Outside the Yanmen Pass, a horse galloped quickly, only to see the cavalry with all the dirt, the face showed a look of panic, desperately whipping the war horse, knowing that the city gate of Yanmen Pass appeared in front of him, the knight on the war horse breathed a sigh of relief.

"Smack!" The knight finally fell off his horse, and the soldiers defending the city stepped forward, and someone brought water and poured it on the knight's face.

"How's it going, brother? Hold on? An older defender shouted.

"Return, report to the emperor, Tuli, Tuli 100,000, 100,000 troops are coming, coming." As he spoke, his head was tilted to the side, but he was a long-distance traveler and died of exhaustion.

"Quick, quick, close the gates and light the wolf smoke." The soldiers at the city gate reacted at once and shouted loudly. Several soldiers around him hurriedly carried the soldier who died of exhaustion inside.

After half a ring, the wolf smoke on the Yanmen Gate rose into the sky, and the soldiers on the Yanmen Gate went up to the city wall one after another, looking at the north nervously, and the mood was extremely complicated. Duan Zhihao, the guard of Yanmen Gate, strode up the city wall with a solemn face.

"General, we only have 1,000 soldiers and horses, and the opponent's army of 100,000 is almost impossible to hold Yanmen Pass. The adjutant general said with a flustered expression.

"Withdraw, where to withdraw? After Yanmen is Lou Fu, after Lou Fu is Taiyuan, how many soldiers and horses are Lou Fu, but only a thousand people, the rest of the soldiers and horses have already escorted grain and grass, after Lou Fu is where it is, that is Taiyuan. Where His Majesty's palace is located. The 100,000 troops of Tuli came at this time, and it was clear that they were directly killed in Taiyuan. Duan Zhihao shook his head and said: "We must buy time for the rear, and a thousand people can still fight for it by relying on Yanmen Pass for a day or two." Brother Wang, you lead your own soldiers and retreat with the people of Yanmen Pass! I'm here to stop the army of Tulli. ”

"General Duan." Deputy General Wang beside him was stunned, shook his head and said: "You are the main general of Yanmen Pass, if you lead the people away, it will be you." I am greatly gracious to Your Majesty. How can you leave Yanmen Pass? ”

"Haha, my Duan family started with my father to follow King Lanling, and then followed His Majesty, and received the great favor of His Majesty for two lifetimes, and now it is time to repay the favor. Even if he died in Yanmen Pass, he would not hesitate to do so. General Wang, send someone to tell Your Majesty! Whether it is Yanmen County or Loufu County, they can't resist the 100,000 army of Tuli. Duan Zhihao laughed and pulled out the sword at his waist. Snorted coldly and said, "I want to see if Tuli has two heads, it's really bold." He didn't take the death he was about to face in the slightest.

In fact, it is precisely like this, Yanmen Pass was not prepared, the Turks killed it two hours later, and in order to prevent Li Xin from having a chance to react, Tuli did not even set up a large camp, and began to attack Yanmen Pass, and it was 100,000 troops together, but in one day. Yanmen Pass was lost, Duan Zhihao and a thousand soldiers were killed in battle, but Tuli did not wreak havoc on Yanmen Pass, on the one hand, he didn't dare. He knew Li Xin's attitude towards the common people, once he ravaged Yanmen Pass, he would be Li Xin's enemy of life and death, and he would definitely seek revenge on himself afterwards. Second, he didn't have time either, after the army passed through Yanmen Pass. Directly into Yanmen, Loufu and other mansions have fallen, but in five days, they have been killed under the city of Taiyuan, and the soldiers are very fast.

Taiyuan City at night has fallen into darkness, Li Xin and Zheng Liwan have just fought a big battle in the palace, these days, Zheng Liwan is favored alone, so that she loves and fears, lying on the bed at the moment, like a puddle of mud.

"Your Majesty, let's invite the other sisters to come to Taiyuan!" Zheng Liwan finally opened her mouth to beg for mercy.

Li Xin was about to speak, suddenly his face was stunned, outside the dormitory, there was a burst of footsteps, the footsteps were very urgent, he turned over and sat up suddenly, quickly put on his clothes, and took the sword from the weapon rack on the side.

"Minister Chu Suiliang has a major matter to report to Your Majesty, hurry, go and report it quickly." When Chu Suiliang's voice came from outside, Li Xin breathed a sigh of relief, put down the sword in his hand, put on his shoes, went out of the dormitory, came to the main hall, and asked the chamberlain to open the door, only to see Chu Suiliang, Wei Yuancheng, Cen Wenwen and others standing outside one after another, with a panicked look on their faces.

"What? Is the day going to fall? Why do you all have such weird expressions? Li Xin asked with some surprise.

"Your Majesty, Yanmen Pass was lost, and the Raider led an army of 100,000 to raid Yanmen Pass, General Duan Zhihao was killed in battle, and now the soldiers have reached Loufu, presumably in two days, they will be able to arrive in Taiyuan, and your Majesty is invited to move Huoyi." Chu Suiliang fell to the ground and said loudly.

"Your Majesty, please." Wei Yuancheng and others bowed down and said.

"Tuli, 100,000 troops?" Li Xin's face was not good-looking, and he didn't expect that at this time, Tuli would actually intervene and say, "How much grain and grass has been sent out by the general." ”

"It can supply the general for a month, and if you can save some, I believe it will be more." Wei Yuancheng hurriedly said. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, deeply admiring Li Xin's foresight, the sudden killing of the Tuli army was not only against Li Xin, but also against Li Jing's 300,000 army, but Jieli and Tuli did not expect that Li Xin could actually let Li Jing's army store grain and grass for a month, even if the road was blocked for a month, there was no need to be afraid. Now only Taiyuan remains.

"You say, do you want to capture Taiyuan with an army of 100,000?" Li Xin returned to his normal appearance, and said with a smile: "I don't think he has that ability, he just wants to cut off General Li Jing's grain route, so that the Northern Expedition army can't retreat, or let me and Jieli both lose and lose, so he will just besiege Taiyuan." ”

Chu Suiliang glanced at Li Xin carefully, only to see Li Xin smiling, but the cold light in his eyes is enough to show Li Xin's dissatisfaction with this Tuli, Duan Zhihao can be said to be Li Xin's general, his father once followed the king of Lanling, and later a family of four, all followed Li Xin to fight in the south and the north, and made great contributions, but now he died in Yanmen Pass, which is enough for Li Xin to kill Tuli.

"Your Majesty, even so, it is better to be careful." Cen Wenwen said with some worry: "Your Majesty's siege of Taiyuan will definitely lead to turmoil in the court, and even the generals on the front line will have a bad impact. Your Majesty might as well leave Taiyuan, so that Tuli will have no target to attack, and he will definitely retreat. ”

"No, his goal is not only me, but also the grain and grass of Taiyuan City, if I leave Taiyuan, he will attack Taiyuan, how long do you think Taiyuan City's 30,000 army, the dragons have no leader, how long can it last?" Li Xin shook his head and said, "It's just a 100,000-strong army of Tuli, what is there to be afraid of." Recently, he came to the Central Plains, so let him go and never return. ”

In the face of the enemy, Li Xin has never forgiven them, Tuli is a villain, he formed an alliance with Li Xin in the front, and now he suddenly attacked, this is a betrayal of the alliance, how can Li Xin spare them.

"Please give an edict to Your Majesty, the fortified wall north of Taiyuan is clear, and any government soldier can kill any Turkic at will." Chu Suiliang took a deep breath and said loudly.

You must know that in Datang, in addition to the regular army, there are also government soldiers, or to maintain local law and order, and to exterminate bandits, their training may be worse than that of the regular army, but if they are all mobilized, it is also a quite large number.

"Yes. In the location north of Taiyuan, all the people of the Tang Dynasty who belong to me can kill any Turkic at will, take their heads, and reward them according to their merits. Li Xin nodded and said.

"Please send a decree from Your Majesty, send Huoyi and Hedong elite soldiers to help, although there are 30,000 soldiers and horses in the city, but it is okay to defend the city, but if it is attacked, it is less. The DPRK and China must send reinforcements as soon as possible. Chu Suiliang continued. It's just that the face soon showed a look of embarrassment, there are soldiers and horses in the court, but there are no generals who lead the army, or this battle is the last battle between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks, those generals have gone to the front line, wanting to follow the generals to establish meritorious deeds, where are the generals?

"It doesn't matter if you don't have a general, you just need to make a bigger noise, didn't Li Shimin scare off Shibi Khan like this back then?" Li Xin also understands the problem here, Li Jing's general camp, gathered 60% of the generals of the Tang Dynasty, even Qin Huaiyu and others are also with Li Jing, where are there still many generals in the court, or stationed at the border passes, such as Qin Qiong, Liu Heimin and the like, either have already marched south, or they have gone to Silla and other countries, except for Duan Qi, who is sitting in Guanzhong, there are really no famous generals.

"Your Majesty." Everyone agreed with Li Xin's view.

"This war is a war of aggression by the Turks, as long as we hold on to Taiyuan, the general doesn't have to worry about it, trapping Ketaiyuan, can we block the delivery of grain and grass? If the general can hold out for a month, he can completely transfer grain from all over the country and go to the front line in Dingxiang. The Turks' wishful thinking was inaccurate this time. Li Xin said with a smile: "I don't know what kind of mood Jieli Khan will be like once he knows that the general's grain and grass can be used for a month." ”

Everyone laughed out loud when they heard this, Jieli Khan's failure to use troops this time, the biggest problem was to guess Li Xin's trust in Li Jing wrongly, and gave Li Jing a month's grain and grass in one go, so that Li Jing had no worries about grain and grass, even if Taiyuan City was really besieged for a month, it could allow Li Jing to spend this month safely.

"Let the grain and grass transferred from Hedong and Luoyang be allocated to the general's camp, and I believe that there will be no problem on the general's side, so that Your Majesty only needs to deal with Tuli specifically." Wei Yuancheng thought for a while and said: "If you can't get it right, you can still plan it, and teach Jieli and Tuli a hard lesson." (To be continued.) )