Chapter 2 (6b)

"Why did you leave me?" Gan Luo asked earnestly with his big golden eyes. Its gaze is clear and deep, like the surface of the crescent moon lake in winter. The wind rolls over the snowy fields, and in the pink world, there are pastoral songs singing low.

"I, I want to go back to the Central Plains. Well, the people over there won't accept you! Li Xu heard his dream-like voice. I saw big tears in Ganro's eyes. The wind blew, the silver wolf broke like snow, and in the pink world, Tao Kuo danced. Smoke floated in, with a smile between his eyebrows, and he whispered: "Dew couple, this word is so beautiful." You Han people just can talk! ”

The whimpering horn sounded, and Ganluo and Tao Kuo were gone. The Turkic knights in scarlet cloaks roared, wielding bright scimitars in their hands, slashing through all hope. Ashina rushed to the front of the line, with his characteristic kindness on his face.

"Woo-woo-woo" The horn sounded continuously, and Li Xu reached out to grab the knife, but only grabbed a handle. The black knife that accompanied him day and night was gone, and turned into Tao Kuo's resentful eyes in mid-air.

"Detachment, don't leave me!" Tao Kuo Tuosi cried and shouted, "Attach and leave, don't leave me ----"

"Woo-woo-woo" The horn sounded like thunder, and the Turkic iron cavalry rushed closer and closer, closer and closer.

"Ahh Dizzy, he fell limply again, and the moment he fell, he held his hands on the desk.

He tried his best to stand still and see his surroundings clearly. This is the residence specially vacated by Wang Yuantong for him, there are still flames beating in the charcoal basin, everything just now is just a dream of Nan Ke.

"Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo" The mournful sound of the horn chased from the dream to the outside of the dream. Li Xu grabbed the black knife and rushed out of the door, and saw several fires rising in the direction of the center of the city. The shouts of people and the neighing of horses were incessant, and the entire military camp became a pot of porridge.

Someone took advantage of the chaos to try to rush into the barracks, but was blocked by the old soldiers of the Li Mansion who were ambushed in the dark with bows and arrows. The soldiers on duty, led by junior officers, rushed to help, but were defeated by a backlash from the enemy. The defeated soldiers pushed and shoved, and their archers were scattered. The attackers outside saw the bargain and shouted to press it.

"Which regiment is on duty, line up at the door. Retreater, slash! Liu Hongji carried a lance against the flow of people, and pushed sideways twice in succession, forcing the defeated soldiers outside the door. Qin Ziying and Zhang Deyu each carried a whip and whipped at the rout without a head.

"What to flee and where can you flee? Lost the military rations, everyone asked and beheaded together! Qin Ziying, who had always been timid and stuttering, suddenly stopped stammering, and her words became more and more coherent one sentence at a time. The soldiers who retreated in a panic froze and turned around stiffly.

"Captain on duty, follow me. The rest of the captains, gather their own team! Liu Hongji shouted, and rushed forward. Qin Ziying and Zhang Deyu threw down their whips, drew their waist knives, and followed closely behind Liu Hongji.

Yang Fang, the captain on duty, saw that the general would fight in person, so he didn't dare to flee again, and followed with his weapon. The brigade leaders under his command saw that the main general was taking the lead, and they also stopped fleeing for their lives.

"Don't panic, go back to your team. Each team is restraining the team! Li Xu shouted at the chaotic crowd on the school grounds. At this moment, the most important thing for Liu Hongji to do is to gather troops and horses instead of leading the team to attack, but if he doesn't attack, the entire military camp will collapse completely!

"It's okay, fight one and count one!" Li Xu thought with a wry smile. He stooped down and picked up a bow and a pot of arrows from the ground, and hurried to the main entrance.

"Each team is upright and restricts its own team. Each brigade rate, collect the soldiers of the brigade. Captains, gather your brothers to listen to orders!" The voices of Wang Yuantong, Qi Poning and others sounded behind Li Xu. Everyone is a good brother, and they don't have the ability to step forward to help friends and enemies desperately, and before they run away, they will at least help to do a little bit of the work of calming the hearts of the army.

In the blink of an eye, Liu Hongji had already led the soldiers to kill the invading enemy. The number of opponents is not large, I didn't expect the rumored fragile boy buddy to be able to kill back so quickly, and he was caught off guard and was stabbed to death by Liu Hongji on the spot. The third wanted to pounce on Liu Hongji's back from the flank, but was stopped by Qin Ziying and Zhang Deyu.

Qin Ziying is a child of a family who aspires to gain fame, and has never studied martial arts at all. Zhang Deyu's knife skills are better than Qin Ziying's, and he has only reached the point of dancing all routines. In the blink of an eye, the two were disrupted by the opponent, and the danger was everywhere. Just as the sneak attacker grinned and was about to strike the fatal blow. The lance in Liu Hongji's hand swept back like a dragon.

"Bell!" The short knife was knocked away by the lance, and before the owner of the knife could react correctly, the blade of the lance found his throat like a snake.

"Ahh Liu Hongji shouted angrily, grabbed his opponent's neck and threw the body into the air. The sneak attacker, who had been stabbed through the throat by the lance, was not dead, and his hands and feet twitched in midair, circling, and flying towards his companion.

The attacking enemy was obviously stunned by Liu Hongji's hand, and the speed of the attack was unconsciously stagnant. At this moment, a meteor flashed in mid-air, and a torch was shot by Li Xu as a feather arrow.

The butter-stained torches exploded with a bang, sending sparks flying everywhere. The flash of the fire illuminated the fact that there were not many sneak attackers at the main entrance. The morale of the officers and soldiers of the Great Sui, who had Liu Hongji as the backbone, was immediately boosted, and they launched a counterattack against the other side with shouts.

Liu Hongji stabbed straight with a long lance and knocked over a sneak attacker. Oblique shot, swept half of the face of another sneak attacker, who had been a horse thief, didn't know what mercy was, as long as he was against someone, he would immediately share life and death. In the blink of an eye, the sixth attacker was killed, and just as he was about to chase the seventh enemy, a feathered arrow grazed his body and pierced the back of the enemy's neck.

"Who robs people with Lao Tzu!" Liu Hongji shouted impatiently, turned his head sharply, but saw Li Xu desperately waving to himself at the camp gate.

Thoughtful, he immediately understood what Li Xu meant. As soon as he stood still, more than 200 soldiers immediately retreated backwards to his side like waves crashing into the rocks.

"Collect the troops and return to the camp. If you are within a hundred steps of the camp wall, shoot! Liu Hongji shouted violently, and strode back with the brothers who had won the battle. When he passed by Li Xu's side, his footsteps stopped, and his arm gently rested on his good friend's shoulder.

Order in the barracks had slowly begun to restore, and the soldiers who had been awakened in their sleep instinctively tried to flee for their lives, but were stopped by the team leader, brigade leader and cronies. When a certain number of people are gathered, the courage of the people begins to grow. Especially judging from the shouts at the door, when their side had the upper hand, the heart that had already jumped out of their throat was swallowed back into their stomachs by them.

Li Ji, Liu Zhen, and Zhou Wenyuan, the three unworthy captains, took this opportunity to give orders, and finally stabilized the soldiers with great effort. They looked up, wanting to ask Liu Hongji for instructions on their next move, but they saw that Don't pull the horse led by the Tiger Wing Brigade, as if they were arguing about something.

"Tang Gongfu and granary, there must be a place that is their real goal!" Liu Hongji said in a low voice. This is the reason for his previous chaos, Tang Gong has the grace of knowing the two of them, if someone succeeds in assassinating Tang Gong while sneaking into the granary, he will live in guilt for the rest of his life.

"Big brother, don't you remember how we burned down Ashina Choyu's camp? If the granary is lost, will the Tang Guild be safe? Li Xu asked in a low voice while sorting out his bow and arrows and armor. He didn't need Liu Hongji to answer this question, if it wasn't for Xu Dayan and him creating chaos in Ashina's camp, Liu Hongji and the others would not have had a chance to do it at all.

The situation at this moment is exactly similar to that night when everyone made a big fuss in the Ashina camp. It's just that the person who set the fire became the attacker, and the source of the attacker was unknown.

Liu Hongji nodded, speechless. Li Xu is reasonable, if the granary is burned, according to the laws of the Great Sui and the habits of the current emperor, Li Yuan's whole family will not escape the fate of being martyred for the granary. Thinking of this, he looked at the entire team of cavalry ready to go, and sideways to open the camp gate for Li Xu and his Tiger Wing Brigade.

"Tang Gong's archery is not below you and me!" Li Xu turned around and shouted loudly. With his legs in the belly of the black wind, he rushed into the street like a hundred cavalry winds.

On the streets, small groups of men in black kept setting fires. The 500 reinforcements sent by Lord Yuwenshu and the arsonist fought separately in the dark, and the sound of swords and guns clashing and shouting for killing rang out. Innocent people fought against the flying disaster with buckets, and at the same time endured open guns and arrows, cries, and cries for help.

Li Xu didn't have time to pay attention to these interferences, and took the brothers he had personally trained to the Tang Mansion directly. This was the only solution that he and Liu Hongji came up with in the shortest possible time, since the enemy army was sneaking into the city to attack, the number would not be too large. If you mess up, you will be in the hands of the other party.

"Someone seems to be blocking the way!" The samurai Tong shouted at Li Xu on horseback. His family is wealthy, but his background is not deep enough. In the "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger" food protection army, only a young man was mixed in. Because of his close relationship with Li Xu and Liu Hongji, after Liu and Li were promoted, they also took the top position. Only then did Li Xu and Liu Hongji go out of the camp to meet the enemy, and it was thanks to him that they gathered the cavalry of the Tiger Wing Brigade.

"Whoever it is, just rush over!" Another team sent by the Li Mansion was Li Liang, who suggested loudly. As they spoke, the three of them had already rushed through two streets, and saw that fifty steps ahead, more than twenty people wearing Da Sui earthy yellow uniforms blocked the intersection.

"Someone took advantage of the chaos to set fires, and the streets were closed!" A low-ranking officer dressed in the color of a six-rank soldier Cao shouted loudly. I thought that I could stop the future with my official position, but I didn't expect that the person who led the team on the other side was a Leng Touqing, and the speed of the war horse not only did not decrease at all, but accelerated towards his head.

"Tiger Winged Iron Rider, get out of the way!" Li Xu shook the reins without hesitation and rushed forward, the fire in the direction of Tang Gongfu was getting bigger and bigger, and even if it was a cliff in front of him, he had to step on it. At the moment when his front hooves were about to step on Bing Cao's shoulder, Hei Feng's body took half a step forward, and a man and a horse floated over the opponent's head like a thunderbolt.

"Ahh Bingcao hugged his head in fright and rolled on both sides of the road. Wu Shi Tong and Li Liang followed behind the main general and jumped over him unceremoniously. Seeing this, the other hundred cavalrymen knocked their calves on the horse's belly and rushed behind the brigade leader.

"Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu is not finished with you!" The frightened soldier got up from the ground and shouted at the back of the cavalry. After shouting, I remembered the task assigned by my boss temporarily, my legs and feet were sore, and I sat on the side of the road.

These 100 cavalrymen have been trained by Li Xu for more than half a month, and they have a certain tacit understanding with each other. Seeing the Tang Mansion from a distance, he immediately adjusted his speed to form two attack arrays. cooperated with each other and followed Li Xu to approach the head of the fire.

Before and after the Tang Mansion, it had been burned into a sea of fire at this time. Hundreds of black-clad warriors surrounded the palace walls, throwing torches inward as they climbed. Inside the walls of the mansion, from time to time, someone poked his head out and swept down the black-clothed samurai who had climbed halfway to the top with a steel sword. In the blink of an eye, another samurai stepped on the corpse of his companion and crawled towards the wall.

"Draw your sword!" Li Xu shouted the order. The two teams of cavalry drew their swords at the same time, and the three-foot autumn water was dazzling and cold in the firelight.

"Push left and right, scatter them!" Li Xu shouted, flicked his horse's head, and went straight to the enemy army on the left side of the mansion gate. Wu Shi Tong followed him with fifty grain guards, and the other fifty elites were led by Li Liang and rushed towards the enemy's right flank like a whirlwind.

The black-clothed man who attacked the Tang Mansion didn't expect that there would be reinforcements from the other side behind him, and he hurriedly turned around when he heard the sound of horses' hooves, but it was too late to organize a complete defensive formation. The two teams of cavalry rushed to the front in an instant, swords in hand, and cleared a bloody path under the wall.

This is not the first time to kill someone, Li Xu's knife skills have gradually matured. With the speed of the black wind, the scimitar in his hand brought out the characteristics of the blade length to the fullest. Before a man in black could raise a knife, he cut his neck. The second man in black who stood in front of the war horse was rubbed off half of his shoulder with a blade, and the third tried to cut his thigh from the side, but he slapped him in the chest with a scimitar.

"Ahh The man in black screamed and flew out. The chest was full of blood, and red sprinkled all over the bluestone streets. The grain guards who followed behind Li Xu were still a little nervous, but seeing that their own brigade rate was so ruthless, they were also aroused with a murderous aura, stepping on the blood of the enemy, and rushing the gap outside the palace wall bigger and bigger.

The black-clothed men who attacked the Tang Mansion's mansion had to abandon their immediate targets and concentrate to deal with the sudden blow. Dozens of black-clothed people quickly formed a team under the leader's reprimand, and lined up in a knife formation to try to block Black Wind's footsteps.

"Die!" Li Xu roared angrily and pulled the reins hard. The painful black wind let out a "sigh!" With a long hiss, he made a nice side turn in the middle of the gallop. The war horse suddenly changed from rushing to facing the enemy sideways, and without waiting for the man in black to make a correct response, Li Xu leaned out on the horse's back, and the long knife was drawn horizontally.

"Poof!" "Poof!" The felt armor on the two men in black was cut through like paper with a long knife. A gap immediately appeared in the knife formation. Without hesitation, the samurai squeezed in with the cavalry through the gap. The sound of horses' hooves rolled like thunder, and the boiling soup smashed the knife array to smithereens.

Only the foot soldiers with short weapons encountered the cavalry on the flat ground, and they could not exert much strength. The leader of the black-clothed samurai was unwilling to let the cooked duck fly like this, roaring angrily and forcing the samurai to form again. There were only a dozen routs gathered around him, and suddenly, a feather arrow flew from the wall of the mansion, and he was impartial to his throat.

"Ahh The leader screamed and fell on his back. The samurai rushed forward on horseback, scattered the black-clothed samurai around him, cut off the leader's head with a single sword, grabbed his hair in a bun, and raised it high.

"Tiger Winged Iron Rider, death to those who stand in my way!" Li Xu took the opportunity to shout.

"Tiger Winged Iron Rider, death to those who stand in my way!" The guards shouted in unison. When they were young, they relied on their family background to run rampant in the township, they were once majestic, but they have never been as majestic as they are today.

The man in black couldn't support it for a long time, and at this moment, when he saw the leader's head being raised, his morale immediately collapsed, and he fled in all directions screaming. Li Xu ordered the two teams to gather the soldiers, count the casualties, and then put the horizontal knife in the saddle, clenched his fists and saluted the direction where Fang Cai shot the black-clothed leader with arrows, and shouted: "Brigade leader Li Xu, I am ordered to come to the rescue of Tang Gong!" ”

"Who's beyond the walls?" A torch lit up in the darkness, and Tang Gong Li Yuan stood under the torch, holding a longbow in his hand, and asked in a low voice.

"Tang Gong's account is under the brigade rate Li Xu!" Li Xu replied loudly, turned his horse's head, and ran to a burning fire. The beating flames illuminated his yellow uniform and half of his mantle, stained red with the blood of his enemies.

"Divide into a team to chase and kill the enemy, and a team into the house to put out the fire!" Li Yuan ordered in a deep voice, with no joy or anger on his face.

"Li Liang led his men and horses to chase the enemy, and the warrior Tong led the food protection team into the house to put out the fire!" Li Xu loudly refined Tang Gong's order. When the cavalry heard the order, the whole team was formed, and the team with strong combat effectiveness was led by Li Liang and continued to sweep away the remnants of the enemy outside the palace gate. The other team jumped off their horses and stood in front of Li Yuan's mansion.

At the critical moment, he didn't care about any etiquette, and after a while, the main gate and side door of the Li Mansion opened at the same time, welcoming everyone in. "Hurry up and help put out the fire!" Chief of Staff Chen Yanshou asked in a low voice. It turned out that the guards of the Li Mansion, who were far inferior in numbers, had suffered heavy casualties in the battle just now, and they had no strength to deal with the torches that were deliberately thrown into the house. At this moment, the wind took advantage of the fire and burned most of the mansion into a mountain of flames.

"Shi Tong, tell the brothers to form a group and fetch water to fight the fire!" As soon as he entered the door, Li Xu immediately ordered loudly.

The samurai agreed, threw down the head in his hand, and immediately went to distribute the manpower. The combat effectiveness of this team of grain guards is not strong, but the military appearance is relatively neatly trained by Li Xu. After hearing the order, they quickly divided into teams and looked for furniture and fetched water to extinguish the fire under the leadership of their respective team leaders.

Li Yuan watched silently beside Li Xu assign tasks to his subordinates, and when all the soldiers had dispersed, he held the longbow and asked in a low voice: "How is the granary, but someone is taking advantage of the chaos to sneak attack!" ”

"There weren't many people coming, and they were beaten down by Brother Hongji and his brothers. Although Tang Gong is relieved, the brothers are in order! Li Xu replied in a low voice.

Li Yuan was very pleased to hear the last four words, there was a high wall outside the grain depot and barracks, if the soldiers did not appear chaotic, it would be difficult for a small number of enemy troops to create any major disasters. Just about to ask for the details of the grain depot, he suddenly heard a scream, and the little boy Yuanji ran from the backyard in a disgraced manner.

"Dad, hurry, save the second sister. The west courtyard, the fire is big, blocked, the door is blocked! Li Yuanji flattened his mouth and spoke incoherently. A few words, but it shook Li Yuan like thunder, and the longbow supporting his arm "clicked" and broke into two.

Li Xu looked up and already understood what was going on. The West Cross Courtyard must be the residence of the female dependents, and the second sister in Yuan Ji's mouth must be Li Wan'er who cheered for herself that day. The dead soldiers of the Li Mansion focused their attention on the surroundings of Tang Gong, but the defense across the courtyard had to be greatly weakened. And the enemy took advantage of the fact that the torches thrown in by the enemy were not disposed of in time, causing an even greater disaster there.

"Firefighting, firefighting!" Li Yuan shouted in panic, and with the guards who could still walk, he rushed to the west across the courtyard. ran into the courtyard, and his footsteps were forced back by the fire. Several of the houses used by the women were burned to the point that they could collapse at any moment, killing the firefighters and those who were stopped by the fire.

"Wan'er, Wan'er!" Mrs. Dou's shouts were heartbreaking. Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin's faces were as black as the bottom of a pot, their hands and bodies were full of traces of smoke and fire, and they organized people to approach the house with their dumb voices. Several of the guards covered each other and tried to rush into the room, but only a few steps forward were forced back by the smoke and flames.

"Mother, don't leave me! Don't leave me! Li Wan'er's voice looked so weak against the backdrop of the beating flames.

"Don't leave me, don't leave me!" A call echoed in Li Xu's ears like thunder. In an instant, his eyes were blood-red. With red eyes, he dropped his scimitar, snatched a wooden bucket from the soldiers, and poured all the water on himself. Then he covered his head with a barrel and rushed headlong into the fire.

"Zhong Jian!" Li Yuan's father and son, who were already desperate, exclaimed loudly. No one expected that when the house was about to burn down, Li Xu was willing to rush into the fire to save people regardless of his life.

The water-soaked cowhide armor was roasted by the fire, giving off a burnt smell of this nose. Li Xu ignored the pain in his hands and feet, and quickly rushed through the flames. The mouth of the barrel darkened slightly, and it followed in front of him. He was overjoyed, knowing that he had rushed into the room alive.

"Who are you?" Li Wan'er, who was desperate, suddenly saw a burning man rushing in front of her, and asked in surprise.

"Li Zhongjian!" Li Xu tore off the wooden barrel on his head and replied loudly. The place where the smoke was coming from the leather armor was quickly extinguished by him, and he looked around, but he couldn't find a place where Li Wan'er could get out.

The urgency of the situation did not allow him to think about it again. grabbed the wooden barrel and put Li Wan'er's head and shoulders in it.

Li Wan'er's body was far smaller than Li Xu's, and the huge wooden barrel was put on it, and half of her body was covered all the time. Immediately, he screamed loudly in fright, crying and begging: "Brother Zhongjian, don't leave me, please, don't leave me!" ”

"Let's go!" Li Xu leaned over, picked up Li Wan'er by the waist, and pulled several sets of bedding in the room that had not yet caught fire, and threw them on the flames one after another. The thick winter bedding immediately crushed the flames of the window. said that it was too late, it was too fast, Li Xu gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, hugged the wooden barrel above his head Li Wan'er, and jumped out.

The hot and dry air scorched people's nostrils painfully, one was cold, one was hot, and then it was cold, Li Xu felt that there was no flame in front of his head, and he rushed forward a few steps, taking advantage of the momentum and threw himself to the ground. Roll quickly while pouring, using the cold ground to extinguish the flames on your body.

A dozen stunned soldiers immediately stepped forward and poured large vasks of cold water on him. The scorching smell made people cry, and the embers of sparks were all extinguished. Li Yuan and Jiancheng rushed forward at the same time, one helped Li Xu up, and the other pulled up the "wooden barrel" with legs. Reaching out to wipe the mud and soot from the other's face, revealing two hopeful faces.

"Zhong Jian!" Li Yuan looked at his daughter and the newly acquired cheap nephew, and the emotion in his heart was incomprehensible.

"Daughter!" Mrs. Dou, who saw the miracle in despair, completely lost her temper, and hugged Li Wan'er, who had escaped death, and howled loudly.

After taking off the wooden barrel, Li Wan'er seemed to be stunned, first looked at her mother for a while, then gently got rid of Dou's arms, and walked to Li Xu, who was helping everyone to untie her armor and wash her wounds, Ying Ying gave a salute and thanked her: "Brother Zhongjian, I knew you wouldn't leave me!" ”

"Attached, don't leave me ----" In the wind, there was a faint wolf howl, Li Xu was stunned, and there was a pink in front of him.