By the time the Khans guarding the three towns came to their senses, the southern Xinjiang army had quietly completed the encirclement of the three towns, although everyone had similar weapons.
The day after Li Ye made a plan with the eldest prince, a hundred thousand troops marched to the three towns in southern Xinjiang.
According to Li Ye's plan, the three armies piled all heavy weapons 300 feet outside the three towns, which was beyond the range of all the weapons of the grassland tribes.
Even if the army goes out of the city to attack, it will take a lot of time. It is not as fast as the southern Xinjiang army stationed two miles outside the city. This is where Li Ye killed three towns.
There is only one exit, what can you do to me?
And my exits are everywhere.
When a long row of weapons lined up outside the city of Sanzhen like a long snake formation, the kings hiding in Sanzhen were finally shocked.
"Are they trying to launch an attack?" Yue Wuxie, the Khan King of the Yuezhi Royal Court stationed in Xiaguan, looked at General Yue Tianlang and roared.
Yue Tianlang looked at the army outside the city and replied quietly: "They are deliberately planning to block us in Xiaguan City.
"How should we respond? Ask Xichun for help?" Yue Wuxie looked at him and asked.
Yue Tianlang shook his head and said coldly: "I believe that Xichun and Kaiyang will be like us."
Yue Wuxie was startled, pointed to the outside of the city and shouted: "They have such a big appetite, do they want to divide us and annihilate them?"
Moon Sirius nodded.
"How about we rush out and fight with them!" As the King of Khan, Yue Wuxie actually felt a little frightened.
"King Khan, don't worry. I believe the other khans in the second town are thinking about how to deal with it just like us. Let's release Hai Dongqing and contact them before making a decision." Yue Kailang frowned.
"Just as the general said." Yue Wuxie replied weakly. With a wave of his hand, he led his guards down the tower and headed towards the palace in the city.
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Outside Kaiyang City.
Standing on the city tower, Zhize Suogu looked at General Zhize Pingming and Wu Na Lone Wolf and asked: "Two generals, do the soldiers from southern Xinjiang want to besiege us in Kaiyang City?"
Zhize Suogu looked at the southern Xinjiang army setting up camp outside the city and said bitterly: "Isn't that what they mean?"
Wu Na Lone Wolf looked at Zhize Suogu and asked, "King Khan, how about the general leading his troops out of the city to fight with them?"
Zhize Suogu glanced at him, pointed at the heavy slaves who were lined up in a long snake formation outside the city, and said: "What can we do to fight them head-on? Charge with iron cavalry?"
He understood that at a distance of two hundred feet, before his cavalry started to exert force, they had become a target for the heavy slaves, and they didn't even have to take aim.
"What should we do? We can't just stay in the city and wait for death, right?" Wu Na Lone Wolf replied bitterly.
Zhize Pingming looked at the anxious look of the two people, sighed, and said: "For today's plan, we can only contact Xichun first and see how King Yeluhan and the others respond."
Zhize Suogu thought for a moment and said, "Leave this matter to the general."
Outside the city, the eldest prince who had set up camp looked at Jiang Huo and said, "Send the soldiers to dig two deep pits one foot each one hundred and sixty feet outside the city."
"Does the Grand Marshal want to imitate the Imperial Master in digging holes?" Jiang Huo said with a smile.
The eldest prince looked at him, shook his head, and said with a smile: "Of course not. The imperial master asked us to build two stone archery towers outside the city to use as cover when attacking the city."
"Arrow Tower?" Jiang Huo was really confused this time.
"Send another group of soldiers to smash rocks in the mountains, shape them into squares and bring them outside Kaiyang City. In a few days, craftsmen from Nanyun City will come. I will build two unprecedented stones outside Kaiyang City. An arrow tower for those who don’t come!”
When the eldest prince thought of what Li Ye had told him and looked at the scene outside Kaiyang City, he had already anticipated the battle in the near future.
Just imagine, under the suppression of the two arrow towers, what could the defenders of Kaiyang City do to fight against the southern Xinjiang army.
Maybe as Li Ye expected, if the arrow tower is not completed, the Khan of Kaiyang City will choose peace talks to end the war. This is what he and Li Ye hope for.
Just like what Li Ye said to him: Victory in a hundred battles is not a good thing; subduing the enemy's troops without fighting is a good thing.
The eldest prince couldn't understand this truth at first, but when he came to Kaiyang City, he fully understood Li Ye's painstaking efforts.
If our side can capture Kaiyang City without spending a single soldier, it will be the best result for the enemy and our side.
Jiang Huo didn't ask in detail, but turned around and left after receiving the order.
In the late afternoon, the grassland soldiers on the Kaiyang City Tower discovered that the southern Xinjiang army had begun to dig holes under their noses, and they began to curse. The soldiers in southern Xinjiang wanted to dig holes to bury people again.
After hearing the news, Zhize Pingming rushed to the tower and looked at the soldiers of Southern Xinjiang who were digging in full swing, shaking his head helplessly.
The bows and arrows on one's own side can only shoot up to 140 feet, and ordinary soldiers can shoot up to 130 feet at most, unable to cause damage to the enemy who is 160 feet away.
"Let them go, as long as they don't come close to us." Zhize Pingming looked at it for a while, then turned and left. He wanted to discuss with King Khan how to deal with it.
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In front of Xichun City.
Li Ye stood in front of the heavy slaves and shield formations lined up, looking at the Xichun Tower with a solemn expression.
In order to deal with Yelu Chucai, he prepared 2,000 heavy soldiers and 200 siege vehicles for Xichun. In his opinion, if Yelu Chucai was unwilling to negotiate peace, then he would be trapped and killed in Xichun City.
After the war outside Nanyun City, the grassland armies retreated in three groups.
Among them, the armies of Yelu Royal Court and Lan Clan Royal Court arrived at Xichun City in Southern Xinjiang before the southern Xinjiang army pursued them.
The cavalry from the Yuezhi Royal Court and the Jiankun Royal Court who followed the expedition stayed in the wasteland for one more day, and then returned to Xiaguan and Kaiyang City respectively.
This is their respective territory. When they returned to Sa, they all wanted to return to their own camp. Unexpectedly, this became the reason why Li Ye besieged them.
Although the grassland ministries have spared no effort in manpower and material resources and have been investing continuously in the past year, the three towns in southern Xinjiang are still occupied with too long lines and limited supplies in the city.
Hundreds of thousands of prairie cavalry, after occupying the three towns, have plundered all the supplies in the city, but they are still not enough to supply the army.
The most troublesome thing for them right now is the problem of food and grass supplies.
There is a lot of food stored in Xichun City, but with the addition of Lan's army and countless war horses, the pressure on them is increasing day by day.
They can barely hold on for a while now, but if the southern Xinjiang army besieges the city, the food and grass on the grassland cannot be transported, and they cannot leave the city, then Xichun City will be in danger of running out of food.
All kinds of problems and troubles appeared one by one. No matter Yelu Chucai from the Yelu Royal Court or Lan Tianqi from the Lan Family Court, they could not imagine what Xichun City would look like after the food supply was cut off.
And at this juncture, Yelu Chucai fell ill, seriously ill.
Because he was frightened by the shocking explosion outside Nanyun City and was caught in the rain on the way back to Sa, the young and powerful King Yeluhan actually contracted the cold and became ill.
In the past few days, Yeluqi and Lan Wudi were handling Xichun's military affairs, and on the same day, they received letters of distress from Xiaguan and Kaiyang.
"The southern Xinjiang army wants to repeat its old plan and put our three towns in water and fire." Lan Wudi said quietly while looking at Yeluqi.
Yeluqi stood at the top of the city, looking at Li Ye who was standing outside the city not far away and looking at him quietly. He smiled bitterly and said, "They will not withdraw their troops until they achieve their goal."
"How do you say it?" Lan Wudi asked.
Yeluqi looked at him, thinking about what Li Ye said to him in the winter, and looking at the army surrounding Xichun City, he couldn't help but shake his head, and sighed up to the sky.
"Their bottom line is that we spread out across the three towns in southern Xinjiang. This is what their national master told me during the raid in winter, but I didn't believe it at that time."
With his own side having an absolute advantage, Yeluqi couldn't figure out the reason for leaving the three towns. This was also the idea of the four Khans.
In their view, even if they cannot enter Nanyun City, it is still a very easy thing to occupy three towns.
When the time comes, they will use the three towns as an excuse to blackmail the Five Regions Dynasty, which will at least be enough for them to squander decades of time.
However, it is not as good as God.
Seeing the commanding army forming formation outside the city, Yeluqi once again realized what it meant to be powerless.
"In the face of their heavy weapons, we will die as long as we go out of the city to fight. Let King Khan and King Khan of the Lan clan make a decision on this matter after he is in better health."
In his opinion, peace talks are the only way out, but these words cannot come out of his mouth.
Because he is the pride of the grassland tribes and is the son of Yelu Chucai.
He felt deeply powerless about this.
He didn't even have the energy to go out of the city and deal with Li Ye.
Just because he knew that going there would be a waste of effort.
After all, the initiative is now in the hands of the other party, so what can I do to negotiate terms with the other party?
"Reply to Xiaguan and Kaiyang, and ask them to stay in the pool and wait for news if King Khan is ill." After thinking twice, Yeluqi said to Lan Wudi.
Lan Wudi, who was deeply worried, looked at him without saying anything. The two of them had the same mind and did not need too many words.
"The situation is fine now. It's just early summer. If this changes to winter, I don't know how to deal with it." Yeluqi looked at him and said with a wry smile.
Once upon a time, winter was the opponent's fatal weakness, but now, it has become one's own.
Yeluqi and Lan Wudi felt powerless.
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Li Ye didn't wait for the person he wanted to wait for outside Xichun City.
Although the two of them looked at each other across a city wall, Li Ye knew that he could neither be his own master nor the master of the two Khan kings in Xichun City.
Just because he is too young, and his words are not enough to impress the will of some Khan kings in this city.
So, he could only stand outside the city and wait quietly.
After waiting for an hour, I saw that the large formation on my side had taken shape. Even the wooden stakes made of cedar wood were placed in a row 160 feet outside Xichun City. No one opened the heavy city gate. .
"I'm standing here, trapping you from heaven to autumn, and then from autumn to winter. I don't believe you can survive the cold of this winter!" Looking at the Xichun Tower, Li Ye smiled lightly.
Ma Tianyun and Nalan Yu, who were standing behind him, were confused. Even Mu Mudi, who had always been hyperactive, looked at him with confusion and couldn't help but want to reach out and touch his forehead to see if he had a fever again.
Li Ye looked back at the group of people standing beside him and said with a smile: "Which general is going to catch some game and come back? Let's have barbecue and drink tonight and enjoy life."
When Mu Mu heard that she was going to hunt, she couldn't help but pull Nalan Yu's sleeve and shouted: "Brother Nalan, let's go!"
Nalanyu glanced at Ma Tianyun and said with a smile, "Do you want to come together?"
Ma Tianyun raised his head and looked around, and asked puzzledly: "We have a large army pressing down on the border. Even if there are wild animals outside the city, they must have gone far away, right?"
Mu Mu looked at him with disgust and said, "If you don't try it, how will you know if it's there?" After speaking, he glanced at Li Ye proudly.
Li Ye pretended not to see it and walked toward the camp with his hands behind his back.
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