Chapter 582: Knowing everything in the world

On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, in the morning, the sun showed its face, and then a gloomy cloud covered itself, and this pull seemed to pull a whole curtain, and it was not long before the whole sky became darker and darker. The clouds are so low that they give the illusion that the sky is about to fall. Before lunch, the snowflakes fell flutteringly, and in a short time the ground was covered with a layer of silver.

The defenders of Zheng Guo on the city wall of the eastern capital immediately burst into cheers when they saw the snowflakes falling, and their faces were tired and their bodies were even more tired, and they even danced happily on the city wall. The cheers came from an unknown corner and were out of control, gradually boiling like boiling water on the city walls. When it snowed, the Yan Yun Army and the Tang Army surrounded outside would not attack the city, so they were as happy as children who had received candy.

The general standing on duty on the city wall is the former Wagangzhai second master Shan Xiongxin, he stretched out his hand to catch a snowflake and watched it melt in the palm of his hand, his eyes left from the palm of his hand and slowly moved to the outside of the city, in the distance is the endless camp, the inner layer is the Yan Yun Army, the outer layer is the Tang Army, you can't see the edge at a glance, the thick is like the dark clouds pressed down from the sky.

The cheers of the soldiers annoyed him for no reason, and he turned around and instructed his own soldiers: "Whoever dares to shout indiscriminately, each of them will be beaten with twenty sticks!" ”

I don't know what happened to the general, but the soldiers were surprised for a moment or immediately turned around and conveyed Shan Xiongxin's order. But unexpectedly, the soldiers completely ignored this completely unreasonable military order. The cheerers were still cheering, and the voices were still on the walls, drifting far away with the wind. Shan Xiongxin was furious, but looking at the soldiers shouting happily all over the city wall, he could only smile bitterly.

Almost all the defenders were shouting and laughing, could he still beat each of them with twenty sticks?

"This bunch of idiots...... It's just a snowfall, but it's like a winning battle! ”

The lieutenant next to him scolded in a low voice, obviously in a bad mood. Shan Xiongxin glanced at him sideways, knowing that he remembered the past glory like himself, so it was a little unpleasant to see Zheng Jun cheering happily because he could relax for a day, in fact, where is it to look at Zheng Jun's soldiers unpleasantly, it is obvious that he is not pleasing to look at himself. The reason why his lieutenant has the same heart-to-heart as him is because both of them are people from Wagangzhai in the past.

This person was Wang Dangren, and Li Mi sent him to Liyang to guard before the defeat. But later, Li Xian extorted a large amount of grain and grass from Liyang, after all, this matter was not contained in the paper and was known by Li Mi, Li Mi remembered that he was his own cronie and did not punish anything, but transferred him back to Wagangzhai and sent Wang Bodang to lead the troops to guard Liyang. Wang Dangren was originally wronged to the extreme, but later learned that Wang Bodang was a little happy after Li Xian was killed by Li Xian in Liyang.

After the defeat of Wagangzhai, he surrendered to Wang Shichong together with Shan Xiongxin.

"It's not the way to go!"

Wang Dangren glanced at Shan Xiongxin and said in a very low voice.

Shan Xiongxin's face changed, and then he smiled bitterly: "It's good to be alive, I thought we would all die when King Wei was defeated, but since Your Majesty took us in regardless of our previous suspicions, we have to show some appearance as courtiers." This eastern capital city is tall and strong, even if Yan Yunjun has a stone-throwing car, it will never be opened. So there is still no problem in holding on, hasn't Your Majesty already sent someone to Dou Jiande in Hebei to ask for help. Dou Jiande should know that Da Zheng Guopo and his Daxia are next, so he will not sit idly by. Dead lips and cold teeth...... Even if he doesn't think about His Majesty, he has to think about himself. ”

"Pinning your hopes on others is not a surefire thing in the first place."

Wang Dangren sighed and said.

"It's all to blame on Duan Da!"

Shan Xiongxin snorted and scolded: "If he hadn't buried 50,000 elites in the north, the defense of the eastern capital would not have been overstretched at all." The eastern capital has been fighting fiercely for many years, and the middle-aged men in the city can't find a few of them when they search the city now. Even the stronger women were asked to go up to the city to help defend the city, if Duan Dana's 50,000 soldiers were still there, why was that? ”

"Too fast......"

Wang Dangren shook his head and said, "Originally, I didn't think that he could beat Li Xian, but I never thought that he would lose so quickly. According to the rout soldiers who fled back, there were only three days from encampment to defeat! ”

"Router...... They shouldn't have been let into the city! ”

Shan Xiongxin scolded fiercely: "Let them in, but it turned out that the Tang Army did not accept prisoners of war, and either surrendered early or did not surrender to the death, which made the soldiers panic!" ”

"It's not necessarily a bad thing."

Wang Dangren said: "With this rumor, the soldiers will die." At that time, there will be no other way to choose except desperately, and it is absolutely impossible to get out of the city and surrender. When the Tang army came, it would be too late for them to surrender even if they wanted to. Since they knew that they would die, they said that they would not use all the cruelty in their bones when defending the city. ”

"Hopefully."

Shan Xiongxin looked outside the city and said: "Brother Zhai took me to me, I want to repay it, Brother Zhai is dead." The king of Wei treated me well, I wanted to repay him, but the king of Wei was defeated. Your Majesty treats me well...... I can no longer watch His Majesty fall. As long as the lance in my hand can tear people's throats, I will stand on this wall and not go down. ”

Just as he was gritting his teeth and speaking, in a small dry river ditch more than twenty days outside the city, Duan Da tightened the felt blanket on his body and leaned into the haystack, but he still couldn't stop the invasion of the wind and snow on his body. He looked around tremblingly, and there were less than fifty of his own soldiers curled up and huddled together to keep warm. Fortunately, the wild grass in this ditch was deep enough, so they were able to avoid two consecutive searches by the Tang cavalry.

The dignified Taiwei of Zheng Guo was so embarrassed that he was really sad and bitter to say it.

"Marshal...... Can we go back to the city? Humble ...... The lowly is about to freeze to death. ”

One of his pro-soldiers asked in a trembling voice.

"Go back?"

Duan Da smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It's not impossible to go back if you want to, it depends on what identity you go back." ”

Speaking of this, his eyes suddenly froze, and his face said resolutely: "Light the fire, keep warm!" ”

The soldier was taken aback, and thought that Duan Da was frozen and confused: "Marshal, ignition of fire?" Then don't you recruit Yan Yunjun? This place is not far from the main camp of the Yanyun Army, and the cavalry can rush over in less than half an hour! ”

"Ignition!"

Duan Dameng sat up and said loudly: "You can't be so depressed when you die, you have to die like you die." ”

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Smoke drifted south in the camp of Li Shimin's Tang army in the snowflakes, and the soldiers were already cooking in pots. The grain and grass are sufficient, and the cotton armor is thick enough, speaking of which, the soldiers of the Tang Army are much more comfortable than the Zheng Army in the eastern capital, and there seems to be nothing unsatisfactory except for being aggrieved.

The soldiers walked into the tent with the hot food, cleaned up the things on the table, and put the food on the plate one by one. Li Shimin wiped his hands and sat down at the table, looked at the rich meal, and said with some emotion: "There is nothing to worry about military affairs on this snowy day, come here, take a pot of wine, and have a few glasses with the pharmacist." ”

The soldiers hurriedly answered and turned around to get the wine, Li Jing knew that Li Shimin's heart suddenly brightened, so he seemed a little happy. He sat down on his knees opposite Li Shimin and said, "In this weather, you should really drink some wine to warm up." ”

"You can drink the wine as you want today, but there is one thing...... After the wine wakes up, whether the snow has stopped or not, you immediately take someone back to Chang'an City. It doesn't matter what method you use, just take down the person you say. If I can really use this person to make Li Xian use it for me, pharmacist, you are the lonely Han Xin......"

Li Jing was stunned when he heard this, and he was a little unhappy in his heart. The heart said that His Highness was happy and confused or something, how did he think of using such a person as an analogy. Lonely Han Xin said how much trust he had, but the more Li Jing thought about it, the more awkward he became, and he felt a little bit of life and death, with great foreboding. But he didn't show anything, so he just lowered his head and said, "The minister understands...... How dare a minister be Han Xin without talent and virtue, just a fan, willing to serve the Lord and the Lord. ”

Maybe Li Shimin was really happy, so he didn't care about the inappropriateness in his words: "You are the chief of the march, and it is a felony to leave the camp without permission, be careful not to let Your Majesty know, otherwise you will not be able to protect you." ”

"I understand."

Li Jing sighed in his heart, and said in his heart If I hadn't pressed my life's future on you, why would I have to commit such a dangerous thing? Speaking of which, now that the official title is available, it is really not worth taking any more risks. But when I think that since I have the talent to govern the world, how can I not pursue the position of governing the world?

"In addition, after you go back, find a way to find out if Your Majesty knows about the eldest grandson Shunde. Although the fold has been submitted, His Majesty will not be verified by anyone after all. Look at who Your Majesty has sent to the army, and be ready to deal with it. Those who love money will give money, those who love sex will give money, and those who love power will give power, and you can't make Your Majesty angry with Gu because of these little things. ”

"The minister understands!"

Li Jing answered again.

"Lone's personal guards, the soldiers of the Split Tiger Battalion, and the trustworthy generals in the army, you can choose at will, and Lone will allow you."

After Li Shimin finished saying this, he looked back at Wei Chigong, who was on duty outside the door, and smiled: "Except for Jingde, everyone will go with you." ”

"Don't leave!"

Li Jing lowered his head and said: "Although the person in Chang'an City is a woman, she is extremely strong in martial arts, and the minister needs someone who can fight, if the minister can't persuade her to come, then he can only arrest her." There are many generals and good fighters in the army, but no one is as good as His Royal Highness's personal guards in hand-to-hand combat. ”

"Okay, let him choose some competent people for a while."

Li Shimin turned his head and shouted outside: "Call Mo Li in!" ”

After a while, a man with an ordinary face and not a burly figure bowed in, first saluted Li Shimin, and then saluted Li Jing. It seems that Li Shimin's personal guard is just an ordinary person, and he will not attract anyone's attention no matter what. Such a person seems to be drowned out in the crowd on the street, and will never be remembered. No matter how you look at it, there is no master's demeanor, and if you put on the clothes of ordinary people, no one will suspect that he is a farmer.

Li Shimin gave him a few words, Mo Li bowed his head and answered, and then went out to select people.

Mo Li, who walked out of the big tent, looked at the snowflakes falling all over the sky, and suddenly smiled meaningfully. The furious north wind blew the cloak behind him, revealing a rather strange pattern embroidered on the back of his shirt. It seemed to be a beast, with horns, pure white, four hooves, but still ribbed with two wings.

When Li Jing turned around, he happened to see the pattern on Mo Li's clothes, and felt a little strange and asked, "Your Highness, what is the pattern embroidered on Mo Li's clothes?" ”

"It's Bai Ze"

Li Shimin smiled and said: "Gu also asked him, and he said that it was the magical thing that knew everything in the world. The embroidery was too rough, and even Lone couldn't recognize it at a glance. Mo Li said that the reason why it was embroidered on his body was to be auspicious, to seek good fortune and avoid evil. ”

Li Jing nodded, and said in his heart that Mo Li, a murderous person who did not blink, was also afraid of ghosts and gods, and he actually embroidered a divine beast to ward off evil spirits. He didn't think much about it, and he was more concerned about how to tell Zhang Wancheng when he returned to Chang'an this time.