Volume 7 Getaway Chapter 6 Holding the Lance (8b)

"Protect the General!" Seeing the boss vomiting blood, the guards were shocked, and immediately rushed into the peach forest and made a circle around Li Xu.

At this time, everyone would rather that Red Whisk was an assassin than Li Xu's friend. If it were an ordinary assassin, I am afraid that five more might not be able to hurt the general in the slightest. And the red whisk sang and danced, but it made the general vomit blood. Seeing that the decisive battle is imminent, if General Li is ill, what should everyone do.

Two or three of them ran alertly to the side of the mountain stream, following the blood stains on the ground to find the place where the red whisk was. But seeing a wisp of red yarn fluttering in the wind, the singer and dancer just now were long gone.

"Forget it, don't look for it!" Li Xu smiled miserably and commanded in a low voice.

"But, but the remains of General Red?" The guards didn't know what the weight of the red whisk was in the general's heart, so they had to replace it with the word red general.

Since she made such a choice, she must not want to be disturbed again. The scenery here is very good, just worthy of her! Li Xu wiped his mouth with his hand and sang a long song. What is the way to die, and the body is the same as the mountain. At the end of the song, he picked up the used piano of the red whisk and wiped it with his hands, sonorously and sonorously, and the sound was like a golden iron horse. After finishing the song, he strode to the side of the mountain stream, threw down the famous piano of unknown value, and then strode down the mountain.

"The general thinks it's too sad!" A guard whispered to his companion, "I have to let my lady know when I go back, so as not to really do anything wrong!" ”

"You know what, General, this is a true temperament. When have you ever heard the general's song? Another guard who had been following Li Xu for a long time looked at the former and said with some contempt.

On the way back to the camp, Li Xu gave a gag order to everyone. It is strictly forbidden for anyone to spread the news that he vomited blood, otherwise he will be severely punished by military law. The battle was imminent, and he didn't want to shake the heart of his own army, nor did he dare to show the slightest cowardice and exhaustion in front of the three armies.

But news of the Red Whisk's fate spread quietly through the trail. There are rumors that it was Li Xu who hid her to avoid trouble with the jealous Qian'er. There are rumors that after visiting General Li's mansion at night, Red Breeze rushed to the grassland, ready to deal a fatal blow to Gu Toru at any time. There were also rumors that it was not Red Whisk who broke into General Lee's mansion that morning, but a real assassin. General Li pursued Baili and finally cut off his head in a barren mountain outside the Great Wall, avoiding the leakage of important military information. And Hongfu himself, with the help of General Li, gave up his previous suspicions with Li Jing, and finally achieved a happy marriage.

Only a very small number of people vaguely heard the truth of the matter. In order to prove that she is not a useless woman, Red Whisk sneaks into the grasslands and steals the supply roster of the Bone Toru army. On the way back to Zhuojun, he was injured by a wolf rider. When Li Xu found her, she knew that she was dead. So say goodbye to the acquaintance with a man dance, and then throw yourself into the bottomless deep lake under the quail stream.

She is a woman who cherishes her face like a feather, and would rather die when she is most beautiful than let people see her dying from injuries. Or rather, when she was under the city of Chang'an, she was already dead. Persisting in living until now is just to fulfill an unfulfilled wish.

But this claim has the least audience. Everyone loves beautiful creatures. A peerless beauty like Hongfu, who is beautiful, gentle and has martial arts, is a fairy who will never eat fireworks in the hearts of everyone, and it is impossible to be injured or killed. Therefore, after the end of the war, some good people once sneaked into the deep lake under the quail stream to look for it, hoping to find the body or relics of the red whisk. But his lips were so cold that he didn't melt for thousands of years in the lake, and he gave up halfway before he reached the bottom of the lake.

In the years that followed, there were many tourists near the quail stream. Some literati thought that the word quail was indecent, so it should be named Peach Blossom Stream. The broken temple on the mountain also got the name of the peach blossom view for this. Legend has it that whenever the peach blossoms fly in the late spring in the mountains, there is always a peerless beauty dancing with a sword in the forest. Seeing the incense burning and asking about marriage, all of them worked!

All the rumors did not reach Li Xu's ears. Everyone respected him, fearing that he would be distracted by it before the war. I am even more afraid of him, lest he suddenly become angry and do something unreasonable. Anyone with eyes can see that the matter of the red whisk has a great impact on Xuzi. He didn't like to talk much, and now he rarely talks to people. Most of the time, he always looked at the map near the Great Wall over and over again, and he wanted to keep every hill and stream in mind.

When his hand pressed the hilt of the knife intentionally or unintentionally, there was always a fierce murderous aura spreading around it. It was as if once a black knife had been pulled out of its sheath, it could not be inserted back without drinking human blood.

The one who deserves his sword has not yet come. In recent days, though, scouts stationed outside the Great Wall have observed several groups of Turkic cavalry numbering between 5,000 and 10,000 encamping in the valley thirty miles from the Wall. If the defenders on the Great Wall attacked, he would immediately lead the other wolf riders to surround them and strangle the attacking Central Plains soldiers and horses in one fell swoop.

If Li Xu did not move, Gu Toru would send troops to the foot of the Great Wall one after another. Connect these pathfinder stones into one, and finally open up an entire army under the Great Wall.

"Do you want General Wang to move!" Li Jiancheng was suffocated by the silence before the battle, and suggested to Li Xu in private. At present, the defenders have two forces hidden in the mountains outside the Great Wall, one is the elite of 20,000 Dou family troops led by Wang Fubao, and the other is 5,000 light cavalry led by Dou Cong, the general of Hedong. As long as wolf smoke is lit at a few fixed positions on the Great Wall, these two lines of soldiers and horses will quickly pounce out and go straight to the enemy's main position.

The Boling army also sent 5,000 cavalry, according to Wang Fubao's suggestion, wearing the nomadic clothes that they had captured in the battle, leaving the fortress from the Red Castle, making a detour to the headquarters of Gutoru Khan, attacking the camps that were not guarded by young men along the way, and waiting for an opportunity to rob and kill the herdsmen who were transporting grain and grass for the Turkic army in front.

None of these three forces are currently functional. Wang Suba's troops needed to avoid the main force of Gu Toru, so they had to make a big detour to the east before they could go north. As for the two armies of Dou Cong and Wang Fubao, who were ambushed near the Great Wall, Li Xu believed that they must be put into the battlefield at the most critical moment in order to have the effect of turning the tide. Otherwise, harassing hundreds of thousands of troops with just 20,000 people, no matter how brave the generals are, no matter how hard the soldiers are, it is tantamount to rats adding to the cat's nose.

Therefore, he could not accept Li Jiancheng's proposal. He shook his head with a smile and responded in a low voice, "It's not yet time for General Wang and General Dou to attack." We have to hand over to Gu Tulu first, and both sides show their true skills, so that the two generals Wang and Dou can find Gu Tulu's seven inches. ”

"I mean, let the message be sent to Wang Fubao, and let him divide some troops to come out and add a little chaos to Gu Toru. Save the Turks from arranging calmly as they are now. Dou Cong's side will not move for the first time, leaving the two sides to stand out at all times! Li Jiancheng hesitated for a moment and explained again. Until now, he still looked down on the Dou Jiajun who came to help. Therefore, he always tries to make the other party an outcast, so as to find out the coordination ability of Gu Turu Khan with his various soldiers and horses. And Li Xu always couldn't understand his hints, so he had to tell his intentions straightforwardly, so that he could show a sudden expression on his face.

Understanding is understanding, Xuzi gave the same treatment to the soldiers and horses of Hedong and the Dou family. "General Wang and General Dou, I plan to let them attack at the same time and take on the same task! That's how you can be sure of getting the right shot! Seeing the disappointment on Li Jiancheng's face, he thought for a moment and added: "General Dou's command is all cavalry, and the progress of the attack must be faster than that of General Wang." However, without the cooperation of General Wang's soldiers and horses, it would have been very difficult to penetrate the depths of the enemy camp with only 5,000 light cavalry. And it's hard to get out of it all! ”

Go to the Great Wall to ambush and look for an opportunity to burn all the large siege equipment in the Bone Tuoru camp. This was meant to be a life-and-death mission. Even if the attack is successful, the chances of the participants making it back to the Great Wall alive are not good. When assigning the task, Li Xu originally planned to be led by Zhang Jiang, the general of the Boling Army. However, Wang Fubao snatched this task from Zhang Jiang on the grounds that Dou Jiajun was more accustomed to lurking in the mountains.

It's not that he doesn't see the danger behind the mission, but prefers to bear witness to his promise with his life. With this alone, Li Xu could not live up to the trust of Wang Fubao and others.

"I'm afraid that Dou Jiajun will be slow to move when the time comes, and it won't have the expected effect!" Li Jiancheng listened to Xuzi's resolute words, so he had to quietly withdraw his careful thoughts.

"In front of the two armies, courage is often more important than anything else!" Li Xu gave the other party a generous smile, "If Brother Jiancheng is bored, go up to the city wall to stretch his muscles." I'm afraid this kind of petty fight in front of me will last for a few days, and if you don't have a certain certainty, Gu Turu won't move it seriously! ”

"Instead of wasting my strength on the Great Wall, I should go to the baggage camp and prepare some rolling logs and oil drums for the brothers!" Li Jiancheng shrugged his shoulders boredly and walked away with a smile.

The tactics of the Turks were rather tedious. After discovering that the defenders had no intention of taking the initiative to attack, several pathfinders scattered into countless squads and began to climb the mountain separately. Each team was very small in number, walking in front with leather shields held high to cover their heads and chests. Those who followed behind pouted their buttocks and looked down from the Great Wall, like a sandgrouse with its head stuck in the grass. Their cries are as troublesome as that of a whole litter of sandgrouse. Squeak, squeak, endless, noisy and headache for the defenders. Whenever someone on the Great Wall is annoyed and throws arrows at the city. Whether they were injured or not, all the climbers immediately fell to the ground with their heads in their hands and rolled down the hill.

Of course, this kind of offensive without order and courage will yield little results. Since the attackers refused to approach the walls, the feathered arrows fired by the defenders were hardly effective. After an hour or two, the defenders on the Great Wall were no longer nervous. Whenever one of the lucky ones hits an enemy, there is a burst of laughter from the surrounding battlements.

According to Li Xu's judgment, the Turks deliberately used this scattered state to paralyze the defenders. The actual purpose of the reckless climbers was not to attack the Great Wall, but to find several suitable ways to climb for the main army that was about to arrive. Soon, there was an anomaly on the hillside. Where the Turks crawled, a wisp or two of white wool appeared in a slightly flat place. Specks of wool spread from the hillside, forming several shortcuts to the Great Wall.

Xuzi asked Li Jiancheng to stretch his muscles on the Great Wall, which meant that he would take a bow and shoot a few Turkic warriors who were exploring the path to relieve his nervousness. And Li Jiancheng and Ben were unwilling to waste their physical strength on a group of miscellaneous soldiers. He hoped that he could shoot a local general, even if the official rank was not a big khan, the little khan, at least he should be a little Burke, so that he would not make a move in vain.

"Report, urgent military situation!" A scout hurried into the tent and almost collided with Li Jiancheng, who was about to go out.

Alcoholic's note: I saw everyone's dissatisfaction, hehe. In the legend of the Tang Dynasty, the story of Hongfu and Li Jing is fictional. When Yang Guang went to Jiangdu, Yang Su had been dead for many years. It was impossible for Li Jing to visit him at that time, let alone steal the red whisk from his mansion. Because this story is so perfect, it has been passed down for thousands of years. But in life, there are always things that are not as perfect as legends.

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