Turbulent Times Chapter 1389: Li Shimin’s admiration

Sibi Khan forced himself to calm down, and then asked people to call in his two younger brothers, Ashina Tuobisi, Ashina Tuobishi, and several chiefs of the tribe, to shock everyone. Outraged and disbelieving the news came to them.

"A group of elite soldiers from the Sui Army came to our lair, eleven small and medium-sized tribes were wiped out, and all the tribes suffered heavy losses. How is this possible?"

"It's tens of thousands of miles from the northernmost point of the Sui Dynasty to where our old lair is. How could there be so many tribes along the way that they didn't find out in advance and let the Sui people directly hit the lair?"

The tribal leaders and generals were stunned when they heard the words, and then they cursed after their faces changed drastically.

"It's Wang Junlin's Far Eastern Army. He sent a navy warship to circumvent the Goguryeo Peninsula and land on the north side of the Goguryeo Peninsula." After being shocked, Ashina quickly figured out what was going on. the reason.

"Immediately shrink the troops, withdraw from Yanmen City, and retreat northward quickly." Shibi Khan suppressed the anger in his heart and said with a very solemn expression.

"Wait a minute!" Ashina stood up and stopped a Sibi Khan's personal soldier who was leading the order.

Shibi Khan and the leaders of all the tribes looked at Ashina Duosi, Ashina Duosi stared at Shibi Khan, with doubts on his face for the first time, squinting his eyes and asked: "Khan , We are about to capture the emperor of the Sui Dynasty, so retreating like this, more than 200,000 warriors really died in vain, and retreating out of the city now will only cause the army to collapse, and the Sui army will chase and kill all the way, and it will be over."

Everyone was shocked, and looked at Shibi Khan suspiciously. The latter looked bitter and said, "Then what do you think, let's not say that the reinforcements from the Sui Dynasty have also entered the city at this time." , It is difficult for us to defend the city and fight, even if we can capture the emperor of the Sui Dynasty, do you think that Wang Junlin will really care about the life and death of the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty."

After a pause, Shibi Khan sighed and said: "The most important thing is that there must not be much food and grass in Yanmen City. The food and grass can't last for a few days, and the Sui people don't need to attack the city, they can trap us to death in this Yanmen city."

What Shibi Khan said is convincing and reasonable

According to the evidence, the doubts on the faces of Ashina's heirs, the chiefs of the tribes, and the generals disappeared, but their faces became even more ugly.

"Even if there are sailors from the Far Eastern Army going to the sea for transshipment, counting the time, Wang Junlin has already dispatched a group of elite soldiers to go around and attack our lair long before our army went south."

"So, now it seems that Wang Junlin knew that our army was going south, but he didn't tell the emperor of the Sui Dynasty. Yanmen City and the Sui army around the emperor consume our troops."

"That's right, after the Heavenly King Junlin led the reinforcements, he didn't intend to rescue the Sui Dynasty emperor with all his strength except for the first battle. Obviously, he was waiting for us to break the city today so that we could be trapped here In the gate city, whether it is to defend Yanmen city or retreat to the northern grassland, it must be within Wang Junlin's calculations. How could he have no arrangements? From what I expected, Wang Junlin wanted to keep us all here , wanting to wipe us all out."

As soon as Ashina's aggressive words fell, Shibi Khan and the leaders of all the tribes all changed their expressions. If you think about it carefully, that's not the case.

Although their various armies now have about 130,000 troops in total, which is even larger than the Sui army in terms of numbers, their current state is really very bad.

First of all, they had no supply of food and grass. Wang Junlin sent a special force to cut off their food roads and burn nearly half of their food and grass. Although the vicinity of Yanmen City is not solid and clear, it is difficult for their people to plunder them back. Leaving aside food and fodder, the men and horses sent out almost never came back.

Secondly, there are war horses. They are all cavalry, and they fought thousands of miles away at the cost of killing most of the war horses after the war.

Finally, there is morale. Morale is something that cannot be touched, but it can be seen from the soldiers' expressions, words and deeds, and the appearance of the army.

The morale of the Turkic army is now at a low ebb.

"The morale is not difficult to solve. Just tell everyone below that we have reached the critical point of life and death. If you don't work hard, you will die. The morale and blood will naturally be stimulated. This is the principle of the so-called death and survival." Ash Shi That

Du Bisi finally said.

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Dark clouds cover the moon, and the north wind howls.

The battle between the Sui army and the Turkic army at the south gate of Yanmen City continued. Generally speaking, the Turkic people continued to retreat. More Sui troops entered the city and began street fighting with the Turkic army near the south gate.

At the juncture of life and death, Shibi Khan and Ashina Tuosi led all the tribal leaders to hold candlelight talks on the tower of Yanmen City, staying up all night, and they were very concerned about every step of the entire action plan, and even every step. Potentially facing variables, formulate contingency strategies.

Outside the city tower is a group of Sibi Khan's personal soldiers guarding here, one of them is dressed up by Nie Xiaoyu.

The final strategy decided by the Turkic high-ranking officials was actually not complicated. They left 30,000 dead soldiers to hold back the Sui army at the south gate of Yanmen City, and their main force retreated from the north gate. Emperor, they can't care so much at this time.

Of course, the plan has been drawn up, but how to divide the labor is a difficult problem.

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Outside the city, Li Shimin had just received Wang Junlin's order to lead a large army around Yanmen City, and hid near the north gate of Yanmen City, waiting to ambush the main Turkic army that was about to flee from here.

Just now, Li Shimin thought about what the King of Heaven had done, and suddenly felt his throat dry up and his heart beating violently, which was a real shock.

Li Shimin originally thought that he had seen Wang Junlin clearly, but he suddenly found that he didn't seem to understand anything, and Wang Junlin became more and more unfathomable in his eyes. He found that he understood more and more why his father had always been extremely afraid of Wang Junlin and regarded him as the greatest potential threat.

"Second son, King Qin An sent us and Wang Rengong's troops to ambush near the north gate. Could it be that he really knew things like a god, knowing that the main force of the Turkic army would give up Yanmen City, which had been captured so hard, and come from the north? escape?" Li Shimin's confidant Hou Junji asked beside him.

Li Shimin sighed, with an inexplicable complex light flashing in his eyes, he said with a wry smile: "King Qin An may have predicted things like a god, but maybe that Turkic Khan has been under the eyes of King Qin An all along."