Between the vast mountains and forests, Gao Jianwu was being pursued by a group of Sui soldiers with a few hundred horses, and those Sui soldiers were carrying sharp horse lances one by one, straddle a black war horse with sharp horns on their heads, and all four hooves stepping on a dark green fire.

Their eyes were the size of fists, and their cloaks were scattered, and the light from their eyes was like lightning. He and his subordinates ran desperately, but they couldn't get rid of those Sui people, and from time to time, some of his soldiers were jumped from their horses by those Sui soldiers to pounce down, opening their big mouths like blood basins, and using sharp teeth to bite and swallow the Goguryeo soldiers they caught.

One after another of his subordinates were pounced and torn, and Gao Jianwu rode his horse and galloped, running and running, when suddenly a big river stopped in front of him. There is no way forward, there are pursuers behind, and in the end, in desperation, he lifted the long sword in his hand and stabbed at the horse, and the war horse was in pain, and he looked up to the sky with a long neigh, and the person stood up. Without waiting for the Sui army behind to catch up, he suddenly jumped out and jumped into the river with a thud.

Gao Jianwu woke up suddenly, sat up from the bearskin cushion, and his whole body was soaked with sweat as if he had just been fished out of the water. Gasping for breath in his mouth, Gao Jianwu was startled, but suddenly he heard the sound of shouting and tearing outside the tent, and for a moment, he thought that he was still immersed in the nightmare that had disturbed him for months.

"Raid the camp!" A personal soldier rushed in from outside the tent and shouted loudly in panic, "Commander, attack the camp, someone is attacking the camp!" ”

"Who? Who is it? The Sui army in Liaodong City? ”

Gao Jianwu asked loudly, this time the army went out, and Gao Jianwu alone led 20,000 elite soldiers as the vanguard of the army. Yesterday, he crossed the Daliang River with his troops and entered the sphere of influence of the Sui army. As soon as the sorghum water passed, he began to be cautious, and sent a thousand cavalry out a hundred miles to reconnoiter the movements of the Sui army in Liaodong City.

And after encamping here tonight, he sent dozens of teams of rangers to the secret outposts. Always keep an eye on the direction of the west and strictly prevent the Sui army from robbing the camp. But now that someone is attacking the camp, how is this possible? Could it be that all the lines of defense are fake?

"I don't know, big handsome. The men and horses who attacked the camp came in from the rear of the camp. Now the camp is full of enemy cavalry, big marshal, let's go quickly, it's too late. The soldier didn't know how he came back, but the noisy camp and the fires everywhere had already made him a little panicked.

Gao Jianwu jumped up, grabbed the long sword beside him and opened the tent. In the darkness of the night, the entire camp of 20,000 people was completely in disarray, and there were fires everywhere and their clothes were disheveled.

Soldiers running for their lives. In the chaos, I only heard someone shouting while running, "Run, 1 monster is coming!" ”

"Someone, prepare a horse for me!" Gao Jianwu roared, and a team of personal soldiers gathered outside the tent ran over. Fortunately, although the camp was in chaos at this time, Gao Jianwu's war horse was not locked up with other war horses, but not far from his tent. Otherwise, in the midst of such chaos. It's hard to find a mount.

The pro-soldiers led the horses and helped Gao Jianwu to pierce the armor. In a few moments, he was already dressed in armor and mounted on his warhorse.

In the darkness of the night, there was no distinction between marshals and creeps, and everyone was running around like irrelevant flies. In ancient times, when fighting wars, the most feared thing was to be attacked at night, and if one was not good, the whole army would be scattered. This is also after the ancient army camped, the military law strictly ordered the soldiers to be in their tents, and it was strictly forbidden for the soldiers to walk around, make noise, and fight in the camp, because if one is not good, it will be easy for the soldiers to think that the enemy attacked the camp, and at that time it was the howling camp, or the bombing camp.

Gao Jianwu and his own soldiers, all riding war horses, draped all over their bodies, kept shouting to the running soldiers, "Assemble, assemble, assemble to me!" ”

But even if they almost shouted in their throats, there were not many soldiers and horses who could really stop and converge on them. Most of the soldiers kept shouting monsters, monsters, and continued to run around.

Looking at this chaotic army, Gao Jianwu's face was black and dripping water. At the beginning, he commanded 100,000 soldiers and horses, what an elite man, only 100,000 people relied on Liaodong City, which was enough to block the 500,000 army of Emperor Sui for more than a month of non-stop attacks day and night. Even if the Sui army attacked the city wall again and again, in the end they still swore to the death.

But what about the troops and horses in front of you? There are 20,000 people, but only about 5,000 have actually been on the battlefield, and about 5,000 have loved complete training. Half of the rest were slaves on the estates of the nobles, and they didn't know how to fight except for being young and strong, just like now, they only knew how to run, and nothing else. ,

Holding the longbow in his hand, Gao Jianwu opened his bow and set up arrows, and fired several arrows one after another, shooting to death those soldiers who did not obey orders and continued to run. After shooting, he yelled, "Everyone is moving closer to Ben Shuai, and those who do not obey the order will be killed!" ”

After killing several people in a row, Gao Jianwu finally gathered some soldiers and horses, and he continued to run towards the camp with the gathered soldiers and horses non-stop, constantly collecting all the panicked soldiers along the way.

The further I went, the clearer I could see that although the camp was in chaos, the real place of the battle was still in the rear barracks. It was the side with the sorghum water on its back, and it was also the camp of grain and grass supplies carried by his forward army.

An officer arrived in a panic with dozens of horsemen, with several wounds on his body.

"What's going on? What about the last guest of the rear army to defend the camp? Who is attacking the camp? ”

The officer was also the last guest of a thousand people, but at this time he was embarrassed, his helmet was lost, his armor was broken in several places, and he had a white feather arrow stuck in his back, which stood out in this dark night.

"My lord, the enemy attack was very sudden and hidden, and there was no situation before. Lord Keas of the rear army has already died in battle, and it is not the Sui army that is attacking the camp, it is Heishui mòhé, and behind them, there is a group of monsters. The officer's face turned pale and trembled in panic.

Gao Jianwu said in disbelief: "Black water mòhé? Are you mistaken? Heishui mòhé is our coalition army, and Su Moshui mòhé is the enemy who has taken refuge in the Sui army. Do you see the mòhé of the end of the millet water as the mòhé of the black water? Also, what kind of monster are you talking about? ”

Today he camped here, and it was precisely when he was waiting for the alliance soldiers and horses, Heishui mòhé Yalou Chang'an Luo to lead the allied forces to converge. All this had been agreed upon before the troops were dispatched, but after he arrived today, he did not find any trace of the Blackwater Mòhé cavalry at all.

At this time, however, a group of Blackwater mòhé cavalry attacked his camp at night from behind, which made Gao Jianwu's face even deeper. He didn't dare to think about it any further, and Goguryeo unanimously decided to attack Liaodong with all the troops of the country. The greatest reliance was on the allied forces of Mòhé, Murowei, Baekje, and Dongying. If at this time, the shoe scorpion man is treacherous, then ......, thinking of this, his eyes are even a little flustered.

"Dashuai, I'm not mistaken, there is still a big difference between mòhé and black water, I often deal with them, and I can see it at a glance. These people are definitely Blackwater Mòhé, and there are many monsters behind them, and those monsters ride with sharp horns. Blue-faced fangs. The knights on the horses were all red-haired, blue-faced fangs, and had long hair.

These people were so terrifying that none of the warriors could stop their blows. Everyone said that these were evil spirits that the people of Blackwater Mòhé had invited from hell. ”

Gao Jianwu was shocked, how could what he said be so similar to the nightmare he had been having all this time. Is it true, there really is such an evil ghost, so is such an evil ghost coming to find him now?

The sound of tearing and killing in the distance kept coming, and groups of enemy cavalry rushed to kill, while constantly throwing torches on the tents in the camp, burning the tents one by one.

Through the light of the fire that rose to the sky, he could faintly see that those mòhé people were indeed black water mòhé, and the mòhé people were all wearing long hair, and they would tie the long hair around their ears into small arguments.

But those who are black water mòhé do not have their hair in front of them loose, but instead knot the hair on the back of their heads into dozens of long braids. The current group of mòhé people rushing back and forth have their hair scattered in the front, but they all have more than ten pigtails in the back. Gao Jianwu was furious, these damn and despicable mòhé people were really only worthy of being slaves to the Goguryeo people for the rest of their lives. After accepting their heavy conditions, they actually stabbed them in the back. He gritted his teeth tightly, and he would definitely remember all this today, as long as Goguryeo survived this hurdle, then in the future, he would inevitably reduce all the mòhé people to slaves, so that they would never be able to turn over.

Another tent was lit, and in the midst of the flames, he could clearly see a troop of cavalry rushing out.

It's just that the cavalry was dressed in a very yellow way, and their horses were all covered in leather armor and masks. Not only was the mask painted with all sorts of demons, but it also had a long, sharp horn on it. Even the leather armor on the entire horse is painted with the appearance of these evil spirits. ,

Not only the horses, but also the knights on the horses were all dressed in a large cloak painted with evil spirits, and each of them wore a mask with green fangs on his face. From a distance, the cavalry looked like demons from hell, with green fangs and long hair. What's even more terrifying is that these knights, whether it is the leather armor and mask of the war horse, or the knight's cloak and mask, are all glowing with a faint green light in the dark night, like a cluster of ghost fire, extremely weird.

Wherever this group of knights rushed, the Goguryeo soldiers scattered in all directions, threw away their armor, and fled desperately.

Gao Jianwu saw that the horses were wearing leather armor painted with evil spirits, and the horses were wearing cloaks and masks. But the pattern of the glow-in-the-dark light on it was something he couldn't understand anyway.

The hideous ghosts, in the dark night, exuded a green and faint light. Gao Jianwu's heart also began to beat violently, and he felt that his hands and feet were cold, and his pores were terrified.

Even Gao Jianwu watched from afar, feeling uncontrollable fear, and those Goguryeo soldiers who met head-on were even more like hell. One by one, they all fart, and they fled. Occasionally, one or two who are not afraid of death will meet them, but they can't stop them, and they will be beheaded by the knife. even more let those Liao people desperately dodge.

Whether it is a real evil ghost or a pretending to be a ghost, Gao Jianwu knows that he will let this cavalry rush to kill again. Then his entire camp of 20,000 people was really about to collapse, and with a swoop of lifting the long sword, Gao Jian's sword slashed across the palm of his left hand. Warm blood spilled out in this winter, Gao Jianwu raised his left palm, covered his face with his hand, and wiped it on his face.

All of a sudden, the handsome Gao Jianwu became a person whose face was covered with blood and could not see his face clearly.

"As long as you wipe the blood on your face, no matter how evil the ghost is, don't be afraid, brothers, God blocks and slaughters God, and ghosts block and kills ghosts!" In the middle of the night, Gao Jianwu shouted hoarsely.

Division, division, division!

One by one, the soldiers hurriedly picked up their swords, cut their left hands, and smeared their faces with blood.

"God blocks and slaughters gods, and ghosts block and kills ghosts! Kill! ”

A shout of killing sounded, and Gao Jianwu took the lead, leading the soldiers and horses to rush towards those enemy troops.

It was here that the former general on duty outside the army rushed back with the rangers, and the two sides converged and rolled away.

In the darkness, the soldiers and horses of the two sides fought together, the saber and tenon danced, and the spear tǐng stabbed. After every flash of human sword light, a head will inevitably fly high and smash to the ground.

Gao Jianwu continued to roar and curse while brandishing his horse lance to slap and slap to assassinate. He was cursing Chen Kefu, cursing Yizhi Wende, and cursing the old dog Jueluo who treacherously stabbed him in the back. He swore that if he was given time, he would kill them all one by one.

Roaring anger can make a person temporarily forget fear, at this time, the Liao army is fighting to the death, and people are falling all the time. No one cares about or fears the glowing demons anymore. Gradually, the Liao people gathered more and more. Constantly there are generals who gather their soldiers and horses and join the war group. The originally chaotic camp gradually left only the sound of gold and iron.

In the darkness, a cavalryman dressed in Goguryeo armor gathered up and asked loudly, "Who is His Royal Highness King Rongliu, I have an urgent military situation to report to him!" ”

"This king is, say it quickly!"

The cavalryman said in a fluent high sentence, "I have obtained the most distracted information, Jueluo of Heishui Mòhé has taken refuge in the Sui State......"

Gao Jianwu said hatefully, "This king already knows this news, and they have already stabbed us in the back............" Before he finished speaking, he saw a dazzling sword flash in the night, and the herald actually attacked Gao Jianwu.

This sudden change was beyond everyone's expectations, and everyone never thought that such a situation would occur at this time. Everyone roared angrily and waved their knives to save them. But the cavalry had already calculated, and what he was waiting for was the moment when Gao Jianwu was distracted.

The sword is shining, and the blood is splashing!

At the moment when the sword flashed, Gao Jianwu, who had been in battle for a long time and was on the verge of life and death all the year round, finally felt bad.

The next meaning was to step back and raise the long sword in his hand to block.

But at this time, his block was just a deliberate move. For the opponent who has already gathered momentum, it is not of much use. With a slight pick, the sword in Gao Jianwu's hand had been vigorously picked off, and with a choking sound, the long sword had fallen to the ground. ,

As soon as the long sword was out of his hand, the opponent's long sword was a fire-raising style, and the oblique one slashed at his head from the bottom up. Before thinking about it again, Gao Jianwu leaned back while leaning back on the iron plate bridge, and raised his left hand to block the front of his neck.

A splash of blood splashed up, and he only felt a lightness in his left hand, and then it was a very strange feeling. He felt that his left hand was gone, and then he swept his eyes, and saw that his left hand had been severed from his shoulder, and the severed arm was constantly splashing blood.

The next moment, a sharp pain came, and Gao Jianwu, whose body was already unstable, fell off the horse.

The roar of the soldiers, the call of the generals, and even the laughter of the cavalry all came to Gao Jianwu's ears one by one. The pain of the broken arm overwhelmed him like a tide, and Gao Jianwu slumped on the ground, bowed like a prawn.

"Ahh A painful howl spread far away.

The cavalryman saw that Gao Jianwu only had a broken arm, and he rode his horse with a long knife and pounced again. At this time, Gao Jianwu's own soldiers had already reacted, and they raised their long cavalry spears and stabbed straight into the back of the knight's heart.

The knight's backhand was a hard slash, slashing a few spear heads to the side. Seeing that there was no more chance, the knight was not annoyed, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned in the dark, and with a leap of his horse, he had already jumped out of the encirclement of Gao Jianwu's own soldiers, and rushed straight into the distant firelight.

As soon as the knight retreated, the rest of the generals had already killed from all sides, and all the enemy cavalry that had attacked the camp was gradually driven to the gap in the rear army. With a roar, the cavalry quickly gathered and retreated, passing through the gap they had broken through and into the darkness.

Some of the Goguryeo people had already guarded Gao Jianwu's troops, and the remaining generals commanded their soldiers and horses to chase after the gap.

Gao Jianwu, who was sweating all over his head, gritted his teeth and shouted, "Don't chase after you!" ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw that from the darkness, the enemies on the horse suddenly turned around in unison, shook them hard, and threw in dozens of packages. The packages, all bound firmly with strong ropes, crossed a lone line in the sky, and flew towards the soldiers and horses who had gaped in the camp.

It's just that those packages, in the dark night, are still bubbling with fire. The Goguryeo people didn't care about it and picked it up with a spear and a gun, and they were still laughing and scolding in their hearts, these people are really stupid, they want to set fires, isn't it more convenient and better for you to throw a torch in? Making a cloth bag like this, with only a little spark, can you accomplish anything.

The enemies outside the gap, after throwing out the cloth bags, all began to gallop as if they had fled in the wilderness.

Seeing this scene, several Goguryeo generals sighed with some regret. In his opinion, this strange raid cavalry tonight is obviously the Black Water Shoe Scorpion, and there are not many of them, a total of about 3,000 people.

At first, with a surprise attack, they were caught off guard, but now. As soon as their army gathered their men and horses, the mòhé people began to flee. At this time, not 20,000 people, even if there are 5,000 people, they can definitely defeat this cavalry that has been raiding for more than an hour, and it is even possible to annihilate it.

Dozens of cloth bags that were on fire were soon picked off by Goguryeo's cavalry with spears and dropped under their horses. It's just that these cloth bags seem to be very strange, and they fall to the ground, and although there is only a little fire flashing, they are not extinguished.

A curious Liao man stretched out his toes and kicked the cloth bag. But suddenly he saw that the fire seemed to be extinguished, and then suddenly he felt a burst of brightness in front of him, as bright as day. After that, he didn't know anything.

"Bang!"

Loud noises rang out one after another, and those cloth bags burst one by one.

The cloth bag that suddenly exploded in the dense Liao soldiers, and the huge impact directly overturned the entire gap in a radius of dozens of zhang. In those dozens of zhang, the positions of the dozens of cloth bags were all blown out of one or two deep pits one by one.

Everything that was within five feet of the cloth bag, whether it was a warrior, a war horse, or the dirt under his feet, was overturned. In the dark night, the huge fireballs that flashed one after another made everyone's eyes suddenly sting.

After the explosion, it was like rain, and all kinds of broken and fragmented things were constantly sprinkled from the sky. There are the heads of war horses, the arms, small tuǐ, intestines and other fragments of Liao soldiers, as well as broken pieces of cloth and armor. ,

At that moment, the explosion of thirty cloth bags directly leveled a thirty-zhang radius. There were more than 300 Liao soldiers who were directly blown into pieces, including two last guests and more than a dozen building owners.

And in the distance of more than thirty zhang in the square, there were also nearly a thousand soldiers who were bled by the huge impact of the explosion, and their ears were deaf. The horses in the entire camp were startled, and one by one the horses neighed and jumped, struggling and rushing. Most of the cavalry on the horses were thrown off the horses, and countless horses broke free and rushed out of the camp.

Behind the loud noise, the back camp was a mess, and there was a deathly silence.

After a long time, lying on the ground, Gao Jianwu, who had just been bandaged, had a dull gaze and muttered in his mouth, "Devils, they are really devils!" ”

The voice of the devil came and went, and all the Liao people turned pale. Many people knelt on the ground and kowtowed, begging Heaven to forgive them. A small cloth bag can emit thunder like the sky, and even shine as dazzling as the sun.

And after the earth-shattering thunder and the dazzling light of the sun, it killed more than 300 people and injured more than 1,000 people in one fell swoop. To everyone's shock, this is definitely God's thunder.

As for why the divine thunder of God came into the hands of the devil and used it against them.

But none of them thought about it, and everyone thought that this was God's punishment for them. The Liao soldiers who were terrified of Heaven all knelt on the ground, kept kowtowing, and begged for God's forgiveness and tolerance.

No one would have thought of it, and no one would believe it, that these things were not God's thunder, but sharp weapons made by mortals.

Gao Jianwu's face is like white paper, and his heart is like ashes.

First of all, I've been having nightmares about that ghost rider lately, and tonight I've been betrayed by those damn black water shoe scorpions. Not only did he not bring the troops to join them on time, but in the middle of the night, he suddenly stabbed them in the back.

Not only that, but these people of Blackwater, who prayed to be punished by the heavens, actually attracted demons from hell. Their appearance burned down all their logistical food and grass equipment, and also burned down many military camp tents. Took advantage of the chaos to kill too many soldiers, and when they finally stabilized the situation, they repelled the damned ones.

No one thought that the heavens would actually rain thunder to punish them. There were thousands of casualties at once, and the casualties were still trivial matters, and the key was that the morale of the entire 20,000 pioneers was hit to the extreme.

And his own brother of the king of Goguryeo, the deputy marshal of the expedition army, the marshal of the vanguard army, and the king of Rongliu Gao Jianwu, not only lost thousands of soldiers and horses in the enemy attack, but also even one of his arms was cut off by the enemy. Looking at the empty left arm, and the messy and tattered barracks,

And the pieces of corpses that littered the ground.

Gao Jianwu shouted five times, spat out several mouthfuls of blood in his mouth, and fell backwards, his teeth were tightly closed, and his face was bruised.

The pro-soldiers panicked all of a sudden, and they couldn't afford to lose the boss at this time. "Doctor, doctor, the marshal has fainted, treat him quickly."

The doctor had just finished bandaging Gao Jianwu's arm, and he was by his side at this time. Hurriedly and carefully examined Gao Jianwu's body, and said, "Dashuai first broke an arm, lost too much blood, and added pain.

Just now, he was depressed and frightened, and it was difficult to calm down for a while, and he fainted in a hurry. But there won't be any danger, as long as you give Da Shuai a patch of medicine for a while, and then rest in peace, you will be fine. ”

As soon as Gao Jianwu fell, the remaining generals gathered together, and after discussing with each other, they felt that the Mòhé allied forces that had come to converge had become enemies, and the marshal broke his arm and fainted in front of the battle. In addition, the army's logistics food, grass and equipment were all lost, and the officers and soldiers in the army were all lost. At this time, it was no longer appropriate to go north, and in the end, it was unanimously decided that the whole army should immediately allocate camps, slowly retreat, withdraw from the sorghum water, and wait for the next order of the commander of the second branch.

20,000 soldiers and horses, no longer delayed at the next moment, the whole army allocated camps. However, although Gao Jianwu fell, it was Gao Jianwu's old subordinates who took over the military power. Although the troops retreated, the whole army slowly retreated, step by step.

20,000 soldiers and horses crossed the Daliang River Goguryeo, and in just one day, the commander was cut off by the battle. The logistics of the whole army were lost, and nearly 3,000 troops were lost. And because of the thunder that day, more than 2,000 horses in the army were frightened and lost.

In the end, the army had to retreat overnight, which can be said to be an unprecedented defeat.