Ten miles to the north, specially used as the construction of the Acropolis of Dingdong City for the second expedition to Liao, when Yang Guang, the son of heaven of the Sui Dynasty, besieged Liaodong City, he took the captured Liuhe City as his temporary station. On that occasion, the envoys of dozens of countries and the princes of the king all came to Liuhe City with the army to visit the million-strong army of the Great Sui Heavenly Empire.

During the third expedition to Liao, because in Liuhe City, in front of the king and envoys of the subordinate country, the Sui army was defeated, so when the third expedition to Liao, Yang Guang felt that this city was a little unlucky, so he simply asked the craftsman to build a wooden city and placed it ten miles away from the west city, so that he could directly command and watch the battle.

And now, Liuhe City has become the base camp of the Goguryeo coalition army. After Yizhi Wende and others led the army out of the Liao River to block Zhang Xutuo, the general Gao Lin with 20,000 soldiers and horses and 80,000 slaves and men left behind immediately left only a few slaves in the large military camp outside the city, and the rest of the soldiers and slaves all retreated into Liuhe City to prevent the Sui army from attacking the camp.

On the night of the wind and snow, the Gundam Forest on Liuhe City was full of worries, and it had been a day and a night since the army left, and the army that had not returned for a long time made him extremely nervous. At present, he only has 20,000 soldiers and horses, and if the Sui army in the city knows the reality of the camp at this time, then it will be very dangerous.

In the snow of the night in the distance, suddenly the roar of horses' hooves sounded. Gao Darin looked nervously, and kept praying in his heart that the eldest marshal of the second branch and the prince had returned. But the higher the hope, the greater the disappointment.

The cavalry in the darkness did not have torches, so they rushed straight to the camp outside Liuhe City. When he arrived in front of the barracks around the camp, under the light of the camp fire, he shouted with a pale face, "Enemy attack!" ”

The alarm bell had sounded, but not half of the troops and horses in the camp had come out of the camp to meet the enemy. The camp was full of slaves, and all the soldiers and horses were in the city.

Zhou Jin led a battalion of cavalry to run all the way along the camp and did not rush to the camp, but kept observing the situation in the camp. There were no defenders on the high wooden fences, and men and slaves were constantly running out of the tents in the camp. However, there were still a large number of tents that did not move, and no one intercepted them as they arrived.

After watching the meeting, he already knew in his heart that the enemy was deliberately hidden. Or, there are really no soldiers and horses in the Liao camp, and he looks at the Liuhe City in the middle of the camp from a distance, but the head of this small acropolis fortress is brightly lit and crowded at this time.

Zhou Jin already knew what to expect, and called a herald to return to the city to report the news, and the soldiers immediately began to lead the soldiers to release rockets into the camp. Whether it's really empty or an ambush, he knows it when he tries it.

Rockets were thrown high into the air over the fence before whizzing down onto the tents in the camp. Rockets were fired in, setting fire to numerous tents. The Liao slaves in the camp began to scatter.

"The general will send troops out of the city to engage in the battle, so that if we continue, our reality will be known to the Sui army." A general said anxiously to the Gundam forest at the head of the city.

Gao Gao Lin stood there, his face sinking, "We have besieged Liaodong City for nearly half a month, can you see when the Sui army will go out of the city and attack the camp?" Now as soon as the army leaves, the Sui army will attack the camp, which clearly shows that the Sui army already knows that our camp is real and false, and this cavalry is definitely the bait of the Sui army. If our soldiers and horses go out of Liuhe City, there will definitely be an ambush of the Sui Dynasty army in the darkness, and there will be no return. ”

"But if you can't avoid the war, it's not a way, in this way, the entire camp will be destroyed." Gao Lin said coldly, "Let them burn it, it's just a batch of tents, and at most burn those 20,000 slaves." As long as we hold Liuhe City, we will not lose our soldiers and horses. When the commander defeated the Sui army reinforcements, and then turned back to capture Liaodong City, there was everything in that city. ”

Zhou Jin set fire for a long time, almost set fire to half of the camp, and found that except for one or two hundred thousand people and slaves who were constantly running in the camp, there was no half of the Liao army. My heart also became bold, "Rush in!" "Like a wolf entering a flock of sheep, less than two thousand cavalrymen set fire to the camp everywhere, and kept driving away the slaves and men who were in the camp.

When Chen Kefu's 60,000 soldiers and horses arrived from behind, the remaining 10,000 Liao slaves in the camp had become prisoners of the light cavalry. A slice of black ducks, squatting in the snow outside the camp. Chen Kefu was also very happy to see such a situation, so it shows that the coalition camp at this time is not an ordinary emptiness.

"Prepare for the siege!"

Chen Kefu did not hesitate for a moment, since the enemy would rather the entire camp be burned down and tens of thousands of people were captured than come out. That shows that there are very few troops in Liuhe City, and this is the time to remove Liuhe City. ,

Liuhe City is only ten miles away from Liaodong City, and when the Sui army came, it had already brought a large number of catapults and crossbows. Rows of catapults and crossbows were swinging out, and at the sound of an order, a dense rain of stone bullets, fireballs, crossbow arrows, and occasionally one or two earth-shattering thunder powder packs completely suppressed the defenders of the entire Liuhe City.

Under such a dense and saturated attack, the defenders on the head of the city kept falling, and no matter how big the shield was, it could not stop such an attack density.

The soldiers of the infantry battalion roared, carrying the ladder straight to the bottom of the city. One after another, the ladders were erected, and under the cover of 20,000 crossbowmen under the city, they began to ascend the city.

"Marshal, it seems that there will not be more than 30,000 soldiers and horses in the city, and this city can fight tonight." Li Benlei said happily. The sooner Liuhe City was captured, the Liaodong Army would be able to free up its hands to rescue Zhang Xutuo earlier.

The siege went even more smoothly than Li Benlei expected, and in just two hours, Liuhe City fell in the siege with the cooperation of the Sui army's ample infantry catapult crossbow Chuáng. In retaliation for the last siege, the soldiers who entered the city opened the way with bows and crossbows.

Whether the enemy is a soldier or a civilian, it is like a rain of crossbow arrows. Where there were more people, the Sui army even simply set up catapults to smash them. Countless soldiers and civilians had already abandoned their weapons and wanted to surrender, but the Sui army did not accept it at all. Pieces of people fell, and the entire small Liuhe City was like a mountain of corpses, and blood flowed like a river.

The siege took only two hours, but it took almost two hours to clear the city of enemies. It is true that the slaughter of the city was carried out for three hours, and it was not until the end that there were basically no more than one Liao people in the group, and Chen Kefu ordered it to stop.

Twenty thousand soldiers, eighty thousand slaves, were slaughtered two-thirds in just four hours. All the fighters were singled out and killed, and none remained. The last captives were left with only those who had been captured before, a total of thirty-five thousand strong men.

As the commander of the army, Chen Kefu knew that it was a pity that these slaves were killed, and it would be of great use to stay. But now every soldier is holding back the fire in his heart, and he himself is also holding back the fire. Anyway, if you defeat the Liao army, there will be more prisoners in the future, so let's kill them, so that there will be less trouble in the future.

When he captured Liuhe City, Li Benlei had already led 20,000 infantry to the Liaohe River.

"Dashuai, the city has been cleaned up, and all the Liao people have been captured. Now what? Zhang Kefu was silent for a moment, "The Liao army has been broken, and the camp has been destroyed by our army." Now that they have defeated General Zhang Xutuo, they will not be able to escape the fate of defeat. Leave 20,000 people to guard Liuhe City, and the remaining 20,000 people and 10,000 heavy infantry battalions and heavy cavalry battalions will return to Liaodong City. The rest and I went to the Liao River. Li Shimin said a little unhappily, "Dashuai, our Mo sword soldiers are ace soldiers, how can such an important battle leave us?" "Marshal, if you don't bring Mo Sword Soldiers, forget it, our heavy cavalry is the strongest combat force in the army, you can bring us with you." At the critical moment, we have to rely on our heavy cavalry to go out, take us with us, and ensure that we will win Yizhi Wende for the marshal at that time. Guo Xiaoke also stood next to him and refused to leave.

"Is there any joke in the army? When can this commander's order be bargained? I went here to pick up General Zhang, and now it is both night and snow, and the road is difficult. How can you, the strongest soldiers, rush to the war if you don't have a carriage to transport you? Go with your two tuǐ?

Or rush with your own armor? Chen Kefu said with some dissatisfaction.

The hoplites and hoplites were formidable in combat, but they were also incomparably expensive. In the Liaodong Army, they have always been called old soldiers, and all kinds of treatment are best not to mention, even if they march to fight, they must also be transported by horse-drawn carriages. Not only do all their armor have logistics to deliver, but these soldiers also have to maintain their physical strength, so when they march, they also take a carriage, and they don't have to take a step on the road, and everyone calls them old soldiers.

At this time, the night march is the most important thing to save the emergency, and the snow is slippery, take them, then don't want speed.

Li Xuanba looked at his second brother's dejected appearance, and hurriedly said, "Brother-in-law, if we don't bring the troops, we can't do it ourselves." "In the whole army, only this stunned fourth prince dares to call Chen Kefu like this, and for such a person who is obviously less tendon, Chen Kefu is not too careful.

"It's okay, all three of you should go with me, and the brothers under my command will hand over to their subordinates to go back to Liaodong City in half of the year." Chen Kefu nodded, now most of the generals around him have been dispatched, and there are soldiers and generals around him, so it is not impossible to bring them.

It was already afternoon when Chen Kefu arrived at the Liaohe battlefield with his soldiers and horses, and last night, Chen Qing and Chen Gui's 10,000 light cavalry, who arrived first, had already fought with the Liao army several times. Li Benlei, who arrived shortly after, also joined the battle with 20,000 infantry.

When Chen Qing arrived, it was almost dawn, and when they arrived, Qin Shubao and Luo Shixin were fighting and fleeing with more than 2,000 people.

10,000 cavalry converged with 2,000 Zhang Xutuo's front army and began to counterattack the Goguryeo, and after Li Benlei's 20,000 infantry arrived, they fought several times in the dark night, and when Chen Kefu also arrived, the two armies had already fought all the way to the east bank of Liaodong.

On the plain on the east bank of the Liaohe River, the two armies all gathered their troops and horses, and the two sides formed a formation to confront each other. Chen Kefu commanded the Sui army of 20,000 light cavalry and 40,000 infantry, a total of 60,000 soldiers and horses. The Goguryeo coalition army had more than 90,000 people, 30,000 cavalry and 60,000 infantry. The two sides formed a battle five miles apart, and the battle was imminent