Luo Shi's confidence was in a hurry, running all the way to the army, it has been twenty days, the Turkic army has always refused to attack, and the offensive and defensive battle of Hekou City is extremely tragic, the Sui army has lost more than 20,000 people, although the city has not been breached, but if the confrontation with the Turkic army continues, all the people are afraid of the news that the city will be broken one day.

Luo Shixin did not fully represent himself, he was Yang Yuanqing's junior brother, and dozens of generals found him and asked him to persuade the coach to stop the confrontation and break the deadlock.

The soldiers of the military government did not stop him, and directly let Luo Shixin enter the yamen, and in the courtyard, Yang Yuanqing was practicing his sword, the sword was shining, impervious to wind and rain, and more than a dozen personal soldiers stood on both sides.

Luo Shixin walked to the side of the courtyard, suddenly the sword light flashed, a sword light cold stabbed at him, Luo Shixin flashed sideways, pulled out the knife and slashed at him, the guards on both sides exclaimed, Luo Shixin realized that something was wrong, his body turned back, and jumped out of the battle circle.

Yang Yuanqing put away his sword and said with a smile: "Why don't you fight?" ”

"You're the manager, I don't dare to commit it." Luo Shixin glanced at the pro-soldier who was glaring at him.

Yang Yuanqing smiled slightly, handed the sword to his soldiers, walked to the stone table, took a sip of tea slowly, his unhurried made Luo Shixin quite anxious, and hurriedly stepped forward and said: "The soldiers are very worried about Hekou City, it has been twenty days, and everyone is afraid of the city breaking." ”

"There is no way to do that, the Turks have blocked us in Dali City, and we have no way to rescue us." Yang Yuanqing smiled faintly.

"But ......"

Luo Shixin blushed and said: "You can break this deadlock, and you can't continue to confront each other." ”

"Break?"

Yang Yuanqing glanced at him and asked with a smile: "Tell me, how to break it?" ”

Luo Shixin lowered his head and muttered, "You are the manager, why do you still ask me." ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled and patted this junior brother on the shoulder, "I'm going to the observation tower, you come with me!" ”

The two turned over and rode towards the lookout tower together, although Luo Shixin did not have Yang Yuanqing's ability to command the overall situation, he was not stupid, he also understood that Yang Yuanqing knew everything in his heart, Yang Yuanqing's unhurried showed that he was confident, and Luo Shixin was not in a hurry.

"Senior brother, I heard that there are five tiger generals in Fengzhou?"

Yang Yuanqing smiled and nodded, "In the past, the Sui Army had the saying that there were ten major generals, and the Fengzhou Army was not exempt from vulgarity, but this is the selection of the soldiers themselves, and it has nothing to do with me, nor does it have anything to do with the government, the first of the five tigers will be Pei Xingyan, who is excellent in martial arts, known as the spear and hammer, and the archery can be ranked third in Fengzhou, so it is recognized that he is the first; The second will be Su Dingfang, who has excellent sword skills and second archery skills, but he is slightly inferior in strength, so he is behind Pei Xingyan; The third general is Yang Wei, known as the desperate San Lang, who has been instructed by his master in martial arts, has a wonderful hammer technique, and is born with divine power, but he is not as good as Yang Sien in terms of martial arts, but his popularity is far better than Yang Sien, who has a gloomy face all day long, everyone likes him and pushes him as the third; Yang Sien is the fourth, known as the first general of Modao, invincible; The fifth is Gao Zikai, Gao Gong's nephew, after the famous family, the martial arts are strong, and the archery can rank fourth in Fengzhou. ”

"What about you, senior brother?" Luo Shixin asked curiously.

Yang Yuanqing laughed, and a guard next to him couldn't help but interject: "The manager is handsome, not a general." ”

Luo Shixin's face turned red, he glared at his own soldiers fiercely, and said again after a while: "I don't know how many big brother Qin can rank?" ”

Yang Yuanqing really likes this junior brother, simple and straightforward, but he is a little cautious, obviously he wants to know how many places he can rank, but he moved Qin Qiong out, Yang Yuanqing teased him: "This is the ranking of the soldiers themselves, I never ask, if Qin Qiong can have the opportunity to show his superb martial arts, maybe he will be renamed the Six Tiger Generals, and Qin Qiong may be able to enter the top three!" Niu Jinda is also good, you can fight. ”

After speaking, Yang Yuanqing whipped his horse with his hand and ran towards the Qionglong Mountain in front of him, Luo Shixin's face was swelled more purple than a pig's liver, that year in Qi County, he and Pei Xingyan had a martial arts competition, and now his martial arts have improved again, even the master is not his opponent, why doesn't the senior brother mention himself, no! He must find Pei Xingyan to compete again.

"I forgot to tell you."

Yang Yuanqing shouted from afar: "This ranking is based on the ability to kill the enemy, and the Fengzhou army is the most disgusted with infighting. ”

……

There are two watchtowers in Dali City, one on the top of the stone hill behind and one on the outer city, and the watchtower in the outer city has been destroyed, leaving only one on the top of the stone hill.

Yang Yuanqing took Luo Shixin from the plank road to the top of the mountain, this lookout tower is actually also a beacon tower and an alarm platform, stationed ten soldiers, itself is not high, only three floors, made of bluestone, when the weather is fine, you can see the Yellow River from afar.

When the two of them reached the top of the tower, their vision suddenly opened up, and the large Turkic camp was clearly placed in front of them, some of which were deployed inside the outer city, while most of the Turkic army was deployed outside the city of Dali.

Yang Yuanqing pointed at the two Turkic battalions with a horsewhip and said to Luo Shixin: "Do you see the strength of the enemy army?" At most, there are only 1340,000, in the past 20 days, they attacked Hekou City, and nearly 40,000 died, so the Turkic army added up to less than 200,000, for me, these troops are still too much, I must press them below 150,000, let their 300,000 iron cavalry lose half, so that they will kill them, let them remember for a long time, and more importantly, the strength of the Utu Department will be balanced with them, and the Utu Department will be able to contain the Turks for me, so that they can not go south, so that I have no worries. ”

Luo Shixin nodded silently, he understood what Yang Yuanqing meant, this kind of overall thinking is not something he can have, Luo Shixin sighed lowly, "But we also suffered heavy losses." ”

"There's no way around this."

Yang Yuanqing also said helplessly: "Kill three thousand, self-loss eight hundred, this is still a win, not to mention that we are far from winning, but not defeated, the Turkic army of 300,000 invaded Fengzhou, no casualties is impossible, Dali City killed and wounded more than 6,000 people, Yongfeng City, including the militia army, a total of 12,000 people were killed, and Hekou City has been killed more than 20,000, which adds up to almost 40,000 people, and the Turkic army's death ratio is one to three, it is already very good, if it is not for the offensive and defensive war, we are afraid that we have already been wiped out." ”

Speaking of this, Yang Yuanqing's eyes became brighter, his eyes were full of confidence, he stared at a small black dot flying in the sky in the distance, the small black dot was getting closer and closer, and several pro-soldiers shouted, "Chief, it's Xinying!" ”

A vigorous eagle began to hover over Dali City, and Yang Yuanqing smiled and said to Luo Shixin: "Aren't you looking forward to breaking the deadlock?" The moment you've been waiting for has come. ”

……

Yang Yuanqing carefully read the eagle letter sent by Pei Renji, Li Jing led 10,000 cavalry and 4,000 Mo sword army from Lingwu to support Hekou City, the Turkic camp was burned, and was forced to retreat ten miles, and the decisive battle between the Sui army and the Turkic army in Hekou City was about to begin.

Yang Yuanqing immediately ordered, "Pass my order, the army will withdraw to the inner city and give the middle city to the enemy army!" ”

Although there were countless soldiers who couldn't figure out why the governor wanted to give up another city, the Sui army defending the middle city slowly withdrew from the drawbridge back to the inner city, and the fifty heavy trebuchets were destroyed again, along with the suspension bridge leading to the outer city wall of the middle city was also demolished.

In the afternoon, the abnormal behavior of the Sui army was discovered by the Turkic army, and the outer city lord Meng Da immediately sent someone to the main camp to inform Shibi Khan, and Du Ji hurried to hear the news.

Hundreds of Turkic troops surrounded the Khan to check on the situation of the Sui army hundreds of paces away, and Du Ji's brows furrowed, he was thinking about Yang Yuanqing's intention to do so.

The second prince, Tong Lifu, said: "Khan, I think the purpose of the Sui army is to drag us in Dali City and prevent us from supporting Hekou City. ”

Du Ji nodded slowly, "You're right, Yang Yuanqing is letting Xiaoli lure us, he wants to drag us in Dali City, and they have Eagle Letter, the news is faster than us, if I guess correctly, there should be a major change on the side of Hekou City, I suspect that the reinforcements from Lingwu County have arrived." ”

Speaking of this, Du Ji's eyes were also worried, the Turkic army in Hekou City had already been exhausted after twenty days of siege, if the Sui army reinforcements and the defenders of the city combined to attack the Turkic army, would the aggressive army be able to withstand it?

Du Ji immediately said to Tong Lifu: "You can lead the 30,000 cavalry of your headquarters to come to the aid of Du Bi, even if you can't capture the city of the estuary, you must ensure that his army retreats in its entirety." ”

"I know, let's go!"

Liversheth turned away, and at the moment he turned, an imperceptible color flashed in his eyes, and he whipped his horse and headed towards the camp.

Monda next to him was extremely excited: "Khan, the Sui army has only one defense, we can attack in an all-out way and take the inner city." ”

"No way!"

Du Ji categorically denied, "Zhongcheng is too narrow and easy to be attacked by the Sui army, and more than 10,000 Xue Yantuo troops were burned to death in Zhongcheng by the Sui army." ”

"So what to do?" Meng Da was in a hurry, he was afraid that he would not be able to kill Yang Yuanqing, and finally the army withdrew to the grassland.

Du Ji stared at the crescent-shaped Midcity, he knew that the inner city was half a foot shorter than the middle city, he sneered, he wanted Yang Yuanqing to lift a stone and hit his own feet.

Thinking of this, he immediately said to Meng Daling: "You transfer 10,000 people to the middle city, give me to shoot arrows at the inner city wall day and night, and suppress the Sui army for me, and the remaining 30,000 people use the stones from the demolition of the city to lay a gentle slope of the upper city, so that our trebuchet can go up to the city, and it must be completed before dawn." ”

A sinister sneer appeared on Du Ji's face, he imagined the grand occasion of a hundred trebuchets smashing the inner city wall tomorrow, did Yang Yuanqing think that one more city would be able to hold him back? Did he think he really wasn't going to attack the city? He was so wrong, and he would regret his clever decision!

The Turkic army began to launch an offensive, 10,000 Turkic troops went up to the city to occupy the city, and began to fire arrows into the inner city, the overwhelming rain of arrows made the Sui army unable to gain a foothold in the city, so they had to withdraw, at the same time, 30,000 Turkic troops piled up the gentle slope of the upper city with stones that demolished their houses.

Night was falling.