Volume 4: Chapter 37 of the Emperor's Prosperous Age, Yanyun Eighteen Horses

The guards of the East Palace found that their faces were green when they were put on their necks with a sword, and this sergeant really dared to kill himself, but as a guard of the East Palace, he was suddenly restrained and spread out, not only did he lose face, but even the East Palace was also ashamed.

The four guards behind were also taken aback when they saw this situation, and hurriedly followed the step, about to snatch their own people out, Xu Deyan hurriedly persuaded: "Everyone, dissipate your anger, everyone is your own person, since General Luo is not here, then the next official will come again tomorrow." ”

"Hmph." The sergeant, probably thinking of something, withdrew his sword and stood on one side again, motionless.

Although several Donggong guards were not convinced, they just saw the sergeant's movements, and knew that they might not be able to please them if they wanted to use force, and when they saw that their own people were fine, they had to stop their steps, and under the persuasion of Xu Deyan, they left the Captain's Mansion of Dongyi, but they were also secretly speechless in their hearts, a sergeant guarding the door was so powerful, Luo Yi really deserved his reputation.

Xu De has a lot of words and deeds, although he didn't see Luo Yi, he didn't have to worry, he found a first-class inn to settle down, and went to the Commander's Mansion to listen to Luo Yi's news every day, but for five or six days in a row, Luo Yi still didn't come back.

The snow fell in a fluttering manner, gradually covering up the withered yellow grass and trees on the grassland, and the sky and the earth gradually turned white, except for the howling of the wind, there was silence.

There was a sound of horses' hooves, and more than a dozen knights in winter clothes gradually emerged from the snowflakes, their faces wearing masks. All the tight-fitting black clothes, stepping on the bearded horse boots and bows, the snowflakes fell on them, and disappeared in an instant.

"Phew!" With a shout, the knight jerked the reins, and the horse stepped down with a loud scream. There was a sudden still, and everyone seemed to be one.

In front of them is a static jade belt, obviously different from the white vast earth around them, this is the Liao River, a Liao River that separates the Great Sui and Goguryeo, three hundred years ago, taking advantage of the decline of the Han Dynasty and the chaos of the Central Plains, the Goguryeo people began to carefully expand their territory to the south, and finally seized all the four counties of the Han Dynasty in the north of the Liao River. And stretched out his hand to the south bank, however, with the Great Sui unified the Central Plains. The Goguryeo people's hand stretched out to the south bank was cut off, but the four counties of Dihan in the past were firmly held in the arms of the Goguryeo people.

The thunderous rushing sound of the Liao River in the past is only the sound of a murmuring stream, and the surface reflects the crystal light.

A knight took off his mask, revealing the face of a man in his thirties, and said excitedly: "General, the Liao River has frozen. ”

"Let's go up and test the ice first."

"Yes." The knight turned over and dismounted, holding his horse firmly in one hand. Carefully stepping on the ice, feeling the solidity under his feet, he immediately continued to walk, and when he reached the middle, there was a slight creaking sound under the ice, and the horse led by the knight snorted, and a trace of fear appeared in his eyes, and stopped.

"Let's go!" The knight raised the whip in his hand and unceremoniously struck the horse. The horse barked in dissatisfaction, and had to tremble and start again.

After more than ten meters. The squeak was gone, and it wasn't long before that. One man and one horse successfully crossed the Liao River.

Seeing the knight waving his hand, one of the knights led by him said: "Everyone, today is the first time that the Liao River has frozen, and the Goguryeo people must be defenseless, how about we cross the river and kill for a while?" ”

"Obey the general's orders!" The knights behind him answered, and immediately all turned over and dismounted, took the reins by hand, carefully stepped on the ice, and stepped into the river in a long line, one, two, three ......, a total of eighteen people, plus those who had already crossed the river first, exactly nineteen people.

If a Goguryeo person saw the costumes of these people on the shore, he would probably immediately exclaim: "Yanyun Eighteen Horsemen!" ”

Yes, these nineteen people are Luo Yi and his subordinate Yanyun Eighteen Cavalry, hearing the deeds of the Eighteen Cavalry that Yang Yong once described, over the years, Luo Yi couldn't help but pick out the best eighteen people from his subordinates to form this elite squad of cavalry,

Over the years, Luo Yi and his Yanyun Eighteen Cavalry have become famous, and they have truly achieved a < that is as fast as the wind and as hot as fire; Taste a defeat

Xi people, Murwei people, Khitan people, Goguryeo people...... have tasted the taste of this Yanyun Eighteen Horsemen, and all the tribes that have been hit by Yanyun Eighteen Horsemen will call Yanyun Eighteen Horsemen a demonic place to stop crying.

Now the Xi people, the Murwei people, and the Khitan people...... All have been laid at the foot of the Great Sui, the only enemy in Liaodong is only the Goguryeo people, the Goguryeo people can maintain to this day, in addition to the Liao River as a barrier, but also because the Goguryeo people have a long country, half farming and half farming, and the national strength is better than it

are much stronger.

Both sides of the Liao River are fertile land, whether it is grazing or farming, can feed a large number of people, both sides will not give up, most of the time the river has become a natural barrier on both sides, but once the Liao River is frozen, the barrier of the two armies is gone, around the Liao River, both sides will produce small-scale brutal blockades.

At the beginning, most of the Goguryeo people rushed across the Liao River, and everywhere they went, the material was robbed, and all the men and women were reduced to slavery, and they were slaughtered at the slightest resistance, but I don't know when it started, but this situation was reversed, and the Sui army rushed across the north bank and began to plunder the Goguryeo people.

Luo Yi and Yanyun Eighteen Cavalry are undoubtedly the vanguard of the fight against the Goguryeo people, in the past ten years, the Goguryeo people who died under the sword of Yanyun Eighteen Cavalry are at least tens of thousands, the Goguryeo people hate this small army to the core, and have organized a large army to lead it into ambush several times, but the essence of the Yanyun Eighteen Cavalry has been brought into full play, and you can escape hundreds of miles away in one day and night, and there is also the response of the army, and the Goguryeo people return every time, and the soldiers are lost in vain.

Now, the Liao River has just frozen, and the eighteen horsemen of Yanyun are here again, this time, it is Luo Yi himself who leads the army, and I don't know how many Goguryeo people will die under the sword of these eighteen horsemen.

Although everyone heard the creaking sound under the ice in the middle, the nineteen people had crossed the river without any problems, and they did not have to worry that they would not be able to cross the river when they returned, the weather would only get colder and colder, and by the time they returned, the ice was even strong enough to gallop their horses.

"Get on the horse!" As soon as he crossed the river, Luo Yi pulled off the mask that had been lifted, turned over and got on the horse, and the sound of the horse's hooves sounded again, driving away into the distance, gradually disappearing into the wind and snow.

The snow was still falling, and a small village composed of dozens of families appeared in the distance, and curling smoke rose from the wooden houses, melting the snowflakes on it into steam, and it could be seen from a distance that a group of ghostly knights appeared on the opposite mountain, which was the second day for Luo Yi and others to cross the river.

"Kill!" Luo Yi raised the scimitar in his hand and rushed down the mountain without hesitation, and the eighteen horsemen behind him followed closely, and the murderous aura in the sword light did not even want to face the falling snowflakes.

It was daytime, and the snowflakes were not big enough to completely drown out the sound of horses' hooves, and the wooden house in front of it creaked open, and a white-headed Goguryeo man looked curiously ahead, his eyes suddenly became frightened, and he shouted in Goguryeo: "Demon knight, demon knight is coming." ”

It's just too late," Porphy. With a bang, a long arrow flew over and shot accurately into the old man's throat, and the blood splattered from his neck, and his legs went limp, and he immediately sat down on the ground and stopped breathing.

"Bang!" The door of the wooden house was kicked open, and a knight in black clothes and black armor stepped in, and a Goguryeo couple and two children looked in horror at the knight who came in through the door.

"Wow." Looking at the glittering broadsword in the knight's hand, the two Goguryeo children burst into tears.

The man of Goguryeo had already seen that something was wrong, and immediately jumped up from the ground where he was sitting, and just removed the steel knife from the wall, only to feel a pain in his chest, and a section of the tip of the knife penetrated out of his chest, and there was a touch of bright red blood on the snow-white tip of the knife, which fell from the tip of the knife to the ground drop by drop, making a click, click, click, click

The Goguryeo woman knelt on the ground, kowtowing desperately, muttering in Goguryeo: "Spare your life!" Spare your life! The two children, with their eyes wide open, stopped crying, their eyes full of horror.

"Get out! Get out! ”

The knight also spoke Goguryeo, and the woman understood, and immediately quickly picked up her two children and ran out of the wooden house, and when the knight also withdrew, a fire came out of the wooden house, and the whole wooden house crackled and burned.

In less than half an hour, Luo Yi and Yan Yun Eighteen Cavalry had already retreated from the wooden houses, all the wooden houses had already burned, and on the snow, only a group of Goguryeo women and their children were left staring blankly at the burning fire, their men had been killed, and their homes had been burned down.

Compared with the Goguryeo army, the Sui army was quite merciful, and did not kill the women and children, but only drove them out of the wooden house, but they had no food, no shelter from the cold, if they wanted to survive, they had to wait until the Goguryeo native soldiers came to rescue, otherwise they would eventually die in the snow.

This is a war between the two ethnic groups in order to compete for living space, and the Sui army's approach is only to weaken the enemy, leaving women and children behind, in addition to the Han people being influenced by Confucianism, it is not without benefits to the Sui army, leaving these people, on the one hand, can slow down the speed of the Goguryeo people's pursuit, on the other hand, it can also increase the burden of the Goguryeo people.

Seeing that the fire was almost burning, Luo Yi raised his knife and shouted, "Go!" All the knights rushed back into the snow and continued to run to the next target.

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