As the outer city was captured, the people in Dali City began to panic. Three thousand households within a radius of 100 miles were gathered in the city, as well as four thousand Sui soldiers and thousands of craftsmen, a total of nearly 30,000 and nearly 10,000.
Ru and the old man began to retreat to the cave on the rock wall in a planned manner. Although the cave on the rock wall has not been completed, it can barely accommodate nearly 10,000 people.
Yang Yuanqing rode a horse to Liu Jian's home. His home is not far from Yang Sien's home. It is a small house covering an acre of land. Liu Jian has no children and his parents died early. There are only two young Turkic women in the family, living with him.
Five years, he is his wife.
In the yard, two Turkic women heard that their husbands had been killed and were crying with their heads in their arms. Mrs. Fang, the wife of Yang Sien, was whispering to comfort them. Yang Yuanqing sighed. He didn't know what to say. He ordered a soldier beside him, "
They sent them to the cave and told them that they don’t have to worry about their future lives, I will ask them to make arrangements."
He said to Mrs. Fang again: "Sister-in-law, you go to the cave too! It's safer there."
Mrs. Fang nodded silently, "Thank you, General!"
Yang Yuanqing turned his horse's head and happened to meet his little maid Lu Cha running over. When Lu Cha saw him, he was shocked and happy, and ran up and shouted: "Young Master, what should I do?"
"You follow Mrs. Fang and go to the cave together!"
He rode his horse towards the city wall, and he laughed loudly from a distance, "Don't worry, they won't come into the city."
The suspension bridge fell with a bang, and Xue Yantuo's soldiers pushed the hinge plate and opened the thick outer city gate creakingly. Tens of thousands of troops outside the city rushed out, and they would face the attack from the inner city.
This is the most solid and difficult to conquer the city of Dali. The two inner and outer walls are not connected to each other. The inner city is only a little lower than the outer city. The city gate is stronger. The inner and outer walls are a hundred steps apart, which is also aimed at the defense.
The deliberate design of the grassland people, most of the bows and arrows on the grassland are only fifty or sixty steps away, while the killing distance of the Sui army's crossbow arrows is a hundred steps away.
At this time, the open space between the two cities, which was four miles long and ninety steps wide, was filled with tens of thousands of Xueyantuo soldiers. They held their shields high, and the dense rain of arrows was towards the head of the inner city, making the Sui army dare not let their heads go.
But the three thousand Sui troops left the battlements, squatted half-squatted on the city wall, and used crossbow arrows to attack the opposite city wall. The enemy troops on the opposite city wall were killed and injured, and they all took down the useless outer city Yang Yuanqing stood in one.
On the lookout tower... I looked coldly at the more than 10,000 Xueyantuo troops below. Do these robbers on the grassland know that their death date is coming?
He waited patiently, waiting for Xue Yantuo's army to break its way out.
"General, the beacon is lit!" A soldier shouted in surprise, pointing at the back mountain.
Yang Yuanqing looked back and saw a pillar of beacon igniting in the back mountain... This is less than twenty miles away from Dali City. His eyes turned back and looked at the outer city gate.
After a moment, Yang Sien rushed up and shouted: "General, the beacon in the back mountain has been ignited. Can you take action?"
"Wait a little longer!"
Yang Yuanqing still waited patiently, and the best time has not yet arrived.
When Shaluli saw with his own eyes that there was an inner city as high as the outer wall inside, he felt desperate... Khan told him in person that the inner city had not been repaired, which was also one of the reasons why they decided to attack Dali City.
"What should I do? Will I still fight?" a ten thousand men asked in a low voice.
"beat!"
Sha Luli looked back and saw the siege car rumbling up. This huge guy... The wooden frame is about two zhang high and four zhang long. Among them, the wooden frame is three zhang long. It is hung on the wooden frame with dozens of leather ropes.
On the front of the head, there was pig iron installed on the front of the hit head, and it was a force of ten thousand pounds. Eight hundred Xueyantuo soldiers pushed it forward slowly.
"Order the soldiers to suppress the Sui army with bows and arrows!"
Shaluhu ran his horse into the city.
The Sui army in the inner city was completely suppressed by Xue Yantuo's army with bows and arrows. The arrows were flying like rain. More than 10,000 enemy bows and arrows were enough to make the Sui army have no chance.
Shaluli stared at the inner city gate, although strong, when it might not be able to block its pig iron.
The attacking ram rumbled into the outer city gate, and his huge body occupied most of the city gate. At this moment, a Xue Yantuo rushed to report, "Report to Ye Hu, the Sui cavalry was found fifteen miles away,
More than 20,000 people are coming to us!"
Sha Luli was shocked. The reinforcements of the Sui army arrived. He turned his horse and ran outward. Suddenly, there was a shout from his subordinates behind him. Sha Luli turned around and saw rockets flying all over the sky at the inner city.
It was already on the ground.
The Xueyantuo soldiers on the open space were in chaos, pushing and rushing, rushing to escape, desperately escaping outside the city, but the siege ram blocking the outer city gate made it extremely difficult to escape.
At the feet of the enemy, the fire became bigger and bigger and spread rapidly. Buckets of turbulent oil were thrown from the city, increasing the fire. In an instant, the four-mile, hundreds of steps wide open space turned into a sea of fire.
Fire people were running around everywhere, and the fallen people were struggling in the fire, and shrill screams resounded throughout the city of Italy. The outer city of Italy became a purgatory on earth. Many Sui soldiers could not bear to look at it anymore and turned their heads.
At this time, the loud trumpet sounded outside the city, and 25,000 Sui cavalry came. The sword was sharp, the horses were like dragons, covering the sky and the earth, and thousands of horses were galloping. The murderous aura swept across the city, killing everything, and counting in an instant
The Xueyantuo army, who was in battle, was defeated.
The three-day siege battle has exhausted Xue Yantuo's army, and the fire of hell burned their morale. They were frightened and fled in the wind. Shalulien has been burned to death in the city, and no one will come to restrain them again. Xue Yantuo's army is
Wailing, fear envelops them.
In the vast snow, tens of thousands of Xueyantuo soldiers fled in scattered areas, fleeing to the north bank of the Yellow River, and trying to escape back to their homes, but no one expected that because of their Khan's stupidity, their homes were also suffering from a tragic catastrophe.
The 80,000 cavalrymen of Qi rushed into the core tribe of Xueyantuo camped beside a forest. This is the place where Xueyantuo Khan is located. Tens of thousands of dome tents stretched for more than ten miles. Almost all the young and strong men went to Dali City to fight, and only the camp was
There were more than 100,000 Furu and the elderly, as well as thousands of Khan guards.
When 80,000 cavalry shocked the earth... the overwhelming cavalry appeared several miles away, the Xueyantuo camp was in full horror, the screams of women and the cry of children resounded throughout the camp, and the braver women didn't care about it.
The family property was carried, and the children were running on horseback, while the weak woman hid in the tent and cried. The elderly who were unable to escape were crying to the sky and knelt in the snow to wait for the coming of death.
In a grassland tribe without strong men's support... it means being slaughtered and looted. This is the wolf law that has not changed since ancient times in the grassland.
Qi cavalry rushed into Xue Yantuo's camp like a strong wind, slaying the old man, looting women and children, snatching cattle, sheep and property. Qi Lie waved his spear and shouted loudly, "Don't worry about property, kill Xue Yantuo's Khan first
!”
Qi Lie led 20,000 cavalrymen... and rushed to the Xueyantuo tent several miles away. His eyes were fixed on the golden wolf-headed banner floating above the tent.
In the king's tent, Yi Shibo was tortured by regret. He had just received a message from the Falcon that Dali City was extremely solid and their army could not capture it for a long time... He suffered heavy casualties, and this battle report shocked Yi Shibo.
He is an extremely paranoid person. If he had not encountered major setbacks, he would not look back. He thought that paying a price of one or two thousand people would flatten Dali City, which would boost the morale of his army, and defeat the Sui army, which would increase the number of people.
His prestige in the grassland made other Tiels surrender to him...but he did not expect...thing was not as simple as he thought.
When he heard that the siege had 20,000 concubines had already fought, Yi Shubo finally began to regret it. He began to realize that he had made a big mistake. He had not yet won the city of Li... Then how many people would he have to die to death
Take this small border town?
If he continues to fight like this, will he still have a strong confrontation with his army? He remembered what his eldest son Yinan said to him, and his regret began to hurt his heart. He is now in a difficult situation, either he will increase his troops, but the Xueyantuo tribe in the east is in the east.
He might not be willing to increase his troops by his eldest son Yi Nan, or he would withdraw his troops, but he was unwilling to accept that more than 20,000 people were killed in battle, which he could not accept anyway.
At this moment, the tent suddenly started to shake violently, and a muffled thunder sound came from a distance. Yi Shibo suddenly reacted. At this time, the brigade of cavalry came, and he was panicked. Who was killing?
The Sui Army?
A thousand-man commander rushed into the tent, sweating profusely and shouted: "Khan, go quickly! The cavalry soldiers are coming, and there are tens of thousands of people."
"ah!"
Yi Shibo was stunned. He suddenly stamped his feet and beat Xiong, crying loudly: "Xue Yantuo is over. I have made a big mistake. I shouldn't have taken revenge, I shouldn't have!"
Thousands of his guards had rushed up to fight against the cavalry. More than a dozen guards were carrying him and ran outwards. Suddenly, a black cloud covered his tent. The sound of wind roared in his ears, and the sound of horse hooves like thunder spread his heart.
They all want to be crushed, and tens of thousands of cavalry swept past his king's tent.
The flagpole was cut off, the golden wolf-headed flag was taken away, and Yi Shibo collapsed on the snow. As soon as he looked up, a majestic man appeared in front of him, holding a spear in his hand and looking cold.
‘Qi Lie!, he recognized the man in front of him. Qi Lie smiled cruelly and thrust violently. Yi Shibo screamed, and the spear pierced his xiong chamber without mercy.
Qi Lie cut off his head, raised it high, and shouted loudly: "Xueyantu Khan's head is in my hands!"
The soldiers of Qi cheered, and they rushed to all directions and began to plunder this tribe that had no ability to resist.
A battle of offensive and defensive in Dali City that changed the grassland pattern ended with the crushing defeat of Xueyantuo's army. In this battle, Xueyantuo's army was killed by more than 60,000 people, nearly 9,000 people were burned to death, and even the main general Shaluli died in the fire.
The Sui army also paid a heavy price. More than half of the 8,000 defending the city's Sui army suffered casualties, and more than 10,000 temporary troops composed of more than 10,000 city-building craftsmen also died and injured nearly 6,000 people.
However, the Sui army achieved a brilliant victory in the siege of Dali City, which made Dali City's young defender Yang Yuanqing famous all over the world.
Compared with the price Xue Yantuo paid, the death and injury of the Sui army was insignificant. Half of Xue Yantuo's tribe was destroyed, and even Khan Yi Shibo died under the sword of the Qiren.
More than 100,000 people from Xueyantuo's tribe east of Yin Mountain were forced to move east under the leadership of Yi Nan, the son of Yi Shibo, and surrendered to the eastern Turkic Khan. It was not until ten years later that they moved back to Jinshan.
To the north of my hometown, the powerful Xueyantuo tribe no longer exists.
In this battle, Qi defeated his old enemy with the help of the Sui army and became the leader of the Tiel tribes of the Western Regions, competing with the Western Turks and Tuyuhun.
Out of his feelings for the Sui army and to continue to gain support from the Sui Dynasty, Qi Khan, accompanied by Pei Ju, personally went to Beijing to express his surrender to the Sui Dynasty and was willing to accept the title of the Sui Dynasty. Emperor Yang Guang of Sui then enthroned Qi Khan Ge
Leng is Mohe Khan.
In order to commend Yang Yuanqing, the governor of Dali City, and his achievements in the battle of Dali City, in April of the first year of Daye, Fengzhou General Manager Yu Juluo was promoted to Shilang of the Ministry of Works, and Yang Guang appointed Yang Yuanqing as Fengzhou General Manager.
The governor of Fengzhou was granted the title of Yitong Sansi of Kaifu, and promoted the title of Earl of Dali County. At the same time, he was rewarded with 300,000 pieces of silk and 10 million yuan in Dali City. The city was celebrating all over Dali City...