Chapter 3: The Bloody Battle of the Beacons

Xue Yantuo is the most powerful tribe of the Tiele tribes, composed of Xue and Yantuo two tribes, and is divided into more than 100 tribes of large and small, with more than 100,000 people in battle, nomadic between Jinshan and Yudu Jin Mountain, Xue Yantuo Great Chief Yi lost the bowl after the death of the Western Turkic Khan, was elected by other Tiele tribes as the Yezha Khan, he was ambitious, and began to want to take the Western Turks and replace him.

In September, a sudden cold wave hit Jinshan, and the snowstorm raged for several days and nights, causing Xue Yantuo's cattle and sheep to freeze to death and suffer heavy losses.

Most of the tribes migrated to the narrow strip between Yinshan and Hetao, which was already approaching the border of the Sui Dynasty, and the Sui Dynasty was not aware of Xue Yantuo's unusual behavior at this time.

Yi lost the bowl had three sons, the eldest son Yi Nan was the heir to the throne of the Khan, following his father, the second son Xue Qiluo was killed by Yang Yuanqing in the battle of Lake Harry, and the third son Thorn Duo formed a tribe of his own, the tribe was very small, only more than 3,000 people, and Thorn Duo called himself the chief.

The Thorn Duo Department moved south to the south of Wolf Mountain, only more than two hundred miles away from the Hetao Plain, and like other tribes, the Thorn Duo Department also suffered heavy losses from the snow disaster, but the Thorn Duo did not pack up the cattle and sheep to save himself like other Xue Yantuo tribes, in order to make up for the losses, his eyes were on Fengzhou in the Sui Realm.

Since the defeat of the Western Turks by the Sui army in the nineteenth year of the emperor's reign, the Sui Dynasty began to migrate to Fengzhou in a planned way, developed the Hetao Plain, and provided food for the Hetao garrison.

These Han Chinese mainly lived in Wuyuan County and Wuliangsuhai area, and a small number of them migrated to Yongfeng County in the west of the Hetao and Dali County in the north.

About 1,000 Han families moved from Yongfeng County, and more than a dozen villages of all sizes were formed according to their families, distributed around Yongfeng County and in the estuary area in the south.

It was winter, there were no Sogdian caravans, so Thorn Duo divided more than 1,000 warriors of his tribe into pieces, and entered the Sui Territory in a small force of cavalry to loot Han villages, and in one autumn, they had robbed more than 100 households, killed dozens of old people and men, and the rest of the women and children were taken into slavery.

But they didn't dare to harass on a large scale, intermittently, this kind of small-scale harassment of more than 100 people generally will not be reported to the imperial court, they are all solved by themselves, after Yujuluo warned Yi Lost Bowl, Yi Lost Bowl immediately sent someone to reprimand Thorn Duo, Assassin Duo complied, sent people back to the plundered border people, and promised not to invade the Sui Realm again.

After hibernation for half a month, in the past few days, Thorn Duo couldn't bear the itch, and once again personally led hundreds of people, divided into four teams to sneak into the Fengzhou territory under the cover of night, they were as careful as wolves, trying to avoid the Sui army Fengsui, searching for targets south of Yongfeng County, but for two whole days, they found nothing, and the Han people were frightened and moved to Yongfeng County, seeking the protection of the Sui army over there.

Just when Thorn Duo was very depressed, one of his men found a Sogdian caravan of six hundred camels near the fort of Liucheng, laden with goods and escorted only by a dozen Sui soldiers.

Surprised by this news, Thorn Duo immediately ordered four small groups of cavalry to gather and pounce on the Sogdian caravan like wild wolves.

．．．．．．．．

Yang Yuanqing took eighteen Sui soldiers of the Sui Army to strangle Yangma City, Kang Bas took his family and several officials to climb the Fengsui on the top of the cliff along the rope ladder, and thirty camel drivers resisted the gate, the gate of Yangma City was wooden, not solid, and it was difficult to resist the impact of the enemy's giant wood, and the camel drivers moved a few boulders to cover the gate.

The city of sheep and horses is built very irregularly, the city wall is of different heights, the highest point in the south is two zhang, and the north side is only one zhang high near the gate, and the gate area is also the weak point of the whole defense.

At this time, the city of sheep and horses was full of goods, in addition to Yang Yuanqing's tea, Kang Bas bought a lot of silk, and dozens of camels and Sui army horses, the camels lay down under the rocks, quietly, as if the upcoming war had nothing to do with them.

Yang Yuanqing stared intently at the woods not far from the other side of the Henghe River with a bow and arrows in hand, the woods were full of camels, and at this time Yang Yuanqing had already noticed that the Xue Yantuo people had entered the woods and were collecting their first trophy, more than five hundred camels.

He looked up at the beacon on the top of the mountain, which had already lit two pots of beacon fire, indicating that a small group of enemy troops were coming, so Yongfeng County, which was closest to here, would inevitably strengthen its vigilance and send scouts to inspect.

At this time, a soft little hand held him, and it was cold in his hand, Yang Yuanqing glanced back at her, the curtain on his head had been removed, a pot of arrows on his back, and a bow in his hand, Yang Yuanqing could feel the tension in her heart.

"Are you scared?" He smiled slightly.

"No!"

Niu Niu gently moistened her lips that were dried by the wind, "Just a little nervous." ”

"Then you still won't go up?"

Yang Yuanqing glanced up at the swarthy cliff, the soft ladder had been pulled up, but the south side of the cliff was covered with vines.

"With your skills, you should be able to climb up, you can go up!"

Niuniu shook her head, she winked mischievously at Yuan Qing, "Since General Yang said that the little girl is very skilled, why don't you stay and make good use of it?" ”

"I'm afraid that I will overuse it and break it." Yang Yuanqing smiled bitterly, he knew that persuasion was also in vain.

"It's good that you know, don't persuade me again, at least here my martial arts are second only to you, and I will be your right-hand man, not a burden."

Niuniu's deep eyes are as bright as gems, and her eyes are full of deep meaning.

"I know!" Yang Yuanqing smiled at her and nodded.

"General, here!"

Several soldiers found that a large group of black shadows appeared on the edge of the woods, and Yang Yuanqing also saw it, in the dark, more than 300 steps away, about 200 people had already gone down to the river, divided into two teams, and there were dozens of people in the middle holding three big trees that had been cut down, moving very slowly, like a centenopod insect.

Yang Yuanqing suddenly found that Xue Yantuo had shields in his hands, and the protection was very tight, his heart sank, the enemy army had shields, and he didn't have crossbows, this battle would be difficult to fight.

"Yuanqing, let me rush out and kill it!" Yang Wei was carrying two sledgehammers, anxious.

"Don't rush! Keep calm. ”

Yang Yuanqing glanced at the two-zhang high wall in the south, and said to a few soldiers guarding the south wall: "Regardless of it in the south, everyone is concentrated on both sides of the gate." ”

Eighteen soldiers were all gathered on a section of the north wall, distributed on both sides of the gate, tiptoe with tea bags, drew bows and arrows, and prepared to attack.

At this moment, a thunderous sound of horses' hooves rushed from the west, the war horses galloped in the dark, the figures were swaying, and they rushed to within a hundred steps in an instant, Yang Yuanqing shot out two arrows, and the two cavalry led by the horse fell, and the Sui army under his command released arrows one after another, twenty arrows whistled and shot away, and more than a dozen enemy soldiers were shot, screaming and falling off their horses.

But this time Xue Yantuo's cavalry did not escape, more than two hundred cavalry sped up and rushed towards the north city wall, and instantly rushed thirty steps away, Yang Yuanqing shouted, "All squat!" ”

He was experienced and realized what was going to happen, and more than 200 Xue Yantuo cavalry rushed to the northern city wall, arrows raining down and clanging, smashing the stone wall into sparks.

Under the cover of the cavalry, Xue Yantuo's soldiers poured in like a tide, mixed with three large trees with lush branches, and fought very methodically, seizing the weakness of the small number of the Sui army, Xue Yantuo's cavalry arrows were like a torrential rain, suppressing the Sui army to the death.

Yang Yuanqing was furious, if it went on like this, they wouldn't have a chance at all, so he immediately shouted: "Two people in a group, one person covers with a shield!" ”

The Sui army changed the formation, one person covered with a shield, one person shot an arrow, and began to shoot arrows to counterattack, after three rounds of arrows, more than 20 cavalry planted their horses, Xue Yantuo's cavalry retreated more than a dozen steps, and the pressure of the Sui army eased slightly.

"Ahh With a scream, a Sui soldier was shot in the forehead and rolled down the wall.

Yang Yuanqing stood on the north side, pulling the string with arrows, the action was extremely fast, the arrows were not missing, in a moment, thirty Xue Yantuo cavalry were shot down by him, a pot of arrows had been exhausted, Xue Yantuo cavalry also found his strength, dozens of arrows shot at him at the same time, at this moment, a shield blocked in front of Yang Yuanqing, and several arrows grazed Niuniu's face.

More than 150 Xue Yantuo soldiers rushed to the north wall under the cover of the cavalry, they cut down six big trees, together with branches to the walls on both sides of the gate, more than 100 people climbed along the trunks, bows and arrows stopped shooting, and the two sides began to enter a close offensive and defensive battle.

Dozens of Xue Yantuo soldiers were like wild wolves, staring at blood-red eyes, screaming and waving knives to chop, Yang Yuanqing pulled out the horizontal knife, facing the battle, the horizontal knife slashed, three heads were cut off, he was as brave as a tiger, the knife light flickered, in front of him the blood mist was filled, a moment more than a dozen people died tragically under his knife, under his leadership, seven or eight Sui soldiers around him also fought bravely to kill the enemy, killing the enemy casualties, but the Sui army also suffered casualties, a miserable scream, a Sui soldier was planted with a spear down the wall, another Sui soldier's arm was cut off, and he fainted in pain, Niu Niu rescued him from the wall.

At this time, a Xue Yantuo soldier quietly crawled out from under the branch, holding a spear in his hand, and stabbed Yang Yuanqing's calf silently, just when the spear was about to pierce Yang Yuanqing's calf, a slender figure flashed, kicked the spear away, and stabbed the throat of the sneak attacker with a backhand.

On the other side of the gate, Yang Wei led ten Sui soldiers and dozens of enemy soldiers to fight bloodily, he danced the sledgehammer, like a mad tiger, hitting the wall The enemy's brains burst, the corpse was blurred with flesh and blood, he had forgotten life and death, and he was unconscious when he was hit by an arrow in his arm.

Yang Yuanqing couldn't help but secretly praise, this guy is a desperate fat San Lang.

At this moment, Yang Yuanqing suddenly found that more than a dozen Xue Yantuo soldiers had climbed over the wooden door and stabbed the camel man at the top door below with a spear, and the camel man screamed again and again, and four or five people had been stabbed to death.

Without waiting for Yuanqing to shout, Niu Niu jumped in the air, jumped on the wooden door like a swift through the curtain, her posture was agile and vigorous, avoiding the enemy's assassination, the long sword was as fast as electricity, and in an instant, seven or eight Xue Yantuo soldiers were pierced through the neck by her, and overturned the wooden door, she screamed, her wrist shook out, and several sword flowers were dazzling and shiny, piercing the throats of the rest of the people.

Yang Yuanqing smiled and gave her a thumbs up, but in a blink of an eye, he found that a cold arrow with wolf teeth shot at the Niu Niu on the wooden door extremely fast, and it was too late for him to help, so shocked that Yang Yuanqing's liver and gallbladder were cracked.