Sa waterside.

Luo Cheng, who was scolded by Yu Wenshu, failed to rush to Pyongyang, and he was still in Sasu. It's just that at this time, he is no longer at the mouth of the Sashui River, but in the upper reaches of Sashui.

It's not that Luo Cheng can't save him, but that he has encountered a new problem.

After sending someone to Yu Zhongwen to send a letter, Luo Yuan was ready to rush over to meet the Eighth Army day and night. But as soon as he left the camp, he got an extremely important piece of information.

The information came from the Scout Riders.

This information was accidentally discovered by a group of light cavalry scouts, who tracked down a group of enemy scout cavalry at the mouth of the Sashui River, and then chased them all the way to the middle and upper reaches, and then they accidentally discovered the hidden army of Etoji Wende.

Seventy or eighty thousand people are hiding in the upper reaches of the river, where they are desperately repairing the embankment.

The scout rider struggled to catch a few tongues, and finally got a piece of information.

Yizhi Wende built a levee to hold back the water in the upper reaches of Sashui, and he was ready to wait for the Sui army to retreat without food, and when he crossed Sashui, the Ninth Army would be flooded.

Upon learning of such precious military information, Luo Cheng immediately decided not to go to Pyongyang, but to raid this army of soldiers and horses.

Although the other party has 70,000 or 80,000 people, Luo Cheng also has 30,000 elites, and he thinks that he should have a chance of winning. What's more, the Goguryeo people thought that the Sui Army and the Ninth Army were all acting together and went to Pyongyang, but they did not expect that the Left Fifth Army was acting alone and had already discovered their conspiracy.

When Luo Cheng left, he sent a light cavalry to report the situation to Yu Zhongwen, but unfortunately, when the light cavalry was only a few dozen miles away from the Sui army, it was intercepted by a group of Goguryeo rangers.

Luo Cheng turned around and headed northwest.

He thought that Yu Zhongwen would receive his information, and then retreated to Sashui and surrounded and annihilated the Goguryeo army together.

It's just that he miscalculated.

Yu Zhongwen and the others did not return north, but instead slaughtered the city of Pyongyang and launched a battle under the city of Pyongyang.

And the sailors they were all looking forward to retreated to the seashore, where they waited for the arrival of the second batch of sailors, as well as the news of the arrival of the Ninth Army in Pyongyang.

The three Sui armies were thus divided.

Laihu'er waited for the Ninth Army at the seaside, Yuwenshu waited for Luo Cheng and Laihu'er under Pyongyang City, and Luo Cheng rushed to the upper reaches of Sashui, which was also equal to Zhongwen They came to encircle and annihilate the Goguryeo army.

Running for hundreds of miles.

Thanks to the efforts of nearly 100,000 Goguryeo soldiers and civilians, the dam in the upper reaches of the Sa River has been completed and is being impounded.

"General, does it mean that they will come and do it again?"

Seeing that the embankment had been completed and the water level of Sashui was slowly rising, Hou Mo Chen Yi said beside Luo Cheng.

Luo Cheng looked at the soldiers behind him, he was already very tired after a long journey of 100 miles.

"We don't know when Yu Shuai and they will come, or whether they will come. The water level of this dam is rising, and we can't afford to let it go any further. Do it! ”

Can't wait.

Luo Cheng lifted his cold bone white jujube nail lance, "This battle will be won!" ”

The whole army of 5,000 light cavalry surrounded the two wings, and the heavy cavalry broke through in the middle, and the infantry then covered and killed.

Luo Cheng didn't plan to engage in any dignified duel, he was ready to defeat the enemy army in waves.

"Seeing that the water level is rising, we will drive all the Goguryeo troops on the banks of the river into the water to feed the fish!"

"Kill!"

Five thousand light horsemen were divided into three routes.

Luo Siye commanded the left lane, Luo Cunxiao commanded the right lane, and Luo Cheng personally commanded the middle lane.

Behind Luo Cheng was a thousand ironclad heavy cavalry led by Luo Shixin.

Behind, there were more than 20,000 foot soldiers followed by three light horsemen.

By the Sashui River in June.

The summer breeze is gusting, and the willows by the river are clinging.

The wind is rising.

The battle flag of the Sui army fluttered in the wind, and the wind also blew the red tassel on Luo Cheng's helmet and the long cloak behind him.

As the commander of the First Army, Luo Cheng actually rushed to the front.

This is something that has never happened before, and it means that the time has come for the whole army to charge.

With 30,000 people, he rushed 70,000 Goguryeo troops.

Horses' hooves thundered.

Rush forward.

The 30,000 Sui troops roared together.

"Long live, long live!"

Long live the charge!

Iron riding torrent, unstoppable.

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Under the city of Pyongyang.

The third day of the siege.

More than 3,000 people were killed and wounded again, but still failed to capture a section of the city wall.

The Eighth Army had already run out of food and began to slaughter horses and mules.

And at this time, Goguryeo deliberately released several naval prisoners.

Yu Zhongwen and Yu Wenshu and other generals heard a news that made them despair, Laihu'er had been defeated in Pyongyang many days ago, and the 40,000-strong army was annihilated.

No one dared to believe the news, and no one wanted to believe it.

But the captives were real.

Their news is true, but no one wants to believe it.

"We stormed Pyongyang for three days and lost nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses. Now there is no food and grass inside, no reinforcements outside, and we can no longer fight. Yu Zhongwen spoke first.

"Come to protect this old horseman, incompetent, Lao Tzu wants to impeach him." Yuwen Shu scolded.

But Yu Zhongwen just looked at him with disdain, what was the use of thinking about throwing the pot at this time. The key now is how to get the Eighth Army out safely.

"What about Luo Cheng, didn't Luo Cheng say that he was going to come to rendezvous, why didn't he see anyone, isn't this bastard already aware of the news of the defeat of Laihu'er's army, and ran away early, right?" Yu Wenshu scolded Luo Chenglai again.

"I propose to retreat tonight." Xue Shixiong said.

"But the Goguryeo people don't send prisoners early or late, and at this time they send prisoners to tell us the news of the defeat of Laihu'er, do you think they are kind?" Yu Zhongwen asked.

Xue Shixiong shook his head, "The Goguryeo people definitely don't have a good heart, but now the problem is that no matter what kind of evil intentions the Goguryeo people harbor, we can't take care of it, and now that the food is out of food, we must withdraw." If you don't withdraw, you will die without a fight. ”

"It is difficult to withdraw even if we withdraw, as soon as we withdraw, the Goguryeo people will definitely go out of the city to pursue, and then our army will run out of food, and the soldiers will not be able to fight if they are hungry, how about it?"

"I can't do it so much, I'll withdraw tonight." Yuwen said angrily.

Yu Zhongwen barely retained some sanity, "I think the Goguryeo people must be waiting for us to retreat and return to the north, we can't do what they want, and want me to say, we will go the other way, we will bypass Goguryeo and go south." Maybe the sailor who came to Hu'er is still on the beach, and if we can make peace with them, there will be a chance. ”

"Chance, a ghost, running south at this time, wouldn't it be more and more dead the more you run? In case Lai'er has already withdrawn, are we going to go to Baekje or Silla or Dongying? The whole army has no food, and it is still running south, is it because it is not fast enough to die? ”

Yuwen Shu completely opposed Zhongwen's proposal to go south to find a water master to protect the children, and strongly advocated retreating north overnight.

The generals finally discussed for a long time, but decided to retreat north overnight.