Chapter 136: Hunting Liao Envoy
On August 11, the ninth year of the Great Cause, in the vast mountainous area between Daliangshui and Xiaoliaoshui in Liaodong, a messenger from Goguryeo rushed out of the golden light from the rising golden sun, hurriedly rode a war horse out of the golden light, desperately sandwiched the war horse, and galloped all the way along the mountain road!
The Goguryeo knights and war horses were all sweating all over their bodies at this time, as if they had just been fished out of the water. Although the knight ran desperately all the way, but at this time it was already at the end of the road, and there were two white feather arrows stuck obliquely on his back, and even the horse of the war horse tún was also stuck with an arrow, and even the people and horses had already shed a lot of blood at this time. If it continues like this, it won't be long before even men and horses will die of blood before they can exhaust themselves.
"Hold on for a while, hold on for a while, and you'll be in front of the mountain town." The prince's urgent secret letter must be sent to General Yuan Taidi! The knight was galloping on his horse, and his mouth was still muttering softly.
This knight was an urgent messenger sent by Gao Jianwu, the king of Goguryeo Rongliu, and on the same day the city of Liaodong was broken, Goguryeo took more than 1,000 people under the cover of his general Gao Ming, and fled eastward in panic. Unexpectedly, in the east of the city, the Sui people had already laid thousands of men and horses in ambush, and under the engagement, more than 1,000 people suffered heavy casualties.
Fortunately, after leaving the city, some of his henchmen made a plan to let him change his armor and clothes with a soldier of similar stature. Ambushed, he rode his horse while the Sui army besieged the soldier who was pretending to be him, and under the protection of a group of loyal guards. In the end, when they arrived at the Daliang River, there were only twenty or thirty surviving people around them, and seeing that the Sui army was arriving again, they had no choice but to jump into the Daliang water.
After all the hardships, Gao Jianwu, the king of Rongliu, finally escaped the pursuit of the Sui army. After the dawn, when he finally arrived at the mountain city of the Goguryeo people south of Daliangshui, Gao Jianwu sighed and finally picked up his life, and also remembered the current situation in Liaodong. After pondering for a while, he immediately sent dozens of letters, and asked the lord of Nashan City to urgently send dozens of cavalry with his letters to the mountain cities near Liaodong City, informing them that Liaodong City had been lost, and asking them to step up their precautions against the Sui people.
After writing the letter, Gao Jianwu didn't care how long he stayed, and ran all the way south with more than 100 cavalry temporarily requisitioned from the mountain city, along the way, as long as he walked through the mountain city with soldiers and horses, he must write dozens of letters, so that the local mountain city sent cavalry to Liaodong City to send a letter.
When Gao Jianwu rushed back to the Goguryeo city on the banks of the Yalu River a few days later, he finally stopped running away. The first thing he did when he arrived at the domestic city, he still recruited a team of 100 knights, and took his handwritten letter to the cities of Liaodong, this time not only to the generals of the mountain city near Liaodong City, but also to the Fuyu City, the largest city in the upper reaches of the Liaohe River, and the Beisha City in the lowest reaches.
In order to prevent the Sui army's rogue cavalry from intercepting it, he had to send more men and horses, hoping to rush over.
The mountain road between the mountains and forests was rugged, and from time to time the branches that stretched out to the road by the side of the road cut through the knight's face, leaving several bloody marks.
Gao Jianwu expected it right, and for the move he sent the letter, the Sui army had already prepared. On the day of the destruction of the city of Liaodong, Luo Lin had already been ordered to send hundreds of elite cavalry from the independent light cavalry regiment under the headquarters to patrol the area of Daliangshui and Xiaoliaoshui to strictly prevent Liao people from going north.
The several batches of messengers sent by Gao Jianwu before, numbering as many as dozens of people, were all ambushed by the Sui army and wiped out just after the Daliang water. This time the knight was able to rush through the sorghum water and into the mountains. It is entirely because this messenger is completely the Liao elite cavalry of the domestic city, and this time it is directly dispatched 100 people, although they were ambushed by the Sui army as soon as they crossed the Daliang River, but in the melee, there were still several Liao messengers who risked their lives to break through.
The Sui army rangers in black armor were like wild wolves in the mountains and forests, allowing them to hide their whereabouts and escape as if they were trying all kinds of methods, but they could not escape the tracking of the Sui cavalry.
On the east bank of the 1 Bu Liaoshui in front of the Liao cavalry, groups of black-armored cavalry were arrayed, and the number was enough to thousands. At present, a big banner is waving in the wind, but it is embroidered with the independent reconnaissance regiment of the Liaodong Army. This is a group of veterans of the broken military camp, who have reached one-third, and selected more than 1,000 people from the Sui people in the entire Liaodong.
The regiment commander was appointed by Chen Kefu, Daniel Zhang, who was exceptional, and his three younger brothers served as three of the four battalion commanders, which can be said to be an unprecedented honor, not only was he promoted from the original team to the colonel regiment commander, but also the three brothers were also promoted to lieutenant colonel battalion commanders, which made the four brothers even more indescribable for Chen Kefu's knowledge and encouragement. Several brothers from Orion in the mountains of Shandong swore to the sky that they would be loyal to the general Chen Kefu for the rest of their lives in order to repay this kindness. ,
Just now, Daniel Zhang received a message from the fast horse of the Independent Light Cavalry Regiment, saying that more than 100 Liao elite horsemen had taken advantage of the night to break through the sorghum water and come north. Although the brethren of the independent light cavalry regiment besieged and killed most of them, because most of the men and horses of the light cavalry regiment had been transferred back to Liaodong City before, they did not have many men and horses, and they did not completely kill the Liao people who crossed the river.
Wearing a light leather armor in black sè, Daniel Zhang, the head of the independent reconnaissance group, immediately looked at the two thousand people who belonged to him, and his heart was surging.
"Brothers, just now the men and horses of the Light Cavalry Independent Regiment sent a bulletin, saying that more than ten Liao cavalry have broken through the defense of Daliangshui and have rushed to the northwest. Ladies and gentlemen, I am the first independent reconnaissance group of General Méng's favor, and we will be independent of the army, and the word "reconnaissance" is specially added, which is to hope that we will be the eyes and ears of the general Liaodong Army Headquarters. This reconnaissance and vigilance was originally within the scope of my independent reconnaissance group, and now, the Liao cavalry has come, and these people must be Gao Jianwu's messengers. ”
"The army led by the general has been dispatched, and this operation is extremely important. Our reconnaissance regiment was ordered to go forward, and it had a major mission, and before the general defeated the soldiers and horses of the northwestern Yuan, we must not let go of a single soldier of Goguryeo in the south to cross the Xiaoliao River. Even if a bird wants to fly over Xiaoliaoshui, it must be checked by us first, and we must see whether it is male or female. ”
"Brothers, many of you have followed the general and my old brothers in the past. Today is the first battle since the formation of my reconnaissance group, and no matter what, it has to be perfect.
The head of this regiment has meritorious rewards, has been punished, and will never break his word. The whole regiment listened to Lao Tzu's orders, and took the company as a unit,
Except for Zhang Meng's third battalion of men and horses stationed in Xiaoliaohe, the rest of the three battalions all set off with the commander of the regiment, and they must not hunt all the Liao people out, and they are not allowed to let any of them go. Regardless of the officers and soldiers in the army, regardless of life or death, as long as he takes down a Liao messenger, he will be promised a reward of twenty yuan and set off! ”
The sky was full of the rising sun, and birds and beasts were heard from time to time in the mountains and forests, but with Daniel Zhang's order, more than a thousand horses were divided into more than a dozen parts, riding war horses and began to search around, for most of the officers and soldiers of this reconnaissance regiment who came from Orion, it was really not too difficult to search for a dozen cavalry in this mountain forest.
And the head of the regiment also promised such a heavy reward, a head is 20,000 yuan, and no one will be disgusted with money. One by one, the officers and men of the reconnaissance regiment scattered and separated as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, startling countless birds and beasts, searching for the slightest clue.
Although the messengers of the Liao people were also selected elites, they fought a battle when they walked through the Daliang River, and most of the escapees were injured, and they galloped on the rugged mountain roads for most of the night, and they were basically embarrassed at this time.
Behind them were the Sui pursuers who couldn't get rid of them, and the Liao cavalry were scattered and separated, and they couldn't care too much, so they just rushed towards the northwest. I didn't expect that with just a dozen of them, the Sui army actually sent thousands of men and horses to wait in front of them.
When there were still dozens of miles away from Xiaoliaoshui, the Liao cavalry finally crashed into the encirclement of the Sui army's reconnaissance group. The cavalrymen of the reconnaissance regiment from Orion held the strong crossbows in their hands, as if they were dealing with a prey, and ruthlessly shot the crossbow arrows in their hands into the Xiōng chest of the Liao messenger. Anyway, the head of the regiment has an order, whether it is dead or alive, it can be worth twenty yuan, so there is no need to bother to catch it alive. It's not hunting, and if you catch it alive, you can exchange it for more money without breaking the fur.
Jin Il-nam was a lord of the Goguryeo army in the city of China, with a hundred cavalry under his command.
This time, he was the leader of this cavalry department, and he already felt that this mission had failed.
The war horse had already been hit by one arrow, and he himself had been hit by two arrows, and he had been running wildly all the way for most of the night, and the blood that flowed had already made him feel dizzy. The war horse screamed, knelt on the ground with its forelimbs, and the entire body of the horse was planted forward.
A left tuǐ is also in pain, he stretched out his hand mō mō, this tuǐ has been broken by tuǐ fracture.
Looking at the war horse that fell to the ground foaming at the mouth, and the painful broken tuǐ, Jin Yinan took out the letter sent to Buyeo City from his arms. Half-lying in the grass in the mountains and forests, he coughed up several mouthfuls of blood from his mouth.
A group of birds flew up from the forest in the distance, and a few small beasts ran from the forest, Jin Yinan, who grew up in the mountains and forests since he was a child, knew that there were many people and horses coming over there. Needless to say, it must have been Sui Qi, who looked down and looked at the letter in his hand again, King Rongliu sent so many people to report to the north, and the Sui people actually ambushed them here before and after, the letter in his hand must be very important.
Listening to the sound of horses' hooves in the forest, Jin Yinan trembled and tore all the urgent letters in his hand into pieces, swallowed the blood in his mouth with a mouth, tilted his neck, and swallowed it with difficulty.
As soon as he swallowed the letter, a little smile appeared on his face, and a sharp crossbow arrow flew out of the forest in the distance, and suddenly nailed it into his lungs fiercely. After going back, the people who will see each other will have a share, and it is indispensable to share everyone's share."