June 8th, 11th year of the Great Cause, night. On the evening of the eighth day of the month, the moon comes out from the west like a bowstring. On this day, the moon will only come out in the first half of the night, and after late at night, the moon will disappear and disappear.

At this time, it was already late at night, and the crescent moon in the sky was already in the middle of the moon, and in a short time, the whole moon would disappear. Under the illumination of this first quarter moon, the hazy moonlight will shine on the entire Yanmen Pass inside and outside the gloomy clouds and mist of sorrow, and the night wind blows.

In the middle of the night, the hazy first quarter moon faded away, and only a few lonely stars hung in the night sky. A gust of night wind blew, and the entire Yanmen Pass and inside and outside suddenly fell into darkness again.

The Turkic garrison stationed under the Yanmen Pass felt the ground under them constantly shaking and sinking, and the Turkic soldiers who had woken up in their sleep jumped out of the tent barefoot in a hurry, and involuntarily let out a terrifying scream together.

Like a ghost that suddenly appeared in the night, a charging phalanx composed of three thousand heavily armored cavalry was rushing towards them, and the neat and dense black-armored cavalry was like a steel wall, and like an oncoming sword mountain and a sea of swords, the gloomy and pitch-black wings stretched out silently, eerie and terrifying. The cracking, piercing sound of horses' hooves rolled like thunder, and they swept and destroyed everything like a whirlwind. In the face of this terrible torrent of destruction, the Turkic fences, tents, houses, and men and horses crumbled like papier-mâché, and the Turkic soldiers who scattered and fled for their lives let out a cry of death, which was crushed into powder by this torrent of steel......

In the dark night, Li Shimin's 3,000 Xuanjia battalion took the lead in launching a counterattack against the Turks, and in the early hours of the morning, 3,000 cavalry wearing double-layer armor and holding steel spears rushed out of the pass first, and behind them, there were 7,000 elite cavalry of the Praetorian Guard who chopped the panicked Turks into pieces. Immediately, under the panic of the outermost Turks, 10,000 elite cavalry of the Sui army rushed forward and quickly broke through the outermost defense line of the Turkic camp with rumbling iron hooves.

Above the head of the city at Yanmen Pass, Yang Guang was also under the protection of Yu Wenhua and a large number of guards at this moment, and came to the top of the city to watch the battle. Like a sharp arrow, Li Shimin led 10,000 cavalry to quickly break into the Turkic camp and set fire to the camp all the way. The entire Turkic camp burst into flames and screamed again and again.

Looking at this situation, Yang Guang's excited hands clenched into fists, and his nails sank into the flesh of his palms.

"Ready?". Yang Guang turned his head and said to Sima Dekan, the general of the right Yiwei.

Sima Dekan nodded, "Your Majesty, please rest assured, the minister has asked the Turkic guard chief Ashina, Elivo's son Ashina, and Datong to personally lead a hundred Turkic guards to take advantage of the chaos to escort the princess and Pei Nayan out of the city." They are all Turkic attire, and for a while the Turks will not find them. ”

Yang Guang's Turkic guard chiefs, Ashina and Eliver, were the Chuluo Khan who had been the Great Khan of the Western Turks for eight years. However, this Luo Khan and Shibi's younger brother Luo Khan are just different people with the same name. Ashina and Eliver's mother, Mrs. Xiang, was originally a Han Chinese, and after serving as the Great Khan of the Western Turks for eight years, she was defeated by the Qimin Khan of the Eastern Turks. In the end, he had no choice but to go to the Sui Dynasty to ask Yang Guang for help, Yang Guang sent troops and horses to rescue the Western Turks, but he kept him in the Central Plains, and instead supported his two nephews Khan and took over the Western Turks.

At this time, while Li Shimin was out of the city, Yang Guang hurriedly asked the son of Chuluo Khan to escort Princess Izumo and Pei Shiju to Liaodong with five hundred Turkic guards from his own clan. Hearing that the princess had successfully left the city, when Yang Guang breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he felt very depressed in his heart. I didn't expect him Yang Guang to reach this point now. Not only was he in this city by the Turkic steppe barbarians, but he also had to send his baby daughter to traitors and relatives in order to gain a buffer time.

Li Shimin's cavalry troops attacked the Turkic camp all the way like a devastating one, and after the excitement, Li Shimin, who was sitting tightly on his horse, already felt that something was wrong. It was so easy, and it was a little surprising how smooth it was. Although the Turks fought with them in Yanmen for ten days, no matter how tired they were, the Turks still had an army of 70,000 or 80,000 at this time. Even if another 20,000 are transferred during the day today, it will not be less than 40,000 horses at this time.

However, they now have only 10,000 horses, but they have successfully attacked the Turkic camp, and even attacked all the way to the center of the Turkic camp. A sense of crisis came to his heart, Li Shimin violently waved the Xueliang horizontal knife in his right hand, strangled the horse's head, and roared, "Stop and stop, line up"...,

The three thousand Xuanjia cavalry at the front stopped their advance first, and although they did not understand why they stopped at this critical juncture, no one doubted Li Shimin's order. The Xuanjia Army, which was led by 3,000, stopped, and the 7,000 cavalry behind gradually stopped attacking and began to reunite and form a formation.

But before they could reassemble the array that had been disrupted during the charge, the sound of horses' hooves of thunder was already pouring in from all directions. Li Shimin's heart suddenly suddenly, the secret path was really guessed by Su Wei, and the Turks had already taken precautions.

Pointing forward with the horizontal knife, Li Shimin did not hesitate for a moment, and roared, "The whole army turns, the target is westward, kill"

The nearly 10,000 cavalry that had just gathered together was launched again, still starting with 3,000 Xuanjia cavalry, and the horses were like flying and roaring like thunder. With a huge arc, more than 10,000 men and horses made a big circle in front of the center of the Turkic camp, and went to the camp again.

In the center of the Turkic camp, under the huge golden wolf, countless torches suddenly lit. Under that fire, it was the army of the Turks that had long been ready to attack. At the front of the army, Shibi Khan was dressed in a golden wolf armor, carrying a scimitar and looking at the Sui army who turned around and withdrew with some regret, "Almost, almost succeeded in surrounding this army of soldiers and horses." ”

On his side was Liaodong Daniel Zhang, who was also fully armored, and he chuckled, "Don't regret the Great Khan, the first plan doesn't work, we have a second plan." ”

Just as Su Wei said, during the day, the Turks suddenly left the camp with several troops and horses, but in fact, it was just when the Turks had been attacking Yanmen for a long time, and they had already had the heart to leave. A strategy that Daniel Zhang of the Liaodong Army came up with to Shibi, hoping to lure the soldiers and horses out of the city, but he didn't expect it to work.

Shibi Khan nodded, and said to the clan leaders on the side, "Act according to the second plan immediately, and whether you can take Yanmen will be tonight." After speaking, he took the lead in clamping the horse's belly and pursued towards the Sui army.

Li Shimin watched the central camp behind him suddenly burst into flames, and a large army pursued him, and he didn't have much panic in his heart. Still crouching on his horse, he led the cavalry to the west. In the distance, he could already see that there was already a Turkic cavalry in front of him.

Li Shimin, who had broken his arm and could no longer use his two-handed long weapon, raised his knife in his hand, pointed forward, and roared angrily, "When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins, kill" A spear and horizontal knife lit up, and a powerful cavalry bowed down on the horse, with both hands of the spear horizontal, staring at the Turkic cavalry in front of him.

The howling night wind blew in his ears, and the galloping horses soon approached with the cavalry on both sides. The spear stabs straight and the horizontal knife slashes. In the high-speed galloping cavalry battle, everyone often only comes and makes a shot once, once, and lives and deaths are decided. Either you die or I die, in such a high-speed and fierce battle, there are few wounded soldiers and few prisoners. Either dead or wounded, and the seriously injured generally fall into the horse, once they fall off the horse, the horse's hooves trampled at high speed will not let a wounded soldier survive under the horse's hooves.

Bursts of sparks flew everywhere, and after the gold and iron were combined, Li Shimin continued to gallop west with the rest of the cavalry without looking back. The Turkic cavalry behind was in hot pursuit, and it seemed that they were about to catch up. Suddenly, the gate of Yanmen City in front of the Sui army suddenly opened, and in a burst of shouts to the sky, it was a cavalry that had been waiting for a long time from the city. The cavalry, all armed with crossbow arrows, rushed straight up against the Turks, and after a burst of locust-like crossbow arrows, the Turks who rushed at high speed were killed and wounded all over the ground, and they kept falling off their horses.

Just when the Sui army and the Turks in the west were fighting fiercely in the dark night, the city in the east suddenly erupted in bursts of shouts and killing. One by one, the heralds ran around, and the alarm bells on the east side of the city sounded loudly, and when everyone was paying attention to the west side of the slaughter, the 20,000 cavalry who left the Turkic camp during the day took advantage of the night to touch back silently. At this time, these cavalry were all infantry, and they rushed under the eastern city wall like a tide with ladders, and immediately began a siege battle.

And when everyone didn't notice, before the west city was closed, a group of more than 100 Sui cavalry who had previously gone out of the city with Li Shimin came to the city gate.

"These brothers are so badly wounded by love that they must go into the city immediately to be healed, and get out of the way." A Sui soldier in formal attire shouted loudly. The city gate was about to close at this time, and the officer guarding the city carefully looked at the Sui army and found that they were indeed wearing the clothes of the cavalry of the Xuanjia battalion who had just left the city. Seeing that Li Shimin and the cavalry who had just left the city were still blocking the open space in front of the city gate, tearing up and killing the Turks, he did not doubt it, and hurriedly waved them into the city. …,

As soon as they entered the city, the cavalry immediately showed their weapons, and before the Sui army defending the city could react, they rushed to the city gate defenders like chopping melons and vegetables. Several wounded soldiers, who were still covered in blood, waved the torches in their hands like no one else, and waved them violently at the Turks in the distance.

The sudden change at the city gate suddenly made both the Sui army and the Turks understand. A fierce cheer erupted among the Turkic cavalry, one by one shouting for the blessing of the Immortal Heaven, and frantically fighting towards the city gate. However, Li Shimin, who was originally blocking the city gate, was shocked and angry, and the Turks actually grabbed the city gate.

The alarm bells at the head of the city rang frantically and rapidly, and all the defenders knew that if the Turks really took the city gates. Once the support of Yanmen City is lost, it is absolutely impossible to stop the Turks with the strength of the defenders in the city at present.

Li Shimin's 10,000 cavalry outside the city and the 10,000 cavalry who later left the city frantically intercepted the Turks and prevented them from rushing to the city gate. The two sides fought in one place, completely red-eyed. The two most elite cavalry units in the world actually lost the essence of cavalry warfare at this time, but were already mixed together, one of the two sides only rushed forward, and the other desperately blocked there to intercept. The spears stabbed indiscriminately, the scimitars slashed, and the two cavalry were completely glued together.

And the soldiers and horses in the city head also rushed to the city gate frantically at this time, and killed the Turks who took the city gate and guarded it in the city gate cave. But no one noticed that when they first entered the city, the Han people at the front of the cavalry squad were gone.

Seeing that the Sui army in the city had killed all the Turks at these city gates, the interception line composed of 20,000 cavalry led by Li Shimin had been broken by the Turks, and a group of Turks had rushed to the entrance of the city gate. The Turks completely ignored the crossbow arrows and boulders that rained down from the city, and rushed to the city as if they were dead.

In the midst of the scuffle, even all the men in the city and the sturdy women were urgently summoned to the west gate, and in order to prevent the Turkic cavalry from taking advantage of the situation to enter the city, the people had already pulled down one house after another under the command of many officials, and used those stones and wood to transport them to the city gate and piled up one obstacle after another.

The soldiers and men and women in the city have all been summoned to the front line of the city defense at this time, and the city seems extremely silent in this noisy night. In the dark shadows, a team of more than twenty people wore Sui army armor, dodging left and right all the way to the center of the city.

When the first man in armor took out a map and looked at it for a long time, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the left and whispered, "Feiyun Temple is not far from there, we will sneak in from the backyard wall of Feiyun Temple in a while, and we must not fight with those guards unless we have to." We sneaked in, caught Yang Guang and immediately withdrew from the original way. On the eastern wall of Yanmen City, there is a small underground waterway, just enough for one person to pass through. The waterway leads directly to the moat, from where we can go straight out of the city, and then all the way along the Heng Mountain to the northeast, and then we will be met by the men of the Secret Service. Brothers, no matter what happens, as long as there is one person left, Yang Guang must also be brought back to Liaodong. As a last resort, you must not kill Yang Guang, remember? ”。

The eyes of the group of centaurs flashed with excitement, and they nodded and said in a deep voice, "Remember, General." ”

The man nodded, this capture of Yang Guang alive was not in his mission, but since he had seized this opportunity, he must not let it go. The Turks were bent on capturing Yang Guang because they knew his value. And if Yang Guang really fell into his hands, this would also be extremely important to them, and for these reasons, even if he wanted to take risks, he was willing to give it a try.

Listening to the wave after wave of fighting at the city wall in the distance, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the center of the city, and whispered, "Action" ......,