For the time being, Zhang Xutuo rode a fast horse to Luoyang, the eastern capital, and asked Yang Jun, the king of Qin, for reinforcements. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Since Li Yuan sent a foreign appointment to make a history of assassination in Qiaozhou, which is located in Huainan, he is just in time for the imperial court to use troops against Nan Chen. He, the assassin of the border state, should have undertaken all the necessary tasks such as preparing food for the attack on Chen's army and supervising the troops. After learning the news that Li Yuan was now in Huainan, he knew that Dugu Jialuo attached great importance to Li Yuan's nephew, and had the intention to give Li Yuan a chance to be rewarded for his meritorious service, so he ordered Li Yuan to listen to it in front of the account as the assassin of Qianzhou.

This time, due to the Turkic invasion of the northwest, Yang Jian adopted Gao Ying's suggestion and mobilized 200,000 troops attacking Chen to the north to aid the northwest on the grounds of "no funeral". After Li Yuan heard the news, he immediately asked Gao Ying for an order to go north with the army to the northwest to fight against the Turks. Gao Ying because he was a young talent from a noble background, and he would be of great use in the future, so he had the intention to win him over as soon as possible, so he agreed to Li Yuan's request and ordered him to return to Qiaozhou to temporarily entrust the government affairs of the government office to Changshi to preside over it, and then he could rush to the northwest to serve the imperial court.

Li Yuan said goodbye to Gao Ying, returned to Qiaozhou, and after settling down and disposing of the affairs of Yiying Prefecture, he led thirty or fifty personal soldiers and servants to the north to catch up with the brigade that had been transferred.

On this day, Li Yuan led his soldiers and servants to the vicinity of Longmen Town, twenty miles south of the eastern capital, when hail the size of soybeans suddenly fell from the sky. Li Yuan and his entourage were caught off guard, and two or three of their attendants were hit by hailstones falling from the sky, and their heads immediately bulged.

Li Yuan saw that the eastern capital was in front of him, so he was not in a hurry, and hurriedly found an inn located next to the avenue with all his soldiers and servants to avoid the hail.

This inn is located in the south of the key area in and out of the eastern capital, the regulations are very open, Li Yuan led thirty or fifty personal soldiers and servants into the inn to sit in the hall, but only occupied more than half of the hall.

Li Yuan was in a hurry to rush to the eastern capital to join the brigade and go north, and he had no intention of enjoying the scenery outside the window, so he only ordered the shop guys to hurry up and serve some wine and food to himself and his subordinates.

The shopkeeper saw that Li Yuan was wearing a brocade robe, with a saber hanging from his waist, an iron bow and quiver beside him, and his subordinates were carrying so many personal soldiers and servants. Li Yuan and his entourage sat in the hall for about a cup of tea, and the ordered drinks and dishes were served in an endless stream.

Li Yuan was about to pick up vegetables to eat, and when he inadvertently looked up, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a dark shadow outside the hall door, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Li Yuan didn't pay much attention to it at the time, and at the moment he and a few close servants pushed the cups and exchanged the lamps, and ate and drank.

After a short time, everyone was full of wine and food, and the shopkeeper came to report that the hail outside had stopped. Li Yuan ordered his servants to pay for the meal, and was about to lead people out of the inn hall, and when he set off, he suddenly saw an arrow shot head-on from somewhere outside the door, and it was shot at the head and neck of a personal soldier, who shook his body twice, and fell to the ground in front of the servant, already dead of anger.

In broad daylight, and in the inn hall next to the avenue, someone secretly shot his own soldiers with cold arrows, which was worth it! Li Yuan didn't have time to think about it, shouted, leaned forward, took the shopkeeper in his arms, and with one arm, he grabbed his neck and shouted angrily: "Tell your accomplices outside to get in!" ”

At the same time, the other soldiers and servants drew their swords and jumped into the courtyard one after another, looking around for the person who had stolen the cold arrow.

"The lord spares his life, the lord spares his life!" The shopkeeper was grabbed by Li Yuan's neck, and he howled with a purple face.

At this time, there was a sharp laughter from outside the courtyard, and someone shouted at the courtyard from outside the inn: "There is a kind of chasing Lao Tzu!" Be careful of being skewered with sugar gourds by Lao Tzu with one arrow! ”

"Say, is it your accomplice outside the hospital!" Li Yuan couldn't help but be surprised when he heard that the man outside the courtyard was so arrogant, let go of the shopkeeper, and asked him.

"Master, don't unjustly kill the little one! Listening to the tone of the person outside the courtyard, it was likely that it was a group of bandits gathered in the nearby mountains, seeing that the old man did not have many people and horses, and planned to block the road and rob. The master must not fall for them and be discharged from the hospital to chase him. The shopkeeper kindly persuaded Li Yuandao.

Li Yuan has always been arrogant, so he ignored the persuasion of the shopkeepers, ordered the two soldiers to stay and watch the shopkeepers, leaned over and picked up the iron-tired bow, put on the quiver, and led the soldiers and servants to rush out of the inn.

The person who had just stolen the cold arrow and injured people was also strange, obviously seeing Li Yuan leading dozens of personal soldiers and servants to chase him out, but he was not in a hurry to escape, but stood in place, and when Li Yuan and the others chased him to a place less than a hundred steps away from him, he bent his bow and arrows steeply, aiming at Li Yuan is an arrow, and then quickly turned around and ran, still shouting in his mouth: "Come on, come on, come with Lao Tzu!" ”

Li Yuan heard the sound of bowstrings in front of him, and hurriedly shrank his head and hid his neck, and as soon as he lowered his head, a feather arrow flew over close to his scalp, impartially, and shot at a personal soldier who was following him closely.

At this time, Li Yuan was annoyed: his own dignified state assassin was actually shot and injured by a small thief near the Dragon Gate, which is close to the Eastern Capital, and two pro-soldiers were shot and injured one after another, which is tolerable and unbearable!

His heart was on fire, and Li Yuan immediately bent his bow and arrows, aimed at the vest of the person in front of him, and shouted loudly: "The thief is leaving, eat my arrow." Before he could finish speaking, he let go of his left hand and shot an arrow at the man.

When Li Yuan was guarding Yang Lihua in the Jin Palace, he had accompanied Yang Guang to practice riding and archery with Changsun Sheng for several months, because he had the foundation of horseback riding and archery before. Today, the arrow was shot out, not only with great accuracy, but also with great force, passing through the chest of the man in front of him, and shooting him through the heart.

Li Yuan shot the bandit to the ground with an arrow in his hand, then slowed down his pace, chased after him, and scolded in his mouth: "I only said what a powerful character you are, but you couldn't help but shoot me!" ”

Seeing the man's head rushing down and his body falling to the ground facing forward, Li Yuan originally planned to approach him to see what he looked like, but unexpectedly, as soon as he reached a place about thirty or forty steps away from the body of the man who fell to the ground, a person in the same costume as the man came from the side of the road in front of him. ”

Li Yuan turned sideways to avoid the arrows shot from the opposite side, and laughed in his heart: They are all like you and other rats, even if they know that there is an ambush ahead, what can I do!

Thinking like this, Li Yuan bent his bow and shot an arrow at the man in front of him again.