Chapter Twenty-Six: Victory at the Border
The bloody battle on the border continues.
Roars, screams, ringing swords, spears and horses. Liaodong light soldiers and Goguryeo archers were in close contact, and strong crossbowmen were difficult to obtain from long distances, and under the advantage of Goguryeo Tan archers, they retreated into the forest one after another, seeking accurate shots one by one with a straggler posture.
The rain of arrows of the Great Army did not make a difference in this situation.
The long and narrow official road was flanked by open woodland, which not only hindered the cavalry's impact and maneuver, but also caused great trouble for the archers.
The means of deciding victory or defeat lies in the hand-to-hand combat of foot soldiers.
The Liyang battalion was the first to join the battlefield.
Zhao Weisun, who was over forty years old, swung out with a thick back-ring knife, and stood behind the crossbowmen of Lu Yi and shouted: "Liyang battalion, cross the friendly army, charge!" ”
More than ten years ago, the Liao general Qiao Xuandong conquered Goguryeo, and the Liyang battalion was almost completely killed and wounded, although today's Liyang veterans have long been unaware of the tragic bloody battle in this land, but Zhao Weisun still remembers that the national enemy and family hatred, and the Liyang who led the two gray temples was extremely red-eyed. The sturdy Liyang sergeant rushed out from both sides, his sharp ring knives and tall Changge crossed the line of the crossbowmen of the Koji tribe, and rushed towards the solid rear of the Goguryeo army in the face of arrows falling from the sandalwood bow.
On the official road, in the dense forest, the killing continued.
There is no drum music, no flags, the color of the armor is almost the same, even the yellow skin and black hair, the two armies fighting have the same appearance, only the tiger and the dragon coat of arms symbolizing the courage and filial piety of the Han Duliao general and the three-legged golden black pattern of the Goguryeo army can distinguish the identity of the soldiers.
Koji Yi stood in the middle of the official road, and the warriors of the Duliao tribe on both sides of him rushed towards the enemy like a wave, and inflicted terrible casualties on his own soldiers under the range of the sandalwood strong bow...... The sandalwood bow is very good, they also have it, the sandalwood bow produced in Lelang County is only not yet armed in the army, and after this battle, Lu Yi wants to ask Yandong for five thousand sandalwood bows.
The crossbow is easy to use and can be formed without much training, but for the truly good shooter, the sandalwood bow is a killer!
The warriors of the Liyang battalion were still fifty paces away from the enemy's line, and Lu Yi raised the lance that he had admired from Yanbei, and ordered in a loud voice: "Charge with archers, and wind up the crossbow!" ”
"Archer charge, strong crossbow wind!"
"Archer charge, strong crossbow wind!"
Accompanied by the military order, there was a tooth-sore sound of strong crossbows winding up in the front, and the archers of the lined line charged forward while throwing arrows forward, and the same was true of the crossbowmen in the forest, relying on the towering trees on the Liaodong border to cover their bodies and send deadly arrows at the enemy.
The two wings of the enemy, the archers hiding in the forest were fighting for the light soldiers who dared to die, and they could not get out, and the left and right flanks fell into chaos almost at the same time, unable to give enough protection to the soldiers on the official road, and the rain of arrows of the most elite sandalwood archers of the Goguryeo rear army was blocked by the Liyang battalion, but their heads were hit by the arrows that were thrown, and the soldiers dodged the arrows and did not dare to attack...... Fifty steps, fifty steps was just a matter of a few breaths for the charging Liyang Battalion sergeant, and in the blink of an eye, the enemy general even missed the best opportunity to give the order just by dodging an arrow falling from the sky.
Goguryeo Tan archers and the most elite armor soldiers of the Liyang battalion are in close combat!
Destroying the withering and decaying, hundreds of Tan archers did not have time to retreat, the people in the back blocked the people in front, and the people in front did not dare to face the blade of the Liyang battalion and kept retreating, the entire front collapsed in an instant, and the dozens of corpses were thrown down in a short period of time!
The 600 light soldiers on the left and right flanks of the Lu Yi Department insisted on the charge of their own Chinese army, but they lost more than half of them in just half a pillar of incense, and the remaining 100 light soldiers on the two wings also seemed to be crumbling, unable to fight again, and had to be surrounded and strangled by the enemy's two wings...... But the Duliao camp caught up!
The three battalions of the subordinates of Lu Yi, in the garrison battle of Liangshui West, lost more than half of the Yuyang battalion, and was chased and beaten by the Goguryeo army almost twice as much as their own for 60 miles, and there was no complete formation after the end of the war.
On the way to pursue, Zhao Yun and Tai Shici, who originally joined the search for the enemy, were transferred back to the north of Yan as the Chinese army to escort the grain route, and there were only more than 1,000 war horses left under the subordinates of Lu Yi.
The Liyang battalion, which arrived in advance, directly joined the battlefield of the Chinese army on the official road under the leadership of Zhao Weisun, and rushed towards the enemy with the most fearless attitude with arrows, and the Duliao battalion that followed closely behind was even more reluctant to show a little fatigue.
The Central Military Department, under the command of Ko Yi, had already entered the stage of pursuing the enemy, and the Goguryeo Chinese Army, whose wings were entangled with light troops, was simply unable to resist the Liyang Battalion, which was good at fighting, and was immediately dispersed. The Goguryeo general, who commanded the rear army, originally wanted to resist to the death, but when he turned around, there was no longer a robe behind him.
The Goguryeo army, which numbered more than 3,000 people, disappeared under the command of the prince Yi Yinmo, which directly led to the nearly 1,000 troops of the Goguryeo rear army from being defeated to surrendering.
Yi Yin Mo wanted to fight this battle, and they were not without a chance of winning, because the troops shown by the Koji Yi Department at the beginning were only a few thousand people. However, with the strong entry of the second battalion of Liyang and Duliao into the battlefield, it broke through the rear army line in an instant, making Yi Yinmo, who was hidden in the forest, grit his teeth and issue an order to retreat and flee westward.
Nearly 1,000 soldiers were abandoned on the battlefield as a cover for most of the retreat.
The defeat was like a mountain, and the Goguryeo soldiers who had lost the rear army had already been defeated, and where could they muster up the courage to break off for the army that abandoned them, and the Goguryeo soldiers who were lucky enough to survive the battle put down their weapons and knelt on the ground, shouting surrender to the Han army who raised their weapons at them in a strange tone.
"Don't be greedy for war, let the soldiers search for horses, tie up all the captives and hand them over to the rear baggage people, rest for an hour before pursuing the enemy!"
The victory came a little faster than Lu Yi imagined, and Zhao Weisun, who still hoped to lead the charge, Lu Yi said: "Don't pursue anymore, let the crossbowmen set up their defenses in the forest...... Further east, there is the mountainous terrain, and we are not familiar with the terrain and cannot venture forward. ”
Zhao Weisun gasped and asked his subordinates to gather troops to set up defenses, and then asked Lu Yi: "Then we won't chase?" ”
"It's okay, they can't run far, chase across the country, and maybe our reinforcements." Speaking of this, Lu Yi himself was also a little puzzled, and muttered: "An hour, an hour later, the people with the baggage should be able to follow, and we will move forward...... Let the soldiers get all the horses back. ”
Speaking of the reinforcements in the enemy's territory, Lu Yi himself couldn't believe that those two bandits like straw bales, Pan Ling and Wu Shuang, could actually seize the opportunity to attack the enemy's grain road.
In the cottage in Goguryeo, Pan Ling and his people have just returned from the mountain.
Three days ago, they began to intercept and capture those Goguryeo defeated troops at the border, those Goguryeo people had a low fighting spirit and complete armor, Wu Yin did not take much effort to collect hundreds of people, the best armor was asked by Pan Ling to use to equip his own henchmen, Wu Yin also proved his loyalty.
Then, realizing that most of Goguryeo might have been defeated, the bandits of Panling dug countless pits on the official road and set up a pocket formation to attack the fleeing Goguryeo army, but they were pursued by the Goguryeo army sent by the Susheng Bone Fortress...... An army of 3,000 people, led by a Goguryeo general, went to the border to meet the prince Yi Yinmo, and Pan Ling, a bandit, was like a delicacy crashed into a bowl.
In fact, the difficult survival battle in the past month did not bring much gratifying growth to Pan Ling's subordinate sergeants, but more just honed their survival skills. These people still don't know anything about battle formations, and all they have is a fierce temperament and a strong physique.
The army fought in formation, but it was still defeated...... The only good thing is Pan Ling's ability to arrange troops, and they have a set of tactics that are very different from those of regular armies.
In the face of the imposing Goguryeo army charging like a sea of mountains, Pan Ling's subordinates scattered like monkeys and fled into the mountains and forests of the cottage.
Then there was a flurry of arrows in the mountains and forests, and when the Goguryeo army was caught off guard, Uyin led the troops from the enemy's flank to kill, and most of the thieves on the mountain roared down, breaking the enemy line, and attacking the Goguryeo soldiers to the official road...... A big win.
With the lives of 400 Goguryeo troops in exchange for the corpses of more than 600 Goguryeo enemy troops, the better result was that hundreds of Goguryeo troops were scattered in the battle, and the Goguryeo army that was reassembled at the bottom of the mountain was only more than 1,500, barely able to form three army formations.
"Those Goguryeo fools under the mountain are still waiting for the captain to fight again, so let's just go back to the mountain?"
Tuoba beggar collected the corpses of the enemy and his own dead and wounded soldiers, slowly retreated to the cottage, and reluctantly encouraged Pan Ling to continue to fight down the mountain.
Pan Ling just glanced at him and asked, "You said that the mountain is a Goguryeo idiot, are you the same as they think?" ”
No matter what Tuoba beggar and the Goguryeo people think differently, what Pan Ling thinks in his heart is different.
He was reluctant to fight the Goguryeo army here, and this battle weakened the strength of the Goguryeo army for him, and another small victory was enough. There was no need for him to attack and lose the army sent to the west by the Goguryeo faction here, after all, this was the direction of the enemy's retreat, and if the battle dragged on, maybe the enemy's reinforcements would increase.
When the time comes, it will be bad for him.
He also wants to bring these Han brothers back to Liaodong County!