Although Goguryeo made a careful defense against the fire attack, they never thought that the Sui army would have such a hard warship, and directly crashed into the water gate, and the Sui warship rushed into the camp and immediately carried out the fire attack, which is the defect of all the large battalions, and each main general must try his best to prevent the enemy's fire attack, but once the enemy succeeds, the situation is difficult to reverse.

At this time, the raging fire spread rapidly in the large camp on the east and west sides, and Zhang Xuan personally led an army of 10,000 cavalry to break through the west wall, killing the southern camp that had not been affected by the flames, 10,000 cavalry galloped across the Goguryeo camp, killing wantonly, killing the Goguryeo soldiers crying and screaming, scattering and fleeing, seeing that the entire northern sky was illuminated by the fire, the soldiers were frightened, and fled to the south gate one after another.

However, the grain camp located in the northwest corner has become a fortress, because the grain camp and the military camp are isolated for a distance, it is not easy to be affected by the fire, but more importantly, the grain camp tent is different from the ordinary camp tent, with a flame retardant cloth, and the outside is covered with a layer of waterproof and fireproof tarpaulin, although there are rockets constantly coming from the warship, but it did not cause a fire, and was extinguished in time by the soldiers defending the grain camp.

At this time, Gao Yanshou was leading 3,000 soldiers to closely guard the grain camp, and more and more Sui cavalry were killing the grain camp.

"General, there's something wrong with your back!"

A soldier stumbled and ran, pointing to the back of the grain camp and shouting: "The camp wall is about to be breached!" ”

Gao Yanshou looked back, and just saw that the high wall behind the grain camp collapsed, and the dust was filled, gradually revealing a gap of more than 20 zhang wide, and I don't know how many Sui troops killed into the grain camp.

Gao Yanshou was so anxious that he shouted to the soldiers: "Go quickly and let Yuanqing Palace lead the army to the rescue, the grain camp is lost, and all of us will starve to death!" ”

Several soldiers galloped towards the east bank.

The east bank also fell into a sea of fire, but because there was no Sui army to attack, Yuanqing Palace dismantled the pontoon bridge in time, so that the army was far less chaotic than the west bank, although there were thousands of soldiers who could not escape from the fire and were burned to death, but most of the soldiers still evacuated in time, at this time Yuanqing Palace led more than 26,000 soldiers to retreat to the shipyard, there is a large open space, will not be affected by the fire.

The soldiers all stared blankly at the flames gradually engulfing the camp and the crying chaos on the other side, none of them had any orders from the main general Yuanqing Palace, and no one knew what to do.

Yuanqing Palace rode on a war horse, staring intently at the Sui army on the west bank, in the firelight he saw Zhang Xuan's royal flag, inlaid with the gold edge of the green dragon red flag, he couldn't help but be frightened in his heart, Zhang Xuan appeared in Yalushui, that means that his nephew and Eulzhi Wende are finished, and the Liaodong Goguryeo army must have been wiped out.

At this time, a soldier climbed ashore from the water, ran to the Yuanqing Palace and knelt down and cried: "General Gao is defending the grain camp to the death, the grain camp is currently unharmed, but it was attacked by the Sui army, General Gao couldn't support it anymore, he begged General Yuan to support, General Gao said that if the grain camp is lost, all of us will starve to death!" ”

Yuanqing Palace asked coldly, "Are there many enemy troops besieging the grain camp?" ”

"General Qiyu, most of the enemy troops are besieging the grain camp, and General Gao can't support it anymore."

Yuanqing Palace looked at the opposite bank again, and sure enough, there were countless Sui cavalry rushing to the northwest, and that was the seat of the grain camp.

He shook his head and said to the messenger soldier: "You go and tell General Gao that the pontoon bridge has been destroyed, and it is difficult for us to cross the Sasui and we cannot go to rescue him, and tell him that I am sorry and that I admire his heroism." ”

After speaking, he waved his hand and shouted: "Get out of the camp and retreat south!" ”

He turned his horse's head and left, and the messenger cried: "If General Yuan doesn't save him, my general will definitely die!" ”

Yuanqing Palace glanced back at him and said coldly: "The general died on the battlefield and died well, so why be afraid?" ”

He whipped his horse fiercely and led his army to run towards the gate of the southern camp, and more than 26,000 elite Goguryeo soldiers followed him to quickly evacuate the main camp and retreat in the direction of Pyongyang

At this time, the Sui army also stopped the fire attack on the grain camp, 5,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry launched a fierce attack on the grain camp from three directions, Gao Yanshou's soldiers around him fought less and less, there were less than 1,000 people, and they were suppressed in the southeast corner of the grain camp, at this time, the Sui soldiers cheered, only to see more than 100 cavalry surrounded by a general with a golden helmet and iron armor appeared, tall and burly, holding a purple sun double-wheeled halberd, and a treasure flame beast under his crotch, it was Zhang Xuan, the king of Qi.

Zhang Xuan pointed at Gao Yanshou with a halberd, "Surrender can spare your life!" ”

Gao Yanshou guessed the identity of the other party, he didn't say a word, and urged the horse to run towards Zhang Xuan, the big knife in his hand flashed coldly, his eyes were full of murderous intent, Zhang Xuan was furious, "Since you want to find death, then fulfill you!" ”

Without waiting for the crowd to stop him, he waved his halberd, greeted him, and slashed at Gao Yanshou's big knife, Gao Yanshou's big knife weighed eighty pounds, plus his martial arts are strong, and he has the courage of ten thousand people, and Yuan Gai Suwen is called Goguryeo Shuangjie, but it is a pity that he met Zhang Xuan, who ranks third in the world, and only listens to 'dang! With a piercing bang, the halberds slammed together, Gao Yanshou's arms suddenly lost consciousness, and the big knife came out of his hand and flew out more than ten zhang away.

Gao Yanshou shouted, turned his horse and fled, but it was too late, he only felt that the vest was cold, the halberd had pierced his body, the tip of the halberd leaked out of his chest, Gao Yanshou screamed miserably, and was killed immediately.

Zhang Xuan shook off his corpse, and suddenly felt a little bored, he no longer had the excitement of single-handing the enemy for the general, so he turned his horse back to the battle, and ordered the three armies: "Those who don't surrender will be killed!" ”

Thousands of cavalry slaughtered from all directions, and more than 1,000 Goguryeo soldiers gradually died out, and finally died in battle

Xu Shiji led 10,000 soldiers to ambush outside the western camp, when countless soldiers fled from the southern gate in a hurry, they encountered the encirclement and interception of the Sui army, the Goguryeo soldiers were cornered, they had to kneel down and surrender, begging the Sui army to spare their lives, the Sui army's battle against the western camp of Goguryeo was successfully closed, according to the principle of dividing and gathering and annihilating, they let go of the Goguryeo soldiers in the eastern camp, so that they could retreat southward smoothly.

But the battle was not over, Zhang Xuan ordered Xu Shiji to take charge of the aftermath, and he immediately led 10,000 cavalry to cross the Sashui from the makeshift pontoon bridge, and pursued unhurriedly to the south.

In a valley on the east bank of Sashui, Su Dingfang led 10,000 troops to rest here, their task was to cut off the retreat of the Goguryeo army, and cooperate with the 20,000 Luo Shixin army in ambush to prepare for the total annihilation of the southern retreat army.

Su Dingfang sat on a big stone and chewed grass roots boringly, it was almost dawn, groups of soldiers sat on the ground and closed their eyes to rest, waiting for the order of the main general, at this time, two Lang generals stepped forward and asked: "General, are we going to completely destroy Goguryeo this time?" ”

Su Dingfang glanced at them, and said angrily: "What do you care about this kind of thing, you still care about your own merits!" ”

"The brethren are making bets, and we have made bets, and if the general can reveal something, we may be able to make a profit."

Su Dingfang slapped each of them on the head, and scolded with a smile: "Pit your own brother, I'm embarrassed to say it, tell you!" Actually, I don't know. ”

Su Dingfang laughed, at this time, a scout rushed over, Su Dingfang hurriedly stopped laughing, stepped forward and asked, "Are you here?" ”

"General Qiyu has already arrived, and he is marching south on the official road, and he is walking in a very hurry, and he is about to pass through."

Su Dingfang immediately shouted: "Let the brothers get up and get ready to go!" ”

The soldiers got up one after another, cleaned up a little, and then followed the direction of Su Dingfang to the west, the valley where Su Dingfang's army was hiding was about two miles away from the official road, and when they arrived on the official road, more than 26,000 Goguryeo soldiers had just walked through the official road, and they could still see the tail of their rear army.

At this moment, a shout of killing suddenly broke out a few miles to the south, Su Dingfang's spirit was lifted, this was the 20,000 ambush soldiers led by Luo Shixin attacked, he shouted, "Brothers, kill me with me!" ”

The soldiers of the Sui army shouted, brandishing swords and spears and slaughtered the rear army of Goguryeo.

Luo Shixin, who was ambushed on the official road, led 20,000 troops to kill out, cut the Goguryeo army into two sections, the two armies fought fiercely together, Yuanqing Palace was located in the middle army, and the Sui army was just in front of him, cutting the army into two, just when Yuanqing Palace was flustered, the rear army also broke out into a shouting and killing, and some soldiers came to report: "General, there are also Sui troops killed behind." ”

Suddenly, there was a thunderous sound of horses' hooves from the north, and the earth began to shake, this was the Sui cavalry killing, and Yuanqing Palace was so anxious that he roared, "Break out with me!" ”

He led thousands of troops to kill the Sui army that intercepted them, he was very experienced, and the goal was very clear, he had to break through to the front in order to get rid of the encirclement of the Sui army, at this time the Goguryeo army in the south also shouted, and the Goguryeo soldiers who tried to flee south were intercepted by 3,000 heavy armored infantry and 8,000 infantry, so that their retreat from the north and south ends was cut off, the west was the turbulent Sashui, and the east was the endless reckless forest, except for desperately breaking out from the south, they had no way out.

At the beginning of the morning, the sky was already bright, on the east bank of Sashui, about 60 miles south of Yalushui, 50,000 Sui troops surrounded 26,000 Goguryeo soldiers, shouting and killing shook the sky, the Sui army had an obvious superiority in strength, the morale of the Goguryeo army was low, and the defeat was decided. (To be continued.) )