Kuzhen Tutun didn't say a word, paced back and forth in front of the throne, and after walking back and forth for a dozen times, he stopped and said: "The arrow is ready to fly, it has to be sent, no matter what, this Yiwu country is a fortress that we have been operating for many years, even if Wang Shichong has a person, we can't just give it up, Yibi military division, tomorrow you take the king of Turpan to personally go to the south gate to garrison, bring the thousand palace guards with you, and recall the thousand Tutun guards in the direction of the east gate, and the horse team also recall, and he stood by in this palace. ”

Yi Bi He Li's eyes lit up, and he raised his thumb: "Tutun's approach is really high, in this way, let not give that Turpan a chance to fight against the water, defending the city and fighting the east gate is not the point, less than a thousand people is not a big problem, if it really doesn't work, just transfer the Tutun guards to ride back and counterattack, this Yiwu City street is wide, and it is also suitable for cavalry galloping, Tutun, please rest assured, I will firmly guard the gate in the south of the city, leaving a safe retreat channel for you." ”

Kuzhen Tutun's eyes showed a murderous moment: "It depends on the situation of the battle of the West Gate tomorrow, tomorrow I will still personally sit at the West Gate, and only leave the guards to defend this palace." ”

Yibi He Li's brows widened, and a smile appeared on his face: "Tomorrow, we will definitely be able to defeat the Sui army with the blessing of the wolf god, and Lord Tutun will definitely be able to take advantage of the victory in this battle to unify the Western Regions, and then ascend to the position of the Great Khan of the Western Turks." ”

Ku Zhen Tutun laughed and patted Yi Bi He Li's shoulder: "Do a good job, I won't treat you badly!" ”

The sun rises very early in the desert, just after midnight, and a red sun has risen on the horizon. But for a moment. The sky was already bright. Yesterday, from afternoon to evening, almost overnight, there were already three more company camps at the four gates of the southwest, north and south of Yiwu City, especially the one on the west side, which was the largest in scale.

Thousands of wagons were placed behind the camp, and more than 100 improvised trebuchets and siege towers were already erected in front of the camp gates. From a distance, tens of thousands of Sui soldiers lined up in a dense line to attack, lined up in the camp, just waiting for the order to attack the city. In the center of the camp, a big flag with the word "Xue" is fluttering high in the wind, and under the big flag, on a temporary five-zhang high platform, the robe is in big armor. Xue Shixiong, who was heavily armed, was surrounded by a group of generals. Sitting on a bed of beard, he looked triumphantly at the wall of Yiwu, two miles away, and the Turkic soldiers on the wall, wearing leather armor and helmets, with bows and arrows in place.

Xue Shixiong's face sank like water, picked up a general order, and shouted in a deep voice: "Beat the drum, blow the trumpet, attack the four gates at the same time, the catapult will shoot first, the archers will follow, and then the siege tower, pay attention to the wolf smoke at the head of the city!" General Pei, you take the lead! ”

Pei Renji took the general's order, turned his head and shouted: "Beat the drum and march!" ”

The three hundred cowhide drums suddenly made a deafening sound in unison, reverberating back and forth, shaking the eardrums of the defenders at the head of the city, and the battle on the steppe rarely had such a scale of war drums, almost every drum beat rhythm, would shake the hearts of these Turkic archers, some began to instinctively put down the bows and arrows in their hands, and covered their ears, but found that it was useless at all, and even the beating of the heart was about to be stopped by the thunderous sound of such a thousand drums beating in unison!

The drum is the best synchronous signal, the north gate and the south gate of each of the fifty war drums also beat at the same time, the thousands of Sui troops outside the camp gate in unison let out a shocking shout of killing, and the more than ten trebuchets in front of the camp also began to twist their arms several feet long, and fiercely threw out a piece of stones weighing dozens of catties, and smashed them into the distant city.

The sound of shouting and drumming reached the east gate, where it seemed that the number of troops was the least, the scale of the thirty drums was much smaller than the scale of the other gates, and the scale of the twenty trebuchets was far smaller than the direction of the other gates, and the west gate of hundreds of trebuchets could not be compared, more than twenty catties of a stone, flying aimlessly in the air, many only flew out a few hundred steps, and before they reached the distance of the city, they fell to the ground weakly, and the guards of the city head who had bowed their heads and buried themselves behind the battlements straightened up one by one, Many people simply laughed out loud at the head of the city, laughing at the incompetence of the Sui army, which could not even throw stones on the city walls.

On a three-zhang high platform in the Sui army camp outside the east gate, Wang Shichong changed into a bright silver chain mail, sat on the Hu bed on the platform with a smile, gently shook a folding fan in his hand, squinted his eyes, and looked at the battle situation outside the east gate.

Wang Shichong turned his head and glanced at Wei Zheng: "What's the matter, Xuan Cheng, are you still worried that Prince Xuan will attack from behind?" ”

Wei Zheng nodded: "Although they said last night that they would not attack our army, these Turks have no faith, and it is not surprising what kind of things they do, and the general still has room to spare." ”

Wang Shichong smiled slightly: "It's just 40,000 cavalry, I naturally have a way to deal with it, now what we have to do is to see the wolf smoke at the head of Xicheng City ignite, that is the time for us to attack with all our strength here!" ”

Wei Zheng smiled: "Lord, I didn't hear your military discussion yesterday, and I didn't expect that this east gate would be personally commanded by you, could it be that today's main attack direction is this east city?" ”

Wang Shichong nodded: "Yes, the West Gate is just a feint, and the main force is to deal with the 20,000 iron cavalry ambushed by the Western Turks behind the formation. ”

Wei Zheng's brows furrowed slightly: "Then how many troops does the lord have in his hands to attack the city now?" ”

Wang Shichong pointed to the front of the battalion, and the more than 3,000 bearded and untidy soldiers who stood crookedly and untidy said: "Just rely on these 3,000 veterans." ”

Wei Zheng's face became a little ugly, he lowered his voice, and said quietly: "Lord, can you really take the East Gate with only these three thousand old and weak?" Although the main force of the enemy army has reached the direction of the west gate, the enemy army at the head of this city looks no less than 2,000 men, and we lack the siege equipment here, and we have few manpower, how can we attack the east gate of this heavy defense? ”

Wang Shichong looked at Wei Zheng and grinned, revealing a mouthful of white flowers. Soon because of the wind and sand. A few white teeth turned golden. I only heard Wang Shichong smile and said: "Xue Shixiong only gave me these soldiers, and I can only use them to attack the city, life and death are fate, and the blessing and misfortune are in the sky!" ”

At the west gate of Yiwu City, the sound of the 300-sided drums did not stop for a moment, and with the drumbeat of the 300-sided drums, more than 100 trebuchets kept throwing piles of dozens of pounds of large stones onto the city wall two miles away, and the battlements on the opposite side had been smashed into thousands of holes. The Turkic soldiers were barely visible on the walls.

In addition to the more than 100 corpses that were smashed to a blur of flesh and blood lying on the battlements, and the city wall was also smashed out of the cracks, at this speed, I am afraid that it will be smashed for another half an hour, this city wall that is considered to be the top in the Western Regions, it is possible that it will be smashed out of one or two big gaps, and then the soldiers of the Sui army don't even need siege towers and ladders, they can directly rush into the city from the cracks.

Kuzhen Tutun was hiding on a tower on the inner side of the urn city at the moment, and hurriedly commanded the soldiers on the front city wall to retreat to the inner city wall of the urn city, except for hiding in the hidden soldier cave above the city gate. The thirty or so soldiers who were ready to open the mechanism to open the city gate and lower the jack gate were on the entire city wall. Only more than 20 people were left behind the battlements, observing the virtual and real scouts on the opposite side, these Turkic warriors were also frightened to the color of the earth, trembling all over, the siege level and technology of the Sui army was something they had never seen, these terrible stone generators, with the sound of the whistling wind, smashed on the city wall at once, and the whole solid battlements were broken from it, and fell down the city alive, and after the flesh and blood were smashed by these big stones falling from the sky, they directly became a pile of meat and mud, and they couldn't even see the shape.

Kuzhen Tutun gritted his teeth and looked at the scene in front of him, the sound of war drums became more and more urgent, but the cheers of the Sui army gradually became smaller than at the beginning, from his years of experience in battle, this was a signal that the Sui army was preparing to attack the city, and he secretly scolded his mother in his heart: "Ge Laozi, when you turtle grandsons enter the city, Guan Bao will kill you without leaving a piece of armor!" ”

The Turkic soldiers behind the battlements on the front city wall suddenly shook the yellow curtain towards Kuzhen Tutun, Kuzhen Tutun's eyes lit up, this is the code of his agreement with these soldiers, when the curtain shook, it means that the other party began to send infantry to prepare to attack the city, he seemed to hear the sound of thousands of footsteps on the ground, at this moment, he saw that the front suddenly became a dark light, thousands of bows and arrows with a high arc, rising from about a mile outside the city, like a dark cloud that covered the sky, Covered the walls in front of it at great speed.

Pity the dozens of Turkic scouts hiding behind the battlements, at this time watching the Sui army's array rushed out of thousands of infantry, and thought that the Sui army was about to attack the city, and was happily shaking the yellow curtain to the back, but only felt that the light behind him was dim, and when he turned back, he found that the three-edged arrows of thousands of sharp arrows were flashing with a cold cold light, with a sky-high killing intent, in order to destroy the momentum of a qiē, was pounced on himself, seven or eight people who moved quickly quickly picked up the shield at hand and put it on their heads, and the others didn't even have time to move half a step, He was shot in the head and neck by these locust-like bows and arrows, and fell off the tower screaming, and the sound of "plopping" and "plopping" when the corpse hit the ground was endless.

Kuzhen Tutun looked at the city wall in front of him, almost ruthlessly cleaned by the rain of arrows, and the few Turkic scouts who survived and covered with shields were also nailed to the opposite side of the wooden shield by this round of arrow rain, bleeding like an infusion, and screaming, but he still didn't dare to move the shield from his head for even half a minute, while holding the shield, he squatted and sneaked on the city wall, and there was only one thought left in his mind: stay away from this damn place, the farther away the better!

The eyes of several lieutenants beside Kuzhen Tutun widened, their hands pressed on the hilt of the knife, and said anxiously to Kuzhen Tutun: "Lord Tutun, quickly fight back!" ”

"Lord Tutun, it's not a matter of being beaten like this, the enemy is now suppressing the warriors on our city walls with a rain of arrows, once they are too far away, their infantry will climb to the top of the city, and it will be impossible to counterattack when the time comes!"

The corners of Kuzhen Tutun's mouth hooked up a cruel smile: "Harry is not red, light the cigarette, quickly!" ”

A personal soldier with a torch hurriedly ran to the side, where a large pile of firewood and grass had already been piled up, on which were poured all kinds of wolf dung and dried and eggs of cattle and sheep, and experienced Turks could see at a glance that if they were lit here, yellow smoke would come out and go straight to the sky, and this thick pillar of smoke, even if it was dozens of miles away, could be seen clearly.

Sure enough, as the torch was thrown on the pyre, a sky-high fire rose, and in the yellow smoke, it seemed that a huge yellow wolf head, with teeth and claws, rushed straight to a height of more than ten zhang, and the wolf's mouth was wide open, and the mouth full of white teeth, and the blood-red wolf eyes that were full of murderous breath, seemed to be to devour the enemy alive!

In the Sui army outside the city, three thousand archers are bending their bows and arrows quickly, with the orders of the captains around them, pouring arrow rain at the fastest speed to the city, this is the standard routine of the Sui army's siege, first with stone machines, thunderbolts, ballistas and other long-range weapons for fire suppression, after the ammunition is eighty percent, and then the archers come forward, dense arrow rain suppresses the enemy at the head of the city, for the infantry to rely on the ladder and the siege tower to create space for the siege, and wait until the siege tower is on the city wall, As soon as the victory or defeat is decided.

Pei Renji immediately crossed the sword, standing behind the archers phalanx of the Sui army, and coldly watched the city head being shot so that even the battlements were full of bows and arrows, these foot horses were Xue Shixiong's old subordinates brought back from Youzhou for many years, many people participated in the battle with Yang Liang that year, it can be described as a soldier and brave, from the level of rapid fire of these archers, Pei Renji can see that their training is not much better than that of the Xiaoguo army, and they are really worthy of being the Liaodong vanguard of the Great Sui who has been preparing to fight with Goguryeo for many years, This time, Yang Guang specially ordered the transfer of 50,000 Youzhou infantry cavalry to expedition to Yiwu, which seems to be also a big exercise.

A yellow wolf's head smoke rose from the direction behind the city, and then, the heavy thick wooden gate slowly opened, through the gate, you can see the open space behind the door, the bloody corpses all fell from the city wall, Pei Renji's mouth showed a hint of a smile, turned his head to look at Xue Shixiong in the rest of the body, only to see him slowly get up from the Hu bed, his right hand raised, and raised a green flag.

Pei Renji nodded, raised his right hand, raised the big sword in his hand high above his head, and shouted in his mouth: "Siege troops, speed attack the city gate!" (To be continued......) R1292