Turbulent Times Chapter 1089: Who is to blame

However, seeing that it took thousands of lives to build the pontoon bridge, the millions of soldiers of the Sui Dynasty were undoubtedly excited and murderous.

With Yang Guang's order, the three vanguards of Zuo Wuwei, Zuo Wei and You Wuwei started at the same time, rushing to the east bank of the Liao River against the flow of people who had withdrawn from the pontoon bridge. Under the organization of the generals, the soldiers who crossed the shore quickly formed a team.

The army of the Sui Dynasty is powerful all over the world. For many years, it has been composed of heavy armor soldiers, sword and shield soldiers, pike soldiers, light armor soldiers, and archers. , the archers were at the end, and small phalanxes soon formed on the other side of the river.

Judging from this process alone, the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty deserve to be called the most powerful army in the world, and they are much stronger than the elite army of Goguryeo on the other side of the river at this time. It is to protect their homeland, so they are angry enough, and their morale and determination are actually higher than those of the Sui army.

There were no less than 100,000 Goguryeo people gathered here. At this time, they howled loudly and angrily, and swarmed over like locusts, covering the sky and covering the earth.

The Goguryeo people tried to seize the river beach and pushed the Sui army who had just landed into the cold water. However, the phalanx established by the soldiers of the Sui government was as majestic as a rock. It not only smashed the attacks of the Goguryeo people to pieces, but also continued to extend the position to both sides of the bridge, making room for the brothers who crossed the river later. Plenty of room to settle down.

However, it looks like this on the surface, but what is the real situation?

General Li Zixiong, who has been stationed in Liaodong for a long time, feels that something is wrong. He feels that the process of building the pontoon bridge just now went too smoothly. , there are other means, but they have not been used.

The most important thing is that Li Zixiong knows that the commander in chief of Goguryeo's army is Yuan Taejo, the prime minister of Goguryeo. This old thief is known for his cunning and will never be so easy to deal with.

Li Zixiong glanced at Yang Guang, whose face was red and excited, hesitated for a while, and did not dare to tell Yang Guang, because he knew that no matter what he said was right or wrong, it would not do him any good. If his conjecture is correct, it may be too late at this time. Afterwards, Yang Guang will become angry with him instead. If he is wrong, he may be punished by Yang Guang for disturbing the morale of the army.

At this time, the two generals Qian Shixiong and Mai Tiezhang who commanded the vanguard army, these two are fierce generals who have broken their achievements, have just witnessed many of their own family members being shot and killed, and they have already been murderous, so they rushed to kill them in person. In front of him, it can be said that he is invincible.

Facts have proved that the army of the Great Sui Dynasty is still the strongest army in the world, and soon the Goguryeo people couldn't stand it anymore, but Li Zixiong, Li Yuan, Pei Shiju and others felt that something was wrong, because everything went so smoothly today.

But like Li Zixiong, no one dared to talk to Yang Guang.

Until a certain moment, amidst the sound of fighting, a certain sound suddenly came from the upper reaches of the Liao River, and everyone felt that the world became a little brighter.

Afterwards, many people discovered that there was a flame in the upper reaches of the Liaohe River.

"No, protect the pontoon." Yu Wenshu was the first to react, and shouted with a pale face.

However, it was already too late, the river was rushing, and more than 20 boats that were set on fire went down the river from the upper reaches and crashed into the pontoon bridge.

The army of millions in the Sui Dynasty could only watch, because even if they jumped into the river desperately, it would be too late.

Yang Guang's face also changed drastically, and he shouted sharply: "Push those folks into the river to block the fire boat."

Yu Wenshu implemented Yang Guang's order immediately, and it became a mission. Thousands of people who were rushing back from the river were forced to push and pushed into the Liao River by bows and arrows.

Yang Guang tried in vain to use these thousands of people to block these dozens of fire boats, no matter whether these thousands of people have the ability or not, this is impossible.

This is not to say that these thousands of people will not be able to accomplish this task, but Yang Guang has forgotten that these thousands of people and craftsmen are also living people. You can live if the bridge is built, but it is different now, the emperor wants them to die now, why should they die.

Thousands of people couldn't get on the river, but when they saw the fire boat, no one would stop them. Everyone dodged, and some even took the initiative to destroy the floating bridge in anger.

"Ah..."

"Boom boom boom boom..."

While millions of Sui soldiers shouted in unison, more than a dozen fire boats crashed into the not very strong pontoon bridge.

The pontoon bridge was knocked apart immediately, and a fire broke out. Amidst the screams of the Tai Sui soldiers who were crossing the river, they were either set ablaze or knocked into the river.

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Across the Liaohe River, on a small hill behind the battlefield, Yuan Taizuo was ecstatic when he saw that his plan was easily successful, and ordered: "All the troops attack, and in front of the emperor of the Sui Dynasty, kill the most elite soldiers who have crossed the river. I will kill tens of thousands of troops."

As the pontoon bridge was destroyed, the Goguryeo people who had been defeated before suddenly gained courage and shouted to launch a counterattack against the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty. In the woods in the distance, behind the hills, tens of thousands of Goguryeo ambushes emerged and surrounded the more than 40,000 Fu soldiers who had crossed the river layer by layer.

On the other side of the river, Yang Guang led an army of one million jumping with hatred, his eyes were red, and he yelled again and again, but there was nothing he could do. There were not enough craftsmen and materials to build the pontoon bridge, and time was running out.

Today's defeat is inevitable, although before counting breaths, everyone saw that victory was not far away. But the **** Goguryeo people are extremely cunning, showing weakness, luring the enemy, destroying bridges, ambush, and encircling, one after another.

Li Zixiong yelled in his heart, if the emperor does not come to the imperial conquest, he will lead the battle against Goguryeo, he can swear that he will not be easily fooled.

Yu Wenshu is blaming himself, and Lan Yiwei Mansion is blaming himself

He said that he had received news that the Goguryeo people might be tampering in the upper reaches of the Liaohe River. Yang Guang, who was conceited with information, didn't pay much attention to it, so he handed it over to him.

Yu Wenshu did indeed send people upstream today, but the people he sent never came back. He was feeling a little uneasy just now, but he didn't dare to advise the emperor to order the troops not to cross the river. , because he knew very well that whoever prevented His Majesty's army from crossing the river, His Majesty would kill him.

Yang Guang was already extremely angry. Up until now, he still hadn't thought that this war was fought to such an extent that it had a direct relationship with him.

Among the millions of soldiers of the Sui Army, some were already weeping bitterly, mourning for the **** battle on the other side of the river and Pao Ze struggling in the river. Some people widened their sad eyes and sent the brothers on the pontoon bridge to the last journey of their lives.

The general Qian Shixiong, who led the people to rush over earlier, was trying to organize the soldiers to form a defensive formation, while the second wave of people who had not yet rushed off the pontoon bridge roared and ordered to get to the shore The Sui soldiers jumped into the river on their own initiative, wading through the water and rushing towards the opposite bank.