Chapter Fifty-Nine: The Defeat
"Your Majesty, Northern Emergency!"
Li Jian put down the pen in his hand and closed the book in front of the case.
"The Legend of the Cool Officials".
The guard who reported it inadvertently glanced at it, and his heart trembled.
"Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from General Li Chenjin, less than five days after the Empress Dowager Shulu of Liaodan retreated, the Khan of Liaodan actually led a large army to make a comeback. The general personally led his troops to a stalemate for seven days and seven nights, and the army's food stocks were already insufficient, and the remaining army was less than 3,000 remnants. β
Li Kang's left hand kept rubbing the words on the letter, and said casually:
"What about Pingzhou?"
The guard knelt on the ground and added:
"The general also said that it was Pingzhou who took the initiative to open the city gate to let the Liao army pass through the city, so it caught our army off guard."
"This young Khan of Liaodan still has some ability."
A young man standing beside Li Jian chuckled, and there seemed to be some appreciation in his tone.
"Heh, this is the treacherous method that that barbarian can come up with, obviously it is my nephew who is running around, disobedient and unfilial, and tried his best to come up with some ideas from thieves in the market."
Li Kang frowned, glanced at the man beside him, and his displeasure was overflowing.
"What Lord Yue-in-law said is that the son-in-law is shallow."
The man folded his hands and bowed deeply to the man on the dragon chair.
"Go and tell Jin'er that I will send another 2,000 reinforcements over immediately, and I will hold Yingzhou no matter what!"
"Your Majesty......" The guard was about to speak, but he still hesitated to say, "The general said that he needs 30,000 elite soldiers." β
There was silence overhead.
The guards could only hear their own breathing, and their pores opened in such horror that they opened.
After a long time, he heard the voice of the Son of Heaven.
"There are only two thousand, tell him to defend it."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
The guard got up on the ground and was about to retreat, but was stopped by Li Kang again.
He shuddered, sweat dripping from his face.
"Tell them, Chuan Yunyao princess come over."
The guard breathed a sigh of relief, answered, and fled in a hurry.
The Son of Heaven is really imposing.
......
Yingzhou.
Ye military camp tent.
"General! The reinforcements sent by His Majesty are about to arrive with food and grass! β
A soldier rushed in in a hurry, with a layer of joy on his face, and hurriedly said goodbye before he could even salute it.
"How many came?"
The white-clothed general's long hair was scattered on his shoulders, lacking his usual fierceness, coupled with the shallow bloody wound on his face, he actually gave birth to a bit of feminine temperament out of thin air, just like a person in a painting.
He was topless, pulling a broken arrow with a barb from his shoulder, blood running down the strong lines of his chest.
He endured the pain so hard that he didn't even snort.
"Two thousand."
"Did you hear me right? Your Majesty said only two thousand? β
Li Chenjin threw the blood-soaked arrow on the ground and asked with a frown.
"It's true that there are only two thousand, maybe because the Central Plains has not been peaceful recently, Your Majesty really can't allocate too many soldiers."
The white-clothed general sighed, picked up the linen and hastily wrapped it around the wound, and pulled it tightly.
At the moment of life and death, he never panicked.
"General, this person can be a little more, we ......"
"Hold on."
He put on the long coat that was slung around his waist, listened to the noise of the war outside the camp, and walked out with his long sword.
"General, meet again."
A girl in a blue-black suit sat on a high city wall, her long legs hanging lazily and swaying in mid-air.
She looked down at him, dozens of feet away, and the emotion in her eyes was obscure.
Li Chenjin sat on the war horse and looked over, although it had only been more than a month, she always felt that she had changed a lot from the last time they met.
The battle raged behind him.
"The big gift left for the girl in Linhuang, does the girl still like it?"
Realizing that what he was talking about was Yongdinghou, Li Qianyin burst out laughing, but her tone was cold and indifferent.
"Haha, I naturally like it, but I also have a problem for the general, I don't know how the general should thank me?"
"Oh?"
Li Chenjin raised his eyebrows, and a playful smile flowed in his eyes.
"What do you say, girl? The Marquis of Yongding is a loyal minister who serves the country, how can he say that his henchmen are in great trouble? β
Li Qianyin picked up the long sword in his hand, jumped off the city wall several feet high on tiptoe, and landed lightly.
"Does the general really not understand, or does he pretend not to understand?"
She paced over, raising her jade fingers to the mane of the steed he sat on.
Then, she whispered in a voice that only the two of them could hear:
"Marquis Yongding sent my father's corpse back to Luoyang, used Li Yunjiao as a gunman, and almost killed her, right?"
"The general is really infatuated for the princess......"
"It's just the general's infatuation, does the princess know?"
Seeing that he didn't speak, Li Qianyin's heart sank, and she continued to ask:
"What kind of Gu is in my father? What kind of calculation is going on between Li Jian and the 100,000 Great Mountain?! β
Li Chenjin glanced at her, his expression as if he was listening to her say a stranger.
"Don't you think you're talking too much? - Besides, I don't know about the girl's problem. β
He let go of the reins and said lightly.
"Heh, my father was not the horse that the general sent him to Lingxi?"
"Didn't you put that jade pendant that can represent his identity on the fake corpse so that everyone would think that he had been burned to death?"
"If it weren't for the failure of Lingxi's plan, this matter would have been heard by Yongding Hou, and Li Jian would not have wanted to destroy his entire house!"
The white-clothed general looked at her, although his words were angry, his eyes were indeed absolutely clear and calm.
"After a few days, the girl has grown a lot."
He pressed his right hand on his waist.
"Really?" Li Qianyin flicked up the hilt of the sword with a "ding", swirled the long sword with her backhand, and dragged the horse rope to dodge behind Li Chen.
"The general is still the same as everβvery cunning."
She spun around in mid-air, her sword stabbing only in the man's face.
Li Chen didn't dodge in, slowly pulled out the soft sword at his waist, and wrapped it sideways around Li Qianyin's outstretched arm-
The soft sword was coiled around her arm like a thin snake.
The white-clothed general's fox eyes glowed with cold light, and he suddenly pulled back his hand, and the sharp blade twisted the clothes and flesh on her arms like a rolling knife, and the flesh and blood were blurred in an instant.
Then he stood on the horse's back and swept a kick and kicked Li Qianyin in the abdomen because of the pain.
She flipped upside down in the air in an emergency, her left hand grasping the ground to stabilize her body, and her fingers left five deep marks.
"Li Chenjin of the Cross Gate, sure enough, his combat power is unparalleled."
A golden light flashed around the man on horseback.
"Li Jian really only does a business that makes sure he makes money and does not lose money, and even the righteous son he receives is carefully selected and refined."
The man in the dark robe appeared behind him, and the long knife suddenly appeared with golden light.
At this time, Li Qianyin untied the hairband that was tied up high and tightly wrapped the long sword with his hand.
The two of them, one sword and one sword, one immortal and one demon, attacked the white-clothed general together!
Li Chenjin dodged, dodged into the melee of the ten thousand armies, and dragged a soldier over as a meat shield to block the sharp blade that stabbed him.
"Li Hebiao, what did you just say about refining?"