Chapter 360: Last Stand

Wheat Iron Staff was killed on the East Coast.

In the face of thousands of troops, he was not afraid at all, and jumped onto the east bank, where he stood to inspire the countless soldiers behind him. Although he died under ten thousand arrows, it also inspired one Sui army after another to jump onto the east bank.

No one retreated.

Maybe he won't go, maybe others will hesitate, maybe today's crossing will die.

But now, more and more Sui troops rushed to the east bank.

On the other side, the craftsmen and men began to erect the fourth, fifth and sixth pontoon bridges in the Liao River.

"Shoot the arrows!"

East Coast.

Back to the pontoon.

Behind is the turbulent Liao River, and there is no way back.

The Sui soldiers who crossed the river quickly formed a formation.

The big shield spear was in front, and the spear was pointed diagonally in front of them, and they were thirty or fifty in a formation, with the crossbowmen in the middle, and the spear and shield soldiers outside.

Facing the galloping Goguryeo light horsemen, they gritted their teeth and released arrows.

Someone falls all the time.

But no one flinched.

More Sui troops also rushed over on the pontoon bridge, and every time a Sui soldier crossed the river, the Sui army became stronger.

The small army formation of thirty or fifty people slowly expanded into a hundred formations.

Then several small formations were combined into a formation of hundreds of people.

Eventually, they joined forces and moved forward.

There are more and more spears.

The shield walls are also getting stronger.

The sound of rumbling horses' hooves.

"Heavy cavalry, Goguryeo's armored cavalry has come up."

Someone shouted.

But no one backed back.

The Goguryeo people dispatched heavy cavalry, although their light cavalry relied on their horses and arrows, wandered on the edge of the Sui army's infantry formation, ruthlessly harvesting the lives of the Sui army, but while it fell, someone immediately made up for it, and the Sui army stubbornly protected the landing point on the east bank of the three pontoon bridges, and the number was increasing.

The Goguryeo people were in a hurry.

They sent out heavy cavalry.

Heavy cavalry, all in armor, lined up in several rows and rushed over.

A government soldier stabbed the spear in his hand into the ground, and then half of his body hugged the spear, and the shield soldier directly squatted on the ground, putting most of his body behind the shield.

"Kill!"

The earth shook.

The power of the iron cavalry charge can make people's hearts jump out, and in the face of the heavy cavalry surrounded by iron armor, the foot soldiers look very fragile and small.

But there was still no one backing down.

Bang.

Heaven and earth collide.

The soldiers only felt that the sky was falling apart, and their ears were filled with the huge vibration sound, and the heavy cavalry finally collided, and the huge impact force directly broke the spear and knocked the shield away.

The army was knocked out of the mouth, and the foot soldiers were trampled by iron hooves.

"Die!"

A soldier with a broken spear drew his horizontal knife and stabbed a heavy horseman with a desperate stab.

But the sharp horizontal knife failed to pierce the heavy armor.

The knife is broken, and the person dies.

Another soldier blushed and shouted, raising his spear and stabbing at him.

A soldier slashed at the horse's hooves with a sword.

Although the whole body is heavily armored, the four hooves of the war horse still have no armor.

With a knife and a broken hoof, the heavy rider fell to the ground.

The thousand-pound men and horses fell, and the huge momentum still knocked down several government soldiers, and rushed forward a few feet away.

One after another military formations were broken by the Goguryeo heavy cavalry, although the heavy cavalry of the Goguryeo people was obviously not as good as the heavy cavalry equipment of the Sui army, but after all, it was still a heavy cavalry.

Look at it from afar.

The Sui army formations on the east bank were smashed and broken one after another, and the heavy cavalry was castrated.

Several heavy horsemen finally rushed to the shore bridge.

There, the rod of wheat still stood proudly.

The Goguryeo heavy cavalry collided directly, and several government soldiers shouted, "Protect the general!" ”

They knew that Mai Tie Rods had been killed, but they still did not allow the Goguryeo people to desecrate the corpse of the general.

A hammer struck, and the soldier was directly knocked away, fell, and died.

But immediately another person rushed forward without fear of death, and they swore to protect the corpse of the wheat iron rod.

Knock flying.

Knocked down.

Pierce.

In front of the heavy cavalry with armor all over his body, a single soldier was no opponent at all.

A group of Goguryeo light horsemen rushed in, and they took the opportunity to zipline and lassoe the rod of Mai, and then dragged his body away.

The Sui army's soldiers looked at it with tears in their eyes.

"Take back the general!"

Countless people shouted, and then rushed to the Goguryeo people without hesitation.

At this moment, the Sui army on the entire battlefield on the east coast seemed to be working hard again, they were crazy, they didn't want to kill with knives and guns, not only did not retreat, but rushed forward.

The Goguryeo people thought they would be able to crush the Sui defenders on the east bank in one fell swoop, drive them down the river, and then burn the pontoon bridge to repel the Sui army's crossing of the river.

But the Sui army did not collapse, and no one turned around and jumped into the river.

In the face of the formidable Goguryeo cavalry, they would rather die in battle than retreat.

Goguryeo's heavy cavalry could no longer rush, and there was nowhere to rush, and in front of them was the rolling Liao River.

The heavy cavalry, which lost its impact, failed to drive the Sui army into the river, but fell into the Sui army's frantic encirclement and slashing.

The heavy cavalry that can't rush up is not even as good as a heavy infantry.

The Sui army frantically tore at them, slashing spears with knives, chopping horses' hooves, grabbing helmets, and Goguryeo heavy cavalry fell into despair.

The Goguryeo light cavalry was desperately rushing to kill, but no matter how they rushed and killed, the Sui army would not retreat.

On the bridge, the Sui army was still coming, and they did not hesitate or retreat.

Yang Yichen, the general of the Right Seventh Army, also led the elite light cavalry to the east bank.

Even Pei Shiju, the newly appointed general of the Right Fifth Army, was a civil servant, and rushed to the east bank with a horizontal sword in his arm.

More and more Sui troops came ashore, and soon, the first light cavalry was assembled.

Yang Yichen rode his horse and led the army to launch a counter-charge.

The battle was fought together from morning to dusk, and it was a bloody day.

The Sui army has built seven pontoon bridges successively, and the number of soldiers and horses crossing the river has reached 60,000 or 70,000.

The Goguryeo people finally couldn't stand it anymore.

Although they poured into the city to fight and came with 50,000 cavalry, the Sui army first had the brave performance of the wheat iron staff, and then the emperor personally supervised the battle, which was incomparable to the Goguryeo people.

Several more pontoon bridges were nearing completion, and more Sui troops set foot on the east bank battlefield.

The Goguryeo people suffered heavy casualties, but they did not have the determination and courage of the Sui army to fight to the end.

When they saw that they were no longer able to stop the Sui army from crossing the river, they finally sounded the horn of retreat.

As soon as the horn sounded, the entire Goguryeo army retreated.

They didn't want to stay for a moment, and ran frantically.

"Kill!"

Yang Yichen was covered in blood, and even changed three horses, and when he saw the defeat of the Goguryeo army, he did not have the slightest intention of letting go, and led his subordinates to catch up.

Countless Sui soldiers also chased after them with a roar.

In today's battle, the blood debt must be paid in blood!

The Goguryeo army fled in disarray, and the Sui army pursued like a tiger.

chased and killed for dozens of miles all the way, until he reached the bottom of the strong city in Liaodong.

The Goguryeo people fled into Liaodong City, and Yang Yichen ordered to stop the pursuit!

Emperor Yang Guang finally set foot on the land on the east bank of the Liao River, and the land under his feet was completely stained red with blood.

"Your Majesty, our army won a great victory, beheading more than 18,000 Goguryeo people and capturing more than 3,000 people."

Yang Guang couldn't be happy, "What about the wheat iron rod, has his body been found?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, I haven't found it yet, and it is said that I was taken back to Liaodong City by the Goguryeo people."

"Send someone to come back and tell the Goguryeo people that even if it is a thousand taels of gold, I will redeem it."

Duan Wenzhen, the general of the Fifth Army of the Right Army, the secretary of the Ministry of War, died just now, and the general of the Zuo Tunwei and the seventh general of the left died in battle, and Yang Guang was heartbroken with the loss of two generals in a row.

This is his henchman.

"Damn the Goguryeo people, kill all the 3,000 captives!"

Originally, all armies had set up envoys to surrender, and Yang Guang, who had always said that he would treat the captives preferentially, was also annoyed.