Two hundred guards guarded at the gate of Liuhe City, Yang Yuanqing grew up alone into this labyrinthine Liuhe City, he had heard that the layout of Liuhe City was actually a huge gossip map, and the center was the Liuhe Hall where the military meeting was held.

He walked in a long corridor, this corridor is called back to the dragon road, around the entire Liuhe City, Yang Guang's imperial study is just north, the surroundings are unusually quiet, only the creaking sound of wooden planks under his feet, pillars of light from the window into the window, making the corridor extraordinarily bright, the pillars of light floating in fine dust.

He has walked this road many times, to the north, he naturally turned around and entered a road, the eyes suddenly darkened, there should be lights on the walls on both sides, but at this time the lamp oil has burned out, the rooms on both sides are Yang Guang's library, which contains more than 37,000 volumes of imperial books compiled by Yang Guang himself, Yang Yuanqing has been walking to the end, the door is closed, he glanced at both sides, in the corner of the door wall, there is a small copper pedal, he stepped on it.

The door opened slowly, inside the door are two brocade curtains, two fairies carved with jade are slowly descending, the curtains are automatically unfolding to both sides, here is Yang Guang's imperial study, the four windows are slowly opening automatically, a large piece of sunlight penetrates, the breeze hits, the room becomes bright and fresh.

Yang Yuanqing walked into Yang Guang's imperial study, and the folds on the table were still opened, but the zhu pen was gone, only an ink and jade pen holder was left, and next to the imperial case, the box containing the talisman and the gold medal was also gone, although Yang Guang fled in a hurry, but these important things were not lost.

Yang Yuanqing stared at the imperial case for a moment, then slowly sat down on Yang Guang's imperial couch, and picked up the recital he had not finished reading, which was the celebration of Jiangdu's victory over Wang Shichong, the defeat of Liu Yuanjin in Jiangnan, and the killing of more than 50,000 bandits.

At this moment, there was a faint sound of 'dangchang' in the distance, it was the sound of dishes falling to the ground, which was heard very clearly in the silent Liuhe City, Yang Yuanqing stood up and walked quickly to the outside of the imperial study, there were still people in this Liuhe City.

He quickly walked out of the imperial study, stepped on the pedal on the other side, and the doors, windows and curtains slowly closed everything as before, he heard it clearly, it should be dozens of steps away on the left, Yang Yuanqing drew a knife and walked quickly in the dark inner corridor of the inner circle, and his leather boots stepped on the floor. Click! Creaked.

At this time, Yang Yuanqing turned his head suddenly, there was a small door behind him, he heard the sound of Xixi Suo from inside the door, he pushed the door open and entered, it turned out to be a food preparation room, and the wine and snacks made by the imperial chef were temporarily placed here, and then served over when it was time to eat.

Yang Yuanqing's eyes swept the room coldly, a saucer knocked over to the ground, and more than a dozen cakes rolled all over the ground, Yang Yuanqing suddenly took two quick steps, and pulled out a thin figure from a dark corner.

A little girl's terrified scream suddenly sounded in the room, "Spare me!" Don't eat me! ”

Yang Yuanqing saw clearly that it was a little palace maid, at most eleven or twelve years old, so thin as a cat He let go of her, and the little palace maid knelt in front of him and kowtowed again and again and begged, "Turkic uncle, spare me!" Don't eat me! ”

Yang Yuanqing saw that she was trembling all over, and could feel the fear in her heart, and she was a little unbearable in her heart, so she said softly: "You don't have to be afraid, I am a Sui general, not a Turk." ”

The little palace maid slowly raised her head, and she also saw clearly that it was indeed a famous Sui general in front of her, not those Turkic soldiers who looked like evil ghosts and ate people.

Yang Yuanqing shook his head, these palace maids lived in the deep palace, and they had never seen the Turks, so they imagined them to be like man-eating ghosts, and this kind of little palace maid would believe it.

He squatted down and pinched the root of her ear a few times, the little palace maid slowly woke up, and Yang Yuanqing asked her softly: "What is your name, why did you hide in Liuhe City and not escape?" ”

Yang Yuanqing's soft tone slowly calmed down the little palace maid's frightened heart, and she said timidly: "My name is Yu'er, I am the little maid who serves the princess, I came to get some snacks for the princess that day, and suddenly said that the Turks are coming, everyone is running, I also want to escape, but the door can't be opened, I am very scared, so I hide in the room." ”

"Which princess are you serving?"

"Princess Danyang."

Yang Yuanqing remembered that he had seen it once many years ago, a very cute little princess.

Yang Yuanqing stood up and looked around the room again, almost everything had not been touched, only a few plates of snacks were missing, and asked her again, "Have you been hiding here?" ”

"Yes!"

The little palace maid said timidly: "I ate two plates of dim sum, drank a bowl of tea, and ate two pears, and I haven't touched anything else, I heard footsteps just now, I thought it was a Turk, thinking that even if I died, I would eat enough, and I ended up knocking over the plate." ”

Yang Yuanqing picked up a pear and handed it to her, "Eat it and follow me." ”

Yang Yuanqing got up and walked out, the little palace maid nibbled on pears, and followed Yang Yuanqing all the way to trot, she was really afraid of the Turks, and the Sui general in front of her became her hope for survival.

Yang Yuanqing walked out of Liuhe City, and immediately ordered: "Lock the gate, no one is allowed to enter." ”

He pointed to the little palace maid again and said to the two soldiers: "Find a carriage, send her to Heyang County, hand her over to Wei County, by the way, get her a pot of porridge." ”

The little palace maid was grateful in her heart and gave Yang Yuanqing a salute, "Thank you for the general's life-saving grace."

Yang Yuanqing smiled, "Don't worry!" Wait until I rescue the princess, and then reunite you. ”

A carriage came quickly, two soldiers escorted the little palace maid to Heyang County, Yang Yuanqing rode into Yulin City, he left 3,000 people to defend the city, two hours later, the army turned south, towards Yanmen County.

The offensive and defensive battles of Yanmen City were fought extremely fiercely, and both sides invested heavy troops, attacking and defending day and night.

The offensive and defensive battle has entered the sixth day, the Turkic army has invested 200,000 troops to attack Yanmen City, with more than 60,000 casualties, and the Sui army has also invested 80,000 troops to defend the city, with nearly 35,000 casualties, but Yanmen City has never been captured.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!.

The huge attack drum sounded outside the Yanmen City, and the 40,000 Turkic troops carried hundreds of siege ladders to the Yanmen City like a tide, and the arrows were woven into an arrow net in the air, and it was impossible to distinguish between the head of the city and the city, and the shouts of killing came and went, and the Turkic army held the shield on the top of the city wall, and frantically rushed upward.

The city was full of dead bodies, 20,000 Sui soldiers were still desperately resisting, Emperor Yang Guang's promise and reward, gave the soldiers great courage, their morale was high, desperate fighting, after several days and nights of bloody fighting, they have gradually found a little way to deal with the Turks.

The Turks are attacking in turns, maintaining physical strength, the Sui army also takes turns to defend, maintaining physical strength, the Turks put 40,000 troops to attack, they put 20,000 troops to defend, the Turkic arrow rain makes them unable to get close to the city wall to counterattack, they leave the city edge for a zhang, Zhang Yin throws downward, and the Turks can never take out other siege weapons except the siege ladder, and the siege ladder, the Sui army has found a way to crack it.

"Boom!" With a loud bang, a huge siege ladder up to three feet wide was set up at the head of the city, thick iron hooks hooked the city walls, and hundreds of Turkic soldiers climbed up frantically.

The Sui soldiers lifted the wood and stone and threw them downward, and the Turkic soldiers screamed and rolled down with the wood and boulder.

Two burly Sui soldiers picked up sledgehammers and slammed the siege ladder on both sides, as the iron hook crossed the city wall and made a piercing creak, the city ladder gradually widened, and the wedges of the top two ladders fell off from the ladder frame, so that the siege ladder was missing two gears and could not climb the city, and under the fierce counterattack of the Sui army, the Turkic army rolled down from the city ladder one after another.

But the Turkic army soon had a countermeasure, they used pig iron to fix the ladder rungs, so that the Sui army's hammer smashed had no effect, but the Sui army invented a big iron fork, they smashed the iron hook, dozens of soldiers used the big iron fork to push the ladder outward, the ladder broke away from the city, turned outward to the bottom.

The two sides were engaged in a bloody battle using all kinds of siege methods and countermeasures, and at this moment, the drum beat of the Turkic army became dull and slow, 'Knock-knock-knock-knock!' , each blow made people's hearts tremble.

"General, look!" One soldier shouted in fear as he pointed into the distance.

All the soldiers of the Sui army froze, slowly stood up, and looked into the distance in horror, Yuwen Chengdu also saw it, only to see dozens of behemoths appear in the distance.

It was a three-zhang nest car, each nest car was pulled by hundreds of horses, slowly driving towards the city wall, like a huge monster, Yuwen Chengdu turned around and shouted: "Go to bed crossbow!" ”

The heavy defenders of the Sui army only have bed crossbows, three-foot-long arrows, and a range of more than 300 steps, so I don't know if they can deal with these dozens of huge monsters, and Yujian Chengdu's heart is full of worry.

In front of the Turkic camp, Shibi Khan was surrounded by hundreds of generals, watching the battle from afar, Shibi Khan's eyes flashed with irrepressible annoyance, Yanmen City, which could have been broken in one day, he actually fought for seven days, but he could not break through Yanmen City, he had paid the price of more than 60,000 dead and wounded, if this battle of Yanmen could not catch Yang Guang, then it would be a fiasco for him.

At this time, the general of the left killing, Ashina Kunji, said to him: "Khan, although the Sui army resisted fiercely, they also suffered heavy casualties, and more importantly, they are not as strong as us, we still have more than 300,000 troops, and they are only half, if they continue to be consumed like this, they will definitely be destroyed because of the exhaustion of troops, please don't worry!" ”

Du Ji nodded, it is true, as long as he keeps attacking the city, the Sui army will inevitably be exhausted.

"Pass my order, add another 20,000 troops, and cooperate with the nest car to attack the city!"

As soon as his order was given, a cavalry patrol in the distance galloped up and shouted: "Khan, something is wrong! ”

"What's the matter?" Duji said angrily.

"Khan, Yang Yuanqing has led an army of 50,000 to break through Yulin City, and the 5,000 defenders have been annihilated, and Yang Yuanqing's army is killing Yanmen County, and it has reached a hundred miles away."

"What?" Duji's eyes widened in shock.

"Also, a Sui army of more than 1,000 people is coming towards us, and the patrol can't defeat them, so please send troops to intercept it."

As soon as the words fell, a low horn sounded in the distance, echoing in the sky above Yanmen City, and a red eagle banner and a group of Sui cavalry suddenly appeared outside the Turkic camp Wuli.