In the spring, the long hills that were once lush and covered with countless peach blossoms are now full of flowers and green leaves. Only those bare branches that were sturdy and desolate were left, and they stretched tenaciously into the sky, as if to show their unyielding ambition towards the coming winter day. The peach trees grow so dense that the branches are even entangled with each other in many places, you have me, I have you, or, this is also a mode of their self-survival, the winter in the Northland, it is really cold. It is difficult for a single individual to compete with the sky, so everyone huddles together to keep warm and fight against the cold.

Li Ze was walking in this peach forest at the moment, and he was only following Li Yu alone.

Li Che died in this peach forest.

Li Ze stopped under a peach tree, and although nearly a year had passed, the scars of several holes were still clearly discernible that the ambush should have taken place in this area.

Li Ze was a little sad.

It's not that he's coy, it's just that he has a relationship. He didn't regret doing it at all. Although the two are half-brothers, they are afraid that their emotions are worse than strangers, and this kind of life-and-death struggle will inevitably make only one of the two people survive.

Even if there are some enemies, there is still the possibility of peace, and there is still a chance to find common interests and go hand in hand for a certain period of time, but he and Li Che are categorically difficult to coexist under a blue sky.

In this case, I can only ask him to die.

Walking to the half-cut stump, Li Ze sat down. Shi Zhuang told him in detail all the events of that battle, this peach tree, I am afraid that it was the shocking shock that Li Che usually chased after Chen Changping, and under a lance, a peach tree with the thickness of a bowl instantly cracked. His brother, who has never met, is really worthy of being a military general who has won the three armies.

He beckoned, Li Mi stepped forward, put the food box he was carrying in front of Li Ze, opened the lid half-squatting, and took out a few dishes from it, a pot of wine, and two wine glasses.

Li Ze filled the two cups, picked up one by himself, and said with some regret to the empty peach forest: "It's a pity, you and I, only one of them can survive, this cup of wine, I will honor you!" In the next life, I will take care of a good family and live a peaceful life."

Raise the glass above your head and pour it slowly.

Standing for a long time, Li Ze waved the sleeves of his robe and strode outside. Li Mi glanced at the food box on the ground and hurriedly followed.

The wind suddenly rose, bringing a whining sound in the forest, Li Mi felt a slight coolness on his face, looked up at the sky, and more raindrops fell at this moment.

It's raining.

Walking out of the peach forest, more than 2,000 cavalry silently waited outside. The first person is Min Rou. Others don't know that Li Che died here, but he knows, and he knows that there are too many secrets in Li Che's death that cannot be understood by outsiders, looking at Li Ze at this moment, the expression on his face is extremely complicated.

Li Ze turned over and jumped on the war horse, pointed the whip in the direction of Yingzhou City, and shouted: "Go!" ”

Two thousand cavalry, in the light rain, rushed towards the direction of Yingzhou City. The black cloak was lined with red, and at this moment the cavalry was galloping with all their might, and the black and red colors were flying between heaven and earth like huge waves, gradually moving away.

Yingzhou Thorn Shi Shi Yi was trapped in Zhangwu.

He marched into Zhangwu, the purpose was to contain Liu Chenglin, not to let Liu Chenglin have the opportunity to go south to Cangzhou to help Li Ze fight, the two armies confronted each other for more than a month, with the victory of Li Ze's army, Liu Chenglin also seemed to be deeply encouraged, brazenly sent troops to him. Although Shi Yi was a little surprised, he was not afraid, the two fought several times in Zhangwu, and Shi Yi won a small victory.

Liu Chenglin's sense of smell on the battlefield is indeed very keen, as long as he finds that there is anything wrong, he immediately shrinks his head, which makes Shi Yi helpless. But as soon as Shi Yi had the intention of retreating, Liu Chenglin came up like a cat smelling a fishy smell. It's a bit annoying, hit, can't die, throw, can't get rid of.

In the end, Shi Yi finally became angry and took the Yingzhou army straight to Jingzhou and took the initiative to attack.

Liu Chenglin immediately shrank back, relying on Jiancheng and Shi Yi to form a confrontation again.

The asymmetry of the intelligence of the two sides finally made Shi Yi suffer a lot.

Li Ze's cavalry covered the battlefield, and the battle of Cangzhou had long ended, but he still didn't know that Zhenzhou was defeated, and he was also kept in the dark, and it was only when a cavalry of more than 2,000 people led by Li Ze suddenly appeared on his flank, that he realized that something was wrong.

But he only had time to run to Zhangwu before he was blocked by Li Ze's cavalry. For this small goal, he also lost a unit to Liu Chenglin in exchange for his safe retreat.

On the third day when he was blocked to Zhangwu, from the direction of Shenzhou, thousands of armor soldiers and 10,000 soldiers came in, completely sealing his back road.

The small Zhangwu City was surrounded by soldiers and horses from Shenzhou and Jingzhou. This time it was not the time for Li Che to lead the army to besiege Yingzhou City, at that time, Shi Yi was in his chest, everything was under control, and now, he was really facing a desperate situation.

"Heavenly Dao cycle, retribution is not happy!" Standing at the head of Zhangwu City, Shi Yi, who has fought all his life, does not have much fear, only endless emotion.

"Chengde Li Anguo, Li Ze father and son, it's really amazing."

Now, of course, Shi Yi also understands that the Henghai Festival is over, and Lu Long tried his best to oppose Suning and persuade Li Anmin's plan to destroy Chengde, of course, is also yellow.

"Father, Li Ze's cavalry is gone." Shi Yi's eldest son, Shi Kuan, stared at the banner of the besieging army, and his face changed suddenly, "They, I'm afraid they're going to Yingzhou City. Father, we can't wait any longer, we have to break through."

"I see it. Li Ze led the cavalry here, and it was more just a threat and intimidation. There are only 2,000 cavalry, and they don't carry any baggage, how can they break my Yingzhou City? Even if the main force of Yingzhou is all here, there is no problem with the more than 1,000 armor soldiers and thousands of soldiers left behind to stick to Yingzhou City. Besides, Yeluqi's thousands of Khitan cavalry are near Yingzhou, and with them in check, Li Ze's two thousand cavalry can only work without success, and if one is not good, they will lose their troops and generals."

"But father, it's not a way for nearly 30,000 of us to trap Zhang Wu! Military rations, the most serious problem is military rations." Shi Kuan was worried about the tunnel.

"See? It's already raining. When the rain comes, will the snow be far away? Shi Yi smiled: "When the first snow falls, that's when we break through."

"Wait for the snow?" Shi Kuan was a little dumbfounded.

"For generals, not to mention proficient in astronomy and geography, but at least understand a little, even if you don't understand, you can always go to the county chronicles and take a look!" Shi Yi looked at his son with some displeasure: "You have been fighting with me for many years, why haven't you made much progress?" According to the records of Zhangwu County, the first snow here in more than ten years was in mid-November. It's only been a dozen days, maybe you wake up and you'll be covered in silver. Lu Long people are used to fighting in the snow, Jingzhou soldiers, Shenzhou soldiers, but not necessarily used to it. I see that their soldiers are still wearing autumn clothes, and it is not easy to mobilize so many winter clothes at one time, right? ”

"We still have autumn clothes?" Shi Kuandao.

"We're in the city!" Shi Yi said lightly: "After you go down, immediately search all the materials in the city that can make cotton clothes, or finished cotton clothes, and send them to our soldiers."

Shi Kuan nodded, Shi Yi's order naturally also included looting the people's winter supplies.

Li Ze led 2,000 cavalry, including Chengde wolf cavalry, Li De's 1,500 rangers, and his own personal guard cavalry, of course, it was impossible to attack Jiancheng. But his target is indeed Yingzhou City.

And what prompted Li Ze to do this was some of the people on the small book that Gao Xiangsheng gave him last year. Hu Twelve's work has been effective, not only controlling a team of more than 1,000 armored soldiers in Shenzhou City, but also enveloping many people in that book. In this, not only did there be people in Yingzhou City, but also Li Ze was unexpected, there were still people begging for a living under Yeluqi.

Li Ze's first step was to rebel against this Khitan.

Yeluqi now has nearly 4,000 Khitan cavalry, all of which are stationed between Yingzhou and Mozhou. The days were relatively bleak, seeing that winter was coming, their food, grass, clothing and other winter supplies had not yet been settled. He had already asked Zhang Zhongwu several times to return to the mouth, otherwise he would make up for these supplies. Otherwise, he won't be able to survive this winter.

But every time, the military order given to him is waiting.

In Zhang Zhongwu's eyes, these Khitan cavalry were just tools, dead or alive, he didn't care.

Yeluqi was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, but he didn't dare to disobey Zhang Zhongwu's order, he was now on Lu Long's territory, even if he wanted to run, there was no way to escape.

"Tiele, you are a native of the Tang Dynasty, you can always speak in front of the stone thorn history, you go to Yingzhou again, and you see that it is about to enter winter, my soldiers are already freezing, and they are still wearing summer clothes!" My horses don't have enough food, my horses don't have the strength to run out of legs, and if this continues, my thousands of cavalry will be wasted." Yelu Qi looked at a general in front of him who was dressed like the Khitans. Look at this person's face, but it is clearly a Tang Dynasty.

"Touren, I have a fart position in front of Shi Yi, I am your subordinate, I married a Khitan woman, in their eyes, I have long been not a person all the way." Tiele grabbed his unkempt hair, "I'll go, it's only going to make them despise it even more."

Yeluch said angrily: "If you don't give us supplies and don't let us go home, is this trying to force us to death?" ”

Tiele looked at Yeluqi and said slowly: "Chiefman, I have another way, but I don't know if you are willing to go?" ”