Li Shimin took 5,000 rescued prisoners of the Great Sui Mansion and escorted 5,000 stone of grain.

There was Anshi City ahead, and when he thought of Luo Cheng's surprised expression when he saw them, Li Shimin couldn't help but feel a little proud.

Luo Cheng deliberately embarrassed him, but he didn't expect that he would be able to complete the task and be so good.

As soon as he thought of this, his head couldn't help but rise higher, and his chest became a little more straight.

even felt that even the war horse he stepped on had taken a step that his six relatives did not recognize. And Yu Guang almost laughed out loud when he saw the grateful expressions of the soldiers who were rescued by him all the way.

Seeing a middle-aged soldier with only one arm left, still carrying a bag of grain, he asked, "Are you tired?" ”

The disabled soldier shook his head earnestly.

He was captured during the first expedition to Liao, and served as a prisoner in Goguryeo for two years, during which he traveled to many places to transport grain for the Goguryeo army, and was resold to the nobles, and then arranged to farm and graze, and finally was thrown into the mine to mine because he was not as good as others in his work.

Originally, he didn't expect that he would come back alive.

In the big war two years ago, he was under the command of Yu Wenshu at that time. Until now, he will never forget the battle that turned thousands of miles in, when he was captured in the Yalu River, he had not eaten for several days, and he was so hungry that he couldn't walk, and then he watched the Goguryeo soldiers come up, and he didn't want to walk or walk, so he let them take prisoner.

In the two years he was a captive slave, he basically never had enough to eat, and he was hungry.

When I first went east, one person had three stones of grain, which was too much, so I buried it as I walked. But after two years of starvation, his eyes would light up when he saw food.

So he carried a bag of grain on his back all the way, in fact, each person only had to carry his own rations on the road, just carry a few buckets, and the rest of the grain was transported by carts and horses, but he still carried a lot for himself.

Until your back doesn't move.

This way, there are two or three hundred miles, but he has to carry this rice on his back every day, and he refuses to even put it down when he sleeps, and he has to hold it in his arms before falling asleep.

There are many others like this one-armed man.

The vast majority of the captured Sui army was the soldiers of the Eighth Army who went south during the first expedition to Liao, and the Eighth Army was defeated and retreated, when 156,000 horses and horses were captured, and tens of thousands were killed in battle.

"We'll be home soon, and in front of us is Anshi, which is now our territory." Li Shimin said to those soldiers with emotion.

The eyes of these captives lit up when they heard the word home.

How many days and nights, I thought I would never be able to go back.

When Anshi City appeared in front of their eyes, when the fluttering Sui flag on the head of the city appeared, many people cried bitterly, and some people knelt directly on the ground and cried.

A group of light horsemen came up to meet them.

Li Shimin stepped forward immediately.

"I am Li Shimin, who was sent to the domestic city by the order of the marshal, and now I am back. Not only did I come back, but I also brought back Yuangai Suwen, and I also brought back 20,000 captured soldiers and brothers, as well as 20,000 stone of grain. Yuan Taizuo has also promised that he will return the rest of the captured brothers stranded in his territory, and the food requested by the marshal will also be delivered. ”

The knight who led the team just nodded, not showing any excitement.

Li Shimin was very dissatisfied in his heart, he had worked so hard to get all this, why did this guy have such an attitude.

"Hurry up and tell the marshal, just say that I, Li Shimin, have come back with those government soldiers."

The knight at the head said to Li Shimin, "You don't know yet, Dashuai is still unconscious, he was assassinated, it was Yu Wenhua and the dog thief who did it." ”

As he spoke, he looked at the returning soldiers with some heaviness.

"Brethren have worked hard, come with me."

Li Shimin was stunned.

Luo Cheng was assassinated and unconscious, and it was Yu Wenhua who carried out the assassination, what is going on?

I was stunned all the way to the city of Anshi, and saw that the atmosphere here was indeed tense, and the Liaoxi military camp was surrounded by many soldiers and horses, and the people inside did not resist, but just basked in the sun quietly.

After handing over the government soldiers and grain and grass, Li Shimin couldn't wait to find his brother Li Jiancheng.

"How did I hear that Luo Cheng was assassinated by Yu Wenhua and Xing, what is going on?"

Li Jiancheng was a little excited, and whispered, "Retribution, who made Luo Cheng so arrogant, and now he has also planted." ”

"What the hell is going on?"

"It's actually quite simple, but it's also very bizarre. It was Luo Cheng who resisted the order to send troops before, and then someone from the Luoyang court sued him, His Majesty investigated it, and let Yu Wenhua come to pass the decree, to remove Luo Cheng's military power, and to escort him back to Beijing for questioning, it is said that Luo Yi and Luo Siye in Beijing were under house arrest. ”

Li Shimin's eyes widened when he heard this, and he couldn't imagine that there was such a thing.

"To say, everything was going well, Yu Wenhua was afraid that Luo Cheng would resist, so he first found Wang Rengong, hid in his guards and quietly came to Anshi City, and asked Wang Rengong to deceive Luo Cheng from Liaodong City to his military camp under his name, Ben came here, it was very smooth."

"Then why did the assassination happen again?"

"Who knows, maybe Yu Wenhua and feel that Luo Cheng may not be able to control Luo Cheng in Wang Rengong's camp, so he arranged for a subordinate to shoot Luo Chengcheng at the gate of the camp, who knows, Murong Changsheng and Wei Chiliang immediately escorted Luo Cheng back to Anshi City, and then Feng Xiaoci led troops to surround the camp, and Wang Rengong actually turned against the water at this time and arrested Yu Wenhua."

"In short, it's a mess, now Luo Cheng is still unconscious in Anshi City, but Yu Wenhua and this time are in trouble, Wang Rengong found the murder weapon that assassinated Luo Cheng at that time, it is indeed owned by Yu Wenhua and his subordinates, and that person escaped, but Yu Wenhua and his other subordinates have all confessed, and it was indeed planned and instructed by him."

Li Shimin only felt that his brain was a little messy, and he always felt that this seemingly obvious thing was wrong.

"Have you seen Luo Cheng?"

"No, except for his brothers, no one else can see them, Bai Ma Yi is from the city lord's mansion, and no one is allowed to enter or leave, saying that he is afraid of assassins."

"So what now?"

"What else can I do, originally a will was announced, Luo Chengcheng had to hand over the military power and go back to Luoyang to ask for the guilt, but it turned out to be good, he was unconscious, the soldiers were very dissatisfied, and they couldn't wait to eat Yu Wenhua and share, so everything was not mentioned, and they were waiting for the reply of the imperial court."

Li Shimin thought for a while, "Such a coincidence? ”

"What's such a coincidence?" Built asked.

"I mean, why is it so coincidental that the imperial court wanted to summon Luo Cheng back to Beijing, but he was assassinated before he could receive the order, but the person who assassinated him was Yu Wenhua?"

Li Jiancheng felt that there was nothing wrong with it, "Yu Wenhua and that person, you don't know, you are notoriously narrow-minded, it is estimated that he originally wanted to assassinate Luo Cheng, and then pushed it to the Goguryeo people, who knows that even Wang Rengong will not help him." ”

But Li Shimin was reluctant to believe such a statement.