Chapter 556 The former army fought in the west of the Liao River at night, and it has been reported that it has captured Goguryeo
Gao Yuan finally decided to immediately abandon Yingzhou, which was hard to get, and immediately retreated, and chose to retreat from the north road instead.
Although many generals advocated fighting back from the original road, exterminating those arrogant Han people first, and then recapturing Liaodong City, Gao Yuan only took their words as a joke. If Liaodong City was reported to him as soon as it was lost, he might choose to go back and recapture Liaodong City. But now that Liaodong City has been lost for more than ten days, the emperors of the Sui Dynasty must have known the news, and maybe more Sui troops will be killed from the Yu Pass. In any case, he must first ensure that his remaining 50,000 soldiers and horses are withdrawn to the east bank of the Liao River, and then mobilize troops and horses from Liaodong in order to recapture Liaodong City, and even face a worse situation to deal with the possible eastward advance of the Sui army. At this time, he couldn't take any more risks, he couldn't be as crazy as that Sui general Li Jing. Li Jing is a madman, and he is only a general of the Sui army, but he is the king of Goguryeo, and now the city of Liaodong is lost, and the army on the east bank of the Liao River is in his hands, if they have another problem, then the defense of the entire east bank of the Liao River may collapse.
"Withdraw Wu Liluo first, and then make plans." Gao Yuan almost gritted his teeth and gave the order to abandon Yingzhou, how rare it was to take Liaoxi and capture Yingzhou, but now he has to take the initiative to give up, this is simply cutting his flesh. Before leaving, the angry Gao Yuan ordered that the Liucheng city of Yingzhou be burned and the people of Sui State in the whole city were taken away, so that they could help the Goguryeo army transport the goods and food looted from Yingzhou.
Billowing smoke rose, and Liu Chengchuan was burned to ruins.
At about the same time that Gao Yuan evacuated from Yingzhou, Yi Feng also officially led the car to leave Xijing and move towards Luoyang, Zhongjing. Accompanied by Yi Feng. There are also the two prefectures, three provinces, six ministries of the imperial court, the temples and the superintendents of each department, as well as the northern ya, the guards and horses. At the same time, all the wealthy families in Guanzhong were also required to migrate with them. It was a massive migration, as planned. More than 100,000 families will be relocated from Guanzhong in the entire Guanzhong area. Among them, more than 10,000 wealthy families will be moved to Luoyang and its surroundings, and more will be moved to Daibei, Youyan, Saishang, Liaoxi and other sparsely populated places in northern Xinjiang to enrich the border passes. Although this will aroused the dissatisfaction of countless wealthy families in Guanzhong, under the strong order of the emperor, they could not be stopped from moving according to the order. At present, the first batch of thousands of households to migrate with the car are those wealthy families and noble relatives and hundreds of official families, and the rest have also been included in the plan and will be relocated as planned in the future. In short, Yi Feng moved the Jingshi eastward. Then he will never leave the extremely powerful Guanlong Group in Guanzhong. Moving a large number of people out of Guanzhong is also to reduce the pressure on the population and land in Guanzhong, and at the same time enrich the border areas.
On this day, as soon as Yi Feng came out of Tongguan, he received a flying pigeon from Luoyang.
"Gao Yuanbei Zhenshan was defeated and captured, and surrendered!" The privy envoy Wang Bao personally rushed to report to Yi Feng.
Gao Yuan's capture was completely unexpected by Yi Feng, and it can even be said that no one would have expected such a result in advance, even Gao Yuan himself could not have imagined that he chose to retreat on the northern front, in fact, he chose a path of no return. When Gao Yuan burned Liucheng and retreated eastward, he took tens of thousands of Sui people captured from Liaoxi. With a large amount of looted money, cattle and sheep, etc., greatly slowed down the speed of his retreat. From Yingzhou to Yiwulu Mountain, 300 miles of road, it was originally a two-day journey at most. Gao Yuan's department walked for seven days, and only walked less than fifty miles a day. Gao Yuan couldn't have imagined that the Sui Dynasty not only had a madman like Li Jing copy him early. Qianli rushed to capture Liaodong City, and it was already according to the battlefield shape. The flying pigeon passed the book and transferred the Khitan people to intercept it in Yiwu Lu Mountain. He also transferred the Xi people to chase after him, and at the same time, the Xi people quickly went south to reinforce the Khitans, and the second eastern expeditionary army of the Sui army quickly arrived. As a result, when Gao Yuan rushed to Beizhen Mountain, he suddenly found that in front of them, the mountain pass that must be passed through had already erected a large five small and six camps, and it was not even too much to call it a city.
The camps that were erected like witchcraft blocked their retreat, and the white horses and green ox flags on the camps showed that it was the Khitans who blocked his way. This made Gao Yuan very surprised and secretly worried, when did the Khitans dare to jump out to stop his Goguryeo army, and what made him secretly shocked the most was how the Khitans quietly set up a group of camps here in a short period of time? How the hell did they do it, and why did he not even know what was going on here?
Li Jing seized Liaodong City on the south road, and there was a Sui army on the bank of the Liaohe River on the bank of the White Wolf River in Songshan on the west bank of the Liaohe River.
Gao Yuan had no way out, and in the end he only ordered a forcible attack on the Khitan camp.
When he gave the order to attack, Gao Yuan was still sighing in his heart, fortunately, the Khitans only had 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers and horses, but in fact, most of them were old and weak women. But after the attack began, he felt that something was wrong, the Khitan camp was unusually strong, and at the same time, the camp was full of horse pits, antlers, and many horses, and there were too many thistles sprinkled on the ground, plus that deep trench and high wooden fence wall, they were not just facing a simple fortress, but a well-defended castle fortress. The cavalry was forced to dismount and advance little by little, while the Khitans standing in the city, with their high fences and small villages supporting each other, made them pay far more casualties than he expected with every step.
With each step, countless soldiers fell. The Khitan people not only built these six walled cities, all kinds of fortifications, the most important thing is that they have a large number of bows and crossbows, as if every Khitan warrior is an archer, in addition to a large number of heavy crossbows and strong crossbows, and even when they get close to the walled city, there are stone throwing carts in the wall that begin to throw a large number of fist-sized and head-sized stones.
For a whole day and night, Gao Yuan paid thousands of casualties, and he didn't even touch the wall of the walled city.
Then, Gao Yuan panicked.
He did not advise on the opposition, ordered an intensified offensive, and he was deeply worried that he had fallen into a trap. The Khitans actually built such a strong camp here early to intercept him, which must be the layout of the Sui people behind the scenes. If he can't get through here, he will definitely end up surrounded by the Sui army that is rushing from all sides. Gao Yuan's senses were very keen, but unfortunately he wanted to leave, but he couldn't break it.
Gao Yuan ordered the soldiers to fill the ditch in front of the captured Yingzhou people, and then the Goguryeo soldiers carried improvised ladders to climb the wall. After all, this camp was built temporarily, the wall is only one zhang, plus the female wall, it is not two people high, and it is much shorter than the real city wall.
It's just that his ruthless move didn't succeed, the Khitans didn't care about the life and death of the people in Yingzhou, but there were those who dared to get close to the range, regardless of the people and horses, whether they were Han or Goguryeo, they all responded with bows and crossbows and feathered arrows.
After dark the next day, the situation became more and more unfavorable to Gao Yuan, and behind the Khitans, who were already in a state of exhaustion and were unable to defend themselves, a large number of cavalry suddenly appeared. It was not the Goguryeo people that Gao Yuan expected, and he did not have the opportunity to summon the Goguryeo people to relieve the siege, but the enemy he was most worried about was the Xia people, one of the three northeastern people who were attached to the Sui Dynasty.
The white swan flag fluttered high in the air, it was so elegant, but for Gao Yuan, it was as hideous and terrifying as the king of the underworld.
The Thunder Man only arrived with a striker, three thousand white swans, but they gave the Oga Mokai unprecedented support. The Great Agamo Society was already a little unable to support it, only two days, and there was still the support of these six walled cities, but there were still more than a thousand soldiers killed in the battle, and there were more wounded, and there was no support, he really didn't know if the various departments would collapse. After the arrival of the first group of the Thunder Tribe, reinforcements from the Thunder Tribes continued to arrive.
Gao Yuan felt frightened, and the Goguryeo people attacked again despite their exhaustion, but with the replacement defense of the new force of the Xia tribe, no matter how fierce the Goguryeo people attacked, they could only die more. When the sun rose on the morning of the third day, Su Zhi, the political envoy of Zuobu in Saibei Province and the patriarch of the Ahui tribe of the Xi nationality, arrived with the first army of the Xi people, and the whole 5,000 Xi cavalry, they faced the rising sun in the early morning, held the banner of the golden deer, and neatly appeared in the rear of the Goguryeo army.
The Goguryeo people were surrounded, and they could not advance or retreat.
Gao Yuan ordered to turn around to meet the Xi army who had just arrived at the battlefield, but the Khitans, who had been repairing all night, opened the door and went out of the village to kill. If two days ago, the Khitans were willing to come out of the village to fight, Gao Yuan couldn't ask for it, but now, he only felt the bitterness of despair.
The battle lasted until dark, and the Goguryeo people fought fiercely at first, but as time went on, they found themselves with more and more opponents. The Khitans, the Xi people, and then when the sun set in the mountains to the west, there were trumpets and trumpets, and another army arrived. Gao Yuan is no stranger to this banner, he knows that after the founding of the new emperor of the Great Sui, the army was divided into the Northern Ya Forbidden Army, the South Ya Mansion Soldiers and the Border Army of the Border Ya, of which the military flag of the border army is Xuanwu, and the military flag of the South Ya is Vermilion Bird, and only the emperor's Northern Ya Forbidden Army is the white tiger as the flag. As soon as the White Tiger Banner arrived, the Northern Ya Forbidden Army, which represented the emperor, arrived, which is also the most elite army of the Great Sui today.
Under the banner of the White Tiger, it was Han Sengshou, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council of the Great Sui and the marshal of the Liaodong Road March, who traveled day and night along the way, and finally rushed to the foot of Beizhen Mountain with the vanguard cavalry.
Due to the hurry, Han Seng Shou only took 5,000 light horsemen with him when he arrived at the foot of Beizhen Mountain, but these 5,000 horsemen became the last straw for the Goguryeo army. In the face of the rush of Sui cuirassiers, the Goguryeo army collapsed, and after three days of continuous fighting, they were already exhausted, and they had been supporting them in fighting by breaking through the enemy's position and returning home, but when the Sui army appeared, the exhausted Goguryeo people understood that they could no longer kill them. With a single breath, the Goguryeo army collapsed. (To be continued......)