Chapter Twenty-Eight: Ambush on All Sides
"Dare to deceive your sixth master?! I will teach you to repent and come to the world once! ”
With a "swish", Ma Liu bared a mouthful of yellow teeth, took the lead in pulling out the big knife behind him, and rushed straight towards Li Yuan.
At this moment, he was already determined to cut Li Yuan into two pieces, Ma Liu relied on the heavy body momentum to sweep the knife sharply, and the huge white light swept straight towards Li Yuanyuan. With a "clang", the strong collision between the metals instantly shook Li Yuan's mouth numb.
Since January, Li Yuanzhi is not skilled in martial arts, so he will set aside time every day to deliberately strengthen his physical fitness and practice foot combat. But today's actual combat has completely subverted his imagination, just the fierce brute force of Ma Liu in front of him, Rao is more skills can not be resisted.
Seeing that Ma Liu's blade had gradually pressed down, almost wanting to cut the tip of his nose, the surrounding bandits also shouted and pulled out their blades to pounce, even if the imperial sword in his hand was hard, Li Yuan's waist was obviously not supported at this time. I saw Li Yuan's eyes suddenly widen, and he exclaimed: "Liu Jiangsheng! Still not out yet? ”
"Whoosh"! Dozens of Limans in the air roared through the night sky, and when I looked up, Limang converged into slow black dots at a high place, and then poured down! Then screams erupted, and the bandits around Ma Liu opened their frightened eyes as they saw the brothers around them fall one by one. The sudden rain of arrows came just in time, and while Ma Liu was in a trance, Li Yuan instantly retreated, and the big knife slammed down, raising a rising dust.
"Yu Hou, the end of the future!"
"Yu Hou has an order, except for the bandit leader Ma Liu, the rest of the people will not stay!"
"Kill the enemy with me!!"
In an instant, among the dark ruined temples, together with the surrounding grass and jungles, like divine soldiers descending from the sky, hundreds of armored figures appeared in the black ground, and the roar ran through the sky for a while!
Ma Liu suddenly fell into a huge panic, spat on the ground, and roared angrily: "Enter his mother!" There is an ambush! ”
I saw Liu Jiangsheng leading Li Yuan's personal soldiers from the broken temple to take the lead in rushing out, holding an arc moon iron knife in his hand, taking a big stride straight past Li Yuan, and roaring towards Ma Liu. The soldiers behind him also moved forward in unison, leaving a series of heavy footprints.
"Drink!" Liu Jiangsheng held his breath, screamed violently, raised the long knife high, retracted his left foot, took a sideways step with his shoulder, and slashed at Ma Liu with huge force. Seeing the momentum of the comer, Ma Liu concluded that he was a fierce general, and his face was already afraid, so he hurriedly set up a knife to deal with it, and fell into the disadvantage for a while.
At this time, the soldiers of the forbidden army around them had already gathered, and the two sides began a fierce white-knuckle battle. Xu Kuangheng was dressed in official robes, but he took the lead in leading a group of soldiers into the bandits, the swords dancing were dazzling, and the spears at the forefront tore the stubborn flesh of the bandits, and the yellow land of the broken temple was overwhelmed by the blood mist that dispersed in an instant. Such a fierce charge is like an explosion in the bandit array, in the face of such overwhelming killing, what is the use of these outlaws even if they are not afraid of death?
I saw that several bandits close to the mountain road saw that the situation was not good, and they had retreated slightly, as if they had the intention of fleeing.
Here Li Yuan also killed in all directions, his white clothes were full of blood, I saw him walking back and forth among the bandits, the sword dripping with blood kept slashing and parrying the enemy, the cold light split, "hum" made a muffled sound, and a kneeling bandit screamed and fell to the ground. Pulling out the bloody sword from the bandits, Li Yuan opened his eyes angrily and looked not far away, several stubborn bandits had torn open the gap and were about to break through, shouting: "Don't let the bandits escape, there will be no one left alive!" ”
Several generals received the order, and immediately took the lead in spreading out the rear formation, fanning forward to surround the bandits who wanted to escape again, and several heads flew up, completely cutting off the retreat.
After a while, the temple was already densely covered with corpses in a tragic state before the ruin, most of them were Ma Liu's subordinates, and none of them survived. And Ma Liu had already lost his mind when he was fighting the knife, and was violently shoved by Liu Jiangsheng, and the cold light on his neck was close, and he had no choice but to be caught.
At this time, Li Yuan's whole body began to be sour, but his eyes were still bright, commanding Xu Kuangheng and others, and the leading soldiers to clean up the battlefield, should mend the sword, these bandits have all been stained with the blood of the people, and they are innocent of death.
A moment later, Xu Kuangheng and his generals gathered to meet Li Yuan. A subordinate general reported: "Yu Yu, no one of our troops was killed in this battle, one was seriously wounded, and eight were slightly wounded. Except for the bandit leader Ma Liu, the rest of the sixty-seven bandits have been killed! ”
Li Yuan looked at the young general, the armor on his body was already densely covered with ravines, his face was covered with blood, and he couldn't help but say with concern: "You are injured?" ”
This general raised his hand and wiped it violently, returned to an upright standing posture, and smiled at Li Yuan: "Go back to Yu and wait, the end will be fine!" This blood is not mine! ”
Li Yuan saw this resolute smiling face, nodded and asked, "What's your name?" ”
"The last general's hall is straight to the right chamber of the Marquis of Yu, Chai Kewu!"
Chai Kewu? Li Yuan's heart jumped, he thought about it in his mind, and hurriedly asked, "Who are you Chai Kehong?" (Note: In the battle of Huainan in the Zhou-Tang Dynasty in 955, when the Southern Tang army was defeated and retreated, Chai Kehong asked Ying to send out his division, rescue Changzhou, behead 10,000 people, capture dozens of enemy generals, and succeed in the first battle)
I saw Chai Kewu stunned for a while, and then replied solemnly: "It's the eldest brother of the last general!" ”
Li Yuan's heart blossomed, this historical Southern Tang Dynasty general Chai Kehong actually had an equally brave younger brother! couldn't help patting Chai Kewu's shoulder, and said with emotion: "It's really a gatekeeper!" Ling Zunchai is used again, and Brother Ling Chai Kehong is the pillar of my Tang Dynasty! You should follow the example of your father and brother, and serve your country with loyalty! ”
Chai Kewu was flattered and arched his hand: "Thank you Yu Hou!" Remember! ”
Then Li Yuan led the generals to the altar, drew his sword and shouted to the soldiers: "Tonight, fortunately, all the soldiers used their lives, the bandits were ambushed, and the bandit leader Ma Liu was captured!" Back to the camp has a reward! ”
The soldiers of the forbidden army, who had been fighting all night, cheered one after another. Immediately after that, Li Yuan methodically passed down the military order, and the soldiers rested in place for half an hour, and the remains of the bandits were piled up and burned, and then went down the mountain to return to the camp.
Li Yuan led the forbidden army, and quietly bypassed from the east of Chuzhou City in the middle of the night, and Ma Liu, who was tied with ropes all over his body, was restless along the way, first cursing Li Yuan and others with foul language, and then after being kicked by his own soldiers, he began to whisper and scold Huai, Liu Jiangsheng thought he was really noisy, so he stuffed a rag into his mouth.
After returning to the camp, after instructing Liu Jiangsheng on military affairs and rewards, Li Yuan and Xu Kuangheng entered the handsome account to discuss.
"Mr. Xu, now Ma Liu is in my hands, tomorrow I want to send him to the Chuzhou Mansion, otherwise one day Wang Jingguo will be sent to Dali Temple."
Xu Kuangheng's face was calm, and he said slowly: "Dare to ask Yu Hou, what if He Jingzhu doesn't come out of the door tomorrow?" ”
Li Yuan stared at Xu Kuangheng for a moment, and then said lightly: "Then please ask Mr. to join the army as a judicial officer, and please play the trial of Shi Kaifu!" ”
The judiciary joined the army and was in charge of a state prison, although the quality was not high, but it was also one of the six divisions under the assassin history, and he had the power to supervise and sentence. Even if he wanted to cover the sky with one hand, he had to agree to the trial first, and then make a fuss in the court. If you forcibly refuse, then the old guys of the Imperial Observatory will have something to do. Li Yuan had actually been mentally prepared for a long time, if He Jingzhu knew that he had taken Ma Liu, he would definitely panic, and only through Xu Kuangheng's identity could he hope to retry the case of private salt before Wang Jingguo left.
Soon, Xu Kuangheng let out a long sigh, raised his head and met Li Yuan's burning gaze, and the two looked at each other and smiled inexplicably.
Originally, Xu Kuangheng threw Li Yuan a question mixed with his own careful thinking, if Li Yuan couldn't answer, or answered forcibly breaking the door, then Xu Kuangheng would naturally take the initiative to offer a plan, using his current judicial position in the army, to ask the government to try the case.
But as soon as this move came out, in Chuzhou under He Jingzhu's rule, he Xu Kuangheng openly broke with the number one, and I am afraid that he will not be able to mix it up anymore.
But he didn't expect Li Yuan to say his thoughts first. Li Yuan naturally understood Xu Kuangheng's intentions, since they met, Xu Kuangheng has been running for himself, and even suffered minor injuries, and after fighting together together tonight, it was even clear that he wanted to get on his own boat. And this kind of talented literati staff, of course Li Yuan can't ask for it, but they are often thin-skinned, in this case, it is better to take the initiative to invite him, so as not to damage Xu Kuangheng's face.
was silent for a moment, but saw Li Yuan clenching his fists in a deep voice and said: "Mr. Xu, after this incident, I have the courage to invite Mr. to return to Jinling with me and help me!" Tonight's battle is all up to Mr.'s ambush strategy! Although Li Yuan is young and talented, he has a heart to appease the people, and he needs a humerus talent like Mr.! Please forgive me for the abruptness! ”
Xu Kuangheng slammed into the body, obviously slamming the corner of the table excitedly, but he replied with an unchanged face: "Yu Hou Daen, dare not serve your life!" ”