Chapter 199: Liu Wenjing's Broken Dream, Li Hongyu's War, Li Zhiyun's Awakening (End 34)
The process of eradicating the disease is long and painful.
Li Zhiyun made a special trip from Chang'an to invite the most popular witch among the people of Chang'an. Following the witch's advice, he risked his life and personally entered the mountain forest that was actually controlled by Xue Ju's army, and collected the dew-stained seeds when the sun rose in the early morning.
Precious herbs that only grow in that mountain forest.
Under the guidance of the witch, Li Zhiyun isolated Li Shimin's tent with a pile of firewood, placed a huge iron pot in the center of the bedroom, poured the herbs carefully prepared by the witch into the iron pot, and never stopped adding water to the pot.
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Every half an hour, Li Zhiyun added new medicinal ingredients in the order set by the witch. What made him nervous and distressed was that these medicinal ingredients, which were said to have completely different medicinal properties, looked exactly the same, but he overcame all difficulties.
, according to the instructions of the witch, he meticulously and successfully completed all the processes and links of brewing the medicine.
He did not trust any soldiers who were careless, or who looked decent but were irresponsible and could even fall asleep in bed with them. He had to personally participate in every step of preparing the medicine, so for seven days and nights, he did not have a good night's sleep.
It was not until seven days later that Li Shimin inhaled the smell of herbs that filled the bedroom and drank the medicinal porridge that was finally condensed into a bowl of black paste into his stomach that his condition began to improve. After that, he went through another twenty-one days of recuperation.
It was the first time he stepped down from the bed he had never left since his illness.
During the period when Li Shimin was in bed and recuperating, Liu Wenjing took over the command of the army because Li Zhiyun was not interested in military affairs.
During the early stage of the epidemic when his mind was still clear, Li Shimin issued orders to dig deep trenches and build high forts. Before he fell into a life-and-death confrontation with the epidemic, he gave Liu Wenjing a final explanation:
Xue Ju's army is alone and it is difficult to carry it with him. After a few months, there will be a shortage of food and grass and the soldiers will be exhausted. Time is on our side. Don't confront opponents who are eager to fight, and don't be angered by the challenges they will definitely launch. Be patient.
Waiting for the army from afar to get tired.
Such fatigue will not be too far away.
When Liu Wenjing walked out of Li Shimin's tent, what was in her mind was not how deep the trench should be dug or how high the fort should be built, but when she saw Pei Ji standing in front of her, his seemingly friendly and approachable but condescending eyes made his blood boil.
Liu Wenjing's nostrils were filled with the dusty air that Pei Ji had raised as he strode forward, which she had not been able to stop inhaling since the Jinyang uprising.
His head was as red and hot as a frying pan with strong fire, and thoughts were as dense and hot as bubbles in a hot frying pan.
He thought that Li Shimin was worried that he could not deal with Xue Ju, so he tactfully persuaded him.
He thought that Xue Ju should have heard the news about Li Shimin's illness and was currently high-fiving and celebrating, and had already entered a state of paralysis and taking things lightly.
He believed that his military talent was not inferior to that of Li Shimin at all, and far better than that of Pei Ji, but he had never been given the opportunity to stand alone. Regarding this point, history has proven that his belief was at least half right.
He was eager to win a hearty victory, leaping high like a thousand-mile horse, crossing Pei Ji's wretched back, and landing in front of the opponent, just out of reach. And the moment his four hooves landed,
The dust that covered the ground was raised up and filled Pei Ji's nose, causing him to cough and roll all over the floor.
He led his troops into formation in the southwest of Gaoshan, carefully studied the team's formation and tactics, and based on his own superior morale, he made preparations to deal with all changes.
Xue Ju, who was overjoyed, set up a frontal hard steel formation opposite him, but secretly arranged a surprise force to go behind him.
At the critical moment when the two armies were about to fight, a flood of surprise troops poured out from the rear and broke through the Tang army, which was always ready for a fierce battle on the frontal battlefield. This directly resulted in the most tragic defeat suffered by Li Yuan's army since the Jinyang Army.
More than half of the soldiers were killed in the battle, and generals Liu Hongji, Murong Luohu, and Li Anyuan were captured. Li Shimin, who had just gotten up from the hospital bed, repeatedly evaluated the situation and determined that the only way to return to the country was to return to the North.
Liu Wenjing's dream of becoming a general through the ages was shattered.
Xue Ju planted the flag of the Western Qin Dynasty on the top of the high city, and the flag danced violently with the strong wind blowing from the northwest.
The corpses of Tang army soldiers were built into a hill by his son Xue Rengao. After a few days, the smell of the corpses was enough to remind Dancing Horse of the smell of his hometown.
Liu Wenjing knelt on the ground and accepted Li Yuan's dismissal without any extra thoughts.
At that moment, Li Yuan's voice was like a heavy hammer hitting his heart, which he thought was stoic but was actually extremely fragile.
He suddenly remembered that when he visited Wu Ma because of Yuwen Jianxue's journey south to Jiangdu for revenge, the other party gave him a warning that he thought was sarcastic but he didn't take it to heart at all——
"Your talent for fighting is not very good."
"In the future, stay less involved in wars. Be careful not to save your life."
Liu Wenjing remembered that she farted in response.
I remembered the candlelight that suddenly went out, the handsome face that instantly dimmed as the horse danced, and the way I shivered as if I were seeing a cold corpse.
The shivers transcended the limitations of time and were accurately transmitted to every part of his body at this moment.
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On the night when Li Shimin's class teacher returned to the court, Li Hongyu summoned Wu Ma and asked, "When will we go to Western Qin?"
Wu Ma said: "I can inform the Holy One tomorrow and the army will be ready to leave within half a month."
The two people's eyes met for a long time at this moment.
Li Hongyu forgot for a brief moment the politeness and alienation she had always maintained towards Wu Ma during this period. Wu Ma saw clearly the true appearance of this beautiful and decisive woman without any pretense in her unintentional forgetfulness, and further determined
The Li Hongyu in front of me seemed to be really different from the Li Hongyu who fought side by side with him to capture Guanzhong.
Li Hongyu accepted Wu Ma's advice without any hesitation. Even when she proposed to Li Yuan that she would take Li Shimin's place in the Western Qin expedition, she did it more resolutely and thoroughly than Wu Ma imagined.
Li Hongyu proposed that there was no need to replenish the military strength from the Jinyang Army, and she could only rely on her own troops and horses when clearing the pass through the pass, and even supplies did not need to be provided by others.
She issued a military order saying that if she fails, she will be benevolent, and Xue Ju will never be destroyed and vowed not to return to the court.
If she fails unfortunately, she will cut off her own head and the head of Wu Ma with her own hands, and let the surviving soldiers write the words "defeated general" on their faces and take them back to Chang'an City.
Wu Ma heard the vow she made, and was shocked at how she could trust Wu Ma as much as she trusted herself, but at the same time, she maintained an abyss of politeness and distance from him.
Li Yuan deeply understood the temperament of his third daughter, who never broke her promise to get rich, and once she made a promise, she would fulfill it at any cost.
Although he was indeed a little worried that after Yuexu, his daughter's head with the word "defeat" carved on her face was sent from the distant West Qin. What was even more worrying was that the head with the word "defeat" carved on it was eventually brought back by Xue Ju's envoy instead of Li Hongyu's remnant soldiers.
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Such a humiliation would definitely be a heavy blow to the military morale of the Tang Dynasty, and would be written down in history books and passed down forever.
But what he was more concerned about was that he was constantly harassing the Xue family and his son in the west of the Tang Dynasty. They were like killers lurking outside Li Yuan's bedroom door.
Li Yuan could clearly see the assassin's figure lying in ambush by the flower pond next to the big tree in the yard, but when he sent people to deal with the assassin, they always came back with bruises and swollen faces.
This really kept Li Yuan awake all night.
Li Zhiyun tried every means to prevent Li Hongyu from sending troops to the Western Qin Dynasty, and roped in Dai Sheng. He persuaded Li Yuan's most trusted right servant Pei Ji, who knew political affairs and was the first prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, to persuade Li Yuan to give up the idea of letting Li Hongyu go to the Western Qin Dynasty instead of Li Shimin.
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On the night he persuaded Pei Ji, a brand new dagger appeared unnoticed next to his pillow again.
Li Zhiyun was so angry that he used the dagger to dig into the wall of his bedroom into a hornet's nest, but the dagger he wanted to destroy was still intact.
The next day, Pei Ji, who had been persuaded by Li Zhiyun, also returned the belt made entirely of gold, and told Li Zhiyun: "It is the blessing of the country that the princess is willing to share the worries of the Holy One."
Later, Li Zhiyun heard about Li Jiancheng's visit to Pei Ji that night. At this moment, old and new hatreds were poured into a hot iron pot at the same time. Pei Ji's name was also added to Li Zhiyun's revenge list, after the dancing horse.
In front of the name of the Sui Army sergeant who almost sent Li Zhiyun to Daxing City to have his head chopped off.
Not long after, the Sui Army non-commissioned officer was dug out from the vast sea of people by Li Zhiyun. He divided the non-commissioned officer's body into five parts and threw them into the ditches in the five directions of the southeast, northwest, and northwest of the former Daxing City and let them rot.
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Li Zhiyun would never give up to stop Li Hongyu's army's expedition against the Western Qin Dynasty.
But he thought hard day and night, and the only way left was to lead the awakened disciples of the Datang Pagoda to participate in the crusade against the Western Qin as the general of the Tang Dynasty Pagoda.
Li Yuan agreed in principle to his request to participate in the war, but Li Hongyu refused politely and neatly on the grounds that the awakened disciples in the Ruby Tower were too mature to work hard.
Li Zhiyun swore that anything he wanted to stir up trouble would never go unnoticed, and he made the decision to force the awakened disciples of the Tang Tower to participate in the crusade as an auxiliary team even if Li Hongyu didn't welcome it.
Li Shimin personally stopped Li Zhiyun's war horse and told him: The best way to defeat an opponent is never to block the opponent's path, but to let the opponent watch his retreating figure with his own eyes and feel helpless.
Li Zhiyun had long been aware of his reckless move. He drew the sword but did not think of a decent reason to retract the scabbard. Finally, the moment Li Shimin appeared, he found the steps that allowed him to calmly walk down the castle in the air.
It was on the night when Li Shimin made pertinent suggestions to him that he suddenly woke up from the busyness and intrigues for a long time and realized that he had stayed at the level of the second-level awakened disciple for too long, and the dancing horse
But he always marched forward unswervingly. This is really a dangerous signal.
In the end, he watched Li Hongyu's army go west. But then, his most trusted awakening disciple in the Tang Tower carried an envelope that recorded all the information about the awakening skills he knew about the dancing horses, and ran all the way day and night.
To Western Qin... Not long after, he brought a second letter...
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