Chapter 5: Homelessness (Part 3I)
The suspicious tactics in the afternoon worked very well, and when the Goguryeo people besieging Bo Shan heard that a large Sui army of tens of thousands was coming from the direction of Wugu City, the soldiers and Qu Shuai were really nervous for a while. Just when everyone secretly regretted that they did not capture Bo Shan Village in time, the scouts wandering around the periphery quickly returned, and the Sui army suddenly retreated about twenty miles away from Bo Shan Village, and now had withdrawn from the Black Bone City, and was quickly turning to Liaoxi along the road they came.
Hearing this letter, the generals and commanders breathed a sigh of relief. He immediately ordered the brothers to continue to hold the camp so that the Sui army in Bo Shan Zhai would not take the opportunity to break through the siege. As for the offense, let's put it aside for the time being. There are a lot of heavy guys such as bed crossbows in the village, and it is a little impossible to put their own brothers in it for the sake of thousands of people who are dying of starvation.
In fact, the scale of the village was very small, and the number of defenders in it would not exceed 4,000 at most, and if the Goguryeo people were determined to attack the village, they could crush the defenders' defenses in two hours. However, after the glorious victory of the Sui army in the surprise attack on the Sashui Coast, the Goguryeo people were accustomed to choosing cheap and were no longer willing to deal with a resisting enemy. The Sui army had no food, and this fact is known to the world. As long as the village is surrounded, it will not take ten days for the people to starve to death. The quality of the armor, swords, spears, and bows and crossbows made by the Great Sui Dynasty was a hundred times stronger than that made in Goguryeo.
With this kind of wishful thinking, more than a dozen teams from different cities, all holding the banner of Goguryeo, surrounded the village. Some of them were regular troops of the Goguryeo court, some were powerful local armed forces from the domestic city, Cangyan Village and Gobezhai Village, and some were simply tribes of the Yan tribe, because they coveted the bounty offered by the Goguryeo people, and secretly came to Liaodong to fight the autumn wind behind the back of the lord of the country. Anyway, in the eyes of the soldiers of the Great Sui, all the clans in eastern Liao look about the same, and everyone is not afraid that the matter will be revealed, which will lead the Great Sui to settle accounts with the Jin.
More than a dozen soldiers and horses gathered in one place, and it was inevitable that there was some poor cooperation between them. And the flaw in it is Liu Hongji's chance to start tonight.
In the middle of the night, Liu Hongji and Li Xu quietly approached the enemy with 300 brothers. In addition to their mounts, each soldier also led two more war horses in their hands. Each horse had a large bundle of oily dry firewood tied to its tail and back. In order to prevent the horse's hooves from making a sound, Liu Hongji also wrapped the horse's hooves with grain bags. Although this resulted in a large amount of military rations having to be abandoned in the woods, the Crusade Army had been completely wiped out, and no amount of food could be used.
Yu Wenshu took more than 30 people and gathered the remaining more than 500 war horses and more than 1,000 stone grain at a place about two miles north of the Goguryeo camp. In addition to guarding the food, they are also responsible for creating momentum. So everyone had a dozen bundles of dry wood in front of them, and everyone held a trumpet in his hand, in addition to the fire breaker.
Under the cover of night, Liu Hongji, Li Xu, and Wushitong each took a brigade of brothers and quietly approached the Goguryeo camp wall from three different positions on the north side. When it was almost dark, Liu Hongji wore clothes stripped from the Goguryeo soldiers and observed nearby, and found that the defense of this area was extremely weak, I don't know if it was due to carelessness or really didn't understand, the enemy army actually did not set up antlers. Moreover, the walls of their camp were very rudimentary. The outermost wooden fence is less than five feet high, and horses can easily jump over it at a high speed.
The team led by Li Xu was the first to approach the enemy camp, and halfway through, he put his feather arrow on the bowstring. At the entrance of the enemy camp, several sentries of unknown nationality were chatting around the fire, and one of them suddenly heard some strange movement, raised his head and looked around, and just turned his eyes to the correct position, a feathered arrow was inserted under his throat.
"Ugh!" "Ugh!" The faces of the Goguryeo sentinels were instantly suffocated to blue and purple. He groaned in pain and danced his arms in despair, when suddenly, fresh air rushed into his lungs from his throat, and he collapsed with a satisfied smile.
The soldiers who launched the first wave of attacks were archery masters specially selected by Li Xu. Seventy steps of in-shot fixed target, everyone will not miss. The effect of this round of strikes was surprisingly good, and the Goguryeo soldiers who were in a hurry did not wait for the alarm to be raised, and they were shot by Li Xu and his brothers by the fire.
"Accelerate!" Li Xu put away his bow, drew his sword, and commanded in a low voice.
A hundred strong men with mortal intentions immediately kicked their horses in the belly, and the horses in pain neighed with their heads held high, but their tongues were strangled by their masters with sticks and pisos, and they could only make a low wheezing sound. The extremely depressed war horse spread its anger on the ground, and the horse's hooves struck the ground so hard that it crossed a distance of seventy paces in a few breaths, and jumped over the wall of the Goguryeo camp.
"Set fire!" As soon as Hei Feng's body hit the ground, Li Xu immediately ordered loudly. Immediately, he drove Black Wind across the fire, lit the dry wood on the other two horses, and then quickly released the reins in his hand. The flames quickly extended from the horse's tail to the horse's buttocks, and the war horse, which was tasked with the task of stepping on the camp, spread its four hooves, and pierced into the depths of the company camp like a meteor.
More than 600 meteors quickly moved in the Goguryeo camp, and behind the meteors were 300 snow-bright steel knives. After releasing the fire horse, Li Xu, Liu Hongji, Wu Shi Tong and others immediately attacked, and without waiting for the enemy to make any reaction, they had already stepped on the first camp.
"Ignition!" Seeing the flames coming out of the enemy camp, Yu Wenshi shouted orders. Thirty soldiers quickly lit more than a thousand scattered piles of firewood and straw. Then they sounded the horn of the attack.
"Woo-woo-woo", in the middle of the night, the horn sound that suddenly burst out was earth-shattering. In the distance, it was as if hundreds of thousands of troops were rushing towards the Goguryeo company camp with torches.
The entire Hutou Mountain was awakened by the continuous sound of horns.
Li Xu didn't want to give the enemy a chance to wake up, and the black knife in his hand seemed to be eager for bloodthirsty, and every time he swung it, he took a life. He had a torch in his left hand, and every time he used his right hand to block the blockade in front of him, the half-asleep Goguryeo people sent to the Buddha country, and the torch in his left hand immediately licked the tents of the enemy army. Forced by the fire, the Goguryeo people who were hiding in the tent and trying to pick up their weapons to resist had to rush out naked, and before their eyes could adjust to the fire outside, their bodies had been directly overturned to the ground by the cavalry behind Li Xu with war horses.
Three huge fire dragons quickly extended towards the center of the camp. With the fire dragon as the central axis, there are hundreds of fireballs tumbling and spreading irregularly, which are war horses carrying firewood and grass. They were destined to die tonight, but they traded their death for the hope of countless people's survival.
The tongues of the warhorses are strangled by the horses, and no matter how panicked and painful, they cannot make a loud neigh. The warriors all had sticks in their mouths, and no matter how nervous or excited, they would not let out a roar. Killing, they're just killing silently. Silently push death forward. This strange killing was more terrifying than the sound of horns in the distance, and the Goguryeo people, who had just woken up from their sleep, quickly collapsed, and many people fled from the camp naked, scattering in all directions without thinking about it.
But their enemies knew no mercy, and as soon as there was a living creature in front of them, they did not hesitate to ride their horses and step forward. The movements of the half-asleep and half-awake people were far less flexible than usual, and the Goguryeo people were often trampled to the ground by the horses' hooves before they could let out an exclamation. Then, there is the front hooves of another warhorse. The sheer weight is beyond the weight of flesh and blood, and it takes less than three horses to end a life. Blood and fire intertwined to forge the road to hell, and on both sides of the road, the Goguryeo soldiers, farmers, and herdsmen who had been trampled but not trampled to death struggled and screamed, screaming and despairing.
The samurai Tong was so noisy by the screams of the Goguryeo people that his scalp was numb, and he was not as "experienced" as Li Xu and Liu Hongji, and today was the first time he led his troops to fight. Therefore, the threat of his fire dragon is much smaller than that of the other two fire dragons. This situation inadvertently led to a vicious circle, in which some Goguryeo soldiers, who had just woken up from their sleep, instinctively took the darkness near the samurai temple as a safe place and rushed to the vicinity in desperation.
The samurai took the slow advance as a disgrace. He was born in Shanglu, if he didn't have the feeling of sympathy with Li Xu, he wouldn't be able to climb to the position of the brigade rate for another three years. Usually everyone jokes, and occasionally satirizes the anxious mentality of some outbursts clinging to the wealthy, and the speaker has no intention, but he always feels that the other party is sarcastic in his ears.
In the entire state, the timber business was almost entirely controlled by the samurai. If the samurai family is not considered a nouveau riche, the other petty traders can all be called beggars. Therefore, the samurai Tong has been holding his breath in his heart, trying to find an opportunity to prove that the children of the "poor family" are no worse than the descendants of the official family. Children from "poor families" can also glorify the entire family with their own actions.
Several unarmed Goguryeo men held their swords in front of the samurai's horse, and without hesitation, he swung his sword and slashed at it. The other men were obviously formally trained, and although they had no armor to protect them, they were not in a hurry, one jumped diagonally away to attract his attention, and the other rolled low and sideways, trying to perform a miracle before being trampled by the horse's hooves. The other jumped straight from the side and pounced in mid-air into the saddle of the saddle.
Samurai Tong hurriedly withdrew his sword and slashed the man who pounced in mid-air into the air, and then gently pulled the reins and stepped on the Goguryeo warrior who tried to cut the horse's leg with the front hooves of the war horse, and at this moment, the guy who jumped away diagonally pounced back and slashed directly at the shin of the samurai tong.
"Die!" A voice suddenly erupted in the shadows. Qi Poning lowered the lance and picked the Goguryeo people who attacked the samurai Tong on the tip of the lance.
The speed of the war horse was too fast, and the long lance rushed straight ahead with the corpse of the Goguryeo. The guy who is usually lazy in training inadvertently replaced the samurai tong as the blade of this brigade, and the pressure around him suddenly increased, but the long lance in his hand did not obey the call at all because of the extra weight of one person.
More than a dozen steel knives slashed at Qi Poning at the same time, and the unclothed Goguryeo people seemed to be crazy, regardless of the danger of being trampled to death by the war horse.
"I'm finished!" Qi Poning swept over the two people with a long lance indiscriminately, and then closed his eyes. For a moment, he regretted it a little, and then, a peace welled up in his heart.
Drunkard's note: Sui history, Liaodong was defeated, the fierce general Xue Shixiong's army was besieged more than 100 times in Baishi Mountain, and it rained on all sides, Xue Shixiong selected 200 cavalry as a death squad, charged vertically, broke through the siege and returned.
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