Chapter 223: Li Shimin's Final Battle
Li Shimin's 30,000 troops were besieged in Seoul. People in the whole city were in panic, and everyone had no backbone. At this time, Li Shimin was suffering from wind disease, and half of his body could not move. His consciousness was good and bad. In ancient times, wind disease
, in fact, it is modern leprosy.
In the dim hall, Li Shimin was lying on the bed, disheveled, sometimes awake and sometimes confused. There were records of Li Shimin suffering from wind disease in history, but now Li Shimin is almost fifty years old. At this age, he is old and frail.
In addition to the heavy wind and snow in winter, which came at night, causing heavy losses, and being exhausted both physically and mentally, it is no wonder that Li Shimin did not suffer from wind disease.
"Second brother! I want to eat candy! Give me candy!" Li Yuanba came to the main hall and was restless, shouting for candy. Li Xiuning on the side looked at his younger brother and looked at the second brother on the bed.
Tears flowed uncontrollably from the corners of his eyes, and he quickly coaxed Li Yuanba: "Yuanba, be good! Don't make trouble! Someone, take him to eat sweets!"
"yes!"
The palace maid brought sugar cakes, and Li Yuanba calmed down and ate the cakes like a child.
Changsun Wuji, Zhang Gongjin and others looked at each other, with lingering gloom on their brows. Zhang Gongjin knelt down on the mat and said with an increasingly cold face: "What should we do! There are less than 30,000 troops in the country, and the Korean army has already
We have been besieging the city for three days, without water or food! The food and grass in the city can only last for half a month at most. Once half a month is over, we are all finished!"
"What should I do..." Yan Song was at a loss at this moment. He kept slapping his thigh with one hand, looking anxious. His red eyeballs were covered with bloodshot eyes. His gray hair was messy and it looked like he hadn't combed it for three days.
Changsun Wuji was not much better. He patiently rubbed his palms and looked at the salted fish fillet in front of him. Changsun Wuji stretched out his hand and picked up a piece of fish fillet. He just put it into his mouth, but it was tasteless. After a while,
He let out a long sigh, and his whole body seemed to have aged more than ten years with this sigh, and his energy and energy had disappeared.
"Ahem...ahem...Wuji...Wuji!" Li Shimin, who was on the bed, suddenly reached out and grabbed the bed, supporting his body, and the first thing he said was to call Zhangsun Wuji.
"Your Majesty! I'm here! I'm here!" As soon as Changsun Wuji heard Li Shimin calling him, he hurriedly climbed to Li Shimin's bed, holding Li Shimin's hand tightly with both hands, and said with a stern expression.
"How is the battle situation on the front line...?" With Li Xiuning's strong support, Li Shimin sat up straight, rubbed his temples, and felt the warmth of Changsun Wuji's palms. Li Shimin gasped with difficulty and looked at
Xiang Changsun Wuji swallowed hard, grabbed Changsun Wuji's hand, exerted all his strength, and shouted angrily: "Say!"
"The situation on the front line is great! A complete victory! Don't worry, Your Majesty!" Changsun Wuji was worried about Li Shimin's health, so he could only comfort Li Shimin with words!"
"Really?" Li Shimin asked Changsun Wuji in a hoarse voice, looking into his eyes, the sweat on his forehead fell like beads.
"Really...really!" Changsun Wuji's heart was bleeding. Looking at the seriously ill Li Shimin, he could only hide the current battle situation.
"No...no...your eyes are wrong...!" Li Shimin broke away from Changsun Wuji's hand, waved his hands repeatedly, looked around the crowd with tiger eyes, closed his eyes and shouted angrily: "Xiuning, you are my sister! Say...say...
…to be honest!"
"Brother...!" Li Xiuning looked at Changsun Wuji with bitterness in his eyes and said, "Tell the truth!"
Changsun Wuji paralyzed his hands in the air, at a loss as to what to do, and said with a tearful voice: "Qi Jiguang's 100,000-strong navy bypassed Zhongqing and cut off our army's supply to Zhongqing. General Ge Shuhan was without food for three days and had no choice but to retreat and was defeated at Bengkeling.
, was ambushed by the enemy and the entire army was annihilated. General Li Siyuan garrisoned Ping'an City for three days, but could not hold it!"
"What...!" When Li Shimin heard this, he almost fainted again. He was exhausted. He covered his chest and breathed in the air with difficulty. He said after a while: "Wuji! Go get that pill! Take it from me."
Down"
"Your Majesty! You must not do it! If you take this pill! Your Majesty, you will...!" There was a cry in Changsun Wuji's voice. Everyone was suspicious, wondering if these two gay guys had some inside story that they didn't know.
Yes, Zhang Gongjin felt that he had fallen out of favor.
"King!"
"go!"
Facing Li Shimin's decisive voice, Changsun Wuji could only go to get the elixir, stumbled to Li Shimin, opened the wooden box, and found a brown elixir inside.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty...!" Changsun Wuji looked more than ten years older. Li Shimin glanced at the elixir sideways. After making sure it was correct, he sat up straight, looked at Li Xiuning behind him and said, "Get some water!"
"Um!"
Li Shimin picked up the elixir, put it in his mouth, took the cup handed by Li Xiuning, held the elixir in his mouth, and drank it in one gulp. Then Li Shimin lay on the bed with relief, carefully feeling the changes in his body.
Li Xiuning watched Li Shimin fall asleep, and pulled Changsun Wuji to the side. He took a look and saw that there was no one around. He immediately asked Changsun Wuji: "Tell me! What did you give my elder brother to eat?"
"It's the Life and Death Pill!" Changsun Wuji sat on the ground, leaning on the wall, feeling extremely entangled and distressed.
"What do you mean! What does this pill do? Please explain clearly!" Li Xiuning heard something was wrong.
"The Pill of Life and Death! The first is death, the other is death! Its effect is equivalent to Five Stone Powder. It can quickly restore people to their original state and make them forget their pain. However, the effect of the medicine is only half a month. Take one pill every four days.
After taking the three elixirs, you will definitely die!" Changsun Wuji started crying as he spoke, covering his tears with his hands, trying hard to contain himself and prevent himself from crying.
Once the emperor and his ministers, after Li Shimin died, his era will also pass.
"What if I stop taking it?" Li Xiuning bit her silver teeth, took a deep breath, and stared at Changsun Wuji solemnly. As long as she got a positive answer, Li Xiuning would make her own decision.
"Stop taking it! You will definitely die!" Changsun Wuji looked at Li Xiuning without any intention of hiding it. He took off his hat, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, looked at Li Xiuning and said: "Princess! These are all lives, and my life will be the same.
I will follow you when the king passes away. As a minister, you should obey the king’s arrangements.”
Half an hour later, Li Shimin, who had fallen asleep, suddenly opened his eyes and felt the lightness of his body. Li Shimin exhaled a breath of filthy air and lifted up the quilt on the table. His eyes glowed with endless cold light. Li Shimin stood up.
He looked sternly and said: "Come on! Summon the military!"
"We will obey the king's order!" Everyone accepted the order in unison, and the sound was like thunder. At this moment, the backbone of everyone was back.
In the main hall, countless capable ministers and generals gathered here. Li Shimin was wearing heavy armor. Everyone in the hall, whether they were military generals or civil servants, were all wearing armor and looked solemn.
Li Shimin looked at the crowd and said after a while: "There are only 30,000 soldiers and horses in the city, and the food and grass are only enough for half a month. We have no extra choice. There is no room for us on the peninsula, so we have to drive away the enemy.
Tonight, we have a sneak attack on the enemy. We have only one mission, to behead Wei Qing! Show the bloody spirit of our army! Let the people of the Central Plains dare not set foot on this land!"
"We are willing to expand the territory for your king."
"Drive out the bandits and return our mountains and rivers!"
"Drive out the bandits and return our mountains and rivers!"
"Drive out the bandits and return our mountains and rivers!"
In the middle of the night, the wind blowing tonight is particularly warm, and the breath of spring has filled the entire air.
Wei Qing, Han Shizhong, Han Derang, Yang Yanzhao and other famous second-line generals gathered together. They looked at Seoul in front of them, and they all had no choice. Wei Qing stroked his beard, stared at Seoul and said: "Although the enemy army only has the last 30,000 people, if
After a hard attack, our casualties were not small, but now the situation is different, we can completely encircle it without attacking!"
"Have the catapults been brought up? It's really not possible! Hit him a hundred and eighty times a day. Over time, the city wall will collapse. Our chance will be gone!" Han Shizhong took a sip of strong tea and blinked.
After some evaluation, he said with a smile: "It's not easy to drink tea here!"
"Brother Seven! Let me tell you bad news!" Han Derang looked at Han Shizhong, covered his forehead and said with a tired look: "The mountain road here is too rugged, and the catapult has not been transported up at all!"
"You told me earlier! I will give you a warship directly! Can't you just transport it from Liaoyang?" Han Shizhong put down his cup, looking like a wealthy businessman enjoying himself, as if everything was nothing.
"Okay! Let's just surround him like this! Li Shimin can't make too much trouble anyway! Go back to sleep!" Yang Yanzhao felt that there was no big problem now and was about to walk out of the city gate.
"Whoosh whoosh!" Several cold arrows flew directly towards him. Yang Yanzhao was stunned. He immediately pulled out the bronze sword in his hand, his face changed drastically, and he shouted angrily: "Where did you come from, bastard!"
"Kill them!" Mai Tiezhang shouted angrily, and Mai Tiezhang in black rushed forward. In an instant, dozens of big men rushed out and pulled out the scimitar from the scabbard, with green juice dripping on it.
After landing on the ground, Yang Yanzhao looked carefully with the help of the weak light. His expression suddenly changed, and he shouted angrily: "Be careful with the knives in their hands! It's poisonous! Someone is coming! Someone is coming quickly!"
"Where did you come from, you little bastard! How dare you make trouble in front of us!" Han Shizhong suddenly pulled out the iron sword in his arms, picked up the shield beside him, handed it to Han De and said, "Be careful, old man!"
"Take care of yourself!" Han Derang squinted his eyes, staring at the enemy soldiers being killed by bee pupae like a hungry wolf, with a hint of wisdom in his eyes.
"Kill!" Mai Tiezhang held a scimitar and slashed towards Yang Yanzhao. Yang Yanzhao carefully avoided it, not wanting to be hit by the scimitar. He was extremely constrained and could not let go of his hands and feet.
"Who! How dare you break into the camp!" Guan Ling held a sword and slashed two plainclothes soldiers head-on. Looking at the chaotic tent, he immediately shouted angrily: "Quick! Rush in!"
"You go in and help Lao Mai! Leave this to me!" Zhang Rong glared at Guan Ling, swung the spear in his hand, glared at Guan Ling and shouted angrily: "Kill!"
"Son of a bitch! If you can't beat him, start a sneak attack! Looking for death!" Guan Ling shouted angrily, dragging the long knife in his hand straight on the ground, striding forward and charging forward, watching Zhang Rong's spear stabbing Guan Ling.
Guan Ling narrowed her eyes, stepped forward suddenly, swung the knife in her hand, and shouted angrily: "Drag the knife!"
"Ding, the attribute of Guan Ling's drag knife is activated, and it attacks Guan Yu's drag knife. His personal force value is increased by 5, Guan Ling's basic force value is 100, Qin Yue's ancient sword force value is increased by 1, and Guan Ling's current force value is 106!"
"Boom... click!" The drag knife in Guan Ling's hand slashed down, and the spear in Zhang Rong's hand was directly cut into two sections by Guan Ling's knife. Zhang Rong's expression suddenly changed and he shouted angrily: "I will fight with you...
…!”
"Ding, Guan Ling's hard enemy attribute is activated, personal force value is increased by 10, and Guan Ling's current force value is 116!"
"Crack! The knife slashed down. Zhang Rong suddenly burst into blood. He flew out upside down. Guan Ling strode out. Looking at the chaotic scene around him, he stared at the iron staff with tiger eyes and shouted angrily: "Thief
Please leave! Look at the knife!"
"You...!" Mai Tiezhang suddenly looked back, looked at Zhang Rong who fell on the ground, his face suddenly darkened a lot, looked at the four Yang Yanzhao who were pressed to the ground and fled, looked around, spat, and shouted angrily
: "The four of them are left to you, I'm here to stop him!"
"Yes!" Dozens of them hurriedly rushed towards Han Shizhong and others to kill them.
"Boy! You're good at martial arts! Even Zhang Rong died in your hands!" Mai Tiezhang was holding a black iron staff. This iron staff was quite unique. There was a hole on the outside with many nails and thorns on it.
"I don't have time to talk nonsense with you, I'll take your head!" Guan Ling shouted angrily, and suddenly swung the ancient Qin Yue sword forward in his hand, covering it with stars and the moon, like an eagle striking the sky, with great force.
"You...!" Mai Tiezhang looked horrified and hurriedly took the staff with both hands and threw it at Guan Ling.
"Bang...!" A metallic sound came out, sparking countless sparks. Without hesitation, Guan Ling stabbed Mai Tiezhang's abdomen with his backhand.
"Pfft!"
"Ah!" Mai Tiezhang screamed and fell down. Guan Ling picked up Mai Tiezhang's head with a knife. Looking at the four people suppressed by the assassin, Guan Ling hurriedly shouted: "No one will be spared!"
"kill!"
After half a stick of incense, the four of them came to their senses, but their bodies were all injured. The four of them were helpless. Under the cover of Guan Ling, they hurried to the injured camp for treatment. While the poisoning was not deep, the four of them were helpless.
In addition, Bian Que was the surgeon tonight, digging out their flesh and scraping their bones. The four of them were tortured for a long time.
In desperation, Wei Qing handed over the position of general to Murong Ke in case something changed.
At the same time, outside the side door of the hall, Li Shimin led 3,000 Xuanjia troops as the vanguard, rushing from the relatively weak Western Army of the Han Army. The soldiers of the Western Army were mainly Han Shizhong's navy, because Han Shizhong put the main force of the army away.
On the warship, there are only more than 50,000 soldiers and horses deployed on land. Now he has become a soft persimmon and is directly manipulated.
Chapter completed!