Meng Jinsha rushed to the side of the wheat iron rod, wiped a handful of blood and slightly panted, he turned around and looked at the broken pontoon bridge, but there was not much sadness and panic in his eyes. His Mo knife had been soaked in the blood of his enemies, and it continued to flow down his arm.

After the bridge broke, almost all the soldiers of the Left Guard gathered back and gathered around the iron staff. Eulji Wende waved the command flag, and tens of thousands of Goryeo troops began to encircle. The phalanx composed of more than 1,000 soldiers of the Great Sui Zuotun Guard was surrounded on three sides, and behind them was the surging water.

"Soldiers!"

His hair was red, but his face was calm as usual.

He pointed at Liaoshui with an iron rod: "We have now become a lone army, and there is no backup!" Behind you is Liaoshui, in front of you are tens of thousands of enemies, and now you only have two paths to choose from. ”

He paused and said, "One, surrender to the enemy. Second, die on the battlefield! ”

He raised his head suddenly, and his cold eyes swept over the bloodied Zuotun guard soldiers: "Tell me, how do you choose!" ”

His voice was like thunder, and his eyes were wide open.

"I'd rather die! Don't surrender! ”

More than 1,000 soldiers of the Great Sui Mansion shouted in unison, and the sound shook the sky.

On the other side of the river, Yang Guang, the Emperor of the Great Cause, had already stood up from the wide seat, walked a few steps to the edge of the high platform, and looked at the re-lined Zuotun Guard soldiers in the distance, and couldn't help but feel a wave in his heart. When the sound of the sound that shook the mountains and rivers would rather die than surrender reached his ears across the river, the emperor who had created countless glories finally had red eyes. At this moment, his deliberately straight waist slowly bent a little, but it looked more in line with his real age. A strand of white hair hung down from the golden helmet, fluttering in the wind to block his view.

He tucked the strand of white hair into his golden helmet with trembling hands, only to find a large tree on the riverbank blocking the back of Zuo Tunwei's attack again. In particular, blocking the back of the wheat iron rod.

"Someone! Cut down that tree, cut it down! ”

The Emperor shouted hurriedly.

Nayan Suwei shouted softly, "Your Majesty......"

He seemed to want to remind the Emperor of Daye that there were still dozens of envoys from Fanbang vassal states watching him under the platform. But obviously, at this time, Yang Guang didn't have the heart to care about the emperor's face anymore. He pointed to the big tree that blocked his view, and shouted hoarsely, "Cut down!" ”

"Yes!"

Standing in the middle of the official queue, Scholar Yu stood up and walked quickly off the high platform. Carrying his robe, he snatched a horizontal knife from the hand of a Praetorian soldier and rushed to the side of the tree, slashing down one by one with red eyes. Under the astonished gaze of the envoys of those small countries of Fanbang, he solemnly and solemnly cut down the tree, as if he was doing the most solemn thing. An ordinary soldier with the same red eyes gritted his teeth, rushed over, drew his horizontal knife, and slashed hard. As he moved, more and more people gathered to join in the tree cutting.

Some soldiers threw ropes and tied them to the trunks of trees, and hundreds of people grabbed the ropes and pulled them hard. As the sawdust slashed at the trunk of the tree flew and the thick rope straightened, the tree that had grown for an unknown number of years fell down and smashed up a cloud of smoke.

Yang Guang, the emperor of the Great Cause, stood on the side of the high platform, looking with red eyes at the back of the attack on the other side of the river with 1,000 troops against 50,000 Goryeo soldiers.

"Drums! Cheer on General Mai! ”

He yelled in a hoarse voice.

Open! Open! Open!

Hundreds of Great Sui war drums sounded at the same time, one after another, like thunder into spring. Even the water of the Liao River seemed to be stirred by the roar of the war drums. On the west bank of Liaoshui, 100,000 soldiers of the Great Sui Prefecture drew their horizontal knives almost at the same time, and beat their shields with the blades of their knives to echo the sound of war drums. The blade of the knife struck on the shield, and the sound was like a war song!

On the east bank of Liaoshui, Zuotunwei General Mai Tiezhu turned around and bowed to the high platform on the other side of the river, then grabbed his iron rod and strode forward. Behind him, Ying Yanglang followed Meng Jincha tightly with a Mo knife in his hand, his eyes bright!

In this way, with the cheering of war drums, more than a thousand lone soldiers of the Great Sui launched a final charge against the Goryeo soldiers fifty times their size!

"Zuo Tunwei!"

"Onward!"

……

……

On the bank of Liaoshui, the first battle of the Great Sui to conquer Liaodong ended in such a sad and heroic drum. Zuo Tunwei, Zuo Zhenwei, and nearly 2,000 government soldiers who took the lead in crossing the river were all killed, and none of them surrendered. Zuotun Wei general Mai Tiecane, Hu Benlang will Qian Shixiong, and Ying Yanglang will Meng Jincha fight. The first battle, because the pontoon bridge was smashed by Goryeo soldiers, ended in the defeat of the Great Sui.

"The eldest husband's surname has his own life, how can he use moxibustion, guati spray nose, cure yellow, and lie in the hands of his dead children?"

"I wish to be the first to set foot on the east bank of Liaoshui and exterminate the barbarians for Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty is reluctant to give a reward?"

"How can you drink a glass of wine? Your Majesty is also a little stingy, if the minister leads Zuo Tunwei to take the lead in setting foot in Liaodong, Your Majesty should give 300 altars of fine wine! ”

"They are all soldiers of the Great Sui, and they can't give up a brother!"

"Soldiers! You only have two choices, one, surrender and die in World War II! ”

"I'd rather die! Don't surrender! ”

The sound entered the ears, and the aftermath did not dissipate for a long time.

Standing on the high platform, two lines of tears flowed from the eyes of Yang Guang, the emperor of the Great Cause. His body trembled slightly, at this time, where was the majesty of an emperor? Yes, it's just a sadness that is so thick that it can't be dissolved by overturning the water. He didn't expect that the first battle of the Liao expedition, which should have been a perfect and easy start, would be like this, and in the first battle, he lost a great general! And this general named Mai Tiecane is what he valued and pulled up from the time he was still the king of Jin! Among the generals of the guards, except for Yu Wenshu, the general of Zuo Zhenwei, Mai Tiezhu is the person he trusts the most!

Tears ran down the emperor's jaw and fell on the high platform, wetting a small piece of the wooden platform.

When the last erected Great Sui fiery red battle flag on the east bank of Liaoshui fell, headed by the great general Yu Wenshu, all the soldiers put their horizontal swords on their chests and performed the most solemn Great Sui military salute on the east bank of the river.

The water is still flowing, and the strong man is gone.

Less than 500 meters away from the place where the general of Zuotunwei, Mai Tiecane, died in battle, on a tall tree, Li Xian, who was hiding in the dense branches in camouflage with branches, rubbed his sour nose, and finally endured not letting the tears fall. He hid it so well that he was covered with verdant pine branches that would not wither and discolor, and he lay on a thick branch, and he was almost motionless for the whole night.

In order to see the first battle of the Great Sui Expedition to Liao, he hid here at the risk of being killed by the rebels. Because he had been lying on his stomach for too long, his body became a little weak and stiff. Fortunately, although there were no less than 50,000 Goryeo soldiers waiting on the east bank of Liaoshui, their attention was initially on the pontoon bridge, and later on the attack launched by the Zuotun guards, no one would notice him, even if he moved his body a little, without worrying about being discovered. It's just that after hiding for half a day this night, the most uncomfortable thing is not the body but the heart.

He has always been curious about how the first battle of the Great Sui Expedition to Liao was fought on the banks of the Liaoshui River. How did Zuo Tunwei General Mai Tiezhu and others die in battle, today, he finally saw this scene, and he had the heart to save but was unable to return to the sky. In the information he inquired about in his previous life, there are many doubts about the death of the iron rod in full detail. The information available on the Internet is inherently limited, and its credibility is not very high.

For example, it is recorded that the reason why Zuotunwei general Mai Tiecane, Hu Benlang general Qian Shixiong, Ying Yanglang general Meng Jincha and others were trapped on the east bank was because the pontoon bridge built by Shangshu Yu Wenkai of the Ministry of Industry was more than one zhang shorter. With Li Xian's understanding of Yu Wenkai, he felt that this was a very strange thing. You must know that Yu Wenkai designed and supervised the construction of Daxing City, the eastern capital of Luoyang, dug the Guangtong Canal, and built a wizard of the Guanfeng Xing Hall for Yang Guang, how could he make the ordinary pontoon bridge more than a zhang shorter? If it is said that it has grown a foot, this is understandable. Although the pontoon bridge is ordinary, this battle is of great significance, how can Yu Wenkai be negligent in his duties?

However, when he saw the development of things with his own eyes, he solved the doubts in his heart, but he did not have the slightest happiness and relief.

Mai Tiezhu was killed in battle, Qian Shixiong was killed in battle, Meng Jincha was killed in battle, and Yuwenshan was killed in battle, and he watched it all with his eyes.

For a moment, he even wanted to jump off the tree, regardless of his life or death, only thinking about how impassioned it would be if he could kill the enemy side by side with the iron rod. If you die on the battlefield like this, even if you die and regret it, it won't be in vain for a lifetime, right? However, he endured it in the end. At this moment, he even hated his calmness and cowardice. He felt that he was a death-scared ghost, and he didn't have any responsibility that a man should have! At this moment, he found that those Zuotun guard soldiers who died in battle, even the most ordinary soldiers, were far more like a man than himself.

Just when he almost couldn't help but want to jump down, it was Luo Fu, who was hiding beside him, who whispered something that made him forcibly endure the cheap meaningless impulse.

"What can you do if you go down at this time? If you really want to kill the enemy and slaughter the barbarians, why do you have to be at this time? Wouldn't it be better if you could avenge the iron rod and let the whole of Goguryeo be martyred for him? ”

Li Xian was slightly stunned and asked himself in his heart.

I...... Can you?

As if guessing what he was thinking, Luo Fu said in a very soft voice but in an unusually determined tone: "An Zhi, I believe that sooner or later you will be able to do it!" ”

Li Xian was silent.

……

……

Yang Guang wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, pointed to the other side of Liaoshui and ordered: "Go!" Send someone over to tell Eulzhi Wende that I am willing to ransom the corpse of General Mai with a lot of money! ”

Someone hurriedly came out and played: "Your Majesty, no! General Mai Lao died on the battlefield, but he did his duty as a minister, and although the warriors who crossed the river in this battle were all defeated, they also frightened the courage of the Koreans. If Your Majesty ransomes the body of General Mai Lao with a lot of money, won't it damage the national body and lose the prestige of heaven? ”

Yang Guang pointed at the civil official in annoyance and said, "Guard, give this person to me!" ”

Two Praetorian soldiers came over, set up the civil officer, and escorted him down.

"I wish to give a thousand taels of gold to redeem the body of General Mai!"

At the same time, Li Xian, who was lying on the high tree branch, took a deep breath, tilted his head slightly, and said to Luo Fu very seriously: "I want to steal the body of General Mai and send it back." He glanced at Luo Fu, ignored the surprise on the latter's face, and said to himself: "When a person dies, he can't sleep in someone else's house, this east bank of Liaoshui...... It's too cold. ”

To send it back is to send it home.

ps:First of all,The first meaning of this p is to prove that I exist.,The second is to explain that some readers say that the plot of the wheat iron rod is similar to other books.,I really don't know if this is the same as what book is the same.,In fact,In order to write the general, I deliberately avoided other historical novels that also wrote about the end of the Sui Dynasty and didn't read it.,Of course,The homeland I read a few years ago does have a description of the battle on the shore of the Liaoshui.,The drunkard god is one of my favorite writers.,But I really can't say that these chapters were influenced by the homeland.,In fact, The death of Mai Tiezhu is probably like this, history is like this, I think, those who have written this plot should be similar, of course, Jiang Ming is not a serious historical novel, but, I want to write about the sadness and blood of a Great Sui general, so, I wrote it like this, that's it. Of course, if I have to say that I have plagiarized someone else's things, then I must first apologize to the old and new Tang and Sui books.

ps2: If you think Zhibai is quite serious, just reward a few collectible red tickets or something.