A knife in love

Chapter 1998
Li Qiufeng thought to himself, I heard from my master that Li Siyuan later became the emperor, but he is quite generous, not a bloodthirsty person.The reason why Li Cunxu died and the country was destroyed was because he favored actors and treacherous ministers, which made the heavens angry and the people resentful.The rebellious soldiers elected Li Siyuan as the leader, but it was not because he intended to cause rebellion, it was really a last resort.But according to Feng Wei, Li Siyuan is not a generation without ambitions.Thinking about those famous ministers and generals, in fact, they all have great ambitions and further ambitions in their hearts.It's just that it's so cleverly hidden that the emperor doesn't know about it.

When Li Qiufeng was thinking, he only heard Feng Wei continue to say: "I read the history books written by Sima Gong, and I highly respect Li Siyuan. Therefore, I heard Mr. Zhao Liangsi say that Li Siyuan had long had the ambition to replace Li Cunxu, so I didn't dare to believe it easily. Zhao Master Liangsi said to me, Li Siyuan had listened to the persuasion of those ministers, and had other plans in his heart to go out with Li Cunxu this time. Although he knew that Li Cunxu was very resourceful, he thought to himself, Yelu Abaoji retreated north this time, He must hurry back to the outside of the Great Wall, otherwise he would lead more than [-] soldiers in the ice and snow without food and grass, and within three days they would all be frozen and starved to death. Therefore, when they retreated north, the soldiers must have no fighting spirit. Although Li Cunxu I only gave myself [-] soldiers and horses, but these soldiers all had enough food for the battle, and immediately prepared dry rations and dried meat, and their fighting spirit was in full swing. As long as they catch up with the retreating Liao army, they will definitely be able to win a big battle. Even if they can't kill Yelu Abao Ji and Yelubei father and son, as long as they behead a few famous Khitan generals, and then cut off the heads of [-] to [-] Khitan soldiers, they will be the number one hero in this war, and Li Keyong will definitely reward him heavily. Li Siyuan knows that Li Keyong thinks highly of Li Cunxu As long as he is alive, it is absolutely impossible for him to replace Li Cunxu. But as long as he makes more military exploits, Li Keyong's generals and advisers will slowly gather around him. Once Li Keyong is no longer alive, I will suffer from these people It is not impossible to support and replace Li Cunxu as the king of Jin.

"Because of his devotion to meritorious service, Li Siyuan ignored the persuasion of his generals and led [-] elite troops to march northward bravely. But he did not expect that it was Yelubei, the crown prince of the Liao Kingdom, who would kill the Liao army. Yelubei was [-] miles north of Weizhou City. An ambush was set up everywhere, and Li Siyuan thought that the Liao army had no fighting spirit, so he just chased after him desperately, but ran into the ambush of the Liao army. At that time, the Liao army ambushed everywhere, and surrounded Li Siyuan and five thousand soldiers and horses. Li Siyuan rushed to kill, Unexpectedly, the Liao army was several times stronger than him. In less than two hours, more than half of Li Siyuan's soldiers had been lost, and the entire army was about to be wiped out. Suddenly, a group of soldiers and horses came from Yuzhou City. Yelu was shocked, thinking that Li Cunxu He led the army to come to the rescue, and hurriedly gathered his troops and retreated northward. Only then did Li Siyuan escape with his life by chance.

"It's just that after this battle, only [-] of the [-] elite soldiers led by Li Siyuan were left. It was a disastrous defeat. He was shocked and ashamed. He was afraid that Li Cunxu would use his defeat as an excuse to behead himself in front of the army. Then The troops approached, but the leading general was the defender of Yuzhou City. It turned out that he had taken Li Cunxu's order to capture Yuzhou City, burned the Liao army's food, grass and ordnance, and then stationed troops in Yuzhou City to prevent The Liao army sent troops from Yizhou and wanted to recapture the city of Yuzhou. Last night, a large number of Liao troops rushed from the direction of Yizhou city. The guard was shocked when he heard the sergeant's report, and hurriedly ordered the whole army to go to the top of the city to guard against the Liao army. Attack the city. However, the Liao army bypassed the east of the city and headed straight to the north. In the night, I saw a fire dragon zigzagging from south to north. I don’t know how many soldiers and horses there are. Seeing that the Liao army is so powerful, if they don't come to attack the city, it will be a high incense. How dare they go out to challenge? More than [-] soldiers just guarded the head of Weizhou city, watching the Liao army brigade bypass the city, Headed north all the way.

"When the army of the Liao Kingdom had completely bypassed the city of Weizhou, the sky was already bright. All the soldiers on the walls of Weizhou were relieved to see that the Liao army had gone far away. After the Liao army passed by, about three hours later, the sergeant on the city saw another group of soldiers and horses from the south heading straight for Yuzhou City on ice and snow. Hastily invited the guard to the city. The guard ordered all the soldiers to prepare for the battle, but saw that this group of troops followed the road that the Liao army had walked, bypassed the east of Weizhou City, and went straight to the north. The guards on the city All the soldiers didn't know the origin of this army, they were full of surprise and uncertainty.

"This team is the five thousand elite soldiers led by Li Siyuan. Because he was in a hurry to catch up with the Liao army, he followed the path that the Liao army had traveled. Although he knew that the city of Yuzhou had been retaken by Li Cunxu's order, He also had no time to enter the city, but bypassed the east of the city and went straight to the north. The guard of Weizhou City saw that this army had not attacked the city, so he ordered the soldiers on the city to patrol carefully, and went back to the mansion to sleep .

"It's just that he just lay down, and another sergeant came to report that Li Cunxu, the son of the Jin Dynasty, sent an envoy to Yuzhou City to inform him of something important. The guard did not dare to neglect, and went out to greet him immediately. The envoy relayed Li Cunxu's military order Ask him to leave [-] soldiers to guard Weizhou City, and lead the rest of the soldiers out of the city to march northward. If he sees Li Siyuan fighting with the Liao army, he will help Li Siyuan attack the Liao army. After Li Siyuan is rescued, Li Siyuan should return to Yizhou immediately City, the defender of Yuzhou City led the soldiers and horses to follow the Liao army far away until they withdrew from Youyun Sixteen States.

"It was only then that the general of Yuzhou City knew that the army that bypassed the east of the city during the day was led by Li Siyuan. Although he didn't know what Li Cunxu was planning, he knew that Li Cunxu's military orders were strict. If he didn't obey the general's orders, he would be killed immediately A catastrophe was imminent. So he dared not neglect, and immediately mobilized his troops and left the north gate of Yuzhou City, chasing straight to the north. After more than 30 miles out of the city, he heard the screams of killing, which could be seen from a distance Countless Liao soldiers were coming and going. The guard of Weizhou City hurriedly ordered the whole army to attack and rescued Li Siyuan who was surrounded by the Liao army. But before the reinforcements joined the battle group, the Liao army had already retreated north, and the snow was full of corpses and The discarded knives and guns, the situation is very tragic.

"After seeing Li Siyuan, the city guard of Weizhou relayed Li Cunxu's orders. After Li Siyuan's fiasco, he was worried that Li Cunxu would kill him, so he planned to escape secretly. Later, he thought that his whole family was still in Jinyang. If he ran away by himself, these people would definitely be massacred by Li Cunxu. Therefore, after thinking twice, he still bit the bullet and returned to Yizhou with the defeated soldiers. He was uneasy along the way, not knowing what vicious means Li Cunxu would use to torture and kill himself. But he left There were still more than ten miles away from Yizhou City, and Li Cunxu had already led the generals out of the city to meet him. Li Siyuan was shocked, and didn't know what Li Cunxu was trying to do with such a pretentious act.

"Li Cunxu was not angry at all. He said to Li Siyuan that Yelubei was extremely cunning. When he retreated, he would definitely be on guard against pursuers and follow him. In all likelihood, he would set up an ambush on the way. I was negligent for a while and didn't remind Li Siyuan to be careful, but I thought about it later. When he got up, he sent people to Yuzhou City and ordered the guards of Yuzhou City to lead troops to help Li Siyuan. Although Li Siyuan suffered a big loss, it was because he didn't think carefully about this matter. No wonder he. Li Siyuan didn't think of Li Cunxu Unexpectedly, he was merciful, and he didn't make it difficult for himself, but he was shocked and ashamed, and became more and more uneasy."

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