Chapter 1: Drumming (5 I)

"Go, order the fleet to speed up and don't stop no matter what happens!" At the moment when the wind rose, Li Xu suddenly turned his head and ordered Zhou Xing to wake up at the pro-soldiers around him.

"Your Excellency!" Zhou Xing's eyes widened in surprise, not knowing why the Lord General issued such a strange order. In his eyes, although the wind and rain are coming, the scenery on the canal is still beautiful and picturesque. Occasionally, the wind struck, and those soft willows twisted their waists back and forth, and the branches flew. The white sails on the surface of the river were also filled with the wind in an instant, and they quickly slid forward along the waterway.

"Go wordy!" Li Xu didn't have time to explain to his subordinates, so he shouted orders. Immediately afterward, he raised the black knife from his waist and pointed diagonally at a small mound on the east bank of the canal. "Brothers, gather on the mound and form a battle formation! Fast! ”

Fifteen hundred riders, who were loose and sloppy, rushed to the only nearby high ground like arrows, and they did not understand the orders of their commanders, but their usual rigorous training taught them how to carry them out to the letter. The smoke from the horse's hooves instantly blocked the sky near the mound, and at the same time, a low horn sounded from afar, like the roar of a tiger.

It's not the horn sound commonly used by the county soldiers, and the horn sound of the county soldiers during training is not so low and so depressing. With the sound of horns, a larger cloud of smoke appeared in the distant wilderness, and countless people rolled in like a torrent, engulfing everything green in its path.

"Bandits, bandits are coming!" The traders in the canal shouted in panic

"Robbery, robbery is coming!" There was chaos on the river, some people quickly picked up their oars, others quickly took out their weapons from the cabin. The swordsmen hired by each family rushed to the bow of the ship, bent their bows and arrows, ready to defend their duty with their lives. But the moment they saw the enemy clearly, the bows in their hands began to tremble.

The strength of the bandits who dared to rob directly in front of the officials and troops of the Great Sui was probably not something that they could resist, and the enemy was more than 10,000 people, and they were constantly pouring towards the canal like ants. Those with sharp eyes can see the flags fluttering in the air, Cheng, Shan, Li, Wang ......., there are as many as 20. The heroes of the surrounding counties of Xingyang who can be called by name almost all gathered at this moment.

"Giggles!" Someone could hear their teeth rattling. He didn't want to be discovered at this time, but the muscles of his whole body couldn't stabilize no matter what. It was the Wagang group of heroes who came over, and they almost poured into the nest. Cheng Zhijie, Shan Xiongxin, Li Gongyi, Wang Dangren, the role of each name in the folk can stop children from crying at night.

"Listen, the people on the river, General Li has an order-" Several fast horses rushed along the embankment at high speed, shouting as they ran.

"What did Li Ye say, what did Li Ye say?" The panicked swordsmen finally saw the savior and asked with a little crying.

"General Li ordered everyone to leave quickly, the Wagang Army is not coming for you, everyone hurry up, don't delay!" Zhou Xing, who was still confused before, recovered his senses the moment the horse's hooves stepped on the river embankment, put his hands to his mouth, and shouted at the river. "Hey, everyone is speeding forward, my general will cut off the back for you!" The accompanying soldiers shouted in unison, clearly transmitting Li Xu's order under every white sail.

The penny, the oars, the planks, the scabbards, all the things that could speed the ship into the water when the command was heard. Like a jumping barracuda, the boats quickly split the water and fled into the distance. The people in the boat paddled hard and kept turning back towards the mound.

"You, your family said, can Master Li do it?" Someone asked, gasping for breath, his voice full of anticipation.

"Okay, why not, who can beat him!" The answerer swore an oath, but his eyes kept looking at the shore. The general, who had promised to protect them, was now standing on a mound with more than a thousand brothers, rocky. The black cloud was over his head, but he stood straight between heaven and earth, neither hesitating nor bending.

"Good guy!" Someone sighed and praised.

"Good people have their own blessings!" The shipowners burned incense and murmured to the god cards in the cabin. "Save the suffering, save the suffering, save the suffering......"

"It's not the gods who save you, it's my family... Checkmate! After the boss's order came out, Zhou Xing turned his mount. The moment he looked at the battlefield, he hesitated. The master of his own family and the incoming enemy are facing off. Both sides were hurrying to observe the situation on the battlefield, so neither of them was in a hurry to make the first move. The Wagang army that rushed from the west, south, and north gathered more and more, and the people on the mound could not escape.

Not commensurate with the tense atmosphere before the battle, the few stragglers who were in charge of liaising with the cargo ship became the most leisurely people, and their own people did not have time to ask, and the enemy did not care.

"Am I doing the right thing?" Zhou Xing looked at the river and asked himself in a low voice. He suddenly felt the urge to pull out the knife and hold it across his neck.

"What, what is Team Zhou talking about!" One of his closest soldiers asked in surprise.

"Go back, die by the general's side!" Zhou Xing shook his head vigorously and shouted. With thousands of enemies and tens of thousands, even if the general is reincarnated in vain, he has no hope of victory. And the reinforcements, as far as Zhou Xing knows, the reinforcements are still in Yangwu, and it is impossible to divide troops to rescue them.

He turned his horse's head and ran straight to where his army was. It was a point of no return, and he didn't care. At this moment, he just wanted to draw the knife and fight happily and in a daze.

"Shixin, we can kill it today!" Li Xu looked at the enemy troops slowly gathering under the mound and said quietly. His voice was not high, but it clearly reached the ears of everyone around him.

"Kill!" The soldiers raised their weapons and shouted to the sky.

"Kill, kill, kill!" All the brothers raised their weapons and formed a jungle of steel. In the jungle, the blood-red battle flag is waving in the wind, and the word "Li" is big and loud, and there is a sound of hunting in the wind.

The Wagang Army obviously did not expect that the enemy could exude such a strong fighting spirit in such a weak situation, and for a while, many people instinctively retreated backwards and staggered the flags around them.

"Bad seeds!" Luo Shixin pointed at the enemy soldiers two hundred paces away and laughed, and there was no fear in his laughter.

"Bad seeds!" More than a thousand soldiers shouted and cursed with the laughter of the commander, and the contemptuous voice was carried down the wind to the ears of everyone in the enemy army.

"Woo-woo-woo!" Li Mi, the commander of the Wagang Army, saw that his brothers were timid before fighting, and hurriedly ordered his soldiers to blow the horn. The low sound of the horn was suppressed and long, accompanied by the clouds above the head slowly suppressed. When the trumpeter of the county soldier heard this, he did not hesitate to respond with a horn, "Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo!" "The sound burned people's blood.

Li Xu instigated the war horse to turn around in front of the formation, and saw all the enemy battle flags clearly. He walked to Luo Shixin's side and pointed straight ahead with the tip of his knife, the team of soldiers and horses had the most neat lineup, and it was as steady as a rock in the panicked performance of the enemy formation just now, "Your old acquaintance is here, but the number is not as large as last time!" He smiled and whispered, as if across from him was a friend he hadn't seen in years.

"I saw it, I was looking for him, and the wound on my arm is still itchy!" Luo Shixin responded with a smile. Facing the cavalry were Cheng Zhijie and Shan Xiongxin of the Wagang Army, whose banners were cleaner than others, and their ranks were far more neat than those of other heroes.

"My old acquaintance is too!" Li Xu's gaze moved away from Cheng and Dan's two battle flags, and pointed to the side of the soldiers and horses of the Wagang Army Headquarters together with the tip of the knife. There, there were about 5,000 big men embracing a general on a white horse and wearing silver armor. This person was very burly and looked imposing.

"The surname is Li, is your family? What a big show! Luo Shixin frowned and said. Could it be Li Mi, Lao Tzu was looking for him, and he dared to send them! ”

"Isn't this already here?" Li Xu responded with a smile, "Look, where should we start?" ”

"If you break through, it's the weakest over there!" Luo Shixin pointed to the location of Wang Dangren's department and suggested. If he wanted to teach the enemy a lesson, his voice paused, and he said proudly, "I want to go and meet Li Mi!" ”

"Can you break through the Wagang army of Cheng Zhijie and Shan Xiongxin?"

"I can't break through, but I can scare them so much that they don't dare to divide their troops and entangle with you!" Luo Shixin shook his head slightly, but the expression on his face was very relaxed.

The enemy was coming prepared, and he could see this clearly the moment the other party's flag appeared. But the rabble that came prepared was not necessarily the opponent of the elite, and he was extremely confident in this.

The two only cared about talking and laughing, but the Wagang army on the opposite side began to make noise again. Through the confrontation just now, some of them have regained some strength. "Surrender, there are too few of you!" Several soldiers with loud voices shouted. Immediately after, the crowd in the Central Military Department was divided, and Li Mishi Shiran, who was wearing silver armor and white robes, came out of the crowd.

"General Li, please come forward and speak!" Li Mi cleared his throat and shouted to the cavalry who were surrounded on the mound.

"Master Li of Pushan Gong, I would like to invite General Li Zhongjian to come forward and speak!" Several pro-soldiers tore their throats and repeated Li Mi's invitation over and over again.

"People think highly of you!" Luo Shixin shrugged his shoulders and smiled.

"I'll meet him, and at a hundred paces, you see my movements! Let's try to drive away the weak and the strong with ordinary training! And then improvise! Li Xu smiled and gestured to Luo Shixin, and then inserted the black knife back into the scabbard on the side of the saddle.

Li Xu walked forward slowly with his empty hands. Luo Shixin took his place as the chief general, and his right hand held the Lingqi tightly. Li Xu's hint was clear, and Luo Shixin knew what he should do. Cheng, Shan, Li, and Xiang ......., his gaze swept over the battle flags, and finally, he focused his gaze on Wang Dangren.

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