In August of the eleventh year of the Great Cause (615 AD), Yang Guang spent the summer in Jinyang Palace, because the weather gradually turned cooler, his mind turned, and he wanted to enjoy the autumn colors of the grassland, so he sent a decree to drive the north tour.

The grassland in August, although it has been hunted by the west wind, the grass leaves are withered and yellowed nearly half, but the prairie is far and near yellow and green, the strong wind blows, the ups and downs are orderly, like the waves of the sea are light, look at it, far boundless, although it lacks the thousands of purples and thousands of reds in spring, but there is also a different scene, a kind of taste, which makes people feel refreshed and happy, transcendent and extraordinary.

After Yang Guang enjoyed the grassland scenery, on a whim, he felt that it was necessary to change some new tricks to play, so he happily issued an order to order all the accompanying concubines and beauties to get off the car and enjoy the beauty of nature without restraint.

In order to win the emperor's favor, they happily walked into the grassland, like the stars holding the moon, hollowing out their minds, scratching their heads and making gestures, showing their magical powers, doing their best to watch their own skills, singing and dancing, shouting and frolicking, and clustering around Yang Guang. Yang Guang kept turning his head to look around at the beauties, and saw that they were in different postures, fluttering in the grass around them, like a large group of fairies coming to earth, pleasing to the eye and beautiful. Catalyzed by this romantic situation, he couldn't help but be excited, coughed lightly and cleared his throat, shook his head and chanted a five-character poem entitled "Drinking Horses in the Great Wall Cave":

Xiao Xiao autumn wind rises, long travel thousands of miles; Thousands of miles to go, across the desert to build the Great Wall.

The wisdom of the boy is the camp of the first saint; Shuzi Wanshi policy, peace this billions of life.

Dare to worry about Jiao Si, and sit high in Beijing; Beihe sees the martial arts festival, and thousands of miles are rolling.

Mountains and rivers haunt each other, and the wilderness is poor and overlooked; Hit the gold to stop the march, beat the drum and raise the soldiers.

Thousands of flags moved, drinking horses and the Great Wall Caves; Autumn dusk is filled with clouds, and the fog is dark and the mountains and moons are closed.

Immediately, the edge of the Yan post was launched, and the beacon fire was sent in the air; By asking the Marquis of the Great Wall, he entered the court.

The turbidity is quiet in the Tianshan Mountains, and the morning light is high; The release of the army is still revitalizing, and there will be a lot of waste......

Before Yang Guang's poem was finished, everyone had not had time to praise it, but there was an urgent report from the horse: the Turkic Shibi Khan led 100,000 iron horsemen to plot to attack the emperor, and the soldiers and horses were only twenty miles away, begging the emperor to take countermeasures as soon as possible.

The Turks originated in the north of the Junggar Basin, and later moved to the north of Gaochang (now Turpan, Xinjiang), because they could not bear the oppression of the local Rouran people and moved to the southern foot of Jinshan (now Alqin Mountain), to wrought iron as a business, or could not get rid of the cruel slavery of the Rouran people, and was called "forging slaves".

In the first year of the abolition of the Western Wei Dynasty (552 AD), an outstanding leader emerged from the Turks, Ashina Tumen, and under his leadership, defeated the Rouran ruler in one fell swoop. Later, Ashina Tumen took the wolf as a totem, set up a big drum (commonly known as "wolf head khan"), established the Turkic Khanate, and called himself Ili Khan, so that the Turks raised their eyebrows and got rid of the long-term humiliating situation.

Ashina Tumen is more than a zhang tall, infinitely powerful, can divide bullfighting with both hands, confident that the world is invincible, because of the successful establishment of the Turkic Khanate, more and more have the ambition to dominate the world, more advocating force. He led his subordinates to conquer the east and west, conquered many surrounding tribes, and occupied thousands of miles of vast land from the west of the Liaohai Sea in the east, to the West Sea (Caspian Sea) in the west, to Mobei in the south, and to the Beihai (Lake Belga) in the north.

After the death of Ashina Tumen, the descendants were divided into two Turks, the Eastern and Western Turks, due to the struggle for power. The Western Turks have always been friendly with the Middle-earth court, and the two sides often exchanged envoys or exchanged goods. ** However, he did not hesitate to be the enemy of the imperial court, and from time to time sent troops to harass the border and robbed the people of the border passes.

When Emperor Wen, the country was unified, the national strength was unprecedentedly strong, in order to eliminate border troubles, he used the method of harmony and kinship, and married the royal princess to the Great Khan, so that the ** Turk once surrendered. After the death of Emperor Wen, Shibi Khan learned that Yang Guang had blindly gone against the grain and disturbed a good country, and concluded that the Great Sui would soon fall apart, and his ambitions swelled again, and he often thought about finding an opportunity to invade the Central Plains. This time, he learned that Yang Guang led the crowd to the grassland to play, and just sent troops to capture him in one fell swoop, and then took him hostage to force the soldiers and civilians of Middle-earth to submit.

As mentioned earlier, before this, although Yang Guang had led the army to fight many times, he could be called the world. Unfortunately, that experience was all superficial. At that time, he was at best just a teenager, commanding operations, or handling various daily affairs, all by Gao Gong, Yang Su and others, and he himself only had to sit in the big tent and handsome hall, and pretend to give orders. Later, he personally conquered Goryeo twice, and he really took power, but did nothing. Now, he suddenly encountered this unprecedented danger, and undoubtedly became a complete layman, and with the large number of civil officials and daughters in the convoy, he became more and more a burden. It was precisely for those reasons that the Turkic brigade was far from being seen, and he panicked first, not knowing how to deal with it next.

There were many important ministers in the court who traveled with Yang Guang, and those people often made chapters in the court on weekdays, analyzing various issues or things in an orderly manner, which was difficult to refute. However, the facts in front of them are too cruel, and the disparity between the strength of the enemy and our forces is too great, and it is by no means something that can be solved by a general reason, and most people have no second choice but to close their foul mouths and avoid opening their mouths. Xiao Yu (Queen Xiao's younger brother) was calm and good at adapting to things, and when he saw that situation, he hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down:

"This place is not far from Yanmen Pass (now Dai County, Shanxi), Your Majesty should enter the nearest pass for a few days to take refuge, and then decide on the next step according to the development and changes of the military situation in the future!"

A sentence reminds the dreamer that if you want to get out of the dangerous situation in front of you quickly, is there a better plan than that? When the officials heard this, none of them raised any objections, and at the same time stared at Yang Guang, quietly waiting for him to nod. Yang Guangzheng was worried that there was nothing to do, and after Xiao Yu's reminder, just like a person who fell into the water suddenly grabbed a life-saving straw, without saying a word, he led the huge convoy around him but did not have much combat effectiveness, and fled to Yanmen Pass in a panic.

The situation was also extremely dangerous, as soon as the chariot entered the pass, the Turkic brigade of iron cavalry immediately chased to the bottom of the city, and quickly scattered in all directions, besieging the whole city.

In order to generally find out the reality of the Turks and stabilize people's hearts more steadily, Xiao Yu did not wait for Yang Guang to take a breath, and immediately asked him to personally go to the city to inspect the enemy's situation in order to determine the corresponding countermeasures.

Yang Guang had already become a frightened bird, although he had a place of refuge temporarily, his heart was always beating. At that time, he really didn't have the guts to show his head and take that kind of risk. However, at the moment of the great enemy, as the lord of a country, thousands of pairs of eyes around him were staring, and he wanted to push but couldn't find an excuse, so he had to muster up his courage, surrounded by hundreds of officials, slowly ascended the city tower, and barely looked at the city with his eyes wide open. I don't want to, but when he looked at it, he was shocked - the mountains outside the city were densely packed, people were crowded everywhere, and the horses were neighing, all of them were Turkic iron horses, and the momentum had the intention of leveling the city in one fell swoop! His heart panicked, and he was trying to find an excuse to leave as soon as possible, but a sharp arrow flew from under the city, carrying the sound of whirring wind, and flew past the base of his ear, which frightened everyone present to exclaim one by one. He himself was even more frightened, his body collapsed backwards, and he couldn't control his peeing of his pants on the spot.

Frightened excessively, and suffering from nothing to be done, Yang Guang could no longer care about an old face, hugged his youngest son Zhao Wang Yang Gao who was following him with both hands, and cried loudly.

The officials hurriedly pulled Yang Guang's father and son away from the battlements, and then looked at each other, you look at me, I look at you, and no one knows what to say. was silent for a long time, I don't know who was the first to speak, everyone was gossiping, you and I were talking, competing to express their opinions. However, everyone's views are very different, and each has its own reasoning, but it is difficult for anyone to convince anyone.

"The last general is foolish," Yu Wenshu, the general of the left guard, proposed, "Since ancient times, thirty-six plans, go as the best plan, the emperor has to select the elite cavalry in the city as soon as possible, and break through the siege as soon as possible, so that it is called the best policy!" ”

"General Yuwen's decision is not feasible!" Nayan Su Wei retorted in response, "Weichen thinks that with a few thousand men and horses in Yanmen, no matter how elite they are, if they want to successfully break out of the more than 100,000 Turkic iron cavalry, and then get rid of the pursuit, the possibility is simply minimal, and it is better to wait for help than a stopgap measure." ”

"Master Su is right!" Fan Zigai, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, seconded the proposal and analyzed at the same time, "However, in the past, domestic labor and foreign wars were too frequent, and most of the soldiers and civilians in the world were resentful!" At an extraordinary moment, the emperor also had to make a special case, and quickly issued an order, promising to stop the conquest of Goryeo forever in the future, and at the same time reward the soldiers who defended the city, so as to calm people's hearts and boost morale, which is called the only feasible way! ”

"What the two adults Su and Fan said is certainly desirable, but it may not be perfect!" Cui Yuanxian, the warden of Yanmen County, further proposed, "Yanmen is a small border city, with few soldiers in the city, and there is not much grain storage. The soldiers have nothing to eat, and no matter how high their morale is, they can't hold it for a long time. However, grain and grass do not fall from the sky for no reason! The top priority at the moment is to take advantage of the dead of night when the Turks are asleep, so that people can quickly break through the siege and go to Bingzhou, so that Li Yuan can lead the army to help, so that it is possible to gain a glimmer of life! ”

Although Yang Guang has never had the habit of receiving advice in his life, not to mention that most of what the officials said is very harsh, he is so angry that he wants to kill when he hears it. However, at the critical juncture, his mind can only become tolerant and generous. At that time, instead of getting angry, he patiently synthesized everyone's opinions, and immediately issued an order to the soldiers of the city to stop the conquest of Goryeo forever. At the same time, he also solemnly promised that all the meritorious soldiers who defended the city this time would be promoted to three levels after defeating the Turkic army, and ordered Cui Yuanxian to select 100 elite horsemen to go out of the city overnight and go to Bingzhou to move the rescue troops.

As soon as the holy decree was issued, all the soldiers really cheered, and swore that they would live and die with the emperor and live and die with Yanmen. Cui Yuanxian had the heavy responsibility of asking for help, especially he didn't dare to slack off, and rushed to the barracks after receiving the order, carefully selected, and selected a hundred cavalry who dared to die and were good at fighting, a hundred good horses, and prepared meals and forage at the second watch.

After a full meal, the time has been nearly three drums. Cui Yuanxian gave an order, and all the soldiers took the bells, picked up the bells, and quietly went out of the city. He himself took the lead, taking advantage of his long-term stay in Yanmen and being familiar with the terrain, without making a sound, turning around east and west, quietly shuttling between the Turkic barracks, and breaking through the siege in the direction of Bingzhou.

The strength of the army was dozens of times that of the Sui army, and the Khan of Shibi expected that no matter how things would change, no matter how much Yang Guang dug out his hollow thoughts, he tried every possible means to become a turtle in the urn, and he could not escape the fate of being captured alive, so that the defense was not too tight. At this moment, the Sui army suddenly left the city and did not attack any of the barracks. Most of the Turkic soldiers were asleep in their dreams, and after waking up, they couldn't figure out the true intentions of the other party, and chased them out of the camp one by one in a daze, still at a loss, and couldn't figure out where the Sui army came from, what their intentions were here, and Cui Yuanxian's hundred cavalry had already gone far away.

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