Tang's dining table

After Di Renjie and his party had eaten and drank enough, they began to walk towards the place where there were shouts and the sound of weapons clashing just now.

After getting closer, I found that the dry loess was covered with corpses. After counting them, I found that they were the same group of people who had just chased them.

There were sixteen people just now, and now there are sixteen corpses, not one of them is missing, but their mounts are missing.

Yin Erhu looked at the dust raised by the galloping horses in the distance, looked at Di Renjie resentfully and said, "Master, they ran away."

Di Renjie squatted on the ground, looking at the body in bright light armor that had been torn open between the legs, shook his head and said, "They can't run away."

Yin Erhu whispered: "Just watch them die?"

Di Renjie said coldly: "Some people are better off dead than alive."

Yin Erhu was stunned for a moment and said, "If that's the case, why do we still want to catch up?"

Di Renjie said: "Protect the people of Wannian County from harm."

After that, he took the reins of the war horse from the store owner, and followed closely with Yin Erhu and his companions in the direction of the flying smoke.

When Li Hong came outside the city, he looked at the corpses arranged neatly on the ground. He looked at them from beginning to end. When he finally saw several corpses that had been torn apart by life, he cried loudly.

I don't know if it was due to fear or pity for his subordinates.

Zhang Ren, the general of the Sixth Army of the East Palace who had been kept by Li Hong as a retinue, saw the corpses of his colleagues on the ground, coupled with the prince's crying, his eyes suddenly turned red, and the terrifying scar on his face also He started to turn red and knelt on one knee in front of Li Hong and said: "Please allow your highness to allow me to go out to fight and kill this beast."

Before Li Hong could speak, Li Hong's personal eunuch Cheng Chun whispered: "You are His Highness's retinue. If you don't guard His Highness, where are you going?"

Zhang Ren stood up slowly and retreated behind Li Hong, squeezing the horse in his hand until it creaked.

Cheng Chun looked at the young general on the left who looked pale in the hot weather and said: "General Wen, you have always boasted of being unparalleled in swordsmanship and horsemanship. The important task of catching the assassin and avenging your comrades falls on you."

Wen Ruhu looked around and found that the brothers who were talking and laughing in the past, pushing cups and changing cups, all had their heads lowered, not daring to look at him, so he cupped his hands towards Chengchun and said: "The general thought that at this moment, with the Protecting His Highness’ safety is our top priority.”

At this time, Li Hong, who was crying and his eyes were red, raised his head and shouted at Wen Ruhu: "I don't need protection. General Wen, go and get the heads of these thieves from King Gu. General Sun and the others died miserably -" —”

Wen Ruhu still wanted to speak, but found that Zhang Ren behind His Highness was looking at him. As long as he disobeyed His Highness, this stubborn Zhang Ren would definitely tear him apart on the spot.

Then he yelled and rushed forward with the fifteen people he had personally recruited. He had already made up his mind to run around in the wilderness for a while and then come back and say he couldn't find it.

General Xin Mao, the servant, was not worried about the situation in front of him. Those big cannibals were just trapped beasts trying to fight. They were already surrounded by the strong men of Wannian County.

If it hadn't been for his insistence on not using the military power at Qujiang Pond, these big cannibals would have been chopped into pieces by Yun Chu and the others.

Since His Highness the Crown Prince wants to use these people to test the combat prowess of his Crown Prince Liu Lie, General Xin Mao feels it is necessary to let His Highness know that his Prince Six Strikes are actually a group of embroidered pillows, lest the Crown Prince think that those people are all Gancheng. With this tool, thoughts arise that should not arise.

Just seeing the prince standing in front of a pile of corpses crying sadly, he couldn't help but said to Xu Jingzong: "Look at the prince, Zhang Ren is the only one who is considered a strong general. Why doesn't His Highness send out strong generals but always sends some weak ones?" Where's the chicken going to war?"

Xu Jingzong had already understood the ins and outs of what happened today, and said with a smile: "In the past, Emperor Taizong led a hundred cavalry into the battle to defeat Dou Jiande. I once advised Emperor Taizong that the king should not enter the battle to fight hand-to-hand with the untouchables. , it's not worth it.

As a result, Emperor Taizong refused to listen. Although Dou Jiande was defeated in the end, Emperor Taizong also narrowly escaped death. If the great fortune had not been with Emperor Taizong, I don't know what the situation in the Tang Dynasty would be like now.

A gentleman is too heavy to enter dangerous places. This is what I focused on when I was teaching the prince. Now, His Highness the prince has followed my instructions and kept those who can and dare to fight by his side to ensure that he is thorough and let those who boast Is there anything wrong with such people joining the battle to defeat the enemy? "

General Xin Mao said contemptuously: "You are just greedy for life and afraid of death, and you taught this trick to the prince."

Xu Jingzong stroked his beard proudly and said: "As you said, the ending of the Overlord of Western Chu is a good one?"

General Xin Mao sighed and said, "Why do I always feel that you are misleading me?"

Xu Jingzong smiled and said: "Those who teach the king should not regard them as ordinary people. There are people like Gou Jian and Han Xin in front of me. It is not wrong for me to teach the prince to cherish his life.

Although I am older than you, I will definitely die later than you. After you die, I will write a biography for you. Your posthumous honor and disgrace will be all in my mind. This is the benefit of living a long life. "

While the two were talking, another spy came to report. Wen Ruhu accidentally encountered the fleeing cannibal. After fighting with the cannibal for less than a moment, his arm was cut off and he fled...

Li Hong cried even louder when he heard this. Zhang Ren was so embarrassed that he couldn't bear it. He took off his armor, revealing his upper body covered with scars and roared: "Your Highness is humiliated. It's time for me to die."

Although Li Hong cried with tears, Cheng Chun still forcefully suppressed Zhang Ren and must put His Highness's safety first and not leave.

Xu Jingzong on the side loudly praised Zheng Chunban, but General Xin Mao's eyes showed a little doubt.

In one breath, Chengchun expelled the guys who were surrounding the prince and pretended to be very vigilant, and told them that if they couldn't bring back the head of the big man-eater, they wouldn't have to enter the East Palace again.

Seeing a hundred people riding horses towards the wilderness, and then looking at Zhang Ren walking around like a violent tiger, Xin Maojiang's heart suddenly thumped.

He finally remembered that many of the people in the Prince's Six Commands were not personally selected by the Prince, but Zhang Ren. Because he led eight hundred subordinates in the Western Regions to find onions for the Prince, he traveled almost all over the Western Regions and killed many people. A real tough guy who can take action.

He is regarded as a trusted general personally selected by His Highness the Crown Prince.

Could it be that...His Royal Highness is purging dissidents?

However, looking at the prince, who looked a little weak because he had been crying for too long, leaning on Zhang Ren, he did not look like someone who could carry out such bloody methods to eliminate dissidents.

"Your Highness is purging dissenters."

Xu Jingzong saw the doubts Xin Mao was hiding in his heart at this time, and boldly answered his doubts.

Hearing this, General Xin Mao felt a chill in his heart and looked at Xu Jingzong with awe.

Xu Jingzong smiled and said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's intelligence is something I have only seen in my life. It is common to have a photographic memory, and it is even rarer to draw inferences from one instance to another. Often there are alternative interpretations of the words of sages."

Nowadays, they are dissatisfied with the people in the East Palace who are full of people with nothing to eat and drink, and they are killing and killing them decisively. Is it any wonder? "

General Xin Mao's mouth trembled for a moment before he could speak, and then he heard Xu Jingzong say again: "Your Majesty is no less wise than Emperor Taizong, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is even more powerful than his ancestors. We are just ministers, and we should be good ministers." That's all. Why bother? Only Your Majesty can say whether His Highness's actions are right or wrong. What should we say?

Could it be that you think there is anything wrong with His Highness clearing away the wine bags and rice bags in the East Palace? "

General Xin Mao looked at His Highness the Crown Prince who was crying and almost fainting, and said in a low voice: "You are the Grand Tutor. You should warn His Highness that using onions and ginger to kill your eyes and induce tears is not good for your eyes."

Xu Jingzong looked at the corpses on the ground and said disdainfully: "If they can get a few tears from the prince, they can be regarded as honoring their ancestors."

Seeing a dozen Donggong Liu, who knew they were trapped in a dead end and was struggling to kill them, fleeing with their lives, Li Hong put away his tears, looked at the approaching giant eater with red and swollen eyes and shouted loudly: "Come on, you guys." , The lonely king is not afraid!”

Zhang Ren held a horse in his hand, rode forward and shouted at the Donggong Sixth and others who had returned from fleeing for their lives: "Turn around to face the enemy and fight to the death. Anyone who dares to take a step back will be killed!"

A general who ran the fastest turned a deaf ear to Zhang Ren's words. He ran back and shouted at Zhang Ren: "General Zhang, help me."

Zhang Ren didn't answer. Just when the man's two horses were crossing each other, he waved his horse. The man's head was cut off by Zhang Ren's long horse's blade, flew up in the air and finally fell into the dust.

Seeing Zhang Ren blocking the retreat, the six men led by the prince screamed in despair. Some people rushed out from the thorns and escaped without a trace. However, a few sensible people gritted their teeth and turned their horses' heads, desperately facing The fierce cannibal killed him.

Xu Jingzong and General Xin Mao are both used to seeing battles. They don't care about these giant predators who are running towards them. They each drew out their horizontal knives and rode forward to block Li Hong's side. Don't look at Xu Jingzong's usual greed for money. Lustful and timid as a mouse, he actually looked heroic when he was holding a horizontal sword in front of Li Hong.

Yun Chu, who was in the distance, saw this scene clearly. He couldn't help but sigh and said to Di Renjie beside him: "He deserves to be the prime minister."

Di Renjie snorted and said, "When I arranged such a big battle, I thought I could see the ugly behavior of Xu Jingzong or General Xin Mao. Unexpectedly, I was taken advantage of by these two old thieves."

Yun Chu jumped on the bay red horse, laughed loudly and said: "Nine out of ten things in this world are not what you want, so it is good to achieve half of the goal."

When Yin Erhu saw the Marquis riding away, he asked Di Renjie, "What are we doing?"

Di Renjie said angrily: "Go home and go to bed!"

When Yin Erhu saw that Di Renjie looked unhappy, he shrunk his neck and led the people along the ditch towards Qujiang River.

The Big Man-Eater stopped a stone's throw away from Zhang Ren. These big guys with their heads wrapped in gray cloth lined up in a neat line, and at the call of a burly Big Man-Eater, they After drinking it, it also made a sound like a wolf howling.

General Xin Mao looked at the fearless Xu Jingzong next to him and said, "Do you think it's really to the point where we both have to go into battle to kill the enemy?"

Xu Jingzong curled his mouth to the left and said: "The thugs are coming. There is no need for us to take action. This is the right thing to do. The two of us going into battle to kill the enemy will be very detrimental to the face of the Tang Dynasty."

Xin Maojiang turned his head and looked to the left, and saw Yun Chu, who was fully armored, galloping over there holding a horse spear. The sunlight behind him shone on his dark armor, and he couldn't see his face clearly. He only felt that This guy is awesome.

Yun Chu rode over, saluted the prince and said, "I am late to save you, please forgive me, Your Highness."

Li Hongda cried: "General Yun, my people died so miserably."

Yun Chu looked at the corpses on the ground that had attracted a lot of flies and said, "Incompetent people will die when they die. Your Highness will just replace them with a group of warriors in the future."

Xu Jingzong slowly put the horizontal sword back into the scabbard and said sarcastically: "Finally, the county magistrate gave me some mercy and didn't let me kill the enemy with my old body and lose the face of the Tang Dynasty."

Yun Chu laughed loudly, closed his visor, clasped his fists on his horse and said, "Two or three children are playing in front of the army. Your Majesty, please come and watch."

General Xin Mao shouted: "Behead this beast quickly, I am in urgent need of urination."

Chapter two