Yan County Medical No Chang Mountain, this is a mountain range that almost divides Yan County into two. This mountain range is not long and runs north and south, with a mountain range of only more than a hundred miles. However, because Yan County itself is narrow, it is particularly prominent.
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In the northern section of Yiwuchang Mountain, it is an endless mountain pasture. It was once the place where the Sui army raised horses during the Battle of Goryeo. The horse farm was dozens of miles in radius. Although many years have passed, traces of the horse farm can still be found.
Some railings are still vaguely visible, and most of them are taken home by locals as firewood.
The high place is the grey rocks and exposed. Large areas of forests are distributed from the mountainside, with green pines and cypresses and thick green. Along the mountains, the forest that stretches for hundreds of miles is like a green belt that wraps the mountains around.
In the early morning, a team of cavalry with about fifty men rushed out of the forest and rushed towards the east. This was a team of Sui army scouts equipped with two horses. The speeding knights were all wearing armor, with black shiny and flashing movements.
Speedy.
Their war horses were tall and powerful, strong and powerful, with well-proportioned limbs, and brown horses were shiny, with long tails flying in the wind, and their high necks were densely covered with brushed manes.
The cavalry and the war horses under their crotch complement each other. Everyone is tall and burly, with long hands and feet. The black and thick hair under the eagle helmet is fluttering. The gods are stern, with sharp eyes. They hold a jujube wooden spear in their hands, with cowhides and shields and bows and arrows on their backs.
There is a horizontal knife inserted on it, and the shiny armor is very strong.
Fifty cavalrymen walked in a two-man column, followed by their other horse, carrying their blankets and dry food, and were young and heroic as the chief lieutenant, only sixteen or seventeen years old. His bright eyes were shining with a kind of age.
Not matching mature light.
The captain was Xiao Yannian. He held the phoenix-winged gold wings made by his father in his hand, and rode an extremely majestic white war horse. This war horse was tributed to the court in the Western Regions and was rewarded by Yang Guang.
My father, Yuwen Chengdu, even his armor was left to him by his father.
Although Xiao Yannian was full of his father's imprint, it was just his memorial to his father. He did not become arrogant because of his father.
On the contrary, he was very low-key. None of his fifty subordinates knew that he was the son of Yuwen Chengdu, the general of the left guard of the Sui Dynasty. However, he was a lieutenant at such a young age, which still made some veterans dissatisfied, which was not in line with the Sui army's military merits.
Progressive practice.
The cavalry team ran for more than two hours. Gradually slowed down, and there was another dense forest ahead. Xiao Yannian pointed at the horse whip and said, "Go to the forest to rest!"
The cavalry turned their horses, crossed a stream, and rushed into the forest. The forest covers hundreds of acres of land, deep and quiet, with various colorful flowers growing on the ground, and the roots of the tree are distributed in patches of white sepia fungi.
.It can be seen that there are no traces of people here.
The soldiers dismounted and sat down on the grass. More than a dozen soldiers took gourds and buckets to fetch water from the stream outside, and the war horses leisurely ate the grass on the grass.
Xiao Yannian sat next to a flat rock to view the map. His serious eyes looked very much like his father, and his tall nose showed his noble bloodline of the Southern Dynasty nobles.
This time, he was ordered by Luo Shixin to investigate the movements of the Goryeo Army. He quickly found his current seat on the map and drew a circle on the map with a piece of charcoal. This was located twenty miles north of Huaiyuan Town.
Walking east ten miles is the Liaohe River.
He patrolled the area for almost seven days. He still did not see any trace of the Goryeo Army, but only found a Yan army with thousands of people the day before yesterday.
‘Does I have to cross the Liaohe River?’ Xiao Yannian thought to himself.
At this time, a team was approaching him and said with a smile: "Captain, why not find a village, some eat, some drink, and even find out the news."
Xiao Yannian glanced at him, "This is the territory of Gaokaidao. We should not be too arrogant, otherwise we will be informed by the villagers and will not know how they die. More importantly, it will miss the general's major event."
"But, will there really be a Goryeo army?"
The team was hesitating for a while, and finally couldn't help saying: "Brothers all say that it's not very likely to encounter the Goryeo army. We have been patrolling Yan County for seven days. If we could meet it, we should have met it long ago. We all think that we would be looking for it.
There will be no news in ten days. Why not... it's better to go home just now, right?"
Xiao Yannian snorted coldly and said, "I know when it will end, so I don't need you to remind me!"
The team looked very embarrassed and had to laugh dryly, "I just talk about it casually, of course it was the lieutenant who decided."
The team was retreating and sat down against the tree roots. He cursed quietly. Several veterans immediately surrounded him and asked in a low voice: "Why do you say, will the lieutenant continue to patrol?"
"Get away!"
The team was cursing, "It was all you guys who were troublesome, which made me scolded."
Several veterans refused to leave, gathered beside the team, and talked angrily: "Who is this lieutenant? He was inexplicably the lieutenant. What is his background?"
"Who knows? I guess it's a big deal. I heard that the general manager had competed with him when he inspected Hedong County. His surname was Xiao. I guess he was a nobleman from Xiliang."
Team Master sighed, "No matter who it is, one thing is certain that he will be promoted faster than us. Anyway, when you were a team leader, he was at least an Asian player, so the best way is to be honest and obedient.
, don't mess with him."
The veterans were confused, but they had to listen to the correct words of the team. At this moment, the soldiers who were watching from the top of the big tree shouted: "Several cavalry are running towards us!"
The soldiers jumped up one after another, and Xiao Yannian ordered: "Don't panic, retreat deep into the forest!"
The soldiers quickly packed up their things, led the horses, and retreated into the depths of the forest. Xiao Yannian led more than a dozen scouts to ambush the nearby trees.
After a moment, three cavalrymen rushed into the forest, all of them were Gao Kaidao soldiers. As soon as they entered the forest, one of them started to curse, "Take me like a dog, I quit, I'm shit, Korean, they have the ability to send them
I send my own letters.”
At this time, another soldier suddenly discovered an abnormality, "No, someone has been here, and some cavalry have come."
They found the feces of horses and war horses. The three Yan soldiers immediately realized that something was wrong and turned around to run out of the forest. At this moment, several arrows came, all of them were on their legs, and the three screamed in terror.
He fell to the ground, and jumped from the tree to over a dozen Sui army scouts, holding them up with their spears.
"Give me your life!"
The Yan army spy shouted loudly in horror. Xiao Yannian quickly stepped forward, grabbed a man's hair, dragged him under a big tree, squatted down and asked, "Where is the Goryeo Army?"
The spy was so scared that he was trembling all over and couldn't say a word. Xiao Yannian pulled out a dagger to press against his throat, "Speak quickly, or you will be killed with one knife."
"On the east bank of the Liao River!" The spy said tremblingly, tremblingly.
"How many troops are there, when will it be to cross the Liaohe River, and who is the chief general?"
Xiao Yannian asked a series of questions... Liaohe River, which was once the boundary river between Goryeo and the Sui Dynasty, was also the first step in the Goryeo War that year, and was the frontier position for the Great Sui Dynasty to attack Goryeo. Although the war had ended for many years, there was still no one on both sides of the Liaohe River.
Who lived there? There were too many people who died here, and the land was filled with the breath of death.
On the banks of the Liaodong River, the city occupied by hundreds of thousands of people in the Sui army that died in battle has been occupied by the Goryeo people again. Now a Liao River can no longer stop the ambition of the Goryeo people. They took advantage of the opportunity of Gaokaidao to surrender and began to expand westward.
The Liao River is about tens of feet wide and the water is deep and flat. At this time, two floating bridges have been built on the Liao River. Teams of Goryeo soldiers are quickly crossing the floating bridge and heading towards the west bank of the river. On the east bank of the river, tens of thousands of troops are arranged in intensive manner.
vast.
Although Gai Suwen and Gao Kaidao negotiated that 30,000 troops were sent, in the final decision, Yuan Taizuo, the prime minister of Goryeo, who held military and political power, changed his mind. He thought that it would be difficult for 30,000 troops to defeat the Sui army, so he decided to send troops.
Fifty thousand, led by him personally to fight against the Sui army.
On the bank of the Liao River, Yuan Taizuo looked at the Liao River coldly. Just by this river, six years ago, the Sui army launched a large-scale attack on Goryeo. Three consecutive battles almost destroyed the foundation of Goryeo. Now, six years ago
Later, it turned out that it was his Goryeo army attacking the Sui Dynasty, not! It was an attack on the Central Plains.
Yuan Taizuo has been waiting for this moment for a long time. This has always been his dream. He is sixty years old this year. He thought he would no longer have a chance in this life, but he did not expect that in his twilight years, this moment would become true. He was extremely excited.
, so much so that he decided to lead the army to the west in person to realize his decades of long-term wishes.
"Father!"
The eldest son Gai Suwen rushed from a distance. This time, the Goryeo Army fought westward, but stayed in Goryeo and took charge of military affairs for his father. He rushed to the Liao River to see off his father.
"When will my father return this Western Expedition?" Gasuwen asked worriedly.
"I don't know either, it's almost two months, and it's half a year later."
Yuan Taizuo trusted his eldest son very much. He personally led the army to the west and handed over all the military and political power in his hands to him. He smiled and patted his son on the shoulder, "You are already thirty years old, with your talent."
,I believe you can take on this burden. King Rongliu just succeeded to the throne, and he has no prestige yet. As long as you firmly grasp the power, he will have nothing to do with you."
"Please rest assured, I will handle internal affairs well. I hope my father can realize his long-cherished wish soon."
Yuan Taizuo raised his head and smiled, "Yes! Thinking that the decades of long-standing wish is about to come true, even if I die, I will rest in peace. I will send you good news in Youzhou City."
Yuan Taizuo looked at the wide Liao River, and he ordered with great enthusiasm: "With my order, the army will speed up the river... In a dense forest on the other side of the river, Xiao Yannian was leading fifty scouts to watch the Goryeo army crossing the river closely.
News from Yan army spies confirmed that at least 50,000 Goryeo troops crossed the Liao River to help fight Gao Kaidao... to be continued) rq