After several days of hard fighting on the western front, the Turkic army broke through the Zihe Pass, the first line of defense of the Northern Sui Dynasty, at the cost of 15,000 casualties, and the army continued to move south, while at the same time, the Turkic army on the eastern front also captured the outer wall of Hugu Pass, but lost in the attack on Hugu Pass, with more than 8,000 dead and wounded, and was forced to enter a state of confrontation with the Sui army. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The 50,000 Turkic army on the eastern front was commanded by Bu Lishe, the brother of Chu Luo Khan, and the reason why Chu Luo Khan decided to attack the eastern front was to take the Northern Sui by surprise, as long as the army invaded Hebei, it would cause chaos in the Northern Sui, and the western front would have a chance.

Unexpectedly, the Northern Sui had already made preparations and built an unusually tall and strong pass in the Northern Tiger Valley, which made the Turkic army helpless.

In the afternoon of this day, Bu Li set in the company of more than a dozen generals, riding on a horse looking at the tall and strong Hugu Pass, he was very frustrated, the enemy's fortress is as high as five zhang, and their siege ladder is only three zhang highest, they used the method of tying two siege ladders together, but the siege suffered a heavy defeat, more than 5,000 casualties, plus more than 3,000 people lost in the previous attack on the outer city, the Eastern Front Turks have lost more than 8,400 people.

Siege was originally the shortcomings of the Turkic army, they were good at galloping cavalry on the steppe for a decisive battle, but now they let them throw away their horses and climb the city with two lap legs, so that countless elite cavalry died in incomparable humiliation under the random arrows and rolling logs.

Bu Lishe pointed at the head of the city with a horse whip and said, "How many Sui soldiers do you think there are in the city?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, no one could answer, this is what they have been speculating, it is obvious that the city can only accommodate a few thousand people, but is the Sui army really only deploying five or six thousand people?

"Wuman, you arrived here first, you should have the most news, you can talk about it!" Bu Lishe turned his head and asked the captain Wu Man.

Wu Man said after half a sound: "The Sui army doesn't know how many people we have on the Eastern Front, if we have 300,000 troops on the Eastern Front, they only deploy a few thousand people is too few, so I personally think that it should be at least 20,000 people, if I am not mistaken, the south of Guancheng should be an endless tent." ”

Wu Man just guessed casually, but he accidentally woke up Bu Lishe, he thought of something, and looked up at the top of the mountain, there were cliffs on both sides, as high as a hundred zhang.

Bu Lishi laughed meaningfully, if the valley to the south was really full of tents, God would have helped him.

The large battalion of the Turkic army was also stationed in the valley, but they were stationed in the widest part of the valley, the valley was as wide as seventeen or eighteen miles, and it was more than twenty miles away from the Tiger Valley Pass.

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At night, a Turkic army of more than 1,000 people is marching along the ridge to the top of the mountain more than ten miles away, the final destination of this Turkic soldier is just above the city, each soldier carries three catties of dry wool, the dry wool has great firepower, burns for a long time, is their best thing to ignite, if it can ignite the camp of the Sui army, of course it is the best, it is really not good, and the attack of the Turkic army is also conducive to the attack of the Turkic army with fire.

This Turkic soldier was led by a commander of a thousand named Ashina Sutu, who was also a royal family, only twenty years old this year, and Bulisheh explicitly asked him to launch a fire attack before dawn, which put great pressure on Ashina Sutu and his men.

They are all men who live wildly on the grassland, when did they go to secretly climb the mountains and set fire to them in the dark? Moreover, they had no prior knowledge of the way up the mountain, and there was no guide, and the first time they went up the mountain was scheduled at night, so how could they complete this difficult task?

The time gradually came to the fourth watch, and the Turkic soldiers who were groping in the woods were already exhausted, and everyone was complaining.

Ashina Sutu stood on a large rock and looked around, he was very anxious, they had been walking for most of the night, but they still couldn't find their way.

From the foot of the mountain, this road is indeed not difficult to walk, more than 20 miles, you can reach it by walking in a straight line, but when you go up the mountain, you find that this is not the case at all, there is an invisible fault below the mountain, you must detour, and this detour is more than 20 miles away.

Ashina Sutu himself estimated that they had walked at least more than 30 miles, and what was even worse was that they had fallen into the vast mountains and forests, completely lost their direction, even if they climbed the big trees, they couldn't tell the direction, the sky was full of dark clouds, and there was no moonlight and starlight, which was a good opportunity for a night attack, but for them, they fell into a desperate situation of getting lost.

"General, wait until dawn before leaving! We are just tossing around like this, we are tired to death, but we are going farther and farther. ”

Several centurions stepped forward to make suggestions, Ashina Sutu stood on the boulder and looked at it for a long time and couldn't figure out the direction, so he had to jump off the boulder in frustration, and he was about to speak, when suddenly there was a 'click!' The sound of stepping on a dead tree branch was heard very clearly in the silence of the night.

Everyone held their breath and looked together at the place where the sound came from.

Then there was another soft sound.

"There are wolves!" A centurion shouted in a low voice.

"Nonsense! This is not a grassland, where does the wolf come from, this should be the tiger and leopard foraging at night, let the brothers be careful, do not go alone. ”

In a moment, all the sounds disappeared, and the woods returned to their previous silence, and Ashina Sutu saw that there was really no way to identify the direction, so he had to sigh and say, "Let's go and rest!" We set off after dawn. ”

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The Turkic army got lost in the mountains and forests, but in fact they were not far from the cliff where Guancheng was located, and they only needed to walk two miles west to reach the edge of the cliff, but the Turkic army did not know that the Sui army had stationed 2,000 people on each side of the mountain, and they had always been veterans of sneak attacks, how could they tolerate others going up the mountain to sneak attack them.

A thousand exhausted Turkic soldiers were sleeping soundly in the woods, and a dozen or so sentries were vigilantly watching the periphery not far away, not because they were afraid of an enemy attack, but because they were afraid that they would become a target for hungry tigers and leopards.

There were two sentries in the northwest corner, and the two sentries were also tired from the march, so they agreed to take turns sleeping for the rest of the day, and they found a large rock to lean on, one of the sentries leaned against the stone, and the other soldier sat on the big rock to keep watch, and if a beast attacked, he would immediately wake his companions.

At this time, the sentry soldier suddenly felt a movement in the woods not far away, he looked closely, only to see a flash of cold light, a little cold light in front of him found that it was a crossbow arrow glowing with green light, the sentry was surprised, but it was too late, the crossbow arrow 'poof! The ground shot through his throat, and the soldier instinctively clutched his throat, and with a gurgling sound, he fell under the boulder and died instantly.

Another soldier was awakened by the sound of the corpse falling to the ground, he opened his eyes blankly, and before he could react, a shrugging palm covered his mouth, and the sharp dagger swept around his neck, cutting his throat in an instant, and then stabbing him in the heart with another knife, which killed him cleanly.

Killed two sentries, from the northwest direction poured out countless black shadows, one by one, they are the Sui soldiers stationed on the top of the cliff in the west, the Sui army sentry has long found this Turkic army, and also guessed their intentions, just when this Turkic army is tired and resting, two thousand Sui soldiers surrounded them from all directions, and the strange sound that the generals heard just now was the sound accidentally made by the Sui soldiers when they deployed the encirclement.

In the woods, a thousand Turkic soldiers were lying on the ground sleeping soundly, including the main general Ashina Sutu was also asleep in anxiety and exhaustion, at this moment, a sentry suddenly spotted the Sui soldiers who were quietly approaching, and immediately shouted, "There is an enemy!" ”

The commander of the Sui army roared, "Kill!" ”

Two thousand Sui soldiers killed the sleeping Turkic soldiers from all directions at the same time, and the sleeping Turkic soldiers on the periphery did not wake up before they were pierced through the heart by spears, and the continuous screams woke up the sleeping Turkic soldiers, they picked up their spears, panicked, and did not know whether to evacuate or resist.

The target of dozens of Sui soldiers was the general of the Turkic army, and the place where Ashina Sutu slept was under a big tree, not on the periphery but not in the center, at this time he had already stood up and ordered the soldiers not to panic and to resist in formation.

Ashina Sutu's command revealed his identity, and dozens of Sui soldiers raised crossbows to shoot arrows at him, but Ashina Sutu couldn't dodge, and was shot through his body by dozens of arrows and nailed to death on a big tree.

The main general was killed, and the Turkic soldiers had no backbone, and began to break through and escape, but the Sui army's encirclement was extremely tight, and hundreds of crossbowmen were deployed on the periphery, specifically hunting and killing the escaped Turkic soldiers, they could not allow a soldier to escape to the cliff, if the cliff was really set on fire to the mountain, it would have a serious impact on the Guancheng and the camp below.

The strangulation lasted only a quarter of an hour, all a thousand Turkic soldiers were killed, and the Sui army searched three times to be sure that there was no sign of the soldiers escaping, so the bodies were buried, and the army withdrew to the temporary barracks located near the cliffs.

(To be continued.) )