Chapter 191: Coming to the Water Again
Li Yuanba won the first gold medal in the world, and he smirked and said secretly in his heart: "Now I, I'm the first in the world." Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info turned around and saw the fifth brother and Jiang Lian, and also, also in front of them, majestic, majestic. ”
Yang Guang looked at Li Yuanba and Yuwen Chengdu in front of him, and was secretly happy in his heart, I have such a fierce general, why worry about the world is not quiet, and the thieves are not peaceful. Then he thought of inspecting the outside of the Saiwai a few years ago and being humiliated in Yanmen.
Now that I have these two tigers to protect me, how long will I stay if I don't go to the majesty? Immediately, the face-loving emperor announced that he would inspect the border fortress again; and asked Li Shimin and Li Yuanba to follow by name.
The emperor's holy decree, who dares to resist? The civil and military officials immediately began to prepare to inspect the side stops. However, in the bitter cold land, and the supply of grain and grass was insufficient, these three palaces and six courtyards could not be brought with him, and in the end he only brought dozens of favored concubines and 500,000 horses, and the rest stayed in Taiyuan.
When Yang Guang was about to inspect the border fortress, Cheng Yanjin and others finally went ashore in Annan. Goguryeo did not expect that there would be people in the Sui Dynasty to conquer, the city of Annam has been dilapidated after several battles, and the defenders are only about 1,000 people, and it will never be as grand as it was in the past.
Seeing the enemy's hundreds of large ships rushing over, the defenders of Annan City did not choose to resist, but chose to flee as soon as possible; Let Cheng Yanjin and others land smoothly without a single soldier.
The defeated army fled to the city of Pyongyang, and when Goguryeo's king of the plains heard this, he was so frightened that he almost fell from his throne. "Sui Jun? How could there be a Sui army here? Hurry up and convene the civil and military ministers to discuss the matter! ”
When the civil and military officials heard the news, they were all at a loss; Gao Yuan once again remembered Yuan Taizuo who saved him from danger several times; He looked at Yuan Taizuo with hope and said, "Big pair Lu, what is the best way to retreat from the enemy?" ”
Yuan Taizuo frowned and said, "Your Majesty! Lao Chen doesn't know anything about this group of thieves! The old minister is willing to lead the men and horses to stop the water; As long as the muddy water is kept, Pyongyang will be safe and sound!
Although we don't have many soldiers now, there are more than 100,000 people in Pyongyang, and we can always make up tens of thousands of young people; In addition, there are a lot of private soldiers in the family, and there can be thousands of people together. With these tens of thousands of people, with the tall walls of Pyongyang, it is not impossible to hold on! ”
Gao Yuan heard that he was good, and then gave the only remaining 30,000 guards in his hand to Yuan Taizuo; He ordered a group of civil and military personnel, and even wealthy families to contribute their private soldiers; A conscription order was issued that all men between the ages of 13 and 50 in Pyongyang must join the army to protect Pyongyang. ”
When Cheng Yanjin and others arrived at Hunshui, they found that the enemy had set up camp on the opposite side, the bridges on the river had all been demolished, and the ferries had been burned; The surrounding villages were also burned to the ground.
Cheng Yanjin laughed and said: "The enemy's reaction is really fast enough, this is to fortify the wall and clear the field to deal with us!" However, his wishful thinking was wrong, so let them see how powerful our Liangshan Military Boat Bridge is! ”
While ordering the troops to search for ships within a hundred miles, Cheng Yanjin also had people cut down trees and make the illusion of building ships to confuse the enemy. Yuan Taizuo on the opposite side was really fooled, thinking that the Sui general on the opposite side was nothing more than that, so he relaxed his vigilance.
That night, the night was dark and the wind was high, and it was difficult to see people on the other side, and I couldn't see my fingers. The boats of Liangshan drove to the water one after another, and they lined up and directly connected the two sides of the river. Then soldiers connected the ships with thick planks.
The process took less than an hour, and then the fire flared up, and a torch was lit in every boat; The Liangshan army, which had been prepared for a long time, roared and rushed to the opposite bank through the pontoon bridge.
Yuan Taizuo's soldiers couldn't see the real situation clearly, only heard people shouting and neighing, and then groups of Sui troops rushed to the north bank in the firelight.
They were so frightened that they hurriedly ran in like Yuan Taizuo to report, saying that the Sui people had used demon spells, and the army had crossed the muddy water on the fire road. Yuan Taizuo was also startled, and hurriedly came to the camp to watch.
At this time, the Liangshan army had already passed thousands of people, and Yuan Taizuo didn't believe that the Sui army had a demon method, so he wanted to send troops to attack while they had few people.
As soon as they left the gate, Dou Meng led more than a dozen soldiers from the trapping regiment to guard the door; They rushed up and slashed and slew about thirty men; There is nothing to lose on their side.
When those Goguryeo soldiers saw it, they retreated again and again, but none of them dared to come forward and fight. At this moment, Liang Shitai arrived with people, he danced a double hammer in his hand, rushed up, and almost took advantage of the chaos to break through the enemy camp.
When Yuan Taizuo saw it, he quickly ordered the soldiers to retreat, and then a burst of bows and arrows forced Liang Shitai to retreat. finally guarded the gate of the wall; But he could only watch the Liangshan army, and little by little he got through the muddy water and gained a firm foothold.
Cheng Biting Jin ordered the people to burn the pontoon bridge and said to the soldiers: "Everyone, in the past three years, Yang Guang has sent a total of three million troops and has not broken through Goguryeo.
Not only that, the Sui army lost its soldiers and lost its generals, and countless people died. I heard that Goguryeo folded the corpses of our compatriots and made them into a Gyonggwan to show off!
Today, although we only have 50,000 people in Liangshan, we fight the small with the big, take advantage of the chaos with governance, and merit the unjust with benevolence and virtue; We will win a great victory and avenge the death of our compatriots! You are willing to kill the enemy with me! ”
"Revenge! Avenge! "Kill! Fight the enemy! The shouts pierced the night sky, and also made Yuan Taizuo and the others tremble.
"Burn the ship! If we don't succeed this time, we will become benevolent, and there is no retreat! Cheng Yanjin shouted, and the pontoon bridge turned into a fire together with the boat.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! The war drums shook the sky, and the Liangshan soldiers did not rest at all, but came directly to the front of the camp in Goguryeo.
"Mountain! Mountain! Mountain! The soldier with the huge shield in his hand stepped forward first, braving the enemy's arrow rain to advance the formation not far from the opponent's camp.
"Ignition!" With a shout, Liangshan's camp was filled with starry fire. "Wind, wind, wind!" With three loud roars, star-like rockets rose into the sky and landed in the wooden village of Goguryeo like meteors.
"Fight the fire!" Yuan Taizuo shouted, and the soldiers hurriedly divided a part of the people to pour water to put out the fire. "It's not good, the enemy's rockets are soaked in tung oil, and the water can't be extinguished!" The soldiers of Goguryeo ran around like ducks that had been scattered.
"Cover with dirt!" Yuan Taizuo shouted at the soldiers fighting the fire while directing the army to defend. When the Goguryeo soldiers heard this, they hurriedly shoveled sand to put out the fire, and although the rockets that fell on the ground were extinguished, some of the rockets that fell on the tents still burned, and the sky turned red.
Seeing that the soldiers of Goguryeo were in chaos, Cheng Yanjin waved his hand, and several crossbows were pushed out of the Liangshan camp. With the crunch, crunch, winding sound, the crossbow was fitted with arrows like iron anchors, and the backs of these arrows were decorated with thick iron chains.
"Put!" With a loud shout, the huge iron anchor arrows were shot out. "Get out of the way!" Yuan Taizuo shouted, and all the soldiers hurriedly dodged to the side. The iron anchor arrow destroyed several corner towers, causing several casualties, and then fell to the ground.
"This thing looks scary, but its practical use is average!" Yuan Taizuo commented on this iron anchor arrow.
"Not good!" Seeing the Sui army grab the iron chains nailed to the ground and hang them behind several batches of war horses, Yuan Taizuo finally knew what the enemy wanted to do.
He had just screamed badly, and the enemy's cavalry had already urged his horses; The iron anchor arrow was pulled back in an instant, and the huge spearhead and the wooden village collided together.
"Boom!" The wooden village of Goguryeo was pulled together, and the soldiers on and under the wall screamed and were killed and wounded!
"Kill!" Seeing that the enemy's camp was breached, Cheng Yanjin shouted loudly and urged the war horse to take the lead in attacking. However, it was the crossbowmen who took the lead in attacking, and after three rounds of arrow rain, these people put away their bows and arrows, drew their horizontal knives and rushed forward with Cheng Biting Jin.
When Yuan Taizuo saw that the camp was pulled down, he knew that the big thing was not good, and quickly ordered the soldiers to block it, but he didn't know that the three rounds of arrow rain in the Liangshan army caused the soldiers of Goguryeo to suffer heavy losses; Not only did it not plug the gap, but instead created a vacuum.
"Shield Soldier blocked!" Yuan Taizuo shouted loudly, but as soon as the shield soldiers came up, Cheng Yanjin had already rushed in from the gap first, followed by Liang Shitai, Qin Qiong and other generals.
Cheng Biting Jin's big axe slashed fiercely into the shield soldiers, and with a loud "boom", the shield array was smashed out of a big gap, and then he urged the horse to rush up; The big axe wheel is opened, and a bloody path is killed.
Liang Shitai and Qin Qiong were not to be outdone, and the hammer and copper shovel rushed up to continue to expand this channel. Later, Dongfang Yumei, Zhang Chuchen, Duan Zhixuan, Lai Quan, Fan Hu, Lian Ming and others also rushed up to completely disrupt Goguryeo's shield array.
Behind them were the Trap Regiment, the Fire Brigade and the elite soldiers of Dengzhou, who poured in like a tide. Seeing that the general situation was gone, Yuan Taizuo had no choice but to flee back to Pyongyang under the protection of his own soldiers.
Gao Yuan saw that Yuan Taizuo, who had always been steady, ran back in a panic, and was so frightened that he almost lost his soul, so he hurriedly opened the city gate and let them in, and then ordered someone to close the city gate and completely block the city gate with sand.
Cheng Biting Jin made people sweep the battlefield, but found that nearly 10,000 enemies were killed, 10,000 were captured, and countless knives, guns, armor, gongs, drums, tents, and food baggage were obtained; And counting his casualties is less than 1,000, this result makes Lao Cheng very satisfied.
The army was here for three days, and as a cart of things wrapped in thick cotton cloth arrived, Cheng Yanjin led the army and pressed 10,000 prisoners to Pyongyang.
Gao Yuan heard that he went to the south gate to watch accompanied by Yuan Taizuo and the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs; I saw that the soldiers of Liangshan were neat, their swords and guns were bright, and their morale was high; The faces of these Goguryeo monarchs and ministers are more colorful.