The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 777 Discord
Jishi Pass, when Langri Zanpu led an army to attack again, Li Shimo had already made enough preparations.If you look around, there are traps everywhere outside the Jishi Pass, and there are man-made bowl-sized horse traps everywhere. Once a galloping horse's hoof falls into it, it will definitely break.

As the guard of Jishi Pass, Li Shimo also realized the importance of Jishi Pass, so he built Jishi Pass at Liangshan Pass before the arrival of the Ertu Allied Forces.His commanding ability and personal force may not be strong, but he has a profound family knowledge, has read military books, and is proficient in various famous battle cases. Therefore, he is one of the few generals who are good at defending in the Sui Dynasty.

When Yang Tong defeated Langri Zanpu and led the main force westward, Li Shimo saw Langri Zanpu rectify the army and select and promote generals to occupy the vacant positions. Therefore, let the soldiers go out of the city and make all defensive preparations.

Jishi Mountain on the left of Jishi Pass and Xiqing Mountain on the right are one of the important gateways for the Northwest Plateau to go south and north. Once this pass is broken, there will be a flat river from Jishi Pass to Liangfeichuan, and the entire Heyuan County will be reduced to a battlefield. Facing the Tubo cavalry, it will be impossible to defend against, and the flames of war will soon reach Dafeiling, the southern fortress of Xihai County.So the importance of this barrier is self-evident.

However, the location of Jishi Pass is too tricky, sandwiched between two mountains, the north of the pass is a wide grassland, and the south of the pass is a narrow and long natural pass. The city used troops on a large scale.Even if Langri Zanpu had a million soldiers, the number of troops that could be put into the battlefield each time was only ten thousand at most, and it was still a dense lineup. As long as the soldiers in the city aimed a little, the arrows would definitely hit the enemy.

Faced with such a hedgehog-like fortress, it took Langri Zanpu two full days to clean up the traps, fill up the horse pits and ravines, and the worst thing was to close and place more than a dozen powerful army-breaking crossbows. Well, just the fact that this evil looking thing is placed there, exposing the spear-like crossbow arrows, is enough to make people feel a sense of fear.

In fact, the direct lethality of this army-breaking crossbow is not much, and it is not unbearable considering the number of the two coalition forces, but every time it is fired, it will always cause a bloodbath. A two-spit coalition army wearing leather armor was cut in half. The shock it caused could shatter the morale of the coalition army. Countless soldiers just looked at the huge broken army crossbow and crossed arrows on the city, and their hearts would be blown away. Unspeakable fear arose, and only one thought remained, that is, 'The Sui army has such terrifying weapons, how can we fight this battle? '

Because of this, Li Shimo easily blocked the coalition forces outside the pass by relying on more than a dozen broken army crossbows that cast a psychological shadow on the coalition forces.

In just three days, the coalition forces had some conflicts due to the battle of life and death.

This afternoon, after the end of the one-day killing battle, a Tuyuhun general in Murong Xiaojun's big tent uttered his voice of dissatisfaction: "Khan, it's not that I want to destroy the anti-Sui alliance, it's just that I don't understand .Why should we listen to him, Langri Zanpu? Our soldiers are fighting bloody every day, what are we for?"

"Yes, Khan. These days we are venting our anger, and we have already lost more than ten thousand soldiers."

"Including Murong Kunji's 3000 people, we lost a total of more than 1 people. On the contrary, we were ridiculed by the Tubo barbarians and even forcibly took our military rations. Why did Langri Zanpu treat us like this? ?" Murong Xiaojun's younger brother, Murong Ce, blushed and was angry loudly.

The grievances in the hearts of many generals also burst out because of today's heavy injuries.

Facing the generals' questioning, the sullen Murong Xiaojun did not give an answer. In fact, he was more upset than anyone else.He could see that Langri Zanpu's brother-in-law was uneasy and kind: on the one hand, he used the Sui army to consume Tuyuhun's strength; Let his confidant General Shangzhen be the grain supervisor, that’s all, but the scope of supply of these grains and grass is not limited to this side, there is also the western battlefield, which is full of Tubo’s army, and the place is also Tubo’s place, that is, It is said that Langri Zanpu used more than half of Tuyuhun's grain and grass to feed the Tubo army. Once it was consumed, Tuyuhun would have to bear half of the army's grain.

Faced with Langri Zanpu's behavior, Hugh said that the soldiers under his command were dissatisfied, and Murong Xiaojun himself had the idea of ​​leaving.

but……

No.

First of all, the homeland of Tuyuhun was lost. Their current territory was robbed of Dangxiang. There are many Dangxiang tribes who want to stand up and become masters. However, Tuyuhun’s national strength alone cannot suppress it, and it needs the power of Tubo to suppress it.

Secondly, Murong Xiaojun took over by force and killed Murong Fuyun who had ruled Tuyuhun for decades. There were many people in Murong Xianbei who were dissatisfied with him.

Third, after the First World War, they had already turned against the Great Sui, and the weak Tuyuhun wanted to take advantage of Tubo's power.

Fourth, the Tubo army is now on the border of Tuyuhun. If he leads the army to turn around and leave, it will be an act of turning against Tubo. I am afraid that the first person Langri Zanpu will kill is his sister-in-law Murong Xiaojun, not Fight the Great Sui.

To sum up, Murong Xiaojun is now riding a tiger, he can only suppress all dissatisfaction, bite the bullet and follow Lang Ri Zanpu all the way to the end.If he retreated in anger, more than half of the generals in the tent would immediately turn around to meet Langri Zanpu, crying and begging to be his sister-in-law.

Glancing at the high priest Sani, he shook his head, his eyes were deep, and he seemed to be saying: They participated in this anti-Sui war to reap benefits. Now that they have paid so much, if they retreat at this time, then Shouldn't have come in the first place.

"No need to say more." Murong Xiaojun waved his hand, stared coldly at the generals who provoked trouble, and said: "Ben Khan said a few days ago that anyone who destroys the alliance relationship will be killed without mercy. Have you all forgotten?" Yet?"

"The words of the Great Khan, the last general and others dare not forget for a moment, but they went too far." When all the generals were silent, Murong Ce, who supported Murong Xiaojun's supremacy, said loudly.

"The matter has come to this point, there is no retreat." Murong Xiaojun's expression eased a little, his eyes swept everyone for a week, and he said calmly: "The Sui army is extremely powerful, and it cannot be defended by one country. Parry one or two, if our army retreats, Tubo's situation will be even more unfavorable, if Tubo is defeated and retreats back to the country, I, Tuyuhun, will definitely become the first choice enemy of the Sui army, then what should we do?"

All in all, it is not the first time that they have suffered a big loss in the hands of the Sui Dynasty. First, they were wiped out by Yang Guang. The four thousand miles from east to west, and two thousand miles from north to south were all owned by the Sui Dynasty. After that, they flourished for a while. The Sui Dynasty fell into a state of collapse. Busabo Khan Murong Fuyun went north again, occupied the old place, and restored the Tuyuhun Khanate. The momentum of the great victory wiped out Tuyuhun again, and the Tuyuhun headed by Murong Fuyun was terrified and retreated to the south of the Kunlun Mountains in a panic, but they were unwilling to fail, so they took in Xue Ju's son and made troubles on the Silk Road. Nearly [-] people were killed by Xue Wanche, Yu Chigong, and Niu Jinda's [-] coalition forces, and Murong Fuyun donated countless property to save Tuyuhun.When it comes to the number of troops lost in the hands of the Sui Dynasty, Tuyuhun is no less than the Eastern and Western Turks

Everyone remained silent. Everyone's understanding and fear of the power of the Sui Dynasty can be said to be deep in the bone marrow.They may have selfish motives, but if Tuyuhun dies again, they will definitely not have a chance to stand up again. In this case, what's the use of selfishness?
"The Great Khan is right. The most urgent task is to work together with Tubo to defeat the Sui army. If our coalition forces fail due to temporary gains and losses, Tuyuhun will be severely retaliated by the Sui army, and the consequence will definitely be that the country will not survive." Sani Seeing that everyone had nothing to say, he said: "Furthermore, Tubo lost 3 horses and dozens of generals in one single battle. The lost troops were more than double ours. What else do you have?" Easy to say?"

Everyone was enlightened when they heard the words. Everyone only looked at their own losses, but they forgot that on the day of the decisive battle, Tubo and the others suffered much more.

If I think about it, I feel much more comfortable.

(End of this chapter)