After several days of hard fighting on the western front, the Turkic army broke through the Zihe Pass, the first line of defense of the Northern Sui Dynasty, at the cost of 15,000 casualties. The army continued to move south. At the same time, the Turkic army on the eastern front also captured the outer wall of Hugu Pass, but failed when attacking Hugu Pass, with more than 8,000 casualties, and was forced to enter a confrontation with the Sui army.

The 50,000 Turkic army on the eastern front was commanded by Buli, the brother of Chuluo Khan. The reason why Chuluo Khan decided to attack the eastern front was to catch him off guard. As long as the army attacked Hebei, it would cause chaos in the Northern Sui Dynasty and there would be a chance on the Western Front.

Unexpectedly, the Northern Sui Dynasty had already been prepared and built an extremely tall and sturdy pass in the Beihu Valley, leaving the Turkic army helpless.

That afternoon, Bulishi, accompanied by more than a dozen generals, rode on a horse and looked at the tall and strong Hugu Pass from afar. He was very depressed. The enemy's pass was as high as five meters, and their siege ladder was only three meters tall. They adopted the method of tying two siege ladders together to use it, but they suffered a crushing defeat during the siege, with more than 5,000 casualties. In addition to the more than 3,000 people who had lost to attack the outer city before, the Turks on the Eastern Front had lost more than 8,400 people.

Siege was originally the shortcoming of the Turkic army. They were good at fighting on the grasslands by cavalry, but now they were asked to throw away their war horses and climb the city with two sling legs, causing countless elite cavalry to die in great affliction under arrows and wooden rocks.

Bu Lishe pointed to the city with a horse whip and said, "How many Sui soldiers do you think are there in Guancheng?"

Everyone looked at each other, and no one could answer. This was something they had been guessing. It was obvious that the city could only accommodate a few thousand people, but did the Sui army really only deploy five or six thousand people?

"Wuman, you should have been here the first time, so you should have the most news. Tell me!" Bu Lishe turned around and asked Wuman, the long man.

Wuman said for a while: "The Sui army doesn't know how many people there are on our Eastern Front. If we have 300,000 troops on the Eastern Front, they will only deploy a few thousand people, so I personally think that at least 20,000 people should be at least 20,000. If I was not wrong, there should be endless tents in the south of Guancheng."

Wuman just made a random guess, but unexpectedly woke Bu Lishe up. He thought of something and looked up at the top of the mountain. There were cliffs on both sides, which were as high as a hundred feet.

Bulishi smiled meaningfully. If there were really tents in the valley to the south, God would have helped him.

The Turkic army camp was also stationed in the valley, but they were stationed at the widest part of the valley, with a valley of seventeen or eighteen miles wide and more than twenty miles away from Hugu Pass. They didn't have to worry about the Sui army killing the mountain. Instead, the Sui army's pass was built in the narrowest part, and the threat from the top of the mountain suddenly increased.

At night, a Turkic army of more than a thousand people was marching along the ridge to the top of the mountain more than ten miles away. The final destination of this Turkic soldier was above the city of Guancheng. Each soldier carried three kilograms of dry wool. The dry wool was strong and burned for a long time. It was their best fire-driven object. It would be of course the best if the Sui army could ignite the camp. However, it would not work. Using fire to attack the city of Guancheng would also be beneficial to the attack of the Turkic army.

This Turkic soldier was led by a thousand-man commander named Asina Sutu, who is also a royal family. He is only twenty years old this year. Bulishi clearly asked him to launch a fire attack before dawn, which put great pressure on Asina Sutu and his men.

They are all men who live wildly on the grassland. When did they sneak up the mountain and set fire in the dark night? Besides, they knew nothing about the road to the mountain and had no guide. They arranged the first time they went up the mountain at night. How could they complete this arduous task?

As time gradually came to the fourth hour, the Turkic soldiers groping in the woods were already exhausted, and everyone was very complaining. Asina Sutu had no choice but to order everyone to rest on the spot.

Asina Sutu stood on a large rock and visited around. He was extremely anxious. They had been walking for half a night, but they still couldn't find their way.

This road is indeed not difficult to walk from the foot of the mountain. It can be reached by taking a straight line by more than twenty miles, but when I went up the mountain, I found that this was not the case at all. There are invisible faults on the mountain, so I had to take a detour, and this detour was more than twenty miles away.

Asuna Sutu himself estimated that they had walked at least thirty miles, and even more so, they were trapped in the vast mountains and forests and completely lost their direction. Even if they climbed up the big tree, they could not tell the direction. The sky was covered with dark clouds and no moonlight. This was a good opportunity for a night attack, but for them, they were trapped in a desperate situation of getting lost.

"General, let's go when dawn! We are just messing around like this, we are exhausted, but we are getting further and further."

Several centurions walked up to make suggestions. Asanu Sutu stood on the big rock and looked for a while but couldn't figure out the direction. He had to jump off the big rock in frustration. He was about to speak when a "click!" suddenly came from a distance, as if the sound of stepping on the dead branches. It was particularly clear in the quiet night.

Everyone held their breath and looked at the sound.

Then another slight sound came.

"There is a wolf!" a centurion whispered.

"Nonsense! This is not a grassland, where does the wolf come from? This should be a tiger and leopard for food at night, so that brothers can be careful and don't leave the order."

After a moment, all the sounds disappeared and the woods returned to their previous silence. Seeing that there was no way to identify the direction, Asuna Sutu had to sigh and said, "Everyone, go and rest! Let's set out after dawn."

The Turkic army was lost in the mountains and forests, but in fact they were not far from the cliff where Guancheng was located. They could reach the edge of the cliff by walking two miles westward. However, the Turkic army did not know that the Sui army stationed two thousand people on both sides of the mountain top. They have always been veterans of sneak attacks, so how could they tolerate others going up the mountain to attack them?

A thousand exhausted Turkic soldiers were sleeping soundly in the woods, and more than a dozen sentries were watching the situation outside not far away. They were not worried about enemy attacks, but were afraid that they would become food targets for hungry tigers and leopards.

There were two sentries in the northwest corner, and the two sentries were also exhausted, so they agreed to take turns to sleep for the rest of the time. They found a big stone to lean on, one sentry to sleep on the big stone, and the other soldier sat on the big stone to keep watch. If a beast attacked, he would wake up his companion immediately.

At this time, the soldiers on the sentry suddenly felt something moving in the woods not far away. He looked carefully and saw a flash of cold light. A little cold light came in front of him and found a crossbow arrow with green light. The sentry was shocked, but it was too late. The crossbow arrow shot through his throat "puff!". The soldier instinctively covered his throat, and his throat made a giggle, and he fell under a big rock and died immediately.

Another soldier was awakened by the sound of the corpse falling to the ground. He opened his eyes blankly. Before he could react, a shrugged palm covered his mouth. A sharp dagger wielded his neck, and immediately cut off the throat. Then he stabbed another knife into the heart, and cleanly took over his life.

Killed two sentries and countless black shadows surged out from the northwest direction. They were all agile. They were the Sui soldiers stationed on the top of the cliff to the west. The Sui army had already discovered this Turkic army and guessed their intentions. Just when the Turkic army was exhausted and rested, two thousand Sui soldiers surrounded them from all directions. The strange noise that the generals heard just now was the sound that the Sui soldiers accidentally made when they deployed to encircle.

In the woods, a thousand Turkic soldiers were lying on the ground and sleeping soundly, including the chief general Asuna Sutu, also fell asleep in anxiety and fatigue. At this moment, a sentry suddenly discovered the Sui army soldiers who were quietly approaching and shouted, "There is an enemy!"

The chief general of the Sui army roared, "Kill!"

Two thousand Sui soldiers rushed to the sleeping Turkic soldiers from all directions at the same time. Before the Turkic soldiers who were sleeping outside woke up, they were pierced by spears. The constant screams woke up the sleeping Turkic soldiers. They picked up the spears and panicked, not knowing whether to evacuate or resist.

The target of dozens of Sui soldiers was the head general of the Turkic army. The place where Ashina Sutu sleeps was under a big tree, not on the periphery but not in the center. At this time, he had stood up and told the soldiers not to panic and lined up to resist.

Ashina Sutu's command exposed his identity. Dozens of Sutu's soldiers raised crossbows and shot arrows at him. Ashina Sutu could not dodge and was shot through his body by dozens of arrows, and was nailed to death on the big tree.

The main general was killed, and the Turkic soldiers had no backbone and began to break through and escape. However, the Sui army's encirclement was extremely tight, and hundreds of crossbowmen were deployed on the periphery to hunt and kill the escaped Turkic soldiers. They could not allow a soldier to escape to the cliff. If they really ignite the mountain on the cliff, it would have a serious impact on the Guancheng and the camp below.

The strangulation battle lasted only for a quarter of an hour, and all a thousand Turkic soldiers were killed. The Sui army searched three times and was sure that there was no sign of soldiers escaping, so they buried the bodies and the army retreated to the temporary barracks near the cliff.

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