Chapter 3: Glitz (Part 2)

Dou Jiajun went south! Dou Jiande still killed in front of the Tiger Prison Pass! Hearing the news brought by Li Shimin, Cheng Mingzhen's face was pale and he couldn't say a word for a long time. \__(.) Super-fast updates/

He didn't know how to face Dou Jiande. After so many years, the hatred of the past has long been diluted by time, and what remains is admiration, regret, fear and disgust, many feelings are intertwined, and it is impossible to tell what it is like.

If it was possible, he didn't want to meet Dou Jiande again in this life. Not only in awe of this person, but also with an indescribable regret. In the darkest years of his life in the past, it was Dou Jiande, who used the sentence "We are not thieves, we are bullies, and those who fish and flesh the people are thieves!" ", let him see the direction of his life again. Although it is only a glimmer of fireflies, the glimmer of fireflies is enough to illuminate people's eyes on a long night like ink.

"The world is unfair, Dou is the public of the world!" "Killing an innocent man is like killing my father, and insulting an innocent woman is like insulting my mother!" "Dignitaries and dignitaries are also human beings, and we are also human beings, and we are all qualified to live well. There's no reason why they're going to wipe us out, and we don't owe them anything, we're not half a head shorter than them! These words that Dou Jiande once said echoed in Cheng Mingzhen's ears over and over again. At a certain time in his life, Dou Jiande's image was so tall in his eyes. However, when this tall figure collapsed, it was so obscene and sudden.

Just because Wang Fubao's great achievements were difficult to pay, Dou Jiande simply killed him. Just because he was preparing to take Ping'en County as the capital, Dou Jiande did not hesitate to set a trap and prepare to enter the Zhaozhou battalion. He hated the injustice of the world and vowed to build a fair and just kingdom. As a result, what he did was exactly the opposite of what he said. He once despised the dignitaries and nobles, believing that everyone in heaven and earth was generally tall and short, but the court he established was more hierarchical than any other dynasty. He opposed the indiscriminate killing of innocents, and in the end, Wang Fubao, Song Zhengben, and Zheng Xie's followers died in his hands one by one......

"Lone knows that this is difficult for some strong people. But knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is the only way to survive a hundred battles! Seeing that Cheng Mingzhen did not respond for a long time, Li Shimin smiled very understandingly and said in a low voice.

"No, it's not difficult!" Lest there be more misunderstandings in Li Shimin's heart, Cheng Mingzhen explained in a panic. It was only when the words were spoken that I realized what I was trying to express. Now, the more he explained, the more troublesome it became, so he had to smile awkwardly and continue to add: "The last general, the last general said, the Dou family's army seems to be menacing, but in fact, it is strong on the outside, and it is not as difficult to deal with as imagined!" ”

"Oh! Tell me about it! Li Shimin's eyes lit up visibly, and he ordered with a smile. Regarding the specific strength of the Dou Jiajun, it is difficult to draw an exact conclusion based on its past achievements. This army once beat the world-famous Li Shiji (Xu Maogong) to the point of losing his armor, and also shook Wang Shichong in his heyday, so that Luoyang soldiers and horses were never able to cross the Yellow River half a step. But the same army was defeated twice by Luo Yi, the king of Youzhou, and the 200,000 army was killed by 5,000 tigers, and he didn't dare to look north for the rest of his life. Is there really such a big difference between the strength of the Youzhou Army and the strength of the first two? Li Shimin couldn't believe it anyway. A few years ago, he had seen with his own eyes the stuffed tiger Ben under Luo Yi's command, although the elite can be called the elite, but it has already been born in the army. With the remaining courage of the past, there is more than three with one, and it is reluctant to be five. If you want to kill an enemy army forty times your size, it is a pipe dream!

However, what was only possible in a dream was born in reality. And gave birth twice in a row. This could not help but make Li Shimin feel confused about the opponent of the Tiger Ben Iron Cavalry that day, the strength of the Dou Jiajun in Hebei. When facing the Tiger Ben Iron Cavalry, the Dou Jiajun was as vulnerable as an unorganized rogue. When fighting against other soldiers and horses, Dou Jiajun's performance was jaw-dropping!

"In fact, Dou Jiajun has never been a whole, the so-called Dou Jiajun should add a 'link' word in the middle", thinking about Li Shimin's thoughts, Cheng Mingzhen said slowly.

One word, when he landed, Li Shimin's eyes lit up again. "Well said. The word 'lian' is wonderful. 200,000 troops, with this one word in the middle, the strength will be discounted! ”

Cheng Mingzhen smiled and nodded slightly. "This army was formerly known as the minions of the green forest tycoons from all walks of life in Hebei. Dou Jiande reluctantly brought them together, but he never really integrated. Defending the territory and fighting, behind it are their own fathers and villagers, and all the soldiers can work together. Once you get away from the nest and go to the unfamiliar ground to fight people, the generals in the army will inevitably have their own stomachs. There are many people who want to fish in troubled waters, but there are few people who are willing to be one-armed! ”

"Good!" Li Shimin clapped his hands and admired. Listening to the general's words, the eyes of the lonely eyes suddenly brightened. When facing the Tiger Ben Iron Cavalry, everyone was afraid of their own losses, so the 200,000-strong army was crushed at the first touch. When he was with Luoyang, Dou Jiajun must have the idea of protecting the nest, so everyone can be fearless of death. Now Dou Jiande is not honest and waiting for death at home, but leads the army to cross the Yellow River to fight Lonely, hehe, isn't he impatient? ”

"I can't quite say that!" Wang Ermao interjected with a smile, "Dou Jiande's vision is very long-term, compared to Wang Shichong and Zhu Can, he is more than a step and a half higher!" ”

"Oh?" Li Shimin frowned slightly, not understanding what Wang Ermao wanted to express.

"Lips and teeth are cold, I'm afraid only Dou Jiande thinks so!" Wang Ermao added with a smile.

"Your Highness, have you decided which enemy army to fight first?" Cheng Mingzhen smiled and reminded in a low voice.

Li Shimin laughed, and his eyebrows suddenly swelled with pride: "Lone has been calculating with others all day today, but he has never made up his mind. After listening to the words of the two generals, it was difficult to hesitate. Wang Shichong is a dolphin, if he eats today, he will not care about tomorrow's life or death. Dou Jiande is a hero. Lone tomorrow will go to the Tiger Prison to meet this hero for a while, and it's not too late to go back and kill the dolphin in the circle! ”

Cheng Mingzhen and Wang Ermao smiled heartily and got up to send King Qin down the mountain. Dou Jiande was able to point the soldiers of the country to come south to save Wang Shichong, because he saw that the Xia and Zheng families were cold, once the city of Luoyang was broken, the Tang army turned around and the first thing to clean up was him Dou Jiande. But Wang Shichong may not be able to see this, when Dou Jiajun fought fiercely with the Tang Dynasty, he had to watch from the wall. I always think that I can reap the benefits, but I don't think that I am dying.

"Lone personally led the troops to deal with Dou Jiande. On the side of Luoyang City, it will be handed over to the two generals. While walking, Li Shimin arranged a new task for Cheng Mingzhen. It's best to scare them out of the real world. In case the king thief suddenly opens his mind, the two of them don't need to fight hard with the Luoyang army, report a letter to Gu in advance, and Gu will send soldiers and horses to meet you and wait! ”

This is already taking the initiative to think about Cheng Mingzhen and Wang Ermao. Knowing that they were thinking about the old days, they were unwilling to directly fight with the generals under Dou Jiande, so they handed over an inconsequential task to the Yuzhou battalion. Immediately, Cheng Mingzhen and Wang Ermao solemnly bowed their hands and thanked His Royal Highness King Qin for his kindness.

"Actually, it's a good thing to have affection and righteousness!" Li Shimin smiled and expressed his appreciation with a pleasant face, "Even in troubled times, Lone is not willing to be with those guys with ill intentions. If nothing else, it takes a lot of energy just to worry about them stabbing in the back. ”

"What Your Highness said is very true!" Cheng Mingzhen smiled and agreed. Although he was not in the camp of King Qin, he also admired Li Shimin's mind, bearing and insight very much.

"You two have been fighting side by side for many years!" Li Shimin asked with a smile, with a vague hint of envy in his eyes. "Lone also has a few good brothers, who have been dating since they were young. Each other sees each other's faults clearly, but they are used to each other's faults! ”

"It's been almost ten years!" Cheng Mingzhen smiled and replied in a low voice. "At the beginning, he and I were both big bags on the canal, and no one expected that there would be today!"

As he was laughing and gossiping, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves on the hillside below. It's not very urgent, but it's very different from the habits of the camp in Zhaozhou.

"Who's there!" Cheng Mingzhen pulled Li Shimin behind him and asked loudly.

"I'm a subordinate!" In the darkness, the voice of the scout chief Huangfang Bao was heard, with a little panic and hoarseness.

"What's the matter? Why don't you follow the rules! Cheng Mingzhen was a little angry and asked with a frown. There is a complete set of military intelligence transmission means up and down the battalion, which is very convenient to use. But today, Huangya Bao first did not report Li Shimin's arrival according to the rules, and now he is struggling in the dark to places where he shouldn't be.

"No, it's fine!" Huangya Bao's figure shook not far away, and there were a few scouts faintly behind him, "God, it's too late, Xiong, General Xiong ordered his subordinates to come over and ask, when will the general return to the camp?" ”

"General Xiong?" Cheng Mingzhen and Wang Ermao were both stunned, and both stepped forward, protected Li Shimin impermeable, and then quietly waved his hand behind his back, and said in an almost inaudible voice: "Your Highness, get on the horse!" ”

"What?" Li Shimin didn't hear clearly, and asked loudly. As soon as the words fell, he immediately realized that trouble was coming, and he ran a few steps back, reaching for the reins of his mount. Almost at the same time, several "scouts" behind Huangya Bao also moved. The man in front of him suddenly lifted it, and the war horse rushed diagonally along the hillside. Cheng Mingzhen and Wang Ermao did not have long weapons in their hands, and they both pounced on them waving horizontal knives. The long lance in the other party's hand was flicked left and right, and a "wild horse mane" came, and the two of them were turned into rolling gourds.

"Leader!" The yellow-toothed bow, tied to the saddle, let out a long cry. With his heart crossed and his legs strengthened, he used his body as a weapon to block the spear-wielding horse.

"Get out!" The Assassin let out a shout of rage. The lance swept across the back of the yellowtooth abalone like a whip, pulling it off the saddle and flying into the air like a bundle of firewood.

"His Royal Highness King Qin, hurry up. General Wei Chi escort! Seeing the yellow-toothed abalone gulping in the air, Cheng Mingzhen's eyes were split. Regardless of his own safety, he opened his throat and shouted.

It was sudden, and Wei Chi Jingde didn't have time to react. Sent Li Shimin to the mount with both hands, and stepped forward with a single whip to fight for his life. Several guards from the Prince's Mansion were desperate and followed behind Wei Chi Jingde. The lance-wielding assassin shouted, "Good time! First, he forced Wei Chi Jingde to turn over and fall, and then picked up one of the guards who came up and smashed him straight towards Li Shimin.

In a hurry, Li Shimin didn't have time to react at all. Relying entirely on the instinct cultivated in ordinary combat, he set off his mount and dodged the corpses of his subordinates. The lance-wielding assassin didn't care about the life or death of Yu Chi Jingde, Cheng Mingzhen, and Wang Ermao, and rode his horse to take Li Shimin.

The remaining few Qin Wangfu guards sacrificed their lives to save them, but their martial arts were too far from the assassins. In a few breaths, they have made the souls of the revenants. "His Royal Highness King Qin, go quickly, go to the military camp of Zhaozhou!" Cheng Mingzhen got up from the ground, grabbed a rock, and threw it at the assassin's back. The Assassin did not look back, but with one hand pulled out the hammer and with the other, flicked it backwards at will, and the stone was swept away from the direction and tumbled to the ground.

This martial art is not inferior to Qin Shubao in any way. Li Shimin knew that he was not an opponent, so he turned his horse and fled. The camp of the Zhaozhou army is just under the hills, only two miles away from here. As long as he escaped into the barracks before being overtaken by the "Assassins", he was unharmed.

Having interrogated the captives beforehand, the "Assassin" knew the crux of tonight's operation. Ignoring his subordinates and the rest of the people, he pulled a straight line diagonally and blocked Li Shimin's way to the barracks. He was under Li Shimin, and he ran down the slope diagonally, and in a blink of an eye, he was almost on the same page as Li Shimin. Li Shimin secretly screamed in his heart that it was not good, turned his mount, turned around and fled. Now, you can stop fighting with the assassins for the time being, but you are getting farther and farther away from the barracks.

"Woo-woo-" At the foot of the mountain, Cheng Mingzhen's guards also felt that the situation was wrong and sounded the alarm horn. In a few breaths, a loud trumpet sounded in the camp in response. The lantern balls and torches lit up into a sea, and all the soldiers reacted in the shortest possible time, and they gathered in formation.

The two main generals were called by the king of Qin to discuss military affairs in the distance, and only Wang Fei and Zhang Jin were on duty in the battalion. The two didn't know what had happened on the mountain, so they could only pull the team out and quickly approach the mountain. "Help me!" Li Shimin was so anxious that his eyes were on fire, and he shouted for help in the direction of the barracks. In the chaos of people shouting and neighing, his cry for help was like a gnat, and it was impossible for anyone to hear it.

"King Xiao Qin, take your life!" In the blink of an eye, the lance-wielding assassin chased after him again. Gang Feng painted back and forth behind Li Shimin. Seeing that he was about to be killed on the spot, a cold arrow suddenly flew from the oblique stab, impartial, and hit this person in the heart.

"Ding!" A spark was smashed into the iron armor on the back of the heart, which shook the wielder on the horse. Cheng Mingzhen, who was chasing after him, once again opened his bow and arrows, and shot at the assassin one after another.

The killing distance of the riding bow is very short, and the opponent is wearing iron armor, and the feather arrow cannot pose a lethal threat at all. But this string of random arrows also made the assassin scramble, and he had to protect himself and take care of his mount, and in the blink of an eye, Li Shimin threw off three horses.

"Woooooooooooo Wang Ermao finally converged with the guard of the Zhaozhou battalion, and regardless of his injuries, he sent the correct order with a horn. After receiving the order, Wang Fei and Zhang Jin immediately dispatched their troops and outflanked the assassins.

Seeing that the crucial opportunity to turn the tide was about to be missed, the lance-wielding assassin also risked his life. No longer paying attention to Cheng Mingzhen's harassment, he fought hard to take a few arrows, and he also wanted to stab Li Shimin under the horse. said that it was too late, it was fast, and he saw that his mount was as fast as lightning, carrying his master like a dragon and rushing towards Li Shimin. The lance pierced the night, faintly bringing a gust of fishy wind. Seeing that the snake-like lance was about to bite Li Shimin's back, a black light suddenly flashed in the oblique thorn. Yu Chi Jingde rode a black horse empty-handed, inserted between Li Shimin and the assassin, and pushed the blade crookedly.

"Look for death!" The Assassin was furious. Turning the lance forward, he wiped Wei Chi Jingde's choked throat. Wei Chi Jingde Xun tilted his head and let go of the other party's killing blow. With both hands, he shook the lever in front of him. Then press both legs and hands at the same time.

The black horse under his crotch was one of the best horses in a million, and when he felt his master's thoughts, he immediately jumped forward diagonally. With the inertia of this leap, Wei Chi Jingde held the lance and fought hard. Hearing only the sound of "buzz", the poisonous python-like lance trembled and moaned, out of the master's grasp, and was snatched into his hand by Yu Chi Jingde.

"Ahh The assassin, who had previously prepared to pick up Yu Chi Jingde's corpse in the air, had no time to react, and the lance escaped. Holding the front half of the lance in his hand, Yu Chi Jingde slammed it with one arm, turning the lance like a whip and smashing it at the assassin with the wind.

That assassin can silently break through the scouts of the Zhaozhou camp and kill Li Shimin's nose, naturally he is not a mediocre hand. The reason why the weapons were seized was that on the one hand, the strength was inferior to that of the other party, and on the other hand, it was the burden of the enemy. Seeing Wei Chi Jingde swinging his hammer and smashing it towards him, he immediately raised his iron shovel with both hands. "Dangchang!" With a violent sound of gold and iron, Wei Chi Jingde rode forward and rushed forward a few steps. The Assassin's mount slowed down, then slowly stood still, raised its head, and hissed loudly, "Whewβ€”β€”β€”"

"Let's get the name together!" Wei Chi Jingde turned the black horse and pointed out the angry assassin with a lance. "Da Zheng General Shan Xiongxin, big black, good strength. Could it be that you are Chi Gong, the captain under Liu Wuzhou?! The assassin fell short, but he did not lose his demeanor, and with one hand, he greeted Captain Chi Jingde from afar.

While speaking, Cheng Mingzhen and Wang Ermao arrived with their own soldiers, bypassed the two of them, and protected King Qin's regiment in the center. Seeing that Li Shimin's safety had been guaranteed, Wei Chi Jingde smiled and said loudly: "If you fail, you still don't want to die senselessly!" Before the two armies, it's not too late for us to divide the victory and defeat! ”

Seeing the torches in the distance getting closer and closer, Shan Xiongxin knew that it would be too late if he didn't leave. smiled, and arched his hand at the ** party, "I wanted to meet King Qin, but I didn't expect to meet so many heroes." Tonight, Shan Mou is worth it. Ladies and gentlemen, we'll see you later! ”

With that, he turned his horse and turned around and left. Wang Fei and Zhang Jin led the army to rush, and for a while, they didn't know why, but they watched him run in front of him.

"Intercept him!" At this point, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, finally came to his senses, pointed to Shan Xiongxin's back, and roared loudly. "Intercept him and avenge Brother Bao. He is the first fierce general under Wang Shichong, kill him, you can cut off Wang Shichong's arm! ”

"It's too late!" Wei Chi Jingde smiled bitterly, dropped the lance and snatched it, flipped his hands, and blood trickled down the edge of his palm.