Datang: Only by resisting the decree can we become stronger

As before, after listening to Fang Xuanling's meticulous analysis, Li Shimin, who had been looking at the map seriously, was waiting for another voice to sound.

But there was a long silence.

Fang Mou made a decision, Fang Xuanling was in charge of analysis, and Du Ruhui was in charge of making the final clear suggestion.

With the cooperation of the two of them, Li Shimin only needs to simply assess the situation and make a final decision.

But today, Li Shimin can only make the decision directly.

"Text, you quickly send people to the various armies."

"Let the three groups of people stop advancing immediately!"

Hearing this order, both Changsun Wuji and Cen Wenwen were shocked.

"Your Majesty, this rescue is like putting out a fire, how can you stop them from advancing?"

Cen Wenwen also bowed to persuade: "Yes, Your Majesty, the speed of soldiers is very important."

"After Li Daozong, Li Shiji, Zhang Liang and others joined together, our army has a total of 15 horses, three times the enemy's."

"And the main force of the Turks is still in Xiazhou, six hundred miles away."

"We can take advantage of this golden opportunity to encircle and annihilate Qibi Heli and the [-] elite cavalry who have lost their minds!"

Compared to the two of them, Fang Xuanling showed no expression at this moment.

The starting point of Li Shimin's decision now is exactly what he was worried about before.

This Suizhou cannot be rescued rashly!

At this moment, Li Shimin sighed lightly, and explained specifically for the two of them: "Li Shiji, Li Daozong and other reinforcements are progressing so smoothly, Turkic seems to be unaware."

"There is also the little Suizhou City that cannot be attacked for a long time."

"Don't you find it strange?"

"I have fought battles for more than ten years, which battle has been so smooth?!"

"This time, there must be fraud in it!"

"This Tuli, although not as resourceful as Jieli, is far more cautious than Jieli. He is definitely not an incompetent person."

"How could he obediently send these [-] fine riders to our mouths as fat?"

Hearing Li Shimin's words, Changsun Wuji and Cen Wenwen at the side showed embarrassment.

"But Your Majesty, if our army stops and doesn't move forward."

"But what about the guards and tens of thousands of people in Suizhou City?"

"We can't just stand by and do nothing!"

"And once this matter gets out, we cannot bear such a loss to the majesty of His Majesty and the court!"

Hearing their worries, Li Shimin remained silent, and Fang Xuanling beside him also sighed heavily.

From the perspective of using troops, Li Shimin's order is absolutely correct.

However, from a political point of view, it is absolutely incorrect to watch Suizhou City die.

The political harm is also quite far-reaching.

Fang Xuanling had already thought about it before, but kept these words in his stomach and didn't dare to say them.

……

Far away in Suizhou City, Fan Xing stood on the gate tower, silently calculating the possible progress of the reinforcements from the Tang Dynasty.

If there are no accidents, they should arrive at the city of Suizhou within two or three days.

Suizhou City is surrounded by water on three sides, like a pocket.

Once the way to the south is blocked, the soldiers and horses inside will be hard to fly even if they have wings.

At that time, Datang's reinforcements were caught in the trap. If they were besieged, the entire Tang Dynasty would be in a situation of eternal doom.

After hesitating for a whole day, Fan Xing still made an extremely difficult decision. He opened the city gate, took all the soldiers and common people, and rushed towards the [-] Turkic cavalry on the opposite side as if committing suicide.

As a result, it goes without saying that, like moths to a flame, they rushed towards the tens of thousands of arrows fired by the Turkic formation on the opposite side.

They all fell into a pool of blood.

In less than an hour, Suizhou City fell.

Most of the soldiers and civilians died directly under the spears, sabers and arrows of the Turkic people.

The rest of the women, children and the elderly were captured.

But Fan Xing was the most unlucky, he was shot by an arrow from his horse, and he was thrown off the horse, and then captured.

Even if I wanted to die, I didn't die.

Outside the city, in front of the Turkic tent, Fan Xing was firmly bound to a pillar.

At this time, Tuli Khan, who lost his mind, Qibi Heli and other Turkic leaders and generals also rushed here one after another.

There is no way, they have been planning for many days, spent so many days of thinking, and they are about to wait for the prey to take the bait.

But it was ruined by such a small Tang official.

How can they not be angry? !

"Damn, what a bad luck!"

"We have already received a report from the Malays. The army of Li Shiji and Zhang Liang is only a hundred miles away from Suizhou."

"It will take less than two days to reach the city of Suizhou and fall into our pockets."

"But this little official of the Tang Dynasty is so crazy that he doesn't even want the city."

"Damn it!"

"Khan! Master!"

"How about we cut this Tang official into five horses, that's it!"

"To relieve the hatred in our hearts!"

At this time, Zhishenli snorted coldly, and then walked up to Fan Xing.

"You are Fan Xing, right?"

"The previous letter from the military was also from you?"

Seeing him, Fan Xing spat violently, but was dodged by Zhishenli.

"Hehe, at this moment, you probably want yourself to die more than anyone else, right?"

"However, not only will I not let you die, I will not let you suffer even if you are injured."

"Because letting you die like this is simply too cheap for you."

After finishing speaking, Zhi Shi Si Li directly ordered, "In front of him, kill all the old men and men in the city."

"Those women and children can be humiliated as you like, and then turned into two-legged sheep, and then they will be cooked and eaten in front of him."

"I'm going to let him watch and let him be tortured!"

"By the way, block his mouth, don't let him bite his tongue and kill himself."

Chapter 260 Let him live longer

In this way, these Turks, in front of Fan Xing, killed these soldiers and civilians one after another.

Ravage the women of the city, the little girls.

Finally, in front of his face, these children and women were cooked.

As the parent official of Suizhou City, Fan Xing, who has loved the people like his son all his life, can imagine how much he has suffered, mentally devastated...

The rope on his body, which he struggled with, has been deeply strangled into his clothes and body.

His nails, also covered in blood, tore the skin on his hands.

Even the teeth were broken off several by the rags in his mouth.

During this long process, he wanted to die, but the Turks wanted to torture him and not let him die.

When the next day dawned, Fan Xing was tortured by himself, and only half of his life was left.

At this time, the Turkic coach gave him a cold look, and then ordered to burn the city, and at the same time destroy all the crops and farmland in the Suizhou realm.

……

Soon, news of the fall of Suizhou City spread to Chang'an, Jingzhou, and the military tents of various armies of the Tang Dynasty.

In Chang'an City, Fang Xuanling analyzed the military situation in various places to Li Shimin.

"Your Majesty, according to the news ahead."

"The military order we sent to stop the march only reached Zhang Liang and Li Daozong."

"Li Shiji's army is located in the northeast, and has not received it."

"Originally according to the agreed strategy, Li Shiji's army will arrive at the city of Suizhou at noon the next day."

"But at this moment, Fan Xing led more than [-] soldiers and strong people in the city, and took the initiative to fight out of the city to fight the Turkic army to the death."

"In just one hour, all these people died in battle, and the city of Suizhou fell."

"The Turkic coach ordered the massacre of the city out of desperation."

Having said that, Fang Xuanling sighed lightly.

"After investigation, it was found that the one who confronted our army at the border of Xiazhou was just a suspicious soldier."

"The real 10,000+ Turkic army has already passed through a shoal in Hetao, Suibei, and secretly crossed the river."

"Then lie in ambush in the dense forest in the south mountain of Suizhou City."

"If we hadn't been vigilant at the time, once these three armies were trapped, the situation in our Tang Dynasty would be in dire jeopardy."

"This Fan Xing has been in the city for a long time, so he should have seen that the Turkic army's attack on the city is false, and the siege is real."

"That's why when no information could be sent out, they did everything they could, and took the initiative to die, using the fall of Suizhou City to break the Turk's trick."

"It is also because of him that the lives of Li Shiji's [-] troops were saved!"

At this time, Du Ruhui, who was seriously ill and still insisted on attending the meeting, coughed a few times, "This clinging man lost his mind, we underestimated him too much before."

"If it weren't for His Majesty's vigilance and Fan Xing's choice, I'm afraid this move will kill one of our big dragons."

"In the past, Zhang Liang and we all only focused on the ferry, and no one thought that he would play such a trick."

"At the same time, it can be seen that this Turk is more familiar with the water regime in the Yellow River area than we imagined."

"This also sounded a wake-up call for our future Hetao garrison."

……

In the army of Li Daozong, Zhang Baoxiang, Li Shiji and others.

After receiving the news of the fall of Suizhou City and finding out that the Turks were ambushing 10,000+ troops in the dense forest.

They were all in a cold sweat from fright.

They ordered the withdrawal of troops one after another, waiting for the follow-up military order.

And in Li Jing's handsome tent, when he saw these, he couldn't help feeling, "This time, thanks to Fan Xing!"

"Send me an order to step up defense and build a city wall in Jingzhou area."

On the other side of the Turks, Zhi Shili led the army back to Xiazhou, and it only took two days to encircle and attack, and Xiazhou City fell.

This time, instead of massacring the city again, they left all the children as food, released the rough-skinned and thick-skinned people, and let them go south to become refugees.

At the same time, after looting the food and grass in the city, they ordered to burn the city and destroy all the growing crops in the farmland.

The scheme they carried out was extremely vicious.

After Suizhou and Xiazhou, Qingzhou and Yanzhou also fell one after another.

He also suffered the same experience as Xiazhou, which was terrible.

When the Turkic army came to Jingzhou, they finally confronted the nearly 20 troops led by Li Jing, Li Shiji, Duan Zhixuan, Li Daozong and others.