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The sun is setting, and the remnant sun is like blood. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The fiery clouds, as if stained with too much blood, occupied half of the sky, low and depressed.

The water of the Wei River has been dyed red.

The confluence of Weishui and Yanshui, Longxi City.

The white battle flags of Tuyuhun and Dang Xiangqiang under the city, and the yellow battle flags of the Tang Army at the head of the city, are still standing in the sunset. But under that flag, there were corpses everywhere.

Li Shimin was already fighting with a knife, and Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, and the eldest grandson Wuji, the ministers of the Qin Mansion, were also fighting with knives. The commander and Wenchen both carried knives and fought bloody battles with the enemy at the head of the city, and the situation was as dangerous as a fortress.

Li Shimin was bloody, waving a knife and roaring, and under the light of the knife, another Qiang man was cut down.

A strong smell of blood rose to the sky.

There were vultures hovering in the sky, and the cries were terrifying, terrifying.

Li Shimin no longer remembered that this was the first round of fighting today, and in the afternoon, the last reserve unit around him was dispatched, and then he sent his own guards as well.

In the end, the Tuyuhun people rushed to the city several times, and Li Shimin had to personally swing his sword to join the battle. At this time, there is no longer the majesty of a commander who is not a commander, and if he does not fight, he will be a prisoner of the city.

I'd rather die in battle than be taken prisoner!

All the young men of the city went to the city, and even many old men and women fought together.

There was a loud shout of killing everywhere, and there were many corpses.

"Xuan Ling, it seems that I made a mistake, I shouldn't have insisted on staying in the first place. We can't hold it, the vultures in the sky are waiting to eat our meat! Li Shimin wiped a handful of blood from his face, grinned bitterly and said to Fang Qiao.

Fang Xuanling had a shield in one hand and a sword in the other, and Du Ruhui was by Li Shimin's side, and at this time of the battle, Fang Mou Du Xuan, two top strategists of the Qin Mansion, but they could only carry a sword to be a guard of King Qin, and they fought side by side.

"Your Highness, or we can raise the white flag!" Fang Xuanling was out of breath, his swordsmanship was not bad, but after all, he was a civil official, and he was exhausted from fighting the enemy in the city for a long time.

"Raise the white flag? Let me surrender, impossible! Li Shimin shook his head, his pride made him refuse to accept this proposal. Surrender, and it won't end well.

"Your Highness, you don't need to really descend, let's delay the time, take a few breaths, it will be dark soon, maybe we can last one night." Fang Xuanling said with a smile.

"A delaying tactic? Fraud? Li Shimin laughed, "This is a good way, hold on for one more night, and Zhang San will come with reinforcements!" ”

Under the city.

Tuyuhun Khan Murong Fuyun kept staring at the yellow flag at the head of the city.

He knew that it was Li Shimin's handsome banner, and it was also where Tang Jun's last will was that he had been desperately trying to be. As long as that flag falls, Longxi City will be taken, and Li Shimin will be his prisoner, and the entire Longxi will be invincible.

But the more than 10,000 men and horses led by Li Shimin insisted on guarding this small city for seven days and seven nights. Tuyuhun's tens of thousands of troops attacked the city no less than 100 times before and after, and the number of dead in the battle was no less than 5,000, but they didn't gnaw this small city.

Murong Fuyun's face was very ugly.

"It's called Tuoba Chici, and the fine seal is coming! Right away! ”

The big leader of the Qiang Tuoba Department of the Party Xiang Tuoba Chi Ci, the big leader of the Fine Seal Department, and the two rode their horses to Murong Fuyun's white flag.

Although Tuyuhun is a branch of the Xianbei Murong Department that moved westward, it was deeply influenced by the culture of the Central Plains and the customs of the Central Plains in the three hundred years since the founding of Qinghai. But at the same time, the leaders of the Qiang, Di and other tribes have their own territory and population.

The head of the eight major tribes of the party is the Tuoba Department, followed by the Fine Seal Department.

Tuoba Chici, the leader of the Tuoba tribe, was in his early thirties, tall and mighty, and enjoyed great prestige among the tribe.

At the same time, Tuoba Chici also married Murong Fuyun's sister, and served as the general of Tuyuhun Zuowei, and was also awarded the title of King of Henan. Tuyuhun Khan has a very powerful figure in the country.

Xifeng Bu Lai, also in his early thirties, also married Murong Fuyun's sister, he served as the general of the right guard, and after Murong Fuyun succeeded to the throne of the Great Khan, he was awarded the title of King of Longxi.

These two people have a close relationship with Murong Fuyun and are strong supporters of Murong Fuyun's succession.

This time, the two of them were the staunch main battle faction, and they each led 10,000 cavalry clan warriors to join the campaign.

Both the Tuyuhun and the Dangxiang Qiang people worship white.

Under the white banner, Murong Fuyun said dissatisfiedly to the two people who came, "It's been seven days, and we haven't taken this damn small city in Longxi yet." Li Shimin is there, I know he is there, he only has more than 10,000 people, only a small county town, but we have not captured this city so far, and we have not been able to capture Li Shimin. ”

"How many casualties did we have? More than 5,000! ”

"How long will it take for us to break through Longxi and capture Li Shimin?" Murong Fuyun asked.

Murong Fuyun was less than forty years old, dressed in Han clothes, a round-necked silk robe, a folded scarf, a mink coat, black boots and a jade belt, just like the costume of a Han prince. But under his elegant scribe's dress, he has a cold heart.

When he was thirteen years old, Tuyuhun was subverted by the Sui and his brother Tuyuhun Khan was killed. Fu Yun was later supported by the Tuoba and the Fine Seal Department of the two major tribes of Dangxiang and Qiang, succeeded to the throne of the Great Khan, and married his stepmother, Princess Guanghua, the Queen of Heaven. After that, he was forced to pay tribute to the Sui Dynasty every year.

But even so, within a few years, Yang Guang still found an excuse to instruct Tiele to send troops to attack Tuyuhun, Fu Yun's wife and son were all in Chang'an, and they were detained, and Fu Yun was also defeated.

The embarrassed fled to the snow-capped mountains, but Tuguhun was 4,000 miles east and west, and 2,000 miles north and south were all occupied by the Sui. Later, Fu Yun gathered Qiang soldiers and horses such as Dangxiang Qiang, Snow Mountain Qiang, and Heiqiang, collected the defeated soldiers, and wanted to return to his hometown, but Yang Guang was provoked to personally conquer and beat him away again.

Yang Guang also named his son Murong Shun, who was detained in Chang'an, as Tuyuhun Khan, wanting him to be a puppet Khan and divide the Tuyuhun people. Fortunately, Murong Shun was ambushed by the Qiang people soon after he arrived in Longxi, and fled back to Chang'an in defeat.

Murong Fuyun lived in embarrassment in the snow mountain for ten years, and when Yang Guangjiang was killed and the world was in chaos, he finally returned to the old land with Qiang Di and returned to the country again.

Later, he joined forces with Li Yuan to attack Li Liang in Hexi.

Li Yuan returned Murong Shun to Fu Yun as a reward, but Fu Yun did not appreciate it. Because as early as a few years ago, Fu Yun didn't recognize Murong Shun, the puppet lackey son of the Sui Dynasty, he had already set up another crown prince, and now the Tang Dynasty went to send Murong Shun back, obviously to sabotage.

Fu Yun was very angry with Li Yuan's hand, which coincided with the Turkic attack on the Tang Dynasty, and sent people to Tuyuhun to lobby for a flanking attack. The four kings under Fu Yun, the king of Tianzhu, the king of Dabao, the king of Henan, and the king of Longxi all suggested to Fu Yun to send troops to attack Tang in retaliation for the Tang people crossing the river and demolishing the bridge.

By the time the army was dispatched, Fu Yun had already reached an agreement with the Turkic Jili Khan.

Tuyuhun sent troops to attack the Tang Dynasty, and after the matter was completed, Longyou and Hexi were all owned by Tuyuhun.

After enduring humiliation for more than ten years, Fu Yun had long wanted to stab the Han people in the Central Plains in the back. If you can occupy Longyou and Hexi, it will be something that Tuyuhun ancestors have not done in three hundred years.

But now, a Li Shimin is blocking their steps.

"How long will it take to take this city?" Murong Fuyun asked again.

"The Tang people have long been at the end of the crossbow, but they have been fighting hard. But they've reached their limit, and they can break the city today! ”

Tuoba Chici said with a cold face.

"It's going to be dark soon, I don't want to hold it anymore, I want to break the city right away, and win before dark!" Murong Fu said.

The fine seal Bulai is a little stubborn.

Although under this city, Tuyuhun lost 5,000 people. But those are all cannon fodder miscellaneous soldiers, mainly those Qiang people who originally attached to the Sui Dynasty. In that year, more than 100,000 Qiang people attached themselves to the Sui Dynasty and betrayed them. Although these people are interested in it this time, they can deliberately consume the strength of these people.

They didn't want a few more uncontrollable powerful forces to appear in Tuyuhun, and it was just right to use the Tang Army to consume some of their strength.

"Then let all the tribes that belong to us come together for a general attack!"

"Li Shimin has to live." Murong Fuyun said that he planned to take Li Shimin to make a deal with Li Yuan at that time, in exchange for some benefits, or simply kill him to relieve the hatred in his heart.

It was getting dark, but one general attack should be enough.

"Report, Great Khan, the Tang people have raised a white flag at the head of the city, they are going to surrender!"

Murong Fuyun raised his head and looked, and sure enough, a very conspicuous white flag replaced the yellow flag that had stood for seven days without falling.

"Li Shimin really wants to surrender?" Murong Fuyun said excitedly, even a little unconvinced.

"Report to the Great Khan, the Tang people sent people to shout to the city, saying that they are willing to surrender, but there are a few conditions, hoping to talk to all the Great Khan."

"On what terms?"

"After Li Shimin asked for surrender, the Great Khan could let him lead his troops to leave, and there were a few others, not to kill prisoners, not to capture the people in the city, or so on."

"Hahaha! Send someone over and tell Li Shimin that I can agree to his request. ”

Tuoba Chi asked in surprise, "Does the Great Khan really want to agree to these unreasonable demands of him?" ”

"Hmph, what's the matter with agreeing, as long as the city gate is opened, Li Shimin will be in my hands at that time, and I won't let me pinch and rub the round?"

"Order, temporary truce!"

The sound of woo jin sounded, and the Tuyuhun army, which was still tearing and killing at the head of the city, stopped fighting and withdrew from the battle when they heard the sound.

Li Shimin held his sword, panting for breath.

"Stupid Murong Fuyun, he actually really believed it." The eldest grandson Wuji laughed.

Li Shimin wiped his sweat and got another respite.

"Rearrange the line immediately!"

"Xuan Ling, you send someone to talk to the Tuyuhun people and delay a little longer."

When it gets dark, the Tang army also has some time to rest, and the many sections of the city that were originally lost can also be redeployed to defend, and then by taking advantage of the darkness, the Tang army will hold on for another night, and there will be no problem at all.

"Let me tell you that Zhang Wenyuan will arrive with 20,000 horses early tomorrow morning!" (To be continued.) )