[Datang Shuanglong] Aspiration

The forest in winter is full of withered grass, dead trees and dead leaves, and a little spark can ignite a fire that burns the entire forest, not to mention Li Shimin still deliberately set the fire? ——I saw flames blazing up, and half the sky was burned red in a short time.

The two figures shuttled very quickly among the dead branches and leaves, shook off the billowing heat waves and thick smoke behind them, and rushed to a small stream to stop.

"The fire is so big, it won't take long, and even the water source will be completely evaporated. Now our only way to survive is to walk out of this forest along the stream, but we don't have to think about it, it will definitely be Li Er's bastard who greets us The kid has thousands of troops." Kou Zhong took the stream water and wiped his face, then spat bitterly.

"Then you can choose, do you want to go out and be shot as a hedgehog, or stay here and cook a roast pig?" Xu Ziling simply jumped into the water and rolled a few times, sighing quietly: "It seems that Li Shimin has long been for us. After setting up this burial place, deliberately forced us into the forest, and then fired it up!"

"Let's go!" Kou Zhong stretched out his hand to grab Xu Ziling's arm and pulled him up. He said with a heroic smile, "Let's rush out and kill him a few times. How can the majestic Yangzhou Ssangyong become roasted double pigs?!"

"Only you are a pig, don't add me!" Xu Ziling snorted and got up, and then the two performed lightness kung fu and ran along the stream like flying. In the thick smoke, the edge of the forest could be seen far away.

However, with Ssangyong's eyesight, he could naturally see the sharp light reflected from the fluttering banners and gun blades.

Kou Zhong suddenly stopped and said, "Let's kill one round first, and when we really can't stand it...Young Master Ling, you just surrender, Li Er still values ​​you very much."

"Fuck your mother, you're going to make me angry when you're about to die?!" Xu Ziling gritted his teeth and said fiercely, "I really want to beat you up, Young Master Zhong!"

Kou Zhong looked back at Xu Ziling, with extremely strong emotions in his eyes, and said: "My good brother, I have caused you..." At this point, he blinked, knowing that Xu Ziling would never surrender , then suppressed all the sad feelings, and changed his tone and joked: "If I hadn't forced you to stay, maybe you would have married and lived a happy life with Lao Ba outside the Great Wall."

"Stop talking nonsense!" Xu Ziling pinched Kou Zhong, dumbfounded, and said thoughtfully: "If I go out alone and say I want to surrender, can I find an opportunity to approach Li Shimin and kill him..."

"If he was that stupid, he wouldn't have forced us into this." Kou Zhong sneered, "Unless you go out with my head in your hands... Li Er will never take it lightly if he didn't see Kou Zhong die with his own eyes. Yes." He paused for a moment, and said again: "Young Master Ling, do you want to play Jing Ke's assassination of the King of Qin? But I haven't killed enough enemies yet, so I don't really want to lend you my head for the time being."

"Just kidding, we'll kill when we're ready!" Xu Ziling took a deep breath, his eyes flashed brightly, and he had raised his strike state to the peak, and said lightly, "Stop thinking about surrendering, I'm pretty sure Li Shimin can't play with second brother at all, if you die but I live... well, then it's better if we both die and wait for second brother to take revenge!"

Kou Zhong nodded lightly, then calmed down, his eyes were empty, and he suddenly entered the state of Jing Zhongyue, shouting: "Kill!"

Two figures rushed out of the red-black mountain forest like thunder, broke through the blockade of thousands of arrows at an unimaginable speed, rushed into the army formation, and cut a thick blood path... But the thousand arrows in front of them Thousands of soldiers and horses seem to be endless, how many of them can be killed by just two people?Even though Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling would not die of exhaustion under the mutual cooperation of the true qi of the Longevity Art from the same source, the wounds on their bodies were getting more and more wounds, and even their hardened bodies would not be able to survive for long.

Li Shimin sat in the middle army and rode on a horse, watching the two bloody killers fighting towards him with a calm expression, and there was no wave in his eyes.On his left and right are Li Shentong and Li Jing. Unlike Li Shentong's expression of interest and eagerness to try, Li Jing's expression is a bit serious and heavy: after all, he and Ssangyong have some friendship, and during the war during this period, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling successively killed Luo Shixin, Changsun Wuji, Chai Shao, etc., as well as countless middle and low-level generals... Li Jing had encountered them several times, but finally escaped safely. The reason why Ssangyong is nostalgic is that even Li Shimin doesn't believe it.

But it is precisely because of this that in the process of dealing with Ssangyong, Li Jing basically would not raise any opinions in front of Li Shimin: he has long understood the principle of "avoiding suspicion" after he has been in the officialdom for a long time; But the helpless reality of each being their own master.

Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling moved slower and slower in the army formation, and the dust was about to settle, when there was a sudden commotion behind Li Shimin's army formation, followed by a large number of shouts——

Looking back, a cavalry charged in a triangular formation. Under the leadership of the first person, they tore through Li Shimin's formation like a bamboo, and charged straight into the central army!

Li Shimin's eyes lit up, and he smiled and said, "It looks like there are about 3000 cavalry."

"Haha, it's just a group of fools who came to die!" Li Shentong said happily: "It's still Shimin who is amazing. He had expected that they would come to rescue the young commander, and even assigned General Yuchi to attack Donghai County. Even if they escaped , and can only be a lost dog!"

Pang Yu, who was at the rear, also came to make fun of it: "At most there are only 8000 people left in Donghai County. General Yuchi led [-] troops to attack. He must be invincible. This is due to King Qin's foresight."

Li Shimin smiled, turned his head to look at Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling who were greatly encouraged and more murderous, and said lightly: "Jingde has [-] soldiers and horses enough to attack the city, and we also have [-] soldiers and horses here. Can't you still take two people?" He only mentioned Ssangyong and not the three thousand reinforcements. It was obvious that Li Shimin really valued only the two masters, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, and he didn't care about the three thousand cavalry who were surrounded by thousands of troops. Keep it in your eyes.

However, it turns out that Li Shimin really misjudged this time. The three thousand cavalry are indeed elite: their armor, weapons, and horses are of high quality, and the strength of the soldiers is also extremely good. The formation fought all the way, only losing more than a hundred riders, and they reached the front of the Chinese army's defensive formation.

The heavy shields could have easily prevented the cavalry from breaking through, but only after the leader swung his knife and swept across, a lot of shield-holders in the front row were shocked to death, so that there was a continuous The tight shield formation was torn open, and the cavalry continued to keep the triangular cone formation intruding—although the spearmen behind the shield formation caused more losses to the cavalry, but due to the strength of the leaders, Their breakthrough speed is really not slow, and they are getting closer and closer to Li Shimin's Chinese general flag!

Seeing this situation, Li Shimin's complexion became worse and worse. Seeing that the opponent was about to enter the shooting range of the Chinese army's last line of defense, the crossbowman waved his hand, and the commander shouted: "Shoot the arrow!"

There was a rain of arrows, but unexpectedly, the opponent's cavalry suddenly rushed horizontally, and did not enter the range of the crossbowmen's attack, as if they were about to turn to break out: the only special thing was the leader, who suddenly jumped off his horse , rushed into the rain of arrows, and dared to kill Li Shimin without fear of death!

Is that man really fearless?Of course not, it is obviously "highly skilled and brave".Under the man's knife, the dense rain of arrows could hardly penetrate the knife screen. Even if there were a few arrows that slipped through the net, they were all knocked down by the chain blade swinging from the man's other sleeve: This person is of course Song Shidao.

"When did there become such a master in the Young Marshal's army?!" Li Shimin murmured solemnly, and Li Shentong was even more nervous, saying: "Shimin, hurry up and dodge, the other party is coming for you! "

Li Shimin was naturally unwilling to risk his life, he nodded slightly, and rode his horse to move his position. Unexpectedly, at this moment, Song Shidao's speed suddenly more than doubled, and he rushed forward suddenly, leaping into the air, With a flick of the chain blade, he slashed towards Li Shimin!

Li Shentong immediately raised the strange weapon in his hand, which was similar to a mace, and smashed it on the silver chain, forcing it to change direction to save Li Shimin: the chain blade did change direction, but unexpectedly turned to the other side. Spinning away, with a flash of blade light, the unsuspecting Pang Yu was beheaded immediately, and spurted into the air with a glaring pool of hot blood.

At the same time, Song Shidao had already crossed the arrow array. He put his foot heavily on the sky cap of a certain archer, jumped up again, and slashed in the air. Tumbling down, the next moment, his beloved horse was split in two!

Seeing this scene, all the generals of the Tiance Mansion were frightened and rushed forward to protect the lord. Song Shidao was only entangled by Shi Wanbao, Liu Dewei, Li Shentong and Li Jing, and Li Shimin fled in the chaos Into the densely packed infantry formation, it is difficult to catch up.

Song Shidao sneered, and stopped entanglement. Finally, he turned around and slashed down the King Qin's army flag, then went to where Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling were and killed them. The few people who stopped him just now, except Li Shentong and Li Jing, who had the highest martial arts skills , Shi Wanbao, Liu Dewei and others all died on the spot...

Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling could hardly hold on at this time, but fortunately, Song Shidao arrived in time, dragged the two of them to charge all the way, seized the horse, brought Ssangyong to join their cavalry, and finally rushed out under the encirclement and protection of the cavalry. After getting rid of the enemy line that looked a bit messy because the military flag was cut off, they rode their horses and roared away.

Their elite cavalry only broke in from one side of King Qin's formation and rushed out in a semicircle, losing nearly 2000 men; their real role was to cooperate with Song Shidao in rescuing Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, He did not specifically kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds, but even so, Li Shimin's army lost nearly 2000 people under the charge of these three masters and cavalry. up.

In fact, even if Li Shimin's army didn't lose much, his plan would have failed if Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling didn't die this time... What's more, Li Shimin also lost Pang Yu, Shi Wanbao, Liu Dewei and other generals of Tiance Mansion, what a loss Big hair!

The only thing that can give Li Shimin some comfort may be his arrangement to send Yuchi Jingde to attack Donghai County: there should be no accidents on that side, right?

Over the wilderness, more than a thousand cavalry rushed past.

"Aha, two lives have been recovered, we have neither turned into roast pigs nor hedgehogs!" Kou Zhong relaxed and leaned back into Song Shidao's arms, his hands and feet were so tired that he almost lost consciousness up.

Song Shidao controlled the horse galloping with one hand, and wrapped around Kou Zhong with the other, this sticky feeling... He frowned, and said with concern: "You are not much better than a hedgehog now, take a nap to refresh yourself, don't talk anymore .”

Kou Zhong moaned and said, "The ride is so bumpy and the wound is so painful and itchy, how can I sleep... I haven't seen you in a few months, I have a lot to say to you, don't you miss me?"

"Young Master Zhong, Young Master Zhong, now is not a good time to flirt." Xu Ziling hugged the horse's neck, lying on the horse's back indecently, and said weakly: "I'm sleepy, tired and want to sleep, how about you?" Lend me your second brother's arms, anyway, if you switch with me, it won't affect your love conversation, I just don't disturb you when I'm fast asleep... What do you think?"

"For your sake, you can hug the horse and sleep well, be careful not to fall and be trampled!" Kou Zhong rubbed against Song Shidao and said triumphantly.

Xu Ziling murmured "I'm not loyal", looked up and looked around in a daze, and then regained consciousness a little bit, and asked curiously, "Are we going to Donghai County now?"

"Donghai County has been emptied by me, and I gave it directly to Li Shimin." Song Shidao responded: "The place we are going now is Tiancheng Gorge."

"Huh?!" Kou Zhong was shocked, and said in disbelief, "Isn't Donghai County our last stronghold? How can we give it to Li Er directly?!"

Song Shidao smiled slightly, and said: "Li Shimin also thinks so, that's why he set fire to encircle you, and at the same time sent Yuchi Jingde to attack Donghai County... In fact, I didn't waste time and money to build the defense of Donghai County Instead of fortifications, they secretly shifted their positions and built the fortress in Tiancheng Gorge."

"Where is Tiancheng Gorge? I haven't even heard of it..." Xu Ziling was stunned for a moment, and then said with a little dissatisfaction: "Second brother, you have already moved your position, and you didn't even tell Zhong Shao and me. It's too much."

"I didn't disclose the news in advance, so the various strategies you used during the guerrilla attack will reveal the information that the final position is Donghai County, including the route you chose when you were besieged this time... Only in this way can you be deceived The shrewd and cunning Li Shimin, after all, once he finds out, his success will fall short." Song Shidao briefly explained the reason, then lightly patted Kou Zhong's face, and asked, "Does Xiao Zhong blame me for hiding it from you?"

Kou Zhong smiled and said, "When have I ever blamed you? In short, you are working so hard for the Young Marshal, and I am too happy to be happy."

Song Shidao pretended to be relieved, and said, "Fortunately, fortunately, I'm really worried that Young Master Ling has spoken bad things about me in your ears for several months, and if he succeeds in sowing dissension, then I will die of grief."

"Hey, hey!" Xu Ziling protested, "Young Master Zhong and I have been fighting bloody battles for several months, and you haven't even seen a single person. You can control what I like to say? Hmph, before, I really wondered if you had already sat down. The ship has escaped!"

"Xiaoling, you really...why do you always think of me as bad," Song Shidao said with a helpless smile, "It seems that I should marry you off as soon as possible, and keep you as an enemy."

Xu Ziling said angrily: "Marry your sister! It's obvious that you are too insidious, why don't people tell the truth?"

Song Shidao said "Hey", and said with a smile: "My sister Yuzhi, if you like Xiaoling, I can really decide to marry you to her..."

"Being a ghost master, you keep changing the subject. You are clearly guilty..." Xu Ziling buried his face in the horse's mane angrily, and said sullenly, "I'm too lazy to talk to you anymore. Go on." Flirt with Zhong Shao, second brother!"

Song Shidao shrugged helplessly, slightly lowered his head and rubbed Kou Zhong's dirty face, and said in a low voice, "Xiao Zhong, do you think I'm insidious too?"

"I didn't think so at first," Kou Zhong thought for a while, then laughed and said, "But after listening to Ling Shao talk a lot, I feel that you are really quite sinister, and you like to hide behind the scenes and stir up trouble."

"..." Song Shidao said with a wry smile, "God, the daughter-in-law's natal family is indeed the most difficult problem to deal with!"

Kou Zhong suddenly remembered his previous experience of being beaten up by Song Que, and couldn't help feeling relieved.

The whole army rushed on horseback, but within a few days, the large group of people and horses arrived at the foot of Tiancheng Gorge.

Only then did Song Shidao counterattack Xu Ziling with a well-designed, strong and hidden military stronghold: Including the cavalry they brought back, there are more than ten thousand soldiers and horses left in the stronghold, all of whom are young commanders. The most loyal and elite troops in the army; good generals and advisers gathered here, and turned the army village into an iron barrel, which shows that Song Shidao really tried his best to preserve the vitality of the young commander's army.