Chapter 235: Ice Breaks
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87_87741 Yuan Ziyan pretended to be invisible, but Li Yuan still opened his mouth and said: "Ziyan has outstanding strategies, so let's follow the people of the world and take on the role of military advisor." ”
This? If you can use people, you can speak, and if you don't need it, you will face each other coldly! Although Yuan Ziyan was reluctant, he still thanked the emperor and shouted long live. Thinking in his heart, he can't work in vain, this time it is Li Shimin who is in charge, and he must let him pay him more wages and subsidies.
Although the conquest of Liu Wuzhou will still be a long-term job, with Li Shimin out of the horse, everyone can guess the final outcome, so they all breathed a long sigh of relief, as if they saw the dawn of victory.
Li Yuan rewarded himself with a high-grade cloak, which was intended to keep his son warm, and his fatherly affection was overflowing. In addition, all the soldiers in the customs can be called upon by Li Shimin, and he will never intervene and ask more.
Afterwards, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were inevitably depressed, and it was snowing heavily outside, and the unpopular brothers hid in the house and drank hot wine.
"Big brother, don't worry, it's a harsh winter weather at this time, and if Li Shimin wants to fight against Liu Wuzhou, it will be a matter of the coming year." Li Yuanji said seemingly self-comfortingly.
"If we let them make war exploits again, I'm afraid we won't be able to protect ourselves." Li Jiancheng sighed for a long time.
"I can only be careful during this period and please my father more." Li Yuanji also drooped his head and said, Gu Dong drank a sip of wine, but it was not scalded cold wine, and kicked the palace maid who was dressed next to him to the ground with an annoyed kick.
"Hey, why bother being angry with a subordinate." Li Jiancheng waved his hand disapprovingly.
So, don't think that in ancient times it was fun, the hierarchy was strict, and the slave and maid had no status, and to put it mildly, it was like a horse pulling a cart. Cattle that plough the land are not much different and may not be as valuable as animals.
However, Li Shimin did not wait for the warm flowers to bloom in the spring of the next year, and appointed Qin Qiong as the commander of the Ma army, and Cheng Yanjin as the commander of the left third army. Camp down at Kashiwabi in the southwest.
The news once again shocked the government and the opposition. Isn't it what kind of spell did the military advisor Yuan Ziyan use to fly a group of people across the river?
It sounds amazing, but it's actually a natural phenomenon that is all too normal. As mentioned earlier, Li Shimin used the birth of two wives and concubines as the reason. refusing to send troops is actually waiting for this cold winter to come.
At this time, the narrowest part of the river at Longmen has been covered with thick ice, which is enough for tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to pass safely. When he came to the river, Li Shimin personally checked the thickness of the ice. He rode the horse first and finally came back, indicating that he could pass.
"Shimin. We still don't know what the situation is on the other side of the river, but if there are enemy troops guarding it, it will definitely be unfavorable to us. So be it. I'll go over first and check the military situation, if there is no danger. I'll be back to inform you and so on. Yuan Ziyan said that he was about to take off his thick coat, after all, it was too cumbersome and not conducive to flying.
"Purple smoke. I'm with you. Li Shimin stepped forward and grabbed Yuan Ziyan's arm.
Yuan Ziyan broke free with a smile and said, "Don't worry, I'll go and come back quickly, and try to fly as high as possible, so that even if someone finds out, they can't help me." ”
"Be careful!"
"Hmm!"
Yuan Ziyan flew up, and disappeared in front of Li Shimin and the others in the blink of an eye, it really disappeared. Why? Because Yuan Ziyan's current escape technique has been applied perfectly, if he flies rapidly, it is equivalent to a flash in front of people's eyes, which is far less than the reaction time of people, from this point of view, of course, it is to disappear.
Recently, Yuan Ziyan was pleasantly surprised to find that if he rotated quickly in place, he would also have a stealth effect for up to a quarter of an hour, which was a special function that had not been encountered in a thousand years.
However, in Yuan Ziyan's current opinion, most of these skills are used for entertainment and pastime, to relieve his boredom and coax himself to be happy. As everyone knows, in many future events, these are the magic weapons to save lives.
Yuan Ziyan's exploration range was relatively far, and it took nearly half an hour or so before and after, but Li Shimin seemed to have spent a century as long, but he didn't know where to go to find Yuan Ziyan's traces.
Finally, a colorful cloud flew from the sky, and it was Yuan Ziyan who came back. Li Shimin was too excited, and was the first to rush over, hugged her in his arms, rubbed her sideburns, and muttered: "Ziyan, you really scared me." ”
Such a blatant behavior made the rest of the soldiers can't help but look sideways, Cheng Biting Jin smiled and didn't overdo it, but Qin Qiong was a little dissatisfied. In the end, he was young and vigorous, and felt that Yuan Ziyan was Li Mi's sweetheart at the beginning, and later married Xu Maogong, even if he had a relationship with Li Shimin, he couldn't show his love so openly.
In fact, Yuan Ziyan himself also felt very embarrassed, and hurriedly pushed Li Shimin away, and then reported the detection work, and it was absolutely safe within a radius of dozens of miles.
Li Shimin immediately ordered the whole army to cross the river quickly, and there should be no mistakes. Cheng Yanjin and Qin Qiong were in charge of the break, although there were many people, they were well-trained, and the plan to cross the river was carried out in an orderly manner.
Seeing that it was easy to cross the river, or on the ice, Cheng Yanjin was very excited, and seeing that most of the people had already spent it safely, he was relaxed and shouted a uniform number.
Li Shimin, who was walking in front, laughed at this, the life and death of the march and battle were uncertain, if everyone was as optimistic as Cheng Yanjin, it would be an interesting thing.
Yuan Ziyan also thought it was funny, this Cheng Biting Jin may have gray hair, and it has to be like this. Yuan Ziyan looked back inadvertently, but his heart suddenly chuckled.
Because the soldiers stepped on the point of the trumpet in order, and the war horses were also trained, and they also walked on the point in a humane way. In terms of discipline alone, it is undoubtedly spectacular and orderly. But now it's on the ice, it's too neat and easy to cause resonance, and although the ice is hard, it's not as strong as reinforced concrete, so it's hard to say that it won't crack.
"Bite the gold, don't make trouble, run forward and cross the river!" Yuan Ziyan hurriedly gave an order, and Li Shimin asked puzzledly: "Ziyan, what's wrong." ”
"I'll explain later, bite the gold, I'm not joking, stop shouting!" Yuan Ziyan waved his arm and said.
Cheng Yanjin heard Yuan Ziyan's voice, smiled, and said to Qin Qiong: "Your sister Ziyan has given orders, I can't help but obey." ”
"Hmph, unchaste and unclean woman, I really think of myself as a commander, I'll shout!" Qin Qiong lost his temper, but instead shouted instead of Cheng Yanjin.
Ah! Yuan Ziyan was anxious to slap Qin Qiong twice, rode his horse and ran back, and shouted at the same time: "Shimin, hurry up and go ashore, don't delay!" ”
The soldiers close to the east bank quickly landed, and Qin Qiong was still shouting slogans loudly in anger, in his eyes, Li Shimin was the commander, what are you Yuan Ziyan.
Cheng Yanjin was not afraid of making a mess, and he smiled, watching his younger brothers and sisters arguing, it seemed that he was a good big brother who was valuable.
However, everyone on the ice was stunned by the click, and then let out a burst of exclamations, and hurriedly ran to the shore. Qin Qiong was also stunned, but she didn't expect that the seemingly hard ice would begin to break.
"Uncle Bao, come to me!" Yuan Ziyan saw that a white crack not far away was expanding, heading towards Qin Qiong's feet.
Qin Qiong panicked and hurriedly ran towards Yuan Ziyan, but the clicking sound continued to intensify, and the broken ice lines around him converged in front of Qin Qiong, forcibly isolating him from this side.
"Purple Smoke!" Qin Qiong panicked, because the ice under his feet was drifting backwards, and a fault about several meters wide appeared in front of him, and the depressed river suddenly erupted, splashing waves several meters high, Qin Shubao's feet were unstable, and he fell into the ice water.
Yes! Cheng Yanjin was stunned, in just a moment, Qin Qiong disappeared in front of him, this fault is not wide, if a person falls under the ice, it is difficult to judge the location of the exit in the water.
"Uncle Bao, where are you!" Cheng Biting Jin cried bitterly and cried on the fault.
"Hurry ashore, and if you delay any longer, you will all be put to death!" Yuan Ziyan said coldly, and then jumped up from the horse, and with a beautiful arc, he also plunged into the ice water.
Everyone was stunned, they didn't expect Yuan Ziyan to take such a big risk for a little brother.
Li Shimin was even more anxious, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to chisel and crack the ice near the fault, so that the two people under the water could increase their chances of survival.
But when the chisel went down, it only shot out a few ice flowers, and it couldn't move at all, and everyone was helpless, so they could only resign themselves to fate.
The biting cold under the ice completely woke Yuan Ziyan up, and the river water poured into his ears, causing people to have a headache. Yuan Ziyan quickly calmed himself down, and according to the breathing method that Yuan Tiangang taught him, he tried to slowly exhale the only remaining air in his abdomen.
Uncle Bao, where are you? Yuan Ziyan made an urgent call in his heart, that is, to go down vertically where Qin Qiong fell into the water, it should be nearby.
Yuan Ziyan was dazed under the water, and suddenly his feet sank, as if someone had grabbed his feet.
Yuan Ziyan was ecstatic in his heart, and hurriedly raised his legs and touched down, sure enough, it was a person, who else could it be besides Qin Qiong. Yuan Ziyan groped around behind Qin Qiong, wrapped around his waist, and then activated his mind and flew upwards quickly.
However, with a muffled bang, Yuan Ziyan's eyes burst into golden flowers, it turned out that the two of them had already deviated from their position just now, and they were already under the ice at this time, how could they escape?
In a panic, Yuan Ziyan felt that Qin Qiong seemed to be pushing himself, maybe he also realized the huge crisis, and didn't want to let himself involve Yuan Ziyan to die with him.
Yuan Ziyan patted Qin Qiong's shoulder, signaling that she would never leave this good brother behind. After groping along the ice for a while, Qin Qiong began to struggle slightly, as if he had drunk a few sips of ice water. Yuan Ziyan became more and more impatient, and the underwater distribution was left and right, who knows if it would deviate further.
But one thing is certain, that is, the two are not far from the fault layer, and this ice layer must be easy to break away. Yuan Ziyan made up his mind, took Qin Qiong to sink to the bottom again, and then rose rapidly, hitting the ice with his body.
One time, two times...... After dozens of strokes, Yuan Ziyan's body temperature gradually lost, and he opened his mouth involuntarily, and the cold river water poured into his mouth, and the force of the impact became smaller and smaller. (To be continued).