Chapter 156: Escape from Death
Fifty guards of the palace surrounded the carriage, and the horse pulling the carriage had been shot to death, but fortunately there were two low pillars in front of the carriage to support the carriage.
And although there are many people on the other side, the carriage is so big, and the periphery of the people in a circle can't enter, coupled with the guards' completely defenseless playful play, relying on solid armor to cut the opponent, so that the other party is timid, and the opponent can't break through the defense for a while.
Li Shen also put down the iron plates on the doors and windows, leaving only a small hole, lifted the bottom plate of the car, took out a compound crossbow from the bottom of the car, and shot at the people outside from the small hole. Li Shen only shoots those who command, and whoever speaks. If one misses, shoot a few more.
People often reach their potential only when they are most dangerous. Li Shen has also experienced decades, although he is scared in his heart, he is not nervous, and it is a big deal to die again.
The two sides were deadlocked for two quarters of an hour, and Li Tieniu released a third signal flare.
Da Niu told the brothers that reinforcements would arrive soon, and that it was very close to the Dongshan military camp, and that Rengui would definitely come soon. Let everyone hold on, and the king will be rewarded later. Li Shen was also a little panicked now.
I didn't expect that there were even government soldiers, and I originally thought it was the dead soldier at the beginning, but it seems that there will be more guards in the future. Time passed the slowest at the moment of life and death, and there were not many crossbow arrows left in Li Shen's car. He felt as if hours had passed.
In fact, it had only been a quarter of an hour, and the guards were all in front of them with their horses, and all fifty horses had already died.
But the corpses became obstacles, but even so, there were still more than a dozen casualties among the guards. This is thanks to the fact that the whole body armor that Li Shen gave was made of stainless steel, although it was heavy but extremely hard, otherwise these fifty people would have died a long time ago.
Li Shen was also anxious at this time, where had he experienced this in his previous life. Although he also experienced an assassination last time, and the situation was also critical, there was Li Shimin as the backbone at that time, and he was the backbone this time.
It should be time to calculate, and it is only more than ten miles away from the Dongshan military camp. Li Shen was thinking about it when he heard a roar in the distance, like thousands of troops, and the dust was flying from far and near.
"Who dares to assassinate the prince, kill me"
When Li Shen heard this voice, he couldn't wait to shout I love you. What is the aftermath of the catastrophe and what is ecstasy is vividly reflected in Li Shen's heart at this time.
It was Xue Rengui who shouted just now, and Xue Rengui was training in the barracks. The guard standing guard ran over and said there was a strange noise in the northwest sky.
Only Li Shen's personal guards knew about the flare, so they didn't know what it was. The northwest side is within the scope of Chang'an City, so I came to report.
As soon as Xue Rengui heard this, he immediately remembered that it was Li Shen's distress flare, and immediately summoned the cavalry to quickly change into equipment and set off. This shows the benefits of ordinary training, fast mobility.
By the time he saw the third flare, Xue Rengui had already walked half the way.
Xue Rengui and the cavalry battalion soon came to the front, there was no nonsense at all, and the cavalry did not stop and collided directly with these cavalry.
Xue Rengui divided his troops into two teams, one team directly inserted into the carriage in the middle to protect Li Shen, and the other team roamed around the periphery to besiege and kill.
"Tell them to surrender and not kill, throw away their weapons and dismount and surrender. Otherwise, they will all die. Li Shen saw Xue Rengui who had come over, and he was relieved that he had finally escaped. Then he wanted to catch him alive and asked who was trying to kill him.
"Surrender and don't kill. Surrender and don't kill," all the guards shouted over and over again. Seeing that the situation was not good, the leading general shouted to retreat, and rushed out first.
"Rengui, catch this person for me, I want to live. I want to see who wants the king's life. Li Shen saw that the leader was going to run, and immediately asked Xue Rengui to chase after him.
Seeing that the leader had run away, the others also fled on horseback.
"Take the squad as a unit, and arrest all these people for me. Those who resisted were killed and brought back, and they were to see people alive and corpses to be seen. Li Shen ordered at Zhao Dahu again
"Obedience"
The cavalry immediately took orders to disperse the pursuit.
Li Shen knew that these people couldn't run away at all, and the Li Shen cavalry battalion was full of good horses. It's not the same as the horses of the local government soldiers. It didn't take long for Xue Rengui to bring back the leading general with people and horses, but the people were knocked unconscious.
Xue Rengui began to arrange for people to bandage the wounds of the injured guards. Two of them had their arms gone, and three were seriously wounded, and seven were killed in the battle, all of which were caused by the crowd being knocked down. Li Shen looked at the guards and there were more than a dozen casualties, and he trembled in distress.
These people have been following Li Shen for several years, eating, drinking, and using weapons, equipment, and horses are the best guards in the whole house. They only have one mode of training every day, and that is to protect Li Shen.
"Lord Wang, this is what they should do. As guards, it is their glory to be able to fight and die for the prince, they are already very lucky, if it weren't for the armor that the prince spent a lot of money to build, the people here would not have survived. Xue Rengui followed Li Shen for the longest time, and he could see that Li Shen felt sorry for the guards.
"Rengui, I know. But they have been with me for so many years, before and after the saddle, I look very guilty. It's all for me. Li Shen's tears fell.
As a later generation, Li Shen did not have the consciousness of a superior, nor did he experience this kind of fighting, so many people fought bloodily to protect him. Sacrificing more than a dozen people seriously for him, how can this not be moving.
Li Tieniu on the side was even more moved when he saw this, and a prince shed tears for a few guards, which proved that the prince was really good to them.
So he said on the side: "The prince doesn't have to be sad, the prince is as kind to us as a mountain, and today's life is brought by the prince." Our Huangzhuang is the richest village near Chang'an, where children can study and adults can work.
Now there are no unmarried adult men in our Zhuangzi, and some even marry concubines. Even the women in our village are now picky, and most people don't marry.
This is all given by the prince, my aunt said, let me take good care of the prince, even if I die, the prince will take care of my family"
"Yes, my lord, this is what we should do." A guard with a dead arm stood up.
"Don't stand up, it's bleeding again for a while. You can rest assured that you will go back to heal your wounds, and you will come back to me as a guard when the time comes. You will do the same, and when you are healed, you will come back to me as a guard. I believe in you. Li Shen said while crying. He was really touched by this group of simple people, where was there such a thing in his previous life.
The cavalry who went out to pursue also came back one after another. Regardless of whether they were dead or alive, they were all brought back, and Li Tieniu selected a few new horses to put on Li Shen's carriage.
"Send someone to send the wounded guards and the guards who died in battle back to the Imperial Village, and I will go in person for the follow-up condolences." Leave some of the men to clean up the battlefield and bring back the dead horses to eat. The equipment is put on other horses. Together with the corpses, they were put on the horses, and we returned to Chang'an City. Li Shen got into the carriage
This time, more than 200 people and more than 300 live horses were captured. The horses of the cavalry battalion dragged the equipment and thousands of corpses of these people, and followed Li Shen's carriage to Chang'an slowly. Li Shen decided in his heart that he wanted to interrogate him personally, and he had to find out who wanted to kill him, and he had to give an explanation to the guards who died in battle.