Chapter 95: Family First, King Later

Longyi Village is located on a hill more than ten miles north of the Huai River.

The mountain is dozens of feet high, isolated in the middle of the surrounding hilly ridges, resembling an inverted mushroom shape.

The mountains that rise up because of the terrain are called Longshan.

The mountain is surrounded by cliffs on three sides, and only the gentle eastern slope has a winding stone staircase that extends to the top.

"Bang, ding..."

Halfway up the mountain, the guards swung their knives and slashed at the poisonous snakes that climbed the ladder.

However, the poisonous snakes were inexhaustible, and they rushed up without fear of death, and they were intertwined into a net, covering the stone steps and mountain roads less than three feet wide.

The two guards barely stood side by side on the stone steps, slashing at the snakes with their knives, and they couldn't keep themselves busy.

"Hiss"

A poisonous snake scurried up the guard's arm that had slashed Tang Knife.

"Ahh

The guard slapped off a poisonous snake, but in a distraction, it was crawling all over the body, and the poisonous snake went around the neck and then burrowed into the eye socket to bite.

The guard was in pain and poisoned, and suddenly he was unsteady on his feet and rolled down the mountain.

Frightened, the guards behind them panicked, trembling to fill the gap, waving their swords and dancing with snakes.

Even then it is a war of attrition.

The guards also retreated while fighting, and if they didn't retreat, they would be bitten to death by poisonous snakes, encroaching on upward threats.

This time it was decided, Wei Zheng stood on the three-foot-high stone wall at the entrance of the village, overlooking the scene on the mountain road below, he almost fell down with a dizziness, and retreated with his body swaying.

I was in a trance for a while, shaking my head and looking around at the irregular oval village that was more than 30 zhang long and more than 10 zhang wide.

The houses in the village are made of stone walls, combined with wooden doors and windows and reed roofs, to build a row of stone houses facing north and south.

In front of the stone house, a row of mulberry trees several feet tall grows, turning into an obstacle to the guards.

More than 1,000 guards crowded into the village, gathering crowds to surround the emperor in the center and turn him into a turtle in an urn, what should I do?

Approaching the emperor, Wei Zheng didn't bother to bow down to the emperor, only clasped his fists and said: "Your Majesty, the imperial army has been trapped in Longyi Village by poisonous snakes for more than three hours.

In addition, the food in the village has been looted by the evil forces.

Now, the people of the evil forces retreated to the outer woods and stood on the trees to form a siege of Longyi Village.

They watched the poisonous snakes attack the imperial army and watched coldly.

The imperial army could not stop the attack of the poisonous snake at all, and there was no food to satisfy the hunger, and the physical strength of the guards continued to decrease sharply, and it is estimated that they could not last long.

The main reason is that there are no reinforcements to come to Longyi Village to rescue the driver, but I am afraid..."

"Is this how my life should be?

Why? What happened last night?

I received a message from the guards saying that the family who rescued the concubine had fallen into the trap laid by the evil forces. How many of them are there? ”

I am not reconciled, Li Shimin looked around at the backs of the guards of the Imperial Forest Army, and for a while, he turned to Wei Zheng anxiously and asked.

What happened? Wei Zheng had a black line, feeling inexplicable, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, raised his hand to wipe the beads of sweat and said: "Your Majesty, the army arrived on the north bank of the Wei River last night and went straight to the temporary wharf on the mountain road of Longyi Village.

At that time, the emperor received a report from Li Shan.

The report he forwarded showed that an evil force, about three to five hundred people, was besieging Longyi Village.

Longyi Village has the potential of being a husband and a man.

Even only the villagers can resist the onslaught of the evil forces.

What's more, there are Li Shan and a group of spies working together to protect Longyi Village, which can be completely invincible, but it has become a bait to attract people from the evil forces.

It was convenient for the army to advance quickly, arrive at Longyi Village, join forces with Li Shanli, and wipe out the people of this evil force in one fell swoop.

This is the advice on the newspaper, the emperor decided to make a quick march, when the army arrived at Longyi Village but found that the village was already empty.

Immediately after that, we were forced by poisonous snakes to Longyi Village, unable to move, and became a passive situation now.

All these problems lie with Li Shan, and Li Shan may be set aside..."

"Bastard, what's overhead?

Li Shan thought about ambushing the concubine that day, but the concubine jumped out of Li Shan's encirclement.

caused Li Shan and the evil forces to design this dead end, he is the evil forces, and he deserves death.

Ahem"

I was planted in the hands of my own General Yulin? Li Shimin sat on the Taishi chair and became more and more excited the more he spoke, and when he stood up, he coughed and fell down.

"Your Majesty..."

Xiao Xizi gave first aid, and the minister screamed and knelt on the ground to plead guilty.

Everyone was busy for a while, and finally calmed the emperor's anger.

I treated him well, Li Shimin sat on the Taishi chair sluggishly, supported his forehead with one hand and couldn't figure it out, and couldn't help but mutter: "Who will save the driver?" Can the concubine come to save me again?

I'm so confused..."

"Report, inform the emperor that a team of strange soldiers has appeared in the southeast of Longyi Village.

That, that, those strange soldiers......"

The guard knelt on the ground, bowed his head and said it wasn't all.

Waste snacks, Li Shimin looked down at the guard's trembling back, and said angrily: "Bold, are you teasing me?"

I ordered you to straighten your tongue and say it, if you say something wrong, drag it out and cut it off! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, those strange soldiers stepped on a high wooden stick, stepping more than a foot away in one step, strange..."

said, don't be wrong, the guards trembled all over, trembling their lips and reporting to the emperor.

What, there is such a miracle in the world? Li Shimin stood up in shock, ignored the support of Xiao Xizi and the guards, trotted to the southeast corner of Longyi Village, and stood in the stone wall to look at the strange soldiers under the mountain.

I saw hundreds of people running on the gravel meadow beyond the ridge of the hills below the mountain.

The men ran as fast as they could, bouncing off the ridges of the hills, and in a moment they burrowed into the woods and vanished.

What kind of people are that?

Is it a rescuer? Li Shimin thought of something, and Wei Zheng, who looked sideways, asked: "Do you think that the concubine did not go in the direction of Longyi Village, or did the concubine rush back to Longyi Village one step ahead of time to capture Li Shan, and then staged this dragon prison opera?"

After all, Li Shan had ambushed that concubine, and it was normal for that concubine to in turn suppress Li Shan's false report to retaliate against me.

Both of them have rebelled, who should I believe? ”

"The emperor is clear, the ark that Wang Langjun rode on has now disappeared.

The ark is a divine object made by Wang Langjun, he should not destroy the ark, and the ministers and others did not find the shadow of the ark, which shows that Wang Langjun drove the ark and went straight to the ink lake south of Wuliang Mountain by the stream.

And judging from the number of people, Wang Langjun and his party are in line with this strange army under the mountain, they happen to be in the southeast direction, maybe..."

The emperor still has prejudices against Wang Langjun, Wei Zheng is secretly anxious, bows his head slightly with a straight face, and salutes the emperor and says.

It seems that the concubine came to the rescue, Li Shimin was secretly happy, thinking about how to restrain the concubine, and he didn't care about Wei Zheng's stinky face, and said angrily: "Wei Aiqing is still talking to that concubine?" A general who slanders me?

Even if I agreed with Wei Aiqing's speculation, the concubine came to the rescue.

However, that concubine has repeatedly disobeyed me and committed the crime of deceiving the king, and if I pursue him for sneaking into Wuliang Mountain to open my inheritance treasure without permission, it will be a crime of complicity in rebellion.

Even if he came to the rescue at this time, he would be unforgivable..."

"The emperor is a holy judge, and the ministers are afraid!"

It turned out to be the emperor's power technique, Wei Zheng was stunned for a moment, bowed down and said, I hope the emperor will not regret his will.

This old thing... Li Shimin knew that he couldn't hide it from Wei Zheng, but he also stared at Wei Zheng's old face and said, "In this case, I want to..."

"Whoosh"

A feathered arrow flew overhead, carrying a piercing sound on the mulberry tree in front of the house, trembling.

A strip of cyan cloth was tied to the shaft.

The guards climbed the tree, took down the feather arrow, and handed it to Xiao Xizi to present to the emperor.

"Hula"

Look at the red handwriting on the strip of green cloth.

How can this be reasonable, Li Shimin was so angry that he dropped the green cloth strip in his hand, and said angrily: "Wang Langjun is so bold, he dares to let me be a bait to attract the attention of people in the evil forces, so that he can save his family."

Is this Wei Wei saving Zhao?

In his eyes, is his family more important than me?

I hate this kind of rebellious person to the core......"

"The emperor is angry, and the cloth strip indicates that the method of eating snake meat can solve our famine and continue to save our physical strength, so that the reinforcements will arrive in Longyi Village to implement the plan of internal and external cooperation.

After all, Wang Langjun had too few men, and they couldn't break through the snake formation and attack the mountain to save them.

Moreover, Wang Langjun found that the poisonous snake was rushing up to Longyi Village in a crazy way, and it was likely that someone in the village had done something in advance to attract the poisonous snake to rush up the mountain with medicine and herbs.

The top priority is to eliminate this drug, which can solve the problem of poisonous snakes, and then try to counterattack the plan, and the minister implores the emperor to see clearly? ”

This time it was a big trouble, Wei Zheng had a black line, and was frightened by Wang Langjun's strategy of saving his family first and then the king, and trembled and knelt down.

This damn concubine, Li Shimin felt that his dignity was frustrated, his face was hot, and he continued: "Wei Aiqing is reasonable, but Aiqing knows that the snake is the Houyi of the Dragon Clan, and it is not edible.

And I am the body of the Son of Heaven and the dragon, how can I allow people to eat snake meat?

That's not..."

"The emperor is in a picture.

The dragon is the first, the Jiao is the second, the bottom is the Teng snake, and then the snake is the snake.

Strictly speaking, a viper has nothing to do with a dragon.

The minister implored the emperor to see it? ”

Is this a deliberate attempt to rectify Wang Langjun? Wei Zheng peeked at the murderous aura on the emperor's face, and beat a drum in his heart, daring to admonish.