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Chapter 417: Pine Forest Town (4)

One night the autumn wind and the leaves fell, the earth was covered with a layer of burnt yellow, if it was a prosperous age, there would be no literati Mo objective this situation and this scene will come up with a few wonderful words in his heart. During the Taiping period, even if you look at the remnants of leaves, you can also come up with a lot of poems and songs. But now that the world of the Great Sui has become like this, who is still in the mood to look at the broken autumn leaves and chant poems? Even if he comes up with a few words, I'm afraid that Xiao Suo's intention to kill is stronger.

I don't know how many literati had to pick up knives and guns to rebel with the rebels from all walks of life for their livelihood, and the hand holding the pen was changed to holding a knife, and the ink was smeared with rice paper, and it was changed into blood smeared with leather armor. No matter how talented a literati is, they must have a full stomach, and they have nothing in their stomachs, so they are afraid that they will not be able to think of any happy and beautiful words after racking their brains.

The Great Sui established the country by force, but Emperor Gaozu knew that governing the country was still based on literature was the right way. It's just that at that time, the world was not yet unified, and the status of military generals was still higher than that of civilian officials. After the Emperor Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, the world was peaceful, and the status of literati became higher and higher. Yang Guang opened the imperial court to increase the way of scholars, and won the unanimous praise of the scholars.

It can be said that Yang Guang is a man of great talent and strategy, and several national policies formulated at the beginning of his ascension to the throne are extremely wise and correct. He was a great theorist, but by no means a great practitioner.

Within a few years, his ambition was buried in the good mood of traveling in the mountains and rivers.

Before ascending the throne, in order to win the appreciation and trust of Gaozu Yang Jian, he deliberately made a simple and loving appearance. Instead of silk and satin, it was patched old clothes. Eating coarse tea and light rice is much worse than that of ordinary rich people.

Maybe he pretended to be too ruthless at that time, so after he ascended the throne, he got it back even harder. Tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops go together, and daily life is even more luxurious to the extreme. Later, cruising on land could no longer satisfy his desire, so he ordered the construction of dragon boats, which must be accompanied by tens of thousands of boats. He even thought that one day he would sail to the sea to see if there was really an immortal mountain overseas, and whether there was really an immortal elixir on the immortal mountain?

At the beginning of the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, it was like the new green on the branches in spring, and the leaves could be seen growing every day, and the branches were full of green in only one spring, and it looked rare in ancient and modern times. The decay of the Great Sui Dynasty was like an autumn wind sweeping over this towering giant tree, and overnight, it blew off a piece of residual leaves.

There are not many fallen leaves on the official road on the south side of Songlin Lake, for no other reason, the wind blows from the northwest, and the fallen leaves naturally cannot drift to the north. Perhaps in the past few years, there have been no people on the shore of Songlin Lake, so the fallen leaves in the dense forest do not know how thick, and people stepping on them are as soft and comfortable as stepping on cotton balls.

The convoy of the Yanyunzhai Baggage Battalion slowly passed by, and the Wagangzhai scouts who were lying on the big tree and monitoring the convoy were cleaned up by the secret spies who had been ambushed here two days before. It stands to reason that the spies should stay here to monitor the 10,000 ambush soldiers in Wagangzhai, and I don't know what's wrong, after killing people, the spies quietly withdrew from the dense forest, and they didn't even look back, as if they didn't know that there was an enemy army of tens of thousands of people ambushed in the depths of the dense forest.

Soon after the withdrawal of hundreds of secret spies, the Chinese army led by Li Xian himself also arrived at the shore of Songlin Lake.

The official road is in the middle, and the north side is the shrinking pine forest lake, because it is a pool of stagnant water, and I don't know if it has been experienced for tens or hundreds of years, the lake looks like a pool of turquoise scenery, but if it is close, you can smell the fishy smell emitted from the lake. Fortunately, it is late autumn, and if it is the height of summer, I don't know how many miles the stench will drift out with the wind.

The south side of the official road is a dense forest, originally this dense forest is next to the pine forest lake, when the official road was opened in the Kaihuang period, all the trees that grew along the lakeside were cut down, there were too many trees cut down, and it was useless to abandon them in the wilderness, there was a family from Yuyang in the north who could not bear the suffering of the Turkic southward war and moved south to pass through here, and saw that so much wood was lost and useless, so he stopped here, and built a small village with the trees cut down and discarded.

Perhaps it came from Yuyang, and he still remembered the cypress and pine in the northern cold land, so the old patriarch named the village Songlin Town, which is the origin of the name of Songlin Lake in Songlin Town.

Now, more than 20 years have passed, and there is no longer a single person in Pine Forest Town.

Only the dilapidated houses on the west side of Songlin Lake remained, and the ruins and broken walls looked particularly desolate, like the dead branches and leaves in that place, which made people feel a little sad.

At this time, Li Xian stood on the high slope outside this dilapidated village, looking at the dense forest not far away. This forest is dozens of miles in circumference, and I don't know how many towering ancient trees there are, which have grown for hundreds of years, and two or three people may not be able to hug them.

Especially near the pine forest lake, there is a crooked-necked weeping willow, whose canopy is so large that it can cover a radius of tens of meters.

Therefore, Li Xian, who looked at the forest, said a pity.

He really felt that it was a pity, if these ancient trees were transplanted to other gardens, it would also be a beautiful scenery, but now Li Xian had to destroy it.

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After the men and horses of the baggage battalion passed, that is, in less than half an hour, more than 20,000 Chinese troops led by Li Xianqin arrived at the shore of Songlin Lake. He stood on the dirt slope outside the abandoned Pinewood Town and muttered a word of pity. It's just that there is no pity on his face, and the slightly upturned corners of his mouth are enough to show that there is still a little pride in his heart.

Then he lifted his right hand up and pressed it down.

The four thousand elite cavalry immediately activated, divided into two teams, one south and one north, and rushed out along the periphery of the dense forest. When the galloping cavalry reached the outside of the dense forest, they took off their hard bows and took out the feathered arrows that had been wrapped in oilcloth from the quiver. Ignite the feathered arrows with a fire breaker, and the cavalry of the four thousand men began to glow, a scorching and cruel light that could incinerate everything.

Thousands of rockets were fired into the forest, popping and poking at the fallen leaves. I don't know what's wrong, the north wind has stopped early in the morning, but the rocket is shooting on the fallen leaves, and the flames are suddenly bursting up.

The speed at which the fire burned was a little strange, and even if the fallen leaves were dry, a sea of fire would not form in an instant. And the speed of the spread of the sea of fire is a little amazing, in just ten minutes, the flames have jumped up the branches. The four thousand cavalry were divided into two teams, and from the north and south sides of the flanks continued to shoot rockets into the dense forest, each of them only fired four or five arrows, and the fire outnumbered the cavalry, so that the cavalry had to stop sending arrows to urge their horses to gallop, and rushed to the front before shooting the rockets.

Wang Junke, who was in the deepest part of the dense forest, was pacing back and forth a little restlessly, glancing north from time to time. Behind him, countless Wagangzhai archers were already ready to go, and when the signal came, they rushed to the north side, and used the feather arrows in their hands to nail all the men and horses of Yanyunzhai on the official road to the ground.

"Why hasn't it arrived yet?"

Wang Junke said restlessly: "Li Sheng can't fall asleep on the tree, right?" ”

"How dare he!"

Li Wenxiang smiled and said: "You are good at everything, your martial arts are first-class, and you are also first-class in leading soldiers, but you are too anxious." Think about it, how cautious is Li Xian's actions? This road is the most dangerous, how could he rush over it recklessly? It is estimated that if the people and horses of the Yanyunzhai Heavy Camp are not finished, the adults of Yanyunzhai will not come up. ”

"I always felt that something was wrong!"

Wang Junke thought for a while and said, "Why did Li Xian send the baggage battalion to go first?" ”

He frowned and said, "Li Xian is also an experienced battle-hardened, it can't be so grassy, right?" You also said that he was cautious, and how could a person who used troops cautiously let the baggage battalion go first, and it was so far away from the main force of the rear team? If he was ambushed, the baggage battalion in front of him was burned, and his brigade rushed over to rescue him! ”

"That's right!"

When Li Wenxiang heard Wang Junke say this, he also felt that something was wrong.

"How can there be such a march? It's not sloppy, it's a complete idiot. ”

"If something goes wrong, there must be a demon!"

Wang Junke said urgently: "Quickly send someone to the front to see if it is someone from Yanyunzhai who is cheating!" ”

Li Wenxiang nodded, turned around and walked quickly to the army to send someone to check, but he was in a hurry for a while, stumbling on a tree root that was exposed to the ground, suddenly losing his balance, and lying on the thick fallen leaves with a thud. Fortunately, the fallen leaves were thick enough that the fall was not heavy.

"Boom!"

Li Wenxiang was helped up by his own soldiers, and he kept spitting.

"Into a mouthful of dirt!"

Li Wenxiang scolded: "What a fucking backlash! ”

While spitting, he wiped the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand: "Huh...... What the hell is this dirt or bird droppings, why is it so dark! ”

It's just that he didn't have the heart to care about whether it was dust or bird droppings in his mouth, and walked quickly to the army: "Cui Hui!" Take a few people to the official road to see, why haven't the people of Yanyun Village come up yet! Li Sheng, that bastard, hasn't sent anyone back the news until now, it can't be found out and killed! ”

He cursed loudly, and his mouth felt particularly bitter.

His scout team Zheng Cui Hui immediately rushed to the north of the forest with more than a dozen people, Li Wenxiang watched the backs of Cui Hui and the others disappear into the trees, and then sighed, he looked at Wang Junke and asked: "You say, this time we have made meritorious service again, will the secret guild crown you and me as champion generals?" ”

"Oh no!"

Before Wang Jun could answer him, Cui Hui ran back with people in panic like a lost dog.

"Fire ...... Fire...... It's on fire! ”

Cui Hui, whose face was pale, shouted breathlessly, and the panic in his eyes was like seeing a ghost.

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The four thousand cavalry of Yanyunzhai are firing arrows around the dense forest, and if you look down from the sky, the cavalry divided into two teams is like two huge paintbrushes, smearing colors on the gray-yellow woods, red, and the strokes are red. As the brush was smeared, the gray-yellow woods began to turn red from one side, and the redness was frighteningly fast, and it soon spread out.

In just over 20 minutes, the fire was so big that it made people palpitate. Dozens of meters away, I can already feel the heat of the high temperature. Li Xian stood about 100 meters away from the woods, still feeling the heat wave on his face one by one.

"Blow the horn, let the cavalry withdraw, and if they don't come back, it'll be too late for the smoke to rise."

Li Xian waved his hand and ordered.

The soldiers behind him ran out to give the order, and in a short time, dozens of heralds sounded their horns at the same time. At the same time, Wang Qinian's side also shot a burst of rockets, and seeing that the fire was already raging, he was afraid of burning the carriage, so he immediately ordered the convoy to run forward.

Bae In-ki's weapons had been unloaded, and his hands were tied.

He glanced back at the monstrous fire, and the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily a few times.

"This is evil!"

Pei Renji sighed: "With such a large forest, for the burial of 10,000 people!" Li Xian's heart is too vicious! ”

Wang Qinian sneered and said: "You colluded with the people of Wagangzhai to set up an ambush here, if you succeed, will there be fewer deaths?" If it weren't for the fact that the lord had a high-ranking insider in Wagang Village, he wouldn't have imagined that you would be a traitor! You don't feel vicious when tens of thousands of people died in Yanyun Village, and you feel vicious when you burn to death 10,000 ambush soldiers in Wagang Village? ”

Bae Renji was stunned when asked, gritted his teeth and stopped talking.

"Father!"

Pei Xingyan wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, bit his lip and asked, "Why?" ”

Pei Renji glanced at his son, shook his head apologetically, and said, "Yuanqing, you should be able to think of it." ”

"Betting on both sides?"

Pei Renji suddenly couldn't hold back his anger and roared: "But have you ever thought about it, where will you put me if you do this?" Or is it that for the sake of the Pei family, even if I die, my father doesn't care?! What is wrong with our father and son in Yanyun Village, where is the lord not as good as Li Mi! ”

Pei Renji smiled bitterly, and suddenly turned his head and asked Wang Qinian, "Can you loosen the tie for me?" Now that I've come to such a point, are you still worried that I'm running away? ”

Wang Qinian glanced at Pei Xingyan, and finally couldn't bear it. He took out his short knife and walked over, glaring at Bae In-ki and cutting the rope in his hand.

"You said that you are a person, this is not harming yourself and harming your children...... Ah! ”

Before he finished speaking, Pei Renji suddenly kicked him out.

Pei Renji kicked Wang Qinian to the ground, punched Wang Qinian's mouth crookedly, and took advantage of Wang Qinian's lack of reaction, he snatched the short knife in Wang Qinian's hand.

Pei Xingyan subconsciously held the copper hammer in his hand, looked at Pei Renji and begged: "Father, don't be obsessed anymore, the lord promised me, as long as you sincerely assist in the future, the lord will not be embarrassed......"

Before he finished speaking, Pei Renji had already stabbed the short knife into his heart with a smile.

"Father!"

Pei Xingyan threw away the copper hammer in his hand and rushed over to hold Pei Renji up. He was at a loss for what to do, and he couldn't help but tremble with fear when he looked at Pei Renji's bleeding heart. His hands panicked to plug the blood hole in Pei Renji's heart, but the blood gushing out of the wound like a waterfall couldn't stop it.

"The lord promised not to kill you"

Pei Xingyan cried: "Why are you suffering? ”

Pei Renji raised his blood-stained hand, stroked his son's forehead dotingly, and said with a wry smile: "Silly boy...... I won't die, you will be in Yanyun Village in the future...... How to get a foothold? ”

He looked at his son's face reluctantly, and he wanted to say something but didn't say it.

How could Li Xian allow me? My stupid son, you underestimate him too much...... I can only see it clearly now, Li Xian...... Li Mi...... Perhaps the former really goes further than the latter.