Taihang Eight Mountains are mostly formed due to the erosion of the river for tens of millions of years, Fukou is located in the valley road formed by Zhangshui through the Taihang Mountains, it is called Fukou Pass at the east entrance, and the exit of the west is called Huguan, Huguan is a hundred zhang high cliff on all sides, and the west exit is like the spout of the kettle, so it is called Huguan.

After the Tang army failed to attack Hebei, the Sui army counterattacked and entered Bingzhou, occupying the west exit of Jingcheng and Fukou Cheng, Xiguguan and Huguan, occupying these two Xiongguan, the Sui army could march to Bingzhou at any time, and basically blocked the passage of Bingzhou to Hebei.

It is precisely for this reason that the recapture of the Western Ancient Pass and Huguan has become the biggest heart disease of the Tang army, and this time the Sui army's counterattack on Goguryeo is a very rare opportunity for the Tang army.

Although both the military and the imperial court have reached a consensus, there is no moral inconvenience in recapturing Xiguguan and Huguan, which were originally their passes, and as long as they do not attack Hebei, the people of the world will not accuse them of helping foreign races.

But Li Yuan, the son of the Tang Dynasty, didn't think so, he not only wanted to recapture the two passes, but also wanted to take the opportunity to seize Jingcheng and Fukou, if possible, he even wanted to continue to advance eastward, especially to conquer the central capital, which has always been Li Yuan's dream.

It was based on Li Yuan's desire to capture the central capital, the Tang army aimed at Huguan, as long as it could capture Fukou, the west gate of the central capital was opened, but this was a secret battle, the Tang army blocked all news, needless to say Chang'an, even the county where Huguan is located, Shangdang County and the recent Shexian County, ordinary people did not know that Huguan was breaking out, and all roads to Huguan were blocked by Tang soldiers, and the reason given by the Tang army was to suppress bandits.

Li Xiaogong led 30,000 Tang troops to fight fiercely in Huguan for nearly ten days, with thousands of casualties, but still failed to take Huguan, Li Xiaogong was under great pressure, and Li Yuan, the son of heaven, had sent a secret decree to him for the third time, ordering him to take Fukou at all costs within five days.

The sky was dark, Li Xiaogong stood alone at the gate of the camp, silently staring at the Huguan city wall a few miles away, under the semicircular height of less than two miles wide, lying countless Tang army soldiers who died in battle, but the gate city still stood majestically, so that Li Xiaogong could not face many dead soldiers, and also made Li Xiaogong worried.

At this time, the deputy general Zhang Liang stepped forward and said: "After attacking for almost half a month, I don't think there are many defenders on the pass, and there will be no more than a thousand people, maybe we will be effective if we hold on a little longer." ”

Li Xiaogong smiled bitterly, "Don't you think that the siege of the city is not a matter of how many defenders there are?" I heard that this person is just a captain, and a small captain can lead 2,000 soldiers to fight with my 30,000 army for ten days, so that I have more than 4,000 casualties. ”

Zhang Liang gritted his teeth and said: "It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, no matter how powerful the guard is, there are no soldiers under him, he will be finished, His Highness will give an order!" I personally led the troops to attack the city, and if I can't capture the city today, I, Zhang Liang, am willing to be dealt with by military law. ”

Li Xiaogong thought of the edict of the Son of Heaven, if they can't capture the city again, I'm afraid they won't be able to explain it to the Son of Heaven, so he nodded, "The military order is not necessary, if you can't capture the city, you and I will lose our reputation, give you 10,000 troops, be sure to capture this pass!" ”

"Obey!"

Zhang Liang hurriedly went, Li Xiaogong looked at the pass in the distance, and said to himself: "Is my Li Xiaogong's reputation going to be ruined on this pass?" ”

Huguan guard was originally a Lang general, called Zhao Ping, but on the first day of the siege war, Zhao Ping was shot by the Tang army's stray arrows and unfortunately died, and then, the officers above the team unanimously elected the captain Wang Xuanjing to take over the command, Wang Xuanjing led two thousand defenders and the Tang army fought fiercely for ten days, with nearly half of the casualties, but still firmly controlled Huguan.

Before dawn, dozens of long ropes were thrown on the head of Huguan City, Wang Xuanjing took fifty soldiers down the rope to go down the city, took the quiver from the corpse of the Tang soldiers who died, and collected the arrows that were not damaged within a hundred steps from the city wall, a large number of arrows were needed to defend the city, but the arrows in their hands were almost exhausted, and they could only rely on various methods to collect them in the city.

Inside the city, hundreds of soldiers were busily sawing wood, their most adequate defensive weapon, cutting down thousands of trees from the valley and sawing them into two-foot sections to make deadly rolling logs.

But in order to defend the city, they did not hesitate to use all the vicious weapons they could think of, and there was a foul smell in a small mountain col, which was a kind of poisonous juice made by several Sui soldiers, mixed with arsenic, bird droppings and boiling oil, and boiled in a large iron pot, which became extremely poisonous, and the skin was killed when it was touched, which was also a very vicious way to defend the city.

On the city wall, the soldiers pulled bundles of arrows up to the city, and there were hundreds of sleeping Sui soldiers lying on the side of the female wall, they no longer dared to go down to the city, and they ate and lived on the city, lest the Tang army sneak attack Huguan, but they were too tired and slept very deeply.

At this time, Wang Xuanjing climbed up to the top of the city from under the city with more than a dozen bags of arrows on his back, and ordered everyone: "Let all the brothers wake up, the Tang army is going to attack the city!" ”

In the early morning, the morning sun had just shone on the city, and before the battlefield could be cleaned, the offensive drums in the Tang army camp sounded again.

"Boom! Boom! Knock ......"

Groups of Tang soldiers began to pour out of the camp and quickly assembled in the open space in front of the camp, and Li Xiaogong once again threw in an army of 10,000, this time, with the most elite 5,000 soldiers under Li Xiaogong as the main force to attack the city.

The drum shook the earth, and sounded again a day after a big battle, so that people's hearts stopped beating, but the drums of the attack made the hearts of many soldiers defending the city fall into the abyss, and they thought that the enemy army would retreat west after repeated failures, but he did not expect that the Tang army would be ruthless, and once again sent heavy troops to attack Huguan, so that Wang Xuanjing also had to admire the perseverance of the Tang army general, and he really refused to give up.

"Damn, it's endless!"

Wang Xuanjing was ruthless, and kicked the Sui soldiers around him who were in a daze and had not yet sobered up, "All of them are up for Lao Tzu!" Damn, the Tang Army is here. ”

All he heard was Wang Xuanjing's roar from the city, and he woke up the sleeping soldiers one by one, and the soldiers were so tired that the drums of the Tang army could not wake them up.

"Get up! Bastard, don't sleep, hurry up! ”

The soldiers were woken up one after another, and they stood up sleepily, staring blankly at the army that had begun to assemble in the distance, when the bell of the city struck again, and the voice was unusually sharp and piercing, 'Dang! While! While! ’

All the Sui troops rushed to the city, in addition to the seriously wounded soldiers, the ordinary lightly wounded soldiers also bandaged their wounds and re-entered the battle, they shook their spirits, stretched their bows and arrows, and prepared for another bloody battle.

"Brothers, our reinforcements are fifty miles away, we only need to hold on for two more hours, as long as two hours, we can completely defeat the enemy, brothers, today's battle will definitely be recorded in the history of the Great Sui!"

Wang Xuanjing hoarse voice to the soldiers to do the final battle mobilization, the Sui army is also rapidly assembling, counting the lightly wounded soldiers, there are still 1,000 Sui troops with combat effectiveness, Wang Xuanjing is most worried that the Tang army is attacking from the north and south sides at the same time, they still have more than 20,000 people, it should be done, now the only hope is that after yesterday's bloody battle, the Tang army no longer has so many siege weapons, last night destroyed hundreds of siege ladders, he believes that the Tang army has not many siege ladders, can not fight on both sides.

Facts have proved that Wang Xuanjing judged correctly, the Tang army did not have so many siege ladders, they could not organize a two-sided attack, the Sui army had just entered the battle readiness, the first wave of the Tang army's siege team, about 5,000 people were killed, and the black three phalanx armies lined up in a longitudinal line, like a big river rushing, from the southwest corner of Huguan overwhelmingly killed. (To be continued.) )