Du Huan has been immersed in officialdom for a long time, and he knew what he should do when he came back from the Sui camp, it was impossible for him to persuade Qin Hongwu to surrender, but many of the middle-level generals under Qin Hongwu were from the four major families of Chen, Lin, Li, and Xu in Yulin County, and most of the soldiers were also from Yulin County. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Du Huan knew that Meng Shouyi had been in Yulin County for eight or nine years, and even his wife Chen was from the four major families in Yulin, so he came forward to persuade him to be more effective than himself, and he also promised Meng Shouyi that if he was Taishou, he would definitely recommend him as a county leader.

Meng Shouyi couldn't shirk both public and private, he and Du Huan discussed the details again, and then got up and went to his father-in-law's house, his father-in-law is called Chen Shouquan, who is the younger brother of Chen Shouda, the head of the Chen family, the first wealthy family in Yulin.

Seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages is the common nature of the Sui Dynasty family, whether it is the world's famous family, or the county, or the smallest county wealthy, all follow this principle, if this principle is violated, it will lead to trouble, family ruin, especially in troubled times, this is more precious than gold to protect the art.

The Chen brothers did not hesitate to agree to Meng Shouyi and Du Huan's request, and the two of them acted separately, Chen Shouda went to contact the other three families, while Chen Shouquan went to the army to find his nephew Chen Quan, Chen Quan was one of the three great martial arts generals under Qin Hongwu's account, commanding a thousand soldiers.

The night is quietly falling, the time has gradually come to a watch, Qin Hongwu is pacing back and forth in the big tent in the heart, he is Zhang Changxun's fellow countryman, but also Zhang Changxun's henchman, he can't choose to surrender to the Sui army, but follow Zhang Changxun, today at noon he has sent the eagle letter to Wuyuan County, to ask the lord how to deal with the arrival of the Northern Sui army.

If the lord asked him to retreat, he would not hesitate to lead his army west, but the problem was that the lord's reply was delayed, and he didn't know what to do.

In fact, Qin Hongwu knew in his heart that the lord's reply would not reach him until noon tomorrow at the earliest, and he had to choose it himself no matter what.

The defenders are only 3,000 people, the county town is no more than two zhang high, less than one zhang wide, the city has not been repaired for decades, where can withstand the attack of 50,000 troops, I am afraid that at most half an hour, the city will fall.

The withdrawal of the army is certain, the key is how to withdraw, whether to withdraw the army now or not to resist the withdrawal of the army, although it is the same withdrawal, but the nature is completely different, one is called abandoning the city and fleeing, the other desperately resists and retreats, Qin Hongwu slowly clenched the sword in his waist, needless to say that he also knows what he should choose?

Since the Sui army is going to attack the city early tomorrow morning, then he must deploy the defense now, thinking of this, Qin Hongwu shouted sharply: "Pass my order, and all Lang will immediately come to my big tent!" ”

The soldiers rushed away, and after a while, Lang General Jiang Yong and Fei Mingjing hurried over, there should be two Lang generals, one is Lang General Chen Quan, and the other is Lang General Xu Xiaoxian, both of whom are locals, tonight they took the initiative to ask Ying, one is responsible for guarding the city, and the other is responsible for patrolling the city, they should not be in the barracks, and they did not come so quickly.

After waiting for nearly a quarter of an hour, these two people still didn't arrive, Qin Hongwu suddenly became a little anxious, and scolded: "Damn, did these two get drunk and go to the toilet?" Why haven't you come yet! ”

As soon as the words fell, I only heard the loud drums outside, and the rumbling drums resounded throughout the city, and the three of them looked at each other, wondering what was going on?

Qin Hongwu strode out of the camp tent, only to see the Dongcheng Tower blazing, drums and shouts.

"General, I'm afraid the situation is not good!"

Jiang Yong and Fei Mingjing both realized something, and said to Qin Hongwu together: "Could it be that the Sui army attacked the city at night?" ”

At this time, several soldiers rushed over and said urgently: "General, Chen Quan and Xu Xiao have dedicated the city first, and the Sui army has already entered the city." ”

Qin Hongwu shouted, he suddenly understood, these two people had discussed it during the day, and they would take the initiative to ask Ying to guard the city and patrol the city.

Qin Hongwu was furious and shouted: "The whole army immediately mounted and retreated from the West Gate!" ”

Qin Hongwu was so angry that he dripped blood in his heart, so he wanted to lead the army to kill the whole family of these two people, but he had no time, the Sui army had already entered the city, and if he didn't leave, the whole army would be destroyed.

The three of them turned on their horses, and did not bother to wait for the whole army to assemble, and ran towards the west gate with hundreds of soldiers who had already come out of the camp.

The west gate of the city was wide open, but no Sui army entered the city, the three of them were pleasantly surprised, led hundreds of people to rush out of the city gate, and ran to the wilderness outside the city, but ran less than a hundred steps, only to hear a drum sound, fires everywhere, and the 10,000 troops who were ambushed outside the city had surrounded them.

At this time, a general wearing a silver helmet appeared from the firelight, it was Li Jing, the chief general of the Sui army, who did not want to capture Qin Hongwu in the city, so he laid a net outside the west city, just surrounding hundreds of them.

Li Jing brushed his beard and said loudly: "I am Li Jing, and General Qin still surrenders quickly?" ”

Qin Hongwu saw that thousands of crossbows around him were aimed at him, so he had to sigh, turned over and dismounted, knelt down and said: "Qin Hongwu doesn't know the might of the heavenly army, and he is willing to surrender to the general!" ”

Jiang Yong and Fei Mingjing saw that the main general had surrendered, and the two had to dismount and surrender, and hundreds of soldiers knelt on the ground and begged to surrender.

Li Jing was overjoyed in his heart, and he took Yulin County without blood, which opened a good start for his westward expedition.

Qin Hongwu immediately ordered the 2,000 defenders of Fuchang County and the two garrisons of Yunzhong and Liangu to surrender, and all parts of Yulin County tore off the Turkic wolf head banner and replaced it with the Qinglong Red Banner of the Northern Sui.

Li Jing immediately appointed Du Huan as the Taishou of Yulin County and Meng Shouyi as the county commander, ordered the two of them to mobilize the people to increase the height and thickness of the city wall, and ordered Huyalang to lead Wei Yincheng to lead an army of 5,000 to guard Yulin County.

Three days later, Li Jing led his army out of Yulin County and along the south bank of the Yellow River to Wuyuan County, thousands of miles away.

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Seven days ago, the Turkic army retreated westward, followed by the Sui and Tang coalition ranks, but seven days later, the Sui and Tang armies retreated eastward, while the Turkic army pursued behind.

The key is that Zhang Xuan saw through that the Turkic army could not cross the river and flee westward, and just wanted to lead himself to the west to be completely annihilated, so he stopped chasing and led the army back to Jingle County.

At the same time, Qi Liang, the general of the Northern Sui Water Army, led a hundred Worm Boats to the water surface of the Yellow River in Loufan County, completely cutting off the idea of Luo Khan crossing the river and retreating westward, considering that the cattle and sheep they carried could maintain the army for half a month at most, Chu Luo Khan broke the cauldron and sank the boat, desperate to kill back to Jingle County, no matter what, they wanted to fight to the death with the Sui army, which was their only hope of survival.

But Zhang Xuan refused to fight a decisive battle with the Turkic army at this time, he continued to lead the army to retreat south, and returned to the previous camp, the Turkic army still has 90,000 cavalry, Zhang Xuan is not sure of winning, so it is his choice to use his strengths and avoid weaknesses.

He wanted to use the high walls of the military camp to kill and wound as many enemy soldiers as possible and weaken the morale of the enemy army, until the last moment he would attack and completely annihilate this large Turkic army that invaded the south.

In the afternoon of that day, more than ten miles north of the Sui army camp, drums rumbled, horns whimpered, and 90,000 Turkic troops came to kill.

The Sui army has long been ready for battle, on the camp wall, 10,000 Sui troops stretched their bows and arrows, a sharp arrow arrowhead flashed in the sun with a cold light, nearly a hundred heavy trebuchets were also ready to shoot, and the long arm pole could swing a thousand forces at any time.

A thousand honeycomb heavy crossbows lined up in three rows, this is the Sui army's most mysterious and powerful long-range attack weapon, which will inflict a devastating blow on the Turkic cavalry at any time.

Surrounded by dozens of generals, Zhang Xuan stood on the camp wall and watched the Turkic army from afar, a contemptuous smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He turned back to the crowd and said: "If I am a Turkic Khan, when the Lou Fu Pass is cut off, I will judge the situation, give full play to the advantages of the cavalry, and pour troops to give the opponent a thunderous blow when the Sui army goes north, and will never give the other party the opportunity to build a wall. ”

Pei Xingyan said with a smile: "The marshal is right, the battle of the army lies in the development of strengths and avoids weaknesses, the strength of the cavalry lies in the impact and fighting, and the shortness of the cavalry lies in abandoning the horse to attack the city, this time the Turks are completely reversed, from the beginning of the attack on Mayi County, they have been constantly attacking the city, the cavalry has not been used once, and the Turkic defeat has long been doomed." ”

Fang Xuanling smiled slightly on the side: "The root is still in the Chu Luo Khan, this person is stubborn, suspicious and unwise, and his colleagues are indecisive, unkind and mean, and can't see through the overall situation.

And Chuluo Khan is blind, knowing that the Sui and Tang dynasties are fully prepared for war, and suffered heavy losses in Mayi County, he actually does not think about retreating north, but also continues to plunder money in the south, and makes mistakes again and again, this is not understanding the overall situation, not knowing how to advance and retreat, such a person is the master of the grassland, no wonder so many people are not convinced by him, and want to replace him, which is also God's favor for our Northern Sui. ”

These words lifted the spirits of the generals, and they all rubbed their fists, and they were eager to immediately go into battle and fight the Turkic army.

Zhang Xuan said lightly: "Until the Turkic army is completely exhausted, we will never leave the camp for a single step." (To be continued.) )