When Li Shimin saw it, he knew that this time it was a catastrophe. However, his face was fearless, his handsome face was incomparably cold and resolute, his hands were tightly gripping the Tang knife, his feet were firmly on the ground, and his eyes were firmly fixed on the approaching enemy, like a tiger ready to tear the enemy apart.

"Whoosh", "Whoosh", "Whoosh"

Suddenly, a group of powerful arrows flew out from behind Li Shimin and shot straight into the Tuyuhun cavalry team that rushed up, and the dozen or so Tuyuhun cavalry who rushed to the front were all hit by arrows and fell off their horses.

Li Shimin was startled, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded, and more than 500 black-clothed and black-armored cavalrymen rushed out from both sides behind him, shooting arrows while rushing.

Li Shimin was overjoyed, thinking that his five hundred Xuanjia elite cavalry reinforcements had arrived, but he soon found that he didn't know any of these people, and they flew past him without squinting and rushed towards the enemy formation.

The Xuanjia elite cavalry is one of the most elite cavalry selected and trained by Li Shimin himself, and he is the most elite cavalry with Li Shimin, who does not know how many times he has been born and died, galloping across the field, Li Shimin regards him as a brother and brother, and the relationship between them is also very deep, the relationship is also very close, and they are very familiar with each other. The five thousand Xuanjia elite knights Li Shimin knew everyone, and the five hundred Xuanjia soldiers brought this time were the pro-guards who were always around, and Li Shimin was even more familiar with them.

But Li Shimin, the black-clothed and black-armored cavalryman who suddenly killed, didn't know any of them, but his intuition told him that these people were here to save him, and they were friends and not enemies.

The Tuyuhun cavalry team was suddenly attacked by the black-clothed cavalry, and there was some confusion for a while, and King Murong Zun hurriedly shouted: "Don't panic, form a formation to counterattack!" ”

The Tuyuhun cavalry were also experienced and brave warriors, and they quickly calmed down and gathered their troops to launch a counterattack against this group of black-clothed cavalry.

Li Shimin saw these black-clothed cavalrymen take out iron lumps with wooden handles from behind their waists and throw them into the cavalry ranks of Tuyuhun like raindrops.

The Tuyuhun soldiers were surprised, suddenly heard a loud sound like thunder, those iron bumps exploded in the Tuyuhun cavalry team, for a time people turned on their backs, stumps flew sideways, flesh and blood splashed, Tuyuhun's war horses were frightened, did not obey the command and ran wildly around, many war horses violently collided with each other, and the soldiers were knocked off the horses and trampled into meat mud. What's even more terrifying is that each of these black-clothed cavalry seems to have a lot of wooden handles and iron bumps, and they keep throwing them into the Tuyuhun crowd and horses, and the thunderclap-like explosions come and go, and the Tuyuhun cavalry is in a mess.

King Murong Zun was hit in the left shoulder by an explosive steel fragment, and was tossed to the ground from his horse by the violent blast shockwave, if it weren't for a personal soldier desperately pulling him up from the ground and letting him ride on his own war horse, it is estimated that King Murong Zun would have been trampled into flesh by the frightened and crazy war horse. The soldier who saved him was trampled to death because he had no horses.

Although King Murong Zun had armor to protect his body, it was useless to deal with the exploding steel fragments, and a sharp pain came from the bone, and red blood continued to ooze from his shoulder. He looked around and found that the Tuyuhun cavalry had already been in disarray, clash and trample on each other, and were killed and wounded by the unknown iron bumps, and their souls flew out of the sky.

King Murong Zun knew that his cavalry team was finished, and if he didn't withdraw, it was estimated that the casualties would be greater, so he had to give a fierce order: "Withdraw!" ”

Turning the horse's head and rushing towards the base camp of Tuyuhun in the southwest, the rest of the Tuyuhun cavalry also turned their horse's head and fled one after another, they were really frightened this time. "Run, these guys will summon Thor! If you don't run again, you will be blown up by Thor......"

After a while, except for the Tuyuhun cavalry who had died or were half-dead, the rest of the Tuyuhun cavalry army ran cleanly.

A man who looked like a leader of the black-clothed cavalry brought over a spare war horse, and the strange thing was that this war horse was very calm and did not overreact to the violent explosion just now.

"King Qin, please get on the horse, and we will escort you back to Heyuan County."

"May I ask why you saved me? Who are you? Li Shimin mounted his horse and walked slowly towards Heyuan County with the black-clothed knights.

"Your Royal Highness King Qin, please forgive me, it is inconvenient for us to disclose our identities at this time. Our lord asks King Qin to be more careful in the future, this peace negotiation is actually a trap conspired by the insiders of the Tang Dynasty and Tuyuhun, and the purpose is just to harm His Royal Highness the King of Qin. ”

At this time, I saw a large group of people hurrying over from the direction of Heyuan County in the distance, led by the captain of the five hundred Xuanjia cavalry, followed by the Taishou of Heyuan County, the Assassin Shi, the Xuanjia soldiers, and the Tang soldiers of Heyuan County.

Seeing this, the leader of the black-clothed cavalry knew that Li Shimin's reinforcements were coming, so he saluted Li Shimin and led five hundred black-clothed cavalry to the north.

Li Shimin looked at their backs with doubts and thoughts, "This time it turned out that the Tang Dynasty and Tuyuhun colluded to frame me, I must go back to find out the truth and find out who is behind the scenes." ”

After returning to Chang'an, Li Shimin told Tang Gaozu Li Yuan the ins and outs of the whole matter, and Li Yuan was furious after hearing it: "Tuyuhun, this group of barbarian dogs, actually colluded with the thieves in the Tang Dynasty to try to kill my son, I decided to immediately send troops to recruit and teach this group of crazy barbarian dogs a lesson." ”

After hearing this, Li Shimin hurriedly dissuaded, "Father, our Datang Dynasty has just pacified the civil strife on all sides, the people's livelihood is withering, and hunger is everywhere, and now it is urgent to let the people recuperate and resume production, and we can only be patient with the surrounding countries for the time being." What's more, Tuyuhun is good at raising horses, is a horseback nation, good at riding and shooting, the people are fierce, brave and good at fighting, at present, my Datang is seriously lacking war horses, and its large-scale field battles will inevitably suffer. Now it is best to send an infantry reinforcement to the border of Tuyuhun, especially Heyuan County, to hold the defense and stop its invasion, which is the best strategy at present. ”

Li Yuan was silent for a while after hearing this, although he was annoyed, he also knew the current embarrassment and difficulties of Datang, and he could only arrange it according to Li Shimin's strategy.

Li Yuan secretly ordered Li Shimin to secretly investigate the internal thieves who colluded with the DPRK and Tuyuhun, and Li Shimin was ordered to retreat.

Late at night, in the prince's mansion, the candlelight flickered, and there were only two people in the secret room of the Qi Palace, the crown prince Li Jiancheng and the king of Qi, Li Yuanji.

"Big brother, Tuyuhun is really useless, so many people can't kill Li Shimin."

"I heard that a mysterious reinforcement came to the middle of the road, so I want to investigate who is behind this group of reinforcements?"

"Yes. This time, the plan to kill Li Shimin by Tuyuhun seems to have failed. We must hurry up and think of another way to get rid of Li Shimin as soon as possible, otherwise the eldest brother's position as the crown prince will be difficult to protect. Now the Tang Dynasty only knows the King of Qin, but not the prince. ”

The crown prince Li Jiancheng was silent for a while with a gloomy face, and said in his heart: "Meritorious master, look for death!" Li Shimin, you forced me, don't blame the eldest brother for being ruthless. He looked at the anxious Qi King Li Yuanji and smiled slightly: "Third brother, recently the Western Regions have offered a few jars of fine wine, which is strong and delicious, why don't we invite the second brother Li Shimin to drink together." ”

Li Yuanji was stunned, Li Jiancheng whispered a few words in his ear, and Li Yuanji laughed after hearing it.

Two days later, Li Shimin received an invitation from the prince's mansion, inviting Li Shimin and other princes in Chang'an to drink the wine offered by the Western Regions.

Gaozu Li Yuan had a total of twenty-two sons, and only 4 of them were born, namely the crown prince Li Jiancheng, the king of Qin Li Shimin, the king of Qi Li Yuanji, and one named Li Xuanba, but he died early.

In addition, there are many concubines: such as: King Jing, Yuanjing, the sixth son of Gaozu; Yuanchang, King of Han, the seventh son of Gaozu; Yuanheng, the eighth son of Gaozu; Yuanfang of Zhou, the ninth son of Gaozu; Xu Wang Yuanli, the tenth son of Gaozu; Han Wang Yuanjia, the eleventh son of Gaozu; Peng Wang Yuanze, the twelfth son of Gaozu; Zheng Wang Yuanyi, the thirteenth son of Gaozu; Huo Wang Yuanliang, the fourteenth son of Gaozu; Daowang Yuanqing, the sixteenth son of Gaozu; Lu Wang Lingkui, the nineteenth son of Gaozu; Wait a minute.

Li Shimin also wanted to ask about Heyuan County and Tuyuhun in person, so he readily agreed.

At the banquet in the Prince's Mansion, the princes were staggered and lively, and everyone drank the delicious spirits of the Western Regions. Li Shimin pulled the crown prince Li Jiancheng and the king of Qi Li Yuanji into a corner where no one was around, and quietly asked about Heyuan County and Tuyuhun. Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji swore to heaven that they had never said anything about ceding Heyuan County to Tuyuhun, saying that Tuyuhun wanted to use nonsense to deceive Li Shimin into agreeing to their conditions, and that they wanted to sow discord between the brothers......

After hearing this, the doubts in Li Shimin's heart finally dissipated, and a stone that had been pressing on his heart finally landed, he was very happy, poured three bowls of Western Regions spirits and Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji clinked glasses and drank them all.

Because he drank too much tonight, the banquet was not over yet, Li Shimin got drunk and was carried back to the Qin Palace.

In the second half of the night, Li Shimin suddenly vomited blood, so frightened that his subordinates hurriedly found the imperial doctor, and the imperial doctor said that it may be that the spirits of the Western Regions were too strong, and the king of Qin drank too much, which hurt the spleen and stomach, causing vomiting blood, so he prescribed some traditional Chinese medicine to stop bleeding and recuperate the spleen and stomach.

But after drinking the Chinese medicine, he still vomited blood, and King Qin's face was sallow and dying. When everyone was anxious and helpless, the eldest grandson Wuji suddenly rushed back from the Central Plains, he seemed to have known about King Qin's vomiting blood, and rushed all the way into King Qin's mansion.

The eldest grandson Wuji came to King Qin's sickbed with a look of remorse on his face, "His Royal Highness King Qin, Wuji is late!" ”

He took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms, poured out a few pills from it, and personally gave it to Li Shimin. Then let Li Shimin lie down and rest quietly.

Unexpectedly, these pills of the eldest grandson Wuji turned out to have a miraculous effect, and Li Shimin never vomited blood anymore, but his body was still extremely weak.

The eldest grandson Wuji asked the servants of the Qin Palace's Mansion to boil a bowl of gruel for Li Shimin, fed Li Shimin to eat, and then covered Li Shimin with a quilt and let him rest quietly.

The next day, the crown prince Li Jiancheng and the king of Qi Li Yuanji heard that Li Shimin drank too much alcohol last night, causing him to vomit blood, so they hurriedly brought supplements and medicines to see Li Shimin.

Li Jiancheng said to Li Shimin with concern: "Third brother, you drank too hard last night, such a big bowl of wine is even three bowls, we only dare to touch the wine with you in a small bowl, you must know that it is a strong wine like fire." The average person will get drunk after drinking a bowl. These are some good ginseng, deer antler, bird's nest, ejiao and other supplements, you can nourish them. ”

Li Shimin thanked weakly.

After the crown prince Li Jiancheng and the king of Qi Li Yuanji left, Li Yuan also sent the imperial doctor to treat Li Shimin with concern, and the imperial doctor took the pulse and said: "It seems that I drank too much strong wine, and I drank it too violently, which caused the spleen and stomach to be injured, but now through the pulse, His Royal Highness the King of Qin should have no danger, and only need to recuperate quietly for a month." ”

After the imperial doctor left, some princes and ministers came to visit Li Shimin.

It wasn't until the evening that King Qin's mansion was a little quieter, and the eldest grandson Wuji asked Li Shimin to take a few pills he brought.

Or only let Li Shimin eat some ordinary foods such as gruel that are easy to digest, and the precious tonic medicines brought by the prince, King Qi and others, the eldest grandson Wuji is not allowed to take them to Li Shimin. Although everyone was puzzled, in view of the fact that the eldest grandson Wuji was Li Shimin's most trusted confidant, they had no choice but to do what the eldest grandson Wuji said.

After a few days like this, Li Shimin's complexion gradually improved, and he never vomited blood again, nor did he have the severe abdominal pain on the first day. However, he was still weak and unable to get out of bed.