Chapter 639: Accidental Collision

Wu Yunzhao is a person who has not read for a few days, he grew up in the deep mountains and old forests, and the books he has read since childhood may not be as good as the reading volume of a real scholar for half a year. And all he had read were the war books and tactics that the old butler who saved him had worked so hard to find, but this did not prevent him from liking to wear a scholarly robe.

There is a kind of person who looks clean and thorough even if the blood on his hands can paint an entire white wall, and there is a kind of person who still makes people shudder even if he has not killed anyone. There is no doubt that Wu Yunzhao and Nie Duo belong to these two types respectively.

Even if Nie Duo walked down the street empty-handed, it would give people the illusion that he could kill someone at any time. Wu Yunzhao is that unless you see him kill with your own eyes, you will never believe that such a bookish person will also kill people. In fact, this kind of preconceived concept is the easiest to misunderstand, who would have thought that Ning Caichen, a weak scholar who is powerless, would have the courage to pick up a female ghost?

Therefore, when Nie Duo walked out of the gate of the Qi Palace, everyone guarding outside felt that he must be going to do something, and when he just ate a bowl of hot noodle soup and returned to the Qi Palace, those who stared at him all the way were still surprised and puzzled, wondering if he had missed something and didn't see it? And Wu Yunzhao went out from the backyard over the wall, almost at the same time that Nie Duo walked out of the gate.

He carried Nie Duo's huge mountain chopping knife and waited on the way home for Song Yu, the former imperial historian. He rested under a weeping willow, and only opened his eyes and walked out when Song Yu's carriage passed by, and then he didn't stop the carriage, nor did he pull Song Yu out of the carriage and say anything righteous before killing people. Instead, the carriage was split in the middle with a simple knife, and the carriage was halved, and the people sitting in the carriage were naturally halved.

Wu Yunzhao's second knife cut the horse pulling the cart and the groom driving the cart, two pieces of people and two pieces of horses, and then he wiped the blood stains on Song Yu's body, wrapped the knife with a black cloth and carried it on his shoulder, as if he had never done anything, and left the scene of the murder with a calm face. He stabbed two people in total, killing two people, a horse, and a carriage. Then he returned to the Qi Palace, returned the knife to Nie Duo, and complained that the knife was not good.

Nie Duo glanced at him, then carefully checked his mountain knife, and after making sure that there was no problem, he said very slowly: "You go to kill, I will carry the black pot, and you still complain that my knife is not good...... Don't you think it's too much? ”

Wu Yunzhao thought for a while and replied seriously: "Next time you go to kill, I will help you carry the black cauldron." ”

After saying this, he suddenly smiled, pointed to the direction of Li Xian's study and said: "Actually, you were wrong just now, this is not a black cauldron, because sooner or later those people will guess that it was the lord who sent someone to do it, and the lord didn't plan to hide this matter for a long time from the beginning, so this is not a black cauldron...... Even if it is, it is carried by the lord. ”

Nie Duo thought about it, then nodded and said, "This is indeed the truth. ”

He meticulously wrapped the door-like chopping knife in a black cloth and placed it beside his bed, and said with some regret: "It's just a pity...... The ones killed are all small fish and shrimp, one from the imperial history of the seventh grade, what is the next official position? ”

"From the sixth grade, slightly higher."

"There doesn't seem to be anyone on the list who is above the fourth grade."

Nie Duo frowned, carefully recalled the names on the list, and said a little unrefreshed: "If you can kill a few officials above the third grade, if possible, plow the big people in the three provinces of Zhongshu, Menxia, and Shangshu from beginning to end, this is a little interesting......

"Why didn't you just kill the one in the Taiji Palace, why did you kill so many people?"

"I don't dare."

Nie Duo thought for a while and replied seriously: "I don't know if I can kill into the Taiji Palace, although my knife is very strong and sharp, but if I kill more people, it will always become dull, if the knife breaks, I can't kill him, so is it worthwhile?" The main thing is...... I don't know if I did kill that man, the Sanhedrin wouldn't have broken my knife in a fit of rage and thrown it into the latrine. ”

"I don't doubt it."

Wu Yunzhao said with a smile: "If you go and kill him now, the lord will definitely not blame you." At most, I'll cut you off with the knife and throw you into the pit......"

"How strong is the lord now?"

Nie Duo suddenly asked.

"How strong?"

Wu Yunzhao frowned, thought about it carefully, and after thinking about it again, he couldn't help but sigh: "The point is that no one wants to try. ”

"There are some things you don't know about leading troops outside all the year round, and it's not that no one has the courage to do so. It just so happened that I knew a madman who had studied with the lord before he came to Chang'an. ”

"Luo Shixin?"

"Hmm"

"It's only this madman......"

"Who won?"

"What do you think?"

……

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The conversation between the two of them sounded a little boring, but when the two of them carefully shifted the topic to the competition between Luo Shixin and Li Xian, they found that the other party was a little deliberately suppressed and eager to try. Naturally, they didn't dare to go to Li Xian to learn martial arts, but fortunately, there was also a Luo Shixin. In their eyes, it's not that they can't see the strength of Luo Shixin, but it's a pity that they haven't tried it anyway. Not daring to think about competing with Li Xian doesn't mean that they don't dare to compete with others.

There is no first in the text, and there is no second in the martial arts.

Every warrior has a dream of being the first in the world in his heart.

At this time, when Wu Yunzhao and Nie Duo were talking about Luo Shixin, the person mentioned was annoyed under a big mountain. Ye Huaisleeve discussed with him that Li Shimin would inevitably not be able to stay. Although they didn't know what Li Xian's specific plans were, as Li Xian's subordinates, they felt that they needed to solve some unnecessary troubles for Li Xian.

Li Xian was in Chang'an, and the Yanyun army camp on the north side of Chang'an was temporarily led by Qin Qiong. But there is no doubt that Ye Huai's special identity is there, and Qin Qiong is looking for her to discuss many things. On the matter that the lord did not order to take the opportunity to kill Li Shimin, Ye Huaichong had a different opinion. Although she understood Li Xian's original intention in this arrangement, she still felt that it was not very worthwhile to give a very threatening opponent a chance to turn over.

Li Xian did not kill Li Shimin in order to win Li Yuan's trust. If he led his troops to kill Li Shimin, Li Yuan would definitely be wary of him. He put himself in a place outside of his body, and Li Yuan would let his guard down against him. This time, in addition to Chen Que'er's sailor, the people brought by Li Xian were Wu Yunzhao's Ruijin Battalion, plus the Guards Battalion. Whether it is the sailor division, the cavalry of the Ruijin battalion, or the elite cavalry of the guard battalion and the heavy armor Mo sword team are not suitable for siege, it is definitely unwise to let such a field elite consume a lot in the siege battle.

Not to mention that there is no certainty of taking advantage of the chaos to conquer Chang'an, even if it can be conquered, the consumption will be huge, how many men and horses can hold Chang'an at that time? The reinforcements are not enough, the supplies are insufficient, and if the Tang army counterattacks, it will not be able to hold it at all, and it may not even be able to stabilize the situation in Chang'an City. So what Li Xian wants is to drag Li Yuan and make him take it lightly. Then wait for Xu Shiji to lead the victorious army that conquered Du Fuwei to rush over.

Of the 300,000 Yan Yun troops, more than 100,000 were taken away by Xu Shiji to pacify Du Fuwei. The 100,000 army was led by Yu Wenshi, containing the soldiers and horses of the Tang army in the eastern capital, and also preventing Dou Jiande from taking advantage of the weakness in Hebei. Li Xian had to wait, waiting for Xu Shiji to come as soon as possible.

Therefore, he must let Li Shimin go, and he must not blindly rely on the elite cavalry and sailors under his command to attack Chang'an City.

But after Ye Huaichong discussed with Luo Shixin and others, he still decided to get rid of Li Shimin. In Ye Huaichong's view, Li Xian's biggest target now can be said not to be someone, or even Li Yuan, but to the current situation. Killing Li Yuan may not be able to take over Li Tang's current country. The Tang Army's scattered men and horses in various places are afraid that they will be divided out immediately, and the pacification of them one by one will be too variable at that time. Li Xian's goal is to take over the Li Tang Dynasty smoothly, and if he wants to take it over smoothly, the biggest obstacle is Li Shimin.

Luo Shixin personally left quietly from the Yanyun army camp with two thousand elite horsemen, and spent several days chasing Li Shimin's footsteps but was stopped by that mountain. Li Xiaogong also left a lot of people on the north side of the mountain, and Luo Shixin was annoyed to find that he was late after he arrived.

Returning without success can be regarded as a pain for a person who is extremely confident.

He originally wanted to take advantage of the situation to wipe out the thousands of Tang troops left behind on the north side of the mountain, but when he thought of Li Xian, he was under the control of others in Chang'an City at this time. If the news that Yan Yunjun had destroyed the Tang Army leaked out, Li Xian's safety in Chang'an City would be difficult to guarantee. So he could only accept the fact that he had returned in vain, and prepared to rush back to the camp under the stars.

In fact, the speed at which he chased was already very fast, but in order to bypass Chang'an, in order to avoid the Tang army's pursuit of Li Shimin's men and horses, his cavalry had to go around in a big circle. Speaking of which, he arrived at the foot of the mountain only half a day later than Li Xiaogong.

Since he couldn't start, Luo Shixin could only lead his troops and take a detour back.

Day and night, the two thousand cavalry chose a secret place to rest during the day, and set off at night, on the way back to the camp from that mountain, Luo Shixin, who was galloping at night, suddenly collided head-on with a group of men and horses. In the darkness, it was impossible to distinguish the identity of the other party, and neither side had raised torches, and the distance was so close that they heard the sound of the horses' hooves of each other's teams before stopping.

The oncoming team stopped, only to accelerate a moment later and rush towards Luo Shixin's elite horseman. Luo Shixin naturally would not be scared away, and the anger of failing to catch up with Li Shimin would all be aroused by the unknown team. He simply led the light cavalry to charge and kill, and after half an hour of fierce fighting, he defeated the opponent. Luo Shixin thought it was the Tang army team chasing Li Shimin, but he didn't expect to pick up a few hot potatoes.

Although the other party took the initiative to attack, where would they have thought that what they encountered was the most elite light cavalry of the Yanyun Army, plus Luo Shixin on horseback was indeed difficult to meet an opponent, although the other party had a little more troops, it was not an opponent at all.

Half an hour later, most of the enemy army was killed, the rest were all routed, and none of the main generals of that army could escape, and all of them were captured by Luo Shixin and his men.

After tying up the generals led by those leaders and bringing them up for interrogation, Luo Shixin suddenly couldn't laugh or cry. He really didn't expect that there would be such a coincidence, and the coincidence was so coincidental that people were a little speechless. The team that met him this time was not the Tang army's pursuit of Li Shimin at all, but a group of men and horses who escaped after Li Shimin's failed attack on Chang'an City. It was no one else who was captured alive by Luo Shixin's soldiers, it was Qu Tutong and Fang Xuanling.

On that day, outside the gate of the inner garden in the west of Chang'an City, the rebels were besieged, and Li Shimin and them were separated when they broke through. Qu Tutong and Fang Xuanling fled due east with more than 4,000 men and horses, while Li Shimin led the remnants of the army to retreat to the southwest. The battle was so dangerous that the rebels who escaped had no idea where their other comrades had gone.

Tang Jian has not disappeared after taking some men and horses to kill them, Qu Tutong and Fang Xuanling discussed and speculated that Li Shimin must have entered the mountain range.

They took their men and horses to find a place to hide for a few days, and then hurried south to chase Li Shimin. didn't expect to meet the killing god Luo Shixin, so both of them became prisoners.

But these two people are indeed hot potatoes, and Luo Shixin really wants to stab them all to death one by one.

"Not Tang Jun?"

Only then did Qu Tutong see clearly the black armor on the soldiers who were fighting fiercely with his subordinates, and he didn't have to think about it to know whose team he was encountering. He considered himself unlucky, the soldiers were already like frightened birds, and they encountered the most elite cavalry of the Yanyun Army, and this battle was actually lost before it was fought. When he knew that the person leading the troops was Luo Shixin, Qu Tutong's eyes suddenly lit up.

"I am close friends with your father, and you want to kill me?"

Qu Tutong asked Luo Shixin.

Luo Shixin frowned with a headache, and after thinking about it, he ordered: "Naturally, I can't kill you, but I can gag your mouth and tie it up and take it back to the camp, and then hand it over to Brother Qin to dispose of...... You can't always be close friends with Brother Qin and his father, right? ”

After speaking, in Qu Tutong's stunned, Luo Shixin waved his hand and ordered him and Fang Xuanling to be gagagged and tied up, put them on horseback and follow the army, and rushed all the way back to the Yanyun army camp.