In the dark night, people are crowded. Thousands of troops and horses appeared from the night, and the heads were densely packed and counted. With a loud command, the first infantry formation of the Turks began to advance. Tens of thousands of feet wearing cowhide boots lifted and landed, and although the pace was not uniform, the entire array still maintained a good formation.

"Knock, knock, knock!" With the rhythmic sound of neat footsteps, the sturdy walls of Yanmen trembled. The Turkic soldiers raised their weapons as they marched and shouted, "Immortal Heaven Guarantee!" The roar shook the mountains. Swords are like mountains, guns are like forests, the sea of steel is dazzling, and the oppressive force gathered by tens of millions of people is coming.

After the roar, the Turks began to move from walking to slow running, and finally charging quickly. Before the Sui army in the city came to its senses, the first group of siege troops of the Turks had already rushed to the side of the moat.

One simple wooden bridge after another was erected over the moat. The Turkic infantry carrying the ladders behind did not stop at all, stepped on the wooden bridge that had just been paved, rushed across the moat, and set up one cloud ladder after another

How many defenders of the eastern wall.

Behind the charging Turks, there was a softening "creaking" sound everywhere, and the twisted strings of the catapult were pulled apart. Everyone was waiting for the brutal fight that was coming.

More Turkic soldiers had already flooded under the walls, but there was only sporadic noise on the city's head. Compared with the fanfare over there, the city here is a little too quiet. Guards above the city

When the army saw the Turks pouring in like a tidal wave, they were terrified. At this time, everyone realized that the original onslaught from the west was just a trick of the Turks, and the real attack was here. The commander of the city

The official was busy ringing the alarm bell at the head of the city, and the sound of the alarm bell was loud, and the sound spread for a long time.

For the reaction of the Sui humanoid in the city, the Turks did not care, the golden wolf shì guard of the first bi khan was responsible for supervising the battle here, and one by one the golden wolf shì wei carried their golden wolf head scimitar and shouted: "Those who retreat from the battle are killed, and those who take the lead in attacking the head of the city are greatly rewarded!" Just then, he heard a strange "buzzing" sound.

"Kill!"

Suddenly there was a whistling sound in the darkness, a hundred twisting chuáng crossbows and a thousand volt crossbows were fired at the same time, and there were more arm crossbows behind them, and individual crossbows were fired at the same time, a large area

The arrows are like dark clouds, and the dark clouds instantly turn into raindrops and metal waterfalls fall from the sky! The arrows fired by the crossbow were so powerful that they had already rushed to the first Turkic charging troops under the city, and countless people suddenly flew backwards

Went and twisted into an unnatural position in mid-air, flipped and shot like a hedgehog. Those twisted chuáng crossbows required 100 people to fire at a time, and they could shoot seven strong crossbows at a time, and they could also shoot a huge iron crossbow alone. Face at this time

The defenders of the dense Turkic city chose to shoot in a row, and at a time seven large crossbow arrows passed through the front of the Turks with a strong explosive force, like a comb, and instantly ploughed out seven empty spaces.

For a time, the entire eastern city wall was like a volcano that suddenly erupted, and countless arrows covered the sky. In this terrible metal storm, flesh and blood without armor and shields are as fragile as papery front rows

The Turks didn't even have time to shout "help", and even the people with the ladder were instantly twisted to pieces. It was definitely the worst nightmare. Screams, shēn groans, blood, death, panicked soldiers trampling each other, screaming, arrows raining

Flying like locusts, the shrill sound of arrows filling the night sky and driving the bravest warriors mad. Arrows everywhere!

Arrow! Arrow!

Shi Bi thought that no one had discovered his feint attack plan, but in fact, although there were few soldiers and horses in Yanmen City at this time, they were the most elite Praetorian Guards of the Great Sui.

Even the middle and low-level officers are mostly elites in the army, especially after Yang Guang eliminated a large number of family members in the Praetorian Guard several times in a row, the strength of the Praetorian Guard has risen to a higher level. If the Janissaries fought a cavalry battle with the Turks, they would probably only be able to fight on a par. But in such an offensive and defensive battle of Xiongcheng, the Turks were a few streets behind.

Yanmen Tianxia Xiongguan is the throat gateway of Hedong, although there are not many soldiers and horses here, but all kinds of equipment are absolutely sufficient. The most powerful crossbow machines in the Great Sui are numerous in the city. Tonight the Turks stormed

In Xicheng, in less than half an hour, many veterans in the city had already discovered that something was not normal. Although it was dark and they couldn't see the entire battlefield clearly, they still quickly judged that the Turks would attack the city tonight with a maximum of 50,000 or 60,000 people

Person.

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At present, there are as many as 150,000 Turks under Yanmen City, and even if there were some casualties before, there are still 130,000 or 40,000. If the Turks wanted to attack at night, it was impossible to send only three men and horses without all their might.

After remembering that the eastern wall had not moved since the siege, these veterans in the army immediately estimated that the Turks might be playing a feint and wanted to attack the east and west. After some deliberation, the generals of the Praetorian Guard simply came up with a plan,

Secretly mobilized enough crossbows and archers to guard the eastern city.

The result was as they expected, it was really a trick used by the Turks, and the generals of the Sui army laughed.

In the midst of the lightning and flint, as if suddenly struck by a violent lightning, the Turkic soldiers charging in the front row flipped on their horses, and the Turkic soldiers sprayed blood and rose in the air, screaming and falling to the ground. Body instantly

Pierced by the hole, the arrow shot the second person flying with blood: someone was even pinned to the ground by the whole person, and the blood huā bloomed in mid-air. The soldiers screamed and cried, and you hit me and pushed me to the ground and squeezed into a ball, trampling on each other:

Some people lay down to dodge, but they trampled on others in panic and trampled to death. The Turks continued to fall, and the short and high-pitched terrible screams of the near-death and the undead Turks who had been wounded by arrows rolled on the ground, and the long howls were terrible

Mortal.

Seeing this, the infantry in the back row immediately became frightened, and some tried to turn around, but they were immediately killed by the golden wolf guards. Military orders are frequent, cold and ruthless, rush! Rush! Even if you die the last one, you'll rush me!

Shibi's angry eyes widened as he watched from behind, and he almost fainted. Unexpectedly, his strategy was already known to the Sui army. Seeing that the first group of defenders who rushed to the city were almost dead, Shi Bi swung his knife fiercely.

"The whole army immediately adjusted the direction of the attack, and all the soldiers and horses attacked the west city pass, and the catapults and archers covered! Ben Khan wants you to cover the western city for me, so that none of the damn cunning Sui people can raise their heads. ”

At the end of the order, a group of herald cavalry immediately rushed to give the order, and the Turkic soldiers who received the latest order did not hesitate in the slightest. Catapults moved to the west in front of the city wall, and the tens of thousands of archers selected moved to the west with bows and arrows, as well as crossbow machines captured in the cities of Dingxiang, Mayi, and Yanmen.

In order to prevent the tragedy just now, Shibi ordered 3,000 Turkic soldiers to form a shield array with large and small shields to cover the advance of the Turkic infantry in front. Listening only to the sound of the officer's order, the shield-bearers stood one after another

Ding, arranged in rows, rows and columns, raised the shields above their heads, and in the blink of an eye, a huge steel phalanx appeared. The countless shields reflected the light of the stars, like countless candles suddenly lit under the city. One team

Another group of Turkic infantry shouted and charged, stooping under the steel canopy and hurrying closer.

Under the cover of the canopy supported by this shield, the Turkic soldiers quickly rushed to the bottom of the western city with more ladders. The 50,000 Turkic soldiers who had originally attacked the well also received the order from Shibi, and immediately switched from a feint to a frontal attack. The Turkic soldiers, who were supported by the soldiers, many of them charged forward, while not forgetting to grab the wine bag and pour a few sips of spirits.

Li Shimin, who had just been promoted to the general of Zuotunwei during the day, was dressed in Mingguang armor and waved his one-arm to order, 1 "Catapult ready, a hundred steps ahead, fireball bullets are ejected!" Put! "Suddenly people though

A shield canopy was built, but most of the Turkic shields were wooden shields with raw cowhides and other animal skins on them. Moreover, most of their shields were small shields of cavalry, and this time in order to siege the city, Shibi ordered to make a lot of wooden ones

Shields, due to the rush of time, these shields are all wooden, and there is no méng even cowhide.

The sound of the "crackling and crackling" reed was continuous, as if the sun suddenly flew through the sky, and countless fireballs made of hay and oil fell from the sky with a terrible sound of wind, like meteors

Rain fell like rain in the middle of the dense shield phalanx. The Turks didn't even have time to dodge, and they didn't have any shields to resist this weapon that specifically restrained wooden shields, and large swaths of large wooden shields were hit by the fireball, and they quickly burst into flames

In the middle of the come, under the shield, there were tens of thousands of Turkic soldiers at this time, but all of them were shrouded in this sea of fire at once. The Turks threw away their shields one after another, and countless Turkic soldiers were ignited by the fire on the shields.

Compared with the actual killing effect, the shocking effect of this sea of fire is dozens of times greater. Many Turkic soldiers had seen such a fireball attack for the first time. Seeing the death of his companions so miserably and terrifyingly

Feeling controlled the minds of the Turkic infantry, who screamed hysterically, dropped their shields and scattered their heads, and the neatly arranged shields were torn apart under the dense blows of the catapults, and the fire was everywhere.

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Shi Bi faced the soldiers who turned around and fled back, and did not hesitate to order the golden wolf guards to release arrows.

A rain of arrows flew by, and the Turkic soldiers who rushed ahead fell one after another. At this moment, all the Turks finally understood that it was possible to die if they moved forward, but there was still a glimmer of hope to live, but retreat was certain death. Under the threat of death, the helpless Turks turned around again, carrying scimitars, holding small round shields, and carrying cloud ladders and rushing towards Yanmen City.

Before he strode to the catapult's position, he struck down a tribal chieftain in charge of the catapult and crossbow troops without saying a word. He personally began to organize catapults and crossbow troops to counterattack and suppress the catapults and archers on the city.

The moat under the city had already been filled with corpses, and countless Turks rushed towards the city in a frenzy. Under the personal command of Shi Bi, the Turkic catapults made a decision on the catapults of the Sui army at the head of the city

Point strike. Huge boulders flew through the sky, smashing the catapults on the city one after another. Even the beginning of the end of the very soon, with the other way to return the other body, one by one just made fireballs, with a dazzling tail flame,

smashed on the city of Yanmen.

A powerful archery force of 50,000 crossbowmen also began to wield its might. With the superiority in numbers and archery, suddenly the human bow and crossbow troops gradually suppressed the Sui army at the head of the city.

After losing the suppression of the Turkic siege forces by catapults and crossbowmen, the Turks frantically poured like ants, and ladders were re-erected on the walls. One after another, the fearless Turks poured into the city again and engaged the defending troops in a bloody hand-to-hand encounter.

From time to time, people fell to the ground with arrows, and the defenders lay in ambush with blood, and the battlements were covered with bloody handprints. Arrows flew in the air. The heralds ran up and down the city, shouting one after another, catapults and bows

The sound of the firing was continuous, shaking the eardrum with a faint pain. All the reserves were put into the fight, and even the inhabitants of the city joined in the fight. Although they could not draw their bows and arrows themselves, they formed various squads as warriors

They carried arrows and stones, lit cauldrons, carried buckets of hot oil up to the city, and poured them down head-on as the Turkic soldiers poured them head-on, and the Turkic soldiers who climbed immediately burst into flames and howled wolves.

The Yanmen Pass in the dark night has completely become a ghost domain, full of ghosts crying wolves, fireballs flying, limbs and bodies flying sideways, and blood splashing. At this time, Yanmen Pass is like a huge slaughterhouse, a huge meat grinder. Not only is it ferociously devouring the lives of the Turks, but it is also madly devouring the lives of the Sui army in the city.

The Turks are already attacking frantically, and there is no break at all. There were no more rounds of fighting at night, it was completely endless, and the responsibilities were endless. The battle was fought for four hours

Chen, all the people were exhausted, sweating and dry, dry and wet, and they didn't even have time to take a sip of water. Faced with such a critical situation, Empress Xiao couldn't sit still. One is worried about the emperor in the city, and the other is also

I feel that the city is in danger, and I should do my part.

Empress Xiao gathered all the palace maids and eunuchs who accompanied her, and together with Princess Izumo, she took the meals prepared by the people in the city and the prepared Qingshasha to the city, and was responsible for sending them to the city. On the top of the city, where arrows were flying, the queen and the princess also changed into the tight-fitting clothes they used to play polo, put on light leather armor on the outside, and brought food and water to the city.

When Empress Xiao handed a bowl of water to Emperor Yang Guang, who had been running in the city all night, Yang Guang couldn't help but be shocked. He didn't expect that the queen, who had been the princess of Liangguo since she was a child, and later became the princess of Sui, and had been living in the palace ban, would have such courage to go to the top of the city where arrows were flying.

Seeing the emperor who was still stunned with water, Empress Xiao reached out to help Yang Guang wipe away a trace of blood on her face, and smiled slightly, "Your Majesty, there is no fragrant tea to quench your thirst, but please use water." ”

Yang Guang looked at the queen with a smile, just picked up the bowl, but a frightened and inexplicable look suddenly appeared in his eyes, and with a wave of his hand, the bowl was scratched... Fall under the city in an arc...