On April 25, the ninth year of the Great Sui Dynasty, Yang Guang went to Huaiyuan Town in Liaoning Province again. The second expedition to the Liao army began to attack, defeated the soldiers and horses of the Goguryeo general Eulzhi Wenqing, and killed the Liaoshui. This battle killed more than 10,000 Goguryeo people, and Yizhi Wenqing was seriously injured and returned to Liaodong City. On April 27, Yang Guang's imperial chariot crossed Liaoshui, and the army again besieged Liaodong City.

On April 29, Yang Guang ordered Marshal U Mun-su and General Yang Yi-sin to lead a large army to attack Pyongyang from the north. In addition, Wang Rengong, the general of Zuo Guanglu, led the army to attack Xincheng, and Yang Guangzi led the army to besiege Liaodong City. In this Eastern Crusade, Yang Guang came to regain face, so he ordered that if the Goguryeo people surrendered again, they would ignore it and attack the city with all their might.

Although Goguryeo won a major war last year, its national strength was far from being comparable to that of the Great Sui. The Great Sui lost 300,000 elite soldiers, and the Emperor of the Great Cause ordered the recruitment of Xiaoguo, and the army of this expedition still numbered as many as one million. However, Goguryeo was in war last year, and the grain harvest was not much, and a lot of people and horses were lost, so although they were fighting step by step, they were still defeated one after another.

Yu Wenshu and Yang Yichen led the army all the way south, and won successive battles. The navy led by the great general Lai Hu'er had also landed, and defeated the Goguryeo coalition army in World War I, killing tens of thousands of enemies.

The king of Goguryeo, Gao Yuan, was greatly frightened and sent people to Liaodong to ask for surrender.

This time, Yang Guang did not allow it, and ordered the army to continue the onslaught, vowing to defeat Pyongyang and capture Gao Yuan before the snow was ashamed, and the Sui army stepped up the siege of the city, but the Liaodong City was sealed by the Goguryeo people themselves like an iron bucket, and it was still difficult to conquer for a while.

Just when the Sui army was attacking the territory of Goguryeo on the battlefield of Liaodong, Wang Bo, who was also unwilling to accept his defeat, united several green forest heroes north of the Yellow River, Sun Xuanya, Hao Jiande and others, gathered more than 100,000 troops to cross the river to the south again, and vowed to kill Zhang Xutuo to take revenge.

At this time, Li Xian's Yanyunzhai Jingqi had already returned to Juyeze.

In the dilapidated temple in the dilapidated village on the border of Dongping County, several beggars were huddled together shivering to keep warm, when they suddenly saw several big men in black walking in from outside the temple. These people are dressed in the same attire, black clothes and soap boots, their faces are cold, and each of them has a horizontal knife hanging from their waists, which looks very vicious.

When a few beggars saw the black-clothed men enter the ruined temple, they trembled even more.

The black-clothed strong man led by him walked into the temple and glanced at it slowly, and then his gaze stopped on the youngest beggar. His eyes were as cold as the wind in February in the north, as if they could cut through people's skin like knives. The fourteen-year-old beggar was taken aback, and subconsciously shrank back and leaned into the arms of the oldest beggar.

"Don't be afraid, kids, they are all officials, and they won't be as knowledgeable as people like us."

The old beggar patted the young beggar on the back and said.

He raised his head and smiled humbly: "A few officials, what are you doing in this dirty place?" If there is anything that the villain can serve, you can ask. ”

Although he was a beggar, he was old enough and had experienced enough things, so when he saw the men in black come in and look at something, he vaguely guessed what they were looking for. The man in black at the head was a man of about thirty years old, and he didn't seem to expect an old beggar who looked like he might die at any moment to have such insight.

"Have you ever seen a very thin and thin person, about fifty years old, not very tall, with triangular eyes?"

The black-clothed man spoke in a very kind tone, but the cold aura on his body made the beggars very uncomfortable.

"No, you know, people like us don't dare to move around at will, we just wait to die in this broken temple."

The old beggar told a lie that even he didn't believe because he was panicked, and who would believe the beggar if he didn't go out and walk around? How can a beggar not go out to beg for food? It's just that it's a lie full of loopholes, but the big man in black didn't get angry, but nodded and said very seriously: "Yes, dishonest people like you naturally can't go out and walk around at will, otherwise, ...... Really going to die. ”

The old beggar's hand shook, and half of the cold and hard steamed bun fell to the ground.

The black-clothed man took a few steps forward, slowly squatted down and picked up the steamed bun, picked it up and put it on the side of his nose and sniffed it, and then hit a broken wooden fish not far from him with the steamed bun a few times, the sound was very dull, the steamed bun was unharmed, and the broken wood residue of the wooden fish fell a lot.

"Can you eat this?"

The man in black asked with a smile.

The old beggar swallowed hard and spat at the mouth, and smiled bitterly. The young beggar shrank back again, as if he was afraid of the big man's eyes in front of him.

The black-clothed man took out an oily paper bag from the package behind him, took out a greasy chicken leg and handed it to the young beggar: "Do you want to eat it?" ”

The boy shuddered with fright, and swallowed as hard as the old beggar. But the old beggar was worried and scared, and he really wanted to eat the chicken leg. He turned his head to look at the old beggar, who shook his head lightly at him, and the young beggar shook his head firmly in disappointment.

"Don't really want to eat it?"

The big man in black smiled, and then threw the chicken leg into a corner. He took out a cloth and wiped his hands, then stood up and said to the young man, "If you had just taken that chicken leg, I might not kill you, but ask you very sincerely where this dirty leather armor on your body came from." And ......"

The big man in black pointed to the young man's boots and said, "Where did these boots come from?" ”

Although the boots were outrageously dirty, they could still be faintly seen with dull gold threads on them.

"It's a pity that you won't take that chicken leg, so I had to kill him first."

The man in black pointed at the old beggar and said, "If you still refuse to speak, then I will kill others again." There are six of you here, and if you still refuse to say anything after I have killed five of them, then I will have to take you back. I took you back, not because I thought you would let you go when I was young, but because I don't have any torture tools at hand now, even if I coerce a confession, it is nothing more than cutting off your ten fingers and ten toes one by one, and then cutting off your ears and nose, and gouging out your eyes. ”

He smiled and said very gently: "Okay, I still have a little patience now, let me ask you again, do you want to eat that chicken leg, or wait for me to kill someone?" ”

The young beggar trembled with fright, and fell to his knees and kowtowed. He kowtowed so hard that blood was already flowing from his forehead in a few moments. The blood on the dirty face flowed down one by one, which looked particularly eye-catching. But even so, he still didn't say a word begging for mercy.

The man in black was slightly stunned, and then sighed: "It turns out that he is really a good man." ”

He pointed to the old beggar and said, "Cut off his legs first." ”

The two men in black behind him nodded, and as they walked over, they pulled out their horizontal knives from their waists. The old beggar's face was as pale as paper, and he fell to his knees and begged: "I say, don't force him, he is a dumb man!" ”

The man in black was stunned for a moment, and then smiled self-deprecatingly.

"And this kind of thing......"

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"Dead?"

Li Xian looked at Chen Qi'er in some surprise and asked, "What's the ...... Died so easily? ”

Chen Que'er smiled and put a dirty leather armor that couldn't see its original color, and a pair of boots that had been scraped with a knife to reveal traces of gold threads, in front of Li Xian. The leather armor was very thick, so the beggars would give the leather armor to the young beggar to protect themselves from the cold, and they had never seen gold or silver, so they naturally did not know that if the boots were taken out and sold, they could at least be exchanged for ten days of food. Of course, if they take it out and sell it, they won't be beaten up as thieves.

"I have found someone to identify it, and this leather armor and boots are exactly what Zhang Jin said. Speaking of which, Zhang Jin said that he was really a little miserable, he escaped from Daishan with great difficulty, and he didn't suffer less along the way, but unfortunately he died in the hands of those beggars. It's ridiculous, according to the old beggar, Zhang Jin said that when he arrived at the broken temple that day, he did say that he was Zhang Jin saying that he wanted to use the broken temple as a righteous hall, and he would accept those beggars as his subordinates, and promised them gourmet women. It's a pity that because he snatched the beggar's broken futon and the little beggar's hard steamed bun, he was beaten to death by the beggar. ”

"Killed? Just because of a broken futon? Half a piece of hard steamed buns? ”

Li Xian blinked, feeling that this story was a little absurd. In his memory, Zhang Jin said that he died in the twelfth year of the Great Cause, and at that time his team also grew to the peak, conquering Ping'en, Wu'an, Julu, and Qinghe in one fell swoop, because the enemy was defeated by the famous general Yang Yichen of the Great Sui, and fled to Qinghe County with the remnants of the army and was captured by Yang Shanhui, the guard of Qinghe County, and beheaded in public.

It has only been nine years since the great cause, and Zhang Jin said that he died three years early.

Will there be any ripple effects?

This was the first thing Li Xian considered.

"I dug up Zhang Jincheng's body behind the broken temple, because the weather hasn't warmed yet, although the corpse has risen up, but the face can still be vaguely recognized, in order to be safe, after I came back, I asked the people left behind by Ju Yezawa to identify the boots, so it can be determined that Zhang Jincheng is really dead."

Chen Qi'er said with some disappointment.

Li Xian was also a little disappointed, disappointed that a green forest tycoon who should have been brilliant died so aggrieved, disappointed that the first opponent he chose really didn't cause him any difficulties, and disappointed that he died so easily and simply, it was embarrassing.

"Zhang Jin's subordinates were defeated by us in Daishan, killed more than 5,000 people, and the rest fled. I have already asked people to release the news that Zhang Jin was killed by us, and I estimate that those defeated soldiers will be honest for a long time. They either found a place to hide, or they returned to their hometowns to earn a living. ”

Chen Que'er said: "The people of the Flying Tiger spy have left some in Lu County, and if there is any trouble, the news will be transmitted back soon." ”

After Wang Bo fled back to the north of the Yellow River, he contacted Sun Xuanya, Hao Jiande and others, who were familiar with him on the Green Forest Road, and gathered more than 100,000 people again, and now they have crossed the Yellow River. Zhang Xutuo and Qin Qiong and Luo Shixin led more than 20,000 Qi county officers and troops to meet them, and it is estimated that it will not take long to fight. ”

Li Xian nodded, looked at the dirty boots in front of him and frowned slightly: "Take this thing out first, it stinks." ”

Chen Que'er smiled: "I brought it all the way back, and I endured it." ”

Li Xian smiled: "Then you can take it back and smell the fragrance and wine, and endure it for another three or five years." ”

Chen Que'er went out with the boots and leather armor, and ordered his subordinates to take them and bury them.

"Let's just keep an eye on Qi County's affairs, there's no need to get involved, I'll let you keep an eye on Liyang's side, is there any news?"

"Grain was transported by waterway, but most of it was not transported to Liaoxi!"

Chen Que'er said with a smile: "I really didn't expect that the son of Yang Su, the Duke of Chu, actually wanted to rebel!" Yang Xuangan and his Lao Tzu have made great achievements for Yang Jian and Yang Guang, and Yang Xuangan has also been reused by Yang Guang, I can't figure it out, whoever rebels, it stands to reason that it shouldn't be him who rebels! ”

Li Xian smiled and nodded: "Duke Chu...... How can he compare to the emperor? At the foot of the mountain, you will see the beautiful scenery of the mountainside, and when you reach the mountainside, you will feel that the scenery from the top of the mountain is magnificent. And when you get to the top of the mountain, you will think about ...... Isn't the scenery in the sky more beautiful? ”