"There is no news from General Qu Tu yet?" Chen Ying had a bad premonition in his heart, and he said suspiciously: "General Qu Tu is also from a general's family, and he has been in battle for a long time, so he won't be a ......."

Li Xiuning's eyes glanced at it, and he knew what Chen Ying meant. Qu Tutong was the general of the former Sui Dynasty, and later became Yang Jian's personal guard governor, Zuo Xiaowei's general, it can be said that Yang Guang is sorry for many people, but he is not sorry for Qu Tutong, but Qu Tutong surrendered to Li Tang after the defeat, at that time Li Tang was also not strong, and he was also very weak. Now that Li Tang has been defeated and Wang Shichong has won a big victory, it is difficult to guarantee that Qu Tutong will surrender again.

Qu Tutong is a general with a criminal record, and in order to survive, he will seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. At this time, Li Xiuning couldn't make a judgment in his heart. Li Xiuning muttered: "General Qu Tu has done his best, even if he ...... There are also extenuating circumstances. ”

"General Qu Tu is back!"

"General Qu Tu is back!"

Chen Ying was overjoyed when he heard this, and Li Xiuning was also obviously relieved.

After a while, Li Shimin sent someone to invite Chen Ying back to discuss the matter. Although Chen Ying has not been seriously injured now, his physical strength is exhausted, and his limbs are sore, Li Xiuning didn't think about it, and stepped forward to help Chen Ying. However, Chen Ying is still a man in the end, no matter how thin he is, his weight is more than one hundred and twenty pounds, Li Xiuning supported Chen Ying, feeling very difficult.

At this moment, Zhou Qing was about to come forward to help Chen Ying, but he didn't think that he had just raised his leg, but his arm was grabbed by Guo Luo. Zhou Qing looked at Guo Luo puzzled: "What are you pulling me for?" ”

"What for?" Guo Luo chuckled: "Don't go to the eyesore now!" ”

Saying that, Guo Luo pointed to Li Xiuning and Chen Ying, and Zhou Qing suddenly realized.

Li Xiuning helped Chen Ying walk nearly a hundred steps, and it took more than a pillar of incense. At this time, Chen Ying really couldn't stand the whispers and strange eyes of everyone, Chen Ying said: "Zhou Qing, Guo Luo, find a stretcher for General Ben!" ”

There is a field ambulance team between the left and right guards of the East Palace and the left and right divisions of the East Palace, but this time to help Li Shimin, the medical team did not follow at all. Li Xiuning said suspiciously: "Stretcher? ”

Chen Ying pointed to the simple stretcher made by Zhou Qing with two sacks, through two spears, and then dismantled the head of the spear and said: "This is the thing, many wounded on the battlefield are too seriously injured to move, if they are carried on people's backs, or carried by people, it is easy to cause secondary damage to the wound, so Chen Huairen pondered the stretcher!" ”

In fact, this stretcher was made up by Chen Ying, but his credit was already too great, and this invention was simply needed to improve his merits. So Chen Ying put this credit on Chen Huairen's head.

Li Xiuning is also a general, and he can see the magic at a glance. She nodded and said, "This thing is simple, practical, and in terms of materials, it should be promoted by the whole army." ”

made a stretcher and walked all the way to Li Shimin's Zhongjun Festival Hall. At this time, Chen Ying found that the camp in the north was really miserable, a large number of camp walls had collapsed, and now the soldiers of the Tang Army were urgently repairing, and the most dangerous thing was that the traces of burning had extended to about 500 steps of the Chinese army's big tent, and it was obvious that the Zheng army was only one step away from breaking the camp at that time.

However, fortunately, Chen Ying arrived in time for reinforcements, which scared Zheng Jun away.

"Third sister, you're not hurt, are you?" As soon as he entered the inner camp of the Chinese army, a tall general quickly knelt down to Li Xiuning and Chen Ying.

Following the sound of looking, Li Xiuning found that this tall general was none other than Li Yuanji, the king of Qi. Li Xiuning asked in surprise: "Sanhu, aren't you in Mengjin?" How did you get here? ”

Mengjin is on the north bank of the Yellow River, in fact, in order to obtain the great merit of this attack on Luoyang, Li Shimin not only excluded Chen Ying and Qu Tutong, but even Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, was driven by Li Shimin to take care of the grain road.

Thinking of this, the unhappiness in Chen Ying's heart was swept away. In order to monopolize the great achievements, Li Shimin didn't even give face to his younger brother, and it was reasonable not to let him intervene. Although I was unhappy in my heart, I was relieved when I thought about it now.

"My scouts have been staring at the camp in the north, and when General Qu Tu led the way to Longmen, I got the news!" Li Yuanji's eyes flickered a little and said, "It's just...... Sanhu didn't expect that General Qu Tu would also be defeated! ”

Chen Ying looked at Li Yuanji's flickering gaze and instantly guessed that he was not telling the truth. Li Shimin is jealous of Chen Ying's military exploits, why is Li Yuanji not jealous of Li Shimin? In fact, if Li Yuanji had sent troops to rescue the Beipi camp within the first time when the Tang army's camp was on fire, it was estimated that he would have been able to lead the reinforcements to arrive before the second camp wall of the camp was breached.

However, Li Yuanji led more than 10,000 men and horses, and after crossing the Yellow River, he was collecting and defeating troops at the confluence of Luoshui and Jianhe.

Listening to Li Yuanjitian shamelessly talking about gathering the rout there, Chen Ying didn't know what to say. Hewanji is fifty miles away from Luoyang, which is naturally nothing for the cavalry, and it is really not easy for the infantry to run there.

Suddenly, lightning broke out in the sky, and the sound of rolling thunder rang out, and then bean-sized raindrops began to fall from the sky.

"Fast forward!"

Li Xiuning pulled Li Yuanji with one hand and Chen Ying with the other. However, Chen Ying's eyes looked at the dark night sky of Chang'an.

When they came to the festival hall, the generals were already standing in line.

Chen Ying originally sat on a stretcher and entered the big tent, Li Shimin saw this scene and hurriedly walked in front of Chen Ying from the main seat: "General Chen, how is your injury?" ”

Chen Ying waved his hand vigorously and said: "His Royal Highness King Qin doesn't need to worry, the ministers are fine, but their physical strength is exhausted, and their limbs are sore."

Li Shimin said: "Come on, quickly move a soft couch for General Chen!" ”

After a while, several Chinese guards carried a soft couch to the bottom left of the big tent. Chen Ying looked at the lower left and was stunned.

In this Eastern Expeditionary Corps, Chen Ying's official position was originally the deputy marshal of the right capital of soldiers and horses in Eastern Shaanxi. In fact, his ground is one level lower than Qu Tutong, and he belongs to the third person after Li Shimin and Qu Tutong.

Chen Ying waved his hand and said, "His Royal Highness King Qin, this is not appropriate, right?" ”

The seat and seat represent identity and status, Li Shimin said: "Who dares to say that it is not appropriate? ”

As he spoke, Li Shimin looked at Qu Tutong.

In fact, Li Shimin felt very full in this battle, although he was ambushed by the enemy, but Qu Tutong actually led an army of 100,000 and was defeated by Wang Shiyun's 5,000 cavalry and 3,000 fire oxen. In Li Shimin's mind, let alone 100,000 horses, even if it was 100,000 pigs, there was no way to be killed in less than four hours.

In this battle, Qu Tutong was inevitably derelict in his duties.

Qu Tutong said in a hoarse voice: "General Chen should not be polite...... is old and incompetent, and sooner or later he will have to be virtuous. ”

Li Shimin's face was full of gloom, and Chen Ying asked, "His Royal Highness the King of Qin, did Wang Shichong attack again?" ”

"No, but ......" Li Shimin said: "Although Wang Shichong did not attack, it is more serious than this!" ”

Chen Ying asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?" ”

Li Shimin said indignantly: "These villains who are in the twilight of Qin, they actually escaped!" ”

"Who!" Chen Ying heard it inexplicably: "Who escaped?" ”

Cheng Zhijie scolded: "Who else can there be, Governor Shi Zhanggong of Xianzhou Tian Zan and Yang Qing, the governor of Yunzhou, please surrender; Weizhou assassinated Shi Derui, Zhang Zhenzhou, Huanrong, Bian, Wei, Yu and other Kyushu governors all took advantage of the chaos to escape. ”

Chen Ying's brows furrowed: "This is the trouble!" ”

"yes!" Li Shimin sighed and said: "These places are newly surrendered, and the imperial court has not had time to arrange them, if they go back and wave their arms, I am afraid that they will rise again!" ”

"It's not just that I'm afraid, I'm afraid it will definitely be reversed!" Chen Yingdao: "Now there is no way, I can only transfer the left and right guard rates and the left and right Si Yu rates!" ”

Li Shimin nodded and said, "Lone also has this intention!" ”

……

Heavy rain poured down, and on the stone steps in front of the palace of Taiji Palace of Chang'an Imperial Palace, water splashed everywhere. A bolt of lightning tore through the sky, and thunder rolled through.

Chen Qi, the regular attendant, trotted all the way with small steps, and stepped up the stone steps. A small yellow door stepped forward to help him, but he threw it away.

Chen Qi ran towards the main hall. Drive directly into the temple.

Li Yuan looked at the heavy rain outside the hall with his hands behind his back, and Li Yuan faintly felt uneasy in his heart. Spring oil is as expensive as oil, and there is a proverb that says that thunder in spring is full of thieves. If the weather is abnormal, it indicates that the year will definitely not be good. As early as when the heavy rain had just fallen, Li Yuan had already ordered Pei Lian, Chen Shuda, Xiao Shiwen and other ministers to come to discuss the matter.

Chen Ying entered the main hall and carefully handed the secret report in his hand to Li Yuan. Li Yuan turned to stand on top of the Danqi, and his two eyes stared at Chen Qi who was kneeling on the ground: "This is ......"

Chen Qi hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, this is Luoyang Emergency!" ”

As he spoke, Chen Qi hurriedly lowered his head, not daring to meet Li Yuan's gaze.

Li Yuan opened the secret report suspiciously, his eyes swept on the secret report, although his expression was as usual, but Li Yuan's hands trembled, his beard trembled, and sweat dripped on the gold bricks.

Chen Shuda, who originally looked quite relaxed, didn't dare to come out at this time. Pei Lin looked at Li Yuan's trembling hands and the beads of sweat on his face, and asked in a low voice, "Your Majesty...... Your Majesty. ”

Li Yuan's cold voice sounded in the main hall: "What about the messenger? ”

Chen Qi shuddered and said, "Go back to ...... Returning to Your Majesty, the messenger is outside the Yong'an Gate......

"Xuan ...... Slowly, tightly seal the news," At this time, Li Yuan's trembling hand handed the secret letter to Pei Lian. Pei Lin just glanced at it, his face changed greatly, and he lost his voice: "Your Majesty...... This...... How can it be? ”

Li Yuan turned his face and glanced at Pei Lian. Slowly closed his eyes, as if the defeat of Luoyang had nothing to do with him.

Chen Qi came to Li Yuan again and said timidly: "Your Majesty, this is His Royal Highness the King of Qin's Guilty Seal. ”

He held a watch seal in his hand and handed it to Emperor Chongguan.

Li Yuan snorted coldly, did not take Chen Qi's seal, and turned to look at Pei Lin and said, "Eunuch Pei, how should the matter of King Qin be handled??" ”

Pei Lin was clever for a moment, and stepped out of the ranks: "Your Majesty, the defeat of Luoyang, Qu Tutong's funeral and humiliation of the country, the crime is unforgivable, but now the king is newly defeated, the internal situation is unknown, the current Dali Temple Prison, and the Criminal Department, the Imperial History Observatory is integrated to investigate and understand, and the responsibility is announced to the world, and the punishment is correct!" ”

Pei Lin naturally knew that Li Yuan intended to protect Li Shimin, but the battle of Luoyang was defeated, with more than 100,000 soldiers lost, and someone must have come out to take this responsibility. Li Shimin can't take this responsibility, and Chen Ying tried his best to turn the tide at a critical moment, only Qu Tutong's head is not big or small, which is just right.

Li Yuan smiled coldly: "Chen Shuda? I entrusted you with the matter of the Eastern Crusade, and now that the 100,000 army is abandoned, a question is clear, is that your explanation to me? ”

Chen Shuda took a deep breath, untied the belt, took off the beam crown on his head, and knelt on the ground. The emperor will not be wrong, then only the Chinese scholar is wrong, and this Chinese scholar is only the top cylinder. Chen Shuda said with a gloomy expression: "As a servant, the old minister can't calm the four yi, and the ministers are guilty of the worries of the monarch's father!" ”

Li Yuan looked at Chen Xinbo, who was kneeling on the ground, and a look of hesitation appeared in his eyes.

Xiao Shiwen, who was under the door, raised his eyes and looked at Chen Shuda who was kneeling on the ground, then turned his head and looked at Pei Lin who was sitting at the head of the station, Pei Lin still had his eyes closed and didn't say a word.

Li Yuan said loudly: "The Wang division is defeated, Wang Shichong's victorious division will definitely be Koubian, you Chen Shuda resigned, and Wang Shichong will retire?" Chen Xianggong, are you trying to blackmail me? ? ”

Chen Shuda kowtowed and said, "Don't dare!" ”

Li Yuan turned his head and looked at Pei Lian: "Supervisor Pei ......"

Pei Lin opened his eyes, his eyes were full of light, at this moment, he didn't look like an old man in his sixties at all.

Li Yuan said coldly: "What do you say??" ”

Pei Lin said slowly: "The most important thing at the moment is the defense of eastern Shaanxi, which needs to be rectified urgently, don't make Zheng Guo's soldiers and horses not cross the border wall, transfer the troops in the pass to the east, and fill the defense line of Tongguan; On the eastern Shaanxi side, the Hedong side should strengthen its military armament to prevent the Turks from taking advantage of the fire to loot, flank Wang Shichong from two directions, and join forces to attack and harass the Beijing division......

Li Yuan nodded with great satisfaction and said, "Listen, this is the words of seeking the country."

Li Yuan turned his head to look at Chen Shuda and said, "Chen Shuda, did you hear that?" You are my prime minister, and when the country has something, you want to pick a son, is it the work of a loyal minister? ”

Chen Shuda let out a long breath and replied: "Your Majesty, the states of Hedong, all matters related to the armament of armor and staff, before going to the palace, only need to be ordered by His Majesty, and it can be activated." The reinforcements in Guanzhong can advance eastward day and night, and within five days and nights, they can support the defense of Tongguan...... Ensuring the safety of Kansai. ”

Li Yuan nodded: "This is about the same, you, Pei Xiangguo, and Xiao Xiangguo are all my ministers, and when this country is in trouble, you have to be in the same boat, understand?" ”

Chen Shuda said: "The minister understands——。 ”

Li Yuan said: "Passing the decree, Li Shimin and Qu Tutong mourned the teacher and humiliated the country, and went to Dali Temple to investigate-

He paused, turned his head to look at Xiao Shiwen and said, "Xiao Qing!" ”

Xiao Shiwen stepped forward and said, "The minister is here!"

Li Yuan said: "This case, you will ask it with Dali Temple!" ”

Chen Shuda fell to the ground, and his eyebrows couldn't help moving.

Xiao Shiwen bowed and said, "The edict is served!" ”

At this moment, a loud shout came from outside the hall: "Wait! ”

Li Yuan, Pei Lian, Xiao Shiwen, Chen Shuda and others all looked towards His Royal Highness, only to see that outside the main hall, Li Jiancheng walked into the main hall like a chicken in soup. Li Jiancheng looked at Li Yuan and asked solemnly: "Father, what are you going to do with the soldiers and horses of the big camp in the north of Luoyang?" ”

"Chen Yingquan knows that the soldiers and horses in eastern Shaanxi are all marshals, control the armies, and deploy defense!" Li Yuan said without thinking about it: "He is now the pacification envoy of Henan Dao, and it is his duty to pacify Henan Dao......":