Chapter 380: Siege of Suizhou City

“Xiao Han is such a terrifying person. If the stalemate continues, Northern Wei will be destroyed by him sooner or later.”

“I know what you are thinking. This is probably a trick used by Xiao Han to lure us into attacking first and mobilizing our elite forces to fight a head-on battle with the Xiliang Army. But the Northern Wei has no choice, and neither do I.”

Even though they knew it was a trap, they had to jump into it. What if this was not a trap? If they could win this battle, the Northern Wei would have at least ten years of breathing time.

“But if we lose, the Northern Wei will be destroyed.”

Helian Bobo said: “These hundreds of thousands of elite troops are almost the last remaining assets of the Northern Wei. If they are annihilated by the Western Liang army, the consequences will be disastrous.”

“It’s nothing more than giving him the world.”

The empress laughed and said, “If we don’t fight, we will be eaten away. If we are lucky enough to win, we can turn the tables.”

“The most important thing for a country is war. Weapons should not be used lightly, and luck is even less something to be relied upon.”

Helian Bobo shook his head.

“There is no choice.”

The Empress said: “Now everyone, from top to bottom, is gambling, and everyone wants to seize this opportunity to win back a game. Everyone can ignore the consequences of failure, even me.”

“It’s not stupidity, but the fear of thinking about it, because if we lose, it will be equivalent to the destruction of the country.”

“If you are dying of thirst, you don’t care whether the water in front of you is poisonous or not. You just drink it first.”

“General Helian, are you willing to gamble with me?”

“willing.”

Helian Bobo nodded.

“take it.”

The empress took out a golden seal from behind her and said, “This is my seal. From now on, everyone in the Northern Wei Dynasty, including me, can use this seal to mobilize generals. If anyone disobeys, there is no need to report to me. I can make the decision on my own.”

“Thank you, Your Majesty.”

Helian Bobo’s face was solemn as he took the golden seal from the Northern Wei empress. For any minister, this was a great honor and represented endless trust.

However, for Helian Bobo and the empress, this was a responsibility, which was equivalent to handing over the entire destiny of the Northern Wei Dynasty to Helian Bobo.

The life and death of a country depends on the hands of one person.

Only a person with great perseverance and courage dares to accept this golden seal.

“If you win this battle, I will return the gold seal intact.”

Helian Bobo said: “If I lose, I will sacrifice my life for my country.”

However, before the emperor and his minister had finished their conversation, an urgent message came from the border over eight hundred miles away.

“Report.”

“Suizhou is under siege.”

“Suizhou is under siege.”

The messenger crawled into the hall and said hurriedly, “Your Majesty, 500,000 Xiliang troops entered the country from Hexi Prefecture and besieged Sui Prefecture.”

“how many people?”

Helian Bobo walked out from the gauze tent with a gloomy face.

“Five hundred thousand people.”

The messenger hurriedly said: “Attack the city day and night.”

“A force of 200,000 soldiers in Suizhou City is surrounded by 500,000 soldiers and is unable to get out?”

In an instant, everyone in the hall looked horrified.

“impossible,”

Helian Bobo said: “Xiliang only has 500,000 regular soldiers. How can we use them all to besiege Suizhou?”

“It’s absolutely true.” The messenger said in a tearful voice, “Outside Suizhou City, there are all Western Liang troops, a sea of ​​black.”

The night was hazy.

The snow was falling heavily, so it was impossible to see how far away it was.

An important city in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Suizhou City.

Standing in the wind and snow, the city walls were lined with soldiers, smoke rising, and clusters of bright flames were like elves, swaying in the snow and emitting a faint light.

Suizhou, as the southern gateway of the Northern Wei Dynasty, originally had 100,000 elite troops stationed there, confronting the Western Liang army in Fancheng.

Later, after the news of Xiao Han’s disappearance spread, the Northern Wei Dynasty mobilized 100,000 elite troops from all around to reinforce Suizhou.

They tried to put pressure on Hexi Prefecture and Juzizhou, but a sudden heavy snowfall left the entire Suizhou surrounded.

A full 200,000-strong army was surrounded in the city. After a day of bloody fighting, the Northern Wei finally repelled the attack of the Western Liang army.

Chengtou Mountain.

Murong Yan looked at the dark sky and earth outside the city, and couldn’t help feeling a little scared. The Xiliang army came too quickly.

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They attacked from the east and west wings of Fancheng at lightning speed, raided hundreds of miles, and directly surrounded Suizhou City.

As a famous general of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Murong Yan served in the army for decades and experienced countless bloody and fierce battles. His reputation in the Northern Wei court was second only to that of the Northern Wei military god Helian Bobo.

Otherwise, he would not be qualified to be a general, stationed on the front line of Northern Wei and Xiliang, and command hundreds of thousands of Northern Wei elite troops to fight against Xiliang.

Moreover, Murong Yan is a member of the current royal family and the younger brother of the Northern Wei empress, and his status is extremely noble.

Even though they were prepared, they were still caught off guard by the people of Xiliang. Judging from the momentum of the siege during the day, the number of people from Xiliang was at least over 200,000.

Murong Yan didn’t know who the commander of the Xiliang army was, but he knew that the Xiliang army that surrounded Suizhou City this time accounted for almost half of the Xiliang soldiers.

He couldn’t understand why the Xiliang army was so bold as to use half of its forces to besiege Suizhou City.

You know, there are truly 200,000 elite troops in Suizhou City, and there is sufficient food and grass, enough to sustain for several months or even half a year.

Even if Murong Yi is incompetent, as long as he hides in the city, the Western Liang Army cannot break through with the 200,000 troops under his command.

They just had to wait for the Northern Wei to mobilize heavy troops and attack, besieging these hundreds of thousands of Western Liang troops outside Suizhou city.

By then, these hundreds of thousands of Xiliang troops would find it difficult to escape even if they had wings.

After a brief moment of fear, Murong Yan felt angry in his heart. He felt that the commander of the Xiliang Army on the opposite side did not take him seriously at all.

“Pass the order down, defend the city strictly, and no one is allowed to leave the city to fight without my order.”

Murong Yan snorted coldly: “I want to see what the Xiliang people can use to break into Suizhou City.”

“promise.”

After receiving the order, the deputy general beside him immediately turned around and left.

Soon, more soldiers appeared in Suizhou City.

The movements of the Northern Wei people were immediately reported back by scouts to the distant Xiliang Army camp. At this time, the Xiliang Army camp was brightly lit, and generals above the rank of captain of ten thousand men from each camp gathered in the camp.

Liao Huan sat high on the commander’s seat, with a huge sheepskin map marked with many arrows hanging behind him.

“Everyone is here.”

Liao Huan glanced at everyone below, had a rough idea in his mind, and then asked.

“There should be seventy-two people, and there are seventy-two people.”

After the chief clerk counted the number of people, he turned around and clasped his fists to report.

“very good.”

Liao Huan smiled: “Just now, the scouts reported that the old man Murong Yan has indeed retreated.”

This old guy is a real turtle. If you hit him hard, he will immediately retract his head into his turtle shell and never dare to show his head again. “

(End of this chapter)