"Look at you, if you hadn't said that you were afraid that the million Sui army would retreat immediately when they learned that the back road was cut off, Zhuo County would probably not be able to stop it, and they would have to use themselves as bait to put themselves in danger!" In Liaodong City, Pei Xiu said to Wang Ze with disgust.

The lady was angry, of course Wang Ze had to make amends, after all, the Sui army fought to the death to attack the Xia army, of course, it would not be easy, at the critical moment of the previous city defense battle, even Pei Xiu once climbed to the head of the city to assist in the defense, and the Sui army was never able to conquer this fortified city in the three-day offensive and defensive battle, Pei Xiu also had merit.

"It's been a hard time! Look at the days are almost over, calculate that we can solve all the so-called million Sui troops in these two days, and then I don't have to worry so much, and let the children worry about it themselves, and our days will be free! ”

When Wang Ze comforted his daughter-in-law, Yang Guang couldn't bear it.

"Kill me! Kill me~~~"

Yang Guang's eyes were red at this moment, like a rabbit with red eyes, the Sui army had been attacking Liaodong City for six days and nights, but the seemingly crumbling Liaodong City had held out until now and had not been conquered.

Even though the Sui army used all imaginable methods and all the weapons it could use, and paid the price of more than 100,000 casualties, it still failed to conquer this city that was built during the Goguryeo period.

The banner of the Xia Kingdom fluttering in the wind on the head of the city seemed to satirize the Sui army, and under the city wall were piles of dead corpses, if it was not the cold winter of Liaodong at this time, I am afraid that after hundreds of thousands of casualties, the plague would have broken out in the camps of both sides.

"King Jin, King Jin!" More than ten senior generals of the Sui army knelt down and begged, "I really can't attack anymore, my sons and daughters have suffered heavy casualties, even if we capture Liaodong City, what face will I have to go back to Guanzhong to see the father and elder in Guanzhong!" Please~~~"

"Okay, you dare to resist my military order, do you think that I don't dare to kill the generals?" Yang Guang no longer had the calmness he had when he spoke to Pei Ju at the moment, he stared angrily at more than a dozen generals and said, "Attack me immediately, I'll only count three times!" ”

"One!"

"Two!"

Just when Yang Guang was about to pop out of his teeth with a "three", he suddenly fled back from the north and a large group of Sui cavalry turned out to be the Sui army that had attacked Xuanyu County before, didn't they go to pursue those fleeing Xia troops, how could they suddenly be defeated?

"King Jin, it's not good!"

Suddenly, a general with bright armor appeared in front of Yang Guang, it was actually Wang Rengong, the main general who led the army north, who was once full of confidence, and said anxiously to Yang Guang at this moment: "The king of Jin is not good, the reinforcements of the Xia army are coming!" We need to arrange for the retreat of the army in a hurry! ”

"What are you panicking about, we still have more than 400,000 troops now, and the remaining 500,000 people are also an army, and we can't attack the city, but what can we do if we have a million troops in the field, and the Xia army reinforcements are coming?"

When Wang Rengong conquered Goguryeo in the original history, he faced the attack of tens of thousands of Goguryeo troops, and defeated them with only 1,000 elite soldiers, which shows that his military talent is not in vain.

But at this moment, he was also a little frightened in the face of the reinforcements of the Xia army: "King Jin, the reinforcements of the Xia army are completely different from the Xia army we met before, when we fought with this Xia army, they used a weapon called a musket, which is enough to penetrate the armor of our army within fifty steps, and kill if you hit the vital point within a hundred steps!" ”

"This is only the level of crossbow arrows, how can you escape from defeat?" Yang Guang didn't believe Wang Rengong, after losing so many troops in Liaodong City, Wang Rengong lost more than 100,000 troops, and Yang Guang couldn't wait to behead him on the spot.

"King Jin doesn't know that the muskets equipped by this Xia army are just that, but they are actually equipped with a weapon called artillery that is extremely powerful! In that battle, thousands of artillery pieces were fired at us, and a single cannon could shoot two or three miles away, and more importantly, this kind of artillery could even be dragged by two horses to follow the army. ”

"Ahh At this time, Yang Guang was finally shocked, but he knew that the Sui army's trebuchet could only project less than 300 steps, that is, a distance of about 400 meters, and the Xia army's trebuchet was more powerful, but it only projected about 500 meters, and it only had a range of one mile.

In addition, trebuchets are very inconvenient to transport due to their large size, and most of them only carry some parts that are difficult to manufacture, and then improvised before the siege.

However, the artillery used by this Xia army not only has a range of more than twice the range of trebuchets, but can even use war horses to pull forward, which can be used in field battles, so it is a huge innovation in terms of range and ease of action, even if the power is smaller than that of trebuchets, it is infinitely powerful.

Just when Yang Guang was pondering, he suddenly heard a continuous sound in the far northeast, as if it was thunder, but everyone knew that there would be thunder in Liaodong in winter, and this must be the reinforcements of the Xia army.

There were 400,000 Xia troops who came, including the Xia army that had retreated from the Liaodong front before, and the newly supported army, and the army that used artillery was mainly the new reinforcement of more than 200,000 people.

In the face of the fierce artillery attack of the Xia army, even if this kind of artillery is not too advanced, it has been able to suppress all the firepower of the Sui army, and the Sui army has to keep retreating after a few blows in this kind of attack.

When the Xia army in Liaodong City and the reinforcements outside the city launched a counterattack, all the Sui troops were helpless and quickly retreated, if it were not for Yang Guang and Yang Siren personally commanding the elite troops to give the Sui army some confidence, I am afraid that these Sui troops would have collapsed long ago.

This retreat was pushed to thirty miles away, and the Sui army re-established the camp and made all the fortifications to prevent the Xia army from sneaking attacks at night.

This time Yang Guang was really anxious, originally there were only four days of food left in the Sui army's camp, and today because of the Xia army's rapid counteroffensive caused the army to retreat in a hurry, there was actually a part of the grain that was not transported back in time, and now the grain and grass in the camp can only be used by the Sui army for two days.

At this time, although the Sui army was defeated again and again, since it had not collapsed, it still had a certain field ability, but if there was no food supply, then the defeat of the Sui army would come soon.

In the face of such a crisis situation, Yang Guang was still unwilling to fail, and he sent someone to urgently send a message to Yang Jun, who was fighting against Han Zigao's troops, ordering him to lead the Turkic coalition army to come here to support him, if he defeated the Xia army outside Liaodong before Han Zigao's Xia army cavalry arrived, he still had a chance to get it back.

However, what Yang Guangwan did not expect was that he had not waited for his messenger to leave for long, but he received an urgent letter from Yang Jun asking for help, and Han Zigao, who had been lingering on the north bank of the weak Luoshui, led more than 400,000 cavalry to suddenly go south and launch a powerful offensive against the Sui army and the Turkic cavalry alliance.

Even if Ji Xiang had already left the weak Luoshui and went to Zhuojun at this time, Han Zigao still had more than 400,000 cavalry under his command, while the corresponding Yang Jun and Daliye only had 300,000 cavalry, and they could only barely parry in the face of the Xia army's large-scale attack, and had to ask Yang Guang for help again and again.

But at this time, where could Yang Guang send any reinforcements to Yang Jun, and he was so anxious that he couldn't think of a good idea when he walked around the big tent.

"King Jin, it's not good!" Pei Ju walked into his tent softly again, "I don't know who spread the news that our food is about to run out, this time almost all the soldiers know about the lack of food in the army!" Even the news of the fall of Zhuojun has leaked! ”

Yang Guang's face changed suddenly, he quietly lifted the curtain of the big tent and looked out, only to see that the Sui soldiers in the camp had already been talking about it, and even the soldiers who were supposed to be in charge of the sentry were there for a round, and it seemed that the news had really leaked.

The attack on Liaodong City commanded by Yang Guang, the king of Jin, had completely failed, and at this time the soldiers of the Sui army suddenly learned that there was not much food in the camp, and at the critical time of the Xia army's all-out counteroffensive, the news that Zhuo County was attacked by the Xia army suddenly spread throughout the entire Sui army camp.

The continuous bad news spread, so the morale of the Sui army, which could still hold on, suddenly declined, which was a fatal blow to the Sui army.

"King Jin, just now two soldiers suddenly went out of the camp to join the summer army!" Wang Rengong came to report with a bad face, "Now that the news of the army's lack of food has been leaked, how to act next, please ask King Jin to make a decision as soon as possible!" ”

Yang Guang thought that after the arrival of the Xia army's reinforcements, he should face all kinds of terrible situations after the situation was unfavorable, but he did not expect that the Sui army would surrender to the Xia army so early, and now it is only rumored that the army is short of food, but the army in front can still be fed.

Now these Sui soldiers suddenly defected to the Xia army in an organized manner without waiting for the news to be verified, and it can only be said that they have lost all confidence in the Sui army.

In addition, there is another important point, before the war, the Sui Empire government had been promoting to the soldiers that the Xia State was the country of Yidi, and once the Sui army was defeated, they would all be killed, but now that they have been fighting for so many days, the Sui soldiers also know that the opposite side is also a country established by the Han people.

Since the Xia State is also a country established by the Han people, it doesn't matter if it surrenders, and the previous battle with the Xia Army was also because each was its own master, so the Sui soldiers surrendered to the Xia Army without any psychological pressure at all, and even began to have soldiers who had already surrendered loudly to promote the Xia Army's prisoner of war policy in the distance.

"These Xia people are poisonous enough!" At this time, Yang Guang and other generals of the Sui army had already understood that the so-called defense line had been broken before, and the crumbling of Liaodong City was the strategy of the Xia army, and they used such a big pie to tie themselves up, in case they learned that Zhuojun had fallen and immediately retreated, but now it is too late to understand.

In the face of the all-out attack of hundreds of thousands of Xia troops, the Sui army was defeated and retreated, and at this time, Yang Guang, who had always been conceited, finally understood that he could not achieve any more victories, and he could not even save his life if he delayed any longer.

After thinking about this, he secretly contacted Yang Jun, and only took Pei Ju, Wang Rengong, Yang Siren and other more than ten generals and their personal soldiers to lead the cavalry to quietly leave the Sui army camp and go northwest that night.