Chapter 68 Price

Seeing the robes around him fall down one by one, Zhang Shou felt as if he was shaking his heart. Anyway, the large army had already caught up, so what if he let go of a gap? Once the opponent disintegrates, it will be easier to fight. But another voice told him: "No, we cannot let go. What we want is to wipe out the enemy completely instead of defeating it. Once the enemy disintegrates, I wonder how many people will escape?"

"Tell your brothers, hold on, don't take a step back!" Zhang Shou passed down his command loudly.

"Yes, General, don't take a step back!"

The personal soldier repeated Zhang Shou's order and yelled back: "The general has an order, no step back, everyone is allowed to withstand it, kill!" The tears on his face couldn't help but flow. After this battle, there were countless more than 3,000 brothers who had originally had.

"The general has an order, don't take a step back and kill!" In an instant, all the Sui army blocked the road roared wildly. The Sui army in red armor was like a rock, blocking the attacks of the black waves. The corpses on the ground were piled up more and more, human corpses and horse corpses were intertwined, and blood gathered into a small river to flow to the right. Soon, even the river water became bright red.

The cavalry's chopping and slapping became bumpy, and war horses often stomped on horse corpses, and the speed of the cavalry on both sides suddenly became like snails.

With a loud scream, Zhang Shou's legs became weak and almost fell to the ground. Several Goguryeo soldiers were overjoyed and stabbed Zhang Shou with spears in their hands.

"General, be careful!" A personal soldier rushed to Zhang Shou, and suddenly got several spears on his back. The spear tip pierced the armor and came out of the front chest of the personal soldier. The personal soldier grabbed the spear tip with his hands to prevent him from stabbing Zhang Shou.

Zhang Shou recognized this personal soldier as one of his cousins, and his heart was very painful. He turned over and jumped off the back of the horse that had been half soft. He swept the horse spear in his hand. The legs of the two Goguryeo soldiers who had killed Zhang Shou's personal soldiers were broken. The war horse neighed and fell to the ground with a sad voice. The two Goguryeo soldiers screamed and fell to the ground. Several personal soldiers crossed Zhang Shou's position and stabbed two Goguryeo people to death with horse spears, which was regarded as avenging the dead personal soldiers.

"General, get on the horse." A personal soldier jumped off the horse and wanted to give his horse to Zhang Shou.

Zhang Shou raised his eyes and looked around. The Sui army and Goguryeo army had intertwined their dog teeth, but the intersecting place was covered with a layer of human and horse corpses. Zhang Shou pulled out a long knife and slashed his beloved horse's neck with one knife. A stream of horse blood gushed out, splashing all over Zhang Shou's body. Zhang Shou suddenly became a bloody man.

The soldiers around were shocked to see that Zhang Shou's war horse was from a Turkic horse. He had been following Zhang Shou for five years and was most caring. Although he was injured now, there was no need to kill him. Just when everyone was at a loss, Zhang Shou's voice came: "Send an order, everyone in front of him will dismount and kill the war horse!"

"Ah!" Although the personal soldiers were absolutely obeying Zhang Shou's orders, they were at a loss when they heard the orders to kill the horse. At present, both sides were in a tangle. Although they had lost their speed, they were always condescending in the war horses. Moreover, the cavalry were extremely caring about their war horses, so how could they bear to kill their war horses with their own hands?

"Kill the horses and build the horse's corpses into a wall to block them! Hurry!" Zhang Shou said anxiously.

The personal soldiers suddenly realized that although they still couldn't bear it, they just followed the order. First, the people around Zhang Shou started to kill the horses, and then the people who were attacking in front of him also took a few steps back and stepped on the corpse directly before jumping down. They endured the pain and killed their war horses. Soon, a corpse wall was built in front of Zhang Shou. The corpse wall quickly continued to both sides. Soon, the entire mile-wide road was blocked by the corpse wall. Until, Zhang Shou and his subordinates all went from cavalry to infantry.

The Goguryeo soldiers who were attacking were fighting and were shocked to find that they were blocked by the corpse wall. The Goguryeo soldiers who did not believe in evil leaped onto the corpse wall and just stepped on the slippery corpse. The war horses either fell into the horse's hooves or slipped. The Goguryeo people on the horse's horses had not yet reacted and had been easily killed by the Sui army and became part of the corpse wall.

"Scatter and let the infantry go!" Gao Huizhen in front saw the problem of the corpse wall, and hurriedly retreated the cavalry and replaced it with infantry to attack. Now there are not many cavalry in the entire Goguryeo, and death will make the Goguryeo generals feel distressed, and the Sui army has a short rest time.

"Hurry, throw the horse spear down and change the crossbow." This corpse wall is effective to block the cavalry and cannot stop the infantry's attack, so Zhang Shou naturally knew.

"Bang, bang." In addition to the soldiers standing on the wall of corpses, all the Sui army left behind the long weapons that were in the way, and they also put all the long swords into sheaths, quickly took out the crossbow and put the arrows on the arrows. At this moment, the quality of the Sui army was extremely revealed. In just one moment, it had completed a crossbow formation with a range of 100 people, and there was also a crossbow formation with only 300 people dissatisfied with it. The Sui army left on the wall of corpses had only more than 700 people. In the past, nearly 800 more than 3,500 cavalry had died.

"Shoot!" The crossbow arrows all over the sky crossed the wall of corpses and landed among the Goguryeo infantry rushing over. Gao Hui closed her eyes in pain and couldn't bear to look at it anymore. In order to speed up the march, all the infantry had lost all their supplies except weapons, and with their thin clothes, they could not resist the Sui army's arrows.

The sound of the slaughter sounded. When Gao Huizhen opened her eyes again, she saw only a large body of Goguryeo soldiers rushing in front of her. The other soldiers hesitated and dared not move forward.

A young knight in his twenties came to Gao Huizhen and shouted loudly: "General Gao, Lord Mo Lizhi has something to ask you why the passage has not been opened yet? If it doesn't work, Lord Mo Lizhi will have someone take over."

Gao Hui's face turned red, she pulled out her long knife, jumped off the horse, shouted back, "My sons, come with me!"

Under Gao Huizhen's leadership, and the voices of the Sui army in the rear were getting closer and closer, the soldiers knew that there was no way out, so they finally plucked up the courage to rush forward in the rain of the Sui army's arrows. The Goguryeo generals behind them also organized archers to start shooting arrows. The arrows of both sides collided in the sky and encountered fierce sparks. The Sui army standing on the wall of corpses had to avoid the arrows carefully. However, they had armor and each of them had a square shield, which was much easier than the Goguryeo people.

"Kill!" Gao Huizhen rushed to the wall of corpse made of war horses without any danger. In the middle, at least two personal soldiers died because they blocked the arrows for him. He was filled with anger and stabbed the spear hard at the lower abdomen of a Sui army standing on the wall of corpse. The spear was stabbed quickly and fiercely. The Sui army could not hide, and the lower abdomen was suddenly pierced by Gao Huizhen's spear.

"Ah." Sui Jun, who was stabbed, let out a scream, held the spear that pierced his lower abdomen with one hand, and stared at Gao Huizhen fiercely.

Although this Sui army was fierce, Gao Hui was naturally not afraid of all kinds of battles. He twitched his spear hard and wanted to take it back, but he didn't expect that he would not get what he wanted after several moves. A gust of wind sounded loudly on his head. Gao Huizhen's eyes had already seen the Sui army throwing a long spear out with the other hand and heading straight to his throat. Gao Huizhen was shocked. With his subordinates exerted force, he finally pulled the spear out of the abdomen of the Sui army. He saw that the long spear thrown by the Sui army was only a few feet away from him and there was no time to avoid it.

My life was over. Gao Huizhen closed her eyes and waited for death. When a personal soldier extended his weapons to open the spear thrown by Gao Huizhen for Gao Huizhen, he shouted: "Be careful, General!"

Gao Huizhen escaped the disaster, and felt a wetness on her back, and she was already sweating profusely. When she looked at the Sui army just now, due to excessive blood loss, the Sui army had already fallen on the wall of corpse, her eyes wide open, and a trace of regret appeared in her eyes.

"Kill it up! Kill it up!" Gao Huizhen screamed wildly as if she was very excited.

It's just that it's so easy to kill. Several layers of horse corpses are stacked together, slippery and slippers. The horse spears and spears of the Sui army were like death-taking death. Many Goguryeo soldiers had just climbed up the wall of corpses and were taken away by the Sui army, which increased a part of the wall of corpses. The reinforcements behind were blocked by the Sui army's crossbows, but they could only be intermittent. There were tens of thousands of troops, and only hundreds of people could fight with the Sui army.

The war became more and more intense, and the Goguryeo people rushed forward, and the Sui army suffered more and more casualties on the wall of corpses. The Sui army, who had used up the crossbow arrow, quickly threw away the crossbow bow, picked up the weapons on the ground and rushed to the wall of corpses, and continued to block it desperately. No matter how many Goguryeo soldiers climbed up, the Sui army's defense line was guarded unshakable.

Yuan Taizuo, Gao Jianwu and others were so anxious that they jumped straight into the ground and sent a group of people to urge them. Yizhi and Qiqi in the left rear also led their subordinates to stop the Sui army. They were beaten to the point of complaining. The Sui army's arrows fell like raindrops. If Yuan Tai hadn't added troops several times, their rear would have been broken through by the Sui army.

A cavalry rushed towards Yuan Taifei, and he turned over and dismounted when he was about to approach Yuan Taifei: "Report, Lord Mo Lizhi, beg for the general to ask for support, otherwise he would not be able to stop the Sui army."

Before Yuan Taizuo could answer, Gao Jianwu jumped up: "What, he already has 12,000 people and needs support."

"No more, nothing more, now there are only more than 4,000 people left. If no troops are sent, the rear will collapse." The cavalry said in a crying voice.

Yuan Taizhuo and others took a breath when they heard this. It was equivalent to the fact that Qiqi Zhonghu had lost nearly 8,000 people in just a short time. Now Yuan Taizuo is only left with the last team of 10,000 people. If people are sent to block the rear, Yuan Taizhuo will become a bare-stop coach.

The sound of horse hooves sounded again. Yuan Taizuo turned his head and looked, and another knight rushed over: "Report, Lord Mo Lizhi, General Yizhi requested reinforcements.

Yuan Taizuo had a headache, gritted his teeth, and pointed at the two generals: "You two bring two thousand men to reinforce each other. Remember, you must not let the Sui army break through our defense."

"Yes!" The two generals looked at each other, and a hint of helplessness flashed in their eyes. There was so much danger in this trip, but there was no chance of delay.

The elite cavalry of the Sui army in the rear attacked the Goguryeo infantry one after another. Every time they attacked, the Goguryeo army lost one piece like the melting of ice and snow. But no matter how the Sui army attacked, the Goguryeo soldiers still fought to the death. Here, the Goguryeo army showed their qualities of being worthy of a strong army.

Yu Zhongwen slowly looked at the battlefield. This was a plain area. If there was not a small river blocking it, he could order the cavalry to attack Goguryeo at will. With this small river, it would block the escape route in front of Goguryeo, which would also allow Goguryeo to send troops to stop him. If Goguryeo was temporarily in the pocket of the Sui army, the front of the pocket was too thin. Yu Zhongwen knew that it would be impossible for the front to be blocked for too long. Every time a little time was delayed here, the front would be a little dangerous.

Zhang Shou was his old subordinate. It was precisely because of this that Yu Zhongwen sent Zhang Shou to lead troops to rob grain. If Zhang Shou suffered losses, Yu Zhongwen would have cut off his own arm. He would even rather go to the Goguryeo army to escape than Zhang Shou had something to do. It was a pity that his orders could not be passed through the Goguryeo army.

"Another army, you must defeat the Goguryeo soldiers blocking the road in the shortest time." Yu Zhongwen waved his hand and decisively ordered another three thousand cavalry to be put into the war. Now 15,000 cavalry brought by Yu Zhongwen has fought forever on the battlefield, and only three thousand cavalry are left beside him.

These three thousand cavalry became the last straw that broke the camel's back. Not long after we stepped forward, a loud shout came from the front: "The enemy is defeated, the enemy is defeated."

Yu Zhongwen looked forward, and sure enough, the last three thousand new forces had already penetrated the Goguryeo formation that blocked the formation behind, and used footsteps to cavalry, and it was the plain again. The Goguryeo soldiers made the greatest sacrifice, but they were not iron stones. Faced with waves of attacks from the Sui army, the Goguryeo soldiers were finally desperate and broke through a small gap by the Sui army. Soon this small gap turned into a large gap, just like water was broken and could no longer be stopped.

"Kill!" The Sui army rushed towards the gap in a mighty manner. The defense just now seemed to have exhausted all the energy of the Goguryeo soldiers. The soldiers threw down their weapons and rushed backwards, completely dispersing Yuan Taizuo's only 6,000 troops.

"It's over, it's over." Yuan Taizuo looked at the defeated soldiers rushing towards him and sighed. With a clang, he pulled out his long sword and was about to commit suicide. The personal soldiers hurriedly hugged Yuan Taizuo and dragged Yuan Taizuo: "Sir, run away quickly."

However, there was no retreat ahead and there were pursuers behind, where could they escape? Yuan Taizuo and Gao Jianwu had to be taken to the dense forest by their personal soldiers. Some Goguryeo soldiers jumped directly into the cold river at a loss. The river water was now close to zero. Most of the Goguryeo soldiers who were down the river slung for a few times and then sank to the surface. After a while, the river was covered with corpses.

"Surrender and not kill! Surrender and not kill!"

The so-called defeat was like a mountain of fallen. Goguryeo soldiers who heard the shouts were squatting on the ground with their heads in their arms. The Sui army facing thousands of people in front could not be chewed, and there was nearly 20,000 troops behind them. They had lost the courage to fight the Sui army again.

"Zhang Shou, where is Zhang Shou?" Yu Zhongwen came to the front in person, looking for his beloved general. The Sui army, who arrived first, stood blankly. Even the Sui army could not help but feel shocked when facing this wall of corpses built entirely by humans and horses.

"General, the last general is here." A blood man responded to Yu Zhongwen's words.

Yu Zhongwen looked over and said that the person who replied was as if he had soaked in a blood pool, and even his face was covered with blood. If he hadn't been open, no one would have thought he was a living person. Yu Zhongwen looked at him in confusion, and he could no longer tell whether the blood man was his subordinate.

Just as Zhongwen was pondering, the blood man slowly fell down. Several surviving soldiers were anxious and quickly supported the blood man and shouted: "General, general."

"Hurry, call me a military doctor." Yu Zhongwen was also very anxious and hurriedly ordered.

The Sui army's military doctors were assigned to the team, and there was a doctor among the 100 people in each team. At present, these military doctors were re-examining the wounded. In this battle, the number of casualties in the Sui army reached thousands, and each military doctor was very busy. After a while, a military doctor hurried over and picked up the blood man for a while before saying, "Go back to the general, this person was only a minor injury, and he did not hurt his muscles and bones. Just bandage him."

"Why is it a small injury? Why does the small injury general suddenly faint? You quack doctor, if the general has something to do, I will kill you." Zhang Shou's personal soldier couldn't help but threaten him with a knife.

The military doctor was not happy. In the army, the military doctor had a high status. It was only when he saw Yu Zhongwen here that the military doctor was not angry and explained: "This general is really a minor injury, and he was unconscious and just lost his strength."

After hearing the military doctor's explanation, Zhang Shou's personal soldiers felt relieved and immediately smiled and apologized to the military doctor. The military doctor muttered a few words and had to put it aside. Yu Zhongwen took out his handkerchief and wiped it on the bloody man's face. After a while, the clean handkerchief was dyed red and could no longer be used. Yu Zhongwen changed a few handkerchiefs to the personal soldiers' company to wipe the bloody man's face clean, revealing Zhang Shou's face.

When he saw Zhang Shou, Yu Zhongwen breathed a sigh of relief and began to care about the results of the battle. Before dark, the results of the Sui army were counted. In this battle, more than 49,000 Goguryeo army were annihilated, of which 23,000 were killed and 26,000 were captured. Only about 1,000 Goguryeo army was missing. However, Yuan Taizuo and Gao Jianwu had not been found yet, and they could only search after dawn tomorrow.
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