Chapter 87

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In front of the gorge that must be passed somewhere outside the city of Taiyuan, at noon on the third day.

Looking at the gorge in the distance from afar, Li Mi looked calm, and always maintained a calm general demeanor, but the fire bubble on his mouth betrayed the anxiety in his heart, but in fact, his heart was already anxious. According to the previous judgment and the report of the later spies, didn't the enemy want to surround Taiyuan City as quickly as possible? Why are you so beautiful and wandering in the back? Could it be that Kou Zhong, one of the so-called rising masters, is such a guy with no command talent? Can't even command an army of 30,000 people, can't you rush and move? Isn't there still Zhai Rang and his group of stubborn old subordinates? With them, they won't be so slow to march! You must know that the soldiers are fast!

Unexpectedly, Li Mi still had the leisure to feel anxious for Kou Zhong at this moment! It is really Li Mi's victory, and it also needs the enemy's reputation to cooperate!

Because it was an ambush, Li Mi's army had not lit a fire to cook for two days, they ate cold dry food and drank cold water, and everyone was not in a good state, and the most terrible thing was that they only brought dry food for 20 days for the convenience of the ambush! Ten days of dry food have been eaten on the road, and now another three days have been wasted, and if the enemy does not come again, they will probably run out of food! At least the psychological pressure is greater!

Kou Zhong's army actually moved forward five miles a day, five miles a day, and scattered the scouts very far away, and made half of his soldiers go out to hunt and half of them to defend the camp, as if they were traveling with their subordinates and slowly appeared in front of Li Mi. And that's six days later! Li Mi's army has already implemented a military ration system, and the food is no longer enough, and if it is not withdrawn, it will face the dilemma of running out of food!

At this moment, Li Mi's heart was full of fire, and he had already killed five scouts who reported to him. As a result, the scouts who now found out the bad news did not dare to return to the barracks, but fled far away on horseback, which made Li Mijun's military heart shake again.

Li Mi did not fail to consider whether his ambush had been discovered by the enemy, but he refused to believe this fact, and could only hope that Kou Zhong, who led the army, was a fool, and his army faced no less problems than his own. In that case, if he turned around and fled again, wouldn't he give the enemy a great opportunity to pass through this gorge without damage. Isn't it showing your incompetence?

There is no way out of his own, Taiyuan City is not in his hands, the relationship inside is also intertwined, if he does not control it well, it is very likely that he will be completely defeated under the internal and external attacks, and at that time he will be like a turtle in an urn, and there is nowhere to escape. But in this canyon, it is different, all of your hands are your trusted brothers, and the terrain is also very suitable for your own advantages. Once something goes wrong, he can also escape again with his army, Li Mi has already thought about it, if he fails again this time. He fled to the Turks for a chance to make a comeback!

Under various considerations, it is not that Li Mi is unwilling, but he actually does not have many choices.

Soon. Kou Zhong's army appeared in the mouth of the gorge, in the field of vision of Li Mi's sentinels. It stands to reason that you want to pass through such a gorge. Usually the faster the better, don't hesitate, just like walking on a ropeway that may break at any time, if you don't pass as soon as possible, but stop and go, you will inevitably face more terrible risks! Don't say it's Kou Zhong, even ordinary Wu Chang and Bai Chang should understand it! At that time, Li Mi will be able to motivate his soldiers with a method of breaking the cauldron and condescending to defeat the other party completely!

But he didn't expect that not long after Kou Zhong's army entered the gorge, they immediately began to set up camp! And the camp built is very careful and strong, and it should be crushed by the defense army! When Li Mi saw this scene in person, his face turned green, he already understood that the enemy had long understood that he was setting up an ambush here, and he was a fool waiting for death from the beginning!

Just when he knew that his defeat was inevitable, how to stop the loss and minimize the loss became the most important thing in front of him, he immediately ordered the army to withdraw the ambush, quickly return to the army and return to Taiyuan City, and use the strong defense of Taiyuan City to resist Kou Zhong's 30,000 army!

The length of this gorge is about fifteen miles, of which five and a half miles is the most dangerous, Li Mi is here to set up an ambush, now if you want to leave this gorge, you have to go back and run about ten miles, Li Mi now only hopes that Kou Zhong can camp with peace of mind, and don't rush up to pursue his own good!

When Li Mi's army rushed wildly, in fact, Kou Zhong's army followed behind and quietly followed.

When Li Mi's army was about to rush out of the deadly gorge, behind a huge turn, Li Mi's face suddenly turned pale, and the faces of the other soldiers and officers also lost their blood, because they found that in front of their eyes, I don't know when, a rough checkpoint had been built, made of green tree trunks and completely unprocessed stones, and the height was about three zhang. Such a rough level, if Li Mi is fully prepared, even if it is only half a day, he can easily take it, the rough shape on the pass is a natural ladder, even if they build the level high, it does not make the slightest sense, it can also be convenient for their soldiers to rush to the pass. But there is a very bad place in this pass, that is, there is no door on the level, and the whole level is a high thick wall, even if this level is captured, it is not easy to cross the past, and you must try your best to knock down this level!

It's just that now Li Mi's soldiers haven't eaten a hot meal for a long time, and their physical condition is very bad, the only thing that supports them is a belief that they must win another battle, and now the victory is getting slimmer and slimmer, and the last breath in their hearts has begun to gradually fade, so the disaster of destruction is just around the corner!

Li Mi swallowed a mouthful of saliva dryly, threw away the horse whip in his hand, jumped off his war horse, and said to his guards: "Come on, give the first armor to this father, and I want to personally lead the team to capture this level!" ”

The guards behind him looked at the surrounding scene with ugly faces, and seemed to know that this was the last battle. didn't say any nonsense, he quickly put on armor for Li Mi, and took out the treasure knife that Li Mi was good at on the battlefield, and respectfully put it in Li Mi's hands.

Li Mi put on a powerful golden armor, holding a golden sword in his hand, as if a god descended to earth, looking very powerful and majestic, and even more heroic, the temperament of a generation of heroes was clearly revealed, and suddenly the originally low morale had a tendency to rise. There are also countless soldiers, under the leadership of Li Mi's personal guards, who roared loudly in a frenzy!

Li Mi saw that the military heart was available, his face looked a little better, and he turned his head to look deeply at his generals Wang Bodang, Xu Shiji, Shen Luoyan and others, and said loudly: "Everyone! Life and death today, fight here! I, Li Mi, will live up to everyone, and please work hard to move forward and follow me! If you are rich in the future. We will not forget!! Come on!!! With that, he took the lead and rushed in front of the tall and rough level, and suddenly a rain of arrows shot down. In addition to killing a few unlucky ghosts, he didn't actually cause any actual lethality to Li Mi and the others, and suddenly Li Mi was overjoyed in his heart, and his feet sped up. Regardless of the physical load, he struggled to stimulate his true qi overload and jumped upward!

That's when it happened. Li Mi was startled, dodged to the side, a scorching heat wave passed by his ears, and even scorched a few strands of hair on his sideburns, he didn't care about the screams of the soldiers behind him, looked at the top of his head in surprise, and found that the enemy was frantically pouring fire oil everywhere, igniting the whole juncture, and suddenly a heat wave rushed to Li Mi's face, seeing that there was no place to stay at the juncture, Li Mi was anxious, regardless of the consequences that might cause internal injuries, and bit the tip of his tongue violently, Throwing off the heavy armor on his body, he struggled to jump upwards more than a foot high, and suddenly jumped onto this rough, burning level! Suddenly, the soldiers under his feet let out bursts of cheers! As long as Mi Gong ascends this level, it means that the entire level has already fallen into their hands! So they cheered for joy!

In front of Li Mi's eyes, more than a dozen ordinary soldiers were crawling down from the pass in a panic, but they let out a series of screams, it turned out that the ladder under their feet was not reliable at all, plus they didn't expect the enemy to climb the wall so quickly, they looked very flustered, and accidentally broke the long ladder under their feet, and threw these dozen unlucky ghosts into a pulp.

Li Mi frowned, at this juncture, it was actually a flame caused by a very difficult to extinguish fire oil, this fire oil is extremely adherent, and it can burn for a long time, without adding other fuels, he can burn for at least half a day, not to mention that there are still a lot of wood that has just been harvested not long ago? Li Mi used his own skills to quickly pick up the stones that were very quickly attached to the fire oil, and quickly glanced in the direction of the level inward, as he expected, in the inner part of the level, there is also no setting that can be climbed freely, there are no stairs, no long ladders, and it is just a rough wall.

Li Mi immediately ordered his soldiers to start extinguishing the flames that had just burned, and quickly excavated and destroyed this not very solid juncture, not giving those flames a chance to burn at all, but in half a day, when all the soldiers were tired enough, the pass was demolished, and the army moved forward again.

Not long after, they encountered a rough level again, there was almost no defense on the level, but it had already burned, and the momentum had been completely up, this time they could not immediately extinguish the flames, but they could not bypass this gorge and break through in other directions, so they had to wait until this pass was completely burned clean, Li Mi and the others climbed on the threshold that seemed to be loose because the wood supporting it had been burned.

At this moment, several other generals also jumped to the threshold and completely took this level with almost zero defense into their own hands. When Li Mi raised his arms and shouted Wansheng, Shen Luoyan's eyes looked gloomily in the direction not far away, Xu Shiji was the first to notice Shen Luoyan's eyes, when he saw clearly what was ahead, his face also became pale, and he stopped his arm cheering with Li Mi, Li Mi noticed the strangeness in front of him, his face also became very pale, because in front of his eyes, there were three identical levels at the mouth of the remaining gorge. And after these three levels, there is another level that is more majestic, thicker, and more difficult to attack, on this level, there is a big flag hanging on it, on which is written a huge "Zhai" word!

After seeing the scene in front of him, Li Mizhi felt that his chest was stuffy for a while, and his heart ached sharply, and then he couldn't help but feel a mouthful of fishy sweetness in his throat. He hurriedly took a deep breath to suppress the feeling, and steadied his shaky steps again. Then Li Mi heard Shen Luoyan exclaim again, he glared at Shen Luoyan very unhappily, if it wasn't for the fact that there was still a place to get this woman in the future, he would like to kill this woman who had become very strange since she was captured by the Sui army.

He still looked in the direction that Shen Luoyan was looking at, and his heart was suddenly shocked, his eyes were dark, and he couldn't support it anymore and spurted a mouthful of blood. Soft falls! Shocked his guards, he rushed to the rescue!

For he looked from the direction from which the army had come, and saw a cloud of smoke and dust rolling up in the distance, apparently an army in a hurry, and in front of the army there was an even greater military flag combing. There was a huge word "Kou" written on it, obviously the army of Kou Zhong, who was supposed to be working hard to rest the camp behind the back, followed closely behind his army and quietly approached!

And your own army just demolished two fucking checkpoints with their bare hands! 30,000 is waiting for you. After more than ten days of hunting-like outings, the army and 5,000 loads were frightened, eating cold dry food and drinking cold water every day. also ran nine miles with great physical strength, and dismantled two shit checkpoints with his bare hands, who will the victory belong to?

So Li Mi could no longer hold back the huge frustration in his heart, he couldn't stand it anymore, and fell softly in front of Shen Luoyan and Xu Shiji's subordinates.

As soon as Li Mi fell, the military spirit of the army could no longer be recovered, in Kou Zhong's soldiers shouted loudly: "Disarm and surrender, surrender and do not kill", Li Mijun's military heart has been tattered to the extreme, especially Li Mijun and the remnants of Kou Zhong's Wagang Army are comrades-in-arms who fought side by side, and some people shouted: "Wang Laoliu, you and I have a lifelong friendship!" My Xu Laosan's life was saved by you! Surrender! I promise you with my head! It's not your fault, we won't kill you! ”

"A single dog egg on a dog day! Your Grandpa Liu is coming for you! Don't fight each other anymore! Surrender! I've got grilled chicken here, and I have soju! Our old buddies have a good drunk! ”

"Big brother! Please, don't resist! We are the only ones left in our family who die...... You and I are going to die again...... No one will continue our father's incense! ”

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In the midst of such shouts, the old Wagang troops in Kou Zhong's army did not hold any swords at all, but were wearing armor, holding hot food and hot wine in their hands, shouting loudly to find their former relatives and friends, and earnestly persuaded them to surrender, and soon there was a commotion in Li Mi's army.

Shen Luoyan's eyes closed slightly, the wind ruffled her hair, making her look haggard, and very pitiful, Xu Shiji held her cold little hand distressedly, and said: "Luoyan, even if it is death, I will be by your side and never give up!" Shen Luoyan glanced at Xu Shiji with a wry smile and said, "It's easy to die, but it's a pity to lose the foundation of Mi Gong...... Great ambitions are hard to pay, destiny is helpless, but ......"

Wang Bodang's face was also gray, and he didn't have the grandeur of a two-gun general at all, he just bit his lip and asked: "Luoyan, you are our military advisor, when you come to the present, you tell us, what should we do now?" ”

Shen Luoyan shook his head and said, "For now, the only thing to do is to get out of here quickly and wake up Mi Gong." Without Mi Gong, our army would not have existed, let alone have a future. ”

At this moment, a weak voice came: "Don't think about it, surrender, I, Li Mi, have two ups and downs, if it is destined to be so, I have nothing to do." Even if we run away now, we can't escape far, I, Li Mi, am fifty years old, and how many decades do I have to fight? previously followed Yang Xuangan to raise troops, and later took refuge in the big dragon. It's because I feel that time is running out, if I don't hurry up, I'm afraid I will miss the opportunity of the chaos in the world and betray the big dragon head who doesn't want to make progress, and my heart is really uneasy. And judging from the fact that we lost this war so much, the Li valve who went south to attack Chang'an is probably more auspicious, and it is just around the corner that the Great Sui will regain its position in the world, and we will no longer be able to fish in troubled waters, so it is better to have two capital in our hands, so we will sell ourselves at a good price...... I, Li Mi, betrayed Zhai Rang, I'm afraid there is no way back, so you will carry my head to see him, although the big dragon head is not talented, but he is also a kind-hearted and good-looking person, and he will definitely let you go...... I just beg you to let my unsuccessful son live incognito and live an ordinary life......" said and left two lines of turbid tears.

Shen Luoyan looked at Li Mi's angry expression on the surface, but secretly pinched a long dagger around his waist, obviously Li Mi's words were just a temptation and bait, whoever really wanted to take his head on the neck, I am afraid that whoever would be the first victim would become the first victim! Shen Luoyan was suddenly disheartened, and couldn't help laughing at herself, on the surface, she still knelt down in fear, and said bitterly: "We are all drawn by Mi Gong, Mi Gong has the grace of reinvention for us, even if we die in battle, we must keep Mi Gong's safety!" Xu Shiji, Wang Bodang and other generals also knelt on the ground together and expressed their loyalty to Li Mi.

At this moment, a cold voice came from a high stone not far away: "Li Mi, you can surrender with confidence, I promise not to kill you, nor will I kill your son." ”

Li Mi's eyes flashed violently, and he looked at Zhai Rang, really ignoring his head, Gu Rang didn't care about his head, and after focusing all his attention on Kou Zhong behind him, Zhai Rang actually came around from the pass in front of him, and the crossbow and bow and arrow were pointing at Li Mi and the others, Li Mi knew that what Zhai Rang actually hoped for the most was that he would resist stubbornly and refuse to surrender at all, so that he could shoot himself into a hedgehog in the open.

Li Mi slowly let go of his hand holding the long dagger, lay on the ground, trembling and kneeling to Zhai Rang, kowtowing his head.

Three days later, the remnants of Li Mi opened the city gate, Kou Zhong's army entered with a drum, Taiyuan City fell, Kou Zhongjunqiu did not commit any crime, but forcibly requisitioned all the pen and ink, cloth piles, paint lines, etc. in Taiyuan City, forcing everyone in Taiyuan City to write a letter of persuasion, and then sent it to Chang'an City in batches.

Under Chang'an City, there are more than a dozen heads on the desk in the account of the Lord Li Valve, all of which are the aristocratic heads arranged by Li Valve to open the door and the inner response, which shows that Li Valve's plan to rely on the inner valve to open the door to earn Chang'an City has gone bankrupt, and the spies also sent a report that I don't know when, Yang Guang has appeared in Chang'an City, and a powerful army has quickly mastered the city defenses, making the possibility of wanting to quickly break through the city to the lowest point in history. They had worked hard all the way, as if they were fools who had come to die. Li Shimin was angry, lying on the bed with his face like gold paper, coldly watching the people in the tent arguing, and said with a sneer: "Do they still think that they have a way out?" The more you hesitate for an hour, the more you take one more step towards death. After a few more days of quarrelling, I'm afraid that even the gods won't be able to save them anymore. ”

Chai Shao, who was standing next to him, was also very handsome and Li Shimin's best brother-in-law, and said in a low voice: "Brother Shimin, you don't persuade them either?" ”

Li Shimin sneered: "I persuade them? Now that each of them wants to kill me and sacrifice my head to the so-called national teacher to save his life, where am I still bored and take the initiative to jump out? ”

Chai Shao is also one of the people who are about to die, he is very anxious, he usually admires the intelligence of this brother-in-law, of course, he hopes that he can come up with a better way, and he can't help but say anxiously: "Then what should you look at?" (To be continued......)