Zhang Shigui came to the city tower, and looked up to see that the Turkic soldiers were already close at hand, densely packed like a colony of ants, rushing towards the city gate. Captain Chenglou came to Zhang Shigui's side, "Meet the general." ”

Zhang Shigui turned his head and ordered, "Pass the order, let the soldiers be ready to fight a tough battle, this time the Turks gave up the field war and actually learned from us to fight a tough battle, it must be a big plan, and we can't relax for a moment." Ordered the archers to put the enemy close and firing, in order to inflict maximum damage on the enemy, who would have been asked to fill it with their lives"

The captain answered his promise and went to arrange for the guards.

Zhang Shigui pressed his horizontal knife and looked into the distance, how could there be a forest, the Turks gave up their advantageous field tactics so uncharacteristically, and turned into an infantry attack, there must be an ambush in the woods for the Turkic elite iron cavalry, afraid of no less than 10,000 cavalry, with the speed of the Turkic cavalry, it will not take a moment to rush into the city gate. Once the city gate is broken, the thousands of infantry in their hands will definitely not be able to stop it, and at that time, according to the Turks' always fierce nature, it will inevitably be a massacre of all over the city. Thinking of this, he turned around and ordered the guards,

"Order, immediately send a messenger to Ganzhou to ask for help, send a Hongling urgent envoy, eight hundred miles to urgently send the information of the Turkic attack to Chang'an, and ask Your Majesty to send reinforcements,"

"Order all the soldiers to divide into three teams, take turns to replace the defenders of the city, don't waste wood and stones, let the people in the city help carry grain and grass materials, and the women are responsible for cooking and delivering food, no matter what method you use, it is to demolish the houses and the military government of the general town must ensure the supply of the army."

The guards were ordered to retreat.

Hongling hurriedly hid the information close to him, stepped on a fast horse and galloped out from behind the city, kicking and flying with the rolling yellow sand, and galloped away. The gates were then closed and sealed with boulders and wood.

At this time, the Turkic brigade had already arrived in front of the city gate and was about to fill the dry ditch with sandbags, while the bows and arrows from the castle tower were fired directly at the enemy troops below.

"Ah, my eyes. "My legs," said many of the enemy soldiers, who were shot with arrows like flying locusts, fell to the ground and wailed. Many more were shot into hedgehogs by this rain of arrows and fell to the ground.

The Turks were warriors who grew up in the harsh climate of the steppe, and instead of weakening their attack, the wails of the crowd were stimulated by the blood, which further aroused the ferocity of the Turks, and they all roared and rushed towards the city wall despite the rain of arrows on their heads.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Turks had invaded the Central Plains many times, not to mention that since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the Turks and Li Tang have been in a state of hostility, during the Wude period into the Yunzhong Youzhou in the west of the Kou River, and when the Xuanwu Gate took the opportunity to enter Li Shimin's foothold, 200,000 iron cavalry drove straight into forcing Li Shimin to take out all the treasury in exchange for the Turkic retreat, even if it was accumulated by the Tang Dynasty for several years, the Turks also plundered the surrounding grain and grass when they returned to the grassland, and the population, among which women and craftsmen were the most. The Turks were not all fools, of course, they knew their shortcomings, so a large number of Han craftsmen were brought to the steppe to build weapons for their Turks, improve iron-smelting technology, and more importantly, build siege equipment.

Seeing that his soldiers were shot by a large number of bows and arrows on the city tower, the Turkic commander in the rear immediately ordered the Turkic marksman to step forward and suppress them with bows and arrows. The Turks are both natural riders and marksmen. As the Turkic archers entered the battlefield, the Tang army also suffered casualties at the same time, and many Tang soldiers who had not had time to hide back to the female wall were shot by the Turks. The pressure of the besieging soldiers below suddenly decreased, and the front had reached the bottom of the city walls.

Many simple ladders were leaned against the city walls, and the Turkic soldiers bit their scimitars and quickly climbed up with the help of their hands. When the head was smashed on the head of a Turkic soldier, the brain burst out, and the blood red sprayed onto the city wall, and before he could react, he fell to death and overwhelmed several soldiers behind, and then someone continued to climb the city wall.

"Quick, knock down their ladders, but you can't let them climb up." The lieutenant urged.

The Tang soldiers who were close to the ladder got up and prepared to push down the ladder, but before they could exert their strength, they were knocked down by an arrow from a Turkic archer through the chest. Seeing this, Li Ergou hurriedly ran over and kicked the ladder away, and when he turned around, he hid back behind the female wall, and the arrow came immediately. Shoot to the gatehouse in the back. Li Ergou was ready to do the same again, ran to the next ladder and kicked it down. The Turkic soldiers on the ladder lost their support and fell off the city wall and died, falling to their deaths, and this scene was also seen by the Turkic commander below Li Ergou. Bring in a team of shooters to focus on taking care of Li Ergou, and can't let him attack the city by destroying their soldiers like this. Suddenly, countless arrows rushed towards Li Ergou.

Li Ergou destroyed the ladder one after another, but he didn't expect to become a thorn in the other party's eyes, just about to raise his head and kick away the ladder in front of him, he was knocked to the ground by someone who came from behind, Li Ergou turned his head and saw that the person who came was actually Uncle Zhu from the same village, and asked, "Uncle, what are you pulling me down, this is, don't I want to kick the ladder?"

"You kid, uncle is here to save you, you look back and see how many arrows are stuck in the gatehouse, I have long asked you to be careful, don't just think about coming out, you don't want to die so easily if you haven't made a contribution, you know no, the battlefield is not a joke, be careful."

Li Ergou saw that the gatehouse behind him was full of arrows, and only then did he realize that he was too prominent, and he was used as a target by the Turks.

"Uncle, the kid is wrong, thank you, uncle"

"Alright, hurry up, the Turks are coming."

Several ladders were brought down, and more ladders were sent up, and finally the Turks rushed up to the city tower without fear of death and took their lives to fill it, opening the gap and fighting with the Tang soldiers.

Zhang Shigui ordered the archers to find an opportunity to shoot, drew their horizontal swords, and led the guards to rush to the Turkic soldiers on the city tower, which was bound to seal this gap. Zhang Shigui descended the mountain like a tiger, slashed left and right with a horizontal knife and overturned the Turkic soldiers along the way, and the personal guards followed Zhang Shigui closely to kill the Turks who came up.

Zhang Shigui's bravery greatly inspired the momentum of the Tang army, and they fought one by one, and a team of two and a team of five people vigorously curbed the momentum of the Turkic offensive.

Seeing that the siege of the city was blocked, the Turkic commander immediately sent siege engines to try to break through the city gates.

As soon as Zhang Shigui cut down the Turkic soldiers at the head of the city and knocked down the ladder, he saw the Turkic siege vehicle preparing to crash open the city gate. Immediately ordered the soldiers to prepare boulders, and the rockets were thrown on the head of the siege vehicle, which was instantly smashed by the boulders, and the cowhide was ignited by the rockets and destroyed the siege vehicle.

The Turkic commander saw that the siege vehicles could not be effective, and the ants overturned the siege with huge casualties, and immediately ordered the troops to retreat. The Turkic soldiers jumped off the ladder at the sound of the call to retreat, turned their heads and retreated to safety.

The commander came to the grove and said to the Turkic chief: "Chief, the siege of the city was unsuccessful, and the stubborn defense of the Tang army caused our army to suffer heavy casualties. ”

The Turkic leader said, "I didn't think that I would be able to open the gate of Suzhou for the first time, how could Li Shimin not strengthen the garrison of the border areas after suffering the loss of Jieli, okay, this time it will not be successful, there will be next time, let the soldiers have a good rest, since we have already fought, then we don't have to hide anymore, send all the soldiers out, surround the city of Suzhou to me, send scouts to reconnoiter the surroundings, especially the reinforcements from the direction of Ganzhou, we waited for them to send them to the door, intercepted their reinforcements first, and surrounded them for a few days, When the news of Yaerjin's attack on Ganzhou comes, they will definitely lose their morale, and we will launch an attack, and we will definitely be able to go down in one go. Then arrange for the soldiers to go out to gather grass and grain to replenish food and grass, and it is best to catch a few prisoners and come back. ”

The commander replied "obey the order", arranged for the soldiers to rest, and sent cavalry to surround the city of Suzhou and wait for the battle.

At the same time, Ganzhou was also attacked by the Turkic cavalry, and the Ganzhou defender Zhang Baoxiang was also commanding the Tang army to resist the Turkic attacks in turn. Until Li Shimin ascended the throne, he continued to serve as the guard general of Ganzhou. Because he had received a notice from the imperial court earlier, he had been secretly guarding against the Turkic sneak attack, so the Turkic attack did not surprise him, Ganzhou was well prepared, the soldiers were neat, and the materials were sufficient, as long as he did not go out of the city to fight with the Turks, he was confident to hold the Ganzhou city.

At the same time, he also sent a Hongling envoy to Chang'an to ask for reinforcements, because he knew that this Ganzhou was the border city of the Tang Dynasty, and the Turkic attack routes in previous years were from Suzhou, Ganzhou to the south, or from Youzhou, since the Turks came to Ganzhou with such fanfare, then he guessed that the neighboring Suzhou Zhang Shigui must also have a Turkic army, and he is now suffering the same war as his Ganzhou. So he didn't ask Zhang Shigui for help. Ganzhou, which has long been fortified and cleared, gathered the population and materials of the surrounding villages into the city of Ganzhou, and will never leave a grain of rice and a grain for the Turks, so that they have nowhere to feed the grass and grain. As long as they persist, the grain and grass will run out and the Turks will retreat.