Chapter 396: Kang Long has regrets
The heavy rain continued, and the majestic rain poured on the earth, and the continuous splashing of raindrops formed a confused rain mist. Although it was still evening, it was already completely dark, as if it were midnight. From time to time, a thunderclap sounded in the sky, and the lightning illuminated the fields on both sides of the Sangan River even more blurred.
Li Shimin, who had changed into a simple set of infantry armor, stood on the north city gate tower, and at this time, above the city head, except for a few captains, none of the rest of the soldiers of the Xuanjia Army were gone. That Liao Liao's figure became more and more small in this rain.
"Coming" Li Shimin stroked the battlements with his hand and muttered to himself, his expression was natural, as if he was not nervous, but the hand that was holding the battlements tightly was lightly exposed, and the tension in his heart had already been revealed.
As his words fell, all the people in the city felt a tremor under their feet. With the stronger and stronger vibrations, in the sound of heavy rain, a clearer and clearer rumbling sound came from far and near. It's not thunder, but it's the sound of iron hooves that makes the people in the city nervous even more than thunder.
As if the infernal demon suddenly jumped out of hell, 15,000 Turkic cavalry rushed straight at it in a neat formation. The tall banner, the array of copper walls and iron arms, is more like a moving mountain, like a sword mountain, like a sword forest. With a shocking momentum, he rushed straight forward.
Fifteen thousand cavalry galloped in the heavy rain, which drenched the knights and horses, but everything that was wet was even more terrifying. The rumbling sound of hooves, like the sound of urgency, made the infantry and the strong men of the servants standing above the city tremble again with their faces like ashes.
Li Shimin guessed correctly before, the 15,000 cavalry were the men and horses of the Ashina tribe. These 15,000 cavalry were all the men and horses of the headquarters of Yang Shibi Khan's younger brother Jieli Khan, and the leader who led the troops was none other than Jieli's half-brother, Buli. Buli is Jieli's henchman, the position is set, and he is called Buli. Since the army broke through the pass of the Great Wall, the Turkic soldiers have fought one after another, and have captured nearly ten large and small cities in Mayi. Except for a slight resistance from the first two cities, they basically surrendered as soon as they were encircled.
The army marched all the way south, and was exhausted. In addition, it coincided with the rain, and the road was difficult to navigate. In the end, Shibi also had to agree to the request of the leaders of the tribes, and the army rested temporarily in the White Wolf Village. sent Buli to unify 15,000 cavalry to the south first, and asked him to take the Shenwu County not far away first, in case the news leaked.
With 15,000 Ashina elites, he braved the heavy rain and immediately went south without stopping. Halfway through, he suddenly encountered a Sui Dynasty soldier and horse, although the number was small, but he had already given up his doubts about Bu Li. After besieging and killing the hundreds of Sui troops, Buli didn't stop for a moment and went straight to Shenwu County. It's just that after arriving here, Bu Li was a little puzzled, the gate of Shenwu City was idle at the moment, but there were only Liao Liao thousands of people on the city, and at a glance you could see that many of them were people without armor. This situation is normal, and it is exactly the same as the various cities in Mayi that they have attacked all the way in the past few days.
Bu Li breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he was really worried that the hundreds of people he had encountered before were the army of the Sui Dynasty. At the moment, those few hundred people may just be a scout cavalry of the Sui Dynasty. At present, Yang Guangzheng, the emperor of the Sui State, is secretly transferring troops to attack the grassland. Then it is not unusual to encounter such a scout or two here. After putting aside his doubts, Buli called the herald and ordered to send people to the city to persuade him to surrender according to the old method. If he doesn't surrender, he will directly charge, and in the face of such a defender of hundreds of people, he just doesn't need siege equipment, and he can also quickly break through directly with a ladder.
In order to snatch the position of pioneer, Buli has spent a lot of effort. With the current strategy of raiding, being a pioneer will not only not meet the big clans of the Sui army, but it will be a good time to grab credit. And as a vanguard force, he can also break through the cities along the Sui State for the first time, and be the first to plunder the wealth in the city.
A centurion came to the city with his men and horses like a raging wind, and yelled at the top of the city. Anyway, this is all the same old routine, those who surrender the city, the army will not slaughter the civilians after entering the city. If you resist and don't open the city gates, then after entering the city, the whole city will be slaughtered. As a pioneer, he has said six times, except for the defender of one of the cities who refused to open the city, the other five cities are honestly surrendered, and he believes that the city in front of him will definitely not resist. …,
Sure enough, as he expected, a Sui man at the head of the city, who claimed to be a county commander, asked them a few words, and when he learned that Shibi Khan's 300,000 wolf horsemen were already not far away, he nodded and ordered the defenders to open the city gate and welcome the army into the city.
Since the south, the Turks have captured the cities of the Sui State one after another, and the defenders in each city will not be full of thousands. After a few times in a row, Buli didn't even bother to be cautious anymore. As soon as he saw the city gate open, and the hundred-man team at the city gate had not even entered the city to inspect it, Bu Li had already clamped the horse's belly and ordered the whole army to enter the city immediately. It's raining so hard outside, and Buri doesn't want to be drenched outside all the time.
He couldn't wait to enter the city, find a few beauties from the Sui Kingdom, and get a few jars of fine wine. Playing with beauties while drinking fine wine, and having his subordinates looting wealth, isn't this a good thing exactly what he aims to be a pioneer when he is bent on striving to be a pioneer?
After receiving the order of Bu Lishe, the fifteen thousand cavalry finally cheered in unison. Everyone knows what awaits them in the city, wine, beautiful women, and treasure. Along the way, each of them was already filled with large bags of gold and silver treasures. After so long in the rain and so far away, everyone now wants to go into the city right away and indulge.
Although Shenwu City is also a very lively city, it is a small county town after all. The north gate is also a small city gate, and a maximum of four horses can pass side by side at a time. Everyone was in a hurry to enter the city, and the more than 10,000 cavalry were no longer half in line, not even the caution of marching. Many of the cavalry had not even entered the city before they could wait to remove the wet and heavy cowhide armor on their bodies.
At the city gate hesitated a huge bazaar, chaotic, and there was no more than half a minute
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