Luo Yu, who personally supervised the battle on the tower of Baidaozhou City, raised his eyes and saw that there were constantly Sui soldiers climbing the ladder to climb the city wall, shouting, carrying treasure knives, and rushing over with dozens of personal soldiers to join the battle group. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Turkic soldiers who had just been frightened by the boulder and forgot to shoot arrows to resist the Sui army saw that the Khan himself had come out to help, and they all recovered from the panic, picked up their weapons, and killed the Sui army who came to the city, and only a moment later, almost all the Sui troops who took the lead in the city were wiped out, and most of the ladders were destroyed.

Li Che stationed on a high slope outside the city of Macheng, seeing that the defenders in the city were very tenacious, and had been unable to attack repeatedly, worried that the casualties of the sergeants would be too large, he hurriedly ordered Ming Jin to withdraw the siege troops, and set up camp on the east and west sides of Baidaozhou instead, surrounded Baidaozhou on three sides, and changed the strong attack of the whole army into a steady and steady attack, wanting to make full use of the advantage in troops, gradually consume the food supply of the defenders in the city, and force it to abandon the city and retreat north.

In this way, the Sui army and the Turkic army under the command of the Luo Throat launched a stalemate battle with the goal of attacking and defending Baidao Prefecture.

Li Che instructed the besieging troops to launch an uninterrupted attack on the defenders of the city every day, and on the premise of ensuring that there were no major casualties, they would try to disturb the defenders in the city and slowly wear down their fighting spirit.

At the same time, Li Che sent people back to Yanmen Pass and asked Yang Guang to send more grain and grass to the former enemy to ensure that Baidaozhou could be besieged for a longer time.

Yang Guang received the military report sent back by Li Che, and learned that the Sui army had successfully counterattacked outside the city of Baidaozhou and surrounded the Baidaozhou regiments.

Wang Shao, Li Xiong and others couldn't stop him, so they had to leave Li Xiong to lead the men and horses of his headquarters to guard Yanmen Pass, and Wang Shao accompanied Yang Guang to lead the army to Baidaozhou to reinforce it.

By the time Yang Guang, Wang Shao and others arrived outside the city of Baidaozhou, Li Che led his troops to besiege Baidaozhou for five days and five nights.

During the five days and five nights of the siege, although the Sui army led by Li Che never stopped attacking Baidaozhou, it never failed to break through the city. Although the troops guarding the city of Baidaozhou managed to defend the city without losing it, they also lost the opportunity to obtain supplies from outside the city because the grain and grass in the city were dwindling, and the army's morale was shaken.

Yang Guang went out of the customs this time, out of prudent considerations, and at Wang Shao's suggestion, he did not play his own banner, but only led the army under the banner of Wang Shao, the right servant of the Xingtai of the Great Sui River North Road. When the camp of the Sui army in the south of Baidaozhou met with Li Che, Yang Guang asked Li Che to take him to the field to explore the terrain near Baidaozhou.

Wang Shao was afraid that Yang Guang would lose, so he persuaded Yang Guang to pretend to be his entourage and follow him. When the two of them circled around the city of Baidaozhou under Li Che's guidance and returned to the south of the city again, Yang Guang couldn't help but ask Li Che: "Duke Qi'an, just now I saw that there are my Great Sui military camps in Baidaozhou on three sides, why not in the north?" ”

Li Che introduced Yang Guang and Wang Shao into the big tent, and after letting the supreme seat sit down, he replied: "The prince doesn't know, "The Art of War" has clouds: if you double it, you will attack it, and if you do it, you will surround it. As the saying goes: trapped beasts are still fighting. If Bai Daozhou is surrounded on all sides, I am afraid that Luo Yu will do a battle of trapped beasts, and more will hurt the Han people in the city, and our army is mostly composed of newly recruited sergeants, and still lacks experience in large-scale siege operations, so we have specially vacated one direction in the north and adopted the strategy of besieging on three sides and forcing it to retreat northward, and besiege Baidaozhou to minimize the casualties of our army and the impact on the people in the city. ”

Wang Shao sat with Yang Guang at the bottom, and after listening to Li Che's words, he nodded again and again in appreciation: "Qi'an is benevolent and benevolent, and he is very good. Besieging the city on three sides, forcing the enemy to retreat northward, it does leave room for both the enemy and our armies to advance and retreat, according to my expectations, as long as more than ten days pass, the grain and grass in the city will be exhausted, the Turkic army will be in turmoil, and the throat will definitely abandon the city and retreat north, and then Baidaozhou will be at your fingertips. ”

Yang Guang retorted disapprovingly: "Five or six days ago, Xiaoren had sent a letter to me, informing me of the news that the main Turkic forces were attacking the south from the northwest, and now the main forces of the imperial court are all in Jianghuai and my Hebei area, and Guanzhong is empty, as Wang Fushu said, it will be possible to force the enemy in the city of Baidaozhou to retreat north for more than ten days, and I am worried that the situation in Guanzhong will be extremely unfavorable to the imperial court." This time, I decided to turn defense into offense, and stormed Baidao Prefecture, mainly to contain the main Turkic force in the northwest and prevent it from invading south. ”

Li Che and Wang Shao looked at each other, although they felt that Yang Guang's words were not unreasonable, but they couldn't think of a better way to break through Baidaozhou as soon as possible to contain and threaten the main Turkic forces in the northwest.

"I heard that the location of the Great Khan's Tooth Tent in Sha Bo Luo, Dujin Mountain, is in the direction of due north of Bingzhou, but I don't know how far away it is from Baidao Prefecture?" Yang Guang saw that Wang and Li were speechless, so he asked Li Che.

Li Che ordered someone to unfold a volume of maps on several cases in front of Yang Guang, pointed to the direction of due north of Baidaozhou and introduced it to Yang Guang: "Lord Wang, please see, about two hundred miles north of Baidaozhou, is Wuyuan City, the hometown of the Turks, and Dujin Mountain is less than a hundred miles north of Wuyuan City, and it is only three hundred miles away from Baidaozhou. What's the matter, does the prince want to bypass Baidaozhou, go north to capture Wuyuan City, and directly threaten Dujin Mountain? ”

"The ancients had the method of 'encircling Wei to save Zhao', why can't I borrow it? Wang Servant, Qi Angong, is this method feasible? Yang Guang stared at the location of the Wuyuan City marked on the map, and asked Wang and Li in his mouth.

"During the Warring States Period, Sun Bin, the military division of the State of Qi, adopted the method of 'besieging Wei to save Zhao', and did not directly send troops to support the State of Zhao, but instead led the army to besiege the capital of the State of Wei, Daliang, and forced the State of Wei to withdraw from Handan, the capital of the State of Zhao. Li Che replied with a deep groan, "According to the situation facing both the enemy and us, according to the prince's plan, bypassing Baidaozhou, sending troops to attack Wuyuan City, and then threatening Dujin Mountain, it can be regarded as the salvation of attacking the enemy, once Wuyuan City is attacked, the main Turkic force that invades the west and south will definitely withdraw and come to the rescue, but the key is that according to the current military strength of our army, whether we can launch an attack on the enemy's two cities at the same time, especially to create a sufficient threat to Wuyuan City, which is two hundred miles away, I hope the prince will think twice." ”