Chapter 148: The Way Home (2)
(Thank you Wangcai for his cousin's support, so let's do it, and the third is also three more.) )
When Li Xian led the cavalry around in a big circle and returned to the bank of the Sashui River again, Xiong Kuohai had already killed the north bank with a thousand elite foot soldiers. The three fluttering Great Sui battle flags behind Li Xian appeared in their sight, and the soldiers of the Great Sui Mansion who fell into the anger and despair betrayed by Yuwenshu saw hope again.
"It's General Yan Yun!"
"General Yan Yun is here to save us!"
"General Yan Yun is back! Kill everyone! ”
shouted one after another, seeing Li Xian, these soldiers of the Great Sui Mansion were like people who fell into the water and saw a flat boat paddling from the water, which was the hope of life.
Li Xian rode his horse from the rear to the front, waving to the soldiers all the way.
The whining horn sounded, it was the order to attack!
Li Xian didn't stop, and went all the way to the front of the team to find Xue Wanche.
"Yan Yun!"
Xue Wanche was taken aback when he saw Li Xian, who was soaked in blood all over his body: "Are you injured?" ”
Li Xian waved his hand and said a little tiredly: "No, it's all the blood of Goguryeo barbarians." ”
Xue Wanche breathed a sigh of relief, pointed to the front and said, "Where did you pick up such a treasure, the brigade surnamed Xiong has already led people to kill on the riverbank!" ”
Li Xian looked left and right, and saw that there were discarded war drums not far away, so he ordered: "Come on, lift those war drums, beat the drums, and cheer for the majestic sea!" ”
Immediately, dozens of soldiers ran over to put the war drums back up, and several people carried them and beat them as they went. The sound of war drums rang out one after another in the boiling sound of the crowd, like a war thunder tearing the sky. Li Xian jumped off the big black horse and took the drum hammer from one of the soldiers. Luo Fu had an idea, found a large wooden board for twenty personal soldiers to carry, and Li Xian stood on the wooden board and beat the war drums.
Twenty soldiers carried the big wooden board and carried Li Xian forward slowly, and Li Xian beat two drumsticks one by one.
The scene immediately boiled again!
Xiong Kuohai slashed the Goguryeo people in front of him to death with a single sword, and when he turned around, he saw that the black-armored general standing high above the head of the crowd had already gone down the river. The war drums made everyone's blood boil. Thousands of archers walked in front of Li Xian, firing their bows and arrows as they went. And the team of more than 20,000 people completely restored the quality of the soldiers of the Great Sui Mansion at this moment, and also regained the unique pride of the soldiers of the Great Sui Mansion!
More than 20,000 people formed two huge infantry phalanxes, and followed Li Xian into the river in a queue, while the cavalry separated on both sides, like an escort fleet on the left and right of the phalanx. With a perfect formation and high morale, they are still the soldiers of the Great Sui Mansion who have won a hundred battles!
Xiong Kuohai only felt a stream of hot blood flowing through his heart, and his arms, which had been sore, became strong again. He laughed out loud, knowing that he could really fight his way out of the encirclement this time. That young but respectable General Yan Yun, he is back, he is back with the pride of the soldiers of the Great Sui Mansion!
"General Yan Yun is back!"
Xiong Kuohai roared loudly: "Just now General Yan led the cavalry to lead away the Goguryeo pursuers for us, I don't know how many Goguryeo barbarians the cavalry killed, I only know that they didn't lose the face of the soldiers!" You say, can we make the cavalry look down on us? Can you make General Yan look down on us! ”
"Can't!"
"Kill all the Goguryeo barbarians in front of you! Let General Yan see, our foot soldiers are also unstoppable! ”
Xiong Kuhai kicked the rushing Goguryeo soldier to the ground, and then plunged down with a knife, directly poking a huge hole in the man's chest. The ribs were broken, the heart was sliced open, and the man was deprived of his life before he could even scream. Blood spurted from his chest and splattered all over the face of the mighty sea. The strong man, who was more than two meters tall, pulled out a Mo knife that he didn't know how many enemies he had killed, and pointed forward.
"Kill!"
A roar like a fierce tiger roared directly and directly frightened the Goguryeo in front of them into retreating again and again!
Xue Wanche looked at the scene in front of him, and his heart was unsettled.
It's not for the sake of the Great Sui!
He shouted in his heart, for the first time, the soldiers were not fighting for the Great Sui. It's not even for that black-armored young man, it's just to live.
To live!
Xue Wanche jumped down from the war horse with a long lance and rushed forward: "Kill!" Kill all the Goguryeo barbarians who stopped in front, let's go home! ”
"Go home!"
The team of more than 20,000 people let out a cry that shook the heavens and the earth, and at this moment, no one could shake their will!
Li Xian has not stopped, although his arms have been sore, but still struggling to beat the war drums, he knows that he can't stop, he has to lead the men and horses to kill Sashui in one go, as long as the river is crossed, there are nearly 5,000 cavalry to open the way, the Goguryeo people will definitely not stop them! If it weren't for the retreat of those high-ranking generals who only cared about fleeing for their lives, if Zuo Wuwei had been able to support Xin Shixiong at the beginning, the soldiers of the Great Sui Mansion would not have suffered such a fiasco! A team of more than 25,000 people, including nearly 5,000 cavalry, as long as the battle formation is maintained, the Goguryeo people will not be able to stop it at all!
It's a pity that from the beginning of the retreat, Yuwen Shu and the generals who led the troops already thought that they had lost, and they didn't even think about fighting. From the moment they crossed the river, they had already figured out their way out. With more than 3,000 of the most elite soldiers to protect them, and almost all of Goguryeo's men and horses were assembled in Sashui, there was no problem for them to flee all the way back to Liaodong City, and the more than 200,000 soldiers of the Great Sui Mansion who had run out of food were abandoned sons they left in order to ensure their survival. At this moment, in the eyes of those great generals, more than 200,000 lives were worthless.
The people and horses of the whole Goguryeo were mobilized by Eulji Wende to besiege the Great Sui Expeditionary Force, and more than 200,000 people were the big target. A detachment of about 3,000 people would not have attracted the attention of the Goguryeo people at all!
This is the tactic of Yu Wenshu and others, to put it mildly, it is called abandoning the car and protecting the handsome.
When Yu Wenshu gave the order to retreat overnight, the lights in his marshal's tent were kept on that night. Except for Xin Shixiong, the general of Zuotunwei, the other eight generals were all in his big tent. At that moment, the fate of the more than 200,000 soldiers of the Great Sui had actually been decided.
Perhaps this is the real history, this is the real history of the 300,000 soldiers of the Great Sui Dynasty being slaughtered by the Goguryeos, and the corpses were intermittently posed by the Goguryeo people from Sashui to Mazishui. The Great Wall built by the corpses was actually the ridicule of the Goguryeo people at the Great Sui.
Li Xian didn't think of so much at this time, and he forgot that he had wanted to explore why the Great Sui Expeditionary Force was wiped out. He had even forgotten what he had brought these people back for, and had forgotten the goals he had set from the beginning. At this moment, all he was thinking about was trying his best to kill as many people as he could. Killed Sashui, killed Ma Zishui, and then killed Liaoshui.
The west bank of Liaoshui is their home.
When the twenty personal soldiers carried Li Xian, who was beating the war drums, to the north bank of Sashui, Xiong Kuohai and Xue Wanche had already led the men and horses out a few hundred meters away. Under the leadership of Luo Fu, Dugu Zhen and Iron Fangwolf, thousands of Great Sui cavalry took over the infantry in front and began to attack, and the Goguryeo people, who had been immersed in the joy of victory, were like being hit head-on, and the excitement of killing became cooled down because more and more of their comrades were killed. They suddenly found that the Sui people who had changed from wolves to sheep had suddenly changed from sheep back to wolves, no, into tens of thousands of unstoppable tigers.
Li Xian stood at the height above the head of the crowd, looked at the cavalry who had already pounced, and ordered in a deep voice: "Blow the horn, order the cavalry to divide into three teams to attack, and kill a wide enough road!" ”
"Order, spearman broken."
"Eastern Fire!"
"The subordinates are here!"
"You take five hundred cavalry to respond on the left side of the large array and protect the left flank!"
"Subordinates obey!"
"Fuhu Nu!"
"The subordinates are here!"
"You take five hundred cavalry to respond on the right side of the large array and protect the right flank!"
"Subordinates obey!"
"Order the army to speed up and shake off the pursuers behind!"
One by one, the orders were issued, and the soldiers of the Great Sui Mansion who crossed the river became more and more orderly. After passing Sashui, the besieged Sui soldiers were rescued by the advancing men and horses and joined the army. After crossing the river, more than 200,000 troops began to run wildly, and were eaten by the Koreans one by one, and the scene on the entire north bank looked much more chaotic than that on the south bank. However, the battlefield on the north bank was too big, and the Sui soldiers ran all the way to the Goguryeo people chasing all the way, so although the Goguryeo people on the north bank were no less in number than those on the south bank, they were no longer able to organize a large-scale team to intercept them.
The cavalry of more than 3,000 men formed three attack formations to open the way in front, and at the rear were the light-armored spearmen who moved second only to the cavalry. The whole team looked like a trident, sharp and unmatched.
After Yizhi Wende woke up from a fainting, Li Xian's team had all crossed the river. Seeing that his uncommon enemy finally broke out of the encirclement, Yizhi Wende spit out a mouthful of blood again.
"Chase!"
"Catch up with me! Kill all those Sui people, don't leave any of them! ”
On the south bank, there were still more than 10,000 Sui troops divided into small groups one by one, and they could not be killed at all in the siege. At this time, their anger was also forced out by the rampant anger of the enemy. Knowing that they had no way out, those Great Sui soldiers began to go crazy. Their eyes can no longer see home, their eyes are full of enemies, so they kill, kill, kill! Even if you die, you have to die with dignity!
In this battle, on the banks of the Sashui River, more than 100,000 soldiers of the Great Sui Mansion were killed. And there were too many corpses of Sui soldiers who had been pierced through the stomach, and the intestines that flowed out of the stomach were deflated.
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The situation on the north bank was too chaotic, with the soldiers of the Great Sui Expeditionary Force fleeing in front, the red-eyed Goguryeo people chasing behind, and behind them there were Sui soldiers fleeing northward, and then there were Goguryeo people who were chasing after them like crazy. On the long route, the Goguryeo and Sui soldiers were already mixed.
Li Xian ordered the cavalry to keep the formation forward, and all the small groups of Goguryeo people along the way were wiped out. Then the Sui soldiers began to collect supplies along the road, whether it was on the corpses of the Goguryeo people or the corpses of their comrades, but they picked up everything that could be eaten. Li Xian strictly ordered that all the materials picked up along the road should not be left privately, and all of them must be handed over to the baggage battalion for safekeeping.
The person in charge of the baggage camp is Wang Qinian.
Li Xian specially allocated 1,000 elite soldiers to Wang Qinian, and these 1,000 people were all soldiers and horses of the Zuotun Guard Folding Battalion led by Li Xian before. They were responsible for the constant collection of food that soldiers picked up along the road or stolen from the enemy, and every twenty men formed a collection team that constantly patrolled the procession, and if anyone hid the food without permission, they would be punished by military law. This military law is a military law formulated by Li Xian.
Although according to the official position, Xue Wanche, the Eagle Yang Lang General of the Fourth Grade, should be the supreme commander of the team. But obviously, whether it was him or Dugu Zhen, who had a deeper background than him, silently recognized Li Xian's status as the supreme commander of this army.
Xue Wanche respects Li Xian's personality, and Dugu Zhen has analyzed it very calmly, he is not sure to grab the command now, those soldiers have regarded Li Xian as a savior and a leader at this time, and he doesn't want to touch his head.
When the Goguryeo people in the back were completely thrown away, it was already the morning of the next day. At this time, Li Xian gave the most exciting order.
"Open the meal!"