Recruiting Shan Xiongxin has always been Yang Yuanqing's wish, not only because Shan Xiongxin is the first general of the Wagang Army, and has a very high appeal in the Wagang Army

recruited Shan Xiongxin, which also allowed the Wagang generals to return to their hearts and completely quell the rebellion in the Central Plains, and Li Mi's distrust of Shan Xiongxin also led to his final defeat.

On the other hand, from a personal point of view, Yang Yuanqing also hopes that Shan Xiongxin can surrender to himself, after all, they once had an old friendship, and he Yang Yuanqing is also a person who misses the old.

In a short time, Shan Xiongxin was pushed up by the sergeants, and the iron shackles in his hands and feet had been sawn open, but he was tightly bound by ropes.

Shan Xiongxin was pushed in front of Yang Yuanqing, he held his head high, did not look at Yang Yuanqing, straightened his waist, looked at the morning glow in the distance, and said nothing.

Yang Yuanqing sighed secretly in his heart, and ordered left and right: "Untie him!" ”

Several pro-soldiers stepped forward and used sharp knives to break the rope on Shan Xiongxin's arm, Shan Xiongxin moved his numb wrist and said lightly: "Thank you King Chu!" ”

"Second Brother Shan doesn't seem to have changed much in the past few years."

The atmosphere was very cold, Yang Yuanqing smiled a little embarrassed, according to this momentum, if he wants him to surrender, it is estimated that it will be difficult to abandon the concubine: the latest chapter of the imprisoned pet of the cold and proud prince.

Shan Xiongxin sighed, "Thank you for remembering the past, I owe you in the past, I can't pay it back in this life, let's pay it back in the next life!" ”

After speaking, he turned his back and said, "Please give me a good time for the sake of the past." ”

Yang Yuanqing was speechless, and sighed for a while: "Why bother! Do you have to die in the knot? ”

Shan Xiongxin shook his head. "It's not that it's a dead end, but you have no choice, I will never surrender to the Sui Dynasty, and if you let me go, I will make a comeback and build Wagang again, you can only kill me. in order to prevent future troubles. ”

Speaking of this, Shan Xiongxin shouted: "Yang Yuanqing, if you are still a hero, just do it!" It is also an honor for me to die at your hands. ”

Yang Yuanqing stared at him for a long time, and ordered left and right: "Give him a horse and let him go!" ”

The surrounding generals were shocked, and Wang Junkuo said in a low voice: "Your Highness." Shan Xiongxin is the soul of the Wagang Army. Let him go, and there will be consequences. ”

Yang Yuanqing snorted heavily: "Didn't you hear my order?" ”

The soldiers were helpless, so they had to lead a horse to Shan Xiongxin, Shan Xiongxin's eyes showed surprise, and finally glanced back at Yang Yuanqing, and asked puzzledly: "Do you know that I want to build Wagang again, and you still want to let me go?" ”

Yang Yuanqing said lightly: "For the sake of the old friendship, let you go once." From now on, we will break off righteousness, if you rebel. Let you go, but I will never spare you again, and I will sacrifice your head to my sword.

Shan Xiongxin glanced at Yang Yuanqing deeply, turned over on his horse, snatched the leather whip from a soldier's hand, whipped the war horse violently, and the war horse galloped down the mountain. Yang Yuanqing looked at him walking away, and couldn't help but sigh, he finally lost a former friend.

Shan Xiongxin ran to the foot of the mountain, suddenly reined in his war horse and shouted to the mountain: "I, Shan Xiongxin, am a man who stands up to the sky, I owe you a favor, I will return it to you, from now on, there will be no more tile gangs in the world." ”

After speaking, he turned his horse's head and galloped towards the northwest, gradually disappearing at the end of the field, and a smile appeared on Yang Yuanqing's face......

Wang Bodang led a thousand elite troops to escort Li Mi from Xiao Mi's army to open a bloody road, fled to the south, and after running for several miles, there were only more than 300 guards left behind him, and thousands of pursuers behind him were in pursuit.

Hundreds of people along the Yangtze River side of the official road to the east desperately fled, they ran all the way, all the way to find the boat, but on both sides of the barren grass vines, even the figure can not see one, let alone boats, they ran out of more than ten miles, a small river blocked the way, and the bridge across the river has been dismantled, the front has become a broken road, everyone has stranded the war horse, to the south a hundred steps away is the rolling Yangtze River, to the north is a pile of rocks, and then far away is the dragon head mountain of Chilonggang, the war horse is difficult to walk.

Li Mi turned his head to look, only to see three miles away, dusty, this is the chasing soldiers have arrived, Li Mi is desperate, secretly bitter in his heart, at this moment, a soldier suddenly pointed to the river and shouted: "Boat, Your Majesty, there is a boat!" ”

Li Mi also saw that an old fisherman with white hair was driving a small boat towards the Yangtze River, less than a hundred steps away from them, Li Mi and the others were overjoyed, and waved and shouted: "Boatman, come here!" ”

After a while, the old fisherman arrived in a boat and said with a smile: "This bridge was demolished by the army last night, you have to turn back!" ”

Li Mi was anxious, and arched his hand: "Boat family, I want to cross the river, if you can take me with you, there will be a heavy thanks!" ”

He took out two loaves of gold from his horse sack, threw one on board, and said, "Send me across the river, and the other loaf of gold will be yours." ”

Huang Cancan's gold made the old fisherman's eyes a little stunned, he had only seen copper coins, never seen gold, he looked at the gold in Li Mi's hand again, his heart was greedy, and said: "I can send you across the river, but my boat can only take three people, you can do it yourself!" ”

Li Mi said without hesitation: "No problem!" ”

Uncle Wang's eyes rolled, and he whispered a few words to Li Mi, "Lord, I will rock the boat......"

Li Mi nodded slowly, this is a way.

The boat slowly docked, at this time, the pursuers had arrived a mile away, the guards saw that they could no longer follow the lord to escape, they abandoned their horses and climbed up the rocky mountain, the boat finally landed, Wang Bodang jumped on the boat, drew his knife and slashed at the fisherman, the fisherman screamed, planted in the water, killed the fisherman, and could carry one more person, mainly to transport the war horse across the river.

Li Mi led the horse to the boat, Wang Bodang rocked, the boat swayed and sailed towards the river, the boat sailed out less than a hundred steps, the pursuers arrived, three thousand cavalry have drawn their bows and arrows, and fired arrows into the Yangtze River, Li Mi raised his shield to greet him, gradually, the boat sailed out of the range of bows and arrows, and sailed to the depths of the river.

It was only at this time that Li Mi finally let down, he stared at the rolling Yangtze River water, and sighed long, "Everything is like a dream." ”

"Your Majesty......"

Wang Bodang was about to ask, but was interrupted by Li Mi, "Don't call me Your Majesty, let's call me eldest brother as before!" We have always been brothers, not kings. ”

"Yes! Eldest brother. ”

Wang Bodang agreed, and said, "We still have 5,000 men and horses in Danyang County. It can also occupy Jiangnan and make a comeback. ”

Li Mi didn't speak for a long time, it's okay to go to Jiangnan, but what's the use of occupying Jiangnan, Yang Yuanqing will cross the river immediately and sweep Jiangnan, I'm afraid that then there will be no luck today, for a long time. He sighed and said, "Let's go to the area around Guilin County!" Not really. So they entered Jiaozhi and destroyed Linyi, and we built a country there. ”

Wang Bodang hesitated, and then said, "But...... What about the eldest brother's wife and children? ”

Li Mi shook his head, "That's their fate, and there's nothing I can do about it." ”

Uncle Wang's heart was gloomy. Without further ado, he struggled to rock the boat to the other side of the vast river, and the fishing boat was very small. It was undulating and bumpy on the Yangtze River, dangerous and abnormal, but fortunately, Wang Bodang was skilled in driving the boat. After repeated dangers, the boat gradually rowed to the center of the river.

At this moment, Wang Bodang's face turned pale and he looked at the river in horror. Li Mi was also stunned, I don't know when, there was a team of warships in front of them, there were more than 20 of them, the huge hull was like a mountain pressing towards them, the bow of the ship was carved with a huge dragon, the dragon's head was hideous, on the big ship at the head, a red eagle flag hunted and fluttered in the river breeze.

Li Mi couldn't help but be discouraged, the Sui army warship was already waiting for him in the river, he couldn't escape at all, Wang Bodang pulled out his war knife, and stared fiercely at the oncoming big ship, if he could get on the boat, maybe they still had a chance.

But the Sui fleet did not give them any chance, all the ropes that could climb onto the boat were collected on the boat, the fleet surrounded the small boats in the river, and the side of the ship was full of dense archers, and countless sharp arrows were aimed at Li Mi and Wang Bodang on the small boat.

On the big boat at the head, Xie Yingdeng looked coldly at Li Mi and Wang Bodang on the small boat, he did not participate in the battle of the night attack on the Wei camp last night, but was ordered to intercept Li Mi and Wang Bodang in the middle of the river, and sure enough, Bing Yuanzhen said that Li Mi did not flee north to the Central Plains, but crossed the river to the south.

"General Xie, what should I do?"

One of the generals asked in a low voice, "Do you want to capture them alive?" ”

Xie Yingdeng shook his head, Yang Yuanqing gave him the order to live or die, he understood what Yang Yuanqing meant, that is, he wanted him to kill Li Mi on the spot without leaving any trouble.

"You don't have to be captured alive, shoot me on the spot!" Xie Yingdeng gave the order.

"Obey!"

The general waved the red flag, several large ships fired arrows together, dense arrows shot at the small boat, a generation of heroes Li Mi was killed by the Sui army's random arrows in the Yangtze River, and his henchman Wang Bodang also accompanied him to die in the river......

The battle of Chilonggang was completely over, the 180,000 Wei army was killed by the Sui army, nearly 20,000 were killed, more than 100,000 were captured, and the rest of the soldiers fled back to their hometowns.

Of course, they are faced with a choice, that is, they can surrender or not, they have a choice, they can go back to their own territory.

Yang Yuanqing did not stop them, but gave them a chance to choose fairly, after all, they were not the Wei army, they were here to assist the Sui army in the battle, they were meritorious men, and they should be given a reward.

Although both Du Fuwei and Xiao Mo could choose to return to the land of separation, they knew in their hearts that if they didn't seize this opportunity, they would also end up like Li Mi tomorrow.

In the big tent, Du Fuwei knelt down on one knee and raised the sword symbolizing military power high, "Minister Du Fuwei is willing to serve His Highness, be loyal to the Great Sui, and obey His Highness's drive." ”

Yang Yuanqing took his sword and helped him up, seeing that he was tall and burly, no less than himself, he couldn't help but smile slightly: "I have been friends with General Du for a long time, but today is the first time we have met." ”

"The minister has also heard of His Royal Highness's prestige for a long time, and today he finally met the Ming Lord, and Fu Wei was fortunate in his three lives."

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "Jianghuai is a heavy land, there is no room for loss, I will make you the Duke of Huaiguo, the general of the right Xiaowei, the head of Jianghuai Dao, and lead 30,000 troops to guard Jianghuai for me, and the safety of Jianghuai is in danger, please ask General Du." ”

Du Fuwei was greatly moved, Yang Yuanqing trusted him so much, let him continue to garrison Jianghuai, he knelt down on one knee again, hugged his fists high and said: "Fu Wei is willing to smear his liver and brains to repay His Highness's kindness!" ”