In the imperial study room, Yang Guang stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, staring at the north, his eyes full of worries. He didn't know whether his decision was wise. He asked a young general to command his first battle after ascending to the throne of the Great Sui Emperor, which was related to his dignity.

Yang Guang has learned about Xue Yantuo's strength. This is a powerful nomadic people with 200,000 people who can fight. The people are strong and brave, and they have defeated the Western Turks this summer.

Their Khan was stubborn and aggressive. In order to avenge his son, would he have all out? Even if half of them were sent and 100,000 people came to attack Dali City, would Yang Yuanqing resist it?

Once Xue Yantuo conquered Dali City and entered Fengzhou, not only would Fengzhou suffer heavy losses, but he, Yang Guang, would also lose all his face, and the Turks' unjust intentions would arise from this. From then on, many troubles in the north will even seriously affect his plan in the Western Regions, which is really a concern.

Yang Guang sighed and said to himself: "Yang Yuanqing, can you defend Dali City for me?"

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Fifty miles south of Dali City, Yu Juluo led 25,000 cavalrymen patiently waiting for the order issued by the direction of Dali City. Two days have passed, and there is no news on Dali City.

Although he was anxious and wanted to lead the army to kill him several times, he still restrained himself. In the war against Xue Yantuo, he was only the deputy general, and Yang Yuanqing was the chief general. This was the emperor's secret order. He did not dare to disobey this secret order. He did not want to ruin his future for a moment of impulse.

The Sui army camp covered hundreds of acres of land, and the snow was covered with tents. Yu Juluo stood on the viewing tower in front of the camp, looking at the beacon tower in the distance, according to his agreement with Yang Yuanqing. If he needed to lead his army to push forward, he would raise the beacon tower. It was noon on the third day, but the beacon tower in the distance still had no movement, which made him feel disappointed.

At this time, a team of cavalry rushed back from the north. This was the scout sent by Yu Juluo. Yu Juluo was overjoyed and asked from a distance: "How is the battle in Dali City?"

The scout team was urging him to step forward, holding his fists and bowing, "Report to Yushuai, the battle in Dali City is tragic, and there are all corpses on the fields outside the city. According to the observation of Beizhi, Xueyantuo's army has killed at least 20,000 people in battle.

"What about the Sui army?" Yu Juluo asked anxiously.

"I don't know the situation in the city, so it shouldn't be very good. Only a dozen of them will be used after fifty catapults."

Yu Juluo was anxious. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to himself: "Yuanqing, why haven't you lighted the war smoke?"

A soldier suddenly pointed to the distance and shouted: "Shishou, Fengyan!"

Yu Juluo looked up and saw a pillar of beacon towers lit in the distance. He was overjoyed and turned around and shouted: "Tell me my order, and the whole army will prepare!"

The sound of the trumpet was blowing. Half an hour later, 25,000 Sui cavalry appeared in the boundless wilderness, with great momentum. With Yu Juluo's order, 25,000 Sui cavalry were divided into three teams. They rushed towards Dali City with murderous aura.

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The offensive and defensive battle in Dali City has entered its third day, and the war is extremely fierce. In the two days of siege, Xue Yantuo had killed more than 20,000 people, while the Sui army was killed and injured by nearly 2,000 people, and more than 3,000 craftsmen were killed and injured. The bones were piled up under Dali City, and the wilderness was stained with blood. However, Dali City always stood tall, and the morale of the Sui army became higher and higher.

In the early morning of the third day, a ray of sunlight shone through the clouds on the head of the city of Italy. The snow-covered city was shining with a magical and dazzling light. If you only look at the head of the city, you will feel that this is a magic castle that only appears in mythology, with bright ice crystals and shining brightly.

But if the eyes move down, the magic disappears, and what comes into view is a hellish land, with corpses everywhere, and the broken cloud ladders sank on the snow. Only half of the nest cart is left, but more are soldiers who died in battle. Some are curled up with temporary pain on their faces, some are missing their heads, their bodies are incomplete, some are smashed into meat pie, bloody, and all the corpses are frozen into ice.

The city was particularly quiet. Thousands of Sui soldiers were wrapped in thick sheepskin and blankets, crowding each other, leaning against the wall and falling asleep, looking exhausted. After two days of fierce fighting, most of them did not close their eyes and were exhausted.

Among the dozens of soldiers huddled together to fall asleep in the East City Wall, the chief general Yang Yuanqing also squeezed together with the soldiers to fall asleep. His sky-breaking spear became the pillow for him and several soldiers. At this moment, there was no distinction between the chief general and the soldiers. After the two days of fierce battle in defending the city of Dali, everyone was enjoying this extremely precious nap.

Yang Sien led a team of sentries patrolling the city. When passing by Yang Yuanqing, he picked up a piece of sheepskin that had slipped from the ground and gently covered the young general. He turned around and smiled and booed the soldiers, leading the patrol soldiers to leave quietly. At this time, a group of more than a hundred men walked across the suspension bridge with hot cakes and broth.

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But the quiet morning did not last long. When the morning light began to turn blood red, the drums in Xueyantuo camp sounded again, "Dong! dong! dong! dong! dong! dong! dong! dong! ' The huge drums woke Sui soldiers from their sleep one after another. Yang Yuanqing jumped up, rubbed his eyes, and lay on the battlements to look into the enemy camp in the distance.

This time, what he saw was the large-scale mobilization of the Xueyantuo people. The enemy troops in the entire camp were mobilized, and enemy groups from all directions were gathering, gathering into pieces of black square formations, gradually forming a overwhelming attack.

"Send my order quickly!"

Yang Yuanqing turned around and ordered: "All soldiers and craftsmen, all the soldiers and craftsmen are put into battle!"

He turned around and stared at the overwhelming enemy army. The amount of enemy troops invested twice as much as the previous two days. He already understood that today would be the enemy's desperate battle, and the outcome would be decided today.

‘Dang!Dang!Dang!’

The bells to summon the army were ringing, and teams of Sui troops rushed across the suspension bridge and quickly gathered towards the outer city. The temporarily armed craftsmen also rushed from the inner city. The five-mile outer city wall was densely covered with Sui troops. The swords and spears were shining, and the bows and arrows were densely packed. The red flag of the Sui army fluttered in the sun.

Outside the city, the overwhelming enemy troops had already completed lineups. With the first and second day of the siege, the siege was dragged to the third day. Shaluli was forced to have no way out. Today is his deadline. If he cannot win the city of Li, it will directly affect his succession to the Khan throne.

Sha Lu Lie made a heart and invested 50,000 troops at one time, putting all the last 200 ladders and fifty nest cars into battle.

He stared at the suspension bridge that was pulled up high with cruel eyes. The suspension bridge was already shaking. He turned around and looked back at the back camp. A huge siege ram had appeared in the military camp behind him. This would be his final kill.

"Attack!" Sha Luli waved his sword and hissed.

Xue Yantuo's drum sound began to become tighter. It was the sound of attacking. Fifty thousand Xue Yantuo's army surrounded 200 ladders and fifty nest cars and rushed towards Dali City like a tide, like a huge black carpet, covering the entire wilderness.

After a night of emergency repairs, the catapults on the city were restored to thirty, and long arm poles were thrown out one after another. Dozens of huge rocks hit the enemy group like an ant colony. Each huge rock was hit, and a gap appeared. Snow mist filled, blood burst out, and wailing sounded throughout the field, but the gap closed in an instant and was flooded by the attacking enemy group.

With a 'boom!', a nest cart was hit by a huge rock, wood chips splashed everywhere, and the giant wood collapsed. Dozens of soldiers on the nest cart screamed and fell down.

The tall nest car is specially tailored for Dali City. The nest car has two meters long and six meters high. It is made of giant wood and is covered with cowhide. The structure is very simple. The nest car is hollow and has a staircase that leads to the top. At the top is a wooden platform, which is full of forty or fifty Xueyantuo soldiers. The front end of the platform is a thick wooden board covered with cowhide, which can resist the bows and arrows of the Sui army.

There are four wooden wheels underneath, dragged by fifty war horses, and hundreds of soldiers are pushed by both left and right and rear. As long as this nest cart is not hit by a huge rock, it can send soldiers to the top of the city, which is even sharper than a ladder.

Another nest cart was hit at the bottom, and a wooden wheel took off. The nest cart tilted and swayed, gradually losing its center of gravity. The soldiers on both sides shouted and ran away. Amid the shouts, the nest cart fell down.

The 50,000 Xueyantuo army attacked like a tide. The huge rocks that were shot in turn were like waves splashing in the ocean, and were instantly flooded by the crowd. The enemy, like a craze, finally approached the city wall.

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On the narrow open space between the inner and outer city walls, more than a hundred soldiers were dumping buckets of turmeric oil on the ground. Fengzhou sent a total of 500 barrels of turmeric oil. The soldiers poured more than 300 barrels of turmeric oil on the open space at one time. The black and viscous liquid slowly flowed on the ground, full of pungent oily smell. Then more than a hundred soldiers climbed up the city wall along the ladder.

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The frontal battle has entered the most cruel stage. Arrows on the city are like raining rain, and people are constantly being hit by arrows and falling down. Ladders are erected on the city wall. Xue Yantuo's soldiers are climbing upwards as if crazy. They are holding shields in one hand and spears and swords in the other. They fight fiercely with the Sui army with huge rocks above their heads. There are always a few soldiers screaming and falling down the ladder, but immediately someone flocks to them.

Sui soldiers shot arrows from both sides, with sharp arrows and trans-leather armor. A series of soldiers on the ladder were shot and fell off the ladder. But soon, Xue Yantuo soldiers no longer cared about the top of their heads and protected the shields on both sides. Xue Yantuo soldiers were gradually reduced to the number of arrows.

On the top of the city, dozens of Sui troops were fighting fiercely with the enemy in front of each ladder. In front of a ladder in the west of the city, Liu Jian was already red in his eyes. He led fifty Sui troops to fight fiercely with the surging enemy troops. They were facing the elite soldiers of the Xue tribe, all of whom were tall and as thick as a cow, holding a shield in his hand, waving a long sword and a sharp spear.

The spear sprinted, the sword slashed, and the battle was bloody. A Sui soldier in front of the cloud ladder was cut on his forehead, and blood surged, and he fell down on his back. Another Sui army waved his spear and rushed forward. The spear pierced the enemy's chest, picked him down the city, and held him back to hold the gap again.

A strong Xue Yantuo soldier pushed the Sui army with his shield and was the first to jump onto the city. In an instant, dozens of Sui army's spears stabbed from all sides, and the spear penetrated the body. Xue Yantuo soldiers screamed and rolled down, but it was the enemy who rushed to the city, causing a short gap in the defense of the cloud ladder. They were suppressed on the cloud ladder. Xue Yantuo soldiers seized the opportunity. In an instant, more than a dozen fierce Xue Yantuo soldiers rushed to the city.

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Chapter completed!