Chapter 498: The Fortified City of Tuyuhun, the Artifact of Breaking the City
In just seven days, all the big cities in Tuyuhun except the capital were destroyed.
Originally, Tuyuhun had inconvenient information dissemination due to terrain problems, so the three Tang dynasties attacked separately. Except for the strong capital of Fuqi City, no other cities could do. It was not a problem with the height of the city, but a lack of troops.
The Tuyuhun country was not big, and it was restored again since the end of the Sui Dynasty. Therefore, the regime was stable for a few years. The troops were originally only tens of thousands, but last time they lost 80,000. Now, there is not even a hundred thousand people in the country, and 40,000 of them are still responsible for guarding Fuqi City. Because it is bitter and cold here, no one will attack except Tubo and Tang Dynasty.
Tubo was busy unifying the country in the past few years and did not free up his hands to invade. The Tang Dynasty was a country of etiquette and would not take the initiative to raise troops, so it actually allowed him to develop steadily for more than ten years. During the Wude period, there were two troops to loot the Tang Dynasty and both were repelled. However, this hatred that the Tang Dynasty could not be forgotten.
When the King of Qi gathered 50,000 troops to Fushima, Fu Yun Khan was stunned. What was going on? Where did the Tang army come from? He just got the information about being attacked around him, why did the Tang army kill him to the city?
"I wonder which general of the Tang Dynasty is below? Why did he offend me Tuyuhun for no reason?" Although Fu Yun Khan was old, his power remained unabated and he asked loudly in military uniform.
"Li Yuanji, the King of Qi in the Tang Dynasty, is here, and is here to destroy you, Tuyuhun, by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty." Li Yuanji used his skills and shouted at the top of the city, not only answering, but also threatening the defenders on the top of the city.
As the director of Zhongnan Academy, Li Yuanji, the third floor martial arts secrets, is naturally qualified to practice. Under Bai Fan's guidance, Li Yuanji also chose several martial arts and internal skills that suit him.
Fu Yun Khan said coldly: "What a big tone. Even if you, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, come here in person, and you dare not say that you can destroy me, Tuyuhun. Is it just your tens of thousands of soldiers?"
"Hahahaha, that's right. With my tens of thousands of soldiers, I'm afraid you don't know it yet. It's been seven days since we came to Tuyuhun. After seven days, I have been taking down all the cities in Tuyuhun. Just like the former Sui Dynasty destroyed you, Fuqi City at this time is already an isolated city.
Old man Fu Yun, why don’t you surrender?”
Li Yuanji shouted loudly, which shocked the Tuyuhun defenders who were already disdainful. If they were not afraid of seeing the tens of thousands of people below, they might not know anything about the battle to destroy Tuyuhun in the Sui Dynasty.
Fu Yun Khan also felt a pain in his heart. As early as ten years ago, he re-planned the country. In order to prevent repeating the same mistakes, he formed a way to mobilize troops with strong outside and weak inside. He used heavy troops to defend everywhere, and there were only 20,000 defenders in the central capital.
However, before, I was reluctant to lose 80,000 people in the Tang Dynasty, which really hurt my vitality. I had no choice but to transfer the guards around me and focus on defense. No defender in the surrounding cities had more than 10,000.
So at this time, Li Yuanji said that he would take all the places around him in seven days, and Fu Yun was the first to believe it.
"The Tang Dynasty invaded and destroyed the country for no reason, and wasn't it afraid of attracting dissatisfaction among the countries. Let's fight together?" Fu Yun asked with his momentum.
"Destroy the country without reason?
You, the Tuyuhun envoy coveted the national treasure of the Tang Dynasty, and sent people to burn the First Academy of the Tang Dynasty, destroy our country's treasures and kill my sons. This hatred is irreconcilable, so you need to destroy the country to repay it.
You are already desperate. I can take you to apologize to Your Majesty if you refuse to surrender. If you resist death, wait for us to break the city and kill people."
Li Yuanji's shouting directly shook the confidence of the soldiers guarding the city. Fu Yun looked at the restless people around him, made a quick decision and shouted: "Hmph, why not worry about being punished?
We have 40,000 defenders, but you only have 50,000 people. We wait for the city to be indestructible. If you have the ability, you come to attack the city. Want us to surrender? Dream.
When all of you, like you, die, will we avenge the soldiers of other cities."
Fu Yun still had a good idea. After this remark, Tuyuhun's morale became much stronger.
The defenders on the top of the city shouted: "Fight!"
Li Yuanba, one side of the Tang Dynasty, was already angry. The little Tuyuhun was left with only one lonely city and dared to provoke it?
"Li Yuanba, the King of Chu of the Tang Dynasty, is here, who will die in Tuyuhun?"
He drove his horse forward, and the smoke shone thousands of miles under his crotch. He pointed at the defenders on the city, and shouted loudly with his internal force.
Li Yuanba's internal strength is stronger than Li Yuanji. In the ears of the soldiers of Tuyuhun, it was like thunder. It was so scared that the defenders on the city were all taking a step back.
A general from Tuyuhun sneered: "This guy is a reckless man at first glance. What's the use of a loud voice? Can you break the city with one man and one horse?"
Obviously, a soldier in Tuyuhun was not interested in Li Yuanba. He had no other reaction except being shocked by his voice, and no one came out to fight.
This made Li Yuanba a little embarrassed, thinking in his heart that his reputation was still not famous enough and that it did not reach Tuyuhun? This battle must be revealed.
But there are always people who remember him, Fu Yun is one of them. As a person who rose in troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, how could Fu Yun never hear the title of the first hero of the Sui Dynasty? He shook his head slightly and complained in his heart that with this person, the chances of winning were higher than the first year of the Tang Dynasty, but he did not say this.
The generals from the Tang Dynasty went up to fight one by one, but there was no movement at the head of Tuyuhun City. No one seemed to have thought of coming out to meet the enemy, and they were determined to defend Gucheng.
In fact, this was Fu Yun's death order to hold down the soldiers on the city. Although there were a few generals in Tuyuhun, Fu Yun's heart became colder and colder when he heard the names of generals under the city. Qin Qiong, the most powerful general in the Tang Dynasty, was a powerful general who took the heads of the enemy generals from all directions. Why did he come too?
The Pioneer Army Yuchi Baolin and Qin Huaidao? Although these two are young generals, the Tang Dynasty's Pioneer Army has been in full swing in the past two years, and no one dares to join the market on the safe side.
In ancient times, the battle of siege could be a siege and fierce attack or a battle under the city. As long as someone at the top of the city is willing to open the door to fight, he can start fighting the generals. The winning generals on the side of the defending city can take the opportunity to cover up and kill the enemy, and the winning generals on the side of the attack can take the opportunity to enter the city.
But if there is no general on the city wall to come down to fight, then you can only join forces to attack.
Looking at the bluffing Khan of Fu Yun, Li Yuanji was as stable as Mount Tai. He did not rush to attack the city and ordered camping under the city. Anyway, there was the territory of the Tang Dynasty around him. Only this lonely city would not have to worry about logistics and food. Tuyuhun had no reinforcements, so he could fight slowly, so he would not be so stupid that he could use his life to attack the city. In that way, he would die without waiting for the 50,000 people to be captured.
After setting up camp and getting promoted to the tent, Li Yuanji led his men to discuss good strategies to break the city. Fushi City was too strong, and the Tang army could not have spent another year or two, so we needed to find a way.
"Master, our army has brought a sharp weapon to siege. Although Fuqi City is strong, the master told me that this sharp weapon to destroy the city has the power of heaven and earth. Unless it is an iron-cast city wall, it will be vulnerable." Cheng Huaimo stepped forward and suggested.
"Be serious about this? Is it the gunpowder bombarding thunder that Jian Zhi once said?" Li Yuanji exclaimed.
"It is this thing. The chemist of this object has long been developed, but it said that the sky-blasting thunder hurts the sky. The master seemed to have some concerns and did not advocate using it and never took it out.
Chapter completed!