Chapter 228: Dingxiang City

Summer is the season when the vegetation is at its most abundant. In the spring, the trees are in full bloom and the grass is in full bloom.

The walls of Dingxiang City are not made of bluestone, but made of loess. There are fewer bluestones on this side of Dingxiang City, and after Jieli captured Dingxiang that year, the city was dilapidated, and the Turks did not know how to build a city, so they had to ask the Han craftsmen in the city to build the city. Han craftsmen used yellow mud to build the city wall of Dingxiang City.

And now, there are cracks and cracks on these loess walls, and I don't know how many. Clusters of grass tenaciously survive on the earthen wall, or the head of the wall, or in the gaps, or the corners of the wall, lush, from a distance, only to see the yellow wall and green dots, revealing a sense of gloom.

At this time, there were nearly 20,000 Turkic soldiers stationed in Dingxiang City, plus the strong men forcibly recruited from Dingxiang, the total number of troops in Dingxiang City exceeded 30,000.

Among these 30,000 troops, Jieli's henchman Kang Sumi led a 10,000 Turkic army, and another Turkic general named Buluye was in charge of another 10,000 horses and nearly 10,000 people.

Although that step of Lu Ye is nominally Kang Sumi's boss, but Kang Su Mi is a henchman of Jieli and does not listen to that step of Lu Ye's orders at all. And Bu Lu Ye also has no way to take Kang Sumi.

In Dingxiang City, in addition to these Turkic generals, there is also a pivotal figure. This man was a woman, born with a beautiful and graceful nature. She is the former Empress of Sui, and now the beloved concubine of Jieli Khan, Empress Xiao.

Speaking of this Empress Xiao, she can also be regarded as a super calamity-level person. was the empress of Emperor Yang of Sui, and later was threatened by Yu Wenhua and his son's life, so she had to follow Yu Wenhua and become one of his concubines. Later, Dou Jiande broke the Yu culture and, this Queen Xiao fell into the hands of Dou Jiande.

At this time, her sister-in-law, the former Princess Yicheng of Sui and the sister of Emperor Yang of Sui, Chuluo Khan Khan Khotun heard about her experience and asked the Turks to ask Dou Jiande for Empress Xiao. Dou Jiande was so powerful in the Turks that he had to sacrifice Empress Xiao and her heirs. When he saw Empress Xiao, Luo Khan regarded her as a celestial and included Empress Xiao in the room. When Jieli Khan ascended the throne, he received everything from Chuluo Khan, including Princess Yicheng and Empress Xiao.

In this way, the people who Empress Xiao has served successively include Emperor Yang of Sui, Yu Wenhua, Dou Jiande, Chuluo Khan, Jieli Khan, and one more Li Shimin. almost married one and died another, until Li Shimin captured Empress Xiao, a woman who was over sixty years old but still had undiminished charm, was able to rest in peace, and spent eighteen years in Li Shimin's harem, and died at the age of eighty.

By the way, her sister-in-law, Princess Yicheng, is not bad, and has served Qimin Khan, Shibi Khan, Chuluo Khan, and Jieli Khan, which is only two people worse than Queen Xiao. However, her fate was not as good as that of Empress Xiao, and she was killed by the Tang army when Li Jing attacked the Turks in history.

Although Empress Xiao has lived in the steppe for more than ten years, she is still not used to, or dislikes, the kind of yurt house that the Turks live in, no matter how tall and gorgeous the yurt is. Therefore, she has been living in Dingxiang City. Jieli also built a palace-like palace in Dingxiang City for the Empress Xiao to live in. And the name of the residence is also elegantly named "Fengyi".

When Jieli remembered this Empress Xiao, he would rush over from the tooth tent to meet with her, or let someone pick her up to the tooth tent.

Since the Tang army captured the Evil Yang Ridge, the 30,000 army looked at Dingxiang City, and there was an unprecedented tension and anger in Dingxiang City.

According to the soldiers who escaped, the Tang army used heavenly thunder this time. There was a thunder that day, the sound was deafening, the fire flashed, and the soldiers around the thunder were killed and injured everywhere. After this kind of remark spread in Dingxiang City, it immediately caused panic among the soldiers in the city.

Although some soldiers have seen the firearms of the Tang Army and come out to refute the rumors, once some words spread, they will not be eliminated by three or two people who come out and say two words of opposition.

Kang Sumi is Jieli's henchman, since the last time Simo returned from the defeat of Tuli, Simo was beaten by Jieli, taking half of the population and livestock, and distributing it to other Turkic generals. Kang Sumi was one of those who received more livestock from the population. He naturally knew that what the Tang Army was fighting was not a thunderbolt, but a firearm, which could kill and injure soldiers on a large scale, and the denser the formation, the more casualties there were.

Thinking of the frightened expressions of those soldiers who had experienced the battle, Kang Sumi suddenly had a feeling that the Tang army was invincible. sighed, looked in the direction of the Evil Yang Ridge, but was a little confused in his heart.

At the same time, Bu Lu Ye gritted his teeth and looked at the direction of the Evil Yang Ridge, but he couldn't help but think of his brother, the military attache in the tribute mission sent by Jieli Khan after he became a minister. Although the news from Datang said that the horse thieves outside the Great Wall did it, the corpses of the two horse thief leaders were also presented. However, when Bu Luye saw the neat, one-hit knife wounds and triangular pyramidal arrow wounds on the corpses sent back, although those wounds were covered up, he still recognized them for the first time that they were caused by Tang Jun's horizontal knives and arrows.

Therefore, since he was transferred to Dingxiang City to command more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, he has been thinking about avenging his brother all the time. Now, the Tang Dynasty has sent troops to attack, and he can't wait to immediately lead his soldiers to fight the Tang army to the death, kill all the Tang troops cleanly, and then use their heads to honor his brother.

However, he also knew that with the 10,000 Turkic warriors and thousands of Han Chinese strong men under his command, he could not defeat the Tang army at all, but fortunately, at this time, Jieli Khan sent 10,000 reinforcements to aid Dingxiang City. So, Bu Luye set his sights on this reinforcement. As long as he gains control of this army, he will have 20,000 brave Turkic warriors and thousands of Han strong men under his command, and with Dingxiang City, he can fight with the Tang army.

However, the general of the 10,000 Turkic warriors was Kang Sumi, the henchman of Jieli Khan, and although his official position was under his step, his favor was far above him. And looking at his appearance, he was born with a thin figure and slightly "eight" eyebrows, and at first glance, he knew that he was not a person who could fight to the death. Therefore, Bu Lu Ye came up with the idea of plotting to seize Kang Sumi's military power.

After a few encounters, Bu Luye did not take any advantage. This seemingly cowardly Kang Sumi is an extremely slippery guy. Bu Luye even began to wonder if he was a steppe man, how could he be more treacherous than the Han people in the Central Plains. The power of the army is still in the hands of Kang Sumi.

The two are-for-tat, and even in normal times, they are stationed at the east and west ends of Dingxiang City, and they rarely have contact except for routine official business. It wasn't until the Tang Army captured Evil Yang Ridge that the two stepped up their daily communication, lest there be anything like an order that would not work during the war.

The entire Dingxiang City is like a moving machine, vigorously armed, armed for battle, and fully prepared for the attack of the Tang army.