In the coastal area of the Korean Peninsula, the naval division of Laihu'er fought three general battles with the Goguryeo naval division, sinking 67 enemy warships.

At present, the Goguryeo Inferior Sailor and the Hunshui Sailor have withdrawn into the Hunshui, which is an inland river after all, and the sea ships cannot give full play to their advantages in the inland river, and the biggest drawback is that the sea ships that come to protect the children carry a large number of soldiers and enter the inland river, which is particularly easy to run aground.

And it is not possible to play a numerical advantage.

Therefore, it is necessary to unload a group of soldiers in advance, Zhou Fashang, as a pioneer, after entering the muddy water, has been looking for a suitable landing site, the draft of the big ship is too deep, without the blessing of waves and wind, the speed is extremely slow.

Since ancient times, inland water warfare can be arranged with a wide variety of obstacles, such as barrages, throwing rocks into the river to set up artificial reefs, fire rafts, nailing wooden stakes and so on.

The trick that Goguryeo is using at the moment is called assault wood, that is, cutting down trees, cutting them into pieces of logs, sharpening them at both ends, throwing them into the river, and rushing downstream to ram the enemy ship with the help of the water.

This thing alone can hardly cause any damage to a big ship like the Sui Army, but if there are too many of them, this kind of impact is still extremely terrifying.

The barrage dam on the Yalu River will also use this thing when the gate is opened in the future, because the water volume is not large when the gate is opened, so it will directly use the charge wood to wash the dam.

But the premise is that the gate must be opened, because when the gate is opened, the water has a flow velocity, which can drive the storm wood to hit the dam, and if the gate is not opened, the impounded lake water is stationary.

Zhou Fashang ordered four huge ships to be connected end to end, lying across the river, blocking the charging woods, while the large ships in the rear were urgently unloading their troops.

The boats are closely connected to each other, with planks erected in the middle, and the boats in the middle of the river are moved to the ships near the shore and finally landed.

There were no ambushes on both sides of the strait, so the landing of Zhou Fashang's troops went smoothly.

As soon as they landed, they needed to form a formation to prevent enemy attacks and cover the landing of the main force of Laihu'er.

All the armies landed on the north bank of the river, because Pyongyang was in the north.

"It's strange, this is already the hinterland of Goguryeo, why haven't you found any traces of the enemy?" Zhou Fashang wondered.

Adjutant General Guo Chang said: "The rangers have been dispatched, if there is an enemy, we will know as soon as possible." ”

Zhou Fashang nodded: "Order, unload the guard's war ship, continue to march east along the river, and pursue the remnants of the enemy ship." ”

The big ships of the Sui army's naval divisions are equipped with slap rods, this thing was created by Yang Su when he built the Wuya ship, and it is completely a weapon for inland water warfare, Zhou Fashang fought the battle of Sui to destroy Chen, and is familiar with inland water warfare, knowing that the remaining Goguryeo fleet is already vulnerable in front of the Great Sui warship.

After unloading the soldiers, the hull of the ship floated up, and it was already possible to continue upstream.

Zhou Fashang lined up his army and took the lead in marching in the direction of Pyongyang.

From here to Pyongyang by land, it is more than 160 miles, and the waterway is similar, and the water flows completely from the edge of Pyongyang.

But the Sui army had no choice, the load was too heavy, and it was impossible to pass by boat, so it could only be taken by land.

That night, Zhou Fashang's army entered a county town less than 100 miles from Pyongyang, and although he had strictly ordered his subordinates not to kill indiscriminately, half of the Goguryeo civilians in this county town were killed.

Of course, there were not many people in the county town in the first place, and when the news of the defeat of the naval division came, all the county towns and villages around Pyongyang had fled in the direction of Pyongyang.

Around the hour, Zhou Fashang received military information that an enemy army was already coming towards them, because it was night, and the number of enemy troops had not yet been discovered.

"The baggage has not yet kept up, and it is not appropriate to engage in battle at the moment, so I ordered all armies to defend themselves and not to rush forward, and wait until the dawn to find out the situation."

His 20,000 men were stationed in this unknown county town, and the main force of the guards would stay by the sea to build barracks and establish a temporary dock for large ships.

After nearly a month of turbulence at sea, the soldiers needed to adapt to the feeling of land, so in the early stage, they could not engage the enemy army, and it took a period of adjustment.

Besides, Yuwenshu hasn't come yet.

Yang Wanshi is a relatively timid person, Yang Xuanting and Yang Yuanqing of the old Yang family, these are all fierce generals who charge into battle, but Yang Wanshi will never charge into battle.

Because he was afraid of death, the horizontal knife on his waist was never pulled out.

Below the mountainside of Lotus Mountain, the corpses were piled up, and half of the mountain was stained red with blood, but these Goguryeo miscellaneous soldiers who attacked the mountain did not have the slightest intention of retreating.

After catching a few captives and interrogating them, Yang Wanshi learned that these people were all civilians on the peninsula, and the food at home had been looted by the officials and soldiers, and all the green seedlings had been trampled on.

Pick up a Sui army arrow, reward a bucket of grain, kill a Sui army, reward five buckets of grain, capture a pair of treasure armor, and reward a stone of grain.

What the hell, I didn't scavenge your grain, and I didn't step on the seedlings, so you came to me to find food?

Yang Wanshi suddenly felt that these barbarians were really boneless, and they were all forced to do this by the officers and soldiers, and they didn't rebel? Instead, they were fooled into beating me?

If this had been placed in Hebei, it would have been the opposite.

"Aren't these barbarian mongrels brainless?" Staff brother Shu Li said.

The current Lotus City, heavy losses, although the enemy army is a group of miscellaneous soldiers, but it can't stand too many people, the Sui army here, will always be tired, I cut ten or eight, not tired, I cut twenty, my hands are weak.

"If you keep holding on to it, I'm going to die here, or I'm a barbarian, I'm an uncivilized savage at all," Yang Wanshi was already hesitating, whether to withdraw or not.

If you don't withdraw, you can't bear it, let's withdraw, how can you explain when you go back?

The last time I was in Hejian, I fled because I abandoned the city, and I already had a major demerit punishment, if it weren't for Yang Ming fishing him, this kid wouldn't know where to gamble and play women in Jingshi at the moment.

If you run again, I'm afraid the prince won't be able to hold it for him.

Not to mention anything else, his uncle Yang Yue dared to cut him.

"The general needs to supervise the army in the direction of the city wall, and now the soldiers are impetuous, and it will be even more difficult if you are not present to suppress the formation," Ge Shuli persuaded him.

Lao Tzu is not going! I was afraid that the cold arrows that suddenly came out of nowhere would kill me.

"You go to the front to overseer the army, but there are those who retreat, behead!" Yang Wanshi said.

How old am I? You let me go, I am one of your staff, I don't have a military position, who will take me seriously?

"This kind of thing still has to be done by the general himself, and his subordinates don't have the prestige of the general," Ge Shuli was embarrassed.

Yang Wanshi scolded helplessly, turned around and took down his treasure armor from the armor frame, put it on with the help of Ge Shuli, and then took more than 50 of his relatives to the front line.

"Sons, listen to me, the feats of the twelve turns are waiting for you, it is difficult now, and you will be happy in the future, and a lot of money and food women are waiting for you,"

Yang Wanshi, under the protection of the shields that accompanied him around him, shouted:

"If you die here, you should have your reward, Lao Tzu will spend it for you, woman, Lao Tzu will sleep for you, but if you can all live, in addition to the reward of the imperial court, Lao Tzu will leave you another copy here, melon cowards, the female baby in our guan, waiting for you in the bed in her hometown, kill Lao Tzu."

After shouting here for a long time, Yang Wanshi took his relatives to the other side of the mountainside to shout.

Communicate with ordinary soldiers, don't say that kind of crepe words, how vulgar they come, this can get closer to the soldiers, especially the kind of banter and jokes, it will be closer.

It can be regarded as spiritual encouragement, after all, when the two armies are fighting, it is extremely important to breathe a heart.

And their old Yang family, the ancestral skill is to fool the soldiers.

Pang Tao's Mingcia Temple was originally the most stressful, and the outermost city wall changed hands several times, and he took it back.

The miscellaneous soldiers composed of civilians have no discipline to speak of after all, and they do not have much combat effectiveness, but for the sake of that mouthful of food, they can be regarded as free.

At first, they couldn't get up, so they began to take advantage of the night to quietly touch the top of the mountain, not to kill the enemy, but to steal food, this method is still very effective, every day hundreds of people sneak into the top of the mountain, but no one successfully steals food.

Military rations, which are all strictly guarded, how can you succeed in stealing.

Pang Tao's eyes were already bloodshot, and his heart was about to collapse, he couldn't finish killing, he really couldn't finish killing.

In fact, the Goguryeo miscellaneous soldiers who attacked the four cities, and the civilians who rebelled in Shandong, were similar in nature, they were all for a bite to eat, and the people took food as the sky, and if you really tasted the feeling of not being able to eat for three days, then you can do anything for the sake of stuttering.

In the prosperous times, then pull down your face to beg for food, and in troubled times, then risk your life to rob it.

The horizontal knife in Pang Tao's hand had already curled up, and his hands trembled, and he was about to lose his grip.

It's not that he doesn't want to withdraw, it's that he can't withdraw, he and his cousin Pang Ben, who have followed the prince since the time of King Hedong, can't embarrass the prince.

It doesn't matter if you die, your family and the prince will arrange it, but if you run away, then there will be nothing.

In the middle of the night, a scout came to report that his cousin Pang Ben's 2,000 elite heavy cavalry had passed through his defensive position, as if to deal with the main force of the enemy army in front.

Governor Xin Shixiong ordered them to hold on for another seven days, and after seven days, the main force of the Grand Governor would pass their defensive line, and at that time, they could withdraw and breathe a sigh of relief.

Pang Tao burst into tears: "Whether Lao Tzu can carry it for another four days is a question." ”

Then, he got up and moved his muscles and bones, came to the water tank, picked up the water ladle, poured a scoop of water, and then said to his relatives:

"Let's go, Lao Tzu is still twelve heads away, there are 100 people, and the four turns of Huai Renwei are waiting for Lao Tzu."

One of his relatives laughed: "Doesn't the general want to seal the Pillar Kingdom?" ”

Pang Tao raised his foot and kicked the man's thigh, and said with a smile: "My ancestral grave didn't grow that grass." (End of chapter)