When Wang Junlin easily captured Nanyang Village in Annan County and attacked Daluo City, in Liaodong, the main armies of the Sui Dynasty and Goguryeo also surrounded the Liaohe River and fought in darkness.
After the fiasco of crossing the river on the first day, under the desperate persuasion of his ministers, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty finally took a day's rest, re-examined and changed the plan for crossing the river, and mobilized the army's crossbow chariots to line up on the river bank. Then he reorganized the battle plan.
Wan Minzhuang built pontoon bridges, and this time he planned to build two pontoon bridges.
The pontoon bridge had just been halfway built when the Goguryeo people sent out crossbows to harass them, but Yu Wenshu commanded the crossbowmen to push them back with a barrage of fire.
By noon, more than 5,000 minzhuangs died one after another. The pontoon bridge gradually approached the other side. The Goguryeo people built an earthen fort a hundred steps away from the shore. They used archers to ambush the earthen forts and then shot a large number of bridge builders and minzhuangs. The Great Sui Mansion
The soldiers used rafts carrying huge shields to protect the bridge.
The two sides fired at each other with arrows and powerful crossbows, and fought back and forth for most of the day. Both sides were elite soldiers, and they were full of fighting spirit and murderous intent. It was not until sunset when tens of thousands of corpses were left on the river and down the river that they stopped fighting.
That night, Yuan Taizuo dispatched three thousand dead men in an attempt to destroy the last unbuilt pontoon bridge. He was taken over by Mai Tiezhang and was captured by the troops ambushed by the newly appointed Zuowuwei General Wang Rengong.
At once, they killed all three thousand Goguryeo dead soldiers, tied sandbags and stones on their bodies, and threw them into the Liao River to fix the pontoon bridge.
On the morning of the fourth day, Yang Guang ordered the mobilization of more than 5,000 civilians and another 10,000 civilians to force the soldiers to continue building the pontoon bridge.
Seeing that the pontoon bridge was gradually completed, Yuan Taizuo wanted to repeat the old trick and sent people to lower the fire boat upstream again.
As a result, before the boat could reach the pontoon, it was blocked on the outside by wooden piles and iron cables prepared by Yu Wenshu in advance.
Last time, more than 30,000 elite soldiers were lost. Yang Guang was furious. He remembered that Xu Jingzong, the commander of the Blue Guards, once wrote a letter saying that the Goguryeo people might do something upstream. At that time, he handed the matter over to Yu Wenshu, so he handed it over to Yu Wenshu.
Yuwenshu called and scolded him, and demoted his title by one level. This was Yuwenshu. If it had been anyone else, he would have been beheaded by Yang Guang's order. For example, Yuwenshu's younger brother helped Yang Guang design
He and Yu Wenkai, who supervised the construction of the new capital of Luoyang, were directly ordered to be beheaded by Yang Guang in front of a million troops because of the floating bridge incident.
Yu Wenshu didn't dare to neglect this time. He gathered his generals and staff to discuss it all night. He secretly set up bridge protection piles on both sides of each pontoon bridge and raised 300 dead men with a heavy sum of money to swim across the river at night.
, based on the rocks on the shore, iron cables were secretly connected between the rocks, wooden piles, and wooden piles. The preparations were not inadequate.
But having said that, if Yuwenshu had done this when he first crossed the Liao River and built the pontoon bridge, more than 30,000 elite soldiers and two generals, and tens of thousands of people would not have died. Therefore, people in Yuwenshu's position would not have died.
A single mistake or oversight on the battlefield can sometimes lead to tens of thousands of people dying in vain.
The pontoon bridge steadily extended forward under the light of the fire, and finally, at great cost, it was set up on the beach on the east bank of the Liao River.
The pontoon bridge connected to the shore, and the soldiers of Zuo Wuwei took the lead in crossing the river howling under the leadership of Wang Rengong.
In the battle four days ago, most of Zuowuwei's centaurs died in the battle with Mai Tiezhi, and there was no successor to the commander. Wang Rengong was promoted from the position of General Youyiwei to the position of General Zuowuwei because of his merits in protecting the bridge. Therefore,
He was eager to make new achievements in order to reward His Majesty the Emperor for his trust.
Most of Zuowuwei's soldiers were killed by the Goguryeo people four days ago, especially Mai Tiezhang, who always loved soldiers like his own son and had a very high prestige among his subordinates. Today, all Zuowuwei soldiers want to give them
The general took revenge. At this time, each one of them fought bravely and fought hard. The soldiers worked together to push the Goguryeo people who rushed up to seize the bridge with a desperate heart from the river bank.
At this time, the water surface of the Liaohe River was already blood red.
Wang Rengong was a master of martial arts who practiced external martial arts. He rushed to the front with a spear that was 10 feet long. Behind him, more than 300 spearmen and more than 3,000 sword and shield men lined up in a cone shape.
, moving forward in stride.
This is a standard Sui Dynasty soldier attack array. Wang Rengong doesn’t like to defend. The bridge deck behind him is too narrow. Defending the river bank will only make it difficult for his side to perform. Rushing into the enemy to fight will just relieve the pressure on both sides of the pontoon bridge.
pressure. As long as they can persist in the offensive for half a stick of incense, the Sui soldiers who are constantly crossing the river can calmly form a second military formation on the river beach.
And when the second military formation is formed, the Goguryeo people will not be able to escape defeat, and the Sui Dynasty will naturally win today.
Behind him were all old soldiers who had served in Zuowuwei for many years. Their combat experience and combat prowess were unmatched by the Goguryeo soldiers. The Sui soldiers were equipped with extremely sophisticated armor and weapons. The Goguryeo soldiers had feather arrows.
As long as they don't hit key parts of the body, the soldiers can still fight vigorously after being hit by three arrows. However, the Goguryeo people will be separated from their muscles and bones as long as they are struck by the large horizontal swords in the hands of the soldiers.
In a moment, Wang Rengong had killed four Goguryeo generals. At this time, a Goguryeo general rushed in with an iron gun and tried to stab Wang Rengong to death directly with the speed of his horse and the weight of the weapon. The moment the two approached, Wang Rengong
Gong suddenly squatted down, with the tip of the frame forward, and the end of the frame touching the ground. The Goguryeo general was unable to stop his momentum, and his horse hit the tip of the frame heavily. The horse died in an instant, the frame broke, and the rider flew up high and fell to the ground.
At the feet of Wang Rengong.
Before the Goguryeo general could get up from the ground after being thrown to pieces, Wang Rengong directly picked him up and lifted him into the air.
"Zuo Wuwei, take revenge!" Wang Rengong looked up to the sky and roared.
"Revenge!" In this moment, they killed more than two thousand Goguryeo soldiers, but they also lost nearly half of them. The remaining thousand or so dead soldiers shouted in unison, strode forward, and forced the Goguryeo soldiers back a few steps.
Face to face, the Sui soldiers and infantry battle formations have not encountered an opponent in twenty years since the founding of the country. On both sides of the cone formation, Goguryeo soldiers retreated one after another, trying their best to avoid this bloodthirsty monster. Some smart Goguryeo soldiers tried to
They moved back to outflank and attack the back of the conical array, only to find that there were constant Zuowuwei soldiers crossing the river, led by the generals, automatically filling up to the end of the conical array.
The cone of death was getting bigger and sharper. Yuan Taizuo, who was watching the battle on the mountain in the distance, realized that the situation was not good, and mobilized heavy troops to try to crush the steel cone inserted into his heart. Under his command,
, countless Goguryeo soldiers shouted to protect their homeland, and bravely rushed to the tip of the steel cone.