Chapter 862: Dead Festival
"Your Majesty, Jieli Khan wants to retreat and return north, but he is not willing to return in vain, so he sent Zhi Zhi Sili to threaten, Your Majesty must not be fooled." Li Junxian reminded the emperor that he had first-hand and up-to-date information, so he was well aware of the current situation of the Turks.
Jieli is now also in a dilemma.
Even the small Dingxiang City couldn't be captured, let alone surrounded and annihilated Luo Siye.
He originally wanted everyone to be angry and didn't want to attack the city in this hot summer, so it was okay, first surround it, and let them attack the city after Tang Xia's troops came, after all, they were more professional in attacking the city, and second, they didn't feel distressed when their soldiers died.
Unexpectedly, Chai Shao delayed a lot of time in Jiuyuan City, and finally forced down Yun Dingxing, but as soon as his soldiers and horses left, he was coming to Dingxiang, and halfway through, he encountered a torrent in the Hetao, blocking the way. Chai Shao detoured, but this detour took half a month.
Until now, the confluence has not been reached.
As for the 100,000 allied forces of Dou Jiande, Gao Kaidao, Gao Tansheng, and Liu Wuzhou, besieging Liu Hongji in Geyunnei, they were also unable to attack.
It is claimed that the coalition army is 600,000.
But until now, it was the Turkic soldiers who fought alone.
Jieli felt that he had been fooled, and the situation in the Central Plains was not at all like what Li Yuan said that there was an opportunity to take advantage of, and what kind of troops could be taken south.
The traitor of Asnasimo is as smelly and hard as the stones in the pit, a Turkic agent, who worked so hard after the fall of Qin, and defended the city with a decent appearance.
"Jieli wants to play tricks with me, but it's too tender, I think I was a master of tricking Jinhua back then."
"Your Majesty, what is the fraudulent golden flower?" Li Junxian asked puzzled.
"Oh, nothing." The Emperor smiled.
The first day of June.
Dingxiang City fiercely besieged the city for a whole day, and fought fiercely until the night.
The battle lasted until midnight, and the Turks finally broke through to the east gate in the rain and occupied the city of Weng.
The sound of killing shook the sky, and the arrows were like flying locusts.
Jieli Khan personally supervised the battle under Dingxiang City and ordered Dingxiang City to be taken at all costs. Luo Cheng has already arrived in Taiyuan, and the Hebei tribes have lost one after another, if he can't win Dingxiang again, then he will be in trouble.
In the city, the Duke of Shunguo, Luo Simo, commanded his subordinate Turkic soldiers, asking them to beat out the Jieli troops who had broken through and take back the breakthrough.
In the past month, the defenders of Dingxiang have recaptured the gaps in the lost city several times, preventing the Jieli army from breaking the city.
But today, despite repeated attacks by the defenders, it still did not work.
Heavy rain.
The bowstrings have lost their performance.
And the dark and rainy night blocked the sight of the defenders.
The Turkic army of Jieli came in all directions like a tidal wave, and the defenders were without the support of bows and crossbows, and their combat strength was greatly reduced.
East Gate Breakout.
The battle entered the city.
Simo personally went to the bell and drum tower on Dongmen Street to observe the battle situation and organized the street battle of the defending court.
The defeated defenders relied on the street houses to block the Jieli army.
The Jieli army entered the city like a tide and fought with the Simo army house by house.
At dawn.
The rain finally stopped.
Dingxiang City finally fell into the hands of the Jieli Army.
A Turkic general reported to Jieli Khan wet, "Our army has taken Dingxiang City, killed more than 3,000 captured Han troops, killed more than 6,000 Turkic and Tiele troops who had previously surrendered to Qin, and captured more than 10,000 people in the city." ”
"Where's Ashnasmo?" Jieli asked.
"After the city was broken last night, he took advantage of the heavy rain and chaos to escape from Dingxiang City with more than 1,000 horsemen, and broke through to the south."
"Ran away? You let this traitor escape? Jieli did not have the excitement of the city at all, although this city was once the Khan city of the Turkic Qimin Khan and Shibi Khan, and he had grown up here, but now he was not happy at all.
All he got was a ruined city and more than 20,000 people.
"Kill all the captives, they are our enemies."
"Great Khan, the Turks also killed?"
Jieli said coldly, "They surrendered to Brother Luo Cheng with Simo, and this time they resisted desperately for more than a month, these traitors don't kill, what do they do, kill them all, not one of them is left." ”
"What about the women and children?"
"Although they are women's children, the women and children of the Han people, the wives and children of traitors, are all enemies, and if they don't stay, they will be killed!"
Under the city of Dingxiang.
On the banks of the Jinshui River.
After the Turks broke through the city of Dingxiang, they launched a bloody massacre of the surviving soldiers and civilians in the city.
More than 20,000 mouths, not one was left, and all of them were killed.
The human head was under the city and a tall Beijing temple, and the headless corpse filled the golden river, and the blood stained the surface of the river for ten miles.
Rothmo broke through to the south and retreated to the city of Dali, where he joined the 3,000 defenders of the city and continued to resist the Turks.
After Jieli slaughtered Xiangcheng, he continued south.
Taking advantage of the coolness after the rain, the Turkic army launched another tidal attack on the small city of Dali.
More than 4,000 defenders, gritting their teeth and fighting to the death, repelled wave after wave of attacks by the Turks.
The small city of Dali is like a small reef in the storm of the sea, surrounded by layers of waves, which may be submerged at any time, but it has been stubbornly holding on.
A feathered arrow flew and grazed Simo's face, taking away a piece of flesh and leaving a deep arrow mark.
Kesimo still did not retreat, and personally stood at the head of the city to command the city defense.
The Great Qin Red Battle Banner hanging high above the city fell in the midst of feathered arrows and flying stones in the sky.
But soon, the tattered flag was raised again.
Jieli ordered people to throw fireballs into the city, and the blazing fireballs set most of the city on fire, and there were fires everywhere, and thick smoke filled everywhere.
The Jieli army once again used the tactic of breaking the city, firing countless bows and arrows in volleys, interspersed with simple catapults, suppressing the defenders of the city with firepower, and then a group of Turkic soldiers rushed to the bottom of the city with a long ladder, set up a ladder, and began to climb the city with swords.
The tide is over.
At dusk.
The Jieli army finally broke through the city defenses and entered the city.
One by one, the defenders were killed by the Jieli army.
Simo carried the horizontal knife given by the emperor himself, swung left and right, and still fought desperately under the protection of his own soldiers.
"Long live my emperor!"
"Fight until the last moment!"
"Be loyal to Great Qin, be loyal to my emperor!"
Simo is like a bloody god of war, swearing not to retreat.
There is no chance to break out again, and today may be the place of death.
When the standard-bearer beside him also fell, Simo stepped forward to hold up the military flag and continued to fight.
The last of the soldiers was stabbed by several spears and died with a reluctant roar.
Fought to the last man.
The commander of the right capital of the Great Qin Dingxiang Dao and the envoy of the right Xuanwu army, the prince of Shunguo, Luo Simo, put the imperial sword on his neck, and he slowly closed his eyes.
Still coming and exerting force, the knife was knocked off.
Then he was knocked down and captured.
Later, a group of Turkic soldiers cheered and carried him to the front of Jieli Daxu.
"Repay the Great Khan, the traitor Simo has been captured!"