"It's a mess, it's a mess," Mai Jicai, the third child, ran into the military tent and said with an ugly face:
"Big brother (Mai Mengcai)'s defense line has been defeated. After the enemy troops broke through, they were already heading towards General Manager Yu. Military reports were received in the east that a large number of enemy troops were approaching towards General Manager Yu's east wing. Most of them were from Liaodong who were wandering outside. The remnant troops, the Grand Controller’s soldiers, haven’t even seen a shadow.”
Mai Tiezhang narrowed his eyes and said with a gloomy face: "Immediately send my general's order to concentrate the troops and horses to attack Ulji Wende. The general management department must not be damaged."
In the military tent, Su Lie said in a deep voice: "The pontoon bridge has been set up, but people can't get across. If the General Manager's soldiers are not here, then they are probably going to support the General Manager Wei. In this way, not only will the General Manager Wei not be saved, but The general manager's main force is being attacked from both sides, and the situation is extremely unfavorable."
Shi Wanbao snorted coldly: "It's a good situation to be dragged into this situation. How pitiful is the Chief Wei."
Everyone was almost certain that Wei Xuan was about to finish his game. The scouts stationed on the other side had already come to report, and the main force of Goguryeo that had been hoarded in Sa River had already gone upstream.
The upper reaches of Yalu River and Sa River are mountainous, the middle reaches are plains, and the lower reaches are delta plains, which are conducive to heavy cavalry operations. Wei Xuan's cavalry can only have one or two thousand, but it is impossible to hold it.
Su Lie said in a deep voice: "We only have 6,000 cavalry. Give them all to me, the general manager. Let me cross the river and attack the Sa River. Maybe I can break the siege of the general manager.
If you want to save Wei Xuan, there is actually only one way at the moment, which is to get some water from Sa.
Gao Dayang took away 100,000 troops, so the troops currently stationed near Sashui must be weak. If Sashui can be captured, it will be equivalent to cutting off Gao Dayang's connection with Pyongyang, and there is a great chance to force the other party to return reinforcements.
And Pyongyang's army does not dare to leave the city casually, because Lai Hu'er is watching. If they dare to come out, Lai Hu'er will directly attack Pyongyang.
Li Jing went to Sashui right now.
Mai Tiezhang is not the kind of person who hesitates. Regardless of whether he is right or wrong, as long as he is correct, he will go all the way to the dark side.
"Xue Zuo has led five thousand infantrymen to cross the river with you. Don't worry about me here. The general manager Yu is the most elite of our Sui Dynasty. How can the barbarians defeat them?"
Su Lie said worriedly: "The general manager must not be careless. We only need to try our best to contain the enemy forces in Liaodong. As for the remaining troops in Liaodong, after the general manager finds out, he will definitely lead his troops to come to rescue. At that time, the advantage will be transferred and it will be of great benefit to us."
"I got it, go quickly," Mai Tiezhang urged.
Su Lie hurriedly mobilized his troops and crossed the river before Xue Zuo. This time he took with him 6,000 cavalry, 4,000 light cavalry and 2,000 heavy cavalry. After crossing the river, he would go straight to the enemy camp in Sa River to explore the situation. , and Xue Zuo is responsible for attacking.
The three stable pontoon bridges were originally built for Yu Wenshu and the others, but now they are used by themselves.
Not long after Su Lie crossed the river, he met Li Jing's cavalry, and then he realized that Li Jing had also gone to Sashui.
"What's going on with Wu Gu? Why can't the main force of our army cross the river?" You Qi asked.
The Ranger Scout is responsible for detecting the enemy's situation and liaison between friendly forces, so he must understand the situation.
"General Manager Yu has been held back. The main movements of the General Manager are not yet known. It is possible that they went to Feiyan Ridge," replied Mai Jicai, the third child who came out with Su Lie.
The ranger lamented: "Our troops are approaching Sashui, please go to General Su for support as soon as possible."
Su Lie nodded, whipped his horse whip, and took four thousand Qingqi on the road in advance.
Sa Shui is the Qingchuan River in later generations. Like the Yalu River, it flows east-west. On the map, it is roughly parallel, with the north and south separated by two hundred miles.
This is the last barrier to the north of Pyongyang City. In history, Yang Guang's second expedition to Goguryeo was a major defeat at Sa River. Ulji Wende built a dam to store water, flooding seven armies. He also pretended to surrender four times. Fooled four times.
Xin Shixiong died in the Battle of Sashui.
But this battle was not actually the turning point of the Sui army's defeat. The real turning point was when Yang Xuangan lit a fire behind Yang Guang's butt.
Currently, there is no dam to block the river in Sa River, because the people who camp for dozens of miles around the river bank are all their own people.
However, most of the barracks are now empty, and the people were taken away by Gao Dayang to work for Weixuan.
After Li Jing arrived, he used the mobility of the cavalry to shoot from one place to another, until the Sashui defenders were stunned and all the vegetation was covered with soldiers.
They had no idea how many people came from the Sui army. Anyway, there were warnings of enemy attacks everywhere.
The person guarding here is Goguryeo's eldest brother Yu Mo Shi, who is almost the general. He immediately reported the military information here to Gao Dayang and Pyongyang.
And he himself led five thousand heavy cavalry, wandering outside, looking for the enemy's movements.
The Sui Dynasty had the advantage of armor. Goguryeo now knows all about it, but whether it has seen it or not, these are two different things.
After all, it is human nature to only believe in one's own eyes. If you put it on the battlefield, you won't know if you don't fight.
Li Jing's troops were not concentrated, but dispersed and harassed in all directions, in order to give the enemy the illusion that they were surrounded on all sides.
Yang Yuanqing had just led people to burn down several barracks, and then ran into a village that was already deserted. There was no grain, but there was well water, but he did not dare to drink it.
The water bag of the thousand-weight horse he was carrying was already empty, and he was in urgent need of replenishing water.
"Go east and see if you can find some streams to replenish water for the horses." Yang Yuanqing did not dare to stay in one place for too long, so he led the people east again.
As a result, this time I left, I directly encountered the five thousand heavy cavalry of my eldest brother Ha Sue Minoru.
If you put it on others, one thousand versus five thousand, with the same type of soldiers, most of them would not dare to use it.
But Yang Yuanqing dared. Once he came here from Liaodong, he had already gained confidence. Moreover, his character was like this.
Ever since Yang Suyang made an appointment with his brother, many of the next generation in the Yang family have been this kind of people, some of them fierce. Yang Wanshi is an exception, he is a coward.
The two armies collided head-on in a grassland area.
No one moved. Yang Yuanqing was thinking about how to rush into the formation, but Yu Mo was really waiting for Yang Yuanqing to run away.
Heavy cavalry versus heavy cavalry, whoever runs away will suffer. In Hazoumi's opinion, if these few people see me, they will definitely run away.
But he thought wrong.
Yang Yuanqing and the others were slowly approaching them, and their speed was getting faster and faster.
Good guy, you want to fight with me, right? Being a brave man, Hamo Minoru immediately ordered the entire army to attack.
The heavy cavalry on both sides were like two wild bulls, and they collided hard.
At night, Su Lie, who was taking a temporary rest, received a report from the scout:
"There is a fighting fifteen miles ahead, and it seems to have ended, but the night is too dark to tell the difference between friend and foe."
Su Lie did not dare to be careless and immediately ordered to be on guard. Everyone dragged their tired bodies to mount their horses and set up their formations.
After a while, a scout returned and said: "In front are our own people, the heavy cavalry of Officer Yang."
Su Lie was instantly overjoyed. I marched desperately and finally saw you.
So he led his army slowly towards Yang Yuanqing's direction.
After Yang Yuanqing learned that Su Lie had arrived, he was overjoyed and rode his horse to see him immediately:
"Dingfang, Dingfang, you came at the right time," Yang Yuanqing reined in his horse and laughed, "I thought we would be alone, but I didn't expect you guys to come anyway. Now it's better, we have it." You guys, don’t worry about getting the Sa Shui.”
The night was too dark and Su Lie couldn't see clearly the surrounding scene. If it were daytime, he would be stunned.
Because the wilderness he could see was littered with enemy corpses, Yang Yuanqing won a great victory with one thousand against five thousand.
This is when we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins.
Such a victory was a great boost to the morale of the Sui army. It would make the soldiers think, is the enemy army so fragile?
Simply vulnerable.
Su Lie asked: "Where is Mr. Li?"
Yang Yuanqing said: "I have sent someone to contact you. In the daytime battle, I defeated the enemy's heavy cavalry. Now is a good opportunity to seize the victory and pursue the enemy. Don't rest, come with me."
Su Lie pondered for a moment and nodded.
With five thousand against one thousand, Ha Mo almost died and escaped with more than a thousand remaining troops.
On the battlefield, most of the real casualties do not come from the battle between the two armies, but the process of one side fleeing and the other side chasing and being chased is the most fatal.
In a real hard fight, not many people will die, because you are afraid that I will run away and you will chase me. If you don’t have eyes behind your butt, you won’t be able to hide.
After the two discussed the enemy's situation on the road, they simply didn't wait for Li Jing and went straight to kill Yu Momin in the direction where he was escaping.
Isn't Yang Yuanqing short of water? If he attacks the enemy's lair, he will naturally have it.
Two days later, as Xue Zuo's elite infantry arrived, the Goguryeo barracks scattered on the north bank of Sashui fell into a vast fire.
After receiving the news, Gao Dayang was reluctant to come back.
Because Wei Xuan's tribe had been defeated by him, and Wei Xuan himself, with his personal escort, fled to the top of the mountain to defend himself.
There are now only more than 3,000 people left in the dam camp. The rest were either killed or defeated.
Wei Xuan was extremely angry. He hated Li Jing and even more hated Yu Wenshu.
It was Li Jing who asked him to come, and it was Yu Wenshu who tricked him.
Looking at Lai Zheng who had no strength to fight anymore, Wei Xuan felt respectful in his heart: "Well done Liu Lang, I did not disgrace you to the Lai family."
He was sitting on the ground to straighten things up, with a dilapidated look on his face:
"My grandfather once told me that in life, you should never leave your life in the hands of others. Now it seems that this is indeed the case. Our move is too risky. It is fanciful to expect others to save us."
Wei Xuan sighed: "On the battlefield, the most important thing is coordination and cooperation to maintain strategic unity. I took the initiative to get into danger to eliminate hidden worries for the main force. It's a pity that Li Jing abandoned me and Yu Wenshu delayed the military plane. It was not strategic. Loss is the fault of man.”
Lai Zheng endured the severe pain of his injury and said, "If I can survive this time, I will go to His Majesty to sue Yu Wenshu."
Wei Xuan didn't speak anymore. He felt that they were dead this time.
The current defense in the camp will completely collapse until the next enemy attack.
His life has entered a countdown.
I don’t know how long it took, but at the foot of the mountain in the distance, intensive horn sounds sounded from the enemy formation.
Wei Xuan sat up suddenly and looked at the generals around him:
"What does this horn sound mean?"
One of the generals who was familiar with the signals in the Goguryeo army said: "It seems to be an enemy attack. So, our reinforcements have arrived?"
Wei Xuan's eyes widened, his desire to survive rekindled.
(End of chapter)
