Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 589 Yanmen

On May [-]th, the third day of the Turkic war.

Standing on the city wall in soft armor, Li Shan rubbed the sweat on his forehead, turned his head and looked around, with a little more confidence in his eyes.

Today the Turks attacked the city again. Yesterday, it was thunderous and rainy at the beginning, and then it was more or less serious, but today it was completely put on airs, and it stopped when it was about 150 steps away from the city wall... The range of the crossbow arrows. It's quite clear.

Then Li Shan, who had the operation until midnight last night, touched the city wall, analyzed the situation, explained the situation of the battle, logically, and finally concluded that Jieli Khan must give up and go around Guji Town to attack Mayi or Yanmen Pass.

When Li Shan was explaining, the faces of the surrounding people were all black.Regardless of his dignity, Wang Junhao tore Li Shan's clothes several times... But!
but!

It was just after noon that the Turkic army really bypassed Guji Town and swept southward, and the two banners marking Jieli Khan and Turi Khan gradually disappeared from everyone's sight.

Of course, not all the Turks went south, and there were more than [-] cavalrymen left around to stare at Guji Town... The [-] cavalry were defeated by hundreds of Tang cavalry before, which obviously made the Turks wary.

However, relying on more than [-] cavalry to break through Guji Town is out of the question. If it wasn’t too close to Yanmen Pass, Jieli Khan might kill his carbine at any time. Both Zhang Shigui and Xue Wanche had the confidence to defeat these ten thousand Turks... After all, Tangnu's lethality was too strong.

During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong in the original time and space, Hexi Jiedu envoy Xiao Song dispatched [-] crossbowmen to defeat [-] Tubo troops by relying on Jiancheng. The deputy general Wang Zhongsi personally led [-] crossbowmen to raid Tubo Zanpu and beheaded [-] Tubo troops. The rest of them went back to Beijing to watch.

Even Zhang Shigui was thankful that Li Shan managed to transfer the thousand Tang crossbows from Chang'an in advance, ordinary generals would not have to think about it, even Li Daozong, the general manager of Bingzhou, only had a few hundred of them.

The danger in Guji Town was relieved for the time being. Li Shan thought in his heart that he was not afraid of problems at Yanmen Pass, but he was not sure about Mayi... The key is that the Turks sent more than [-] troops this time, and Liu Shirang, Qin Wu Tong Tong can still be stable, but can those Yuan Junzhang's old ministries be stable?
It has been half a year since he took office in Daizhou, and Xue Wanche, who had been to Mayi with Li Shan, also thought of this, "Your Highness, over there in Mayi..."

"Jieli Khan and Tuli Khan both took the route of Guji Town, and this time they are marching south again, and they will not go to Mayi." Li Shan comforted Xue Wanche and at the same time comforted himself, "The one who attacked Mayi should be only a partial army... ..."

Zhang Shigui said expressionlessly: "I'm afraid it will be difficult for Mayi to come to help. Later, I will send my guards out of the city to investigate the battle situation in Mayi."

"But it's really hard to send troops to Guji Town..."

"Nowadays, we can only stick to it and wait for help. Although Su Dingfang is young, he has the ability to lead the army, and the Turks are not good at attacking the city. As long as they don't break through and enter, the situation can be dealt with."

In these few words, Zhang Shigui has clearly explained the situation of the battle. Now let's stop thinking about making achievements. If we want to survive, there is only one way to go. Su Dingfang firmly guards the Yanmen Pass so that Jieli Khan's [-] troops cannot invade East Road.

In this way, after all, with an army of more than [-], the lack of food and grass supplies prevented the Turks from fighting a protracted war. If the stalemate continued, Jieli Khan would inevitably retreat.

As for Guji Town, will Jieli Khan, who has returned to the army, spend time and endure the inevitable heavy casualties to pull out this nail under the premise of lack of food?
Not very likely.

Xue Wanche added: "Fortunately, His Royal Highness knew Yuan Junzhang's old department before, and now Mayi has enough grain and grass. If there are more Yuan Junzhang's old troops in the city, they surrender the city, and the Turks can get a lot of food and grass."

"That's right. Now that the Yiyang County Lord is stationed, even if the city is destroyed, he will set fire to the grain and grass." Zhang Shigui nodded and said with a smile, "Your Highness is very skilled. Now, in the wasteland of thousands of miles in Shuozhou, Jieli Khan brought an army of more than [-] troops to the city. Come on, the food and grass must be in short supply.”

Indeed, it took Li Shan more than half a year to collect and relocate the scattered people in Shuozhou and Yunzhou to Senei. As a result, all the grain and grass in Mayi and Guji towns had to be supported on behalf of the state, but at the same time, it also caused the Turks to almost find people in Shuozhou. Not much supplies.

After thinking back and forth in his heart for a long time, Li Shan felt relieved. Unlike Zhang Shigui and Xue Wanche, he had strong confidence in Su Dingfang's military capabilities.

Uh, although in history Su Dingfang had been idle for a long time after leading three hundred cavalry to break through the Turkic king's account, he was not able to occupy a high position until the reign of Emperor Gaozong and truly became a commander, but the young version of Su Dingfang should at least hold Yanmen Pass.

Turning his head and looking in the direction of Yanmen Pass, Li Shan said softly, "I hope that Yanmen Pass doesn't want..."

In the middle of speaking, Li Shan suddenly stopped talking, and looked around, not to mention Wang Junhao and Xue Wanche, even Zhu Wei and Zhang Shigui were vigilant.

Li Shanqian laughed a few times, and closed his mouth obediently.

At this moment, on the road between Mayi and Yanmen Pass, several cavalrymen were galloping wildly, and the sound of heavy hooves echoed in the open field.

In the yellow sand rolled up by the horse's hooves, the leading knight tried to open his eyes wide and let out a low cry, "I hit it!"

Several other people looked up, and the small dots scattered like black lines were rushing from north to south, no need to guess, they must be Turkic scouts.

"The army head goes first!"

Five or six knights pulled out their long swords and rushed straight to the north, just to fight for a little chance for their companions to escape.

Turkic marches have never had a clear route, only a general direction, and the biggest role played by Turkic scouts is not to investigate the military situation, but to cover the battlefield.

Before the army arrived, the Turkic cavalry spread out in all directions with dozens or hundreds of people. It was hard to catch a few, but the Turkic people would not let them go, leaving dozens of people to deal with it, and the remaining dozens of cavalry returned. Chase eastward.

The companions who stayed behind to block the enemy were all dead and wounded, without armor to protect themselves, without crossbows to restrain the enemy, and even without long spears. The Turkic cavalry spread out and only used bows and arrows. After a while, each scout had more A few long arrows.

Getting closer, getting closer, the only remaining scouts leaned down as much as possible, staring closely at Yanmen Pass, which was not far away, and heard the whistling sound of long arrows piercing the sky.

With a muffled grunt, a long arrow accurately hit the scout's shoulder. At the same time, at the corner of the valley to the east, more than a hundred cavalry circled out. The two Turkic cavalry turned over and fell off their horses.

"Mayi battle report..." the scout shouted.

The big man's face was livid, and he waved his hand to be protected by his personal guards. He put down his big bow, picked up the horse lance, and went straight to the west to kill. Turned over three Turks.

The more than a hundred guards behind them either bent their bows and shot arrows, or charged into the battle with spears in their hands, and soon dozens of Turkic cavalry were defeated.

Looking from a distance, the scouts who blocked the enemy had already fallen off their horses and died, and their horses were empty... The big man gritted his teeth, not daring to delay, and quickly turned his horse's head back to Yanmen Pass.

"Brother Zhonggui, you have worked hard." Ma Sanbao, the guard of Yanmen Gate, personally led his troops to meet him at the gate of the city.

Daizhou Simaer Zhu Yichen, who took the initiative to ask Ying to leave the pass to meet the scouts, forced a smile, "Where is it?"

"Sent to the wounded barracks." Ma Sanbao extended his hand and said, "Su Dingfang and Li Demou have already rushed over."

At this time, the defenders on the city wall shouted in unison, Erzhu Yichen and Ma Sanbao looked at each other, and quickly stepped up to the top of the city, looking from a distance, the black spots like ants on the north side grew from small to large, densely packed into the sky, piercing the sky, The sound of horns could be faintly heard.

"The Turks are coming."

(End of this chapter)