Qu Tutong took a deep breath and said, "Hundreds of thousands of Turkic cavalry were found two hundred miles west, and a 10,000 Turkic cavalry was less than a hundred miles away from Loufan Pass."

"Ah!" Sang Xian exclaimed and was stunned.

At this time, Qu Tutong said slowly: "It seems that the loss of Loufan Pass must be true. It is no longer realistic to retake Loufan Pass. We must immediately go north to guard the emperor and evacuate to Yanmen County. We cannot let the emperor fall into the hands of the Turks. That would be a great humiliation for us."

After pausing, Qu Tutong said to Sang Xian again: "We have two groups of troops. I will lead 10,000 troops north to welcome the emperor. You will lead the rest of the troops to Yanmen County first to deploy defenses and block the Turkic cavalry as much as possible."

Sang Xian also said: "General, we don't have time to attack Loufanguan. We can let Yun Dingxing's army attack from the south, and Xue Shixiong's army. Bei Zhi feels that we should notify them immediately."

Qu Tutong sighed secretly in his heart, for fear that Yun Dingxing would be controlled by others and could not attack the pass with all his heart, but he had no choice but to nod, "Just do it like this!"

General Yun Dingxing led a 50,000 army to station in the northeast of Loufan County, about 150 miles from Loufan Pass. This was also the agreement reached between the Great Sui Dynasty and the Turks. They had to be five hundred miles away from Fuqibo.

The military camp covers an area of ​​thousands of acres, with tents densely packed in the military camp. The army of 50,000 Xiaoguo waited patiently for the emperor's order.

In the afternoon, an army rushed from the north. It was Ma Xunwu, the commander of Lou Fanguan. At this time, Ma Xunwu had already known the news that Lou Fanguan had lost. He felt very heavy and felt a little guilty. He knew what sin he had committed.

According to Yun Dingxing's prior arrangement, he would say that he had abandoned Lou Fanguan as his own trap. In this way, he would be responsible for dereliction of duty. Yun Dingxing would severely blame him for eighty military sticks, demoted him to a higher level, and compensate him in other aspects in the future.

Masonwu led his army to the front of the camp, and he shouted loudly: "I ask to see the general!"

In the big tent, Yu Wen Zhiji, wearing personal military uniforms, was whispering to discuss something with Yun Dingxing. "Father's opinion, Uncle Shi wanted to attack Loufanguan, but he could only act as a gesture, with heavy casualties, but he could not really take down the pass. In short, we must show that we are also actively rescuing the emperor."

Yun Dingxing nodded and asked again: "What should we do with Maxunwu?"

Yuwen Zhiji sneered and looked down with his palm. "Do you understand what I mean?"

"I understand, it is really hard to explain to the people of the world if he doesn't kill him."

At this time, the soldiers reported at the door of the tent, "Report to the General, General Mason Wu is back."

"Take him to rest in the account first, and then come to see him after handling some military affairs."

The soldiers turned around and Yun Dingxing recruited several more personal soldiers and whispered to them: "Maxunwu is in the other tent. You go in and take him and behead him, and don't give him any chance to speak."

"Abide by the order!"

Several personal soldiers hurried away. Soon, they heard a scream from afar. Soon the personal soldiers reported outside the tent: "General, the head of the Mason Wu is here!"

Yun Dingxing sneered and ordered: "The head of the Mason Wu people was circulated on the entire army. This person left his post without permission, and the enemy's plan to lure the tiger out of the mountain. This led to the loss of Loufan Pass, and he should be killed according to the military rules!"

Feiying sent a message from Mayi County to Luoyang, and Yingxin was transferred from Luoyang to Jiangdu. Zhang Xuan received the news from Mayi County three days later, and it was already the last day of February.

However, Zhang Xuan was not in Jiangdu at this time. Instead, he was in Shanyang County on the south bank of the Huai River. This was the place where Hangou entered the Huai River. It had become an important place for the Sui army to garrison, with 10,000 Sui troops stationed here.

In the big tent, Zhang Xuanzheng and Fang Xuanling discussed the north rescue matter. Fang Xuanling smiled and said, "I can understand the envoy's intention to go north to rescue me, but I still said that without the emperor's edict, the envoy cannot lead the army out of the garrison area, that is, Jianghuai, unless."

"Unless what?" Zhang Xuan asked with a smile.

Fang Xuanling also laughed. The two of them had a very tacit understanding in their hearts and knew each other's deep meaning.

"Unless the bandits in Xuzhou are not yet resolved, the envoy can continue to lead the army north to suppress the bandits. You must know that the emperor's order to suppress the bandits has not yet ended. This is the only opportunity for the envoy to go north."

Zhang Xuan nodded, "I have the final say whether there are bandits in Xuzhou. Besides, I have ordered Pei Xingyan to lead the cavalry north to find Meng Haigong's whereabouts. I want to try to get closer to the Yellow River. Once the order to serve the king comes down, we will immediately cross the Yellow River north, so the boat crossing the river as soon as possible."

Fang Xuanling pondered for a while and asked, "Why do the envoy think that the emperor will definitely issue the order to serve the king?"

Of course, Zhang Xuan could not say that history was like this. He smiled and said, "Just reasoning, hundreds of thousands of Turkic troops attacked the emperor, and Loufan Pass was controlled by the Turkic people. The emperor only had tens of thousands of troops around him. Even if the Xiaoguo army captured Loufan Pass, there were only 150,000 troops. How could it compete with hundreds of thousands of Turkic cavalry? Now the armies of the Great Sui Dynasty are distributed all over the world. If the emperor wants not to be captured by the Turkic people, he can only issue an edict to serve the king."

Fang Xuanling thought of another situation. He sighed and said, "I'm afraid that the powerful and powerful gentry in various counties will take the opportunity to recruit soldiers. It will be even more difficult for the emperor to abolish these local troops. As long as the local army supports the army, the world will be in chaos sooner or later."

Zhang Xuan sighed slightly, "I am also worried about this, so I want to try my best to return to Beihai County. This is what I want to rescue the emperor. Only with the help of saving the emperor can I have the opportunity to return to Beihai County."

"Do you want to take Yu Shiji's route?"

"It was when Wang Bo seized a few rare things, and I believe he would be moved."

"The envoy has really invested a lot of money to Yu Shiji!"

"This is called being reluctant to let go of a child and being trapped by a wolf. It's just something outside of the body. As long as you can go back to Beihai County, what's the point of not wanting to let go."

"The envoy said it very well. I wonder when the envoy will go north to Xuzhou to suppress the bandits?"

Zhang Xuan thought for a while and smiled, "I want to set off tomorrow and go directly to Dongping County. There is a remnant of Xu Yuanlang in Juyezawa. I think Meng Haigong should hide there!"

The next morning, Zhang Xuan led 5,000 troops and 30 grain ships to the north along the Si River. He ordered Pei Xingyan to be the vanguard and led a thousand cavalry to go to Dongping County first. At the same time, Zhang Xuan sent people to Luoyang to report to Yang Neng, the King of Yan who was left behind in the capital that the remnants of Meng Hai Gong were found in Dongping County. The defeated and missing Meng Hai Gong was very likely to flee north to Dongping County.

Just as Zhang Xuan led his army north to Dongping County, the situation in Mayi County and Yanmen County was like water and fire. Yun Dingxing led a 50,000 army to attack Loufan Pass. The Sui army suffered heavy casualties, but the pass was extremely steep and difficult to conquer. As a last resort, Yun Dingxing had to temporarily retreat to Taiyuan to rectify the troops, and the general Xue Shixiong continued to lead the army to attack Loufan Pass.

To the north of Loufan Pass, 300,000 Turkic cavalry swept across Mayi County and defeated Qu Tutong's 20,000 Sui troops who fought to resist the Turks' advance eastward. Qu Tutong led thousands of remaining troops to retreat to Yanmen County. Hundreds of thousands of iron cavalry rushed into Yanmen County. In just two days, more than 40 passes and cities were conquered, and the Sui Emperor Yang Guang surrounded Yanmen County.

At this time, Yang Guang had only 35,000 troops, plus more than 100,000 residents of Yanmen County, and there were only 150,000 people in the county. The county's grain storage could only support one month, while the Turkic army besieged Yanmen County had as many as 250,000. The 200,000 Turkic troops attacked in turn, with an offensive, and the attack was like a tide, and the Yanmen City was only supported by a little advantage in the support of the advantage of the geographical advantage, and the city was in danger.

Yanmen County is a large county with a circumference of twenty miles. It is built on a mountain rock. It is a cliff ten feet high in the north and the main entrance and exit passage to the south. Although the county town has two city gates, north and south, in fact, only the south gate can be used.

The city wall was about two feet high and was made of large bluestone, a specialty of Yanmen County, making the city particularly tall and strong and difficult to attack. It is precisely for this reason that the Sui army barely defended the city, but it was still dangerous.

The Turkic army mainly attacked the south and west sides, and there were 30,000 Turkic archers arranged outside the eastern city wall. The bows and arrows they used were exactly as powerful as the Sui army. A large number of Han craftsmen fled north and brought great improvements to the Turkic bow making technology.

"Prepare to launch!"

A strong Turkic 10,000 Turkic archers stood on the big stone and yelled. Ten thousand Turkic archers raised their big bows, and ten thousand soldiers pointed their arrows diagonally into the city.

"shoot!"

The ten thousand men shouted a loud roar, and ten thousand thick and long arrows broke out from the strings, shooting towards the city like a black cloud. At this time, the second batch of ten thousand Turkic archers rushed forward and also fired a black arrow. Then the third batch of ten thousand archers stepped forward and fired again.

The Turkic army's arrow formation was extremely terrifying. One round of 30,000 arrows shot into the city, roaring like a swarm of locusts. Heavy arrows shot through the roof. A large number of civilians supporting the city guarding the city were shot to death, and even women and children hiding in the room could not escape death.

The reason why the Turkic army chose to shoot archery outside the East City was because the government offices were mainly concentrated in the East City area.

In the back hall of the county yamen, Yang Guang hid under the table with his youngest son Yang Gao in his arms. The crackling arrows shot through the house and fell down like a piercing arrow, and inserted into the soil beside him. The father and son were so scared that they were trembling.
Chapter completed!