For Goguryeo, this winter is particularly cold this year, which is not only physical but also psychological. Just as this winter approaches, a major event between Yuan and Rongliu Kings occurred. Then the Tang army drove straight in, defeating the Goguryeo defenders on the entire Liaodong Peninsula with the momentum of sweeping thousands of troops.

Now anyone with some knowledge understands that after Goguryeo is finished and Liaodong is lost, even if the Tang army no longer attacks Goguryeo, the remaining territory of Goguryeo is barren and cannot afford to support too many troops. There are two hungry wolves, Silla and Baekje, next to them, who may pounce on them and bite them a few times at any time. Therefore, the demise of Goguryeo has almost become a foregone conclusion, and the difference is only time to go to it.

As for Yuan Gai Suwen's strategy of using the right time and place to drag down the Tang army, it was completely bankrupt because he was still looking at the Tang army with his previous eyes. However, under the interference of Li Yan, the logistics of the Tang army burst out with strong power, and the food and clothing of the Tang army on the front line were very guaranteed, especially the distribution of cotton coats, which allowed the Tang army to maintain a certain combat effectiveness in the ice and snow, minimizing the influence of cool cold.

In addition to the application of gunpowder weapons, the siege battle has been simplified into a game. In the whole of Liaodong, except Anshi City, there is no city that can block the Tang army's footsteps. In the end, it was due to the cold winter that Tang army stopped himself, giving Goguryeo a chance to breathe.

Although the large-scale offensive stopped, the large-scale battle never stopped. This was mainly because the Tang army's offensive was too fierce before, and the Goguryeo defenders in many places were only dispersed and not completely eliminated. Although most of these Goguryeo defeated troops saw that the situation was wrong and surrendered to the Tang army one after another, some loyal people led their troops to harass the Tang army everywhere. In order to clear these annoying fleas, the Tang army had to send elite soldiers to chase and kill the defeated troops everywhere.

In a basin southwest of Anshicheng, there was no sign of melting in the thick snow. Because the surrounding terrain was high and the wind outside was blocked, there was no wind in the basin. Although the snow was thicker, some places with relatively high terrain still exposed pieces of loess.

In this basin, except for the low trees that can be seen everywhere, there are only a cluster of dead grass that emerges from the snow. Occasionally, rabbits or roe deer run past the snow, but in order to avoid various natural enemies, they are extremely fast and disappear into the snow piles and trees in the blink of an eye.

"Crack~Crack~" With the sound of footsteps of snow, a team of more than a dozen people slowly walked into the basin. The dozen people were all holding horses, their bodies were bulging. The robes on their bodies were all supported, looking very clumsy, with balls of thatch exposed at the collar and cuffs. From this we can see that the clothes of these people were stuffed with thatch to resist the cold wind from the outside. Moreover, the clothes they wore outside were all the trousers of Goguryeo soldiers. From this we can see that this was a team of Goguryeo defeated soldiers.

"General, we have been traveling for three consecutive hours, and the brothers are so tired. The basin is a little windy, let's take a break and eat something before leaving!" A defeated soldier said to the humanity in front of the team leader. This man, known as the general, was dressed obviously different from thatched people. He did not keep warm with thatch, but wore a leather robe. The leather robe was also wearing a piece of armor outside, and the workmanship was very fine. You could tell at a glance that he was a senior general.

"Well, it's okay, everyone has worked hard. There is an open space in front, so let's go and take a rest!" The general pointed to the open space in front and said in a hoarse voice. There is no snow there, and there are a few trees, so you can rest by following the trees.

When the general agreed, the defeated soldiers were shocked. They led their horses to the high ground and tied the horses up, and immediately crowded together like boneless ones. When they were in good spirits, they took out frozen dry food like stones from their arms, chewed them hard, grabbed a few handfuls of snow and stuffed them into their mouths, and then swallowed them with the dry food. When they were in bad spirits, they fell asleep and snored for a while.

The general looked at these tired soldiers and couldn't help but sigh. The general was actually Li Yan's old acquaintance. He was General An Yiluan who led the naval army in Beisha City. When General Niu led his army to advance from Laizhou, the first battle was in Beisha City. As the navy outside Beisha City, he was the first group of troops to be attacked by the Tang army. Although An Yiluo led his army to fight back desperately, the number was still of quality, and they were hugely different from the Tang army. Therefore, in less than half a day, most of the ship was lost. An Yiluo originally wanted to sacrifice his life for his country, but was removed from the shelves by several loyal subordinates and went to the shore, watching his naval army be destroyed in the hands of the Tang army.

An Yiluo, who escaped from the sky, had already died. He was a loyal member of Goguryeo and was determined to deal with the Tang Dynasty to the end. So he took some old subordinates to recruit Luo Goguryeo's defeated soldiers. In less than a month, he had to collect thousands of troops and start harassing the Tang army.

At the beginning, he achieved some good results, and even destroyed a grain transport team of the Tang army, causing some trouble for the attack of the Southern Army. However, after their actions attracted Niu Jinda's attention, he immediately sent several Tang army groups to strangle them. The group of mobs he collected was no match for the elite Tang army at all, and he had no choice but to flee everywhere. The Tang army behind him chased them reluctantly until they fled in the territory of Liaodong City, which was still in the hands of Goguryeo at that time, which was safe.

But even more unfortunately, Liaodong City was quickly defeated by the Tang army. After the city was broken, An Yiluo surrendered and had to escape with his subordinates. However, the person who chased them this time became Li Ji's subordinates. Compared with Niu Jinda, Li Ji's soldiers were more fierce and chased them all the way. There were more than 2,000 people when they escaped, but until half a month ago, there were only more than 500 people left. Except for a few who were frozen to death, most of the others were killed by the Tang army.

Seeing the Tang army behind him, An Yiluo and his team decided to escape in order to survive, and completely disperse more than 500 people, with more than a dozen people in each team, with such targets and different directions of escape. In this way, even if the Tang army was scattered and chased, there must be some lucky people who can escape, which is better than everyone huddling together to wait for death.

What made An Yiluo feel relieved was that this method seemed to be very effective. At least their team escaped here, except for encountering the Tang army's pursuit team in the first few days, it has been safe in recent days. However, they ate all their food the day before yesterday and had to rob a village and replenish some food. However, this left a clue for the Tang army. He was really worried that the other party would get news from that village and catch up with them, so they kept rushing to the road since the day before yesterday.

Now almost all the Liaodong Peninsula falls into the hands of the Tang army, except for the Anshi City. Now An Yiluo and his friends are preparing to go to Anshi City. However, because the Tang army stationed under Anshi City, they dare not go from the front, so they had to circle a big circle from the southwest and get the chance to enter the Anshi City from the south.

In fact, if it weren't forcing him, An Yiluo wouldn't want to enter Anshicheng, because he used to be a military general of the Yuan clan, but Anshicheng was the power of King Rongliu, and the two sides were almost incompatible. However, now in the face of national crisis, he was like a dog with a broken family. If he didn't go to Anshicheng, he would have no way to survive, so he had to try his luck.

While thinking about his thoughts, An Yiluo found a tree to lie halfway down, holding a piece of dry food in his mouth, chewing it bit by bit. The weather was good today. Although it was a bit windy, the sun was very good. When the warm sunlight shone, An Yiluo was a little sleepy and felt a little confused after a while.

Just when An Yiluo seemed to be sleeping, suddenly a rapid sound of horse hooves came from his ears. He was extremely alert and immediately jumped up with a carp and shouted loudly in a hoarse voice: "If you have an enemy, get on the horse quickly!"

The soldiers who followed him were also elite troops in Goguryeo's army. Although they were all exhausted, they soon realized and rushed over to untie the reins one by one. They were about to turn over the horse, but at this time, more than a dozen Tang cavalry rushed over from the direction they came, and the horse spear in their hands had been raised.

Although the Goguryeo soldiers were also elite, they were one step late. Before they could get on the horse, the Tang army's horse spear had already stabbed into their chests. In the blink of an eye, most of them were stabbed to death. Under the command of An Yiluo, the remaining few rushed out desperately regardless of whether they were concerned.

"Give up the spear and shoot arrows!" The leader of the Tang army knew that his horse was exhausted, but the other party's horse had been resting for a long time, so he had a delusion to catch up with him, so he immediately decisively ordered the horse spear to throw it into the ground, took off the bow behind his back, and then aimed at the gunman. The sharp arrows were like lightning, and they quickly caught up with the Goguryeo soldiers who were running for their lives in front.

With a few screams, the Goguryeo soldiers who had no time to run out were all shot, but because they were thicker, they usually fell down after several arrows. However, because they were in the lead, An Yiluo, who had armor and leather robe, did not get deep into the arrows. He gritted his teeth and hugged the horse's neck, but insisted that he did not fall down.

"What a leader, are we still chasing you?" Seeing An Yiluo's horse running across the mountain ridge, it would be too late to chase you, a young Tang army immediately asked impatiently.

"No, of course I have to chase after him. The other party is a big fish, but if you catch it, you can exchange a lot of military merits and cans." There were ten of them, and the leader was a scar on his face.

Hearing Shi Chang's words, the young Tang Jun and the others chased out with excitement, but Scar Shi Chang and a few veterans dismounted one after another, ran over and held the Goguryeo horse that they had not been hurt just now, then turned over and chased after them. Their horse ran for a long time, and the horse was no longer as powerful as the new recruits had no experience. They used that horse to chase each other, and they could only eat dirt.

Then before the Tang army could chase the mountain ridge, they suddenly heard the big Goguryeo fish running away in front of them screaming, and then a "bang" sound seemed to fall off the horse, and then there was another sound of horse hooves from far to near. It seemed that there was someone on the other side of the mountain ridge.
Chapter completed!