Li Yuanji said with sincerity: "It seems that my second brother will not be able to capture Anlimen in a short time..."
Li Xiaogong raised his head slightly and hummed: "That's right, you don't even look at who is guarding Anlimen."
Li Yuanji rolled his eyes at Li Xiaogong and was too lazy to talk to him anymore.
This guy is a good-for-nothing guy. When you ask him to take the lead, he will be worried and shirk all kinds of things. After he takes the lead and achieves some results, he will be out of breath again.
When dealing with such a person, you cannot tolerate him, let alone ignore him.
Otherwise, he will become more and more energetic.
After Li Yuanji stared at Li Shimin and his party who were attacking the city at the top of the city for a long time, he suddenly looked at Li Xiaogong and said: "You continue to guard here, I will take people to Xuandemen."
Li Xiaogong was stunned and said thoughtfully: "You mean... Shimin will go to Xuandemen after being frustrated here?"
Li Yuanji nodded without hesitation.
This is not a lice on a bald man's head, it's obvious.
Li Shimin's coup can be said to have failed so far, so he must escape from Taiji Palace, avoid Li Yuan's crusade against him, and then continue to seize Li Tang's throne in other ways.
There are nine gates leaving Tai Chi Palace, three of which are in the north and six in the south.
As for the south, Li Shimin would not go there at all.
Because if you go to the south, you will not only have to cross the entire Tai Chi Palace, but you will also probably encounter Li Yuan who came to attack him.
So he can only go north.
Among the three gates in the north, Xuanwu Gate has been taken over by Xue Wanjun, and Anli Gate is guarded by Li Xiaogong. Li Shimin and his party could not attack it for a long time, so they had no choice but to go to Xuande Gate.
If Xuande Gate is blocked again, Li Shimin and his party will have no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth.
The corner of Li Xiaogong's mouth twitched slightly and he looked at Li Yuanji and said, "Are you so cruel that you can't leave a way for your second brother to survive?"
Li Yuanji rolled his eyes at Li Xiaogong and said angrily: "When he sent the Xuanjia Army to Jiulongtan Mountain, he didn't even think about leaving a way for me to survive?"
Li Xiaogong's eyes widened in horror and said: "He sent the Xuanjia Army to Jiulongtan Mountain? He is really ruthless!"
That was the Xuanjia Army, the first iron army of the Tang Dynasty.
An unparalleled presence on the battlefield.
Li Shimin sent them to deal with his younger brother, which shows that he does not want to give his younger brother a way to survive.
Under such circumstances, he would understand why Li Yuanji did not give Li Shimin a way to survive.
"Who wouldn't be ruthless in this kind of thing? If it were my eldest brother, he would do the same thing."
Li Yuanji said with a cold snort.
Before Li Xiaogong could speak again, Li Yuanji said again: "Okay, I won't tell you any more. I have to rush to Xuande Gate to set up defenses. Otherwise, with the more than two thousand soldiers and horses in my hand, it really won't be possible."
You can stop my second brother."
Xuandemen is different from Xuanwumen and Anlimen. It is not the main entrance of Taiji Palace, so there are not so many soldiers and horses to guard it. Therefore, there are no rows of crossbows to use, and there are no boxes of crossbow guns to supply, so it is necessary to
To defend Xuandemen, we can only resist with soldiers and horses.
Although the soldiers of Youtun Guards under Li Shimin had gone through several rounds of attrition and suffered a lot of losses, they still numbered eight thousand.
If Li Yuanji hadn't made some preparations early, he might not have been able to stop Li Shimin and his party.
Li Xiaogong hesitated and said, "Would you like me to send some troops to help you?"
Li Yuanji thought for a moment, then slowly shook his head and said: "No need, if my second brother uses the trick of driving the tiger away from the mountain, my place will be safe, but you will suffer here."
Li Xiaogong said decisively: "Then I will prepare a hundred crossbows for you."
Li Yuanji was stunned for a moment and then agreed.
Although humans can't adjust it, if it's a bed crossbow, it should be fine if you adjust it a little.
After bidding farewell to Li Xiaogong, Li Yuanji sat down from the city in a hanging basket. When Xue Wanshu and Xue Wanche came up together, he said hello, "Go to Xuandemen!"
"Didn't we just come from Xuandemen?"
Xue Wanche scratched his head in confusion, not knowing what to do at Xuandemen.
Xue Wanshu probably guessed what Li Yuanji was going to Xuandemen, so he glared at his younger brother and signaled him not to talk too much. Then he called the others and followed Li Yuanji to Xuandemen.
Since the main troops in the East Palace are Changlin soldiers, and the Changlin soldiers usually guard Changlin Gate in the south, there are not many people guarding Xuande Gate.
Originally there were 300 people, but when Li Shimin sent people to rush into the East Palace to kill them, the Xuandemen guard who was guarding Xuandemen rushed to rescue them with more than 200 people, so there were only 300 people left at Xuandemen.
There were more than thirty people guarding the place.
After Li Yuanji arrived, he decisively sacrificed Li Jiancheng.
The defenders on Xuande Gate opened Xuande Gate without hesitation and happily handed over Xuande Gate's defense.
Li Yuanji immediately ordered Xue Wanshu to re-arrange his defenses, and asked Xue Wanche to take the soldiers wearing armor and stomach to rush to one of the steps of Xuandemen to stand ready, and he took some of his soldiers to stand on another step to stand ready.
When Xue Wanshu was about to arrange the defense of Xuandemen, Li Shimin came over with his men.
After seeing Li Yuanji and his entourage waiting on the stairs, Li Shimin's face suddenly turned black.
After sending someone to hold a shield in front of him to make sure that he would not be killed by the hidden gun that suddenly flew out, Li Shimin shouted to Li Yuanji on the stairs, "Yuanji! I really underestimated you before!"
Li Yuanji stared at the shield formation surrounding Li Shimin without saying a word.
Li Shimin waited for a long time but did not receive a reply from Li Yuanji. He gritted his teeth and shouted again, "For the sake of our past friendship, can you give me a way to survive!"
Li Yuanji still didn't speak.
Li Shimin took a deep breath and shouted again: "Even so, we can only see the real chapter under our hands!"
After saying this, Li Shimin did not hesitate to let Changsun Wuji and Liu Shili lead their men to kill Xuandemen.
The battle started completely when Changsun Wuji and Liu Shili led their men to kill them up the stairs.
The moment the fighting began, it entered the most intense moment.
One side wants to escape, but the other side is unwilling to get out of the way.
So both sides are fighting with all their strength.
Li Yuanji could clearly feel the madness of the Youtun Guard soldiers led by Liu Shili, and Liu Shili and others could also clearly feel the tenacity of Li Yuanji and others.
"kill!"
"kill!"
"Kill me!"
After Liu Shili was hit by an iron arrow and two machetes, he was completely disabled, but he still roared with all his strength with Buqu's support.
The soldiers of the Youtun Guards he led also charged frantically up the stairs.
Li Yuanji held a big sword and led the defenders of Shenlong Gate, frantically harvesting the lives of the soldiers of Youtun Guards. The corpses fell towards the top of the city like dumplings.
After the bed crossbow promised by Li Xiaogong was delivered, the battle became even more fierce.
Xue Wanshu and his men frantically set up and fired crossbows, but all the officers and soldiers of Youtun Guards who were shot by the crossbows were all killed on the spot.
The soldiers of the Youtun Guards were too close to the bed crossbow, so close that every blow of the bed crossbow could easily penetrate them.
"Your Highness, let me wait."
Fang Xuanling and others gathered around Li Shimin. Seeing the battle becoming more and more intense and brutal, but still making no progress, they gritted their teeth and began to fight.
Li Shimin's face was so gloomy that he could bleed. After being silent for a long time amid the urging of Fang Xuanling and others, he said in a slightly hoarse voice: "It seems that Yuan Ji won't let us leave even if he says anything. Can any of you face it?"
About this predicament?"
Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others looked at me and I looked at you, and said in unison: "In this current predicament, there is only one battle left!"
Li Shimin looked around Fang Xuanling and others and said: "No, there is another way, which is a bit risky."
Fang Xuanling and others looked at Li Shimin in astonishment.
Now that things have come to this, what else can be done?
Li Shimin clenched his fists and said: "I am going to ask the soldiers of Youtun Guard to retreat and then chase us."
Fang Xuanling and others looked stunned.
Fang Xuanling said quickly: "Your Highness, do you want to become a guest?"
Although this is not accurate enough, the meaning is roughly the same.
That is to change from a perpetrator to a victim.
Li Shimin nodded and said: "Yes, as long as we can deceive my father, we have a chance to win a chance of survival."
"Then how can you deceive the saint?"
Someone hesitated to ask.
Li Shimin did not speak, but looked at Fang Xuanling.
Fang Xuanling understood, stroked his beard, and said with difficulty: "If you abandon all the soldiers in Youtun Guard, you can deceive the saint."
Some people don't understand what Fang Xuanling means.
Simply making the soldiers of Youtun Guard switch sides and creating the illusion that they are the victims may not necessarily fool Li Yuan.
Therefore, after encountering Li Yuan, the soldiers of Youtun Guard must make it look like they were bribed by Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng and launched a coup, and then fight to the death with the soldiers led by Li Yuan in order to be deceived.
Li Yuan.
The cost of doing this was that all the soldiers of Youtun Guard were wiped out.
After all, Li Yuan would not be merciful when facing the rebels who launched a coup, especially since these rebels were his own soldiers, and he would be even less merciful.
Under such circumstances, if the soldiers of Youtun Guard choose to fight to the death with the troops led by Li Yuan, Li Yuan will definitely kill them all without hesitation, leaving not a single person alive.
"Do you really want to do this?"
After Du Ruhui understood the joints, he frowned and asked.
Fang Xuanling did not answer his question, but continued to himself: "This has another advantage for us, that is, before the soldiers of Youtun Guard are killed, the saint will not have time to find Qi Qi.
His Royal Highness the King and His Highness the Crown Prince are asking for confirmation."
Du Ruhui looked at Fang Xuanling and said, "Although I say that, are the soldiers of Youtun Guard really willing to die for us?"
Fang Xuanling tugged at his beard and looked at Li Shimin without saying anything.
Whether the soldiers of Youtun Guard are willing to die for them depends entirely on what they tell the soldiers of Youtun Guard.
It also completely depends on their planning and operations.
If you tell the soldiers of Youtunwei that they have given up trouble with Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng and want Li Yuan's head instead, then the soldiers of Youtunwei should not mind having a fight with Li Yuan.
