Li Xiaogong urged him to step forward, clasped his fists and gave a faint salute, "His Royal Highness the King of Chu said this, we are all working for the Holy Lord, and we are just doing business!" ”

"Phew!"

Li Yuanji spat on the ground angrily, and scolded: "Get out of your mother's business, Lao Tzu is a bullshit when you are a fart, and the acquaintance will hand over the person immediately, otherwise don't blame me Li Yuanji for turning his face and being ruthless!" ”

When did Li Xiaogong hear such an obscene insult, he was furious in his heart, his face turned red, and he looked at Li Yuanji angrily and said: "You are a dignified prince, but you are as uneducated as a ruffian, there is a kind of you saying this to the Son of Heaven." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Don't talk nonsense, hand over the people to me, and we'll go our separate ways, otherwise, I won't let you take them away if I kill them tonight."

Li Yuanji pulled out his sword, hundreds of his men drew their swords together, and suddenly the murderous aura was permeated, and Shi Huaiyi, the general behind Li Xiaogong, was furious, and as soon as he raised his hand, thousands of troops raised their bows and crossbows together, aiming at Li Yuanji and his men.

Li Xiaogong waved his hand, signaling his subordinates to put down the bow and crossbow, and he calmly said to Li Yuanji: "I must take these people away today, if you want to, then go and invite the holy gold medal, I will naturally return the person to you when the gold medal arrives, if you want to rob it, you will only bring humiliation on yourself, if you don't believe it, try it!" ”

Li Xiaogong urged the horse, "Let's go!" ”

Three thousand soldiers escorted the carriage slowly passed in front of Li Yuanji, Shi Huaiyi stabbed on the horse, stared at Li Yuanji coldly, and the killing was particularly fierce, all the Xuanwu Jingwei looked at Li Yuanji, waiting for his order, but Li Yuanji's face was white and red, but he never gave the order to move, and finally the army escorted and gradually moved away.

Li Yuanji squinted at Li Xiaogong's back, 'Smack! With a bang, the sword in his hand was broken into two parts.

"Li Xiaogong, if I, Li Yuanji, don't kill you, I will not be a man!"

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On the vast Guanzhong Plain, an army of more than 20,000 people is marching along the official road to the direction of Chang'an, which is the private army of the ten Guanlong nobles, although not all families are willing to send troops, but most of the families in the Son of Heaven rebelled, threatening the fundamental interests of their own family, they still responded to the call of the Dugu clan without hesitation, and sent troops to force the Son of Heaven to change his position.

At the same time, this is also a very elite army, well-equipped, except for no war horses, other equipment is exactly the same as the previous Xiaoguo army, steel knives and spears, incomparably strong Mingguang armor, eagle helmets that can resist crossbow arrows, generous treatment and well-trained, so that everyone is willing to die for their masters.

All this is incomparable to the Tang army, and it is precisely for this reason that Li Yuan is extremely jealous of this army, and at the same time extremely red, if it had not happened in the Yun case, Wei Yunqi did not send an envoy to the Tang Dynasty, then Li Yuan can continue to endure the existence of this army, and he can continue to fulfill his promise not to move this army.

But as the Tang Dynasty gradually weakened, the Northern Sui gradually became stronger, the Guanlong nobles began to have different intentions, the Dugu family supported Zhang Xuan with high slave oil, and Yu Yun secretly supported the Chang'an Intelligence Agency, Li Yuan began to be vigilant in his heart, but at that time he still tried to be patient and seek stability in the imperial court.

It wasn't until the establishment of the Great Zhou Empire that the six major families openly visited Wei Yunqi, and finally crossed Li Yuan's bottom line, and he decided to eradicate their army before the Guanlong nobles betrayed him, and solve one of his own henchmen's problems.

The 23,000-strong army marched on the official road with the banner of 'Qing Jun's side, Zheng Chaogang, and the traitorous king', and they called themselves the Guanlong Coalition Army, with Dugu Huaide as the main general.

Dugu Huaide is a descendant of the Dugu family, about forty years old, with a tiger's back and a burly figure, he was also the first general of the Sui army, fled back to Longxi during the first Goguryeo campaign, and since then he has stayed in the manor to train the Dugu family's own army.

Behind Dugu Huaide there are more than a dozen generals, all of whom are the children of various families sent to lead their own troops, because the heads of each family are still in the hands of the imperial court, and there are still many clansmen in Chang'an City, so the families are quite jealous, and they dare not do too much, and they did not directly surrender to the Zhou army to attack Longyou.

They still considered forcing Li Yuan to release the head of the family by forcing the palace, and at the same time promised not to fight the idea of fighting the private armies of the various families, this is the consensus reached by the families, they agreed that it is not yet to the point of rebellion, but they need to give Li Yuan a little color.

"General!"

The partial general Zhao Ji urged the horse to meet him, hugged his fists and said: "There are dozens of village elders blocking the road in front, shouting that they have something to say to the general." ”

Dugu Huaide frowned, "What are they going to say?" ”

"I don't know what to do, they must see the Lord before they can speak."

Dugu Huaide secretly cursed in his heart, so he had to urge the horse to run forward, only to see a group of white-haired old men standing on the side of the road in front of him, all of them were well-dressed, and they could see that they were local celebrities.

Dugu Huaide turned over and dismounted, walked up quickly, and asked from afar: "May I ask what is the matter with the villagers?" ”

A soldier hurriedly pointed to Dugu Huaide, "That's our commander, General Dugu." ”

Dozens of old men hurriedly greeted him, surrounded Dugu Huaide, and said: "Guanzhong has only been peaceful for a few years, and the general wants to let it be ruined?" ”

"The general might as well kill us and let the villagers go!"

"Does Dugu plan to overthrow Emperor Tang and establish himself as the Son of Heaven?"

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Dugu Huaide was dizzy by their quarrel, he was angry in his heart, and shouted: "Shut up for me!" ”

Dozens of old men were silent, looking at him in astonishment, Dugu Huaide realized that he couldn't turn his face with them, so he had to hold back his anger and arch his hand: "Ladies and gentlemen, please listen to Dugu's words, we don't want to kill in Guanzhong, nor do we want to replace the Tang Emperor, just because today's son favors the traitorous king, frames Zhongliang, and kills innocents indiscriminately, causing people's minds to change, and the society will be in danger, we don't want the Tang Dynasty to be self-destroyed by the Son of Heaven in the cradle, so we want to warn the Son of Heaven, the purpose is to let the Tang Dynasty go on the right path, Do you understand? ”

Dozens of old men glanced at each other, and one of the oldest old men said: "It turns out that the general has great ambitions and is disrespectful, but with so many troops with swords and guns, it is inevitable that conflicts will break out, what should we do at that time?" ”

Dugu Huaide said impatiently: "My army has not committed any crimes, what else do you want?" ”

"I just ask the general to give us a written guarantee, even if war breaks out, we will not destroy crops, break into people's houses, steal food, and not kill innocents indiscriminately."

Dugu Huaide was persecuted by a group of old men, and his face was disgraced, but he asked him to turn his face and kill this group of old men, but he couldn't do it, which made him really in a dilemma.

At this time, the oldest old man said: "The Guanlong family is based on the people of Guanlong, without the support of the people of Guanzhong, how can we talk about the family, our requirements are not excessive, why can't the general do it?" ”

"Alright! I just promised, but I didn't have it in writing, so I could only promise it verbally. ”

Dugu Huaide separated everyone, turned over on his horse, and said to a group of old men: "I can promise you, even if the war breaks out, I will restrain military discipline and will not kill innocents indiscriminately, that's all, take care." ”

After speaking, he whipped the war horse fiercely and walked away, all the old men looked at each other, and looked at the oldest old man together, "Jia Weng, what does he mean by this?" ”

The old man's face was full of worry, and he said slowly: "What he means is that he will rob us of our food and our house, and at most promise not to kill people, but he also does not guarantee that the soldiers will not spoil the people's daughters, and it may be difficult to protect the family with female dependents." ”

"So what are we going to do?" The crowd was shocked.

"In my opinion, everyone should try to hide the food as much as possible, and hide the valuable things, the young female dependents had better be sent away, the war is chaotic, what these generals said is not even as good as fart, we don't save ourselves, who do we expect to save us?"

"Jia Weng is right, let's go back and pack up the food and money!"

The old men each rode on a donkey and went back to their hometowns, Dugu Huaide could not have imagined that these 20 old people actually represented more than 20 townships of Sizhuyuan, and his unreliable promise did not stabilize the hearts of the local people, but caused panic among the people, panic began to ferment from Sizhuyuan, and gradually spread to all parts of Jingzhao County, and there was an increasingly fierce wave of refugees on the land of Guanzhong, people hid food and property, helped the old and the young, fled from their homes, and avoided the imminent outbreak of war.