Chapter Eighty-Seven: Intercepting the Enemy Army in the Inner City{1}

Two days ago, Goguryeo Mo, who was stationed in the domestic city to guard his family's fiefdom, suddenly received a letter from Pyongyang City asking for help!

The letter said that after a few days of resting outside Pyongyang, the Sui army commander Hu'er led the army to camp outside Pyongyang and continued to attack Pyongyang City from the morning before the day before the Great Day.

The Sui army's offensive was very fierce, in most of the day, the Sui soldiers attacked the city three times, although the Sui soldiers were finally driven down, Pyongyang City was not lost, but under the fierce offensive of the Sui army, the defenders in Pyongyang City suffered heavy casualties, and all kinds of swords and arrows were also seriously lost!

Seeing that after the Sui army attacked the city for more than seven hours, not only did it not show signs of weakening and retreating, but the siege became more and more fierce, and the defense of Pyongyang City was in danger, Gao Yuan, the king of Yingyang, had no choice but to personally write this letter of help to Mo Lizhi Yuan Taizuo, hoping that Yuan Taizuo could send troops from the domestic city, attack the Sui army camp from behind, and relieve the siege of Pyongyang City!

After Yuan Taizuo received the letter, he was a little reluctant to send troops, he knew the strength of Pyongyang City, and he didn't believe that Pyongyang City would be easily lost, he wanted to wait until the Sui army was exhausted from the offensive and the morale dropped before attacking, just like the eight years of the Great Cause, the Sui army could be easily defeated! Moreover, there is still some discord between him and Gao Yuan, the king of the infant sun, and he is not willing to consume his strength in advance for Gao Yuan!

But after some consideration, he still decided to send troops to rescue, although he and Gao Yuan were at odds, but since Gao Yuan had written a letter for help, then Pyongyang City must be really in danger! Pyongyang City is the capital of Goguryeo, and after its loss, it will cause a series of changes, and the domestic city will not be able to hold it at that time!

After deciding to send troops, Yuan Taizuo immediately ordered his eldest son Yuān Gàiwén to stay in the inner city, and then set off with 8,000 troops to personally lead the army to support Pyongyang City!

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Goguryeo Mountain has a lot of land and little land, and it is known as "seven mountains, one water and two fields"! The distance between Pyongyang city and the domestic city is more than 300 miles, and this area is even more mountainous, with undulating hills, canyons, ravines and ravines, only small areas of flat land between mountains and alluvial plains along rivers, large areas of plains are covered with forests, only small plains are reclaimed, and villages are distributed!

On a hill about one hundred and twenty miles away from the domestic city, several Allied scouts were watching the mighty team under the mountain in the woods, and there was a word "Yuan" on the banner of the team, this should be Yuan Taizuo's army, with more than 8,000 people, sharp swords and spears, and shining armor, this is an elite army!

After observing for a moment, the Confederate scouts immediately turned their horses and galloped down the hill, they were going to take another path back to report to the marshal!

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A few days ago, when Du Ruhui went to the Sui army camp to visit Laihu'er, Su Shang arranged for the newly trained soldiers to attack in several ways to completely sweep the small county towns around Pyongyang City, so as to train these recruits with blood!

After this operation, the blood in the bones of the recruits was stimulated again, their morale was high, and at the same time, a lot of food and forage were collected, which greatly alleviated the problem of insufficient food and grass for the allied army!

Two days ago, a day after Lai Hu'er commanded the Sui army to storm the city, Su Shang followed the agreement, in addition to arranging for Su Xingchen to lead 5,000 soldiers to stay in the camp in Hunshui, preparing to cooperate with the Sui army to enter the city to collect grain and grass materials, he personally led the remaining 13,000 soldiers to set off towards the domestic city, preparing to intercept the enemy sent by the domestic city on the road!

Of these 13,000 soldiers, except for 3,000 veterans of the Allied Army, the rest are all recruits who have just been recruited! However, these recruits turned out to be soldiers of the Sui Army who had experienced a hundred battles, and they had undergone a blood training, so in addition to a slight shortage of weapons and armor, the morale of the army was also very elite!

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After more than an hour, the scouts rushed back to the temporary garrison of the army. In the camp tent, Su Shangzai marked the location of Yuan Taizuo's army on the map, which is currently about forty miles away from them, and next to Su Dingfang asked the scout: "How many cavalry are there and how is the equipment?"

The scout immediately saluted and said, "Marshal Qiyu and generals, there are not many cavalry in the enemy army, about a thousand or so!" But the equipment of the infantry is very elite, all wearing Mingguang armor, long swords and sharp qiāng, all the standard equipment of the Sui system, compared with us, except for the number of people is slightly smaller, there are only about 8,000 people, the equipment is completely more elite than us, the morale is also good, the marching team is very neat, and it is by no means a rabble! ”

Su Shang frowned slightly, a little worried, this is a little different from the previous estimate, he originally estimated that Yuan Taizuo would only send about 6,000 reinforcements, after all, the domestic city is the second largest city in Goguryeo, or the fief of Yuan Taizuo, there are only 12,000 defenders in the city at present, Yuan Taizuo can send 6,000 people to support Pyongyang City is already very risky, I didn't expect him to be so bold, he actually led 8,000 people to support Pyongyang City, for a while, Su Shang was a little silent!

At this time, Du Ruhui stepped forward and said slowly: "Marshal, I don't think there is too much to worry about, well-equipped does not mean that the army is brave and good at fighting, General Lai Hu'er led a lone army to attack Pyongyang City for thousands of miles, but they did not dare to block along the way, it can be seen that their combat effectiveness is not strong, let's not be confused by the other party's illusion!"

"Moreover, our soldiers are all veterans of a hundred battles, and now the morale is also very high, if it is one to one, they will definitely not take any advantage, and now we have half more than them, and it is completely easy to offset the impact of inferior equipment!"

"One more point, as the marshal feared before, we are in a dangerous situation, and delaying time is not good for us, and it is likely to lead to accidents, and the marshal must make up his mind!"

Su Shang nodded slowly, Du Ruhui was right, this is the war he chose, even if he loses, he has to fight, and hesitation will affect morale!

"Pass my orders, the army is ready to ambush the enemy army!" Su Shang finally gave the order for an ambush!

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"Shoot the arrows!"

Just after Yuan Taizuo's vanguard entered the ambush circle, Su Shang gave an order, and sharp arrows shot out from the groves on both sides of the mountain road with a whirring sound, like a rain of arrows, overwhelmingly shooting towards Yuan Taizuo's vanguard troops!

"Puff ......" The sound of sharp arrows entering the flesh was suddenly attacked, and Yuan Taizuo's vanguard had no time to react, and they fell to the ground one after another!

"The rear army is suspended, line up for defense!"

The enemy generals who had been following behind the vanguard shouted loudly, and the large army of the enemy army two or three miles behind quickly stopped, lined up and garrisoned, bending their bows and arrows, raising their swords and drawing their swords, ready to attack at any time!

"What a pity!" Su Shang looked at the more than two hundred enemy soldiers who fell in the middle of the road, and was very dissatisfied with the effect of this ambush!

Since the dispatch of the troops, Su Shang has always wanted to find a suitable location for ambush, but unfortunately, he didn't find any good locations along the way!

This time the ambush, Su Shang also waited for the enemy scouts to inspect before making temporary arrangements, originally thinking that with this unexpected ambush, at least one or two thousand enemy troops could be reduced.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Taizuo was too experienced, and after the scouts inspected the safety, he would send the vanguard to the road, and inadvertently destroyed this temporary ambush!

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