The siege battles at the two passes inside and outside Jishi Pass lasted from early morning to afternoon. The main attacking Tuyuhun soldiers died and injured more than 10,000 people, while the Sui troops and herdsmen who defended the city also suffered heavy casualties. The inner city pass was already in danger, and Tuyuhun soldiers kept coming.

They attacked the city, but were killed by the Sui soldiers. But the most tragic situation was in the west of Guancheng. Li Shimo personally led the army and commanded the capable Sui soldiers to take charge of this area.

In the pouring rain, all bows and crossbows lost their function, making the war between the two warring parties extremely bloody and cruel. Although the defenders had the advantage of the city wall and could smash stones from a high position, killing a large number of Tuyuhun soldiers, but when the siege horn sounded, another

Under the urging of the formation, Tuyuhun soldiers still frantically put dozens of siege ladders up the city wall, and then climbed up like a colony of ants.

Since the wall of the inner city was wider than that of the outer city, the defenders had to divide their forces for defense, using spears and ladders to fight the enemy. On both sides, they continued to use stones to throw strings of Tuyuhun soldiers screaming and screaming down the city with their teeth and claws.

At this time, Murong Xiaojun also threw his ace army into the siege battle, and the fight between the two sides became even more cruel. The corpses piled up under the city flowed into the bright red streams in the heavy rain. This cruel fight

, not only the Tuyuhun soldiers suffered heavy casualties, but the untrained herdsmen defenders also paid an equally huge price.

General Li Shimo had roared to the top of his lungs and was constantly directing the troops to replenish critical areas. At this time, a soldier pointed to the east and shouted: "General, the enemy is coming!"

When Li Shimo looked up, it was as if an invisible sledgehammer hit his head hard. His head was buzzing and stars were dancing in front of his eyes! He saw that more than 10,000 enemy soldiers had climbed up the east coast.

Facing the west leaning mountain, I was picking up rocks and preparing to roll them down the mountain.

Li Shimo was extremely anxious. What he was most worried about finally happened. He thought that the enemy would not find out so early. As long as he waited until dark, he could cover up this flaw with the cover of night and hold on until dawn tomorrow. He never expected that he would not find out for an hour.

When we arrived, the enemy troops came from the mountains to kill us.

But not only did he have no troops to send at this time, his side was relatively steep compared to the outside of the city, and it was raining heavily, and there was no place to climb. This was why he did not send troops up the mountain in advance. The situation is now extremely critical, is it too late?

He said to the soldiers: "Order the soldiers to retreat to the barracks."

The military camp was where Yang Tong once stationed troops. When he marched westward, in order to deceive and confuse the enemy troops outside the pass, it was not demolished. It became not only a place for wounded soldiers to recuperate and rest, but also Li Shimo's last line of defense. But compared to

The defense of the city is too far behind. But Li Shimo can no longer care about this. What if the enemy drops stones from the mountain? The soldiers at the foot of the mountain will be smashed into pulp.

"Here." The bodyguard responded and left.

Langri Zamp, who was watching the battle from a distance, finally laughed? When the Tuyuhun soldiers bloody attacked the city, his soldiers had already quietly climbed up the mountain under the cover of heavy rain.

Judging from the hasty retreat of the defenders at the top of the city, Langri Zanpu knew that Chu Suiliang's plan was successful. It was only a matter of time to capture Guancheng? He immediately gave the order coldly: "Blow the trumpet."

"Woo, woo, woo, woo..." Hundreds of horns sounded at the same time? It was like rolling thunder across the sky. This was an order to fight to the death. We will not stop fighting until we can capture Guancheng.

"General Zhou, the enemy has already reached Xiqing Mountain. General Li wants you to retreat immediately." A Sui soldier said to the deputy general in charge of the eastern city gate, Zhou Shaoze.

This news was like a thunderbolt? It made Zhou Shaoze stunned. Li Shimo told him about this defensive loophole in the inner city? He was asked to pay attention to it at all times. Originally, he was not too concerned about it? He thought that the Allied Forces of the Two Tutu Army would not find out. Who expected it?

That arrives so fast.

He knew it was impossible to retreat at this point.

"General Zhou? Give the order quickly. If the enemy drops stones from the mountain or kills them from the mountain, we will not be able to retreat."

The soldier who delivered the message said anxiously.

Seeing that the situation was over, Zhou Shao could only sigh and roared: "Withdraw! The whole army withdrew into the barracks and fought to the death with the enemy again."

With that said, Zhou Shao no longer took care of the enemy troops under the city, and led his soldiers to kill on the city platform. There were many corpses everywhere where the sword passed. At this time, he saw a general Tuyuhun kill him at a glance, and the sword passed by in lightning.

, slashed straight at the opponent's neck. Seeing Zhou Shaoze's sharp sword, the man leaned back, and the blade of the sword passed through his nose. But after all, he was in a hurry to meet the enemy, and he got up a little slower, and was missed.

Zhou Shao then struck back with a knife, and the sharp blade struck him from the back of his neck. His head flew more than ten feet away, and the headless corpse spurted blood like a fountain, and slowly fell down the city.

The general was killed, and Tuyuhun's offensive was suspended. Zhou Shao took this opportunity to command his soldiers to quickly go down the city.

Losing the interception of the defenders, Tuyuhun soldiers rushed to the top of the city. Cheers sounded from above and below the city. The city gates were opened to welcome the army into the pass.

Langri Zanpu pointed his riding whip and said: "The injured soldiers will demolish Guancheng, and the rest will follow me to cover up and kill them."

He knew that there was a military camp behind him. If the Sui army successfully entered the camp, it would be another hard battle. Covering the enemy from behind would undoubtedly be the best opportunity to annihilate the enemy.

...

Less than five miles after the Sui army retreated from the inner city, news came that the enemy troops were coming like locusts. Li Shimo categorically ordered Zhou Shaoze to lead the wounded soldiers first. He led less than 4,000 capable warriors to stop the rear. He asked anxiously

Left and right: "Which one is closest to us?"

The enemy troops are pressing forward step by step, and I am afraid that his troops will not be able to support him for a long time.

"The closest ones are the wounded soldiers in the military camp. The defenders of Chishui City are too far away from us. I'm afraid it will be too late to get the news." The guard replied quickly.

Li Shimo suddenly felt desperate. All the soldiers who could fight had gone into battle, and he had no hope for the wounded soldiers. Now that no one could help them, he could only fight to the end to buy time for the Holy Emperor and the wounded soldiers.

He immediately raised his head and looked at the dark Jishi Mountain, with the beacon tower in the distance, and immediately ordered, "Light the three beacon pillars to warn the Holy One."

"Here." Hearing this, the bodyguard raised a flag.

The beacon on Jishi Mountain was lit, and three thick black wolf smoke shot straight into the sky. Another beacon twenty miles away also lit up three pillars of wolf smoke. Further to the west, another three pillars of wolf smoke rose into the sky. To the west, one beacon was fired one after another.

Ignite it and send the alarm of Jishi Pass to Yang Tong.

"General, retreat. If we continue to fight, these warriors will be gone." At this time, a Qiang warrior said: "We came to assist in the battle at the order of the elders of the Susang tribe. We have more than 8,000 soldiers and left behind

There are less than half of them left here. We brought them here with the general in the first place. If we lose the fight, how do you want us to explain to the families of the warriors!?"

The corner of Li Shimo's mouth was bitter, and it wasn't just the Qiang people. The more than 15,000 Sui troops and 5,000 slave soldiers left behind by Yang Tong were now barely over 10,000 alive, leaving aside the wounded in the military camp who could no longer fight.

, now there are less than 3,000 soldiers who can fight. The total number of soldiers from all parties who can fight is only the more than 4,000 people in front of us.

"Warriors, people will always die." Li Shimo glanced at the groups of soldiers gathered around him, took a deep breath, and spoke slowly, "We can retreat or escape, but everyone knows that we retreat

, what does it represent?”

"On behalf of Tubo, the Tuyuhun soldiers can march straight into the entire river source. Everyone knows better than me, Li Shimo, how the Tuyuhun soldiers will treat you. Once we retreat, everyone can indeed save their lives, but our hometown and family will be

We will cry and howl under the iron heel of the enemy, our parents and children will be brutally killed by the enemy, and our wives and daughters will be ruined and ravaged by the enemy!"

"Perhaps you don't know." Li Shimo looked at the crowd and said solemnly: "The Holy Lord led his army in the Doma area and annihilated more than 130,000 Tibetan elite soldiers. He is coming here. It will take a day or two at most.

Will come soon."

"This battle is not that the Holy One wants to fight, but that we have to fight!" Li Shimo suppressed the helplessness and anger in his heart, and his deep voice was full of tragedy: "Even if we know that there is no tomorrow, but for the sake of Heyuan

Taiping, in order to protect our hometown from the poison of the enemy, we must drag the enemy here even if we die, not for the Sui Dynasty, not for the Holy Emperor, not for me, Li Shimo, but for everyone's hometown! Warriors, we

We really can’t retreat, and there is no way out!”

Su Sang's son Su Li came from a distance, looked at the soldiers around him, raised his spear angrily, and roared: "I only want to die, I, the Qiang man, will never retreat until we fight!"

After a moment of silence, the Qiang people who came to help in the battle raised their weapons and let out an earth-shattering roar: "I, the Qiang man, will fight to the death!"

"Alert General, the enemy is attacking." A scout galloped towards him.

"The whole army is ready for war and we will fight to the death!" Li Shimo roared.

"Fight to the death and never retreat."

At this moment, no one said any more.

As Li Shimo said before, the imperial soldiers can retreat to Hexi, Guanzhong, and the Central Plains. But they who have lived in Heyuan for generations have no choice but to retreat. In a sense, the imperial soldiers are now fighting for them.

The Qiang people fight, not for the imperial court.

The 'guests' are fighting for the people of Heyuan. What else can they say as the 'hosts'?

Through the rain curtain, you can vaguely see the crushing enemy troops coming here. Li Shimo proudly said to everyone: "In the heavy rain, the enemy's bowstrings became as soft and useless as ours. Today we will use long

Spears and swords made the enemy pay the heaviest price."

The enemy troops began to approach the military formation, and someone shouted, "Kill!"

The enemy army accelerated and rushed towards the Sui army. Li Shimo watched the enemy army getting closer and closer, and could even see their ferocious faces through the rain and fog, and ordered: "Kill!"

"kill."

More than 4,000 soldiers also rode up to meet them, charging towards the enemy with an overwhelming momentum.

As soon as it started, the battle entered into a brutal hand-to-hand fight. Groups of Sui cavalry fell down, but the following troops continued to rush forward. The men and horses of both sides were intertwined, and the fight was inextricable. Some people kept falling off their horses, splashing with clouds.

Blood flower.

A Tibetan soldier chopped down a tired Sui soldier with a sword. Before he could shout out his joy, he suddenly felt a tearing pain in his thigh. He looked down and saw that the soldier who had been chopped down by him fell from the bottom.

Down, a spear pierced his thigh. He couldn't help being furious. He raised his sword and wanted to kill this damn but immortal bastard. However, the blade he raised high did not fall. A soldier with a broken arm struck.

The spear pierced his chest.
Chapter completed!