Twilight.

The offensive of the Turks failed again.

The golden wolf retreated, and the Turks retreated from the city like a tide.

Another Turkic old and weak came up and began to clean up the battlefield.

On the battlefield, there were corpses everywhere.

Yang Guang personally visited the returning cavalry, when he went, there were 2,000 armored horses, and when he came back, less than 1,000 horses, and more than 100 knights were brought back by the mounts and a corpse.

And the 1,000 light cavalry led by Li Jing also suffered more than 300 casualties.

Such casualties were extremely heavy, but after all, they repelled a ferocious attack of the Turks.

It's just that if the Turks attack again tomorrow, what will happen.

"Wang Rengong must be healed, and those injured soldiers must be rescued with all their might." Yang Guang said a little weakly, "The soldiers who died in battle today will be given a promotion to the next level and 50,000 yuan." ”

Fan Zigai, the secretary of the Eastern Capital Shou and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, reminded the emperor, "There is not much grain and grass in the city, please order Your Majesty to reduce the daily food supply, and everyone will reduce the rations together, so as to wait for the arrival of reinforcements from King Qin." ”

"Okay, halve the rations."

"Your Majesty, the soldiers who go to war must be fed." Li Jing, who did not have time to wipe off the bloodstains, asked the emperor. The number of soldiers who did not fight can be reduced, but if they fight, they should be fed, and if they are not full, how to defend the city.

"It's really not possible, you can kill the horses driven by the royal camp to satisfy your hunger."

Yang Guang didn't say anything.

After seeing Wang Rengong go back, the emperor called several prime ministers over.

Su Wei, Pei Yun, Yu Shiji, Pei Shiju, and Xiao Yu were worried.

"Today is only the sixth day, but we have already suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and there is only half a month of food left, how can this city be defended?"

Yu Shiji proposed.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Yanmen is difficult to defend, so it is better to concentrate an elite cavalry, open the city in the middle of the night, and escort Your Majesty to break through to Taiyuan."

Yang Guang was a little moved, but he was worried that the hundreds of thousands of Turkic cavalry outside would not be able to break through.

Xiao Yu was resolutely opposed.

"Your Majesty, now that there are city walls, our army can still hold on, just wait for King Qin's reinforcements to arrive, and we will be able to defeat the Turks in one fell swoop. But His Majesty ventured to break through, but it was extremely dangerous? Now the entire Yanmen County is Turkic, if you can't break through, you will be surrounded in the wilderness, and there is no danger to defend, and you will definitely become a prisoner of the Turks. ”

And on the other hand, if the emperor runs away, how will this Yanmen City be guarded?

These 150,000 soldiers and civilians will not collapse in their hearts?

Even if the emperor himself broke out with light horses, what about this civil and military official? What about these countless soldiers and people?

If the city of Yanmen is broken, it will be a heavy loss.

The emperor is here, the Yanmen can still be guarded, the emperor runs away, and the Yanmen City will be broken.

"When will my reinforcements arrive?"

The prime ministers were speechless, and no one could guarantee when reinforcements would arrive.

Especially now that the entire Yanmen Mayi is in the hands of the Turks, even if the reinforcements come, they still have to break through the blockade first, and if they come less, they may not have beaten the Turks, but they have to wait for the troops and horses from all walks of life to gather, and I don't know when to wait.

A large mansion in Yanmen City, which is now a temporary camp for wounded soldiers.

Wei Chigong and Liu Wuzhou were both lying on the hospital bed, and after a bloody battle, they each suffered more than ten wounds, but fortunately, they were young and strong, even if they bleed several bowls, they couldn't die for a while.

The two even had the energy to argue there about who killed the most.

"Hey, it would be nice if Luo Shuai was here, and never let the Turks be so arrogant." Liu Wuzhou sighed.

Wei Chigong only worked in Zhuojun during his two expeditions, but he never saw that Luo Shuai.

"Luo Shuai is really that powerful? When I see General Luo Siye, he is not also trapped in Lao County. ”

Liu Wuzhou sat up suddenly.

"Let me tell you, Luo Shuai is the real god of war. I think that at the beginning, Luo Shuai won many battles in Liaodong, and even created a feat of running thousands of miles behind enemy lines, and under the noses of hundreds of thousands of Goguryeo people, he broke their kings, captured the king, and finally razed the entire king. ”

"Especially if Luo Shuai can get out of the way in the end, how powerful do you say?"

"One person destroys a country, a model for my generation!"

Speaking of Luo Cheng, Liu Wuzhou still admires it so far, "Let's just talk about General Luo Siye, that is also a fierce general of 10,000 enemies, this Turkic sneak attack, 300,000 troops." The two counties of Mayi and Yanmen, only Yanmen and Laoxian are still guarded, Yanmen has His Majesty and our 100,000 troops, but there are few small soldiers in Laoxian County, only 25,000 men and horses, but they are still holding on, isn't it powerful? ”

"It's a pity that although Luo Shuai is fierce, he is still far away in Liaodong, and it must be two thousand miles away. From Liaodong, you have to cross the Liao River, pass through Liaoxi, and after entering Linyu Pass, you have to pass through Hebei. You say, if Luo Shuai comes to help, which way will he go? ”

From Liaodong to Hedong, it must pass through Hebei.

But between Hebei and Hedong, there is the towering Taihang Mountain.

Taihang Mountain separates Hedong from Hebei, but there are also eight holes that can be passed through thousands of miles of Taihang, also known as Taihang Bacheng.

When Wei Chigong went from Mayi to Zhuojun to build ordnance, he first went south into Yanmen, then along the Futuo River through Fanzhi and Lingqiu, and entered Shanggu from Feigu, one of the eight mountains, and then went to Zhuojun.

Later, when he returned home, he walked north, out of the military capital of Zhuo County, entered Huairou, and then went southwest along the Sanggan River, and then arrived at Mayi.

Liu Wuzhou thought for a while, "It should be to take Jingcheng, Jingcheng Road is the widest and best to go, from Zhuo County south to Hejian, and then west through Boling to Hengshan County, through Jingcheng can go straight to the east of Taiyuan." ”

Jingcheng has always been an important traffic channel between Hebei and Hedong, this road is the widest and the best to go, even from Hebei to Guanzhong, under normal circumstances, it is also to go Jingcheng, go south through Taiyuan, cross the Yellow River from Fengling Ferry or Longmen Ferry or cross the bridge from Pujin, enter Tongguan.

"Can we wait for Luo Shuai to arrive? What about two thousand miles? Wei Chigong also admires Luo Cheng, who is also born in iron, and has always hoped to see it, often listening to Liu Wuzhou bragging about Luo Cheng's various might, especially always saying that the most regrettable thing was to leave his job and go home, but Luo Shuai wanted to transfer him to Wang Rengong.

Wei Chigong didn't believe it very much, and always felt that Lao Liu was bragging.

"If you travel lightly, two thousand miles is not far, after all, from Liaodong, all the way is in my Great Sui territory, food can also be supplied along the way, and there is no need to worry about enemy attacks and the like, even if you travel two hundred miles in one day, it can be reached in ten days."

"Two hundred miles, ten days? No way. ”

"One hundred and fifty miles a day." Liu Wuzhou said, "Actually, Luo Shuai has always been a ghost and god Mo Ce, don't think that he can't do it for two hundred miles a day, maybe one day he will suddenly appear behind the Turks." ”

Wei Chigong sighed.

"I just don't know if we can hold on until that day, there is only half a moon of food in the city."

"It's okay to save some food, it's okay to eat for a month, but the key is to be able to hold the city without losing." Liu Wuzhou is not afraid of lack of food, but afraid of the city being broken.