The End of the Sui Dynasty

"Report!"

"Your Majesty, the King of Liao led 30,000 soldiers and horses from Laoxian County, all the way north along the Hutuo River, and the front is only a hundred miles away from the city!"

Above the Yanmen Gate, the flag of the Son of Heaven has been broken, and the pass is covered with corpses. Since last night, all the 50,000 cavalry of the Turks, who had previously moved south, have withdrawn to the city of Yanmen. With 50,000 fresh troops, but not willing to retreat, Shibi launched the last crazy siege.

After a night of fighting, the defenders in the city were almost dead, and even Yang Guang was forced to go to the city again to encourage the morale of the army. It was a long night, and Yang Guang could no longer stand, so he could only sit on a soft couch brought over and watch the battle. He couldn't remember how many times the Turks had attacked the city last night, he only knew that if the Turks continued to attack like this, without waiting for the sun to come out, even if Yanmen City was not breached, the people in the city would die.

Seeing that the Turks had dropped the corpses that were scattered all over the city and retreated like a tide, Yang Guang looked at the spy with some blankness.

At this time, the old man Su Wei was also wrapped in an arrow in one arm, and his silver hair hung down in a veil, unspeakably embarrassed. Hearing the spy's words, he squeezed the spy's hand and said loudly, "Is this true?" ”

"Report!"

Before the spy could reply, there was a rush of running from the bluestone steps of the wall, and another cavalry rushed to the top of the city.

"Your Majesty, the last general Hebei Pei Renji General vanguard subordinates, yesterday General Pei has led 100,000 soldiers and horses from Hebei out of Xihu, and the army has arrived at Yanmen Lingqiu, and within one day, the army can rush to Yanmen." Yang Guang's blank gaze had some brilliance, but he still didn't speak.

Pei Yun, who was in charge of the government and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, was also carrying a horizontal knife in his hand at this time, covered in blood.

After carefully looking at the Hebei soldier's military card, he said to Yang Guang excitedly, "Your Majesty, the reinforcements will arrive in the afternoon of the Liao King of Liao's 30,000 horses in Laoxian County, and the 100,000 troops of Hebei will arrive in the evening at most." We finally succeeded, and the siege of Yanmen was solved! ”

There was silence. When the officials and soldiers at the head of the city finally reacted, they erupted in a frenzied cheer. The good news spread like the wind throughout Yanmen City, and the tired and hungry soldiers burst into tears one by one. It's been almost a month, and they've been surrounded here by those damned Turks. In the past month, I had to face the Turkic army under the city every day, and I could only stay at night, and I didn't sleep a good night's sleep for so many days. Countless people died every day in the brutal siege battles, and no one knew how long they could hold out. The city was already running out of food two days ago, and everyone could only cook soup with the last bit of grain from the newly sprouted nèn buds of the trees in the city.

At this time, on Yanmen City, the 100,000 guards and 10,000 defenders who retreated into Yanmen City that day are now only more than 8,000 wounded soldiers and more than 20,000 men, women, old and weak who are already hungry and are about to get out of shape. Everyone was moved tears like rain, how many days and nights, they stood at the head of the city and looked into the distance, how much they hoped to see the banner of the Great Sui in the distant sky.

Yang Guang opened his mouth, his mouth trembled, and it took a long time before he spoke, "Reinforcements, reinforcements have really arrived?" ”

Yu Wenhua stood aside, his face full of joy for the rest of his life, "It's here, the 130,000 army has arrived." 、，

"Look, the Turks are back!" On the side of the city, a wounded soldier leaning against the battlements roared loudly, pointing to the Turkic tent in the distance with one arm.

"Hurry up, I'm going to go and watch it myself." Yang Guang lay on the soft couch and said weakly.

Yu Wenhua and Pei Yun hurriedly helped Yang Guang up and walked to the edge of the battlement.

Looking from afar, I saw that the Turkic camp had been opened at this time, and a cavalry of about 5,000 people had already set off first, and they were not heading for Yanmen City in the south, but heading straight to the north.

And the Turkic camp behind them was even more crowded, and the horses were neighing. More and more Turks are massing, and there are even Turkic soldiers dismantling their tents. The Turks really withdrew, and Yang Guang let out a sigh of relief. The Turkic Turks attacked so frantically last night, and it is estimated that they had already received the news of the arrival of reinforcements, so they wanted to storm one last time.

At present, Yanmen is especially in the hands of the Sui army, and the Turks, who are only less than 50,000 horses left in the city, dare not gamble anymore. If Yanmen cannot be captured within half a day, then the 30,000 Sui troops in Laoxian County will be able to arrive, and it is not known who will kill the deer at that time. …,

After another half an hour, the tents of the Turks had been dismantled, and the golden wolf of Shibi Khan had set out.

Shibi Khan, who was unable to ride a horse, sat on a carriage made by the Turks. Holding the arrow that the Kedun messenger had just delivered last night, and looking back at the Yanmen Pass behind him, Shibi Khan's heart was full of unwillingness and bitterness.

But the Dunqi arrow sent a message that Tiele and the Western Turks and Kumoxi's offensive was too fierce. At the beginning of the year, when the three tribes of Tiele sent troops, Kedun had sent him a deed arrow, but at that time Shibi did not plan to go back.

He sent several teams of heralds to give orders to the leaders of the Turkic tribes who stayed behind, so that they could resist the attack of the three tribes, and he concealed from the leaders of the various tribes in the army, preparing to break through the Yanmen first, capture Yang Guang, and then return to the grassland, and destroy the three tribes who dared to attack the grassland behind their backs.

It's a pity that the plan... Although it is good, it is finally unpredictable, and Yanmen City seems to be unsafe again and again, but in the end it is still in Yang Guang's hands.

He lost, and this time, he lost too much. Going south to Yanmen, although the 200,000 troops of the Great Sui were annihilated, the Sui State only injured some nothing, but did not hurt the fundamentals. But he paid too much price, 300,000 troops went south, and now there are only 50,000 left in Yanmen City, and 20,000 people in Mayi and Dingxiang. In this battle, 230,000 people were killed in the grassland and remained in the Central Plains.

It is themselves who really hurt the root, and the steppe Turks are the real losers.

At present, the three tribes of Tiele are attacking the grassland on a large scale, and in the case of the main army moving south, the grassland will definitely lose its troops and lose its vitality. But those three clans were not what he was most worried about at the moment, and what he was really worried about was the Sui Dynasty in the south.

Fighting a snake does not die, this is the real deadly. Although it annihilated the 200,000 elites of the Sui army and made Yang Guang disgraced, it had also completely angered Yang Guang, the emperor of the Sui State. Yang Guang's strength is still there, but the strength of the grassland is a big loss, if Yang Guang counterattacks the grassland this time, Shibi Khan doesn't know how to deal with it. Perhaps this will be the biggest crisis in the grassland, he did not expect that after 16 years of enduring it, the grassland will enter the Central Plains. However, he was bruised by the collision, and the accumulation of sixteen years of forbearance turned into flowing water, and from then on, the Turks had lost even the strength to subdue the surrounding three tribes, not to mention facing the Sui State of the Central Plains, which was full of boundless anger.

In the afternoon, the smoke and dust billowed from the south of Yanmen, and the army rushed all the way. First, a big Sui flag was waved in the wind, followed by a Yang flag. This road of soldiers and horses is the 30,000 horses of Liao King Yang*'s Cuixian.

On that day, Yang Guang returned to Yanmen from the north, and immediately sent Yang Lai to follow him to the cities of Yanmen with Dong Chun, Yu Juluo, and Tu Wanxu to gather troops and horses to strengthen the defense. Unexpectedly, as soon as he recruited 30,000 soldiers and horses, Yanmen over there was already surrounded by the Turkic army, and even his 30,000 horses were surrounded by 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Turks.

Although Yang* has 30,000 horses, and there are three famous generals of the Great Sui by his side. However, of the 30,000 soldiers and horses in the county town, less than 10,000 were government soldiers, and the rest were strong people urgently recruited from various counties, and they were not soldiers at all. These people went out of the city to fight with more than 10,000 elite cavalry of the Turks, and before they could reach Yanmen, they were already annihilated by the Turks.

So in the end, under the consultation of Dong Chun and others, he still stayed in Lao County and stuck to Yanmen. It was not until the besieging Turks had evacuated for half a day that they dared to lead their army north. If it weren't for the insistence of Yu Juluo and the other three generals, according to Yang*'s meaning, he would have to look again before he was willing to go out of the city.

When the 30,000 horses rushed to the city of Yanmen, they were all speechless in surprise when they saw the corpses everywhere that the Turks had not yet come to dispose of, and the Xiongcheng of Yanmen, which had been attacked for nearly a month and destroyed everywhere. No one thought that Yanmen City would be so miserable.

As soon as Yang*'s 30,000 soldiers and horses entered Yanmen City, Pei Yun had already rushed to the city, and without saying a word, he asked them to take out the grain and grass brought by the army immediately. When he heard that the city had been starved of food for several days, and that he could only feed his hunger with leaves for these days, even a veteran like Dong Chun was shocked.

When Yang Guang saw the four of Liaowang Yang* and Dong Chun, a jī movement flashed in his eyes.

"The King of Liao came just in time, and I will immediately order you to lead your 30,000 soldiers and horses to immediately pursue the Turks." Yang Guang couldn't wait and said, "No, there are 50,000 Turks, and your 30,000 people are not their opponents." I ordered Li Shimin, Yu Wenhua, and Sima Dekan to rule the remaining 8,000 soldiers in the city, and immediately join you in pursuing the Turks. ”

Dong Chun was shocked, he naturally knew what the number of these people he was bringing was, and he also knew what the situation was with the remaining 8,000 people in the city. At present, although the Turks still have more than 50,000 horses left, the Turks are all horseback people, and if they go out of the city to fight them in the field, they still attack more with less, so how can they win?

"Your Majesty, although the Turks withdrew, they took the initiative to retreat, and when they left, the soldiers and horses were in good order, and we dared to go out of the city to pursue, but I was afraid that we would fall for the trick of the beginning.

Your Majesty, if you want to take revenge on the Turks, sooner or later you will have a chance, and when you have rested, it will not be too late for Your Majesty to mobilize a large army to attack the steppe? ”

Yang Guang shook his head, grabbed the hand of Yang Lai, the king of Liao, and roared in a low voice, "Ashina." The last time Du Ji attacked the city, he once occupied the west city gate, and he sent a team of men and horses to take the opportunity to sneak into the city and kidnap your mother and the crown prince Yang Gao. Now, I want you to immediately lead your troops and horses to pursue the thief of Shibi, and save your mother and brother no matter what. Go, don't let him take your mother away anyway! ”！。