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Qiemo was the westernmost territory of Tuyuhun. According to the maps of later generations, it was already within Xinjiang.

Even for the Tuyuhun people, it is very difficult to move here with a large army.

This is even more true for the Tang Army.

Li Kuan stood in the middle of the team and rode forward slowly.

When walking on the plateau, it is impossible to gallop all day long. Neither humans nor horses can stand such long-term and intense exercise.

So basically, the entire forward battalion was on horseback, heading west step by step.

And Li Jing's army followed closely behind, only a few dozen miles away.

Tang Jun's life was difficult, and Fu Yun was not much better.

"Father Khan, how about we surrender? The Tang army is pressing forward step by step. If we wait until they catch up to Qiemo City, it will be too late."

Fu Yun's eldest son, Murong Shun, King of Daning, was the son of Fu Yun and Princess Guanghua, a royal family member of the Sui Dynasty. He had lived in the Sui Dynasty for a long time and had a more correct understanding of the power of the Central Plains dynasty.

"King Daning, didn't you hear the words of the people who escaped from various tribes along the way? The Tang army burned, killed and looted so cruelly, and they had no intention of leaving Tuyuhun behind. If we surrender, Khan will definitely

There is no escape from death.”

King Tianzhu was the main fighting faction of Tuyuhun, and he knew very well that if Fu Yun surrendered, the Tang Dynasty would not let anyone go but himself.

"King Tianzhu, the Han people have always valued governing the world with benevolence and righteousness. As long as we surrender, the generals who lead the army will never dare to kill innocent people indiscriminately, otherwise the censors will directly kill them."

"Benevolence and righteousness? Which tribe's escapee described a scene that you think is consistent with what you mean by benevolence and righteousness?"

"If you hadn't encouraged my father Khan to invade the borders of the Tang Dynasty last year and detain the envoys of the Tang Dynasty, how could we be here today? Everything has a cause and effect, and these are all caused by you."

"It's ridiculous. Are all the Han women who were snatched back under my account? Are all the slaves that were snatched back working for me? Are all the grains that were snatched back for me to eat? Don't stand and talk.

No back pain, just enjoy the fruits of the invasion while criticizing."

"enough!"

Seeing his eldest son arguing with his most trusted King Tianzhu, Fu Yun's face was extremely gloomy.

When he left Fuqi City, Fu Yun brought more than 30,000 troops. Later, King Tianzhu's fiefdom gathered nearly 10,000 troops. It stands to reason that with these troops, they can go anywhere on the plateau.

However, in order to increase difficulties for the Tang army's reinforcements, or in the hope of stopping the Tang army halfway, Fu Yun had left more than half of his troops at various passes leading to Qiemo.

In the end, when he came to attack Qiemo City, he had less than 20,000 soldiers and horses.

The troops and horses remaining at each pass had no power to fight back when faced with the attack by the Tang's superior force. Basically, the Tang army arrived on the same day and the city was captured on the same day.

Of course, in this kind of battle that requires siege, Li Kuan would not stupidly let the forward battalion charge. That would be equivalent to using his own shortcomings to attack other people's strengths.

Li Jing's army had a dedicated baggage force, and simple siege equipment could still be made.

In this way, gradually and slowly, in mid-April, the army finally appeared near Qiemo City.

"General Manager, the terrain of Qiemo City is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is an important pass for Tuyuhun to leave the Western Region. If we attack hard, the losses may be relatively large."

Li Daozong looked at the fortified city in front of him, which was rarely seen in Tuyuhun, and his expression was a bit unpleasant.

It had been a windy and rainy journey, and the soldiers were actually quite tired. Even Li Daozong's own cheeks had turned plateau red from the cold.

"Although Qiemo City is strong, it is only a small city after all. The food and grass in the city are limited, and the Tuyuhun people are not good at defending the city. It won't take long before they themselves can't stand it."

Li Jing said this, but he was still a little worried in his heart, not knowing who could survive who.

"General Manager, my subordinates have a plan to force the Tuyuhun people to fight."

Li Kuan personally went to the hot air balloon to see the situation in Qiemo City, and felt that instead of waiting, he could still force the situation.

"Oh? What can you do?" Li Jing's eyes lit up.

"The general manager must have heard that the general has a hot air balloon team. The tens of thousands of Tuyuhun troops retreated to Qiemo City all of a sudden. There were tents everywhere. All he had to do was arrange for the hot air balloon team to throw kerosene bombs into the tent area. Although

It may not be possible to burn and kill many people, but it will be enough to put tremendous pressure on them."

To this day, Li Kuan feels that there is no need to keep the kerosene bombs anymore, so he has given them all to Qiemo City.

"Okay, then you can give it a try first."

Li Jing was a little disappointed. He knew that the forward camp originally had more than twenty hot air balloons, but they were broken and broken. Now there are only a dozen that can be used, and the number of kerosene bombs is also limited.

However, this is better than waiting there.

Li Kuan did what he said and soon asked Zhu Fuyu to take the hot air balloon team to the sky above Qiemo City.

However, since Qiemo City is basically a stone city, and the houses inside are basically made of stone, the power of kerosene bombs is limited except for those that directly hit tents.

They struggled like this for almost a day, and when the army came to the city gate again the next day and began their routine scolding, Fu Yun appeared on the city tower with a group of Tuyuhun ministers.

This can be regarded as the first time that Fu Yun has been seen since the army's crusade against Tuyuhun.

"Xue Li, if you charge forward now, are you sure you can hit Fu Yun?"

Li Kuan was standing in front of the formation. When he saw the group of people on the tower, he suddenly had a plan in mind.

Xue Li's archery skills are the best. It can be said that there is no one in the Tang army. The bow he uses is a special five-stone bow. The general infantry only uses one-stone bows, and the cavalry is even more powerful.

Using only seven bows, one can imagine how powerful Xue Li's bow is.

As for some novels, they often say that they can shoot a ten-stone bow, so Li Kuan can only laugh.

To put it bluntly, Xue Li's five-stone bow and the bow of an ordinary soldier are equivalent to the difference between the heavy sniper rifles and pistols of later generations. No one would have thought that Xue Li was still two or three hundred steps apart.

Can hit enemies.

"Your Majesty, I am 50% to 60% sure that I can hit the target. If I can gallop forward a certain distance, I am 80% sure."

Xue Li visually measured the distance and wind direction, and made a rough judgment in his mind.

"Then you go ahead and give it a try. I will bear all the consequences."

There was no time to discuss it with Li Jing in detail. If Fu Yun stayed in the tower for a while and then went down, the chance would be gone.

Besides, with Li Jing's style, he didn't like to shoot cold arrows like this, but Li Kuan was not that particular.

Don't worry about so much, let's destroy Tuyuhun first.

The system only said that Tuyuhun would be destroyed, but it did not say that Fu Yun must be killed by himself. If such a good opportunity was missed, they might surrender and no one would dare to kill the prisoners. Li Shimin's brain cramped and he said no.

He must have accepted Tuyuhun's surrender again.

Then Li Kuan would have a lot of fun.lt;/tentgt;
Chapter completed!