Chapter 1104: The Bloody Battle of the Liao River
When Wang Junlin easily captured Nanyang Village in Annan County and attacked Daluo City, in Liaodong, the main armies of Dasui and Goguryeo also fought around the Liao River.
After the fiasco of crossing the river on the first day, under the desperate persuasion of the ministers, Yang Guang, the emperor of the Great Sui, finally rested for a day, and re-studied and changed the battle plan for crossing the river, and arranged the crossbow carts in the army on the river bank. Then tens of thousands of people were reorganized to build pontoon bridges, and this time two pontoon bridges were to be built.
The pontoon bridge had just been halfway built, and the Goguryeo people sent ballistae to harass them, but they were pressed back by a burst of crossbowmen commanded by Yu Wenshu.
At noon, more than 5,000 people died one after another, the pontoon bridge gradually approached the opposite bank, the Goguryeo people built an earthen fortress a hundred steps away from the shore, and after ambushing the earthen fortress with archers, they shot a large number of bridge builders and Minzhuang, and the soldiers of the Great Sui Prefecture carried a huge shield to protect the bridge with a raft.
The two sides shot each other with feather arrows and crossbows, and fought back and forth for most of the day, both sides were elite soldiers, and full of fighting spirit, killing intent soared to the sky, until sunset, tens of thousands of corpses were dropped on the river and under the river, and then they each stopped fighting and truce.
And that night, Yuan Taizuo dispatched 3,000 dead soldiers in a vain attempt to destroy the last remaining unbuilt pontoon bridge, and was taken over the position of Mai Tiecane, and the newly appointed Zuo Wuwei general Wang Rengong's ambushed soldiers and horses were arrested, and all the 3,000 Goguryeo dead soldiers were killed, and sandbags and stones were tied to their bodies and thrown into the Liao River to fix the pontoon bridge.
On the morning of the fourth day, Yang Guang ordered to mobilize more than 5,000 people, and gathered enough for 10,000 people, so that the soldiers were forced to continue to build the pontoon bridge.
Seeing that the pontoon bridge was gradually completed, Yuan Taizuo wanted to repeat the old trick, so he sent someone to put down the fireboat upstream again.
As a result, before the boat could float near the pontoon, it was stopped on the outside by the wooden stakes and iron cables prepared by Yuwenshu in advance in the river.
Last time, he lost more than 30,000 elite soldiers from the prefecture, Yang Guang was furious, remembering that Xu Jingzong, the commander of the Blue Guard, had written that the Goguryeo people might do something upstream, and he handed over the matter to Yuwenshu at that time, so he called Yuwenshu to scold him, and downgraded his title by one level, which is Yuwenshu, if he changes someone else, he will be directly beheaded by Yang Guang's order, such as Yuwenshu's younger brother, Yuwenkai, who single-handedly helped Yang Guang design and supervise the construction of Luoyang Xindu, was directly ordered by Yang Guang to be beheaded in front of a million army because of the pontoon bridge.
Yu Wenshu dared to be lazy this time, gathered his generals and staff to discuss for a night, secretly erected hidden piles on both sides of each pontoon bridge, and also raised 300 dead soldiers to swim across the river at night with a lot of money, using the rocks on the shore as the base, and secretly connected iron cables between the rocks and the wooden stakes and the wooden stakes, and the preparation was not inadequate.
But having said that, if Yu Wenshu had done this for the first time when he crossed the Liao River and set up a pontoon bridge, the more than 30,000 elite soldiers and two generals, and tens of thousands of people would not have died, so if Yu Wenshu made a mistake or negligence in this position on the battlefield, it would sometimes lead to tens of thousands of deaths.
The pontoon bridge stretched steadily under the light of the fire, and finally once again, at great cost, it was built on the river beach on the east bank of Liaoshui.
The pontoon bridge was connected, and the soldiers of Zuo Wuwei took the lead in howling across the river under the leadership of Wang Rengong.
In the battle four days ago, most of Zuo Wuwei's centaurs were killed with the wheat iron rod, and there was no successor to the coach. Wang Rengong was promoted from the position of General of Right Yiwei to the position of General of Zuo Wuwei because of his meritorious service in protecting the bridge, so he was anxious to make new contributions to reward the trust of His Majesty the Emperor.
And most of Zuo Wuwei's soldiers were killed by the Goguryeo people four days ago, especially Mai Tiecan, this person has always loved soldiers like a son, and his prestige among his subordinates is extremely high, and today all the Zuo Wuwei soldiers are bent on avenging their generals.
At this time, the surface of the Liao River was already blood-red.
Wang Rengong was a master of the Breaking Skill Period who cultivated external skills, holding a horse lance, and rushed to the front, and behind him, more than 300 spearmen and more than 3,000 sword and shield men lined up in a cone, striding forward.
This is a standard attack array of the Great Sui Mansion soldiers, Wang Rengong doesn't like to defend, the bridge deck behind him is too narrow, and holding the river bank will only make his side unable to perform. And rushing into the enemy to fight just relieves the pressure on both sides of the pontoon. As long as they can hold on to the offensive of half a pillar of incense, the Great Sui soldiers who continue to cross 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 was naturally victorious today.
Behind him were some old soldiers who had been on an errand for many years in Zuo Wuwei, and their combat experience and combat power were not comparable to those of Goguryeo soldiers. The armor and weapons of the soldiers of the Great Sui Mansion were extremely sophisticated. As long as the arrows of the Goryeo people hit the body, as long as they did not hit the key parts, the soldiers could often shout and fight after being hit by three arrows. As long as the Goguryeo people were slashed by the big horizontal knives in the hands of the government soldiers, their muscles and bones would be separated.
In a matter of moments, Wang Rengong had already killed four Goguryeo generals. At this time, a Goguryeo general rushed with an iron spear, trying to stab Wang Rengong directly to death with the speed of the war horse and the weight of the weapon. The Goguryeo general couldn't regain his momentum, and the war horse hit the tip of the frame heavily, and the horse died in an instant, the frame broke, and the rider flew high and fell to the feet of Wang Rengong.
Without waiting for the Goguryeo general, who had been smashed to pieces, got up from the ground, Wang Rengong directly picked it up and lifted it into the air.
"Zuo Wuwei, take revenge!" Wang Rengong looked up to the sky and roared.
"Revenge!" At this moment, they killed more than 2,000 Goguryeo soldiers, but they also lost nearly half of their own, and the remaining more than 1,000 dead soldiers shouted in unison, strode forward, and forced the Goguryeo people back a few steps.
Face to face, the infantry battle formation of the Great Sui Prefecture has not encountered an opponent in 20 years since the founding of the country. On both sides of the cone formation, the Goguryeo soldiers retreated, trying their best to avoid the bloodthirsty monster. There were clever Goguryeo soldiers who tried to move back to outflank and attack the back of the cone array, only to find that the Zuo Wuwei soldiers, who were constantly crossing the river, were automatically replenished to the end of the cone array under the leadership of the generals.
The sharp cone of death is getting bigger and sharper. Yuan Taizuo, who was watching the battle on the hill in the distance, noticed 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 Goguryeo soldiers shouted to protect their homeland and rushed to the tip of the steel cone very heroically.
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