Chapter 181: Openly repairing the plank road and crossing Chencang secretly

A total of four or five thousand Xia army archers took turns to shoot arrows on the hillside. Although they attacked upwards, they were very disadvantaged. However, the number of people from the Li Shentong Division of the Tang army suffered a great loss, and the two teams of Tang army archers also regained their colors. Each row of arrows shot away would take away the lives of dozens of Xia army soldiers.

However, the casualties of dozens of people were not even considered a drizzle for the Xia army soldiers. On the contrary, when the Xia army's dense arrows shot towards the top of the mountain, it was like a storm on the top of the mountain. The Tang army soldiers were already penetrated into the abyss of despair.

At this time, they stood up and fought back. No matter how fast the action was, under the heavy rainy arrows, they were simply the target of Xia army archers. Under the turns of these Xia army archers, they didn't know how many people were going to die.

What's even more terrifying is that the sound of striking behind him sounded, and the Tang soldiers who were hesitating whether to abandon their weapons were pierced by a shot and threw them into the abyss below the mountain. In the desperate eyes of the Tang soldiers, the terrifying Xia Jun's sword hand appeared behind them. These Xia soldiers held horizontal swords, hung their heads on their waists, and were covered in blood. They looked even more terrifying under the fire, like demons emerging from hell.

This time, the soldiers of the Tang cavalry lost their strength to struggle, as if they fell into an ice cellar, their bodies were stiff, and they stood there, imitating Li Shentong, motionless, with despair on their faces.

Liu Jintang laughed and said, "I said, you can't beat me and you can't escape. Now you should believe it, right?" He thrust the spear and his voice became cold: "Escape immediately, otherwise no one will survive!"

Thousands of Xia army soldiers shouted in unison: "Surrender immediately!"

The sound was like thunder, as if the sound waves were rippling in the air, which was really scary!

Li Shentong finally made movements, and his movements were even more agile than the spirit monkey. He quickly took off his sword and threw it on the ground. His liver and gallbladder were broken and hissed: "We are willing to surrender, we are willing to surrender..."

Under the threat of thousands of strong bows, the surviving Tang soldiers walked down the hillside honestly, put down their weapons according to the orders of the Xia soldiers, squatted down with their hands in their arms, and did not dare to show up. This one-sided bloody battle had scared them to pieces. In their eyes, these Xia soldiers were simply the incarnation of demons, and no one dared to touch their bad habits.

After confirming that all the Tang soldiers on the mountain were taken to the foot of the mountain, the ceremonial guard of Xia Lord Dou Jiande came from afar. The first thing that caught his eye was two door flags. One of the red-clad soldiers held the door flag, and the twenty-four people in the red-clad soldiers held bows and arrows to guard the door flag.

Behind the two door flags, there are the guided music, first two play bamboos, then six music tubes, four seven-hole flutes, two shengs, two cloud gongs, one guided drums and a clapper. In turn, there are four imperial sticks, four melons, four melons, four melons, four melons, four melons, four stars, four five-colored golden dragon flags, ten five-colored dragon flags, ten two-colored yellow round fans, ten yellow nine-dragon umbrellas, and nine-dragon crank yellow canopy. Then there is the chariot that Dou Jiande was riding. Dou Jiande was carrying a sword, a gun and a guard behind Dou Jiande's chariot.

Liu Jintang came up and all the soldiers bowed down together: "I welcome the saint, and the saint will be safe!"

Dou Jiande walked down from the chariot and gave a thumbs up at Liu Jintang: "Jintang, you're doing a good job!"

"Your Majesty is wrong, this is my duty!" When Liu Jintang heard Dou Jiande's praise, he felt as if he had eaten honey, and his limbs and bones had indescribable comfort.

Dou Jiande looked at Li Shentong, who was trembling when he looked at his body, but there was a hint of dispute in his eyes: "Why are you?"

"The Lord Xia doesn't have to persuade him anymore, and his magical power will not be surrendered!" Li Shentong said in panic for a while: "Shen Tong, as a member of the Tang Dynasty, ordered him to give up resistance, but he just didn't want to add to the killing. The heaven has a good life, so why should Lord Xia force others to do it!"

"People are all despicable bones. It is better to drive them out of profit than to drive them out of righteousness. It is better to drive them out of fear than to drive them out of profit than to drive them out of profit." Liu Jintang said loudly: "If benevolence and righteousness can be invincible, it will not be Qin Shihuang but Confucius who won the world back then."

Liu Jintang looked at him and was about to say something, but he heard someone say, "No, no!"

Dou Jiande looked in the voice and saw that it was not someone else's speech, but Ling Jing.

"No?" Not only Liu Jintang, but even Dou Jiande was a little surprised. Since Li Shentong was unwilling to surrender, was he still staying to gain weight?

Ling Jing said: "Is Your Majesty worried about military food? In terms of food and grass, Li Yang still has some stocks. These were originally inventories from the Daye period, but now they are less than one-tenth of the previous one. When I went to Chang'an last time, I accidentally learned from Li Shiji that there were 600,000 stones of new grain in Li Yang Cang. These grains were originally prepared by Lord Li to provide relief to the disaster in Hedong. The 600,000 stones of grain was enough for Your Majesty's 100,000 army to 200 days. In a short period of time, we may not have to consider the food issue for the time being."

Dou Jiande was confused: "What does this have to do with killing Li Shentong or not?"

Ling Jing said, "Your Majesty doesn't know anything. Now the one guarding Li Yang City is Li Shiji, the general of the Left Wu Guard."

"Li Shiji?" Dou Jiande said disapprovingly: "Li Shiji is an unknown person, so what's the point..."

Liu Jintang bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the last general is not talented, and the last general is willing to lead 5,000 infantry and cavalry to capture Liyang for Your Majesty!"

Ling Jing said: "This Li Shiji is not an unknown person. He is Xu Shiji, the former subordinate of Li Mi. He was given the surname Li by the Tang Dynasty, so he changed his name to Li Shiji!"

"It's him!" Dou Jiande hesitated, looked at Li Shentong, and suddenly realized.

...

Li Yang City was drizzling, and Li Shiji stood at the city gate and looked at the east, and felt a little vague. As Chen Ying analyzed, refugees were the early warning of the army. Similarly, it can be inferred that the defeated soldiers were also early warnings. Li Shiji, who was in Li Yang, had already encountered the defeated soldiers in the Tang army sporadically, but these defeated soldiers did not have senior generals, and they could not even tell the accurate information about the Xia army.

But at this moment, the sound of hooves suddenly rose, and hundreds of cavalry rushed from east to west, mud and water splashed on the old high, and a large flag was also ragged. Li Shiji narrowed his eyes and looked at it, and saw that the cavalry's armor was not in order, his clothes were dirty and messy, and he felt relieved again. Thank God, his own people!

However, in order to prevent the enemy from taking the opportunity to sneak into Liyang City, Li Shiji did not order the city gate to open, but directly led the two regiments of Tang cavalry to rush towards the cavalry.

Li Shentong's expression was as entangled as constipation. A handsome general on his left had no helmet, and a blood-colored bandage was tied to his head, drooping and looking listless.

However, a terrifying anger burst out from the eyes of the general.

"Li Shentong, you can think clearly. The rope in my hand was dipped with the snake venom of a golden snake. As long as you cut a little bit of your skin, you will go to see the King of Hell within half a stick of incense!"

If you look closely, you will find that there is a faint silk thread on Li Shentong's body. One end of this silk thread is tied to Li Shentong's body and the other end is tied to Liu Jintang's knife handle.

Seeing Li Shiji getting closer, Li Shentong said in a sharp voice: "General Li, General Li..."

Li Shiji looked in the voice and saw the Minister of the Hebei Dao Xingtai Zuo Pushe and the Shandong Dao Pacifier, covered in blood and his helmet was gone. He was in a very embarrassment. He started yelling from afar, his voice trembling as if a tiger behind him was chasing him.

Li Shiji quickly came up and asked loudly: "Master, what's wrong?"

Li Shentong held the war horse in a mess, his chest fluctuated rapidly, like a bellows, and cried: "General Li, I finally saw you. I thought I would never see you again in my life!"

Li Shiji knew that Li Shentong was defeated, but he never expected that he would be defeated so badly. Li Shiji said with a sad expression: "Master, where have you been there these days? Why haven't you heard from me?"

Li Shentong said with fear: "Don't mention it! Our army was defeated in Xiangzhou that day. I led thousands of defeated soldiers and defeated generals to break through the siege. The Xia army pursued them relentlessly, and could not get rid of them no matter how hard they were! I wanted to use the terrain of Lin Lushan to fight an ambush, but who knew that I would kill one of them.

Xia Jun caught up again, and there was no way, so he could only continue to escape... I don’t know how I survived these days!"

Li Shiji's expression changed slightly, and he said, "What the Grand Marshal means is that those black-skinned dogs have been chasing the Grand Marshal?"

Li Shentong said hatefully: "Not it! Just like the maggots attached to the bones, they can't get rid of them no matter how much they fall into my hands. If they fall into my hands, I will not..."

At this moment, Li Shiji looked at Liu Jintang behind Li Shentong. Li Shiji suddenly pulled out the knife and pointed at Liu Jintang and said, "This brother is so cruel, what do you call him?"

The cavalry under Li Shiji also drew their swords and arched the arrows, aiming them at Li Shentong and the defeated generals of the remnants.

Before Liu Jintang could think of how to answer, at this moment, a long and distant sound of cow horns came from a distance. The thick and desolate cow horns suddenly tensed up.

Li Shiji looked in the voice.

"Woo woo..." After a moment, the ox horn sounded again, and this time it was much louder. The ground was slightly vibrating, and a gray wave came from behind the horizon. The iron armor and spear tip flashed with a terrifying cold light in the drizzle.

"They are chasing me!" Li Shentong's expression was terrifying and said in a lost voice: "They... they are here again! It's coming so fast!"

The soldiers of the Li Shentong tribe exclaimed in horror: "Run quickly, otherwise you will die!"

But they couldn't calm down even if they moved. The soldiers under Li Shiji had already surrounded Li Shentong's troops. Li Shiji smiled slightly and said, "What's the skill of hiding his head and showing his tail? I want to deceive the general's city, but there is no gate."

Liu Jintang laughed and said, "Everyone said that Xu Shiji was cautious and careful, and he was as careful as his hair. He was indeed well-known."

Li Shiji bowed and said, "I am ashamed of being praised!"

Liu Jintang laughed and said, "Xu Shiji, do you think you won?"

Li Shiji said: "Of course, the Xia army has arrived here. I still have time to kill all of you, put down my weapons and surrender!"

Liu Jintang said to Li Shiji: "Why don't General Xu look behind him?"

Li Shiji turned his head and his face suddenly changed.

I saw that at some point, there were violent killing shouts in the direction of Liyangcang City. Accompanied by the killing shouts, there were also the sound of horse hooves running like thunder. I stepped on the earth, as if I was rushing towards here.

Li Shiji's face suddenly turned black.
Chapter completed!