Chapter 1175: One Hundred Doesn't Survive
Yu Wenshu stood on the high slope, looking at the surging waves, like thunder, easily broke down the twenty pontoon bridges, the bridge and the river of thirty or forty thousand Sui troops, just like thirty or forty thousand ants, did not even have time to scream, they drowned in the surging river, disappeared, the huge waves widened the two sides of the water more than 100 steps, the original on the shore to slaughter horses and eat meat, instantly became Zeguo, even the small high slope where Yu Wenshu is now standing more than a mile offshore, it looks like it will be flooded by the river at any time.
Several guards fell to their knees and shouted, "Marshal, get on your horse and take shelter for the time being." I'm afraid it's too late. ”
Yu Wenshu's face was full of tears, such a tragic scene, he had been in the army for 50 years, he never dreamed, just a blink of an eye, more than 40,000 athletes were swallowed up by this ruthless river, the Sui army on the north and south banks has been completely divided, the more than 70,000 people on the north bank are now at a loss, desperately fleeing to the north, and on the south bank, more than 100,000 Sui troops have become more than 100,000 panicked sheep, and even the instinct of animals to gather to survive no longer exists, they blindly crowded towards the river, But it was useless except to squeeze hundreds of companions who had gone to the river first into the water and drown.
The sound of earth-shaking drums and horns sounded in the south, ascending and looking, twenty miles away from the river bank, the smoke and dust shook the sky, at least hundreds of thousands of cavalry were galloping at full speed, there would be such a terrible momentum, Yu Wenshu had seen those fierce and ferocious barbarian cavalry outside Pyongyang, and he had fought with them many times these days, and knew that it was as swift as the wind and as fast as fire. The array may not be able to defeat the Sui army's iron cavalry. But in this kind of Sui army, there is no longer a will to fight. In the case of defeat, the horse rushing to kill is the best show.
Yu Zhongwen stepped forward and grabbed Yuwenshu's wrist, and said hurriedly: "Marshal Yuwen, it's impossible to do anything, let's go first, stay in the green mountains and then stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood." Revenge is only a matter of revenge! ”
Yu Wenshu stomped his foot fiercely and sighed: "What face will I wait to see Your Majesty again!" He wiped the tears on his face and said to Xue Shixiong, who was lost on the side: "General Xue, how many people do you still have in your headquarters?" ”
Xue Shixiong's mind was blank, and Yu Wenshu said it three times before he came back to his senses and said blankly: "The last general, the last general's right tun guard Youyun troops, there are still those who cross the river." And eight thousand, only two thousand cavalry! ”
Yu Wenshu frowned. Pointing to a hill five miles to the north, he said: "The army in the south has lost its organization, it is impossible to save it, at the moment, only our troops on the north bank, how much can we bring back, I will break through first, in order to cover the retreat of the army, you immediately gather your subordinates, hold this small hill, even if people die, you have to hold it for a day and a night to evacuate." If you can't do it, military law will do it! ”
Xue Shixiong gritted his teeth, made a military salute, and said loudly: "Obey!" Without looking back, he took the four tiger-wolf-like sons down the small slope, and in the distance, a big banner with the word Xue was erected high, and dozens of heralds shouted: "The Youyun troops of General Xue of the Right Tun Guard, come and gather under the banner!" ”
Yuwenshu glanced at the south bank of Sashui unwillingly, the barbarian cavalry had rushed into the array of the Sui army that was not in formation, and regardless of whether the Sui soldiers knelt down and surrendered, one by one, the crowd of the Sui army was like wheat blown down by the wind, falling down piece by piece, and the barbarian bows and arrows flying all over the sky kept harvesting the lives of a large number of Sui army soldiers, but also made the Sui army trample on each other, rushing to the river, squeezing more people into the water, Even these corpses can slow down the flow of the rushing water slightly, and it is no longer as fast as just now, and the corpses of the Sui army in black armor are floating on the water surface of the river, which is miserable.
Yuwen Shu shook his head, went down the high slope surrounded by a group of guards, boarded a war horse, followed the commanders of various armies, and fled quickly towards the north, and the Yuwen banner on the high slope, I don't know when, also fell to the ground with a bang, and was trampled under the feet of the Sui soldiers who crossed the high slope and desperately fled north, and soon they couldn't even read the words clearly.
Ten days later, in Nanjinpu, the beach camp of the Sui army, and in the tent of the commander of the Chinese army, all the generals and colonels looked grim, listening to Liu Heimin, who was kneeling in the tent, or a Goguryeo sergeant, reporting the battle situation ahead.
"Eulzhi Wende entered the camp of our Sui army alone when he was in Sashui, pretended to negotiate peace, and then fled, General Yuwen and General Yu were unwilling to let him flee, so he led the army to chase after him, and Ezhi Wende resorted to a deceptive strategy, losing eight battles in three days, luring our army that had run out of food, and chased it to Pyongyang thirty miles outside the city, under the Peony Peak and the castle."
"Here Goguryeo sent all the elite main force, there are nearly 400,000 foot cavalry, ready to fight, the main force of the Sui army has run out of food and slaughtered horses for food, the soldiers are hungry, no combat power, General Yuwen saw the enemy's formation, it is difficult to succeed, so he has to forcibly retreat in front of the enemy!"
Lai Hu'er said sharply: "What the hell is going on, Yuwen Shu is a veteran of a hundred battles, how can he chase all the way when the army is short of food?" ”
The corners of Liu Heimin's mouth hooked: "The little one heard the process of interrogating the prisoners in the Goguryeo army, and along the way, in the northern mountains, in order to speed up the march, General Yuwen abandoned the cart transporting grain, let the soldiers carry the military rations on their backs, and also ordered the abandonment of grain and millet to be beheaded, so the soldiers were all secretly buried in the camp tent in order to be lazy. It seems that there was also a controversy within the Sui army for this reason, Yuwenshu wanted to be serious and camped in the Sashui area to wait for the follow-up military rations, but Yu Zhongwen used his supreme secret decree to consult the power of the military aircraft in order to grab the merit, and instigated the generals to advance lightly, plus Yizhi Wende's delaying tactic, so that's it! ”
Wang Shichong sighed and muttered, "This is because God does not allow our army to destroy Goguryeo in one fell swoop." However, after all, it was an army of 300,000, even 300,000 pigs, and it was impossible to kill them all like this, so what happened later? ”
Liu Heimin's voice was also trembling slightly: "Eulzhi Wende sent troops to block the water early in the reservoir in the upper reaches of Sashui, and when our army crossed halfway, he suddenly released the water, drowning forty or fifty thousand people of our army at once, separating the two armies of the north and south, so all the armies were defeated, and it could not be forbidden, and our army on the south bank was rushed and killed by the enemy cavalry, and more than half of the 150,000 people were rushed into the water and drowned, and the rest were also shot and killed by the Goguryeo cavalry. Xin Shixiong, the general of the palace, was killed in battle. ”
Zhou Fashang sighed: "What about the main force of our army in the north of Sashui, what about Marshal Yuwen?" (To be continued.) )