Chapter 606: Reversal

Looking at Guo Quan, who was helped by two guards in front of him, still unsteady on his feet, with his face turning red and white, Gao Yuan nodded at him appreciatively: "Guo Quan, you did a good job."

Guo Quan lowered his head in embarrassment: "It's embarrassing for the governor. At this time, my legs are as weak as noodles, but I can't stand still."

Gao Yuan laughed loudly, "You don't pretend or act, you can stand up in times of crisis, and you don't pile up words after the crisis is over. You have a true character. You should be the first to take credit for what happened today."

"No, no, no, if the governor hadn't arrived in time, if Tang Feng and the others hadn't sacrificed their lives for justice, the bank of Dayan Lake would have been filled with blood." Guo Quan waved his hands wildly.

"If we hadn't done a great job in coordinating and gathering all the people, we would have been too late no matter how fast we were. Who is Tang Feng?"

"Tang Feng is a company commander who stayed here. He led the two hundred soldiers here to attack the Donghu people at all costs and bought us some time. However, they all sacrificed their lives for justice!" said At this point, Guo Quan couldn't help crying when he thought of the navy blue phalanx that was flooded by the Donghu cavalry, and the shouts of the Eastern Expeditionary Army and Wan Sheng who still came from inside.

Gao Yuan turned around and saw that the battle not far away was coming to an end. The remaining Donghu cavalry were running away, and the red guards were chasing them everywhere. The civilian husbands under the city had already entered the battlefield and began to clean up the mess. They carried out the dead soldiers of the Eastern Conquest Army one by one and stacked them neatly together. Some of the corpses were incomplete, so the civilian husbands searched hard on the messy battlefield. to the part they lost.

As for the injured Donghu soldiers who were lying on the battlefield and still breathing, the civilian husbands naturally gave them a casual blow and killed them all.

The bodies of more than two hundred Northern Field Army soldiers dressed in navy blue uniforms and nearly a hundred red-clad guards lay quietly on the bank of Dayan Lake during this battle. Half of the more than 3,000 Donghu cavalry were lost here, while the Eastern Expeditionary Army paid the price of nearly 300 deaths.

"The Eastern Expedition Army can achieve today's achievements precisely because of these soldiers who are not afraid of sacrifice and move forward bravely. It is precisely because of loyal and brave people like you who fight hard. There is Jishi City in front of us and Dayan Lake behind us." Gao Yuan stood in front of the bodies of the warriors, looking at the civilians who had gathered together to suppress the crowd, and said loudly: "I believe that as long as we are united as one, we can continue to win and defeat the enemy. In this fertile land, Come on, create our own paradise, warriors, let us wipe away the tears in our eyes, wipe away the blood on our bodies, step on the corpses of our enemies, and move forward!"

"forward!"

"forward!"

Roaring sounds continued on the banks of Dayan Lake. Facing the remains of hundreds of soldiers,

All people's hearts are full of anger, but also full of confidence.

Amidst the waves of shouts from the people. Gao Yuan, with less than a thousand red-clothed guards, mounted their horses and continued to move forward. In front of them, there were remnants of the Donghu cavalry. There are more Donghu people in Pioneer City and Tongwan City.

And at this time. On another battlefield, Yuwen Chui stared at the Eastern Expeditionary Army for a long time. He was not in a hurry. It should be Sun Xiao who was anxious now. Yuwen Chui thought proudly that once Yu Wenming returned from the raid on Dayan Lake, Will Sun Xiao jump over the wall in a hurry and attack him alone? If this is the case, then it is really a success. It just happened to be accomplished in one battle. Sun Xiao set up a black shell formation. He was unwilling to confront it head-on. But if Sun Xiao launched a desperate attack, it would enter the cavalry's fighting rhythm, and victory would be easy to win.

Sun Xiao was indeed getting more and more anxious now. Looking at the Donghu cavalry with only more than a thousand people left in the distance, the order to attack on all fronts came to his lips several times, but he swallowed it back and launched a general attack. Maybe he could defeat this Thousands of cavalrymen were swallowed up, but it was more likely that they would suffer another defeat.

The opponent will not engage in direct combat with him at all. As long as he launches an attack, Sun Xiao can conclude that the opponent will definitely take advantage of the cavalry to quickly distance himself from him, and then there will be endless harassment, riding and shooting, like peeling an onion. If you strip yourself naked layer by layer, even if everything goes well and you can keep all the thousand cavalry, but with thousands of infantry around you, how many will be left in the end? I have already lost Dayan Lake, do I still want to lose this last bit of troops? Preserve your strength and wait until you meet up with Xu Yuan and Yan Peng from Pioneer City and those who rule Ten Thousand Cities. Then cheer up and fight again. Maybe there will be a chance for victory.

Thunderous hoofbeats were heard in the distance, and Sun Xiao was shocked. He looked in the direction where the hoofbeats came from. It was the Donghu cavalry. Have they returned? Sun Xiao's hands and feet were cold,

wrong! Sun Xiao opened his eyes wide. When Yu Wenming left, the cavalry was so vast that there were thousands of them. But now it seems that there are only more than a thousand at most, and the formation is scattered. It doesn't look like they are returning from victory, but more like they are returning from victory. Just like running away for life.

What happened? Sun Xiao was shocked and confused.

Not only was Sun Xiao surprised at this moment, but Yuwen Chui was also shocked. Looking at the pale Yu Wenming who was galloping all the way to him and dismounted from his horse, Yuwen Chui asked loudly: "What happened? Where are your soldiers? This is What's the matter?"

"Uncle, Gao Yuan is here. Gao Yuan is here with his devils in red clothes. My soldiers, my soldiers..." Yu Wenming burst into tears suddenly, "That's all there is. The rest are all dead." , died in battle, killed by those devils in red!”

Yuwen Chui looked at Yu Wenming who was in despair, suddenly turned his hand and slapped him across the face.

"Uncle!" With five bright red fingerprints on his face, Yu Wenming raised his head and looked at Yu Wenchui blankly.

"This slap is not because you lost to your opponent, but because you can't afford to lose. If you lose, you lose. You can lose the battle, but you can't lose the face. Do you still look like a child of the Yu Wen family? Don't embarrass your father." Yu Wenchui shouted sternly: "You lost today, and you will come back tomorrow. Crying like a woman, what can you achieve?"

Yu Wenming wanted to explain something, but Yu Wenchui didn't wait for him to speak, raised his hand and slapped him again, "If you don't have this heart, I will tell your father after I go back and tell you to go back to Helin to find your mother, and don't embarrass yourself here."

Two slaps and Yu Wenchui's vicious insults finally made Yu Wenming come back to his senses. He pulled out his knife with a choking sound, climbed onto his horse, and turned his horse to leave.

"Where are you going?"

"Uncle, I'm going to fight Gao Yuan to the death. I'd rather die in battle than be humiliated." Yu Wenming's face was blood red, and two slap marks on the left and right were extremely conspicuous.

"Do you want me to beat you up again?" Yu Wenchui said grimly: "First, you lost your soul and had no fighting spirit, which disrupted the morale of our army. Then you didn't know what was going on and threw yourself into a dead end. How could my Yu Wen family have such a useless thing like you!"

"Uncle, this won't work, and that won't work either. What do you want me to do?" Yu Wenming roared.

"Retreat." Yu Wenchui looked at the Sun Xiao camp not far away and sighed deeply: "The fat meat in my mouth flew away again. Gao Yuan, could he really have the ability to predict the future? How could he appear here!"

The Donghu cavalry broke camp, with Yu Wenming as the vanguard and Yu Wenchui as the rear guard. They first slowly moved away from the battlefield, and after leaving for several miles, they suddenly accelerated and rushed towards the Liao River.

"General Sun, the enemy has retreated!" A lieutenant jumped up and shouted loudly as he watched the Donghu cavalry suddenly go away. Following his shout, the remaining less than 3,000 soldiers of the expeditionary army cheered in unison. The two forces had been deadlocked here for a day and a night, but in the end, the Donghu people could not hold on and retreated.

"General Sun, do you want to pursue them?" A lieutenant hurriedly walked to Sun Xiao and asked.

Sun Xiao shook his head: "Bu Zheng, you should immediately send people to the direction of Dayan Lake to find out what happened there? First collect the bodies of the brothers who died here, and then scout the direction of the Donghu people's advance to see if they really retreated or set a trap. When Yu Wenming left, there were 3,000 cavalrymen, but now only more than 1,000 cavalrymen have returned. Where did the rest go?"

"Didn't it say before that the governor was on the way to Dayan Lake with his troops?"

"How could it be so fast? Besides, the governor couldn't have expected that the Donghu people would come to attack Dayan Hu." Sun Xiao shook his head and said.

In Xianfeng City, Xu Yuan was furious. Ever since he received Sun Xiao's letter, he knew that both he and Yan Peng were defeated by Yuwen Ke. Although the other party seemed to be attacking Xianfeng and Tongwanliang City, it was just a feint. The real purpose was to destroy the base of Dayan Lake.

If Sun Xiao was still in Dayan Lake, there would be no need to worry too much, but the problem was that the commander had mobilized all the troops in Dayan Lake to support Xianfeng and Tongwanliang City. Dayan Lake was completely open to the public. Once the Donghu cavalry arrived, the consequences would be disastrous. But he could do nothing. He was too far away from Dayan Lake. Even if he wanted to rescue, he was powerless.

"Even if Dayan Lake is lost, I will keep all of you Donghu bastards on the west bank!" Grinding his teeth, Xu Yuan slammed the table, "What is Chen Bin doing? It's been three days, and he hasn't taken down those broken bridges. Tell Chen Bin that if I give him another half day and he still can't destroy those bridges, he'll come to me with his head!"

Half a decade ago, Yuwen Ke led his army to cross the river suddenly, and then built several floating bridges on the Liao River to transport troops across the river. Xu Yuan attacked several times, but was blocked by the opponent's cavalry and had to give up. After learning that Yuwen Ke sent 5,000 cavalry to attack Dayan Lake, Xu Yuan contacted Yan Peng and attacked together. Yan Peng attracted the opponent's main force, and he attacked the floating bridges. Once successful, the hope of keeping all the opponents here would increase greatly.

But Yuwen Ke had obviously anticipated this. After the initial wild attack completely attracted the attention of Xu Yuan and Yan Peng, he estimated that Yuwen Chui had arrived at Dayan Lake and started a killing spree, so he withdrew his troops and firmly guarded these pontoon bridges. Xu Yuan attacked wildly for several days, and there were many floating corpses in front of the pontoon bridges, but he still couldn't take them down.

Xu Yuan couldn't help but get angry. If he couldn't take down these pontoons, Yuwen Ke would come and go freely, and the base of Dayan Lake and tens of thousands of people would be lost in vain. (To be continued...)