Chapter 4 National Memorial (Mikami) Watching the pontoon bridge built with life being completed in front of his eyes, millions of soldiers cheered with thunder
Although the number of people in Li Xu's food protection army is small, they are more excited than any other soldiers to join the food protection army. There are some connections in the family. Therefore, the proportion of soldiers in this team who are literate is much higher than that of other armies.
Scholars have always had an unrealistic romance in their hearts. They have seen hymns for iron and blood written in ancient poems countless times. Today, they have witnessed a real war with their own eyes. Although it is only the beginning, it has completely subverted it.
the impression gained from the book
The scene in front of us cannot be described only as tragic and tragic, and it seems too thin. In the shouts of the soldiers of the two armies, the red blood, and the lives disappearing in front of you like ants, make people feel full of awe.
, the awe of the gods, the awe of fate and killing
Throughout the morning, the young men in the food protection army were waving flags and shouting tirelessly on the shore. They could see the faces of their companions who were so frightened that they lost all color. They could also hear their own teeth colliding unfavorably with others. They could even
They felt that the thighs and bodies of the people next to them were shaking constantly. Although the sound of iron crossbows whizzing through the air nearby made them want to cover their ears several times, at this moment, most of them did not think of running for their lives. Indeed,
Most of them used connections to sneak into the food protection army, just to avoid going to the battlefield. But at the moment when the pontoon bridge was completed, if someone gave the order, they would pull out their weapons and rush to the other side without hesitation.
The three vanguards of Zuo Wuwei, Zuo Yiwei and Zuo Tunwei were activated at the same time. Against the flow of people who had withdrawn the pontoon bridge, they rushed up to the east bank of the Liao River. Under the organization of the lower-level generals, the soldiers who had crossed the bank quickly formed a team of heavy armored soldiers.
The sword and shield bearers were in the front, the pikemen and light armor soldiers were in the middle, and the archers fell behind. Small square formations were quickly formed on the other side of the river.
The Goguryeo people swarmed over like angry locusts. They tried overwhelmingly to seize the river beach and pushed the Sui army that had just landed ashore into the cold water. However, the phalanx established by the soldiers was as towering as a rock.
It was smashed into pieces again and again, and the position was continuously extended to both sides of the bridge, leaving enough space for the brothers who were crossing the river to settle down. The sun was shining brightly at noon, making the river surface bright red like a flame, and countless soldiers and soldiers were burning through it.
rivers, using their own blood or the blood of their enemies to add a strong stroke of red to the illuminated sky
"General Qian, look at that, General Qian has passed by!" A slightly childish voice sounded in Li Xu's ears. He turned his head and saw Erlang Shimin of Tang Gong's family shouting. Li Xu followed Zuo Wuwei Wu Benlang.
When Qian Shixiong was practicing martial arts, Li Shimin used to sneak moves beside him. Therefore, he was very familiar with Qian Shixiong's love for his feather-like silver armor.
Li Xu just glanced at Li Shimin hastily, and then moved his eyes back to the other side of the river. There were too many soldiers crossing the bridge, and his sight was always blocked by the shaking heads. But all the scenes on the battlefield were almost the same, and his eyes were caught at one point.
After blocking it, I went to the next place and saw the same heroic scene.
This was a huge and tragic battle that was incomparable to the fighting between the grassland tribes. Compared with it, all the battles that Li Xu had participated in in the past two years, including the one where he defeated the lair of Suotou Xibu under Xu Dayan's control, were not as intense.
One-tenth of the battle in front of us. As for the bloody battle between horse thieves and Turkic wolf riders that we participated in on the way back to the Central Plains, compared with the battle on the other side of the river, it was like children playing in the mud, and it is not worth mentioning at all.
Li Xu heard his heavy breathing and felt his heart almost beating out of his throat. He felt that his whole body was stiffened by the wind, but the blood flowing in his veins was burning as if it had been ignited. His whole body ached except for his hoarse voice.
Besides shouting and cheering, he didn't know what else he could do for the warriors crossing the river. But soon, shouting and cheering became a luxury. His voice suddenly became hoarse, and the sound he made was like a broken gong.
The figure of General Qian Shixiong appeared in his sight again. The war horse had been stabbed to death by the enemy with random spears. The general immediately turned into a warrior, but it did not affect his actions at all. He only saw him wave his long sword, and the surroundings seemed to be...
There was an extra gap, and then another sweep made the gap instantly larger. The Sui soldiers behind him quickly filled the gap where the general rushed out, and pushed the Goguryeo people away.
Li Xu couldn't see clearly how many people fell under Qian Shixiong's long arm. He only saw that the opponent's silver armor slowly turned pink. Then, he saw that the long arm broke and was thrown into the enemy's formation by Qian Shixiong.
In the middle, the assassin of the Korean military general fell from his horse. Then, he saw Qian Shixiong holding a horizontal sword, as if he was in a deserted place.
The Goguryeo people couldn't stand it any longer. Li Xu was very happy to think that unknowingly, he had regarded himself as one of the soldiers crossing the river, and was extremely eager to win the battle. However, the moment his eyes shifted, he
Suddenly I felt terrible fear
"Ah!" Many Sui soldiers who were waiting in line on the west bank of the river screamed. Then, there was a dead silence on the river. On the river, which was as silent as death, several fireboats with extremely deep drafts and thick smoke were moving along.
The torrent rushed down
"Bang!" The impact hit everyone's hearts like a heavy hammer, and even the rhythm of the drummer stopped for a moment. Then, the pontoon bridge upstream that had just been erected was knocked apart by a fire ship.
The soldiers crossing the river fell into the red river like dumplings.
Blocked by the ships in front, the second echelon of fireships slowed down, but they were burning like hunting, pressing toward the second pontoon bridge like a mansion about to collapse. In the face of the inevitable disaster, no one could remain calm.
The soldiers on the second pontoon pushed each other and screamed, trying to avoid the fate of death, but the fire boat still followed the current and slowly rammed towards them.
The soldiers in the front tried their best to retreat, but the soldiers in the rear were too late to make enough space for them. Countless people fell into the water before the fire ship hit the pontoon, countless people were stepped on by their own robes, and countless people watched helplessly.
The fire rushes towards oneself
All this happened in just a few breaths, but the people on the shore felt as if tens of thousands of years had passed by. The fireship burned the second pontoon bridge and capsized most of itself, but there were still five or six ships that were swept away by the current.
With that, we inevitably rush to the third pontoon.
On the east bank of the Liao River, the defeated Goguryeo people suddenly gained courage and launched a counterattack at the soldiers, shouting. In the woods in the distance, tens of thousands of Goguryeo ambush soldiers emerged from behind the mounds, holding scimitars.
Spears, bows and arrows, iron forks, and a flock of crows engulfed the soldiers who had crossed the river.
It was the Zuowuwei soldiers who crossed the river with the help of the third pontoon bridge. It was also they who crossed the Liao River in the first wave and set foot on the land controlled by Goguryeo. They saw the tragedy that happened on the other two pontoon bridges. The soldiers who were crossing the river panicked and pushed each other.
They pushed and tried to retreat to the west bank, but the entire team was unable to move at all.
The flames of death were approaching step by step along the blood-red river. Most of the million soldiers on the shore had already closed their eyes. Today's defeat was inevitable. Although a few breaths ago, everyone had smelled the taste of victory, but the opponent's
The guarding general was scheming, luring the enemy, burning the bridge, and counterattacking. All his actions were perfectly executed. At the moment when the fire ship appeared, the thousands of soldiers who had already crossed the river and the hundreds of Zuowu guards on the third pontoon bridge were caught.
The fate of the soldiers has been written. Even if Sun Wu is reborn, he cannot change this miserable ending.
Some people were already crying uncontrollably, mourning for the bloody battle on the other side of the river and the struggling Pao Ze in the river. Some people opened their sad eyes wide and watched the brothers on the third pontoon complete the last journey of their lives. Suddenly, they saw the third pontoon bridge.
On a pontoon bridge, Old General Mai Tiezhang was raising his arms and shouting. No one heard what he shouted, but they found that the crowd on the pontoon suddenly fell silent. Then, the soldiers in front of the bridge raised their weapons and shouted to the other side.
, rush towards death
"Brothers, we are all going to die, fight to the other side!" On the third pontoon bridge, the Zuowuwei soldiers in a mess heard their old general shouting and continued, and saw the old general jumping off his horse and carrying him to Lai.
The iron rod he became famous for jumped off the pontoon.
A ball of water splashed high on the bank, swallowing up the old man's figure. The water dispersed, and his tall body was presented to everyone. The cold river water reached the waist of Mai Tiezhang. Countless people shouted the old general's name in the west of the river.
But he did not look back, waving his iron staff, calling to the soldiers who were wandering on the bridge and struggling in the water, calling them to go to the east bank to die together.
The bridge was about to be broken, and the water was too deep to turn back. Is it okay to wait for death and die in national affairs? The soldiers shouted and jumped off the pontoon one after another. Following Mai Tiezhang, they rushed to the other side of the river and were trying to turn back to the bridge.
The crushed soldiers were stunned for a moment, and then everyone gathered behind Mai Tiezhang, shouting and rushing towards the isolated and helpless Pao Ze who was surrounded by enemies in the center.
Mai Tiezhang didn't know when the bridge was broken by a ship, nor did he know how many soldiers followed him towards the enemy group. From the moment he jumped into the water, he never looked back, leaving behind all his achievements and countless secrets.
back of head
A Goguryeo Qushuai rushed over with a small team of cavalry, trying to disperse the last soldiers. The wheat iron staff came up to meet him. He raised his staff and dropped it. The Goguryeo Qushuai and his horses scattered together. The remaining Goguryeo people tried to
To avenge the general, his mount was chopped off by the soldiers.
Someone pulled a bad horse, Mai Tiezhang jumped on it, waved his stick and continued to charge forward. Ying Yanglang general Meng Jincha led a small team of soldiers to follow closely behind the old general's horse, and personally blocked the commander's arrows as he had done for more than ten years.
Another group of Goguryeo soldiers rushed up with their swords. The leading general tried to use the speed of the war horse to thrust the iron staff off his mount. The long spear came forward, but the iron staff was caught sideways in his hand. Then, an iron staff swept across,
Sweep the Goguryeo people into dust
Blood spread around the war horse like mist, dyeing the old general's white hair red. It had been a long time since he had fought so happily. Mai Tiezhang couldn't remember clearly. He only remembered that he seemed to be sixteen or seventeen years old.
So he was forced to become a bandit, following behind the big boss, robbing houses and houses.
The boss is a good man. Every time he robs something, he always shares it equally with everyone. Occasionally, he will give part of the loot to the poor people near the village. But the people still don't like him. When the government comes to suppress, those who have always received gifts
The common people led the officers and soldiers from the small road to the mountain stronghold.
The boss died in battle, and Mai Tiezhang remembered that he was captured and then offered as a slave to the then emperor by Guangzhou Governor Ouyang Yu. At that moment, Mai Tiezhang finally realized that being a thief is not as good as being an official. If an official does an occasional good deed, the people will
A thief who can be grateful and do one good deed every day will still be rejected by others.
Another group of Goguryeo soldiers came around and were beaten to pieces by the iron staff. The iron staff was stained with the blood of countless people, and their uniforms were also stained with blood. The iron staff laughed loudly, using the staff as a spear, and kept shooting at them.
Every time he thrust forward, one of the enemy soldiers would fall to the ground. The team of more than a hundred people he led was already close to Qian Shixiong, who was surrounded by enemies. His silver armor had already turned bright red. When Qian Shixiong saw his commander approaching him, he slightly
Smile, showing white teeth
His Majesty the Emperor Chen liked Mai Tiezhang's bravery and asked him to be an umbrella guard. Mai Tiezhang remembered that he didn't like the job of a royal guard. He left the palace every day and ran hundreds of miles away to rob the rich and give to the poor. Later, this matter was exposed.
However, His Majesty the Emperor did not kill him, he just sent him home to take care of himself.
Another group of Goguryeo people gathered around. Mai Tiezhang felt a little tired. He was old and often unable to do his best. He remembered that when he was young, he had never felt tired in front of the enemy. Even under Yang Su's command, facing hundreds of thousands of troops, his mood
Just as quiet
At that time, there were as many Sui soldiers and horses going south as there were Goguryeo people in front of them. The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty surrendered one after another. However, Mai Tiezhang, who was already a civilian, surrendered to the army and the Sui army. He wanted to cut off Yang Su's head with his own hands to repay Emperor Chen.
His Majesty's kindness, but before he could get close to Yang Su's position, His Majesty the Emperor had been captured, and then the whole country of Chen surrendered.
"Nan Chen is dead, you will follow me from now on!" Mai Tiezhang clearly remembered every word that His Highness the King of Jin, the current Emperor of the Sui Dynasty, said after his conspiracy was exposed by the general.
He didn't care about his evil intentions, and he didn't ask who else was behind the assassination. With just one sentence, he erased all memories of Nan Chen in his heart.
The enemy troops were suddenly sparse at the moment. Mai Tiezhang saw that he had merged with Qian Shixiong's team. He turned to look at his general Meng Jincha and found that this tiger general had at least five feather arrows stuck in the armor on his chest.
The long knife in his hand is still shining as before
"The bridge is broken!" Mai Tiezhang spoke again
"Where did the commander-in-chief say we were going?" Qian Shixiong knocked down a Goguryeo primary school student who rushed up and asked with a smile, as casually as if he was asking about the destination of an outing.
Mai Tiezhang pointed forward with his weapon. The soldiers who could still stand raised their heads and saw the general flag raised high by the Goguryeo commander on the mound in the distance.
"Zuo Wuwei!" Ying Yanglang shouted Meng Jincha, leading a small group of soldiers to rush towards the enemy's main formation.
"Zuo Wuwei!" Qian Shixiong was unwilling to succumb to the others and led another group of soldiers to rush in side by side with Meng Jincha.
"Zuo Wuwei, come with me!" Mai Tiezhang's strange Lingnan accent sounded loudly, and all the remaining soldiers who could stand up followed the commander and penetrated into the heart of Goguryeo.
Everyone on both sides of the Liao River was shocked. No one could have expected that a remnant army of less than 500 people would launch a desperate attack on an army of 40,000 people without praying for surrender. For a moment, the Goguryeo war flags fell one after another, and on the other side of the Liao River,
, the Sui soldiers who had no pontoon to cross drew their swords at the same time and paid the highest respect to the robes on the other side.
No one cares whether this move is suspected of overreaching, not even His Majesty the Emperor himself. Ever since he saw the old general Mai Tiezhang jumping onto the other side, His Majesty Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty has never stopped waving his hand like crazy.
The drum hammers beat the cowhide war drums loudly. The military drummers also remembered their duties and followed the rhythm played by His Majesty the Emperor to play the victory song for the warriors.
Amidst the sound of thunderous drums, Mai Tiezhang, Qian Shixiong, Meng Jincha and countless soldiers whose names no one knew rushed into the Goguryeo army.
Under the watchful eye of millions of people, the old general Mai Tiezhang walked across the street with his beard and hair flying.
After a few breaths, the sound of the drum suddenly stopped. Yang Guang put down the drum hammer and burst into tears.
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