Chapter 253 The Decisive Battle of Liaohe

Liuhe City, located ten miles north of Liaodong City, was specially built as a Liaodong City Cang City.

During the second conquest of Liao, when the Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty besieged the city of Liaodong, he used the captured Liuhe City as his temporary residence. That time, envoys from dozens of countries and the princes of the kings and princes came to Liuhe City with the army to visit the army of millions of troops in the Sui Dynasty.

During the third conquest of Liao, the Sui army was defeated in front of the king and envoy of the subordinate state in Liuhe City. Therefore, during the third conquest of Liao, Yang Guang felt that the city was a bit unlucky, so he simply asked the craftsmen to build a wooden city and placed it ten miles from the west city to let him directly command the battle.

But now, Liuhe City has become the base camp of the Goguryeo Alliance. After Yizhi Wende and others led a large army out of the Liaohe River to block Zhang Xutuo, they brought 20,000 soldiers and horses, and 80,000 slaves and men, and immediately left a few slaves in the large military camp outside the city. All the remaining soldiers and horses retreated into Liuhe City to prevent the Sui army from attacking the camp.

On a snowy night, Gao Dalin on Liuhe City looked worried. The army had been leaving for a day and a night. The army that had not returned was extremely nervous. At present, he only had 20,000 troops. If the Sui army in the city knew the reality of the camp at this time, it would be very dangerous.

In the snow in the distance, suddenly there were waves of horse hooves roaring. Gordalin looked nervously, and kept praying in his heart that the Majesty Eji and the Prince were back. But the higher the hope, the heavier the disappointment.

The cavalry in the dark did not trunk, and rushed straight to the camp outside Liuhe City. When he arrived in front of the camp gates around the camp, under the light of the camp, he shouted pale, "Enemy attack!"

The alarm bells were ringing, but there were no half of the troops in the camp to meet the enemy. The camp was full of slaves, and all the soldiers were in the city.

Zhou Jin led a battalion of cavalry to run along the camp, but did not rush to the camp, but just kept observing the situation in the camp. There were no defenders on the high wooden fence, and civilians and slaves were running out from the tents in the camp. However, there were still a large number of camp tents without movement, and no one intercepted them for their arrival.

After watching for a while, he knew that either the enemy had deliberately hidden it. Or there were really no soldiers in the Liao people's camp. He looked at Liuhe City in the middle of the camp from afar. The small Weicheng Fortress at this small Weicheng Fortress was brightly lit and crowded.

Zhou Jin had a clear idea and asked a messenger to return to the city to report the message, and immediately began to lead the troops to set up rockets into the camp. Whether it was really empty or ambush, he could tell at one try.

Rockets were thrown into the sky, crossed the fence, and finally roared into the tent in the camp. Rockets shot in, igniting many tents. The Liao slaves in the camp began to scatter.

"General, send troops out of the city to fight. If this continues, our reality will be known to the Sui army." A general said anxiously to Gao Dalin on the top of the city.

Gao Dalin stood there with a gloomy face, "We have been besieging Liaodong City for nearly half a month. Can you see when the Sui army left the city to attack the camp? Now that the army left the Sui army, the Sui army will attack the camp. This clearly shows that the Sui army already knows that our camp is in reality and this cavalry is definitely the bait of the Sui army. If our troops leave Liuhe City, there will definitely be ambushing the Sui army in the darkness behind, and then there will be no return."

"But it's not a solution to not be able to avoid the battle. In this way, the entire camp will be destroyed."

Gao Dalin said coldly, "Let them burn it, it's just a group of camps, and at most 20,000 slaves will be burned to death. As long as we defend Liuhe City, the troops will not be lost. When the general defeats the Sui army reinforcements and then turns back to capture Liaodong City, there are all things in the city."

Zhou Jin spent a long time of fire and almost ignited half of the camp. He found that except for 10,000 or 20,000 civil servants who were constantly rushing through the camp, there was not half of the Liao army. He became bolder and said, "Run in!"

Like a wolf entering a flock of sheep, less than two thousand cavalrymen set fire everywhere in the camp, constantly driving the slaves and husbands in the camp. When Chen Kefu's 60,000 soldiers and horses arrived from behind, the remaining more than 10,000 Liao people's slaves in the camp had become prisoners of the light cavalry. The black ducks were squatting on the snow outside the camp. Chen Kefu was very happy to see this situation. In this way, it means that the coalition camp was not ordinary empty at this time.

"Prepare to siege!"

Chen Kefu did not hesitate at all. Since the enemy would rather have the entire camp be burned and tens of thousands of civilians were captured than come out. This means that there are very few troops in Liuhe City, and this is the time to eliminate Liuhe City.

Liuhe City is only ten miles away from Liaodong City. When the Sui army came, it had already brought a large number of catapults and crossbow beds. Rows of catapults were arranged in rows of catapults, crossbow beds were scattered in a row. At the command, dense stone bullets, fireballs, crossbow arrows, and occasionally one or two thunder and gunpowder packs were mixed with, completely suppressing the defenders on the city front of the entire Liuhe City.

Under such dense and saturated attacks, the defenders on the city wall kept falling down, and no matter how big the shield was, they could not resist such attack density.

The soldiers of the infantry battalion roared and rushed straight to the city with ladders. They set up ladders and began to climb the city under the cover of 20,000 crossbowmen under the city.

"Master General, it seems that there will be no more than 30,000 soldiers in the city. This city can be defeated in one battle tonight." Li Benlei said happily. As soon as possible, the Liaodong army would be able to free up their hands to rescue Zhang Xutuo.

The siege was even smoother than Li Benlei expected. In just two hours, Liuhe City fell into the siege with the Sui army's sufficient infantry casting carriages and crossbow beds. Out of revenge for the last siege battle, the soldiers who invaded the city opened the way.

No matter whether the enemy was a soldier or a civilian, they were shot like rain with crossbow arrows. The more people there were, the Sui army even set up a catapult cart to smash it. Countless soldiers and civilians had abandoned their weapons and wanted to surrender, but the Sui army did not accept it at all. The people fell down in large numbers, and the entire small Liuhe City corpses were piled up like mountains and blood flowed into a river.

It only took two hours to attack the city, but it took almost two hours to clear the enemies in the city. Indeed, it was said that the massacre lasted for three hours, and it was not until the end that there was basically no Liao people above the team that Chen Kefu ordered the stop.

Two thousand warriors and eighty thousand civil servants were slaughtered in just four hours. All the warriors were picked out and killed, and no one was left. The last prisoners were left, including those who had been captured before, a total of 35,000 strong men.

As the commander of the army, Chen Kefu knew that it would be a pity to kill these slaves, and it would be of great use to stay. But now every soldier is angry, and he himself is also angry. Anyway, if he defeated the Liao *** army, there will be more prisoners in the future, so kill them, so that there will be less trouble in the future.

When Li Benlei captured Liuhe City, he had already led 20,000 infantry to the Liaohe River.

"Master, the city has been cleaned up once, and all the Liao people have been captured. What should I do now?"

Zhang Kefu was silent for a moment, "The Liao*** army has been broken, and the camp was destroyed by our army. Now even if they defeat General Zhang Xutuo, they will not be able to escape the fate of defeat. Leave 20,000 people to defend Liuhe City, and the remaining 20,000 people to 10,000, the Heavy Infantry Battalion and Heavy Cavalry Battalion will return to Liaodong City. The rest will go to Liaohe River with me."

Li Shimin said unhappily, "Master, our Modao Bing is ace soldiers. How can we leave us behind in such an important battle?"

"Master, if you don't bring Mo Daojian, our heavy cavalry is the strongest combat power in the army. You can bring us. At the critical moment, we have to rely on our heavy cavalry to take us on our horses and take us with us. We will guarantee that the commander will take the Yizhi Wende to the commander at that time." Guo Xiaoke also stood beside him and refused to leave.

"How can you tell me the joking in the army? When can I bargain with my general? I am going to pick up General Zhang. Now it is night and snowy, and the road is difficult to move. If you, the most powerful master soldiers, do not have carriages to transport them, how can you go to the war? Walk with your legs? Or carry your own armor to rush there?" Chen Kefu said with some dissatisfaction.

Heavy cavalry and heavy infantry are powerful in combat, but they are also extremely delicate. In the Liaodong army, they have always been called master soldiers. Not only are they treated with various kinds of treatments, they have to be transported by horse-drawn carriages even when they march. Not only are their armors fully transported, but these soldiers also have to maintain their physical strength. Therefore, when marching, they also take horse-drawn carriages and do not have to take a single step. Everyone calls them master soldiers.

At this time, the marching of the night is another emergency. Of course, what you need most is speed. If the road is slippery on the snow, take them with you, then don’t want speed.

Li Xuanba looked at his second brother's dejected look and hurriedly said, "Brother-in-law, why don't we take the troops there, we can't do it ourselves." The only one in the army, this fourth young master dared to call Chen Kefu indiscriminately. Chen Kefu didn't care much about such a person who was obviously less stubborn.

"Okay, all three of you should go with me. The brothers under your command will be taken back to Liaodong City by their subordinates." Chen Kefu nodded. Now most of the generals around him have been sent out. There are soldiers and generals around him, so it is not impossible to take them with him.

It was already afternoon when Chen Kefu brought his troops to the Liaohe battlefield. Last night, Chen Qing, who arrived first, had fought with the Liao army several times. Li Benlei, who followed closely behind, also joined the battle with 20,000 infantrymen.

It was almost dawn when Chen Qing arrived. When they arrived, Qin Shubao and Luo Shixin were fighting and fleeing with more than 2,000 people. If Chen Qing's troops had not arrived, they would have been surrounded and annihilated in the end.

Ten thousand cavalry gathered 2,000 Zhang Xutuo's former army and began to counterattack the Goguryeo people. After Li Benlei's 20,000 infantry arrived, they fought several times in the dark. By the time Chen Kefu arrived, the two armies had already fought and reached the east coast of Liaodong.

On the plain on the east bank of the snowy Liao River, the two armies gathered together and gathered their troops and horses, and formed a formation to confront each other. Chen Kefu commanded the Sui army's 20,000 light cavalry and 40,000 infantry, totaling 60,000 soldiers and horses. The Goguryeo coalition forces had more than 90,000 men and 30,000 cavalry and 60,000 infantry. The two sides formed formations five miles apart, and a war was about to begin.
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