Chapter 125 The only death through the ages
Li Ji gave the emperor a recital during his illness, which may be the last recital of Li Ji's life.
Except for the two of them, no one knew the content of the song, and after the emperor saw it, he burned it in front of Li Chengxiu.
"Gift to the Taiwei, the Governor of Yangzhou, nicknamed "Zhenwu", to accompany the burial of Zhaoling, which I and your father have long discussed, and the tomb is based on the precedent of the famous generals Wei Qing and Huo Qubing of the Western Han Dynasty, and is modeled on the buildings of Yinshan, Tieshan and Wudejiashan, which is also approved by me.
The matter of sharing the temple is not abrupt, but it is not good to disturb Taizong, so let's wait for it.
Finally, let me tell you Aye, I gave him the glory of retreating, what can he give me?
Also, in the end, I asked for it, but I didn't allow it. ”
Li Zhi did not give Li Cheng a revised will, and all the words were verbal, and it seemed that they would change at any time.
Yun Chu got up early in the morning, and he was going to Lishan to meet Yinggong.
In view of the fact that Li Ji was suffering from typhoid fever, it was obviously not a rational act for Yun Chu to go to see him at this time, but Yun Chu still insisted on going, and Yu Xiurong no longer stopped him, but said that after he came back from Lishan, he could live in the courtyard of Bashang, and only after he was sure that he had not been infected with the epidemic could he go home.
Yun Chu agreed, and set off for Lishan with twelve generals.
From Chang'an to Lintong, where Lishan is located, but only sixty miles away, the jujube red horse galloped with all its might, and it didn't take an hour.
In order to avoid being scorched by the scorching sun, when Yun Chu left Chang'an, there were some fish belly whites in the sky.
Although Yun Chu had already set off very early, the road was still full of convoys, and after asking the military generals who took the lead, he learned that all the troops on the car were sent to Luoyang.
Judging by their vigilant looks, coupled with the fact that they did not go through the canal, they knew that the carriage should be filled with gunpowder.
In such a hot weather, Yun Chu didn't want to get too close to the powder cart, so he quickly crossed the convoy and went to the front.
After running fifty miles, the sun came out, and the guy looked white and bright from the outcrop, and the slightly cooler earth immediately became hot and dry.
The jujube red horse was already running and sweating, and Yun Chu decided to rest for a while in a place where there was mountain spring water in front of him and drink the horse.
The spring water flowed out of a mulberry forest, and a group of idlers lay down by the spring to sleep, and the generals dispersed these idlers and occupied the shady place.
The jujube red horse attaches great importance to health preservation, and does not immediately go to the spring to drink water, but steps into the shallow spring water, endures the thirst, and begins to cool down from his hooves and legs, unlike other war horses who are already greedily drinking cold spring water.
The reason why it does this is because that's what Yunchu did.
When Yun Chu, who had put his legs into the spring water, began to drink the water in the kettle, the jujube red horse came to the upper reaches of the spring water and put his mouth on the surface of the water to drink.
Just as Yun Chu drank a pass of water, the general came over and whispered, "The road ahead is open." ”
Yun Chu shook his head and said, "Explore again!" ”
The family general ordered to leave, Yun Chu did not mean to leave the mulberry forest, many short mulberry trees have been crawled with fat and fat silkworms, judging from their shiny fat bodies, it is time to spin silk.
Mulberry silkworms on the tree, this is a new initiative of a silkworm doctor in Sinong Temple, the premise is to make sure that there are no birds in the mulberry forest, it seems that this piece of mulberry forest should be the doctor's experimental field.
However, judging from the corpses of silkworms falling everywhere on the ground, the doctor's experiment was a failure, and further search for problems and solutions are needed.
Yun Chu carefully recalled that even in his previous era, no one seemed to raise silkworms on mulberry trees, and after Yun Chu decided to go back, he canceled the funding for this doctor.
After lying in the mulberry forest for another half an hour, the family general came to report again that when there was no danger ahead, Yun Chu got up and prepared to officially enter Lishan.
Yun Chu felt that there were many enemies, and the Tang Dynasty was full of people who wanted to kill him.
Although everyone was still warm and close when they met, it would be too optimistic if Yun Chu felt that he was a loved person because of this.
From the moment he left Chang'an, Yun Chu didn't feel very good, this sense of crisis was cultivated in the Western Regions, like a wolf, sometimes surprisingly accurate.
"Junhou, there is the Lishan Pass ahead, the brothers are few people, there is no way to search all the places where the enemy can be hidden at once, if the Junhou thinks it is inappropriate, the minister thinks it is better to go back immediately, and bring more men and horses next time, the Lishan Valley is not deep, as long as there are two hundred people, the enemy will not be able to surround us."
Yun Chu shook his head and said, "Send someone to tell Ying Gong and ask him to send someone to pick me up." ”
The general nodded and left, following Yun Chu for a long time, he didn't think this was a sign of the prince's timidity.
At this time, the convoy transporting gunpowder also arrived at the mulberry forest, Yun Chu glanced at the general led by him, and without saying a word, he jumped on the back of the jujube red horse barefoot, patted it gently, and the jujube red horse plunged into the depths of the mulberry forest.
The generals who were resting did the same, jumped on horseback and went after their masters.
Yun Chu quickly rode out of the mulberry forest, stopped the war horse, and said to the generals who followed: "Put on your armor." ”
The generals opened the horse bag and began to serve Yun Chu in armor, but after a while, Yun Chu had already finished putting on the armor, and said to the generals with his horse lance: "Let's go into the mountain." ”
The leader of the family said anxiously, "Entering the mountain at this time is full of dangers, so it is better for your subordinates to put on the armor of the prince." ”
Yun Chu glanced at this brainless general and said, "Is there any difference between you and my armor?" ”
The head of the family said: "In this case, the prince might as well walk at the back, and the last general will be in the middle." ”
Yun Chu glanced at the eight generals around him and said, "Nine people, how can there be any order." ”
After all, he took the initiative to bypass those carriages filled with gunpowder, and officially entered Lishan.
The hot spring annex under Lishan belongs to the royal family, and it belonged to the royal family in the pre-Sui period, and there is no hot spring on the mountain, but Li Ji's other industry is on the mountainside, where it is cool.
Occasionally, you will see some woodcutters on the mountain road, these woodcutters seem to have a particularly good luck today, on weekdays, these woodcutters can only collect some dead branches and leaves in the mountains, today, see the firewood they carry are all high-quality firewood, and some woodcutters carry first-class firewood after breaking the good pine wood.
Yun Chu turned his horse's head and left, and at this time, there was another convoy on their way to come, and the road down the mountain was actually full.
Yun Chu suddenly smiled, took off the armor on his body, threw it to the head of the general, carried the bow and arrow, and inserted four short spears in the holster on his back, jumped up from the horse and grabbed a pine tree that was diagonally crossing, and in three or two strokes, he entered the pine forest of Lishan.
"Take the jujube red horse and go straight to the British business."
This is a sentence left to the head of the family before Yun Chu's figure disappeared.
The leader of the family looked at the convoy in front of him, and then at the woodcutters carrying firewood in the back, and his eyes were split.
Just as he was ready for battle, the woodcutters walked past them intently, and the convoy bypassed them without harm, and continued up the hill.
Yun Chu squatted on the horizontal branch of a pine tree, witnessed the movement of the woodcutter and the convoy, and finally followed the tail of his eight generals, jumping among the dense pine trees, and went straight to the mountainside to behold.
The closer he got to Beiye, the more Yun Chu's heart sank, at first, he thought it was a test for himself by the military, but after he saw a few corpses on some pine trees that were suitable as observation points, he didn't think so.
At this time, he began to regret that he was too careless about the movements of Lishan during this time.
Yun Chu's nose fluttered, he raised his head suddenly, and hid his body in the dense pine branches, and after not moving for a long time, he quickly climbed up the pine tree with dense branches in front of him.
In the middle of this tree, Yun Chu found a tree house, look at the furnishings of the tree house, this tree house has been here for a while, and the setting is extremely secret, the people below can't see it, but sitting in the tree house, you can see the gate of the Ying Gong Farewell.
Yun Chu stretched out his thumb, first closed his left eye, opened his right eye, then closed his left eye, opened his right eye, and measured the gate from this tree to Yinggong's business, the distance was not close, but it was just within the attack range of the strong crossbow.
Looking up at the top, Yun Chu stepped on the tree house and climbed up for a while, and sure enough, here he saw a large yellow crossbow that could only be controlled by three people who had been destroyed, and on the side of the big yellow crossbow, there was a corpse with a black face.
The smell of corpses is not heavy, and the formation time of this corpse should not be more than ten hours.
There was no feature in the clothing of the corpse, and the number on the rhubarb crossbow, which was supposed to belong to the military, was also filed with a wooden file.
Yun Chu looked left and right, but didn't see anything special, so he descended again and got into the tree house.
The treehouse was well arranged, there were not only blankets inside, but also a bag of dry food, and a huge water storage skin, Yun Chu ignored these things, but carefully looked at the knots on the water storage skin.
The rope is a cowhide cord, and the knot is a horse buckle.
Yun Chu pulled the node of the knot, and the water storage bag was immediately opened, the advantage of this knot is that it is easy to open the right node, and if you pull hard, it will be tighter and tighter.
Yun Chu knew from the strength of pulling the knot just now that the people who originally lived in this wooden house should have come from the grassland, not from the Western Regions.
"Turks?"
However, the samurai who died on it had no Turkic characteristics, and he was stabbed in the back through the throat.
The knife that stabbed this guy to death was supposed to be a short knife.
Yun Chu sat in the tree house, quietly checked the situation of Yinggong Beiye for a while, his twelve generals had already arrived at the gate of Beiye, but did not go in, found a shady place, and sat down in a circle.
Yun Chu came to it again, hung the corpse on a thick branch, tied the top of the branch with the broken bowstring of the rhubarb crossbow, and then used the winch on the rhubarb crossbow to pull the branch vigorously, and when the thick branch began to creak, he stopped, and then cut the bowstring with a knife, and the branch that was pulled like a curved bow swung out with a bang, and at the same time, the corpse was thrown far away by the simple stone throwing designed by Yun Chu.
Whenever I heard the sound of a corpse falling to the ground, it should have landed on a tree in the distance, or it had been pierced by a branch.
After doing these things, Yun Chu sat quietly in the tree house, looked at the quiet Yinggong Courtyard and said to himself: "Death is death, do you have to make things so confusing?" ”
(End of chapter)