, and less than one-third of the usual combat strength of the Turkic soldiers, most of them were killed on the spot, and the remaining second round was also killed, and the screams frightened the Turkic soldiers in the mountain stream not to come out again, but this state did not wait long, and the remaining Turks finally ran out, because if they did not come out, they would be choked to death by smoke inside.

Pei Yuanqing shouted: "Block the exit, and those who don't surrender will be killed on the spot!" ”

Half an hour later, a third of the nearly 10,000 Turkic soldiers were killed, a third was choked, and the remaining 2,000 people became Pei Yuanqing's prisoners.

An hour later, the raging fire had completely engulfed the entire Shuiquan Pass, and all those who did not have time to escape were burned to death inside, or killed each other in order to get out of the exit first.

The fire burned for half a day, and when the fire stopped, the whole water spring was closed and the corpses piled up, and the smell was pungent, like Senluo Hell, and this fire battle also became the most tragic battle in the war between the Great Sui and the Turks in the summer of the third year of Renshou.

Because Wang Junlin led more than 4,000 elite horsemen to seal the line between Shuiquan Pass and Jincheng, Luo Khan of the Turkic Department did not receive any news about the burning of Shuiquan Pass.

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"Khan! Give me another chance, I will personally go into battle, if I can't take the golden city, I will take the head to see the Khan! "The vultures were tied up with five flowers, and several Khan's personal guards pressed him to the ground, three days have passed, but Jincheng still has not been taken, and the Khan of Chuluo jumped like thunder and ordered the vultures to be beheaded.

The vulture had red eyes and pleaded desperately: "Great Khan, for the sake of my vulture fighting for you in the south and north for more than ten years, let me die on the battlefield!" ”

"Okay, I'll give you one last chance to attack, if you can't take Jincheng, you can cut off your own head!"

Chuluo Khan was anxious, he had just received information that King Potor had not only failed to bring the remaining 20,000 or so troops of King Bailan to Jincheng, but also that King Bailan directly led an army of more than 20,000 people to return to his old nest of Fuluochuan and Fuqi City with the food, property and women they had looted.

And King Bo disappeared, which made Chu Luo Khan faintly feel abandoned by God, so Chu Luo Khan has already had the idea of retreating, but even if he wants to withdraw his army now, he must grab enough grain and grass, otherwise he will return to the Western Turkic territory from Jincheng, and there are thousands of miles of land, what do people and horses eat on the way, rob Tu Guhun, can the latter be defenseless? I am afraid that by the time they arrive, they will have already taken their cattle, sheep, and grain and grass to hide far away.

PS: Sorry, it's a little late today.