Chapter 41: The Han Rides the Red Sea
The defeat of Goguryeo's Liangshui and the defeat of Susheng Gucheng was not due to the lack of strength of its soldiers. It is conceivable that when they went out to the west to fight with the Han Dynasty, all the troops were selected from the most elite and brave soldiers under their command, how could such an army be weak.
But the key is that in terms of generals, they are much worse than Yanbei. Goguryeo and Buyeo fought for many years, but the tactics of both countries were the same, after all, the two sides were evenly matched, and after two years of fighting around a mountain range, what good means could they have on flat land?
What's more, the general Shangyanbei took out the most brave and warlike Lu Yi and others under his command, and almost completely delegated power in the battle array, but what about Goguryeo? Before the real battle, Yi Yinmo first killed a small plus who led 3,000 soldiers, and later made a wrong judgment on the division of troops, causing the battle situation to lose troops and generals.
When you stay in the city of Bones, even if you have the heart to rise up, you can resist the army of 10,000 with 5,000 troops...... If Yanbei was Yi Yinmo, he would withdraw directly from the city and burn all the Susheng Bone City with a fire. The city can be rebuilt if it is gone, but if the Han army hits here, it finds that the Susheng Bone City has no danger to defend, so it can only retreat to the mouth of the sleeping tiger.
In that way, the pattern of Goguryeo will be larger.
However, there is no regret in the world to take medicine, the new king Bogu was in a hurry after knowing that his second son Yi Yinmo was defeated in Liangshui, and spurted blood in front of the palace discussion, and fell in the middle of the palace, and then fell ill. Now presiding over state affairs is its central Daisuke and the main bookkeeper, after the battle of Liangshui, Bogu and Yi Yinmo in the country prestige greatly reduced, especially now that the two princes are not in the royal capital, the monarch is angry and unable to preside over the state affairs...... Daisuke and the master finally have a chance to control the government.
Like that Dong Zhuo of the Han Dynasty neighbor in the west!
The two countries are not far apart, but the communication of information is not smooth, especially in recent years, the war has continued, and the border is often blocked, which makes the news lack an effective way to disseminate information. Now that Dong Zhuodu has been dead for almost two months, their minds are still fantasizing about how wonderful it is to control the government of the Han Dynasty.
This is not wonderful, especially when Goguryeo is facing a strong enemy like Yanbei, and the whole country is not wonderful.
Yi Yin Mo's letter for help penetrated to the domestic city, and he also knew that Yi Yin Mo was not only defeated in the Han Dynasty, but also did not even have the ability to block the Han Du Liao general, and was promoted to the bone city by the Han army in just half a month, and the nearly 20,000 troops in Yi Yin Mo's hands are now only 5,000 people.
The shocking bad news made it difficult to suppress the fear in my heart, and now the Goguryeo Kingdom has a great feeling in my heart, which is no less than the intensification of the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the feeling of hearing about the Qiang Rebellion in the northwest.
If Yanbei really wants to come to the city, what will they do?
Guozhong Daisuke immediately decided that the Bone City of Susheng must be kept in the hands of Goguryeo, and if the western portal is lost and falls into the hands of the Han people, I am afraid that what is left for them will only be to move the capital again!
In view of the current chaotic situation and the lack of soldiers available in the country, the Goguryeo master book was almost like a gambler placing a bet, leaving only 1,000 bullets in the domestic city of 3,000 Wang troops to suppress the market, and the 2,000 most elite Wang army and the 4,000 soldiers handed over by various ministries again, and sent 6,000 people to gallop north along the way to aid the city of Susheng.
It's just that the support army's road to the north has not yet been completed, and it is greeted by the people who escaped from the Bone City...... The city of Susheng Bone was slaughtered, and thousands of homeless people could be seen eating in the wild along the way for twenty miles. He Hunlu, the general of the royal army, who had lived in the palace for a long time and was known for his bravery, blocked the people's request to distribute military rations to the homeless, and for this reason, he had a bad relationship with the generals of the 4,000 troops of various departments.
Dajia's troops are not like the royal army, the three thousand royal troops are all from the nobility of the country, and any soldier is enough to serve as ten generals, but the troops are all from civilian backgrounds, where can I see the tragedy of cannibalism in the ancient books happening in front of me, so they allocated nearly half of the army food to help the people who fled from the city of bones, and at the same time, every sergeant gritted his teeth with hatred for the familiar name.
Han, Duliao General Yanbei!
In recent years, this name has been well known to women and children in Goguryeo, and no one can ignore this young general who suddenly started in Liaodong in recent years and continued to the Han Dynasty to divide the princes of Youzhou...... But Gongsun, Hit Montenegro, and Woo Dong Zhuo, his outstanding military exploits became his pronoun, and perhaps in the future, these exploits will be followed by 'Tu Guli'.
There is a reason why He Hunlu, the general of the Wang army, is reluctant to give grain and grass to the people, since they distributed the grain to the displaced people, the displaced people who followed their army have gathered more and more, and there is almost no suspense. With this group of locust-like wanderers, they would not have been able to make it to the inner city alive, and even if they did, what would they do? They don't have the capital to start a new life. When they saw the army that had recovered the city, they all followed the army and marched towards the city.
They are not people's husbands, they are not easy to restrain and the chaos they cause can be imagined, not to mention that they are still consuming the grain and grass in the army every day.
The generals who sulked with him at that time are now completely relieved, and they just kowtow and admit their mistakes.
He Hun Lu didn't appreciate it, but just walked past the general who bowed his head and admitted his mistake, and said leisurely, "You take them in, if you meet the Han cavalry in the field, see how you end!" ”
As if confirming his words, a few days later, when they approached the Bone City of Susheng only a few dozen miles, scouts from the northwest reported back and discovered the enemy's situation.
"Generals, cavalry, a lot of Han cavalry!"
In fact, there is no need for scouts to talk more, the red silk and conspicuous long flags on the hillside all indicate that the feared army, the Han army.
Red, the banner is red, the armor is red, and even the horse's chest and cover are red! On the slope of the mountain, which was no more than 500 paces long, a terrifying sea of red was revealed...... He Hun Lu clenched his war knife tightly and stabbed out a sentence from between his teeth, "Who knows, how many cavalry there are behind that mountain!" ”
"Formation, formation! Defend against the enemy! ”
In order to recapture the city, only the king had more than 700 bantam horses in the entire army of 6,000 people, and many of them were noble officers who only used them for transportation. Cavalry was of little use in siege, so apart from officers' mounts and pack horses that hauled siege ordnance, there were only four hundred real cavalry.
Two or three hundred years ago, the Han neighbors tried countless times to fight the Huns, a more powerful nomadic tribe in the north, against the cavalry, and although the Han Dynasty gradually became dominant, they also paid the price.
He Hun Lu was born in Goguryeo and was familiar with military books and knew how to bow and horse, and immediately issued an order to the whole army: "Put the siege ordnance outside to stop the enemy from attacking!" ”
The military order is good, but those displaced people who have long been frightened by the Han army have become real chaotic people at this moment, the great enemy has long forgotten the pain of the army to save them from starvation, some people drop their baggage and even grab a few handfuls of military rations and immediately run into the distance, and some people rush into the military formation that is changing formations in order to save their lives, disrupting their own orders.
In the midst of the chaos of the army, thousands of cavalry on the hillside came with billowing smoke and dust, and He Hun Lu shouted loudly: "Tan archers, release arrows!" ”
As if he had known that he would respond like this, Tai Shici, who was in the lead, brandished his halberd and ordered the cavalry on the left and right: "The cavalry disperses and shoots from west to north!" ”
With this military order passed from mouth to mouth among the cavalry, more than 2,000 horsemen exploded from the field in an instant, and suddenly the figures of the Han cavalry were everywhere, rushing towards the army formation from all directions. The Tan Bow Array prepared by the Goguryeo Army in order to cope with the cavalry could not be fired in a salvo, but could only be scattered, and the result was naturally ineffective.
At this time, He Hun Lu realized what kind of army they were up against.
Cavalry archers.
Although Tai Shi Ci charged out, he did not hold it up, and roughly estimated that this army, including the people, was tens of thousands, spread out in the fields as far as the eye could see, compared to their less than 3,000 archers, there were too few, he did not dare to directly let the sergeants rush into the enemy formation to fight, and even did not dare to let the cavalry fight freely, but accurately ordered to kill a burst of arrows and leave north.
There are still more than fifty miles away from the city of Susheng Bone, and their bow and cavalry maneuver is far stronger than that of Goguryeo's army carrying many siege ordnance, and they still have a chance!
The halberd was placed on the side of the horse, and the big bow behind him was pulled, and Tai Shici led a small group of cavalry to line up from the side of the Goguryeo army formation and turned sharply towards the quilt from the side of the Goguryeo army, while the longbow in his hand was thrown out with three arrows.
At this time, there is almost no need to aim, the enemy army lists a dense military formation to guard against charging cavalry, and as long as an arrow does not deviate too much, it can always hit the enemy. Compared with killing the enemy, Tai Shi Ci pays more attention to how his robe survives...... If the archers want to survive, they have to be fast!
Whoosh!
With the sound of arrows shooting in the air, arrows were thrown back and forth in the sky, including arrows shot by their own archers, and a rain of arrows thrown by the Tan archers of the Goguryeo army in all directions.
Because they were worried that they were shock heavy cavalry, the archers in the dense formation were in the middle of the array, too far away from the cavalry on the periphery, and both sides did not seem to aim, but only splashed the arrows with rapid-fire means.
There are not only many Goguryeo archers, but also excellent quality, and the sandalwood bow in the hand is also a rare good weapon, and the lethality is very amazing. However, in terms of the dense formation, after all, the Goguryeo soldiers had to suffer some losses, and in just a few waves of arrows and rain of arrows, the spearmen on the periphery of the Goguryeo formation fell by hundreds, and the cavalry casualties were not even a hundred, and then they could only watch the Han cavalry march towards the north.
The Han army did not inflict many casualties on the Goguryeo army, but due to the looting of the displaced people, their military rations were actually lost, which was almost five days' worth of food!
On the other side, Tai Shici led the cavalry out of the five miles and slowly paced the horse, while giving the horse water and giving the horse a water while giving orders to his subordinates: "Let the brothers chop some wooden branches to make something to start the fire, the enemy army carries a large number of ordnance, and we will go to the enemy camp tomorrow morning and burn them!" ”