"Haha"

Li Shimin looked at the person who looked like him and smiled: "You are not ashamed of your words. Far away...... Sight...... Tell me, how can you be considered a destined person? ”

He suddenly had a cold look in his eyes and asked, "Is it fate to meet?" So I ordered someone to cut off your head with a knife, is it fate? ”

Na Sheng's face changed, he took a step back and clasped his fists and saluted, "May I ask the name of this general?" ”

Li Shimin sneered: "A charlatan who cheats on eating, drinking, and cheating a few copper coins dares to ask my name?" ”

Na Sheng said solemnly: "The grass people are not warlocks who cheat food, drink, and money, but they have no way to serve the country in their hearts." That's why I made some mysteries, originally just to attract the general's questions. I came all the way here from Dongdu, and I was alone to go to Yanmen Pass to rescue the driver. Now that I'm meeting a general, I don't know how to talk to him, so I came up with this method, and the general is not strange. ”

Li Shimin didn't bother to debunk this not clever lie, and smiled: "It's more honest to talk like this, I don't like people beating around the bush." ”

Li Shimin can naturally see that if this person is dressed up like this, if he really came all the way here from Luoyang, the eastern capital, he doesn't know how many teams will go north to rescue the driver along the way, and he doesn't know how many times this person has pretended to be a ghost, and he doesn't know how many times someone who is destined to say this, let alone how many times he has been driven away. Looking at his rather depressed appearance, I can more or less guess a rough idea. I think that this person has stopped the team going north along the way, and he has not been ridiculed and ridiculed. But this person is also persistent, and he doesn't even change his approach.

He said that he was waiting to see him, and he pretended to be like this in order to talk, and the deceitful ghost would not believe him in this sentence, Li Shimin was like a person, so he could naturally see it at a glance.

"What's your name, you're really from Luoyang, the eastern capital?"

Liu Hongji was also a little curious by this person, he glanced at Nasheng and asked.

"I want to know, who is the general?"

When he asked this sentence, Liu Hongji was slightly angry, and said in his heart that this person was rude, but Li Shimin thought in his heart that this person was so arrogant, no wonder he didn't join a team all the way from Jiangdu to here. Originally, Li Shimin thought that this person was just a liar, but when he asked his name twice in a row, he realized that he was arrogant in this life. Thinking about it, he must have asked a lot of people, and none of the leaders he met were valued by him and felt that he could take refuge, so he kept going north alone.

Maybe this person really has some ability, and he really wants to take refuge in a master?

Liu Hongji was about to reprimand that person, but Li Shimin waved his hand and said, "I'm from Taiyuan." ”

The man was taken aback, and asked solemnly, "But the prince of Tang?" ”

Liu Hongji said: "This is Li Shimin, the second son of the Tang Mansion. ”

Hearing the words of the second son, Na Sheng obviously hesitated. After hesitating for a moment, he smiled bitterly, but he didn't rush to answer anything. Li Shimin was also angry when he saw him like this, and said in his heart that this person was extremely disappointed when he heard that he was not the son of the world, which was obviously not in line with his wishes. He wanted to be angry, but after thinking about it again, he couldn't say that this person was a person with real skills, and he didn't want to take refuge in someone and miss his own future.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin put away his smile, took a step back, hugged his fists and said, "I led the troops for the first time, and there was a shortage of manpower around me. My eldest brother is sitting in Taiyuan, if you want to see him, you can naturally see him when you return to Taiyuan, my father is outside Yanmen Pass, if you go with the army, you can naturally see him. ”

Nasheng thought about it for a while, and said secretly.

Ten years of wandering, after all, he didn't make a name for himself, since this person is the second son of Tang Gong, it is barely humiliating to follow him for the time being.

Thinking of this, this person clasped his fists and saluted: "Li Jing, a grass citizen, has seen the second son." ”

"Li Jing?"

Liu Hongji was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "You are Li Jing who lives in seclusion in Yuyang?" ”

A few hundred meters away from where they spoke, on a large leafy tree. Covered by the dense branches and leaves, a beautiful woman dressed in red sat on a branch and looked at Li Jing from a distance. When she saw Li Jing follow the two people in armor away, she immediately smiled bitterly. He raised his neck and took a long sip of wine, his mouth full of bitterness.

Looking at Li Jing's back drunkenly, the woman slowly shook her head and muttered, "I wish you a good future...... Big, big prospects. ”

From the eastern capital to the west of the river, thousands of miles, she followed her all the way. Watching him stop one team after another, watching him disappointed again and again, she felt that she could feel his suffocation and unwillingness. His ambitions are higher than the sky, and he seems to be indifferent, but she knows that he has always wanted to show his ambitions.

The incident on Yanshan, others may not forgive him.

But she forgave him because he was Li Jing.

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Youzhou

Luo Yi looked at a letter in his hand and suddenly smiled, and said in his heart, how can a cautious and cautious person like you act impulsively? How can you do something that doesn't seem to be profitable? In his opinion, the person who wrote to him was a person who would never do anything without benefit, and Luo Yi not only felt shameful but appreciated this. Speaking of which, that guy's performance in the past few years has exceeded his expectations, but after thinking about it, it seems that no matter how great his achievements are, it may just be a wedding dress made for others.

When he saw the end of the letter, Luo Yi's smiling expression gradually froze.

Wen Yao is dead.

Just four words made Luo Yi's brows gradually wrinkle.

Idiot!

This was Luo Yi's first reaction after seeing these four words, and he couldn't help but curse in a low voice. Killing Wen Jiao, this is undoubtedly provoking His Majesty the Emperor's bottom line! Could it be that the emperor is really confused? I really don't know that his world is in chaos? I really don't know that many counties have fallen into the hands of thieves? But he can pretend not to know this, and he is still living in the peaceful world made up by those few slanderous ministers.

But Wen Yao is dead, and the emperor will never pretend not to know anymore!

It is true that the emperor ignores political affairs, and it is not false that the emperor is confused now, but if Wen Yao is dead, the emperor will definitely be furious!

Luo Yi thought angrily, Li Xian, Li Xian, do you really think that the emperor has now reached the time when he can be bullied casually? As long as he is still the emperor of the Great Sui, as long as he is alive, there are people in the world who serve him. The emperor gave an order, if you lead the army to conquer in person, you can crush your Dongping County in an instant! Looking at Yanmen Pass, there are hundreds of thousands of reinforcements coming from all over the world, and it can be seen from this that His Majesty the Emperor is still the most powerful person today.

Whoever dares to tease his bottom line is looking for death.

Li Xian, Li Xian, not only did you provoke, but even led the troops away from Dongping County, could it be that some achievements in the past few years have burned you?

It's just that chagrin is chagrin, and Luo Yi quickly controlled his emotions.

Anyway, if you've had a smooth ride in the past few years, you should have some setbacks. If I really let you develop, it will not be a good thing for me in the future.

Thinking of this, he smiled and said, "Come on, go and invite the major general, I have something urgent to tell him." ”

The subordinate answered, and hurriedly went to invite Luo Shixin. After a while, Luo Shixin walked quickly into Luo Yi's room and asked, "Father, why are you looking for me so urgently?" ”

Luo Yi smiled and said, "A few days ago, didn't you always want to go to Yanmen Pass?" ”

Luo Shixin was stunned and said happily: "Father agreed to let me go?" ”

Luo Yi shook his head with a smile and said, "I said, you can't go to Yanmen Pass, but if you want to kill a few grassland barbarians, I have a good place to go." ”

"Where?"

Luo Shixin's eyes suddenly lit up.

Luo Yi smiled and pointed in the direction outside the Great Wall: "Ashina Jishi poured out, and the grassland was empty and only the elderly, women and children remained. Go, I'll give you five thousand light horsemen, and I'll turn the steppe upside down. Ashina's nest is on fire, and he still thinks about the splendid rivers and mountains of the Central Plains? ”

Luo Yi smiled and said: "To save the emperor, there is no need to go to Yanmen Pass." Kill him on the grassland for a while, and I promise that the emperor will not forget the merits of our Luo family. I can't say it, it's more than the credit of going to Yanmen Pass to rescue the driver. ”

Meanwhile.

In that small town, Li Jing smiled and said: "Second son, save the driver, make meritorious service, and kill the enemy, why do you have to go to Yanmen Pass?" ”

He pointed his hand to the north, as if standing on the top of the mountain and pointing to the country: "All the tribes of the steppe are doing their best to go south, whether it is the Turks, the Khitan, or the Xi people, even if they are the Murwei people in the deepest part of the grassland, they are afraid that when they hear that there is a fire in their backyard, no one is in the mood to rob other people's homes." ”

Li Shimin's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he stood up and laughed: "Good plan!" ”

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The carriage swayed leisurely, and Li Xian really didn't seem to be in a hurry at all. He spent his time reading and writing in the carriage, and rarely got out of the carriage except for the convenience of eating. Qing Kite and Huang Luan drove the carriage to this day and finally guessed a few points, they have entered the boundary of Zhuo County, and they are only a day away from Youzhou, and then north of Youzhou is the Great Wall, and after the Great Wall is the home of those grassland barbarians.

The Turkic Shibi Khan Ashina Duji Shi led more than 600,000 troops of various tribes on the steppe to the south, burning, killing and looting along the way, and I don't know how many people died under the iron hoof, and I don't know how many fertile fields have become scorched earth. The place where the grassland coalition army passed was like locusts crossing the border, leaving almost no grass behind.

Li Xian didn't plan to go to Yanmen Pass, and he didn't plan to go from the beginning.

Since the Turks could go south to spoil the Han people in the Central Plains, why couldn't Li Xian go north to the steppe and spoil the steppe tribes?

The Central Plains army rarely went on a northern expedition, first, because the grassland was too vast and sparsely populated, and it was easy for the army to get lost in the grassland. In addition, the Central Plains is not rich in war horses, if it is a large-scale northern expedition with infantry, the supply line is too long, the material consumption is huge, if you can no longer find the main force of the grassland tribe to fight a decisive battle, it is only in vain to waste a lot of manpower and material resources.

There is also that the monarchs of the Central Plains Empire have always regarded themselves as benevolent and righteous, and naturally they will not make such a decision as burning, killing and looting, even if they have been killed by many people, burned a lot of fertile land, and destroyed a lot of villages and towns, but since ancient times, the monarchs have rarely fought back with a tooth for a tooth, because in their opinion, this is a very important thing.

Li Xian doesn't feel that he is a person with grace, and he doesn't have any hypocritical moral constraints.

In his opinion, if someone hits me, I will naturally fight back tenfold. As for the excuse of being bitten by a dog or biting back, Li Xian has always been dismissive. In his opinion, if you are bitten by a dog, you will naturally have to peel the skin of the dog and stew a pot of fragrant dog meat to eat.

What's more, it's not the dogs that are going to be stewed, but a bunch of uncooked jackals.

The three of them, the three teams, all pointed their lances to the north of the Great Wall, and they didn't know if it would set off a bloody storm, and they didn't know what kind of flood it would be.