Reborn Prince built

Then the two brothers got on their horses and went out of the city gate, just as the sun was rising.Li Shimin's silver armor gleamed dazzlingly under the sunlight. He has reached the age of weak crown, and the outline of his face has formed. He is more like Li Yuan, with sharp edges and corners, and he is more resolute than Li Jiancheng.

"Brother, when I saw you going to suppress bandits with my father when I was young, I thought that I could wear military uniforms and walk side by side with you at any time. Now my wish has finally come true."

Li Jiancheng looked at him sideways, saw that Li Shimin's eyes were full of smiles, and seemed extremely happy, so he asked, "Does Shimin want to be my right-hand man?"

Li Shimin nodded and said: "It's enough for me to come with my left and right arms, but I can only stay with my elder brother."

Li Jiancheng stared ahead, covered by the flying yellow sand, "I'm afraid you won't think so in the future."

"Brother," Li Shimin couldn't help frowning again, "Don't you know what Shimin wants?"

Li Jiancheng didn't answer, but just sneered from the bottom of his heart.

They arrived in Xihe County in the evening two days later, set up camp outside the moat, and lit a bonfire for some food.Gao Deru, the governor of Xihe County, was originally Li Yuan's good friend. However, after Li Yuan raised his troops, he secretly told Yang Guang about it. Now that he heard that Li Yuan was going to capture Xihe County in his first battle, he closed it two days earlier. City gate, waiting for Yang Guang's army to come to rescue.

The soldiers brought two bowls of gruel and two stacks of side dishes into the main camp tent, put the food on the table, and left respectfully.The food didn't look good just because they were the coaches, they ate the same as ordinary soldiers.This well-disciplined army never took anything from the people for nothing. Even if the people sent it on their own initiative, Li Jiancheng would ask him to send the broken silver. This kind of thing was passed on by word of mouth among the people along the way. Then he had a little more favorable opinion of this rebel army.

Li Jiancheng sipped the gruel and said with the boiled cabbage: "As far as I'm concerned, let's use the method of besieging the city for the time being."

Li Shimin pulled out a few pieces of meat from the beans, put them all into Li Jiancheng's bowl, and said, "Let's do what the elder brother says."

Li Jiancheng put the meat slices back into his bowl again, and said: "I don't like meat, you should eat more, these few days away, the food is no worse than at home, thank you for being able to bear it."

Li Shimin raised his eyebrows, poked his head in front of Li Jiancheng, licked the corner of his mouth suddenly, and smiled as if he had succeeded in a trick: "This way, Shimin can satisfy his hunger."

He has long been used to Li Shimin's small actions of one kind or another, so he was not moved, and said: "Tell me your opinion."

"I think it would be good to just attack the county directly. Why waste time besieging the city?"

"There are still thousands of people in the county. We haven't figured out the situation yet. A forced intrusion will inevitably cause innocent people to be injured. We will wait for Deng Wu to visit Xihe County tonight and make plans tomorrow."

Li Shimin nodded, "That's fine, if Gao Deru is caught then, his body must be broken into thousands of pieces."

When the words "shattered corpses into ten thousand pieces" came out of his mouth, he didn't even blink his eyes, he just sipped his porridge calmly.

He paused, and then said: "Back then, Gao Deru said that seeing a phoenix in Xihe was an auspicious sign, and he wrote a letter to Yang Guang. Yang Guang was very happy, so Gao Deru became an official and a nobleman. In fact, he saw It was nothing more than a peacock, but when the report was made, the peacock had already flown away and could not be verified. Yang Guang is also a person who likes to talk about scenes, and he even built a Luan Pavilion, which is really ridiculous. If someone like Gao Deru is kept, it will only harm others .”

Li Jiancheng nodded, agreeing.

At night, when Deng Wu came back from his night patrol, he said that there were only one or two thousand soldiers in the city, and it seemed that Yang Guang's reinforcements had not arrived. After he heard the news of the Li family's uprising, he fled to Jiangdu. Take care of this little Xihe County.

"That's it." Li Jiancheng took a sip of his wine and said, "Let's attack tomorrow morning."

The author has something to say: I will die with all my strength...

Bathing in river water (typesetting, don’t buy it after seeing it!!!)

Before dawn on the second day, Li Jiancheng ordered his soldiers to lay out ladders and stone carts for the siege, and everyone stood together with torches, making it as bright as day.There was no sound in Xihe County, as if he was completely unaware of the movement outside, and he didn't know if Gao Deru was too dazed or he had other ideas.

Li Jiancheng stood behind holding a white command flag, looking up at the soldiers climbing up the ladder in front of them. They had ropes hanging around their waists.

"Brother," Li Shimin pressed the sword on his waist, and said, "Don't you think something is wrong? When Gao Deru made friends with his father before, his conversation was not bad, and he didn't look like a brave man."

Li Jiancheng nodded, his eyes a little cold, and said: "Even if he lays an ambush, we can only attack by force. As long as we break through the guards on the tower and open the city gate, Gao Deru will die."

Li Shimin was still a little worried, and said: "Brother, let's go into the camp, Shimin here will be fine."

"I'm a general. I can't fight with the soldiers and live and die with the soldiers. Instead, I hide in the tent. What kind of general is I?"

At this time, a soldier had already climbed up the tower first. He looked around and seemed to feel that there was no danger, so he raised his hand to the soldier who was still climbing up, but the movement stopped suddenly, and his body swayed. Immediately afterwards, he fell down the tower, and Gao Deru's men, who had ambushed on the tower with sacks in advance, stood up one after another, holding bows and arrows in their hands.

There really was an ambush.The soldiers below were suddenly confused, and some even ran to the rear in order to avoid the arrows.

Li Jiancheng was not surprised. He immediately got on his horse, waved the command flag, and shouted: "Break open the city gate, whoever dares to retreat will be killed!"

Seeing him riding forward, Li Shimin immediately followed behind him.

The two chief generals had already rushed to the front, and with Li Jiancheng's strict military discipline, the army, which was still somewhat disorganized just now, slowly stabilized its position, began to form an orderly formation, and advanced towards the city gate.

Arrows rained like rain, and the soldiers at the front were clinging to their shields, barely blocking them for a while, while the soldiers behind followed suit.The catapults continuously fired boulders on the tower, and the guards on the tower who were hit by stones all fell to the bottom of the city, while many soldiers clinging to the city wall, climbed up the tower through the ladder, and fought with the guards.On the other side, dozens of soldiers carried huge logs on their shoulders and were hitting the city gate.

After a while, the gate of the city was knocked open, Gao Deru, governor of Xihe County, had already arranged soldiers behind the gate, and now he greeted the Li family's army coming towards the gate.

Li Jiancheng took the lead, with a cold expression on his face, he pierced an enemy soldier's throat with his sword, blood spattered, and then killed several people in a row.For a moment, the enemy army was frightened by the momentum of the two brothers, and retreated a little bit later.

But for the Li family's army, it was a great opportunity. General Wen snatched the drumstick from the soldier's hand, beat the drum vigorously, and shouted loudly: "Follow the general, charge!"

The morale was greatly boosted. Amidst the sound of charging and killing all over the sky, the officers and soldiers of Xihe County failed to wait for the reinforcements, and they were defeated in a mess.The battle of Xihe only took nine days, and it was over.

Li Jiancheng reined in his horse, his armor and face were covered with blood, and his body still carried a cold murderous aura, which at first glance was quite frightening.He stared at the blood-stained city wall, remained silent for a moment, turned his head as if sensing something, Li Shimin was also looking at him not far away, in front of the red-stained moat, there was a bloody corpse floating under the horse's hooves. The man on the horse was silent for a moment, then looked at each other and smiled.

But the relaxed smile on Li Jiancheng's face soon stopped, because a broken arrow was stuck on Li Shimin's left shoulder, and the blood had already coagulated when the arrow sank into the shoulder.

He immediately rode to Li Shimin's side, frowned and said, "I don't say a word when I'm hurt."

Li Shimin heard some concern in his words, and couldn't help laughing: "I was only focused on beheading the enemy soldiers, and I didn't notice it."

"Go back to the camp, ask the military doctor to bandage it, and then check if there is any injury to the bones." He shouted to Wen Dayou again: "General Wen, I will leave this to you, and I will go back to the camp with the people first."

When they arrived at the barracks, they called the military doctor. After the examination, they said that there was no injury to the tendons. Even when the shaft of the arrow was cut off and the arrowhead was pulled out, Li Shimin didn't say a word, but his brows were tightly frowned, and his lips were a little dark. Turned pale.

Li Jiancheng guarded him until he got up and went to take care of the post-war affairs after the wound was bandaged.Li Shimin saw that his elder brother had gone out, so he stopped the medical officer who was packing up his things, and asked, "What is the function of this ointment?"

The medical officer glanced at the white vial on the table, and replied concisely: "Promoting muscle and relieving pain."

Li Shimin stared at the bottle thoughtfully for a moment, then stretched out his hand to hold it and said, "Keep this medicine, you can withdraw it."

After finishing all the affairs, it was already night when they returned to the camp, and the soldiers were exhausted. Except for some patrolling guards, most of them had already fallen asleep.

When Li Jiancheng entered the account, Li Shimin was lying on his side on the simple couch with his back facing him, breathing slowly, as if he was asleep.Li Jiancheng relaxed his movements, took off his underwear, and planned to go out.

"Brother, where are you going?"

Li Jiancheng frowned unobtrusively, turned around and said, "Why aren't you sleeping?"

Li Shimin half propped himself up, without any sleepiness in his eyes, obviously just pretending to be asleep, he said with a little dissatisfaction on his face, "Brother hasn't come back yet, how can I sleep alone first?"

He saw the clothes in Li Jiancheng's hands, squinted his eyes and said, "Brother, do you want to take a bath?"

Li Jiancheng nodded. He is very clean by nature, and today his body is full of