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Since Guang failed to conquer Liaodong, he rarely had time to sleep peacefully.

He couldn't stand even his failure, but he never thought that the conquest of Liaodong was just the beginning of his failure and the turning point in his life. When he was surrounded by Yanmen City, he woke up in the sound of fighting every night, sweating all over his body.

He was arrogant, but he was also afraid. He was not afraid of death, but he was afraid of falling into the hands of the Turks before death. It was a very shameful humiliation for him. He could not bear it before, and Duji, who had kneeled in front of him, looked at him with a high ambition.

He can't tolerate anyone being superior to him!

Although he was a child, only others envied him, he always felt that God was unfair to him. Because his eldest brother was born as the crown prince, he was just the King of Jin. He had been acting for nearly twenty years before he won the position of the crown prince of the East Palace, and endured for more than twenty years before he ascended the position of the emperor. Every time he thought of those twenty years, he felt that he would never let anyone disobey his wishes in the future. He wanted to compensate for the humiliation and depression he had suffered over the past twenty years, which became even worse!

Standing on the city tower, he heard the shouts of Turkic soldiers under the city, and Yang Guang was somewhat numb to see the Turkic soldiers' offensives. He also commanded the army, but when he was pacifying Chen, his father helped him arrange everything. He just followed the advice of the generals and followed behind to receive some glory. He personally led the army in the conquest of Goryeo, and he insisted on his own, but he returned in a crushing defeat. Hundreds of thousands of troops came back only a few thousand, but even so, he had never seen much blood. He was in the palace without going out of the battle, and stayed in Liuhe City when he went on patrol. Listening to the good news or bad news from the generals, others' bones piled up his great achievements.

He never expected that the bleeding would be so tragic, and there would be heavy casualties in the city. Although Yang Guang did not ask, he also knew that the soldiers and generals would definitely not be able to hold on for a few days.

If reinforcements were not arrived, did they have given up on themselves? When Yang Guang thought about this, he was not angry for the first time, but ridiculed!

If you have more blood, it will not be too hot. If you fail more often, will the feeling of shame become much weaker?

Standing on the city tower, although Yang Guang was guarding the guards, like a iron wall, he was as lonely as ever, as deep as fear and disgust, "Yuwen Aiqing..."

"What is the emperor's order?" Yuwen Shu followed Yang Guang like a shadow. In fact, he was indeed Yang Guang's shadow in his life. He never opposed what Yang Guang said, so he won or lost and would not delay his bright future.

"Prepare to break through in the middle of the night and gather all the elite soldiers."

"Okay, I'll prepare now."

When Yuwen Shu retreated, the ministers did not speak to persuade him. These days, Yang Guang had said more than once that he wanted to break through. It would not work to defend himself like this. The ministers persuaded Yang Guang more than once. As long as he persisted, he could wait for reinforcements. Yang Guang was hesitant and could last for a few more days. But this time everyone could see that Yang Guang had made up his mind. No one could see that the city was indeed a little unable to defend.

"Xiao Buyi, what do you think?" Yang Guang just asked Xiao Buyi.

"Does the Lord want to listen to the truth?"

"Of course." Yang Guangran was unhappy.

"I believe that at this moment, whether you attack the city or hold on, it is for the mountain Jiuren..." Xiao Buyi sighed softly and said, "So, my truth is that I only ask the Lord to hold on for a few more days."

"You want me to hold on for a few more days. Three days, five days, or one month?! I have been waiting for you for too long." Yang Guang shouted: "Now nearly half of the soldiers guarding the city have died. The equipment is insufficient, and the people's land and houses have been demolished. I have saved them and saved them. Now there are only a few days of food left. What should I use to defend the city and use to resist the Turkic soldiers? Do I really have to wait until the whole city has exhausted the food before breaking through, so what will I have a chance?"

Xiao Buyi suddenly laughed, "Return to the emperor, if I see it, it is very likely that tonight will be the last attack of the Turkic soldiers. We just need to defend this time now!"

The ministers were moved, and Yang Guang was also surprised, "What does Xiao Qing family mean?"

"Master, something is wrong..." Su Nayan ran up to the city gate tower in panic, whispered a few words in Yang Guang's ear, his face as if it was dirt.

Yang Guang was stunned for a long time and suddenly burst into laughter.

Everyone was confused, so only Xiao Buyi could hear it clearly, shook his head secretly, and was disappointed with Yang Guang.

Yang Guang was not a good monarch, nor was he a good general. He had been guarding the city for nearly a month. Xiao Buyi also had deep feelings for this city. Both soldiers and generals and people in the city were bravely taken first. The house was demolished and the materials were taken to defend the city. The people not only had no complaints, but instead rushed to the city tower in the rain of arrows. But Yang Guang actually wanted to abandon them at this time! Yang Guang broke through with his elite soldiers. Not to mention whether it could be successful, but Yang Guang led his troops away, and the Yanmen City was broken in an instant. Without asking, the people in the city would all be slaughtered. Xiao Buyi kept persuading Yang Guang to guard the city because he believed that Yang Guang would not die now, and even for the people of the whole city.

"The well water in the city suddenly dried up, and the well water was exhausted." Yang Guang shouted a little out of control, "It's an ominous sign, Xiao Buyi, you are so smart, I don't know what else to say to me now?"

The ministers changed their qualities again, Xiao Buyi was unmoved and just said, "The well was exhausted..."

"It's just a natural phenomenon to run out of the well? Xiao Buyi, how long do you want to deceive me?!" Yang Guang interrupted Xiao Buyi's words and wanted to walk down the city tower angrily, intending not to listen to Xiao Buyi's bewitching any more.

"Master, the old minister has something to report." Lai Hu'er suddenly said.

Yang Guang reluctantly stopped and did not turn around, "What's the matter?"

"In fact, it is not a natural disaster in the city, but a man-made disaster." Lai Hu'er looked at Xiao Buyi, and sighed when he saw his face indifferent.

"What man-made disaster?" Yang Guang turned around suddenly, "Are you ridiculing me?"

Lai Hu'er waved his hand quickly, "The old minister has no intention. In fact, the emperor, the Turkic soldiers were not anxious to attack the city before. Suddenly, the siege was caused by the siege equipment, but the bigger reason was to cover up a conspiracy!"

"What conspiracy?" Yang Guang said in a lost voice.

"Shibi Khan is asking his men to dig tunnels day and night into the city. Now he is afraid that after passing through the city wall, the well water is mostly caused by their digging through the groundwater source..."

Yang Guang almost jumped up and grabbed Lai Hu'er's clothes. "You said they dug the tunnel into the city, but you turned a blind eye?"

Lai Hu'er didn't dare to break free, but just shook her head and said, "It's not that, this is Xiao Shaoqing's idea."

Yang Guang was stunned and thought of something, and slowly put down his hand, "You are all ready, just hide it from me, right?"

Lai Hu'er was frightened, "Master, the old minister dared not. I just saw the emperor worrying day and night. The old minister didn't want to bother the emperor with such things anymore. Xiao Shaoqing was extremely alert. He heard a strange noise from the underground a few days ago. He immediately suspected that the Turkic soldiers were digging tunnels into the city, so he discussed with the old minister. The old minister originally thought that the Turkic barbarians could understand such a method. Unexpectedly, after careful observation over the past few days, he finally found that the Turkic soldiers were digging tunnels on all sides to prepare to enter the city!"

"Since General Lai and Xiao Shaoqing have known about the actions of the Turkic soldiers for a long time, they must have had a countermeasure?" Su Wei asked.

Lai Hu'er nodded, "Xiao Shaoqing said that the Turkic soldiers must use fierce siege to conceal the excavation movement. When the siege is started, the excavation will be started. Now eight passages are almost over the city wall, and the Turkic soldiers' attacks are becoming more and more fierce. I am afraid that they will be ready to break through Yanmen City inside and outside tonight. Xiao Shaoqing came up with a clever way to ask the old minister to collect dozens of water tanks and buried them around the inner city wall. The mouth of the tank is upward, so that the soldiers can monitor the sounds from the water tank day and night, and they have long known the excavation progress and direction of the Turkic soldiers!"

The ministers looked at each other and thought to themselves what this method was. Since they came to protect themselves, they must be useful.

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Yang Guang asked nervously, "I only know what the use of progress is. What can you do to crack it?"

Lai Hu'er smiled and said, "The old minister has already prepared for it. When the Turkic soldiers broke through the ground and entered the city, it is the day when they died. The Turkic soldiers were already frustrated when they first attacked the city. If such a fierce momentum was failing, the old minister also thought that if the morale of the army was frustrated, they would most likely have no intention of siege the city."

Yang Guang hesitated for a long time, but Yuwen Shu turned around in a hurry, "Master, the troops who broke through the siege are ready." Yang Guang waved his hand and said, "Let them go to defend the city first, and talk about it in a few days."

**

Shibi Khan stared at Yanmen County coldly, feeling excited. He could not wait to enter the city to massacre.

He waited for too long, and this time it seemed that he had already made a lot of tricks. The people of the Central Plains were all tricks and could come up with a way to conceal the city to dig the tunnels into the city. This is called building a plank road openly and secretly traveling to Chencang.

He thought that the tunnel had probably arrived in the city at this moment. Shibi Khan waved his whip and the Turkic soldiers carried out his last attack. As long as thousands of elite soldiers entered the city from the tunnel and opened the city gate inside and outside, Yang Guang would definitely find it difficult to take care of both inside and outside, and become his prisoner!

The Turkic soldiers are much smarter now. Many teams cover them. In an instant, the arrows were like rain. The defenders on the top of the city could not raise their heads. The cavalry rushed under the wall, erected a ladder, and climbed up hard. Some soldiers carried huge trees to hit the city gate and bloomed at multiple points.

Shibi Khan couldn't help but urge him to move forward. He just waited for the moment when the city opened, and suddenly he noticed that the ground had trembled twice. Shibi Khan was stunned for a moment and stopped moving forward.

Some of the Turkic soldiers who were sieging the city had already climbed to the top of the city wall. The Turkic soldiers who fired the arrows were temporarily fired. The snare drums in the city sounded loudly, and countless soldiers appeared on the top of the city. This time, they did not shoot arrows, but burned hot oil!

Countless Turkic soldiers screamed and fell from the ladder. The city threw out a torch wrapped in oil cloth, which was dipped on the ladder. The oil burned. The bonfire was raging, and many Turkic soldiers were instantly buried in the sea of ​​fire.

Shibi Khan was furious and felt that the people of the Central Plains were really at the extreme. They not only used bows, arrows, spears, even boiling oil, boiling water, wood, and stone to defend the city, but also had great damage.

They left the boiling oil for the end, which was also cunning. It must be that boiling oil was scarce. They just waited for them to attack with all their might, and then burned their ladder.

But he watched the ladder being destroyed, but he was powerless and the catapult was broken a lot. If the ladders that siege this time were burned out, where would he have a skilled craftsman to make this thing to attack the city?

His only hope now is the surprise soldier in the tunnel. He suddenly found that Xirimo ran to him panting, and his whole body seemed to be filled with the chickens. He couldn't help but be furious, "Xirimo, you should be in the city now!"

Xirimo said with a sad face: "Khan, something big is not good. The people of the Central Plains are too cunning. According to the plan, we have all dug the city wall, but the front suddenly collapsed and was blocked by huge rocks. The power in the tunnel is limited and it can no longer be dug. Before we can make any moves, it seems that a spring water is coming in front. The tunnel is originally stuffy and narrow, and it is washed away by water. Thousands of soldiers in the tunnel are suffocating to death!"

Shibi Khan put down his whip weakly and said in a loss of spirit: "What did you say?"

Of course he understood what Xiri Mo said. But he didn't want to believe it. The bonfire ahead was beating and the fighting screamed, as if it turned into Yang Guang's arrogant face, pointing at him and smiling at him, "I will always be stepped on by you!"

The drums suddenly sounded. The soldiers on the top of the city poured oil and set fire to the ladder. After seeing the two ends of the Turkic soldiers, they pulled their bows and arrows. They shot towards the Turkic soldiers. The big rocks in the city flew out. The arrows were like rain, and the Turkic soldiers retreated one after another!

"Khan, let's retreat." Xirimo saw thousands of soldiers tragically dying, and felt that it was a lifelong nightmare and his morale was already weakened.

Shibi Khan snorted coldly, "What's the hurry? They are at the end of their strength..."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly ran away from a distance and shouted: "Khan, Ke Dun's urgent letter."

Shibi Khan shouted angrily: "What did she say?"

This time he went south. He set out without telling his wife, just because Ke Dun's power is absolutely not to be underestimated. After only capturing Yang Guang, the second person to deal with Ke Dun was Ke Dun. He didn't expect that it would be just a Yanmen City but would be invincible in the near month. Seeing his panicked expression, Shibi Khan made an ominous prediction

The soldier said in panic: "Report to Khan, there is chaos on the northern border of the grassland, so please ask the Khan to turn around quickly."

Shibi Khan was stunned. A chill surged up, "Do you know who was causing trouble?"

"I heard that Li Jing of the Great Sui Dynasty led tens of thousands of elite troops to take advantage of the situation and attack the tribes in the north. Now everyone is in danger..."

Shibi Khan snorted coldly, "A group of idiots, if Li Jing really had tens of thousands of elite soldiers, he would know that we were besieging Yanmen, and he would keep my back? How could his trick of besieging Wei to save Zhao? "

"But now that Khan is not here, Li Jing is making trouble, but no one can defeat him. He fought thousands of miles from east to west, and more than a dozen tribes were burned by him, causing heavy losses. Now he has begun to lead troops to attack the Turkic tent. I heard that the battle is not good."

Shibi Khan took a deep breath and doubted his judgment just now. Although all the Turkic elites were released, there were still large troops to guard the Turkic tent, and Li Jing actually dared to attack, which was really a courageous thing.

"Now Khan is besieging the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty, Li Jing attacked the Khan's tent. But now he elected Shi Liver as the leader of the grassland army. He is now taking the gathered tribe soldiers to rush to the Khan's tent, but he is afraid that he will lose. Please ask the Khan to quickly decide on reinforcements."

Shibi Khan was stunned on the spot and said nothing for a long time.

He didn't care about the bluff of the Sui army, he didn't care about the desperate resistance of Yanmen City, and he didn't care about even Li Jing attacked his Turkic tooth tent. But he heard that Ke Dun and Shi Liver set up a piece to go to the Turkic tooth tent, so he couldn't care about it.

If the East is the heart of the Great Sui Dynasty, the Turkic Tooth Tent is of course the heart of the grassland. It occupies there and can command the thousands of troops on the grassland. Kedun is powerful and has accumulated over the years. The Khan of Qimin has many sons. The reason why he was able to become a Khan is that Kedundi is able to stand against the opposition. Now he has turned against the Great Sui Dynasty, Kedun is loyal to the Sui Dynasty. He may overthrow him as a Khan at any time while he is not here. He can make them at the Turkic Tooth Tent Tent. It is hard to say whether they will be a Khan when they go back by themselves.

Compared with capturing Yang Guang and protecting Khan's position, of course, the latter is still important, just because Khan's position is gone, capturing Yang Guang is useless. Besides, it will take a long time to prepare for the siege equipment, so it is still unknown whether Yang Guang can be captured by the dead.

"Return to the army." Shibi Khan ordered decisively.

**

Yanmen City spent an unimaginable quiet night. The quiet means that no one attacked, but relatively speaking, no one dared to relax his vigilance when the people outside the city called horses neighing.

It was just that the outside of the city was pitch black, and countless Turkic soldiers were lying in ambush, and no one dared to go outside the city to inquire.

Yang Guang counted his fingers to calculate the days, and the more he calculated, the more annoyed it became. At that time, Dongdu was trapped, and it took more than a month to quell the rebellion. Now it has been almost a month since the siege. These subordinates should be killed.

Xiao Buyi sat upright at the top of the city, his face calm, and no one could see what he was thinking. He was always changing, from the youthful and passionate blood he had just left the village to the calmness and conciseness now, and the cunning was buried deep in the city. For Xiao Buyi, it seemed like a year had passed. However, no matter how he changed, Fang Wuhui around him and the soldiers guarding the city were all admiring him.

Although Xiao Buyi was the Taifu Shaoqing, he fought like a soldier and led the way. In the days of defending the city, no matter how fierce the Turkic soldiers were, he had never seen him retreat. He greatly boosted the morale of the defenders on the city. In the past month, everyone in the city guards had a name in their hearts, that is, the three words Xiao Buyi!

Xiao Buyi was not as yelling as the officials, eating less than them and doing more than anyone else. He was the first to discover the Turkic soldiers' plans to attack the land in tunnels. He drowned countless Turkic soldiers. Otherwise, this night would be their last night.

But now, he is still sitting there with ironclad, without any fatigue. How could he not let the city soldiers respect him?
To be continued...