Chapter 461: Half-crossing, a big victory
There are mountains and forests on both sides of the road, and the main road is in a valley between the two mountains, the valley is very long, but it is quite wide, but the Tiger River is in the middle, but it makes this a dangerous place.
By the end of the afternoon, Gao Yanwu led 20,000 infantry cavalry reinforcements to arrive, and the forward was about 1,000 people out of about ten miles. Luo Cheng did not move and let the thousand horses cross the river.
After the advance crossed the river, they continued to open the way in front, and they did not find the ambush of the Left Fifth Army.
The sun was just at the beginning, Gao Yanwu's large army finally arrived, they were not fast, about four or five thousand cavalry, and more than 10,000 foot soldiers, in addition to the army also carried a lot of grain and grass equipment, and some of the people who accompanied the army were responsible for driving the heavy grain carts.
Because the river was not deep, he did not stop to build a bridge, but sent cavalry to cross the river to test the depth, and then began to cross the river.
Luo Chengcheng stood at the foot of the mountain behind the south bank, watching the soldiers and horses cross the river.
When Luo Cheng saw that the handsome banner of the reinforcements in Anshi had also crossed the Tiger River, and half of the whole army had already crossed the river, a smile appeared on his face.
He raised his hand.
"Beat the drums, blow the horns, attack!"
The drums of war suddenly hammered heavily, and the horns of the bulls echoed through the mountains.
The Goguryeo people have not come to their senses, and the Asian general Song Laosheng has already waved the command flag.
Luo Cunxiao took the lead, taking the lead out of the woods, and thousands of troops roared out behind.
Du Fuwei, Fu Gongyi, Zhou Dewei, Zhou Xin and others waved their troops to kill.
Half-crossed.
This is the most ruthless move in the art of war.
The Goguryeo people obviously did not expect that in this place, which was still 200 miles away from Beisha City, a Sui army would suddenly come out.
After all, only fifty miles away from here, there is a medium-sized mountain city of Goguryeo in the east, Jian'an Fortress.
But the Sui army appeared in the place they thought was the most unlikely, Luo Cheng came across the sea, bypassed Beisha, and set up an ambush by the Tiger River between Anshi and Beisha, and the most disturbing thing was that Luo Cheng chose the ambush site only fifty miles away from Jian'an City.
This is a psychological grasp, next to it fifty miles is Jian'an City, so after the reinforcements of Anshi City arrived here, they relaxed their vigilance even more, and never thought that there was a Sui army in ambush here.
It's this kind of play that goes dark under the lights.
Jian'an City is in the east, but Luo Cheng is coming from the sea in the west, but the reinforcements from Anshi are coming from the north and going south.
"Kill!"
The Tiger River is not deep, but it is as wide as 100 zhang in this section.
Of the 20,000 reinforcements from Wan'an City, half of them crossed the river, half of them were still on the north bank of the river, and many of them were still dripping in the belly-deep river.
All of a sudden, it was messed up.
Seeing this, Gao Yanwu secretly exclaimed.
But at this time, there was no other choice but to bite the bullet and order a fight against the water.
"Formation, formation!"
In the face of the Sui army that rushed over fiercely, Gao Yanwu tried to stabilize the morale of the army and fought against the water.
But Luo Cheng gave him such an opportunity.
Trumpets sounded, and war drums didn't stop.
Luo Siye and Zhao Gui, who had long been hidden in the forest at the foot of the mountain on the north bank, led a light cavalry to kill, and Shixin also took a thousand wooden oxen and horses to put on their horses in armor.
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One member after another, all of them galloped at this time.
Smoke and dust rolled up in the sky.
In the smoke and dust.
The banner of the Sui army is so dazzling, especially the Luo character.
Gao Yanwu looked back, only to feel his scalp tingle.
At this time, on the slopes on both sides, one flag after another was erected, the Sui flag, the Luozi general flag, and the military flag of the Left Fifth Army, which made the Goguryeo generals who understood Chinese characters even more panicked.
Left Fifth Army, Luo Cheng.
With so many flags, how many soldiers and horses are coming?
They only felt like they were surrounded on all sides.
There were shouts of killing everywhere.
The head and tail of the Anshi army could not take care of each other, and they were cut off by a hundred-zhang wide tiger river, and they could not advance or retreat.
"Divide them!"
Lao Si shouted while rushing, although he was just a scoundrel, but he followed Luo Cheng to suppress bandits in Henan, fought in Liaodong, and was also a person who fought more than 100 battles, the battlefield is the best military school and teacher, and he is the best general school for the rest of his life.
There is no need for anyone to explain, and the fourth child also knows what to do next.
Rush up, divide and surround the Anshi army, divide and cut them little by little, and then annihilate them.
The Left Fifth Army once broke 70,000 with 20,000 in Sashui, and once at the mouth of the Beijiang River, with more than 10,000 and 50,000.
Now it is so easy to wait for work, more than 30,000 ambushes and 20,000 people.
The generals led their troops to march in unison.
Although Gao Yanwu intended to divide his troops to meet the battle, at this time, even those elite troops were ambushed by such a half-cross, it was difficult for them to hold their ground, let alone him.
The Goguryeo army was in turmoil.
Especially in the rear of the north bank, where there were already soldiers and civilians, as well as a large number of livestock. And Luo Cheng deliberately arranged the most elite light and heavy cavalry to ambush and charge.
After a few charges, the rear collapsed.
First, the Goguryeo youth fled in a panic, which then made it difficult for the Goguryeo rear army to form a formation, and finally the people were no longer panicked and morale, and they also began to flee.
When people start to rup, it's hard to assemble again.
And without the army formation, the scattered infantry could not carry the cavalry.
What's more, after the light cavalry, Luo Shixin led the heavy cavalry to kill again.
The rear army completely collapsed and scattered, and many jumped into the water, although the water was shallow and could not drown people, but it was endangering the front army that crossed the river.
Gao Yanwu suffered from the enemy on his back.
The soldiers scattered and fled.
A large group of fierce generals of the five armies all focused on Gao Yanwu under Shuai, and rushed one by one.
No matter how many people Gao Yanwu gathered, they were quickly overwhelmed.
In the end, Gao Yanwu could only give up the plan to carry it hard and retreat after fighting.
I finally left the river, but in the end there was no way to escape, so I had to retreat to the mountain, and finally was surrounded.
He watched as his more than 10,000 men and horses were divided, surrounded, and annihilated by the river at the foot of the mountain, or he could only surrender to the Sui army helplessly.
Fierce fighting continued until dusk.
The Tiger River, which was deep in water, was stained red with blood, and the river was full of killed Goguryeo troops.
Twilight.
Gao Yanwu looked at the battlefield sadly.
The Sui army had already surrounded him.
"If you don't surrender, you will set fire to the mountain!"
Luo Cheng only said one word about Gao Yanwu's stubborn resistance on the other side.
Gao Yanwu could only obediently go down the mountain and surrender, surrounded on the mountain, with no food or water, how long could he hold on? And Luo Cheng's one move of arson can burn his remnants of thousands of defeated troops.
"Marshal, our army killed more than 5,000 reinforcements in Goguryeo City, captured more than 13,000, and captured more than 5,000 people. More than 10,000 horses, more than 10,000 cattle, and 30,000 sheep were seized. ”
These cattle and sheep were all grain and grass on the way to reinforcements in Anshi, but at this time, they all fell into the hands of the Sui army.
"Let's go, go to Jian'an City!"
After Luo Cheng saw Gao Yanwu, he said to him with a smile.
Fifty miles away in Jian'an City, at this time already knew about the battle by the Tiger River, but they did not dare to go out of the city to support, there were originally 3,000 people in the city, and 2,000 were sent to aid Beisha before, and there were only 1,000 left.
"Gao Yanwu, go and persuade him to surrender."
Gao Yanwu didn't want to go, but he didn't want to die, so he had to come to the city to persuade him to surrender.
At this time, in Jian'an City, seeing that the Sui army under the city was strong and strong, especially the banner of the god of war Luo Cheng was also there, and seeing that Gao Yanwu, the city lord of An'an City, was also defeated and captured, he personally came to persuade him to surrender, and finally discussed for a long time, they were shocked and frightened, so they had to open the city gate and surrender.
Luo Cheng did not spend a single soldier to occupy Anshi.