Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 592

May [-]th.

This is the fourth day since the Turkic army attacked Yanmen Pass, and the fighting was extremely tragic.

Tuli Khan watched from a distance, and felt a thick blood mist shrouded around Yanmen Pass, and countless corpses piled up, which made people feel terrified.In fact, the grassland tribes are very aware of their weakness of not being good at attacking cities and villages, and Li Shan has spent so much effort in Yanmen Pass. He has everything from food, grass, troops, and weapons. He even set up a wounded barracks, and even made some things that transcended the times. Well, the difficulty of defending the city is actually not that great.

Li Shan knew very well in his heart that Yanmen Pass was the bottom line, and Shuozhou was a bonus item.

To put it bluntly, if Mayi falls and Zhang Shigui is killed, Li Shan will not be blamed, but once Yanmen Pass is breached, the efforts of the previous half a year will be nothing but a passing cloud.

To put it more directly, Shuozhou is related to whether Li Shan can continue to gain Li Yuan's trust, and even to a higher level, while Yanmen Pass is related to whether Li Shan will lose power... Once he loses power, will Pei Shiju let go of this opportunity?
During the siege two days ago, the outside of Yanmen Pass became a meat grinding ground. Su Dingfang flexibly chose the timing and dispatched powerful cavalry out of the city, or sent out the city with nimble infantry soldiers, smashing the Turkic siege again and again.

The fresh flesh and blood made the vultures hover in the air for a long time regardless of the threat of the archers. The Tang army could still show some humanity, and sent them back to the city to wound the barracks if they had the opportunity, while the Turkic side could only watch helplessly. Struggling to die gradually.

Therefore, from the third day onwards, no matter how intimidating Jieli Khan was, his subordinates were unwilling to make any further efforts to die.

In desperation, Jieli Khan could only attack the city with the king's tent soldiers mixed in to ensure the strength of the attack.

Tuli Khan stood on a high place and whispered: "Xi Ren again?"

"It's still the same Ruo Dun, and built a lot of carriages." The association rate around me was a little nervous. It had been three days since the siege, and even the king's tent soldiers had entered the battle. Naturally, there was no way to resist here. Five hundred elites were also sent this time Dismount and fight.

Uh, the grassland soldiers are strong in cavalry combat, and there is really no advantage in infantry combat and siege, which is why the Central Plains set up checkpoints here thousands of years ago.

Yang Guang of the former Sui Dynasty was besieged by 15 Turkic soldiers in Yanmen, but he was finally able to break through. Isn't the key to breaking the city?

Seeing more than a hundred horse-drawn carriages slowly marching towards Yanmen Pass, Tuli Khan was also a little nervous, because not a single arrow or stone fell from the city wall.

In the past two days, the people of the Xi tribe have spent a lot of thought on building a new wooden cart, which can not only cover the stone and arrow branches, but also accommodate more soldiers. The front of the cart is also equipped with a huge log for hitting the door. The most important thing is that the body is covered with cowhide. Drenched with water, it can resist flames for a short time.

Tuli Khan didn't know what Jieli Khan wanted to do, but one thing was certain, if he broke through the Yanmen Pass, he would not be able to compete for a short time, or maybe he would never be able to compete with the opponent.

Su Dingfang, Ma Sanbao and others at the top of the city looked coldly at the gathered wooden carts, and the guards around them either held jars, or threw away their horses and pulled out their long knives.

Ruo Dun, who was hiding in the wooden cart, was a little proud. His design was to avoid the fire. It seemed that Tang Jun had nothing to do, and the gate of Yanmen Pass was not too strong. It would take fifteen minutes to break open.

Su Dingfang turned around and looked down, and Li Kai below made a ready gesture.

With an order, hundreds of jars were dropped, hitting hundreds of large and small wooden carts, and countless semi-solids were sprayed out.

Ruo Dun smelled a pungent smell, and just like the first day, a large number of torches were thrown on the city.

Almost the same situation reappeared, and the Turkic elite who were more than 100 steps away watched the raging fire burning, and a large amount of pungent black smoke rose.

Some people refused to believe this scene, because it was they who poured the bucket on the wooden cart with their own hands.

Several Turks stepped forward suspiciously, and the Tang army on the city wall did not shoot arrows. Although the flames were not as big as the first day, the high temperature, pungent smell and intense black smoke easily drove them back.

The Turkic Khan and the association rate from a distance were not very clear, but the Turkic elite nearby could vaguely see that in the black smoke, Tang soldiers beat down the city wall with ropes.

The billowing black smoke smelled of blood, the sound of violent coughing, and the urgent screams of dying could be heard endlessly.

Unable to hold on anymore, hundreds of soldiers mixed with Xi Ren fled out of the black smoke. Although there was not much fire on their bodies, some fell down without taking a few steps, and some were dazed and turned towards the city wall. go.

At this time, the Tang army on the city wall didn't do anything to watch. They smashed stones and rolled trees, and arrows fell on the heads of these unlucky ones.

On the top of the wall, Ma Sanbao covered his mouth and nose with a damp cloth, "What the hell is this?"

Su Dingfang hesitated for a while, "Hui Ren has many methods, unpredictable..."

Li Kai nodded in agreement, looked at the fleeing Turkic man, and said casually, "Couldn't it be learned from Lingnan again?"

Nowadays, there is a legend in Chang'an that the former emperor was fatuous and immoral, and a large number of talented and learned people were exiled to Lingnan... However, Gao Shilian, who has this experience, has some objections.

A few people were talking at the top, and Tuli Khan in the distance scolded his mother angrily. He sent in almost all of the [-] elites, and less than [-]% of them came back alive.

Surprisingly, Jieli Khan was very quiet, not only did not punish Xiren leader Ruo Dun, but nodded in satisfaction.

The rate of association can't help but slander, are they satisfied with the warriors buried by Tuli Khan?

At this time, the sun was already setting, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone outside Yanmen Pass, reflecting a bloody light.

Jieli Khan thought in his heart that although the fierce attack for three days had little effect, the city gate has not been broken so far, and he only managed to climb the city wall twice and was quickly driven down.

However, in three days, the Turkic troops lost more than [-] troops, and the guards at Yanmen Pass also suffered hundreds of casualties. After all, the Turkic soldiers fired arrows frantically to cover the siege, so it is impossible that there would be no casualties. The soldiers were dispatched, and among these people, there were not a few marksmen.

Thinking of this, Jieli Khan turned his head and looked to the south, with longing and greed in his eyes...

Desire to set up is just an excuse, and the useless son finally provided an opportunity... Jieli Khan thought in his heart, if it was not for his son's suicide, it would be very difficult for him to coerce Tuli Khan, and then the next thing would be very difficult up.

However, what Jieli Khan judged was that Tuli Khan probably had some kind of connection or agreement with Li Shan.

Therefore, Jieli Khan is not going to let his nephew participate in the next action... To be precise, the next step is to pick the fruits of victory.

(End of this chapter)