Chapter 92 Liaodong City
Liaodong City is the entrance to the entire Liaodong Peninsula, and during the Warring States Period, Liaodong County of Yan State had Liaodong City! Since then, after several ups and downs, this city has also undergone countless baptisms of war, but because of this special geographical location, Liaodong City has not disappeared, but has become more and more prosperous.
Since the ninth year of the emperor's opening, after Goguryeo invaded Yingzhou, Liaodong City has completely fallen into the hands of Goguryeo, until the year before last, the Son of Heaven first went east to Goguryeo, and fought a vicious battle in Liaodong City, but for various reasons, the Sui army suffered an unprecedented defeat! After that, Goguryeo made a plan to underestimate the enemy, gave up eight battles in a row, including Liaodong City, lured the Sui army deep into Goguryeo, and finally defeated the Sui army outside Pyongyang, resulting in the failure of the First Eastern Crusade, and Liaodong City was also lost after the Sui army withdrew, and fell under the control of Goguryeo again! Last year, the Son of Heaven went east for the second time to conquer Goguryeo, and before he could capture Liaodong City, the news of Yang Xuangan's rebellion came, and this Liaodong City was still not recaptured after all. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Today, the army of the Great Sui came to the outside of Liaodong City again, looking at this ancient city that had brought infinite humiliation to him, Lai Hu'er's heart was also full of emotion and unwillingness. But this time, Laihu'er decided that he would never leave this Liaodong with regrets again! Lai Hu'er's eyes stared at Liaodong City, although he only had less than 50,000 soldiers and horses this time, but Lai Hu'er had full confidence in breaking through Liaodong City and even Goguryeo!
"Oops! Brother Qin! Are you sure this is Liaodong City? The city wall is so low and so broken, how did it block the attack of the army back then? Just when Laihu'er secretly made up his mind in his heart, suddenly a voice came from the side, loud and bright, and it fell on Laihu'er's ears, which was also very harsh! Laihu'er's face changed, and anger had just crept up on his cheeks, but it was replaced by a bitter smile again.
"Shhhh Brother Wan, be quiet! Qin Qiong, who was beside Wan He, was not as heartless as Wan He, and immediately made a silent gesture to this Wan He, and at the same time glanced at Lai Hu'er cautiously, with a bitter smile on his face. Previously, because he saved Laihong in the battle of Pingquan, the relationship between Wanhe and Laihu'er finally eased, but just now Wanhe's words were revealing Laihu'er's scars! God knows if Laihu'er will go crazy because of this!
However, it was obvious that Laihu'er's mind was not as small as Qin Qiong expected, so he just glanced at Wan He with a wry smile, and continued to command the soldiers to arrange the troops. And Wan He obviously realized that he had said the wrong thing, covered his mouth with his hands, looked at Lai Hu'er with wide eyes, and after making sure that Lai Hu'er was not angry, he took his hand down, patted his chest gently, breathed a sigh of relief, and whispered: "Mommy's!" Scared the hell out of me! ”
Beside Wan He, Lai Hong also glanced at Qin Qiong with the same wry smile, and then shook his head helplessly. If it was before, Lai Hong would definitely be angry because of Wan He's words just now, but now Lai Hong also knows Wan He a little bit, this guy is really a little heartless, just now, he just subconsciously said it casually, and he didn't mean to humiliate Lai Er at all. Since he understood that Wanhe was unintentional, there was naturally no need for Laihong to fall out with this brother who had just befriended for such a trivial matter.
Lai Hong thought about it, but decided to explain: "Brother Wan! Liaodong City in the year before last was different from now! It's just that after the fierce battle the year before last, the walls of Liaodong City have been basically destroyed, and the army has already entered Liaodong City at that time, but unfortunately later they mistakenly hit the ambush of the Goguryeo people, so they had to retreat! Although last year's battle was not as fierce as the year before, the newly repaired city walls of Liaodong City were almost destroyed! After years of war, the Goguryeo people couldn't support it, and they couldn't afford to build the city wall of Liaodong City, and the city wall in front of them was almost the same as when the army was in charge last year! ”
"Oh!" Wan He responded, saying that he understood, in fact, there is nothing difficult to understand, for three consecutive years, three Eastern Crusades, even the once powerful Great Sui has been dragged down, how good can Goguryeo be? However, Wan He thought about it again, and immediately asked: "Well, since Goguryeo doesn't even have the money to repair the city wall, wouldn't this Liaodong City be easy to capture?" ”
"That's nature!" Lai Hongyi straightened his chest, the pride on his face appeared again, and he said proudly: "Don't look at the vanguard army led by my father this time is only 50,000 horses, which is much less than the number of people in the previous two Eastern Crusades, but it is easy to break through Liaodong City!" Not to mention Liaodong City, even the entire Goguryeo, we can take it in one go! Maybe we'll be able to take Silla and Baekje straight away! When he said the last sentence, Lai Hong lowered his voice slightly, but the pride on his face did not decrease but increased.
"Ugh!" Wan He couldn't help but be stunned, looking at Lai Hong with a strange face, but he muttered in his heart. If Wan He is not mistaken, this Eastern Crusade should still end in failure, but I can hear the meaning of Laihong, as well as what Qin Qiong said before, it seems that no matter how you look at this Eastern Crusade Goguryeo, it should be a big victory! Did you remember wrong?
"Hong'er!" Wan He was still struggling with his memories there, but Lai Hu'er had already finished preparing, came to Wan He and the others, and said to Lai Hong: "This Liaodong City will be handed over to you!" Within today, take Liaodong City! Questions? ”
Lai Hong immediately gave a military salute to Lai Hu'er, and shouted with full anger: "Father! The child is commanded! ”
Lai Hu'er nodded, glanced at Wan He next to him again, and finally squeezed out a smile, and turned to leave. Laihu'er is obviously expressing the most Wanhe's kindness, but this smile makes Wanhe's goosebumps rise all over his body! Wan He muttered to himself in his heart, why is it that this Hu'er laughs more ugly than crying? Didn't you smile well before, but why is it that when you laugh now, it becomes this virtue?
What Wan He didn't know was that the smile that Lai Hu'er showed in front of Wan He before was that kind of hypocritical smirk, which was honed by Lai Hu'er in the officialdom. And now Laihu'er wants to sincerely express his kindness to Wanhe, and he doesn't want to pretend, but Laihu'er's character is like this, so this sincere smile is not as natural as before.
After Lai Hu'er left, Lai Hong turned his head and smiled at Wan He: "Brother Wan! I'm going to borrow someone from you! I just don't know if Brother Wan is willing to cut love? ”
Lai Hong's meaning was naturally to ask Cheng Yanjin, Qin Qiong and the hundred elite soldiers to help, but Wan He was very generous, waved his hand, and said: "What is this, since you have opened your mouth, brother Qin!" Lao Cheng! You're going to have to work hard! ”
Cheng Yanjin couldn't help it for a long time, and as soon as he heard Wan He's words, he immediately pulled out the axe excitedly and shouted, "No problem!" No problem! Look at me! As for Qin Qiong, she also nodded lightly and agreed.
Seeing that Qin Qiong and Cheng Yanjin agreed, Lai Hong was overjoyed, although even without their help, Lai Hong was confident to take Liaodong City, but with such two strong reinforcements, it would be even more helpful for this battle! Immediately, Lai Hong nodded and said, "Okay!" Brother Cheng! You take 3,000 men and assault head-on! Brother Qin, you and I each led two thousand soldiers and horses to break through from the two wings! ”
Lai Hong just simply laid out the strategy, in fact, this battle really doesn't need to spend too much energy, so Lai Hong doesn't plan to send all the soldiers and horses at all, just relying on these 7,000 people, he plans to take down the Liaodong City in front of him! After such a simple arrangement, Qin Qiong also nodded, shook the reins, and took a few steps forward. And Cheng Yanjin simply waved the axe in his hand directly, summoned the three thousand soldiers and horses that Lai Hong had just allocated to him, and rushed directly towards Liaodong City! Seeing that Cheng Yanjin had already begun to attack, Qin Qiong and Lai Hong were not lazy, Lai Hong was busy beckoning soldiers and horses to follow, and Qin Qiong did not forget to say hello to Wan He, and left the hundred subordinates behind to protect Wan He, so he followed with soldiers and horses! Qin Qiong is so careful, it really moved Wan He's eyes to red, and he can't wait to make a promise for the rest of his life!
"Wow, yes!" Carrying the Xuanhua plate axe, Cheng Biting Jin rushed to the front, and went straight to the city gate with a murderous face! When the army came to the outside of Liaodong City before, it had already been discovered by the Goguryeo army stationed in Liaodong City, so the city gate was closed early. It's just that at the head of the city, those Goguryeo soldiers saw the Great Sui soldiers and horses rushing over, and they were all pale with fright!
As Lai Hong said, the continuous war, for Goguryeo is also a particularly big burden, Goguryeo is not a country with a large population, the entire Goguryeo is only a small population, these two years of successive wars, the domestic young and strong suffered heavy losses, now in Liaodong City, most of the defenders are forcibly captured Han strong, and basically old, small, the old man is fifty or sixty years old, the small one even has eleven or twelve years old childish! These people were all temporarily captured for military service, and they had no formal training at all, let alone go to the battlefield to kill the enemy!
"! Stand up for me! Stand up! Prepare your bow and arrows! Prepare your bow and arrows! "The Goguryeo general who stayed in Liaodong City is also a Goguryeo nobleman, don't look at him who looks sick, he participated in the battle with the Great Sui the year before last and last year! I heard that this guy was ruthless, and he once cut off the heads of more than a dozen Sui soldiers in one go! He also seemed to know that if he fell into the hands of the Sui army, he would definitely not end well, so he didn't think about surrendering at all, urging these soldiers who had been temporarily captured to set up a defensive line and prepare for the final resistance!