Chapter Forty-Six: The Siege of the City
It is said that since Deyong Zaji inherited the throne of the Tufan Empire, this ambitious king has always wanted to invade the land of Middle-earth, but because of his father's majesty, and because his own sister married King Yuwen, he has not dared to act without permission.
Since Yuwen's rebellion, Deyong Zaji saw an opportunity again, and he tried his best to support King Yuwen in his confrontation with the imperial court, secretly helping with soldiers, horses, and materials. But he saw that King Yuwen had been maneuvering with the imperial court in the Northern Regions, and he couldn't hold on. I don't know if it's because the disparity between the strength of King Yuwen and the imperial court is too great, or because King Yuwen can't rest assured of him, for fear of being attacked on his back?
He sent envoys again and again, and even sent a message to King Yuwen through his own sister Deji Yangzong that Tufan Kingdom was willing to form an alliance with King Yuwen to jointly attack the Central Plains, overthrow the Dafeng Dynasty, and avenge the blood hatred of the Yuwen family. In order to create a fait accompli, he even directly sent troops to help King Yuwen attack the imperial court troops several times. This move made King Yuwen very angry, he repeatedly reprimanded Deyong Khan, asking him not to send troops to participate in the internal strife of Dafeng Kingdom, he not only could not help him, but made him even more unable to wash away the traitor charges imposed on him, Deyong had to give up.
But since then, Deyong has had the intention of attacking the ** plain alone, and his empire can no longer continue to expand to the north, and north of the Moxi River is a vast extremely cold desert area, sparsely populated. His army has completely conquered other ethnic minority tribes in the surrounding area, forming a multi-ethnic state with a vast territory dominated by the Tufan people, and the national integrity of the Tufan people is unprecedentedly high, and the prosperity of the empire has begun to take shape. A few years ago, the first king Gongduo died, and at this time, the Central Plains Dafeng Empire fell into chaos due to the struggle for the throne, wars broke out, and the people were struggling to make a living.
Seeing that the time was ripe day by day, Deyong secretly planned to launch an attack on Gulu Pass ten days before the arrival of the rainy season in the grassland, and did not want to suddenly change, just five days before preparing to capture Gulu Pass, the imperial court suddenly sent troops to capture Gulu Pass, so that King Yuwen was defeated and fled south. Gulu Pass poured into the imperial court with an army of two or three hundred thousand overnight, which greatly interfered with Deyong's offensive plan.
Deyong was anxious about this matter, but unexpectedly, Gulu Pass suddenly sent 150,000 troops to the west, wanting to take advantage of the situation to wipe out King Yuwen and King Zhenxi, and the defenders in the pass were only 60,000 or 70,000. Therefore, Deyong decided to capture Gulu Pass as originally planned.
Early in the morning, a long convoy came to the north gate of Gulu Pass, a total of more than 100 large carriages, loaded with earth, stone and wood, led by more than a dozen Tufan merchants, rushed to the gate of the city.
An assistant leader who was in charge of guarding the north gate that day was urging the soldiers to check the people who had entered the customs. Since the capture of Gulu Pass, these court officers and soldiers defending the city found that the city and the northern regions of the peoples in the trade were frequent, and the buyers and sellers on both sides often entered and exited the gate, so they thought of exploiting it, and it was indeed quite abundant.
Seeing that this Tufan girl was fifteen or sixteen years old, with a delicate figure and beautiful appearance, he reached out and grabbed the girl's ass with bad intentions, and said with a lewd smile: "It's so warped here, is there something hidden, ha, ha, ha." ”。 Frightened, the girl screamed and ran away.
The co-leader was still entangled, but suddenly saw this long convoy coming in the distance, and he was secretly happy in his heart, thinking that he could make a little money today.
The co-leader immediately led people to stop the businessmen led by him, and said: "What you are transporting, you must be checked at the customs." ”
The Tufan merchant led by the man walked out of a big man, stepped forward and said: "All the goods are earth, stone and wood and other building materials, please your lord, but it doesn't hurt to check." ”
The big cars were lined up in turn, and after checking one, they were let in, and after two or three cars were in, the assistant leader came over and said to the big Han businessman: "Five lines of money for a car, I see that your fleet has to cost hundreds of dollars, I don't know if the preparation is sufficient, if it is not enough, the rest of the cars will come again tomorrow." ”
The big man was taken aback and asked, "How noble, my car is loaded with civil engineering and building materials that were transported to rebuild the palace at the request of the noble dynasty." ”
The co-leader said disapprovingly, "Then did you give us these things?"
"Of course not, there will be a discretionary fee. ”
"That's terrible, since we want to make money, we have to pay taxes, and what we collect is the taxes and fees for customs inspection, and we must not disobey. ”
The big man had no choice but to say nothing. After all the vehicles were inspected and entered the city, the dozen or so merchants who led the team parked the last two carriages at the gate, waiting for the big man to settle the accounts with the co-leader.
After the big man took out some silver from his bosom and handed over the money to the co-leader, he asked the last two carts of timber to be unloaded from the carts and stacked them next to the two city gates, and said to the co-leader: "My lord, if the two carts of materials are repurchased by the lord to other merchants, they will cost at least more than 100 pieces of money. ”
The co-leader nodded with a smile and waved for the few of them to leave. And they hurried into the city, and walked in the direction of the king's house.
In other words, after the people escorted a hundred carriages to the construction site of the palace, they immediately instigated the on-site construction workers and said, the court dog official, just arrived here and began to exploit my Tufan people, and also burned the princess of the Tufan Kingdom in the palace, Deji Yangzong, this hatred is not shared, everyone fights with them!
After that, they took out a lot of long and short weapons from the cart and distributed them to everyone, and these four or five hundred people killed all the twenty or thirty officers and soldiers at the scene, shouting: "Kill the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, and drive away the Han people in China!"
After General Fang Ding learned of the situation, he quickly sent 5,000 officers and soldiers to suppress it, but unexpectedly, the earthworkers at the scene relied on the repaired base of the palace as a cover, and made wood and earth and stone into wood, and the officers and soldiers who besieged the scene were beaten to the ground. The key is that the Tufan people who fought on the spot were not like ordinary migrant workers at all, they were all like brave and good soldiers, and the officers and soldiers of the imperial court were not opponents at all.
Fang Dingchao was shocked when he heard the news, and hurriedly transferred 10,000 horses from each of the eastern and western cities to support. As a result, before the men and horses arrived here, the city gate on that side was already in an emergency.
When the assistant leader of the north city gate was thinking about selling the timber to the merchant, he suddenly looked up and saw that in the distance in the dust, countless fast riders rushed over and rushed straight to the city gate. When he reacted, he immediately ordered his soldiers to close the city gate and prepare to meet the enemy.
Who knew that he turned around and was dumbfounded, the soldiers were hurriedly carrying the two piles of wood blocked at the foot of the city gate, those woods were really big and heavy, and it was difficult for several soldiers to shake one, where could this be moved, seeing that the enemy cavalry had rushed to the front, the assistant leader was unprepared, so he happily mounted his horse and fled to the city.
In the blink of an eye, 100,000 horses and horses of Tufan Kingdom have rushed into Gulu Pass, and under the leadership of 20,000 cavalry, a burst of fast horses and swords killed the officers and soldiers of the imperial court. After General Fang led his troops to respond to the battle hastily, he hurriedly led the remnants to flee from the south gate, and there were more than 60,000 officers and soldiers in the city, but less than 50,000 escaped, all the way to the south.