On September 14 of the second year of the Tang Dynasty, under the leadership of Li Ji, the deputy general of the Tang Liaodong Road March, the Tang army captured Xincheng, an important town in the western part of Goguryeo, and killed 30,000 Goguryeo troops and captured 20,000 prisoners in this battle, and in the process of attacking the Tang army's camp, the Goguryeo general Jian Mucen and his two sons were all killed. After the news came, all the surrounding cities were terrified, and they strengthened their defenses, not daring to launch an attack without authorization.

Although the weather was gradually wintering, Li Ji did not stop the next attack, but ordered Pang Tongshan and Gao Kan to lead an army of 10,000 to defend the new city, and at the same time ordered Xue Rengui, Hao Chujun, Qi Bi He Li and others to attack from all sides and attack the surrounding cities.

Of course, in this, Li Xian followed Li Ji's requirements, sat in Xincheng all the time, and never fought again, which was really a great torment for Li Xian, who was eager to go into battle to kill the enemy, but Li Xian also knew that Li Ji was for his own good, so he had no choice but to forcibly hold back.

In fact, it's not just Li Xian? Xue Ne also felt bored, after dinner that night, he did not practice marksmanship as usual, but came to Li Xian's big tent to drink with Li Xian to relieve his boredom.

The two didn't drink much, Xue Ne sighed, and said slowly: "Alas, everyone else is fighting everywhere for my Tang Dynasty, only the last general and the king sit in the city, and they can only practice marksmanship and archery every day, but they can't kill with real knives and guns, it's really boring. ”

"Brother Xue, please be calm and don't be impatient, Goguryeo is so big, we have the opportunity to fight, don't worry about no war in the future, the so-called sharpening knives do not mistakenly chop firewood, if we want to win the battle, the art of war and martial arts must be learned first, not tonight, I will wait for the lantern to read at night, and also learn from the sages, and come to smell the chicken and dance." Although Li Xian was also depressed in his heart, he was afraid of Li Ji's face, but he didn't want to say it directly, but instead patted Xue Ne's shoulder with a smile and comforted him.

"Such a long night, so boring, how can you read the book of soldiers and practice martial arts? Instead of reading and practicing martial arts, it is better to have a few drinks first, and maybe you can relieve your boredom a little. Xue Ne shook his head with a wry smile, and then began to pour wine into his belly, and kept inviting Li Xian to drink with him.

Seeing this, Li Xian could only reluctantly accept it, and when the two of them pushed the cup and changed the lamp, they already had a little bit of alcohol.

"Let's go, Brother Xue, I can't sleep anyway, so it's better for me to wait for a walk out of the camp." Li Xian was already very depressed, but now that he was drunk, he couldn't vent it, so he invited Xue Ne to walk out of the camp with him to breathe.

As soon as Xue Ne heard Li Xian's words, he couldn't ask for it, and he didn't hesitate at the moment, so he walked out of the camp with Li Xian.

The street on a winter night is still quite cold, especially when the northwest wind is blowing that night, the cold wind blows to the face, but it dispels the depression, but the biting cold also follows, Li Xian has practiced internal skills for many years, but he is not afraid, but Xue Ne is so cold that his teeth are chattering, Li Xian saw this and hurriedly took off the fur fur on his body and sent it to his hand. Xue Ne was moved in his heart, but he didn't say it, even when he put the fur fur on his body.

"King, it's so cold, why don't I wait and go back." Although Xue Ne was wearing two fur coats, he still felt cold to the bone, but he couldn't hold on to it after holding on to the tea, so he opened his mouth and said to Li Xian.

"Wait a minute." Li Xian did not agree, but said such an inexplicable sentence.

It is inexplicable, because this sentence is not at all in line with Li Xian's consistent attitude towards Xue Ne and his style of responding to requests. And it was precisely because of this that Xue Ne felt that there must be something strange hidden in Li Xian's words.

Sure enough, before he could react, he saw the guard named Zhang Wuchen next to Li Xian jump, and stabbed a spear in his hand into the city wall, and when he landed on the ground, he jumped up again, stepped on the spear shaft, and the whole person was like a raccoon cat, and he actually jumped to the city wall two or three feet high. And the moment Zhang Wuchen became strong, he turned around again and said to Li Xian: "King, the enemy army is coming. ”

"What do you say? Another enemy attack? Hehe, now we finally have a fight. This time, Xue Ne was not only not flustered, but was inexplicably surprised, happily gearing up and cheering.

"Don't be so excited, there are many enemy troops this time, not to mention 50,000, and there are only 5,000 people in our city, plus the city wall is damaged, and it has not had time to completely repair it, and the soldiers in the city are also old, weak, sick and disabled, and they are defenseless, so it is really difficult to keep the city." Zhang Wuchen glanced at Xue Ne obliquely, and then said coldly.

Although the relationship between Li Xian and Xue Ne is relatively close, in Zhang Wuchen's eyes, no one except Li Xian has anything to do with him, so his attitude towards Xue Ne is always without sadness or joy, and his face is slightly cold.

Fortunately, Xue Ne was accustomed to Zhang Wuchen's attitude, and he also knew that this person's martial arts were unfathomable, so he didn't think it was wrong, and said with a smile: "I can't imagine that the enemy army can look up to us so much, and even want to concentrate such a strong force to besiege Xincheng, it seems that it is to cut off our army's food route and return route, and cause our army to die, but as long as I Xue Ne is here, the enemy army will not want to realize the plan." The king, it is better to do this, the last general first went to notify the city defense soldiers to urgently go to the city to guard, but the king went to inform General Pang and General Gao, and at the same time sent this brother to report to his father, where his father is located is only fifty miles away from the new city, with the brother's footsteps, I believe that the army can arrive before dawn, as long as General Pang and General Gao defend the city, plus the reinforcements of my father, the two sides can definitely repel the thieves. ”

Unexpectedly, Zhang Wuchen first said coldly: "A certain person will not leave the king." ”

"This ......" Xue Ne suddenly felt stunned when he heard this, but he had nothing to say, after all, the other party was only Li Xian's personal subordinate in terms of identity, not the regular army of the imperial court, Hugh said that he was himself, even Li Ji had no right to order him.

But I didn't expect Li Xian to open his mouth and persuade: "Wuchen, the stakes are very high, don't be childish, go quickly to find General Xue, this king has nothing to do here, it's not that you don't know the character of this king, if there is any accident in today's events, how can this king forgive himself?" ”

Li Xian said while taking out a talisman from his arms, and said softly: "This is the fish talisman given by the saint to this king (soldier talisman, originally called tiger talisman, renamed fish talisman because of avoiding Li Hu's secrets), you must not use it lightly unless you have to, you go to see General Xue with this card, General Xue will naturally send troops to come, go quickly, the military situation is urgent, don't miss the big thing." After finishing speaking, Li Xian stuffed the fish talisman into Zhang Wuchen's hand.

"No, take care, your lord." Zhang Wuchen is not a person who doesn't know the severity, and now seeing Li Xian's arrangement, he can only agree to come down, jump on the city wall, and then a few ups and downs, and then disappear into the night.

After Zhang Wuchen left, Li Xian and Xue Ne did not dare to hesitate, and launched actions one after another, Xue Ne took advantage of his father's influence in the army, and immediately went to the city tower to inform the chief general of the enemy attack of the enemy, but he did not expect to be blocked at the gate of the city tower.

"Get out of the way." Seeing that the guards were so ignorant, Xue Ne couldn't help but be furious, and immediately stretched out his hand to push the guard away, and then used his strong body to directly slam open the gate of the city tower, and shouted loudly: "General Gao, the enemy is coming, please prepare quickly to meet the enemy." ”

At that time, Gao Kan did not sleep, but was reading in the city tower, and was startled when he heard Xue Ne's words, stood up and walked a few steps, came upstairs, opened the window, and sure enough, he heard a dull sound in the vast night.

"It turned out to be the sound of horses' hooves! And listening to this voice, there are no less than 50,000 people coming! Gao Kan is also a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, with rich combat experience, after hearing that voice, his face suddenly changed greatly, and he immediately ordered the alarm to be issued, and ordered the soldiers defending the city to gather immediately and prepare to meet the enemy.

"Fortunately, the virtuous nephew reported the news in time, if it is a moment later, when the enemy soldiers are approaching the city, it is too late for our army to resist, and this battle will definitely be unfortunate, alas, it is always the general who is too careless, so that this incident happened, and the general is guilty. However, now is not the time to discuss crimes, and I hope that the virtuous nephew will work tirelessly and go to General Pang's camp with the general's fish talisman and ask him to send troops to support him immediately. ”

Gao Kan sighed slightly, then took out the talisman and handed it to Xue Ne.

But seeing that Xue Ne did not go to pick up the talisman, but arched his hand and said: "Don't hide it from General Gao, there is no need for the fish talisman, because the chief manager has already gone to General Pang's camp, and I believe that General Pang will send troops to support soon." ”

"Hehe, it turns out that the general manager also knows about this, since there is another horse, I believe that General Pang will soon send troops to rescue, but there is one more thing, I and General Pang belong to a total of only 5,000 soldiers and horses, and most of them are veterans and disabled soldiers, the real combat effectiveness of the soldiers is only 2,000 at most, now the enemy army is 50,000, and it is prepared, I am afraid that even if he sticks to it with all his might, he can only hold on for two days at most, if there are no reinforcements in our army within two days, I am afraid that this city will fall into the hands of the enemy, once it is time, I'm afraid my entire crusade army will be defeated by this......."

In the interval between the transfer of troops, Gao Kan expressed his inner worries again, hesitated for a moment and said: "The old man has something to ask the virtuous nephew, the virtuous nephew is only fifty miles away from here, if the virtuous nephew can take advantage of the chaos to leave the city, go to find the Lingzun lord to move the rescue troops, he will be able to solve this urgent need, the old man knows that this matter is indeed difficult for the virtuous nephew, but there is no one available in our army, and the virtuous nephew is the most suitable candidate......

But seeing Xue Ne, he waved his hand and said: "General Gao doesn't have to worry, the chief manager has already arranged for this matter, and the chief manager has already sent his most loyal warriors to his father's camp to move the rescue troops, I believe that it will arrive early tomorrow morning at the latest, and the general can prepare for war with peace of mind." The entrustment of the chief manager, the last general has been completed, and the next general should go to the chief manager to return to his life, General Gao, farewell. ”