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When night fell, the heavens and the earth fell into darkness, and the southeast wind from the Great Wall slowly blew, carrying the residual heat left by the white sun on the summer ground to blow through the iron leaves of the armor of the Yanmen Army Jie Du Envoy Li Siyuan, making a series of dense and sharp light sounds. Although the sun has been setting for a long time, Li Siyuan is still wrapped in a breathless iron armor like a prawn in a steamer. He couldn't help but pull the iron armor on his body, and reached out to wipe the sweat from his neck.

The fierce attack and defense of a day and a night caused many damages to the wall, and the sand collapsed to form gaps. From the evening, the Yanmen army rushed to make a wooden fence to plug the gap, then filled the soil behind the wooden fence and tamped it, and then nailed a long wooden stake into it, and then cut out spikes from the head of the wooden stake pointed obliquely forward.

Everyone knows that the stronger the wall, the more hope they have for survival. Therefore, no one slacks off on this work, one by one is exhausted, but they are all desperately reinforced.

Naturally, the Hu people refused to let them easily strengthen the village, and constantly sent small elite troops to harass and sabotage the Yanmen army's efforts, and even tried to break into the village through these openings.

The two sides just went back and forth, and they fought endlessly until midnight.

Just now, Li Siyuan finally led the soldiers to block the entrance of the collapsed village with a wooden fence, during which he repelled two waves of harassment by the Hu people, leaving more than 100 corpses inside and outside the wall, and finally became a part of the wall.

At this moment, he once again patrolled the wall, guarding against any possible oversights.

Yidu Yabing followed behind Li Siyuan. Along the way, they searched through the new corpses on the wall. As long as it is found to be a Hu person. will immediately cut a knife in the throat. Cut off the human head directly, and then throw it under the front wall, where a tall pile of human heads has been piled up, and the lightly injured Yanmen sergeant is using these human heads and thin mud to pile up a wall of human heads that is constantly increasing and thickening. Saiwaihu is fierce in life, even if he is seriously injured and passes out, once he wakes up, he will still go into battle. Jumping out of the pile of dead people, a rampaging hull slashed and killed. This has happened more than once. However, when encountering the Shatuo people who are not weaker than these grassland Hu people, their countermeasures are very simple, after the battle, they will all mend their swords, cut off the heads to record their merits, and then use these heads to build a second wall to prepare for the battle.

Sure enough, this time it happened again. A bald Khitan warrior suddenly jumped out of the pile of corpses under the wall, and he swung a steel bone and pounced on Li Siyuan, who was facing away from him. As the king of Yanmen County, the envoy of Yanmen Festival, the armor on Li Siyuan's body is different. is very conspicuous, that Khitan warrior has undoubtedly been planning for a long time. Goal is clear, action is fast.

Hearing the sound of the wind behind him, Li Siyuan did not turn around, but rushed forward directly, threw himself a few steps away, and then rolled on the spot, and then drew his knife and turned around. The Khitan warrior didn't expect this Shatuo general to react so well, but a heavy hammer that concentrated all his strength smashed into the air and pounced. He was carried forward by the force of his own lunge, taking advantage of several steps, and he was unsteady on his feet.

Li Siyuan had already pounced like a leopard at this time, and with the first kick, he kicked directly at the wrist of the Khitan warrior, kicked off the steel bone, and then mercilessly sank the Xueliang long knife in his hand into the chest cavity of the Khitan warrior from the position of the second rib under the left rib.

Li Siyuan's face remained unchanged, he held the treasure knife in his hand, and with a sharp force of his five fingers, he held the handle of the knife and turned it. The Khitan warrior let out a desperate howl, his face was hideous and distorted, and finally he fell to his knees unwillingly, his eyes gradually drifting until he no longer had any breath and stopped moving.

Li Siyuan pushed away the huge body of the Khitan warrior with some disgust, stood up straight, pulled out the sword, wiped it on the Khitan warrior's leather robe a few times, and put the knife into the sheath. The tooth soldiers reacted at this time, and rushed in, scolding angrily, and slashing several more times at the throat of the already angry bearded man, and finally chopped off a bare head.

killed a powerful Khitan warrior, but Li Siyuan didn't care at all, as if it was as ordinary as just killing an ant. Ignoring the apologetic and admiring eyes of the tooth soldiers, he stared at the mountains in the distance, the dark night sky and the undulating mountains blended together and were indistinguishable.

But he knew that under the seemingly calm night, there must be countless wolf-like Hu people hiding in it, eyeing this little stopper.

Maybe I'm going to die here!

Li Siyuan smiled bitterly, he reached out and pressed it to his chest, touching an envelope wrapped in silk cloth with body temperature and sweat.

He doesn't want to die! At the very least, he wanted to see her again. At the very least, he has to see his father-in-law Li Keyong again, who wants his own life. I think that he Li Siyuan's family has worked hard for Li Ke's family for several generations and died on the battlefield. What can I get in exchange? It was Li Ke who used his unreasonable suspicion and murderous intentions.

Hey, what have you done in the past 20 years?

If you recall it carefully, it seems that there is nothing worth recalling, just that with the ups and downs of fate, you continue to follow others.

Anyway, what if this kind of meaningless day comes to an end here?

The only thing he regretted was that he never confessed to her.

Li Siyuan sighed and walked down the wall.

This is a nameless ancient cottage, the village is built on the mountain, the rear uses the steep cliff as a barrier, it is very steep, the wall is made of fine loess rammed, and it may have been the stronghold of a horse thief outside the fortress.

However, the cottage has been abandoned for a long time, and there is not a single resident in the village, and it is overgrown with thorns and weeds. Most of the houses have also collapsed, and only a few crooked stone walls can barely withstand the wind and rain.

Li Siyuan wiped a few more handfuls of sweat from his face, although it was not good to wear iron armor, but he would never take off his armor for a little coolness at such a time, and put his life at risk. In the ruins of a courtyard that was originally a courtyard, there were several long, but very luxuriant trees, under which there was a bonfire that was flickering and extinguishing, and a few people were squatting or sitting next to the fire and cooking meat with iron helmets. The smell of meat came, but the people squatting next to him didn't look happy.

When everyone saw Li Siyuan approaching, they all stood up.

Li Siyuan rushed forward and helped a trembling middle-aged scribe back to his place. I found a stone and moved it there and sat down. The middle-aged scribe had a clear face. The eyebrows are quite elegant. But at this moment, half of his body was wrapped in white cloth, his robe was stained with blood in many places, and the long sword that had cut a few gaps was slanted into his waist, looking like he had been after a bloody battle.

"King Li Jun, I didn't expect us to fall into such a situation." The middle-aged scribe looked at Li Siyuan in a daze, and let out a long sigh of extreme pain.

Li Siyuan just silently took off his steel helmet, put it on the two stones on the edge of the fire, and poured some water. Then he stepped aside, took out his short knife, cut off a piece of meat from a bone that had been cut and could not be seen in its original face, threw it into his helmet, poured some water into it, and began to cook today's supper.

A lieutenant next to him who was entangled in one eye said loudly: "Dashuai, my piece of meat is ready, you can eat this piece, this piece of meat is a good one, and it is all thin." Your piece is on the chest. It's not tasty. ”

The middle-aged scribe sighed and glanced at the calm crowd with some disgust. "Eating human flesh, you still pick fat and thin, you are really a barbarian."

This middle-aged scribe's name is Yang Lin, but he is the liaison staff officer sent by Zhang Zimian's Western Expeditionary Corps to Li Siyuan. Originally, he was sent by the camp to Li Siyuan's department of Niupiguan as a liaison staff officer, who would have thought, but he ran into Li Siyuan out of the pass to pursue the Hu people, followed all the way, and fell into the Hu people ambush on all sides, the army was defeated and now everyone is in a desperate situation, even to the point of cutting the corpses of the dead enemy soldiers and eating human flesh. Yang Lin was born as a scholar, although his family is not a wealthy family, but he is also a local landlord, and he joined the army as a civilian staff officer, and he also wanted to be easy to gain fame in the army, but he didn't expect that he would have to rely on eating human flesh to survive.

He considered himself a man who read the books of the sages, and he would never eat human flesh with these Shatuo barbarians.

This time, tens of thousands of people were defeated, in fact, in the hearts of Li Siyuan and many Shatuo soldiers, they inevitably did not mean to be angry with the Qin people. If it weren't for Li Keyong's life and death that Li Jing beat at the beginning, he Li Siyuan would not have come out to take on the important task of Shatuo, if he didn't come out to serve as the commander of Shatuo, he would not have been suspicious of Li Keyong, and he would not have betrayed Li Keyong to vote for Li Jing, and then was betrayed by his soldiers mutinied, so he had to retreat to Yunzhou to defend the Hu people. If Li Siyuan hadn't wanted to perform well, he wouldn't have chased Hu Ren so hard at the beginning, leading to his current predicament.

According to the anger in Li Siyuan's heart, he always has to scold him to be happy. But the ups and downs of life over the years have made Li Siyuan particularly good at hiding his true thoughts and restraining his emotions. Scolding Yang Lin at this time will not help, but will offend this messenger. If he can escape, he will definitely have to rely on the Qin army in the future, and maybe he will have to rely on him to say a few good words at that time.

In the light of the fire, his eyebrows were marked with proper politeness and respect, and there was not the slightest expression in his eyes.

Regarding the general's kindness to let the butt meat for him, he also smiled and refused. Yang Lin has a sentence that is still very reasonable, although he also eats human flesh, but this is when the food is exhausted, he has no choice. If you don't eat human flesh, you have to eat horse meat, and war horses are their only hope of escaping. Li Siyuan can't eat his own war horse, so he can only eat the human flesh of the enemy's corpse. However, even if you are forced to eat human flesh, you can eat human flesh and pick fat and thin, which is a bit too much.

"This place is not far from the Cowhide Pass, we still have 20,000 horses in the Cowhide Pass, and there are 20,000 soldiers of the Qin Army in Yunzhou, maybe, there will be reinforcements to save us tomorrow" Li Siyuan waited for the meat to be cooked, and then directly fished it out and ate it. After eating the two-pound piece of breastbone meat in a few strokes, he wiped the corners of his mouth and looked up and said.

These inspiring words, but no one accosted them. They did keep 20,000 men at Cowhide Pass, but these were auxiliaries. And even if the 20,000 Qin troops in Yunzhou are willing to send troops to support, what is this kind of manpower, the Hu people who went south this time are 200,000. They were almost completely wiped out, and they only killed a rabble of less than 20,000 Hu people. More than 100,000 Hu people are elite but intact. And in the face of this Hu army, Li Jing, who was afraid of Youzhou, was also taken aback, and he had to think carefully about how to defend it.

Although Li Siyuan cheered everyone up, everyone sighed and fell into pessimism and despair.

"It is unlikely to count on reinforcements, we almost confessed to Baishuiluo this time, and now there are no more than 10,000 wounded here. Yunzhou still has 20,000 soldiers and 20,000 auxiliaries from us and the Qin army, and Shuozhou has 20,000 soldiers and 20,000 auxiliaries from the Qin army. All together it was only 90,000, but it was scattered everywhere. The Hu army is heading south, and the Yanmen soldiers and horses of Feihuzi will definitely take the opportunity to go north. I am afraid that Zhang Dashuai of the Qin army will be surrounded in Daibei, and how many soldiers and horses can the King of Qin have east of Taihang now, if he intends to respond, he will have already been dispatched. It is impossible for the king of Qin to take the few remaining soldiers and horses in Hebei to the east of the river to fight the Hu people. The biggest possibility is that the King of Qin will immediately recall the Western Expeditionary Army of Daibei and withdraw into Ulzhou, or even Hebei, to avoid the Hu people's edge. ”

When Yang Lin heard this, he immediately retorted loudly: "The King of Qin has never abandoned or given up on the soldiers of the Qin army. Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are in the east of the river, and the king of Qin will never give up on us because of the strength of the thieves. ”

"King Qin may not give up the soldiers of the Qin army!" Another big man who was roasting meat next to the fire choked and said, "But in the eyes of King Qin, I'm afraid we can't be counted as soldiers of the Qin army, right?" King Qin will really send troops to the north, but will he send troops to the Hu people to rescue us? ”

This big man is Li Siyuan's soldier and horse envoy who rushed to the capital, named Li Biao, his figure is much taller than ordinary people, and he has broad shoulders and a round waist, and he is as powerful as a door god, and his armor is stained with blood, and he looks extremely hideous.

Three days ago, there was a bloody battle in Baishui, there were ambushes outside, there was a rebellion inside, and Li Siyuan's Yanmen army collapsed layer by layer, like ice melting and snow melting. Only a very small number of troops maintained a strict ranks, as well as loyalty to Li Siyuan, among which the rampage led by Li Biao was the most loyal to Li Siyuan, none of them defected, and thanks to the rampage as the mainstay, the situation was saved at a critical time, and many soldiers and horses loyal to Li Siyuan were gathered to break through the tail pursuit and interception of several Hu armies in a row, and broke out of the encirclement all the way.

Helplessly, the army of the Hu people is like a mountain and a sea, the number far exceeds that of the Yanmen army, and the Hu people are waiting for work, since the Yanmen army is running outside the plug without sleep, it cannot completely throw off the pursuers. Fighting and fleeing along the way, they had to retreat into this dangerous abandoned cottage. The Hu pursuers then surrounded the stockade and attacked from all sides. The tragic offensive and defensive battle has been carried out for a whole day, and the Yanmen army in the village has been reduced from more than 10,000 to 10,000, and most of the rest are wounded. There is no grain and grass in the village, so they can only cut meat from the corpses of the enemy and eat.

"Are we just going to sit back and wait?" Another Yanmen general, Kang Yanzhang, asked Li Siyuan loudly, "What is the best strategy to take us out of danger?" ”

Li Siyuan stared at the fire and said slowly: "At this time, the only thing that can be honored is bravery, the brave who meets on the narrow road wins, as long as we can return to the outstanding encirclement and return to the Great Wall, maybe there is still some hope!" (To be continued......)