Late Tang

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As night fell, the sky and the earth fell into darkness. The southeast wind from inside the Great Wall blew slowly, carrying the residual heat left by the day sun on the ground in summer, and blowing over the iron leaves of Li Siyuan's armor, the military governor of the Yanmen Army, emitting bursts of fine air. And sharp soft sound.Although the sun had set for a long time, Li Siyuan was still wrapped in an air-tight iron armor like a prawn in a steamer.He couldn't help tugging on the iron armor on his body, and reached out to wipe the sweat on his neck.

The fierce attack and defense day and night caused many damages to the wall of the village, and the sand and soil collapsed to form gaps.The Yanmen army began to build wooden fences to block the gaps in the evening, then filled the soil behind the wooden fences and tamped them down, and then nailed long wooden stakes on them, and then cut out sharp spikes from the heads of the wooden stakes that pointed forward.

Everyone knows that the stronger the wall, the more hope they will survive.Therefore, no one slacked off on this work, and everyone was exhausted, but they all worked hard to strengthen.

Naturally, the Hu people refused to allow them to easily reinforce the village, and kept dispatching elite small groups of troops to harass and sabotage the efforts of the Yanmen Army, and even tried to break into the village through these gaps.

The two sides continued to fight endlessly until midnight.

Just now, Li Siyuan finally supervised and led all the soldiers to block the last section of the collapsed village with a wooden fence. During this period, he repelled two waves of barbarian harassment, leaving more than a hundred corpses inside and outside the wall. Become part of this blocking wall.

At this moment, he was once again patrolling the plug wall, watching out for any possible omissions.

A group of dental soldiers followed behind Li Siyuan, rummaging through the newly added corpses on the wall along the way.As long as they are found to be barbarians, they will immediately cut their throats with a knife, cut off their heads, and throw them under the front wall. The sergeant is using these human heads mixed with mud to pile up a wall of human heads that keeps getting taller and thicker.Hu outside the Great Wall is fierce by nature, even if he is seriously injured and passes out, he will still go into battle once he wakes up.It has happened more than once that a violent barbarian jumped out of the dead and hacked and killed.However, when encountering the Shatuo people who are not weaker than these prairie barbarians, their countermeasures are very simple. need.

Sure enough, this time it happened again.A bald Khitan warrior suddenly jumped out of the pile of corpses under the wall, swung a steel bone flower and rushed towards Li Siyuan, who was facing his back.As the king of Yanmen County and envoy of Yanmen Jiedu, the armor on Li Siyuan's body was distinctive and very conspicuous. That Khitan warrior had undoubtedly planned for a long time, with clear goals and swift actions.

Hearing the sound of the wind behind him, Li Siyuan didn't turn around, instead he jumped forward, threw himself a few steps away, rolled on the spot, and then turned around with his sword drawn.The Khitan warrior didn't expect the general Shatuo to react so well, but a heavy hammer that concentrated all his strength hit the air and missed.He was dragged forward by his pounce and took several steps forward, unable to stand firmly.

At this time Li Siyuan had already rushed over like a leopard, he kicked the Khitan warrior directly on the wrist, knocked off the steel bone, and then mercilessly cut the second knife under the left chest The ribs were submerged into the chest cavity of the Khitan warrior.

Li Siyuan's face remained unchanged, he held the treasured saber in his hand, and with five fingers, he grasped the handle of the saber and turned it around.The Khitan warrior let out a desperate howl, his face contorted ferociously, and finally fell to his knees unwillingly, his eyes gradually became dizzy until he was breathless and no longer moved.

Li Siyuan pushed away the huge body of the Khitan warrior with some disgust, stood up straight and pulled out the precious sword, wiped the Khitan warrior's leather robe a few times, put the knife back into the sheath.Only then did the dental soldiers come to their senses, and rushed over. They cursed angrily, and slashed the dead barbarian's throat several times, and finally chopped off a bald head.

He killed a powerful Khitan warrior, but Li Siyuan didn't care at all, as if he had just run over an ant to death.He ignored the apologetic and admiring eyes of the tooth soldiers, and stared at the distant mountains. The dark night sky merged with the undulating mountains and it was difficult to distinguish.

But he knew that under the seemingly calm night, there must be countless wolf-like barbarians hiding in it, staring at this small fort.

Maybe it's really going to die here!

Li Siyuan smiled wryly, he stretched out his hand to press his chest resignedly, and touched an envelope wrapped in silk covered with body temperature and sweat.

He doesn't want to die!At least, he still wants to see her again.At the very least, he would have to meet Li Keyong, the adoptive father who wanted his surname again.I think Li Siyuan's family has served Li Keyong's family for several generations and died in battle.What can be exchanged?It was Li Ke who had unreasonable suspicion and murderous intentions towards him.

Hey, what have I been doing in the past 20 years?

Looking back carefully, it seems that there is nothing worth remembering, just follow the ups and downs of the tide of fate, and keep following others.

Forget it, what if such meaningless days come to an end here?

His only regret was that he never confessed his love to her.

Li Siyuan sighed and walked down the wall.

This is an unnamed ancient village. The village was built on the mountain, and the steep cliff was used as a barrier at the rear.

However, the cottage has been abandoned for a long time. There is no one resident in the village, and brambles and weeds are everywhere.Most of the houses have also collapsed, and only some crooked stone walls can barely shelter from the wind and rain.

Li Siyuan wiped a few more sweats from his face, although it was sweltering with the armor on, but he would never take off the armor at such a time for the sake of a bit of coolness, and put his life at risk.In a ruined wall that was originally a courtyard, there were a few long but very lush trees. Under the trees, there was a bonfire flickering, and a few people were squatting or sitting by the fire, cooking meat with iron helmets.There was a burst of meaty smell, but the people squatting next to it didn't look very happy.

Seeing Li Siyuan approaching, everyone stood up one after another.

Li Siyuan rushed forward to help a trembling middle-aged scribe who was about to stand up back to the original place, and found a stone to move there and sit down.The middle-aged scribe originally had a clear face and elegant eyebrows, but at this moment half of his body was wrapped in white cloth, his robe was stained with blood in many places, and the long sword with several gaps was inserted obliquely at his waist. The look after a hard fight.

"Your Majesty Li, I never thought we would end up in this situation." The middle-aged scribe stared blankly at Li Siyuan for a while, and let out a long, heartbroken sigh.

Li Siyuan just took off his steel helmet silently, put it on two stones beside the fire, poured some water, then walked to the side, took out a short knife, and pointed at a bone that had been cut so hard that its original appearance could not be seen. Cut off a piece of meat, threw it into the helmet, poured some water into it, and began to cook today's supper.

A lieutenant next to him with one eye tied up said: "Marshal, my piece of meat is already healed, you can eat this piece, this piece is the meat of the best buttocks, and it is all thin. Your piece It's from the chest, it's not tasty."

The middle-aged scribe sighed, and looked at the extremely calm crowd with some disgust, "Cannibalism, you are still picky, you are really barbarians."

The name of this middle-aged scribe is Yang Lin, but he is the liaison staff officer sent by Zhang Zimian's Western Expeditionary Army to Li Siyuan's place. Although he is only a staff officer and does not carry the word marching, he is still a staff officer of the camp staff office, and he is a sixth-rank official. .Originally, he was sent to Niupi Pass by Li Siyuan as a liaison staff officer, but who would have thought that Li Siyuan would go out of the pass to pursue the Hu people, followed all the way, and unexpectedly fell into the ambush of the Hu people, the army was defeated, and now everyone is in a desperate situation, and even cut off the war The dead enemy's corpses are eaten by human flesh.Yang Lin was born as a scholar, although his family is not from a wealthy family, but he is also a local landlord. He joined the army as a staff officer with a civilian job.

He considered himself a reader of sage books, and he would never eat human flesh with these Shatuo barbarians.

This time tens of thousands of people were defeated, in fact, Li Siyuan and many Shatuo soldiers had no intention of venting their anger on the Qin people.If it weren't for the fact that Li Keyong, who was beaten by Li Jing, didn't know whether Li Keyong was alive or dead, Li Siyuan would not have come out to take on the important task of Shatuo. He betrayed Li Keyong and voted for Li Jing, and then was betrayed by his soldiers, so he had to retreat to Yunzhou to defend against the barbarians.If it wasn't for Li Siyuan's desire to perform well, he wouldn't have pursued the barbarians so hard at the beginning, leading to the current predicament.

According to the anger in Li Siyuan's heart, he would always have to scold him severely to be refreshed.But the ups and downs of life over the past few years have made Li Siyuan particularly good at concealing his true thoughts, and he is even better at restraining his emotions.At this time, scolding Yang Lin will not help the matter, but will offend the envoy instead.If he can escape, he will definitely have to rely on Qin Jun in the future, and maybe he will have to rely on him to say a few good words at that time.

Under the light of the fire, he frowned with politeness and respect, and he couldn't see any other expressions.

He also smiled and refused the kindness of the Ministry to let him eat meat.What Yang Lin said was very reasonable. Although he also eats human flesh, he had no choice when food was running out.If you don't eat human flesh, you have to eat horse meat, and war horses are their only hope of escape.Li Siyuan couldn't eat his own war horse, so he could only eat the human flesh of the enemy's corpse.However, even if they were forced to eat human flesh, it would be too much to eat human flesh and be picky about the fat.

"This place is not far from Niupi Pass. We still have 2 horses in Niupi Pass, and there are [-] Qin soldiers in Yunzhou. Maybe reinforcements will come to rescue us tomorrow..." Li Siyuan waited for the meat to cook When it is cooked, take it out and eat it.After eating the two-jin sternum in a few bites, he wiped the corners of his mouth and raised his head.

These cheering words, but no one spoke up.They did keep 2 people in Niupiguan, but these were auxiliary soldiers.And even if the 20 Qin army in Yunzhou is willing to send troops to support them, what kind of people are there? There are a total of 10,000 Hu people who went south this time.They almost wiped out their entire army, and they only killed less than [-] Hu people and mobs. [-]+ elite barbarians are intact.Facing this barbarian army, I'm afraid Li Jing from Youzhou was also taken aback, so he had to think about how to defend.

Although Li Siyuan encouraged everyone, everyone sighed and fell into pessimism and despair.

"It's impossible to expect reinforcements. This time we almost confessed to Baishuiluo. Now there are no more than [-] wounded here. Yunzhou still has [-] soldiers from us and the Qin army, [-] auxiliary soldiers, and Shuozhou has [-] from the Qin army. There are [-] soldiers and auxiliary soldiers. The total number is only [-], but they are scattered everywhere. The army of the Hu people will go south, and Fei Huzi's Yanmen soldiers and horses will also take the opportunity to go north. I am afraid that Marshal Zhang of the Qin army will not be able to We are about to be besieged in Daibei, how many soldiers and horses the King of Qin still has in the east of Taihang, if he wants to respond, he would have already dispatched. It is impossible for the King of Qin to take the few remaining soldiers and horses in Hebei to rush to the east of the river to fight recklessly Hu people. The biggest possibility is that King Qin will immediately recall Daibei’s Western Expeditionary Army and retreat to Weizhou, or even Hebei, to avoid the Hu people’s sharp edge.”

Yang Lin immediately retorted loudly after hearing the words: "The King of Qin has never abandoned or given up on the soldiers of the Qin army. Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are in the east of the river, and the King of Qin will never abandon us just because the Hu bandits are powerful."

"Perhaps the King of Qin will not give up the generals of the Qin Army!" Another burly man who was grilling meat by the fire choked, "But in the eyes of the King of Qin, we may not be regarded as the generals of the Qin Army, right? The King of Qin will really send troops to replace the North , but will he send troops to the barbarians to rescue us?"

This burly man is actually Li Siyuan's envoy in Hengchong Capital. His name is Li Biao. He is much taller than ordinary people, with broad shoulders and a round waist. He is as mighty as a door god. His armor is stained with blood. It looked hideous.

Three days ago, there was a bloody battle at Baishuiluo. There were ambushes outside and rebellion inside. Li Siyuan's Yanmen Army disintegrated layer by layer, like melting ice and melting snow.Only a very small number of troops maintained their integrity and loyalty to Li Siyuan. Among them, Hengchong led by Li Biao was the most loyal to Li Siyuan. At the critical moment, the situation was saved, and many soldiers loyal to Li Siyuan were gathered together, and finally they broke through the pursuit and interception of several Hu troops, breaking through the encirclement all the way.

Helplessly, the Hu people's army is like mountains and seas, far surpassing the Yanmen army in number, and the Hu people are waiting for work, since the Yanmen army is running around outside the Great Wall, they can't completely shake off the pursuers.Fighting and fleeing along the way, they had to retreat into this dangerous abandoned cottage in the end.The Hu chasers then surrounded the stockade and attacked from all sides.The fierce offensive and defensive battle has been going on for a whole day, and the Yanmen army in the village has been reduced from more than [-] to [-], and most of the rest were injured.There is no food and grass in the village, so they can only cut meat from the enemy's corpses.

"Can we just sit and wait for death?" Kang Yanzhang, another Yanmen general, asked Li Siyuan loudly, "Does the commander have any clever strategies to get us out of danger?"

Li Siyuan stared at the fire, and slowly said: "At this time, the only thing that can be honored is bravery. When we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins. As long as we can return to the encirclement and return to the Great Wall, there may be some hope!" (To be continued. )