Chapter 1 & 2 (via google translate)

Chapter 1

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The juice of the reed root has a somewhat sweet taste. Li Yi broke off a few tender ones, bent over to wash them in the lake water, put them in his mouth and chewed them slowly. After marching for more than a month, he fought more than a dozen battles, big and small. He became tanned and thinner because he didn't have enough to eat. Sun Jing plotted rebellion, killed the emperor, the kings, and grandsons. The Zhenxi army had always relied on the sweet and cool food provided by the court, so it was cut off naturally. Even the wounded soldiers in the army could only eat twice a day. Although Li Yi resigned from the position of the crown prince and supervised the country, he was still enshrined as the marshal of counter-insurgency by Pei Xian and other Zhenxi generals. Even as the commander in chief, he is like the most common soldiers of the Zhenxi Army, eating coarse grains mixed with bran every day, and sleeping on the ground with hay.

While chewing the reed root, Li Yi asked slowly: "The Cui family is still in Xiangzhou?

"Yes, the person who sent the letter has returned." Pei Yuan's tone was full of dissatisfaction, "The reply is full of nonsense, saying that he will guard the Xiangzhou for His Highness the Seventeenth Emperor's Grandson to ensure safety. The county was acquired by Sun Jing, and there were no particles left. Seventeen Lang, Cui's father and son are not trustworthy, Cui Yizi waits for an opportunity in Youzhou, and sends his son Cui Lin to lead the Dingsheng army southward under the banner of King Qin. What Qin Wang, obviously has the heart of disobedience. In the past few months, Cui Lin led the Dingsheng army to occupy important positions, but when they arrived in Xiangzhou, they did not move. It was obvious that they wanted us to draw a victory with Sun Jing, so that the snipe and the clam could compete for the fisherman's benefit. "

Li Yi pulled out the dregs of the reed root in his mouth, but asked a gossip: "I heard that Cui Yi is the only son?"

"Yes," Pei Yuan couldn't help but bitterly, "this kid is cunning, don't take it lightly."

Li Yi chuckled lightly and said, "Cui Yi is the only son, but he can be assured of letting him lead the troops south." And this Mr. Cui was like a broken bamboo all the way, attacking the city and conquering the land, Sun Jing's people couldn't stop him, so it was extremely difficult to deal with. He didn't care about the Cui family's father and son's infidelity and indifference, and said casually: "The Cui family's position is also expected. The top priority is that we still have to tie Yu Liao's army well, so let me be the bait to lure Yu Liao out. "

"No!" Pei Yuan blurted out, "How can this be, why don't I pretend to be you under the banner of Marshal..."

Li Yi handed a snow-white reed root to Pei Yuan. Seeing that Pei Yuan shook his head and refused, he put it in his mouth and chewed it with relish: "That old cunning Yu Liao, who has been with Sun Jing for many years, is the most cunning, but you pretend to be me under my banner, how can you deceive that old fox? If he feels wrong, we will fall short. "

What did Pei Yuan have to argue about? Li Yi raised his head, looked at the stretched thin clouds in the sky, and said leisurely: "Now everything is ready, just wait for a good rain."

Pei Yuan gritted his teeth and said: "It's too risky to act like this. Your Highness, the last general still thinks it's inappropriate." He and Li Yi have been in the Zhenxi Army for many years. Just like a brother, he usually only called Li Yi "Seventeen Lang", but today he used the title "His Royal Highness" to show his identity and position.

Li Yihun didn't care: "Soldiers are deceitful. I know this plan is dangerous, but if it wasn't for this, how could I stop Yu Liao's tens of thousands of troops. If I don't stop Yu Liao, it will be difficult to take Yanzhou, and the whole situation will collapse at that time." , the Cui family is watching from the sidelines, no matter how difficult it is to save."

Pei Yuan understands the reason, but he is just not reconciled: "If the general is here, he will never allow it."

Li Yi smiled, "What did the general tell you before he left?"

Pei Yuan choked suddenly, and before Pei Xian led the army to set off, he asked him to listen to Li Yi's orders - this was natural, the subordinates belonged to each other, and the ruler and ministers were divided, of course he should listen to Li Yi's orders.

Li Yi smiled and said comfortingly: "Besides, if you want to lead others to fight first, it is also very risky."

Pei Yuan couldn't help but smiled wryly: "If you make a slight mistake, my father will definitely be the first to chop off my head. There is no greater risk in the world than this." Li Yi patted him on the shoulder and chuckled lightly: "You Don't worry, I will never let the general chop off your head."

Pei Yuan muttered, being with you all day in fear, might as well be beheaded by my father. Complaints are complaints, when Li Yi handed over the tender reed root again, he still took it, took a bite, and chewed it with a bit of sweet taste. He raised his head and looked at the thin clouds in the sky like Li Yi. It's almost early autumn, and the afternoon sun is no longer as fierce as in summer. Libo is a big marsh with a radius of hundreds of miles. Looking around, there are boundless and vast reeds, which are more than thousands of hectares. The leaves of the reeds were blown by the wind, and the lake water occasionally shone with the sun in the gaps between the reeds. He thought happily in his heart, luckily it doesn't look like it's going to rain recently, so he can always have more time to prepare for that battle. To carry out this dangerous strategy, of course, the more thorough your preparations, the better.

Before he could finish his thought, he only heard Li Yi whistle. Lao Bao came out from nowhere, smiled and led the three horses, handed the reins to their hands, bent down and picked up a large bundle of reed roots and young tenders. Aquatic plants with yellow flowers are blooming, and in the other hand, they are carrying four wild ducks that are flopping about.

Pei Yuan couldn't help laughing and said: "Good fellow, in just such a short time, there are swamps everywhere, and you don't dare to wander around, yet you even caught four wild ducks."

Lao Bao smiled and said, "Take it home to make soup, and everyone will have extra meals."

Li Yi had already got on his horse, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, Lao Bao can find delicious food anywhere." Lao Bao tied the large bundle of reed roots and water plants firmly behind Li Yi's saddle, and the four wild ducks also used it. Tie up the thin rope made of twisted reed leaves, carry it by yourself, mount the horse and put it in front of the saddle. The three of them carefully followed the path marked when they came, and galloped back to the camp.

At night, the four wild ducks cooked a few large pots of soup together with the fresh and tender water plants with yellow flowers. Every soldier of the Zhenxi Army was given half a bowl. The stewed wild duck meat was so tender that even the skins and bones were picked up and distributed to the wounded soldiers. There are also reed roots washed and distributed for snacks, and this meal is considered very rich.

After starting the watch, Li Yi went to patrol the camp as usual, and Lao Bao followed behind him. After seeing all the places, he was walking back when Lao Bao suddenly asked Li Yi furtively, "Are we going to lure the enemy again?"

Li Yi didn't hide it from him: "Yu Liao led 30,000 people to Liangzhou aggressively, and Liangzhou already had more than 10,000 garrisons, trying to block our Zhenxi army from Ganliang Road. General Pei was going to take Yanzhou, so Yu Liao had to be restrained here no matter what, but there were only about 6,000 of us, and Yu Liao was a veteran who followed Sun Jingzheng and Yiluo. "

"So you plan to use yourself as the bait for fishing again?" Lao Bao stared at Li Yi with his eyes wide open.

Li Yi said casually: "No, I am the grandson of the emperor, the marshal of counter-insurgency, the envoy of Zhenxi Jiedu, none of the generals under Sun Jing would want to arrest me, so that they can earn such great achievements."

After hearing this long list of titles, Lao Bao couldn't help curling his lips. Li Yi went to Laolan Pass when he was thirteen years old. He was no different from a soldier who had just arrived in the army. In winter, he smashed ice on the Laolan River to fetch water, and in summer he shoveled dung in the stinking sheep pen. No one knew who he was. Emperor grandson. Later, the most difficult and dangerous thing was to go deep into the desert to explore the king's tent of the Ying people. Hundreds of cavalry crossed the desert. In the end, only a dozen or so people including Li Yi touched Shanyu's tent. After a fierce battle, only two old soldiers were injured. Li Yi fought hard to bring them back alive, and since then Li Yi has been recognized as the best scout in the Zhenxi Army. Li Yi always volunteered to go to the most difficult and dangerous spying on the military situation. From this, he accumulated military merits. It was not until the time when he had to be crowned for three generations that everyone knew that he was the grandson of the emperor and the son of King Liang. But the Zhenxi army, the one who admired everyone was the famous "Seventeen Lang" in the army, as for whether he is the emperor's grandson, what does it matter?

Taking advantage of the moonlight, Lao Bao looked Li Yi up and down, and sighed: "I've never had a single day of peace and security since I got out of Laolan Pass with your bait."

Li Yi suddenly became suspicious: "What are you doing wrong again!"

"No! Don't talk nonsense!"

As soon as Li Yi stretched out his hand, he grabbed Lao Bao, who was about to run away, by the back of his collar. His other hand reached into Lao Bao's arms like lightning, and he took out a hot, round thing, which turned out to be a cooked one. wild duck eggs. "What else?" Li Yi asked with a straight face. "It's really gone." Lao Bao muttered, but knowing that Li Yi wouldn't believe it, he had to frown and took out three wild duck eggs from his belt, "Little ancestor, I really can't hide anything from you."

Li Yi looked at the four cooked wild duck eggs and said, "I'll send them to the wounded barracks."

"I follow your bait all day long!" Old Bao yelled angrily, "Since I got out of Laolan Pass, how many days have I been full? Can't you let me save myself?"

Li Yi waved his hands away, without looking back, he went straight to the wounded barracks.

The autumn rain was continuous and fine, pouring on the armor, gradually soaking the cowhide, making the armor heavy. The road is muddy, the horseshoes are slippery and wet, and the heavy vehicles are often stuck in the mud, requiring more than a dozen people to push the ground. For tens of thousands of troops, marching in such weather couldn't be more difficult.

However, no matter how difficult it is, the army has to travel seventy miles a day. Yu Liao has been fighting for many years, so how can he be moved by this? Now he is riding on the horse, he only feels that his left leg, which was injured by the arrow, is extremely sore, and his armor is soaked by the drizzle. The chill passed through several layers of clothes again, and the wet clothes stuck to the skin, and it was even more unbearable to touch the old wounds. Yu Liao didn't show any expression. He glanced at his confidant General Liang Huan who was following behind, Liang Huan immediately understood, and rushed forward to obey the order.

"Buy the pot and cook." Yu Liao ordered, "It's raining and cold, eat some hot food, and the army will cross the gorge again."

Liang Huan issued an order loudly, and immediately the Chinese army dispatched more than ten cavalry, each holding an order flag, to scatter the order. After a few moments, the army stopped in an orderly manner, and the various ministries sent cooks to prepare to light a fire for cooking. Yu Liao got off his horse and strode towards the ridge. Liang Huan and more than a dozen confidant generals and school lieutenants rushed forward to surround him, and followed Yu Liao up the ridge to observe the terrain.

The road for the army was naturally scouted by rangers. Looking around at this time, I saw the soldiers of the army sitting by the mountain. The tens of thousands of troops, when they paused to rest, they were silent and dignified. They each had their own way. Occasionally, there was only one or two neighing sounds. Even Yu Liao, who had always been very strict with the army, couldn't help but nodded slightly.

At this moment, a horse was suddenly seen galloping from the northeast direction. The horse was galloping in the rain, but it was coming very fast. It can be seen that the rider was very good at riding, and he arrived at the army in an instant. Liang Huan had already recognized it as the sentry sent earlier. To investigate must be to detect the urgent military situation.

Sure enough, the sentry rushed up the mountain to report. The team of rangers was escorting the cook to fetch water from the river, but they happened to bump into someone fetching water from the other side of the river. Seeing that they were from the Zhenxi Army, the other party was caught off guard and fled in embarrassment. Qi then sent people to cross the river on horseback to track them down, and at the same time sent people back to report to the army.

Yu Liao murmured to himself, and Liang Huan said, "Shuai Liao, let the general lead people to chase after him."

It was discovered earlier that Pei Xian led most of the Zhenxi Army to the south, and it is said that his son Pei Yuan was left behind with the wounded soldiers in the rear battalion, who was also the rear route of the Zhenxi Army. .

Yu Liaosu knew that Liang Huan was a cautious person, so he immediately agreed. Liang Huan led three thousand light cavalry to chase for a long while, and met the Zhenxi army hand-to-hand, the Zhenxi army was defeated and left. Liang Huan chased after him and wanted to defeat him, but soon found something strange, and hurriedly dispatched his fast horse to report back to Yu Liao.

"Not only Pei Yuan, but also Li Yi?" Yu Liao's face was as dark as water, and he couldn't see any joy or anger.

"Yes!" The scout sent back to report the message was full of joy, "Because of the shallow water of the Mang River, General Liang was always worried that Pei Yuan would escape from the Mang River, so he set up an ambush by the river, but Pei Yuan resisted desperately and did not escape. This meant that Liang Langjiang was puzzled, so he secretly sent people across the river downstream to spy, and found that there was a group of people hiding in the mountains on the other side. The group of people and horses were exquisitely armored, and they all carried good bows. Looking at the clothes and configuration, they were obviously Pei Xian's personal guards. , the guard must be more important than Pei Yuan, that's why Pei Yuan desperately refused to retreat."

The generals around Yu Liao were all moved. All the kings and grandsons in Beijing were slaughtered, and the whereabouts of the grandson were unknown, and Li Yi was not only one of the few surviving grandsons of the emperor, but also was appointed as the commander-in-chief by the Zhenxi Army, ordering the soldiers and horses of the world to work hard for the king, and even went out. Cui Jia Ding Shengjun from Youzhou had to pinch his nose and admit that Li Yi was the nominal coach. If he could be captured alive or killed, the Zhenxi Army and King Qin's divisions would not be a problem. Yu Liao quickly made up his mind: "The whole army pulled out the camp and crossed the river to chase Li Yi."

"Decree!" All the generals responded with a bang, and quickly rectified the army and set out to pursue it.

Chapter 1

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Yu Liao immediately gave an order loudly, the Chinese army hastily blew the horn, the encircling army heard the horn, ordered them to stop, and immediately retreated without a moment's hesitation, even so, it was too late, at least the Chinese army led by Yu Liao was too late. The terrain here is open, and the floods gather from all over the mountains and rush down. The momentum of the rush is astonishing, and it arrives in an instant. The flood is engulfed in mud, sand and rocks. Before he could react in time, he was washed away by the flood.

Now that the incident happened suddenly, all the guards tried their best to protect Yu Liao and retreated towards the mountain, but the flood was really shocking. The Mang River, which was originally shallow and barely crossed the horseshoes, turned into a raging and churning river in an instant, making it difficult to cross . Suddenly the mountain pass was stirred up by mud and sand. It turned out that the turbid muddy water was wrapped in a huge mountain rock that was as large as half a house and rolled towards the crowd. Everyone couldn't exclaim in time, but they were all washed away by the flood and couldn't stand still, how could they dodge. In the blink of an eye, fortunately, a bodyguard urged his horse hard, and blocked him abruptly, making Yu Liao manage to avoid the rock, but the bodyguard was immediately knocked down by the rock, and fell down in a flash. Into the water, Yu Liao wanted to rein in his horse and turn around to rescue him, but he saw the turbulent waves, and the bodyguard had been washed away by the water for a long time. When Yu Liao stopped, he was almost washed away by the flood. Fortunately, Liang Huan desperately grabbed the reins and led many personal guards to surround the guards. Only then did Yu Liao and his horse struggle to stand firm in the water.

Yu Liao raised his eyes and saw that the left and right armies in the downstream who originally planned to encircle him hurriedly retreated after hearing the horn, but the encirclement had already been completed. Therefore, although they tried their best to evacuate to the shore after hearing the sound of the horn, the flood came in an instant. Except for a few people who fled to the shore in embarrassment because they were close to the shore, most of the troops were like the Chinese army. , were all washed away by the flood. Yu Liao couldn't help sighing in his heart, although the soldiers under his command were brave, they were all born in the north, very few of them could swim, this time the entire army was flooded, it would be a disaster.

Liang Huan held Yu Liao's reins tightly, and at this time he urged: "Commander Liao, we should go ashore first and then gather all the troops!" Yu Liao didn't know that what he said was the best strategy at the moment, so he immediately regained his energy. , Under the escort of personal guards, bravely waded to the shore.

The flood from the mountains was getting bigger and bigger, and the river surged, and with each passing breath, the water became more turbulent. The mountain bank was already far away, and now it feels even more out of reach. Although everyone guarded them hard, but the water became more and more fierce, and before they could reach the shore, all the guards were washed away one after another, and finally Yu Liao was also washed away by the flood. Fortunately, the horse never fell, but the horse and man were ups and downs in the water. Seeing that the coach was washed away, Liang Huan was very anxious, but there was nothing he could do. The two struggled up and down in the water, and they were both washed out for a while, and they were washed all the way past the round slope where Li Yi and the others had just stood. When the wave passed and the flood slowed down, Yu Liao was finally able to control the horse. The horse struggled to stand up, and Yu Liao suddenly felt that the place where the hooves landed was soft. Inside, the soldiers were scattered in all directions, and there was still a piece of muddy water everywhere. Many soldiers were stuck in the deep mud, struggling and unable to stand up. Not far away, Liang Huan was seen grabbing the reins, using the strength of the horse, struggling to stand up, but it didn't take long for the mud to sink to his knees.

A layer of cold sweat broke out on Yu Liao's back, knowing that he had been washed into Libo by the flood. The Libo is vast and the soup is more than a hundred miles away, and the water and grass are luxuriant, but it is notoriously a dangerous place. This kind of big swamp looks as smooth as a mirror on a sunny day, but in fact it is a whirlpool and undercurrent, turbulent and unpredictable, making it impossible to sail, let alone wade. The most terrible thing is that the Daze is covered with swamps for several miles. No matter birds, animals, people, horses or vehicles, once they fall into it by mistake, they will sink slowly and even gods can't save them. It rained heavily today, and there was muddy water everywhere, and as far as the eyes could see, they couldn't tell the water from the wilderness at all. Unexpectedly, the army was lured into such a dangerous place by Li Yi.

Although Yu Liao was anxious, he was still very calm. He turned his head and spotted the reed pipes standing on the water not far away. Knowing that they were used by Li Yi and others to breathe, he loudly ordered to shoot arrows at the reed pipes. Liang Huan was the first to react, and drew his bow to shoot. Although the soldiers trapped in the mud were a little flustered, they still obeyed the order to draw their bows. The soft mud gradually poured into the thigh, and the arrows still fell like rain. The arrows penetrated deeply into the mud, and finally clusters of blood leaked out of the mud.

Li Yi and the others grabbed the rope around their waists and retreated dozens of steps. The rope stretched straight, but the responders were pulling them back forcefully. The suction of the mud is amazing, and if they are not careful, they will be swallowed into the muddy water. Li Yi closed his eyes and held his breath, and cooperated with the rope to exert force. In just a cup of tea, Li Yi reached out and groped for the hard trestle bridge, which was built by the Zhenxi Army in advance. Those in the mud had already been submerged a few feet under the water at this moment. He wiped the mud off his face, and climbed up the trestle to see that most of the soldiers who retreated with the water and reed pipe had been pulled back. Everyone's body was covered with a layer of mud, like a clay figurine. Some people were injured by arrows, and blood flowed down the muddy water on their bodies. Unfortunately, some people were seriously injured and had no breath when they were pulled onto the trestle bridge. . Li Yi hurriedly looked around, but did not see Lao Bao.

Yu Liao had already seen it clearly, and loudly encouraged the soldiers stuck in the mud to go to the trestle bridge. As long as you climb to the trestle bridge, you will definitely be able to escape, but it only takes a few steps, and everyone sinks deeper, and the harder you try, the faster you sink. In just one stick of incense, the mud and rain had already reached the waists of all the soldiers. At this moment, there are about 2,000 remnants of the left and right armies who escaped to the mountain bank by chance. Seeing that the commander was trapped, they tried their best to gather here for rescue from both sides of the bank.

Sitting on the trestle bridge, Li Yi looked back at the enemy army that was gathering here, wiped the mud off his face, and looked around, almost every rope had been retracted, except for Lao Bao, so he gritted his teeth He took the bow and arrow and ordered to meet the enemy.

Yu Liao's subordinates are all soldiers who have broken through a hundred battles. Although most of his comrades were washed away by the water and the commander was in danger again, they were not very panicked, especially Qian Qian who was near the bank of the trestle bridge. The remaining soldiers arrived quickly, and under the temporary command of several generals, they quickly formed an array and charged towards the trestle bridge.

However, Yu Liao, who was trapped in the mud, was anxious, but he was still not at a loss. Seeing that the remnants gathered to help and charge, he knew that the opportunity must not be missed, and there were many soldiers around him, but they were all stuck in the mud and could not move. : "Liang Huan!"

Liang Huan responded vigorously when he heard the sound, and Yu Liao looked at this subordinate who had followed him for many years and fought countless times with him on the battlefield, gritted his teeth and said, "Build a bridge!"

Liang Huan heard the words, but without hesitation, he shouted: "De Ling!" He was the first to jump from the horse's back that was stuck in the mud, and rushed towards a soldier not far away. When he fell into the mud, he took advantage of the situation and grabbed the soldier's hand, shouting with all his strength to pass on the military order issued by Yu Liao just now. . He was originally Yu Liao's confidant, since he set an example, countless soldiers, fearless of life and death, struggled in various ways, trying to get together and support each other.

On the trestle bridge, Li Yi ignored Yu Liao and others who were stuck in the mud, and personally led the archers who were good at archery, raised their shields, but firmly guarded the bridgehead of the trestle bridge. When the soldiers rushed a hundred paces in front of them and the enemy's scattered arrows hit the shield, Li Yi gave an order and led the archers to shoot a volley, then retreated quickly, but there was another row of archers who had already Then he set up the arrows and fired another round of volleys. Even though the bowstrings were wet and soft, the arrows rained down like rain, killing more than a hundred people in no time.

On the other side, the thousand remaining soldiers also arrived at this time, but knowing that the water was muddy and unable to swim, they could only make noise on the bank.

After several rounds of volleys, many soldiers still rushed to the trestle bridge under the leadership of a Lang general. Without hesitation, Li Yi drew his sword to meet the enemy, and the two sides immediately fought hand-to-hand. The man saw that Li Yi was tall and he was in command, so he struck out at Li Yi first, but he didn't want Li Yi's figure to flash, and the knife cut through the air, but his own flaws were exposed, and he felt his ribs As soon as it was cold, Li Yi had already stabbed him under the armor. The man watched the blood spurt out from between his nails, he raised his knife and slashed at Li Yi again, Li Yi had already kicked him on the knee, and the man was kicked so that he fell off the trestle on his back . The soldiers saw with their own eyes that General Lang was killed in an instant, and his morale couldn't help but stagnate. The remnants of Yu Liao on the other side of the bank, seeing the situation, were still able to hold back. Knowing that the downstream was full of mud, they ran far upstream under the leadership of another general, trying to find a place where the water was shallow. Cross the river to help.

He said that although the mud was very difficult, there were many soldiers, Liang Huan and others finally formed a human bridge, even though such a movement, the people who built the bridge sank deeper in the mud, and the mud did not even reach their chests. But everyone was brave, and there was not much fear on their faces.

Yu Liaoben was riding on the steed, and now the horse was half buried in the mud, only the neck was still exposed. He gritted his teeth and pierced the horse's butt with a short knife. The horse was strong and handsome, it leaped vigorously, struggled to jump up a few feet, but when it landed, it sank even faster. Yu Liao ignored it, took advantage of the momentum, but stood firmly on the bridge, and immediately fought back, pulling Liang Huan from the mud. The soldiers scattered around the human bridge rescued and pulled each other, more and more people built the human bridge, and more and more people climbed onto the human bridge. Although the soldiers who built the human bridge were pressed down like this, sank deeper and deeper, and were gradually rushed up by the mud, up to their necks, but they gritted their teeth and did not speak, but still struggled to lift up their robes. Together with the soldiers, Yu Liao and Liang Huan tried their best to pull more people onto the human bridge.

Seeing this, the morale of the thousands of bridge attacking soldiers on the bank was greatly boosted, and the fighting was very tragic, and the human bridge in the mud gradually moved closer and closer to the trestle bridge. When he was within an arrow's reach, Li Yi separated his archers and shot towards the bridge. Yu Liao and the others braved the rain of arrows with a desperate desire to survive. Although there were countless casualties, they still went forward to follow up. After a while, Li Yi and the others ran out of arrows, and Yu Liao led Liang Huan and the others, who looked like clay figurines, to climb onto the trestle bridge.

The two sides fought in mud and water. Because the trestle bridge was narrow and in the muddy water, countless people fell off the trestle bridge during the fighting, some struggled to climb the trestle bridge, and some fell into the mud and could not extricate themselves. Because both sides were covered in mud, after a short melee, neither of them could distinguish friend from foe. Yu Liao had been keeping an eye on Li Yi's place for a long time, and even under the cover of Liang Huan and others, with a sense of courage, he took advantage of the chaos and tried his best to walk towards Li Yi's place.

Chapter 1

5

The news that Yu Liao's 30,000 troops were framed and Liangzhou was burned down was sent to Beijing by flying horse, more than ten days later.

In the early autumn of Xichangjing, the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the scenery is suitable. Sun Jing brought his female relatives out of the palace early in the morning to be executed. Because there were female relatives, several brocades were set up on the sidelines. Sun Jing's wife, Mrs. Wei Guo, Yuan Shi, said that her heart hurts and she never came with her.

Among the biggest brocade tents on the sidelines, the female relatives sitting on the sidelines were the former Crown Princess Xiao Shi - both the late Emperor and the Crown Prince were killed by Sun Jing's sword, but the Crown Princess Xiao Shi, because of her old affair with Sun Jing, died before the former Crown Prince Xiao Shi. After the death of the crown prince, it seemed that he and Sun Jing were in pairs. This was also the reason why Mrs. Wei had been angry for so many days.

Sun Jing is very good at Juju, and the Ju team he leads is even more courageous. When the competition in the arena was the most fierce, there was a loud bang from outside the arena, announcing that there was an important military report. Sun Jing got off his horse and waved to Xiao Shi who was in the brocade tent. Xiao Shi stepped forward with a smile, took the stick from Sun Jing's hand, got on the horse, and took over Sun Jing's bow.

Sun Jing took over the emergency report with the pheasant tail marking the urgent military information, and opened it up to glance at ten lines in a hurry. Only hearing the thunderous cheers on the field, it was Xiao Shi who hit the ball into the goal and won again. The silk strings on the sidelines immediately played victory music eloquently to support Xiao.

Ever since the Zhenxi army appointed Li Ni as the Marshal for suppressing the rebellion, Sun Jing arrogantly felt that it was just a joke. Pei Xian and the various towns in Zhenxi just took a fancy to Li Ni's status as the emperor's grandson and used this banner as a cover. What he never expected was that when Li Yi faced 30,000 with 6,000 old, weak and disabled soldiers, Yu Liao's entire army was wiped out.

The silk and bamboo are still playing melodiously, and the sound of Jiegu is hitting ideas. Sun Jing's face was as deep as water, not revealing any sorrow or joy, and he told the left and right: "Bring to King Liang." The people waiting on the left and right were stunned for a moment, and then they remembered who King Liang was. The first emperor had more than thirty sons, apart from the first prince, there were quite a few outstanding sons, but Sun Jing killed them all in the name of rebellion during the palace coup. Only the king of Liang, Li Wei, was cowardly and sick, and he escaped by luck because he didn't go to the palace to have a banquet that day. Not long after, Sun Jing heard that the Zhenxi Army had appointed Li Yi as the marshal, so he ordered Li Yi's father, Liang Wang Li Wei, to be imprisoned for several months.

But he said that the king of Liang, Li Wei, was trembling in prison, fearful and anxious. He was already sick, and now he was locked up with only half his life left. Can't stand up. The jailer had no choice but to hold him up with two people until he was in front of Sun Jing.

Liang Wang looked at Sun Jing, and was so frightened that he was shaking like chaff. When the people holding him on the left and right let go, he plopped and knelt down in front of Sun Jing. A victory song in the arena just finished playing, and Xiao Shi won a complete victory, winning the most chips. Drenched with sweat, she urged the horse to come over, jumped off the horse with a light posture, and said to Sun Jing with a smile, "Fortunately, I won this round for the governor."

Sun Jing couldn't help smiling, although Xiao Shi was already in his thirties, he was still in his twenties by the look of him, with a kind of charming and charming appearance like a bright girl, and his gorgeous appearance made him slightly dazzled. Meeting his eyes, she couldn't help giving him a coquettish look, and she didn't care when she saw King Liang kneeling and trembling on the ground. The cloth towel wiped the fine sweat from his forehead and walked back to his seat. A maid had served tea long ago, and she took a sip of tea carelessly, raising her hand to stroke her temples, which were slightly loosened by the bow.

Sun Jing tapped King Liang's forehead with his stick, and his tone was full of mockery: "You are a prince, why do you give me such a big gift as soon as you see me. Raise your head and speak." King Liang trembled all over. He dared to raise his head, and he didn't dare not to raise his head, so he raised his head slightly while trembling, and muttered: "Xiao Wang... Xiao Wang dare not... dare not offend the governor..."

Seeing him like this, some female relatives in Jinyu couldn't help laughing out loud. King Liang buried his head even lower, Sun Jing carefully studied the patterns on the bow stick, and said casually, "Tell me about your son."

Liang Wang was puzzled, swallowed his saliva, and muttered: "Xiao Wang's eldest son, Li Jun, was named King of Linzi..."

Before he finished speaking, Sun Jing interrupted impatiently: "Who wants to listen to this! Tell me about Li Yi."

Liang Wang became more and more worried, but there was nothing he could do, so he said tremblingly: "Li Yi is the third son of Xiao Wang, he...he has been an ominous person since he was a child..."

At the moment of rambling on, Li Ni was born and his biological mother Liu died of dystocia. Li Ni's birthday falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, which is the most unlucky. They quarreled and quarreled, and when they were more than ten years old, they got worse and beat the son of the Minister of Rites for no reason, and because of this, they annoyed the late emperor, and they were expelled into the Zhenxi Army, etc., and so on.

But Sun Jing listened very carefully, with no expression on his face. Liang Wang secretly glanced at his face several times, and became more and more anxious. He was afraid that Li Yi would cause some catastrophe again. The more he talked, the more panicked he became. In the end, even the voice was choked up, and the words were confused and vague.

Seeing his situation, Sun Jing finally became impatient: "After talking for a long time, you, a father, don't even know what kind of person he is." When Liang Wang saw him angry, he was even more wary. Terrified to death, he had tears streaming down his face and said: "Xiao Wang... Xiao Wang doesn't know what the governor means... This son is really unworthy! Even Xiao Wang himself can't figure out how he can give birth to such an unbearable son!"

But Sun Jing asked again: "Is Li Yi born in the fourteenth year of Chengshun? Twenty years old this year?" Liang Wang was startled for no reason, and just nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, at the beginning of May in the fourteenth year of Chengshun. Five, it really is an evil moon that gives birth to an evil son..."

Sun Jing sneered and said: "Then Li Yi is only a weaker year, and yet he was able to plot and kill my 30,000 troops. It is really unworthy, very unworthy! How can a person like you give birth to such a talented son like Li Yi?" !"

When King Liang heard this, he was terrified like five thunderbolts. He couldn't catch his breath. He even rolled his eyes and fell limp to the ground. He passed out from fright. Sun Jing frowned slightly, the servants around had already stepped forward to listen to his orders.

"Fork it down," Sun Jing looked at the limp King Liang with disgust, "Take strict guards and don't let him die."

The servants half-dragged and half-supported, and got rid of the stunned King Liang. Sun Jing returned to his seat, but Xiao Shi held a glass of water and wine with a smile and handed it over. Sun Jing took the glass of wine, but stopped drinking, and asked with a smile, "Have you ever known Li Yi?"

He asked casually, but Mrs. Xiao thought about it for a moment before saying: "This person was really not obvious in the royal family back then. I must have heard of the outstanding children of the Li family, but I only heard about this person." His stubbornness once provoked the late Emperor to be furious and demoted him to the army."

Sun Jing nodded slightly, and said: "Before I asked someone to check the files of the Ministry of War. Not long after Li Yi was demoted to the Zhenxi Army, Pei Xian transferred his youngest son Pei Yuan from Longwuwei to the Zhenxi Army. Since then, Pei Yuan has been inseparable from Li Yi, always in the same team. That old fox Pei Xian has eyes above the top, and the person he asked his son to follow must not be underestimated."

But Xiao said with a smile: "The governor also knows that Pei Xian has a dozen sons, some of them are in the army, some of them have abandoned martial arts to pursue literature, and some have become Taoists. How careful the governor's actions are, Pei Xianwan guesses If the governor will raise the flag of rebellion, since he can't guess it, how can he make arrangements early and pay attention to an unfavorable grandson who has been relegated to the army?"

Sun Jing smiled, nodded and said, "That makes sense."

Xiao said again: "Although Li Yi was brave for a while, with the ability of the governor, he will be wiped out sooner or later. What a problem." Make a calculation early. Cui Yi is a man who is very good at using troops. His son led his troops to several towns, which should not be underestimated. Now Cui Zi is leading the army to wander in Xiangzhou. state."

Sun Jing said calmly, "That old man Cui Yi has an arrogant and eccentric personality. Although he went south in the name of King Qin, he will not easily associate with Li Yi. After all, he is also full of resentment towards Li Yi. He's not that convinced."

Gein was very suspicious in his later years, so he really felt sorry for these military officials. Sun Jingyuan, Pei Xian, and Cui Yi are collectively known as the "Three Heroes of the Kingdom". In the early years, Sun Jing led the army to destroy Yiluo, and he could be crowned king. At one point, he sent his reprimand to the southwest, and Sun Jing almost died in the miasma. Needless to say, Pei Xian has suffered all kinds of wind and frost in the harsh Northwest for decades. As for Cui Yi, he fought against Jieshuo in the north, but the first emperor suspected that he was supporting the bandits, so he cut off his food and grass supply several times, and sent special envoys to warn him. Jing came to be the proton. In this way, although Cui Yi raised troops to serve the king in name, his attitude was erratic, and he didn't really follow Li Yi's lead.

Sun Jing thought for a while, but said: "I will write a letter with my own hand and send it to Cui Yi." Then he said: "Send another envoy to urge Han Li."

Han Li led the troops in Bing Prefecture and Jian Prefecture, both of which were located at key points. After Sun Jing raised his troops, Han Li's attitude was ambiguous, but he had no loyalty to the late emperor at all.

Xiao said with a smile: "The great governor's strategy is very comprehensive."

Sun Jing sighed, "Since Liangzhou was lost, we had to send heavy troops to help Huerguan. Even Wangzhou had to be on guard. Guo Zhi, the guard of Wangzhou, was considered a reliable man, but his temperament was straightforward, and he was so cunning against Li Yi. Fortunately, it is difficult to attack a city and easy to defend it, and his military strength is far superior to that of Li Yi, so Wangzhou should be fine."

Xiao said: "It's better to draw the salary from the bottom of the pot."

Sun Jing nodded approvingly, his bottom-line strategy was to fortify the walls and clear the fields, and cut off the food and grass of the Zhenxi Army, so even if the Zhenxi Army went down several cities, they still had no food and grass supplies. The northwest is difficult, and the prefectures are even more barren. They have always relied on the supply of food from the central government. This is also the reason why the late emperor hijacked Pei Xian and other prefectures in the west of the town.

At this time, Sun Jing wrote lightly: "There is no more food and grass, not to mention fighting, if you are hungry, you will starve the Zhenxi Army to death on the Guanxi Road."

Chapter 2

[1]

The reeds are green, and the white dew is frost. This day happened to be the Bailu solar term. More than a hundred miles away from Wangzhou City, there is a Huaquan town that businessmen must pass through. It is known as the top of the south of the Yangtze River. It is not inferior to a state or a capital. At this time, the towns in the northwest are still in the quiet autumn, and the leaves of the tung trees are falling. However, Huaquan Town, because of the many hot springs and the rich earth atmosphere, the vegetation is flourishing, and it is still like the wind in summer.

In Huaquan Town, there is even a first-class Ruanxiang Township and Selling Gold Cave on Guanxi Road, which is known to all businessmen from all over the world: Zhilutang. It's fine if it's an ordinary hooker house, but this Zhilutang uses a young lady who is both excellent in sex and art. A handsome young man of fourteen or fifteen years old, if he talks about elegance, he can recite poems and sing harmony with guests, and guess riddles in conjunction with sentences;

Today, the Zhilu Hall is really lively. The open hall for guests in the hall is full of banquets. At this moment, all the guests in the hall held their breaths and did not even shake the fans in their hands, because in the middle of the open hall, there is a round platform surrounded by ebony wood which is no more than a foot high and a radius no more than Zhang Xu, and the platform is covered with red 氍毹, there was a person sitting on the stage, it was Ayue, the leading young lady of Zhilutang. He has a handsome appearance, holds a pipa in his arms, and his five fingers are spinning like a wheel. A piece of Qingshang is playing to the most important point.

"Walking the road is bitter..." Ah Yue opened his mouth, his voice clear and high, like a silver bottle of water gushing, "The loess choked his throat and covered his face with dust, he walked for hundreds of miles without seeing a well, and went to the sun to sleep in the dew. I don’t see you, you’ve gone astray, and your bones have dried up in many ways. The slower you sing, the more elegant and upright your voice is, just like a gurgling mountain stream. When you sing the last word “Zhu”, your voice gradually fades away.

The slower he sang the song, the more elegant and upright his voice was, like a gurgling mountain stream. When he sang the last word "Zhu", his voice faded away, and lingered in harmony with the strings of the pipa. The long windows in the hall are all open, and the flowers of tuberose and jasmine in the courtyard are in full bloom, and the fragrance is full of people, as if you really want to live among the flowers. The voice of the song gradually dies down, and the lingering rhythm of the strings. In the evening when the lingering summer heat in Huaquan Town is still there, everyone is as intoxicated as if they had drunk snow soaked in water. Someone even opened a box full of money, generously grabbed a handful of broken gold particles, and threw it towards the stage. Amidst the gold rain all over the stage, A Yue stood up calmly, brushed his body and saluted, then turned around and retreated from the hall under the guidance of the servants, not even glancing at the gold all over the floor from the corner of his eyes.

Only the four house boys by the stage, with sharp eyesight and quick hands, immediately surrounded the red shackles on the stage, even the gold and red shackles, rolled them up together, stepped back to count and weigh them, and then announced the weight of the gold in unison. After asking the guest's name, they all bowed and saluted, and said in a loud voice: "I will reward Ayue Xiepi Shiro!"

Immediately the whole hall burst into applause. Another handsome family boy came forward and gave Pi Silang a budding tuberose, and invited the guests to have tea in the back room.

Satisfied, Napi Shiro casually put the evening incense hosta on his head, and went straight to the back hall under the envious eyes of the whole hall.

A few people who looked like merchants had a banquet seat in the southwest corner of the hall, facing the table obliquely, just in time to watch Pi Shiro go away in a big way. A peddler said: "This Pi Si has always been fearful of internal affairs, he is severely restrained by his wife, and he doesn't have much money at hand, how can he be so extravagant?" Another peddler curled his lips and said, "How did you know that this Pi Silang Because he is the in-law of General Guo Guo in Wangzhou, he got the paperwork to sue him, and he went to Wangzhou to escort the army rations, isn’t it prosperous?” The merchant who spoke before said in a low voice: “What paperwork to sue, it’s not a disorderly order, listen. It is said that the grandson of the Seventeenth Emperor led the Zhenxi Army and captured and killed the 30,000 troops of Dudu Sun in Libo..."

"Shhh!" The other merchant kept his voice silent, looked around, and lowered his voice to a very low level, "Is it something we can discuss about whether the grandson is the grandson or not? Drinking, drinking wins." .” Several merchants immediately understood, and immediately clamored and punched, and became lively.

They were like this, but they never imagined that Li Yi, the grandson of the seventeen emperors they were talking about, was actually in the backyard of Zhilutang at this very moment.

Li Yi hung upside down with a golden hook hanging from the corner of the eaves, under the cover of the gradually thickening twilight, he quietly turned over and fell on the roof tile, Xie Chang'er leaned his ear to the roof tile to listen carefully, and immediately nodded to Li Yi. The two have been partners in the army for a long time and are familiar with each other, so there is no need to say a word. After several ups and downs, Li Yi landed lightly like a leaf on a roof deep in the backyard, while Xie Chang'er lay on the high roof ridge, looking around and listening to all directions.

Li Yi crouched between the vases, looked with his head, and saw that the lamps were already lit in the room below. The hazy yellow candlelight shines through the window screens on the clean blue brick floor in the courtyard, like a layer of clear gold powder, or like a layer of sweet-scented osmanthus sugar on a green cake. He was about to lean forward and slip down, when he suddenly saw Xie Chang'er clenched his fist on the high ridge as a signal, Li Yi knew that someone was coming in and out of the room, so he could only lower himself patiently.

The Zhenxi army had been short of food for a long time, so Li Yi discussed with Pei Yuan and went to Wangzhou to get food. But the city of Wangzhou is solid, but they can't take the city with this little force. They robbed the grain team halfway, and they were afraid of disturbing the Wangzhou defenders. Therefore, Li Yi stared at Pi Shilang, who was responsible for transporting grain, to see what he would do. . It's just that Li Yi didn't expect that as soon as Pi Shiro entered Huaquan Town, he would enter Zhilutang and other gold-selling caves.

These few houses are exactly the residence of the leading young man, Ayue. He is indifferent by nature and never likes to socialize, now he refuses to go out to meet customers for a long time with the excuse of changing clothes, the head of Zhilu Tang came in to persuade him: "If that Pi Shiro is an ordinary businessman, I will not make things difficult for you. It’s just that I heard from Pi Silang just now that he is transporting rations for the rebellious army of Commander Sun, and he is a serious ration officer, no matter what, go and have a cup of tea with him.”

A Yue was tuning the strings of his pipa by himself, lowering his eyes and said: "If you are an ordinary person, A Lang is afraid of him, but I am not afraid of him."

Chief Qiu had already thought about it, and said with a smile: "My good boy, I don't have the courage of you. Since you don't want to see him, I will return to him." He turned around and left.

Yue lowered his eyebrows and tuned the pipa casually, "I gotta get it" aloud.

The sound of the pipa was heard intermittently. Seeing Pi Silang entering the house from the back door, Li Yi flipped into the house through the window lightly. He saw the curtain was hanging down. He lifted the curtain and found that behind the curtain was a pond. Li Yi knew that this was to draw the hot spring water outside the city, and it was brought into the city by the underground canal, and then introduced into various hot springs. There are many soup pools in the rich houses in the city, and the Zhilu Tang, which looks like a golden cave, is no exception. Presumably this young man named Ayue was regarded as a cash cow by Zhilutang, so the courtyard with the soup pond was allocated to him.

The water in the pool is hot and steamy, and because it is getting late, the children who serve Ayue have already sprinkled fragrant flowers in the pool. Knowing that Lutang always acted recklessly, there was a layer of fragrant flowers floating on the surface of the pool, covering it so that even the water in the pool could not be seen.

Li Yi hid behind the curtain, looked around, but saw no one, he muttered to himself, suddenly heard footsteps moving slightly, it was a house boy, leading Napi Shiro to tiptoe in.

I only heard the family boy whisper: "Master Qiu, please wait here for a while." After speaking, he opened the curtain and went straight to the front room.

Napi Shiro was full of joy, so he sat on a soft couch by the pool, he felt that the pool was full of fragrant flowers, as if his heart was in full bloom, as far as he could see, the wind was soft and the curtain was light. Thinking of getting close to Ah Yuehao later, he couldn't hold back anymore, lay down on the couch, swayed his legs, and hummed a little song.

Li Yi quietly approached the soft couch from behind the curtain, one step at a time, he could hear Pi Silang's outrageous melody, just about to knock him unconscious with a clean palm, unexpectedly, it was heard from a distance outside the window A few short birdsong came, it was Xie Chang'er warning. Immediately there was a commotion, but there were several people rushing towards the bathroom; while the footsteps behind the house were fast, there was another group of people also rushing towards the bathroom.

This kind of outflanking, things started in a hurry, Li Yi was quite quick-witted, without thinking, he quietly sank into the soup pool along the edge of the pool, Pi Shiro on the couch only heard a slight sound, when he turned his head to look, he saw the fragrant flowers on the surface of the pool, Shaking slightly, the wind blowing the curtains seems to make the fragrant flowers in the pool move slightly.

Li Yi held his breath and entered the water, suddenly heard a very soft sound in his ear, as if the wind was blowing a curtain, but he knew in his heart that it was wrong. He is excellent in water, opened his eyes in the water, and sure enough, on the other side of the soup pool, there was someone like him, silently, slowly sinking into the water.

Chapter 2

[3]

The place they chose to stay in Slippery Spring Town was originally a merchant's house, with a wide road in front of the gate, and east and west corner gates at the back, making it easy to enter and exit. And because this week is almost all the houses of merchants, it is extremely quiet. Pei Yuan and the others all pretended to meet outside the Zhilu hall, but Lao Bao was injured and stayed in the house. He had already made soup and cakes.

After everyone finished eating the soup cakes in silence, they discussed the situation in the dew hall just now. Li Yi has always been bold and careful, he had pinched an arrow shot by the burly man in blue and stuck it under his sleeve, and now he handed the arrow to Pei Yuan for a closer inspection.

Pei Yuan looked at the arrow and said: "I have seen this kind of fine steel crossbow before. It was worn by Cui Yi's personal guard in the Dingsheng Army when my father returned to the capital to face the saint. When my father saw it, he praised it. Said to be extremely delicate, I looked at it from the side, and I also felt that this crossbow was made small and exquisite."

Li Yi thought of the woman in disguise, so he couldn't help but nodded: "Today must be from the Cui family."

Thinking carefully about all the situations in the Lu hall before, this woman is obviously the head of the Cui family today. This is the first confrontation with the Cui family, and it can be seen that she is acting in a secret, meticulous, cunning and ruthless manner. Li Yi said again: "Since he is from the Cui family, he probably came here for Pi Shiro and the grain and grass."

Pei Yuan was silent. Although Cui Yi is only Lulong Jiedu envoy in name, in fact he guards Youzhou, together with Yingzhou and other large counties in the north, they are all places where the Cui family has won the victory of the army. Since Sun Jing's rebellion, the Cui family's attitude has been vacillating, which can be seen in Cui Lin's self-respect in Xiangzhou. The Cui family searched many ways for the grandson who had escaped from the capital and whereabouts are unknown. Obviously, he did not want to submit to the teacher of King Qin headed by Li Yi. Since they sent people to sneak into Huaquan Town this time, it was even more ill-intentioned.

But Li Yi stretched his waist, and said: "Since the Cui family all made the first move, we have to deal with it. I have a plan. In the morning, I will go and tie up that Pi Shiro!"

Pei Yuan couldn't help but cheer up. At that moment, Li Yi spoke a few words and said the strategy of kidnapping people tomorrow, and everyone applauded it. Pei Yuan smiled and said: "Seventeenth Lang has a good plan, he doesn't hide his clothes, and he can hold Pi Si quietly." Now the discussion is settled, and the night watch is arranged, and everyone goes back to their rooms to sleep.

Although Li Yi is the grandson of the emperor, but in the army, he has always been the same as everyone else. There are only seven or eight rooms in this house, and three or four people share one room. Today Li Yi lived in the same room with Lao Bao and Xie Chang'er, and Xie Chang'er lined up to stay overnight, so Li Yi said to Lao Bao: " I'm going out to wash my feet."

Old Bao laughed and said, "Only you are like a woman who always washes your feet before going to bed." Then he told Li Yi that the well was in the back alley of the house.

Li Yi left the house through the corner gate, and saw the sky was full of brilliance, and a round of autumn moon shone brightly and cleanly all over the place. In the distance, there is a faint line of autumn mountains, and the roof tiles of the nearby houses are like ink painting scrolls. Bathed in the moonlight like a light gauze, only the chirping of autumn insects can be heard. He followed the moonlight until he walked to the back alley. There was a huge willow tree in the back alley, and the well was beside the willow tree. The moonlight sprinkles from the sparse weeping willow branches, and the bluestone slabs are paved beside the well rail, which is reflected by the moonlight like a wash.

Because of the heat contained in the hot springs, even though it is the white dew season, the well water is still warm to the touch. Li Yi shook the pulley to draw up the water, tasted it first, felt it was very sweet, without the sour taste of hot springs, and drank a few more mouthfuls, then untied his clothes, and put them on the well fence, He picked up the wooden bucket and poured it on his body to rinse.

He was forced to soak for a long time in the fragrant flower pool in the Zhilu Hall, and he didn't know what kind of fragrances and spices were put in the pool. He always felt that the fragrance on his body was suffocating, as if covered with powder, very uncomfortable and uncomfortable . At this moment, I poured a few buckets of water on my body, and there was no longer that sweet and greasy aroma all over my body, so I finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He was about to fetch another bucket of water, when he turned his head, he suddenly saw a firefly flying from nowhere, it happened to perch on the well fence, he held his breath, and carefully stretched out his hand to catch it. It flew up lightly as if aware of it. He just laughed it off, and suddenly heard a very slight sound not far away, as if a wild cat was stepping on fallen leaves, but Li Yi was so alert, he immediately grabbed the clothes hanging on the well rail, turned back the clothes and put them on Putting it on, the other hand has already pulled out the short knife at the waist, kicked lightly on the well rail, leaped into the air, and stabbed straight at the place where the sound was heard.

The man was hiding in the dark corner of the wall, Li Ni's sting was as quick as lightning, and the man was also alert, almost at the same time, he dropped several cold lights and shot straight at Li Yi, Li Yi spun around in mid-air to avoid the cold light , still piercing the man's eyebrows, the man leaned back lightly when the man let go of his hand coldly, Li Yi's wrist sank and the tip of the knife went up, although the stab was avoided by the man, it was as good as hitting the man's hair Between the jade hairpins, the jade hairpins were instantly knocked out by the tip of the knife, and Li Yi reached out to catch the jade hairpins with his left hand, while his right wrist was still moving forward. When he got up, the man's eyes reflected fireflies in the night, which was even more brilliant than the stars in the sky.

Li Yi held the jade hairpin in his left hand, and had already stabbed at the vital point of the man's throat, at this moment, he suddenly stopped, and by the moonlight, he had already recognized the man, and blurted out: "It's you?"

It turned out to be the disguised woman in Zhilu Hall, she was wearing a robe at the moment, although the hosta pinned her throat, her cheeks were as bright as the white hosta, but her eyes seemed to contain thin ice, she did not make a sound, As soon as the sleeves are turned over, he will grab the jade hairpin.

In an instant, the two of them had gone through seven or eight moves, both of which were quick and fast, the woman suddenly raised her hand, Li Yi knew the strength, and hurriedly dodged. Entering the well fence, the arrow glows with a faint blue light under the moonlight, obviously simmering poison.

Li Yi was annoyed that she was attacking fiercely, so he didn't show any mercy, after several moves, he pretended to attack her shoulder, when she turned around to parry, he found an opening, and immediately kicked the woman into the well. The woman's mind was like lightning, and the moment she fell into the mouth of the well, she suddenly raised her voice: "I know where the grandson is!"

Li Yi was shocked when he heard the words, without hesitation, he stretched out his hand to grab the woman's shoulder, trying to pull her out from the mouth of the well, but just as he grabbed her shoulder, he felt a numbness in the back of his hand, thinking something wrong in his heart, the woman's wrist had already been held by the woman. With the power of this grasp, the woman flipped up like a swallow, and escaped from the mouth of the well with lightning speed.

The numbness on the back of Li Yi's hand had spread along the blood vessels, and half of her body was paralyzed in an instant, unable to move. The woman touched the well rail with her toes, and kicked Li Yi into the well with a "plop".

Fortunately, the water in the well was not more than Zhang Xu deep. After he fell into the well, he managed to stand up without choking on the water. But the mouth of the well is high and deep, and the walls are slippery, so it is absolutely difficult to climb. Li Yi raised the back of his hand and took a look through the moonlight coming in from the mouth of the well. Sure enough, there was a needle as thin as a cow's hair on the back of his hand, which was obviously soaked in anesthetic. At this moment, the woman leaned over the mouth of the well, looked down, and the two looked at each other.

Li Yi blurted out and asked, "Are you from the Cui family's Ding Shengjun?" The woman smiled shrewdly, "Why should I tell you?"

Li Yi already understood at this time that this woman probably already guessed her origin, and knew that she must be a member of the Zhenxi Army, so when she was in danger, she blurted out and lied that she knew the whereabouts of the grandson, so that she stretched out her hand she. He and her were no more than Zhilu once in a hurry, and they fought twice. Although she is a woman, she is quick-witted and never loses the wind. She is a rare and powerful opponent in her life. He changed his mind, thinking about how to get out of this predicament, when he heard footsteps answering, someone seemed to be coming from a distance.

The woman obviously heard it too, and disappeared from the mouth of the well in a blink of an eye. Li Yi heard the footsteps very familiarly, if not, he only heard what seemed to be Lao Bao's voice, calling Shi Qilang from outside the well. I think it was Lao Bao who found him after seeing him not coming back.

Li Yi said, "I'm in the well."

Old Bao was shocked when he heard the words, he jumped to the edge of the well, looked down, and threw down the well rope quickly. Li Yi secretly pinched the corner of his clothes, and carefully pulled out the thin needle on the back of his hand, and then climbed up by the well rope. Lao Bao dragged him out of the well, saw that he was soaked all over and looked embarrassed, he couldn't help but wondered: "You came to wash your feet, how did you get into the well?"

Li Yi remained calm and said with a smile: "I wanted to save a stray cat, but I was scratched by its paw, which made me lose my momentum and threw myself into the well."

Old Bao mocked: "You are so skilled, but a cat tricked you into the well. If you pass it back to Laolanguan, I'm afraid it will become a big joke."

Li Yi was very free and easy: "Jokes are jokes, and I don't know who they were. That year when they hunted wolves, the wolves didn't catch them, but let the traps catch their own feet."

Lao Bao just smiled.

Li Yi looked around, and saw fireflies dotted by the well fence, flying in all directions in the autumn night, the willow branches were blown gently by the wind, there was no trace of the woman, if it wasn't for the jade hairpin in her sleeve, she would have planted it just now , It's just like a dream.

Chapter 2

[5]

In the early morning of the second day, Li Yi held a willow branch in his mouth and cleaned his teeth in front of the wing of the official house. He lived in a servant's room facing north. Although it was a servant's room, it was much better than living in the wilderness. He was cleaning his teeth with a willow branch in his mouth when he saw Pei Yuan walking in hurriedly.

"Seventeen Lang, Guo Zhi is camping thirty miles outside the city, and even though he has sent out sentries, he doesn't seem to plan to attack the city."

Li Yi rinsed his mouth with green salt water, and said just now: "He underestimated the enemy carelessly, planned to go out of the city, and lost Wangzhou. Sun Jing's temper has always been violent and fierce. If he finds out, I'm afraid he will beheaded immediately. So He wandered outside the city, and with his force, it was neither enough to attack the city, nor could he ask for help."

Pei Yuan smiled and said, "Guo Zhi is indeed in an embarrassing situation."

Li Yi said: "Guo Zhi is nothing to worry about, but now the Cui family members are afraid that something will happen again."

Pei Yuan couldn't help being slightly taken aback.

Li Yi said: "The little girl of the Cui family is quick-witted. Although she has robbed the food, she will not be reconciled to seeing Wangzhou City fall into our hands. Now Guo Zhi's army is hanging outside the city alone, with no city to occupy and no food to hold. If I were her, I would definitely go to Guo Zhi’s army to negotiate peace, so that I could join him in besieging the city, take Wangzhou, and kick us out.”

Hearing what he said, Pei Yuan couldn't help asking: "Then what should I do?"

 Li Yi said with a smile: "Naturally, we are building plank roads openly and keeping Chencang secretly. I went out of the city to pretend peace talks with Guo Zhi, and when I got to Guo Zhi's army, the people of Cui's family would naturally consider whether it would be better to be our enemy or to be with us." It is worthwhile to form an alliance and deal with Guo Zhi's troops first."

Pei Yuan couldn't help frowning: "Seventeen Lang, what you said is reasonable. But it's too risky for you to go, you should stay in the city, I will go out of the city to Guo Zhijun, and have an interview with the Cui family."

Li Yi glanced at Pei Yuan, and said slowly: "Of course it's General Pei. As for me, I'd like to write a handwritten letter to Guo Zhi and stamp it with the seal of the Marshal of Counter-Rebellion to show our sincerity."

Pei Yuan was stunned, and couldn't help but said: "Didn't you say that Shuai Yin is too cumbersome, and he never brought it out of the father's camp."

Li Yihun didn't care: "Just take a radish and carve one. Didn't we all do this before?"

Pei Yuan was startled again, but suddenly came to his senses, and said anxiously: "That's not going to happen, what if it's discovered..."

Li Yi patted Pei Yuan on the shoulder, said with a pun, "Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with it, Guo Zhi and the Cui family have never seen General Pei, let alone my handsome seal. There’s no telling what’s true or what’s not.”

At that moment, Li Yi changed his clothes, rode lightly, and took only a few followers, opened the city gate, and went straight to Guo Zhiying. Then Guo Zhi heard that General Pei of the Zhenxi Army came to pay homage to the camp in person, and personally led several generals under his tent, and went out to meet them at the gate. When they met, they were neither respectful nor affectionate. Because Pei Yuan's father, Pei Xian, had been guarding the western region for dozens of years, the generals on the Kansai Road, no matter what, owed him some affection. So even though he was an enemy and not a friend, Guo Zhi was still polite, welcomed the young General Pei Haosheng into the army, and told him frankly that the Cui family also sent someone.

Li Yi presented the handwritten letter with the commander's seal on it. Seeing that Guo Zhi had finished reading the handwritten handwriting of "Marshal of the Anti-Rebellion, Zhenxi Jiedu Envoy, Emperor's Sun Li Yi", he asked casually: "Just now, Guo Shixiong said that the Cui family also Someone has been sent, but who is it?"

Guo Zhi was called "Senior Brother" by him, but he frowned and said he didn't dare, and then said: "The Cui family sent, it is Mr. Cui's confidant He Xiaowei. But it is a coincidence that He Xiaowei just entered the camp In the time it takes for a cup of tea, little General Pei is also here."

Li Yi said calmly, "But that 'Best Girl' Mrs. He?"

It turned out that Cui Yi had only one son, named Cui Lin, who had been weak and sick since childhood, and Beijing Central Committee asked for this son as a hostage several times, but Cui Yi prevaricated and evaded it. Cui Yi doted on his only son and carefully selected countless attendants for him. Among these attendants is a woman named He, who is the most outstanding. She is a maid who has served Mr. Cui since she was a child. She is smart and cunning. When Cui Lin participated in the military, the He family assisted him and never left the side of Mr. Cui, so she was called "the girl in the bag" by the Dingsheng army.

Guo Zhi nodded.

Li Yi smiled and said: "Since Mr. Cui has also sent important people around, why not meet him?"

Guo Zhi had this intention at first, and said with a smile: "Little General Pei is so tolerant, so Guo can rest assured." At that moment, he held a banquet in the tent of the Chinese army, so as to entertain General Xiao Pei and the Cui family envoy.

Sure enough, this Xiaowei He is the disguised girl in Zhilu Hall. Although Li Yi and her have only met a few times, but they have fought repeatedly, and it is known that she is a strong opponent. Today I saw that she was dressed differently, but she was wearing the uniform of a lieutenant colonel in the Dingsheng Army, which even more matched the waist of a bee and the back of a monkey, and the shape of a crane and mantis. At first glance, it is really difficult to distinguish between male and female, but when you look closely, you find that the eyebrows and eyes are exquisite, and the wrist is like jade. She is not a young man, but a heroic girl.

After being introduced by Guo Zhiju, Li Yi said politely: "It turns out to be Lieutenant He of the Dingsheng Army. It's a pleasure to meet you."

Captain He also smiled sweetly, and said: "It turns out to be General Pei of the Zhenxi Army, who has been admiring him for a long time."

At that moment, Guo Zhi was also unceremonious, and said: "Both of you are young talents, and Guo Mou was really eye-opened and flattered when he came here today. He was afraid of disappointing General Pei's kindness and displeased Mr. Cui. It’s also difficult.”

Hearing what he said here, Li Yi couldn't help but glanced at Xiaowei He, not wanting her to look over with a smile, when their eyes met, Xiaowei He smiled slightly, and then turned his eyes to look at Guo Zhi. Just listen to that Guo Zhi said: "After thinking about it, since it is a dilemma, it is better to follow the old military practice and use fighting instead of decision."

It was proposed immediately that each of the three parties would send one person to the competition. If one of Guo Zhi's troops won, the Zhenxi Army represented by General Xiao Pei, and the Cui Jiading Army represented by He Xiaowei, each had to agree to a condition. If the person sent by the He family or General Xiao Pei wins, whoever he will talk about forming an alliance with. But for this competition, another person must be sent, and the three of them are not allowed to compete in person, so as not to hurt the harmony.

This method is fair, Li Yi and He Xiaowei readily agreed. Guo Zhi selected a healthy soldier in the army, Li Yi sent Xie Chang'er who came with him, and Captain He pointed to Chen Xing, a personal guard beside her.

Now I found a flat place in the camp, marked out a large area of sand, and drew three white circles with lime on the sand, and planted a small flag on the watchtower in the distance, and rode to the watchtower to capture the flag. The one who returns to insert the small flag into his own white circle wins.

The commander who sent the order yelled loudly: "No limit to the weapon, just hit it, don't hurt your life." After saying that, the general waved his hand, and three riders and three riders flew out like arrows leaving the string.

The three horses chased and fought each other, which was very exciting. The surrounding soldiers gave out admiration and cheers from time to time.

Li Yi came here this time because he didn't want to drink, so he was extraordinarily free and easy. But seeing Xiaowei He, he was also calm, as if he was strolling in the garden. Thinking in my heart, this young lady He Xiaowei has such a bearing, I don't know what kind of character that Mr. Cui is. The Cui family's position is very delicate, especially since he has led the Zhenxi Army into Kansai, if they can approach Luoshui, then the Cui family's attitude is even more important. Since Cui Lin is Cui Yi's only son, Dingsheng's army also supports him quite a lot. If he can make friends with that young master Cui, maybe he can adapt to the situation and detect his intentions.

While he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard Guo Zhi ask: "Little General Pei, your father was seriously injured at Huyaguan, and he would attack every time it was rainy, the pain was unbearable, I wonder if he has gotten better in recent years?"

Li Yi's heart trembled, but he smiled and said, "Thank you General for your greetings. Of all my father's old wounds, the arrow wound under his ribs is the most dangerous. Although he has been in the army for the past few years, he has taken good care of him and is already much better."

Guo Zhi nodded and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, I have met Brother Zun once. At that time, he was ordered to return to Beijing, and when he passed by Wangcheng Station, it was raining heavily and his mount was broken, so he had to ask me for help. I sent someone to send him off two horses."

Li Yi focused slightly, then smiled and said: "It was Chengshun's 24th year, I was still young at that time, after my brother returned to Beijing, he almost broke his leg when he mentioned the heavy rain on the way."

Guo Zhi nodded with a smile: "Now Sanlang has already taken office in Fengzhou."

Li Yi laughed and said: "It's too old, General Guo thinks he remembered wrongly, it was my second elder brother, not my third elder brother, who received the horse as a gift back then."

Guo Zhi nodded, suddenly heard thunderous cheers in the arena, it turned out that the healthy soldier in Guo Zhi's army had already snatched the flag from the watchtower, rode his horse straight to the white circle, followed closely by the two cavalry. Li Yi couldn't help but glanced at Xiaowei He, seeing that she was still smiling, as if she didn't mind winning or losing in the field.

But after a while, Chen Xing, the personal guard sent by Captain He, took back the flag from the pawn, and the three of them fought with each other on horseback. It was very close, but the flag was tossed and turned in the hands of three people, and was controlled by the other two. No one could insert the flag into the white circle to win.

The fight became more intense for a while, and because there was no limit to the number of weapons, the swords and swords were particularly thrilling. Li Yi's heart moved and he was about to make a sound when he suddenly saw Chen Xing raised his arm and shot a crossbow arrow in order to grab the flag, but the healthy soldier was heartbroken and didn't dodge, he jumped up and heard a "poof", The crossbow shot deeply into the waist and abdomen of the healthy soldier. This arrow could have been dodged, Chen Xing couldn't help being startled, the healthy soldier also took the opportunity to grab the flag, tried his best to insert the flag into the white circle, and finally fell down due to the serious injury.

Seeing this, Guo Zhi had already left his seat, and rushed over to help the healthy soldier, who was dying, "General...fortunately...fortunately, he didn't disgrace his life..." He bowed his head and died in Guo Zhi's arms.

Chen Xing and Xie Chang'er got off their horses a long time ago. Chen Xing dropped his weapon. Seeing this situation, he couldn't help feeling sad, knelt down on one knee, cupped his hands and said, "I missed it."

Guo Zhi felt grief and indignation, he hugged the healthy soldier and didn't say a word. Li Yi and He Xiaowei had already left their seats, Li Yi persuaded: "General Guo, with the skill of this healthy soldier, in fact, he can dodge the arrow just now."

Guo Zhi nodded and said, "Yes, he was determined to win, so he didn't dodge."

He Xiaowei said: "This man is loyal and brave, and we admire him. Now the general sent him to win the victory. According to the preface, my Dingsheng army and Zhenxi army can each agree to the general's one condition."

Li Yi nodded: "Yes, our Zhenxi Army can follow the preface and promise General Guo a condition."

Guo Zhi looked sad, and said: "It's getting late, our army is going to bury this comrade. I am sad and heartbroken now, and I invite you two to stay in the camp tonight, and we can talk tomorrow."

Thousands of thoughts had already passed through Li Yi's mind, before he could speak, he suddenly heard Xiaowei He say: "It's natural, I also want to pay homage to this brave man on behalf of Ding Shengjun."

Li Yi also nodded: "General Guo is mourning, and he also allows me to sacrifice a glass of boji."

This competition came to an abrupt end. Guo Zhi personally led the sacrifice, and the funeral in the army was very simple, only the three armies were grateful for his loyalty and bravery, and each of them sighed endlessly. After the funeral was over, it was already dark, so Guo Zhi ordered Li Yi, He Xiaowei and their entourages to guard

As soon as he entered the tent, Li Yi said to Xie Chang'er: "This healthy soldier exchanged his life for me and Captain He to stay in the camp for one night, and something strange will happen tonight."

Xie Chang'er is a sincere person, he couldn't help being surprised and said: "It doesn't mean that we have to agree to a condition if we win, why is there something weird tonight?"

Li Yi shook his head, Guo Zhi tried to test him several times, apparently worried that his "Little General Pei" was a counterfeit, but what he never expected was that his true identity was actually more important than Pei Yuan. Guo Zhi's reason for probing was because he wanted to detain Pei Yuan, a rare commodity to live in, or he had other schemes. In this case, he would definitely do it tonight.

Hearing what he said, Xie Chang'er couldn't help but said anxiously: "Then I should quickly ask Lao Bao to return to Wangzhou to ask for help?"

Li Yi said: "No, if they want to do something, it will have to be late at night, you just need to tell Lao Bao to be more vigilant. Now, I'll go check on that Colonel He."

Xie Chang'er knew that Lao Bao had been responding secretly, so he nodded.

Chapter 2

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Li Yi hugged her and rolled on the spot, and the two of them hid behind the cage.

The girl quickly calmed down and asked Li Yi, "Where are the people you prepared?" Li Yi asked back, "Then what about the people you prepared?"

Before the words were finished, a group of people rushed into the military tent. Li Yi was about to get away, when suddenly the corner of his clothes froze, and he couldn't see his figure in the darkness, but he heard the girl's cold voice: "You broke into my tent. , and now I want to leave, it’s not that cheap.”

Li Yi knew that if he took her with him, it would be extremely difficult to get away unscathed, but he laughed and said, "If you can take me to see you Young Master Cui, I will take you away."

The girl's voice was as clear and clear as a stream in the darkness: "You must take me away. If you take me away, I may consider letting you see the young master; if you don't take me away, you will be the young master's enemy, and it will be difficult to see him from now on."

Seeing her telling the truth, Li Yi had no choice but to cut a long hole in the tent, first gently moved the girl out, and then got out of the tent by himself. At that time, there was no moon tonight, but it was a bright day of stars, and things could be seen vaguely. Li Yi led the girl around the camp, stopping and walking, trying to avoid the ambush.

Guo Zhi made up his mind to take his life, so he sent out these people who were extremely fierce, and there were a large number of them, one after another, I don't know how many layers to ambush. Fortunately, Li Yi was extremely alert, but he was still extremely dangerous and was almost discovered. Just when the two of them were in a state of desperation, they suddenly heard commotion on the north corner of the camp, and then faintly saw flames everywhere, and someone was shouting loudly.

Li Yi couldn't help but glanced back at the girl, only to see her vigilant expression, her eyes fluttering under the starlight, reminding him of a cat for no reason, I'm afraid that if she was really a raccoon slave, even the hair on the tip of her tail would be written all over. There was a conspiracy. In fact, from the first time he saw her, he thought she looked like a cat, so when she kicked her and fell into the well, he blurted out and lied to Lao Bao that he was scratched by a wild cat. Seeing her following closely behind him, her footsteps light and soundless, she felt more and more like a cat.

It would be great if it was really a cat, and it could be hidden in the sleeve. It is really worrying that such a big living person should be taken out of the camp without a sound. Fortunately there was a fire in the camp. But after a while, Li Yi heard clearly what was shouting in the camp, and couldn't help laughing angrily.

There were shouts everywhere in the camp, shouting "Hurry up and put out the fire!" "The Zhenxi Army has attacked the camp!" "The Zhenxi Army is coming!"

Li Yi couldn't help but sneered at the well-behaved kitten behind him: "That's how you arranged it, plant it on me?"

The kitten looked innocent, and stared at him with two big round eyes: "My people just yelled and shouted a few words to disturb the morale of the army. They didn't attack the camp, and they didn't set fire. Since you ordered people to set fire , isn’t this considered a raid on the camp?”

Li Yi was speechless after being choked up by her. Unyielding, the kitten asked him, "How are you going to get out?"

Li Yi said: "Now the camp is in chaos, I have no plan, how do you go, I will follow you."

The kitten finally glared at him: "You don't even have the horses ready, do you?"

Li Yi said with a smile: "You will definitely prepare the horses, and what else can I do."

The kitten was finally choked, and without saying a word, she turned around to face the fire, and went straight to the northwest corner. Li Yi followed closely behind her, defending her from arrows from time to time, and the kitten didn't thank her either. Just brisk footsteps, and after a while, they walked to a secluded place on the edge of the camp. Sure enough, Chen Xing was waiting there with two horses.

Captain He ignored Li Yi who was behind him, and said to Chen Xing: "Hurry up and report to your son, and tell me that I have escaped and will follow the plan."

Chen Xing glanced at Li Yi behind her, clasped his fists in salute, got on his horse and left. Li Yi frowned, and suddenly heard the gust of wind coming towards her ears, it was the crossbow arrow shot by Captain He, and by the time Li Yi dodged, she had already mounted the horse and rode away in the opposite direction of Chen Xing . At this time, someone in the battalion had already noticed the commotion here, a group of soldiers rushed over, without any explanation, they shot random arrows at Captain He. Li Yi sighed, knowing that he had to save him, so he took a knife, chopped off all the chaotic arrows and jingled them into the air, and stalked the soldiers for several rounds. Turn back and flash into the darkness.

But he said that Captain He galloped through the woods and ran out of Lixu, when suddenly he felt his horse's back sank, and someone landed on the saddle behind her, she grasped the dagger in her sleeve with her backhand and stabbed, but was held down Arm, Li Yi's cool voice sounded in the dark night: "It's me!"

The chasing soldiers chased out of the camp noisily, and followed them closely. The girl smiled instead of anger: "Little General Pei is very capable, why did he let the pursuers catch up?"

Li Yi sneered: "If they don't catch up, will you take me with you?"

The girl said calmly, "If you're not so annoying, maybe you are."

Li Yi sighed faintly, the pursuers were getting closer and closer in the dark, and they couldn't go fast with one horse and two horses. The girl wanted to shoot Li Yi with a poisonous needle several times, or throw him off the horse, but she knew that this man was extremely difficult to deal with. Policy is good.

She endured it several times, but Li Yi saw it, he smiled and said, "Am I the person you hate the most in your life?"

The girl felt annoyed in her heart, but calmly said: "That's not true."

Li Yi nodded: "It seems that I still have to work hard." At this time, the pursuers were very close, but the sound of piercing the sky continued, and several cold arrows flew past the two of them. Li Yi said: "It's all your fault. Why do you have to ride such a white horse? It's too conspicuous at night."

The girl was angry and shouted "Xiaobai!" The white horse was extremely handsome, its front hooves were raised high in an instant, and it stood up, about to throw Li Yi off the horse's back, but Li Yi took the opportunity to turn around in a calm manner. With a copy of both hands, he happened to catch several arrow feathers that were shot towards him. Before Xiaobai's front hoof landed, he had already thrown the arrow in his hand, like a shooting star chasing the moon, only heard the "poof" sound of the arrow piercing into the flesh There was a muffled sound, interspersed with several screams and wailings, it was obvious that his throwing of the arrows was not in vain, the closest pursuers were either dead or injured, while the pursuers behind were sluggish.

The white horse carried the two of them through the forest, and turned over several hills. When the sky was dim and bright, the pursuers had long since disappeared, and they were actually thrown off.

The morning mist curled up, and Xiaowei He saw a river not far away at the foot of the mountain with clear water, so he urged Li Yi to dismount, and she led the white horse to drink water by the river.

After working hard all night, the white horse was still in good spirits. After drinking the water, it hangs its neck down by the river and eats fresh grass. He Xiaowei also seemed to be exhausted, he let the horses graze, walked a few steps upstream by himself, drank water, and washed his face with water.

Li Yi also took a few sips of water and said: "This horse is so handsome. Although it is a white horse, you are right to prepare it. Without it, we will not be able to escape the pursuers."

She looked indifferent, as if she didn't want to say more. Li Yi said again: "But there is one thing you did wrong. You obviously prepared such a good horse, but you didn't prepare dry rations." When she heard him say this, she just turned her head and ignored it. Li Yi smiled and said: "Let me tell you, if I hadn't insisted on following you, you would have thrown off the pursuers and returned to the camp of your Cui family's Dingsheng army, so you don't need any dry food."

She said: "Two people ride together, of course they will go slowly, I advise you not to delay here, lest Guo Zhi's men catch up again."

Li Yi smiled and said: "You are not afraid, what am I afraid of." He cast a sideways glance at her and said, "Take it out."

The kitten's round eyes stared at him innocently again: "What?"

Li Yi said: "I don't believe that you fled here alone, without anything to send out signals, so that people can respond."

The kitten's round eyes became even more innocent: "There is no signal. I am the son's maid, and I will return to the camp. Why do I need laborers to respond."

"Come on." Li Yi said, "A fox has nine tails. I don't believe you don't have any signal on your body! Don't force me to torture you, I don't want to torture a girl."

The kitten was angry for a while, and finally took out a bamboo tube from its arms and threw it on the ground.

Li Yi didn't go to pick it up, and pouted his mouth: "Since it's a signal, then you can let it go, let your young master's people come and pick you up."

The kitten glared at him resentfully, bent down to pick up the bamboo tube, and unplugged the bamboo tube, only to hear a "bang", and a puff of smoke exploded. When the smoke cleared, there was no trace of the kitten.

Li Yi thought so cunningly, this is not a cat, it is even more cunning than a fox. But when he heard the neighing of the horse, he looked back, and not far behind, Xiaobai's pink lips still had a few tender grass curled up, staring at him with wet eyes.

He walked over and patted the horse's mane lightly. Xiao Bai obviously didn't want to be touched by him, so he shook the horse's mane and let out another long hiss.

He smiled self-deprecatingly: "She left you behind."

But he said that since Xiaowei He escaped, even though he lost his horse, he ran all the way through several layers of dense forests, seeing that Li Yi did not catch up, he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief and rested for a while. She hadn't slept all night, she was extremely tired at first, but now that her horse was lost, she had to return to the camp quickly. As for his beloved white horse—named Xiaobai, it has always been clever, and it must be able to find a way to escape from the wicked man and sneak back to the camp.

Thinking of that difficult little General Pei, she could only faintly feel her teeth sore. Pei Xian has ten sons, I heard that this one named Pei Yuan has been arranged by him in the Zhenxi Army to follow His Royal Highness the Seventeenth Emperor's grandson, it seems that Pei Xian values the most. It's no wonder that he valued it. After these few encounters, this little General Pei is really talented and brave, and he is indeed a dragon and phoenix among men. Although Li Yi defeated many with few and killed tens of thousands of Yu Liao's army in World War I, causing a sensation all over the world, the Li family of the Tian family has always been cowardly and incompetent, and no one has heard of any outstanding children. Marshal, but everyone in the world knows that the grandson of the emperor is just a cover in name. Especially looking at it now, the tens of thousands of Yu Liao's army was captured and killed, and the Zhenxi army entered the Guanxi Road like a broken bamboo. There is probably something else hidden. A little general Pei's ability.

Pei Yuan! She thought about the name again angrily, really annoyed, but helpless.

Pei Yuan, who was far away in Wangzhou City, shivered inexplicably. For some reason, he felt a chill down his spine. Last night, Lao Bao led people to set fire to Guo Zhi's camp and made a big fuss. Although Cui's family framed them as attacking the camp, it was not considered a frame. Li Yi took advantage of the chaos to escape, but left a signal to confirm that he was safe and sound.

But what the hell is going on with this cold back? Pei Yuan thought for a while, and ordered people to step up inspections, so that Wangzhou city defense must not be lost.                     

Chapter 2

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He saw it very accurately, and landed directly on a slightly flat place beside her. Although there were wooden spikes in the trap, it didn't hurt him at all. Seeing him flying down, she landed steadily on her side like a big roc, and she couldn't help glaring: "You can save me from above, but now we are both in a trap, how can we get out?"

But seeing him lightly and delicately, he inserted the torch in his hand between the wooden thorns, and said in his mouth: "Thanks to you, I have been in the well, and I have even been in the river. You said that we are so close." Fate..." At this point, he suddenly bent forward, the trap was originally only about a square meter away, and the place where the wooden thorns were flattened by her was even narrower, and when he bent down like this, he was almost close to her. On the side of her face, her breath smelled, the tip of her nose smelled the delicious smell of roasted rabbit legs, but she heard him chuckle in her ears: "Since you have fallen into a trap, why can't I not come down to accompany you, we will live and die together!"

Although she wasn't afraid, her eyes were filled with contempt. Two black crystal-like pupils looked at him fixedly, and cursed: "Frivolous libertine!"

He didn't take it seriously, and said with a smile: "Hey, you scolded me twice today? I can hold grudges. If you scold me, I will save you a rabbit leg. I originally planned to share You have two rabbit legs, you scolded me twice, and the two rabbit legs are gone, um, I’d better eat it by myself.” Then, he raised the rabbit leg in his hand and took a bite, in the flickering light In the light of the fire, the corners of his mouth were dripping with oil. Although due to her various backgrounds, she has not experienced any hardships since she was a child, and she has been with Mr. Cui, and she has been pampered and taken care of. Today, she is so tired, cold and hungry, and is bullied by him in every possible way. If she is an ordinary woman , she was afraid she was about to shed tears a long time ago, but she just gritted her teeth and endured, thinking in her heart, if I want to open my mouth to show weakness, it is absolutely impossible. So Li Yi ate rabbit meat on his own, but she never looked at him again.

Li Yi ate for a while, saw her pursing her lips, she was extremely cold and starved early in the morning, but she absolutely refused to show weakness to him and beg for forgiveness, in her heart she was angry and funny, she was so stubborn, she deserved to suffer more. Although he thought so, he put the rabbit leg in his mouth, freed his hand and tore off another leg from the roasted rabbit, and handed it to her. She turned her face away and refused to accept it.

He forced the rabbit leg into her hand, then took the rabbit leg out of his mouth, and while biting the meat, he said, "Don't worry, it's not poisonous. This rabbit leg, I saw that even though you poisoned me, I'm going to die." But before I left, I kindly covered my body with a heap of grass, and offered you to eat. One yard counts for one yard, and the grievances and grievances are clear."

She wanted to take the rabbit leg and throw it in his face, but after a little thought, she slowly lowered her head and took a bite. Seeing that she finally ate it, he happily asked, "How is it? My cooking is not bad, right?"

She nodded, and suddenly said: "Can you tell me honestly, how did the two of us get up?"

He tore another piece of rabbit meat, stuffed it into his mouth, and asked vaguely: "How do you know that I actually have a way to go up?"

She sighed and said: "Although I have known you not long, but you are so treacherous and cunning, how can you do something that you can't do? Since you are willing to come down, of course you have a way to go up."

Hearing her words, he couldn't help laughing: "Oh, you really think highly of me. To tell you the truth, I don't plan to go up tonight."

Seeing the surprised expression on her face, he said: "It's getting dark. In this deep mountain and dense forest, I don't know what kind of beasts are there besides bears. If you encounter any tigers and leopards, there is really nothing you can do. I know you must be With the medicine powder, snakes and ants will not invade, but those beasts will not be afraid of your medicine powder."

uess what it was. I just heard him say: "It's better to sleep here for a night and avoid wild beasts. Tomorrow morning, I will take the captain hostage and go to Mr. Cui's tent in exchange for military rations."

She was so angry that she laughed, looked him up and down, and said: "Such a shameless trick, and you still say it with confidence!" Before she finished speaking, she suddenly saw him pointing to his lips, and softly hissed: "Someone is coming! "After speaking, she quickly raised the sand and extinguished the torch inserted between the wooden thorns. Seeing him doing this, she couldn't help sneering: "You said it yourself, deep mountains and dense forests, wild beasts are rampant, where did they come from?"

He suddenly stretched out his hand to cover her mouth, she had been on guard for a long time, a needle pierced out with his fingertip, he dodged to avoid it, the needle pierced into the wall of the trap, he tightly covered her mouth with one hand, and pressed her down with the other on the well wall. She was about to struggle, when she suddenly heard rustling not far away, it seemed that there was real movement, the two held their breath, but they were trapped in a trap, there was no way to avoid it, so they had to wait quietly. After a while, countless torches suddenly illuminate the top of the trap. There are also countless bows and arrows, the arrows faintly reflecting the light of the torch, densely packed, all pointing at the two people in the trap.

She thought to herself: Is this Guo Zhi's pursuer? But looking at the shape of the arrow, it looks like it doesn't look like it. Fang was thinking about it, when he suddenly heard a broken voice from outside the trap above his head, yelling: "Hey! No wonder there is movement in the forest, it turned out to be a pair of bastards! Quickly catch them, and tie them back to the stockade for grandpa. go!"

It turned out to be a group of bandits. Looking at the torches, bows and arrows, there were more than a few hundred people. The other party is both numerous and powerful, but also a gang of reckless people, it really doesn't matter what they do, swords and arrows have no eyes, besides, the night is deep and the forest is dense, the people and the land are unfamiliar, even if the two of them can break out, it is even more worthless to encounter wild animals. It's better to adapt to the situation, maybe there is a better way to survive. At that moment, those bandits lowered their hooks, and the two of them obediently tied up their hands and feet, and the bandits tied their hands and feet tightly together, and tied them back to back with cowhide ropes. On the horseback, the crowd did not let go of their gangster spirit, roaring and clamoring all the way, escorting the two of them back to the village.

It turns out that the name of this place is Mingdai Mountain. After this group of bandits formed a village, they called it Mingdai Village. The two were tied up in the middle of the night, and the broken gong voice of the leader was even more energetic. As soon as he entered the thatched hall made of pine wood in Mingdai Village, he yelled: "Brother! Brother! Come and see, isn't it about the forest tonight If there is any movement, I will catch this pair of live treasures!"

The man he called the eldest brother was tall and burly, but with a tuft of black hair on his face. His name was Huang Youyi. He was sitting by the brazier with his clothes on and eating roasted taro. Hearing him coming in like this, he hurriedly wiped his sleeve He wiped the black ash from the corner of his mouth. Seeing his sworn brother Zhang Youren proudly tied the two into a ball and threw them on the ground, he took the knife from the gangster standing beside him, and with the help of the flickering brazier in the grass hall, he approached and carefully looked at Zhang Youren's tie. The two people who came back.

Zhang Youren's yelling all the way has already alarmed countless gangsters, and Qian Youdao and others, who are sworn brothers, were awakened, and they also rushed out from the thatched cottage behind to watch the commotion.

Zhang Youren was extremely proud, and said: "Boss! These two people are wearing leather boots, they must be two fat sheep!"

Qian Youdao picked up the torch, and by the light of the fire, he bent down and took a closer look at the two people who were bound firmly and thrown on the ground. He saw that although Li Yi was young, his expression was calm and he didn't panic at all. As for Colonel He, even though he was wearing male makeup and his face was covered with black mud, but the skin on the back of his neck was white, and his eyes drooped slightly, hiding the sparkle in his bright eyes, but he could still see that his eyes were extremely flexible. A beautiful lady with a very good appearance, pointed at Captain He, smiled and said to Huang Youyi: "This girl dressed as a man looks good! Boss, you don't have Mrs. Zhai, why don't you marry her as your wife!"

But I heard Zhang Youren's broken voice yelling: "Qian Youdao, you are so stupid! Since you are a fat sheep wearing leather boots, of course you sent someone to deliver a letter to their home, and the ransom is one hundred guan! No! One thousand guan! Wait! Now that we have money, what kind of woman will the boss want to marry? Even we can use the money to marry a woman!"

Qian Youdao frowned, and said loudly, "I'm married!"

Zhang Youren was not to be outdone: "For money!"

Qian Youdao raised his voice: "Married!"

Zhang Youren also raised his voice: "Exchange money!"

The two started arguing, and you talked to each other, one said they were married, and the other said that they would exchange money. Suddenly, Huang Youyi stood up and shouted angrily: "Stop arguing! Who is the boss?!"

But Zhang Youren and Qian Youdao said in unison: "Brother!"

Huang Youyi stopped the quarrel between the two with one word, then squatted down again, looked at Captain He and Li Yi with the knife in his hand. After a little thought, he felt that the woman is weak and should be interrogated better, so he pointed the knife at Colonel He and forced him to ask, "You, tell me the truth, who are you!"

Captain He had already guessed the identities of these bandits along the way, and he had already thought of a way to escape. At this moment, he heard him holding a knife and asking, but he was not in a hurry, smiled slightly, and said in a soft voice: "I am the concubine of the emperor's grandson Li Yi."

Li Yi, who was tied behind her back, heard her sudden words, and was really shocked like a bolt from the blue, and instinctively wanted to turn around, but he tried his best to turn his head but couldn't see what Xiaowei He's expression was, and he really didn't understand why she He actually said such a sentence.

All the bandits in the grass hall were stunned, after all, they belonged to the emperor's family, the word "huangsun" was like thunder on the ground, and everyone's ears were buzzing.

Not to mention that Li Yi was dumbfounded and his ears were buzzing like everyone else, but he heard Xiaowei He's voice like an oriole coming out of the valley, twitching and melodious, as if pearls and jade were falling on a plate, it was very pleasant to hear, what he said was: " My husband-in-law, Li Yi, is not only the grandson of the emperor, but also a well-known Marshal of Counter-Rebellion and the Jiedu Envoy of Zhenxi. Let me go, and my husband-in-law will give you ten thousand dollars!"

When Li Yi heard this, he had already changed from shock to enlightenment, from enlightenment to funny, from funny to angry, and from angry to mixed feelings. I remember the long list of titles very clearly, but the reason why I remember it so clearly is because I don't know when, such as now, I will use my grandson as a cover to deceive people. With her three-inch tongue, it is likely that these bandits will take her to Wangzhou City in exchange for money. If I really don't know it in Wangzhou City, I am afraid that I will be moved by her clever words when I first encounter this matter. , obediently paid for her to redeem her, maybe even send someone to escort her back to the Dingsheng Army. She can safely return to Mr. Cui's side, but she is kept in the dark, and has been used to the fullest, and she must pay her back in her heart, thinking that if she is not in danger and happens to be in the middle, there is no chance to win over Mr. Cui.

Thinking of this, his mood became more complicated, and he couldn't say whether it was heavy or relaxed. He just felt that this woman was cunning and should not be an enemy. These eight words had to be kept firmly in his heart. Even if you are not an enemy, even if you are an ally, you must always be on guard, otherwise you will be fooled by her if you are not careful.

That Huang Youyi hesitated a long time ago, not daring to believe it, but also not daring not to believe it, he swallowed hard, pointed his knife at Li Yi, and scolded: "You! Tell me, who is she!"

The countless thoughts in Li Yi's mind had already been turned, and when he listened to his pressing questions, he blurted out: "She is..." Knowing that Captain He couldn't see the expression on his face, he paused on purpose, and then said slowly: "She is the concubine of the emperor's grandson! I am her bodyguard, and the emperor ordered me to escort her to Wangzhou."

Qian Youdao was overjoyed, and slapped his thigh: "Brother! The emperor's grandson's little wife, you won't lose if you marry her!"

Zhang Youren quickly persuaded: "Brother! The emperor's grandson is rich! Exchange her for money!"

Qian Youdao: "Married!"

Zhang Youren: "For money!"

Huang Youyi: "Shut up! Who's the boss?"

Qian Youdao and Zhang Youren shouted in unison: "Brother!"

Huang Youyi nodded in satisfaction, tapped his palm with the back of the knife in his hand, and said, "I heard from Mr. Shan, who teaches in the town, that a man named Sun Jing rebelled and rushed into the palace and killed the emperor's old son and the emperor's son." The grandsons were all killed, and the emperor’s old son’s family was killed! Not only that, but also allowed the rebellious army to burn, kill and loot, and even slaughtered several cities! We also took in some poor people who had escaped from the disaster. A lot of people were killed during the massacre of the city, and that one surnamed Sun was very cruel, and it must be true that he killed the whole family of the emperor." Then, he squatted down again, gesticulating with a knife to scare Li Yi: "Old man, the emperor! Didn’t the entire family be killed by the Sun? You are talking nonsense here, talking about the emperor’s grandson, do you think we are easy to deceive?”

Li Yi said sincerely, "Your Majesty, I'm not lying. The emperor's grandson is really in Wangzhou City. If you don't believe me, you can send someone to inquire about it."

Huang Youyi was hesitant, but Zhang Youren suddenly pulled him aside, lowered his voice, and said, "Brother! This girl keeps saying that her husband is the emperor's grandson, the marshal who suppressed the rebellion, and led all the towns in the west. Isn't our second brother Zhao I used to be in the Zhenxi Army, why don't I ask Brother Zhao to come out and see if it's true or not?"

He had a broken voice. Although he tried his best to keep his voice down, Qian Youdao could still hear him clearly. He was used to arguing with Zhang Youren, so he immediately said, "Such a small matter should alarm Second Brother Zhao? He is not in good health. good!"

Zhang Youren was not convinced, and said, "Second brother, please!"

Qian Youdao stared and said, "Don't be alarmed!"

The two yelled back and forth, and quarreled for more than a dozen rounds in an instant. Huang Youyi was already impatient, and shouted: "Stop arguing! Go and invite Second Brother Zhao!"

Li Yi pondered in his heart, wondering who the second brother Zhao is, but in the current situation, he can only be blocked by soldiers, covered by water and soil, and play by ear. As for Colonel He, he was even more calm in his heart, thinking that although the man tied behind him was abominable, he was Pei Xian's son. Naturally, everyone in the Zhenxi Army knew everything without him, let alone Come on Zhao Er, even if the entire Zhenxi Army is here now, who would dare not give him a three-point favor with Little General Pei. Even if she told a big lie, she was sure that he would be able to lie for her. As for the emperor's grandson in the Zhenxi Army, anyway, he is far away in Wangzhou. Even if he knows about it in the future, it will only teach him to take advantage of it for nothing. Forget about it, this is what she calculated early in the morning.

Not long after, I saw two bandits walking out with a man missing an arm. The man looked haggard and old, his temples were already gray, but he was only in his thirties. Brother Zhao. Although the man was missing an arm, he walked very fast. He walked into the thatched hall and asked loudly, "Where did you come from, that little thief who dares to pretend to be a member of our Zhenxi army!"

Hearing this voice, Li Yi was extremely surprised, and couldn't help turning his head to look at Second Brother Zhao. Seeing him turning his head, the man stopped suddenly, with an unbelievable expression on his face, suddenly threw off the two young bandits who were supporting him, rushed up and threw himself in front of Li Ni, and took a closer look at him with the erratic firelight. Looking at Li Yi's face, he murmured: "Seventeen Lang! It's you! It's really you!" He hugged Li Yi with one arm, and couldn't help but burst into tears: "It's you! Seventeen Lang, it's really you!" It's you! It's been five years...five years since I was seriously injured and returned to the field...You didn't grow so tall at that time...Little bastard! It's really you! I'm Zhao Youde! Do you remember me? Little bastard !"

Since the word "Seventeen Lang" came to He Xiaowei's ears, it was like a thunderbolt from the blue sky, and his ears were buzzing. She has always been by Mr. Cui's side, and she knows everything about Dingsheng's military affairs. Ever since Sun Jing conspired against him, Dingsheng Army has had a lot of secret reports about the emperor's grandson Li Yi in the Zhenxi Army, so she knew that Li Yi had always been called "Seventeen Lang" in the Zhenxi Army. It was to conceal his identity, and after accumulating military achievements, the word "Seventeen Lang" became a kind of honorific title, even Pei Xian, Pei Yuan, and his colleagues in the army all called him "Seventeen Lang" on weekdays.

This person is not Pei Yuan! This person turned out to be Li Yi.