Luo Shixin did not live up to Zhang Xuan's expectations, and built a pontoon bridge in just four days, the pontoon bridge is based on a raft, and more than 200 large rafts are firmly fitted together with iron chains, and a wooden stake is laid every other zhang in the water to support the raft from the strong water current, the raft is nailed with a three-inch high wooden strip, and then a five-foot-wide wooden board is firmly nailed to the wooden strip, and a flat pontoon bridge is built.

At this time, Zhang Xuan's army had reached 40,000 men, including thousands of soldiers and 10,000 troops who had just arrived from the north of the city, led by Xu Shiji, who brought information about the Goguryeo army in the south.

Tens of thousands of Goguryeo reinforcements have arrived on the south bank of the Yalu River, but the Yalu River has been blocked by more than 800 large and small warships of the Sui army, and the Goguryeo reinforcements cannot cross the river to the north.

This news was also what Zhang Xuan was looking forward to, he no longer hesitated, leaving 2,000 Sui troops to defend the new city, so he personally led 40,000 troops across the Liaoshui and went to Yancheng in the southwest to kill.

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A grain convoy composed of hundreds of ox carts drove slowly on the grassland on the west side of Yiwulu Mountain, and there were large herds of cattle and sheep following in front and back of the convoy, which was a logistics supply team from Songmo City to Yancheng on the east side of Zimeng River, escorted by two thousand Khitan cavalry, and the commander of the army was called Dahe Hu, who was a Khitan nobleman in his thirties.

Yuangai Suwen wrote several times to ask the Khitan to send troops to support Goguryeo, but Dahe Luluo did not want to send troops, but he took into account the relationship with Goguryeo, so he sent 2,000 cavalry from his headquarters to escort 30,000 cattle and sheep and hundreds of carts of grain to Yancheng, even if it was Khitan support for Goguryeo.

With tens of thousands of cattle and sheep following, the grain team marched very slowly, and after walking for more than 300 miles in three days, a sparkling river was faintly seen in front of it.

"Go to the river and take a break!"

Dahe cursed helplessly, if he goes on like this, when will he be able to reach his destination.

Suddenly, he faintly heard a faint sound, like the beat of the Turkic eagle's head drum, short and tight.

"General, look!"

A soldier pointed to the east, and Dahe Fox saw it, and a thin black line appeared on the grassland in the distance, as well as a white Goguryeo flag.

'It's Goguryeo!' ’

When Dahe Fox saw the white flag, he couldn't help grinning, "These lambs, they came here when they knew that I was carrying grain, so they are hungry and panicked!" ”

The cavalry is getting closer and closer, the black and heavy armor is like a huge piece of dignified ice, and the Khitan cavalry has seen a dazzling white light flickering in the air, like the Milky Way across the grassland in the night sky, it is a sea of silver light formed by the sharp blades of the lance in the sun, the sound of the horse's hooves is like thunder, and the murderous aura swept in the sky.

"It's... Sui Jun! ”

Dahe Hu finally saw clearly, it was nearly 5,000 Sui cavalry, he rushed to the front of the team, and roared, "Don't worry, prepare to fight!" ”

But his shouts did not have much effect, and the grain convoy was in chaos, and the driver of the grain cart jumped out of the ox cart and ran back desperately, and the sheep and cattle were frightened and fled in all directions.

The two thousand Khitan cavalry did not panic, they quickly formed an iron bucket-like formation, drew their swords and shouted, and rushed towards the Sui army......

"Kill!"

The two armies collided violently together, like two huge waves crashing, and in an instant human heads rolled to the ground, broken bodies and broken arms scattered and scattered, blood mist rose up, and the air was filled with a strong bloody atmosphere.

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A Khitan sword slashed into the horse's head and couldn't pull it out, and then several war lances pierced through the body and lifted him high; When a Sui soldier had his arm cut off, he screamed and fell off his horse, trampled on the horses, and in an instant his flesh and blood were blurred.....

The two wings of the Sui army were pulled out and began to surround the Khitan cavalry, at this time there was also a shouting and screaming in the distance, and another 2,000-strong Sui cavalry came from behind the Khitans, blocking the retreat, and the fleeing coachman was killed by the Sui army, crying and begging for mercy.

Seeing that more than 3,000 cavalry were killed on the other side, this was 10,000 cavalry surrounding him, he only had 2,000 men, it was difficult to resist, the situation in front of him was very critical, he shouted, "Withdraw with me!" ”

He turned his horse's head and was about to flee from the spur, but at this moment, Pei Xingyan, the chief general of the Sui army, had already seen him, he drew his bow like a full moon, only to hear the bowstring sound, and an armor-piercing arrow shot out like lightning, and an arrow pierced the back of Dahe Fox's neck.

The big fox grabbed the shaft of the arrow that pierced his throat, and his throat 'boom! Yikes! Twice, he glanced back at Pei Xingyan, and fell down suddenly, and a Sui army general galloped over, picked up his body with a long lance, and roared loudly, "Chief Hu is dead!" Brothers, you have done meritorious service in killing the enemy! ”

The morale of the Sui army was greatly boosted, and they hugged it in a big way, and the battle lance was cold, and the horizontal knife flew over, and in a moment they killed all the hundreds of Khitan cavalry who were surrounded, and the rest of the Khitan cavalry scattered and fled, Pei Xingyan shouted: "No need to pursue, let them go!" ”

The partial general pulled out a horizontal knife, chopped off the head of the big fox with a knife, and galloped back, he turned over and dismounted, knelt in front of Pei Xingyan and offered his head, "This is the general who shot and killed, and the last general will not dare to rob the merit!" ”

Pei Xingyan stretched out his hand to take the head, looked at the eyes of the enemy's daunting eyes, he smiled proudly, poked his head at the tip of the knife and raised it high, and the Sui army suddenly cheered......

Half an hour later, the cavalry of the Sui army gathered tens of thousands of cattle and sheep, drove the grain cart to the south, just walked a few miles, several cavalry scouts rushed from the east, rushed to Pei Xingyan and said urgently: "General Pei, the marshal is here!" ”

Pei Xingyan was stunned, then reacted, and asked with great joy: "Where is the big handsome?" ”

"Fifteen miles to the east!"

Pei Xingyan turned around and ordered: "The first battalion drives cattle and sheep, and the rest of the brothers follow me!" ”

He led thousands of cavalry to the east.

On the grassland more than ten miles away in the east, an army of tens of thousands of people is marching westward, the front of the team is waving flags, and a green dragon red flag inlaid with gold is particularly eye-catching, this is the king flag of the Sui army, and the existence of this king flag means that Zhang Xuan, the king of Qi, is also in the army.

Zhang Xuan is indeed in the army, and this is the way he led an army of 40,000 from Xincheng to Yancheng.

Zhang Xuan rode on the war horse, all the way to look at the endless pastures on both sides, in the distance is the green and towering Yiwulu Mountain, Zhang Xuan pointed to the grasslands on both sides and smiled at Du Ruhan and said: "I have always regretted that we have no grassland pasture, and now I have found out that we have already had pastures, but we have not found it for so many years, I knew earlier, why did I bother to plant grass in Beihai County?" ”

Du Ruhui smiled slightly: "Beihai County is doing animal husbandry, but His Royal Highness wants military horses, Beihai County has become the world's first cattle production area, but His Royal Highness is annoyed that there are too many grass in Beihai County, it seems to be a bit of a contradiction!" ”

Zhang Xuan laughed, "It's really a contradiction to think that there are too few war horses in wartime, and not enough ploughing cattle in peacetime, okay!" I won't mention Beihai County, we have Liaodong, and then we will also have a place to raise war horses. ”

At this time, a personal guard cavalryman rushed in the distance, and shouted from afar: "Marshal, General Pei asks to see!" ”

Zhang Xuan also saw a group of Sui cavalry coming in the distance, and the person at the head was Pei Xingyan, he smiled and nodded, "Let him come over!" ”

The army stopped moving forward, and after a while, Pei Xingyan galloped with several generals, Pei Xingyan turned over and dismounted, stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and saluted, "See the marshal!" ”

Several generals also knelt down and saluted, Zhang Xuan dismounted and helped Pei Xingyan up, and said with a smile: "Yuanqing has worked hard in Liaodong, generals, please get up!" ”

Pei Xingyan scratched his head and asked puzzledly, "Why did the big marshal come from the east?" ”

Jang Hyun smiled, "Where do you think I should come from?" ”

"I thought Dashuai would come from the sea, or from Beiping County."

Next to him, Du Ruhui added with a smile: "General Pei may not know!" We have taken all the important castles north of Aprok and held back the supporting Goguryeo army south of Aproksu. ”

Pei Xingyan was overjoyed, "Isn't that the Goguryeo army in Liaodong without foreign aid?" ”

Jang Xuan nodded, "That's right, I want to know how the Goguryeo army is doing now." ”

"Marshal Qiyu, there are about 40,000 Goguryeo troops besieged by us in Yancheng, we are not attacking the city, the two sides are just confronting, and the other party has no signs of breaking through, it seems that the food is relatively sufficient, it is estimated that they are waiting for reinforcements."

Of course, Zhang Xuan knew why Yancheng's food was sufficient, otherwise the defenders of Liaodong City would not have run out of food to break through, and he also knew that Yancheng was tall and strong, no less than Liucheng, and it was not easy to capture Yancheng, but as long as the Goguryeo army was trapped, sooner or later there would be a day of collapse, so there was no need to worry.

At this time, Zhang Xuan saw a lot of cattle and sheep coming in the distance, so he pointed at the horsewhip and asked with a smile: "Where did you get the cattle and sheep?" ”

Pei Xingyan hurriedly recounted in detail the fact that the Khitan tried to aid Goguryeo and was defeated by his own army, and finally said with a smile: "They drove more than 30,000 cattle and sheep and thousands of stones of grain, all of which were seized by us and became our trophies, which were just used by the commander to reward the army." ”

Zhang Xuan felt strange in his heart, glanced at Du Ruhui, Du Ruhui understood what Zhang Xuan meant, and said with a smile: "This Khitan is also making peace with the mud!" Goguryeo has been besieged, and he also sent people to send cattle and sheep, obviously not wanting to send troops but not saving face, pretending to deal with it, these more than 30,000 cattle and sheep can also be understood as a low profile of the Khitan, compensation for the battle of Liucheng. ”

Zhang Xuan sneered, "Do more than 30,000 cattle and sheep want to send me away?" This is called Hanako! ”

He then asked Pei Xingyan again, "What is Xiren's attitude?" ”

"Returning to the marshal, the Xi people have helped us a lot, and have successively given us more than 500,000 sheep for cavalry as military rations, they are a very weak nation, and they have been oppressed by the Khitan and Turks." Pei Xingyan was very grateful to Xi Ren for helping him and deliberately saying good things for them.

Zhang Xuan nodded, "You send someone to tell Su Zhi that I am in Yancheng, if he has the sincerity to repent, let him come to Yancheng to see me!" ”

(To be continued.) )