The sunset has already set, and the sky is dark and dark, extremely low.

Li Shimin held the sword and walked up to the top of the city wall of the western pass. Duke Rong and the general of the right guard Lai Huer were standing on the top of the city wall, with silver hair showing vicissitudes in the afterglow. At this time, the narrow pass was filled with flags everywhere. The gusts of wind blew, and the flags like the sea were rushing, which made the tension even more before the war.

Seeing Li Shimin walking up, Lai Hu'er smiled on her face, "Shimin, you haven't had a good rest for a few days, why didn't you have a good rest? You ran to the top of the city again."

"I couldn't sleep after lying in the tent for an hour."

Lai Hu'er smiled and looked at the mountain road in the distance, and said softly, "Win, do not be happy. If you lose, do not be panic. If you have thunder in the xiong and look like a flat lake, you can be called the general!"

Li Shimin was shocked. Looking at Lai Huer's expression, he couldn't help but admire him. The 300,000 Turkic army would arrive at any time, but he could not see any nervousness on his face. He secretly praised him as a general who had always been appreciated by the emperor in the court.

He knew that although Lai Hu'er had always been highly appreciated by Yang Guang and had a very high status in the military, his background was not high, and he never exceeded his authority and took over major affairs in the court outside the military.

It is precisely this indifferent heart that makes Lai Huer detached in the struggle between major families. Lai Huer was originally a family of officials in Jiangnan, and his father died in an hour. He was raised by his father and mother. Later, his father was killed by his fellow villager Tao Wuzi, and Wu often mentioned this matter to Lai Huer in tears.

At that time, Tao Wuzi's clan had hundreds of families, and he was self-proclaimed. Lai Hu'er often wanted to avenge his father. When Tao Wuzi's family was holding a marriage, Lai Hu'er sought a few helpers and went straight to his house and killed Tao Wuzi. All the guests were shocked by his actions and dared not act rashly. Lai Hu'er used Tao Wuzi's head to pay tribute to his father and lived in seclusion in the mountains. Later, he was not involved in the army until Wei Xiaokuan, the general of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, attacked Chen. Since then, he has made military achievements and has been promoted to the position of general.

"Are you not worried about the Turks? Although Your Majesty left behind 50,000 imperial guards and 3,000 headquarters of the last general, the western pass is not strong. With 50,000 to 300,000, we have no chance of winning."

Li Shimin's worried word.

Lai Hu'er chuckled, "I have been in the army since I was young, and I have been in the army for more than 40 years, with thousands of battles of all sizes and sizes.

Which time did not crawl out of the pile of dead people? There is never a battle that must be won or a battle that must be defeated. If it is calculated based on the number of troops and equipment, then there are no famous generals in the world. Fear will only make you lose your courage and will not help you in the present."

He turned around and patted Li Shimin, and came to Hu'er and said, "Actually, you are already very good. With 10,000 new recruits, you annihilated 15,000 elite cavalry of the Turkic Ashina tribe. This battle was remarkable. It is worthy of being a family of the Zhu Kingdom. It has the style of your great-grandfather. Duke Tang gave birth to a good son.

In time, you will definitely become the most dazzling famous general in the Sui Dynasty. In you, I have seen the necessary things for famous generals."

"I'm afraid I won't wait for that day." Li Shimin's xiong was full of anger. For the first time, he no longer had that kind of respect for Yang Guang, and only had anger that was difficult to calm down. He couldn't understand that he had a great battle with the Turks in Shenwu City, and brought the information about the Turks' southward to Yang Guang in time, but Yang Guang ignored his contribution and fatigue and left him here to die. The frivolous young master Yu Wenji, who had nothing to do, actually became the General of the Zuo Yigu, and now he has a 100,000 imperial guard army.

The evening breeze blows, and the sunset glows in the sky are as bloody as it makes the Sui army in the pass feel heavier.

A moment of footsteps sounded, and another chubby general climbed the pass.

"Uncle Yun Shi!" Li Shimin bowed to the person who came.

"It's time? Why are you doing this? After a fight, I will rely on you to pull it." The fat man smiled.

The fat man who came was not someone else, but Li Yuan's family friendship, Yun Dingxing, the general of the Youtun Guard. He was originally the father-in-law of the deposed crown prince Yang Yong, and he was extremely glorious. Unexpectedly, his son-in-law became a dead man in the end, but Yang Guang became the emperor. However, the Yun Dingxing family was a noble family, with a wealthy family and the most sleek person. After huādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādādā

However, his deposed Prince Yang Yong's father-in-law was a problem after all. This time he came to Hu'er to stay in the western front, not only did Li Shimin stay. The unlucky Zhi Dingxing was also kept by Yang Guang.

"Have the Turks not come yet?" Yun Dingxing asked in the distance. His fat hands slapped the bricks on the pass and sighed, "I, Lao Yun, have figured it out. No matter what, I can't go back this time. I just hope that these Turks can come sooner, die early and be reborn early, and I can't stand the torture of this kind of waiting."

Lai Hu'er chuckled, "Yun Gong, you are in a high position and your family's wealth is even more huge. Will you give up and die? I'm afraid you want to live another one?"

"The Turks must let me live. We have 50,000 people blocked here, are we just a mantis arm blocking the chariot and hitting the stone with eggs? I think it would be better for the Turks to arrive in a while. Let's replace the flag at this pass with a white flag. Maybe we can have a little more time?" Yun Dingxing said casually.

Lai Hu'er looked at the darker sky, slapped the bricks on the pass and laughed, "General Yun said that we are going to delay time by pretending to surrender? This is a good idea. If we first set up the white flag and then slowly negotiate terms with the Turks, this is a great opportunity to delay time and delay the army."

Yun Dingxing shook his head, "Shibi's target is the emperor, I'm afraid he won't agree to our request easily. If he attacks the city directly, we won't be able to stop it for long."

Li Shimin, who was silent on the side, suddenly said, "I think this plan is good!"

"Oh, what good plan do you have?" Both of them turned their heads and stared at Li Shimin.

Li Shimin smiled and said, "It's just a supplement to General Yun. If we rashly say that we surrender, Shibi may not believe it at all. So we must increase the bargaining chips so that he has to believe it."

"What chips?"

"The military strategy says, if it is solid, it is weak, and if it is weak, it is solid." Speaking of this, Li Shimin's tone was slow enough to almost speak in a word. "So dared to mobilize the whole country to siege our Emperor of Sui, and he must have thought that our Emperor of Sui had no time to rescue him in a hurry.

He didn't want to fight head-on with me, the Great Sui Dynasty. What he thought was to marching in a dangerous situation and break into Hedong to capture the Emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty, because once the Emperor was captured by him, he would have the initiative and even gain a lot of benefits without fighting. So I think we should give him this possible hope."

Lai Hu'er opened her eyes and shouted, "Shimin, be careful of her words."

Li Shimin calmly said, "Don't worry, Duke Rong Guo, my family has received the favor of the country, and of course I am not a treason. The last general means to give Shi Bi this hope to attract him and complete our delaying plan."

“How to do it?”

Pointing to the flag on the pass, Li Shimin said, "Our army should immediately fill the mountain peaks here with flags one by one and then keep beating the war drums at night. Shibi will mistakenly think that the 150,000 troops of the Imperial Guard are escorting His Majesty at this pass. In this way, after Shibi arrives, we will secretly send someone to the Turkic army and tell him that someone in the pass wants to surrender to him and is willing to surrender."

Yun Dingxing's eyes flashed with excitement, and he clapped his hands and said, "It's a wonderful plan. At that time, we can tell Shibi that we need one or two days to find the right opportunity. In this way, Shibi will definitely not be willing to use 300,000 cavalry horses to attack head-on, and there are 150,000 passes guarded by the elite guards of the Great Sui Dynasty. If it drags for a long time, he may not agree, but if it's only one or two days, I believe he will be willing to take a gamble."

Lai Hu'er brimmed with boxing "Yes, that's it! Erlang, I really didn't read you wrong, I don't want to say more, just do what you said!"

After the three agreed, they immediately sent orders. A group of soldiers planted flags on the nearby hills. When they were inserted behind, there were no flags available. The soldiers simply put them in any cloth pieces. Anyway, the distance was so far, it was impossible for the Turks to see clearly. Before dark, the Sui army finally planted flags on the hills in the pass. From a distance, the flags were like the sea, as if thousands of troops were stationed at the pass.

Standing at the pass and looking north, there is a winding western path among the mountains.

"Come"

Dozens of observation posts had been arranged on the Gouzhu Mountain in the back of the gate. After standing on the mountain for a long time, they finally saw the Turkic cavalry who had been waiting for a long time.

As the news came down on the mountain, the war drums and gongs on the pass were blew up. Teams of Sui army climbed up the narrow pass, and even the mountains on both sides of the pass were covered with soldiers. The torches inserted at the pass lit up the entire pass. Everything was ready to be in place, and only the mountain wind at the pass was left blew up the flags.

The curtain call has come, but the dark night has made the defenders above the city clearly see the Turks who arrived from the north.

In the dark night, countless torches appeared, forming a huge fire dragon. The fire dragon was getting closer and longer, but he never saw the end of it. The fire dragon that could not see the end went all the way to the western pass. The bright torches illuminated the entire western canyon with daylight.

The canyon was narrow and could not accommodate 300,000 troops at a time. At this time, the Turkic army was tying torches from the far north and occupied the pass. At the end of their sight, they were all Turkic torches, and under each of the torches, there was a Turkic cavalry.

In front of the western pass, Shibi and the great leaders looked at the pass coldly. Looking at the simple pass in the fire, Shibi's heart was full of movement. Since the founding of the Great Sui Kingdom and the Turkic Khanate Kingdom, this has been the biggest war between the two sides. A decisive battle of 450,000 troops will determine the future rise and fall of the two tribes in one battle. It can be expected that this war will definitely be a desperate and cruel battle.

Shibi restrained his mood and said to the big leaders such as Chuluo Khan, Lingli Khan, and his son Tuli, who were next to him, "Can you determine the strength of the troops within the pass? Is Yang Guang in the pass at this time?" For Shibi, capturing Yang Guang was the first target. If Yang Guang ran away and left the army here, even if he defeated these Sui troops, it would not be of much significance.

Lingli gritted his teeth and stepped forward, "Khan, the spy we arrived first reported that it was not dark yet. They found that the entire pass and the mountains were full of Sui army flags, and from afar, it seemed that there was a man guarded by stars on the top of the city, which might be Yang Guang. So, I judged that Yang Guang might not know that he could not escape us, so I stayed here, hoping to hold on to the gate and wait for assistance."

Shibi snorted coldly, but didn't even look at Lingli. "Your spy? Your spy can't even find the way. One intelligence delayed six hours. Can Ben Khan still believe you? The vanguard army of the 15,000 elite Ashina tribe was actually annihilated by more than 10,000 Sui army? You made the entire Ashina tribe embarrassed and became a joke for other tribes. How can you trust you now if you made Ben Khan?"

Chuluo Khan smiled with gloating, "Da Khan, when my little wolf cubs arrived earlier, they caught a Sui man, claiming to meet Da Khan, saying that there was a transaction to be done. I have found out that the man was the general of Yun Dingxing, the general of the Youtun Guard of Sui State, and said that his master Yun Dingxing wanted to join the Da Khan's tent."

Shibi was surprised, "Where is this man, bring him here immediately, Ben Khan wants to see him in person.

Also, collect the information about Yun Dingxing immediately to see if you know it. Ben Khan now wants all the information about Yun Dingxing." Although he was a little disbelief of the Yun Dingxing family general who was suddenly sent to the legend, he wanted to meet this person no matter what.

He wanted to ask from this person how many Sui army were in the pass at this time, especially Yang Guang was inside the pass.

Soon, someone wrote the collected information of Yun Dingxing on a pampered roll and presented it to Shibi. Shibi carefully read the pampered roll from beginning to end several times, and he became familiar with Yun Dingxing. The father-in-law of the deposed prince Yang Yong, the patriarch of the Yun family, is currently the general of the Youtun Guard. He has a wide body and fat body. He has no real knowledge. However, he is rich and good at taking photos and walking horses, and is flattering. In general, this is a fat man who is both rich but incompetent, and has been an enemy of Yang Guang.

After reading this, Shibi smiled slightly, "Bring that Yun Dingxing's family general." (To be continued...
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