Volume 1 Beacon Fire and Troubled Times Section 58 Another encounter with a tiger
When Li Yuan and his son received the news from Chang'an, they immediately issued an order to Li Xiaogong to cross the river, passing through Huayin and Weinan to wait for a new military order.
At the same time, he ordered Duan Zhixuan, the general of Tongguan, to lead 20,000 Chen soldiers to the Lantian line, and Chen soldiers to the southern suburbs of Chang'an, waiting for new military orders.
His father and son led 50,000 troops from Taiyuan to the west of Luliang Mountain, crossed the Yellow River west of Wubao, and quickly captured the three counties of Mizhi, Suide, and Qingjian, and then attacked Baoan in the south on June 25.
The security guard Liu Wuzhou saw that the enemy was strong, and he did not dare to fight hard, so he abandoned the city and fled to Jingbian, Li Yuan obtained security without a fight, and incorporated Liu Wu's 10,000 defenders, and the power was even greater.
By 28 June, the troops had reached Tongchuan, and by this time the Li army had surrounded Chang'an on three sides.
Just when the people left behind by the family lords in Chang'an City saw the situation clearly and wanted to flee from the west, Zhang Shigui, the Xianyang guard, also raised the Li family's military flag.
And just after the siege was completed, on the third day of the seventh month, Chang He, the lord of Linglong Pavilion, was ordered by Li Yuan to obey the three-year-old Yang Yu as the acting king in the Taiji Palace, and exercised the monarchy.
And with the permission of his mother Concubine Wei, he issued an edict to the world: Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang, was worried about the imperial family, and was ordered to enter Beijing to rebel, and all those who were loyal to the Great Sui listened to the orders of the Tang Generals.
Clear-eyed people knew at a glance that this was arranged by Li Yuan a long time ago, when Yang Xuanwu rebelled, the family members of the various gate valve families who stayed in Chang'an did not have time to withdraw, and now it is good that Li Yuan made dumplings.
Chang'an is already in Li Yuan's pocket, he is not only famous, but also captured a large number of hostages, this deal is very cost-effective.
On the fifth day of the seventh month, Yang Xuanping, the defender of Chang'an, surrendered the city, and Li Yuan became the ruler of Chang'an.
On the eighth day of the seventh month, Li Yuan supported Yang Yu to officially ascend the throne in the Daju Palace, and changed the year name to "Yining".
Li Yuan received the news of Yang Xuanwu's withdrawal from Chang'an and found Yang Yu on June 22, and it took only half a month to support Li Yu as emperor on the eighth day of July.
Li Yuan's father and son led the troops all the way south from the distant Taiyuan, and used the surrounding forces to cooperate with the capture of Chang'an.
When the forces of all parties received this news, they all scolded Li Yuan for his wolf ambition and wanted to seek to usurp the throne.
The family members in Chang'an City didn't dare to say more, because Li Yuan didn't embarrass their family, and if they didn't know what to do, it would be hard to say.
Of course Luo Yu didn't know the changes in Chang'an now, he was three or four steps away from Li Xiuning, and saw the feather arrow coming, but he didn't have time to pounce to save Li Xiuning.
She was already playing with the horsewhip, and when she heard the sound of breaking the sky, she didn't have time to think, and waved her hand to shoot it, and hit the feather arrow.
The feather arrow was about to run out, and she pulled it, changed direction and fell to Li Xiuning's heels.
It was not difficult for the ordinary feather arrows shot in front of her to dodge with Li Xiuning's ability, but she just shook her body and stood up straight to meet the feather arrows.
Because behind her is Luo Yu, she will be shot if she avoids Luo Yu, she would rather be injured herself than Luo Yu be hurt.
After Yang Man pulled off the feather arrow, he pulled Li Xiuning to the big tree next to him with an arrow step, and used the wide trunk to hide his body to prevent the archer from shooting arrows again.
This big tree is the crownless tree that Luo Yu wanted to hide in it but was startled by a large number of centipede poisonous insects, and after spring and summer, it is much more lush than what he saw in the harsh winter last year
Luo Yu also flew quickly to them, and the three team members saw that Li Xiuning had escaped, and dived stealthily in three directions to catch people where the feather arrows came from.
Luo Yu only then had time to check the feather arrow that fell on the ground, this is an ordinary homemade arrow, about one and a half feet long, the arrow is made of animal bones, polished into a round head, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like an arrow that can hurt people, and a few white feathers are attached to the tail three inches.
This is not used in the army, but it seems to be self-made by Orion in the mountains, it is not strange that Orion appears here, but why it shoots indiscriminately at Li Xiuning, you have to ask the person who shoots the arrow.
The three team members returned empty-handed, and by the time they arrived there, they had already lost their traces, and the three of them rummaged around again, but they still found nothing else, so they had to come back and report first.
Lu Xiao was a little puzzled and said: "Instructor, it seems that there is indeed someone lurking there, but the three students only smelled a faint fragrance, and there was no other trace of it, and the person and the fragrance disappeared as if out of thin air." ”
Luo Yu thought for a while and said, "Let's go back to the wooden house first, and wait for Zhang Yang and them to come back." ”
Li Xiuning said: "Looking at the style of this arrow, it doesn't seem that it wants to hurt people, they just said that there is a fragrance there, isn't it a female hunter who joked with us?" ”
After speaking, he glanced at Luo Yu, as if asking, "Do you have anything to do here?" ”
Luo Yu's head was big, and he hurriedly said, "Where do you want to go?" I've known the old man here, but he seems to have said that he has a granddaughter, did the old man ask her to pick us up? ”
Li Xiuning smiled: "What are you nervous about? If you go out and call it, you'll find out. ”
Luo Yu felt that it made sense, although he was not sure that it was not the granddaughter of the old man who came to pick them up, but looking at the arrows she shot, there should be no malice, if it was really the granddaughter of the old man, it would save a lot of trouble.
So Luo Yu came to the place where the feather arrow fell, and just as he wanted to speak, a burst of laughter like a silver bell came from the big tree where Li Xiuning and the others were hiding.
When they looked up, a girl of fifteen or sixteen was sitting on the second branch, wearing a multicolored linen dress and a white wrapping hat peculiar to ethnic minorities, and on the left side of the hat hung a two-inch-long tassel that swayed back and forth with her legs in flowered boots.
She held a small bow in her left hand and a quiver with a few feathered arrows on her back, and her delicate face was full of mischievous smiles.
This is a lifelong play eagle but was pecked by the eagle, when did she go to the six people on it did not notice in the slightest, if this is the enemy, they don't know how to die.
Li Xiuning smiled: "Little sister, come down quickly, there is a snake above your head." ”
The girl also smiled and said, "Thank you sister for reminding me, this snake is raised by me, it's fun, do you want to play?" The intonation is like Shu Yin, and the voice is light and crisp, as good as laughter.
Yang Man was a little afraid of snakes, she pulled Li Xiuning to retreat to Luo Yu's side, and the three team members also gathered around to see what she wanted to do.
The girl smiled very much, and saw that the six people retreated, jumped down from the power branch about two feet above the ground, and landed steadily on the ground.
She is about the same height as Li Xiuning, with a good figure, and the clothes of ethnic minorities are not as subtle as Hanfu, outlining a charming figure, making her whole person show a wild beauty.
Li Xiuning wanted to step forward, but was stopped by Yang Man and said, "Sister Xiuning, this woman is weird, don't go over." ”
Li Xiuning smiled and patted her hand and said, "It's okay, she's playing with us." With that, he walked up to the girl and wanted to take her hand to show friendship.
Luo Yu wanted to stop it, but when he remembered that this girl might be the granddaughter of the old man, it shouldn't be unfavorable to them, so he didn't say anything more, and at the same time stopped Lu Xiao and the others from rushing forward.
Besides, with Li Xiuning's skills, the girl should be safe without poison.
Unexpectedly, just when Li Xiuning was about to pull her hand, she retracted her hand to the back, and said with a silver bell-like smile: "Sister, my little sister is wearing poisonous gloves, and she originally came to catch centipedes, but I didn't expect to meet you." ”
Li Xiuning retracted his hand and said a little embarrassed: "Why are you here to catch centipedes?" ”
The girl didn't answer, looked at Luo Yu and said, "Which of you is Luo Yu?" My grandfather has been looking for him for a long time! ”
This girl is indeed the granddaughter of the old man, but Luo Yu still has questions: "How do you know that there is a man named Luo Yu among us?" ”
The girl smiled: "Grandpa said, only Luo Yu knows where the wooden board of the message is hidden, I just saw you take it, are you looking for our village?" ”
Luo Yu smiled: "Yes, but they have been gone for so long, why haven't they come back yet?" ”
The girl also smiled: "I drew the map, they can't find it, yes, which one of you is Luo Yu?" ”
Li Xiuning pointed at Luo Yu and said, "He's it, didn't your grandfather tell you what he looks like?" ”
The girl said: "I said it, but it doesn't seem to be right, do you want to prove that you are Luo Yu?" ”
When Luo Yu met the old man that day, she was completely dressed in later life, and her hairstyle, clothes, and height had changed from today, so she said that she was not right.
Luo Yu smiled bitterly: "I believe your grandfather told you that I and his old man ate roasted taro and hot noodle soup in this wooden house, if you can't prove it, then you can only prove it by seeing his old man." ”
As soon as the girl wanted to speak, the sound of horses' hooves came, and it should be that the patrol army heard that there was a movement here and came to investigate, and the number of horsemen who heard the sound was no less than two hundred.
The girl's face changed, and she shouted softly, "Don't make a sound, follow me!" With that, he walked quickly to the back of the hut.
Seeing that she seemed to be a little afraid of this patrol, Luo Yu was inconvenient to ask the reason now, so he glanced at Lu Xiao and asked him to follow.
Lu Xiao understood and followed the girl closely, Luo Yu pulled Li Xiuning to follow behind Lu Xiao, followed by Yang Man and the other two team members.
The direction she led was the same as the direction in which Zhang Yang and the others went, Luo Yu put his mind at ease, Zhang Yang and they couldn't find a place to return the same way, so they didn't have to come to pick them up again.
Zhou Ye followed behind, he was still not at ease, and left the unique marks of the special combat team everywhere he passed, preventing them from coming back from elsewhere, and they could also find a way to follow.
The trees grew taller and denser, and the sun shone through the dense leaves on the ground full of dead branches and leaves, and in some places you could step on it up to your knees, and I don't know how she led the way.
Luo Yu was ten steps behind the two of them, so he didn't know if the traces under his feet were left by Zhang Yang, and he was a little worried now that this girl was the granddaughter of the old man.
This is a place where Han and ethnic minorities live together, Miao, Bai, Shui and other ethnic minorities live around this jungle, they have always been bullied by the powerful Han people, and they do not have much good opinion of the Han people, in case this is a trap, it will be bad.
Just thinking about it, the girl stopped moving forward, Luo Yu raised his eyes, and there was movement one hundred and eighty steps ahead, and the weeds with high heads were quickly separating to the left and right, like a large beast trying to open up a way.
Luo Yu stretched out his hand and clenched his fist, raised it gently, indicating that he would stop advancing, this action can be understood by the special combat team, Lu Xiao hurriedly grabbed the girl, squatted down gently, pulled out the dagger between his legs, and waited for the thing to appear.
The girl's bow and quiver were discarded at some point, and now she was bare-handed, but her face was very excited, which is probably the nature of hunters, the fiercer the prey, the more they like it.
Zhang Yang smiled, handed her another dagger, and motioned for her to hold it for self-defense.
The girl glanced at Zhang Yang, reached out to take the dagger, and then turned her head to look at the weeds, her back arched like a cheetah ready to attack, ready to strike a fatal blow to its prey.
Luo Yu and the two girls naturally didn't take out the dagger, there were four of them, unless they encountered wolves, and the tigers had to lie on their stomachs when they came.
The movement over there also stopped, as if they had discovered Luo Yu and them, Li Xiuning's three daughters all have body fragrance, and they are in the upper hand, how can animals with a keen sense of smell not smell it?
Luo Yu suddenly remembered that the other side might not be a beast, or it might be to publicize them, after all, it was time to come back after going out for so long.
With their training and battlefield experience, it is not a problem to get out of this outer jungle at all, even if they are pursued by ethnic minorities, they can retreat with their whole body, it can be said that in this world, no one can know jungle warfare better than them.
Luo Yu made a gesture towards Zhou Ye behind him, asking him to call the other side with a code to see if he could receive feedback.
Zhang Yang nodded, put his hand to his mouth, and three owl calls came out in succession, and then waited for a response from there.
Before they could respond, a deafening tiger roar was heard from the right, echoing through the jungle.
Luo Yu remembered this voice, it was the tiger as big as a calf that he was fighting with the gorilla when he came, how could it come to the edge of the jungle?
I don't know if the gorilla came with me, just now I was thinking that Lu Xiao and the four were there, and it didn't work if the tiger came, but now that this big guy is here, I can't guarantee it......