Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Return Trip
On the vast snowfield, a team of about 10,000 people is moving forward against the snow.
Suddenly, a fast horse galloped from the opposite side like thunder, and then turned over and threw himself directly on the cold snow, and said loudly: "Young Patriarch, the road to the Ice City is blocked, and the leader is Li Yan, the general of Yuangai Suwen's personal guard, and the number of people is no less than five thousand, shall we continue to move forward?" ”
Bang!
Gao Huizhen directly smashed the weapon in his hand to the ground, this was already the fourth blocked road they took, and besides that, there was no other way to bypass Liaodong City and enter Goguryeo.
Gao Huizhen, who could no longer suppress the anger in his heart, gritted his teeth and roared: "Yuangai Suwen, Lao Tzu and you are incompatible!" ”
After roaring, Gao Huizhen turned around directly and said loudly: "Everyone will team up in front and go to Liucheng!" ”
The deputy general was stunned for a moment, and asked with some uncertainty: "Young Patriarch, there is the army of the Tang Dynasty over there, do we really want to go to war with them?" In this weather? ”
Gao Huizhen glanced coldly in the direction of Liaodong City, and sneered: "War? Lao Tzu is going to surrender, he wants to make all the south of me die, Lao Tzu is not as he wants, and Lao Tzu will completely destroy Goguryeo with the help of the Tang Dynasty, go! ”
"But in this case, Yuangai Suwen will inevitably use this incident as an excuse to slaughter the entire south." The adjutant general was anxious and hurriedly persuaded.
"Then let him be slaughtered!" Gao Huizhen was also ruthless, and rushed forward regardless of it.
The deputy general's heart sank, in fact, he knew better than everyone that even if they didn't surrender to the Tang Dynasty, they wouldn't be able to keep the south, and Yuangai Suwen would never allow them to continue to exist in the south and become a country within a country, not only in their south, but also in the north.
It's just that Gao Yanshou in the north is dead, even if Yuan Gai Suwen is a pity, he can only continue to wait, maybe the north can exist for a little longer? Decade? Or twenty years?
Glancing at the blocked road behind him, the lieutenant general took a deep breath, suppressed all the luck, and chased after Gao Huizhen quickly, and the remaining more than 10,000 people followed, but there were still 2,000 people from the Heishui Ya tribe who remained in Goguryeo in this team.
The Black Water Jar has been attached to Goguryeo to resist the invasion of the Eastern Turks against them, but since a few days ago, Hanpu left Goguryeo with his clan and went south to find a place to live, the Black Water Jar was abandoned by Goguryeo, although Goguryeo now has an elder brother Agu of Hanpu, but it has been completely abandoned by the Goguryeo royal family after Hanpu left.
Otherwise, Yuan Gai Suwen would not have been so bold to throw out more than 2,000 of their Ya tribes and send them to death.
Therefore, in the face of Gao Hye-jin's betrayal, some of their small leaders got together and discussed, then decisively abandoned Goguryeo and followed Gao Hye-jin to the southwest.
Liucheng.
Li Kong had been waiting here for a whole day and a night, but the passage of time had made him more and more irritable, if it weren't for his strong state of mind, he might have exploded at this time.
Outside, the snowflakes that had been falling for twelve hours still showed no sign of stopping, the snow on the ground was already knee-high, and the snow disaster or something had almost become inevitable, what he was worried about now was that in this kind of ghost weather, would Zhou Han and the three of them be able to come back?
Suddenly, a soldier covered in snow rushed in and said loudly: "General, Vice General Zhou and Vice General Han are back, but there is no news from Vice General Wang yet, should we continue to stay here and wait?" ”
Li Kong was slightly stunned, then jumped up directly, and said loudly: "Go, go out with Ben Jiang to greet first!" ”
After saying that, he had already run out.
Outside Liucheng, the two teams slowly gathered together, Zhou Han and Han Jun had completely turned into snowmen, but even so, when they saw Li Kong, they still jumped off their horses and saluted Li Kong as soon as they saw them.
Li Kong helped the two of them up, sighed with emotion, and said, "It's good to come back, it's good to come back!" ”
After making sure that neither of them had anything to lose, Li Kong hurriedly got out of the way and said, "Let's go, go back and rest first, let's wait here for an hour, if Vice General Wang doesn't come back, we will search along his road, and then go directly south to return to the court." ”
"Order!" Han Jun and Zhou Han answered, and quickly let people enter the room to rest and keep warm, since yesterday evening after receiving the edict, they returned overnight, and the soldiers under them have long been frozen and unable to speak, and if they don't keep warm, they have to die here, even the two of them are no better.
Roast the fire, eat meat, drink hot water......
An hour passed quickly, and everyone regained their basic spirit, but it was still a little difficult to leave, and finally decided to leave, pour all the wine in everyone's wine jugs, pour boiling water, and then put it in the heart to keep warm and ensure body temperature for a short time.
Eventually, snow buried all the fires, and the whole army headed south.
Fortunately, the road chosen by Vice Admiral Wang is located in the southeast, and the target is directly towards Jicheng, so they don't have to make any more detours, but they may encounter some Goguryeo soldiers on the road.
However, there are more than 5,000 of them, and all of them are cavalry, even if they encounter a Goguryeo team of 10,000 people, there is no problem if they can't win and want to escape, besides, under this kind of broken weather, it is unlikely that Goguryeo soldiers will come out to die.
After marching thirty miles, they met Vice General Wang, but to Li Kong's surprise, the 1,000 cavalry that Vice General Wang originally brought out now seemed to be a lot more.
"What's going on?" After letting people enter the ranks, Li Kong personally called Vice General Wang to his side and asked.
"These are the Sui people wandering in the land of Liaodong, when the last general saw them, some of them were about to freeze to death, and some were even dying, and the last general couldn't bear to bury them here, so he temporarily gathered them together, ready to dispose of them after returning to Chang'an."
Li Kong nodded noncommittally, and glanced at the more than two hundred people, Sui people? Hehe, are there still Sui people in Liaodong at this time? Even if there were, it wouldn't be like this, would it?
Of course, Li Kong also thought that he was thinking nonsense, but this was the hinterland of the enemy, so he couldn't be cautious, but as Vice General Wang said, this is not the time to settle accounts, and after everything is settled, the life and death of this group of people will no longer be controlled by themselves.
"Let's go!" After a while, Li Kong withdrew his gaze and rode westward!