On the shore of Sashui, Yu Wenshu and other generals have already arrived on the north shore, standing on the high slope where everyone once stood together a few days ago, everyone's feeling is like a world away, as if God has played a cruel joke with him, let himself first have a wonderful dream, and then pierce it like a soap bubble, leaving only the bloody truth.

But thank God, these days all the way to the hard fight, while fighting and retreating, and finally retreated to the edge of this Sashui, Yuwenshu was most worried about the back road being cut off, especially this Sashui, away from Liaodong, deep into the enemy's territory, if the enemy completely blockades this place and burns the pontoon bridge, then the whole army can only be lined up with their backs, and there is a danger of annihilation.

What's even worse is that from three days, the whole army has been completely out of food, the cavalry began to kill war horses to solve the difficulties of the whole army, the consumption of 300,000 people is amazingly huge, three days down, more than 5,000 war horses into the stomachs of the soldiers, and the cavalry who lost their mounts, all the way can only scold and scold in the infantry to retreat, the emotion of defeat, anxiety and panic, like the plague spread around the army, some people want to return to fight, more people just want to escape back to Liaodong as soon as possible, the people's hearts are scattered, even the team is not easy to bring!

Yu Zhongwen said with palpitations: "It seems that our luck is good, although the Goguryeo army has been attacking our army's rear army with cavalry in turn in the past few days, but fortunately, Marshal Lai Yuwen commanded properly, and after breaking off with elite troops, the iron cavalry counterattacked, so although more than 10,000 people were lost, the army was still preserved, as long as it can cross this water smoothly, our army should be basically safe." ”

Yu Zhongwen used to be able to make everyone hopeful, but now he has disappointed everyone, since three days ago, even his hardcore followers Xue Shixiong and Wang Rengong have kept their distance from him, and even accuse him along with other generals. Every day in the military discussion, Yu Zhongwen will become a target of arrows, and he will be attacked by the generals in turn, putting all the responsibility on him alone, and Yu Zhongwen, who has lost his aura, will no longer be able to come up with any secret orders. Clever calculations and other excuses to excuse themselves, can only lose their smiles and endure everyone's verbal swords.

However, after passing Sashui, Yu Zhongwen was obviously relieved and in a much better mood, this was the first time he had taken the initiative to express his opinion in these days.

Yu Wenshu said coldly: "General Yu, now only we generals have crossed the river first, and the army is still lagging behind, don't think that it is safe now." If the Goguryeo army appears at this time, we don't know how to deal with it! ”

Yu Zhongwen's face changed, but he had nothing to say, Xue Shixiong's brows were furrowed: "Marshal Yuwen, it seems that the Goguryeo army has no intention of pursuing it on a large scale, these days their infantry is only following far behind, at least one day's journey away from our army, that is, tens of thousands of barbarian cavalry." I have been chasing in turns, and now our army is 300,000 strong. Gathered within fifty miles of the southern line of Sashui, the scouts also found out that there were no large-scale ambushes of enemy troops around, at least here, it was safe. ”

Xin Shixiong sneered: "Even if you pass Sashui, so what, there are still four or five hundred miles away from Yalu Water." Especially if there are 300 miles of mountain roads, if the Goguryeo people don't set up an ambush now, won't they set up an ambush in the mountains? Our army has just begun to run out of food, and it has not yet reached the time when it has completely lost its combat effectiveness, and it will wait for our army to kill horses and feed like this for ten days. Retreat to the mountains, and if they attack in a big way, our army will not be able to resist it at that time. ”

Speaking of this, Xin Shixiong looked at Yu Zhongwen coldly, with a disdainful smile on his face: "It's really funny to think about it, a few days ago, someone here was ashamed to say that the enemy army has lost its combat effectiveness, and only tens of thousands of cavalry can destroy Goguryeo in one fell swoop, hmph, I don't know who will destroy whom." ”

Yu Zhongwen's face was as red as a monkey's buttocks, but he couldn't refute it, so he could only twist his head and look away.

Wang Rengong's mouth hooked, watching Yu Zhongwen besiege and ridicule like this, he also couldn't bear it, and said: "General Xin, let's say a few words, now is a time of crisis, we should unite as one, if you have any grievances, let's solve them after returning to Liaodong." By the way, Marshal Yuwen, I think this water seems to be much smoother than when we came, and on the night when we came, the water was still very fast, and when we walked on the pontoon bridge, it would wash the water and shake it, but now it is much calmer. ”

Yu Wenshu smiled slightly, pointed to the ten pontoon bridges on the river, and said: "Probably because our army has built five more pontoon bridges here by the rear guard troops in the past few days, hmph, I knew that there would be danger ahead, so I asked the rear guard troops to leave a way to retreat here early." ”

Speaking of this, Yuwen Shu turned to Xin Shixiong and said: "General Xin, you work hard, go to the south bank to command the armies, line up the phalanx, line up to cross the river, and, General Xue, you command to build ten more pontoon bridges to speed up the speed of our army crossing the river, General Yuwen (Yuwen Chengdu), your subordinates are handed over to General Xin to command, the iron cavalry is in front, the infantry is behind, 100,000 people must firmly guard the bridgehead, and the order of crossing the river must be guaranteed." ”

All the generals saluted in unison: "Obey Marshal Yuwen's order!" ”

At this moment, on the south bank of the bridge, dozens of five-colored wolf smoke rose, one after another, heading straight to the east, the corners of Yu Wenshu's mouth hooked, and he said in a deep voice: "It seems that the Goguryeo people are also going to take action, and we have to speed up the action, General Yu, you slaughter five thousand war horses on the north bank, give food to the soldiers who cross the river, and speed up the march to the north when you are full!" ”

The upper reaches of the Sa water, Longkou embankment.

Here is a dam mouth sandwiched between two mountains, Goguryeo's Sashui is also similar to the Yellow River in the Central Plains, has always been flooded, Northern Goguryeo is mostly mountainous, only the Sashui area has 10,000 hectares of fertile land on both sides, so in order to control this difficult to subdue river, the Goguryeo people built a dam between the two mountains through which Sashui passed, releasing water during the drought and blocking the water during the rainy season to avoid disasters downstream.

But now, on both sides of this embankment, there are 30,000 Goguryeo troops, almost all of them elite cavalry, tens of thousands of people and sergeants are running back and forth, throwing bags of sandbags into the river, relying on this mountain, a huge gate across it, has been living to block the river, this rushing river, here is almost abruptly stopped, no wonder the Sui army pontoon bridge area hundreds of miles below, the water flow is so relaxed.

Yang Wanchun was stationed at the horse lance, guarding here, anxiously looking at a beacon tower in the south, here was the agreement between him and Yizhi Wende, once the five-colored wolf smoke rises, the gate will be opened immediately and the water will be released! (To be continued.) )

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