Chapter 58: Grain robbery

"General, there is a dense forest not far ahead. Do you need to pause for a while?" said an aide.

Yuan Taiqi looked at the dense forest in the distance and pondered. This dense forest lasted for dozens of miles and was indeed a good place to ambush. However, the scouts had searched several times. If they wanted to search again on a large scale, the delay would be quite long.

The sound of horse hooves "splashing, splashing" sounded, and the two scouts turned back from the front: "Report, General, everything is normal in front, no Sui army was found."

"Okay, I know." Yuan Taiqi showed a faint joy on his face, and he still felt that it would be better not to delay time: "Transfer this order and continue moving forward!"

"The general has an order, continue to move forward. The general has an order, continue to move forward."

The sound of axles squeaking and dumb axles sounded, and the entire grain transport team continued to move forward without warning. Yuan Taiqi still walked forward with his personal soldiers, but he felt more and more palpitations as he walked. There seemed to be thousands of beasts hidden in the dense forest ahead. As soon as they arrived, they would rush out to eat people.

It was strange that the scout was obviously normal, why did this general feel that there was murderous aura hidden in the dense forest? Could it be that the scouts would miss such a large dense forest? Yuan Taiqi shook his head and thought to himself if he was too allergic. As Mo Lizhi's younger brother, he has experienced dozens of wars, and now he is just placing a grain, so what is there to be afraid of?

Only hundreds of meters away from the dense forest, the scouts had no reward for any problems. Although Yuan Taiqi's uneasiness was getting stronger and stronger, he still did not order the food team to stop moving forward.

Deputy General Yifuzhili suddenly shouted: "No, General, hurry up and order the food team to stop and prepare to guard against the enemy's attack?"

Yuan Taiqi was shocked, raised his hand, signaled the grain truck to stop and move forward, and asked Yifuzhili, "What's wrong, what's the matter?"

"General, scout, our scout hasn't returned for too long."

When Yi Fuzhili mentioned it, Yuan Taiqi immediately reacted. He scattered nearly 200 scouts, and there was a team of scouts rewarding him without a cup of tea. However, now two cups of tea have passed before the scouts rewarding him, and there must be a ghost in front of him.

"Back, back!"

"Sir, you cannot retreat. You should set up defenses on the spot, otherwise it will be in chaos." Yifuzhili hurriedly reminded that the grain transport team had 20,000 stones of military rations alone, and it was more than 1,000 large trucks, and it was more than three miles long on the official road. If you set up defenses on the spot, it would be possible to step back, and it would take a lot of time to pass the order alone.

"Yes, we will set up the defense on the spot, and we will set up the defense on the spot." Yuan Taiqi immediately realized that something was wrong in his busy schedule and corrected the order. With Yuan Taiqi's order issued, the entire grain team suddenly roared and neighed, and became a mess.

In the dense forest, Zhang Shou put down the telescope in his hand and couldn't help but sigh. Unexpectedly, the other party discovered him at the critical moment. However, he didn't feel much frustrated in his heart, which was only hundreds of meters away. Even if the other party did not enter his ambush circle, it was too late to set up defense at this moment.

"Send the order, the entire army will attack, the target will burn all the grain trucks of the opponent and leave them a grain of food."

"Yes, general." A personal soldier took a trumpet from his neck and blew it hard. A fierce trumpet sounded. The trumpet sounded majestic and powerful, as if it had traveled thousands of years and came to the battlefield in front of him. Compared to drums, the trumpet was not only small, but also the information it conveyed increased a lot. It took the Sui Dynasty several years to develop such a copper product.

The sound of the trumpet suddenly made the entire dense forest come alive. Countless Sui troops came out of the dense forest, stepped on their horses and rushed forward. The whole earth shook. Seeing so many Sui troops appear, the villagers who were trying to gather the big carts were scared. They didn't know whether to escape or hide on the spot. For a moment, the grain team was even more chaotic. Many big carts collided, and the grain on the carts rolled all over the ground.

"Bang." The soldiers with corrupted energy started to whip with whips. The guards were undoubtedly the elite of the Goguryeo people. Although they were frightened, they were not panicked. What they were afraid of was not that they could not defeat the Sui army, but that they were afraid that the food would be destroyed. If the military rations were not stored, they would be useless even if they won the battle. When they saw the panic of the civilians, they couldn't help but whip and curse: "Bastard, quickly surround the vehicles, and fast horses and vehicles."

"My boys, now my life and death are about to die. If I don't stop them, the army of Mo Lizhi will collapse without military rations. Without Mo Lizhi, I will destroy the country soon. For the sake of Da Gao, kill!" Yuan Taiqi was not a complete mediocre general. He immediately took a counterattack strategy, took the lead and intercepted the Sui army.

"Kill!" Goguryeo, who was behind, saw the coach rushing up and hurriedly followed behind. They also knew that if they did not stop the Sui army, the consequences would be unimaginable.

The closest distance between the two sides was only a few hundred meters. This distance was just a flash for the cavalry. After a while, the front troops of both sides collided fiercely, and blood immediately splattered. The cavalry on the front line fell off the horse like an ant, and in a blink of an eye, they were stepped into meat paste by horse hooves, and both sides became seriously injured.

Although the Goguryeo cavalry desperately stopped and completely put life and death aside, as more and more Sui cavalry came out in the forest, the Goguryeo's thin defense line was still insufficient to resist the attack of the Sui army. Soon, a team of hundreds of Sui army broke through the block, turned a corner obliquely, avoided the Goguryeo cavalry on the front, and attacked the middle section of the grain transport team.

"No, the Sui army is here, run away quickly!" The civilians who were collecting the grain trucks were very scared and shouted.

"Bor." The shouting civilian suddenly flew into the air, and a Goguryeo officer shouted with a blood-dropping steel knife in his hand: "Those who disrupt the morale of the army will be killed! Everyone will take up weapons and protect the food truck."

After a moment of silence, the civilians who wanted to escape rushed to the large cart carrying weapons. No matter what, it might be better to have weapons in their hands.

"Kill!" Before they could get armed, the Sui army had already rushed into the food team. The Sui army, with armor, raised its sword and slashed around like a demon. In the moment, the heads rolled, and the civilians who were avoiding a little slower fell under a pool of blood. Whether they had weapons or not in their hands, they had no power to resist the Sui army's professional high-speed killing machine.

"Raising the fire, burn!" Seeing many grain trucks gathered together, the Sui cavalry led by the leader showed a smile. Goguryeo's move was equivalent to facilitating their arson, although their original intention was to better protect the grain trucks.

Torches were ignited and then threw them onto the grain truck. The torches quickly ignited the sacks of the grain, and then burned them to the grain inside, making a crackling sound. Soon dozens of trucks of grain were ignited. The livestock pulling the truck felt the heat wave behind their butts, and they immediately realized the danger and ran away. However, the grain trucks gathered in close contact and collided from time to time. Some sacks of fire were scattered, but the flames were extinguished by accident. Some scattered scattered on the grain trucks that had not yet burned, and the other grain trucks were also ignited.

Under the protection of his personal soldiers, Yuan Taiqi desperately waved the long sword at the Sui army. At least four or five Sui army died at his hands, but the Sui army seemed endless. The personal soldiers around him fell to the ground like ants. If it weren't for the desperate rescue of his personal soldiers, he would have been stabbed into a hole.

"General, it's not good. The food truck behind us has been burned." Yuan Taiqi was shocked and quickly looked behind him. He saw thick smoke rolling behind him, and the fire became stronger and stronger. Even his eyes felt a wave of heat.

"Go back and put out the fire." Yuan Taiqi no longer cared about stopping the Sui army and turned his head to go back, but he was already trapped in the Sui army. Although he was unable to move forward, it was extremely difficult to retreat. Yuan Taiqi almost vomited a mouthful of blood.

Yifuzhili rushed back with a team of cavalry and tried his best to slap the flames, but the water and fire were ruthless. The lit grain trucks were not so easy to extinguish, but forced the soldiers to retreat. Yifuzhili had no choice but to order the fired grain trucks to give up and try to disperse the remaining grain trucks.

Another team of Sui cavalry broke through the interception and ran towards the grain cart. They killed the scattered grain transporters and immediately set fire. The philosopher Yi ignored his head and tail and could only do nothing.

Seeing the food trucks behind him on fire, all the Goguryeo cavalry who were fighting were panicked and retreated to put out the fire, but they did not have the advantage at all. When they retreated, the Sui army took advantage of the situation to chase, and the Goguryeo cavalry fell and died one after another.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

The Goguryeo cavalry was getting fewer and fewer. The Sui army had stopped setting fires and focused on extermination of the remaining Goguryeo cavalry.

When Yuan Taiqi finally rushed out of the Sui army's siege, he saw the fire rising from the grain truck and couldn't help but mutter to himself: "It's over, it's over..."

"General, what should we do if our army is defeated?" a personal soldier reminded.

"What?" Yuan Taiqi hurriedly looked at the battlefield. When he saw this, Yuan Taiqi was so shocked that he almost threw away his soul. The entire forest was red. His subordinates had been divided into several pieces by the Sui army and were submerged in the red. The Sui army's troops far exceeded his subordinates.
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