[Jian Wang III] Prosperous Tang Dynasty

In the summer of the first year of Zhide, Taiyuan was in danger with heavy troops. At the same time, the Henan front was defeated, and a large number of towns fell, leaving only Suiyang.

At that time, Su Jixian was already in Taiyuan.

The villages around Taiyuan have fallen, the east city has become a defensive outer city, and the residents have been relocated to the west city.

The martial arts alliance was established in the Jianghu, and Fang Gan, the leader of the alliance, dispatched the knights of the Jianghu to help the Tang army meet the enemy and recover the lost ground.

Su Jixian doesn't care much about what's going on in the rivers and lakes, the imperial troops are his focus, and now most of the Central Plains are in flames of war, the battle line is too long, food, grass and military supplies are in short supply, and the generals of all parties are a little bit burnt out.

After another round of siege was over, Langya, who was still unable to break through the city, retreated. The generals discussed in the Xicheng Military Command Center.

Facing the map of Taiyuan, Li Guangbi silently replaced the small flag of the Tang army in the mine with a small flag of spikes, "The Dongshan mine has been captured, and the Jinci Temple is still being seen around. The army led by Shi Chaoyi has advanced another ten miles."

Guo Ziyi said: "The food and grass in the city are almost exhausted, and the armor is almost broken and useless. Not long ago, the Fen Bridge was repaired. I am afraid that the reinforcements from the Wolf Fang will come to the city soon. Does the National Teacher have any ideas?"

Su Jixian raised his head from the thick stack of letter papers in his hands, looked at the map, and asked, "Have the weapons for this season of the Tibetan Sword Villa arrived?"

Li Chengen, the leader of the Tiance Mansion who was in charge of contacting the Tibetan Sword Villa, replied: "It's still on the way, and it's expected to enter Taiyuan in five days."

"Well, hold on for another five days." Su Jixian twisted the silver fox ring on his index finger in thought, "Don't worry about the grain and grass, the lady who hides the sword will send someone to deliver it in the afternoon the day after tomorrow."

"Before the food and grass are delivered, you can send someone to find some fish and crabs in the Fen River." The white-bearded elder sitting next to him suddenly said, "There are many people with excellent light kung fu in the rivers and lakes. I can arrange for people to go fishing in the Fen River every day." , don’t worry about being blocked by the Spike Army.”

Li Guangbi breathed a sigh of relief, and bowed his hands to him: "This will bother the leader Fang."

Fang Gan nodded and continued to sit quietly in the chair and listen to their discussion.

"The current situation in Taiyuan is not bad. What I'm worried about is Suiyang." Su Jixian tapped his fingers on the letter paper and asked, "How about the prefect of Suiyang?"

Guo Ziyi thought for a while, "The prefect of Suiyang is a good character, he knows people and uses them well, but he doesn't know the art of war. The one who leads the army in Suiyang is called Zhang Xun. He is a general, and he uses troops very skillfully."

"Now there are less than [-] soldiers in Suiyang City." Su Jixian handed over a piece of letter paper in his hand, "And Spike has [-] troops, and it is still increasing troops."

The letter paper was circulated in the hands of everyone, and the atmosphere became more and more stagnant. Li Guangbi quickly calculated in his heart, but found that there was almost no place to deploy troops to support Suiyang. Send troops to reinforce...but Suiyang really cannot be lost!"

Suiyang is an important town in the Jianghuai River and an important pass of the Grand Canal. All the wealth from the Jianghuai River to the front line must pass through here. If Suiyang falls, the consequences can be imagined.

Guo Ziyi suggested: "My eldest son still has an army to contain the rebels in the north, how about transferring him to Suiyang?"

Su Jixian raised his hand and shook his head, "No, you can't withdraw your troops from the north. It would be bad if Langya took the route from the north to outflank Taiyuan. It might even cross the north and attack Lingwu directly. Your Majesty doesn't have many elite troops around."

After a pause, he suddenly turned his head to look at the huge map on the wall behind him, "General Guo, you said your son is in the north?"

"Exactly."

"Perhaps... we can borrow troops from Huihe.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, Guo Ziyi nodded and said, "I'll go to believe in Gouzi later and borrow troops to go back to He."

Su Jixian hummed lightly, and Li Guangbi who was beside him suddenly slapped his hammer on his palm, beckoning them all to come to the map.

"Prefect Yan sent news not long ago that although the plain is surrounded by Spike Fang, it is still safe. The Spike Fang has been unable to attack for a long time. Now the battlefield is mainly in the area from Taiyuan to Suiyang." Li Guangbi gestured on the map, his finger on the mark on the plain Circled a circle, "If Pingyuan successfully breaks through, we can contact Suiyang to recover this area - all, and the food and grass will be available. But if we want to break through or even recover, the strength of troops is very important."

As he said that, he looked at Su Jixian and smiled, "National Teacher, I remember you have a militia in your hand?"

Su Jixian nodded, hesitating a bit, "The militia of 2 people is now near Yecheng, and I have only practiced it for half a year, is it available?"

"That's enough." Li Guangbi looked happy, and he slapped his palm like a cattail leaf fan on the back, making a loud bang, "Over there, please divide the army into two groups, one to Suiyang and the other to Pingyuan .”

Su Jixian stood still, and his thin figure didn't even shake, "Okay."

Guo Ziyi pushed Li Guangbi's arm away with an elbow, and said, "Although it is not easy to deploy troops, we can modify our strategy a little bit."

"Appreciate further details."

Guo Ziyi grabbed the teacup and took a sip of water, then said in detail while gesturing on the map.

The discussion lasted for more than an hour before it ended, and it was completely dark when they disbanded.

The night sky in summer is not pure black, but more like dark blue. A Milky Way passes by in the sky, and the stars are twinkling, which is extremely beautiful.

Su Jixian walked out of the command office, and walked slowly towards his mansion.

Compared with the occupied Chang'an, Taiyuan was more bleak. Although there was no curfew, no one would go out after nightfall. The streets and alleys were pitch black, and only the patrolling guards occasionally passed by.

He missed the hustle and bustle of Xijing in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, sighed softly, and stopped suddenly.

Next...Where should I go?

Su Jixian stood at the intersection and thought about the way home, a gleam of coldness suddenly flashed in his peripheral vision, and when he looked sideways, he heard the sound of the wooden door opening again, and an orange light shone from the door.

"Yeah?" The woman in plain white was startled, and the baby in her arms also babbled, "Is this... the national teacher?"

Su Jixian looked at her, the face was not familiar, but the style of the clothes was familiar, "Are you a disciple of Chunyang?"

The Chunyang female disciple smiled gently, "Well, my name is Liu Mengyang, Yang Ning's wife, thank you for the care of the national teacher all the time, I have not thanked you in person for a long time, I feel really guilty."

He was slightly taken aback, then shook his head, "You don't need to thank me, Yang Ning took good care of me back then. Is this his child?"

"Yes, it's a boy named Yang Tian, ​​and he's very healthy." Liu Mengyang approached him with the baby in his arms, and said with a smile, "Would the national teacher want to hug him?"

Su Jixian immediately took a step back and waved his hands, "No, I... I'm not very good at dealing with children..."

Seeing his evasive appearance, Liu Mengyang laughed softly, with tears in the corners of his eyes, "Heh... so there are things that the national teacher can't know... When my husband mentioned you to me before, he said that you seem to have nothing wrong with you." He even said that he hoped that Xiaotian would be as smart as you in the future..."

"I'm just an ordinary person, so there are things I don't know..." Su Jixian looked at the baby with wide eyes in her arms, but still didn't dare to reach out to touch it, "If there are any difficulties in the future, then..."

His voice stopped abruptly, and suddenly he frowned and raised his hand, a strong wind blew up his wide sleeves. Before Liu Mengyang could react, he was pushed back again and again by the wind, and retreated into the room, and then the door slammed close.

"National Division?!"

"Stay indoors, don't come out."

The sound of the long knife being unsheathed was especially clear in the silent night, like an angry dragon leaping up and screaming when it was awakened in sleep. Even through a door, Liu Mengyang could feel the fierce hostility.

The dazzling silver knife light streaked across the darkness, and a clear humming of gold and stone was stirred up, as if even the humming of cicadas stopped for a moment.

"You are so brave, you dare to assassinate me in Xicheng."

The soft and sarcastic voice inexplicably made people dizzy, the assassin immediately clenched the dagger in his hand, the confusion in his eyes receded quickly, but he found that in the blink of an eye, the person in front of him disappeared.

Immediately after, there was a slight sound of breaking through the air, and before he had time to think about it, he turned to the side, and a slash of saber light slanted towards him, and he retreated several feet in a row, narrowly avoiding the compact and domineering saber gesture.

Another person came out from the darkness, Su Jixian slammed his sword back, and swept away the double-edged scimitar that was aimed at his head, a figure staggered back, and it was a woman's figure.

Two assassins, a man and a woman.

Only two people.Su Jixian felt a little bored, thinking that the lineup he met when he was assassinated was quite large, at least ten people came, why only two came now?

But even though there were only two of them this time, their martial strength was first-class, and it could be seen from their agility and pace that these two were the elite assassins.

After the male assassin took several steps back, he felt a stabbing pain in his back shoulder. At this time, the wound on his back shoulder started to bleed, and a large piece of clothing was soon soaked.

The smell of blood permeated.

Su Jixian didn't continue to meet him, but turned around and slashed at the female assassin. The light of the knife seemed to turn into shooting stars all over the sky, intertwined into a fine net, and rushed from all directions.

The female assassin had no way to retreat, she suddenly turned sideways, twisted her arms and raised her wrists, the crescent scimitar blocked his seedling knife, and sank suddenly at the moment of contact, Su Jixian only felt that the knife was chopped into cotton, most of it The strength was released, and there was a sense of weightlessness under the knife.

The scimitar turned again, like a soft and vicious snake, quickly climbing up the long and narrow blade, and the sharp tip bit the opponent's wrist fiercely!

Su Jixian draws his saber and retreats, another gust of wind blows from behind him, he twists his wrist, the long saber draws an arc on his side, sticks to his back, there is only a crisp clang, and the short sword can barely block it .

The scimitar in the female assassin's hand was stabbing head-on, the blade painted with dark paint could not be seen clearly in the night, Su Jixian snorted lightly, turned sideways to avoid the edge of the blade, then suddenly leaned forward, the blade behind his back Point it sharply, and hit the male assassin's wrist hard.

The moment the sound of bone cracking sounded, a silvery white suddenly protruded from Su Jixian's arm, like a pale ghost hand breaking through the ground, and stretched upwards with astonishing speed.

The female assassin, who had no time to dodge at all, felt a sudden pain in her arm, and almost couldn't hold the scimitar, almost falling to the ground.

The two assassins were wounded almost at the same moment, Su Jixian slapped the scimitar away with another scabbard, and clawed at the neck of the female assassin in front of him.

The female assassin quickly leaned back, her waist bent into an unimaginable arc, but unexpectedly, this claw was just a feint, and Su Jixian stopped suddenly the next moment.

The wide and wide sleeves spread out like the wings of a phoenix, with an aura that covered the sky and the sun, hunting, and a terrifying force slapped the female assassin's chest!

This palm is like a nine-day thunder calamity that is about to split the sky and the earth, and even the air is forcibly split into a vacuum; it is also like a heavy and huge Mount Tai.

Boom! ! !

The loud noise was deafening, and a deep pit visible to the naked eye was shot out on the female assassin's chest. She fell to the ground with a bang, and sank deep into the bluestone ground. Cracks spread rapidly from under her like a spider web, and fine stone particles flew up. .

And she was not dead yet, she opened her eyes in horror, with blood foaming from her mouth, unable to move.

Su Jixian flicked his hand, and the knife in his hand shot out, piercing her abdomen with a chirp and nailing her to the ground.

He turned his head, his face was clearly visible in the not so dark summer night, his clear and deep peach blossom eyes were full of starlight, his eyes were clear and cold, neither angry nor happy, as if broken ice was sinking and floating in his eyes.

The figure of the male assassin suddenly froze in this gaze, subconsciously stepped back, but unexpectedly, after only a moment of hesitation, Su Jixian's figure disappeared again.

Su Jixian's disappearance was very abrupt, obviously his eyes were still fixed on him, but he disappeared out of thin air as if melting into the starlight, unable to catch the slightest flaw.

"The movement is too slow." The faint voice came from all around, and it was impossible to distinguish where the person was, "Why don't I teach you, what is assassination?"

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