Chapter 364: The Battle of the Five Plains (I)
"Sixth uncle, although I have a good impression of Chu Luo Yu, but I don't trust him so much, I believe in Mr. Changsun's judgment: Chu Luo Yu and his brother have different intentions, and they have always wanted to live in harmony with my Great Sui, so they don't want to make enemies with him and force him to the side of the photo. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Yang Guang sat up straight with An Ruoxi's support and explained to Yang Shuang seriously.
"Okay, well, according to what you say, I will lead the army out of the customs this time, and try my best not to confront the people of the Luo Throat Division." Yang Shuang really had no choice but to take this nephew, and waved his hand at Yang Guang again and again, "But Ah Zong, don't forget, after all, Chu Luo Yu and the photo are brothers, he will definitely not sit idly by and watch Yongyu Lu's troops be besieged by my army and ignore it, if he leads the army to help, it will be no wonder that I want to attack him." ”
"This is natural, I hope that the sixth uncle will be able to play a triumphant song as soon as possible and return victorious." Yang Guang sincerely blessed Yang Shuangdao.
Yang Shuang in front of Yang Guang, and Zhang and Wang, the two servants of the stage, explained in detail the affairs of raising food to ensure military supplies after the army set out, Fang hugged his fists and said goodbye to everyone, and led a group of generals in the camp to the military camp that had already been settled outside the north gate of Bingzhou, ordered 60,000 soldiers and horses, and marched northward.
Because from beginning to end, the Sui army did not receive any news that his brother was persuaded to withdraw the attack on the Sui army, so as soon as Yang Shuang led the 60,000 troops out of Yanmen Pass, he ordered people to issue a military order to besiege Wuyuan City to Yan Rong's subordinates, who had arrived in Baidaozhou in advance.
When Yang Shuang withdrew his troops from Yingzhou and returned to aid Bingzhou, in addition to leaving Li Zhen, the governor of Youzhou, to lead 30,000 horses to defend Goguryeo, he brought back 70,000 horses and horses from Bingzhou, in order to ensure the absolute strength advantage of the enemy army entrenched in Wuyuan City and Yongyu Lu and Luo Throat, Yang Shuang went out of the Northern Expedition this time, in addition to the 70,000 horses he brought back to Bingzhou before, he also specially selected 10,000 people from the new army recruited by Yang Guang on the spot to bring them, and led a total of 80,000 troops to the north, wanting to take Wuyuan City in one fell swoop and capture the Turkic Great Khan's tooth tent located in Dujin Mountain. Finish off the old nest of the sand bowl.
Yan Rong, the head of the march who was ordered to serve as the vanguard general of the army led by Yang Shuang, was born in Jiangmen, and followed Yang Shuang to fight on the battlefield repeatedly, and made great achievements, and was nicknamed "Blood Massacre", which means that he not only fought bravely, but also fought extremely ruthlessly, once the enemy general was defeated under his hands, he must be killed on the spot, and he will never leave a mouth alive.
Yan Rong received the order of Yang Shuang's general in Baidaozhou City, and without delaying for a moment, he immediately commanded 20,000 vanguard troops to set off from Baidaozhou, and rushed towards Wuyuan City in the Turkic territory two hundred miles away.
When Yang Shuang's pro-unified Chinese army arrived in Baidaozhou, Yan Rong led the vanguard army to surround the Wuyuan City garrisoned by the Turkic prince Yongyu Lu, and launched a fierce attack on Wuyuan City in front of him.
Among the 20,000 vanguard troops led by Yan Rong, there was a "special force" of nearly 3,000 people, which came specifically for the siege of the city. This "special forces" consisted of fifty stone starters, a thousand rocketeers and a thousand diggers.
Unlike the heavy-duty stone-hairing machines that were designed and manufactured by Yuwen Prajna and could be sent and received freely, the fifty stone-hairing machines that Yan Rong brought to launch a long-distance attack on Wuyuan City threw stones far less heavy than the heavy-duty stone-hairers, and their power was naturally much inferior, but they could throw stones into the city at a higher frequency at a greater distance.
Fifty stone generators lined up in a vacant lot almost a hundred feet away from the southern wall of Wuyuan City, and together they threw stones into the city, which also caused the Turkic defenders on the city to suffer unspeakably, with countless casualties.
Yan Rong held a command flag, stationed on the high slope outside the city, and saw that under the successive rounds of stone-throwing attacks, the rain of arrows shot on the head of Wuyuan City became thin down, so he waved the command flag in his hand, and ordered a thousand rocket fighters to approach the city to cover, and the infantry army followed closely behind with a cloud ladder on their shoulders, and the black pressure was pressed down, and they pressed towards Wuyuan City.
In Wuyuan City, the Turkic general Yongyu Lu received a report: the Sui army that came to attack the city was not only numerous, but also threw stones into the city with dozens of stone machines in turn, and the soldiers defending the city suffered heavy casualties. On the one hand, Yongyu Lu sent people to ask for help from the defeated Baidaozhou and retreated to the Dujin Mountain, and on the other hand, he personally raised his knife and led the "five hundred horsemen of the wolf's teeth" to climb the city tower and come to supervise the battle.
Yongyu Lu stood at the head of the city, looked down at the city, but saw that his eyes were full of Sui soldiers, surging towards the city like a mountain torrent and tsunami, he couldn't help but secretly gasped, and hurriedly ordered all the sergeants to step up the arrows to force back the enemy, and he also pulled out a "wolf arrow" from the quiver, bent the bow and set the arrow, aiming at a leading army to rush to kill the Sui army generals in front, and the "whoosh" was an arrow. The bowstring sounded, but when he saw that the Sui army threw Zuo Yingsheng to the ground, he never got up again.
"The soldiers of the Sui State outside the city have listened, and ask your commander to come close and answer." Yongyu Lu grabbed a Han interpreter and ordered him to shout to the Sui army under the city.
Yan Rong was on the high slope, and saw the situation on the battlefield very clearly, and when he saw that the sergeants under his command were about to approach the city, the arrows flying down from the city suddenly became urgent, and the whole row of sergeants was shot to the ground, that is, even the rocketeers who were responsible for covering the siege task also had many people who were hit by arrows and fell to the ground, and they hurriedly put away the command flag in their hands and ordered the withdrawal of the army.
Hearing the Turks in the city shouting to the city, asking the commander of the army to answer the front, Yan Rong handed over the command flag in his hand to the soldiers next to him, clamped his legs and put his horse under his hip, galloped down from the high slope, and came to a place about forty zhang away from the city wall before he grabbed the reins, raised his head and shouted at the city: "'Blood Massacre' Yan Rong is here, who in the city wants me to answer closely?" ”
Yan Rong rode alone to answer, but it was really unexpected by Yongyu Lu, he held the wall with his hand, looked Yan Rong under the city up and down, turned around and ordered the Han people to interpret to Yan Rong and said: "The Sui generals below have heard clearly, I am Yongyu Lu, the eldest son of the Turkic Great Khan." Dare to ask this general, are you willing to fight with my city? ”
Yan Rong pointed at Yongyu Lu standing on the city with the horsewhip in his hand, and laughed: "You are the Turkic prince Yongyu Lu?" When you see that my army is already in the city, and you are still trying to use the delaying tactic to delay time, and wait for reinforcements, I will fulfill your wish today, and you will let the horse go out of the city, and see how many rounds you can go under my boring? ”
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand behind him and shouted, "Take my boring, and the armies will line up and see that I have killed the Turkic prince alive." ”
As the saying goes, "the soldiers will be brave, and the soldiers will help the generals." Two personal soldiers carried Yan Rong's habitual phoenix wings and gold boring, Yan Rong took the boring in his hand, and the horse fought back and forth under the city, shouting to Yongyu Lu in the city: "Don't be verbose, quickly go out of the city and fight with me." ”