On July 13, thirty miles north of Pyongyang, under Peony Peak.

Within a radius of 100 miles, the two sides added up to six or seven hundred thousand troops, crowded with people, at a glance, like an endless ocean, and the iron armor on the soldiers, as well as the cold light shining on the spears and iron shields, converged into a huge awe-inspiring murderous aura, forcing towards the opponent's equally murderous army.

Yu Wenshu and Yu Zhongwen are both dressed in general robes and big armor, standing on the high platform of the Chinese army, looking at the mighty and majestic military array opposite, the front is more than 200,000 infantry, the Khitan, Xi, Beji, and the Tongluo cavalry on both sides are at least 150,000, 100,000 shaved heads, combed with more than a dozen small braids, leather robes and felt hats, the Khitan, Xi, and Tongluo cavalry are scattered on the left flank, and the right flank is 50,000 almost shirtless, smeared with animal fat, and full of stinky Beji cavalry.

These stinking Beji cavalry, one by one, shaved their foreheads, dragged a thick and large braid behind their heads, carried a big bow, rode a big horse, and kept howling, and the Sui soldiers could smell a stench from the distance between the two armies five miles away, and even Goguryeo's own central infantry army formation intentionally or unintentionally opened a distance of more than 100 steps with these people, which was more than double the distance with the Khitan cavalry on the left flank.

The infantry phalanx in the center of Goguryeo was lined up in more than 100 columns, obviously divided into three squares, in front of the army, there were 500 carts, covering the front of the army formation ten miles wide, and more than 20 columns behind the carts were dense lance infantry. Each of them is armed with a large shield. Dressed in iron armor. The military appearance is neat.

At the rear of these twenty columns of infantry were dense archers, holding bows that were half a man high, carrying full quivers, wearing leather armor and white headbands, like an earthy yellow ocean, occupying almost half of the Goguryeo army.

And behind the archers. It is thousands of catapults and crossbows lined up in three columns, which are perfectly covered by frontal infantry cavalry twenty miles wide, on one side is the mountain range of Peony Peak, on the other side is a wide river, the natural danger of mountains and rivers covers the side of the Goguryeo army, thirty miles later in the city of Pyongyang, a steady stream of troops are still singing war songs, from the city gate, in the fortress on Peony Peak, waving flags. The gongs and drums are noisy, and there is a big Goguryeo royal flag. It is floating high on the peak.

Yuwenshu's face sank like water, and he turned his head to Yu Zhongwen and said coldly: "General Yu, didn't you say that the enemy army has been defeated for thousands of miles and is vulnerable, didn't you say that as long as our army pursues and kills the enemy, you can go straight to Pyongyang and break the country and capture the king?" What is on the other side, did it fall from the sky? ”

Yu Zhongwen also did not expect that Goguryeo would have such a strong strength, since crossing Sashui, he has been chasing and killing Goguryeo's "defeated army" for five days, and he has won eight battles in three days, and all the situation on the battlefield indicates that the Goguryeo army has been frightened and has no combat ability.

In fact, as an experienced general, he is not unaware of the risk of going deep alone when the army is exhausted, but he calculated that Goguryeo has no strength to fight again, and no matter how bad it is, he can get in touch with the Lai Nursing Department, hold on for a month, and there will be no problem when the rear food arrives.

But today, when he led the cavalry of the front army to pursue here, he found that the Goguryeo army had already laid a large array, and at least 150,000 infantry were already waiting in battle.

But in less than a day, the infantry of the Sui army did not stop rushing to the battlefield, but the Goguryeo people were also constantly increasing their troops, it seemed to be endless, first from the city out of a large number of infantry, and then from the afternoon, the vast number of barbarian cavalry also appeared on both wings, to the Shen time, even catapults and crossbows were also set up behind the formation, rough estimates, the number of enemy troops is no less than the entire Sui army, and even more than that, what is more terrible is that the enemy's reinforcements are still appearing in a steady stream, according to this pattern, By tomorrow morning, we will have more than half a million troops.

Yu Zhongwen finally knew that he had fallen into the hands of the Goguryeo people, they had been showing weakness to themselves, but the main force was assembling on the front line of Pyongyang, and everything before was just a trick to lure the enemy into the depths, just to fight a decisive battle with himself here.

Yu Zhongwen gritted his teeth and asked the two scouts in front of him, "How is the situation in the rear of our army, and is there any enemy army appearing?" ”

In this situation, when the long-distance attack is coming, and the fatigue of lack of water and food, to meet the enemy's elite infantry cavalry with high morale can be seen at a glance, not to mention the Pyongyang City in the distance, even if it only looks at an outline, it is stronger than Liaodong City, and it is definitely not possible to capture it in a short period of time, with the scale of the Goguryeo army, it is simply impossible to count on Hu'er, and the top priority now is to bring the entire army safely away from the battlefield, and whether the back road is copied, this is the issue he is most concerned about now.

The scout replied: "I just probed a moment ago, and there is no activity of a large force of Goguryeo troops on the flanks and rear of our army. ”

Yu Zhongwen said sharply: "Explore again, all over the sentry horses, search the forests and valleys, you must be the real situation!" ”

Yu Wenshu said coldly: "General Yu, what is Your Majesty's will now, and you want us to carry it out?" ”

Yu Zhongwen's head was already in a cold sweat, hooked the corners of his mouth, and said: "This, this, this seems that Yizhi Wende has been deceiving and luring our army to fight a decisive battle with it, the current decisive battle is not ripe, our army needs to retreat quickly to avoid a decisive battle with the enemy here, in order to plan for the future!" ”

Yuwen Shu snorted heavily: "General Yu, you said it easily, now our army is advancing lightly and has hit the real main force of the Goguryeo army, and the rear army is still rushing to come, the soldiers of the front army have not eaten for a day, and they have been pursuing the enemy army with their rations halved for the past few days, and they have pursued three hundred miles in five days, and they are tired and hungry, you want us to avoid a decisive battle now, how to avoid it?" The Goguryeo people have worked so hard to set up a situation, will it make it so easy for us to retreat? ”

Yu Zhongwen sighed: "Marshal Yuwen, this time it was me Yu Zhongwen who was not thoughtful and fell for the enemy's tricks, this responsibility, Yu Mou will definitely pay, but now that the disaster is coming, we must work together, no matter what, first bring back the 300,000 soldiers, and then talk about responsibility, Yu Mou is willing to listen to Marshal Yuwen!" (To be continued.) )