Emperor Sui Yang

Xuan Ting was in the north, and he encountered the famous king of Qilian City, the famous king of Linqiang City, and the nomadic tribal kings in the Datong Mountain area.

Among them, Linqiang City, located in Xiping County, was first established during the reign of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, and has always been the key route from the Central Plains to the west of Qinghai.

Before Yang Ming's army set out, the entire Xiping County, except for Huangshui County, was occupied by Tuguhun, because the rivers in the territory were criss-crossed and the pastures were rich and suitable for grazing.

But right now, Shi Wansui has been ordered to clean up Xiping County, and all the Tuyuhun tribes will be kicked out. As soon as Taiping Gong's banner arrives, the main force has already gone after Xuanting's Linqiang City, surrendering without a fight, and requesting to belong to the Sui Dynasty , but Shi Wansui did not agree and asked them to leave Sui territory immediately.

Six days after Shi Wansui arrived in Xiping County, two counties and one city in the territory fell into the hands of Tai Sui.

At this time, Xuan Ting had successfully joined the Gao Yin tribe and fled northwest along the Qilian Mountains.

When they arrived at the Shule River, they found that the pursuers were gone. Xuan Ting was worried, so he sent a hundred horsemen to check back, and finally found that the pursuers were indeed gone.

He was a little dazed, not knowing what was going on.

In fact, Qilian City and Linqiang City were lost one after another. The old nest of the two cavalry who chased him was taken away, so they rushed back to help. The remaining famous king of Datong Mountain only had 3000 cavalry, while Xuan Ting now has more than [-] cavalry , the number of people was already superior, so they felt that the situation was wrong, so they also withdrew.

"Giving up the pursuit with such an advantage, I'm afraid there will be changes in the rear. After we take a rest, we'd better go back and check. Maybe there is something going on in Zhangye." Gao Yin didn't think that a second son like Xuan Ting would take the risk to rescue him. The impression of Xuan Ting in my heart is very emotional,
In the army, loyalty is very important, and those who have no loyalty will be reviled or even killed directly.

Yang Suzhi's army is like this. If you are greedy for life and afraid of death, don't go to the battlefield to die. I will send you away first.

Xuan Ting nodded: "There must be a situation in the future, otherwise they wouldn't all withdraw. Looking at the banner, it should belong to three departments. Are you sure?"

At this time, Pei Juan's guide beside him nodded and said:

"I can be sure, it should be Qilian City, Linqiang City, and Datong Mountain. Of these three tribes, Linqiang City is the strongest. There are about seven or eight thousand cavalry, maybe more. Look at the recent days. In this situation, there is obviously no tacit understanding among the three families, it can be seen that after discovering our whereabouts, they sent troops hastily."

"If these three departments have all the troops, how many people can there be?" asked Sun Kai, the staff member.

The guide said: "The three divisions plus the Tuolaihe division are the four divisions in the north of Tuguhun King City. If the total number of soldiers is about 5 to [-], half of them must be formed by recruiting herdsmen. The combat effectiveness is worrying. If we don’t have an army, we can fight instead, if it is a small group of elites, it is the most difficult to fight.”

"Understood, it's more expensive than expensive, and it's hard to control if there are too many people, not to mention there are herdsmen who are not good at fighting." Yang Xuanting then asked about the situation of supplies, and then under the guidance of the guide, he planned to go to Shule After plundering some tribes in the lower reaches of the river and replenishing food and drinking water, they went eastward.

Restricted by geographical conditions, Tuguhun has been vigorously doing business with the Sui Dynasty or smuggling them to obtain the necessary materials for life and production, but the gains are limited after all, so their troops have a low rate of armor, and the toughness of the armor is also low. It is not as good as the Sui Dynasty, but its strength lies in its flexibility.

If it came into direct contact, the Sui army was obviously stronger than Tuguhun, especially the cavalry army under Xuan Ting's command, who paid for their own supplementary ordnance and war horses, and their combat effectiveness was even stronger.

There were a total of 4000 people, fighting and killing for six or seven hundred miles, only to lose a thousand, and among the thousand, at least one or two hundred people were separated, basically retaining the main force.

Robbery is bound to kill people. If it was in the territory of the Sui Dynasty, even if Xuan Ting dared to rob the people, he would never dare to kill them. But in Tuyuhun, he has no such scruples.

After plundering several tribes along the way, and replenishing [-] horses, as well as enough dried meat and drinking water, Xuan Ting began to return in the direction of Fu Yuanchuan.

At the same time, Ba Mushe, who was chasing Xuan Ting, hurried back to Qilian City to rescue him with [-] riders. When he arrived, he found out that his father had been shot by a stray arrow.

Wang Shuo didn't know that the chase that night killed the king of Qilian City, because when the famous king ran away, he was wearing the clothes of ordinary soldiers.

In a fit of rage, Ba Mu She began to recruit all the men from the tribes belonging to Qilian City in the upper reaches of the Haoquan River. Five days later, he brought [-] cavalry to the city.

The offensive and defensive positions were changed, this time it was replaced by Wang Shuolai to defend the city.

But Wang Shuo didn't stick to it. This kid had read military books. He was illiterate at first, but he was trained by He Ruobi to be able to read military books.

So he ordered to open the gate of the east city and drive the people out of the city. Many of the people in the city were relatives and family members of the soldiers under his command, so they dared not do anything.

The first batch of [-] people were expelled, and while there was chaos outside the city, Wu Jinglong led [-] elite cavalry, charged out from the city, tore through a line of defense, and disappeared.

This is the most frightening thing, because in this way, he can't concentrate on attacking the city by pulling out the wooden shot, and he has to watch out for Wu Jinglong to kill a carbine at any time.

And at this time, the old lady, wife and children of Bamushe were also taken to the city wall by Wang Shuo. The intention was obvious, if you dare to attack the city, I will kill your wife and children.

Ba Mu She is also a ruthless person, he directly ordered the attack on the city, regardless of the life and death of his wife and children.

Wang Shuo also admired this kid's ruthlessness, but he didn't kill anyone. Pei Ju had explained that women, children and children should move as long as they can.

So he threw the combustible materials such as beams, columns, wooden furniture, etc. that he removed from the houses in the city early, and threw them down the city wall. If you attack the city, I will pour fire oil on it. You have a try.

Just try it.

The wall climbing ladder has already started to stick to the city wall.

Don't think that he is so backward that he can't even use the ladder for climbing the wall. He is a neighbor of the Sui Dynasty, and he has learned a lot of things, including smelting and casting, let alone the ladder for climbing the wall.

When Wang Shuo gave an order, the fire oil was poured down, and then lit with arrows. Suddenly, black smoke rose up, and the flames rose high, killing many people.

It was so smoky that it was impossible to climb the wall, so Bamushe had to order the siege troops to withdraw and wait for the fire to burn out before going over.

Behind him, Wu Jinglong raided frequently, and was so annoyed that Ba Mu She got angry and simply allocated two thousand cavalry to chase and kill him.

On Wang Shuo's side, it's just a waste of time with him. There are still a lot of inflammables stored on the city wall. As long as they can be dragged until night, it will be easy.

At night, Wang Shuo sent Yang Wengan, a general of hussars, to drive away the people as well, and then led a thousand horses to attack and disturb the army outside the city.

And Wang Shuo directly opened the north city gate, and invited you into the urn.

Ba Mu She knew it was deceitful, but how could he let such a good opportunity pass, so he ordered one of his generals to lead the cavalry to enter through the north city gate.

On the city wall, arrows shot down.

After entering the city from the northern city, there is a straight main road leading directly to the south gate. After the Tuguhun cavalry entered the city, they did not notice any movement at first. After about [-] cavalry entered, the cavalry immediately encountered the small houses on both sides of the road. rain of arrows.

All of a sudden, people were turned on their backs, and the most serious thing was the city gate, which was basically shot and killed by the crossbow arrows on the city wall and houses, even people and horses.

Now, the corpse blocked the city gate, and the cavalry behind couldn't get in, so they had to dismount and rush inside.

And Mo Dao Shou, who had been ambushing in the surrounding alleys for a long time, also surrounded them, and launched the most tragic street fighting.

At night, the war came to an end.

Although Tuguhun's troops attacking the north city gate retreated, the city gate was also rotten and blocked by piled corpses.

In the battle in the first half of the night, Da Sui lost very little, only about [-] people died, and [-] enemy troops were wiped out.

After resting in the middle of the night, in the early morning of the next day, Ba Mushe continued to order people to attack the city.

At this time, Yang Xuanting was less than a hundred miles away from Qilian City.

When Xuan Ting received the battle report from the scouts ahead, he led the main force of the cavalry without hesitation and rushed towards Qilian City.

At noon that day, Ba Mu She also knew that soldiers were coming from behind, and the situation of the siege was not ideal, and a lot of losses were suffered. In this case, he could only withdraw.

As soon as he withdrew, the experienced Wang Shuo immediately reorganized his army and ordered the remaining [-] cavalry out of the city to chase after him.

For a while, another big melee started.

Xuan Ting's three thousand, Wu Jinglong's one thousand, Chang Yang Wengan's one thousand, Wang Lian's one thousand, a total of six thousand riders, ran back and forth, tearing the defense line of Bamushe.

In the evening, Ba Mu shot led more than [-] remnants of the remnants, and fled to the west.

In this battle, [-] horses and more than [-] people were captured.

Yang Xuan supported this army, and the cavalry army expanded to [-] in an instant. The order Yang Ming gave him at the beginning was to prepare the army horses by himself. Now, he has prepared everything.

As for the [-] captives, plus the family members of the King of Qilian City, they will be escorted to Zhangye and handed over to Pei Ju.

In the Sui Dynasty, after capturing foreign captives, they would either engage in land reclamation at the border or enter the Central Plains as slaves. Generally, these two options were the only options, and captives would also be incorporated into the army under special circumstances.

And Ba Mushe also suffered a bloody misfortune, when he fled to the upper reaches of the Haoquan River, at the southern foot of Chewozhen Mountain, and took a temporary rest, he met Shi Wanbao's five thousand fine riders again.

Only Ba Mushe and more than 40 people of his own clan escaped from the siege and fled to the direction of Wangcheng.

So far, Qilian City, one of the four northern parts of Tuguhun, has been wiped out.

Because transportation and communication methods were not developed in ancient times, Yang Ming, who was in the rear, could not accurately grasp the changes in the war.

What he and Gao Jiong can do is actually only strategic planning, and the specific implementation depends on the generals ahead.

Pei Ju and Gao Jiong focused on Qilian City at the same time, which was the unity of strategic intentions. Then, what Yang Xuanting had to do next was to go south to harass the Datong Mountain tribe and clear away the obstacles for the main force of Shi Wansui in Xiping County to go west.

And the famous king who lost Linqiang City, after learning that Linqiang City was occupied by the famous Shi Wansui, did not dare to enter Xiping County at all, but urgently took the tribal herdsmen to migrate to Datong Mountain to the west.

To the southwest of Datong Mountain is Tuguhun King City.