Turbulent Times Chapter 1104: The Bloody Battle of Liaohe

When Wang Junlin easily captured Nanyang Village in Annan County and then attacked Daluo City, in Liaodong, the main forces of the Sui Dynasty and Goguryeo also fought around the Liaohe River.

After the disastrous defeat on the first day of crossing the river, under the desperate persuasion of his ministers, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty finally took a rest for a day, and re-studied and changed the battle plan for crossing the river, and adjusted the ballista in the army to line up on the river bank. Then reorganized tens of thousands of people to build pontoon bridges, and this time they planned to build two pontoon bridges.

The pontoon bridge had just been half built, and the Goguryeo people mobilized their crossbow carts to harass them, but Yu Wenshu commanded the crossbowmen to shoot them back.

At noon, more than 5,000 Min Zhuang died one after another, and the pontoon bridge gradually approached the opposite bank. The soldiers of the Sui government used rafts to carry huge shields to protect the bridge.

The two sides shot at each other with feather arrows and crossbows. They fought back and forth for more than half a day. truce.

And that night, Yuan Taizuo dispatched 3,000 dead men in an attempt to destroy the last unbuilt pontoon bridge, and was taken over by Mai Tiezhang. The horse caught him straight, and killed all three thousand Goguryeo dead soldiers, tied sandbags and stones on their bodies, and threw them into the Liao River to fix the pontoon bridge.

And in the early morning of the fourth day, Yang Guang ordered the mobilization of more than 5,000 civilians, and another 10,000 civilians were gathered to force the soldiers to continue building the pontoon bridge.

Yuan Taizuo saw that the pontoon bridge was gradually being built, and wanted to repeat the old trick, so he sent someone to set down the fireboat upstream again.

As a result, before the boat floated to the pontoon bridge, it was stopped outside by wooden stakes and iron cables prepared by Yu Wenshu in the river channel in advance.

The last time more than 30,000 elite soldiers were lost, Yang Guang was furious, remembering that Xu Jingzong, the commander of the Blue Yiwei Mansion, had written a letter saying that the Goguryeo people might be doing tricks upstream, and he handed over the matter to Yu Wenshu at that time , so Yu Wenshu was called here and scolded, and his title was lowered by one level. This is Yu Wenshu.

The younger brother, Yu Wenkai, who helped Yang Guang design and supervise the construction of the new capital of Luoyang, was directly ordered by Yang Guang to be beheaded in front of a million troops because of the pontoon bridge.

How could Yu Wenshu dare to be negligent this time, so he gathered his generals and staff to discuss all night, secretly erected hidden bridge protection piles on both sides of each pontoon bridge, and raised 300 dead men to swim at night with a lot of money. Crossing the river, using the rocks on the bank as the foundation, we secretly connected the iron chains between the rocks and the wooden stakes, and between the wooden stakes. The preparation was not insufficient.

But having said that, if Yu Wenshu had done this when he crossed the Liaohe River for the first time and built the pontoon bridge, the more than 30,000 elite soldiers and the two generals would not have died. A mistake or negligence of a person in the position on the battlefield can sometimes lead to the death of tens of thousands of people in vain.

The pontoon bridge was steadily extended under the fire, and finally, at a great price, it was once again built on the river beach on the east bank of the Liaoshui River.

When the pontoon bridge touched the shore, the soldiers of Zuo Wuwei took the lead to cross the river howling under the leadership of Wang Rengong.

In the battle four days ago, most of Zuo Wuwei's troops died with Mai Tiezhang, and the coach had no successors. Because of his meritorious service in protecting the bridge, Wang Rengong was promoted from the position of General Youyiwei to the position of General Zuowuwei. Therefore, he was eager to make new contributions to repay the trust of His Majesty the Emperor.

The majority of Zuowuwei's soldiers were killed by Goguryeo four days ago, especially Mai Tiezhang, who has always loved soldiers like sons, and has a very high prestige among his subordinates. Today, all Zuowuwei soldiers want To avenge their general, at this time one by one bravely and desperately, the soldiers worked together, and forced the Goguryeo people who rushed up to seize the bridge with a desperate heart to push away from the river bank.

At this time, the surface of the Liaohe River was already blood red.

Wang Rengong is a master of the breaking stage who practiced external kung fu. He rushed to the front with a long horse in his hand. Behind him, more than 300 spearmen and more than 3,000 sword and shield fighters lined up in a spear box. A cone that moves forward in large strides.

This is the standard attack formation of the Sui government soldiers. Wang Rengong doesn't like to defend. The bridge deck behind him is too narrow. And rushing to fight among the enemy troops just relieved the pressure on both sides of the pontoon bridge. only

If you can persist in the offensive for half a stick of incense, the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty who are constantly crossing the river can calmly form a second army formation on the river beach.

And when the second army formation was formed, the Goguryeo people could not escape defeat, and the Great Sui would certainly win today.

The ones following behind him are old soldiers who have served in Zuowuwei for many years, and their combat experience and combat power are not comparable to those of Goguryeo soldiers. The armor and weapons equipped by the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty were extremely sophisticated. When the feathered arrows of the Koreans hit their bodies, as long as they didn't hit key parts, the soldiers of the government often still shouted and fought fiercely after being hit by three arrows. As long as the Goguryeo people were slashed by the big horizontal knives in the hands of the soldiers, their muscles and bones would be separated.

In a short while, Wang Rengong had beheaded four Goguryeo generals. At this time, a Goguryeo general rushed forward with an iron gun, trying to stab Wang Rengong to death with the speed of the horse and the weight of the weapon. The Goguryeo general was too late to catch up, and the horse hit **** the tip of the frame. The horse died instantly, and the frame broke. The rider flew up high and landed at Wang Rengong's feet.

Before the Goguryeo general got up from the ground, Wang Rengong picked him up and lifted him into the air.

"Zuo Wuwei, revenge!" Wang Rengong roared up to the sky.

"Revenge!" They beheaded more than 2,000 Goguryeo soldiers at this moment, but they also lost nearly half of themselves. count steps.

Faced face to face, the infantry battle formation of the Sui government soldiers has not encountered an opponent in twenty years since the founding of the country. On both sides of the cone formation, Goguryeo soldiers retreated one after another, trying their best to avoid this bloodthirsty monster. Some clever Goguryeo soldiers tried to move back to outflank and attack the back of the cone formation, but found that Zuowuwei soldiers who crossed the river continued to make up to the end of the cone formation under the leadership of the generals.

The cone of death is getting bigger and sharper. Yuan Taizuo, who was watching the battle on the hill in the distance, realized that the situation was not good, and mobilized heavy troops to try to squeeze the steel cone inserted into his heart. Under his command, countless Koguryo soldiers shouted to protect their homeland, and rushed to the tip of the steel cone very heroically.