If the Song Desert City is placed in the Central Plains, it will be a very strange city, first of all, it is not big, the circumference is only seventeen or eighteen miles, it can only be regarded as a medium to small county in the Central Plains, but its city wall is surprisingly high, it is four zhang high, higher than the city walls of Luoyang and Chang'an, and it is three zhang wide, it is impossible to appear so high and wide in the Central Plains.

But the Khitan ignored the arrogance, after they inherited the city from the Xianbei people, they strengthened and heightened the city wall three times in the past 40 years, and only now such a strange city appeared.

Songmo City is mainly a place where Khitan nobles live, there are more than 2,000 noble men and women living in various departments, in addition, the commerce of Songmo City is relatively developed, there are a large number of shops in the city, every year there are countless merchants from the Central Plains, Goguryeo, Silla, Turks and other places come here to buy and sell goods, and the Khitan also learns from the Central Plains to collect commercial taxes, which has become an important income for them.

Although the city is tall and strong, but it must be garrisoned by an army to play its powerful defensive role, there are 20,000 standing troops stationed in Songmo City in peacetime, but today, the Dahe Department of the Zimengchuan Grassland was bloodied by the Sui army, and the chief Dahe Duluo led 20,000 troops to rescue the headquarters desperately, making Songmo City a virtual city.

At the same time that the army led by the chieftain Dahe Duluo was ambushed by the Sui army, a main force of the Sui army, consisting of 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry, arrived at Songmo City, and the main general of this army was none other than Zhang Xuan, the king of Qi.

At this time, there were only 300 soldiers guarding the city gate in Songmo City, and when the mighty army arrived, the city was in chaos, and almost all the Khitan nobles fell into extreme fear, and their families closed their doors and closed their doors, praying for the blessing of the gods.

The city gate opened, and three hundred Khitan defenders went out of the city to surrender, Zhang Xuan coldly ordered: "The army enters the city, give me a house-to-house search, and the Khitan men will be executed regardless of their age or young!" ”

20,000 infantry rushed into Songmo City and began to kill the Khitan nobles, Xu Shiji was really a little unbearable, and said in a low voice: "I don't understand the humble position, why the marshal must be killed, although they attack Liucheng hateful, but the civilians should be innocent, please think twice!" ”

Zhang Xuan shook his head, "I'm not trying to retaliate against them for attacking Liucheng, the Khitans are too ambitious to invade the south, leaving them behind will be a problem for the Central Plains in the future, and for the safety of our children and grandchildren, I also have to harden my heart and slaughter civilians." ”

Zhang Xuan glanced at Xu Shiji again, and said lightly: "Everything has a reason, I never kill civilians, but the Khitan or Turks are exceptional, on the one hand, of course, they are all soldiers, and the herdsmen are cavalry, but more importantly, it is the population, it is impossible to completely exterminate them, but only by eliminating their population to the greatest extent, without the support of the population, they will gradually disappear in the long river of history." ”

Xu Shiji nodded silently, "I understand!" ”

At this time, a scout rushed back, clasped his fists on the horse and said, "Qiqi Dashuai, the remnants of the Khitan army have fled back, and they are less than ten miles away from us. ”

"How many are there?"

"About two thousand people!"

Zhang Xuan immediately said to Xu Shiji: "You lead 5,000 cavalry to surround them, be sure to annihilate them all, and leave no one behind!" ”

"Yes!"

Xu Shiji then led 5,000 cavalry to the south.

Zhang Xuan took out another arrow and handed it to the herald: "Quickly go and find Tudiji, and let him lead the army to clear the scattered Khitan tribes in the northeast, and all the cattle and sheep and children obtained will belong to the Yao." ”

Zhang Xuan took out another arrow and said to the other: "Go and tell Su Zhi that the Khitan tribes in the northwest will be disposed of by the Xi people." ”

The two heralds took the order and left, Zhang Xuan turned to look at Song Mo City, he could clearly hear the cries and screams in the city, at this time Zhang Xuan was as hard as iron, unmoved, he wanted to use this opportunity to completely solve the hidden danger of the Khitan, if he had mercy on the young wolf today, he would be devoured by the evil wolf one day

Dahe Duluo desperately broke through, and finally fought a bloody way from the weaker Xi cavalry, led more than 2,000 people to break through, and fled to Songmo City in panic, at this time Dahe Duluo's ambition has long been gone, he is like a water dog being chased, just want to lead the tribe to escape as far as possible, to avoid this life and death catastrophe.

But just when there were still five miles away from Songmo City, the yellow dust was rolling on the opposite side, and a cavalry was killing head-on, "It's the Sui army!" "The Khitan cavalry was terrified.

Dahe Duluo's eyes were straight, and he realized that the Sui army's attack on Zimengchuan was actually a plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, and to transfer his 20,000 troops out of Songmo City, and then

Dahe Luo was full of remorse in his heart, he completely lost his fighting spirit, turned his horse's head and fled eastward, the north was the intercepted Sui cavalry, the west was the Zimeng River, the south was the Sui army pursuers, they only ran to the east, but they only ran out of less than a mile, and countless Sui cavalry suddenly appeared on the hill a hundred steps in front of them, and the head of the general was Xu Shiji.

Xu Shiji used a small trick, he let hundreds of people ride horses and drag branches back and forth in the north, creating the illusion of thousands of horses galloping, he deduced that the Khitan defeated army would not carefully distinguish the truth from the false in a hurry, and he himself led 5,000 cavalry to ambush behind the eastern hill, and the Khitan cavalry really hit the plan.

Xu Shiji waved his sword, and the dense rain-like arrows shot at the Khitan cavalry who were rushing in a hurry, the Khitan cavalry couldn't dodge, and hundreds of soldiers who ran in the front fell from their horses one after another.

Xu Shiji immediately pointed at his sword, "Attack!" ”

The horn sounded, and two thousand-man cavalry teams attacked the Khitan cavalry on the left and right, cutting off the rear road of the Khitan cavalry, and then the three thousand cavalry swept away towards the Khitan cavalry under the hillside like a torrent

The encirclement and suppression of the Khitan by the Sui army and the Xi and the Yan tribe lasted for seven days, and hundreds of thousands of young and strong Khitan men died under the knife, and hundreds of thousands of old and weak women and children were migrated to Hebei and Qingzhou, or were plundered by the Xi and the Yan people.

Only about 10,000 people from a dozen small tribes in the northernmost part were led by the chief Sun Aocao to flee their homeland and migrate to the cold Mobei region thousands of miles away.

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At the time when the Sui army was fully encircling and suppressing the Khitans, there was also fierce infighting within Goguryeo, and the 50,000 Goguryeo troops wanted to withdraw to Pyongyang because they could not cross the Yalu River, but Yuan Taizuo issued a death order, not to rescue the Goguryeo army trapped in Liaodong, and never allowed them to return to Pyongyang.

Yuan Taizuo's tough attitude aroused the anger of countless people in the Goguryeo government and the opposition, who accused Yuan Taizuo of being selfish and only wanted to save his son's life.

But Yuan Taizuo turned a deaf ear to all kinds of accusations, he insisted on his position strongly, and even more did not agree to negotiate peace with Sui Jun.

In the palace of Goguryeo, more than a dozen ministers were arguing in front of Gao Yuan, the king of Yingyang, who had been arguing about the peace war for several days, and Gao Yuan was also a little annoyed, asking them to come up with a feasible plan as soon as possible.

Yuan Taizuo glared at everyone angrily: "You always think about the problem too simply, do you think Zhang Xuan is Yang Guang?" Make a groveling gesture and he will meet and withdraw? How is it possible, once he accepts the peace, it will be our sky-high compensation, we can't afford it at all, not only the Liaodong Peninsula is gone, but the land north of Yalushui will also be lost, and there is also the grain compensation for the empty treasury and generations of people eating chaff, which of you can accept it? ”

Quan Huan said coldly: "I didn't talk about it, Lord Mo Lizhi began to be alarmist, how do you know what conditions the other party wants?" Maybe the other party's requirements are not high, but we are thinking too much? And peace talks can only make General Gai Suwen go home, won't Lord Mo Lizhi not understand this truth? ”

Yuan Taizuo's face was red and white for a while, of course he hoped that his son would come back safely, but now that he had made peace, it would mean that the land north of the Yalu Water and the Liaodong Peninsula would be lost, and those were the sphere of influence of his Yuan family, and his loss was too great.

And Yuan Taizuo also got the news that the Goguryeo army was trapped in Yancheng, and the food could still support a month and a half, and his son Yuan Gai Suwen was also safe and sound, which made Yuan Taizuo have a glimmer of hope, and first delayed for a month, and waited for the Sui army to take the initiative to propose peace talks because they could not support it.

He can give it to Zhang Xuan on the Liaodong Peninsula, and he can also compensate for some military food, but he must not lose the Yuan family's sphere of influence.

Yuan Taizuo still said with a tough attitude: "I didn't say that we don't negotiate peace, but we have to grasp the timing, I don't think it's the time for peace talks, because the Sui army is almost unable to support it, they only have Qingzhou and Hebei, but they have to support 200,000 troops to support the big war between countries, not to mention that the Tang army is constantly harassing them, ready to move, I got the news, the Tang army has launched a war to seize Fukou, I believe Zhang Xuan is also under huge pressure, as long as we drag on for another month, Jag-hyun will take the initiative to come to us for peace talks, and then the price we will have to pay will be much smaller. ”

"Lord Mo Lizhi is a little taken for granted."

Quan Huan shook his head and said, "I think Lord Mo Lizhi is afraid of discussing and harming his own interests!" ”

One word revealed the mystery, Yuan Taizuo simply tore his face, and slapped the sword in his waist on the table, "Whoever wants to negotiate peace, ask me if my sword will agree!" ”

The hall was suddenly silent. (To be continued.) )