Chapter 964 Battle of Taiyuan (5)
In just a moment, Broza led the cavalry to the city. After hearing this for a while, there was no sound of yelling in it. Broza yelled at the soldiers on the city, "I am Broza, let Zhule come to see me immediately!"
After a while, someone agreed, "Let's report now!"
At this time, the battle in the city had ended. Sui soldiers were cleaning up the battlefield and deploying new defenses. Almost all the three thousand Turkic soldiers in the city gate were killed, and none of them escaped from the city. The Turkic troops outside the north city were far apart and no abnormalities were found in the pass, but the Turkic troops outside the south city were already suspicious.
Wei Wentong hurried to the top of the city and looked down through the battlements. He saw more than 2,000 cavalry under the city, but he couldn't see where the chief general Broza was?
After a moment of contemplation, he immediately had a plan to ask the soldier to tie a roll of sheepskin to the arrow. A soldier shouted in Turkic language: "We have the Khan's order, General Buzaro can see it yourself!"
The soldier shot the sheepskin arrow down. At this time, Wei Wentong immediately set off the arrow and slowly pulled the bowstring.
The Turkic soldiers under the city picked up a sheepskin roll and hurriedly ran to present it to Buzaro. Broza was wondering in his heart, how could there be the Khan's order?
He could not think of the tricks of the people in the Central Plains. The strong curiosity in his heart drove him to wonder how Khan ordered. He took the parchment and opened it immediately, and a torch came up.
Wei Wentong was waiting for this opportunity. When the torch illuminated Buzaro's face, his bowstring loosened, and a wolf-toothed arrow shot out, and the arrow shot towards Buzaro like lightning.
Buzaro never dreamed that this Khan warrant was a trap. He found that the parchment in front of him had not even written a word. He was stunned. He instinctively raised his head and the arrow came to his eyes.
The arrow was fast and fierce, and he couldn't dodge. He heard a "puff!" sound, and an arrow hit his right eye. Broza screamed and fell to the ground from his horse.
At the same time, Wei Wentong shouted loudly: "Shoot me the arrow!"
Arrows on the top of the city were like rain, and they were shot densely at the cavalry under the city. The cavalry below suddenly became in chaos. Hundreds of cavalry were shot down one after another. Dozens of cavalry guards snatched the seriously injured chief general and retreated quickly. The Turkic cavalry retreated like a tide.
Wei Wentong knew that even if his arrow could not kill the enemy's chief general, he could still give them some time. On the one hand, he ordered the Eagle slave Feiying to send a message to the general, and on the other hand, he immediately set out to deploy the city defense.
This time, Wei Wentong led 5,000 soldiers to detour to avoid the Turkic patrols and went up the mountain from the west of Loufan Pass. Three thousand troops raided lightly to seize the pass. Two thousand soldiers were waiting on the top of the mountain with a large number of bows, crossbows, arrows and some food.
Wei Wentong ordered a school captain to go up the mountain to pick up two thousand reserve troops down the mountain, and Deputy General Wang Xuanjing was responsible for urgently deploying soldiers to defend the city at the north and south city heads to prevent the Turkic army from raiding.
Wei Wentong took dozens of soldiers to check the city situation everywhere. He was particularly concerned about how much food was stored in the city. The soldiers behind him carried a large number of bows, crossbows and arrows, but they didn't bring much food. If the food in the city was insufficient, they had to ask the general for emergency help immediately.
However, Wang Xuanjing just now told him that the Turkic army that they had left in the city had basically not moved, which made Wei Wentong feel relieved. They left behind two thousand stones of food. If the two thousand stones of food were still there, the 5,000 people would have solved the food for one and a half months.
Several soldiers pushed open the heavy warehouse door. There were two warehouses, one was a grain warehouse and the other was an armory. Wei Wentong advanced to the grain warehouse. There were only bags of neatly packed grain in the grain warehouse. Each bag of grain weighed one stone. The soldiers quickly counted it. It was indeed good, with a total of two thousand bags.
Wei Wentong stabbed a bag of grain with a dagger, and the golden wheat flowed down. He nodded with relief. At this time, a soldier next to him rushed to report: "General, please go to the warehouse next door to take a look."
"What's wrong?"
"The general will know after reading it."
Wei Wentong was surprised and walked quickly to the warehouse next door. As soon as he entered the warehouse gate, he immediately made him fight a cold war. It turned out to be an armory, and it was emptied before he retreated. It should be an empty warehouse inside, but it was not the case. The sacks inside were piled up like mountains, and there was a slight white air on the sacks, making everyone feel like they fell into an ice cave.
The soldier had cut a sack and saw that there were half sheep that was frozen inside. There were five half sheep in a bag and large pieces of ice. Wei Wentong immediately understood that the ordnance warehouse had become the granary of the Turks. No wonder they did not touch the food.
"General, there is wine inside!"
Several soldiers walked inside and found a large number of leather bags, all of which were brewed horse milk wine.
Wei Wentong was overjoyed and smiled at everyone, "I was thinking just now, what should I do if we only have food but no vegetables? No! The Turks have prepared for us, delicious beef and mutton! We have to have a good meal at noon today."
A soldier also shouted intriguingly: "General, it's a pity that we only brought salt. If we had known, we would have brought more barbecue spices!"
Everyone laughed together
The Sui army's sneak attack on Loufan Pass was of great significance. It not only cut off the supply channel of the Turkic army, but also cut off the Turkic army's way back north, which had an extremely important impact on the entire Bingzhou battle situation.
Two days later, Chuluo Khan received news of Loufan Pass's loss, which made him furious. The confidant general Broza was seriously injured due to being shot and died in the end. Chuluo Khan was even more upset. He vented all his anger on Kang Shuoli. It was Kang Shuoli's negligence and incompetence that made the Sui army successfully attack Loufan Pass.
Chuluo Khan did not know that the Sui army actually went from the south. He believed that the Sui army broke through from the north. It was because of the loopholes in Kang Shuoli's defense that led to the Sui army attacking Loufan Pass. That afternoon, he ordered a letter to Kang Shuoli, saying that he had to capture Loufan Pass within three days, otherwise he would come to see him.
At the same time, Chuluo Khan began to advance to the north and began to retreat slowly.
In fact, there was no need for the supervision of Khuluo Khan. Kang Shuoli also discovered that Loufan Pass changed hands a day later. Dule, the leader guarding Loufan Pass, was his confidant. Every day at dusk, Dule would send a soldier to report his safety and lit a pile of wolf smoke to indicate that the pass was safe and sound.
But at dusk the next day, although the pass lit the wolf smoke as usual, there were no soldiers coming to deliver the letter. Kang Shuoli vaguely realized that something was wrong with Loufan Pass. Before dawn, he sent an army of 5,000 people to the city to test that night. As a result, he was attacked by arrows on the city, killing and injured hundreds of people. Kang Shuoli then confirmed that Loufan Pass had been lost.
In the big tent, Kang Shuolli was extremely anxious. Just yesterday he received news from Zihe that the Sui army burned the Zihe camp and the entire army was destroyed by 10,000 troops. This made him realize that the Sui army would probably go north to the Turkic court. He had just sent someone to report to the Khan, but Lou Fan accidentally lost it.
The reason why the Turkic army in the north did not stand close to Loufan Pass was because they needed water sources. Kangshaoli not only wanted to protect the northern security of Loufan Pass, but also protected the millions of cattle and sheep needed by the Turkic army. A tributary of the Sanggan River is twenty miles north of Loufan Pass.
Although Yangma City has water sources, in order to ensure that Loufan Pass is not lost, Kang Shuoli sent another 20,000 troops to station on each road leading to Loufan Pass. As long as there are troops approaching Loufan Pass from the north, they will inevitably be discovered by the Turkic army.
Despite Kang Shuoli's efforts, the Sui army still seized Loufan Pass from the south, causing the Turkic army to fall into a huge passive state and was already in a situation of being divided and surrounded by the Sui army. How could Kang Shuoli not be bothered and how could he explain to Khan?
However, Kang Sauli felt a little relieved that he had an army of 60,000, which was the foresight of the Khan. He stationed heavily in Mayi County, so that they still had the opportunity to regain Loufan Pass.
At this time, a soldier reported outside the tent, "General, they are here!"
"Let them in!"
After a moment, a group of generals walked into the tent. Kang Shuoli's army was quite mixed. Except for 15,000 Turkic soldiers, the rest of the army was all Tiele's army. Of course, it was not the turn of Tiele's servant army to go south to plunder wealth and women, so these Tiele's army were left in Bingbei and handed over to Commander Kang Shuoli.
General Tiele talked and talked a lot. They also heard about the news that something happened in Lou Fanguan, which made everyone feel a little panic.
At this time, Kang Shuoli coughed heavily, and the big tent slowly calmed down. Kang Shuoli then said: "I believe everyone knows the news that something happened in Loufan Pass. I want to tell you that there was a loophole in the defense in the south and it has nothing to do with us. Although we are more than ten miles away from Loufan Pass, all passages are blocked by us, and it is difficult for the Sui army to fly over. Therefore, the responsibility is not us, but Buzharo's responsibility. Please rest assured."
Kang Shuolli must first clear away his responsibilities and stabilize everyone's emotions. However, when he changed the topic, he emphasized and said: "Although the loss of the pass has no responsibility, Loufan has a great deal. Our main force will be trapped in Bingzhou and cannot return the food, and the consequences are extremely serious and the situation is extremely critical. We must regain Loufan's pass at all costs!"
At this time, A Cai, the leader of the Sijie tribe, asked: "General, I heard that the entire Zihe army has been destroyed. Is this news true?" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!