This night raid carefully planned by Wang Junlin for several days was extremely successful, and from the beginning, the Turks, who had more than 1,000 troops more than the Sui army, were unable to organize an effective resistance, and became a plate of scattered sand, so that the heads of the Turks were rolling, rivers of blood flowed, thousands of tents and countless grains and grass were set on fire, and the fire soared into the sky, reflecting the night sky on the steppe......

On September 5, the third year of Renshou, Wang Junlin, the commander of the Great Sui army, led 4,000 cavalry under the command of Yujuluo, and attacked the Turkic logistics camp at night, killing 5,000 Turkic cavalry and 7,000 herdsmen, and millions of livestock were beheaded, driven away, and poisoned with poisonous grass by the Sui army. In this battle, the three months of grain and grass for the 200,000 Turkic soldiers and horses were completely destroyed in one fell swoop.

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Although Shuiquan Pass is not a one-man pass, it is also close to the mountains and dangers, and it can completely block the attack of ten times the enemy with a small number of troops. Originally, the Turkic general led 80,000 troops to garrison here, but in the end only 40,000 troops were left, and the other 40,000 troops withdrew to the outside of Jincheng, and the main force of Luo Khan of the Turkic Department continued to attack Jincheng day and night.

At this point in the battle, the key is still whether Jincheng can be lost before Yujura arrives, and whether Jincheng can wait until that time is the key to Shuiquan Pass. Just as the Turks were anxious to take Jincheng, Yujura was also anxious to capture Shuiquan Pass.

Outside the Golden City, King Bodo and Vulture led an army of 40,000 from Shuiquan Pass, although the two lost Longxi City and buried the good situation, but considering the transcendent status of King Bodo, Chuluo Khan still came to greet him in person. Glaring fiercely at the vultures who were kneeling on the ground, Chu Luo Khan said enthusiastically to King Bodo: "King Bodo is wise, I am about to order Sguapiva to hold the Shuiquan Pass and mobilize 40,000 troops to return to Jincheng. ”

King Hata smiled and said, "It was this seat that had time to ask the Khan in advance, and I was about to ask the Khan for guilt. In addition, this seat also has to intercede for the vulture, the loss of Longxi City this time is mainly the stupidity of the Ge Dao Department, the crime is not in the vulture, and please ask the Khan to give him a chance. ”

Chu Luo Khan forcibly suppressed the unhappiness in his heart and the murderous intent against the vulture, and said: "Since the Dharma King has already spoken, this Khan will spare the vulture's life for the sake of the Dharma King's face. ”

The vulture hurriedly said, "Thank you, King Fa, thank you Khan." ”

When Chu Luo Khan saw that the vulture first thanked King Bodo, and then thanked him, his eyes couldn't help narrowing, but he didn't say anything in front of King Bodo.

In the past few days, Luo Khan's mood is extremely bad, Jincheng has been attacking for more than ten days, and it was about to be broken when he saw it, but because of the arrival of the three thousand forwards of the Sui army, the success fell short, and now the defenders of the Sui army saw hope and gave birth to a desperate heart, no matter how he drove the soldiers to attack the city, it was difficult to break the city for a while. The recovery of the morale of the Sui army is one thing, but in fact, it is mainly because the Turks are good at cavalry field warfare, and attacking and defending cities has always been their weakness.

"King Fa, in the past ten days, more than 50,000 people have been killed and wounded by his sons, but they have never been able to capture the Golden City, and the arrival of the Yujuluo army has dispersed the troops, and now the strength of the day and night siege is a little insufficient, can the King of the Fa give a decree to the King of Tuyuhun Bailan, let them gather the remaining 30,000 troops to help us attack the city." Chu Luo Khan personally received King Bodo today, in fact, he wanted him to come forward, to be able to say that King Tuyuhun Bailan, he had already received the news that Tuyuhun's people had grabbed enough property, and they had suffered a fiasco in the hands of Liu Fang, and they already had the idea of withdrawing their troops.

Seeing that King Bodo frowned and did not agree immediately, Chu Luo Khan said with a worried face: "King Fa, there is a small group of Sui troops attacking and disturbing on the northwest grain road, I am very worried that the logistics camp in the northwest will be attacked by the Sui army, and I want to send 10,000 troops back to take a look, but the troops in my hands are not enough. Therefore, please also ask the Dharma King to gather the Tuyuhun army to Jincheng. ”

"Report!" At this moment, suddenly a scout rushed to the northwest, and when he was ten paces away from Luo Khan and King Bodo, he galloped down, and the war horse fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth, and was actually exhausted to death, the Turks sometimes cherished the war horse more than their own women, so it can be imagined how important the news brought by the scout was.

"Qiyu Khan, the logistics camp was attacked by the Sui army at night the evening the day before yesterday, and millions of cattle and sheep and countless grains and grass were destroyed by the Sui army." The scout barely finished speaking, tilted his head, and fainted.

"Bastard!" Chu Luo Khan, King Bodo and others all changed their faces greatly, and Chu Luo Khan stumbled and almost fell to the ground, and the soldiers next to him hurriedly supported him.

After all, it was the Great Khan of the Western Turks, and after the Luo Khan was shocked, he quickly regained his composure and shouted: "The grain and grass in our army are only enough for three days, and there are countless grains and grass in Jincheng, as long as we capture Jincheng within three days, the victory still belongs to us." Whoever worries about Ben Khan will take the Golden City in three days. ”

The vultures suddenly shouted fiercely: "Khan! Give me three days to see me conquer the Golden City! ”

"Good! I appoint you as the chief general, and I will take the golden city in three days. If you can't take the golden city, I will cut off your head myself. ”

Chu Luo Khan personally handed the golden arrow to the vulture, looked at the direction of Jincheng deadly, and roared murderously: "Capture Jincheng, don't collect the knife for three days." ”

If you don't collect the knife for three days, it means that you can let go and kill the people in the city for three days, which is actually no different from slaughtering the city.

The vultures immediately raised the Khan's golden arrow and shouted loudly: "The whole army is ready to attack the city one after another with 10,000 people as a wave. ”

In fact, the vulture has a very high status in the Western Turks, and is known as the first warrior of the Western Turks, and is one of the most powerful people among the more than a dozen commanders under the command of the Luo Khan, otherwise he would not have been sent by the Luo Khan to take Longxi City. Therefore, Chuluo Khan still has certain expectations and confidence for the vultures to take the initiative to ask for their lives.

Thousands of big drums were beating, the drums were like thunder, and they could be heard dozens of miles away, and the Turkic army outside Jincheng was murderous, followed by hundreds of ladders and nest carts and trebuchets in the dense army, and the Western Turkic soldiers struggled to push them forward, and swept away with an unstoppable murderous Jincheng.

King Bodofa glanced at Jincheng and then at Vulture, and did not know what he thought, and then said to the Khan of Chuluo: "In this case, I will go on another trip to meet the King of Bailan, and let him fully cooperate with the Khan in battle." ”

Chu Luo Khan said: "Hard work for the king. ”

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Compared with the sluggish morale of the Sui army a few days ago, the remaining 40,000 defenders in the city now have resolute eyes, and nearly 100 trebuchets made in the past few days are scattered on all sides of the city, like giants guarding.

In the midst of the earth-shattering drums, 20,000 Western Turkic troops poured out of the camp like a tide, clustering more than 100 siege ladders, and slaughtered the southern city wall that Han Ziliang was responsible for defending.

Han Ziliang was fully armored, wearing an eagle helmet, standing on top of the city, raising the horse lance high, and shouted to the army: "Brothers, our reinforcements have come, as long as we hold the last few days, as soon as the reinforcements arrive, we can go out of the city and besiege the Turkic dog thieves with the reinforcements, and avenge the brothers who died in these days!" ”

"Revenge, revenge, revenge!" In the rumbling war drums from outside the city, the soldiers of the Sui army at the head of the city were also enthusiastic, and they raised their weapons and shouted with all their might: "Avenge the brothers!" ”

The shouting shook the city, and even the defenders in the other three directions were infected, and then the shout, Han Ziliang waved his horse lance and shouted: "Prepare to defend the city, dare to disobey the military order, shake the heart of the army, and behead immediately!" ”

At the head of the city, the 40,000 Sui troops looked coldly, raised their bows and arrows together, and stared at the overwhelming Western Turkic army under the city without fear.

War has broken out, and in addition to archers, trebuchets and crossbows are ready to be fired.

Han Ziliang watched coldly as the black pressure pressed the enemy army and rushed up, one after another cloud ladders rushed through the moat that had long been filled with corpses, most of the enemy troops had already entered within two hundred steps, Han Ziliang waved out the horse lance in his right hand, and shouted: "Launch!" ”

The head drum of Jincheng was loud, and a hundred trebuchets on the four city walls started at the same time, and the long arm swinged, throwing dozens of pounds of boulders into the air, and dozens of boulders rotated in the air, whistling and smashing towards the dense crowd.

'Boom! In the loud noise, the boulder fell, rolled in the crowd, the red snow foam rose into the air, hundreds of people were smashed into the flesh and blood, miserable, one after another boulders smashed into the crowd, one after another screams.

'Click! 'A ladder was hit, the ladder was broken into several pieces, more than a dozen people who carried the ladder were also killed half, the Turkic ladder was simple and rough, it was built by the Han folk craftsmen they captured with reference to the ladder of the Sui army, but it was only its shape and no god, it could not move forward if it was slightly damaged, just a hundred steps, nearly half of the ladder was smashed by the boulder, but there were still more than 50 ladders gradually approaching the city wall.

In the sky, a huge stone was rolling, whistling and smashing to the ground, in a short time, the trebuchet launched four rounds, more than a hundred boulders smashed into the enemy group, causing nearly a thousand casualties, but the Western Turkic army did not stop, they rushed into the range of bows and arrows.

The Sui army arrows on the city are like rain, tens of thousands of arrows are intensively shot at the enemy, the arrows are used to defend the city, longer and heavier than the cavalry arrows, shot down from a high place, will shoot at the enemy with their own weight, and the lethality is extremely strong.

The Turkic soldiers raised their shields to greet each other, and the Turks had two kinds of shields, one was a wooden shield covered with cowhide, which was strong and strong, and was used by the Turkic royal families and large tribes, while the other was a simple wooden shield, with thin planks, used by some small Turkic tribes, this shield could only withstand the bows and arrows on the steppe, and could not resist the crossbow arrows of the Sui army, let alone the heavy arrows.

However, many Turkic soldiers covered their shields with several layers of raw cowhide, barely withstanding the shot of arrows, but many of their shields were still pierced by arrows, killing the enemy behind the shields, and the soldiers screamed and fell down.