After the failure of the tentative siege, the Goguryeo army stopped all attacks and turned into a state of confrontation, on the one hand, although they had not yet cracked the Sui army's defense technique, on the other hand, it was more important, all the eighty siege ladders they carried were destroyed by the Sui army, making them unable to attack the city.

At night, Yuangai Suwen walked to the door of the big tent and looked at the swarthy city wall three miles away in the distance, his heart was heavy, and a tentative attack made him realize that they had thought too much about taking Liaodong.

The defense of Liucheng was obviously carefully prepared, and tens of thousands of Khitan troops could not break through it, so could their 30,000 people break through this fortified city? The answer is obviously very difficult, maybe they have a little chance, but this chance is too slim, unless the Sui army himself makes a big mistake, unless his soldiers can blend into the city.

Yuangai Suwen sighed, no matter what, he had to do his best, Goguryeo had been preparing for this western expedition for more than a year, and he couldn't give up because he was temporarily in trouble, he needed to be patient and wait for the opportunity.

At noon on the third day, near an abandoned official road about seventy miles east of Liucheng, a Sui scout team was resting and eating dry food by a stream not far from the waste road.

They also just discovered in the morning that there was an official road twenty miles south of the official road, although this official road had been abandoned for many years and looked very dilapidated, but it was still possible to walk in a cart, and it was hidden in the dense woods, and it was difficult to be found.

The fire chief's name was Liu Shun'er, only in his early twenties, and the young man was very shrewd and capable, and he sat on a large rock by the stream, munching on dry food while checking the map in his hand.

"I'm still a map given by the government, there is no road on it, I don't believe they don't know, in the end it's 'lazy', at least it should be marked, write the word 'abandoned', do you say?"

Liu Shun'er's tone was full of contempt for the Liucheng County Government, and he said to the other soldiers: "Dazhi, you are from Liucheng County, do you know this abandoned official road?" ”

The soldier named Dazhi scratched the back of his head and said, "Maybe I knew, but I forgot." ”

"Another local who doesn't know anything, even I, a native of Qinghe County, know more than you."

Everyone laughed, "Fire Chief, don't complain, eat quickly!" ”

"His grandmother's, this piece of dried meat is harder than a stone, and it almost knocked out my teeth."

Liu Shun'er complained again, and threw the jerky in his hand to another veteran, "I've rewarded you." ”

"Whoa! It's all your saliva, why don't you throw me a piece of gold. ”

"Dream on! There is no gold, but there is no yellow mud. ”

At this time, a soldier who was standing guard outside crawled and ran, "Fire Chief, there are enemy troops!" ”

Everyone was so frightened that they stood up one after another, and Liu Shun'er asked, "How many people are there?" ”

"I saw more than 100 people, all of them were cavalry, and I don't know anything else."

Liu Shun'er waved her hand, everyone quieted down, and they all held their breath, and after a while, Liu Shun'er turned over and got on the horse, "Everyone follow me." ”

The people mounted their horses and followed the fire chief to the north.

Not long after, there was a mighty ox cart on the abandoned official road, there were more than 1,000 ox carts, full of grain and a large number of siege ladders on the waste road slowly, followed by about 3,000 escort soldiers on both sides, this is the supply food team from Yancheng, they did not take the main official road, but took this abandoned official road, Goguryeo has done many years of investigation for the capture of Liaodong, they know that this abandoned official road, can covertly send food supplies to the Liucheng Goguryeo camp.

At this time, a few miles away high in the dense forest, ten Sui army scouts watched the convoy in the distance nervously and excitedly, and they unexpectedly found the target.

Liu Shun'er thought for a while and instructed in a low voice: "Dazhi took five brothers to go back in two teams to report to the general, and I continued to follow the convoy." ”

Several of his subordinates nodded, "Be careful yourself, don't be hunted by enemy spies." ”

"Let's go! I'm not going to send it to the door. ”

The six Sui scouts turned their horses and ran north, and Liu Shun'er also galloped away with the remaining few men in the opposite direction of the grain team

In fact, the cavalry of the Sui army led by Chen Jing was on a meadow north of the official road, and Pei Xingyan gave him the task not only to cut off the supply line between Yancheng and Liucheng, but also to cut off the grain transportation between Yancheng and Liaodong City and Xincheng.

Chen Jing divided his troops into three routes, he each sent 1,000 cavalry to the new city of the Liao River and the opposite bank of the Liaodong City to destroy the pontoon bridge built by the Goguryeo army on the Liao River, and he himself led 3,000 cavalry to ambush near the official road east of Liucheng, waiting for the supply convoy from Yancheng.

Chen Jing has been waiting for three days, there is still no movement, most of the dry food he carried was given to the two thousand brothers who went to Liaohe in the east, and he did not leave much dry food, if there is no movement today and tomorrow, he will have to return to the camp to replenish food, which makes Chen Jing very distressed, he doesn't know where he has a problem, in fact, he also suspects that Goguryeo's supply food convoy has taken other roads.

At this moment, a soldier ran to report: "General Qiyu, a team of scouts has discovered the grain cart of the Goguryeo army!" ”

Chen Jing was overjoyed and stood up, "Where are the people?" He asked urgently.

After a while, a scout was brought up, knelt down on one knee and reported: "Scout Wang Dazhi see the general!" ”

"Let me ask you, where is the grain convoy you found?"

"General Qiyu, found on an abandoned official road, about thirty miles from here, just south."

Chen Jing stood up and looked south, his eyes showed a sudden look, and sure enough, he guessed that the Goguryeo grain convoy was on another road, and it was actually an abandoned official road that he didn't know, and he asked again: "How many grain trucks are there?" ”

"The queue is very long, about more than a thousand, and there are soldiers to escort them, all of them are infantry, we estimate that there are about two or three thousand people, and our fire commander is still continuing to monitor."

Chen Jing immediately made a decision and ordered: "The whole army is assembled immediately!" ”

Three thousand soldiers extinguished the fire, packed their bags, turned on their horses, and galloped south with the Lord

The Goguryeo commander who was escorting the grain and grass supplies was a young prince named Yang Wanchun, and his men had discovered that the enemy army was secretly following him, which made him very worried.

Before he set out, Yizhi Wende told him that the Sui cavalry was likely to have entered Liaodong and was hiding somewhere to ambush their grain team, and repeatedly instructed him not to take the official road, but to take the abandoned old road to Liucheng, once the powerful Sui army attacked, if the army could not reach, it could also abandon the grain cart and retreat.

Yang Wanchun walked cautiously all the way, and when he got the spies in front of him to find the traces of the Sui army scouts, he immediately became nervous, and ordered the convoy to speed up, he must rush to Liucheng before dark.

The grain cart turned a corner and entered a wider road, when the earth began to tremble, and a rolling yellow dust appeared in front of it, and the grain cart stopped, and the drivers looked ahead in bewilderment, not realizing that danger was coming.

The Goguryeo soldiers were all panicked and instinctively retreated, Yang Wanchun's face was pale, and his hand holding the spear trembled slightly with the rhythm of the earth's trembling.

"It's cavalry!"

Suddenly, the Goguryeo soldiers in front shouted in fear, and the coachmen woke up from a dream, jumped out of the ox carts, and stumbled into the woods on both sides.

Yang Wanchun quickly judged that the number of cavalry of the Sui army was at least more than 3,000 cavalry, and their 2,000 grain guards were definitely no match for the cavalry, so he immediately ordered: "Retreat!" ”

Two thousand soldiers threw down the grain cart and fled eastward, only to see that the Sui cavalry roared and killed, and dozens of Goguryeo soldiers could not escape, but were stabbed by the cavalry's war lances and fell to the ground and died.

Yang Wanchun turned around and saw that the cavalry was in hot pursuit, less than two hundred steps away from them, and he shouted in a hurry: "Retreat into the woods!" ”

Two thousand soldiers fled to the woods, the Sui army stopped the pursuit, withdrew the grain cart, Chen Jing looked at more than a thousand grain carts, at least ten thousand stone of grain, he was overjoyed, the problem of food shortage was finally solved.

(To be continued.) )