In the city of Youzhou, the leader is the Liao State Nanjing Guard, the Rensheng Emperor's uncle, and the Wei King Yeluchun.

The second is the Northeast Road Soldiers and Horses, Xi Wang Xiao Gan, and then the Liaoxing Army Festival Envoy, Nanjing Road Town Guarding Yelu Dashi.

These three people, especially the last two, are all talented and heroic figures.

However, Yelu Chun, under the instigation of Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi, raised more than 200,000 Youyan Liao troops and attacked Song Tu in a big way, until he went down to Xiongzhou, he sent the song of the troops to Xijing Datong Mansion and reported it to Emperor Tianzuo.

This kind of behavior of cutting first and then playing, as far as the ministers are concerned, if they tie their heads to the waistband of their trousers, if they win a big victory, they can also say that they are in a hurry to obey the power, and if they are defeated, they are afraid that it will be inconvenient and a monstrous disaster.

Therefore, how dare the three be neglected? Hearing that the Song army was fighting fiercely on the front line of Hejian Province, they all panicked and hurried to the front line.

This time, the people who can call the shots in Youzhou City are the civil and military two.

One of the articles is the prime minister Li Chuwen, although this person is the prime minister, he can also stab the gun and make a stick, is very good at shooting and hunting, and boasts of the unique ability of slapping horses and sucking carbuncles and licking hemorrhoids, which has won the trust of Emperor Tianzuo, and is specially placed in Nanjing, which is to attract eyes and ears.

It's a pity that this ear and eye don't have much discipline, but has brains, and sees that Emperor Tianzuo is getting weaker, so he feigns loyalty and hypocrisy, but in fact he turns to the seat of Yeluchun, the king of Wei.

The one of the martial arts is He Chongbao, the deputy commander of the Liao State, this person is one zhang long, and he has the martial arts of 10,000 people, and he has an amazing strange skill, and the two brothers of the same clan, He Jie, He Yun, are all fierce generals who are in charge alone.

Lin Chong's 300 people snatched Lu County, the county commander and the county lieutenant were killed, only one county Cheng walked fast, and ran to Youzhou, reporting that he didn't know where the men and horses had captured Lu County.

When Li Chuwen learned of this time, he was busy recruiting Chongbao, and called two brave generals in the city to discuss, which were: Taizhen Ma Xu Qing, Huangmen Shilang, and Li Ji, the general of Jinwu on the left.

Among them, this Li Ji is a famous family and is a descendant of Li Ling of the Western Han Dynasty.

It is implied in the book that Li Ling's grandfather is the famous "flying general" Li Guang, who has excellent archery skills, and his 5,000 troops have learned to shoot from him, stationed in Jiuquan and Zhangye, and the Huns dare not look at it.

In the second year of the Tianhan Dynasty, Li Guangli, the general of the second division, waved 30,000 troops to attack the Xiongnu in the Tianshan Mountains, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered Li Ling to escort grain and grass.

At that time, in order to ensure that Li Guangli's army tended to advance like the wind, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had already collected and delivered all the war horses in the army, so he was embarrassed: "I have no horses with you." ”

Li Ling said angrily: "Our troops are all Jingchu warriors, most of them are swordsmen and wizards, they can bind the tiger, shoot the must, and they can fight when they get off the horse. ”

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had limited knowledge and did not know that once the cavalry dismounted, it was a sign that it was going downhill, so he was moved by Li Ling's courage and agreed to his dismount expedition.

Li Ling led the army on foot for 30 days, arrived at Junji Mountain, the Huns learned, sent more than 30,000 cavalry to surround, thought that they would win, but Li Ling's arrows were like rain, the accuracy was abnormal, the Huns were defeated, Shan Yu was frightened, summoned the left and right Xian Wang to discuss, and the army of 80,000 attacked.

Li Ling fought and walked, fought for more than ten days, shot and killed 20,000 or 30,000 Hun soldiers, the arrows were exhausted, the weapons were worn out and unusable, and the generals only had short blades with them.

In this way, the soldiers can only dismantle the carts and take wood as soldiers, and finally fall into a heavy encirclement and it is difficult to get out.

Li Ling sat alone for a long time at dusk one day, suddenly got up and took off his armor, wearing only civilian clothes, and said angrily: "Everyone has ten more arrows, why worry about not breaking through?" Now the armies have fallen to death because of me, and they have nothing to retribution, and they have gone to behead Shan Yu alone. Then he retreated left and right, and went away alone with his sword.

All the armies thought that the strong man was gone, but after a long time, he returned again, and sighed: "The defeat is like this, and I only want to die." "Ordered the army to bury their belongings, cut down the banners, and distribute the surplus grain and ice, and break through in all directions while the night was falling.

Li Ling and more than ten elite deputy generals did all the way, and the Huns noticed the traces, chased after the siege with thousands of people, and ordered them to surrender.

Deputy General Han Yannian shouted: "The man of the Han family only knows how to kill Hu, and he doesn't know what to descend." "Holding a short blade, he rushed into the enemy formation alone, killed dozens of people, wounded more than ten places, bled out, and died facing Chang'an.

More than ten brave men, touched by their courage, shouted "do not surrender" and died in battle.

At the time, on the desert, the wind was howling, the Han on the ground was silent, surrounded by thousands of Huns, Li Ling fought with a sword and was independent, and wanted to charge several times, but he stopped, struggled for a long time, and said with tears: "I have no shame to see Your Majesty." ”

It is a descent.

There are remnants of the army fled back, reported the news of the defeat, Emperor Wu was shocked, only said that Li Ling is such a hero, greedy for life in all difficulties, called his mother and wife to condole, there are Xiangshi to look at his complexion, and there is no color of death and mourning, so Li Ling is not dead.

When the civil and military officials learned of it, they all scolded Li Ling for being disloyal, but Sima Qian interceded for him, saying that he had fought thousands of miles, killed tens of thousands of enemies, and was desperate to fight on his own, and he could be an example of a famous general.

When Emperor Wu heard this, he thought about it for a long time, and ordered the general Gongsun Ao to lead his troops into the Xiongnu and return Li Ling.

Gongsun Ao returned in vain and said: I heard that Li Ling was a Xiongnu who was alone in training soldiers and teaching archery, and the Huns were important, so he did not let go.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was furious, killed his mother, wife and brother, and sentenced Sima Qian to the palace punishment - after Sima Qian wrote the "Historical Records" with a crippled body, which was brilliant through the ages, this is the later story.

After a few years, the Han envoy sent an envoy to the Xiongnu, and Li Ling came to him and questioned the Han envoy: "I fought a bloody battle for the country, killed tens of thousands of enemies, had no help, and was captured with all my strength, the crime is not mine, why did Your Majesty kill my whole family?" ”

The Han envoy replied: "You trained for the Huns, and Your Majesty was furious. ”

Li Lingcheng stomped his feet, sang and said: "Trainer, Li Xuye, is Li Ling?" ”

The Han envoy Yileng said for a long time: "Xu heard it wrong." ”

Li Xuzhi, the captain of the Han Dynasty, was stationed in Xihou City, and the Xiongnu came to attack, and this person surrendered to the city, which was courtesy to the Xiongnu.

Li Ling hated this person for training soldiers for the Huns, causing harm to his own family, and killing him in anger, and the Xiongnu nobles all wanted to kill Ling, just to protect and hide outside, but to be spared.

Shan Yu is very happy with Li Ling, named the right school king, with his wife, Li Ling has not returned to his homeland since then, and inherited the bloodline in the north - Li Ji is the descendant of his and the Xiongnu princess, and he is a handful of archery, and his name is shocking the Liao country, without losing the prestige of his ancestors, and everyone is called Li Jinwu.

At this point, the book returned to the main story, and said that Li Chuwen summoned the deputy commander He Chongbao, the concubine Xu Qing, and the ruling Jinwu Li Ji, and called the county to come in, and talk about the loss of Lu County. ”

Li Ji pondered for a while, frowned, and said: "Isn't it the Song army, sending a long-distance surprise attack to make that Wei save Zhao's old plan?" ”

When Xu Qing heard this, he laughed: "Li Jinwu, I know that your ancestor Li Ling is good at running, so you have this idea, but now the emperor of the Song Kingdom, how can he be compared with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty?" His subordinates are all Tong Guan and the like, our army has more than 200,000 people across the Song Kingdom, which bold Song people dare to play a run attack on our army? ”

When Li Ji heard what he said, he couldn't help but shake his head and laugh: "That's it, but it's the last general." ”

Xu Qing said with a grin: "Didn't the county Cheng say it? The people who seized the city, there were only one or two thousand, and they didn't even have armor, so they must have been strong men who gathered in the mountains and forests, and when they learned that our army went to fight the Song Kingdom, they thought they could pick up some cheap food, what kind of big deal was it? According to me, if you don't kill him quickly, he will run away without a trace after robbing the county seat, but where can I find him? ”

Although Lin Chong is only three hundred, the county Cheng still subconsciously praised him several times, firstly, he really did not look carefully, and secondly, it is also a common practice, but according to this, the officialdom of the Liao State is still better than the Song State after all, if it is an official of the Song State, he will not exaggerate fifty times, and he will wear this official skin in vain.

Xu Qing's opinion is considered human nature, Li Chuwen also nodded again and again, and asked He Chongbao: "He Tongjun, what do you think of this matter?" ”

He Chongbao smiled indifferently: "If the last general looks at it, don't pay attention to him, the army is outside, it is not too much to be careful in everything, as long as we hold Youzhou and do not mess up, we will have no fault." ”

Xu Qing immediately shouted: "That's not what you say! He this gang of thieves dares to attack the city, it can be seen that he is bold, if he doesn't care, he is more and more indulgent, I will wait from time to time to escort grain and grass to the front of the army, this guy eats slippery, if he comes to rob the grain, will he miss the big thing? ”

When these words were spoken, others had nothing to say, and Li Chuwen nodded again and again: "Taizhen Concubine's words are high-minded, and this group of strongmen must be removed!" Besides, he robbed Lu County, how much gold and silver did he get? It would be good to take it back and let the King of Wei raise troops. ”

Raising soldiers or something, it's just a saying, Li Chuwen's real purpose, a few people knew it in an instant, but they fell in love with the fruits of the robbers' labor, so they moved their minds to pick peaches.

Li Chuwen since his debut, the first good business is to shoot horses, the second good is corruption, and later a note in the history of Liao, Li Chuwen "corruption is particularly bad", you must know that during this period, the corruption of officials in the Song and Liao countries is a matter of course, and they can also be famous for corruption, that is a ruthless character who is greedy to gluttony.

It seems that these people are sensitive to money and goods, and it is already an instinctive reaction - Xu Qing, Li Ji, and He Chongbao are inferior, Li Chuwen said, and the eyes of the three of them shot a greedy light.

After all, the wealth of a city, even if Luxian is not a big place, is amazing enough.

He Tongjun, who still felt that he didn't need to pay attention to it, immediately changed his tune, stood up in an uproar, and said obligedly: "Wen Jun's words are better than reading for ten years, if it weren't for Li Xiang's point out of the customs, wouldn't the young general miss a big deal with such a small insight?" That's it! The young general will lead his troops to kill those dog thieves, so that the people of Luxian County can see the blue sky again! ”

Xu Qing stopped when he heard it: "He Tongjun doesn't want Luo Yan, Wuyan Tongjun made it clear before he set out with King Wei, you have to be optimistic about Yanjing worry-free, how can you be allowed to go out lightly with such a major relationship?" There are only thousands of thieves, and I led my headquarters to kill him, which is already giving him a lot of face. ”

The Wuyan army he said was the Wuyan Guang of the Liao Army, this person was the first general of the Liao State, and he was also He Chongbao's upright boss, and he was Yeluchun's confidant and favorite general, and now he went with him to fight the Song State.

Li Ji said with a smile: "Taizhen is right, Wuyan Tongjun is not here, He Tongjun is the Optimus White Jade Pillar of Youzhou, and it can't be taken lightly!" However, Taizhen is a nobleman, and the so-called son of a daughter can't sit down, so why bother to step on the dangerous ground with noble feet? Let's go for a walk with the last general......"

In the end, no one can help anyone, or Li Chuwen gave a decision: "Luxian is not far from here, if it goes well, it is only ordinary to return at dawn and evening, it is better for the three of you to go together, each of them has a good record, all by ability, so as not to quarrel with each other." ”

But he's a calculus—

As a prime minister, it is naturally impossible to compete with these generals to send troops, although he knows that no matter who goes, he will share a share of the profit to him, but who knows if these rough embryos will play tricks and ambush? simply let the three of them go together, the so-called three monks have no water to eat, in this way, it is difficult to hide how much they get, and their own interests can be regarded as worry-free.

The three of them hesitated for a moment when they heard the words, you look at me, I look at him, and they all nodded slowly and said a "good".

Seeing that Li Chuwen's share was indispensable no matter what, the three of them also made up their minds in their hearts:

If those thieves robbed a lot of goods, that's it, if the thieves did not do a good job and the seizures were limited, the generals would inevitably set an example and teach the thieves how to rob the city!

Thinking of this, I couldn't wait, got up and hurriedly said goodbye to Li Chuwen, and rushed back to gather soldiers and horses-

The three of them all knew that although they said that they would go together, how could the other two wait in vain? At this time, whoever reorganizes the troops and horses first and rushes to the first step will get much greater!

There is a division of teaching: the strong have their own strong hands, how can the thieves be as high as the officials? Suddenly, seeing that there was a benefit in front of him, the city was full of civil and military sharpening knives.

(End of chapter)