"Hiss ......"

Outside Chang'an City, the 200,000 cavalry of the Turks had already besieged Chang'an, apparently ready to attack the city at any time. And Chang'an City is relatively stable, after all, there are 200,000 troops stationed in Chang'an City, and it is more than enough to defend the city. And there has always been discipline, so that someone does not take advantage of the fire to rob. Even because of Chen Fei's reminder, the army had stockpiled all kinds of grain and grass materials two months in advance, so although the prices in Chang'an City had increased a little, they were not too outrageous. So everything is very safe. Although there were not many pedestrians on the streets, all of them were military, at least there was no major disturbance.

However, the people near Chang'an City have also gradually moved inward in the past two months and gathered in Chang'an. This was to avoid being looted and killed by the Turks, so they were accepted into Chang'an. There is even another reason, that is, they are afraid that the Turks will drive the people to attack the city, so that they really want to cry without tears. Therefore, in the past two months, Li Shimin and many nearby officials have "kidnapped" the people to Chang'an. This is really tied in, if you are willing to leave, it is polite, but if you are not willing to leave, then it will be forcibly dragged away, and there are a lot of misunderstandings and injuries for this. However, there is no way to do this, if you are reluctant to leave, then the loss will be even greater. Because it was prepared two months in advance, everything was very perfect.

"Khan, I've already inquired, I'm afraid Chang'an has a lot of troops, and it's not so easy for us to attack it!" Obsessed with thinking and said to Jieli.

And Jieli saw this, and he also had a very toothache. Because just now the Turks have gone everywhere to arrest people, trying to find the people. But I didn't find much, but I still found some old people who didn't want to leave home in a relatively remote place. But from the ears of these old people, they heard very unpleasant news. That is, Datang began to clear the wilderness as early as two months ago, and moved the people near Chang'an to Chang'an City, and this work has been started for two months.

What's even more terrifying is that in the past two months, there has been a steady stream of troops entering Chang'an, and according to the estimates of the Turks, these troops have added up to no less than 100,000, maybe 200,000. From this point of view, Chang'an is not an empty city, but is heavily guarded. Although these infantry and cavalry of the Tang Dynasty were looking for death in the field, as long as they retreated into the city, it was not easy for the Turks to conquer it.

The cavalry of the Turks was good at field warfare, not at sieges. And this problem was the same even for the later Mongols. The later Mongols actually relied on a large number of foreign traitor troops to help them attack the city, so they could achieve such a huge achievement. If the Mongols were alone, it would have been difficult to conquer the city. So pure nomads are not good at attacking cities, and as for letting the cavalry dismount and attack the city, this is simply ridiculous. If the enemy is small, then it can be reluctantly used to bully the enemy with the advantage of strength, but now the enemy has a full number of 200,000, which is not less than their cavalry. Moreover, there are seven or eight hundred thousand people in the city who can join the city defense team at any time, so no matter how you look at this Chang'an, it is not easy to fight!

"Uncle, I beg your pardon for not being able to attack the city with you. This time, it seems that our department is really in vain! Tuli said.

And Jieli immediately said: "Aren't you going to attack the city together?" ”

"Yes, I'm afraid we won't be able to get anything out of attacking the city together, then we will lose a lot of troops and people. If so, what else does we Turkic mean? Tuli said in reverse.

Anyway, Tu Li's heart has already retreated, after all, this time the enemy has too many troops, and it is obviously impossible to attack with Jieli's troops by himself. Let the cavalry attack the city, isn't this the strength of attacking the enemy with their own shortcomings, even the Turks will not do this.

And if it continues, it will be a war of attrition, and at that time, Chang'an can use 200,000 troops and 780,000 people, so that it can provide a steady stream of troops. But the Turks died one less one, and there was no supplement. As for the population of the Turkic whole country, it is only a few million, so do you want to fill in these 200,000 people? And with the same loss of 200,000 people, it took Datang less than two years to replenish it. However, the Turks lost 200,000 people, and they could not be replenished in a few generations, and this is the gap. Therefore, it is obviously not a wise plan to let the Turks and the Tang Dynasty be consumed.

"These Han people, it seems that they have long expected us to attack, so they have been prepared in advance!" Jieli said with a sigh.

Jieli didn't know that in the original history, their Turks really almost destroyed the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty had been immersed in the excitement of seizing the supreme power before this, and was really unprepared. But now with the arrival of Chen Fei, a traverser, everything is much more stable. The army of the Tang Dynasty was enough to protect Chang'an, and the people could enter the city to avoid the killing and looting of the Turks, so everything was very safe. The Turks' plan to conquer Chang'an and kill the central imperial officials of the Tang Dynasty completely failed. Originally, the Turks believed that the Tang Dynasty had not been established for a long time, and if the central imperial officials were destroyed, the local officers would also take the opportunity to continue to raise troops to dominate the world.

But now Jieli knew how unlucky he was, and instead he continued to fight against the Turkic righteousness and reorganized the local elite into the Central Army. The elite of the local army has been withdrawn, and under the general righteousness of resisting the invasion of the Turks, those local princes do not dare to oppose it at all, so they can only acquiesce, and even participate in the fight against the Turks. At this time, the Turks helped Datang solve local problems, which made Jieli very depressed. Now the siege can't be attacked, and the retreat is unwilling, plus there is nothing looted, so Jieli is also depressed.

Therefore, the Turkic invasion can be said to have cooked a pot of raw rice, and they came in high spirits, but in the end they found that things were not as good as they imagined.

"But are we just going to retreat?" Jieli asked.

But Tuli asked, "What can we do?" ”

And Jieli gritted his teeth and said, "If I leave with an army of 200,000 in vain, then I am absolutely unwilling." So, I decided to ......"