Chapter Twenty-Three: The Fierce Battle Under Liao
Several of Zhang Juntai's subordinates also used various methods to snatch war horses, and turned into cavalry, Li Wenyuan remembered the conversation with Zhang Juntai before the war: "Juntai, as the first team to attack, the enemy encountered is at the peak of its spirit, do you want to concentrate the whole army of horses to you, and frustrate the spirit of the Goguryeo army?" ”
Zhang Juntai smiled mysteriously: "General Don't worry about it, our brother has a way to solve this war horse." ”
Seeing what he said, Li Wenyuan didn't ask again, and this time he saw that the method he said turned out to be killing people and stealing horses, and he felt relieved at the moment. Li Wenyuan also took a hard bow, ignored the wound on his left arm, fired several arrows in succession, and shot over several cavalrymen. The remaining soldiers of the E Brigade were responsible for receiving the routs in the wilderness and organizing them to enter the camp and board the ships.
Although the cavalry led by Yuangai Suwen was quite numerous, it was too scattered and it was difficult to gather together in a short period of time. He led the cavalry back to his own team and lined up to prepare for the attack. Li Wenyuan also handed over the frightened Yuangai Suzhen to his subordinates to lead him across the river, and he also began to lead the team out of the camp to fight.
After leaving the camp, the soldiers under Li Wenyuan also unfurled the Li flag behind the Sui flag according to the prior arrangement. When Yuangai Suwen saw the big flag, his heart tightened, this Li Ziqi was the big flag of one of the two teams of people who attacked the camp that night. In front of him, he seemed to recall the meaning of the powerlessness of that night, and his whole body shivered at the moment, and the hand holding the knife trembled slightly.
Looking at Yuan Gai Suwen, whose face changed slightly, Li Wenyuan knew in his heart that he had left an indelible shadow in the heart of the young man opposite, as long as he was on his own, this young man would not be able to exert all his decision-making power, either overly cautious or reckless.
Yuan Gai Suwen saw the main general on the opposite side with a smile on his face, and couldn't help but feel a little timid, and at that moment the nameless fire broke out, and ordered the cavalry to charge, and the infantry followed closely behind, attacking the enemy formation together.
Li Wenyuan saw the cavalry on the opposite side rushing over and asked his subordinates to give orders. As soon as the flag was waved, a team of more than 10,000 people who left the camp withdrew a large number of rejected horses, and the other team lifted the plank next to it, jumped into the pit dug in advance, and waited with spears.
The Tibetan tunnels were dug in imitation of the trenches of later generations of thermal warfare, and were narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, so that horses would leap over these tunnels because they would run, but would not jump down. Li Wenyuan squatted in the tunnel with his soldiers, dodging the impact of the cavalry, and then waited for the cavalry to run over, giving them a surprise.
As the first horse leaped by, Li Wenyuan silently counted the numbers. It wasn't until after passing the fifth horse that Li Wenyuan saw the opportunity to stab the spear in his hand into a horse that crossed overhead, and roared: "Kill!" ”
The rest of the soldiers saw that Li Wenyuan was suddenly attacked, so they also stabbed out the spears in their hands. In just an instant, the cavalry that was still galloping just now suddenly fell down in pieces, as if the horse had lost its front hooves, and a few of them were thrown out of nearly 20 steps by the horses relatively quickly, and they fell right in front of the rejection of the horse, and before the cavalry came to their senses, the Sui soldiers who were rejected from the horse stabbed into a hornet's nest with spears.
The Goguryeo cavalry had no other target to attack, so under the leadership of the commanders of each team, they bypassed the infantry following behind them, and ran back to the position where they were stationed at the beginning to return to Yuangai Suwen.
As soon as the cavalry withdrew, Li Wenyuan led the infantry to jump out of the tunnel and form a formation to prepare to defend against the enemy.
Yuan Gai Suwen sat on his horse, watching the infantry formation slowly advance towards Li Wenyuan's 20,000 infantry in front of the Dijin Pass, watching Li Wenyuan's infantry come out of their hiding place and quickly form a formation, but he was a little uneasy in his heart, what were the few big pits on the way of his infantry doing? It's clear that it shouldn't be natural.
Just when Yuan Gai Suwen racked his brains but couldn't find anything wrong, he suddenly heard an explosion, and it was Li Wenyuan who shot an arrow into the sky. Yuan Gai Suwen can feel that something is not good, the person on the other side who is playing against him can always come up with all kinds of unexpected things to defeat the victory he is about to get, but what is it this time?
Yuangai Suwen, who was looking up at the momentum weakening and the arrows that were gradually descending, suddenly shrank his pupils, and there were several black spots in the sky, which were gradually getting bigger. If you look closely, you can see the stones from several catapults used in the siege. Thinking of this, Yuangai Suwen suddenly looked down at several very unnatural pits on the ground, as if he understood something, and shouted heartbreakingly to the herald next to him: "Quickly raise the banner and let them disperse quickly!" ”
Before he finished speaking, more than a dozen boulders in the sky fell down, and hundreds of people turned into meat paste without saying a word. Then the dozens of deliberately polished spherical boulders jumped up and continued to roll forward by inertia.
The infantry of the Goguryeo army were first shocked by the alien stone town on this day, and they were all stunned when they saw that hundreds of people turned into meat paste without saying a word. He reacted when he saw the ball boulder bounce up again and continue to roll forward, crying and dodging to the side.
At the moment, there were hundreds of people who were slow to hide, and hundreds of people who did not react were run over by the boulders, and the whole queue was not moving forward, and no one spoke, only dozens of people who could not dodge in time looked at their empty lower bodies and the things that flowed all over the ground and reacted and let out a terrible wail.
The attention of the entire queue was on the dozen or so empty queues after the boulders were crushed, and after the boulders rolled over, there was only a thick blood-stained path on the ground. Yuan Gai Suwen was also stunned, and he couldn't make any sound when he opened his mouth. Li Wenyuan's team looked at the tragic scene in front of them, and couldn't help but gasp, the general in front of him said that there was a clever plan to retreat from the enemy, and now it seems that it is really wonderful.
This time, in the strange silence of the entire battlefield, everyone heard the sound of breaking the sky in the sky, and when they looked up, they only heard the Goguryeo soldiers shouting: "Here we go again!" Come on! ”
The originally neat team instantly became scattered, this time because the queue was already chaotic, the killing of the boulder was not as much as the first time, but Li Wenyuan had prepared these two attacks, and there would be no stones if there were more.
However, the goal had been achieved, and the morale of the Goguryeo army had collapsed, so Li Wenyuan nodded to Zhang Juntai, who rushed out of the camp with thousands of cavalry that had been mixed in the ranks, and took advantage of the chaos of the Goguryeo army to cover up the past.
This battle caused the Goguryeo army to retreat for more than ten miles, with countless casualties, and pursued until the city of Liaodong before returning from the horse. Li Wenyuan used this time to arrange for the army to cross the river, and personally sat on the horse and waited for Zhang Juntai and his party to return victoriously before boarding the boat to cross the river together.
When Yuan Gai Suwen and Yuan Taizuo came back with a large army to find a field, they only saw the smoke rising from Li Wenyuan's set fire to the big boat and the ferry. Yuan Gai Su's face turned blue, but he was helpless, and he secretly decided in his heart: he would definitely kill this person one day to take revenge.
Yuan Taizuo comforted Yuan Gai Suwen a few words, and ordered someone to collect the corpse of the Goguryeo army. Then the army was withdrawn back to Liaodong City, and after the battle, there were naturally many things to do, the people who died in the war should be sent to the bereavement pension, and the whole country supported the battle of Liaodong to appease the people, etc.