Song Dynasty

Chapter 33

The red sun rose from the eastern horizon, and almost instantly, everything around was brightened.

A rainstorm that came and went quickly could not change the dry weather, and the sky was still a deep blue.The water vapor on the ground was illuminated by the sun, and steam rose from the cracks and filled the plain town, turning into colorful colors.

Hongze Lake is still not visible, and a large tidal flat stretches under the feet until the distance is infinite. When the wind blows, dust is blowing lightly.

This was the third day after the battle, and Li Cheng's main force arrived so quickly that all of them had entered Pingyuan Town.

There are gray tents everywhere in the town, and the sound of "Ding Dong" can be heard everywhere, that is Li Chengjun is repairing the camp.More than 5000 people worked at the same time, and the deer village, fences, and earth barriers stood up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Wang Shen was locked in the warehouse for two days and three nights. He ate well and slept enough. After getting up early in the morning, he sat inside for an hour. Now he was escorted out by two guards to meet Li Cheng. The air, I feel refreshed.

To be honest, 200 people in a warehouse feels terrible.It was stuffy and hot inside, and the smell of sweat and excrement was so strong that it couldn't be melted away. Everyone would suffer from the plague if they stayed any longer.In any case, let everyone be free as soon as possible.

Since Li Cheng received the false imperial decree I wrote, he has been avoiding him, and presumably he is also weighing whether to be recruited by the court.He asked someone to invite me over today, presumably he has already made a decision.The two armies are at war, if you don't kill him, I've already used words to arrest him, so Li Cheng wouldn't embarrass me.Today, everything will have a result.Wang Shen thought so.

Thinking about meeting Li Cheng, one of the strongest men in this era, he felt a little nervous.

Walking on the road, Wang Shen looked around and found that although there were many soldiers in Pingyuan Town, the military discipline of Li Cheng's men and horses was not bad, and everything was arranged in an orderly manner.In the era of cold weapons, the combat effectiveness of the army is mainly reflected in discipline.Li Cheng at the moment is just a rogue. It is quite remarkable that his troops can have such discipline.

Pingyuan Town is very small, just a 200-meter street, and it only takes a few steps to reach the end.Next to it is a courtyard, and there are four armored soldiers standing at the door with their chests outstretched. This is where Li Cheng's Chinese army is located.

After entering the gate, the inside was empty and there were not many people to be seen, everything seemed extremely quiet.

Going around the lobby and entering the courtyard, Wang Shen's heart tightened slightly when he thought of meeting Li Cheng soon.

The yard is very large, and there is a weapon shelf inside, on which are inserted [-] kinds of weapons such as lances, spears, spears, axes, forks, etc., and stone locks and barbells are placed on the ground.

After a rain, the weather suddenly turned cold, and it felt like autumn.

Li Cheng was only wearing a thin short shirt, standing under a big tree sweating profusely, taking a towel handed by a soldier and constantly wiping it.Evidently, he had just worked up his strength.

The leaves had turned yellow and fell in pieces in the wind.

After seeing Wang Shen, Li Cheng threw the towel to the guard and said with a smile, "Ambassador Wang is here, come in quickly."

"I met General Li. The general called me over early in the morning, but he has already made up his mind." Wang Shen responded and walked over.

Li Cheng suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed: "The ambassador is impatient, and he can't wait for one day? Mr. Zhang didn't invite an old and serious person to come over, but called you, a rough warrior, to do such a big event. It's hard to understand." Seeing the embarrassment on Wang Shen's face, he continued to laugh and said, "I don't want to use two hundred crossbowmen to take down Li Yu's ten thousand former army Huo Qubing for four days. I can't help but wonder if I misjudged the person .”

I don't know if this laughter is a compliment or a mockery.

Wang Shen felt annoyed in his heart, and then suddenly realized: what Li Cheng sent was just a psychological offensive on the negotiating table of later generations, he wanted to be the first to beat others and dampen my spirit, and lead the rhythm with a strong aura.Hehe, fortunately, I met an experienced negotiator like me, otherwise I would really be beaten to death by him.

He also smiled: "Zhang Xianggong has always heard that General Li is a bold and heroic man. There are many wars in the Huaihe area. If the person who came was a pedantic master, he might not be able to walk in front of the king of heaven. , with your temperament, you would have already fought out. Rather than squabbling with the king of heaven, it's better for me to speak my heart."

Li Cheng's laughter stopped, his eyes narrowed into two points, and stabbed at Wang Shen.

Wang Shen felt the huge pressure, but he was not afraid, and looked back with a smile.

"Okay, Zhang Xianggong did not send the wrong person." After a long time, Li Cheng nodded.Before he finished speaking, he hooked his foot, picked up two white wax poles, stretched out his hand and grabbed one, then knocked the other one to Wang Shen with a "snap", and shouted violently: "Catch it!"

Wang Shen caught the white wax pole subconsciously, and before he could recover, Li Chengcheng hit it with a "hoo".

The long stick landed on Wang Shen's scalp, and the strong wind shaved his face painfully: "Do it, take my three moves before you say it."

As soon as the words fell, the white wax pole retracted, and shook in front of it, shaking into a big flower, which was exactly the move of the big gun.

Then, six or seven phantoms poked at Wang Shen at the same time.

"Pu Pu Pu" there was a continuous soft sound, Wang Shen didn't know how many times he was shot in the flash, the pain was really unbearable.

This is the true strength of a super-first-class master, not to mention fighting with him, you can't even see his moves clearly.Besides, Wang Shen doesn't know martial arts at all.

"The first move." While Li Cheng was speaking, the tip of the gun was retracted again, and it landed on Wang Shen's gun barrel, slid down and hit his right hand.

The pain was so painful that tears were about to come out, and I felt that my right hand had lost all feeling.

Wang Shen hastily let go of his right hand and jumped backwards.

Li Cheng took a step forward and stabbed forward with the long pole, stabbing Wang Shen's abdomen.

The overwhelming pain made me want to vomit out breakfast.

"This is the second trick. If you fight to the death, you have already died ten times." Li Cheng shouted loudly, his voice like a thunderbolt.He shook the ash rod again.In front of him were three or four spears, big and small, all false and real, which dazzled people: "Wang Daosi, you are not bad at leading troops. In the battle field, there are long spears and halberds, and heavy armor battle formations. Personal bravery is not very good. Useful. But you are the first to enter the battle, and you cannot hide behind for the rest of your life. Wars can happen in any situation, and you cannot guarantee that you will be surrounded by a group of heavily armored tigers every time. For example, in the battle the day before yesterday, someone Did I kill you? If I wanted to, you would have become a dead person long ago. Wang Shen, it was interesting for you to block my knife that day, remember? Come, pick me up!"

As soon as the gun flowers were retracted, they condensed into a line and stabbed straight.

……

Why don't you remember?
A jaundiced sky, a land full of human blood.

The cavalry that hit like a hurricane.

A wave of mud rolled up by horseshoes.

Unyielding fighting spirit.

It was a knife that exhausted all energy.

……

"Kill!" Wang Shen leaned to one side, slashed forward with a stick like a saber.

A line of long lances disappeared, and two white wax poles were framed together and fixed in the air.

The monstrous force like a gust of wind disappeared, followed by Li Cheng's admiring eyes: "Not bad, spiritual. Martial arts, or the ability to kill people is actually nothing special. It's just practicing the moves a thousand times over and over again. Thousands of times, until it becomes your instinct. Every time you fight, you don’t even need to think about it, your body will tell you what to do next? I’m not bragging, you can get [-]% of my means by hitting Hebei Invincible with guns and sticks. Stay, My Beiwei army is short of a commander."

Sweat came out like slurry, dripping down the tip of the nose.The three moves just now sounded like a long story, but in fact it was just a moment, but Wang Shen felt that all his strength was about to be exhausted, and his legs couldn't help twitching.

However, in front of such a character with a strong aura, he couldn't lose.He has seen too many such characters in the shopping malls and officialdoms of later generations.If you lose your spirit, not only will you lose your underwear, but you will also be looked down upon by others.How can you negotiate if you can't treat them as equal opponents?

He took a breath, tried his best to calm himself down, and suddenly smiled and said, "Is the Heavenly King trying to teach me martial arts and recruit me? Thanks to the blue eyes, Wang Shen is very grateful. However, I am now obeying Zhang Xianggong's orders. The king of heaven really thinks highly of me. When I am recruited, I can ask my lord for help. Wang Shen has always had the ambition to join the army and kill the enemy to serve the country. If I can join the army under the king of heaven, I can show my ambition."

Just kidding, that's right, you, Li Cheng, have a strong personality, otherwise, you wouldn't be able to become a false hero in the future.But, you are going to be a traitor in the future, I can't afford to lose this person.

Besides, I, Wang Shen, am a modern person, but I don't have the family and country feelings of the ancients. I just want to quickly take Anniang, sister and brother, and two hundred supply battalion soldiers to escape from this big battlefield and flee to the south of the Yangtze River.

Hearing Wang Shen's neither humble nor overbearing words, Li Cheng's eyes became more appreciative, with a trace of regret: "That's it!"

After that, he threw the white wax pole aside.

Wang Shen heaved a sigh of relief and asked, "General Li, what do you think about recruiting security?"

"Okay, let's get down to business." Li Cheng sat down on the chair, pointed to the side, and signaled Wang Shen to sit down and talk.

He stretched out his hand lazily to grab his back, and kept moving: "Someone who is used to being at ease, has been recruited and put under Uncle Liu Ping's control. I'm afraid I can't stand the restraint. Also, I also It’s not that I haven’t been recruited, but the result is that the officials gave me a name, but they didn’t allocate a penny of military pay. Hehe, Wang Daosi, do you think it’s interesting to find such a mother-in-law for me if I’m fine?”

Li Cheng has two faces, he is as agile as a tiger when fighting in battle, like a sharp knife out of its sheath, but he looks lazy and unscrupulous on weekdays.

Wang Shen sorted out his thoughts, and was about to speak, but Li Cheng waved his hand: "I know what you want to say, but someone took Sizhou and directly threatened Huaixi Huaibei in the north and Yangzhou in the south. Chongdi, everyone wants to fight for it. If you are recruited, you can live in peace of mind. However, a certain person is not afraid, and has no interest in being recruited. I have been thinking about this matter for a day and a night, and I think it is unnecessary."

"Okay, since the king of heaven has made up his mind, I can only go back to Zhang Xianggong and report to him. I also ask the general to release all my subordinates. I will go back to the official's house immediately." Wang Shen stood up and cupped his hands , was about to say goodbye.

He doesn't care if Li Chengshou is not recruited!Anyway, as long as everyone's lives can be saved, the matter has been settled, and everyone is alive, which is considered complete.It's okay, okay, my fake imperial decree finally tricked Li Cheng.

"Hold on."

Wang Shen: "What else can the King of Heaven say?"

"Ambassador Wang is a rare talent. I think he will be highly valued by Mr. Zhang Jun, and he will surely stand out in the future. Maybe in a few years, a shining general will gradually rise in the Song Dynasty." Li Cheng His mouth was full of praise, his eyes were frighteningly bright.

Wang Shen's heart sank, and he felt that something was wrong: "I'm just a must-eating guest in Zhang Xianggong's court, Gou Quan's life is in troubled times, I dare not have other thoughts."

Li Cheng suddenly burst into laughter: "It seems that you still look down on me, a rogue! Do you know what I, Li Chengping, love most in life?"

Wang Shen: "I don't know."

Li Cheng: "A hero who loves tigers and warlords the most, and you are the one who loves to know soldiers the most, and you are, and I will not let you go. I am short of people, so even if it is coercion, I have to keep you. If not Promise, kill ten of the two hundred captives one day, first kill the civilian husband, then kill the sergeant, then the officer, and finally kill your wife and children, until you agree."

(End of this chapter)