Chapter 3: The Golden Autumn and October Hunting Dragon City

Outside Baishi Fort, the soldiers of the Tang Andong Army were slowly cleaning the battlefield, but from time to time, there were Goguryeo or Xi troops who came to harass the Tang Army soldiers to clean up the battlefield.

However, the officers and men of the Tang Army, who had been waiting for a long time, shot at these incoming enemy troops and were crushed.

Zhang Jian, the governor of Yingzhou, said suspiciously: "Dadu Hu, do you say that these people are stupid, they know that they are dead, and they want to come to death like moths throwing fire!" ”

"They're not stupid, it's that they've lost very important people!" Li Shiji looked at the mountains of corpses formed by Yang Wanchun's side who fought to the death and did not retreat, and said with a faint smile: "We have not found Yuan Taizuo's personal guards and honor guards here, according to the current situation, it is obvious that the Goguryeo Xi people have not met Yuan Taizuo either." ”

Zhang Jian was stunned for a moment, and said with a look of ecstasy: "Dadu Hu, do you mean, we still have a chance to capture Yuan Taizuo alive?" ”

Li Shiji nodded and said, "It should be possible!" ”

"The Old Tang Book, Dongyi, and the Biography of Goryeo" contains: Goguryeo "its official name is big against Lu, compared to a product, always knows state affairs, three years, if competent, regardless of the number of years." On the day of alternation, or if they do not contradict each other, they all attack each other, and the winner will do it. But the king is closed to himself, and cannot be controlled. The second brother is said to be more than the second grade. For the officers below Lu, the total is 12 grades.

Yuan Taizuo, the big pair of Lu, is generally equivalent to the official position of the first rank in the Tang Dynasty, but the Tang Dynasty has a vacant position from the second rank and above, and the only one who can be equal to it is probably only the Tiance General of Li Shimin, the King of Qin.

Once Yuan Taizuo is captured or killed, then the credit is obvious.

With Li Shiji's order, the elites of the Anton Army began to scatter, looking for Yuan Taizuo all over the mountains.

Although the armies did not find any trace of Yuan Taizuo, Li Shiji did not dare to be careless, Yuan Taizuo, as the great opponent of Goguryeo, can be said to be above 10,000 people under one person, and he will not leave the country easily. If it is a commander, it is another matter, but if Yuan Taizuo is in command, he will definitely not lead such a small army.

As the saying goes, if something goes wrong, there will be demons.

Li Shiji held the beef leg meat in one hand, chopped the beef pieces with a knife, and put them into his mouth one by one to chew, but his eyes kept staring at the map, and his brows were twisted into a big pimple.

The price of eating beef in Guanzhong is very expensive, almost the same as eating money, but beef in Andong is already the daily ration of the soldiers of the Andong army.

Zhang Jian saw that he had been busy for five or six days, and he didn't even see the shadow of Yuan Taizuo, so he was very depressed. Zhang Jian devoured a leg of mutton and muttered: "Our army is vigorous and the armor is sharp, these are not secrets, whether it is the Goguryeo people or the Xi people, they are not stupid, they will definitely not face the enemy head-on." If you let the end come to command, you will definitely hide the main force in the mountainous areas around Tiger Mountain and Baiquan Mountain, wait for you to attack from afar, and at the same time send a large number of elite rangers to constantly harass and exhaust you, and wait until your physical strength and supplies are almost exhausted before you will go out and surround you! ”

He smacked his lips and said: "The strong walls are clear, the rangers are harassing, and waiting for work, these routines are very familiar to the Donghu people, and I don't know how many famous generals have been planted on these three-plate axes." ”

Li Shiji was silent for a long time and said, "What you said is not unreasonable, but I don't think it will be so simple. I always had a feeling that they were going to make a big move. ”

Li Shiji reported this abnormal situation to Li Jiancheng as quickly as possible.

……

In the Shuanggou Valley, more than 300 miles northeast of Baishi Fort, in a huge military tent with a wolf's head, Li Pogu, the leader of the Xi Clan's Yuanqi Folding Division, held a wooden arrow shaft without tail feathers in his hand and was silent.

The Goguryeo Da in armor introduced Lu Yuan Taizuo in Tang Yan: "This is the standard crossbow arrow used by the Tang Andong Army, and after a few years of dealing with it, I will never admit my mistake!" ”

The corners of Li Pogu's mouth said with a smile in Donghu language: "The taste of Tang Guo is not small, their hands have reached Daxianbei Mountain, but he is not afraid of dying by himself!" ”

Yuan Taizuo sighed with a sad face: "Compared with the 300,000 elites of the Tang Kingdom who are far away in Guanzhong, Li Shiji's Anton Army is the mortal enemy of my thirteen departments in Eastern Liaodong. As you can see, the Anton army suffered less than 1,000 casualties, and we lost 35,000 dead, and there was no count of the wounded......"

Li Pogu glared at Yuan Taizuo with fierce eyes and shouted: "You Goguryeo have died less than 3,000, and more than 8,000 people have died in our five Xi tribes......"

"It's not important, the important thing is that just one Anton Army is poor and our thirteen countries in Liaodong are no longer opponents!" Yuan Taizuo looked at Li Pogu meaningfully and said, "You don't want to think about it, when Li Tang frees up his hand, will they let us go?" Don't forget Yang Sui's million souls, you Xi people have also made a lot of efforts! ”

Li Pogu put down the crossbow arrow, sighed and said: "If it weren't for Li Shiji's Anton Army blocking here, it would not be difficult for our thirteen Liaodong divisions, crossing the side wall, and watching the troops to the right of Beiping, and the Emperor Li in Chang'an City, cut a piece of meat respectfully, and don't want to send us back......"

"It's time for you to wake up from your dream!" Yuan Taizuo roared with a hideous face: "According to reliable information, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty has been replaced, and Li Jiancheng has been replaced, Li Jiancheng is not Li Yuan who is small and rich, and our thirteen departments in Liaodong have come to a catastrophe!" ”

Li Pogu smiled faintly: "We are different from you Goguryeo, we have never thought of herding horses on the Yellow River and entering the Central Plains, even if the Tang State leads the army to the east, we can surrender, I think the Tang State will definitely accept us!" ”

Yuan Taizuo sneered with a sneer on his face: "You are so naïve, the wolf wants to eat the sheep not only because the wolf is hungry, or maybe the wolf is in a bad mood, are you willing to pin the lives of your entire clan on the wolf's mood?" ”

Li Pogu groaned: "We are not you Goguryeo people, your courage is too big, obviously a sheep, vainly trying to dominate Liaodong, it is just the same as Yelang Kingdom, arrogant and boundless, you don't know, you are the way to die!" ”

Yuan Taizuo was quite unimpressed.

Each country has its own development direction and its own strategic goals, and the Goguryeo people are actually pure nomads, they are also an agrarian civilization, and have established more than 100 cities, large and small. Goguryeo, as a small power in Northeast Asia, was already able to beat Silla, Baekje, Buyeo and Samhan, but they were not satisfied with this small power in Northeast Asia, and began to want to provoke the Central Plains Dynasty and dreamed of vainly trying to dominate the Central Plains.

It's just that they were born at the wrong time, if Goguryeo encountered the troubled times of the Central Plains when it was strong, they could rush into the Central Plains to pick up leaks like the Xianbei Murong Department or the Xianbei Tuoba Department. It's just that when Goguryeo invaded Liaoxi for the first time, it was ordered by Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian, and 300,000 troops came out.

Later, in the Yang Guang era, they began to die. Although Yang Guang lost a million troops in Goguryeo, Goguryeo was actually not having a good time, otherwise they would not have nested in Pyongyang City in the chaotic times at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the war for more than ten years.

However, when they recovered, they found out. The situation in the Central Plains has changed greatly, and the Tang Dynasty has achieved basic unification, especially under the influence of Chen Ying, an otherworldly butterfly, just one Li Shiji and one Anton army pressed the thirteen tribes of Liaodong to the ground and rubbed them.

It is said that since they have suffered losses, they will honestly kowtow and admit their mistakes, and the Tang Dynasty will definitely accept their refuge.

It's just that Yuan Taizuo is different, as the great pair of Lu, he not only has a strong control over Goguryeo, but he also wants to replace Gao Jianwu and become the king of Goguryeo.

If he wants to become the king of Goguryeo, he must have the merit of showing his hand, so he wanted to unite the tribes of Liaodong and expel the Tang army from Liaodong first.

So, when the cold wind was howling, Yuan Taizuo personally sent an envoy to the Thirteen Divisions of Liaodong to promote this alliance, and used this bloody fact to warn the Thirteen Divisions of Liaodong that the Tang Dynasty was not something they could resist independently.

Although Yuan Taizuo did not succeed in convincing Li Pogu, one of the five major tribes of the Xi tribe, at this time, he did not mind letting Goguryeo annex the Xi and Khitan tribes first, and then merging the various tribes to form an absolute force against the Tang Dynasty.

Just when Yuan Taizuo was about to launch a surprise attack and kill Li Pogu, an uninvited guest arrived in Liaodong, this person was none other than the henchman of the Eastern Turkic former Luo Khan Ashina Lifushe, and now the henchman of the Eastern Turkic Jieli Khan.

Goguryeo Yuan Taizuo couldn't convince Li Pogu, after all, Goguryeo was too close to the Xi people, and both sides knew the roots, and Eulzhi Wende adopted a deceitful strategy to lure the Sui army of 305,000 people to attack the Datong River, and then flooded the Ninth Army, and the Sui army was defeated like a mountain.

In fact, Li Pogu knows very well that there are almost no winners in this battle. Although the Sui army was defeated, it inflicted heavy losses on Goguryeo in its dying struggle, and more than half of the 100,000 Goguryeo troops were killed or wounded, and more than two-thirds of the troops were half-grown children who had just turned fifteen or sixteen.

At least Goguryeo did not have the strength to threaten the Xi people. But the Eastern Turks are different, the Eastern Turks are the overlords of the grassland for decades, once more than 200,000 troops have besieged Yang Guang through Yanmen Pass, and countless cities have been breached, although in recent years there have been fewer victories and more defeats, it is undeniable that the Eastern Turks can easily pinch the Xi people to death with a little finger.

The intention of Bulugen is very simple, Jieli Khan invited the leaders of the thirteen tribes of Liaodong and the lords or leaders of Goguryeo, Buyeo, Silla, Baekje and other countries to hunt the dragon city in the golden autumn and October.

Bu Lugen did not have sharp words, nor did he have endless eloquence, but coldly threw down a sentence, whether to go or not.

Li Pogu's face suddenly changed greatly.

He can ignore the threat of Goguryeo, because he knows that Goguryeo is a kind of goods, and he doesn't know who loses and who wins in a fight, but he knows very well the strength of the Eastern Turks, once he becomes enemies with the Eastern Turks, the Eastern Turks can destroy them in minutes.

Li Pogu bowed down and said: "Your envoy rest assured, Xiao Wang will definitely lead the elite of the clan to Dragon City to see the demeanor of the Great Turkic warriors......"

Bu Lugen looked at Yuan Taizuo and said with a smile: "Goguryeo is now the big pair of Lu, so Gao Jianwu doesn't have to go to Dragon City, we Khan are happy to see that the big pair of Lu will hunt in Dragon City!" ”

As soon as Yuan Taizuo heard this, he knew that the Eastern Turks were willing to see Yuan Taizuo become the king of Goguryeo, and at least willing to maintain the status quo, so he hurriedly said: "Your envoy, don't worry, I will definitely be there!" ”

Bu Lugen said lightly: "Then you are busy now, I have to go to dozens of tribes!" ”

……

Chen Ying, who was in Chang'an, and the Tang Dynasty court actually didn't realize that at this time, a very huge conspiracy had been launched around the Tang Dynasty.

With the birth of the eldest daughter, the name of the eldest daughter became the flashpoint of the conflict between Li Xiuning and Chen Ying, and Li Daozhen's son was surnamed Li and called Li Siye, which made Li Xiuning very jealous.

As soon as her daughter was born, Li Xiuning said to Chen Ying: "I have already thought of my daughter's name, so I will call her Li Wenbiao!" ”

"Poof......" Chen Ying almost choked on his own saliva when he heard this, he pointed to his daughter who was as cute as a porcelain doll and said, "You actually named her Wen Biao?" Can you serve a snack? ”

Li Xiuning retorted: "The eldest daughter of Zhuge Hui, a famous scholar in the Southern Dynasty, is called Zhuge Wenbiao!" ”

Chen Ying flatly rejected the name.

Li Xiuning thought for a while and said, "Then it's better to call it Li Wenxiong!" ”

"Stop......" Chen Ying was really angry, he pointed at Li Xiuning and said: "Girl's name, you don't have to worry about it, I'll take it!" ”

As he spoke, Chen Ying's brain began to run rapidly.

"Li Shiyin?"

As soon as this name popped up in his brain, he was immediately thrown out of Chen Ying's mind. Because this person didn't end well in Gulong Dali.

Some people say that the daughter is the lover of the father's previous life.

Chen Ying looked at the little lovely child, and a figure that made him a human being in his two lives unconsciously appeared in his head, and Chen Ying murmured: "Ruoxi ......"

At this moment, the daughter, who had her eyes slightly closed, suddenly opened her eyes.

Li Xiuning smiled: "Look, my daughter has agreed, her name is Ruoxi, Li Ruoxi!" ”

Chen Ying faintly felt that something was wrong, but he didn't think about it for a while.

Seeing that Li Ruoxi was bored spitting milk bubbles alone, Li Siye and Chen Qian's little brother quietly touched the crib.

Chen Qian stretched out his hand and pointed at Li Ruoxi's chubby little face and said, "Call my brother ......"

Li Siye shook the crib and said with a smile: "Call brother!" ”

"I'm big brother!"

"I'm the second brother!"

Li Siye said with a smile: "Little sister, the eldest brother will protect you, whoever dares to bully you, the eldest brother will help you beat him!" ”

Chen Qian stretched out his hand to pull Li Ruoxi's ears, and Chen Ying slapped his forehead, finally understanding what was wrong.

Li Xiuning let her daughter take her surname.

As a person of later generations, Chen Ying really doesn't care what the child's surname is, after all, the biggest tragedy is that he has followed his surname for 20 years, but he is not his own. As long as it's a biological child, it really doesn't matter what the surname is.

Seeing that Chen Ying was in a low mood, Li Xiuning was a little embarrassed.

After all, she played some small tricks on her daughter's surname, deliberately taking her daughter's name as Wen Biao, so that Chen Ying focused all her attention on Wen Biao, and naturally ignored the previous surname.

Li Xiuning raised the name in his hand and said: "According to Chen Lang's, his daughter's name is Li Ruoxi, and she has been sent to the palace!" ”

Chen Ying sighed and said, "It's good if you like it!" ”

"Angry?" Li Xiuning asked in a low voice.

Chen Ying shook his head.

Li Xiuning said: "Then you laugh at one!" ”

Chen Ying showed a smile that was more ugly than bitter.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Qian and Li Siye around the crib, and then said, "Chen Lang, don't be angry, it's a big deal that people will compensate you!" ”

Chen Ying asked rhetorically, "Compensation...... How to compensate! ”

Li Xiuning's face was slightly red, and he snuggled up on Chen Ying's shoulder and said, "You said when you dreamed, try it...... Someone will accompany you! ”

Words that cannot be described at this time.

At this moment, He Yue'er's voice came from outside the door.

"Chen Lang, Yingzhou Assassin Duan Yanshi Duan envoy Jun asks to see!"

Chen Ying sighed helplessly and said, "A month later, I hope you don't break your promise!" ”

Li Xiuning blushed and said, "The concubine will never break her word!" ”

……

Chen Ying's car was driving on the official road, and Duan Yanshi in the carriage said with a worried face: "Hurry up, hurry up!" ”

Chen Ying frowned and said, "Where is Duan Zhixuan going to be distributed?" ”

Duan Yanshi said with a sad face: "It is said that it is the ...... of Jiannan Dao"

Chen Ying nodded and said, "Speed up!" ”

Finally, a group of soldiers appeared on the official road, escorting a long line of prisoners and slowly walking.

Chen Ying and Duan Yanshi were in the carriage, looking at the prisoners one by one. Suddenly, Duan Yanshi hurriedly signaled the coachman to stop.

Duan Yanshi jumped out of the car, grabbed a prisoner and choked up, "Zhixuan......"

Duan Zhixuan, the former commander of the Qin Palace's army and the general of Zhengsi Pinzhongwu, raised his head to see Duan Yanshi's face carefully, and fell to his knees, crying bitterly. Said: "Father, my son can't enter filial piety!" ”

Duan Yanshi kowtowed to Chen Ying's carriage and said, "General Chen...... Help me! ”

Chen Ying sighed and jumped out of the carriage.

Seeing this, the prisoners in front and behind swarmed around and knelt down and cried.

The soldiers escorting the prisoners rushed over, picked up the handles of their knives and guns, and beat the prisoners to the ground.

Chen Ying roared angrily: "Stop! ”

The commander who led the team sneered: "Who are you sacred, dare to take care of such idle things? ”

Liu Renliang rushed over and shouted: "Bold, this is the general of the Left Guard, the prince of the East Palace, how dare you be rude?" Don't you want to die? ”

The commander of the army looked Chen Ying up and down suspiciously.

There is no way, Chen Ying is neither wearing an official uniform nor carrying a guard of honor, the key is that Chen Ying's carriage is very low-key, and he really can't see that he is the crown prince of the dynasty.

Liu Renliang roared angrily: "The noodle festival is like the noodle king, Your Majesty personally gave the talisman here, you sit upright on the horse, aren't you afraid of committing the crime of great disrespect?" ”

The commander hurriedly waved his hand to signal the soldiers to stop beating the prisoners, turned over and dismounted, knelt down in front of Chen Ying and said: "I don't know how to be on a bad job, please forgive my sins!" ”

Chen Yingdao: "This time I came to the south of the Holy Empire, just for this matter, you let these people go!" ”

The commander was shocked and said: "Don't dare to be lowly in your position, our general has clearly ordered your humble duty to escort these prisoners to Jiannan Dao!" ”

Chen Ying shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, you have clearly declared the world that even those who abolish the prince of the Qin Wangfu and the prince of the Qin king will be pardoned, and they will not be allowed to invite each other to be rewarded, and the violators will sit back." You know this, and you still want to arrest these people, you are already guilty, you go back and tell him, let him impeach himself, otherwise when I go back to Chang'an, the first thing I will do is to impeach him for disobeying the decree. This is not child's play, you have to convey it to him, understand? ”

The commander of the army looked at Chen Ying in frustration.

Duan Zhixuan, who was unshackled, came over and kowtowed to Chen Ying and said, "Thank you General Chen for saving me!" ”

Chen Ying said lightly: "No need to be polite, this is an edict under His Majesty's explicit order." ”

Duan Zhixuan said in astonishment: "General Chen, is this true?" All the old people in the Qin Palace's mansion have been pardoned? ”

Chen Ying nodded.

Duan Zhixuan sighed: "What kind of person is the new emperor? ”

Chen Ying was silent.

PS: It's a bit busy these days, just one chapter today, 5,200 words!