Man Tanghong

"I don't want to see them, I'm leaving first."

When Li Xiuning saw Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin coming on horseback, he subconsciously frowned, left those words behind, and rode away without hesitation.

When Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin arrived, Li Xiuning was only left with his back, and he could only see clearly the black horse and the scarlet.

Li Jiancheng looked at Li Xiuning's leaving back with an extremely complicated expression.

Li Shimin also watched Li Xiuning's leaving back, and heaved a long sigh.

After being silent for a while, Li Shimin said in an erratic tone: "Sister, are you still angry with me?"

Li Yuanji glanced at Li Shimin, and said indifferently: "You asked for this..."

Li Shimin sighed again and didn't speak again.

Among siblings, Li Shimin and Li Xiuning have the best relationship.

If Li Xiuning ignored him, he would feel bad.

In comparison, Li Jiancheng didn't feel so uncomfortable. After Li Xiuning's back completely disappeared, he snorted and said, "No matter how I say it, I'm still her elder brother. She doesn't pay me any attention when she sees me, no matter what she looks like."

Li Yuanji chuckled and said, "Do you still know that you are her elder brother? When you divided up her subordinates and sent her to Weizeguan with your father to be imprisoned, did you ever think that she is your younger sister?

When you disregarded her objection and her feelings, and intended to murder my second brother, and intended to kill me and my second brother through mutiny, did you ever think that she was your sister? "

"you!"

Li Jiancheng felt ashamed and annoyed after being poked in the sore spot.

Li Yuanji sneered again: "You don't look like an older brother, so don't blame her for not looking like a younger sister."

Li Jiancheng shouted angrily: "A brother is like a father! Even if I treat her badly, he shouldn't treat me like this!"

Li Yuanji said contemptuously: "You are ashamed to say such things, but she is the biological sister of your compatriots, not the concubine daughter of those concubines.

My mother passed away early, and as an elder brother, you don't know how to protect her, pity her, bully her, and put on airs of an elder brother, I will embarrass you. "

Li Jiancheng became even more annoyed, "Then I am also her eldest brother! I am qualified to discipline her!"

There is nothing wrong with Li Jiancheng's words, if you listen to them from the perspective of Tang people.

As for my younger sister, I have to be taken care of by my elder brother, and I have to reflect on my mistakes after being bullied by my elder brother, and I have to continue to be taken care of by my elder brother.

This is the thinking of Tang people endowed by loyalty, filial piety and righteousness.

But Li Yuanji was not a pure Tang person, so he would never approve of Li Jiancheng's words.

"Who are you elder brother? When you raised your knife to us, did you ever think that you are our elder brother?"

Li Yuanji smiled coldly, he was too lazy to talk to Li Jiancheng, and rode his horse back to the place where the carriage was.

After Li Yuanji left, Li Shimin glanced at Li Jiancheng calmly, and said indifferently: "If you want to be our brother, you have to act like a brother first.

Think about it, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, have you acted like an older brother when facing us? "

Li Jiancheng roared furiously: "You guys look like younger brothers?"

Li Shimin ignored Li Jiancheng and left on horseback.

Yu Wenbao just watched a drama about human relations, and he was in a very good mood. He smiled and led people to catch up with Li Shimin.

The sword slapping generals all surrounded Li Jiancheng.

Li Jiancheng looked at a circle of sword generals with big arms and round waists, blocking the surrounding area tightly, and roared in despair and anger.

He was angry and aggrieved, but he had nowhere to vent, not even personal freedom.

"Open up!"

Li Yuanji returned to the carriage and announced loudly.

The long train of luggage passed through Kaiyuan Gate and rushed all the way to Xiaoguan.

Four days later.

The team arrived at Xiaoguan.

Xiaoguan has already been occupied by tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. There are many banners and flags on the pass city, fluttering in the wind, whistling by the cold autumn wind, as if they are cheering for the soldiers who are fighting, and as if they are declaring that Xiaoguan is Datang's territory cannot be violated.

There are huge crowds of people inside and outside Guancheng.

Because Xiaoguan, like Weizeguan, was built by mountains and rivers, and most of Xiaoguan's city walls were on cliffs, there were not many soldiers and horses stationed in Xiaoguan.

Therefore, some soldiers were placed on the banks of Jingshui in the pass.

The stretch of Jingshui gurgled down without too many waves or torrents, and the muddy yellow river spread to the bank from time to time, showing a touch of lightness, and then being swallowed by the muddy yellow river water.

The soldiers lived by the river, forging ordnance, rinsing clothes, sharpening knives and guns, row by row, row by row, looking very spectacular.

"Very pleasing to the eye..."

This is Cai Yungong's evaluation after watching everything by the riverside.

Li Yuanji didn't make any response, but was greeted by the school captain in front of Liu Hongji's tent, and brought some luggage into Guancheng.

Liu Hongji did not rush to the gate of the city to respond. Hearing the shouts of killing from the gate, he knew that Liu Hongji was in charge of the battle.

"How's the battle going?"

After ordering Chen Shuda, Cai Yungong and others to cooperate with Xiao Guan's Sima to put all the luggage into the warehouse, Li Yuanji stared at the school captain in front of Liu Hongji's tent and asked.

The school lieutenant clasped his fists together and said solemnly: "The Turkic offensive was very swift and violent. In five days, they launched a total of 3000 attacks, and they did not distinguish between day and night. The soldiers in the pass suffered great damage, and more than [-] people were killed or injured. "

Li Yuanji frowned subconsciously, and the faces of the people accompanying him became serious.

In five days, there were more than 3000 casualties, which is not insignificant.

This also confirmed the tragedy of Xiao Guan's battle from the side.

It is certain that Jieli came here with the determination to break Xiaoguan and go to Chang'an.

"How were the casualties of the Turkic people outside the city? Did they divide their troops? When did they divide them? Where did they go?"

Li Shimin asked solemnly when everyone was silent.

The school lieutenant clasped his fists again, and said in a deep voice, "Turkic casualties exceeded [-]. Two days ago, the division of troops began. Some went west, some went east, and a small part disappeared."

Li Shimin looked around at everyone and said: "It seems that Jieli is going to divide his troops into four groups, bypass Lingzhou all the way, attack Huizhou directly, attack Yanqing all the way, and go down from Yanzhou.

If I guess correctly the rest of the way, I should go to Yinsui. "

Xiaoguan is in the middle of Lingzhou, Huizhou is southwest of Xiaoguan, Yanzhou and Qingzhou are east of Xiaoguan, Yinzhou and Suizhou are further east.

Yinzhou and Suizhou are also adjacent to Shizhou and Lanzhou where Li Xiaogong and others are located.

Cai Yungong couldn't help but said: "What does Jieli mean? He spreads troops all over Lingzhou to Weize Pass, isn't he afraid that we will defeat them one by one?"

The Turks have a strong military force, which is indeed the advantage of the Turks.

But if the division is too scattered and the front line is stretched too long, the advantage will become a disadvantage.

If Datang sent Jingqi to attack one by one while holding on to the border, the Turks would be defeated across the board.

So Cai Yungong didn't understand why Xieli turned his advantage into a disadvantage. Could it be that he wanted to die?
Some other people who don't understand military affairs also thought so, after hearing Cai Yungong's words, they kept nodding.

Li Shimin glanced at Cai Yungong, and said in a deep voice, "Since Xieli dared to do this, there must be his intentions."

Cai Yungong asked: "What is the intention?"

Li Shimin ignored him, but looked at Li Yuanji and said, "I need to lead a team of fine cavalry to walk along the border from Lingzhou to Shizhou, in order to judge Jieli's intentions."

Li Yuanji also ignored Li Shimin.

Li Shimin wanted to observe the enemy's situation. Li Shimin wanted to take the opportunity to run away and contact the old army.

In the past, when Li Shimin led the army to fight, he had never heard of him personally taking cavalry to walk around the border between the enemy and us in order to observe the enemy's situation.

This kind of thing is usually done by scouts, and the next level is to send a school lieutenant to do it. There is no need for Li Shimin to go in person.

"Go and meet Liu Hongji and see what he has to say."

Li Yuanji opened his mouth slowly, and walked towards the Guancheng.

The others looked at Li Shimin and Li Yuanji for a while, and then quickly followed.

When Li Jiancheng passed by Li Shimin, he gave Li Shimin a playful look.

Li Shimin just frowned, without much reaction.

Li Yuanji took two steps, then suddenly stopped, turned his head to Yu Wenbao and said: "My elder brother and second elder brother must be tired after traveling all the way, you escort them down to rest."

Everyone behind them was stunned.

Li Jiancheng's face suddenly changed.

Li Shimin gritted his teeth and said, "I have no selfish intentions, I just want to help Datang get through this difficult time!"

Li Yuanji ignored him, and said to Yu Wenbao who was still in a daze: "What are you doing in a daze, why don't you go quickly?"

"Oh!"

Yu Wenbao came back to his senses, hurriedly bowed and said: "I obey!"

As he spoke, he walked towards Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin.

Li Jiancheng's face was so gloomy that water dripped out, and Li Shimin's face also became quite ugly.

They all knew why Li Yuanji had someone take them down to rest suddenly.

Li Yuanji didn't want them to see Liu Hongji.

I don't want them to know too much military information, lest they take advantage of the opportunity.

For them, during the war, the forefront of the battlefield is indeed the best place to exploit loopholes.

Once the two sides set off a battle of tens of thousands of people and started fighting day and night, no one had time to pay attention to them.

They can take advantage of the opportunity to do many things.

For example, making a wish to the guards, or looking for opportunities to deceive the guards, contact their old department, and some people who can be persuaded by them.

But this time they really had no selfish intentions, and really wanted to help Datang get through this difficult time.

After all, as an important member of Datang, if there is any major change in Datang, they will also suffer.

Even if they took the opportunity to regain power, they still had to face the attack of the Turks.

And when they seize power, the Turkic people will definitely take advantage of the vacancy and break through Xiaoguan, and then what they will have to face is a mess that is enough to give them a headache.

They don't want that.

"please!"

Yu Wenbao led the people up to Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, and said with a smile.

Li Jiancheng flicked his sleeves and left angrily first. Li Shimin hesitated again and again, and finally followed with a frown.