Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 604 Who will kill my good head
Yanmen.

This city has been struggling in blood and fire for half a month.

At this moment, less than half of the [-] soldiers of the Xiaoguo Fourth Army who accompanied Yang Guang remained.Although they were also very brave and strong, they attacked and killed [-] to [-] Turkic people, but they still suffered heavy casualties.

Especially in the back, the reinforcements have not arrived for a long time, so Yanmen City has to continuously reduce the food supply, and the soldiers can only eat two thin meals a day. As for the people in the city, they have already run out of food. They were all taken away as military rations.

The people had to catch mice and birds, and even killed all the cats and dogs in the house to eat.

Some people have even started to eat grass roots and bark, but there are only so many grass roots and bark in the city, so many people's eyes glow with hunger.

Some people even secretly dug out the buried corpses and ate them, some even were the corpses of soldiers who died for the country.

The arrows in the city are almost used up.

For this reason, facing the offensive of the Turkic people who still refused to retreat, they could only rely on rolling stones and wood from demolition of houses, collect excrement to boil gold juice, and collect oil in the city to boil and pour it on the enemy.

The Xiaoguo army had to go out of the city to kill the enemy again and again, but every time they went out of the city, more than half of them would be killed or killed.

The morale of the army was severely weakened.

More and more people are starting to despair.

They thought they couldn't hold on.

Every day people are looking at the south side and yelling crazily, they are crazy.

The emperor now only knows to lie in the basement holding his nine-year-old son Zhao Wang Yang Gao every day, because there is no safe place in the city, and from time to time there will be stone catapults throwing stones, fireballs, etc. into the city.

On the contrary, the 12-year-old grandson of the emperor, Yang Tan, was relatively calm. He replaced the emperor's grandfather in the temporary palace in the center of the city every day to discuss countermeasures with the prime ministers and ministers.

The emperor's grandson even disregarded the objections of the ministers several times, and personally boarded the city wall after the war to condolences to the soldiers guarding the city, which made the already low morale finally recover a little bit.

basement.

The emperor looked at his decadent self in front of the bronze mirror.

He stroked his head, and said to his youngest son Zhao Wang, "I don't know who will cut off this great head."

"Your Majesty, please don't say such dejected words. King Qin's army will definitely be here soon!"

The queen comforted the emperor.

But the emperor did not have such confidence.

It's been fifteen days, and he doesn't even know how he got there.

Fighting endlessly every day, countless soldiers died in battle every day.

The blood was soaring, and the smell of corpses filled the air.

If this continues, there will be a plague in Yanmen City.

The prime ministers reported that many hungry people began to dig out the bodies of buried soldiers and cook them. Yang Guang vomited after hearing this. He didn't expect such a thing to happen.

Su Wei suggested that the war dead should be burned.

This can not only prevent the corpses from decomposing and causing plagues, but also prevent those who died for the country from being eaten by hungry people.

Yang Guang agreed.

However, there was not enough firewood in the city to cremate the bodies of the soldiers, so they still had to bury them.

But everyone has long been hungry, and they don't even have the strength to dig a hole.

Many folks who were in charge of burying the corpses just threw the corpses into a corner, threw them casually, and sprinkled some soil.

Then at night, there are always those who are bold enough to steal corpses.

There is even an underground black market in Yanmen City, where some people are quietly selling freshly dead flesh at extremely expensive prices.

A thigh can be exchanged for twelve taels of gold.

The situation has gradually become unstoppable.

Reinforcements never came.

He even wondered if those generals and ministers had abandoned him, so they decided to die instead of saving him.

"Your Majesty, reinforcements will arrive."

The emperor was already desperate.

He put his arms around King Zhao and looked at the queen.

"Queen, if the Yanmen City is broken, I will never be a prisoner of the Turks. I have prepared a bottle of poison, and I will kill myself by taking the poison. How about you?"

The queen shivered, and she saw disillusionment in the emperor's eyes.

"The concubines also go with His Majesty."

The emperor smiled.

"Okay, let's go together, I just feel sorry for Zhao Wang, who is still so young."

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In the north of Taiyuan County, Xinkou.

Yang Yichen, the appeasement envoy of Hedong, Li Jing, the appeasement envoy of Hebei, Xue Shixiong, governor of Fanyang Prefecture, and Dugu usurper, governor of Beiping.

The four of them were the closest to Yanmen, and they were the first to receive the King Qin's order, and they all mobilized their troops to come here immediately.

In Taiyuan, several groups of soldiers and horses converged, and at this time there were [-] troops.

The [-] troops left Taiyuan, but they were blocked at Xinkou on the border between Taiyuan and Yanmen.

Xinkou is located at the Duanque of Xinkou Mountain, which has always been the gateway from Taiyuan to northern Shanxi.

Liu Bangping, Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, led his army back and passed by here after breaking the siege. He was very happy, so he named the place Xinkou.

Prior to this, the Turks suddenly went south on a large scale, breaking through dozens of cities in Mayi and Yanmen along the way.

At that time, Yang Yichen, the appeasement envoy of Hedong, led his troops to defend Xinkou City in time, so he prevented the Turkic cavalry from continuing to go south and snatching Taiyuan.

But at that time, there were few soldiers in Xinkou City, so they had to rely on the pass to defend it.

Yang Yichen dared to lead his army out of the customs only when soldiers and horses were urgently recruited from various places in Hedong, and reinforcements from Hebei arrived.

At this time, outside Xinkou, [-] Turkic troops intercepted.

Generals Li Jing, Yang Yichen, and Xue Shixiong fought the Turkic people here more than ten times. Both sides won and lost each other, but it was difficult to completely defeat their opponents.

Although there are few Turkic soldiers, they are all light cavalry.

Although the three generals were numerous, they arrived one after another. They did not have a numerical advantage when they came, and they were joined by many prefectural and county soldiers, and they were mainly infantry.

"I can't wait any longer. I have to kill them in one fell swoop. If we drag on, I'm afraid Yanmen City will not be able to defend."

Li Jing said to the two generals, "Now we have assembled [-] soldiers, which is quite a number, and we can give it a go."

August 27.

The four generals led an army of [-] troops out of Xinkou Pass, and formed a battle with the Turks on the plain at the foot of Xinkou Mountain.

Yang Yichen was the front army, Li Jing was the rear army, while Xue Shixiong and Dugu usurped Qingqi around the back, and weaved behind the Turkic people.

The battle begins in the morning.

From the very beginning, the Turks relied on light cavalry to be strong, and rushed to follow the army.

They galloped and shot, and they rode and shot.

The Sui army used chariots outside, added shields and spears to form a square formation, and then shot the enemy with archers.

Fight until noon.

Yang Yichen's former army suffered heavy losses and began to be unable to withstand the retreat.

At this time, Li Jing, who had been recharging his energy for a long time, led the Hebei army to rush out. Li Jing himself leaped forward and charged forward, forcibly withstood the Turkic offensive.

At this time, Xue Shixiong led thousands of cavalry and finally made a detour to the back of the Turkic people and launched a fierce attack.

The Turkic people were caught off guard and turned around to fight. Li Jing and Yang Yichen led the whole army to cover up the killing, so the [-] Turkic army was defeated.

Chased and killed for twenty miles, beheaded and killed more than ten thousand.

The first day of September.

Li Jing, Yang Yichen, Xue Shixiong, and Dugu usurped the four generals to lead the remaining [-] Hebei King Qin troops to the foot of Nao County, only a hundred miles away from Yanmen.

But in front of them, outside Nao County, there were still [-] to [-] Turkic troops surrounding them.

The [-] Turkic troops who had fled from Xinshan earlier came to Nao County one step ahead of them, and joined the army set up by Tilifu who besieged Nao County again.

"Raise the flag!"

Yang Yichen saw that the red flag of the Sui army was still standing on the Nao county seat, and couldn't help laughing out loud.

"I never imagined that General Luo Siye would be so brave. He has defended the small town of Nao County with his heroic army until now."

"Raise all our flags, blow the horn, and tell Luo Siye that King Qin's army has arrived!" Li Jing also shouted happily!

(End of this chapter)