The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 289

The sky gradually brightened from the small high window above the cell, and the morning sun came in bit by bit, driving away the gloom. The food delivered at the fifth watch was extremely rich. Chicken, duck, and lamb, the fat is still sliding off, but it is already cold on the plate.

The sun fell on the face in ecstasy, and the movement of the prison door clanging and the iron chain opening came from behind. After a while, the voice of the cell boss sounded outside.

"General, they are here to pick you up."

On the side beside him, soldiers in iron armor came in, separated the two sides, and clasped their fists together: "General, please—"

These are the Jin Wang's personal guards at a glance. Ordinary soldiers can't wear the armor of iron armor.Li Cunxiao sat there cross-legged, moved, slowly got up, did not look at the food on the ground, just nodded to a few people, and went straight out, his hands, feet, and chains were bound, and the collision made The clanging sound extended all the way to the outside of the prison.

There was a prison cart parked by the side of the road. Two teams of soldiers waited quietly with spears and knives pressed. Without saying a word, she silently clasped her fists at him, then turned on her horse and carried her back, took a breath, and said in a low voice, "I'm going to send Cunxiao all the way for my brother, please get in the car!"

Li Cunxiao smiled slightly, looked at the cage on the carriage, and walked up in the same silence. When the soldiers came to lock the prison door, the shaft of the carriage slowly rolled, and the two teams of soldiers followed behind in neat steps, passing through Pass through several main streets in the city and finish the last journey.

It's two o'clock.

The prison cart slowly came to the school yard in the northwest of the city, surrounded by dark figures of soldiers. Seeing the carriage and soldiers approaching, they gave way one after another. Someone saw the figure in the cage and shouted: "You have today, too. If it weren't for you, Zezhou would not have been defeated, and my brother would have died in battle!"

Someone also shouted: "The general is innocent!"

"Everyone get out of the way"

All kinds of voices yelled and shouted, and faces passed by one by one. Li Cunxiao looked at them, some shouted angrily, some sighed sadly, strange and familiar figures filled his vision for a while.

The prison car passed by the crowd, and the field of vision became wider. On the high platform in the distance, foster father Li Keyong was sitting there with his eyes closed, wondering what he was thinking.

"General, please come out."

The prison van stopped in the middle of the school grounds, Li Cunxiao dragged his anklets and bracelets down slowly, his eyes swept around, almost half of the soldiers in the army came, the noisy voices stopped at this moment, and they were looking over quietly.

After a while, the crowd moved and made way for a passage. Five carriages were driven in by the soldiers and lined up in five directions. Li Sizhao pursed his lips while riding on the horseback, and looked at the high platform over there hesitantly, seeing the adoptive father on it. There was no response, he dismounted from his horse and took a few steps closer, cupping his fists and bowing.

"Report to foster father, the criminal minister Li Cunxiao brought it here."

The sudden words awakened Li Cunxiao behind him, and he looked at the high platform with a dazed look on his face. Up there, Li Keyong slowly opened his eyes, flicked his sleeves, stood up from the chair, the sky was shining on his face, walked to On the edge of the stage, he looked at the adoptive son who was also looking over from below, and there were many soldiers who were looking over from the corner of his eye. He gritted his teeth, and his voice was strong and stern.

"The rescue is not in time, and the Zezhou war has been ruined, causing tens of thousands of casualties. I will kill you today, but what else can I say?"

Li Cunxiao just stood there, shaking his head amidst the sound of shaking iron chains, and only said: "I have nothing to say." His voice was low, and while lowering his eyes, he knelt down on his knees.

"Father is above, let Cunxiao worship you again."

The sad voice spoke out, which made the righteous brothers who followed the expedition a little sad. Li Sizhao wanted to intercede, but Li Siyuan grabbed his wrist and pulled him back. He made a slight face, and whispered Said: "The whole army needs an explanation. What's more, Cunxiao is indeed at fault."

"That's not fatal!"

Li Sizhao couldn't help saying it out loud, but the surrounding army generals, Li Keyong on the high platform didn't say anything, the latter just looked at the figure kneeling and kowtowing, his heart broke, and he waved his hands and shouted: "Tie up—— "

After the order was conveyed, the soldiers around felt a little uneasy after all. Looking at the general who was kneeling on the ground, he hesitated for a moment and dared not step forward.

"You're so useless!" Li Cunxiao raised his forehead, raised his hand to wipe away the mud, his arms shook upwards suddenly, the iron chain snapped, and he fell heavily to the ground, his feet moved almost at the same time , the taut chains were torn off together.

"Come here, tie someone up!"

He saw five tall soldiers holding ropes who dared not come up. For some reason, the image of the enemies on the battlefield who were afraid to move forward appeared in front of him.

"Ha ha."

Li Cunxiao smiled lowly, walked boldly and stood among the five carriages, his messy hair was swaying in the wind, his tall body stripped of armor stood in the sky, slowly spread his arms, his shoulders trembled slightly, and lowered his head slightly. Laughing, gradually ".hahaha.haha!" Laughed loudly, resounding throughout the school grounds, he looked ahead, and the bottom of his eyes was already wet red.

The wind blows across the school grounds.

The high-pitched laughter stopped, he turned his face slowly, looked at the figure on the high platform, and then yelled loudly: "Li Cunxiao is incompetent, and has caused the unjust death of the soldiers of the three armies. He should apologise with death—"

Li Keyong looked at the standing figure with complicated emotions, gritted his teeth, and raised his arms.

make a fist!

Below, the soldiers stepped forward and put the ropes behind the five carriages around Li Cunxiao's arms, feet, and neck.
The soldiers left and boarded the carriage. Li Cunxiao took a last look around and lay down on the ground, looking at the blue sky, white clouds floating in the sun like fluff.

It's like lying on the roof with your brother and watching the changing clouds in the sky.

At this moment, he seemed to be back in Feihu County.

Bai Yun wandered around, and there was no one in Luzhou city. The stealthy scouts stared at the closed city gate and the soldiers patrolling past the city, and wrote down nothing unusual to pass on to the rear.

"Supervisor, your strategy is to let us all wait here with you?"

It was already the fifth report, and it also stated that there was no movement in Luzhou. Wang Yanzhang walked back and forth aggrieved, and once wanted to lead the troops to turn around, but was reprimanded by Yang Shihou.

As the commander-in-chief of the first army, squatting here is a great move. Since he came out, he will not go back unless the sun goes down. He has to wait for the whole journey. Can't afford it.

Amidst the voices of complaining and scolding, Geng Qing also looked at the towering city wall in the distance, tapped his fingers on his back, and repeated the same sentence.

"Wait, wait, wait."

in the city.

Several pairs of eyes were looking towards the city gate from the dark side of the street.

". I don't know what's going on with the general. What if it's too late?"

"Then take it as revenge for the general. I really can't swallow this bad breath."

"The general always waits for me very well. Even if I miss the hour, I can't save him, so I will risk my life to vent this anger for the general!"

The streets and alleys were quiet. When the sound of patrolling footsteps and horseshoes passed by in the distance, more than a dozen figures approached in the dark alleyway, staring at the somewhat lazy soldiers at the city gate. For a moment, they looked at each other and held each other tightly. With the handle of the knife, several figures stood up straight, drew their bows and set up arrows, and aimed at the city gate.

The wind blows through the alley, and there are only more than 30 soldiers on duty at the city gate. Today, most of the soldiers in the army were sent to watch the execution at the school grounds. They all knew who was being tortured.

"Alas, the invincible general on the battlefield never expected such a tragic death."

"Pity him? Who will pity the comrades who were killed by him on the Zezhou battlefield?"

"I just regret that he is full of martial arts. I heard that on the battlefield of the general, there is rarely a single enemy. Isn't it a pity that he died in vain like this?"

"Why, do you still want him to teach you martial arts before he died?"

The tall and thin soldier with the spear on his shoulder was talking and laughing, and suddenly the hair on his back stood on end. There was a sound of "咻" in the air, and the moment he turned his head, a feathered arrow hit the nail on his neck.

The next moment, more than a dozen feathered arrows shot out from the dark alley in the distance, nailing and wounding several figures, more than 30 figures pulled out their steel knives and rushed out of the alley with a chill in their hands. The Han soldiers of the Black Crow Army ran wildly, and before the opponent had recovered, he slashed with almost all his strength, cutting off the wooden handle of the spear, and smashing the man's chest,

"Seize the city gate—"

Following behind the Black Crow Army man, the rest of the figures on the left and right shouted like thunder: "Kill!!"

The soldiers guarding the city gate over there just recovered their senses when they were ripped open by the charging black crow army soldiers. The blades of the black crow army Han soldiers did not hesitate at all. Their goal was to open the city gate and rush forward. The moment he entered the pile of people, he cut them down and rushed towards the city gate frantically.

The sound of the frantic confrontation also alarmed the soldiers in the city in an instant. The Liang Jun scouts who were also lurking outside heard the changes behind the city gate and quickly passed the information to the rear.

After receiving the news, Yang Shihou couldn't control the expression on his face. He rubbed his hands excitedly and issued an order to gather the soldiers and horses lurking around them one by one, and quickly walked towards the south gate of Luzhou.

The siege machinery that had been prepared earlier was carried to the open field by the war horses, and the assembled soldiers of Liang Jun formed a formation and escorted the siege vehicles straight to the city gate.

"Enemy attack!" On the top of the city tower, the soldiers of the Jin army shouted loudly, but most of the soldiers on the city had gone to reinforce the city gate, and only a few archers were free to shoot arrows downward, and the sparse feather arrows hit the iron and copper shields. Bounced away, the charging car with momentum pulled closer to the city gate, and then, there was a loud bang.

The city gate bulges inward, and the soldiers of the Jin army guarding the gate will rush forward in shock, or stand on the tip of the stabbing knife. At a certain moment, the two soldiers of the Black Crow Army who broke through the line of defense dragged their bodies Injured by the knife, he used all his strength, gritted his teeth and pulled.

"Don't let him open the city gate—" the defenders who came down from the city wall shouted, in sight, the heavy city gate was slowly pulled open at this moment, and the words they shouted were drowned in the shouts of fighting , becomes meaningless.

Under the sun, the soldiers of Liang Jun who had crashed into the city abandoned their chariots and rushed into the city gate.

The blade fluttered, splitting the cloth, flesh and blood of people.

The cavalry rushing to the city gate shot arrows at the city head, and the generals behind them led the densely packed soldiers of Liang Jun to kill them, squeezed into the crowd and started slashing wildly.

Then, pour into Long Street.

Geng Qing stood in the field outside the city with his hands behind his back and watched this scene. Soon, vigilant arrows shot from the tower above the city, and the chaos in Luzhou spread wildly along the streets at this time, covering the school grounds like a tide.

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