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When Gao Xianzhi was chatting with Feng Changqing and Cen Shen, in the military camp dozens of miles north of Dadushui in Jiannan Province, Li Sheng, the Zhenyuan Light Cavalry, put on his coat, picked up a basket of alfalfa, left the damp tent, and went to the stable to take care of his Qinghai horse, which was slightly aggrieved due to the unsuitability of the water and soil.

"A big war will break out at any time, you can eat more!" Li Sheng touched Qinghai Cheng's head and poured the alfalfa feed into the manger: "Are you not used to the humid and stuffy climate of Jiannan?" Actually, I don't like it either, but the dry and cold Longyou is more suitable for us. ”

Qinghai shook his head and chewed on the deliciousness, then snorted, and seemed to agree with his master's words.

"I don't know how Liu Poyu is doing, but fortunately, he is straightforward, he is happy when he drinks and fights, and if he doesn't think about it so much, it is estimated that Ge Shuhan will treat him well." Li Sheng thought of his friend who was far away in Longyou, and he didn't feel a little melancholy.

Three years ago, in the extremely tragic Battle of Stone Fort, Li Sheng, who was then the captain of the Longyouya Army, volunteered to lead the elite soldiers of the Party Department, climbed like an ape in the snow-capped red ridge, and broke through the small square platform defense line of the Tubo defenders with fierce oil fire, making great contributions to the victory of the Longyou Army.

Originally, if Li Sheng stayed under Ge Shuhan with peace of mind, it would be more than enough to promote individual generals by virtue of military merits. The tens of thousands of corpses of the Tang army that could be paved with the Chiling Mountain Road made Li Sheng see Ge Shuhan's ugly ambition of "one general to achieve ten thousand bones", and he was disheartened and had the intention of retreating. But looking at the robe of solidarity, Li Sheng was a little reluctant.

When he hesitated, the bad news that the marshal Wang Zhonghei died violently in Handong County reached Longyou, and Li Sheng, who was like a knife, made up his mind and said goodbye to Ge Shuhan in person.

After Ge Shuhan pretended to save a few words, he agreed to Li Sheng's request, allowing him to take his mount, armor, and horizontal knife away, and gave him a large sum of money.

Wang Sili and Liu Poyu were very puzzled by Li Sheng's choice and persuaded each other. But when they heard that Li Sheng was determined to go to Handong County, the two stopped talking, silently took care of Li Sheng's outfit and opened a good place. Wang Sili also specially transferred two horses from the army to Li Sheng to ensure that he could travel day and night.

When Li Sheng traveled thousands of miles and crossed Guanshan to Handong County, Wang Zhongsi's relatives had not yet arrived. Due to Wang Zhonghe's special status, the local officials were not sure how to deal with the aftermath, so they had to stop in the Hongshan Temple first, and send officials to strictly guard it.

Li Sheng showed the office issued by the official office of the Longyou Jiedu, and finally saw the remains of Wang Zhonghe. Li Sheng, who was broken, was grief-stricken, and did not forget to secretly investigate the cause of Wang Zhonghe's death.

After personally inspecting and carefully questioning the servants and servants, Li Sheng confirmed that Wang Zhonghei had no external injuries and was not harmed by a sharp weapon. Several of the examiners agreed that Wang Zhongsi had died of phlegm in his throat while he was asleep in the middle of the night.

Li Sheng has followed Wang Zhongji for many years, and knows that Dashuai has been working hard since he was a child, and his foundation is solid. He joined the army before he was weak, and he fought all the way, with steel and iron bones all over his body, and it was impossible to die violently for no reason. Even if he was degraded and depressed, and was heartbroken by the corpses and bones of the Battle of Stone Castle, he would not be killed. Therefore, Li Sheng always felt that Dashuai's death was a bit strange.

In order to find out the cause of Wang Zhonghe's death, Li Sheng weighed it repeatedly, and did not hesitate to take risks alone, sneaking into Hongshan Temple at night and removing the four innermost molars from the corpse's mouth.

After removing the teeth, Li Sheng bowed in front of the coffin and pleaded guilty, and left the jurisdiction of Handong County overnight, hiding in the mountains not far from the official road.

After confirming that his whereabouts had not been discovered by the officials of Handong County, Li Sheng soaked his four teeth in a bowl of water for several hours, then took out half of the water and placed it in the wild, hiding in the bushes to observe secretly.

It wasn't long before several pheasants and a wild deer were drinking. At first, the pheasant and the deer were all right, but after half an hour, the pheasant slowly became listless and fell to the ground. And more than an hour later, Li Sheng found a wild deer lying dead in the mountains and forests.

"It's so terrible poison, not only kills people invisibly, but also has no trace!" Li Sheng compared the death of the pheasant and the wild deer and confirmed that Wang Zhonghei must have been harmed: "Who is the murderer?" A certain vow to die to avenge the handsome! ”

Li Sheng put away his teeth and half a bowl of poisonous water, changed his outfit and returned to Handong County, quietly inquiring who Wang Zhongji had been in contact with before his death and whether he had any unusual behavior. But he secretly visited for a long time, but found nothing.

At this time, Wang Zhonghe's son-in-law Yuan Zai had already rushed to Hongshan Temple and decided to return to Huazhou in the north. Li Sheng thought that the murderer of Dashuai might attack Yuan Zai, and in order to protect Dashuai's body and find out who was behind it, he secretly followed him north. But until Wang Zhonghe's coffin was buried, the whole Huazhou was calm and calm, and there was nothing wrong with it.

The unrelenting Li Sheng wrote an anonymous letter to Yuan Zai's house, suggesting that he might have been poisoned. But the secret letter was like a mud cow entering the sea, and there was no reply, but the Huazhou officials frequently dispatched, saying that they wanted to arrest the bandits. Li Sheng, who noticed that the wind was wrong, left Huazhou and went west to Chang'an after bowing three times and knocking nine times in front of the tomb of the handsome.

Li Sheng stayed in Chang'an City for three or four months, visiting the famous doctors of Xinglin everywhere, but he never found out where the poison that killed the handsome man came from. After that, Li Sheng went east to Luoyang, and single-handedly wandered in Henan Road for a long time, but there was no progress in investigating everywhere. During this period, he accidentally rescued Zhang Xun, who was appointed as the county commander of Zhenyuan (now Luyi County, Henan), at the boundary of Songzhou (now Shangqiu City, Henan).

Zhang Xun was born as a Jinshi and served as the county magistrate of Qinghe (now Qinghe County, Hebei) from the 29th year of Kaiyuan (741). He was diligent and loved the people, and his political achievements were outstanding, and he went to Beijing to report on his work after several times of grinding and surveying, and he should have been promoted, but he offended Yang Guozhong because of his outspoken words about Yang Feiyang and his criticism of the Jiannan Army's wanton recruitment of strong men, and he was transferred to Zhenyuan County by the Ministry of Officials.

At that time, the city of Chang'an was full of flowers and prosperous weather, but the suburbs and villages gradually became desolate because of the continuous border wars. Although the homeless bandits have not made a profit, the peaceful scene of not closing the door and leaving no trace of the road is long gone.

On the way to Zhenyuan, Zhang Xun was robbed by dozens of displaced people who had escaped from the Jiannan conscription, losing several domestic servants and almost losing his life. Fortunately, Li Sheng passed by, slashed with arrows and knives, and hit horses with poles, killing several gangsters and driving away all the remaining homeless.

Li Sheng and Zhang Xun just met in Pingshui, and they planned to clean up the mess and go away, but the more they talked, the more speculative they became. Zhang Xun's character of worrying about the people and being jealous and hateful made him particularly admired, and Li Sheng's experience of galloping on the border and leading his troops into battle also made Zhang Xun envious.

Li Sheng made a temporary decision and escorted Zhang Xun to Zhenyuan County in one go. Zhang Xun also admired Li Sheng's heroism, and knew that he was originally a border military captain, but because he was disheartened and wandering around after the Battle of Shibao, he had the intention to keep him

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coincided with the misdeeds of the county's tyrants and bandits, and several county lieutenants were either corrupt or killed, and their positions were vacant for a long time. Although Li Sheng resigned from the post of captain of the Longyouya Army, the rank of military officer was always in his body. After Zhang Xun's recommendation and persuasion, Li Sheng decided to serve as the lieutenant of Zhenyuan County while secretly investigating the murderer who poisoned the marshal.

In order to eradicate the bandits, Li Sheng, with the support of Zhang Xun, drastically purged the officials who colluded with the gentry, and recruited a group of rangers to visit secretly with his excellent riding and archery skills. It didn't take long for Li Sheng to wipe out the local tyrants, shoddy gentry, corrupt officials and corrupt officials who were in collusion with the bandits, so that the atmosphere in the county was clear.

Among the bandits, Li Sheng and Nan Jiyun and Lei Wanchun, two rangers, had a relationship with each other, and the three of them married Jin Lan, with Li Sheng as the uncle, Nan Jiyun as the middle, and Lei Wanchun as the season.

Under the nourishment of new friendship, Li Sheng gradually adapted to the ordinary days of judicial arrest and trial of cases, and changed from a border town general who charged into battle to a mainland county lieutenant who maintained peace in the territory. Zhang Xun saw that Li Sheng's mind was gradually settled, so he sent someone to Longyou to pick up his parents, and arranged a marriage for Li Sheng. The woman is a true source of local Yin cannibalism, since the marriage, the pineapple has relied together, the piano is harmonious, the two soon had a son, and life is so uncomfortable! .

In addition to his busy official duties, Li Sheng often invited Nan Jiyun and Lei Wanchun to convene famous rangers in nearby states and counties for banquets, and he paid special attention to strange people who were good at recognizing and detoxifying, but he never found out where the poison that killed Wang Zhonghei came from.

In the late spring of the eleventh year of Tianbao (752), Li Sheng happened to hear a ranger who had been to Yaozhou in Jiannan mention that there were many strange flowers and plants in the Nanzhao Department, and his internal clan was very good at using poison, and the strange usage was not known to the Central Plains. After Li Sheng heard this, his heart, which had been calm for several years, was surging, and he suddenly had the intention of going south.

Li Sheng is pondering how to hang the seal to say goodbye to Zhang Xun, how to settle the family and return to Longyou, who knows that the sky is as people wish, Jiannan Jiedu made Yang Guozhong transfer the state and county Zhuangding to conquer Nanzhao again, and the people in Zhenyuan County were panicked for a while. Li Sheng took the opportunity to propose to Zhang Xun that in order to ensure that the athletes of the county survived the war, he was willing to shoulder the responsibility of leading the team to Jiannan.

Although Zhang Xun was reluctant to let Li Sheng leave, for the sake of the people under his rule, he still agreed to Li Sheng's invitation and promised to take care of the family on his behalf. Li Sheng didn't want Nan Jiyun and Lei Wanchun to go together, but who knew that the two forced each other with the oath they made when they bowed, so Li Sheng had to agree to take them to Jiannan Road together.

At the beginning of May, the three brothers rushed to Yizhou with more than 40 Zhenyuan strong men who were good at riding and archery to accept the reorganization of the Jiannan Army.

Yang Guozhong was greedy for more and more big, and requisitioned a large number of people from Gyeonggi and Zhongyuanzhou counties, but did not arrange enough veterans to train him, so the Yizhou military camp was in chaos. In desperation, Jiannan's soldiers and horses made Li Mi have to train athletes from all over the country into a fire or team based on the township party.

All the athletes in Zhenyuan County can bend bows and ride horses, so they are organized as the Zhenyuan Light Cavalry Team. Li Sheng was appointed as the captain of the team because of his ability to bow and horses and the official position of county lieutenant. Nan Jiyun and Lei Wanchun served as team deputies and became Li Sheng's right-hand men.

Starting from Zhenyuan, Li Sheng strictly restrained his subordinates in strict accordance with military orders and practiced non-stop. After the reorganization of the whole army, the Zhenyuan Light Cavalry stood out and became the earliest team in the army, which shook Cui Yuan, the deputy envoy of Jiannan Jiedu and the future affairs of Zhiliu, so he was selected to be incorporated into the pioneer camp and followed Li Mi south to Dadushui.

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