Chapter 143: Crossing the River (2)
At this time, those who remained on the south bank and could not cross the river were the remnants of the Zuotun Guard, most of the left Wuwei, and the right Xiaowei of about 40,000 people, Xin Shixiong died in battle, Wang Rengong ran away by himself, and lost the Sui army and horses commanded by the general. The soldiers scrambled to cross the river, but the Koreans pounced on them from behind, tearing and falling down layer by layer like wolves.
The well-trained soldiers of the Great Sui Mansion, even if they are good at fighting, hunger has made them lose the strength to fight, and they have no fighting spirit to keep moving forward. Occasionally, a junior officer with a small group of men launched a counterattack against the Goryeo, but soon sank like a stone in the torrent of the Goguryeo. The mid-level and junior generals kept trying to organize the soldiers to line up for defense, but the Sui soldiers, who had lost their fighting spirit and courage, only cared about squeezing desperately into the river, ignoring their roars.
The rough and rudimentary Goguryeo people of the brigade rushed up like wolves, biting the rear of the Sui army fiercely. With every bite, a large piece of flesh can be torn off.
The warriors of the small tribes of Goguryeo did not dare to fight the Great Sui Expeditionary Force in peacetime. But at this time, knowing that the Sui army's strength had been exhausted, they were all tempted by the sophisticated equipment of the Sui soldiers. The crude knives, spears, and even wooden sticks in his hands kept swinging out, and each blow could stir up a wave of blood.
The organized Sui army formed a small phalanx under the command of a low-ranking general and fought and retreated, but because a large number of soldiers were silted up in the river, the back road could not be crossed at all. In the face of the Goguryeo wolf-pack tactics, they had little room to resist. Xin Shixiong, the general of Zuotunwei, was killed by the cold arrows of the Goguryeo people when he angrily tried to stop the soldiers from fleeing because the soldiers lost the battle and were constantly defeated. Perhaps, this general, who once wanted to show his strength with Zuo Tunwei, had infinite sadness in his heart before he died.
If, if it weren't for Wang Rengong's deliberate delay in time, when Zuo Tunwei was struggling to resist the onslaught of the Goguryeo people at the beginning, Zuo Wuwei responded from the flank, the scene at this time would not have been so chaotic to such an unbearable state. But Wang Rengong wanted to preserve the strength of his left guard, but he didn't expect that he would lose control when the soldiers were defeated. When he pretended to bring Zuo Wuwei to support, Zuo Tunwei had been squeezed by the Goguryeo people on a narrow section on the south side of the river, and seeing that it was no longer possible to deploy troops, Wang Rengong immediately ordered Zuo Wuwei to withdraw, but he didn't expect this withdrawal, Zuo Wuwei was immediately chaotic. The Goguryeo people took the opportunity to pounce from behind, and Wang Rengong was hit by an arrow in the shoulder, and escaped from Sasui in embarrassment under the escort of hundreds of his own soldiers.
And the right Xiaowei who was supposed to cross the river, half of the men and horses had already crossed the river, but the other half was shocked by the chaos of the left Wuwei, and the right Xiaowei who was left behind was also chaotic.
Eulzhi Wende was carried up a high slope by several personal soldiers, and a handsome flag symbolizing his status was erected behind him. Watching the soldiers of the Great Sui Mansion on the south side of the river being cut to the ground one after another, Yizhi Wende laughed happily. The day he had finally waited for, and the Sui people had paid the price for their own arrogance and hypocrisy. Although because of this war, he lost his most admired brother Eulji Wenli, and also lost a leg, and now the wounds on his body are still oozing blood, but at this moment, he is extremely happy.
Those small tribal warriors who didn't dare to provoke the Great Sui Expeditionary Force at all, as well as the Ya savages and Khitan warriors hired by Yizhi Wende with a lot of money, squeezed forward like crazy one by one. In their eyes, the Great Sui soldiers were full of treasures. The standard leather armor, horizontal swords, shields, crossbows, bows and arrows of the Sui soldiers, these are the targets of their robbery, of course, what they have to do before snatching all this is to kill the Sui people.
The Goguryeo people were like waves slapping against the fragile of the Great Sui Expeditionary Force. With the impact again and again, the levee has crumbled.
It is hard to believe the scene at this time, and no one would have thought that the soldiers of the Great Sui who had won a hundred battles would die so quickly in a battle with the Goguryeo people who were completely inferior to them in battle.
In fact, from the moment the soldiers of the Great Sui Expeditionary Force secretly buried the grain in the soil, they should have had the consciousness of today's fiasco. A group of soldiers who barely had the strength to lift their swords, no matter how weak their enemy was, there was no way for them to win the battle again. This is the bitter fruit planted by the soldiers and the generals of the Great Sui themselves, so in the end, it is up to them to taste this tragic taste.
The outermost Sui soldiers were bitten down layer by layer by the crazy Goguryeo, and their corpses covered the land on the southern shore of Sashui. A stream of blood flowed into the water, staining the entire surface of the water red.
A Sui brigade led a sword to stab the Goguryeo who rushed at him, and then slashed the neck of an enemy. Although his martial arts are superb, his lack of physical strength has made his sword more than half slower than before. Even so, he had already killed five Goguryeo people by himself. Wiping a handful of blood that fascinated his eyes, he saw the Zuotun Guard battle flag that had fallen not far away.
When he turned around, he saw that there were less than ten soldiers behind him.
The brigade commander wiped the blood and smiled bitterly, then turned to his soldiers and said, "Hurry up, cross the river as soon as possible, remember, run as fast as you can, it's best to follow those generals, otherwise no one can run." Only the general's own soldiers can eat enough, only their horses have fodder to eat, and only by keeping up with them can you live. ”
A Sui soldier took his arm and said, "Brigade rate, let's go together!" ”
The Great Sui Brigade Commander shook his head with a wry smile, pointed to the battle flag of Zuotunwei that fell to the ground in the distance and was being trampled by the Goguryeo people wantonly and said, "Let's go, I'm going to set up the flag of our Zuotunwei." Life is the person of the Great Sui, and death is the ghost of the Great Sui. When I crossed the Liaoshui, I didn't plan to go back alive. ”
He glanced at the soldier and pushed him away: "And, what do you say if you let me go back?" All the people of Zuotun Wei died in battle, and I escaped alive? ”
He smiled sadly, pointed to the flag and said, "Death is death, Lao Tzu go and put up the flag, let the flag stand for a while longer." Killing one is enough, killing two, and Lao Tzu earns one. ”
After speaking, he strode towards the place where the battle flag of Zuotun was guarded.
Several of the soldiers behind him glanced at each other, and then at the same time burst out with a shout: "Zuo Tunwei! ”
The brigade's body shook violently, and tears continued to slide down his cheeks. With a hoarse voice, he raised the horizontal knife in his hand and pointed forward: "Forward!" ”
Less than ten people, led by the brigade leader, launched an attack on the Goguryeo people who were pressed by the black press. The enemy continued to fall in front of them, and their numbers were decreasing one by one. Dense jungle-like spears stabbed from all directions, endlessly.
When the Great Sui Brigade rushed over and picked up Zuo Tunwei's battle flag from the ground, and then raised it with difficulty. There was no Sui soldier around him, and in just a dozen meters of road, someone fell at almost every step. He suffered at least seven or eight wounds on his body, the most serious of which was when he was pierced through the chest by a spear, and after slashing his enemy to death with a swing of his sword, he cut off the spear with one sword, and rushed to the place where the battle flag was with half a spear. When he stood up holding the flag, his whole body had turned red, just like the battle flag of the Great Sui, which was so red that people didn't dare to look at it.
The flag was erected and waved in the wind.
The people under the flag, who have died, are like mountain stone sculptures, holding the flag.
Countless Goguryeo people surrounded them, and they carefully moved their steps forward, and at this moment, I don't know why, no one dared to rush directly to cut down the man again, and overturn the flag again. The leader of a small Goguryeo tribe squeezed up from behind, separated the other Goguryeo soldiers and stood at the front, watching the Great Sui Brigade scolding and muttering a few words, and suddenly his voice became louder and roared: "A bunch of waste! Are you afraid of even a dead man?! ”
He weighed his ring-headed broadsword and strode over in the sight of the other Goguryeos. Raising the ring-headed broadsword high, he planned to cut off the Sui and the flag with one sword.
The knife was raised, but it could not be cut.
I don't know if it's because of nervousness or fear, the leader of this small Goguryeo tribe actually saw the Sui man in front of him who was obviously dead in a trance, and suddenly opened his eyes again! Moreover, he even opened his mouth and smiled at himself, Bai Sensen's teeth were still hanging one by one.
The leader of the small tribe screamed in fright, and one of them stumbled and almost fell. He was so frightened that he squatted down and held his head, but after waiting for a while, he didn't see any movement from the Sui man. Tremblingly, he raised his head to see that the man had made any movements, and he had already died.
He smiled self-deprecatingly, and said to himself, how could he be wrong?
As soon as he stood up, he was about to slash the head of the Sui man to save the face he had just lost, but suddenly he felt that he was hit on the back of his neck, followed by a cold in his throat. He subconsciously looked down, only to see an armor-piercing cone suddenly appear on his throat, sticking out quite a long section.
In the next second, his mind turned white, and then he lost consciousness.
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"Give me 10,000! I'm bringing back all the brothers on the South Shore! ”
Li Xian stopped Yu Wenshu and shouted loudly.
"Bold!"
Several of Yu Wenshu's personal soldiers stopped in front of Li Xian, and a Lang general reprimanded loudly: "Who are you?" How dare you stop in front of the marshal's horse? ”
"Great Sui Zuotun Wei don't want Yanyun!"
Li Xian said loudly.
Yu Wenshu's face was very pale, and the white was a little scary. At this moment, even though he was still wearing the mighty armor of a great general, he felt so old and haggard. The white hair on his temples hung down from the gap in his helmet, fluttering desolate in the wind.
"Yan Yun?"
Yu Wenshu seemed to have aged twenty years all of a sudden, and the wrinkles on his face seemed even deeper.
"I remember you, why aren't you leaving?"
Yu Wenshu asked almost subconsciously.
"Give me 10,000 soldiers and horses, and I will bring back the brothers on the south bank!"
Li Xian said again.
"What did you say?"
Yu Wenshu didn't seem to hear clearly, but soon he shook his head self-deprecatingly: "Go, you can greet as many people as you want, and you can greet as many people as you can." ”
After speaking, Yu Wenshu seemed too lazy to speak anymore, and turned his horse and walked forward.
Li Xian looked at Yu Wenshu's back, and suddenly found that the person who stood at the peak of the Great Sui Army was just an ordinary old man.
"Who wants to kill me and bring my brothers back?!"
Li Xian's gaze left Yu Wenshu's back, and the prancing horse reached the high slope and shouted loudly.
No one responded, and the soldiers stumbled forward. Someone looked up at him, his eyes empty and devoid of expression. Someone hesitated for a moment, but finally shook his head and continued to run forward, someone looked at Li Xian and sneered, the meaning of that look seemed to think that Li Xian was an idiot.
"Who wants to kill me and bring back the brothers on the South Shore!"
Li Xian shouted again.
"Me!"
A general in silver armor rode to Li Xian's side and shouted loudly: "Zuo Wei Ying Yang Lang will be Xue Wanche, I am willing to accompany you to kill back!" ”
"Zuo Wuwei, don't be Dugu Zhen, I am willing to go!"
"The Right Guard Infantry Brigade leads the vast sea, and is willing to kill the enemy together with the general!"
As soon as Li Xianmeng turned around, he saw an extremely majestic man. This person is two meters tall, wearing a large leather armor, holding a heavy Mo knife in his hand, standing there, the whole person is as majestic as a mountain.
"Someone, give him a horse!"
Li Xian ordered loudly.
Xiong Kuohai shook his head and said loudly: "I'm good at foot combat, it's useless to ask for horses!" Don't worry, general, you just have to rush to kill and see if you can fall to someone! ”
The voice of the big man is like a tiger and a leopard, and his courage is like a gale!