Chapter Twenty-Five: Hand-to-Arms

Yi Yin Mo rushed eastward, and when he meandered west along the Daliang River, he was extremely proud, and he was thinking of seeking unparalleled merits for his ancestors.

In the blink of an eye, in a battle on the west bank of Liangshui, the elite soldiers and horses divided their troops and left, and were broken one by one by the Han general Lu Yi, and sent more than 8,000 people, but in just two days, only more than 2,000 people came back alive...... In the blink of an eye, there were only about 3,000 people left in his army.

Although he tried to organize soldiers and horses to defend the dangerous ground on the east bank of Liangshui and repel the pioneer soldiers and horses pursued by Lu Yi across the river, Yi Yinmo could not feel the slightest joy in his heart.

He was defeated, there was no chance to forge ahead, and the back grain road was cut off by bandits who appeared out of nowhere...... More than 3,000 people were isolated and helpless, and they had no strength to fight again.

"It is long overdue to listen to the staff, return the whole division, return the whole division." On the bank of the Daliang River, Yi Yinmo's eyebrows and eyes were crowded together, and he looked at the west of the river with endless bitterness and sighed, "Where can I still ...... What about the whole division? ”

The defeat of the army is the defeat of the army, and it is necessary to withdraw if it is time to withdraw, and if it is not withdrawn, even the remaining 3,000 people will not be able to escape back to the territory of Goguryeo.

More than 3,000 people who were lucky enough to escape rose up and withdrew eastward with regret.

"Tell the soldiers on the warship to let them transport the baggage back to the city of Susheng Bone, and tell the defenders to send 3,000 soldiers and horses to the border to meet them!" Yi Yinmo gave orders to the disgraced generals, and seeing that they were all dissatisfied, he said angrily: "Who are you all showing with your faces drooping? There are still 6,000 soldiers and horses in the Bone City, counting us, there is no lack of strength! On the way back, there were many traps and delayed the pursuit of the Han army! ”

As Yi Yinmo thought, although Goguryeo was defeated on the west bank of Daliang River, it was not without the strength to fight. In order to encircle Pan Ling on the border, he also left 3,000 people, plus the soldiers and horses of Susheng Bone City...... Their soldiers and horses were sufficient, Yi Yinmo did not think that he was defeated, and the defeat in the battle was only because the rear grain road was cut off, and the soldiers lacked food and their morale was low.

According to Yi Yinmo, the Han army occupied a favorable position and held the riverbank. The Juli soldiers forcibly crossed Liangshui and suffered more than 5,000 casualties, but even so, the Han army was also defeated by a school captain's department. If they retreat to Goguryeo, if the Han army dares to pursue, they will still be beaten to the head and bloody!

However, Yi Yinmo's idea was not recognized by the generals under his command.

The Goguryeo soldiers were actually no different from the Han army, even if they differed, they were only slightly inferior in long-range crossbows, but their Tan bows were equally strong. As for the armor, it is the same leather armor and iron armor, and the same is true for the weapons...... However, this battle was indeed defeated in terms of morale, but not just because of the lack of food and grass.

Before the war began, Yi Yinmo killed Xiao Jia who led 3,000 people to help him fight at the border, and it was no wonder that the morale of the soldiers was high!

Then there was the fact that the responsibility for the defeat was attributed to the soldiers, who did not dare to fight to the death...... The original division of the army into two divisions with more fights and less is encroached upon by the Han generals and Yiyi, how can they win?

It's just that no one dares to say this to Yi Yinmo.

Not far from Daliangshui, at a position close to the border of seventy miles, Yi Yinmo's rout army was ambushed from the forest by the dead soldiers led by Cheng Tian Chou of Xuansu County, and both sides suffered casualties.

When he arrived at the border of, Yi Yinmo got his wish and saw the '3,000 people' stationed in the deep forest guarding the border.

"What about soldiers? Soldiers! ”

In the wild roar, Yi Yinmo felt the blood in his heart rush up to his head...... When he left here last month, he clearly assigned a full 3,000 troops to stay here, one to guard against the more than 2,000 Han troops who fled in the mountains, and the other to turn over the rear grain route in case of future troubles.

It's not that he didn't think that when he came back, there might be a battle in the middle, but as long as he had to leave two thousand, right?

Now in front of him, there were only a handful of more than 600 people, and they were all different from each other, and the empty camp was standing in a mess.

"Just this little person, how many people are there? Less than a thousand! Yi Yinmo scolded the generals who looked like junior officers who were left behind: "Is this how you restrain the soldiers? ”

"The world, the son of the world is angry......"

"What anger do I have? You! In a fit of rage, Yi Yinmo stabbed a sword into the chest of the officer who answered, and then drew out his blood-stained iron sword and pointed at the other person and asked, "Where have all the people gone, tell me exactly where they are!" ”

"Hui Shizi, Hui Shizi, there is news from the official road, there are bandits, bandits snatching grain and grass, killing my people's husband and protecting the army...... As soon as he went to level the thief, he never came back. Qu Jiang, who was asked, lowered his head and didn't dare to look directly at Yi Yinmo, who was in a frenzy, and stumbled and said: "Later, the news of the defeat in the battle at the front came back, and there were fugitives every night, fugitives. ”

Speaking of this, he didn't dare to say any more, and only to listen to Yi Yin Mohan's cold voice and ask: "What do you mean, there are fugitives because this son was defeated in the front, so it's all my fault?" ”

"The subordinates don't dare, the subordinates don't dare."

"Don't dare?" Yi Yinmo was about to raise his hand to kill this person, when he saw his staff running quickly and shouted: "Shizi, Shizi!" ”

The staff was dressed in a big hat, and he didn't care about the dust on the ground, so he ran over quickly with his clothes in his hand. Yi Yinmo is now a frightened bird, and when he heard the sound, his hands trembled in fright, and he hated the Han people even more, and asked through gritted teeth: "What is the panic, what happened?" ”

"Han army, Han army cavalry, less than ten miles!" The staff's face turned pale with fright, ten miles is a moment away for the cavalry, and these people are looking for death on the open official road! "Shizi quickly think of a way, the rear army has lined up to meet the enemy!"

"What an enemy! Quickly let the soldiers take refuge in the woods and engage the cavalry on the official road? Yi Yinmo couldn't help but be even more anxious when he heard this, glared at the general fiercely, turned the iron sword and said coldly: "What are you still doing in a daze, why don't you lead your subordinates into the forest quickly!" The order was given, and the sergeant went into the forest and returned fire to the cavalry with a longbow! ”

The sound of horses' hooves was heard closely!

Thanks to the dense forest slopes next to the official road on the border between Han and Goguryeo, if it was an open flat land, it was afraid that it would be leveled by the Han cavalry in an instant.

But even so, the Goguryeo soldiers on the official road were not comfortable...... Because it wasn't just the cavalry that pursued them, but the Koji tribe with a small number of cavalry!

Both the Duliao camp and the Liyang camp have a small number of pack horses and inferior horses, and they are not good at riding battles, but they are very good for pursuit.

The sound of horses' hooves reached nearly a thousand, and thousands of Goguryeo rear troops crowded into the official road and the forests on both sides, forming a formation on the road with spears, and the longbowmen hid into the forest to ambush the pursuing cavalry, but ...... The sound of horses' hooves stopped.

Lu Yi chased at the front of the military formation, and seeing that he was approaching the rear of the Goguryeo people, he could see the formation of the spear and the forest, and hurriedly ordered: "Order, dismount and form a formation, and wind up the crossbow!" ”

The Goguryeo strong bows were generally stronger than the Han Chinese archers, and they had a good range from the sandalwood bows of Lelang County, and even at a distance of 130 paces, they could still shoot and wound only cloth-armored foot soldiers.

If it is a projectile, it is two or three hundred steps.

Lu Yi was unwilling to test the range of the enemy's bow with the lives of the soldiers, so he immediately ordered the soldiers to dismount and form a formation far beyond the enemy's range, and the soldiers carrying the large shields of the skin carried the spears forward, and the strong bows and crossbows in the rear followed the army formation slowly forward under the protection of the shields.

"Light troops into the forest, ready to outflank the enemy's flanks!"

As Koji yelled out the order, the heralds behind him conveyed the order to every corner of the line...... The so-called light soldiers are the brave people in the three battalions, the thickest ones are no more than leather armor, and there is no iron weapon on the body except for the blade, the lightest, and they are good at connecting the hand grid with the white blade.

However, despite the success of the offensive, Koji did not order a pursuit, but commanded his soldiers to abandon their mounts and slowly advance forward, ready to attack.

The nearest foot soldier is still five miles away, and at this time there are only more than a thousand soldiers around Lu Yi, and he cannot fight the enemy army.

Following the order of Koji Yi, two or three hundred light soldiers on the left and right penetrated deep into the forest and moved quickly in two directions to approach the enemy archers. And the Chinese army was always four or five hundred paces away from the rear of the enemy army that was slowly retreating.

In addition to the light soldiers, there are only more than 400 bows and crossbows beside Lu Yi, and now he does not release arrows, the enemy still can't figure out his depth, and the official road and the number on both sides block the enemy's gaze...... But once the arrows are released, after letting the enemy know their own strength, they are afraid that it will attract a counterattack by the Goguryeo army.

Lu Yi did not rush forward, although the Goguryeo rear army was only a few hundred, but it had the courage to sink the boat, Qu Chang took the lead in roaring: "Draw the bow, release the arrow!" ”

Accompanied by the not very pleasant pronunciation of Chinese, hundreds of sandalwood bows were thrown into the sky, and hundreds of arrows rained down on the head of the Koji Yibu.

The courage of the Goguryeo army was something that Ling Yi had never imagined, he thought that he would scare the other party for a while, but he didn't want to be so decisive...... But they didn't know that in the eyes of the Goguryeo people, the Han army was chasing after it was a situation of endless death.

On the official road, in the dense forest, dense arrows shot out.

Doo doo doe!

With the sound of arrows falling on the shield, from time to time unblocked arrows fell on the Han army, and a rain of arrows caused more than a dozen people to be shot over.

"Sons, open your crossbow and return fire!"

Now that the battle has been forced to begin, Lu Yi no longer thinks about it, and shouts to order people to release arrows, "Draw the bow, put on the arrows...... Two arrows away, shoot! ”

The Han army had more shields than the Goguryeo army, and the elites of the three battalions led by Lu Yi also had a considerable amount of leather armor, which could resist the rain of arrows from a hundred and fifty paces away. The Goguryeo army was different...... Most of them were archers, wearing only cloth and leather armor, and some did not even have helmets and leather bands.

The damage that Liaodong County's standard strong bow can do at this distance is negligible, and the range of the strong crossbow is also somewhat off, and it can be seen from Lu Yi's eyes that this arrow attack can only cause some chaos when the opponent's morale is low.

However, his bow and crossbow are not really killers, and it is enough to cause chaos, because ...... In the dense forest, the light soldiers carrying small ring swords and short swords let out a roar and roared, and the short soldiers met each other.

And behind Lu Yi, there was the sound of most of his own foot soldiers marching in line!