Chapter 37: The Eighteen Cavalry of Yanyun

The East Palace Guard turned green when he found out that he was put on his neck with a sword. He didn't think that the soldier really dared to kill him. However, as the East Palace Guard, he was suddenly restrained and spread it. Not only did he be embarrassed, but he was also embarrassed.

The four guards behind were shocked to see this situation and quickly followed up and snatched their own people out. Xu Deyan quickly persuaded: "Everyone, please calm down. Everyone is your own people. Since General Luo is not here, please come again tomorrow."

"Hmph." The soldier might have thought of something, and retreated his sword, stood aside again, motionless.

Although several guards of the East Palace were not convinced, they only saw the soldiers' actions and knew that they would not be able to get the best. Seeing that their own people were fine, they had to stop in disappointment. Under Xu Deyan's persuasion, they left the Dongyi School Captain's Mansion. However, they were also secretly shocked. A soldier guarding the gate was so powerful, and Luo Yi was indeed well-known.

Xu Deyan had a lot of baggage. Although he had not seen Luo Yi, he didn't have to worry. He found a high-quality inn to settle down. He went to the Dongyi School Guard's Mansion to find out about Luo Yi every day. However, Luo Yi still did not come back for five or six consecutive days.

The heavy snow fell down, gradually covering up the withered plants and trees on the grassland. The sky and the earth gradually turned into white, except for the howling sound of the strong wind, there was silence.

A sound of horse hooves sounded, and dozens of knights in cold clothes gradually appeared from the snowflakes. They wore masks on their faces, all with tight black clothes, black cloaks on their outer parts, and had daggers on their feet, and were equipped with strange scimitars of the same color on their waists. They carried large bows on their backs. The snowflakes fell on them and disappeared in an instant.

"Wow!" With a shout, the knight suddenly lifted the reins, and the horse under his straddled screamed suddenly, and suddenly stopped, as everyone seemed to be a whole.

In front of them was a static jade belt, which was obviously different from the white and vast land around them. This was the Liao River, a Liao River that divided the Great Sui Dynasty and Goguryeo. Three hundred years ago, taking advantage of the decline of the Great Han Dynasty and the chaos in the Central Plains, the Goguryeo people began to carefully expand their territory south, and finally seized all the four counties north of the Liao River in the Han Dynasty, and extended their hands to the south bank. However, as the Great Sui Dynasty unified the Central Plains, the hands that the Goguryeo people reached to the south bank were cut off, but the four counties of the former Han were firmly held in their arms by the Goguryeo people.

The thunderous sound of the river rushing in the Liao River in the past is only the gurgling sound like a stream, with crystal light reflected on the surface.

A knight took off his mask, revealing a man in his thirties' face, and said excitedly: "General, the Liaohe River has frozen."

"Go up and try the thickness of the ice first."

"Yes." The knight turned over and got off the horse, holding his beloved horse firmly with one hand, and carefully stepped on the ice surface. He felt the solidity of his feet and immediately continued to walk forward. When he reached the middle, a slight squeak came from under the ice. The horse held in the knight snored, a hint of fear appeared in his eyes, and he stopped.

"Let's go!" The knight raised the whip in his hand and hit the horse without hesitation. The horse screamed in dissatisfaction and had to take another step tremblingly. After more than ten meters, the squeaking sound disappeared. Soon, one man and one horse successfully crossed the Liaohe River.

When I saw the knight who was watching, one of the knights in the lead said, "Everyone, today is the first time that the Liao River has frozen. The Goguryeo people must be unprepared. How about we kill for a while after crossing the river?"

"Abide by the general's order!" The knights behind him responded, and immediately all turned over and dismounted, held the reins with their hands, carefully stepped on the ice, and lined up in a long line into the river, one, two, three..., a total of eighteen people, plus those who had already crossed the river first, were exactly nineteen.

If there were Goguryeo people who saw these people dressed on the shore, they would probably scream immediately: "Yanyun Eighteen Riders!"

Yes, these nineteen people are Luo Yi and his subordinate Yan Yun’s eighteen cavalry. After hearing the deeds of the eighteen cavalry that Yang Yong once described, Luo Yi couldn’t help but pick out the best eighteen people from his subordinates and form this elite cavalry team.

Over the years, Luo Yi and his eighteen cavalry of Yanyun have become famous, and have truly achieved speed as fast as the wind and as strong as fire. Every time they go, they have no grass left, they have strong bows and scimitars, and are good at riding and shooting. They have never lost one defeat.

The people of Xi, Shiwei, Khitan, Goguryeo... all tasted the taste of the Eighteen Cavalry of Yanyun. Any tribe that has been attacked by the Eighteen Cavalry of Yanyun would call the name of the Eighteen Cavalry of Yanyun and the Eighteen Cavalry of Yanyun and the Eighteen Cavalry of the Demon Zhi Xiaolei.

Nowadays, the people of Xi, Shiwei, and the Khitans have all been laid at the foot of the Great Sui Dynasty. The only enemy in Liaodong is the Goguryeo. In addition to being blocked by the Liao River, the Goguryeo people have established a long country, half farming and half farming, and their national strength is much stronger than the other ethnic groups.

Both sides of the Liao River are fertile land. Whether grazing or farming, they can feed a large number of people. Neither side will give up. Most of the time, the river water becomes a natural barrier for both sides. However, once the Liao River is frozen, the barriers between the two armies will disappear. Surrounding the Liao River, both sides will have a small-scale cruel blockade.

At the beginning, most of the Goguryeo people rushed across the Liao River. Wherever they went, all the materials were robbed, and all men and women were reduced to slaves. They were slaughtered after a little resistance. But I don’t know when this situation turned over, and the Sui army rushed across the north shore and began to rob the Goguryeo people.

Luo Yi and the Eighteen Cavalry of Yanyun were undoubtedly the vanguards of the Goguryeo people. Over the past ten years, there have been at least tens of thousands of Goguryeo people who died under the Eighteen Cavalry of Yanyun. The Goguryeo people hated this small army to the core and organized a large army to lead them into the underworld several times. However, the essence of the cavalry of Yanyun's Eighteen Cavalry was fully demonstrated. They could escape hundreds of miles a day and night, and there were also the support of the army. The Goguryeo people returned to their feet every time, and they lost their troops in vain.

Now, the Liaohe River has just frozen, and the Eighteen Cavalry of Yanyun is here again. This time, Luo Yi personally led the army. I wonder how many Goguryeo people will die under the Eighteen Cavalry.

Although everyone heard the squeaking sound from under the ice in the middle, nineteen people crossed the river smoothly. They didn't have to worry about not being able to cross the river when they came back, and the weather would only get colder and colder. By the time they came back, the ice surface was even strong enough to ride a horse.

"Go on the horse!" As soon as he crossed the river, Luo Yi pulled down the mask he had lifted, and turned over the horse. The sound of horse hooves sounded again, sailing to the distance, gradually disappearing into the wind and snow.

The snow was still falling, and a small village composed of dozens of households appeared in the distance. Smoke rose from the wooden house, melting the snowflakes above into steam. You can see from a distance that a group of ghostly knights appeared on the opposite mountain. This was the second day after Luo Yi and others crossed the river.

"Kill!" Luo Yi raised the scimitar in his hand and rushed down from the mountain without hesitation. The eighteen cavalry behind him followed closely, and the murderous aura in the sword light was unwilling to face the falling snowflakes.

It was daytime, the snowflakes were not big, not enough to completely cover up the sound of horse hooves. The wooden house in front opened with a squeak. A white-headed Goguryeo looked forward curiously, and his eyes suddenly became terrified, and he shouted in Goguryeo: "Devil Knight, the Devil Knight is here."

It was just too late. With a "boh." A long arrow flew over and shot into the old man's throat accurately. Blood gushed out of his neck. His legs became weak and he immediately collapsed on the ground and stopped breathing.

"Bang!" The door of the wooden house was kicked open, and a knight in black armor walked in. There were steaming hot meals in the wooden house. A Goguryeo couple and two children looked at the knight entering outside the door in horror.

"Wow." Looking at the big knife shining in the knight's hand, the two Goguryeo children burst into tears.

The Goguryeo male owner had already seen something wrong and immediately jumped up from the sitting ground. He had just taken off the steel knife from the wall. He felt a pain in his chest. A piece of knife tip penetrated from his chest. A bright red blood stain appeared on the snow-white knife tip, falling from the knife tip to the ground, making a clattering and ticking sound.

The Goguryeo woman knelt on the ground, kowtowed desperately, and yelled in her mouth, saying Goguryeo: "Give up your life! Give up your life!" The two children opened their eyes wide and stopped crying, with fear in their eyes.

"Go out! Go out!"

The knight also spoke Goguryeo. When the woman understood it, she quickly pulled up her two children and ran out of the wooden house. When the knight also retreated, a fire appeared in the wooden house, and the whole wooden house was burning.

In less than half an hour, Luo Yi and Yan Yun's Eighteen Cavalry had retreated from the wooden house. All the wooden houses had burned. On the snow, only a group of Goguryeo women and their children were left looking at the burning fire in a daze. Their men had been killed and their homes were burned.

Compared with the Goguryeo army, the Sui army was quite kind and did not kill both women and children. They only drove them out of the wooden house. However, they had no food and no place to shelter from the cold. If they wanted to survive, they had to wait until the Goguryeo local soldiers came to rescue them, otherwise they would have to die in the snow in the end.

This is a war between the two nations in order to fight for living space. The Sui army's actions were just to weaken the enemy and keep both women and children. In addition to the Han people being influenced by Confucianism, it was not without benefits for the Sui army. Leaving these people can slow down the speed of the pursuit of the Goguryeo people, and on the other hand it can also increase the burden on the Goguryeo people.
Chapter completed!