At night, the boundless ink smeared heavily on the sky. In the shadows, the mountains are black, the earth is gloomy, and you can't see your fingers.

"Light the torches of the whole army and speed up the march!"

Li Xiuning's coquettish voice suddenly sounded in the dark night, and thousands of torches were erected between the mountain roads, looking from afar, like a winding and circling fire dragon.

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Boom Boom... Boom Boom...

After the Tang army lit torches and marched rapidly for forty or fifty miles, lightning and thunder suddenly thundered in the sky, and heavy raindrops fell like a shuttle, which soon extinguished all the torches lit by the Tang army soldiers.

Chen Xuanli, who was originally walking behind, turned his horse and walked in front of Li Xiuning, and persuaded him: "Your Royal Highness Princess, we have already marched hundreds of miles in a hurry, and the soldiers are also tired. Now that the heavy rain has extinguished all the torches of the brothers, and it is not convenient for those who are blind in the black light to continue on their way, it is better to find a place to shelter from the rain for the time being, so that the soldiers can rest for a while. ”

Li Xiuning shook his head categorically and said: "The Sui army has received the news last night and withdrew, if we want to catch up with them, we must seize all the time, tell the soldiers to grit their teeth and insist on persevering, as long as this battle can take down the head of Longzhi Li Yu, I, Li Xiu, would rather take out all the treasures of the princess's mansion to reward the army!" ”

Chen Xuanli's brows jumped, of course he knew why Li Xiuning was so eager to catch up with the Sui army, but he really couldn't fight like this, he could only continue to persuade Li Xiuning bitterly: "Your Royal Highness Princess, didn't General Li Shiji say in his letter, he has already sent General Tian Zaibiao to lead his troops and horses to set up an ambush in front of him, we really don't need to rush at this time!" ”

"Li Shiji's department only has more than 20,000 people, and the most people that can be brought by Tian Zaibiao are only seven or eight thousand, and they have just returned from the defeat in Bashu, and one or two small victories can't change their originally low morale at all. And the Sui army is strong and strong, if it finds that the road ahead is blocked, it will inevitably break through with all its might, and General Tian Zaibiao's soldiers and horses will not be able to resist for long at all! ”

Li Xiuning didn't mean to be persuaded by Chen Xuanli at all, and rushed forward with a wave of the horsewhip.

Chen Xuanli sighed helplessly, and could only follow with his horse.

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Although Tian Zaibiao had fallen out with Li Shiji in the previous battle of Jianmen Pass because of the death of Guan Ling and Xu Ning, he couldn't even do the most basic disagreement, but Tian Zaibiao was not ambiguous in major matters. This time, Li Shiji asked him to lead his troops to encircle and intercept the Sui army, and he set off with his troops without saying a word.

"Whew!"

Tian Zaibiao, who was fully armored, stood upright on the hillside, looking at the pouring rain in front of him, and suddenly sighed, feeling melancholy.

After the battles of Jianmen Guannan and Zhengcheng, Li Shiji can be said to have single-handedly redeemed the decline of the Tang army in Hanchuan and made great achievements. With such a meritorious Li Shiji, even if Li Yuan knew that Li Shiji abandoned Li Xiaogong to flee for his life alone, it would be impossible to blame him for the sake of the overall situation.

What's more, judging from the current situation, it is a problem whether those Tang Army generals who fled back from Bashu are willing to stand on the same line with themselves to correct Li Shiji. Tian Zaibiao also admitted that Li Shiji's ability was outstanding, if it weren't for his current situation in the Tang Army, he was afraid that it would be even more erosive, but when he remembered that he did not hesitate to abandon Li Xiaogong, who was still fighting bloodily on the front line, Tian Zaibiao's heart was disgusted.

"Report, General Tian, there is a large group of soldiers and horses coming not far ahead." At this moment, Tian Zaibiao's adjutant general hurriedly came and handed over his hand to report the military situation to Tian Zaibiao.

"Is it Sui Jun?" When Tian Zaibiao heard this, he suddenly came to his senses, and reached out to lift the Zhangba spear that was inserted upside down on the ground.

The adjutant general shook his head a little embarrassed, "General, you have also seen that it is raining so hard, that army has no torches at all, and only human figures can be seen in the dark, and it is completely impossible to tell whether it is the Sui army or the Tang army." But it seems that they are in a hurry. ”

"In a hurry?"

Tian Zaibiao lowered his head and groaned for a while, and suddenly realized, "It's the Sui Army, this must be the Sui Army." After Nanzheng was attacked, their rear road was cut off, so in order to prevent being attacked by us in front and back, they hurried back to Xicheng in such a hurry. Li Shiji had already sent someone to inform His Royal Highness King Changguang that the pursuing Tang army should know that there was an ambush ahead of us, and there was no need for them to pursue in the rain. ”

Tian Zaibiao flicked his cloak, strode forward, and said in a deep voice: "Immediately pass the order, the army will attack immediately, and be sure to capture Long Zhi and Li Mi alive!" ”

"Yes!" The adjutant immediately retired.

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"Quick, speed up." Under the hillside, Li Xiuning took the lead, constantly scolding his subordinates to speed up.

"Shoot the arrows!"

Just as tens of thousands of Tang troops gritted their teeth and followed Li Xiuning to run, a sharp cold drink suddenly came from the hillside next to him, and then the arrows on the two high slopes shot down like an overwhelming land. Li Xiuning, who rushed to the forefront, was caught off guard, was shot in the shoulder by an arrow, and suddenly fell off the horse with a scream.

"Your Highness the Princess!"

Chen Xuanli, who was not far behind Li Xiuning, did not see Li Xiuning fall from the horse due to the night, but he could guess what happened to Li Xiuning just by the woman's scream, and he couldn't help but be anxious, and immediately slapped the horse and rushed forward.

"Ding Dong, it was detected that Chen Xuanli had entered a state of fighting, with a force +4, a base force of 92, and the current force rose to 96."

"Ding Dong, Chen Xuanli's four-dimensional ability has been detected, commander 87, force 92, intelligence 84, and politics 80."

"Kill!"

On the hillside, Tian Zaibiao roared, slapped his horse and rushed down first, and thousands of Tang troops behind him swept down like a flash flood.

"Ding Dong, Tian Zaibiao was detected to have entered a heroic state, with a force of +6, a base force of 101, and the current force has risen to 107."

"Tian Zaibiao is here, Sui Dog is dead!"

Tian Zaibiao rushed down the hill on his horse, and just bumped into Chen Xuanli head-on, and suddenly roared, and the spear in his hand stabbed out like lightning.

Chen Xuanli was taken aback, and hurriedly stood in front of him. However, Tian Zaibiao's spear was too fast, and Chen Xuanli only felt that the tip of the spear had pierced Chen Xuanli's chest.

Chen Xuanli screamed and died immediately.

"Ding Dong, Tian Zaibiao was detected to have killed Chen Xuanli, and Chen Xuanli's data has disappeared from the arsenal of living military generals."