: Xu Tuo’s silence

It was like a house that took away the beam, Gao Jianwu's defeat and escape also caused the entire coalition of more than 100,000 people to lose its backbone.

The situation on the battlefield suddenly took a sharp turn. More than 20,000 Goguryeo soldiers began to retreat, and the remaining ones did not even have armor, and the civil servants who had only a knife in their hands turned around and ran away. There was no one who was commanded by the civil servants at all. After completing the established mission, they were completely abandoned by the Goguryeo. If they did not die in the end, they would still have to be collected and continued to be slaves.

More than 20,000 Goguryeo had horses, and they ran wildly and fled. The remaining tens of thousands of slaves followed the direction towards Liaodong City like headless flies. Many people even began to flee in scattered places, climbing mountains and into the forest, and there were all kinds.

Less than an hour after the war started, the enemy was defeated, and all this was expected by Zhang Xutuo. He smiled slightly on his face, which was a confident smile, derived from invincible support. He looked up at the enemy who was rushing around, his eyes full of disdain and contempt.

As a famous general who has experienced a long battle formation, he could tell at a glance whether a team of people was really defeated or faked. The more than 100,000 people in front of him were no different from those bandits in the Central Plains. There were many people and many powers, but they were also vulnerable. The way these people escaped, the formation was completely messed up and the banners were thrown away everywhere, which was indeed defeated. There was no falsehood in the defeat. Even if the enemy general had originally intended to be a fraud, he might not be able to gather these completely disintegrated soldiers and horses in this way, even if he himself was.

The equipment in front of him was extremely poor, and the infantry scattered everywhere was completely invisible to his eyes. These people had completely lost their combat effectiveness, but the more than 20,000 cavalry who escaped first still maintained combat effectiveness. Zhang Xutuo would never give them the opportunity to reorganize the formation. He pointed a spear and ordered the entire army to attack, and do not necessarily chase and annihilate the opponent's cavalry. Such a cavalry returned to Liaodong City, which would be a huge hidden danger. Now that he has this opportunity, of course, he cannot miss it.

The two young generals Qin Shubao and Luo Shixin had already led the front army to chase each other. Zhang Xutuo swung his spear and took the lead, leading the central army to spread out its formation and rushed forward. For those Liao infantry blocking the road, they chopped and chopped melons and vegetables.

After the troops chased forward for more than ten miles away from the Liaodong River bank, the terrain began to become more complicated. The mountain roads began to be rugged and were covered with dense forests. It was very unfavorable for cavalry marching, and this terrain was easier to have enemy ambush.

However, he didn't care much. He dispatched several teams of cavalry and front troops to reconnaise hundreds of steps. He led the central army to arrive later. The terrain here is not conducive to the advancement of the cavalry, but it is also not conducive to the ambush of the large soldiers. If it was a small army, he wouldn't care at all. What could he fear for a mere 8,000 rammed Liao soldiers?

He walked forward for several miles, calm and calm. Just when he thought he was thinking too much, the scout cavalry in front suddenly blew a loud bang and turned around and ran back. He saw countless bows and arrows suddenly shot out in the forest, and the arrows were like rain. Except for a few of the cavalry in front who were spared from escape, most of them had become hedgehogs filled with bows and arrows.

Zhang Xutuo was furious and rushed to the cap. These Liao people were indeed still setting up an ambush here. However, he was not afraid and looked at the dense forest gently. The forest was not big, which means that there were not many people lying here at all. What really made him a little worried was that the two young generals, Qin Shubao and Luo Shixin, had already rushed to the front and could no longer see them at this time.

With a command, the cavalry took off their small round shields and reorganized their formation.

"Star the rocket!"

Pulling aside a few arrows that had been shot, Zhang Xutuo said calmly.

Hundreds of cavalry lit rockets, shot upwards into the sky, shooting the arrows with fire into the forest. Most of the dense forests in winter had already dried up. Although it had just snowed, the dead leaves on the ground were covered by heavy snow. However, many rockets fell into the forest and finally ignited the dry branches. The wind helped the fire, and the sparks quickly set off the prairie fire. In the blazing light, tens of thousands of Goguryeo people forced out of the fire.

"Cabinets! Kill them all!" Another order was passed, and the Sui army began to rush to the horse.

These tens of thousands of Goguryeo people were archers. They were forced out of the fire and rushed to the Sui cavalry. As soon as the Sui army started fighting, countless people fell down. In the vast snow, the battle lasted for less than half an hour, and most of the Goguryeo people fell down.

Seeing that most of the Goguryeo people were killed or injured, and were concerned about the front army led by the second young general Qin Shubao, Zhang Xutuo left a small number of people to continue to kill these archers. He jumped on his horse and continued to advance with his troops.

After being ambushed by the Goguryeo people once, Zhang Xutuo was in a better mood. Although the Liao people had poor combat power, if they were defeated too easily, it would still make him a little alert. More than 10,000 people rushed forward under the leadership of Zhang Xutuo, and within a short while, they rushed to a valley. At this time, he had already seen the front army, Qin Shubao and Luo Shixin from afar, blocking the enemy's commanding flag. Under the commanding flag, there was a one-armed general who was struggling to support him with less than 10,000 people.

The Liao people had nearly 10,000 soldiers, but their combat effectiveness was insufficient. They were attacked by the 5,000 former soldiers of the Sui army with high fighting will, and they seemed to be defeated in no time. Zhang Xutuo waved his spear and rode his horse up, and the army roared straight for the Goguryeo flag.

With Zhang Xutuo's joining, the Goguryeo people were even more in a hurry and retreated. In less than half an hour, the more than 10,000 people had been lost. The Goguryeo generals under the handsome man left thousands of troops and hurriedly retreated with their flags.

Zhang Xutuo raised his lips. Do you want to abandon the soldiers and protect the car? It was not that easy under his command. He had already seen that the one-armed general under the commander was definitely a big fish, and he must be a high-ranking general among the Liao people.

He divided a thousand troops to continue fighting with the Liao people's remaining troops, and followed the other generals Qin Shubao to continue to fight forward.

Along the way, the one-armed Liao general was chased by the followers and kept sending troops to break the rear. However, the Sui army had already recognized him at this time. Every time he sent troops, the Sui army also distributed a small part of the troops, and the rest continued to pursue him.

When the army was chasing a stream, Zhang Xutuo's central army had only less than 8,000 troops left, and Qin Shubao and his front army ran away again and disappeared. The central army rode their horses across the river. Just halfway through the army, suddenly a shout of killing sounded, and waves of arrows flew out from the woods on both sides. Many Sui cavalry were unable to defend themselves and were caught in arrows from the cold stream that had fallen from the frozen bones.

Several consecutive ambushes have already made Zhang Xutuo ignore such small ambush. In his opinion, such ambush is simply useless. Not only can it not block the Sui army, but it is dispersing the strength of the Liao people. If all the power of these ambushes is placed in the formation by the Liao River, it may be more effective.

After a wave of flags, tens of thousands of Liao people emerged from the dense forest. This time, not only the archers of the Sui army, but also a large number of cavalrymen. Zhang Xutuo was not afraid, and rode his gun and horse to fight the enemy. The two armies started a big battle by the stream. This Liao army was much stronger than the few troops we had encountered before. Both sides fought back and forth, and the soldiers kept falling down. The white snow had already trampled on countless footprints. The blood of the fallen soldiers melted the white snow and dyed the entire stream red.

After fighting with this army for nearly an hour, the Sui army completely defeated the army. Most of the more than 10,000 enemy troops were killed in battle, and the remaining three or four thousand remaining troops turned around and ran away. Zhang Xutuo did not give up and led the remaining less than 6,000 cavalry to pursue them tightly.

The Liao army fought and fled. When they fled for more than ten miles, the army had less than two thousand people. There was another small valley in front of them. Zhang Xutuo led the central army to quickly circumvent the enemy's front with the speed of horses, and completely surrounded the more than two thousand Liao army.

To his surprise, the generals of the enemy army did not panic, but instead showed a proud smile on their faces. Seeing that smile, Zhang Xutuo finally felt a little bad. He went up several ambushes along the way. Although there were not many at each time, there were more and more Liao people and the soldiers became more and more elite.

Moreover, because he chased the enemy, he distributed a lot of troops along the way. Looking back now, there were only about 6,000 people left, and the front army was completely gone. Even the rear army had lost contact.

However, at this point in the battle, there was no other way. The only way out was to constantly defeat the Liao army and rush to Liaodong City. Moreover, he did not think that the Liao people still have much strength to fight now.

"Kill them all! Join the front army!" Zhang Xutuo was already a little breathless when he said this. Since crossing the Liao River, they have been fighting fiercely for several hours and have been running for twenty or thirty miles, and the people and war horses have been a little tired.

Suddenly, countless flags appeared at the foot of the mountain on all sides, and teams of soldiers rushed straight towards them. On the road ahead, a team of cavalry roared over. When Zhang Xutuo saw the outfits, he knew that these were Shiwei cavalry.

Another shout of killing sounded, and another cavalry rushed over from their way. These people were all braided in their heads, but they were all cavalrymen of Hei Shui Mohe. The soldiers and horses surrounding the hills on all sides were all infantry, which were the soldiers of Goguryeo and Baekje.

A high coaching flag appeared, and several generals in gorgeous armor led a soldier and horse. Goguryeo coach Yizhi Wende, Shiwei coach Tie Anda, Baekje coach Fuyuzhang, and Mohe coach Huang Ge, four led the most elite troops of more than 10,000 people to head straight for the four.
Chapter completed!