Chapter 41 There is no escape
After Wanyan returned safely to the ** camp yesterday, Li Shimin was excited and happy, but he didn't have time to celebrate the reunion with Wanyan, so he hurriedly ordered Lin Yilan to escort Wanyan back to Chang'an and set off immediately.
Jingli and Liuning awkwardly went their separate ways, the two parted ways without saying anything all the way, and early the next morning, the two came to the ** camp together, asking to see Li Shimin.
Tang Changyu was very surprised to see Liuning and Jingli Xiangan standing together without incident, and hurriedly pulled Liuning to his side, Li Shimin listened to his subordinates' explanations, sneered, and asked his subordinates to invite him in.
Jingli happily walked into the room when he heard this, but he didn't expect that it was Li Shimin's soldiers who ambushed Jingli and escorted Jingli, and Li Shimin was high above him and sneered: "I learned this from you." ”
Jingli didn't panic, and explained very sincerely: "Your Majesty, this time I came to negotiate peace sincerely, we had some misunderstandings before, and I hope to take this opportunity to solve them." ”
Li Shimin obviously did not accept this set of rhetoric, and retorted: "Even if you sincerely negotiate peace this time, I will not accept it. ”
Although Li Shimin's words were harsh, Jingli still explained: "Your Majesty, I know that I can't confront the Tang Dynasty with my strength now, but I didn't come to negotiate peace because of this, I really think about the Turkic people, and I really want to be your courtier and be loyal to the Tang Dynasty." ”
Li Shimin was unmoved by Jingli's words, and still firmly refused: "I am in the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, there are thousands of people, and there are countless capable people, not inferior to you." ”
Jingli didn't want to give up the opportunity to negotiate peace, but the anger in his heart had been gradually ignited by Li Shimin.
Jingli also wanted to explain in order to prove his loyalty, Liuning stood up and stood beside Jingli and said to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, a lot of things have happened in the Turkic Royal City, Brother Jingli has changed, he really wants to negotiate peace this time, please don't doubt him." ”
Li Shimin sneered, did not answer, and ordered his subordinates to escort Jingli to the prison to wait for his fate.
Jingli's inner anger was completely ignited, and he slammed the soldier on the left with his left elbow, making him let go in pain, and another over-the-shoulder fall, knocking the soldier on the right to the ground.
Jingli shouted angrily: "Li Shimin, don't give your uncle a shame, you toast and don't eat and drink." ”
Before everyone could react, Jingli picked up the saber that the soldiers on the ground had taken off and put it against the neck of Liuning beside him, Liuning glanced at Jingli in surprise, and said incredulously: "Brother, what are you doing." ”
Jingli returned to his cold and arrogant appearance: "He Li Shimin is unkind, I can only be unjust, don't move, otherwise I will kill you." ”
Jingli held Liuning hostage on the one hand, and retreated on the other hand, Li Shimin wanted to send someone to take Jingli directly regardless of Liuning's safety, but was stopped by Tang Changyu.
Jingli hijacked and successfully returned to the Turkic royal city, closed the gate tightly, he knew that ** would follow, the army pressed the border, and then captured this last city, he could only explain to his subordinates to defend the city.
Jingli did not let go of Liuning, and took Liuning hostage to the mountain behind the Turkic royal city, and walked all the way to the highest point of Anbai Mountain, staring at everything under the cliff, waiting for the last moment.
Tang Changyu led the troops, followed by Liubin, Zhao Nan, and Ding Chuchu, and fought with the Turkic army in front of the gate of the Turkic royal city.
The sound of horns, the sound of fighting, and the clashing of weapons were heard endlessly.
The Turkic soldiers have already been greatly injured, ** there are many people, but they come from afar, they are not adapted, this battle is hard-hitting, although ** has the upper hand, but this battle is not as easy as imagined.
Half a day has passed, the afterglow of the setting sun has been sprinkled, ** finally broke through the gate of the Turkic King City, Tang Changyu took the lead and rushed in impatiently, frantically looking for Liuning along the way.
Every time Tang Changyu met someone along the way, he dragged someone to ask where Liuning was and where Liuning was, and finally learned that Liuning was held hostage by Jingli to Bai'an Mountain.
Tang Changyu hurriedly arrived, and the others followed, going up to the top of Anbai Mountain, but what they saw was Jingli holding Liuning hostage with a knife and standing on the edge of the cliff.
Tang Changyu hurriedly calmed Jingli's emotions and asked him not to mess around. Jingli sneered: "The Turkic King City has been broken by you, I don't have anything now, let me not mess around?" What are you doing earlier? ”
Tang Changyu saw that Liuning was still in Jingli's hands, so he tried his best to suppress the anger in his heart and negotiated with Jingli: "Don't be excited, we can give you whatever you want, don't be impulsive, you still have a way to retreat, don't go to extremes." ”
Jing Li sneered more and more hideously, making people feel that Jing Li's whole person was distorted.
Jingli's cold fingers gently brushed Liuning's cheeks: "Give me back the Turks!" Otherwise, I would only have jumped off a cliff with the woman I loved. ”
"Don't."
"Okay."
Two voices sounded at the same time, and Tang Changyu looked at Liuning in surprise: "A-Ning, don't mess around, I can only save you by promising him, I won't let you die with him!" ”
Liuning's eyes were even more resolute, but he also looked at Tang Changyu reluctantly: "This is how many Tang soldiers have bought the city with blood, how can I let you do this unkind and unjust thing because of me, for you, I have no choice." ”
After Liu Ning said this, before everyone could react, his body leaned back, and with the force of his hand, Jing Li didn't expect this to be the case, and he fell off the cliff with Liu Ning.
Tang Changyu knelt weakly on the edge of the cliff and shouted downward: "A-Ning, don't, A-Ning." ”
When night fell, Tang Changyu asked Li Shimin to send someone to go to the bottom of the mountain to find Liuning and Jingli with him, but the night was already dark, and Li Shimin was afraid of danger, so Tang Changyu insisted on going to Liuning under the cliff alone despite the dissuasion of others, and Liubin also followed.
For a whole night, Tang Changyu and Liubin held torches, and the two of them went around and around at the foot of the bushy mountain for a night, but they didn't find any traces.
Others were also worried and stayed up all night.
Early the next morning, Zhao Nan took Soushan's army and Ding Chuchu together, and when he met Tang Changyu, he saw him haggard, his eyes were bloodshot, and when he saw Liubin, he was also haggard.
Zhao Nan couldn't help but look up at the towering cliff and fell down from such a high place...... He didn't dare to think about it anymore, so he could only say some comforting words to Chu Chu, and then threw himself into the team to find Liuning's whereabouts.
In fact, Tang Changyu also understood how small the chance of Liuning surviving, others thought that he was obsessed with seeing people alive and seeing corpses when he died, but only he had a voice in his heart, and the tacit understanding with Liuning told him that Liuning was still alive.
Zhao Nan's direction was discovered, and everyone hurriedly gathered in his direction, and found Jingli's body, but there was no trace of Liuning.
Zhao Nan looked at the towering mountain, looked at the lush trees above, and comforted Tang Changyu: "Don't worry, no result may be a good result, Liuning may be hanging on a certain tree above and waiting for us to save him, don't worry too much." ”
Tang Changyu didn't speak, and nodded lightly.
This wave was not settled, and another wave rose, Ding Chuchu felt a pain in his heart, and then it hurt like countless needle, cold sweat flowed, he couldn't hold on anymore, and fell straight to the ground.
Everyone was shocked, Liu Ning had not been found, Chu Chu fainted again, Tang Changyu hurriedly asked Zhao Nan to take Chu Chu back to find the military doctor, and he and Liu Bin then led the army to search the mountain to find Liu Ning's whereabouts.
Zhao Nan took Ding Chuchu back, Chu Chu woke up, Zhao Nan was in a hurry to find a military doctor, but was stopped by Chu Chu, and hurriedly shouted: "I'm fine, I'm really fine!" I was just too worried about Sister Liuning yesterday and didn't sleep all night and didn't rest well. ”
Zhao Nan looked at Chu Chu's abnormal performance, and asked suspiciously: "Chu Chu, are you hiding something from me?" ”
Chu Chu hurriedly shook his head and waved his hand and said, "No, no, how is this possible." Chu Chu said with a smirk and diverted the topic: "Why are you still here, I'm not in good health, help me find Sister Liuning!" ”
Zhao Nan was still not worried about Chu Chu's body and said: "Even if you don't have a good rest, you have to let the military doctor take a look, I'll help you find a military doctor, and when the military doctor finishes reading it for you, you can rest here, and I'll immediately go to meet Changyu to find Liuning." ”
Zhao Nan turned around and hurriedly went to find the military doctor, and when he hurriedly returned with the military doctor, he found that Chu Chu had disappeared.
Zhao Nan was anxious and angry when he saw such a situation, and sent people to find the entire military doctor but did not see Chu Chu's figure, Zhao Nan's quick temper made him immediately angry, and the military doctor no longer dared to help Chu Chu conceal it, he knelt tremblingly in front of Zhao Nan and kowtowed, and kept chanting in his mouth: "General Zhao is angry, General Zhao is angry, Weichen will never dare anymore." ”
Zhao Nan looked at the military doctor puzzled and asked, "What are you doing here?" ”
The military doctor replied in horror: "General Ding fainted because she was hit by Jingli's secret weapon at that time, she has been distressed but never told others, and quietly came to me, the toxin on this secret weapon could not detect the cause at first, and the poison spread to the whole body to be detected, but there is no cure, she won't let me tell anyone, now, I'm afraid that time is running out......"
When Zhao Nan heard this, her heart shook and ached like a huge impact, the house leak happened to rain overnight, Liuning was missing, Chu Chu was seriously ill and missing, it turned out that she had long known that she was incurable, but she still smiled at everyone as usual.
Zhao Nan knew that Chu Chu must have run back to Qingjing City and ran back to Lingyuan Valley, Zhao Nan hurriedly rode a horse to chase after him, but was stopped at the gate of the barracks, saying that the emperor had something to announce.
Also found were Tang Changyu and Liubin, Zhao Nan reported Chu Chu's affairs, and Tang Changyu and Liubin also found nothing.
Li Shimin announced the holy decree and said that he would leave for Chang'an in three days.
The three people standing there did not answer, and they all knelt down.
Tang Changyu pleaded with Li Shimin: "Liuning can't see anyone alive or dead now, I must find him, and I hope the emperor can give me three months to stay here to find Liuning." ”
Liubin also helped Tang Changyu speak: "I hope the emperor can give us three months to stay here to find my sister." ”
Zhao Nan also pleaded: "Your Majesty, now that Chu Chu is also missing, she is running out of time, I know where she will be, and I also hope that you will give us three more months." ”