Chapter 31: Zhu Mei's Death
It is said that after the city gate in the urn of Chang'an City was broken, Xu Tianxiang was the first to rush in with the people of the Fourth Brigade. According to Li Xuanqing's plan, there are too many things that need to be done by Xu Tianxiang after the city is broken, and he can't relax at this moment.
"Tianyihou pure speed with the archers with me." Li Xuanqing stood on the street, asked Su Yang to go back to protect Zhang Tianhu, and asked Chen Yu and others to follow Xu Tianxiang and take over the advance of their respective teams, and said to Su He Hou Yong: "The pro-guard team and the direct team are now merged, Su He is the team leader, and Hou Yong is temporarily the deputy team leader." Come with me directly to the Zhu Mei camp. Let's go catch this guy. ”
The archers were quickly found by Li Tianyi and Wang Houchun because of Li Xuanqing's advance arrangement, and after the two found the troops and Li Xuanqing's round, Li Xuanqing gathered a small two hundred people at once, and no longer hesitated at the moment, the personal guards were in front, and the archers were behind, and followed Li Xuanqing along the main road and street to Zhu Mei's camp.
Due to the long siege of the coalition army, the arrangement in the city basically could not hide from the scouts of the coalition army, but this Zhu Mei was really bold and actually put the camp directly in front of the palace. Remember history saying that this guy wasn't very afraid of death? Before the war was fought, he ran to Lishan, why is he still in Chang'an? Could it be that the coalition forces moved too fast and were blocked back? So Li Xuanqing didn't say much and charged directly.
Originally, this broken city, Zhu Mei's army was completely chaotic, but it couldn't stand this guy with a lot of troops, and half of the more than 50,000 people were placed in Xicheng, so for a while, Li Xuanqing encountered several groups of soldiers, but it seemed that these soldiers didn't have the heart to fight, but thought about how to escape.
"Quickly go and order Xu Tianxiang, these Zhu Meijun will mainly surrender, as long as they put down their weapons, they will be driven to the side and sent people to guard them, and those who take the lead in creating chaos will be killed directly." After Li Xuanqing had dispersed a group of routed soldiers in front of him, he sent someone to interrogate Xu Tianxiang and continued to advance.
Although Li Xuanqing's team of men and horses is not manpowered, they basically open the way with bows and arrows everywhere, and then Li Xuanqing and Hou Yong charge into battle, so there are basically no soldiers who cannot be killed, but because they are not familiar with the road, they walked several times, and they did not find the way until they met one of Hu Xiaosi's subordinates.
However, Li Xuanqing let go of his mind after knowing that Hu Xiaosi had already acted according to his previous instructions. Now that someone led the way, I soon saw the huge towering palace wall in the distance.
"Brigade Marshal, there is no palace in the palace anymore," the scout named Zhao Si of the scout team quickly explained when he saw that Li Xuanqing's face was wrong.
Of course, Li Xuanqing knew that the palace had been burned down a long time ago, and it was estimated that the Hall of Prayer was still there, and the legendary Daming Palace had long been in ruins. However, just when Li Xuanqing was about to speak, he suddenly found a large number of officers and soldiers pouring out of the palace wall, all of them with bright clothes and armor, and full of spears and swords.
Li Xuanqing's long sword was raised and rushed forward directly, at this time, it was basically Zhu Mei's personal soldiers who still had this posture, were you afraid of Zhu Mei if you caught these guys? He glanced at Su He and Hou Yong at each other, and found the spark of excitement in the other party's eyes, and hurriedly roared angrily and followed with the personal guards.
"Archers shoot at close range." Li Tianyi and Wang Houchun led their troops to the left and the right, arrows flying, and they shot with desperate bows. The "poof" feather arrow slashed through the sky, and before Zhu Mei's personal soldiers could react, they arrived in front of him.
At this moment, the current dozen or so pro-soldiers were shot into hedgehogs before they could even shout. And immediately after that, Li Xuanqing had already appeared in front of him, the Hengshuang Sword opened and closed, and the speed of killing was not slower than the feather arrow shot from behind, and as long as the person who touched the long sword was basically killed with one sword. As soon as he arrived, Su He and the others also arrived, and the two teams fought again.
"Su Hehou Yonghouchun, this is handed over to you, after solving them, find Xu Tianxiang immediately, and follow his orders. Tianyi brought someone in with me to find Zhu Mei. Li Xuanqing made a move "True Dragon Seal" to forcefully split the palace gate behind him that had not yet been closed, decisively handed over the battle here to others, and rushed into the palace with Li Tianyi and a pair of archers.
After entering the palace, Li Xuanqing was immediately stunned, although he had long known that the imperial city of the Tang Dynasty was almost burned by the Yellow Nest, but it was not like what he was looking for, what kind of palace is this, this is simply a garbage dump, there are broken walls and tiles everywhere, a ruin, this Yellow Nest did enough back then, the palace wall did not move, but the palace inside was abandoned.
"Brigade Marshal, Zhu Mei is over there, and he is the one wearing gold armor." At this time, Zhao Si followed, pointing to a figure not far away who was running quickly towards the east and shouted.
"Tianyi, take the archers to chase, catch up and don't care about anything else, shoot directly, and bring the head to see me." Li Xuanqing frowned slightly, and commanded Li Tianyi.
After speaking, he took Zhao Si and ran quickly towards the south, and even in order to speed up, he directly pulled up Zhao Si, and the floating light and shadow body technique was used to the extreme, and even the soldiers who touched Zhu Mei's army didn't have time to kill. This Zhu Mei couldn't be so blatantly going to the east at such a time, and Bacheng wanted to take advantage of the chaos to slip out of the south gate. Because Chang'an City is so big, the coalition forces focus on the east, west and north gates, and there are not many people at the south gate.
Sure enough, after Li Xuanqing had been running fast for a quarter of an hour, a group of soldiers suddenly appeared in front of him, hurrying towards the south gate, and with a number of large carts, the number of people was not much, only about a few hundred.
"You quickly go to Su He and Hou Yong, and ask him to bring the personal guards to block the south gate." After Li Xuanqing put Zhao Si down, after hurriedly saying these few words, a Changhong Jingtian quickly swept through the guards, blocking this force with one person and one sword.
"Let Zhu Mei get out and see me." The Hengshuang Sword in Li Xuanqing's hand was dripping with blood, and the cold wind was full of infinite murderous aura, and it actually forced the entire army to stop in an instant. From the time of killing to the present, Li Xuanqing doesn't remember how many people he killed today, and when he stopped, he felt that his right hand was almost numb, and the pure yang true qi in his body was running and replenishing on its own, relieving Li Xuanqing's exhaustion.
"This strong man, as long as you leave me a way out, my family is willing to give me all my treasures with both hands." At this time, a middle-aged general in military uniform came out and replied to Li Xuanqing.
"Who are you? Let Zhu Mei get out and see me. Li Xuanqing saw that there was an inexplicable majesty in this person, and felt a little familiar, but he didn't think about it for a while, so he asked.
"In Xiawang Mountain, Lord Zhu's personal battalion is correct, I don't know what this general has to say?" When this person saw that Li Xuanqing actually had the leisure to ask himself, his face was obviously twisted, and he hesitated for a moment before answering. Obviously, these people were shocked by Li Xuanqing's blood and the blood-soaked long sword in his hand, and they all forgot how they could rush through so many of them if they rushed hard.
"Wang Shan, Wang Shan." After Li Xuanqing muttered two sentences in his mouth, he suddenly shouted: "Wang Xingyu! This sound sounded like thunder in an instant, shaking these people's ears, and this Wang Shan was also stunned at this moment, and his mouth involuntarily replied: "It is Ben ...... "
"Sure enough, it's you, Wang Xingyu, your time of death has arrived." Li Xuanqing laughed, and the long sword in his hand brought up a boundless whirlwind, killing Wang Xingyu in an instant.
"Quick, quick, stop this person for me, whoever can kill him, I will reward him with a thousand gold." When Wang Xingyu saw Li Xuanqing coming with him, he hurriedly retreated, shouting in his mouth to let the soldiers on the left and right escort him.
But it was already too late, Li Xuanqing bypassed the left and right soldiers with just a flash of his figure, and appeared in front of Wang Xingyu between the lightning and flint, and the sword light flashed like a long rainbow across the sky, and it was already on his neck before Wang Xingyu reacted.
"Order your men to surrender immediately, or I'll cut you down right away." Li Xuanqing's cold voice came out before the surrounding soldiers surrounded him. This Wang Xingyu has been repeated several times in history, and Li Xuanqing never thought of letting him go, but at this moment, Li Xuanqing was in a hurry to find Zhu Mei, so he could only take down this guy.
"Don't do it, everything is up to this general, put down your weapons." The cold blade of the Hengshuang Sword made Wang Xingyu not have any thoughts, and hurriedly ordered the surrounding guards according to Li Xuanqing's intentions.
"Brigade Marshal, we are here, Zhu Mei has been caught by Tianxiang." Just when Wang Xingyu's personal soldiers put down their weapons and squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands, Li Tianyi's voice was heard from afar, and he was seen running towards Li Xuanqing quickly with Su He and others.
"Suppress all these people, find a place to lock them up, Houchun, and immediately pull these carts back to our camp, and no one will stop them and kill them." After Li Xuanqing handed Wang Xingyu over to Su He, he ordered Wang Houchun. At this time, these things can't be snatched away by other feudal towns, this is related to their own plans in the future, so they are directly handed over to Wang Houchun to deal with.
After Wang Houchun and Su He took their respective subordinates to receive orders, Li Xuanqing took Hou Yong and the remaining dozen or so people towards the battlefield where they were still fighting. However, Li Xuanqing didn't plan to continue fighting, he had already grabbed enough merits today, and if he grabbed it again, it was estimated that he would be able to survive. So Li Xuanqing planned to find Xu Tianxiang and take advantage of the war to grab the materials left by Zhu Mei. I heard that after this guy entered Chang'an, he began to loot how many civilians and how many people's fat and ointment were looted, so that the already dilapidated Chang'an City was about to become an empty city, and the people of Chang'an fled to other places one after another. Li Xuanqing thought that he could grab as many things as he could, and it would be good to send them to those refugees if he couldn't eat them, anyway, Hu Xiaosi had already sent people to encourage those refugees to go north, and if he went by himself, he should be able to collect a lot of people.
Li Xuanqing was completely blinded by this and that square in Chang'an City, so he simply let Hou Yong lead the way, and if he encountered a straggler, he could surrender, and if he couldn't, he would kill him directly, so when he saw Xu Tianxiang, he actually gathered hundreds of people.
"Tianxiang, where is Zhu Mei? You're not going to come across a fake one too, are you? Su He took Wang Xingyu, have you seen it? Li Xuanqing was relieved to see Xu Tianxiang, and asked after handing over the people who had been pressed along the way to Chen Fan behind him and explaining that he was escorted back to the camp. To tell the truth, Li Xuanqing heard Hou Yong say that the one wearing gold armor he chased before was Zhu Mei's pro-military camp, and after the battalion, he felt that this guy had found a place to bury himself, anyway, Chang'an City is so big, the army has just entered the city, and now it is basically still in battle, and there is no time to find someone at all.
"Don't worry, after I slashed that guy, he shouted out by himself, and I asked Wu Huan to take him to Zhang Weizheng to confirm. It's just that I didn't know at the time, that knife was a bit ruthless, and this guy probably won't survive this time. Xu Tianxiang saw Li Xuanqing asking about this, and he also knew that Hou Yong and they had caught a fake, so he hurriedly said.
"What about Little Four? Did I ask him to find Zhu Mei's logistics warehouse? Li Xuanqing stopped with Xu Tianxiang and the others, arranged for Yang Tiancheng and them to catch the prisoners, and took one or two hundred people to wander around in Chang'an City slowly, as long as they didn't bump into each other, they basically wouldn't shoot.
Xu Tianxiang was the only one who knew Li Xuanqing's thoughts, so he smiled when he heard this: "I found it, but Xiao Si asked us not to move, he found two warehouses, one of which was a secret warehouse, which was very secretive." There was a large amount of food, gold, silver, and jewelry inside, so he was already aware of all the traces of the surrounding area, and I had already sent Houchun to put down the captives and bring people over to keep an eye on them. As for the open warehouse, let everyone grab it. Although there are a lot of things in that warehouse. ”
Li Xuanqing nodded and continued: "Let Xiao Si keep an eye on all the suspicious people, kill all those who might know about this warehouse, give him an order, and mobilize all the forces of the Fourth Brigade if necessary." By the way, Hou Yong, you go to Xiao Si immediately, follow his orders, and be sure to keep this warehouse. This is the key to our survival in the future. ”
Hou Yong was taken aback when he heard what Li Xuanqing said so seriously, and hurriedly took the rest of the guards and Zhao Si to find Hu Xiaosi immediately.
"Third brother, are you sure that we will start the plan after this battle? Isn't that a bit early? We don't have a lot of people at the moment. Xu Tianxiang saw Li Xuanqing's solemn face and couldn't help asking.
Since there was no one around him at the moment, Li Xuanqing didn't hide much, and brought out his concerns one by one, and Xu Tianxiang was also silent by Li Xuanqing for a while.
Li Xuanqing was not as pessimistic as Xu Tianxiang, and when he saw Xu Tianxiang's face with a deep groan, he waved his hand and asked, "How many people are left in the Fourth Brigade?" ”
Hearing this, Xu Tianxiang hurriedly suppressed the worry in his heart, and sighed: "The recruits rushed into battle, although they were restrained by the formation and strengthened coordination, they still suffered heavy casualties, and now there are only more than 600 people left in the Fourth Brigade. Moreover, the team was killed in battle, and Qian Laoliu and Zhang Cheng were injured. ”
Li Xuanqing also sighed, but his eyes rolled, and he suddenly said to Xu Tianxiang: "You go and see how the other brigades of the Third Guard are doing, and if possible, bring all the scattered soldiers and wounded soldiers to us." By the way, you should immediately lead the brothers who still have combat strength to capture the prisoners, and after they are caught, they will all be brought to our camp. Don't send all the officials to Wei Shuai, and leave the rest. ”
Xu Tianxiang was stunned for a moment, and immediately reacted, and hurriedly gave Li Xuanqing a thumbs up, and said with a smile: "Third child, your trick is really bad, aren't you afraid that someone will go to Wei Zheng to complain?" ”
"Lvshuai Li, I can be regarded as finding you, Wei Shuai asked you to find him immediately, he is in the Zhumei camp." Just as the two of them were about to act, Su He rushed over out of breath and conveyed Zhang Tianhu's latest instructions.
"I'm ready to share the spoils." Li Xuanqing and Xu Tianxiang glanced at each other and smiled.