A goshawk flying from Hekou City landed in Dali City. In a moment, an eagle slave rushed over with a red mailbox in hand, "General manager, urgent report from Hekou!"
The dazzling red color of the mailbox made Yang Yuanqing feel an ominous omen. He took the mailbox and shook out a roll of thin silk. The news from Hekou City made his worries come true. Yongfeng County was destroyed by seven
Ten thousand Turkic troops broke through, and nearly 7,000 of the 10,000 defenders died in battle. The governor He Liujia was killed during the breakout, and the remaining 3,000 remnants of the army retreated to Hekou City under the leadership of deputy general Cui Pojun.
Yang Yuanqing sighed deeply. He could imagine the brutality of the war in Yongfeng City. Ten thousand Sui troops died in the battle, seven thousand of them, and even the general was killed. He Liujia was the original Yang Qilang. He was the first of the Eighteen Iron Shadow Guards.
Fallen brothers.
But at this time, Yang Yuanqing had no time to grieve. A severe situation was before him. Can Pei Renji and his son and the 18,000 defenders in Hekou City hold the last hurdle? If Hekou was lost, the door to Lingwu County would be opened.
, and the six cities in Lingwu County are relatively low and cannot withstand the attack of the Turkic army's siege weapons.
Yang Yuanqing knew that he had to make a decision. He pondered for a moment and then decisively ordered: "Immediately send Ying Xin to Jiuyuan City and order Su Lie to abandon Jiuyuan City and join Li Jing to support Hekou City."
Yang Yuanqing took another look at the more than a thousand Sui troops who were repairing the city wall, and issued a second order, "Destroy all the trebuchets on the outer city, and order all the defenders to withdraw to the middle city and abandon the outer city!"
The commander's order puzzled the soldiers. The loose walls of the outer city could be repaired, and most of the catapults were intact and still had great lethality. Why should the city be abandoned?
A group of generals rushed forward and begged Yang Yuanqing, "General manager, we can hold the outer city, we can't give up!"
Yang Yuanqing looked at the pair of expectant and pleading eyes, and he shook his head, "I know that everyone can hold it, but you may not know that Yongfeng City has been breached. In order to drag the main force of the Turkic army in Dali City, we must
Give up the outer city and use it as a bait to hook the main force of the Turkic army. This is a necessary strategic concession. Don't ask for a fight anymore. Follow the order to retreat!" The crossbows and stone cannons also evacuated at the same time, and hundreds of soldiers poured water on the trebuchets.
Add kerosene and start to light the fire. A raging fire broke out on top of the outer city.
Qin Qiong frowned and asked Yang Yuanqing, "General manager, can such a retreat attract the Turks?"
Yang Yuanqing smiled and said: "You don't understand the status of Dali City in the hearts of the Turks. This city is a monument of shame in their hearts. I know very well that Duji is a very arrogant person. Other Turkic generals may think
He will burn, kill, and loot, but for him, razing the city of Dali and getting my head is much more important than burning, killing, and looting. He will definitely stay and capture the city of Dali."
Qin Qiong thought for a moment and then said: "He can use military tactics to leave Dali City and pretend to attack Hekou City, forcing the general manager to abandon Dali City and go to aid Hekou. Then it will be easy for him to return to attack Dali City. I think he is likely to adopt such a strategy
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"You are right. That's why I gave up the outer city and hooked his main force in the city of Dali. I think with the power of the outer city of Dali, once he swallows this bait, it will be difficult to spit it out again."
Yang Yuanqing smiled and patted Qin Qiong's shoulder, and walked quickly towards the middle city. Qin Qiong still felt something was wrong, so he caught up with Yang Yuanqing and asked: "If the Turkic army controls the outer city and then divides a part of the army to assist the mouth of the river, what will happen?"
This kind of danger, has the manager thought about it?"
Yang Yuanqing stopped and looked back at him, with a sly smile in his eyes, "This is exactly what I hope to happen."
As the Sui army abandoned the outer city, the Turkic army occupied the outer city under the cover of thick fog the next day after observing for a day. Shibi Khan was not in a hurry to attack, but ordered the army to demolish all the buildings in the outer city and move them
The outer city was razed to the ground, and half of the army was ordered to garrison the outer city in preparation for attacking the middle city. In order to increase the pressure on Yang Yuanqing and open up the road south as soon as possible, Shibi Khan ordered Wanfu Daman to lead 30,000 troops to support the attack.
Ashina Dubi of Hekou City.
The battle in Dali City was in a stalemate, but the entire Fengzhou battle situation was reversed in a small village.
About 150 miles southwest of Dali City, there is a city called Anyuan. Within the administrative division of Wuyuan County, this place is called Anyuan County. It has more than 10,000 households under its jurisdiction. The city is not large and can only accommodate 2,000.
The remaining residents are distributed in the form of villages on both sides of three huge irrigation canals. The land here is fertile, the water is sufficient, and there are thousands of hectares of fertile farmland. It is an important grain-producing county in Wuyuan County.
In addition to the vast fertile fields, Anyuan County is surrounded by low and gently undulating hills. The hills are dotted with large forests, ranging from hundreds of acres to dozens of hectares, just like beautiful turquoise inlaid in the Hetao.
In the vast and fertile land of the plains.
Like other counties, the residents of Anyuan County gradually evacuated south to Lingwu County a month or two ago. Anyuan County has become an empty city, and every village has become deserted. At night, the place becomes deathly silent.
But the arrival of the Turkic army broke this silence. At the end of the day, the Khan ordered his uncle Ashina Kunji to lead an army of 30,000 to destroy the cities, villages and farmland in Fengzhou. Ashina Kunji's troops were divided into ten groups.
The East, Middle and West roads went south and swept through all counties in Fengzhou. Wherever the army passed, cities collapsed, villages were burned, farmland was trampled, and all agricultural civilization disappeared under the iron hooves of the grassland army.
But soon, an abnormal situation occurred. The two Turkic armies that were mopping up the enemy in Wuhai County on the East Road were successively annihilated by a Sui army cavalry, and more than 6,000 people were killed. This news made Ashina Kunji extremely angry.
He vowed to kill all the Sui troops to eliminate the hatred in his heart.
Anyuan County falls within the scope of the Middle Route Turkic Army's mopping-up. The three Turkic armies need to carry out mopping-up five times in a row from north to south, and then from south to north, destroying all villages and cities within a sixty-mile radius.
In the early morning, heavy fog enveloped the wilderness. The white mist seemed like a veil falling from the sky, making the world a vast expanse. The forests, villages and rivers in the distance were all covered by the veil. Only when you walked within a hundred steps could you see
You will find an irrigation canal. If you get closer, you will find a large Turkic camp next to the irrigation canal. There are not many tents, only more than a hundred tents. Groups of war horses are tied to the tents. From the number of war horses, we can infer that this is
The number of Turkic armies is only one thousand, which is much less than the normal ten Turkic armies.
Several Sui army cavalry scouts appeared not far from the camp. After observing for a while, they rushed south.
They ran about twenty miles south and ran directly into a forest covering an area of several hectares. Hidden in the forest was a Sui army of about 5,000 people. It was the 5,000 cavalry led by Li Jing.
Li Jing received the task from Yang Yuanqing to eliminate the small group of Turkic troops in Fengzhou. Ashina Kunji's ten sweepers were their targets. Li Jing had already hunted two Turkic troops in succession, totaling 6,000 people.
This was done by sneak attacks, but he was extremely ruthless and killed all the Turks, leaving no one behind, not even prisoners of war.
A scout rode to a small tent and dismounted. A soldier immediately entered the tent to report. After a while, he came out and said to the scout: "Sima orders you to go in!"
In the camp, Li Jing is standing in front of a sand table to check the surrounding terrain. This sand table is completely made of Fengzhou's real terrain. It has rivers, cities, villages, bridges, hills, and forests. It can be understood intuitively.
Regarding the surrounding situation, Li Jing paid special attention to the right time and location when fighting, and was good at using surprise troops to win.
He planted a small red flag in a forest, where he was stationed. At this time, the scout team walked into the camp, knelt down on one knee and saluted, "I'm sorry to see Sima!"
Li Jing nodded and asked with a smile: "Is there anything gained?"
"Reporting to Sima, we found a Turkic military camp twenty miles north along the Three Canals of Han Dynasty, with about a hundred tents and only a thousand war horses."
Li Jing frowned. There were only a thousand war horses. The Turks would have one person and two horses, but there would never be two people and one horse. And there could not be only five hundred people in a hundred tents. From this we can infer that,
The Turkic army has about a thousand people.
But why were there only a thousand people instead of the normal three thousand? His eyes were focused on the sand table again. The Han Sanqu was about four miles away. He walked north along the canal until he reached twenty miles and asked the scout
Said: "Is this here?"
The scout looked at it, nodded and said, "This is it!"
Li Jing put up a small white flag and looked around the Turkic garrison. It was quite far away from Quqiao and the nearest bridge was twenty miles away. His eyes fell on the west of the garrison. At this time, he unexpectedly
It was discovered that there were actually two forests five miles away from the Turkic garrison, one in the south and one in the north, forming a triangle with the Turkic army garrison. In the middle of the two forests was a ditch between hills, called Xujiagou, which was two miles wide and seven miles long.
Eight miles away, there is a village, and a small river flows through the village.
Li Jing looked at the two forests and then at the Turkic army station. He couldn't help but gasp. This was a typical triangle killing. If there were ambushes in the two forests, he would not be able to escape to the east. He would be killed no matter north or south.
The Turkic army intercepted and killed him.
Li Jing immediately understood that these thousand Turkic troops were actually a bait. There should be heavy troops ambushed in the two forests. He had annihilated two Turkic troops in succession, which had posed a huge threat to them. They wanted to get rid of him at any cost.
Li Jing pondered for a moment, then pointed to two forests and said to the scout: "Take your brothers to explore these two forests to see if there are ambushes. If so, how many are there?"
In fact, Li Jing can already guess that if there is an ambush, there should be no less than 20,000 people. But the problem is, he only has 5,000 people, how can he annihilate them all?
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