Emperor Li Longji of the Tang Dynasty personally met with the messenger of Longyou in the Xuanzheng Palace. The news of the great victory made the wrinkles on Li Longji's face unfold inch by inch, and it can really be said that his face was full of redness.

Gao Lishi, who was standing next to him, was also smiling, bowing down to make tea for Li Longji, and now the emperor also liked the jade girl tea before the Ming Dynasty, and as soon as the tea was thorough, there was immediately a faint fragrance of tea.

Li Longji was overjoyed, and said to Gao Lishi: "The messenger has rushed thousands of miles to return to the victory, and after working hard, let someone make him a cup of tea." ”

"Your Majesty, the minister doesn't dare, the minister doesn't dare, the minister ...... The minister is not thirsty. The messenger hurriedly bowed to the ground, frightened and flattered.

After Li Longji raised his hand and motioned to the palace maids in the hall to make tea, he asked with a pleasant face, "What is your name?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister's name is Chen Dazhi." At this time, the palace maid made tea, and the messenger was grateful, and the hand that received the tea kept trembling, and almost spilled the tea, "Thank you, Your Majesty, long live, long live, long live!" ”

Li Longji smiled and soothed: "You drink the tea, don't be nervous, you will live up to my kindness if you spill the tea." ”

After hearing what the emperor said, Chen Dazhi didn't care whether the tea was hot or not, and drank it in a big gulp, as if he was afraid of disappointing the emperor's kindness.

This move made Li Longji laugh, and the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace also covered their mouths and laughed.

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Thank you, Your Majesty! After Chen Dazhi handed the teacup back to the palace maid, he hurriedly kowtowed and thanked him.

Li Jilong liked his frankness, and his face became more and more pleasant: "Well, Chen Dazhi, you can tell me the details of the Battle of Stone Castle." Be sure to tell the truth and not exaggerate. Got it? ”

"The minister doesn't dare, the minister must tell the truth. Don't dare to say half a lie. Your Majesty, since Ambassador Wang arrived in Longyou, he sent elites to take the initiative to attack, and successively defeated Tibet, and his Li Ang Li Sheren was also sent by Ambassador Wang to lead 500 elite cavalry to attack Tibet;

Li Sheren has always been elusive with troops, and even went deep behind enemy lines without logistics, and His Majesty's holy decree arrived in Shanzhou, and Deputy Envoy Dong immediately mobilized 50,000 troops to attack Shibao. Li Sheren led five hundred elite horses out at that time, and he was nowhere to be found;

Deputy Envoy Dong personally led an army of 50,000 to storm the stone fort, but due to the danger of the stone fort, the mountain road leading to the mountain was four or five miles long, narrow and steep, and our army had 50,000 troops, but could not give full play to the numerical advantage;

The enemy was condescending, the rolling stones and trees roared down, and our troops suffered heavy casualties. However, it was difficult to attack the top of the mountain, and Deputy Envoy Dong offered a heavy reward to find a good way to attack the mountain, but our army tried all kinds of methods. and failed to defeat the enemy;

In eight days, tens of thousands of casualties were lost, and the morale of tens of thousands of troops became very low. This time. The Tibetan generals Dazarugon and the Tuyuhun prince Kachin each led 20,000 troops from Bailugou and Lakaring respectively;

Our army was defeated under the fortified city. The handsome veteran is tired, facing the flanking attacks of Dazarugon and Kachin. gradually became overwhelmed, and Deputy Envoy Dong had to order a retreat;

But just when the Tubo people thought that our army was defeated and retreated, and celebrated the victory, the Li Sheren, who had been missing, suddenly took 500 elite horsemen and raided the stone fort from behind the enemy in the middle of the night......

"Good! What a Leon, I hate not being able to come to the scene in person! When Li Longji heard this, he couldn't help but get up and applaud loudly.

Chen Dazhi, who was seriously describing the battle situation, was startled, and Gao Lishi, who was waiting beside him, lost no time in patting his ass and said: "Everyone, since ancient times, where the Holy Monarch is in power, the country must be full of talents, and now under everyone's governance, I am a genius like Li Ang, I am afraid that it will only appear when you rule the world like this." ”

"General Gao said it well, hahaha......." Li Longji is indeed full of self-satisfaction about his martial arts, and after listening to Gao Lishi's sycophancy, he became more and more happy, "Chen Dazhi, you go on, go on." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, it is said that Deputy Envoy Dong is leading tens of thousands of troops to fight and retreat at this time under the attack of Dazarugon and Kachin, and the Tubo army is becoming more and more courageous, and the situation is critical;

At this moment, on the stone fort city on the top of the mountain in the distance, hundreds of people suddenly shouted in unison, 'You don't see, Huo Yao, rampant in Qinghai with a knife at night, and the west slaughters the stone fort to take the purple robe.' ’

At that time, the two armies of the enemy and our army, which were fighting fiercely, were all stunned, and the commander of the Tibetan army, Dazarugong, listened to the shouts from Shibao City, and knew that something was wrong, so he hurriedly ordered the army to retreat............"

When Li Longji heard this, he was happy again, and laughed and said: "What a rampant Qinghai night with a knife, Xitu Stone Fort to take a purple robe!" This son is not yet the crown, he is like a god with soldiers, and he has defeated Tubo one after another, he is actually the champion of my Tang Dynasty, hahaha......"

Gao Lishi echoed: "Li Ang, as a current science explorer, just arrived in Longyou, he took fifty light horsemen to break through the ambush city, captured the Tubo Dazhu, and then guarded Hechuan with more than 100 people, shot the Tubo prince, annihilated thousands of enemies, and now it is a night attack on the stone fort, so that my tens of thousands of troops turned defeat into victory, compared to Han Zhihuo to go to illness, it is not inferior." Congratulations to all of you, congratulations to all of you for this talent. ”

"General Gao said it well, hahaha, this Li Ang is indeed a rare talent, it seems that if you don't give him a purple robe this time, I'm afraid the people of the world will say that I am stingy, hahaha............."

"Chen Dazhi, you go on quickly, don't ruin Your Majesty's interest."

"Yes, yes, when the enemy commander was so frightened that he hurriedly returned to the castle, it happened that Ambassador Wang hurried from Shanzhou to Shibao. At that time, the night was blank and the situation was unclear, and Deputy Envoy Dong was worried that it was a trap set by the enemy, so he did not dare to rashly counterattack;

Ambassador Wang said that he had just received a letter from Li Sheren, in which he claimed that he was ready to lead his troops to attack the stone fort, and if it was successful, he asked the army to counterattack immediately. Hearing the shouts from the stone fort, Ambassador Wang asserted that it was the Li Sheren who had succeeded, so he took over the command of the army and ordered the generals to counterattack immediately;

Dazaru Gong set up a formation on the south bank of the Yaoshui River, trying to block our army, and at the same time ordered the Tubo army to attack on both sides, wanting to recapture the stone fort, Li Sheren led his troops to defend tightly, when the enemy attacked the mountain most fiercely, Li Sheren held three stone bows, fired the bow fifty-six times in succession, shot fifty-six enemies, and frightened the enemy's faceless;

Li Sheng, the team under the command of Li Sheren, attacked with a Mo knife in his hand, killed all the way to the halfway up the mountain, and killed the enemy who attacked the mountain and routed him. Ambassador Wang was worried that under the enemy's attack from both sides, the stone fort would be regained, so he ordered the 2,000-strong army to cross the Yaoshui River to charge the battle, and then flee back in defeat;

The commander of the enemy army was deceived, thinking that there was an opportunity, so the whole army pressed on it, trying to break our army, but Ambassador Wang blocked the enemy with a Mo sword formation, supplemented by a bow array and a crossbow array, and severely defeated the Tubo cavalry, and then the cavalry hidden in the two wings of our army suddenly killed, and the enemy army was broken into two pieces, and the front and rear could not be cared for, and the enemy army was in chaos..."

Speaking of these, Chen Dazhi's mouth was like a river, and he talked endlessly, and Li Longji listened to it with his eyebrows, until he listened to it, he still felt that it was not enjoyable, and asked Chen Dazhi for many details.

In the end, he praised again: "Fortunately! If it weren't for Li Ang turning things around at a critical moment, Dong Yanguang would probably have exhausted the three armies in vain this time. Li Ang, it is really a blessing for me! ”

Gao Lishi said: "Your Majesty, the victory of Shibao, the offensive and defensive situation between my Tang Dynasty and Tubo, why doesn't Your Majesty summon Wang Zhongsi and Li Ang to Beijing and reward them in person to show the emperor's grace?" ”

"Well, General Gao has a point."

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Because Li Linfu often bribed the people around Xuanzong with a large amount of gold, silver and silk, he was clear about Xuanzong's every move and every word in three days, and the emperor praised Li Ang, and the matter soon reached Li Linfu's ears, which made him even more like a man.

All those who were praised by the emperor were, in Li Linfu's view, a threat to him.

I remember one time, the emperor arranged a band to perform in the Qinzheng Building, and lowered the curtain to watch behind the curtain.

Lu Xuan, the squire of the military department, thought that the emperor had left, so he rode across the downstairs, Lu Xuan was handsome, and the emperor looked at him and greatly appreciated his gentleness.

Knowing that the emperor appreciated Lu Xuan, Li Linfu immediately became jealous of Lu Xuan, afraid that he would surpass him, so he summoned Lu Xuan's children to express concern and said: "The respected gentleman is noble and noble, and is respected by others, and now Jiaozhou and Guangzhou need talents, and the saint wants to send the honored monarch to go, I don't know what he means?" If you don't want to travel far, you should be demoted, otherwise you will go to Luoyang, the eastern capital, as the prince's guests and Zhan Shi, which is also a measure to treat the sages preferentially, how about it?"

Lu Xuan asked to serve as the prince's guest and Zhan Shi. Li Linfu was afraid of people's discussions, so he appointed Lu Xuan as the assassin of Huazhou, and Lu Xuan was falsely accused by Li Linfu of being sick and unable to manage the state's internal affairs, and demoted him to Zhan Shi and the same as the outsider.

The emperor just cast an appreciative look at Lu Xuan, and Li Linfu didn't let it go, not to mention that Li Ang was praised by the emperor for the case, and he also said that he would give Li Ang a purple robe?

That night, Li Linfu called Ji Wen and prepared to make up charges for Li Angluo, but Sun Jin, the new secretary of the Criminal Department, also came to ask to see, and he was also Li Linfu's right-hand man, and was called to the study by Li Linfu together.

As soon as the three of them sat down, Li Linfu asked Gongsun Jin, who had come uninvited: "Gongsun Shangshu, what is the matter with you?" ”

Gongsun Jin said: "Xianggong, the lower officials are here for Li Ang. ”

"Oh?" Li Linfu glanced at Gongsun Jin lightly and said, "Gongsun Shangshu, please speak." ”

"Xianggong, the lower officials heard one thing, on the night of the Lantern Festival this year, when our people followed Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming into Jinglongguan, they were seen by the daughters of Li Ang and Yang Xun, and the two also quietly followed in, but then Li Ang did not remind Wei Jian and Huangfu Weiming, and did not even mention this matter to Li Shizhi."

"Gongsun Shangshu, if you have something to say, you might as well say it clearly."

"Xianggong, it is not difficult to conclude from this incident that Li Ang is actually just using Li Shizhi, not the prince's party."

After Gongsun Jin finished speaking, he quietly watched Li Linfu's reaction, he took a big risk by doing this, but now the value that Li Ang showed made him think that it was worth taking such a risk.

(To be continued.) )