The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 663
The sound of rumbling horseshoes pounding the ground shattered the tranquility before dawn. In the dark sky, a drizzle began to fall, making the sky even more gloomy. Li Mi led a group of cavalry to flee wildly in the rain.

As a perennial rebel, Li Mi's riding skills are not bad; even on a horse, he can change into the uniform of an ordinary soldier without affecting the running of the horse, and then put on a worn-out leather armor on the outside, looking like a normal soldier. The appearance of a soldier, coupled with the fact that he was originally dark, his face changed drastically without any use of concealment.As for the morale of a body similar to his, he became 'Li Mi'. These are Li Mi's dead soldiers, and he is not worried that the soldiers will betray him.

Although the Sui army has not yet appeared, he also knows that he has been caught in an ambush on all sides. If he cannot escape before dawn, he will undoubtedly die. Fortunately, there are many hills and dense forests in this area, and he will be safe as long as he hides for a few days , now that the Wei army was defeated in Zhongli, there were deserters everywhere, and there were not many more than him and Li Mi. Even if they were arrested, they could get away with it.

Seeing that the sky was getting brighter and brighter, Li Mi said to more than [-] soldiers: "I don't force everyone to die for me, I just hope that everyone will recite the kindness that I, Li Mi, have treated you for many years, and lead the Sui army away. You can dismount and surrender after running for more than ten or twenty miles, the Sui army will not make things difficult for you, I leave everything to you.”

He knew that Wei's army was defeated and people's hearts were different. It's good to have him. Once they are separated, it is basically impossible for everyone to fight to the death, so he gave many soldiers the choice to survive, which would allow everyone to run a little longer.

"Your Majesty, take care." The leading captain led the soldiers, kowtowed a few times, got on his horse, and roared away with the fake Li Mi guarding him.

"Let's go too." Seeing that the soldiers had already left, Li Mi shouted in a low voice.He, Fang Xuanzao, and the remaining lieutenants led a dozen or so soldiers to hide in a forest.

After about a quarter, rumbling horseshoes sounded from the southwest, and a Sui army with superb riding skills was galloping towards the northeast under the eyes of Li Mi and others.

"My lord, what should we do now?" a school captain asked.

One person said: "The Sui army must have thought that Sheng Shang went north to the Central Plains to join General Wang and General Xu. I am afraid that heavy troops are waiting for us. It is better to do the opposite and go to Kuaiji County. We have our own troops in Kuaiji and Dongyang. With [-] soldiers defending Meng Haigong, as long as we gather them, there will be more than [-] people. The area is full of water networks, and we can make a comeback. If it doesn't work, we will go south along the coast and destroy Linyi, and we can establish a foothold there."

Li Mi couldn't answer for a long time, he could go to Kuaiji, but what if he defeated Meng Haigong?Aren't you making a wedding dress for the Sui Army?Once caught in the unfamiliar south, I am afraid that the day of defeat will not be as lucky as it is today.

"We have few people and our goals are not obvious. We can bypass Yao Junsu and go north from Huainan to Ruyin. Compared with the south, we still have seven counties in Huaibei and an army of more than 20. If we can't beat the Sui army, You can retreat to the Runan Mountains." At this moment, Fang Xuanzao expressed his opinion.

"Okay, let's do that."

Thinking of the army in Huaibei, Li Mi, unwilling to fail or mediocre, made a decision.

A school lieutenant hesitated for a moment and asked, "But what about the prince?"

Li Mi felt a pain in his heart, shook his head, and said hard-heartedly: "They have already fallen into the hands of the Sui army, we can do nothing, life or death is fate."

Everyone felt dejected and said no more.

"Let's go." Li Mi got on his horse, whipped his whip, and ran into the darkness.

But it is said that more than 300 Li Mi's personal soldiers escorted "Li Mi" only seven or eight miles away, but they had nowhere to go, and they were surrounded by five thousand cavalry soldiers.

The head lieutenant was named Guo Han. He looked at the orderly assembled soldiers of the Sui army and felt extremely desperate. Although they were the most powerful soldiers of the Wei army, they were incomparable to the Xiaoguo army of the Sui army. Yes, the aura of sacrificing one's life and looking down on the world alone is not what Wei Jun has. Not to mention the fact that there are few people and soldiers, even under normal circumstances, it is impossible for the Xiaoguo Army to be an opponent.

The root lies in morale, and the morale of the army is based on a strong national power. It is the powerful court that gave the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty confidence. .

On the battlefield of cold weapons, morale is often the key to the success or failure of a war. Looking at the morale of the Sui army and Nian's lifeless fighters, Guo Han felt sad.

He discovered how the elite of a country in a normal state crushed the so-called local heroes.The so-called "masters are among the people" is also so unreliable.

Wang Xiongdan was extremely excited, he urged his horse forward, raised the Mo Dao in his hand and pointed at it, and said loudly: "Hand over Li Mi, I will spare your life, otherwise no one will want to live."

"General, we only have this few people. We can't beat the Sui army at all. Surrender." A brigade commander looked at Guo Han bitterly and begged bitterly.

"roll!"

A murderous intent flashed in Guo Han's eyes, and he slashed over with a knife. The brigade commander was caught off guard, and half of his neck was cut off by Guo Han with a knife. He screamed and fell off the horse.

A ferocious murderous intent appeared on Guo Han's face, and he looked at the surrounding soldiers fiercely: "We are the internal army of the Great Wei Dynasty. We wear the best armor, use the best weapons, ride the best horses, and receive the highest salary. , It is the iron wall of the holy majesty, and it is the army that the Sui army must punish. Do you think that if we don't resist, the Sui army will let us go? Impossible."

Everyone's heart sank.

They are extremely fierce men with loyalty in their hearts.As soon as I heard Guo Han say this, I felt that it was reasonable, and I immediately gave up my desire to survive.

Once a person goes all out, even if he is surrounded by strong enemies, he will no longer be afraid.

"kill."

Suddenly, more than [-] soldiers suddenly discovered their high-spirited momentum. Although there were only more than [-] soldiers, their momentum was no less than that of the surrounding Sui army.

opposite.

Among the Sui army's army, a school lieutenant looked at Wang Xiongdan suspiciously and said, "General Wang, what does Wei Jun mean by this?"

Wang Xiongdan looked at the lonely Wei army with a cold expression, and said with a cold snort: "The enemy army has already decided to die, fulfill them, Modao army, attack!"

"kill!"

The dense formation of the Sui army split from the middle, and a row of heavy armored cavalry appeared behind the crowd.

Yang Tong knew that Li Mi had a powerful soldier in his hands. In order to completely destroy it, he asked each of the intercepting divisions to bring hundreds of Mo Dao fighters.

They are in the armor, like giant beasts, cold and murderous, hard to hide, although the speed is slow, but once they appear, the amazing momentum even overwhelms everything else.

"Send the arrow, release the arrow!"

Even though Guo Han already had the will to die, his complexion changed when he saw the appearance of this monster-like army.

The sparse arrows immediately covered the Modao army, but they could not threaten the Modao warriors who were covered in armor at all. There was only a burst of intensive clanging sounds, and no one was injured or injured.

"Soldiers, kill!" Wang Xiongdan raised the Mo Dao, suddenly rode his horse and charged towards Wei Jun with the Mo Dao hand.

As a general, he shouldn't be fighting at this time, but as a soldier, he respects the loyal soldiers very much, and feels that he should send this loyal army in person to express his minimum respect for 'loyalty'.

"Kill!" The soldiers of the three armies were encouraged, and let out a roar that shook the world.

Soon, the Modao warriors charged forward, facing the soldiers of the Wei army like a storm. The sound of horseshoes was like thunder, and they charged with a destructive momentum. The Modao in their hands simply repeated slashing and chopping. The sword was like a city wall, and it slashed at [-] Wei soldiers with the momentum of destroying everything and invincible everything.

Including Guo Han, the soldiers of the Wei army turned into corpses all over the place, and none of them surrendered from beginning to end.

In the encirclement, only 'Li Mi' stood there alone, Wang Xiongdan rushed up, knocked him off his horse, and had him tied up

Wang Xiongdan said loudly: "Li Miji was captured alive and returned to his teacher."

The generals and soldiers of the Sui army let out a cheer that shocked the world.

. . . . . . . . . . .

At this time, a blue light appeared on the eastern horizon.

The "battle" in the Wei army's camp had come to an end. Until now, some nearby soldiers who were lucky enough to survive the civil strife discovered that it was their own people who fought with them for nearly two hours.

Following Yang Tong's order, the Sui army, who had been spectators in the middle of the night, entered the camp to take over. Groups of prisoners of war sat on the ground dejectedly, while the soldiers of the Sui army were nervously clearing the battlefield and taking over the important logistical areas.

More than a dozen generals of the Wei army were pushed in front of Yang Yu by the soldiers. They were trapped by the rout in the chaos. I am willing to surrender to Tai Sui, serve Da Sui, and beg the Holy Lord to spare our lives."

Yang Tong chuckled, and said teasingly, "You only thought of surrendering as prisoners. Do you still want to be superior to us in the Sui Dynasty? It's too late."

He ordered to the left and right: "Push these people down and behead them."

The soldiers pushed them down, and these people shouted from a distance: "My lord, spare me... spare me!"

Yang Tong was unmoved, if he spared these people now, then all the enemies would think that Yang Tong would not kill them, and then fight to the end on the battlefield, and surrender in the end, how can there be such a good thing in the world?
Dou Jiande in history was extremely righteous in dealing with people.He regards money as dung, and uses all the money in his body to help those in need. He also eats, lives and fights with the soldiers, so the whole army is willing to work for him.

But his benevolence and justice do not distinguish between the enemy and the enemy. Whenever the soldiers captured General Li Tang, as long as these people spoke impassionedly, he would be praised by him in public and then released.Therefore, General Li Tang felt that even if he fell into the hands of Dou Jiande, he would not die, so he would not surrender no matter how dangerous it was. After being gilded with the word "swear to death", the name of loyalty made their status even more prosperous.Everyone has this heart, and it has brought Dou Jiande great trouble.

Of course, Yang Tong would not commit such stupid benevolence.

At this time, a soldier rushed over and reported: "My Majesty, General Wang Xiongdan has come to report that he has captured Li Mi."

Yang Tong was taken aback. Under the thick night, it was actually very easy for Li Mi to escape, but he didn't?
In fact, Yang Tong doesn't really care about Li Mi, it's good to catch him, but it doesn't matter if he escapes.But since he caught it, of course he still wanted to take a look, "Let Wang Xiongdan bring Li Mi's here."

"Here." The name went away in response.

"Bring Bing Yuanzhen." Although Yang Tong doesn't know Li Mi, there are people who take him seriously.

After a while, Wang Xiongdan asked someone to bring 'Li Mi' here, and he saluted with a smile on his face: "Report to Your Majesty, the general has caught Li Mi, please forgive him."

Several soldiers pushed 'Li Mi' in front of Yang Tong, and took out the rag from his mouth.

As soon as 'Li Mi' was free, he fell to his knees with a plop, "My lord! I am not Li Mi, but one of his personal soldiers."

Everyone was stunned.

Bing Yuanzhen came in a hurry, Yang Tong asked him to identify him, Bing Yuanzhen only took one look, and immediately said: "My lord, this is not Li Mi."

In fact, without Bing Yuanzhen's confirmation, Yang Tong felt that this was a fake, because Li Mi was a generation of heroes after all, how could he kneel and kowtow.And in the darkness, how could Li Mi be caught so easily?

He glanced at Wang Xiongtan, whose face was swollen into a pig's liver, and Wang Xiongdan kicked the fake, angrily said: "Why didn't you say it earlier."

The fake smiled bitterly: "You blocked my mouth, as long as I squeaked, you would slap me casually, what can I say?"

Everyone couldn't help laughing loudly.

Wang Xiongsheng felt ashamed.

Yang Tong asked the stand-in: "Where did Li Mi go?"

"He and Mr. Fang hid in the mountains and disappeared."

"Bring him to the prisoner camp." Yang Tong didn't blame Wang Xiongdan, he had never seen Li Mi, and it was not his fault when the sky was dark.

Yang Tong looked at Bing Yuanzhen and asked, "Where do you think Li Mi fled to?"

Bing Yuanzhen pondered for a moment, then seriously replied: "Separating the south of the Yangtze River and competing with the Sui and Tang Dynasties is the strategy set by Fang Xuanzao for Li Mi; As an intruder. Fang Xuanzao once told me that he expressed his regret, and also said that staying in the Central Plains and joining forces with the puppet Tang Dynasty is the best policy. I think he will definitely persuade Li Mi to go north to the Central Plains."

"Will Li Mi accept it?" Yang Tong asked again.

Bing Yuanzhen replied: "Although Li Mi has shortcomings such as indecision, he has always taken it as his mission to oppose the Sui Dynasty and has great ambitions. Besides, there are 10,000+ troops in Huaibei, so he will definitely abscond and go north."

"Is it possible to gather troops and surrender to the puppet Tang?" asked Fang Xuanling next to him.

Bing Yuanzhen said: "Li Mi is a gambler who gambles with his wealth and life. If he doesn't lose everything, he will not be willing to be inferior to anyone."

Yang Tong understood what Bing Yuan really meant, and said with a smile, "If Li Mi is defeated, will he surrender to the puppet Tang?"

"I thought not."

Bing Yuanzhen shook his head, and said: "The general trend of the world is already very clear, and the puppet Tang Dynasty is just lingering on its last legs. Li Mi will not be ignorant of this truth. With his arrogance, he will never go to a court that must die. I think he Most of them lived and died with the Huaibei army, of course, they may also hide somewhere to spend the rest of their lives like before."

After a pause, Bing Yuanzhen said again: "There is a faction under Li Mi's command. I, Shan Xiongxin and Xu Shiji were classified as Yuanxun faction, while Wang Bodang was Li Mi's most staunch supporter. There was a deep conflict between the two. , Your Majesty can take advantage of this to defeat the Wei army on the battlefield."

"I don't think Xu Shiji is an ignorant person. How could he fight among himself at this time?"

Bing Yuanzhen said: "Actually, Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shiji, Shan Xiongxin and I have always had doubts about Zhai Rang's death. Your Majesty might as well take this as a reason."

"This is not a good way, I understand what you mean." Yang Tong laughed.

Xu Shiji is a figure no less than Li Jing in history. He attacked Xue Yantuo twice and pacified Qibei.Later, he defeated East Turks and Goguryeo, and became one of the main generals in the Tang Dynasty to expand the territory.

If he can be included in the Great Sui Dynasty, it will be the great fortune of the Sui Dynasty and the nation.It's just that Yang Tong didn't think of a good way before,

Now after hearing what Bing Yuanzhen said, he suddenly discovered that Zhai Rang's cause of death seemed to make this possibility a reality.

(End of this chapter)