Updated: 2012-07-25

Chapter 305: Be strong

On the first day of September, the strong wind began to rage on both sides of the Yellow River since last night. The river wind was originally bigger than on land. I don’t know how high the waves blew up the Yellow River this night. I don’t know how many fish were rolled up in the air and killed on the water. I don’t know how many fishermen’s boats capsized in the water, and their property was gone in an instant and they had nothing.

Perhaps it is because the sky is pitying the world, and the wind gradually stops when the sun is revealed in the morning.

Many houses in Leize City were removed from the roofs. Since last night, the soldiers of the Fire Camp and the Min Yong in Leize City have not stopped to rescue the people. Fortunately, there was wind and no rain. If there was another heavy rain in the strong wind, many people might have died. The people who collapsed the houses by the wind were rescued by the soldiers in Yanyun Village to take refuge in the county government. The county government could not let go of so many people, so they sent people to lead the placement of the people in the military camp of the school grounds. However, the soldiers had no place to rest. When the wind stopped, they slept all over the streets on the school grounds.

Early in the morning, the people saw this touching scene. They spontaneously organized themselves to deliver warm meals to the soldiers sleeping on the streets and in the schoolyard. Many people pulled the hands of the soldiers in Yanyun Village and shed tears. They had never seen an army that would brave the strong wind to rescue the people, and they had never seen an army that would rather sleep on the streets than harass the people.

The scene in Leize City was touching, and Chao Qiuge, who was urgently sent by Li Xian to the city to appease the people, was also very moved to see this scene.

In the northeastern part of the Great Sui territory, Emperor Yang Guang of the Great Sui Dynasty left the camp in Liaodong and took the six emperors' army to visit Haydn again. He handed over the full military affairs to Yuwen Shu for treatment. He left with peace of mind. In fact, there were no wars in this conquest of Liaodong. Gao Yuan, the king of Goguryeo, expressed his willingness to surrender from the beginning and sent an envoy to meet His Majesty the Great Sui Emperor. Yang Guang allowed Goguryeo to surrender, but Gao Yuan had to personally perform the courtesy of his ministers.

How dare Gao Yuan come?

So starting from June, the civil servants of both sides began to argue back and forth and discuss matters of surrender, and the millions of troops seemed to be idle.

Yang Guang and others were impatient, so they ordered Yuwen Shu to put pressure on Gao Yuan, but he was fed up in Liaodong. He remembered that he was charming scenery of Haidn, so he took Queen Xiao to the beach for vacation again. In July, some of the troops who conquered Liao returned to the Central Plains one after another. In addition, the plague in Liaodong was rampant this year, and countless soldiers died of illness and unstable military morale. Yuwen Shu knew that there was no need to continue this battle.

From June to August, more than 200,000 soldiers were withdrawn from Liaodong one after another, while no less than 150,000 soldiers fleeing. Especially after Yang Guang ordered an attack to put pressure on Gao Yuan, no one of the soldiers was willing to go deep into the plague in Liaodong, so large-scale defections began to appear. Not to mention the soldiers, even many generals of the sixth-rank fifth-rank also joined the fleeing team and were no longer willing to stay in Liaodong for one more day. After August, less than half of the million troops were left.

Yuwen Shu had no choice but to advise the emperor to ask for permission to withdraw his troops.

Yang Guang, who had arrived at Wanghaidun, had no intention of fighting this battle again, so he allowed Gao Yuan to worship the north in the Goguryeo Palace in Pyongyang under the surveillance of the Great Sui envoy, and no longer forced Gao Yuan to come to Wanghaidun to surrender himself. Gao Yuan was just doing this time, wasn’t he just performing the ceremony of three kneelings and nine kowtows? As long as he could save Goguryeo, he would not care about kneeling and bowing, and kowtowing the north with all the cultural relics in the court, and wrote a book of descending to be a minister for generations.

So the army that conquered Liao for the third time ended this battle without much war. Yuwen Shu ordered all the troops to return to their hometowns, and then he took the civil and military officials to Wang Haidun and Yang Guang to meet. After playing with Wang Haidun for a month, Yang Guang felt tired again, so he ordered to tour the northern border and inspect the border defense.

The events in Liaodong are sad, and the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty once again demonstrated his benevolence, righteousness, virtue and tolerance.

However, no one in Goguryeo seems to be grateful to him.

What happened in the distant Liaodong is now in no mood to care about, and he must solve the current situation as soon as possible. Wagang Village is a major concern on the side, and only Li Xian knows the huge role it plays in history. At this time, only Li Xian knows clearly. In order to maintain the stability and tranquility of his Dongping County, he still cares about what important role Wagang Village will play in the demise of the Great Sui Dynasty in the future? In order to ensure that the territory he had finally built can be stable, Li Xian did not have the awareness of respecting history.

Shortly after the strong wind stopped, the Wagang Village sent someone to send Zhai Rang's handwritten letter, mentioning that he was willing to sit down with the Yanyun Village leader Li Xian and calmly negotiate. The two sides agreed to a place without taking troops or using weapons. The two leaders met in person to resolve the conflict in a peaceful way.

Of course, whether it is Zhai Rang who wrote this letter or Li Xian who read this letter, he will not seriously care about the content in the letter. In fact, both of them still have the intention to swallow each other in one bite.

Li Xian wrote a reply, expressing his willingness to negotiate with Wagang Village, and agreed that both sides could only bring up three hundred soldiers at most when they were talking to Li Lian. When Zhai Rang and Li Xian talked to each other, they could only bring five guards around each. The safety of Xiao Jing Lake is maintained by both sides. Wagang Village is half in charge and Yanyun Village is half in charge. This is not a difficult task, because Xiao Jing Lake is too small, and it is only two or three miles in size in the east, west, south and north.

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After the date of the 9th day of the lunar month three days later, Dugu Ruizhi found Li Xian and strongly asked him to remove the residual poison from his body first. Li Xian also knew that this was a major matter of life and death, so he handed over the military affairs to Daxi Changru and the other matters to Ye Huaixu. He, Dugu Ruizhi and Xu Zhizang, got into a newly built tent. It took two days to go in. During two days, Li Xian never took a step out of the tent.

On the second day, Ye Huaixue walked into Li Xian's tent with a gloomy face.

“Not found?”

Seeing Ye Huaixue's face looked a little ugly, Li Xian, who was sitting in a large wooden barrel and was suffering from the steaming method to drive away poison, immediately guessed the reason.

“The wind was too strong the day before yesterday.”

Ye Huaixue sat down beside Li Xian, rectified the hair hanging down on his forehead and whispered: "The secret spies and cavalry who were tracking were blocked by the strong wind and could not move forward. After the wind was a little weaker, they continued to search immediately. However, after the strong wind, they could no longer find the traces left by Liu Heita. I don't know if he escaped against the strong wind or found a secret place to hide. However, the strong wind the day before yesterday, the ferry on the Yellow River was damaged by tenths. It was not easy for Liu Heita to escape the Yellow River and surrender to Dou Jiande. I have sent more people to continue searching."

Li Xian nodded, feeling quite helpless.

He always felt that some things were not human-powered, and what should happen would still happen. For example, if there was no strong wind the day before yesterday, the joint pursuit of the Flying Tiger Secret Spy and the Ruijin Camp Iron Cavalry would definitely capture that man, and there would be no Liu Heita, who dominated Hebei after Dou Jiande. However, God and Li Xian were against each other, and the strong wind swept away Liu Heita's escape. How difficult was it to find him?

This made Li Xian feel a little powerless. He felt that many things in the dark were doomed. Even if he wanted to change, he still failed due to some factors.

However, Li Xian is not the kind of person who can't eat or sleep because of regret. No matter what the consequences of what he did, Li Xian never regretted it. It's not that he didn't know how to reflect, but that he knew that regret was the most useless thing in this world, and it just increased his worries. He wanted to send someone to find Dou Jiande and warned Dou Jiande if he dared to take Liu Heita in and refused to hand over, he would fight to the fight. Later, he thought that this was just an extremely childish act. Whether Dou Jiande took in or not was all said in his mouth. Moreover, since he dared to instigate Liu Heita to poison, how could he be afraid of the threat from Yanyun Village?

"Continue to check, you can't let go of this."

Li Xian looked at Ye Huaixue's slightly haggard face and said, "You go back and have a good rest for a day, and accompany me to see Zhai Rang the day after tomorrow."

Ye Huaixue nodded and stood up and left.

After being steamed intermittently in this wooden barrel for two days, the residual poison in Li Xian's body disappeared, and the antidote of the Golden Wolf Flower prepared by Dugu Ruizhi has also been distributed. It is not troublesome to just relieve the Golden Wolf Flower poison, which is far less complicated than the two toxicities in Li Xian.

On the fourth day of the September 19th, Li Xian wore a black shirt and tied his smooth straight hair behind his head. He did not wear armor. He rode a big black horse and took three hundred elite soldiers slowly towards the direction of Xiaojing Lake. At this time, Xiaojing Lake was surrounded by both sides, but in accordance with the agreement, the army stayed two miles away from the place where the two sides negotiated, and the three hundred soldiers brought by the bosses of both sides should not be close. During the negotiation, at most, there should be no more than ten people around both sides.

The people from Wagang Village came a little earlier than Li Xian. Zhai Rang brought Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shiji, Xie Yingdeng, Zhang Liang, and five guards had already sat on the open space outside the stone pavilion on the south bank of Xiaojing Lake. The open space had been arranged, and the tables of both sides were ten meters apart, and the tables were already arranged with fine wine and dishes.

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"I guess if Li Xian was really poisoned, he would definitely not come in person."

Shan Xiongxin whispered to Zhai Rang: "Even if there is a miracle doctor in his army who has a wonderful skill, how can he recover from his knife and poisonous wounds in just a few days?"

Xu Shiji shook his head and said, "He will definitely come. If he was not injured or poisoned, he might not come, but today, he will definitely come."

Shan Xiongxin was stunned, and after thinking about it, it was indeed reasonable.

"Brother, you must not be slutty when you talk later. You must be strong and you will be suppressed. Li Xian can't raise his head."

Shan Xiongxin said to Zhai Rang: "We must not let him take the lead."

Zhai Rang nodded slightly and said, "Of course I know, you don't have to worry."

Xie Yingdeng glanced at Xu Shiji and wanted to speak but stopped. Xu Shiji nodded to him, but did not speak. Zhang Liang, who had the lowest status, would not speak nonsense, but sat honestly at the last throne, looking up at the situation in Yanyun Village from time to time. He knew that Zhai Rang took him with him not because he trusted him, but because other leaders were preparing to lead troops to fight.

Soon, Li Xian came with Ye Huaixu, Chen Que'er, Pei Renji and Pei Xingyan. Behind him, Ye Fanyun, Fu Hunu and three other secret spies, standing with a knife.

Zhai Rang was about to get up but Shan Xiongxin pulled him. He remembered what Shan Xiongxin said just now, so he sat down and didn't move. No one in Wagang Village stood up and talked.

After all the people from Yanyun Village arrived, Shan Xiongxin asked coldly: "Who is Li Xian, a junior in the Jianghu? Don't you know how to salute me when you see my eldest brother Zhai?"

His voice was cold and his eyes were aggressive.

However, no one on the other side paid attention to him.

Fu Hunu and Ye Fengyun moved one of the chairs two or three meters away from the back, and there was only a row of four chairs left in front. Ye Huaixue was the leader, Xu Zhizang was the second, Pei Renji and his son sat in front one after another, while Li Xian, who was wearing a black shirt, actually sat in the back, without even looking at Wagang Village.

One guard opened the big black umbrella and fought behind Li Xian. The other guard took out a lot of fruit candied fruits and fine wine cups from his backpack, and placed them on the table beside Li Xian. The third guard stood beside Li Xian with a few books in his arms. Li Xian reached out and took one and read it casually.

Some people hold umbrellas to cover the sun, some people wave fans to deworm insects, and some people pour wine and pick up food.

It seems that he is not here to negotiate, but he is like watching the show. Of course, if he is not interested, he will not even take a look at the show.

Seeing this attitude, the people in Wagang Village suddenly changed their faces with anger!
Chapter completed!