The End of the Sui Dynasty

Heavy attack, only one battle, the dazzling edge, so that the heavy iron cavalry still maintains the position of the first combat force of the Liaodong Army. And those heavy armor that looked very ugly, after the test of this battle, the strong protective ability also made those heavy armor knights move one by one.

With such armor, they faced those enemy cavalry infantry without much fear at all.

Xue Dingguo still did not escape after all, he was directly hit by Guo Xiaoke, the person who hit the horse turned over, and then Luo Lin from behind easily handed the horse lance to the throat, and became a senior prisoner of the Liaodong Army. In addition to him, the other 5,000 vanguard soldiers and horses, except for the personal soldiers sent by Xue Dingguo to report the news and fled from the battlefield first, these 5,000 men and horses, except for 30% who died in the battle, the rest of the more than 3,000 people all became prisoners of the Liaodong Army.

In the evening, there was still the last trace of afterglow in the sky, and under the bloody sunset, most of Xue Shixiong's men and horses finally arrived.

On the eastern horizon, at the beginning, only a thin black line appeared, as if it was the wave on the shore of the Liaodong Sea. As the tide continued to advance, not expanding, the black line was rapidly expanding.

Tens of millions of people slowly showed their outlines, and countless footsteps trampled on the earth, raising sand and dust.

The smoke is billowing out, and the gray and yellow dust will cover the army, and only a corner of the black sè silhouette can be faintly revealed, between half and half lù, which makes people feel boundless. And in the yellow sand and smoke, under the reflection of the sun, countless dense points of light flashed in the smoke and dust, one after another, which was the reflection of the towering spear forest in the setting sun. That line of tide continued to advance, and finally turned into a whole boundless black sè frenzy.

Even standing above the head of the city, watching from a clairvoyant mirror, a marching army is astounding. The Sui army poured out from the horizon endlessly, as if there was no end behind it.

As far as the eye can see, there is a black oppressive human head everywhere, the flags are like the sea, the spears are like a forest, the cavalrymen's cloaks are dense like clouds, all kinds of battle flags are competing with each other, and the various battalions and regiments are strict and neat, and the barriers are clear. One after another, the cavalry phalanx drove towards the fortress of Luhe Town, stretching continuously, seeing that the wide plain to the west of the fortress was already crowded with troops, and the follow-up troops were still coming. At a distance of five miles from the fortress, Xue Shixiong's army stopped its advance and spread out to the left and right flanks, encircling the fortress from the south and north.

The generals and captains at the head of the city are basically veterans who have experienced dozens of bloody battles in Liaodong, although the overwhelming army of Xue Shixiong in front of them gives people a boundless feeling. However, in the Liaodong Defensive War that year, they directly faced the encirclement of 500,000 Liaodong coalition troops at one time. Compared with the scale of those 500,000 people, the scene in front of him can only be regarded as not bad.

However, at this time, among the 60,000 Liaodong troops in Huhe Town, except for many elite ace troops who were veterans, nearly half of them were soldiers and horses recruited in the past two years. These people had never experienced such a battle before, and they had never experienced such a magnificent scene against such a large regular army of the imperial court. In an instant, they were shocked by the momentum of the imperial army's advance, and the many soldiers at the head of the city were frightened.

Chen Kefu turned his head and glanced at the defenders in the city, most of the soldiers were frightened and panicked at this time. He frowned, knowing that such a situation would be very bad for the defenders. He had asked Lu Shishen and Mao Yi to station their troops on both sides of the Luhe River, but he still had some plans and did not plan to use them immediately. And if these soldiers are like this now, I'm afraid this Luhe River is not easy to defend.

Standing on top of the city, Chen Kefu suddenly laughed a few times, attracting the attention of countless soldiers.

Chen Kefu just smiled, pointed to the army under the city, and said to a soldier from Liaodong who was terrified beside him, "Ben Shuai asked you, do you know how many men and horses there are in this army under the city9"

The soldier was twenty-four or five years old, and he was originally a slave of the Goguryeo Mòhé clan, and his family had been horse slaves for the Goguryeo nobles for generations. Later, Chen Kefu destroyed Goguryeo and purged the nobility, but instead brought hope to these indigenous slaves. According to the regulations, although they were given a free body, they had no property. …,

The Liaodong army leased them a large amount of land, and as long as they cultivated it for a few years, it would be completely theirs.

However, while enjoying a life that they never dared to imagine before, they also had to accept all the rule of the Liaodong Army. And military service is an obligation that all adult men in Liaodong must oblige. According to the regulations, the Liaodong Army is divided into two types: government soldiers and compulsory soldiers. The government soldiers were professional troops, and the Liaodong army gave them land, and they needed to bring their own weapons, and they had to take turns to train the guards every year, and they had to participate in wartime.

Compulsory soldiers are the obligations that adult men over the age of 21 and under the age of 50 in Liaodong, except for all government soldiers. According to the military service system in Liaodong, each adult male who is not a soldier of the government must join the army to serve five years of military service, and during the service period, the army will pay salaries. After five years of service, if you are not promoted to the rank of officer, you can retire and go home. Military service is no longer required.

The young man in front of him who was born as a slave saw the handsome question, and his heart moved beyond measure. I was nervous, and I stammered the Chinese I had learned for more than a year.

Handsome,......,. … That's at least 100,000 people. After saying this, the soldier was already sweating profusely, and his face was swollen and red.

Chen Kefu smiled, "Your kid seems to have a good fate, and he didn't participate in the siege of Liaodong City back then. Look at the Sui army in front of you, the east and west wings are spread, and Luhe Town is surrounded on three sides. Such a majestic momentum is more than 100,000 people. To be precise, these Sui troops in front of us have a total of 150,000 troops. Oh, Ben Shuai is wrong, it should be an army of 145,000.

In the middle of the afternoon we destroyed 5,000 of them. "One hundred and forty-five thousand men and horses, of which the cavalry had forty-five thousand men, and the infantry was even more, a full hundred thousand infantry. Most of these people are government soldiers from Hebei, and many of them are border soldiers from Hebei.

Of course, most of them were drawn from Henan, Shandong, and even Jianghuai. Originally, they wanted to fight the Turks, but now they are transferred to fight us. We're lucky.

Previously, Yang Guang was surrounded by Turks in Yanmen, and the emperor urgently transferred 100,000 people. Otherwise, we would now be facing 245,000 men. When the Mòhé soldier heard that there were more than 100,000 people in front of him, but nearly 150,000, his eyes widened and he looked down at his hands. But how to count, how to feel that ten fingers could not count 145,000 people, a heart is anxious, and sweat is even more on the face. Many of the recruits in the city were also terrified, 150,000 people. They only had 60,000 men, less than half the men and horses in the city.

Seeing that everyone was scared, Chen Kefu laughed a few times and said, "Actually, fighting a war is not as simple as settling accounts, otherwise the two sides will pull the soldiers together and nod their heads to decide the winner, so why do you have to work hard." ”

Raising his voice, Chen Kefu continued, "Especially the battle to defend the city, it is very cost-effective for the defending side. You can enter and go out of the city to face the battle, and you can retreat to hold on to the city. And our Luhe Fortress is not an ordinary small city, this is a fortress-level city. According to the solidity of such a city, if you want to capture a city in a short time, the best number of soldiers and horses on the attacking side is seven and one.

We have 60,000 men in our city, and if they want to break through in a short time, they must have at least 400,000 men. Speaking of this, Chen Kefu glanced at the army under the city with contempt, "I think that at the beginning, the battle of defending the city in Liaodong was in the current Liaoyang City, and we were only 100,000 horses, but the soldiers and horses of Liaodong reached more than 500,000. But the result? In the end, we suffered less than half of the casualties, but we wiped out all the allied forces and drove them all down the Liao River to feed the fish. Today, everyone has seen the 5,000 vanguard army of the imperial court, and it only took us one hour, and the casualties were only more than 100 people, and we took down all these 5,000 people.

Now there are only 145,000 people in the city, but 29,500 men, and in twenty-nine and a half hours, or only two and a half days, we can destroy them! Although the surrounding soldiers felt that Da Shuai's algorithm was wrong, they still felt a shock in their spirits, and they turned their heads and ears, and their previous fears were immediately alleviated by half.

Chen Kefu looked at the appearance of the soldiers, and also nodded and smiled, "Brothers, there are many soldiers and horses in the imperial court, but we also have a lot of soldiers and horses." Don't think we only have 60,000 horses in the city. In fact, Ben Shuai had already asked General Lu Shishen to lead 50,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Liucheng on our left flank, and General Mao Yi to lead 50,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Linhaidun City on the right flank. The two armies were only two hours apart, and the three cities looked at each other from afar, and they were horns on each other. In terms of numbers, we have an army of 160,000, and the court is only 145,000 men. We have more people than them, not to mention that we have a city to rely on, sufficient food and grass, and sufficient equipment, and victory is just around the corner. ”

The soldiers at the head of the city listened with their blood boiling, and they shouted one after another, followed by shouting: "Defeat them!" Destroy them! Xue Shixiong was menacing, but according to Chen Kefu's observation, this group only carried a part of the ladder and a small number of catapults. Such a group of men and horses cannot pose any threat to Luhe Town. If Chen Kefu wants to defeat them, he is ninety percent sure. However, at the moment, Chen Kefu is still waiting for the Secret Service Division to send over the situation accumulated in the recent period, and now that the entire Central Plains is changing, he must know the current situation immediately, so that he can be ready to make a judgment on the future situation and then make a move. When the situation is unclear and the situation is unclear, it is not a good decision to start a big battle with Xue Shixiong.

As the sun sets, the last rays of sunset have fallen, and the summer evening breeze blows through it, making people feel a little cool. Looking at the Xue character handsome flag fluttering high in the Sui army camp that had been planted under the city, Chen Kefu pondered for a long time, "Go to Huaiyuan immediately and pick up the four brothers of the Xue family, and Ben Shuai will see them tonight." "Stone!.