"Who?" He hissed. Although his voice was stiff and hoarse, at least he was finally able to speak again.

Li Keyong still had a high fever and completely lost the concept of time. How long have you been asleep? He didn't remember at all, only waking up in a daze, and then falling asleep in a daze. He was too weak, too weak to speak.

"Who?" He shouted again, trying to be louder, louder, more imposing.

The glow of the torches poured in through the dilapidated cavern, finally giving the dark, damp cave some warmth.

A dark shadow slowly walked towards him, and he couldn't help but tremble.

Li Keyong was once fearless, and began to go to the battlefield with his father at the age of twelve. But at this moment, in this completely nameless little cave, he was so weak that without proud force, he could not even stand up. Loneliness, fear, coiled in his heart, he didn't want to die in this broken cave, he didn't want to die in obscurity, worthless death.

He is the king of Shatuo, and this is not the end he deserves!

The other man finally paced into the hole, and the light of the torch illuminated the place.

"Wang, are you awake?" The man dragged a lame leg, and there was a circle of stained rags wrapped around the leg, which emitted a foul fishy smell. Although this man was as stained and twisted as the rag, Li Keyong recognized this man as one of his crow guards, a brave archer who could shoot down geese flying in the sky with a single arrow. But right now, the best archer is dragging one leg. Covered in blood. Bloodshot eyes. Standing in front of him with a pale face.

"The wound on your face is getting better!" Mi Rong exclaimed happily. The best archer was called Mi Rong, and Li Keyong remembered very well that he was not actually a Shatuo, but a Sogdian, who had followed them from the Western Regions thousands of miles to join the Tang Dynasty.

Lick reached out to his face with a gaze that followed him, where there was a large scar. From the left eye to the chin, through the nose, which is already mutilated. The flesh that hadn't grown well was turned over outside, and it was warm to the touch. "This is a Mo knife blade chop. If it hadn't been for the fact that the old black rushed up and knocked that guy away, this knife would have slashed my head! ”

He remembered the source of this wound, after being ambushed that day, he led his troops to desperately break through, but unfortunately Li Jing laid an ambush on ten sides, no matter where he broke through, there was always a Qin army to intercept him. This knife was slashed by a young Qin soldier who was only about sixteen or seventeen years old. The guy looked like a young young man on the battlefield, but when he drove his horse over, he thought he would back off. Who knew that that guy didn't dodge or dodge after the worst, but slashed with a knife. Not at all afraid of his charge.

At that time, if it wasn't for another personal soldier who bumped into that guy, he Li Keyong would have died in the last life of a hero, and at the end of the day, he would have died on an unknown soldier. Although the last guy died under his horse's hooves, Li Keyong still respected this little guy very much, and everyone in the Qin army should not be underestimated.

Mi Rong held a torch in one hand and a few charred pieces in the other.

"Are you still with the king, but are they leaving?" Li Ke asked with a wry smile, but as soon as he smiled, he touched the wound on his face, and he wanted to roll in pain. The last time he woke up from a coma, he remembered that he was accompanied by a total of thirteen people, all of whom were his crow guards.

"They went out to hunt and found out the news." Mi Rong replied, "The king is seriously injured and has a fever, so he needs to get some meat to replenish his body." ”

"How many days have I been in a coma this time?"

"Four days!" Mi Rong said, "The king burned it badly, thanks to Lao Kangcai got an old mountain ginseng." It's been ten days since the ambush! Damn Qin soldiers are still searching around"

"I'm not going to die so easily! Li Jing of the dog day, Lao Tzu is not finished with him! Rick roared loudly, and then touched the wound on his face, grinning in pain.

It's been ten days, and Li Keyong is still a little reluctant to think about the situation outside. You don't have to think about it, it's definitely a mess outside. That day, he had an ambush outside the Naogu Pass, and needless to say, he also knew that the Naoya Pass must have fallen. He hadn't asked about Naoya Pass until now, nor did he ask about his wife, because he was afraid that the bad result of his guess would be confirmed.

Damn, he hadn't suffered such a tragic defeat since he went to war at the age of twelve.

"What's that you're carrying?"

Mi Rong smiled, "This is a bat, and there is a hole not far from here, and there are many of them." Lao Kang and a few of them went out yesterday and didn't come back, saying that they planned to go to the bottom of the mountain to find out the news this time, and they got some bats to stay before leaving. ”

Rick propped up the hay mat with his hands, squirmed back a few inches, and put his head up, "Get me one too!" ”

When he woke up this time, his fever finally subsided, perhaps because of the effect of the mountain ginseng, although he was still weak, he obviously felt that he was recovering. He's really craving to eat right now!

"Is the king hungry, then I'll go boil water, when Lao Kang left, he left a rabbit for the king, and I'll go roast."

"No, just give me a bat." Li Keyong insisted that it was still in danger, and it was best not to burn the fire.

Mi Rong handed him a bat, and Li Ke took it and bit it directly on the bat, and first sucked a large mouthful of blood, although the blood was icy and extremely irritating to enter the throat, but it made him feel a trace of strength recovering. After a pause, he began to bite the bat with his teeth, as if he were fighting a decisive battle with the bat's corpse.

Li Keyong glanced at Mi Rong, who was looking at him in surprise, "To survive!" "Of the three thousand men, only thirteen of them fled with him.

"There must be others who have fled like us, and if we can find them, we will have more power to protect ourselves." Lick said.

"Lao Kang and they also said the same, at that time, the king was seriously injured and passed out, the Qin army chased and killed everywhere, we ran around in the dark to escape, and there were only thirteen of us left to protect the king. General Shi was killed in battle, and I saw with my own eyes that one of the generals of the Qin army made the iron lance pierce General Shi's chest, pick him up, and throw him on the ground. The last was trampled by a war horse. ”

"Who else did you see dead?"

"That's a lot." Mi Rong said. "At that time, the Qin army suddenly came out. Although the brothers fought to the death, these ghosts had the strongest armor, the fastest horses, the sharpest swords, and those fierce bombs, which was not fair. Firearms are also used. If it's one-on-one, with the same equipment, we will never lose to them. ”

"War is about unfairness, this time I admit it, suffer a loss and remember once, next time, I will never give Li Jing such a chance again."

After chatting with Mi Rong for a while, Li Keyong fell asleep again.

By the time he was woken up again, it was already midnight.

Of the twelve who had gone away to inquire and hunt, five returned. The others haven't returned. The one who came back brought back a few hares and a wild deer, and also brought back a lot of news from the outside.

"The Qin army is still searching everywhere. Many of the brothers who broke through that day were found, and the heads of the brothers were inserted on the road below the mountain. Lao Kang reported with red eyes and clenched his fists.

"Is there any news from Lingqiu City?" Li Keyong asked.

"On the second day after we were ambushed, General Cheng Huaiyi abandoned Lingqiu City with his soldiers and horses and withdrew to Taixi Pass. I heard at the foot of the mountain that now the entire Ulzhou has fallen into the hands of the Qin army, Lingqiu, Flying Fox, Black Stone Fort, Bauhinia Pass, and Zhigu Pass are all in the hands of the Qin army. Lao Kang replied.

Li Ke touched the flesh that had turned up from the scars on his face, and his heart became colder and colder. Flying Fox and Pu Yin were captured by the Qin army as he expected. He didn't want to believe it, but it was the case.

"Hebei's soldiers and horses are blocked in Yizhou, aren't they?" Lick said in a cold tone.

"Yes, the Qin army captured the Bauhinia Pass first, and I heard that General Wang Jingchong and General Li Sizhao led troops to attack the Bauhinia Pass for several days, but they couldn't attack it, and then the Chengde army suddenly withdrew, and General Li Sizhao also withdrew to Yizhou later."

Li Keyong sighed, "It is estimated that Li Jing's rear move was launched, the Qin army in the river was dispatched, and Wang Jingchong's lair was threatened, so he retreated." ”

Hebei's reinforcements are now completely hopeless.

After a moment of silence, Li Keyong finally couldn't help but ask, "Do you know what happened to Zhigu Pass in the first place?" ”

Lao Kang looked at Li Keyong, lowered his head, and couldn't open his mouth for a long time.

"Could it be that Li Kening surrendered to Li Jing?" Li Keyong asked, few of his brothers can bear the burden.

"It's not." Lao Kang hesitated and said, "In fact, on that day, the Qin army sent a partial army to copy the trail, first attacked and broke through three military villages, and then raided Zhigu Pass from behind. ”

"Tens of thousands of horses can't hold on for a day?" Lick said with disappointment.

"In fact, there were only more than 20,000 men and horses in Guanzhong at that time, and there were only 5,000 real soldiers, and the rest were all young and strong auxiliary soldiers." Lao Kang said honestly.

"What's the matter, Madame reinforced Zhigu Pass from Yanmen, and at that time, there should be at least 20,000 soldiers in the pass. Where are the soldiers and horses? Li Ke was puzzled.

Lao Kang lowered his head and said softly: "The other fifteen thousand men and horses were taken out of the pass by Madame, and when the Qin army attacked Zhigu Pass, Madame was not in the pass. ”

"Where is the lady now?"

"Madame led 15,000 men and horses under her command to surrender to Li Jing." Lao Kang replied.

"It can't be, where did you hear the news, it must be fake."

"We inquired outside for a long time, and the news we heard gathered together, and the more detailed thing was that Madame led 15,000 men and horses to ambush in the north of Zhigu Guanbei and wanted to ambush Li Jing. General Li Kening led 5,000 soldiers and horses to stay in Zhigu Pass, but Li Jing sent strange soldiers to take a small road to attack and break through Zhigu Pass, and then Li Jing sent troops to block his wife in the valley and surrounded his wife in front and back. The Empress did not fight with Li Jing, but directly led the whole army to surrender to Li Jing, and now the lady is in the Qin army in Zhigu Pass. ”

"It can't be!" Lick sat up with a roar, the scar on his face cracked, and blood gushed out, making the whole person extremely hideous. "This must be Li Jing's trick, this is a trick, this is a rumor, Madame will never do this to me!"

Everyone in the cave was silent, I don't know what to say, they are also willing to believe Madame, but now the news from outside is that Madame directly surrendered to Li Jing. Moreover, in order to confirm this, Lao Kang also took a special risk to go to the valley to check, where there were indeed no traces of fighting, and near Zhigu Pass, he also saw the camp of Madame's women's army, which was next to the camp of the Qin army.

After a long time, Li Keyong calmed down and asked in a hoarse voice, "Is there any news from Yanmen?" ”

"Yes." Lao Kang immediately replied, "We heard the news of Yanmen, it is good news, the three departments of Datong really took the opportunity to send troops to Yanmen, but General Li Siyuan led his troops to arrive, set up a strange plan, and defeated the three soldiers and horses, and also counterattacked, not only defeated the three 60,000 soldiers and horses, but also captured the two states of Yunshuo of the Datong army. ”

"Is this true?" Finally heard a good news, Li Ke was comforted and felt a lot more comfortable.

"There should be no mistake, the news also said that General Li Siyuan captured Shi Jingcun alive and beheaded him at the Yunzhou Cockfighting Terrace."

"Okay, great. Heaven will not die to me, Li Jing would never have imagined that the chess pieces of Datong III have been broken by Heiyuan, and they have also taken Datong Yunshuo Erzhou. That's great! Lick swung his fist with excitement.

"King, there's one more news."

"Say!" Li Keyong said with a smile.

"General Li Siyuan imprisoned General Li Cunxin, and then he has been elected by the generals to temporarily serve as the commander of Shatuo, temporarily represent Shatuo's affairs, and command Shatuo's soldiers and horses!"

Li Ke's laughter stopped abruptly, the smile on his face froze, and gradually turned into gloomy and cold, and the single eye shone even more terrifyingly! (To be continued......)