Chapter 129: Fighting Again (1)
The shouts of killing suddenly became louder, and among the people, the sword light flickered, and blood flowed.
The fierce and wild Sui soldiers, under the leadership of the officers, moved forward with all their might.
Most of them died on the beachhead, and there was no one who could rush under the designated Goguryeo flag.
However, this terrifying and decisive impact shook the strict formation of the Goguryeo people, so that the Goguryeo people could not block the Sui army that passed quickly on the pontoon bridge.
This battle was a head-to-head contest between the two countries' sergeants in courage and war skills.
Undoubtedly, the soldiers of the Sui army were superior.
This time, the gap between Li Po's expectations and expectations was huge.
After noon, the Sui army landed on the east coast in less than an hour.
The Sui army gained a foothold on the east bank.
Three pontoon bridges, three positions, and the fluttering flag of the Sui army never fell down after they were erected.
Li Po, who was far away, felt as if he was there in person, and experienced the cruelty and tragedy.
Fight to the death and never look back.
The will of the soldiers of the Sui army and the crazy energy they showed in the field battle surprised Li Po a lot, is this the combat effectiveness of the Sui army?
The Sui army of Ma Yi has always been called elite, but if he led his soldiers to cross the river and seize the beach, what would happen?
This is destined to be an unanswered question, but Li Po also vaguely feels that in this war, he does not lack opportunities to prove this problem.
This battle also shows that the Sui army does not lack excellent generals and soldiers who dare to fight.
The army of the Right Tun Weifu quickly passed the pontoon bridge, connected into a piece, and the arrow rain became dense at once, it was the archers of the Sui army, and finally passed the pontoon bridge, and opened the formation.
The military formation of the Goguryeo people was in the incessant depression, and in many places, there were blank spaces, where arrows were stuck to the ground like artemisia grass, and pieces of corpses and blood flowed sideways became the most eye-catching notes in the blank space.
Where the two armies touched, rows of Sui sergeants, brandishing swords and guns, took firm steps, and kept advancing, and in the array, from time to time someone fell, but there would never be a vacancy, and someone immediately made up for it.
By this time, all the resistance of the Goguryeo people had become pale and weak.
They were condescending, but they were at an extreme disadvantage, and rows of Goguryeo soldiers, like cutting wheat, were cut down to the ground by the Sui army.
In the Goguryeo army formation, there are still many small groups of surviving Sui army forwards, who are trying to kill the Goguryeo generals.
As the follow-up brigade of Sui troops passed through the pontoon bridge, the array became more and more dense, more and more rigorous, and the attack power became more and more powerful.
The military formation of the Goguryeo people began to waver.
As the sun began to set westward, the Goguryeo people finally began to lose more and more heavy casualties, and chose to slowly retreat.
It was getting late, and the Sui army was not pressing, and as the military order was handed down, it gradually distanced itself from the Goguryeo people.
The Battle of Liaoshui and the Battle of River Crossing are over.
On the beachhead on the east bank, there was a mess, and the corpses were lying in one place in piles, blood, and then a large area of wetland, seeping into the mud, flowing into the river, dyeing the river near the shore into a light red, which had not subsided for a long time.
This night, above the Liaoshui, the lights were bright, and the Sui army had been increasing troops on the east bank overnight.
The emperor's chariot has not moved, and the soldiers of the Sui army under the jurisdiction of Zuo Houwei Mansion have also been in a state of spectatorship.
In fact, if a million troops want to pass through Liaoshui, it takes more than a day or two, and in the following days, the Ministry of Engineering and others have also been stepping up the construction of more pontoon bridges.
It has to be said that the courage of the Goguryeo people is commendable.
During the half-day battle, they failed to prevent the Sui army from landing on the shore, but they did not make them realize what a stupid idea it was to fight with the Sui army in the field.
They may have been confused by the many classic war examples handed down from the Han people in the Central Plains, perhaps the generals were afraid of going back and being punished by the king of Goguryeo, perhaps their self-esteem was troubled, or their confidence was abundant enough.
Anyway, after losing the most favorable tactical environment on the beachhead, they did not take advantage of the Sui army's increase in troops to retreat back to Liaodong City, but continued to line up on the east bank, waiting for the dawn to fight the Sui army again.
Obviously, they planned to take advantage of the fact that the number of Sui troops crossing the river was not large, drive the Sui army down the Liaoshui in one fell swoop, create another brilliant victory, and kill one or two Sui army generals.
Moreover, they have a lot of tricks.
Of course, there were Goguryeo warriors who led the army to attack the camp on the east bank of the Sui army.
This is simply a joke, on this night when the two armies have just finished fighting, even the most tired troops will not relax their vigilance when the enemy is close at hand.
As a result, the so-called warriors all plunged into the ghost gate and were sent on the road like melons and vegetables by the Sui army.
At dawn on the second day, Li Po got up early in the morning.
First habitually looked at the eye-catching umbrella cover on the high place, and then walked around, and then stopped to look at the dark and dreary military formation in the distance.
Now, this kind of bystander status can no longer bring him any relaxed and comfortable emotions.
In the midst of an army of millions, all he saw was a golden iron horse, and all he could hear was the sound of horns, and before he knew it, he had signs of blending into the atmosphere of war.
The turmoil in his heart can stir up his emotions from time to time, making him quite irritable in the past two days.
The Ma Yi Sui army is actually about the same, if it weren't for the fact that the number of people is too small, and they all know that they can't help themselves, otherwise, it is likely that the voice of asking for war would have become the mainstream a long time ago.
So, people didn't sleep well, and soon the camp became noisy.
What made Li Po quite unhappy was that a thin layer of mist rose from Liaoshui, making the scene on the opposite shore blurry, like a mirage, and he couldn't see it clearly.
After a while, Li Bi came over.
In the past two days, the sense of oppression brought about by the war has made the somewhat strange relationship between them quickly become normal.
There are fewer and fewer bickering, there are questions and answers, and they are quite harmonious.
For example, Li Po, an ignorant guy, asked who Mai Tiezhu was, and he would get the most detailed answer in Li Bi's mouth.
At this time, there was no need for Li Po to ask anything, Li Bi told him that last night, the flags of the two generals had crossed the pontoon bridge and went to the east bank.
In other words, the strength of the Sui army on the east bank is rapidly approaching 100,000.
Because there are already four great generals sitting there.
Looks like there's going to be another battle.
The two looked at the east bank and gradually fell silent.
But what they think must be two different things.
Li Po thought that it would be better if he could take a closer look.
What Li Bi thought was, unfortunately, there were too few people brought, otherwise, if he went to the east coast at this time, he would definitely be able to earn some military merits and come back, which was the first merit of the Northern Expedition.