At the end of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 479
Around two or three o'clock in the morning, the eight-bow small fishing boats docked at Zhulin Wharf in two batches. They brought in a total of forty shi of grain, which is more than 4000 catties, plus the ten shi of grain brought in last night. It is enough to feed the whole army for two or three days.

"Mr. Du has worked hard." Gao Bufan was very pleasantly surprised. He never expected that Du Ruhui could get so much food in just one day. This executive ability is really leveraged.

Du Ruhui's face was full of exhaustion, his eyes were still bloodshot, he probably hadn't slept all day and all night, his sweaty shirt seemed to be able to wring out water, he forced himself to smile and said, "It's just a little effort, nothing to worry about, if the food If it’s not enough, I’ll go back and buy some more.”

"It's enough, come and take Mr. Du down to take a bath and rest." Gao Bufan ordered.

Du Ruhui was really exhausted. In order to purchase these grains, he ran back and forth to several towns, almost non-stop all day and night. He only ate a little dry food in the middle, but drank more than ten catties of water. The weather was too hot, so he stopped immediately Feeling unbearable hunger in his stomach, his throat felt like it was on fire, and his hands and feet were extremely sore, so he didn't refuse, bowed his hand to Gao Bufan and went down to rest with the soldiers.

In the early morning of the next day, the camp of the Sui army was filled with smoke, and the Huotou army dragged seven or eight wounded horses to the most conspicuous place to slaughter them, and then skinned and cut their flesh in full view. The smell of human food and meat, when the wind blows, even Li Mi's camp can smell it.

"Pu Shangong, the Sui army is killing horses and eating meat." The soldiers immediately reported this information to Li Mi.

Li Mi's heart moved when he heard the words, and he took Wang Bodang, Cai Jiande and others out of the camp, climbed up to the overlooking tower and looked at the Sui army camp. Sure enough, he saw the Sui army queuing up to receive food. Bloody horse head.

Li Mi was slightly pleased when he saw this, and stroked his beard and said: "The Sui army killed horses and ate meat. It is estimated that after this meal, they will break through or cross the river. Send an order to go down. The whole battalion is on alert and ready to fight at any time. There is a tough battle to be fought today. .”

Cai Jiande and Wang Bodang couldn't help gearing up when they heard the words. They had been waiting for this day for a long time.

"Well, Wang Xuba, Gao Shida, and Dou Jiande are ready to fight." After Li Mi gave the order, he went down from the tower and returned to the camp, put on his armor, took his weapons, sat in the camp and waited quietly.

Let’s talk about the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty who drank porridge all day long and were already starving. Today they can finally eat a delicious and full meal, and there is also meat. Everyone is very happy. I almost chewed my tongue down.

Half an hour later, everyone was full of food and drink, full of strength, and waited for another half an hour. After the rest of the soldiers, Gao Bufan gave an order, and a dozen bamboo rafts were pushed into the river. Only five people on the bamboo raft rowed towards the opposite bank.

"Big Sima, the Sui army has crossed the river!"

"Donghai Lord, the Sui army has crossed the river!"

Dou Jiande and Gao Shida, who were stationed upstream and downstream respectively, received the news immediately and hurriedly sent someone to notify Wang Xuba and Li Mi.

Li Mi was overjoyed when he heard the words. He thought that Gao Bufan would break through from the front, so he waited for it, but he didn't expect the other party to choose to cross the river. In this way, he can beat the dog in the water. Not only will the casualties be much less, he may even be captured alive All the horses of the opponent.

"attack!"

Li Mi gave the order to attack decisively, and the first batch of three hundred riders rushed towards the Sui army camp like the wind. At the same time, Wang Xuba, Gao Shida and Dou Jiande also launched an attack, obviously wanting to take advantage of the Sui army to cross the river On the occasion, the camp of the Sui army was breached with a thunderous force.

Little did they know that the Sui army was only pretending to cross the river, and sent dozens of water-savvy soldiers to row across the river with bamboo rafts, pretending to be a large army crossing the river to flee for their lives. The enemy is coming to attack the camp.

First pretend to cross the river to attract the enemy to attack, then take advantage of the favorable terrain to eliminate and weaken the enemy's vital forces, and finally break through the encirclement head-on.

swoosh swish...

The big bamboo bow took the lead, and the huge bamboo spear roared out, and shot fiercely at Li Mi's cavalry team, overturning several horses on the spot, but the horses behind couldn't dodge it, causing a chain reaction, and immediately tripped ten more horses. A few cavalrymen fell to the ground, crying for their father and mother.

buzzing...

The archers on both sides began to shoot at each other. Amidst the buzzing of the bowstrings, wave after wave of arrows were thrown into the sky, darkening the morning sun.

People and horses from all directions rushed towards the camp of the Sui army like a huge wave, and the camp of the Sui army was like a rock in the raging waves, which never fell down.Just as a wave of bamboo spears pointing obliquely towards the sky around the camp was cleared, another wave of bamboo spears flew out of the camp, killing and wounding the enemy while "planting" rows of "thorns".

A fierce bloody battle lasted for more than an hour. The bamboo thorns, bamboo sticks, and barbed wires outside the Sui army camp were finally cleared up. The three coalition forces finally reached the second line of defense. Paid a great price.

Li Mi lost more than 100 cavalry, and more than 600 cavalry suffered varying degrees of damage. Wang Xuba's troops were killed and injured [-] people, and even the most conservative Dou Jiande paid [-] or [-] lives.

Li Mi's heart hurts so much, he spent a lot of effort to build these two thousand light cavalry, they were supposed to charge into battle and be invincible, but the plan went wrong from the very beginning, Gao Bufan didn't go to the open area on all sides He was overtaken by his cavalry, but he found such a bamboo forest to guard against it, so that his cavalry could not play its due role, and the field battle became a tough battle, and he suffered heavy losses.

However, the damage has already been done. If Gao Bufan's Sui army cannot be completely eliminated, wouldn't it be that he lost his wife and lost his army?So Li Mi could only bite the bullet and continue to attack, and it was an extra attack!
Although the losses of the three families were great, the losses of the Sui army were also considerable, and the pressure was enormous. After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the casualties had reached 500 people. The second batch of fresh troops immediately rotated to block the enemy in front of the trench.

At noon, under the scorching sun, the three families who had been unable to attack for a long time finally gave up their momentum and retreated like a tide. The Sui army finally breathed a sigh of relief and immediately re-fortified the fortifications, while the gang leader buried the pot and cooked.

At this time, in Li Mi's camp, Dou Jiande, Gao Shida, Wang Xuba and others were gathering together to discuss countermeasures.

"We have followed the advice of that kid Gao Changqing. Crossing the river is fake, but it is real to lure us to attack." Dou Jiande said bitterly.

Gao Shida's complexion was even more ugly. During the fierce battle for half a day, three or 400 people were killed or injured by his subordinates, but Wang Xuba was even worse, with nearly a thousand people killed or injured. Who made him hate Gao Bufan so much, and he was the most active in attacking. As a result, he suffered the heaviest losses, followed by Li Mi, who suffered more than [-] cavalry damage, and Dou Jiande, who suffered the least loss, only killed or injured a hundred people.

Ma Xingkong said with a sullen face: "The kid surnamed Gao has always been insidious. He pretended to cross the river to lure everyone to attack and consume our strength. It is estimated that the next step is to break through. Everyone should be careful."

Li Mi nodded and said: "What Lord Gao Yang said is true." After speaking, he glanced at Dou Jiande and continued: "Dong Haigong and Brother Dou's soldiers are familiar with water warfare, why don't they attack from the river?"

Dou Jiande spread his arms and said helplessly, "Where is the boat from?"

Gao Shida also said angrily: "I knew there would be a water battle, so I brought the boat."

Cai Jiande sneered, "You have to use a boat to get in and out of Gaojibo, where did the boat go?"

Gao Shida said displeasedly: "What do you mean? It was originally agreed to encircle the wheat field, but the ghost knows that he will have to use a boat to come here in the end."

Li Mi hurriedly shouted: "Cai Jiande, don't be rude!" After speaking, he cupped his hands to Gao Shida and said, "Cai Jiande is straightforward, and I hope Duke Donghai will forgive me."

Gao Shida snorted coldly and said nothing, Dou Jiande said sincerely: "I want to teach Pu Shangong that it's not that we don't want to contribute, but we really didn't expect that this encirclement would require a water battle, so the boats didn't come, so they all stopped. It's near Gaojibo, why don't you send someone back to get it now?"

Li Miwei shook his head and said calmly: "It doesn't need to be so troublesome. There are bamboos nearby, just make some bamboo rafts. Now that you are riding a tiger, I believe everyone does not want to waste all previous efforts, so I hope everyone can work together. After all, it will be beneficial to everyone to completely eliminate Gao Changqing." It is a great benefit.”

Wang Xuba glanced coldly at Dou Jiande, in his opinion, among the four troops, Dou Jiande was the most cunning and shrunken, and did not work hard, so the damage was minimal.

"Okay, I'll go back and build a bamboo raft to attack from the water." Dou Jiande obviously didn't want to cause public outrage, so he readily agreed.

Gao Shida didn't have much opinion at first, when he saw Dou Jiande agreeing, he also nodded his agreement, Wang Xuba looked better when he saw this.

After discussing for a while, everyone went back to the camp. In the afternoon, the Sui army pushed the bamboo rafts into the river again, pretending to cross the river.Li Mi was worried that Gao Bufan would really cross the river to escape this time, so he had to attack again, but this time the intensity was much lower.

The next morning, the Sui army repeated the old trick. Now that this has been repeated several times, the three coalition forces finally stopped being fooled. They just sent people to watch the river. It is estimated that the Sui army did not cross the river with more than a few hundred people, and they would not attack. up.

In the afternoon, Gao Bufan didn't bother to pretend to cross the river anymore, because this trick had failed. He let the soldiers let go of their stomachs to eat and drink, and rested for another half an hour, and was about to order to break through the encirclement.

At this moment, an eagle called from above the bamboo forest. Gao Bufan quickly looked up and saw two white eagles circling and chasing in the sky. He was both surprised and delighted.

Lu Sheng blurted out: "Look, everyone, it's Fuyao, it's Fuyao who's back!"

All the young generals were ecstatic. Fuyao's appearance meant that General Yuchi was nearby?Haha, great!
"Master Tongshou, a large number of bamboo rafts have appeared upstream and downstream. The enemy probably wants to attack our rear from the river." A soldier rushed to report.

Gao Bufan quickly ran to the pier behind the bamboo forest, and he saw a large number of bamboo rafts upstream and downstream. It was obvious that Dou Jiande and Gao Shida were going to attack from the water. Their soldiers were familiar with water warfare and should not be underestimated.

Fortunately, it is now an offensive and defensive battle, rather than a direct confrontation between the two sides on the water. The side defending on land has a great advantage, so Gao Bufan only sent a team of archers, a team of sword and shield players, and a team of spearmen to guard the pier , the terrain here is narrow, and there are too many people, it will not be able to expand, enough!

"attack!"

Before Gao Bufan gave the order to break through, Li Mi launched the attack first, and the bamboo rafts on the river were also heading towards the bamboo forest like arrows...

Then a decisive battle kicked off! ! !
(End of this chapter)