Chapter 305 Be strong

On the first day of the first month of September, the wind began to wreak havoc on both sides of the Yellow River last night, and the river wind was already stronger than on land, and I don't know how high the waves blew on the Yellow River this night, nor how many fish were swept up in the air and shot alive on the water, let alone how many fishermen's boats overturned in the water, and in an instant all their possessions were gone, leaving nothing.

Perhaps it was because God had mercy on the world, and the wind gradually stopped when the sun first appeared in the morning.

Many houses in Razor City have been torn off their roofs, and since last night, the soldiers of the Agni Battalion and the people in Razor City have not stopped rescuing the people, but fortunately there is wind and no rain, if there is a storm in the wind, it is impossible to say that many people will die. The people whose houses collapsed by the wind were rescued by the soldiers of Yanyunzhai and took refuge in the county government, and the county government could not let go of so many people, so they sent people to lead the people to be placed in the school barracks, but the soldiers had no place to rest, and when the wind stopped, they slept on the street on the school ground.

Early in the morning, when the people saw this touching scene, they spontaneously organized themselves to deliver hot meals to the soldiers sleeping on the street and in the school yard, and many people held the hands of the soldiers of Yanyunzhai and wept with emotion. They had never seen an army brave a strong wind to save the people, never seen an army that would rather sleep in the streets than disturb the people.

The scene in Lei Ze's city was touching, and Chao Qiuge, who was urgently sent by Li Xian to the city to appease the people, was also very emotional when he saw this scene.

In the northeastern part of the Great Sui Territory, the Great Sui Emperor Yang Guang left the camp in Liaodong, took the Sixth Army of the Son of Heaven to Wanghaidon to play, and handed over all military affairs to Yuwenshu. In fact, this expedition to Liaodong did not fight a few battles at all, Goguryeo King Gao Yuan expressed his willingness to surrender from the beginning, sent an envoy to meet His Majesty the Great Sui Emperor, Yang Guang allowed Goguryeo to surrender, but Gao Yuan must personally come to perform the courtiers to bow down.

How dare Gao Yuan come?

Therefore, from June onwards, the civil officials of both sides began to go back and forth to discuss the matter of becoming ministers, and the million-strong army seemed to have nothing to do.

Yang Guang and the others were impatient, so he ordered Yuwenshu to put pressure on Gao Yuan, but he himself was tired of staying in Liaodong, and remembered the charming scenery of Wanghaidun, so he once again took Empress Xiao to the beach for a vacation. In July, some of the troops who conquered Liao actually returned to the Central Plains one after another, coupled with the rampant plague in Liaodong this year, countless soldiers died of illness, and the army's heart was unstable.

From June to August, more than 200,000 soldiers withdrew from Liaodong to Guannei, while no less than 150,000 soldiers fled. Especially after Yang Guang ordered the attack to put pressure on Gao Yuan, no one among the soldiers was willing to go deep into the place where the plague was rampant in Liaodong, so large-scale defections began to appear. By August, less than half of the million-strong army remained.

Yu Wenshu had no choice but to ask the emperor for permission to retire.

Yang Guang, who had already arrived at Wanghaidon, did not have the heart to fight this battle again, so he allowed Gao Yuan to worship to the north in the Goguryeo royal palace in Pyongyang under the supervision of the Great Sui envoys, and no longer forced Gao Yuan to Wanghaiden to beg in person. Gao Yuan is also simple this time, isn't it just a big bow of three kneels and nine bows, as long as he can keep Goguryeo, he doesn't care about kneeling and bowing, taking the cultural relics of the Manchu Dynasty to the north and bowing to the north, personally writing a letter of surrender, willing to be a minister for generations.

So the army of the third expedition to Liao ended this campaign with almost no battles, and Yuwenshu ordered the armies to return to their hometowns, and then he rushed to Wanghaidun and Yang Guang with the civil and military officials. After playing in Wanghaiden for a month, Yang Guang felt tired again, so he ordered to patrol the northern Xinjiang and inspect the border defense.

The affairs of Liaodong are embarrassing, and the Great Sui Emperor once again showed his benevolence, righteousness, virtue and tolerance.

It's just that no one in the whole country of Goguryeo seems to be grateful to him.

What happened in the distant Liaodong Li Xian was not in the mood to care now, and he had to solve the matter in front of him as soon as possible. Wagangzhai is a big trouble on the side, and the huge role it plays in history is only known to Li Xian at this time, and he, in order to keep his Dongping County stable and peaceful, what kind of important role did Wagangzhai play in the fall of the Great Sui? In order to stabilize the territory he had so hard won, Li Xian did not have the consciousness of respecting history.

Soon after the gale stopped, Wagangzhai sent someone to send Zhai Rang's handwritten letter, mentioning that he was willing to sit down with Li Xian, the big boss of Yanyunzhai, to negotiate peace, and the two sides agreed on a place, no soldiers, no swords, only the big bosses of the two sides met in person, and the conflict was resolved in a peaceful way.

Of course, whether it is Zhai Rang, who wrote this letter, or Li Xian, who read this letter, they will not seriously care about the content of the letter, and both of them actually have the intention of swallowing each other in one gulp.

Li Xian wrote back, expressing his willingness to negotiate peace with Wagangzhai, and agreed that on the shore of Xiaojing Lake, twenty miles outside Leize City, the two sides could only bring a maximum of 300 soldiers, and Zhai Rang and Li Xian could only bring five guards with each of them when they talked. The safety of Xiaojing Lake is maintained by both sides, half of Wagangzhai is in charge, and Yanyunzhai is in charge of half, which is not a difficult thing, because Xiaojing Lake is too small, and it is only two or three miles in size from east to west, north and south.

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It was agreed that the date was three days after the fifth day of September, Dugu Ruizhi found Li Xian, and strongly asked him to remove the residual poison in his body first, Li Xian also knew that this was a matter of life and death, so he handed over the military affairs to Daxi Changru, and handed over other things to Ye Huaisleeve, he and Dugu Ruizhi and Xu Zhizang got into a newly built big tent, and went in two, and Li Xian never walked out of the big tent in the two.

On the second day, Ye Huaisleeve walked into Li Xian's big tent with a gloomy face.

"Didn't find it?"

Seeing that Ye Huaisleeve's face was a little ugly, Li Xian, who was sitting in a large wooden barrel and suffering from steaming to expel poison, immediately guessed the reason.

"The wind was too strong."

Ye Huai sat down beside Li Xian, combed the hair hanging down in front of his forehead, and said softly: "The secret spies and cavalry who are tracking are blocked by the strong wind and cannot advance, and they will continue to search immediately after the wind is a little lighter, but after the strong wind, they can no longer find the traces left by Liu Heimin, and I don't know if he escaped against the strong wind, or found a hidden place to hide." However, it was said that there was a strong wind, and the ferry on the Yellow River was damaged by Shizhi**, and it was not easy for Liu Heimin to escape the Yellow River to join Dou Jiande, and I have sent additional people to continue the search. ”

Li Xian nodded, feeling quite helpless in his heart.

He always felt that there were things that could not be resisted, and what should have happened would still happen. For example, if there was no strong wind before, the joint pursuit of the Flying Tiger spy and the Ruijin Battalion Iron Cavalry would definitely capture that person, and there would be no Liu Heimin who would dominate Hebei after Dou Jiande in the future. However, God and Li Xian went against him, and the wind swept away the traces of Liu Heimin's escape, how difficult is it to find him again?

This made Li Xian feel a little powerless in his heart, he felt that many things in the dark were already doomed, even if he had the heart to change, but he still failed because of some factors.

However, Li Xian is not the kind of person who can't eat or sleep because of regret, no matter what the consequences of everything he has done, Li Xian has never regretted it, it's not that he doesn't know how to reflect, but he knows that regret is the most useless thing in this world, and it only adds to his troubles. He originally wanted to send someone to find Dou Jiande and warn Dou Jiande that if he dared to take in Liu Heimin and refused to hand it over, then he would meet each other, but then he thought that this was just an extremely naïve move. Dou Jiande took it in or not, it was all said in his mouth, and since he dared to instigate Liu Heimin to poison him, how could he be afraid of the threat of Yanyunzhai?

"Keep investigating, this matter can't be put down."

Li Xian looked at Ye Huai's slightly haggard face and said, "You go back and have a good rest, and accompany me to see Zhai Rang the day after tomorrow." ”

Ye Huaisleeve nodded and got up to leave.

It was steamed intermittently in this wooden barrel for two days, and the residual poison in Li Xian's body was gone, and the golden wolf flower antidote prepared by Dugu Ruizhi had also been distributed.

On the fourth day of the ninth lunar month, Li Xian wore a black shirt, tied his smooth straight hair behind his head, and did not wear armor, and rode a big black horse with three hundred elite soldiers to slowly go to the direction of Xiaojing Lake.

The people of Wagangzhai came a little earlier than Li Xian, and Zhai Rang took Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shiji, Xie Yingdeng, Zhang Liang, and five guards to sit and rest in the open space outside the stone pavilion on the south bank of Xiaojing Lake. The open space has been set up, and the tables on both sides are ten meters apart, and the tables are already set up with fine wine and dishes.

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"I guess if Li Xian was really poisoned, he wouldn't have come in person."

Shan Xiongxin whispered to Zhai Rang: "Even if he has a miracle doctor in the army who has a wonderful hand to rejuvenate, how can he recover from his knife wounds and poisonous wounds in just a few days?" ”

Xu Shiji shook his head and said: "He will definitely come, if he is not injured or poisoned, he may not come, but now, he will definitely come." ”

Shan Xiongxin was stunned, and after thinking about it, it did make sense.

"Big brother, you must not be soft-hearted when you talk about it for a while, you have to be strong, and Li Xian, who wants to be suppressed, can't raise your head."

Shan Xiongxin said to Zhai: "You must not let him take the lead." ”

Zhai Rang bowed slightly: "I naturally know, you don't have to worry." ”

Xie Yingdeng glanced at Xu Shiji, and stopped talking. Xu Shiji nodded at him, but he didn't speak. Zhang Liang, who has the lowest status, will not talk nonsense, but honestly sits at the end, looking up from time to time to look up at the situation in Yanyunzhai. He knew that Zhai Rang did not bring him because he trusted him, but simply because the other leaders were ready to lead the troops to fight.

Not long after, Li Xian came with Ye Huaisleeve, Chen Qi'er, and Pei Renji, Pei Xingyan, father and son. Behind him, Ye Chuanyun and Fu Hunu and the other three carefully selected masters from the secret spies stood with their swords.

Zhai Rang was about to get up but was pulled by Shan Xiongxin, he remembered what Shan Xiongxin said just now to be stronger, so he sat still and didn't move, and no one else in Wagangzhai stood up to speak.

After the people from Yanyunzhai arrived, Shan Xiongxin asked coldly: "Which one is Li Xian, the junior of the rivers and lakes, doesn't he know how to salute when he sees my eldest brother Zhai?" ”

He had a cold voice and aggressive eyes.

It's just that no one on the other side pays attention to him at all.

Fu Hunu and Ye Fanyun moved one of the chairs two or three meters away from the back, leaving only a row of four chairs in front. Ye Huaisleeve was the leader, Xu Zhizang was second, Pei Renji and his son sat in front successively, and Li Xian, who was dressed in a black shirt, sat in the back, without even looking at Wagangzhai.

One of the guards opened the big black umbrella and fought behind Li Xian, the other guard took out a lot of fruit preserves and wine jade cups from his backpack, and placed them on the table next to Li Xian, and the third guard stood beside Li Xian with a few books, Li Xian reached out and took a copy at random to read it.

Some people hold umbrellas, some people wave fans to repel insects, and some people pour wine and vegetables.

It seems that where he came to negotiate, it was like he came to see the play, of course, if he was not interested, he would not have looked at the play.

Seeing such a posture, the faces of the people in Wagangzhai suddenly changed color with anger!