Chapter 151 Massive Encirclement and Suppression
The current Goguryeo King Gao Yuan was undoubtedly a very ambitious guy. In the tenth year of Kaihuang, this man joined forces with the Marine to invade the Liaoxi County of the Great Sui Dynasty. It should be noted that the Great Sui Dynasty was at the heyday of the "Kaihuang Governance". The monarch was enlightened, with stars shining, strong soldiers and horses, and the four barbarians surrendered. Even the coastal island countries such as Ryukyu, which were far away in the horizon, surrendered to the Great Sui Dynasty. However, this Gao Yuan did not believe in evil and dared to solve the tiger beard of Emperor Wen of Sui. Although he later admitted to the tribute and claimed to be the "Liaodong dirt minister Yuan", it also indirectly reflected that this Gao Yuan was not a fuel-efficient lamp. Sure enough, this man attacked Silla and Baekje, a small country in southern Goguryeo, and both won the victory and unified the entire Korean Peninsula. His strength was unprecedentedly strong. This was also the confidence of his daring to fight against Yang Guang's million-strong army.
Since Gao Yuan dared to invade the Liaoxi County of the Great Sui Dynasty in the tenth year of Kaihuang, he now took advantage of the great defeat of the Sui army, how could he not take advantage of the victory to pursue it?
If possible, Gao Yuan even wanted to annex the territory of the Sui Kingdom east of Linyu Pass (Shanhaiguan). In this way, Goguryeo would not be afraid of the Sui Kingdom attacking again in the future. He could also knock on the gate and seize the land of Youyan at any time, and then look at the Central Plains.
Therefore, after the Sui army was defeated, Gao Yuan immediately sent two of his most powerful ministers to lead their troops to pursue them with all their might. One was named Yizhi Wende and the other was named Gao Jianwu, who was Gao Yuan's half-brother.
Yizhi Wende was both civil and military. He first used a arrogant plan to lure the enemy into depth, and finally defeated Yuwen Shu's army more than 300,000 troops on the banks of Yalu Water, and chased him all the way to Xincheng. Yuwen Shu's old cat burned his beard, and finally led only a few thousand people to cross the Liao River and fled back to the territory of the Sui Dynasty. All the massive baggage carried by the army fell into the hands of Yizhi Wende, and the Goguryeo Army increased its strength as a result.
Yizhi Wende was obviously not satisfied with this. He led his troops across the Liao River and pointed directly at Huaiyuan Town in western Liaoning County.
Huaiyuan Town is the bridgehead for the Sui army to attack Goguryeo. At that time, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui army was commanded by Huaiyuan across the river. The food and weapons here were piled up like mountains, so as long as Yizhi Wende captured Huaiyuan Town, he could gain a foothold on the west bank of the Liaohe River and then occupy the entire western Liaoshi County.
Besides, Gao Jianwu was also a talent for Yunwen and Yunwu. He was highly valued by his elder brother Gao Yuan. He was responsible for guarding Liaodong City from the beginning and defended very tenaciously. Faced with the fierce attack of hundreds of thousands of Sui troops, he actually defended the city. Later, Yang Guang retreated in panic, and Gao Jianwu decisively left the city to pursue it, and finally captured the whole city.
Now that Yizhi Wende attacks Huaiyuan Town on the front line, Gao Jianwu provides support from the rear, and is also responsible for clearing the defeated Sui army in the territory and stabilizing the rear.
Let’s talk about the centurion Liu Chengwu who led only a dozen cavalry to break through, he immediately fled to Liaodong City in a hurry to report the situation to Gao Jianwu in the city.
After hearing Liu Chengwu's report, Gao Jianwu attached great importance to it. He immediately sent out a number of troops and informed the Xincheng garrison upstream, asking him to send troops to cooperate with the encirclement along the Liaohe Line. It is necessary to eliminate the Sui army before the climate formed. The total force was over 10,000, of which 2,000 were cavalry.
So, a large hunting net unfolded between Liaodong City and Xincheng, slowly contracting along the line of Liaohe River. Therefore, the defeated Sui army hiding in this area was about to come.
Although Gao Bufan expected the enemy to pursue him, he never dreamed that he would make a big move and sent tens of thousands of troops to encircle and suppress their less than 200 "guerrillas". It was such a big deal. It really proved that the gun shot out the first bird.
Let’s talk about the next morning, Gao Bufan and others set up camp again and went to the place where Pei Xingyan and others logged wood and made boats last time, preparing to make rafts to wait for an opportunity to cross the river.
Pei Xingyan is now very enthusiastic, training his fifty cavalry while marching. However, Xiao Pei's way of training cavalry is a bit unique, so he plunders the villages and towns along the way, and let the cavalry grow rapidly in a short period of time with practical combat. It just so happens that the armed defense power of the local villages and towns is weak, so he is just used to practice.
In addition, although the team is less than 200, the daily consumption is quite large. Without logistics supply, they can only rely on looting to obtain supplies. Fortunately, this is in Goguryeo, and other countries and people. Everyone has a small psychological burden on looting, and they have trained troops at the same time. Why not do it?
Of course, looting is robbery, but you cannot rape, and you must not kill and set fire at will. This is the bottom line of being a human being. Gao Bufan does not allow anyone under his command to cross it.
Let’s talk about the team walking for three days, and it was unexpectedly smooth. It was about one day away from the location where Pei Xingyan and others logged wood and boats last time.
On this day, the sky was drizzling, and the air was so wet that it seemed to be able to twist out water, but no drop of rain came out, and everyone was a little depressed.
About evening, a rapid sound of horse hooves came from far to near. Gao Bufan raised his hand and ordered the team to stop moving forward. Soon, a cavalry of about fifty people appeared in the hazy mist and rain in the distance. But he saw that the first person was born with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and he was hung with a horse spear on his back. It was Pei Xingyan, who was flying in spirit.
Liu Ying twitched, "This young man is addicted to robbery. How many times have he been this day?"
Han honestly replied: "The fifth chapter is here."
Dou Xianniang smiled. She is now a "junket chief" and has to hold nearly 200 mouths every day. The food for more than fifty animals is under greater pressure than that of Alexandria. Naturally, she would not think that the food she stolen was too much. Now the little girl looks more and more pleasing to Pei Xing. She tastes a bit of a big brother Pei, and even Gao Bufan is a little tasty.
At this time, Dou Xianniang had already urged the horse to meet her and said happily: "Thank you for your hard work, how much food did you get this time?"
Pei Xingyan decided to maha and laughed, "This time the harvest is very good. Brothers, I will give the food to Miss Liu to count and account. Who dares to fill my pockets? I will squeeze his eggs."
The cavalry burst into laughter and threw the big bags on the horse's back on the ground. Soon they piled up a large pile, probably as many as ten stones, and they really gained a lot.
Although Dou Xianniang was a woman, she had been with a bunch of rough men for several months and was almost immune to these rough words. She just treated it as a wind in her ears. She happily called more than a dozen villagers to help count the accounts. Brother Gao taught her a new set of accounting methods, which was both concise and effective. Well, Brother Gao is really knowledgeable, and he has never even heard of Arabic numerals, multiplication formulas, etc.
"Miss Liu, what are you writing?" Pei Xingyan asked himself that he was a good at reading, but he didn't recognize any of the "tadpoles" written by Dou Xianniang in the notebook, and couldn't help but be amazed.
By the way, Dou Xianniang now introduces herself to the public and claims that her surname is Liu, and her name is Liu Xianniang. Now, except for Gao Bufan and the villagers in Liu'anli know that her original surname is Dou, everyone else thinks that her surname is Liu.
Although the villagers in Liu'anli were surprised that Dou Xianniang suddenly changed her surname, they did not point it out in tacit understanding. Gao Bufan vaguely guessed the reason why Dou Xianniang changed her surname, but he would not even point out it out, so Dou Xianniang became Liu Xianniang.
"This is the accounting method taught by Brother Gao. If Brother Pei wants to learn, go find Brother Gao." Dou Xianniang smiled, and there was a lust in her eyebrows.
Pei Xingyan rubbed his nose and said, "Forget it, I learned what I did, but Brother Gao knows a lot."
"That's right, there is nothing in this world that Gao Brother doesn't understand." Dou Xianniang's beautiful eyes were bright and her face was a little arrogant.
Seeing this, Pei Xingyan couldn't help but tease: "That's not necessarily the case. Why don't you ask Brother Gao if he will have a baby?"
"Young Master Gao doesn't know, but Miss Liu can do it." Su Dingyue interrupted, and everyone couldn't help but burst into laughter.
Dou Xianniang was so embarrassed that she raised her waist and shouted: "You guys are going to be miserable, so don't even think about having dinner tonight."
When they heard that there was no dinner, these guys were honest. Su Dingyue, the boy salivated and repaid, and Dou Xianniang was willing to give up.
Gao Bufan just looked at Pei Xingyan with a smile. The latter quickly rode his horse to the front and bowed to him and said, "Brother Gao!"
After several days of getting along, we are already very familiar with each other. It is precisely because we know that Gao Bufan is usually easy-going that everyone dares to joke like this.
"It's going to be dark soon, but you can find a place to stay?" Gao Bufan asked.
Speaking of serious matters, Pei Xingyan did not dare to neglect and said in a whole expression: "From this, there is a deserted village suitable for garrisoning."
Chapter completed!