On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 343 The bereaved teacher committed suicide

Cui Che ran non-stop all the way and completed the ten-mile journey.

When he rushed to the battlefield in a hurry, he found that the Goguryeo people had not escaped, and he was finally relieved.

Cui Che didn't rest for a moment. As he rode his horse and raised his whip, he shouted loudly:

"Soldiers! Defeat the thieves and kill the enemy, and achieve great achievements today! Kill the thieves! Kill the thieves!"

At first, it was just the Sui army who shouted with him:

"Kill the thief! Kill the thief!"

Gradually, regardless of whether they understood Chinese or not, the coalition troops who followed Cui Che shouted in unison:

"Kill the thief! Kill the thief!"

The shouts resounded throughout the sky, even covering the shouts of killing on the battlefield and the roar of thousands of galloping horses.

The ground shook, and the melee in the field paused briefly. Everyone inevitably looked to the south.

The cavalry all over the mountains and plains were like a torrent, charging towards the battlefield in a mighty manner. The flags they raised made the soldiers who stayed behind in the camp ecstatic, and also plunged the Goguryeo people into despair.

Yang Wanchun's eyes were about to burst, and Eulji Munduk closed his eyes in pain.

The Sui army's cavalry consisted of one man and three horses. If they were to fall into a pursuit battle, the main force of Goguryeo would not be able to escape. Ulji Mundeok then turned around and fought fiercely, hoping to kill off the 10,000 Sui troops who followed Mai Tiezhang out of the camp.

However, the difficulty of these left-behind people in Chengdu completely exceeded Ulji Mundeok's expectation. After a long and fierce battle, they could not be shaken off.

Now that Cui Che has arrived with reinforcements, a battle of annihilation is approaching.

Liang Wanchun could no longer care about Eulji Mundeok, who had a knife across his neck. He snatched three horses from nowhere and fled.

If we talk about the defeat of Xiliaohe, we may be able to use the pressure of the Khitan chiefs to justify ourselves.

But for today's disastrous defeat, Eulji Munduk knew that all of this was his responsibility.

Forty thousand cavalry were lost in the first battle, and even if they could escape back to Pyongyang and suffered two disastrous defeats, no matter how much Gao Yuan trusted him, he would never be entrusted with important tasks again.

Eulji Mundeok was proud and had no chance to avenge his shame. He was unwilling to go back and be ridiculed by others.

The steel knife was wiped across the front of his neck. After Eulji Munduk hurriedly recalled his family in his mind, he was left with only one doubt:

Does that internal agent exist?

Eulji Mundeok no longer had the chance to find out the answer to this question. With the arrival of Cui Che's reinforcements, the Goguryeo army had already lost the fighting spirit and dispersed in a hurry.

The horse came to kill without encountering any obstacles along the way.

Before the opponent's horse could stab him, Eulji Munduk wiped his neck cleanly and fell off his horse.

That young general was Cui Qiji. In the midst of the chaos, he threw away his horse, dismounted, pulled out the short knife from his waist, and cut off Ulji Munde's head.

Although he arrived a step late, Cui Qiji was not upset. He climbed on his horse, raised his head high, and shouted:

"The thief is dead! The rest will descend quickly!"

The sound was loud and loud, like thunder.

Of course, his move had nothing to do with the overall situation. The defeat of the Goguryeo people was already doomed if they could not kill the defenders who chased them out of the camp before Cui Che's reinforcements arrived.

This battle can be said to be a great victory. Goguryeo left more than 3,000 corpses in the fierce battle. In the pursuit of death, more than 4,000 people were chased to the north. Only a few thousand cavalry escaped the pursuit of the Sui army.

Kill them and surrender the rest.

The maneuverability of one person and three horses is better than that of one person and one horse, not to mention that the opponent has been fighting hard for a long time and is even more depleted of men and horses.

Goguryeo did not lack horses, but with the existence of the armored cavalry, it was the light cavalry's turn, which really could not support the scale of one man and three horses.

The coalition suffered heavy casualties in this battle, mostly from the bitter fighting before Cui Che's arrival. The coalition held back the Goguryeo people who were twice their size with inferior strength.

Among them, there were 10,000 Yan cavalry who followed Mai Tiezhang out of the camp to fight. Among them, more than 2,000 were killed or seriously injured and disabled.

The other three tribes also suffered thousands of casualties.

The soldiers swept the battlefield, bound prisoners, and gathered horses.

And Choi Cheol was looking at Eulji Mundeok's head.

"The head is a good one, but it has too many ideas."

Cui Che muttered.

By questioning the captured Goguryeo generals, Cui Che had roughly figured out the cause and effect. He didn't expect Ulji Mundeok to be able to play games with the air.

But he had to admit that if he really had an inside job and learned that Eulji Mundeok was going to attack Hoseong, he would definitely not be able to sit still and would definitely set up an ambush in Hoseong to deal with Eulji Mundeok's harassment.

It's just that history has no ifs. Cui Che is still quite curious. If he captures Eulji Mundeok alive, he tells him face to face that the reason why he is cautious is because he learned from a woman that there is a heavy cavalry in Goguryeo.

Worried that the servant army could not withstand the opponent's attack, they sent people to dig trenches. I don't know what Eulji Mundeok's expression was.

Cui Che gave the head to Liu Fang's son Liu Tongren and asked him to arrange for several cavalrymen to escort a prisoner to the city, and let the prisoner take Eulji Munde's head into the city.

Everyone knew that Cui Che's move was to undermine the morale of the defenders in the city.

After Liu Tongren left, Cui Che praised Mai Tiezhang and said with a smile:

"General Mai was able to decisively attack and hold back Ulji Mundeok before the reinforcements arrived. He should be the first to contribute to this battle."

Mai Tiezhang's face turned red and he quickly explained:

"Marshal, it was General Cui who led two thousand cavalry out of the camp first, and it was General Cui who came out to support him before engaging the enemy."

Cui Che couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and cursed in his heart: Mother Xipi, two thousand people dare to attack 40,000 people.

If Cui Qiji hadn't looked so much like himself back then, Cui Che would have really doubted whether this boy was his son.

With such a stubborn father, why would his son not care about his life as soon as he went to the battlefield?

Cui Che looked at Cui Qiji. This time, Cui Qiji could not be regarded as violating military orders in any way, because Cui Che did not explicitly order them to hold on.

Although he was angry with Cui Qiji for being reckless, he still praised him.

After everyone retreated, Cui Che left Cui Qiji alone and scolded him sternly:

"If the three of them had not come out to rescue the enemy and the friendly forces were in trouble, you would know the consequences!"

Praising him before was the coach's praise for the meritorious service, but scolding him now was the father's concern for his son.

Cui Qiji replied seriously:

"Please rest assured, Grandpa, I am not a reckless person.

"I came out of the camp knowing that Mai Tiezhang, Mai Mengcai, and Wei Zheng were all loyal to me, and they would not sit back and watch the children fall into danger.

"If it were a strange guard, I would rather let this opportunity go than do such a stupid thing."

When Cui Che heard this, he nodded slightly, and the anger in his heart finally dissipated.

At the same time, the prisoners released by the Sui army held Ulji Mundeok's head and sat in the hanging basket lowered from the city.

Gao Jianwu turned away, unable to bear to look at this ferocious head.

(End of chapter)