Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1045

Luo Cheng held his breath and looked ahead. The longbow with white rhino horn creaked in his hand, and the string of the tendon had been stretched to the limit.A long chopping arrow aimed at a deer a hundred paces away.

It was a very beautiful white deer, extremely rare, but Emperor Luo Cheng would not think it was auspicious, at most it was an albino deer, there are many such albino animals in the animal world, tigers, leopards, snakes and wolves are all have.

In fact, the emperor was very disgusted with all kinds of auspicious signs. Since the emperor ascended the throne, many officials and scholars have reported auspicious signs and presented auspicious signs. As a result, not only did they not get any rewards from the emperor, but most of them were reprimanded. There were even unlucky people who were seized by the emperor and accused of crimes because of false auspiciousness.

The white deer is in a forest, eating a piece of tender grass leisurely with its head down, enjoying the rare freshness in autumn, unaware of the coming crisis.

The bow in the emperor's hand was very long. It was a step-fighting longbow. It was about the height of a man when it was unstrung, and it was about shoulder height even after it was strung.The longer the bow, the farther the arrow will be.

Although the two-stone longbow is not as good as the three-stone longbow used by the emperor at his peak, it is not something that ordinary people can draw casually.

The arrow head of the long chopped arrow is made of fine iron, black and dull, but this arrow is extremely sharp, shot from a two-stone longbow, even if there is iron armor on the opposite side, it is equally difficult to defend.

As long as the emperor let go of the fingers that hooked the bowstring, the long arrow would instantly kill the white deer.

Suddenly, a branch swayed in the forest.

A thick wild boar suddenly appeared in the emperor's line of sight, and the white deer raised its head vigilantly. When it saw a big wild boar covered in turpentine, mud and gravel, with several big fangs showing in its mouth, it swaggered over Finally, he seemed a little dissatisfied that the wild boar interrupted his leisurely lunch.

The white deer lowered its head and gnawed a few more bites, then jumped away lightly and unhappily.

A smile appeared on the corner of the emperor's mouth, but he did not move the arrow to the white deer, but simply shifted his aim to the wild boar.

Let go of the string-holding finger, and the arrow leaves the string.

The long arrow hit the big boar.

The wild boar screamed sharply, but it did not fall down. Although the long arrow was firmly inserted into the neck of the big male wild boar, and there was blood flowing out there, the wild boar did not fall down.

On the contrary, the wild boar screamed and rushed towards Luo Cheng.

"It came just in time." The emperor also knew that in the mountains and forests, this kind of big wild boar weighing hundreds of catties was quite fierce, and even ranked as one bear, two pigs, three tigers and four leopards.Especially male wild boars are extremely aggressive. If these solitary beasts in the mountains are attacked and injured, they will not be afraid of even tigers and leopards because of their rough skin and thick flesh.

Shooting the bow and arrows repeatedly, the emperor shot two more arrows.

It's just that the body has not fully recovered, and neither of the two arrows hit the wild boar's vital eyes, but only hit the neck, but obviously this did not deal a fatal blow to it, the wild boar became even more furious, and rushed all the way.

Abandon the bow.

Pulling out his two-handed sword, the emperor was going to test his skills with this wild boar.

But just when the emperor was about to fight Wild Boar, Li Xuanba jumped out.Holding a pair of sledgehammers in his hand, he stood in front of the emperor and charged towards the wild boar.

Seeing that the wild boar was about to bump into Xuan Ba, he turned sideways, then swung the golden hammer high, and hit the wild boar's head heavily.

This blow made the sound of gold and stone, although the wild boar's body was covered with turpentine and a thick layer of sand and gravel, but this hammering also made the wild boar dizzy.

Li Xuanba hit Wild Boar on the forehead again with his left hand.

Then the third hammer, the fourth hammer.

Li Xuanba threw five or six hammers in a row, the big wild boar's limbs stiffened, bleeding from its seven orifices fell to the ground, and it didn't even grunt.

The big wild boar with rough skin and thick flesh was finally crushed to death by the double hammers through his turpentine sandstone armor.

Luo Cheng stepped forward a little disappointed, "How can you snatch my prey?"

The incident happened suddenly just now, and the officials who were hunting with the driver had no time to react, Wei Zheng rushed over, "Your Majesty should reward Duke Zhao who is escorting him, why are you still reprimanding him?"

"I don't need Xuanba to go out, I can still kill this wild boar."

"Your Majesty's words are wrong. Although His Majesty used to fight on horseback and was invincible to thousands of people, but now His Majesty is the king of a country. How can he fight a wild boar with a body of ten thousand chariots? Isn't that true?" Beautiful jade and Powa?"

"Yes, how could His Majesty be so risky? Your Majesty's dragon body has not yet recovered, but he wants to single out the wild boar. What if something goes wrong, wouldn't it be?"

All the ministers were very disrespectful to the emperor, especially Wei Zheng and other ministers, who even sprayed all the saliva on the emperor's face.The emperor couldn't help being resentful and speechless. "Okay, I just wanted to try my recovered body just now, just this time, don't make an example, okay?"

After being scolded by the ministers, the emperor had no interest in hunting anymore, so he simply returned to the camp.

The landlord who the emperor hunted was in Lishan Mountain in the southeast of Chang'an, where there are hot springs and palaces, and it is a good place to go hunting here in autumn.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the emperor began to issue orders to return to Chang'an with all the officials and soldiers and horses. The emperor's chariots also left Chang'an in late August, but the journey was not as urgent as when they came. Traveling east, while patrolling along the way, passing Lishan Mountain, and going up the mountain to hunt and soak in hot springs.

The imperial court issued bonds and issued subscriptions in Liujing and other important cities, which can be regarded as a solution to the aftermath of the imperial court after the war. This major event was resolved, and the imperial court and ministers were also very relaxed. Even the emperor was thinking about coming to Lishan to soak in the hot springs Go hunting.

Return to the Spa Palace.

Admiral Li Xian asked to see him, and he reported Zhang Liang to the emperor.

Zhang Liang was the commander of Jinyiwei after the split of the Pro-Army Duwei's Mansion into the Pro-Army Mansion, Jinyiwei, and Huangcheng Division. It didn't take long to take over Li Junxian's position.However, Zhang Liang was the leader of the shadow guards first established when the emperor was just starting out. He single-handedly established the emperor's initial intelligence system.

It is precisely because of this that the emperor transferred Zhang Liang to be the governor of Jinyiwei after splitting up the pro-army Duwei's Mansion.

Unexpectedly, Li Xian, the admiral of the Imperial City Division who was in charge of monitoring Jinyiwei, came to report Zhang Liang.

Jinyiwei and Huangcheng Division are now supervising each other. Compared with Jinyiwei, the Imperial City Division, which is subordinate to the palace, is led by eunuchs. These eunuchs do not carry handles, so they are the emperor's personal servants, and they can be said to be the emperor. Those who are closest to you are the ones who are most likely to be trusted.

One is a slave and the other is a courtier. Sometimes, slaves are indeed more convenient to use.

"You reported Zhang Liang's treason, do you have evidence?" Luo Cheng asked coldly.

(End of this chapter)