Chapter 43 Forty-two

The ten men were intercepted by the Tuli army all the way, nine of them were killed in battle, and only one ran back to the city covered in blood. The defenders lowered the rope and let him up.Fan Xin personally asked the survivor about the deployment of the enemy troops outside the city, only to realize that Suizhou City has been surrounded into an iron barrel, and unless wings grow, there is no way to send this news out!Fan Xin counted the days when his urgent letter was sent out before the enemy encircled him, and he couldn't help but feel anxious: the army sent by the imperial court will be able to reach the city of Suizhou in at most three days!

"We must try to stop them from moving forward!" Fan Xin knew the current strength of the Tang Dynasty army: if these hundreds of thousands of people were wiped out, it would undoubtedly be a disaster for the entire Tang Dynasty! Fan Xin and Zhao Gongcun's judgment was not wrong. During the day, Tuli suddenly ordered to stop the siege because he had received an order from Xieli's son Shi Luodie.The reason why Shi Luodie did this was because his father made an explanation before leaving that it was not the goal to attack Suizhou, but to lure the main force of the Tang army to annihilate it.After Tuli's troops retreated, Shi Luodie was a little worried, so he simply let Tuli's 30,000 people rest for two days, and he and Zhishi Sili continued to attack the city.

On this night, accidents happened one after another. First, in the middle of the night, a dozen or so Tang soldiers came down from the city to flee, but were chased and killed by Tuli's troops.At the fourth watch, suddenly there was a wave of defenders rushing out of the east gate as if they were about to break through. Shi Luodie hurriedly led people to encircle him. As soon as the two sides fought, the Tang army who rushed out retreated. Shi Luodie's men chased them all the way to the city. Under the gate, there were only a few guards there, and the red-eyed Ashina cavalry swarmed in. Shi Luodiezhi couldn't stop, and even broke Suizhou.The men and horses in the battalions rushed in without knowing it, and rushed into the city, and the city of Suizhou suddenly became chaotic.

Zhao Gongcun was awakened by the sound of killing, and rushed to the Suizhou treasury to lead the Tang army guarding the treasury to make the final resistance.After a fight, most of his subordinates were killed, and he was forced to the door of the treasury by several spears.At this time Shi Luodie rushed to the horse, Zhao Gongcun stretched out his hands to protect the gate, and shouted angrily: "This is the forbidden area of ​​the Suizhou treasury of the Tang Dynasty, no one is allowed to enter!" Shi Luodie glanced at the bloody Zhao Gongcun: " Who are you, aren't you afraid of swords and guns?" Zhao Gongcun said proudly, "Suizhou Secretary of the Tang Dynasty joins the army, Zhao Gongcun!" Shi Luodie laughed loudly: "It turns out that you are a storehouse guard, but you are also a little courageous. , as long as you hand over the key to the state treasury, I can spare you." Zhao Gongcun held the key firmly and said loudly: "You just take my life, and the key must not be given!" Shi Luodie ordered: "Take the key Take the key!" Several soldiers pulled Zhao Gongcun from the gate and tried to grab his key, but they couldn't get it off.Shi Luo repeatedly drew out his knife, and cut off Zhao Gongcun's arm with one stroke. Zhao Gongcun fell to the ground with a scream, clenched his teeth, and stared at the gate of the state treasury with wide eyes.

A Hu Bing bent down to take the key from the broken arm, but the hand on the broken arm was tightly held, and still could not be taken off. Hu Bing chopped it off with a knife, and picked up the key from the broken hand, but the key had been chopped off. broken.Shi Luodie reprimanded: "You bastard!" The Hu Bing trembled in fright, knelt down, and begged for mercy repeatedly, Shi Luodie kicked him somersault, and ordered the soldiers beside him: "Break open the gate for me! "Dozens of soldiers picked up a log and slammed it into the gate.The wooden door made a heavy sound, and finally, the door was knocked open.Shi Luodie walked in, but the scene in front of him stunned him: a big room was empty, only a wooden box was placed in the corner.A schoolboy broke open the copper lock on the box and put his hand in. There were only a dozen copper coins inside.Shi Luodie kicked hard on the box, walked out, looked at Zhao Gongcun who was in a pool of blood, and said with a puzzled expression, "You're fighting for this little money?" Zhao Gongcun bit He gritted his teeth and said nothing, the severe pain made him speechless.

The raging flames that burned the city rushed straight into the endless darkness, dyeing the sky blood red!Soon, someone came to report that Fan Xin, the guard of the Tang Dynasty, had been captured at the Governor's Office.Shi Luodie rushed towards the governor's office excitedly, a group of hussars surrounded him on the way, and the leader of the group gave him a hard look with wolf-like eyes.Shocked, Shi Luodie stopped his horse, bowed and said, "Father Khan, you have arrived!" But there was no joy on Jieli's face. A fast horse galloped up with a head in hand: "Report profusely, the more than 100,000 Tang troops who came out of Jingzhou have retreated. Our army only grabbed one tail and killed a thousand Tang soldiers, but they cut The severed Tang general Dugu Yanyun's head." He said and threw the head on the ground.Shi Luodie stepped forward and took a look: "Father Khan, it's really Dugu Yanyun. Last year, when I went south to Bingzhou, I didn't suffer from this old man." Zhishi Sili also said: "Khan, this It is worthy of great congratulations, the father of Dugu Yanyun and Li Yuan are aunt cousins, and he himself was one of the nine generals who followed Li Shimin in the Xuanwumen uprising!"

Jieli said with a gloomy expression, "I deployed a lot of suspicious soldiers, led the main force to detour for thousands of miles, crossed the river through the secluded path of Hetao in Suibei, and lay in ambush in this mountain forest for five days. In the end, only one Tang general was killed. Is it worth celebrating?" Shi Luodie knew that it was all his fault, so he quickly comforted his father: "Father Khan, don't be too sad, maybe Li Shimin's anger is not exhausted?" Jieli glanced at his son: "Qi, what is Qi, and who is in charge of this Qi?" Jieli drew out his sword and pointed at the night sky and shouted: "My God, it is said that the emperor pays off those who have a heart. My heart is almost exhausted, why do you still want to betray me? If you really want to be my enemy, then come down and fight with me for 300 rounds, and you will have a good time winning or losing!"

The sky was silent, a gust of wind blew past and shook Xieli's cloak wildly.Shi Luodie and Zhishi Shili looked at each other, showing horror. After a long time, the sword fell from Jieli's hand.He turned around, and Shi Luodie found that his father seemed to be much older all of a sudden.He stepped forward and said: "Father Khan, although we failed to encircle and wipe out the main force of the Tang army, the battle in Suizhou was enough to make the Tang army terrified. Why don't we take advantage of the victory and send our troops south to take Chang'an?" Jieli rolled his eyes at his son and said, "Thank you for reading With so many military books, don’t you know that the right time and place should be considered in war? In spring and summer, the Jing and Wei Rivers in Guanzhong are high and the waves are high, and the cavalry is easily cut off by the river, making it difficult to gallop across the river. Importantly, after this battle, the Tang Dynasty has already made preparations and blocked the passage to the south. If we attack all the way, how many soldiers and horses will we lose if we reach Chang'an?"