The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 808

In front of Jishi Pass, corpses were strewn all over the field. After a day and a night of fierce fighting, more than [-] soldiers of Tuyuhun had died. From the front of the pass to the narrow passage, dense corpses were piled up, and the sticky blood merged into a A series of streams flowed to the low places.

However, after discussing with Murong Xiaojun, Langri Zanpu gathered elite soldiers and launched a fierce offensive against Jishi Pass day and night. There was no temptation from the beginning to the end. From the beginning, he pressed the whole line regardless of casualties, making the defenders gasp There is no chance.Fortunately, the surrounding shepherds also know that Jishiguan is broken, and they are the first to be unlucky. Even if they descended from the "same root and same origin" Tuyuhun, Murong Xiaojun may not be able to control the Tubo people at this moment. Therefore, regardless of gender, everyone One after another came to help the Sui army guard the pass, collect stones, and help carry the supplies for the city defense. Some young and strong even went to the top of the city to help the Sui army fight.

Born in the borderlands, the common people generally have this kind of consciousness, not for the Great Sui, nor for some illusory righteousness, but for fighting for themselves and their relatives, even if it is a deadly battle, they cannot retreat. It's over.

Among them, the old Su Sang, who rewarded the army and received courtesy from Yang Tong, played an extremely important role. He had a great prestige here. The various tribes were so busy that their feet didn't touch the ground. By the morning of the third day, he had recruited more than 4000 young and strong.

Although he was exhausted, the survival crisis faced by his tribe and his strong sense of mission left him no time to rest. He rode to Jishi Pass with the recruited young men on horseback, and shouted to Zhou Shaoze who was directing the young men to carry supplies: "General Zhou, how are the supplies prepared? Is it enough?"

"Don't worry, Mr. Su! As the frontier of the war, Jishi Pass has accumulated a lot of weapons and armor. During the decisive battle outside Jishi Pass that day, our army wiped out another [-] Tubo people and captured a lot of leather armor and weapons. Shiguan is not bad for weapons and equipment.” Zhou Shaoze had just repelled a wave of enemy offensives, so he came to count the supplies, and he was pleasantly surprised by the result.

"That's good." Susan breathed a sigh of relief. The shepherds all have bows and arrows and swords. He is not worried about having no weapons, but he is afraid that there is too little armor. The casualties will be great.

"Old Su, how many people have you recruited?" Zhou Shaoze asked.

"There are more than 700 people." Susan said quite proudly: "I heard that stones are used to defend the city, and tens of thousands of herdsmen were mobilized to pick up a lot of big stones at the foot of Jishi Mountain, and they would use horses to pull them."

"Mr. Su is really amazing." Zhou Shaoze was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear. He glanced at the herdsmen and asked, "By the way, Mr. Su, is there anyone who takes the lead?"

"Yes, yes." Su Sang yelled, and seventeen strong men walked out immediately, and said with a smile: "They are the number one warriors in each ministry, everyone listens to them. But some don't understand Chinese, General Zhou has Tell me about the arrangement, and I will translate it for them."

"Okay." Zhou Shao asked the young men of each department to form seventeen teams headed by their first warrior, and asked them to lead weapons and armor in units of teams, and asked the political commissar of the Military Affairs Department to give them instructions on what to pay attention to when defending the city. matter.

After the confession, Zhou Shaoze went to the top of the city again.

The city is full of chaotic shepherds, and many people are busy changing their armor. Everyone holds spears, bows and arrows on their backs, and various styles of war knives on their waists. Some people even hold shields.

Zhou Shao saw that these people were full of energy, without fear, and not as chaotic as he imagined, and even had the spirit of veterans, he was slightly puzzled.

Li Shimo saw his doubts and explained: "The grassland can pull out millions of people who control strings at every turn, referring to all their young and strong herdsmen. Bandits and bandits fight, and those who can survive are strong fighters, but they don't know the art of battle formation, and they don't have any military discipline, so they are more chaotic when fighting."

"With a little training, you will be a strong soldier, which is much stronger than us." Zhou Shaoze said with emotion.

"That's true." Li Shimo nodded, and said to Zhou Shaoze who hadn't slept all night: "You can rest for an hour or two."

"General, I'm fine, I can hold on." Zhou Shao said with a smile.

Looking at this enthusiastic and heroic young man, Li Shimo showed a smile. Zhou Shaoze and his son Li Zhi had a very similar temperament, both full of vigor, and both were generals in the Xuanjia Army, the mainstay of the Sui Army in the future.

While the two were talking, the Second-Tu Allied Forces began to attack the city again. Their offensive formation was attacking with almost no gaps, like a stormy sea. .

Fortunately, with the help of the shepherds, otherwise the defenders of Jishi Pass would not be able to support them now.

Time, now, is the most precious thing for both Li Shimo and Lang Zanpu.

In order to break this passive deadlock as soon as possible.

Langri Zanpu personally led the army to monitor the siege situation. It has been less than a month since the war started, but the Tubo elite soldiers have already lost [-] to [-] people. However, he paid such a high price, but he got nothing. However, Yang Tong's coming from the west not only caused turmoil in the whole army, disrupted all his plans, but also seriously threatened his safety.

He was not only worried about the situation here, but also worried that Yang Tong would send a large army to attack Luoxie. Since Yang Tong had already wiped out the two main forces of Lun Keer and Lu Dongzan, there was no reason for Yang Tong to send a partial division to attack the empty forces. More logical, if this is the case, how could Xiangxiong, who has already sent troops, not send troops to join the battle?But at this time, Yang Tong came from their retreat, and now he has three choices:
Either immediately withdraw the troops and go south, and make a detour from Tuyuhun, but it is too late. When he reaches the logical place, he may have already been defeated, and the entire Tubo land is in flames of war. Maybe the Sui army led by Xiangxiong, The coalition forces of the Daughter Kingdom have encouraged the Tubo opposition forces to wait somewhere for him to throw himself into the trap.

Either march westward and fight Yang Tong decisively. If you really want to do this, the tragedy of Lun Ke Er and Lu Dongzan is very likely to repeat itself.

Either break through Jishiguan, send troops to the interior of the Sui Dynasty, and exchange the peace of the entire Hexi land in exchange for the withdrawal of the Sui army.

Compared with the first two options, breaking through Jishi Pass is undoubtedly the best choice, and it is also the easiest and closest choice to success.

"Jishi Pass must be taken before noon, if you can't take it, you will kill the commander of the ten thousand, the commander of the thousand and the commander of the hundred."

Seeing that the attack of Tuyuhun soldiers slowed down before the pass, Langri Zanpu gave the order to die.

"Obey." Wanfu Chief Jiabulu swung his saber, and tens of thousands of Tubo soldiers rushed towards Jishi Pass.

With the sound of horns, the Tubo elite soldiers arrived in front of the pass. The passage in front of the pass was narrow, and there was no room for the army to line up. They could only advance in columns. When they were a hundred steps away from the pass, the army stopped advancing.

They have made dozens of simple siege ladders with big trees before, and everything is ready, just waiting for the general to give the order to attack the city.

Jiabulu has no experience in siege, but after so many days of desperate attacks, he has learned a little bit.Moreover, he found that although the city was densely covered with guarding soldiers, compared with the previous Sui army, these people looked very chaotic and completely different from the regular Sui army. He knew that these were herdsmen recruited temporarily by the Sui army.

As a member of the nomads, Jiabulu knew that the shepherds are capable of fighting alone, but together they are not good enough. This is a godsend opportunity, and he immediately ordered: "First, thousands of people, as long as the Guancheng is captured, The wealth and women in the territory are up to you to seize!"

With an order, the trumpet whimpered, and two thousand elite Tubo soldiers, holding shields in their hands, rushed towards the Guancheng like a sea tide. Ten households, the wealth and women of these thirty households belong to him.It is this rule that has always inspired the fighting spirit of the Tubo soldiers, and they scrambled to be the first in the war.

At the city gate, Li Shimo kept watching the Tubo army who replaced the Tuyuhun people. When he saw them running thirty steps away, he slowed down and began to move forward carefully, forming a shield formation with the shields in his hands.

There are [-] shepherds defending the city of Jishiguan, and [-] Sui soldiers crouching under the battlements with their crossbows in their hands.

The enemy army was getting closer and closer, and within range, Li Shimo gave an order: "Archers shoot arrows!"

Thousands of shepherds fired at the same time, and the arrows in their hands flew away, hitting the enemy crowd from the front and the side. The power of the bows and arrows was not great, and only a dozen Tubo soldiers were shot down to the ground in this round of shooting.

The Tubo soldiers were afraid of the Sui army's crossbows. Seeing that the bows and arrows were weak and could not cause too many casualties in three consecutive rounds, they immediately became more courageous, accelerated suddenly, and charged forward frantically with the siege ladder on their shoulders.

At this time, the crossbows of the Sui army hidden under the battlements began to show their power. Everyone's arrows were like locusts, and 300 people were divided into three teams to shoot in turn. Groups of Tubo soldiers fell down screaming, and the enemy behind rushed forward again. In the sound, the Tubo soldiers followed suit, and the Tubo soldiers behind them used bows and arrows to cover. The dense rain of arrows shot at the city, and some shepherds were injured by arrows. Fortunately, everyone put on the armor of the Sui army. Not many people died in battle. The arrows were even sent flying, and even if they were hit by the arrows, they were not seriously injured, and almost everyone who was hit by the arrows could continue to fight.

And the Tubo army was also extremely brave, fighting to the death without retreating.From the distance of sixty steps to thirty steps, the corpses began to pile up. In just a moment or so, hundreds of people were killed or injured by the crossbow arrows. The first thousand-man team finally couldn't stand it and retreated like a tide.

Jia Bulu snorted coldly. He had already discovered that the number of Sui troops firing crossbow arrows was small, and the main force was shepherds, and their bows and arrows were not powerful. He immediately issued a formal attack order, "3000 people attack!"

The number of attacking Tubo soldiers suddenly tripled, brandishing swords and rushing towards the pass. Arrows rained down on the city, and stones fell like hailstones on the city. A fierce battle for the dangerous pass had begun. .

These Tubo soldiers were Langri Zanpu's personal guards, they were extremely brave, even though they were wearing arrows, they charged forward unconsciously.

The three thousand Tubo soldiers who had attacked the city bravely moved forward, and the battle entered a tragic scene. The Sui army and herdsmen shot arrows and stoned them. When they came up, the Tubo soldiers in the rear shot arrows at the top of the city, and some people fell down from the arrows.

It's just that the city walls are tall and the city gates are blocked by huge ones. They can only ascend the city through siege ladders.

Jiabulu was rude in appearance, but he was extremely alert. When he saw the stones on the city fall into the pile of corpses, he stopped still, and immediately thought of a rather simple way to let the soldiers behind him carry a corpse on his back. The front is not only a meat shield, but also a meat pad for climbing the city. This is exactly the same as Xue Wanjun's attack on Xiangwu City. The more stones are thrown under the city, the stones that are stuck by the corpses will only make the slope in front of the pass higher.

Seeing that this method is effective, and there are corpses everywhere on the battlefield, Jiabulu is overjoyed, and asks someone to return Lang Zamp and ask for more reinforcements to help carry the corpses.As another 5000 people joined, corpses were piled up one after another, and a slope with the same width as Guancheng was slowly formed outside the city.

When the mountain of corpses was formed, Jiabulu immediately led the soldiers and rushed towards the city stepping on the mountain of corpses of coalition soldiers. He smashed a big stone at a Sui soldier, swung his spear, and pierced the soldier's chest. With a roar from his chest, he threw the corpse away. His fierceness made several shepherds hesitate. At this moment of hesitation, Jiabulu grabbed the battlement with one hand and jumped onto the city wall. The Tubo soldiers outside the city were shocked. Cheers, dozens of people swooped after him.

The shepherds realized that they had caused a catastrophe, and rushed forward one after another, trying to pile this fierce enemy general off the city wall.

With a sweep of Jiabulu's spear, a shepherd was stabbed to death, and his body was smashed to the ground by several Sui soldiers.

The eyes of Sui soldiers and herdsmen were all red, and they rushed forward with their knives, but Jiabulu was extremely brave. With a spear in his hand, he overthrew more than a dozen defenders in a row, and cleared the range of the spear. In the interval, dozens of Tubo soldiers also climbed to the top of the city and began to fight the defenders close to each other. The Tubo soldiers behind continued to pour in.

Seeing that the situation was extremely critical, Zhou Shaoze knew that if he didn't kill this hero, the Jishi Pass would be over. He wanted to step forward to resist, but the city pass was full of people, and he couldn't get through it for a while.

When he broke through the crowd, Jiabulu had already killed more than 30 defenders, including Sui soldiers and the shepherds who assisted in the defense. The spear rushed into the dense and chaotic herds. He kept shaking, and surrounded by defenders, Zhou Shaoze couldn't get close at all.

At this moment, a soldier of the Sui army who was pierced by a spear rushed forward, allowing Jiabulu's spear to pierce through his body and protruding from his back, making it impossible for him to pull out the spear to injure others. Opening his arms forward, he hugged Jiabulu's neck tightly, and two other wounded soldiers rushed forward, one of them hugged Jiabulu's thigh, and bit his thigh fiercely.

Jiabulu was caught off guard, and the spear could not be withdrawn for a while. He simply let go, clenched his fist and smashed the heads of the two soldiers who had lost their helmets. The huge force made the two soldiers bleed from all seven orifices.

But the two soldiers hugged tightly, and one of them shouted hoarsely with blood on his mouth: "Kill him! Kill him!"

There were shepherds all around. Although they couldn't understand what the soldier said, they were infected by the tragedy of the three Sui soldiers at this time, and seeing Jiabulu being restrained and unable to move, everyone seemed to have a sense and used it one after another. The weapon in his hand slashed Jiabulu all over his body, and a war knife pierced through his waist.

"Ah!" The soldier who was pierced by the spear screamed, exhausted his last breath, pushed Jiabulu to the edge of the city, and fell outside the city at the same time, rolling down the mountain of corpses, tripping a group of people. people.

The death of the chief general Jiabulu dampened the morale of the Tubo soldiers. The defenders, led by Zhou Shaoze, worked hard and killed more than a hundred Tubo soldiers who rushed to the top of the city. The Tubo soldiers' offensive was slowed down.The Sui army regained the initiative, shooting arrows at the Tubo soldiers outside the city like a rain of arrows.

At this time, Li Shimo came in a hurry with a team, each carrying a pile of fodder.he
Seeing the slope of corpses piled up outside the city and the continuous stream of Tubo soldiers, cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He knew that Jishiguan was not far from falling, but he had no time to ask anything, so he ordered directly: "Quick, quick, set fire."

For this moment, Li Shimo not only sent the wounded soldiers under his command and soldiers who couldn't open bows to mow the grass, but also prepared hay for three days, and borrowed oil and other flammable materials from the herdsmen. At this moment, it finally arrived. It's time to unleash your power.

Following his order, bundles of fodder were ignited and thrown down, one after another raging fireballs rolled down the mountain of corpses, spread rapidly by the wind, and bags of oil were also poured onto the mountain of corpses.

The blazing flames rose into the sky, and the corpse mountain covered with oil slowly burned, and soon red flames flew, forming a sea of ​​flames in front of the Guancheng, and the entire Guancheng seemed to be engulfed by the fire.

The fire continued to spread, and the scorching heat and scorching produced by the soaring fire caused the Tubo soldiers' galloping momentum to collapse instantly, and they all turned around and left.Many soldiers who charged too hard were directly trapped in the sea of ​​flames, and were gradually swallowed by the sea of ​​flames amidst the screams.

Looking at the fire rising into the sky.

Langri Zanpu closed his eyes in pain. He had heard that the soldiers climbed the mountain of corpses to climb the city, and he felt a strong sense of excitement in his heart. Kindling, the blaze will last at least until evening.When the corpse mountain in front of the pass is burned, the smooth road will become a natural moat that can be overcome.

No matter how unwilling he was, at this moment, he couldn't let his soldiers risk their lives to put out the flames. He could only attack Jishi Pass after the flames subsided.

"Zanpu don't need to panic. Although the fire is fierce, it is not impossible to break." Just when Langri Zanpu was about to give the order to withdraw troops, a clear voice came from beside him.

Langri Zanpu looked towards the sound in surprise, but saw a handsome Central Plains literati galloping on horseback under the guard of a hundred elite soldiers, with his own soldiers watching on both sides.

He galloped up to meet him, and hurriedly asked, "Where do you come from, sir?"

The young literati cupped his hands and said, "I'm Chu Suiliang, a member of Li and Tang Dynasties, who came to pay a visit to Zanpu at the order of King Jin of my court."

"It turned out to be Mr. Chu." Lang Ri Zanpu bowed and asked hastily: "Mr. Cai just said that the fire can be extinguished, but I don't know how to put it out?"

"Zanpu can let the soldiers take off their clothes and wrap them with soil, and throw them into the fire far away. When the clothes burn out, the sand inside can put out the fire." Chu Suiliang laughed.

"Thank you, sir, for your suggestion." Langri Zanpu suddenly realized, and overjoyed, he ordered the soldiers to take off their clothes and wrap their clothes.

Chu Suiliang saw that the front of the pass was narrow, and the chaotic soldiers collided into one place from time to time, causing the sand to scatter. He immediately offered another strategy to arrange the soldiers to line up in dozens of columns. That's it.This method is really effective, making the army orderly and the transmission speed faster.

It's bustling here, and the city is shouting and screaming.

"General, it's done!" Behind the fire, Zhou Shaoze excitedly waved the saber in his hand and said to Li Shimo.

A group of defenders also showed excitement.

A smile appeared on Li Shimo's solemn face.

This fire bought at least half a day for everyone.

Once the corpses under the city are cremated, the way for the Tubo soldiers to climb the city will disappear, and everything will return to the original point; everyone has the advantage of the city, and it is much easier to defend.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"Snapped!"

"Snapped."

At this moment, strange noises came from the fire. Li Shimo looked out of the city through the light of the fire, and suddenly a heavy depression rose in his chest.

I saw that the Second Tu coalition army threw cloth bags one by one on the fire like raindrops. The cloth bags scattered, and a pile of sand was sprinkled on the fire. The burning fire was slowly suppressed, and the skyrocketing flames became lower and lower. ,lower and lower.And as the sand was covered layer by layer, roads of sand and soil appeared in the fire. Against the backdrop of the surrounding fires, they seemed to be gateways leading to Guancheng.

Li Shimo's face became gloomy, while Zhou Shao's expression of excitement and excitement froze on his face, and the cheers of soldiers and horses behind him also stopped abruptly as if they were stuck.

"General...the enemy has not yet attacked, why don't we retreat to the inner city...?" Everyone turned their attention to Li Shimo.

The so-called inner city is actually the same as the city gate at the foot. It is just another city wall between the two mountains. It is one mile away from the outer city. If the outer city cannot resist, you can retreat into the inner city to defend and continue to fight against the enemy deal with.

Li Shimo actually didn't want to retreat into the inner city, because as the designer of Jishiguan, he knew that compared with the outer city, the inner city had a fatal flaw. , is actually easier to breach than the outer city.

Li Shimo will never give up the outer city unless he has to.

only!

The arms of the soldiers of the Sui army were swollen due to continuous bowing. If they were forced to fight, even if they did not die, their arms would be destroyed by continuous fighting, resulting in permanent and irreversible disabilities. The arms of the soldiers could not bear the blow of the large number of enemy troops, and finally died in vain on the top of the city.

Although there were thousands of shepherds assisting them, their will to fight was far inferior to that of the Sui army, and they fought without any rules at all.

"Remove the crossbow and retreat to the inner city." After thinking for a while, Li Shimo made a decision.

Watching the fire getting smaller and smaller, Li Shimo secretly sighed: I hope the enemy army didn't find the flaws in the inner city!
With the withdrawal of the defenders, the Second Tu coalition forces, which had suffered tens of thousands of casualties, finally occupied Jishi Pass.

They removed the corpses and the stones blocking the city gate, and welcomed Langri Zanpu, Murong Xiaojun and others to enter.

"It's not easy, it's not easy." Standing on the tall city gate, Langri Zanpu laughed loudly, and saluted Chu Suiliang beside him: "Thanks to Mr. Blocked outside. Thank you very much, sir."

"Both yours and ours are an alliance in which both prosperity and loss come together, and I'm also thinking about the overall situation." Chu Suiliang smiled slightly, and said politely: "I believe that Zanpu can come up with a good strategy to break through even if I don't have my subordinates."

"Haha... Sir, you're being polite..." Langri Zanpu laughed and said, "Once this barrier is broken, our army will be like no one in the land. We will send troops across the land of Hexi, forcing Yang Tong to retreat."

Holding the people of Hexi as hostages and forcing the Sui army headed by Yang Tong to withdraw from the territory of Tubo is Langri Zanpu's established policy. As long as Yang Tong signs the alliance under the city, then Xiangxiong Kingdom can only obediently withdraw from the territory of Tubo. An Ning was able to recuperate, and when he annexed Tuyuhun, he could conquer the Sui Dynasty again.

However, not long after Langri Zanpu was happy and was about to invite Chu Suiliang to go north, the soldiers in front came back with a bitter look on their faces and reported: "To Zanpu, there is a taller city wall ahead."

Lang Ri Zanpu was dumbfounded, and pointed at the messenger with a dumbfounded expression on his face: "You, you, what are you talking about?"

"Zanpu, there is another city wall ahead, which is even taller than this." The messenger repeated bitterly.

"..." Langri Zanpu, who was extremely happy and sad, was speechless for a while, and led a group of people forward without saying a word.

When he looked up at Guan Sai in front of him, he suddenly felt sad, and he just wanted to cry loudly with all his heart.

Since the moment of the decisive battle with Yang Tong, the coalition soldiers have lost nearly 6 soldiers outside Jishi Pass.Now that he managed to capture Jishi Pass, someone told him that there was another pass ahead that was bigger and taller than this one.

Is it necessary to sacrifice so many people?
The point is that even if they take tens of thousands more lives, they may not be able to pass this level before Yang Tong arrives.

In an instant.

The fighting spirit and ambition that challenged Yang Tong disappeared in front of this majestic Guancheng.

"Patta~pata~" Just when the desperate Langri Zanpu was at a loss, a few pea-sized raindrops hit his face. When he looked up, he saw dark clouds rolling over his head, and lightning bolts pierced the dark clouds in the sky.

"Zanpu, this level may not be unbreakable. It depends on whether you are willing to fight."

"Sir, please tell me." Hearing what Chu Suiliang said, Langri Zanpu seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, and said anxiously: "I will definitely."

"Generally speaking, the most powerful defense weapon in our Central Plains is the sharp and strong bow and crossbow. If the heavy rain comes, the bow and arrow will lose their effect, and the city will be in danger."

"Not bad, our bows and arrows are also like this." Langri Zanpu nodded again and again, "What else?"

Chu Suiliang glanced from the gloomy sky to the majestic Guancheng, pondered for a moment, and said confidently: "This pass is tall, majestic and majestic, and it seems unbreakable. In fact, it can only block people's hearts, but it blocks people's hearts. Can't live with people."

Langri Zanpu was very puzzled: "What does it mean to block people's hearts?"

Chu Suiliang smiled and said: "When people pay a heavy price and take down the outer city, they are too late to be happy and encounter another even taller city wall, what will they think?"

"Desperate, I just want to retreat." Langri Zanpu expressed his feelings at this time.

Chu Suiliang nodded and said: "The person who designed this pass is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. He just wanted to take advantage of Zanpu's mood, and then lead his troops back disappointed and desperate, so that the attacking side ignored the fatal flaw of this pass."

"Fatal flaw? Where is the fatal flaw?" Long Zanpu's tiger eyes regained the brilliance of hope.

"Look, Zanpu!" Chu Suiliang pointed to the pass city in front of him, and said with a smile: "This pass is a continuation of the mountains on both sides, and it is integrated with the high mountains on both sides. Climbing, but the Xiqing Mountain on the right is gentle, Zanpu can send troops to enter the pass from the mountain, and can use the condescending position to release rolling logs and rocks at the defenders."

"So simple?" Langri Zanpu took a closer look and found that the city was really as Chu Suiliang said, and he was surprised, happy, ashamed and angry.

They suffered heavy losses from the outer city and were exhausted physically and mentally. When they suddenly saw such a taller Guancheng, all their thoughts were sucked away by the Guancheng, and then all thoughts were lost. How could they notice other details?At this moment, being mentioned one by one by Chu Suiliang, I was so ashamed that I almost lost face.

"That's right, it's that simple, so I'm going to say that this pass can only block people's hearts, but it can't stop people." Chu Suiliang suggested: "The heavy rain is about to hit, and the strong bows and crossbows on the city will be useless. Go up the mountain to be on guard, and I suggest that Zanpu send an army to the front of the pass to pretend to attack the city, so as to attract the attention of the enemy, and then send partial troops up the mountain."

"The task of luring the enemy before the pass is given to my sister-in-law. Our army will fight down from the mountain, and we must win this pass in one fell swoop." Langri Zanpu, who was deeply ashamed, said Murong Xiaojun, who was gnashing his teeth.

"Okay! Younger brother, I'll go and make arrangements now." Murong Xiaojun, who was also ashamed, agreed, and ordered the soldiers of Tuyuhun to start attacking the city.

In order to seize the road northward to Heyuan as soon as possible, Murong Xiaojun, who was already riding a tiger, not only dispatched [-] miscellaneous troops, but also suppressed the ace army that he had not used, [-] iron guards.

The [-] troops were thrown into the siege, while the other [-] soldiers were staring at the Sui army on the city. Whenever there was a vacancy in front, they would be filled.If it weren't for the fact that so many troops could not be moved before the customs, he would definitely bet on all these soldiers.

no way.

Murong Xiaojun has no way out other than fighting Tubo all the way to the end. If he doesn't try his best now and the siege fails, not only will the Sui Dynasty not be able to spare him, but Murong Fuyun's loyalists and party ministries will also be killed because of this. He rebelled against his defeat.

His only hope now is pinned on Langri Zamp.

Under the heavy rain, the bows and crossbows of both sides were useless, and the stone became the biggest weapon of the defenders, but compared with the dense arrow rain, the killing range was not as good as before.

On the battlefield, there were golden horses and iron horses, horns like thunder, and screams shaking the sky. In front of dozens of siege ladders in front of the pass, groups of Tuyuhun soldiers were knocked down by stones, but the follow-up troops continued to rush forward with shouts and roars. .At this time, both sides were so red-eyed that under the siege ladder, corpses and wounded soldiers piled up to form a wall.

At the same time, the Tubo soldiers also followed Chu Suiliang's siege method, and under the personal command of Langri Zanpu, they climbed up the Xiqing Mountain with overwhelming force, intending to enter the Guancheng from the mountain.

(End of this chapter)