Turbulent Times Chapter 31: Burning all armies

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"All the scouts disperse and continue to search for other secret passages. The others, in a group of hundreds, will take turns to clean up the mountain rubble to see if they can get through this secret passage." Pei Yuanqing ordered.

The scouts quickly disappeared into the dense forest, some of the army rested, and some began to clear the mountain passage.

After half a day, all the scouts came back one after another, and no one found the second secret passage.

Pei Yuanqing was extremely anxious. He knew how difficult Shuiquan Pass was to attack from the front. When he remembered what the governor said yesterday when he sent him to find the secret way, he knew that the governor must be very anxious at this time.

But it's useless to worry, maybe there is a secret passage to the north of Shuiquanguan, but a few miles ahead, there is a bottomless canyon, which is more than a hundred miles long from east to west. It would take at least ten and a half months to drive through the canyon to the north of Shuiquan Pass, and it was probably too late. But if Shuiquanguan cannot be conquered for half a month... Pei Yuanqing is very entangled at this time.

What Pei Yuanqing didn't know was that Wang Junlin had already started looking for the secret path in the north, but he hadn't found it yet.

Just when Yu Juluo was about to attack Shuiquan Pass with 5,000 dead soldiers, Wang Junlin led 5,000 men to climb up the high mountain twenty miles northwest of Shuiquan Pass.

Looking at Shuiquan Pass in the distance, Wang Junlin can imagine the tragic attack and defense on the south side of Shuiquan Pass. It's not that he hadn't thought about cooperating with Yu Juluo to attack Shuiquanguan from the north, but in the end he rejected it. First, they had too few troops, and second, the north of Shuiquanguan was easier to defend than the south.

Frowning and pondering for a while, feeling the strong wind blowing from the northwest, Wang Junlin's heart moved. He suddenly thought of a method, a method that could kill the 40,000 Turkic army in Shuiquan Pass. It's just that this method is too cruel, and he hesitates.

Wang Junlin thought of the cruelty of World War II after the creation of artillery, missiles, and aircraft in later generations. In order to stop the heavenly army, someone Jiang directly burst the Yellow River, causing disasters to millions of people, and drowned and starved. Death, the plague killed as many as one million people. In particular, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese country, which was even more cruel and indescribable.

"War is inherently omnipotent. As long as the goal of victory is achieved, what is it like to burn a forest, or burn thousands of animals to death?"

"It can be said that the wild fire is endless, and the spring breeze blows again."

Thoughts swirled in Wang Junlin's mind, and finally turned into determination and ruthlessness in his eyes.

"The order was passed down, each person collected a bundle of dry firewood, and secretly piled up the dry firewood on the hillside two miles northwest of Shuiquanguan. Others went down the mountain to lie in ambush on both sides of the valley entrance on the north side of Shuiquan Pass.

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"Is there any news about Pei Yuanqing?" Yu Juluo asked in a deep voice with an ugly face in the Sui army camp south of Shuiquan Pass.

"Reporting to the governor, Pei Yuanqing sent someone to send the news just now. They found a secret passage, but the Turks had already taken precautions, blocked the secret passage with stones, and sent troops to defend it. Pei Yuanqing is trying to find a way to get through Secret way, and look for other secret ways at the same time." Yuwen Hanfeng said quickly.

Yu Juluo sighed, did not speak, and walked towards the five thousand dead men. He toasted life and death wine to the five thousand dead men, promised their wives, children, old and young, and the court would make proper arrangements. The heart of thousands of dead soldiers to go to death was completely agitated.

However, just as the five thousand dead men rushed towards Shuiquan Pass with resolute and solemn faces, shouting and killing, suddenly a puff of smoke appeared from the northwest of Shuiquan Pass, and the smoke became bigger and bigger. Cover the water springs in it. The panicked shouts of the Turkic soldiers at Shuiquan Pass came from far away, and Yu Juluo decisively ordered 5,000 dead soldiers to stand by on the spot.

A fire broke out on a mountain two miles northwest of Shuiquanguan. The summer in the northwest is dry and dry, and there are constant strong and small winds all year round, and most of them are northwest winds. When they came over, the raging flames were blown by the wind, and the mountains and forests beside Shuiquanguan were all ablaze quickly. It turned into a sea of ​​flames.

In Shuiquan Pass, nearly 40,000 Turkic troops cried for their fathers and mothers. In the raging fire, they trampled on each other, hissed and screamed, scrambling to escape for their lives. To the south of Shuiquan Pass, five thousand dead soldiers felt the scorching heat more than 300 steps away from the city wall. , Shocked and overjoyed, he quickly backed away.

There are only three ways out of the water spring. Two are naturally the north and south gates, and the other is the secret road that Pei Yuanqing found. Fifteen thousand people were stationed, and under the pressure of the fire, they opened the south gate and fled to the gate where the Sui army was stationed.

In ecstasy, Yu Juluo ordered the army to intercept and kill, not letting go. The Turkic soldiers knelt down and begged for mercy. The three censors shouted that they could not kill the surrendered soldiers, but including Yu Juluo, no one in the whole army listened to them, and all the fifteen thousand people who ran out from here were beheaded by the Sui army.

On the other hand, there were only 5,000 people stationed at the North City Gate. After hundreds of people were burned to death, they escaped from the North City Gate nearby. However, when they escaped, they were sparsely populated, and many people and horses did not have time to ride and weapons. After a few rounds of charges led by Wang Junlin, more than 4,000 Jingqi who had been in ambush for a long time killed all of them, and none of them escaped.

There were nearly 20,000 people on the top of the city, but the way they went down to the gates on both sides of the city was blocked by the fire. The way is also the sealed secret way that Pei Yuanqing found.

Half of the 20,000 people were burned to death, and the remaining nearly 10,000 people escaped through the secret passage.

Five miles away, on the other side of the mountain stream, Pei Yuanqing led five thousand Sui troops and was desperately moving the blocked mountain stream mouth. Suddenly, a soldier shouted that the water spring was on fire. There were panicked shouts and running behind the sealed stones.

Pei Yuanqing pondered for a while, his eyes lit up, and he said: "Hidden on both sides, and the Turkic soldiers will come out later and listen to my orders before doing anything."

The military order was passed on, and soon the five thousand Sui troops hid. At this time, Pei Yuanqing saw smoke coming out of the blocked stone gap at the mouth of the mountain stream, and someone inside was coughing desperately. He knew that it wasn't a fire in the mountain stream, but that the fireworks from the water spring on the other side of the mountain stream were too large and flowed down the mountain stream. Pei Yuanqing suddenly had an idea, if he had someone block the mouth of the mountain stream, would the Sui army inside be choked to death?

However, he thought about it again, even if these people were let out, they would have no power to resist, and if they beheaded them, they would be beheaded, otherwise they would all be choked to death. .

Not long after, the stones at the exit of the mountain stream were removed from the inside, and a man with the appearance of a Turkic general whose face was blackened by the smoke and fire came out with a look of embarrassment, rolled and crawled to the side to start Kneeling down and coughing, tears flowed out. Behind him was the same person who came out and did the same thing.

Thousands of people rushed out of it soon, Pei Yuanqing saw that the Turkic soldiers who rushed out first were about to recover, and shouted: "Shoot!"

A rain of arrows enveloped these unsuspecting Turkic soldiers, who were less than one-third of their normal strength, and shot most of them to death on the spot, and all the rest in the second round. The Turkic soldiers did not dare to come out again, but this state did not last long, and the remaining Turkic people finally ran out, because if they did not come out, they would be choked to death by the smoke.

Pei Yuanqing shouted sharply: "Block the exit, and those who do not surrender will be killed on the spot!"

After half an hour, one-third of the nearly ten thousand Turkic soldiers were killed, one-third were choked to death, and the remaining two thousand people became Pei Yuanqing's captives.

An hour later, the raging fire had completely engulfed the entire Shuiquanguan. Those who hadn't escaped in time were all burned to death inside, or killed each other in order to leave the exit first.

The fire burned for a full half a day. When the fire stopped, the whole water spring was closed and dead bodies piled up, and the smell was pungent, just like Senluo Hell. The deadliest battle in the world.

Because Wang Junlin led more than 4,000 fine riders to seal off the practice line between Shuiquanguan and Jincheng, Luo Khan of the Turkic Department did not receive any news about the burning of Shuiquanguan.

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"Khan! Give me another chance. I will go to battle in person. If I can't win Jincheng, I'll take the head to see Khan!" One day passed, but Jincheng was still not captured. Chu Luo Khan was furious and ordered Wutu to be beheaded.

Wutu's eyes were red, and he begged desperately: "Khan, for the sake of my Wutu fighting for you for more than ten years, let me die on the battlefield!"

"Okay, I'll give you one last chance to attack, if you still can't win Jincheng, you can cut off your own head!"

Chuluo Khan was very anxious. He had just received information that King Bo Duo not only failed to bring King Bailan's remaining 20,000 troops to Jincheng, but King Bailan directly led more than 20,000 troops with the food and property they plundered. He and the woman went back to their old nests, Fuluochuan and Fucheng.

However, King Bo and Fawang disappeared, which made Chuluo Khan feel faintly abandoned by the heavens, so Chuluo Khan had already started to retreat, but even if he wanted to withdraw his troops right now, he had to grab enough Otherwise, there are still thousands of miles of land to go back to the Western Turkic Territory from Jincheng. What do people and horses eat along the way? If they **** Tuyuhun, the latter will not be prepared? I am afraid that by the time they arrive, they will have already taken their cattle, sheep, and food and grass to hide far away.

PS: Sorry, I am a little late today.