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Chapter 176 Lost the wife and lost the army

Under the pine light, the armor shone brightly, and the soldiers walked around to clean the battlefield, dragged the corpses one by one, and arranged them in a row.

Li Yuan was wearing a thick armor with his sword pressed, and his eyes were stern. In front of him was the corpse of Changsun Shunde.The eldest Sun Shunde maintained a posture of falling on his back, his eyes wide open, staring angrily ahead, with blood mixed around his mouth.But the side card is still held on the body, and the fitted iron armor is pierced by an arrowhead.And a young man knelt in front of the eldest grandson Shunde's body, weeping bitterly.

"I'm the one who's sorry for Brother Shilian!" Looking at the corpse, Li Yuan looked up to the sky and let out a long sigh, showing a sad expression.

"Who is it? Who shot my uncle to death!" the boy said angrily.

Li Yuan was silent for a while, then shook his head, and a refined man with a long sword in his hand, glanced at the young man, and said: "This arrow is shot from dozens of steps away, and eventually it can penetrate the iron armor and the side plate." , only strong bows and crossbows of five stone or more."

Speaking of this, the elegant man lowered his body, identified the arrowhead feathers and said: "This arrow is not a crossbow arrow, but a bow arrow, how many people in the world can open a five-stone bow? "Speaking of this, the elegant man sighed.

As soon as the words fell, the young man slammed his fist on the mud and said angrily, "Champion, this feud is irreconcilable!"
"Wuji mourns and resigns!" The elegant man said out loud, the two of them are good friends, they defected to Li's residence together, and both are Li Shimin's friends.The elegant man's name was Liu Hongji, and the young man was Li Shimin's wife and younger brother's eldest grandson Wuji.

Li Yuan's face darkened, and he looked at the corpses of 27 officers and soldiers. Their armor and swords were all stripped off. This was obviously the behavior of rogues.Li Yuan said: "Send a letter to the four counties in the north to arrest Li Chongjiu and Li Hu. All the officers and soldiers dig three feet into the ground and arrest them too!"

Just as Li Yuan was about to speak, at this moment Shan Po rode up from a distance, a servant from Li's mansion turned over and fell off his horse and came to Li Yuan, and said in panic, "Master is not well, Miss San is gone!"

Li Yuan shook his hands, his eyes shot a stern look, and said: "It's all right, how could you not see me?"

"I don't know about this old servant. In the evening, I found that several of Miss Watch's servants had been knocked out." The servant was terrified and trembling all over.The left-behind mansion in Taiyuan is heavily guarded, if outsiders want to rob Li Zhiwan, it is not so easy, the only possibility is that Li Zhiwan leaves the mansion privately.

Li Yuan was trembling with anger, it would be fine if his eldest grandson Shunde died, but Li Zhiwan was his most beloved daughter, and now she actually eloped for a man.This is not like Sima Xiangru Zhuo Wenjun, elopement is a festival for women to abandon their names, and the lintel of the Li family is ignored.There is a saying that the runner is a concubine, and the parents and the people of the country are all despicable.If this matter gets out, Li Yuan, no, how can the entire Li Mansion behave like a man!Li Yuan was so angry that he almost couldn't breathe, and fainted on the spot.
The sound of hoofbeats suddenly stopped. After Li Chongjiu and Li Hu rode wildly along the official road all night, they were really tired and rested in a dense forest.It's not too far from the border of Taiyuan County, but Li Yuan's arrest order must have been spread during the day, and at this time they became rebels wanted by the court again.

But right now, they can only take one step at a time. They must first leave Taiyuan County, the confidant of Li Yuan's control.After leaving Taiyuan County, where to go, this has become a problem.

Now Li Chongjiu's choice is to go to Huaihuang Town or Shanggu County. The military power in Huaihuang Town is controlled by Tanzong, Qiqianzhai, and Li Chongjiu's confidant brothers who came out of Shaolin Temple, so there is no need to worry about problems.But it was a long way to Huaihuang Town. If the people of Yanmen County got the news in advance, they would block the Great Wall Pass, and it would be difficult for them to get out of the pass.But Shanggu County is not safe. The only remaining abbots in Feihu County are Gao Chu, Zhao Wansan, and Xi Cao. If they know that Li Chongjiu has become a wanted criminal, what will happen?In Shanggu County, there is Li Chongjiu's painstaking effort, the newly repaired craftsman's workshop, and the iron mine, which must not be given up.

After some discussion, Li Chongjiu and Li Hu decided to take a detour to leave the Great Wall from Shanggu County.After resting for an hour, the sky had just dawned, and everyone set off again.After walking for a while, their horses were already foaming, and they were obviously out of horsepower. At this moment, they suddenly saw a post on the official road in front of them.At present, Li Chongjiu and his group of more than 300 riders came forward to surround them, and they broke through the post station in a short while. After killing the postmen, they captured more than 70 post horses to transfer.

Li Chongjiu simply gave up his heart. On the official road from Taiyuan to the border of Yanmen, there is a post station built according to the standard of one station for thirty miles. According to the military situation of the Sui Dynasty, the basic official documents are delivered with six stations per day. Shiyi is for the delivery of urgent official documents, that is, the legendary three hundred miles of urgent, fast horses that change horses without changing people to report the military situation.

Li Chongjiu thought in his heart that if the post station was destroyed along the way, it would definitely make it difficult for the military to transmit information. They might be able to enter the city first before Li Yuan sent the official document of Li Chongjiu's punishment to Feihu County.The cavalry are like flying, so they are not afraid of chasing. If there is a stage horse to transfer, the speed can be greatly increased. If Li Yuan sends Qingqi to chase him, there will be fewer people and he will have to die. If there are too many people, he will definitely not be able to run fast.

At present, Li Chongjiu, Li Hu, Su Su and the others simply acted as traitors and traitors, leading people along the official road, burning, killing and looting all the way, and sending people to sprinkle barbed thorns or random trees along the road every time they traveled. , to delay the pursuit of the cavalry behind.Along the way, the officers and soldiers of the Sui Dynasty in Wubao saw Li Chongjiu and his party of hundreds of cavalry galloping like flying, with smoke and dust billowing behind them, and none of them dared to come out to intercept them.The only thing the Sui soldiers could do was to ignite the smoke on the fort and call the police.Therefore, within a day, the entire Taiyuan County was full of beacon smoke, soaring into the sky.The common people didn't know, and some people thought that the Turks would send hundreds of thousands of cavalry to the south again, and there was a lot of panic in the next county, or that the thieves from Shanggu Lishanfei broke through Jinyang and came to Taiyuan County.

Li Chongjiu and the others finally saw what the people in the Great Sui Dynasty were full of grievances and smoke, like a slogan for an uprising. Without waiting for them to do something, they passed several places along the way and saw large groups of rioters attacking the checkpoints guarded by the officers and soldiers.The common people took off the corrupt officials at the checkpoint, some of them were hanged to death, some were beaten violently, and their corpses lay on the ground.After all this was done, the common people cheered in unison, without any fear of the ambitions of the officers and soldiers.

Along the way, there are grassroots people, large and small, several, dozens, and hundreds of people asking Li Chongjiu for refuge, and even joining them in an uprising.

(End of this chapter)