Fires soared into the sky in Datong City. The raging fire engulfed every wooden house and military camp in the city. In the raging fire, the Turkic soldiers screamed and scrambled to escape. But at this time, Datong City had become If there is a huge brazier, where can they escape to?
In this battle, Ashina Hezhen invested a total of 70,000 troops. Except for those who died outside Beicheng, the living soldiers entered the city one after another under the temptation of victory, wealth, and beautiful women, even those with serious injuries. The soldiers were also worried that their hard work would be in vain, so they reluctantly entered the city, hoping to grab some wealth.
But now the city is full of fire, and the soldiers are all burned to death, smoked to death, and killing each other. The smell of meat that fills the long sky has slowly turned into a burning stench. This also meant that not a single one of the 70,000 Turkic army was left alive, allowing the Sui army to achieve very brilliant results.
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The Turkic king's tent more than ten miles away was full of laughter and joy. Bujia Khan, the Second Khan and other confidants were eating a celebration banquet with smiles on their faces and discussing the next thing.
There is a shortage of supplies on the grassland, so their eating habits are very rough and grand. They drink from large copper bowls inlaid with jewels, and the cowhide bags filled with wine are bulging. The so-called dishes are actually just stewed whole meat. Sheep, one roasted whole lamb, two sheep kneeling on the plate like eating grass.
"Tell me what you think." Bujia Khan asked with a smile after eating a piece of mutton stew.
Previously, he had used Ranqian's ability to play both sides, as well as Shi Shu's Hu Xi's suggestion, to make Ranqian think that the 40,000 elites brought by Ashina Budu were some miscellaneous soldiers who were willing to die, so he let him His eldest son Ashinaduji led 30,000 elites as the vanguard. However, Ashina Duoji received his father's order and did not take much precautions. In the end, he was caught off guard by Ashina Budu and Mengshe. Ashina Duoji's rout of troops disrupted the central army. Nabudu covered up the enemy all the way and achieved a great victory, killing nearly 40,000 enemies. If the army led by Duan Wenzhen had provided timely assistance, Rangan's army would have been defeated and collapsed.
However, although they won a great victory, due to the intervention of the Sui army, which was well-equipped and capable of fighting, the Ashina infantry army, which only wore leather armor, paid a heavy price of 10,000 men.
Although this was a tragic victory, this battle also gave the sluggish Bujia Khan army the hope of victory. The whole army was invigorated, and the decadent atmosphere in the camp was swept away; not long ago, Ah Shi Nahezhen also sent news of the capture of Datong City, which was a double blessing.
"Great Khan, in my opinion, we don't need to sue for peace with the Sui Dynasty or engage in trade. We can just send our troops directly into Ganzhou, and then towards Liangzhou... Daxing." A short and stocky man smiled complacently. He said that he had drunk a lot of wine. At this time, he was so drunk that his whole face seemed to be filled with blood.
Bujia Khan glanced at him sideways, with undisguised disdain in his eyes, like a basin of winter ice water poured down from head to toe, which made the man seem to have a clearer mind, and he bowed angrily. sat down again.
Bujia Khan didn't give him a chance to talk nonsense and directly named him, "Second Khan, what do you think?"
The Second Khan quickly put down the wine bowl in his hand and said respectfully to Bujia Khan: "Great Khan, these two great victories have shown the greatness of the Great Khan. Both Ranqian and the Sui Dynasty have seen me. Although our army can penetrate into the insignificant Ganzhou and Liangzhou, it will be in a fight with the Sui Dynasty, and there is no possibility of resolving the grudges. If we go too far, the Sui army can send another Several armies like Yang Ji are heading north, and we simply cannot bear the serious consequences. So I think the purpose of our trip has been achieved, and it is best to stop as soon as possible and leave room for peace talks."
"The Second Khan is right." Bujia Khan nodded and said to everyone: "I know you are not willing to accept it. In fact, I am not willing to accept it either. But the strength is not as good as that of the Sui Dynasty. We have to admit that we can only save enough capital." , can we have a life-and-death showdown with the Sui Dynasty. If we do it by force, we will never have a chance to recover our losses."
He sighed and continued: "Although we defeated Rangan once, in addition to him, we also have a powerful enemy, the Sui Dynasty. We have lost nearly 100,000 warriors before and after. If we continue to fight like this , how can we have an army to fight against the Sui Dynasty? Not to mention the Sui Dynasty, even Ranqian could not resist it, and even Yishubo, Xianbei and other tribes could not reconquer. Of course, we can also increase troops from the west, but The eastward march of Duliu (son of Bujia and father of Kuishe Khan) is blocked by Ashina Daman (Nipu Chuluo Khan) and there is no way for him to come over. We can only withdraw our troops now. Eliminate the rebels in the Great Lakes area, then eliminate Yishubo, and then attack Ashina Daman together with Duliujiao. After we put down the rebellion there, it will not be too late to deal with Ranqian."
At this moment, the big tent shook violently, and a muffled thunder-like sound came from the distance. This was obviously a large group of cavalry coming to kill. This was followed by four killing sounds and continuous screams. Everyone suddenly Standing up, everyone rushed out of the tent in surprise.
"Great Khan, Ye Hu's 70,000-strong army is all gone." A soldier with his face covered in blood blisters rushed over, and he knelt down in front of Bujia Khan with a thud.
"What's going on?" Everyone was shocked when they heard this. Bujia Khan took a few steps forward and asked loudly.
The soldier howled: "Ye Hu led the army into Datong City, but fell into the Sui army's trick. They dropped rolling logs and rocks from the mountains on both sides of the city to block the army's retreat, and then burned the city with kerosene. Our entire army was wiped out, but I and a few others were running fast and we were in Beicheng, so we luckily escaped with our lives."
"What's going on with the sound of horse hooves in this camp? Where did the Sui army come from?" Bujia Khan forced himself to calm down and asked quickly.
His camp is in the northeast of Datong City, more than ten miles away from the starting point of the Sui army, so no news has reached here yet.
"I do not know either."
At this moment, a sweaty captain rushed over and shouted: "Great Khan, the Sui Dynasty cavalry all over the mountains and plains are coming from the west, hurry up."
"Hurry up and let Fuli go and fight." Bujia Khan took a deep breath and said to the people around him: "Now that things have happened, there is no other way except to meet Ashina Budu. . Let’s go and meet Budu immediately.”
Thousands of his subordinates had already rushed forward to fight the Sui cavalry, and another thousand of his subordinate guards were running out.
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