Qingjiang Yin

Ruzhou, South Gate.

More than a thousand defenders were fighting to the death with the bandits. Suddenly, a high-pitched horse neighed, and the defenders unanimously retreated to both sides, giving way to the generals.

The thieves had been attacking here for nearly two hours before they opened the city gate with the help of Zheng Yang. They couldn't figure out why the defenders gave way so generously. They felt ecstatic for a while, and were about to go straight in with sharp knives, but saw hundreds of people appearing out of nowhere. A fine horse rushed straight down from the city wall through the horse path.

The thieves couldn't react in time, and retreated again and again. Many people were still killed under the hooves of the horses, and the blood stained the city bricks in an instant.

It was Yuan Che who led a hundred soldiers and broke through the encirclement with the help of fast horses.

After the horse herd passed by, the defenders quickly gathered together again, and under the command of the deputy general, they fought with the bandits.

Under the guard of a hundred soldiers, Yuan Che held the reins tightly, lowered his body, and avoided the surrounding attacks.Although the thieves are numerous, they have many pawns, and the formation is scattered under the left and right collisions of the horses.

He raised his eyes slightly, and judged that the head of the thief was not far away, and held the rein tightly in his hand, urging the horse to gallop forward.

His armor was the same as everyone else's, it wasn't very eye-catching, and he was guarded by soldiers, so he was very close to the thief's head, and he only had a few scratches on his body.

But at this time, there were less than forty of the original hundred people left. If he couldn't kill the bandits with one blow, then today would be his memorial day in the coming year.

There are also dozens of guards around the head of the thief, and all of them are extremely fierce and fierce.Seeing that Yuan Che and his party broke through the heavy barriers, they could no longer stand by indifferently, and took out their weapons to fight Yuan Che and others.

Yuan Che is not good at wielding a spear. Although the sword looks good, it is not suitable for fighting and killing enemies.He didn't dare to draw his sword, he made too big a move and exposed his flaws, and he only dodged a few people with his dexterity.

He was relatively thin and inconspicuous. Everyone didn't pay attention to him, let alone take precautions against him, and he actually let him break through several people.

At this time, Yuan Che was only three feet away from the thief leader, and there were only two people beside the thief leader, and the rest were fighting with the defenders.

Won!

This thought flashed through Yuan Che's mind, his eyes turned sharp, his legs clamped around the horse's belly, one hand tightened the rein, and he drove the horse forward, while the other hand clenched the hilt of the sword, ready to draw the sword out of its sheath.

two feet...

one zhang...

The two guards beside the thief head rushed forward, Yuan Che looked at the openings of the two, drew his sword out of its sheath with lightning speed, and sealed his throat with one sword.

The horse didn't stop for a while, Yuan Che passed the corpses of the two men and continued to move forward. The thief's expression turned determined and frightened, and he was about to ride his horse and flee away.

How could Yuan Che let him go just like that, the hand holding the rein exerted force again, the horse let out a loud roar in pain, and moved forward even more quickly.

seven feet...

five feet...

three feet...

Yuan Che and the thief leader are almost neck and neck.

The leader of the thief was also a burly man, seeing that he couldn't get rid of Yuan Che, he simply fought, clamped his horse's belly, shouted angrily, swung a sledgehammer with his right hand, and smashed at Yuan Che's face.

This blow was extremely powerful, if it hit someone, it would be a bloody mess.

But Yuan Che didn't change his face, and he avoided it with a short body.

Seeing that one blow was impossible, the thief took back the sledgehammer and followed closely with his left hand. Yuan Che couldn't dodge it, so he took the long sword to block it. excruciating pain.

This person is indeed born with supernatural power, no wonder he can be the leader of bandits, Yuan Che thought to himself.

In terms of strength, he is far behind, but in terms of sword skills and martial arts, Yuan Che is by no means inferior.The two fought against each other with more than ten moves, and Yuan Che knew that brute force confrontation was not a good solution after all.

He had also secretly practiced the martial arts given to him by Li Zhenyuan, and he had made some small achievements in martial arts in the past few years. Originally, he didn't want to reveal this and invite disaster for himself, but at this critical moment of life and death, he didn't care about it. , with the help of a kick, he jumped straight up.

The thief's eyes blurred, he saw that the person who was on the horse a moment ago suddenly disappeared, but suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck, he didn't know why, it was a sharp pain.

He cried out in pain, knowing that Yuan Che must have used some weird method to get around behind him, and started to struggle around.

Seeing that his sword hadn't killed the bandit leader yet, Yuan Che's eyes became colder as he struck again.The thief leader finally died.

Yuan Che cut off the thief's head and held it high. Now that he was a little numb, he threw the rest of the body off the horse and shouted: "You wait for the thief's head to obey the law, so hurry up and surrender."

The three armies cannot win the commander.

This sound was like a stone being thrown into a lake. Starting from around Yuan Che, the rebels lost their will to fight one after another, either surrendered or fled in all directions.

Finally won?

Yuan Che's face was covered with blood, he slowly put down the thief's head, and let out a sigh of relief.

It's not that there is no fear, but that you have to move forward, even with trembling hands, you still have to hold the sword and slash, because this is a life-threatening battle.

Before this day, he was a scholar with no strength to restrain a chicken, and he was an existence destined to be trampled on in the palace; after this day, he was Yuan Che, the future Emperor Shunwu, a fearless emperor who looked down upon the world .

The thieves were finally defeated, and the siege of Ruzhou was over. Yuan Che reluctantly curled his mouth and relaxed.

When it was too late to say it, the soldier beside him exclaimed: "Your Highness, be careful!"

Yuan Che was caught off guard, and there was a muffled sound in his ear, which was the sound of a sharp weapon piercing his flesh. He lowered his head, a little surprised, but there was a flying arrow stuck in his chest.

Warm blood rushed out...

His vision gradually darkened, he only heard the people around him calling "Your Highness" in horror, and then lost all consciousness...

Shudong.

Yingshan Gorge was silent.Tens of thousands of bandits have been trapped in the mountain gorge for two days.

Panic flowed on everyone's face - I don't know what answer the general will give.

However, no one expected that this answer was accompanied by a thunderous muffled sound—from the top of the cliff, it suddenly rolled down countless rocks, and many people were unable to escape and were smashed into pieces of flesh.

Flesh and blood flew across the gorge, mountains of corpses and seas of blood, everyone weeping and wailing, like a hell on earth.

In just a moment, all the bandits were killed, and the chaos of bandits that had plagued Dasheng for several years came to an abrupt end in such a tragic way.

Li Zhenyuan stood on the top of the cliff, stopped and stared.

There was no joy on his face, but an indescribable coldness.

"Xu Xun, do you think I'm too cruel?"

Xu Xun was silent for a while behind him, but he never answered.

Li Zhenyuan turned around and looked up at the sky that was mostly covered by the mountains of Sichuan.

"When I first joined the army, my father carefully told me to get rid of all evil. At that time, I didn't understand." He sighed softly: "A general who succeeds in ten thousand bones, maybe a general is destined to step on the footsteps of thousands of people. Skeleton moves forward step by step. If you are too soft-hearted, you won't be able to achieve great things."

Xu Xun looked at Li Zhenyuan in amazement, never expecting this young general who used his soldiers like a god and seemed cruel and ruthless to speak like this.

The man's face is cold and hard, but it is sad.

Of course Lee Jin-yeon was right.

Yes, but not necessarily good.

Even so, they still have to fight all their lives, defending Dasheng with all their blood and sins.

"General," he hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to tell him the news about the bandits.Previously, they focused on eliminating the main force of the thieves, so the movements of this small group of thieves were suppressed by everyone.

"The spies came to report the day before yesterday that there were bandits moving, burning, killing and looting all the way. I'm afraid they are going to use the two states of Ruyu and Henan to enter Henan Road."

"What did you say?" Li Zhenyuan's expression changed instantly. "Why didn't you report this to me earlier?"

Xu Xun replied: "There are also government soldiers in the two prefectures of Ruyu and Henan, and the number of bandits is no more than [-]. Even if they expand on the road, they are no more than mobs, and they are not a big deal."

Hearing the words, Li Zhenyuan was very worried, he didn't care to rest for a while, and immediately led [-] elite soldiers, galloping day and night to rescue the siege of Ruzhou.

He knew that Yuan Che might be in Ruzhou. If Ruzhou fell, how would he be treated as the prince of Dasheng...

Every time Li Zhenyuan thinks about this, he dare not think deeply...

He hasn't told that person how much he likes and misses him.He still hasn't told him that for him, even though there are mountains of swords and seas of fire, Li Zhenyuan can go there without changing his face.

As long as he is alive, as long as he is alive, he is willing to pay any price!

The five-day journey on a quick horse, for Li Zhenyuan, these five days are like a hellish torment.On the fourth day, Li Zhenyuan led the army to meet the [-] thieves who fled. After killing the thieves, he learned from the captives that Yuan Che was indeed in Ruzhou, and that Ruzhou had not been captured. Stationed here, the light cavalry was reduced, and only a dozen of the most trusted people were driven to Ruzhou City.

Another day of galloping, Li Zhenyuan rode his horse to the governor's mansion, got off his horse and met Xu Da.

Xu Da had never met Li Zhenyuan before, but saw a tall and heroic young man jumping off his horse, about to rush into the Governor's Mansion, and shouted: "Who is this? How dare you trespass into the Governor's Mansion!"

Li Zhenyuan was concerned, so he showed his token and said angrily: "I am Li Zhenyuan, General Pingnan, who dares to stop me?"

Xu Da had heard about Li Zhenyuan for a long time, and he showed a respectful look: "Guerrilla general Xu Ming, I have seen the general, and I was rude in a hurry, and I still hope that the general is Haihan."

Li Zhenyuan nodded briefly, indicating that he didn't take it to heart, but asked anxiously, "How is the Fourteenth Prince Yuan...?"

Xu Ming was stunned for a moment, with a worried expression on his face, he replied: "Your Highness is injured." At the same time, he asked the soldiers around him: "Take the general to Your Highness."

He said again: "This subordinate still needs to patrol the city, so I will bid farewell to General Li here."

Li Zhenyuan seemed to be hit by a boulder in an instant, his chest was so painful that he couldn't help himself, he nodded reluctantly, and rushed in the direction Xu Da pointed without waiting for the soldiers to lead the way.

Fortunately, the Governor's Mansion was not too big, so Li Zhenyuan easily found where Yuan Che was, pushed the door in, and walked quickly to Yuan Che's bedside.

Yuan Che was lying on the bed soundlessly, his face was as pale as a piece of white paper.But after not seeing each other for a month, Yuan Che's health has diminished a lot, and Li Zhenyuan couldn't help feeling distressed, as if a sharp claw was gripping his heart fiercely, the pain was so deep.

He sat down by the bed and held Yuan Che's hand. It was terribly cold, making one think that the owner of the hand had passed away not long ago.

When Li Zhenyuan thought that he was about to lose Yuan Che, he couldn't help being afraid for a while, and held Yuan Che's hand a little tighter.

"Your Highness...Yuan Che..." Li Zhenyuan said slowly, the thoughts and worries from these days gushed out, converging into the tenderness flowing in his heart.

He gently kissed Yuan Che's hand, his resolute face was mournful, almost choked up: "Please wake up..."

"As long as you wake up, I'm willing to do anything, even if you want my life, I'm willing to give it..."

Li Zhenyuan suddenly felt that, compared with Yuan Che, fame, fortune and power outside his body were not important. He regretted that he couldn't wake up earlier, and couldn't be by his side when he was most helpless and dangerous.

Yuan Che seemed to have heard his confession in his sleep, his brows were slightly frowned in pain, but the corners of his mouth curled up uncontrollably.

The fan-like eyelashes fluttered slightly like butterflies, and finally opened them, and said with difficulty: "Wen Yuan..."

Li Zhenyuan was instantly hit by a burst of ecstasy, as if he couldn't believe his eyes.

"Yuan Che, you're awake..." Li Zhenyuan had long forgotten the etiquette of a monarch and his ministers, and the worldly defenses. He just wanted to hug the lost and found man in his arms and melt into his bones, so that he would never be with himself. separate.

The author has something to say: Today is the second update, don’t ask me why the second update XD~~ Thank you for your support, I hope you can always support me and give me strength