Huaihuang City is the base camp of Yi Feng, here was one of the six frontier towns of the Northern Wei Dynasty a hundred years ago, and it has long been deserted and dilapidated in the past hundred years, once only the ruins remained, and it became the lair territory of horse thieves in the green forest. It is the easy wind that rejuvenates Huaihuang and prospers again. As the base camp of Yi Feng's careful management, although it is not as magnificent and majestic as Taiyuan, it can definitely be called a fortress of a heroic city. At first, it was connected with three cities, and later Yi Feng built four more cities to connect with it, and finally formed a pattern of six cities surrounded and guarded the middle city.

The fortifications of the seven cities of Huaihuang are very sufficient, the six outer cities not only have the six-zhang high city walls and deep moats, but also the urn city, the arrow tower, the corner tower, the enemy platform, etc., and even the six outer cities are connected with the rammed earth city wall of four zhang, and the whole arch of the middle city is guarded, forming a city within a city.

Yi Feng knew that Huaihuang was in the plug and lacked a dangerous terrain, so he put a lot of effort into the city defense fortifications, and even the seven cities were built in a prismatic shape, making the city defense completely free of dead ends. In particular, a large number of ballistae and stone-throwing vehicles were arranged on the cities, and a large number of bows and crossbows equipped by the defenders made Huaihuang Liancheng have a strong long-range strike ability, providing another layer of insurance for the defense of the city.

At the beginning, Yi Feng never thought that he would be able to 'recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors' to become the emperor's grandson, and then become the king of Zhao, and finally become the emperor's grandson, let alone that the emperor would divide the eleven states east of Taihang from the state capital to him. Yi Feng couldn't have thought of these at the beginning, in his plan, plugging the wilderness is his foundation, he occupies this land and holds this land. It started here. Unexpectedly, the emperor finally gave him better territory. If it weren't for this Turkic invasion, Yi Feng would have moved his base camp south to Youzhou, Guannei.

And now. He didn't have time to do that, first he had to beat Nili.

After Nili Khan bypassed Usha Castle, he simply bypassed the military forts that made him unappetizing like a hedgehog. led his more than 40,000 soldiers and horses, all the way east to the Huaihuang City. When Nili saw the Huaihuang Qilian City, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it is worthy of the Han city-state, even if it is just a plugged city, it is so magnificent. If you want to compare the Gaochang Kingdom of the Western Regions that is subservient to him, the royal city with a population of only 20,000 is really different. Although the Seven Cities of Huaihuang are more majestic and strong than the Wusha Five Castles, they are definitely more difficult to attack. But Niri was still excited. Seeing such a magnificent city, he also believed more and more in the rumors that had been circulating before about how rich Huaihuang was. If you break through this Seven Consecutive Cities, you can't imagine how much rich loot you can get.

It's just that after the excitement, Niri Khan discovers something that is not very pleasant.

He did not see the army of his son Daman, nor the army of his uncle Kuhezhen, nor even around Huaihuang, on the entire dam, he did not see any other Turkic soldiers at all.

This made Nili happy, but also cast a shadow on his heart.

Niri decided to besiege Huaihuang. Continue to send people to Daman and Kuhezhen, and ask them to lead the army over and attack Huaihuang City together. He wanted to completely surround Huaihuang City, but Huaihuang City was connected to seven cities. Six outer cities connected to a huge castle, and the six outer cities were equivalent to a gate of this huge castle. And the six cities had three gates inside and outside the great wall, and there were eighteen gates in the six castles outside the walls alone. Enclose every gate. Eighteen troops were divided, and there were only more than 40,000 men left under him. It's too fragmented. In the end, Niri had to choose to enclose the two castles to the south. Guard the six gates.

The Han army in Huaihuang City just stood on the high city wall, looking at Nili and his party coldly, they closed the city gate, neither fighting, nor panicking, and even heard the laughter and laughter coming from time to time in the city. Huaihuangcheng's reaction made Nili a little angry and felt that he was being slighted. He ordered the soldiers and horses guarding the castle in the southwest to launch an attack, but the attack only lasted less than half an hour, and Nili had to hastily collect his troops, and then let his subordinates go to the city with white flags, carry away the hundreds of corpses, and return to the tent gloomily, and finally had to admit that Huaihuang City was indeed stronger than Wusha Castle, with higher walls, deeper trenches, and more defenders on the city, and more fierce crossbow machines. If you want to take this city, you must wait for the soldiers and horses of Daman and Kuhezhen to come and join you.

At dusk that day, from the direction of Wild Fox Fort in the south, some graceful black shadows began to be found.

The sentinel rangers who had come out of the distance ran back, blowing horns as they went, which were warning horns. This made Nili look bad, and the warning horn indicated that it was not his son or Kuhezhen's soldiers and horses, but the reinforcements of Huaihuang City.

The joint camp sounded the alarm bells, sounded the horns, and the cavalrymen stepped on their horses, slowly walked out of the camp, and assembled in formation on the flat grass.

A qiē is ready to be in place.

The array was silent, only the wind blew the flags, whirring.

The reinforcements were approaching, and they could already be seen with the naked eye.

The first reinforcement to appear in Huaihuang's field of vision was the sixth battalion of the Eagle Yang Cavalry led by Li Jing, but now Li Jing is no longer just a battalion general, he commanded not only 3,000 people when he went south, but a full 15,000 cavalry. In order to reward Li Jing for his outstanding performance this time, Yi Feng broke the rules, based on the 3,000 Huaihuang cavalry of the sixth battalion of the Yingyang cavalry, plus 12,000 elite hussars who were the best at riding and archery selected from the 70,000 Turkic cavalry, together formed the third cavalry corps of Huaihuang, which was specially given the military number Hussar Army. This is a different cavalry from the Huaihuang cavalry, although there are 3,000 Huaihuang cavalry, but after combining with 12,000 Turkic cavalry to form an army, this cavalry has always been a light cavalry force, their main weapon is a saber, with the Turkic cavalry is the best speed to assault the opponent's defense line, more to perform reconnaissance, search, pursuit, patrol and reinforcement and other tasks. Yi Feng established this hussar army to use the fierce flexibility of the Turkic cavalry to make up for some shortcomings of the Huaihuang cavalry, and each used its strengths. And because of Li Jing's excellent sports tactics this time, Yi Feng specially asked him to serve as the commander of this special light cavalry army.

As the third cavalry army of Huaihuang with an official military name, the hussars had a treatment that other Turkic armies could not match, and they were basically the same as the treatment of the Huaihuang army. Yi Feng even specially equipped them with sabers. and the special uniforms of the Huaihuang Army, where fierce Turkic warriors wore elaborate military uniforms. As well as a uniform saddle bridle, ornate capes. The shiny boots, especially the steel plate chest armor of the Tiger Emblem that the Turkic warriors had long envied, immediately changed the whole thing, from barbarism to might.

Now, Li Jing has returned with this hussar army that has just been formed and is adapting along the way.

They straddled tall horses, armed with sabers, spears, crossbows, and riding bows, and after crossing the Wild Fox Ridge, they swarmed in. Unfolded a long crescent moon formation, the giant beast that seemed to open its mouth wide, wanted to swallow them under the Huaihuang City in one bite. The cloud-like soldiers and horses, the sword mountains and sword forests, the sea of flags, and the heavens and the earth seem to have changed color. Although there were only more than 10,000 horsemen, the momentum made Nili, who had nearly 50,000 soldiers, feel completely suppressed in terms of momentum.

After Li Jing arrived, he did not immediately attack. Nor did he immediately lead his troops into the city.

He stopped ten miles from Huaihuang City and began to camp as if no one was around.

At this time, the Turkic leaders such as Nili who were watching the battle all discovered a situation, the arriving Sui army. There seem to be a lot of Turkic people. Although they were wearing the uniform and battle uniform of the Huaihuang Army at this time, the horses were also clean, and the boots were shiny. But this still does not hide the fact that they are Turkic. Moreover, Nili also discovered that these were not the herdsmen of the small Turkic tribes who originally lived near Huaihuang. They were Turkic warriors, if he was wrong. These people should be the subordinates of their sons Daman and Kuhezhen. But what he can't figure out now is that these people have actually changed into the military uniforms of the Huaihuang Army, waving the banner of the Han Army, and followed the Han generals to deal with him.

What the hell is going on, and where is his son Daman now?

Night fell, but it wasn't dark.

Because the city of Huaihuang is above and below, there are fires everywhere, the torches on the city are lit, and the bonfires under the city are piled up, this night, the whole Huaihuang City is as bright as day.

On this night, more Han troops kept coming.

The second, third, fourth

When he left Huaihuang at the end of last year, he only brought more than 1,000 guards, and now he returned to Huaihuang, but he brought back 100,000 soldiers and horses. Among them, 70,000 Turks surrendered their troops, and the emperor pulled out 10,000 soldiers and horses to Yi Feng, plus the soldiers and horses brought from Youzhou, and 100,000 soldiers and horses went out of the fortress to reach the dam.

On the Wild Fox Ridge, countless torches appeared on this night, forming one after another ribbons of light, like a huge fire dragon winding, circling from the far south, and finally reaching the city of Huaihuang.

Niri didn't sleep at all that night, and neither did the more than 40,000 Turkic troops under his command, and no one could sleep.

The arrival of one Sui army after another almost never stopped, and the soldiers and horses gathered more and more, and gathered more and more, and finally gathered no less than 100,000 soldiers and horses. Under the desolate city, it has long become a sea of stars, and countless bonfires are like stars hanging in the dark night sky. They waited for the day, their clothes were not undressed, their knives were not left by their bodies, and they even led their horses to prepare in array all night. At first, he didn't want to run, but then it was too late. There are Sui troops everywhere inside and outside the city of Huaihuang City, where he runs, as soon as he runs, the Sui army will inevitably pursue, the enemy is outnumbered, and the most important thing is that they bypassed Wusha Fort before, bypassed the Huaihuang Army town forts, and now they want to run, then the town fort that was bypassed at the beginning will become a roadblock, a lifeline.

When the Sui army arrived no less than 100,000, Nili finally knew that there was no chance to run again. And when he saw that most of the Sui troops who came under the banner of the Sui army and wore Huaihuang military uniforms were Turkic faces, he became more and more desperate, he had already guessed a possible fact, but he refused to admit it.

When dawn came, Nili and other Turkic troops could clearly see how huge the soldiers and horses were coming. In the early morning mist, countless soldiers and horses were arranged together, and the temporary camp was very simple, and the tents in the simple camp were arranged in patches, like clouds in the sky.

There are more than 10,000 people, boundless. And 100,000 soldiers and horses, laid out on the grassland, it is even more boundless, at a glance, full of soldiers and horses.

In the camp of the Han army, Yi Feng's Chinese military camp was set up on a dirt slope.

The morning breeze was blowing, and although the morning in April was still a little cool, it was not cold but cool. Yi Feng, Yang Xiong, Li Min, Yang Yichen, Liu Wenjing, Li Jing, Dou Jiande, Qin Qiong, Lai Cheng and other generals climbed high and looked into the distance, and looked coldly at the more than 40,000 Turkic troops that had shrunk into a ball.

"Looking at their line-up, I can guarantee that if we make an all-out attack, they will immediately collapse, and Niri may be like his son Daman, leaving his men and horses and running away alone." It was Li Min, the governor of Xuanzhou, who was given the post of governor this time, and it coincided with the large-scale invasion of the Turks, so he originally thought that he would have the opportunity to go to the battlefield, but who would have thought that he had almost never been out of the military capital, and then the battle had already been won. When his father was the governor of Youzhou, he was attacked by the Turks, and his father was surrounded while patrolling outside, and finally died in battle. He was bent on one day leading the army out of the fortress and sweeping the Turks, and this time he finally had a chance, but he didn't expect him to play at all. Now, with tens of thousands of Turks in front of him, this may be his last chance.

"Your Royal Highness, I ask Your Highness to give me a chance to lead troops into battle, a meritorious meeting to avenge my father and make contributions to the country."

Yi Feng shook his head, "If you can not fight, of course it is the best." It's better to send someone to persuade you to surrender first, maybe Nili can understand the stakes. ”

Even if the attack is 100% successful, if it is not necessary, Yi Feng is not willing to risk the lives of the soldiers to make such a casual decision. Every soldier is precious, and it is naturally best if you can surrender without a fight.

"Report!"

A horse galloped from the south.

"Report to His Royal Highness the Taisun, there is an urgent letter from Youzhou, and 100,000 are urgent." The knight arrived and presented an urgent letter.

Yi Feng took it and opened it.

The more he looked at Yi Feng's face, the stricter he became, and after reading it, he stood there, frowning tightly, without saying a word.

"Your Highness, what's the urgency?" Liu Wenjing asked.

Yi Feng let out a long sigh, and then said word by word, "Your Majesty has died!" ”

"What?" Several things rang out almost at the same time, and everyone's tone was full of disbelief and shock.

"His Majesty, Emperor of the Great Sui, has died!" Yi Feng repeated, his voice also full of shock. Emperor Yang Jian, the emperor of Sui who had been in charge of the world for five years in history, actually died in the nineteenth year of the emperor's reign, five years earlier than the original history. (To be continued......) R1292