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It's just that Fang Xuanzao let him succeed? When he saw Wang Tao move, he immediately pushed the steel knife in his hand forward-

Hearing only a "poof", Wang Tao's big head rolled down on the snow, and blood spurted wildly from his neck. It took a while for his body to fall, and he fell into the snow.

Fang Xuanling had a shocked expression on his face, and he came back to his senses after a long time.

Yu Ming held his hand at this time and said: "Xuan Ling, Xuan Zao, this trip frightened you, I didn't expect that among my personal soldiers, there would be someone who ate inside and out, and actually fornicated with Li Shimin, ruining our big thing!" ”

Fang Xuanzao pointed to the traces left by Wang Tao at this time and asked, "General, eldest brother, should we remove the inscriptions on the trunk and the bark that was thrown on the ground in order to inform Li Yuan's father?" ”

Yu Ming thought about it for a while, but said with a slight smile: "No need, just keep it!" We can still go to Tongguan as planned! ”

Fang Xuanling thought about it, Fang Zhanyan smiled and said, "I didn't expect this, but I can go to Tongguan calmly." It's just ......"

He was still a little worried: "If the enemy pursues and finds that there is no one of our vehicles passing in front of them, I am afraid that they will still come in the direction of Tongguan!" ”

After hearing this, Yu Ming frowned slightly and said: "Since this is the case, then I will lead a part of the people to continue south to Hongnong County in a carriage." You still rode southwest on horseback, and when you reached the ferry in front of you, you hired another big boat to go to Tongguan. ”

As soon as his voice fell, Fang Xuanling immediately objected: "General, how can you do that?" After Li Yuan's father catches up, won't you be in danger? ”

Yu Ming smiled slightly and said: "Xuan Ling, you don't have to worry, I will only let the carriage move forward for a while, and then I will abandon it and move forward with a light horse instead." At this time, even if Li Yuan sent someone to chase after us, he would think that we abandoned the car and changed horses. There are few people in my group, and if you drill into the woods, it will be difficult for Li Yuan's people to find them. At that time, they will go back after a long time of looking for nothing. ”

When Fang Xuanling was still hesitating, Yu Ming immediately decided: "Xuanling, Xuanzao, you don't need to say more?" Don't you want to take all your family back in the customs? ”

After Fang Xuanling and Fang Xuanzao heard this, they couldn't help but be moved to tears.

"That's it! Don't mother-in-law! Don't tell Xiuning about this, or she'll definitely come with me. I can't bear to see her and her father and brother parting in life and death! Yu Ming said with a serious face. 0

The two nodded, and Fang Xuanling said: "Please rest assured, as long as Fang still has a breath of air, he will definitely send his wife to Liaodong safely!" ”

Immediately, the group was divided into two teams, and Yu Ming spent a lot of words, thinking that he had many people and needed to march in two batches before persuading Li Xiuning to agree to take the first step.

Then, Yu Ming ordered Fang Xuanling and Fang Xuanzao to march southwest, and let them hire a carriage after they reached the town ahead.

After successfully persuading Li Xiuning to take the first step, Yu Mingfang cleared the horseshoe prints left by them when they left, and then led more than a dozen personal soldiers to drive the carriage straight in the direction of Hedong County. As soon as they were on it, they deliberately swaggered, leaving many traces.

Only half a day after they left, the brothers Li Shimin and Li Xuanba led the army to chase them.

Li Shimin ordered people to carefully check the situation nearby, and after looking at the instructions left in the woods and the wheel prints on the ground, Fang Yi pointed to the road leading to Hedong County: "Catch up!" I didn't expect Yu Ming to play this hand and change direction halfway, if it weren't for the mole installed in his own soldiers, I'm afraid that we would be in vain! ”

However, they had pursued for only a few dozen miles, and they saw that four carriages had been abandoned on the side of the road, and there was no one inside, and judging from the horseshoe prints, the team in front was still heading towards Hongnong County to the south.

Li Shimin looked at the hoof prints, and said with a happy face: "Everyone continue to chase!" This hoof print is very fresh, and it looks like we're getting closer and closer! Yu Ming and those soldiers may be physically strong, but Fang Xuanling, an official, will definitely find a way to find a new carriage in the town ahead. Let's keep chasing! As long as Yuming can be captured, Ben will definitely report to His Majesty and Shou and give everyone a heavy reward! ”

After hearing this, the soldiers were immediately overjoyed, and under the leadership of Li Shimin, they rushed to Hedong County by the Yellow River. It is a must for those who go south to Xiangyang.

The mountains in the southeast of the river are vertical and horizontal, the road is rugged, although the distance from the original to the county seat of Hedong is not long, only many miles, but it is tortuous and difficult to walk.

Li Shimin originally thought that he could catch up with the fleeing Yuming, Li Xiuning and Fang Xuanling before he reached Hedong County. But unexpectedly, after chasing for a whole day, until he entered Hedong County, he did not see half a shadow of Yuming.

He couldn't help but wonder in his heart, secretly wondering if Yuming could run so fast with both an official and a woman? If it was an ordinary person, it would be fine, but as far as he knew, Fang Xuanling couldn't ride a horse, and he could ride a horse faster than he could ride a horse in a carriage?

At this time, the city guard of Hedong County learned that Li Yuan's son was coming with an army, and hurriedly came out to greet him.

Li Shimin asked him if there was anyone with suspicious signs coming from the original direction.

After the city guard asked the soldiers guarding the city gate, Fang replied: "Li Ergong, half a day ago, a group of soldiers on horseback did pass by. However, they had a special pass issued by Lingzun, so the captain of the city gate had no choice but to let them pass. Now they should cross the Yellow River. ”

When Li Shimin heard this, he couldn't help but sigh, he naturally knew where the special pass came from, it was a year ago, when Li Yuan first arrived in Yuanyuan, it was specially issued to him, Li Jiancheng, and Li Xiuning. Even the two younger brothers, Li Yuanji and Li Xuanba, did not.

After learning that Li Xiuning had assisted Yuming in escaping, Li Yuan immediately announced that this special order was invalid. But for now, only the towns around the former area know about it. Towns in this part of Hedong County were not notified at all.

Immediately, the city guard said: "After they crossed the city, they were divided into two, one to the west to Tongguan, the other to the south to Hongnong, if the second prince wants to chase, you have to consider which side to chase." ”

Li Shimin immediately said no more, waved his horsewhip and slapped the horse's buttocks a few times, and said to Li Xuanba: "Xuanba, let's chase quickly!" I pursued in the direction of Tongguan in the west, and you pursued in the direction of Hongnong in the south. Be sure to catch up with Yuming before the sun sets tomorrow! ”

Li Shimin is really anxious now, whether it is to the west or south, and two miles further on, it is the territory of the peasant rebel army, with Shangluo County to the west and Hongnong County to the south. Both counties are currently occupied by the rebellious peasant rebel leader Li Shanfei. If Yu Ming is allowed to enter the county seat of these two counties, then he will really only have to sigh at Wangcheng.

Moreover, Li Shanfei didn't know about the Liaodong Army's rebellion at the moment, and he didn't know that Yuming had been beaten into a thief. If Yuming's gang is allowed to hype up Hongnong County and Shangluo County, this group of rebellious mud legs will refuse to surrender for fear of saying anything. At that time, I don't know how much trouble it will cause.

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In the afternoon of the next day, Yuming and the others finally arrived at the city of Hongnong County. At this time, the banner of the Sui Dynasty on the head of the city had been taken down, but Li Shanfei had not publicly raised his banner. Although he raised troops to occupy Hongnong County, as the anger in his chest gradually calmed down, he did not know what to do next.

If he relied on himself to confront the Sui Dynasty, it would definitely be a death, and he didn't think that he had the strength to overthrow the Sui Dynasty.

How to escape? But he felt that there was no escape, the four directions of east, west, north and south were all the state capitals of the Sui Dynasty, and the troops of the counties there were not necessarily weaker than him. His brother-in-law suggested that he should contact the other rebel armies to merge, so that they could be twisted into a rope to deal with the extermination of the Sui army.

Li Shanfei also went to the rebel leaders of several nearby county capitals to contact him. But others are pushing back. After all, they don't have Li Shanfei's strength, and after the merger, Li Shanfei will inevitably be promoted as the commander-in-chief. In this way, they have a sense of being swallowed up. After all, everyone wants to be the boss and not the little brother.

In desperation, Li Shanfei planned to hold on to the city, and then ask someone to intercede with Li Mi to see if he could join Wagangzhai. In this way, even if you can't mix up a leader, you can guarantee that you can be a small boss, at least in the short term.

It's just that just when he was a little trembling in his heart, he found that a large group of people had arrived at the city of Hongnong County.

"Please open the city gate and let us in!" The man said loudly.

Li Shanfei immediately arrived at the head of the city, and when he looked down, he saw about eighteen knights in armor under the city. And one of the young generals for Wei made a gesture on the horse: "Dare to ask Li Shan Feiling?" ”

"I am! Where are you from? Is it the Sui Army? Li Shanfei asked with some suspicion. Because these twelve knights couldn't tell from what they were wearing at all that it was the Sui army or the rebel army.

"We used to be from the Sui army, but now we have been forced to rebel. I am Yu Ming, the marshal of the original Liaodong Army camp, and we divided into several retreats to avoid the Sui army from pursuing. Please let me go into the city, we have something important to tell you! Yu Ming said frankly.

"What? Are you Yuming? After Li Shanfei heard this, his heart was shocked, he had also heard of Yuming's name, which was known as the pillar of the Sui army! He single-handedly destroyed the Liaodong region that Yang Guangzheng could not take in Goryeo.

He secretly thought that eighteen people would not be able to make any big waves when they entered the city, so it would be good to hear what he had to tell him.

Just when Li Shanfei ordered his men to open the city gate, he suddenly heard a "rumbling" sound of horses' hooves coming from afar. His heart immediately tightened, and he realized that a large group of cavalry was coming.

"Don't rush to open the city gates yet, beware of fraud!" Li Shanfei hurriedly stopped.

Yuming and his party under the city waited for a long time, but they didn't see the city gate open, and they heard the sound of horses' hooves "rumbling" behind them. When all the relatives guessed that it was the pursuers coming, their hearts suddenly went up and down, and they were a little afraid.

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