On the Shangyuan Festival, Tanzhou Mansion is lively and lively, and Taiyuan also tries to be festive, but the small city of Lexian where Huofeng and Zhou Shaoyu are located really does not have a cheerful atmosphere.

This is the front line against the Turks, and there are also many displaced people stranded, and more or less people have died in every household, coupled with poverty, the New Year may not be happy, not to mention the Shangyuan Festival.

Huofeng has done a lot of work, but the results are very low, he sent away hundreds of officials early, and ran to Zhou Shaoyu to eat and drink, and he was very cheeky and said that he was poor, he had good food here, and he came to improve his life.

Of course, the original words are certainly not so straightforward, but that's probably what they mean.

Shangyuan Festival, that is, the Lantern Festival in later generations, anyway, Zhou Shaoyu thinks that Shangyuan Festival should be a little taller. Eating glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival is more or less a tradition, but no matter how traditional it is, it depends on history.

Tangyuan originated in the Song Dynasty, in other words, Yan Lingbin must have never eaten it. As for the beam, there are rice balls, but it has not become a custom, it is a Tang Dynasty girl with an indigenous girl, and the three girls are basically full of freshness.

Considering that Yan Lingbin is really thin, she is basically only allowed to try it, and the rest is mainly meat dumplings.

Zhou Shaoyu was quite happy to draw Yan Lingbin, not because of anything else, but because there was a little bit of secrecy in it, he was idle and ready to cross the hookup and hook up with the girl, but in fact, the first person who drew it was not Yan Lingbin, but the Hakka who didn't even have a name.

At first, Zhou Shaoyu didn't care, he was stupid after crossing, the co-author was this Hakka!

The nurse of the Ming Dynasty Emperor Ming Xizong Zhu Youxiao, the Holy Lady, the emperor gave Wei Zhongxian to eat, let's be regarded as husband and wife, but in fact, it is very likely that Zhu Youxiao and the Hakka family have a leg.

In addition, Zhu Youxiao had three sons, who were either stillborn or died early, and the reason for this is probably because of the Hakka family.

In short, this person who is in cahoots with Wei Zhongxian is definitely not a good bird, hooking up with such a person to go back, Wucao, is he trying to make the house restless? And this ability is quite ordinary, it is nothing more than relying on the emperor's favor and Wei Zhongxian's help, this idea is not worth the risk.

Take a look, in this comparison, Yan Lingbin is twice as good, even if he has really worked hard for a few months, Zhou Shaoyu doesn't feel that there is anything not worth it.

In the end, Yan Lingbin eats meat and replenishes meat is the top priority. At the same time, the other girl didn't have to eat if she wanted to.

A few years ago, Qin Yiliu galloped and rushed to Taiyuan to celebrate the New Year with Feng Ji, but Zhou Shaoyu was too lazy to care, so she let it go, as long as there was no mistake in the big thing.

But others don't see it that way.

This kind of thing that is not allowed to leave without permission, Taiyuan and the girls said that they were very angry, and they were put under house arrest as soon as they returned to the city, and asked to think about it behind closed doors.

This head must not be opened, it must be severely punished, Feng Ji is even more annoyed, let her reflect on what was wrong.

On the second day of the Shangyuan Festival, Li Xiuning decided to take the team to the front line first, so as to obtain information as soon as possible, and bring Qin Yiliu back by the way, but at this time, Qin Yiliu still didn't feel that he was wrong, he had already publicly stated that he liked Feng Ji, not Zhou Shaoyu, anyway, there was no war, was it wrong to come back to accompany Feng Ji?

However, for Li Xiuning, who is cold all day long, Qin Yiliu is still a little worried, others don't know, can she still not know Li Xiuning's ability, in her cognition, there should be no more powerful woman in history than this fighter.

Li Xiuning only brought a total of 5,000 people, all of whom were cavalry, but 2,000 of them were also responsible for escorting a certain amount of grain and grass, so the actual combat power was not high.

All the way to the west, it is very bold to enter Youzhou directly, there is an abandoned small city here, in the early years here was also prosperous, but the river on the outskirts of the city dried up, more and more unfavorable to life, and gradually some people began to leave.

There will definitely be people who will continue to live here, but with the Turkic invasion, this place is close to the border, and it was basically slaughtered at the first time, and the living ones either fled for their lives or were coerced away, so that the city was abandoned, even if there were a handful of residents and displaced people, they were still living in stealth, and now the cold winter is over, and they are basically dead.

The reason why I chose this place is that it is dark under the lights.

At present, except for Youwang, no one will look for a dead person to enter Youzhou, and this place is remote and abandoned and uninhabited, so there is basically nothing to explore here, just be careful of some multi-faction scouts to take precautions early, but they are not afraid of being surrounded and suppressed.

However, people are unlucky to drink water and stuff their teeth, originally this city is by no means the only way, and no one will run here in common sense, but it can't stand the son of a Turkic tribal leader running out to hunt idle!

And the timing can be described as quite good, when Li Xiuning's army was discovered, Li Xiuning was still rushing to the abandoned city, and the layout of the defense was not complete at all.

Therefore, early in the morning of the second day when Li Xiuning was about to enter the city, the city was besieged!

The army is not much, thirty thousand.

However, the 30,000 troops also depend on where the soldiers are and what kind of city they attack.

An abandoned small city with a strength of only 5,000 troops, how can it defend against the direct elite of 30,000 Turkic khans?

Looking at the Turkic army surrounded by the city, Li Xiuning frowned rarely.

"Can you figure out who the lord of the city is?" Ashina Huqin personally led the suppression, more or less with the idea of coming over to fight a victory, and he always did not make a difference, although his means of controlling the Turks were not at all based on prestige.

"Back to the Khan, the guard general in the city is a woman surnamed Li, who should be the one who led the army in Yongzhou to conquer the Western Regions Army last year." A Turkic man reported it.

Ashina Huqin nodded, and when he returned to the army in the cold winter, he didn't do nothing, but sent people to find out the intelligence as much as possible, and he had a certain understanding of the generals of all parties, and Li Xiuning was the best among them.

"Balan, you are the messenger, and you will go into the city to try and see if there is any possibility of winning over. As long as she agrees, Ben Khan is willing to promise her the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, one person under ten thousand people! Ashina, who consciously has the chance to win, has some confidence to grasp the way.

Balan is Ashina Huqin's half-brother, and traveling in this capacity can also show the importance he attaches to Li Xiuning.

And in the city, Li Xiuning is indeed in a dilemma, this situation will not be too good at all. Don't look at her in the past, she was full of scheming, but the strategy also depends on the conditions, otherwise it is still the same sentence, the war is fought in a dignified manner, compared to the number of people, than morale, and more than the level of elite.

It's basically a tough situation, but it's actually hard to have a way.

"Order someone to break through and ask for help." Qin Yiliu was also quite calm, but he was inevitably worried.

"To whom? The Ghost King? Do you think he would take such a big risk to save him? As for Zhou Lang, he has no more than 10,000 under his command, and even if he rushes over, he will be paid a drop in the bucket. Li Xiuning glanced at Qin Yiliu, although they were all surnamed Qin, they still liked Qin Liangyu in the end.

"But Zhou Shao...... cough, isn't Gongzi Zhou at the pseudo-empress, you can borrow a soldier or two. "Qin Yiliu can only think about it, otherwise what should I do? Really use these 5,000 troops to scare 30,000 people? Even if it can be tied, but now this is someone's territory, and you can increase your troops at any time.

"What if people don't borrow it?" Li Xiuning said lightly: "With Zhou Lang's temperament, even if he doesn't borrow it, he is bound to lead the troops here, and the concubine will never let Zhou Lang take risks." ”

Qin Yiliu opened his mouth and was just about to continue persuading, when someone came to report, saying that the Turkic envoy had arrived outside the city, whether to let him in.

"Huh?" Li Xiuning was stunned for a moment, and then her eyes narrowed slightly. "Bring him here."

At this moment, everyone didn't know what kind of dangerous trick Li Xiuning would use.

The Shangyuan Festival has passed, and Zhou Shaoyu did not continue to stay in the city, and the army marched out and set up camp in a place that was easy to defend in the suburbs.

Zhou Shaoyu naturally didn't know about Ashina Huqin's troops besieging Li Xiuning, but he also inquired about the news that Ashina Huqin led his troops to go out, but the direction of his march was puzzling, if he went deeper to the north, he was afraid that he would not have to return to the grassland.

But is this possible? Zhou Shaoyu didn't believe that Ashina Huqin would choose to leave on his own initiative, besides, everything in Yunjing that people made out was fine as usual.

If we can't figure out the hostility, it is always natural to strengthen our defenses, and while sending people to investigate in detail, we should also strengthen our vigilance against sneak attacks, and be ready to attack at any time.

Generally speaking, there are several points to pay attention to in ancient warfare.

For example, if you don't fight in the cold winter, the weather is cold, and basically no one is willing to send troops to fight at this time, because it is likely that there will be a few battles, but many people will freeze to death, and the combat power will be greatly reduced.

In addition, the spring ploughing season is not beaten. In ancient times, the productivity was low, the yield per mu was not high, and the grain was the top priority, the spring ploughing season, the general tacit understanding of the spring ploughing-based, rash to carry out the delay of spring ploughing, the impact on the future is not a star and a half. Moreover, the spring was redundant and the roads were muddy, which was not conducive to the march.

Obviously, for example, rushing from one place to another, normal one hour is enough, but because of the excess mud, it takes twice as much time, and during this time, people have already taken precautions, so how to fight?

According to this theory, Ashina Huqin will not come nonsense, after all, even before the invasion in previous years, most of the Turkic arson raids were mainly in the autumn harvest season, after all, the most grain could be grabbed at that time.

It's just that people are nomads in the end, and they are invading at the moment, and they can't say if they want to start spring and delay your spring ploughing, anyway, arable land is not their strong point, as for the lack of food at that time, grab it!

It's really simple and crude.

After thinking about it, Zhou Shaoyu felt that it was really possible, and Ashina Huqin couldn't send troops for no reason.

"Ashina Balan has seen General Li, and I have heard that General Li has a shining demeanor for a long time, and it is really extraordinary when I see it today." On the city wall, Ashina Balan strives to look like a crepe, but how awkward the beard looks. However, it can also be seen that Balan should be familiar with the culture of Daliang.

"Without further ado, what's the matter with entering the city." Li Xiuning didn't even turn his head, his eyes still focused on the outside of the city.

Ashinabalan is a little annoyed, who would like to be ignored? Seeing that his master's face was ugly, the two Turkic men who followed Balan immediately drew their scimitars.

"What to do? Take it back! "Fortunately, Balan is not a brainless person, just kidding, it is true that there are 30,000 troops outside the city, but where is it now? At the head of someone's city! Dare to show the knife, not afraid of really provoking people to cut people?

"My subordinates are ignorant, and I still look at Haihan, I am the brother of the Khan, and I came here this time to serve the ...... of the Khan."

Before he finished speaking, he stopped abruptly, Ashina Balan covered his bleeding neck in disbelief, staring at Li Xiuning, he couldn't figure it out, he really couldn't figure it out, why Li Xiuning would suddenly kill him so simply!

Puff ...... Ashina Balan fell to the ground unwillingly, and finally convulsed a few times, and there was no movement, as for the two relatives around him, they were also slaughtered by Li Xiuning's personal guards as soon as possible.

shook off the blood stains on the blade, took out the white silk and wiped it slowly, and finally returned the long knife to the sheath, Li Xiuning said calmly: "The head is cut off, hung on the flagpole, and the people are shouting, if you want to get back the head, just attack." In addition, leave a thousand people to garrison, and the rest of the soldiers, hurry up and go back to rest. ”

This is definitely an incomprehensible order, good fellow, you slaughtered the brother of the Khan of the people, and even hung his head on the flagpole, there is nothing more provocative than this. At this time, if you don't strengthen your precautions, you still let most of the people rest?

If it weren't for the fact that the people who followed him this time were all veterans, and they had seen Li Xiuning's invincibility, I was afraid that they would rebel.

"Order." The generals glanced at each other, and they always listened to the general.

And Qin Yiliu is all kinds of confused, she thinks that she has learned from her family history is not bad, but she can imagine that she has seen and heard of the battle examples, and she has never heard of similar actions, so she really can't figure out the meaning.

Normally, the two armies do not fight each other, but Li Xiuning is not only slaughtering people, but also hanging flagpoles on people's heads! Hiss......

Not long after, Ashinabalan's unsightly head was hung on the flagpole at the head of the city, and the Turks looked at it from a distance, and then with the provocative shouts in the city, they were furious and stared at each other, although the Turks had been defeated, but when had they been so provoked!

"Khan, I am willing to be the vanguard, break this city, and welcome back the head of Balan!"

"I would like to be a pioneer too!"

"Khan, take the city!"

"Give the order, Khan!"

The Turkic generals pleaded for their lives.

Is Ashina suddenly annoyed? That's quite annoying! However, the reason for his annoyance is not the death of his younger brother Balan, he is cold-hearted, he actually doesn't care much, what he cares about is that he is so provoked and loses face!

However, there must be a demon when things go wrong, and there are only 5,000 defenders in the city, even if they have the will to die, they should not be so provocative.

You must know that this is just surrounded, and the normal way to deal with it is not to continue negotiations to delay time, and then send people to ask for help?

But that's not the case! As soon as he came up, he provoked in such a radical way, as if forcing him to lead troops to attack the city.

Just as he was hesitating, a huge vertical flag was hung on the city wall, with five big characters written on it.

Huqin, rat generation!

Ashina's eyes were complicated for a long time, and then he ordered: "Order, the whole army retreats five miles back to camp, carefully explore the radius of fifty miles, and not a single grass or tree is allowed to be ignored!" ”

(End of chapter)