Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 545 Li Shimin's Suspicion
Li Shimin took five thousand prisoners of the Sui government soldiers rescued, and escorted five thousand stones of grain.

An Shicheng was ahead, and thinking of Luo Cheng's surprised expression when he saw them, Li Shimin couldn't help but feel a little complacent.

Luo Cheng deliberately made things difficult for him, but he never imagined that he could complete the task so well.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but raise his head higher, and his chest became a bit more upright.

I even felt that even the war horse I stepped off had taken steps that my relatives would not recognize.And from the corner of his eye, he almost laughed out loud when he saw the expressions of gratitude from the soldiers he had rescued for his journey.

Seeing a middle-aged mansion soldier with only one arm left and carrying a bag of food, he asked, "Are you tired?"

The disabled soldier seriously shook his head.

He was captured during the first conquest of the Liao Dynasty. He was a prisoner in Goguryeo for two years. In the past two years, he worked many lands, transported food for the Goguryeo army, and was resold to the noble chiefs, and then arranged to farm, She was grazing, and in the end he was thrown into the mine for mining because he lacked one hand and was not as good as others.

He never thought that he would come back alive.

In the battle two years ago, he was under Yu Wenshu's command.Until now, he will never forget the battle of thousands of miles. When he was captured on the Yalu River, he hadn’t eaten for several days. He was so hungry that he couldn’t walk. Then he watched the Goguryeo soldiers coming up, and he didn’t want to leave. Don't move, let them be captured.

In the past two years as a captive slave, he has basically never had enough to eat, and he is frightened of hunger.

When they first marched eastward, one person had three stones of grain, which was too much, so they buried them as they walked.But after being hungry for two years, his eyes would light up when he saw food.

So he carried a sack of grain on his back along the way. In fact, each person only needed to carry a few buckets of grain for his own ration on the road.

Until you can't move your back.

It was two or three hundred miles along the way, but he had to carry the rice on his back every day, and he refused to put it down even to sleep, he could only fall asleep if he hugged him in his arms.

There are many others like this one-armed man.

Most of the captured Sui troops were soldiers of the Eighth Army who went south during the first conquest of Liao Dynasty. The Eighth Army was defeated and retreated. At that time, 6 or [-] horses were captured, and tens of thousands died in battle.

"I'll be home soon. Anshi is in front of me, and it's our territory now." Li Shimin said to the soldiers with emotion.

When these prisoners heard the word home, their eyes lit up.

How many days and nights, I thought I could never go back.

When Anshi City appeared in front of their eyes, and when the flying Sui flag appeared above the city, many people burst into tears, and some even knelt on the ground and cried loudly.

A team of light cavalry came up to meet them.

Li Shimin stepped forward immediately.

"I am Li Shimin. I was sent to the inner city by the command of the commander-in-chief, and now I am back. Not only have I come back, but I have also brought back Yuan Gai Suwen. In addition, I have also brought back [-] captured Fubing brothers, as well as two Wanshi food. Yuan Taizuo has also promised that the rest of the captured brothers who are stranded in his territory will be returned, and the food requested by the commander will also be sent. "

The knight who led the team just nodded and didn't show any excitement.

Li Shimin was very dissatisfied in his heart, he had worked so hard to get all of this, why did this guy have such an attitude.

"Hurry up and tell the commander-in-chief that I, Li Shimin, have returned with those fubing brothers."

The leading knight said to Li Shimin, "You don't know yet, the commander-in-chief is still in a coma. He was assassinated, and it was Yu Wenhua and that dog who did it."

As he said that, he looked at the returning soldiers with some seriousness.

"Brothers have worked hard, come with me."

Li Shimin was in a daze.

Luo Cheng was assassinated and fell into a coma, and it was Yu Wenhuaji who did the assassination. What's going on?

All the way to the city of Anshi, I saw that the atmosphere here was indeed tense, and the Liaoxi military camp was surrounded by many soldiers and horses. The people inside did not resist, but quietly basked in the sun.

After handing over the government soldiers and food, Li Shimin couldn't wait to find his brother Li Jiancheng.

"How did I hear that Luo Cheng was assassinated by Yu Wenhuaji? What's going on?"

Li Jiancheng was a little gleeful, and said in a low voice, "Retribution, whoever made Luo Cheng so arrogant, has fallen now."

"what happened?"

"The matter is actually quite simple, but it is also very bizarre. It is that Luo Cheng sent troops against the decree, and then someone from the Luoyang court filed a complaint against him. Take them back to Beijing for questioning, it is said that both Luo Yi and Luo Siye in Beijing have been placed under house arrest."

Li Shimin's eyes widened when he heard this, he didn't expect such a thing to happen.

"To tell you the truth, everything was going well at first. Yu Wenhua was afraid that Luo Cheng would rebel, so he first found Wang Rengong, hid in his guards and quietly came to the city of Anshi, and asked Wang Rengong to use his name to take Luo Cheng from Liaodong. The city tricked him into his barracks, and he arrived here very smoothly."

"Then why did the assassination happen again?"

"Who knows, maybe Yu Wenhuaji felt that Luo Cheng might not be able to control Luo Cheng in Wang Rengong's camp, so he arranged for his men to shoot Luo Cheng at the gate of the camp. Who knows, Murong Changsheng and Yu Chiliang immediately protected him. After Luo Cheng returned to Anshi City, Feng Xiaoci led his troops to encircle the camp, but Wang Rengong turned his back on him at this time and arrested Yu Wenhuaji."

"In short, it's a mess. Luo Cheng is still unconscious in Anshi City, but Yu Wenhuaji is in trouble this time. Wang Rengong found the murder weapon to assassinate Luo Cheng at that time, and it was indeed Yu Wenhuaji's men. All, but that person escaped, but Yu Wenhua and other subordinates have all confessed that he was indeed the one who plotted and instigated."

Li Shimin only felt that his mind was a little messed up, and he always felt that there was something wrong with this seemingly clear matter.

"Have you met Luo Cheng?"

"No, except for his brothers, no one can see anyone else. Bai Ma Yicong surrounded the city lord's mansion tightly, and no one was allowed to enter or leave, saying that he was afraid of assassins."

"What now?"

"What else can I do? Originally, a decree was announced, and Luo Chengcheng had to hand over his military power and go back to Luoyang to question his crimes. It turned out that he was in a coma, and the soldiers were very dissatisfied. Don't mention anything, we are waiting for the court's reply."

Li Shimin thought for a while, "What a coincidence?"

"What's so coincidental?" Jiancheng asked.

"I mean, why is it such a coincidence that the imperial court wanted to call Luo Cheng back to the capital, but he was assassinated before receiving the order, but Yu Wenhuaji was the one who assassinated him?"

Li Jiancheng felt that there was nothing wrong with it, "Yu Wenhua and that person are not unknown to you. They are notoriously narrow-minded. They probably wanted to assassinate Luo Cheng and then push it to the people of Goguryeo. Who knew that even Wang Rengong didn't like it?" help him."

But Li Shimin was not willing to believe such rhetoric.

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