Chapter 91: Overwhelming

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"Oh no, Lord Wang, something is wrong!"

In the palace of Gao Jianwu in the inner city, a Goguryeo guard covered in blood rushed in and reported loudly in panic.

"Lord Wang, something is wrong, I've entered the city, I've entered the city!" The guard gasped and said loudly.

In the palace, Gao Jianwu was discussing with Gao Ming and several other generals about breaking through an hour later, and even the other guards and servants in the palace were busy at this time. The valuables of the prince in the palace, as well as the prince's beloved concubines, these have to be taken away.

Gao Ming got up and kicked at the guard, and shouted, "There are no rules, what happened to make a fuss, make it clear, what entered the city, who entered the city?" ”

The guard had just gasped for breath at this time, and was kicked over by Gao Ming, and when he got up from the ground, he was busy. "Lord Wang, it's the Sui army that has entered the city!"

After hearing this, Gao Ming hurriedly turned his head to look at Gao Jianwu, at this time, Gao Jianwu was also shocked, and the teacup in his hand fell to the ground all of a sudden, and his eyes were about to burst into flames. Teng got up suddenly, walked in front of the guard in three or two steps, grabbed his collar, and asked in a deep voice, "What did you say?" Did the Sui army enter the city? How can it be? There has been no movement, how could the Sui army suddenly enter the city? What about the defenders on the city walls? Where have they gone? From which gate did you enter? How many people came in? ”

The prince stammered, "Lord, I don't know where you came from, but all of a sudden these people seem to have popped up." They did not come in from without, but seemed to have come out of the city. First the south gate, and finally the west gate, the north gate, and the east gate, groups of Sui troops suddenly appeared at each city gate. One by one, the fierce and abnormal, especially the Sui army at the south gate, was even more ferocious, and it didn't take long to seize the south gate and open the gate. Tens of thousands of people have already entered the city, and countless more people are flocking into the city outside. ”

Gao Jianwu let go of the hand holding the guard's clothes a little distractedly, and muttered, "Impossible, impossible, we have the Liaodong Wall, we have relied on Liaodong City for more than two hundred years, this is the first fortress in the Far East." Even if a million Sui troops attacked the city, we could resist it for several months, why, suddenly they entered the city? ”

Gao Ming hurriedly said, "Lord Wang, you must have come in from a secret passage, the Sui army dug a tunnel under the city, it must be like this." Lord, what now? ”

Originally, the plan was to break through after more than an hour, but now that most of the soldiers and horses are still in the outer city, they have not been assembled, so how can they go now. And it turned out that it was agreed to break through from the south gate and go straight to the domestic city by the Yalu water. Now there are tens of thousands of Sui troops at the south gate, and it is definitely impossible for them to go from there.

Gao Jianwu nodded fiercely, "Yes, Gao Ming, you are right, Sui Jun must have come in from the tunnel." Damn, why hasn't anyone found out? Since the Sui army has opened the south gate, the outer city will definitely not be able to hold it. Without the outer city, we can't hold Liaodong City. Withdraw, we have to withdraw. Quick, pass my order, let all the troops withdraw to the inner city first, and after we have gathered our troops and horses, we will break through the east gate. You can't go to the south, you can only walk from the east. ”

As soon as Gao Jianwu's words fell, another Goguryeo general rushed into the palace with several knights covered in blood.

"Lord Wang, hurry up, the Sui army has attacked, and it will be too late if you don't leave."

Gao Jianwu recognized at a glance that this blood-covered guard was the guard at the south gate of the inner city, and said in a panic, "Jin Yixin, why did you get here?" Didn't I let you guard the inner city? ”

"Lord Wang, the south gate of the inner city has been breached by the Sui army. There were too many Sui troops, and they were as black as locusts and could not see the edge at a glance. Under the inner city wall were all the men and horses of the Sui army, and the ladders they brought filled the city wall of the south gate of the inner city, and in less than a cup of tea, the Sui army had already occupied the city wall. Lord, let's go quickly, when I came to the palace, those Sui people had already rushed over. ”

Gao Jianwu's face was like ashes all of a sudden, he didn't expect that the Sui army would move so fast, just captured the south gate of the outer city, and in the blink of an eye, it had already broken the south gate of the inner city.

"Lord Wang, let's go quickly."

"But our soldiers and horses haven't been assembled yet, how can we break through?" Gao Jianwu said a little dazed. ,

"Lord Wang, it's too late, wait for us to gather men and horses, it is estimated that the Sui army has already surrounded us. Let's break through to Dongcheng first, and collect as many people as we can on the road. Now everything doesn't matter, the key is that the prince can break through. Gao Ming said as he grabbed Gao Jianwu and dragged him to run out of the house with a group of guards.

As soon as Gao Jianwu and the others got on their horses, a fire dragon was already running on the street in the distance, "Brothers, rush, in front of you is Gao Jianwu's palace." Brothers, go on, take Gao Jianwu, the general has an order, and reward fifty catties of gold! ”

Gao Jianwu immediately heard the words of those Sui people clearly, and he was almost scared for half a while. I had to desperately whip my mount with a horsewhip and run towards Dongcheng for my life. Fortunately, the Sui army was all on foot, and although they were about to be surrounded, they finally let them rush out.

After running for a while, seeing that the Sui people behind him were no longer visible, Gao Jianwu was also slightly relieved. At this time, approaching the east city, although the closer to the east city gate, the louder the shouting and killing, but the east city gate is still in the hands of the Liao people, and the Liao people there have not completely collapsed.

Gao Ming escorted Gao Jianwu and rushed straight to the city gate, while constantly shouting for the Goguryeo soldiers to approach. At this time, the Sui soldiers and horses in Dongcheng were the new troops of the Fifth Division of the 5,000 people, although they began to rely on the surprise attack of the tunnels and caught the defenders of Dongcheng by surprise, but after all, they were still some people who had only been trained for a few days. After a long time, it slowly began to gain the upper hand.

Fortunately, those commanders were all old officers who had broken the barracks, shouting and commanding one by one, and with the absolute superiority in numbers, the five thousand men and horses of the Sui army were gathered together. Using the bow and crossbow in his hand to continuously harvest the lives of the defenders, but the crossbow arrows are limited, and in the face of those Liao people who rush over without their lives, the queue is still falling down. If the defenders of Dongcheng can still have some more men and horses, the first to break up must be the recruits of the fifth division of the Sui army.

As soon as Gao Jianwu's team of more than 300 cavalry attacked, the recruits who were already struggling to support the Sui army finally couldn't stop it. All of a sudden, under the front and back attacks, the entire phalanx collapsed at once. Chen Fu, the general of the Fifth Division, saw that he couldn't stop it, and hurriedly sent orders to let the Sui army scatter and flee. Anyway, Chen Kefu's order was not to let them seize the eastern city, but only to let them contain a part of the defenders here for a while, so that they could not support the defenders of the inner city. Now look at the fact that it has dragged on for so long, not only has it dragged the defenders of Dongcheng, but now it has also attracted hundreds of Liao troops to come over, and their task has been completed.

Chen Fu gave an order, and the recruits of the Sui army, who had long felt that they could not be stopped, were granted amnesty. They can't carry it hard, but let them scatter and run, but they are faster than anyone else, four or five thousand people and horses, all at once, scattered in all directions, and ran cleanly.

Gao Jianwu and the others gathered the defenders of the Lower East City, and there were about 2,000 people together, but less than half of them had horses.

Under Gao Ming's shouting, everyone flocked to the city gate, and Hulala opened the east gate at once, fortunately, all the soldiers and horses of the Sui army were transferred to the south gate, and there were no Sui soldiers besieging the city outside the east gate at this time. Everyone also breathed a sigh of relief, and Gao Ming rode his horse in front of Gao Jianwu and said, "Lord Wang, let's go, if you don't leave, it's too late." ”

In the drizzle, in the shouting and killing of the city, under the light of the constantly fluttering torches, Gao Jianwu sat on the horse and turned his head to look around at the people in front of him.

At this time, all the soldiers were basically bloodied and panicked. More than 2,000 people all stared at him closely. Gao Jianwu closed his eyes a little painfully, and remembered that he led 100,000 horses to the north at the beginning, and it was from this eastern city that he entered. How high-spirited he was at that time, how strong his soldiers and horses were at that time, spears like forests, and knives like snow! He still remembered how many people in the city were cheering in the streets at that time, but now, he took the more than 1,000 soldiers who had lost their armor and were frightened to flee for their lives.

"Lord Wang, let's go, the Sui people will be killed in a while."

Gao Jianwu wiped a handful of the rain mixed with blood on his face, and said to Gao Ming, "But there are only half of those who have horses, and these people can't break through." Besides, the most important thing now is that the Sui army killed us by surprise. We haven't destroyed the warehouses in the city yet, and once these things fall into the hands of the enemy, then we will be finished. ”,

Gao Ming looked back at the soldiers and horses gathered in front of the city gate, although the city gate has been opened now, but there are more than 2,000 people, and none of them have fled out of the city in a panic. These are all elite soldiers who have followed King Rongliu for many years, but unfortunately they are all gone now.

Gritting his teeth, Gao Ming said with a resolute face, "Lord Wang, you pick out more than a thousand uninjured elites to go first." After I came to His Royal Highness, I took the wounded soldiers and horses here to guard the eastern city for the prince, and held on for the prince for some time. The rest of the people all rushed to set fire to all parts of the city, and they didn't care about any warehouses at the moment, since Liaodong City had been lost, then we would simply burn down the entire Liaodong City. Lord Wang, go quickly, I only have one hand left now, and I can't do much to follow the prince and do not do much for the prince, so let me fight for the prince for the last time here. ”

Gao Jianwu shook his head and said, "Gao Ming, you go with me!" ”

"Needless to say, Lord Wang, go quickly, don't let the blood of the soldiers be shed in vain, Lord Wang just needs to remember and avenge us in the future."

Those Liao soldiers who were injured also knew that they couldn't leave at this time, and they said loudly one by one, "Lord Wang, go quickly!" ”

Gao Jianwu jumped off the horse, knelt on the ground all of a sudden, kowtowed three times, got up and got on the horse, "Brothers, you go first today, you can rest assured, I will support your parents in your family, and I will also raise your young sons, wives and children in your family." One day, I will come to see you again, and in the next life, we will still be brothers! After speaking, he wiped the tears from his face, kicked the horse's belly with both legs, and roared out of the city with more than a thousand soldiers.

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