Chapter 435: The Yuan Clan Perishes

Whenever Yuangai Suwen thinks of his family's troubles, and when he thinks that Goryeo, which he has been running for half his life, is now crumbling, his heart will always swell with hatred, and he can't wait to kill all the Tang troops one by one, especially Zhang Yunwen, who led his troops to raid Pyongyang City and kill his own family.

However, this Yuan Gai Suwen is a generation of heroes, although he thinks so in his heart, but he forcibly restrains the impulse in his heart, but plans how to eliminate the lone Tang army.

For these 5,000 Tang troops, to be honest, Yuan Gai Suwen still admires it. Rushing from the sea, he took the city of Pyongyang, and then when he led the army back, he decisively withdrew and poisoned the grain. In the end, the division of troops to attack and disturb the entire northern part of Pyongyang was turned upside down. Almost every day, you can receive battle reports about the attacks that have taken place in various places. From the small patrol team that went and never returned, to the villages and towns besieged by the Tang army, all of them were aimed at the Goryeo army. When he received these battle reports, Yuan Gai Suwen's heart was very depressed.

This series of actions shows that in addition to the courage of these Tang troops and the rapid march, the strategy of their generals is also very powerful. Therefore, Yuan Gai Suwen faintly admired this cavalry. This admiration is admiration, if Yuangai Suwen surrounds them, he will give the order at the first time to completely annihilate this army.

For example, now, Yuangai Suwen is surrounding this army with more than 10,000 cavalry.

After passing Sashui, Zhang Yunwen and the cavalry fell into encirclement. To the north of them, it is not known when a cavalry of six thousand men will appear. And after Zhang Yunwen and others left Sashui, the 7,000 cavalry on the south bank of Sashui abandoned the grain cart and quickly crossed Sashui. Then, following the 10,000 foot soldiers quickly arrived at the south bank of the Sashui and began to cross the Sasui as well.

The cavalry that stopped Zhang Yunwen and others was the cavalry commanded by Yuangai Suwen himself.

Yuangai Suwen used the grain team and the 10,000 foot soldiers who followed the grain team as bait to attract the attention of Zhang Yunwen and others. Yuangai Suwen led 5,000 cavalry to the lower reaches of Sashui day and night, recruited hundreds of boats, spent a day, crossed Sashui, and then interspersed with afterglow and outflanked the north of the two pontoon bridges.

When the Tang army defeated the Goryeo army by the pontoon bridge, Yuangai Suwen began to deploy, preparing to take Zhang Yunwen's department in one fell swoop.

By the time the scouts discovered the presence of Goryeo cavalry in the north, Yuangai Suwen had already deployed the cavalry and advanced towards Jang Yunwen's department led by several generals. The 8,000 cavalry of the grain transport team, which had already been ordered, except for the nearly 2,000 people who were wiped out by the Tang army on the north bank of Sashui, the remaining 6,000 cavalry quickly passed through the pontoon bridge and surrounded Zhang Yunwen together with Yuangai Suwen.

Zhang Yunwen and the others didn't know at first that they had been calculated by Na Yuan Gai Suwen, but when the scouts reconnoitred the situation of the Goryeo cavalry in the north, Zhang Yunwen suddenly came to his senses, and I said why this operation could go so smoothly, those convoys transporting grain were so unbearable, and even the scouts sent during the march were much less, it turned out that this Yuan Gai Suwen was actually calculating himself.

At that moment, Zhang Yunwen stopped the march, summoned Duan Yunsong, Pei Xingjian and others, and told him about the situation of the Gaoli soldiers found in front of him, and was about to say the guess, when he saw Pei Xingjian slapped his thigh fiercely: "It's not good, I'm waiting for the plan!" That Yuan Gai Su Wending wants to attack us together! At this moment, the Goryeo soldiers south of Nasashui must have crossed Sashui and are killing our army! ”

As soon as these words came out, the generals nodded yes one after another. It seems that Pei Xingjian is not the only one who has seen this situation of Yuan Gai Suwen.

Zhang Yunwen's fingers lightly tapped the horsewhip, and asked in a deep voice: "Everyone, I am surrounded by the Goryeo soldiers today, how to break through, and please offer a countermeasure!" ”

The generals glanced at each other, and Cheng Wuting took the lead and said: "My lord, this Yuangai Suwen encircles us, its forces must be dispersed, and our army is cavalry, if Yuangai Suwen wants to quickly surround us, he should also use cavalry, and after forming an encirclement, he will thicken the encirclement with infantry." And now, our army has defeated the Goryeo cavalry in the south, and the encirclement has certainly not yet formed, and its infantry has not yet arrived. As long as we concentrate our forces on charging in one direction, we will definitely be able to break through the defenses of the Koreans in one fell swoop.

Hearing Cheng Wuting say this, Zhang Yunwen couldn't help but nodded, and the rest of the people also echoed: "Yes, the last general is also considered like this!" Now that we are trapped by Yuangai Suwen, the only way to break through is to break through! If it is trapped by its heavy troops, it will be difficult to break through! ”

"Yes, yes, with the combat strength of the Goryeo cavalry, if we want to break through, they can't stop it!"

"Good!" Zhang Yunwen waved the horsewhip in his hand, "Since that's the case, then I'll choose a direction to break through!" As he spoke, he pointed his finger to the north, and then pointed to the direction: "This way, or this way!" ”

"Heavy troops from the south are gathered, of course, to the north!" Pei Xingjian said lightly.

Zhang Yunwen pulled out the long knife at his waist: "Brothers, follow me!" ”

As he spoke, he grabbed the horse's belly and rushed out first. The rest of the cavalry followed.

At this time, Yuangai Suwen was riding his horse slowly, and he was also very familiar with the problems in his strategy, so he did not order a quick reduction of the encirclement to encircle and annihilate Zhang Yunwen and others, but slowly advanced south while strengthening it. At the same time, he also ordered that once the Tang army was discovered, it would be mainly entangled, and not to retreat because of the strength of the Tang army.

This arrangement was to drag Zhang Yunwen and wait for the arrival of the infantry. After the Yuangai Suwen crossed the river from downstream, the infantry was also rushing to this side day and night, and at most in half a day, the infantry could arrive.

Although Yuangai Suwen had a good idea, however, Zhang Yunwen and the generals under his account had already discovered his intentions and began to break through. And the direction of the breakthrough is exactly where this Yuan Gai Suwen is located.

Zhang Yunwen led the cavalry and did not gallop on the post road quickly. Although they didn't really want to take the post road, there were really not many places on the north bank of the Sashui that were suitable for cavalry to gallop across the country. On both sides of the river, except for some fishing villages, there are not many towns and villages, and there are relatively few development industries, and towering trees and knee-deep weeds can be seen everywhere, which is not convenient for the movement of cavalry.

After running wildly for nearly half an hour, Zhang Yunwen finally met the waiting Goryeo cavalry.

I saw nearly 100 Korean cavalrymen resting under a big pine tree, and the horses were leisurely gnawing on the grass.

Hearing the sound of horses' hooves coming from the south, these Korean soldiers were startled, and suddenly saw Tang Qi, who was looking fierce and murderous, and went straight to him.

The Goryeo cavalry didn't want to think about it, so they rushed to their horses, crawled on their horses, and after stepping on their horses, they hurriedly grabbed the horse's belly with their feet, and struck the horse's buttocks with their whips, and fled north.

However, they have only just started, where can they catch up with those Tang soldiers who are galloping on horseback? So the Goryeo cavalry, who were walking behind, were quickly caught up. Tang Qi swung the horizontal knife in his hand, and slashed at the neck of the Goryeo knight with the power generated by the sprint.

The Goryeo cavalry, who were caught off guard, had no time to dodge at all, and were cut off by the Tang army with a sword. Even if some of the highly skilled and experienced Goryeo soldiers dodged the first sword, but the second knife slashed again, and this time they did not dodge, and were slashed on the body by a knife and fell off the horse. was immediately trampled to death by Tang Qi, who galloped up from behind.

The Goryeo cavalry galloping in front heard the sound of horses' hooves and fierce shouts coming from behind them, and their expressions couldn't help but change, and they took out the dagger they carried with them and stabbed them fiercely on the horse's hips. The horse under his crotch was in pain, and immediately galloped, and the speed was much faster than Tang Qi.

At this time, the Tang cavalry could no longer use horizontal knives to cut, so they had to take out crossbow arrows or bows and arrows to shoot at the Goryeo cavalry in front.

Although the horse's body was bumpy and it was not easy to aim, there were a lot of Tang cavalry who sent out arrows, and a few Goryeo cavalry fell to the ground with arrows.

Finally, after nearly two quarters of an hour, the speed of the Korean cavalry slowed down significantly.

Just when Tang Jun was secretly excited, he heard an earth-shattering cry from all sides. Countless Goryeo cavalry poured out from the north and charged towards the Tang cavalry.

A rough estimate of this number is probably more than 2,000 people.

And Zhang Yunwen's side has already gathered almost 4,000 cavalry, so he will not be afraid. All the knights roared and rushed towards the Goryeo army without flinching.

The two cavalry rushed together, catching each other and fighting.

However, the Tang soldiers were equipped with Mingguang armor or iron-inlaid armor, and the defense of these Goryeo cavalry was much more backward, and many cavalrymen even covered their chests and abdomen with leather armor, and some did not even have leather armor, so they wore sackcloth to fight the Tang army.

It was often the Goryeo soldiers who slashed at the armor of the Tang army with a knife, or left a white mark, or saw through the armor, but when they wanted to take the knife, they found that their long knife was stuck in the opponent's armor.

Under such a huge disparity in equipment, after nearly half an hour of fighting, the remaining cavalry of the Goryeo army was less than 800.

Just as Zhang Yunwen was about to leave the 800 cavalry and break through to the north, he heard the sound of horses' hooves and shouts of killing. Nearly 4,000 Goryeo cavalry pressed over from the east.

The leading knight was a Goryeo man wearing black armor and carrying a double sword, and it was none other than Na Yuan Gai Suwen.

As soon as he saw that his own losses were so serious, Na Yuan Gai Su Wen shouted loudly in Chinese: "I don't leave the branch to come, and Tang General Zhang Yunwen will not come out to die!" ”

As soon as those Korean cavalrymen heard this Yuangai Suwen's shout, they couldn't help but boost their morale, and they let out a loud roar after Yuangai Suwen's shout, and the long knives in their hands swung even harder.

"Bell-" After Zhang Yunwen fought with a Korean cavalry in front of him, the knife turned around, cutting a scar on the body of the Korean soldier, and then taking advantage of his distraction, he killed the Korean cavalryman with a single sword.

"Princes fight to the death!" After Zhang Yunwen yelled, he turned his horse's head and rushed towards Nayuan Gai Suwen.

On the way to charge, Zhang Yunwen dodged the weapon that slashed at him, and at the same time took out two grenades from his arms.

When he led the army to attack Pyongyang, the 5,000 Tang troops under his command were each equipped with three grenades. However, the cavalry led by Duan Yunsong and others had only heard of it before, and had not actually played with it, so when they attacked Pyongyang, they also had a good time. The first grenade showed them the power of the black iron ball, and in one go, they threw all the grenades on their bodies.

After throwing it, he slapped his thigh and regretted it: "Oops, why did I throw it all at once!" ”

Even if they didn't finish throwing them away, in the later guerrilla warfare, they used up the grenades one after another.

As for Zhang Yunwen, in line with the principle of saving one is one, he rarely uses it, so he can only use one. When I heard my name on the newspaper just now, I immediately remembered these grenades.

Holding the reins of the horse in one hand and two grenades in the other, Zhang Yunwen yelled: "Yuangai Suwen, you Laozi and I are here!" ”

That Yuan Gai Suwen also saw Zhang Yunwen, and when he saw his horse rushing over, he smiled coldly, and shouted loudly: "Zhang Yunwen, today is your death!" As he said this, he grabbed the horse's belly, and under the cover of several guards around him, rushed towards Zhang Yunwen.

The distance between the two gradually narrowed, 100 zhang, 80 zhang, 50 zhang......

Finally, when the distance between the two was only twenty zhang, Zhang Yunwen pulled the rings of the two grenades away with his mouth and threw them violently.

The grenade had five seconds of ignition time, so Zhang Yunwen threw it eleven or twelve zhang away from Yuan Gai Suwen.

At this time, the scene was extremely chaotic, and Na Yuan Gai Suwen waited for Zhang Yunwen to shake his hand, and two things fell to the ground. But as the scuffling soldiers walked back and forth, they didn't know what the two things were. Just when he was puzzled, Yuangai Suwen suddenly remembered a piece of Tang Army's equipment, and he couldn't help but change his color greatly, and hurriedly tightened the reins of the horse.

However, at this time, Yuan Gai Suwen was less than a foot away from the grenade, and he could almost clearly see the white smoke emitted by the two grenades.