Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 890

Although the season has entered autumn, the days are still lively in July.

Along the middle reaches of the Sanggan River, the intense heat has not receded, and the sowing of the small autumn crops has begun under the leadership of the new local officials of the Qin Army.

The autumn crops are still waiting to be harvested,

Many young laborers who had been conscripted by Liu Wuzhou to serve in the military as their husbands returned to their hometowns one after another. They took off the military robes of the country, put down their weapons, and happily returned with the pardon issued by the Emperor Qin .

Many of the newly arrived local officials are temporarily acting as generals and schools in the army. Soldiers always do things in a hurry, and they never compromise on the emperor's will.

Organize county soldiers, set up township soldiers and soil regiments, re-recruit subordinate officials, lead them to start clearing fields, go to rural villages, re-census population, register household registration, and then equalize land, repair roads, and clear ditches.

The walnuts all over the mountains and plains are about to ripen.

The rice in Yichuan has also gradually turned yellow, and millet, black beans, and flax are all being sown.

On the side of the field, there are troops and peasants coming and going every day on the road. A team of Qin soldiers carrying red flags, and a team of peasants driving cows and horses and pushing rooster carts go north from the rear every day.

While the common people were farming and working, they chatted with people on the left and right from time to time when they stood up and rested.

"I don't know what's going on with the battle in the north, will the Turks come over?"

A stout man over there said, "It's true to hurry up and work, who cares about those, besides, the emperor's hundreds of thousands of troops have passed, how can we let the Turkic people go wild again? Even if there are three or two Turkic people who slip through the net , ran to our side recklessly, then don’t we now have county soldiers in counties, townships in villages, and village militias? What are you afraid of? Didn’t the militiamen be equipped with spears and horizontal knives? , Stab him and chop him up, there are several rewards for catching and knocking down a horse bandit, not to mention Turkic soldiers."

The words of the head of the militia made everyone feel at ease. Looking at the spears planted in the fields and the knives on their waists, everyone felt that it was true.

The reeds are not yet pale, and the white dew is not yet frosted.

The rear has gradually resumed its old life, but at the foot of the Great Wall to the north, Wuzhou Mountain and Yunzhong Basin at the foot of Hezhen Mountain, which are less than a hundred miles away, swords are on the verge of breaking out, and a decisive battle is imminent.

In the Yunzhong Basin, on both sides of the Sanggan River, there are large tracts of spring wheat that are not yet ripe, but the Qin army and the Turkic army are robbing the spring wheat, even the rice that has just turned yellow by the river.

Jie Li panicked.

When Qin Qiong and Yu Chigong broke through the White Wolf Fort and came to the Yunzhong City with the general flag held high, Jieli panicked.

At this time, he felt something was wrong.

All kinds of bad news came one after another.

Although Yanmen City is still in the hands of Liu Wuzhou, Luo Cheng has already broken through Xixing Pass and Loufan Pass, crossed the Inner Great Wall, and quickly captured Mayi, Pianguan, Shahu Pass and other Great Wall passes and Great Wall, and then all the way come.

Almost no one resisted what Qin Jun had done.

Then, worse news came.

Zhao Gui had already detoured outside Niupi Pass and launched a surprise attack on Niupi Pass, while Gao Manzheng and Luo Dayen, who had surrendered to Qin Dynasty earlier, had also quietly gone to Shahu Pass.

Jieli panicked and hurriedly dispatched troops to guard Niupi Pass and Shahu Pass.

It's just that Zhao Gui came prepared, blocked Xieli's reinforcements, and stepped up his attack on Niupi Pass.As for Killing Hu Pass, although Jieli sent troops to fight for it, the pass city was very dangerous, and he didn't send many soldiers to stay behind to guard the pass city.

After Xue Wanche's army arrived, Xieli's intentions were shattered.

After Luo Cheng appeared under Yunzhong City, Niupi Pass also fell.

Jieli had to withdraw his soldiers and horses. At this time, he still had 10 troops.

But he has been besieged on all sides, and he is in the same predicament as Shibi Khan a few years ago.

The hundreds of miles of Yunzhong Basin became his big prison, surrounded by two Great Walls inside and outside, and Luo Cheng had mobilized tens of thousands of people to surround him.

And up to this time, Jieli hadn't been able to capture Yunzhong City yet.

Yunzhong City has almost become Yanmen City, which was besieged at the beginning of the year. It has been attacked for more than a month, but it has not been captured.

At this time, Xieli wanted to call Kang Sumi's army that was chasing Siye back for reinforcements, but this team had long been lost.

But the grain was about to run out, so Jieli had to send troops to snatch the immature wheat and rice.

Ever since, the Qin army and the Turkic army competed for food in the Yunzhong Basin, and fought while grabbing food.

Jieli originally thought that the Turks should have a complete advantage in such small-scale cavalry battles, but in fact, since the start of the grain grabbing war, the two armies have fought hundreds of times every day, but almost all the Turks lost more than they won. .

Often they did not get much food, or they managed to grab a batch of food and had not brought it back. The cavalry of the Qin army caught up and were forced to fight. In the end, they either lost the food and fled, or were forced to burn the food.

Some food-robbing cavalry teams were simply annihilated and captured.

In just a few days, Xieli lost tens of thousands of horses.

"Khan, we can't continue fighting like this. If we continue fighting, we will be finished."

He lost his mind and tried to persuade Xieli.

"What should I do?"

Ordinary Guancheng, Jieli is not afraid, wherever the Turkic cavalry goes, they can naturally break through.But when this pass city is in the hands of the Qin army, no matter how they attack, they will not be able to break it.

On the contrary, it was the Qin army. When Niupi was in the hands of the Qin army, 1000 people insisted on defending it for almost a month. They took several times the casualties. It was breached in less than ten days. The tens of thousands of people he sent couldn't break through Zhao Gui's blockade. The closest one to Guancheng was only five miles away before being defeated again.

When did Turkic cavalry become so weak?
Even worse than when facing the most powerful Kaihuang Sui army?
mid-July.

The wheat and rice in the fields near Yunzhong had already been emptied, nearly half of the grain was snatched by the Qin army, and nearly half was trampled and burned by war horses.

Liu Heita led about [-] defeated soldiers from Lingqiu and returned to Yunzhong City, intending to rely on Jieli to escape the fate of being annihilated.

It's just that Xieli at this time can't even take care of himself.

The Qin army pressed on step by step, and began to build camps and dig Hao on all sides of Jieli.

In desperation, Xieli broke through Niupiguan, but Zhao Gui stopped him from breaking through. Qin Qiong and Yu Chigong led an army to kill them later. The Turks were defeated and had no choice but to retreat all the way to Baideng Mountain.

Xieli was trapped in the castle of Heng'an Army Town on the mountain.

Immediately, Luo Cheng led his army to encircle him on all sides, besieging Jieli and Liu Heita's [-] troops on Baideng Mountain.

The Qin army dug more than a dozen huge trenches at the foot of the mountain, built several soil fillings, and planted countless antlers and horses.

(End of this chapter)