Chapter 12: Saving his father before Bishui Pass, father and son don't know each other when they meet
In July of the third year of Wude (624), Li Yuan issued an edict to King Qin to conquer Wang Shichong, Wang Shichong heard that the Tang army was coming, and ordered Wang Honglie, King of Wei, to guard Xiangyang (now HB Xiangfan County), King Jing Wang Xingben to guard the Tiger Prison, King Wang Tai of Song to guard Huaizhou (now HN Qinyang), Wang Shiyun, King of Qi, was responsible for the southern city of Luoyang, Wang Shiwei, King of Chu, guarded Luoyang Baocheng, Prince Wang Xuanying guarded the east city of Luoyang, King Xuanshu of Han guarded Hanjia (north of Luoyang City), King Wang Dao of Lu guarded Yaoyi (north of Luoyang Palace), Wang Shichong personally led the army to fight. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Li Shimin conquered Cijian (now 30 miles east of HNXA County), Wang Shichong retreated to Luoyang, and the Tang army encroached on the towns near Luoyang, cut off the grain line of the Zheng army, and garrisoned the army in the north of Luoyang, advancing to Luoyang.
Xin Chou (13th), Li Shimin transferred the military camp to Qingcheng Palace, before the wall was repaired, Wang Shichong led 20,000 soldiers and horses from Fang Zhumen, relying on the wall and ditch of the old horse workshop, close to the water to resist the Tang army, Tang generals were all panicked. Li Shimin let the elite cavalry line up in the Beibi Mountain, and he climbed the mausoleum of Emperor Xuanwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty to observe Zheng Jun, and said to the people around him: "The thief's situation is embarrassing, and he wants to get away with it, and he wants to get away with it, defeat him today, and he will never dare to fight again in the future!" Li Shimin ordered Qu Tutong to lead 5,000 infantry across the valley to attack Wang Shichong, and warned Qu Tutong: "As soon as the army encounters, fireworks will be set off immediately." When the smoke rose, Li Shimin led the cavalry to the south, took the lead, and joined forces with Qu Tutong to fight hard. Li Shimin wanted to know the distribution of the forces of Wang Shichong's army formation, so he led dozens of elite cavalry to rush into the enemy formation, and rushed all the way to the back of the enemy formation, which was unstoppable and killed and wounded many enemies. Soon, due to the limitation of the causeway, Li Shimin and the cavalry scattered, only the general Qiu Xinggong followed Li Shimin, several Wang Shichong's cavalry caught up, and Li Shimin's mount was killed by an arrow.
Li Shimin was rescued by the pro-army and quickly went to the mountains and forests, followed by more than 50 horsemen in hot pursuit, more than a dozen people panicked to a cliff, seeing that the road was not passable, Li Shimin yelled: "Fight to the death!" He turned his horse back, and the lance was placed diagonally behind him. The pro-army behind him gradually protected Li Shimin behind him, and then turned his horse and galloped in the direction of the pursuing soldiers, running and dying at the same time, "Fight to the death!" ”。
Listening to the neighing of the war horse in the distance, Li Chengyan was allowed to be bypassed, Yang Ting'er in his arms woke up slowly, Yang Ting'er, who was originally in a daze, heard the shouting of the battle array and the neighing of the war horse, immediately opened her eyes wide, and pulled Li Chengyan and said urgently: "Brother Chengyan, Brother Chengyan, go and see, go and see,", Li Chengyan said softly: "Okay" In Li Chengyan's heart, even if it is Yang Ting'er, if she wants the moon in the sky, she has to find a way to take it off for her, and after speaking, she turned the horse and ran towards the place where the sound came from, relying on her own skills, Running away is not a problem yet.
After a short time, he walked more than 100 meters away from the battle array.
"Wow! Brother Chengyan, look, that uncle in silver armor is so powerful," Yang Ting'er said with her mouth open and pointing to Li Shimin's location.
"Well, although his martial arts skills are not as good as you and me, he is not hurt in the battle formation, and he is very good", Li Chengyan also agreed with Yang Ting'er's words.
After a burst of killing, the cavalry on both sides stood in line from the charge, Li Shimin looked at the battle formation of only five people around him and cried bitterly, there were more than 30 people on the opposite side, no matter what, he couldn't escape, the horse lance in his hand was smashed by the enemy general's hammer, pulled out the Tang knife and shouted: "Fight to the death!!
Yang Ting'er tugged at Li Chengyan's clothes and said coquettishly: "Brother Chengyan! ”
Li Chengyan also said to Yang Ting'er with this intention: "Wait for me to come back." put Yang Ting'er down the horse and nodded to Xiaobai, and then turned the horse to the position of the battle formation.
"Hey! Over there, you don't feel ashamed that so many of you bully five or six people," Li Chengyan shouted at the thirty-odd people with a grin.
I saw a young man, his face was like a crown of jade, his eyes were clear, his eyebrows were clear, and he had an elegant bearing, and he also had a faint taste of carelessness when he spoke, and he could feel a sense of oppression that made people feel sharp just by looking at the side. Li Shimin seemed to feel that he was a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.
The leader of the other party said coldly to Li Chengyan: "Where did you come from, go back to your mother's arms to breastfeed!" You dare to take care of the grandfathers' affairs, you can't get tired of living."
Li Chengyan said with a smile, "The kid has never eaten a mouthful of his mother's milk in his life, and he wanted to let you go, but with this sentence, you should die!" ”
"Young man, let's go, this is not the place you should come," he said to the leader opposite: "It's really promising, and you have a chance to stick your teeth with a descendant, that's how your master taught you?" ”
"Wow! I'm angry," he said, and said to the dozens of people behind him, "Fighting!! Not a single one to stay! ”
Before he finished speaking, he felt a pain in his throat, and pointed at the young man in Tsing Yi in disbelief, as if to say something, there was a "ho-ho" sound in his throat, and his eyes rolled and fell off the horse. I saw the young man in white pull out his waist knife, clamp the horse's belly and shout: "Kill"!! He rushed towards the battle formation on the opposite side.
Li Shimin came back to his senses and shouted, not good! "I'm going to go into battle"!
"Uncle, don't make trouble for Brother Chengyan." Yang Ting'er sat on the back of the white wolf and slowly walked towards Li Shimin and a few people, Li Shimin was shocked again, the first thing that caught her eye was a graceful girl, her hands were like soft wattles, her skin was like clotted fat, her collar was like a grub, her teeth were like a rhinoceros, and her head was like a moth. I saw that the girl stroked the head of the white wolf, and said to Li Shimin with a smile: "Hehe, you are going to do Brother Chengyan a favor now, just watch here." As he spoke, he ignored Li Shimin, not wanting to see Chengyan's brother kill, so he played with the white wolf. But~" Li Shimin was still very worried about the young man's safety
"King~Lord, look," the soldiers behind him called out in surprise.
At the time of this meeting, the white-clothed young man killed more than a dozen people in a conflict, the young man in more than 30 people, rushed left and right, did not swing a knife and one person fell, after a while there were only more than 10 people left, those few people were also shocked by the young man, turned the horse's head and left without looking back, Li Chengyan did not chase or chase, Li Shimin, who came back to his senses, hurriedly turned his horse and walked, Li Chengyan gave a salute in front of him and said: "Thank you little brother for saving your life, the people of the world will thank you again, and they want to get off the horse and give salutes when they say it"
"There is no need to do this, the house is not used to seeing Zheng Jun doing a lot of evil, so he has this experience," Li Chengyan said politely.
"Luoyang is in a panic, where do you want to go?" Li Shimin moved his mind to recover Li Chengyan and asked
"My husband and wife are going to Chang'an," Li Chengyan saw Li Shimin's thoughts.
"Chang'an? Now the road to Chang'an is full of soldiers, I'm afraid it's not easy to walk, why don't you go back to Qingcheng Palace with me first. Li Shimin said eagerly.
"It's okay, then I'll disturb the general," Li Chengyan replied after thinking for a moment,
beckoned to Yang Ting'er, hugged Yang Ting'er to the horse, and followed Li Shimin to the camp.