Chapter 575: Demon Girl, Work Hard
Whether Chen Dexing is a ruthless emperor or not, the Li brothers can't take care of it, they are now desperate. Chen Dexing's army advanced rapidly, and the more than 11,000 vanguard troops led by Guo Kan and Yang Axi had already arrived at Xinkou at this time, and Taiyuan was about to be attacked soon - if the two brothers didn't want to die immediately, they could only hope that their sister-in-law Li Cuixian and Chen Dexing could continue to get better.
However, there is one thing that the two of them may not know very well, their sister-in-law Li Cuixian has never thought that "the emperor has been the most ruthless since ancient times", and she will not think that she will be given death by Chen Dexing or sent to the cold palace. Because her feelings and loyalty to Chen Dexing have never been discounted, it can be said that after she agreed to be Chen Dexing's woman, she has no reservations and wholeheartedly helps Chen Dexing achieve great things.
Such an attitude and such a dedication are actually her biggest reliance in Chen Dexing's harem in the future. Therefore, Li Yanjian and Li Yanbang's worries are purely superfluous.
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When night fell, the snow began to fall again, and it was bigger and more urgent than the previous snowfall. The cold northwest wind blew on the face like a knife cutting.
The 40,000 Li family's army staggered along the official road covered with ice and snow, holding butter torches, and marched overnight. They were to pass through the right flank of the Mongol army and enter the territory controlled by the Ming army. Considering the absolute superiority of the Mongols in terms of strength and mobility, it was indeed a good choice to march on a snowy night - of course, Li Cuixian and Li Xiong did not know that Kublai Khan was also marching at this time, and he was tricked by Liu Xiaoyuan into going to Zhendingfu.
Li Cuixian is indeed a woman who can endure hardships, although she is somewhat self-inflictedly smart. But there is absolutely no half-pampering. At this moment, in the midst of a snowstorm. didn't take a car, just rode forward with Li Xiongyi. Look at the clothes she was wearing. seems to be thinner than Li Xiong, Li Xiong wrapped himself like a bear, and shrunk his neck, saying that it was cold.
"Third sister, you see that the weather is also cold...... Let's forget it, but you are a woman, and you have a golden body, and you have just given birth. Even the mother-in-law of ordinary people's families should now nest on the kang for confinement! ”
Li Xiong looked at Li Cuixian, whose cloak was full of snowflakes. The distressed also shook his head. Although he and Li Cuixian are not brothers and sisters, they have been together since they were children, and they really treat her as a sister.
Li Cuixian rode on the horse and just smiled faintly: "Can ordinary women compare with me?" What do I snack on? What do they eat? I could ride a horse at the age of three, draw a bow at the age of five, and dance with a pear spear better than my brothers. Giving birth to a doll is just a piece of cake for me, and it doesn't hurt my vitality. Her voice was so soft that it was almost drowned out by the sound of the wind and snow, "And. Who am I fighting for now? For whom do you suffer? This bitterness will not be eaten in vain...... Today's snowy night march will be the capital of the harem tomorrow! ”
The demon girl can pay for Chen Dexing wholeheartedly without reservation, but the gains and losses still have to be calculated. will not count the gains and losses. Desperate to follow Chen Dexing, only Zhao Lin'er. However, Zhao Lin'er is a little woman made of water, not the queen who can be the mother of half the country of the Ming Dynasty.
Wait until the end of this Central Plains War. Chen Dexing and all his courtiers will recognize this.
Li Xiong raised his face and said with a smile: "King Chen Ming is really a blessing, to be able to get a heroine like you as a wife, the third sister." It's hard to think of something big! ”
Li Cuixian smiled and shook her head, "It's my blessing to be able to serve King Ming...... King Ming doesn't have me. It can also achieve the cause of the emperor. If I didn't serve King Ming, I would have achieved nothing, and I wouldn't have the name of Li Cuixian in history. ”
This is not wrong, in the time and space without Chen Dexing, Li Demon Girl must also be very hard, but Li Pu's rebellion against Mongolia was a complete defeat!
Li Xiong nodded, sighed, and said, "That's what I said...... The father-in-law is always a little ambitious and talented, and he is far worse than King Chen Ming. This time I offended King Ming again, and I don't know if I can have a good ending? ”
"It's okay," Li Cuixian smiled, "With me, his old man will always have glory and wealth to enjoy...... King Ming is not an unreasonable person, I have done so much for him, he will definitely remember it. ”
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While Li Cuixian and Li Xiong were talking and marching, Liu Yangzhen lay on his horseback and whipped his mount desperately. He now had only one horse left, and the other horse was shot dead by his pursuers as he fled. And the horse was about to run to death, and Liu Yang, who was lying on the horse's back, could already hear the horse's increasingly heavy breathing. And the horse's speed was getting slower and slower, and no matter how hard he struck, he couldn't lift his strength.
And only a few dozen paces behind him, more than a dozen Mongolian cavalrymen were chasing in the snow with butter torches. Because the visibility in the wind and snow was a little poor, these Mongolian cavalry did not dare to let go of the pursuit, so they have not caught up so far. However, they had no intention of giving up, even if Liu Yang had already run into the territory of the Tang State - in the eyes of these Mongol soldiers, the territory of the Tang State was not dangerous, because the Tang army was mostly infantry and did not have many horse teams. They simply can't catch up with these Mongol warriors. Moreover, the Tang State is now a vassal to the Mongols again (Kublai Khan's propaganda), even if the cavalry of the Mongol kingdom crosses the border, they will not dare to do anything.
Leading these more than ten Mongolian cavalry in hot pursuit was a captain of 100 people named Bald Brother. He was originally a warrior under Brother Shifter, and he was originally a hundred-household official. After Kublai Khan forcibly incorporated the men and horses of the four kings of the host province, he became a captain of 100 people and commanded 100 cavalry. Because of good luck, he did not participate in the battle of the Daqing River. This time, it seemed that his luck was also very good, avoiding the fierce fighting on the northern front and being sent to the east to guard the Tang border. Not only did he not have the risk of fighting with the Eight Banners of the Ming Army, but he was also able to go to the territory of the Tang Kingdom every once in a while to fight a grass valley. Today, I even broke a meticulous work pretending to be a coward, which is more or less a credit!
Looking at the fine work that was running slower and slower dozens of steps away, the bald brother couldn't help but grin. The guy has already run away, and in a few moments, his horse should be dead.
"Hundred households! 100 households! Look ahead, there seems to be a large army ahead......"
One of the Mongol cavalrymen under the bald brother suddenly drove up to him, opened his throat and shouted, and stretched out his body to point ahead. The bald brother raised his head and looked in the direction of his finger, and suddenly froze on the horse's back as if he had been immobilized.
A seemingly boundless fire dragon, I don't know when it has appeared in the wind and snow a few miles ahead, is slowly flowing north.
This is an army that is advancing to the north!
Brother Bald hurriedly reined in his war horse, at this time he couldn't care about chasing Liu Yang, and Liu Yang, who was in a panic, was running towards the army that was marching in the snowy night.
"Who are they? Whose army are they? Brother Bald asked loudly, and he didn't know who he was asking?
"It's Tang Jun, right?" A Mongolian soldier beside Brother Bald replied subconsciously. "This is the Tang Kingdom, they should be the Tang Army!"
"But where are they going?"
"To the north, it should be to the territory of the Ming thief......"
"What are you going to do?"
“……”
Just when the Mongolian soldier didn't know how to answer, Li Cuixian, who was smart in ice and snow, solved the mystery by herself.
"That's the Mongol rangers! They've found us! Li Cuixian put down the binoculars in her hand, and she could already vaguely see the costumes of several Mongolian knights under the reflection of butter torches.
She ordered loudly: "Xuanjia ride, attack!" Catch a live mouth, and kill the rest! ”
The Xuanjia cavalry used the name of the elite cavalry that followed Li Shimin in the southern and northern wars in the early Tang Dynasty, and took the road of heavy armor and horse lance, and the members were all children of the Red Jacket Army - the Red Jacket Army was a time-honored brand that had been crisscrossing Shandong for 50 years, and the Red Jacket General Gate also had some background, and more than 1,000 horse lances and more than 1,000 generals who could fight on horseback were still able to make up.
However, the Xuanjia Army still did not have time to form an army before Li Pu set out to fight, on the one hand, because training takes time; On the one hand, it is also because there are no good war horses and Mingguang armor - the war horses of the Xuanjia Army in the early Tang Dynasty are all artificially bred good horses for several generations or even more than ten generations, which are jointly contributed to the two major factors of the Guanlong Shi group and the long-term conquest of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The Red Jacket Army, which has only existed for more than fifty years, certainly cannot be compared with it. Moreover, the iron-smelting industry in the Eastern Tang Dynasty was not as good as in the early Tang Dynasty, and the armor was too heavy, and the horses were too heavy to run after wearing it.
In the end, Li Yanguo had no choice but to give up the Ming Light Armor and let his Xuanjia soldiers wear the simple plate armor of the Ming Army. It also spent a huge amount of money to import a batch of good horses from the Ming Kingdom, so that the Xuanjia Army could barely become an army. Because he was worried that his sister would have an accident on the battlefield, this time Li Yanguo let his baby Xuanjia Army follow Li Cuixian to the battle. Now it's time to come in handy!
With Li Cuixian's order, thousands of Xuanjia soldiers wearing steel armor and leading horses on foot got on their horses one after another, and they didn't form an array, so they danced and pounced on the horses. Liu Yang, who was lying on horseback, was the first to be unlucky, was pulled off the horse's back by a horse lance, fell heavily in the snow, and fainted on the spot, so that a few Xuanjia soldiers tied up with ropes and sent to Li Cuixian's horse.
And the dozen or so Mongolian soldiers who had already reined in their war horses suddenly realized that something was wrong—thousands of horsemen came up with their horses and spears, and they beat the next one without saying anything...... This is to kill people and kill people!
Can't these Don cavalry see that they are Mongols? What are they doing here? Don't...... Tang Guo has fallen to the side of Ming Rebellion again?
Thinking of this, the bald brother hurriedly pulled the reins, turned the horse's head and whipped the horse desperately, and yelled: "Run!" Come on...... The Li family has rebelled again! The surname Li is the opposite, go and report to the Great Khan......" (To be continued......