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The pontoon bridge was connected, and the soldiers of Zuo Wuwei took the lead in roaring across the river under the leadership of Wang Rengong. In the battle four days ago, most of the senior generals of Zuo Wuwei died in the battle with the iron rod, and there was no successor to the commander. Wang Rengong was only promoted from the position of General Youyiwei to the post of General Zuowuwei yesterday because of his meritorious service in protecting the bridge, so he was anxious to make new contributions to repay the trust of His Majesty the Emperor. And Zuo Wuwei's soldiers were also ashamed that the lord would be killed that day, and fought bravely. The soldiers worked together and forced the Goguryeo people who came to seize the bridge away from the riverbank.

The river was red again in an instant.

Wang Rengong held a zhang eight-step lance and plunged straight into the Goguryeo military formation. Behind him, more than 100 spearmen and more than 1,000 sword and shield men lined up in a cone shape and strode forward. This is a standard attack array, Wang Rengong doesn't like to defend, the bridge deck behind him is too narrow, and stubbornly defending the river bank will only make his side unable to perform. And rushing into the enemy to fight just relieves the pressure on both sides of the pontoon. As long as they can persist in the offensive of half a stick of incense, the soldiers of the Great Sui who continue to cross the river can calmly form a second army formation on the river beach. Once the second army was formed, the Goguryeo people could not escape defeat.

Behind him were some old soldiers who had been on errands in Zuo Wuwei for many years, and their combat experience and fighting ability were not comparable to those of Goguryeo soldiers. The Great Sui was at its peak, and the armor and weapons equipped by the soldiers were extremely sophisticated. As long as the arrows of the Goryeo people hit the body, as long as they did not hit the key parts, the soldiers could often shout and fight after being hit by three arrows. As long as the Goguryeo people were slashed by the big horizontal knives in the hands of the government soldiers, their muscles and bones would be separated.

In a moment, Wang Rengong had already poked four Goguryeo generals to dismount. A Qu Shuai who didn't know what nationality was brandishing an iron thistle bone rushed over, trying to knock Wang Rengong over with the speed of the war horse and the weight of the weapon, and the moment the two approached, Wang Rengong suddenly squatted, the tip of the lance forward, and the tail of the lance reached the ground. The commander couldn't regain his momentum, and the war horse hit the tip of the lance heavily, and in an instant, the horse died, the lance broke, and the rider flew high and landed at the feet of Wang Rengong.

Without waiting for Qu Shuai, who had been smashed to pieces, to get up from the ground, Wang Rengong abandoned his lance, drew his knife, cut off the enemy's head with one sword, pulled his hair into his hand, and raised it high into the air.

"Zuo Wuwei, take revenge!" Wang Rengong held a blood gourd in his hand and raised his head to the sky and roared.

"Revenge!" More than 1,000 dead soldiers shouted in unison, strode forward, and forced the Goguryeo people back a few steps again.

Wang Rengong threw the enemy's head as a hidden weapon, and with a hook of his toes at the same time, he actually kicked the iron thistle bones weighing more than 40 catties. With one hand, he copied the handle of the thistle terrestris bone, held the knife in one hand, and held the thistle bone in the other, and cooperated left and right to step into the enemy formation again.

Several Goguryeo soldiers tried to flank him, but were intercepted by the soldiers behind Wang Rengong. After a few breaths, the cone-shaped array penetrated more than 30 steps into the Goguryeo army, and the huge "cone tail" followed the "cone head" forward, and had already squeezed out a large hole more than ten zhang wide in the Goguryeo army formation.

Facing the tough face, the soldiers of the Great Sui Mansion have not encountered an opponent in the past twenty years. On both sides of the cone formation, the Goguryeo soldiers retreated, trying their best to avoid the bloodthirsty monster. There were clever Goguryeo soldiers who tried to outflank and attack the back of the cone array, but found that the Zuo Wuwei soldiers who were constantly crossing the river under the leadership of the lieutenants and brigade leaders automatically made up to the end of the cone array.

The sharp cone of death is getting bigger and sharper. The Goguryeo guards realized that the situation was not good, and mobilized heavy troops to try to squeeze the steel cone that had been inserted into his heart. Under his command, countless warriors of different nationalities recruited by Goguryeo Chongjin shouted in different languages, rushing to the tip of the steel cone, Wang Rengong's face was fearless, the left knife and the right hammer, shouting and fighting, trying to ensure that the "steel cone" was not bent, and in a moment, his whole body was already wet as if he had been fished out of a pool of blood, but no one could make him retreat half a minute.

The Great Sui military system, the national standing soldiers and horses are divided into 12 guards, each guard has a general, two generals. Although there is only one level difference between a general and a general, many generals have been generals for a lifetime and have no hope of becoming generals. Three days ago, Wang Rengong was still the general of Youyiwei, and yesterday morning, he had already stepped on the peak of his military career and became one of the generals of the twelve prefectures. And the commander is Zuo Wuwei, who is known for being brave and good at fighting, and the most important descendants of His Majesty the Great Sui Emperor.

Zuo Wuwei's original general was a wheat iron staff, a hero who was famous in the world, and had a high prestige among the soldiers. If the person who succeeded him was a coward who did not dare to charge ahead, he could not hope to make the soldiers under General Mai Lao return to their hearts. Wang Rengong once went out from Yang Su and knew the way of commanding the army, so today he has no reason to retreat whether it is public or private.

In fact, just as he wished, Wang Rengong's bravery today won the respect of all the soldiers of the Zuowu Guard, and whenever the guards around him fell, someone immediately took the initiative to make up for it, trying to protect the two wings of the main general from being taken by the enemy. In the blink of an eye, his cone-shaped infantry formation had penetrated more than 200 steps deep into the enemy's army, and as long as he advanced a few more zhang, the front of the army could touch the Goguryeo Shuai Banner.

The old soldier guarding Wang Rengong's left suddenly fell, and instead of the enemy slashing him, he had been seriously wounded earlier, and he was already exhausted by this moment. A Goguryeo soldier saw the opportunity and stabbed Wang Rengong in the left rib with a spear, and at the same time, the Goryeo soldier directly in front of Wang Rengong suddenly gave up his defense, carried him with his body and stabbed him in the chest, and then the whole person opened his arms and pounced.

"Protect me!" Wang Rengong shouted for help, regardless of the spears coming from the flanks, he used the iron thistle bone to directly smash the enemy soldiers in front of him. An iron shield came and smashed the spear that it was determined to win. Then, a horizontal knife flew out from behind the shield, sweeping the attacker's head off the neck.

The spear fell, and was caught by the shield-bearer with one hand. With a round of arms, the wooden spear was used as a hammer, and the three Goguryeo soldiers were smashed to the ground. Immediately, the tip of the spear pierced through the throat of another enemy general who pounced on Wang Rengong from the front.

"Good man, dare to ask for a name?" Wang Rengong, who had the pressure in front of him reduced instantly, asked loudly. He could see that the person was very strong, and he easily stuffed the stem of the thistle terrestris bone towards the other party.

"Liu Wuzhou in the river!" The person who came replied loudly, took the thistle terrestris bone, forced the Goguryeo soldiers who had killed him back with one hand, and then gave the spear to Wang Rengong.

"I'm tired, can a strong man dare to take me as the leader?" Wang Rengong asked at the moment of receiving the spear.

"Why not!" Liu Wuzhou said with a laugh, taking half a step diagonally, taking Wang Rengong's place and becoming the tip of the entire cone array.

"Protect Team Liu, everyone rushes to capture the flag!" Wang Rengong raised his spear behind Liu Wuzhou and shouted loudly.

"Capture the flag, capture the flag!" The soldiers of Zuo Wuwei shouted loudly, and under the command of Wang Rengong, they followed the new leader and thrust forward.

The bravery of Zuo Wuwei relieved the pressure on the soldiers of Zuo Yiwei who crossed the river from another pontoon bridge on the right flank by at least half. General Zuo Yiwei, who had fought for half his life, had long passed the age of personally leading the army and fighting for his life, and compared with Wang Rengong, he cared more about the coordination of the armies. I saw a group of Zuo Yiwei soldiers crossing the bridge one after another under his dispatch and lined up in a small phalanx on the river beach. Several phalanxes looked after each other, and soon they were connected and turned into a large phalanx, firmly choking the bridgehead.

A group of Goguryeo people saw that their soldiers could not shake Zuo Wuwei, and tried to break Zuo Yiwei first, which was in the heart of Yuwenshu. I saw that the old general waved his hand, and more than 1,000 crossbow carts on the other side of the river were at the same time, and with a "coaxing" sound, 10,000 crossbows took off into the air, and the soldiers and horses of Goguryeo, who were about to attack, "collapsed" several feet.

"Heavy armor, move forward!" Yu Wenshu stood at the end of the bridge and shouted. His command was immediately turned into a trumpet, and it reached the ears of the soldiers at the forefront.

The hoplites at the front of the phalanx strode forward, stubbornly withstanding the outermost Goguryeo soldiers and horses. At a distance where they could see the faces of their opponents on the other side, the soldiers stabbed each other with steel knives and short spears. Layers of people fall, layers of people step on the corpses of their comrades or enemies and stick to their opponents.

There was no shouting, and few people shouted, and in front of the phalanx, there was only the sound of "ping-pong" and "ping-pong" of weapons colliding with each other and the "poof!" of pierced flesh. "Poof!" Sound. The occasional groan was quickly covered by the dull sound of "ping-pong", "ping-pong", "poof", and "poof", and the soldiers insisted one by one with iron faces, to see which side's array collapsed first. Someone had a nervous breakdown before they died, and and urine were dripping down the edges of their boots. In the air, the thick smell of blood and feces was mixed together, and the smoke made people want to gag.

"Spearman, rush forward to fill the position!" Yuwen Shu was used to seeing death, and the smell of blood and feces in the air could not interfere with his command at all. With a slight wave of the corner flag, the lightly armored spearmen at the back of the phalanx strode forward. They were the cheapest of the Great Sui troops, each with only one wooden pole and iron-tipped spear to use, and the short leather armor on their bodies could only cover the vital points and not be injured by stray arrows. However, their running speed is the fastest in the army, and the lethality formed by the rapid running is also the strongest among all armies except for cavalry. The infantry spear, which was more than eight feet long, stabbed out at high speed through the gap deliberately left by the companion in front of him, and strung the Goguryeo people directly on the tip of the spear.

At the end of a round of stabbing, the Goguryeo front army on the right flank almost collapsed. A large number of soldiers abandoned their weapons and fled, and were shot head-on by the overseers. The personal guard of the commander on the right flank tried to step forward and counterattack, facing the hedgehog-like spear and heavy armor mixed array, but they couldn't find a place to start, so they had to watch as the enemy heavy armor pulled half a step away from each other again, slowly squeezing towards their own large array.

"Archer, prepare—" Yu Wenshu held another red flag aloft. The mournful sound of horns echoed on both sides of the pontoon. Hearing the sound of horns, the archers, who had just adjusted their formation on the river beach, immediately bent their bows and pointed their arrows diagonally at the sky above them.

"Put!" Yuwen Shuling waved the flag, and in an instant, locust-like feathered arrows rose into the air, passing over his own soldiers and the advance of the Goguryeo, creating a rain of arrows between the enemy's advance and the follow-up troops.

When firing a salvo of feathered arrows, it is not the degree of accuracy, but the density of the blow per unit area. The well-trained Zuo Yi guards accomplished this goal efficiently. After three rounds of rapid fire, a death zone appeared in front of the advance of the Goguryeo soldiers and horses on the right flank and the Chinese army, and the soldiers who served as the vanguard lost their support, and suddenly their backs were weak, and they could not stop the rout.

"Rush up for me, are you going to destroy the country and destroy the species?" The Goguryeo coach who was watching the game from a distance roared loudly. On the east bank of the river, the number of soldiers on his side was five times that of the other side, but he was forced to retreat by the enemy. If we continue to retreat like this, we will definitely lose this battle today.

"Those who retreat, kill on the spot!" A Goguryeo military general shouted loudly. Stride forward with your own guards. Every time I see a person running towards me, no matter whose command it is, it is a knife in the head.

The bloody slaughter halted the rout of the entire army, and the fleeing soldiers had to turn around and face the enemy's blades again. Seeing that the situation was critical, the Goguryeo commander waved the command flag and transferred all the soldiers and horses around him. More than 40,000 Goguryeo soldiers and less than 10,000 Great Sui forward soldiers fought fiercely on the river beach, and the blood mist rising from the battlefield obscured the sunlight overhead.

"If I had another 10,000 soldiers and horses......." Goguryeo commander Eulji Wenhui thought desperately. After the whole army pressed up, with the advantage of numbers, the Goguryeo soldiers stabilized their foothold slightly. The offensive of the Great Sui army has slowly slowed down, and at the moment of stalemate, any straw can crush the entire camel.

"Woo-woo-woo"

As if hearing his prayers, there was a mournful trumpet sound coming upwind from the lower reaches of the Liao River.