Li Shimin led an army of 50,000 to Gaoqi City, and a large number of soldiers of the Qin Dynasty in Longxi Xue Ju were still besieging the city, setting up various siege equipment to storm the city gate and city wall defenders.

After seeing the banner of the Tang army from a distance, the soldiers on the city wall cheered loudly, struggling to repel another wave of offensive by the Qin soldiers.

"Marshal!" Qu Tutong asked Li Shimin for his opinion whether he wanted to attack Xue Qin's army from behind, cooperate with the remnants of the army in the city, and even if he could not win, he could force Xue Ju's Qin army to retreat.

Of course, it's also an uphill battle.

"You don't have to fight with Xue Ju."

Li Shimin said in a deep voice: "Hang my handsome banner, you send someone to lead a thousand cavalry to bypass the high jaw from the right side, and act at the opportunity." We put on a posture and waited. ”

"Wait?"

Qu Tutong, Yin Kaishan and the others glanced at each other, and they all had no opinion on the marshal's arrangement, so they ordered a thousand cavalry to leave the large army and hide on the right side of the high jaw, avoiding the sight of Xue Qinjun.

The 50,000-strong army put on a posture, hung the flag of Li Shimin's handsome, and told Xue Ju that Li Tangjun had changed the marshal!

But the siege intensified, and the soldiers on the high walls struggled to resist.

"Marshal!"

Yin Kaishan and others came to ask for opinions again.

"Wait!"

Li Shimin calmed down.

The crowd had to continue to wait patiently.

Gradually, the siege weakened, and soon all the Xue Qin troops left the range of the soldiers' bows and arrows on the city wall and lined up in the distance.

"Report ——!"

The scout on horseback hurried over and announced: "There are Qin cavalry in the direction of Yilu, and there are as many as five thousand!" ”

Everyone looked at the marshal in surprise, the scouts had not found this Xue Qin army before, if they were in battle at the moment, and the 30,000 Xue Qin army attacked from behind, it was likely that they would be surrounded by a flank again, thus defeating the situation.

Li Shimin said with a smile: "Our army set off from Chang'an, it is impossible for Xue Ju not to be aware of it, but he is still swaggering to attack the city, obviously prepared, I can't be fooled by him!" Now that this cavalry has appeared, he is about to withdraw. ”

Sure enough, under the escort of five thousand cavalry, Xue Qin's army began to retreat.

Following Li Yuan Jinyang to raise troops, Yin Kaishan, who is already in his forties this year, said with a smile: "King Qin to King Qin, I think it is still our Tang Dynasty's Qin Wangqiang!" What kind of thing is the Overlord of Western Qin? ”

The generals laughed, and some laughed: "With the wisdom of His Royal Highness the King of Qin, coupled with the exquisite map drawn by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Xue Ju will be defeated!" ”

Li Shimin's heart moved, and he was about to ask, but the generals had already begun to shout, causing tens of thousands of soldiers to shout loudly, telling Xue Qinjun to get out of here.

The morale of the Tang army was much boosted, and the previous rout and decline were swept away.

Li Shimin didn't want to ask any more, and watched Xue Qinjun slowly retreat and return to the camp a few kilometers away.

Li Shimin led the Tang army to march towards Gaojaw, along the way the stump and broken arm, blood flowed all over the ground, close to Gaojaw, a high mound more than ten meters high, made of corpses, poured with soil, met the eyes of the Tang soldiers.

The sadness in his heart covered the nausea caused by the sky-high stench, and the Tang army was filled with grief and indignation, and asked for orders to fight to the death with Xue Qinjun!

Qu Tutong, Yin Kaishan and others bowed their heads in shame.

This Jingguan was caused by their defeat.

Li Shimin took a deep breath, the fierce smell of corpses stimulated his whole body, and anger burned in his heart.

But he was a marshal.

No matter how big the anger is, I can only endure it at this moment.

"Pass my orders!"

Li Shimin ordered: "Dig a pit to bury the corpses of our troops, and those who carry the corpses must wrap their hands with cloth and not have direct contact with the corpses. ”

After a pause, he said hatefully: "Xue Ju's father and son are cruel and unkind, and he will suffer from this in the future!" ”

The soldiers calmed down and prepared to dig a pit to bury the bodies of their comrades.

"Erlang!"

The gate of Gaojaw City opened, and a man in his twenties with a sturdy figure rushed out on a horse and led more than a dozen guards, although his face was tired, he still patted Li Shimin on the shoulder excitedly:

"I didn't expect it to be Erlang! Are you leading the troops again? ”

"Sichang!"

Li Shimin held hands tightly with him.

This person is the husband of his third sister, Chai Shao, the general of Zuo Yiwei.

When Jinyang raised troops and attacked all the way to Chang'an, Chai Shao was under Li Shimin's account, and his wife Princess Pingyang led an army each.

"Good thing you're okay." Li Shimin said to him: "Otherwise, I don't know how to explain to the third sister." ”

His third sister, Princess Pingyang, is now leading the soldiers and horses she brought to guard Tongguan, and fortunately, with her, Li Shimin dared to bring out all the soldiers and horses of Chang'an.

Chai Shao laughed, and when his eyes fell on the Jingguan, the smile slowly stopped.

"Erlang!" Chai Shao's voice was low, "Do you have a plan to defeat Xue Ju?" ”

"Yes!"

Li Shimin said confidently, so that all the soldiers looked at him.

"What a ploy?!" Chai Shao asked in surprise.

"Wait!"

"Wait? What are you waiting for? Waiting for whom? The crowd was puzzled.

"Wait for Xue Ju to die!"

"Wait for Xue Ju to die?!"

Chai Shao, Qu Tutong, Yin Kaishan, and Liu Hongji and other generals who welcomed them from the city were all dumbfounded.

Although this Xue Ju is also over fifty years old, he dares to be called the overlord of Western Qin, and borrowed the name of the overlord of Western Chu, and his body is still very healthy.

Waiting for him to die?

"That's right, just wait for Xue Ju to die!"

Li Shimin smiled slightly, "Pass the marshal's order, everyone should guard against mosquito bites, not untie their clothes when sleeping, and light a bonfire in the city at night, and throw raw grass into it to burn to drive away mosquitoes...... Drive all the mosquitoes to the Xueju camp! ”

If you say that you waited for Xue Ju to die before, it was completely up to heaven's will.

So now, Li Shimin, who has obtained the knowledge of malaria infection taught by Chu Zhen, can confidently say that Xue Ju will die!

He didn't believe that not a single mosquito had bitten Xue Ju!

……

Haicheng.

Chu Zhen drove his dilapidated second-hand van home, and after getting out of the car, he began to carry things.

It took seven or eight shipments before I finally delivered all the goods ordered yesterday to the second floor.

On the last leg of the carry-

"Is Chu Langjun going to rebel?!"

A crisp girl's voice full of surprise came from upstairs, and Chu Zhen, who was standing at the corner of the stairs, looked up and saw that Li Qingzhao, who looked like a fair lady, was looking at his goods with a disgraced face.

To be exact, he looked at the more than a dozen sets of armor, bows and arrows, horse lances and other weapons he bought.

Secretly hiding armor is a crime of rebellion, so Li Qingzhao was shocked when he saw it.

"No, what a rebellion, don't talk nonsense."

Chu Zhen laughed, walked up with the last two sets of armor, and just wanted to speak, a girl dressed in peony red and dressed like a bumper barrel appeared in front of him.

It's Sister Lin.

She winked at Chu Zhen, looked at the armor in his hand, and then turned her head to look:

"Uncle Chu is preparing to recruit troops, is he going to rebel?"

Her voice is soft, but she can vaguely hear a bit of naughtiness, and there is a smile hidden in her peach blossom eyes, which makes people want to pinch her cheeks.

"Yes, rebellion, I am going to lead the army to kill Dashun, copy the two mansions of Ningrong, and watch a group of them ......"

Chu Zhen, who was talking with a casual smile, suddenly felt inappropriate, so he stopped and didn't say anything.

Lin Daiyu was so delicate, twisting her thin eyebrows, "Copy... Family? ”

Li Qingzhao subconsciously recited: "The burrow is empty, the wat was full of beds, the grass was withered, and it was once a singing and dancing field...... Yesterday, the loess Longtou sent white bones, and tonight the red light tent-"

Lin Daiyu looked over, and Li Qingzhao also closed his mouth.

couldn't help but step forward and hugged Sister Lin, who was wearing a peony red cloak, into her arms.

She has watched Dream of Red Mansions in the past few days, and just saw the concubine provincial Zhang Hui, it's not that she can't stand it, but it's too good-looking, she never thought that the novel that was looked down upon by the scholar doctor would be so good-looking!

In addition, she knew Sister Lin here in Chu Zhen, and she couldn't help but feel sad for her, so she watched slowly.

As soon as Chu Zhen said that he was copying his home, Li Qingzhao remembered this song "Okay Song", which she laughed at and said was a limerick poem, and couldn't help crying, for Sister Lin in the book, and for Sister Lin in front of her.

"My sister is so strange."

Lin Daiyu broke free from her and smiled at her: "I'm fine now, my mother is also well, why is my sister crying instead?" ”

"I, I'm ...... Okay, it's my sister's fault! ”

Li Qingzhao wiped her tears, before Daiyu asked her not to tell her about the things in the book in front of her.

Lin Daiyu pursed her lips and looked at Chu Zhen.

"Sit down first...... Is this the rice balls for me? ”

Chu Zhen saw the two food boxes in Sister Lin's hands, and said with a smile: "Go and take off your coat." ”

Although Sister Lin is wearing a thick cloak, she is particularly cute.

Lin Daiyu put her mind at ease, since Uncle Chu didn't say anything about raiding the house, it means that it is not too serious.

But what she didn't know was that Chu Zhen didn't tell her for the time being because Ning Rong couldn't copy the Lin family.

The book doesn't say why the two mansions were raided, and it's useless to say it, can you still let Jia Min take care of the two mansions of Ning Rong, so that Jia Jing, Jia Yu, Jia Zhen and others can't converge?