Chapter 501: A pawn of the Fan Gu border army

The emperor let out a long sigh of relief as he looked at the rebels who were retreating like a tide, and the relief on his face became stronger and stronger: "I have been worried and afraid of ...... I'm afraid I won't be able to wait for this day. Rong Li Yuanshan has plagued the northwest for three years, and I am sorry for the people of Sandao, but I finally didn't delay this matter until it was left to the prince to solve. I'm stealing God's time now, stealing one more day...... It's worth a lot of pride. ”

"Your Majesty has stopped taking medicine in the past few days, but my body is getting better day by day."

Su Buwei said with his head hanging on the side.

The emperor smiled: "Didn't I say that although the northwest is tired and desolate, and the climate is cold, it is clean here. I remember reading the copywriting of the household department over the years, counting all parts of the Great Sui, the number of people in the three northwestern provinces who died of various diseases and plagues was the smallest, and there were almost no diseases. More than 20 years ago, when the plague was rampant in Jiangnan, many wealthy families ran to the northwest to take refuge, and this place is actually quite good. Medicine...... I won't eat it anymore, and I won't watch it anymore, since I'm enjoying the time I've stolen, it's a sin to spend all my time on it. I have made many decisions over the years, and this decision is the most undesirable and worthy of me. ”

He stretched out his hand and asked Su Bu to help him stand up: "Go back, the smell of blood has drifted over, and I don't want to smell it." The winner has been decided, and there is no need to watch anymore. ”

"Your Majesty, Hou Wenji is back."

Su said in a low voice.

"Let him go directly to Jin Shixiong, he has almost figured out the details of the rebels in the past year, even if the chaos in the northwest is pacified, Hou Wenji will stay in the northwest for a while to assist Jin Shixiong to clean up the three northwest roads. He is better at arresting people and handling cases than anyone else. ”

"Your Majesty doesn't see him anymore?"

"No, he knows in his heart that I don't see him. For more than a year, he has been thinking purely about doing things for me, and if I don't point it out, it doesn't mean that I don't know. Let him behave for himself, and don't mistake himself because he is smart. ”

"Then the slave and maid will send someone to tell him."

"Hmm"

The Emperor hummed and walked back slowly. He looked around him with a smile on his face. But Su Buxing knew that no one could really figure out the thoughts of His Majesty the Emperor. When he's laughing, he's not necessarily in a good mood.

The rebels' front army was defeated first after Shi Lei led the people to escape, and the rebel soldiers who had lost their command were scurrying around like flies with lost heads. Although Li Yuanshan used an arrow array to prevent the rout from impacting his own formation, because all the arrangements of the Sui army were aimed at the tactics he had formulated before, and they were controlled by others everywhere, the rout still spread irrepressibly. The two wings were successively routed by the Sui army, and the general Zhou Dingguo died in the chaos. Prince Yi Li Yuankuo was trapped by the Sui army by the enemy, and his own soldiers escorted him to rush left and right to break out of the encirclement, but when he looked up, he found that he had actually hit the side of the Chinese army of the Sui army, and he could only kneel and surrender after being trapped again.

Once the heavy cavalry was stopped, the rebels' defeat was no longer able to be reversed.

Li Yuanshan retreated to the side of Xiping City under the protection of about 60,000 or 70,000 infantry, fighting as he went. At the beginning, on the ground of the Mandu Banner, Jin Shixiong's men and horses all died in the hands of Right Xiaowei, how could Jin Shixiong easily let Li Yuanshan go at this time. He personally led the Chinese army brigade to crush forward, and he didn't care about the rebels who surrendered on their knees along the way.

Later, Li Yuanshan's people were running in front, and the Sui army was chasing behind, and there were rebels running behind the Sui army, and there were Sui troops chasing behind the rebels. The distance from the decisive battle to Xiping City is only twenty miles, and these twenty miles are simply a mess. The men and horses on both sides were entangled but there was little fighting, and they all just cared about running forward.

The general Yang Youzhi took the Sui army to clean up the mess behind, and it was actually more than ten miles away from Jin Shixiong's people.

In order to drag the pursuers behind, Li Yuanshan kept abandoning one man after another, and later he ordered to stay to block Jin Shixiong's team After understanding his situation, he simply didn't fight, threw his weapon to the side and squatted on the ground, and the Sui army led by Jin Shixiong really didn't bother to pay attention to them, and still bit Li Yuanshan's rear team.

Yang Youzhi, who took more than 30,000 horses to collect the captives, later had to ask the emperor to send men and horses to assist him, and the captives collected exceeded 100,000, and his team was a little too busy.

Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to Xiping City, Li Yuanshan kept urging the team to speed up. The infantry ran for twenty miles in fright and was exhausted, and when they finally saw Xiping City, many people cried excitedly.

"When you go out of the city, who will guard the city?"

Li Yuanshan asked Song Qianhui.

Song Qianhui hurriedly said: "When the minister went out of the city, he handed over the thousands of men and horses guarding the city to the general Lei Tai. ”

Li Yuanshan didn't remember this person in his impression, but thinking about it, it was nothing. His team expanded too fast, not to mention a general with thousands of people, even the general Li Yuanshan with tens of thousands of rebels under his command There are also a few who don't remember their names.

"Send for him to open the gates!"

Li Yuanshan said loudly.

"Huh?"

Song Qianhui was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted: "No...... When the minister went out of the city, he told him that he must not close the city gate! ”

Hearing this, Li Yuanshan's face suddenly turned pale. He slammed his horse and raised his head to look at the city wall, he hadn't paid attention to it before, but after a careful look, he found that there was no trace of the defenders in Xiping City!

"It's not good, this Lei Tai actually abandoned the city and fled!"

Song Qianhui's face changed greatly, and he hurriedly ordered: "He must have escaped from the north gate, and then let people close the south gate for fear of being discovered." His Majesty's ...... It was the minister's negligence, and he didn't expect this Lei Tai to abandon the city and flee. ”

"There's no time to pay attention to this, maybe the city gate didn't resist, send someone to push it!"

His own soldiers immediately rushed towards the city gate with a group of people, and at this time, the Sui army behind them was already less than a mile away from them. Hundreds of rebel soldiers rushed to the city gate, and they pushed the city gate together, only to find that the city gate was indeed not dead, and the crowd erupted in cheers. Li Yuanshan let out a long sigh of relief, urging the war horse to take people into the city immediately.

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After the city gate was opened, the empty street immediately appeared in front of everyone, and where could the shadows of the soldiers left behind in Xiping City be seen. The rebels' battle flags were thrown everywhere, as well as their clothes, armor and weapons, presumably discarded by the rebels defending the city when they fled. They did not dare to wear the rebels' uniforms and armor, nor did they dare to flee with weapons, probably for fear of being caught by the imperial army when they were searched and arrested in the future.

"I ......"

Li Yuanshan opened his mouth and didn't know what Lu Dao said, when he entered the city, he looked at the empty city and felt a pain in his heart, this feeling of betrayal and separation was like a knife cutting back and forth in his heart. First Shi Lei fled from the battle, and then the rebels who stayed in Xiping City all ran away, and at this time, Li Yuanshan actually had the illusion of waking up from a big dream. The events of the previous years are vivid, but they suddenly became unreal like a spring and autumn dream.

"Fast Forward to Town"

Song Qian will urge the rebels behind to enter the city quickly, and there is no room for everyone to come in, and the soldiers who have fallen behind have been stuck by the Sui army, and if they wait for them, they can only put the Sui army into Xiping.

The 100 people who advanced to the city pushed open the city gate and made way for the road, and the cavalry guarding Li Yuanshan immediately swarmed in. About four or five hundred people came in, and Li Yuanshan ordered the archers to hurry up to the city wall to defend. At that moment, a loud bang came from the cave in the gate, followed by wails and curses.

Li Yuanshan immediately looked back, and his pupils contracted instantly!

I don't know why the jack gate on the city gate was suddenly put down, and the heavy stone gate instantly blocked the city gate hole, and the soldiers who didn't have time to dodge were pressed underneath, and turned into meat paste in an instant. The rebels outside couldn't get in and began to yell and curse frantically, while the people in the city were shocked at what was happening.

At this time, suddenly a big flag was erected on the city wall, and the big Sui characters on the red battle flag made people tremble, and with the big flag, countless soldiers who came out of the city wall had opened the bowstring and targeted the hundreds of rebels in the city.

When Li Yuanshan saw this scene, he felt that his heart stopped beating.

Song Qian screamed in fright, but he couldn't hold it and fell off the horse.

The soldiers who appeared on the city wall were wearing the standard leather armor of the Great Sui, and they were already full of hard bows in their hands, just waiting for an order. At this time, the rebels gathered near the city gate cave all had a feeling that they were being targeted by death. No one doubted that as soon as those soldiers loosened their bowstrings, the chains of death would pull them into hell.

"Your Majesty, rush to the city and rush out of the north gate!"

Song Qian, who fell to the ground, would struggle to stand up and shout, his voice would become hoarse and unpleasant because of the horror. But just when he didn't have time to react after shouting Li Yuanshan, a large group of cavalry suddenly poured out from the streets of the city, and quickly surrounded and blocked the rebels near the city gate.

When the cavalry appeared, everyone in the rebels was terrified.

Those cavalrymen were not wearing the armor of the Great Sui army, and many of them were even shirtless. They were holding sabers one and a half meters long in their hands, and the big black braids on the back of their heads showed their identities.

"The barbarians of the Northern Liaodi!"

Someone fell to the ground in fright, and threw aside the horizontal knife in his hand with a thud.

The cavalry of the Northern Liao region reined in their horses and blocked the rebels in a semicircular array. The back of the rebels was sealed by the jack gate, in front were those barbarians of the Northern Liao who killed people without blinking, and the city wall was the Sui army that had been waiting for them, no matter how you looked at it, there was no way to live.

Li Yuanshan did not find a figure he knew in the cavalry of the Northern Liao Land on the opposite side, he turned to look at the top of the city wall, and then saw a strange young man under the blazing red battle flag. This person stood there, not holding a weapon in his hand, although he was dozens of meters away, Li Yuanshan still felt the chill in his eyes, it was the murderous aura that the young man did not hide or want to suppress.

Li Yuanshan didn't know why the Sui army on the wall of the road and those barbarians from the Northern Liao Land suddenly appeared, but because of the appearance of the Han Cavalry in the Northern Liao Land, he immediately guessed the origin of these people. Only in the Sui army on the Wolf Milk Mountain did there be cavalry from the Northern Liao region.

But Xiping City and Wolf Milk Mountain are thousands of miles apart, why did these people suddenly appear here?!

"Put down your weapons!"

The archers on the city wall shouted loudly, and the rebels looked at each other, not knowing who had lost their weapons first, and then everyone threw their weapons far away for fear of provoking the archers.

Li Yuanshan watched the young man in the black robe slowly walk down from the city wall, but he couldn't find the slightest impression in his mind. He didn't have the slightest sense of familiarity with this young man. This man had certainly never appeared in his past life, but the chill in his eyes was so strong? That's hate, Li Yuanshan felt a chill on his back.

"Who are you?"

He asked, looking at the young man.

"A small pawn of the Fan Gu border army"

The handsome young man replied very seriously, but Li Yuanshan didn't react for a while. After a few seconds, he suddenly realized, and then subconsciously pulled the war horse back a few steps.

"Fang Jie?!"

The young man nodded: "I didn't expect you to remember this name, it's good...... Very good...... Exceptional. Otherwise I'll have to explain who I am, trouble. ”