Wang Shichong stepped forward for a while, at this time he saw clearly behind Laihu'er, the infantry cavalry who escaped from the city gate combined, less than two thousand, most of them were covered in wounds, those horse cavalry were okay, many of the infantry even had difficulty walking, helping each other out of the city with difficulty, dragging out a distance of three or four miles back and forth, it was completely a rout army fleeing for their lives, and it was impossible to have the ability to fight in formation.

Wang Shichong sighed, although he could expect that Laihu'er would suffer a big loss in Pyongyang City, but he still didn't expect to lose so badly, he thought that he could bring back at least half of the men, but looking at this style, he can save his life even if he is thankful, as for what kind of tactics the Goguryeo army used to fight like this, only if we ask Laihu'er in detail in the future, the top priority is to save him first and cover the remnants of the army to return to the camp.

After thinking about it, Laihu'er had already rushed over, his left shoulder was pierced with a thick wound belt, but the wound was still bleeding, and his right hand held the reins of the horse with one hand, and said to Wang Shichong: "General Wang, this handsome man regrets not listening to you, causing this defeat, and he has no shame to face you." ”

Wang Shichong shook his head: "Dashuai, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, don't mind, the Goguryeo people are insidious and vicious, and even do not hesitate to set up an ambush in the royal capital, even if you win by luck today, this royal capital will be destroyed in the war, speaking of losses, it is not smaller than ours, we will regroup another day, and then compete with these Goguryeo people." ”

Lai Hu'er was full of shame, so he could only nod, glanced back at the direction of the city gate, and said: "I left three hundred strong men behind the broken back, but I'm afraid that it won't last long, and now General Zhou is returning to the camp to mobilize follow-up troops, I'm afraid that I won't be able to come for a while, and I will trouble General Wang to break the back." ”

Wang Shichong smiled slightly and said, "Dashuai just go back with confidence." I've got everything here. ”

Lai Hu'er didn't say much, and after saying goodbye to Wang Shichong, under the protection of his sons and personal soldiers, he ran towards the forest road, Shan Xiongxin came to Wang Shichong's side with hundreds of cavalry, and Wang Shichong glanced at it roughly. The number of people has hardly changed from when he set off, and he said, "How many people have you broken?" ”

Shan Xiongxin said: "Seventeen dead and thirty wounded, they can continue to fight, don't worry." ”

Wang Shichong nodded and said, "It looks like the chasing army is coming, Xiongxin, you quickly retreat into the forest and follow my orders." ”

At the gate of Pyongyang. The corpses of 300 ironclad infantry of the Sui army were blocked at the end of the central avenue, and around them were 2,000 corpses of the Goguryeo army. One by one, they looked silently at these Sui army warriors who did not spin and fought to the end. As a fellow soldier, it is not easy to make the enemy so awe-inspiring.

Yizhi Wende rode his horse, he didn't look at the corpses of the two armies on the ground, and said in a deep voice: "What's the matter, huddle together here." But don't chase and kill Laihu'er? ”

The general of the Goguryeo Imperial Forest Army, who was the commander who commanded the pursuit of the front army, was named Bai Menghe, a general in his forties, with a black face and a long beard. After hearing Yizhi Wende's words, he hurriedly replied: "Da Zheng Lu, these three hundred Sui troops have fought to the death until now, our army has just eliminated them, and now we are cleaning up the corpses and morality, so as to go out of the city as soon as possible to pursue the enemy." ”

Yizhi Wende glanced at the mechanism on the city tower that had been cut down, and said in a deep voice: "This commander has given an order, when the palace city is moved, the city gate will immediately fall down the suspension bridge, put down the jack gate, and not let a Sui army escape, what is going on?" ”

Bai Menghe's face flashed a trace of shame: "It was the Sui army outside the city who quickly entered the city to rescue, cut the gate and seized the door, and destroyed the switch of the jack gate, so it was impossible to surround the Sui army in the city, according to the deserters of our army, a member of the Sui general, named Shan Xiongxin, once fought Prince Jian in Nanjinpu, and today the chief Cui assassinated Laihu'er and failed, and he also stirred up the situation for this person, and killed the chief Cui with an arrow, and escaped from the city with Laihu'er." ”

Yizhi Wende's heart sank suddenly, he had met Wang Shichong several times, all of them were guarded by Shan Xiongxin, he had already been deeply impressed by this tiger general, but he didn't expect that it was this person today, who ruined the big things he had carefully arranged.

Yizhi Wende gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Order, behead all those sergeants who are not effective in guarding the city gate, leave a thousand people to clean up the battlefield, and all the other troops, follow me out of the city to pursue, and we must take the head of the protector today!" ”

Bai Menghe's eyes widened: "Marshal, the sergeant guarding the door has carried out our plan, but the enemy generals are brave, if even they have to be killed, then I am afraid that the tens of thousands of soldiers who fled back from Nanjinpu a few days ago should die, this move is really difficult to convince the public." ”

A cold look flashed in Ezhi Wende's eyes: "General Bai, just carry out my commander's order, and if there are other things, this commander will explain to the king." After he finished speaking, he didn't look at Bai Menghe, and drove his horse straight away, leading thousands of cavalry out of the city gate quickly.

On the huge plain, the banner of the Sui army can no longer be seen, leaning on the dense forest in the distance, there are more than ten horsemen standing at the edge of the forest, the Goguryeo army is pouring out from the various city gates like a tide, and even from another corner of the city wall, the infantry cavalry continues to emerge, Ulzhi Wende is under the escort of hundreds of ironclad cavalry, rushing to the front, and behind him, more than 20,000 Goguryeo troops have lined up and marched slowly, and in the back, there is a steady stream of Goguryeo troops are assembling and advancing, on the tips of the guns stained with blood droplets, It exudes an awe-inspiring murderous aura.

When Yizhi Wende left Wang Shichong and was still about a mile away, he waved his hand and stopped, and the army behind him also stopped in place, Yizhi Wende looked at Wang Shichong in the distance, calm and composed, his eyes narrowed slightly, and shouted loudly in Chinese: "Sui general in the distance, but Wang Shilang of the Criminal Department?" ”

Wang Shichong smiled slightly, and then said loudly: "Yizhi Da to Lu, don't come to harm!" ”

As soon as Eulzhi Wende slapped his horse, three Goguryeo warriors escorted him and came to the front of the formation, and Wang Shichong only drove forward with Shan Xiongxin, and the two stopped two hundred paces in front of this military formation.

Yizhi Wende stared at Wang Shichong tightly and said coldly: "General Wang, do you remember the agreement between us?" ”

Wang Shichong also knew that the three guards brought by Yizhi Wende this time were all cronies, and it was a rare opportunity for him to talk to him when he met him like this time, and it seemed that he wanted to continue to cooperate with him.

Wang Shichong nodded: "Our agreement has always remained the same. (To be continued......)