June of the eleventh year of the dog industry... The Central Plains has begun to enter summer... The sun hanging in the sky has also begun to show its might, and the hot summer has arrived. Outside the frontier, June is already a good season for lush water and grass, and cattle and sheep to begin to gain weight.

However, Yanmen, which lives between the Central Plains and the Great Wall, is still sad and foggy at this time. For the Sui army trapped in the lonely city, life is sad now, and even every day is like torture. The city has started to provide limited food. I heard that if it weren't for the 200,000 people in the city, almost half would have died. Now everyone will not even have a sparse dry day, so they probably can only drink porridge like water.

The hot summer has arrived. Every evening, the civilians in the city will wrap their towels around their heads, gathering the bodies of soldiers who died after a day of battle everywhere. The piles of soldiers' corpses are focused in several empty places. When the night falls, they are burned into piles of huge fires. The smell of stenched corpses is floating throughout the entire Yanmen City, and this disgusting smell is everywhere.

Whenever the corpses are burned in the city, the Turks outside Yanmen City will basically pick up the bodies of their own soldiers who fell into battle under the city and burn them. Although the people of the Central Plains are concerned about being buried in the soil and the people of the grassland do not have the custom of burning corpses, both sides know that in such summers, if the corpses are not burned in time, what will it mean if the plague occurs.

As usual, on the same day, a huge black smoke pillar began to ignite outside the city. The stench drifted with the wind. Everyone knew that it was burning the body again. Yanmen had been surrounded for ten days. During these ten days, the Turks carried out two large-scale tragic sieges on the first and third day of the siege. The two sieges of Light, the city's defenders had killed more than 50,000. In addition, the remaining seriously injured and could not fight were less than 40,000 soldiers in the city.

The Turks were not much better, especially when they siege the city on a large scale the next day, the time after dawn, the one that insisted on continuing to siege the city caused huge damage to the Turks. There were as many as 70,000 Turks who died in the battle under the city, and more than 10,000 seriously injured disabled soldiers and horses in the camp. At this time, less than half of them could fight. Three hundred thousand troops went south, and only half of the Turks were left.

Since those two fierce sieges, the Turks have carried out several more sieges, but they are all small-scale sieges, meaningless except for the corpses that were left behind on both sides in vain.

Li Shimin climbed the city and looked into the distance and wanted to see his father leading the main army of Hedong Army in Taiyuan, but he had no hope of climbing high again and again. He still saw the Turkic Golden Wolf Crown standing high on the opposite side. He was disappointed in the dark sky, and the smell of dead bodies was still floating everywhere, without any sign of reinforcements. This waiting and expectation made him a little desperate. This was a disappointment that was extremely longing but unattainable.

Then he turned to inspect the sentry posts and defensive forces everywhere. At this time, handover was taking place above the city heads, and the soldiers who had handed over the shift dragged their tired bodies to the camp and staggered. The clothes in the queue were really five or eight, because when the soldiers set out from Hedong in the summer, most of them were wearing spring clothes. The weather was hot but there was no summer clothes. Everyone had to pull the ragged jackets and military uniforms and hang the torn cloth on their bodies.

Then he put on armor outside. Some soldiers were too lazy to even wear the cloth piece, and put on bright light armor outside with bare shirtless, looking very embarrassed.

Seeing his subordinates passing by, Li Shimin felt very complicated. These veterans who had been through many battles were hungry and seemed to fall down at any time when they walked. They worked hard, lacked sleep, had no food, only hunger: no sleep, only hard fighting. The infantrymen were struggling, and their trembling hands could only barely hold their spears and hold their guns. Even the majestic and powerful infantrymen on the battlefield were now just a group of skeletons with iron armor.

Until now, these tall and strong men can no longer wear complete double-layer infantry armor and hold the heavy steel spear in their hands.

A large number of soldiers in the city were injured, but at this time there was not enough medicine in the city, so they could only be Ruoruo next to each other. Once they could not stand it, they could only become part of the fire in the dark the next day.

However, even so, Li Shimin's three thousand soldiers were incorporated into the Zuotun Guard and became the Xuanjia Camp.

It was still the army with amazing combat effectiveness in the city at this time. Every time the war drum sounded and the horn blew, facing the Turks who were sieging the city, the army that seemed to be about to collapse once again dragged their steel guns and scimitars to kill them.

After finishing the patrol, Li Shimin went straight to Feiyun Temple. Now he was escorted by the imperial guards. Since Yang Guang was shot in the arrow, there have been rumors in the army. Yesterday, Emperor Yang Guang dragged his wounds and pretended to be safe. He went up to the city to comfort the three armies again. At the city, Yang Guang endured the pain... But when he returned to Feiyun Temple, the imperial doctors were shocked. The emperor's wound burst and blood stained several layers of clothes inside. Before the imperial doctors had processed the wound, Yang Guang fainted and did not wake up until several imperial doctors rescued them for a long time.

At this time, several officials in charge of the government affairs and discussed with the emperor and decided to block the emperor's temporary palace, Feiyun Temple, and strictly prohibit anyone from passing on the emperor's information. Even the officials in the city who wanted to see the emperor must obtain all the political participation and the emperor's consent. Anyone who conveyed the emperor's physical condition would be killed without mercy.

The guards went in and asked the queen and the seven others before they took Li Shimin into Feiyun Temple.

When he walked into Yang Guang's house, Yang Guang's face was pale and was lying on a soft couch and listening to Su Wei and other ministers of political participation reported the military situation. Seeing Li Shimin coming in, Yang Guang reluctantly raised his body and asked, "Have your father not arrived yet?, Now the city is getting more and more dangerous. Only Li Yuan from Taiyuan in the entire Sui Dynasty is the closest to him, and only he has nearly 100,000 troops in his hands that can arrive in the shortest time.

Li Shimin shook his head, "I guess it will take not long before the Hedong soldiers will come. When I was inspecting the city defense just now, I found that several troops had just been sent out in the Turkic camp, and it was observed that at least 20,000 people were about 20,000. I predict that either the reinforcements from the Taiyuan court had reached the Yanmen border. Or the 100,000 Hebei soldiers from General Pei Renji of Hebei reached the Feihu Pin Pass." As soon as the news came out, everyone in the room moved their faces. Even Yang Guang's pale face was a little rosy. It was not a possibility, but it meant that 100,000 strong troops would come to support immediately, and the siege of Yanmen would be lifted.

Pei Yun, who was standing aside, looked at everyone with great joy, but still said with a heavy face, "In addition to these two reasons, there is another possibility that the Turks will send troops out of the camp."

"What's the reason?" Li Shimin turned around and pretended to be suspicious. In fact, he had already thought of that possibility in his heart, but he was unwilling to say this possibility after expressing hope, which disappointed everyone.

Sure enough, Pei Yun pondered, "There is another possibility that the Turks' food and grass were not allowed to continue, so they had to send people to find food." The Turks surrounded the city for ten days, and the daily food consumed by the 150,000 troops under the city was a huge number. When the Turks came, they did not bring any food at all, and all the food was robbed on the spot. After so many days of encirclement, the Turks were likely to have no food, so they eagerly sent troops to transport grain to the cities they had captured before.

When Yang Guang and others heard this possibility, their faces that had moved darkened again.

Li Shimin looked at the expressions of everyone and said, "Your Majesty, I think tonight is an opportunity. At present, the Turks can fight only 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers, and now there are 20,000 more troops. I think we can go out of the city tonight and attack the Turks at night.

Yang Guang looked at Li Shimin in surprise. At the moment, everyone in the city was thinking about how to defend the city, but only he could think about how to leave the city to counterattack the Turks. Although Yang Guang was worried that if he failed, the number of troops in Yanmen City might be smaller, so he would not be able to defend Yanmen. But he thought about the reinforcements that he had not been waiting for a long time. He thought about Princess Izuyun, who had originally planned to send her away three days ago, had been struggling to find Yang Guang's eyes flashed. After thinking for a long time, he finally said, "Tell me what you plan to do at night."

Attack the Turks?" Su Wei, who was beside him, said loudly, "Your Majesty, you must not. Although you are trapped in Yanmen City, the troops and horses in Hebei and Hedong are not far away. Even in the world, the capital has now received a decree to serve the king and are leading troops. As long as we hold on for another ten days and a half months, the siege of Yanmen will be lifted. Now that we have abandoned this calmness and take dangerous moves, it is possible to have an accident. Your Majesty, the Turks suddenly leave the camp, how can we not know that this is the Turks' enemy's strategy?"

"You enemy's strategy?" Yang Guang shook his head, "Na Shina Duji is just a barbarian on the grassland. How could he know these strategies? Last time he feinted the attack on Xicheng and made a move to attack the west, you also saw his strategy. What's more, I believe that General Li must have a comprehensive strategy." Yang Guang did not believe Su Wei's words, but now the food in the city is getting less and less, and he is worried about the situation in Hebei, so he urgently needs to let Yang Jier rush to Liaodong, so he has to have another bet.

Seeing the emperor so resolutely, everyone was about to persuade him again, but at this time they couldn't say anything. Everyone had to turn their eyes to Li Shimin to see how he came up with a complete solution.

(To be continued...
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