Chapter 379: Madness
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Gao Jianwu, who was scolded by Yizhi Wende, was a little embarrassed at this time, and he was a little annoyed and angry. He was leading his army to chase after Luo Cheng, that damn guy.
Just two days ago.
He had already completed the plan to block the river and store water as planned, so he waited for the Sui army to pass through Sashui in defeat, and then he waited for the Sui army to break the embankment and release the water when he was halfway through, and then flood the Ninth Army, and then join forces with the two armies of Yizhi Wende to strangle 300,000 Sui troops on the Sashui Plain.
But he never expected that the Sui army, which should have been under the city of Pyongyang, would suddenly be killed.
There are 30,000 people, and they are still so strong.
I don't know how Etoshi Wende's information was obtained, and he actually missed such an important point.
And the wrong information, the result was that Gao Jianwu was killed by surprise.
Although he had 70,000 soldiers and horses, and tens of thousands of people, he was defeated and retreated by 30,000 Sui troops. After a day of fierce fighting, more than 10,000 casualties, and finally tens of thousands of people were driven by the Sui army to jump into Sashui, and then the Sui army broke open Sashui.
Gao Jianwu fled while fighting, and the Sui army still clung to it.
When it was dangerous, the Sui army killed him several times in front of his handsome banner, but fortunately, his own soldiers desperately protected it.
Gao Jianwu wanted to flee south, but the Sui army came from the southwest, and in the end they had to escape Sashui and go all the way north.
The Sui army clenched its bite, seeing that he thought that his tens of thousands of horses were about to be completely dispersed, but fortunately, Gao Jian'an, a son of the royal family, took 20,000 soldiers and horses of the Jing tribe to the south to reinforce Pyongyang.
Suddenly, a new force was obtained, and Gao Jianwu escaped.
It's just that Sui Jun can't help but be embarrassed.
Finally, he fought hard to defeat the Goguryeo army, which was twice his size, and thought of completely defeating them in one go, and then went to Pyongyang to join the Eighth Army.
But who would have expected that at this critical time, another 20,000-strong army would come.
Although the Goguryeo army was exhausted, in fact, the Left Fifth Army was already at the end of its strong crossbow.
Gao Jianwu led the army to counterattack, and Luo Cheng led his troops to rush and kill for a long time, but the result gradually became difficult to support.
30,000 horses, by this time, they were already exhausted, and the original 30,000 horses were also lost by more than 10%. Rushed by the fierce Taya soldiers, it was difficult for the Left Fifth Army to support it.
Offensive and defensive changes.
Luo Cheng had to turn around with his brothers.
Then it became Gao Jianwu with tens of thousands of remnants of Goguryeo and 20,000 Jin Ya troops, chasing after him.
Flee while fighting.
When Luo Cheng and the others ran back to Sashui, they learned a nightmare-like piece of information.
The Eighth Army under the city of Pyongyang was defeated, had escaped Sasu, and went all the way north, and they had crossed the river for three days, and they could not catch up, and behind them was the 80,000 Pyongyang Army led by Ulji Moondeok.
"There is also bad news, the sailors who came to Hu'er were defeated earlier than Yuwenshu, they had already attacked Pyongyang City when Yuwenshu had just crossed the Sashui and advanced to Pyongyang, but it was a trick to lure the enemy by the Goguryeo people, although they attacked the outer city, but in the end they did not hold it for a day, and the 40,000 elite main forces of Laihu'er, in the end, only 10,000 people fled back, after the defeat, Laihu'er and Zhou Fashang withdrew to the beach with the sailors."
Two big bad news in a row made the officers and men of the Fifth Left Army look ugly.
"Come to protect your child, be greedy and reckless!"
Wei Zheng scolded.
Over there, Hou Mo Chen Yi also said, "It would be good if Yuwen Shuken waited for us." ”
"What now?" Cunxiao didn't care about those people, all he was thinking about now was the more than 20,000 brothers of the Left Fifth Army.
He was followed by sixty or seventy thousand Gao Jianwu's pursuers, sticking like a dog's skin plaster.
"We can only retreat north, fortunately, we still have a hand left before, captured Daxing City, there are still 10,000 people in Song Yajiang, as long as we can withdraw to the mouth of the Yalu River, we have entered Daxing City, there are people with grain and grass, not afraid of the siege of the Goguryeo people, when the time comes, let the water division come to help, we are not afraid." Si Ye said.
"Daxing City is not easy to go, there is an army of Yi in front, and there is an army of Gao Jianwu in the back, hundreds of thousands of Goguryeo people, and don't forget, when we came before, the soldiers were strong and strong, and the defenders of the city fortress of the Goguryeo people along the way, although they can only defend the infant city and dare not have ideas, but we are now defeated, I am afraid that any cat or dog will want to knock me on a stick." Luo Cheng shook his head and said.
"But we can't go back the way we came, and the domestic city will definitely not let us go back."
Luo Cheng thought for a while, "If we can get rid of Gao Jianwu in the back, I think we can go south." ”
"To the south?"
"Yes, to the south, we will go to Pyongyang." Luo Cheng gritted his teeth and said, with a crazy look in his eyes. The more he spoke, the more excited he became, "Now we can basically figure it out, there were 80,000 soldiers and horses in Pyongyang before, led by Ulji Moondeok, they first defeated Laihu'er, and now they are pursuing the Eighth Army all the way across Sasu. It turned out that there were still 70,000 people here in Sashui, led by Gao Jianwu, except for these two large armies, Pyongyang and the surrounding hundreds of miles, there was no other force of soldiers and horses. Especially in Pyongyang City, Ulji Wende came out of the city in order to be able to annihilate the Eighth Army, he originally thought that he could completely annihilate the Eighth Army in Sashui, but now there was an accident, the Eighth Army passed Sashui, and Ulji could only continue to chase Sashui. ”
Wei Zheng's eyes widened.
"Pyongyang is indeed an empty city."
"God, even if Pyongyang is an empty city, it is the national capital after all, so I'm afraid it may not be easy to fight. Don't forget, this is only 200 miles away from Pyongyang, and Eulji Wende and Gao Jianwu may come back at any time, so should we repeat the mistakes of Yuwenshu at that time? ”
"I think we can give it a try, even if we don't have the chance, we can continue to the south, isn't Laihu'er still on the beach, instead of venturing north, it is better to withdraw from the sea."
"But what if Laihu'er has already evacuated? In that case, we will never want to go back to the Central Plains. ”
"How do you know the result if you don't gamble."
Luo Cheng went crazy.
Wei Zheng smiled, at this time, he could still laugh, "I think the general is right, let's flee north, it's difficult to escape, it's difficult to go to Daxing City, it's even more difficult to return the same way, and although we are not short of food now, we can't last long, especially when September arrives, Liaodong will change the weather and become cold, at that time, we are still only wearing summer clothes, and we can freeze to death." ”
Wei Zheng felt that although Luo Cheng's plan was crazy, it was not crazy for no reason, it seemed crazy, but in fact, it was the best plan that was inferred from various conditions.
However, the only problem with this plan is that Gao Jianwu has tens of thousands of horses behind him.
If they can't get rid of them, let alone attack Pyongyang, let alone flee all the way to the seaside camp of Laihu'er, which is 400 miles away.