Chapter 585 Chapter Eight

Xu Ziling flew across the grassland, headed towards Dahe, and rushed back to Chang'an, feeling at a loss in his heart. When two tigers fight, one must be injured, but he can't stop the development of the matter.Fortune tricks people, why does Shi Feixuan believe that she can change this seemingly preordained fate?In fact, he always felt powerless. He felt that Li Shimin might be determined to deal with the persecution of Jiancheng and Yuanji, but he still couldn't ignore his father-son relationship with Li Yuan.Li Shimin's composure was beyond his expectation, and his reaction was not as impulsive as he expected, but he resolutely decided to put what happened in Chang'an behind him and concentrate on dealing with Kou Zhong.

If Song Que hadn't intervened in this matter, even if it wasn't for Xu Ziling's sake, he would definitely respect Kou Zhong after defeating him and would not try to kill him, but Song Que made things go in a different direction.Li Shimin explained the matter to him, saying that it was the only choice he had no choice. How he wished to stay far away from what was about to happen, and no longer hear any news about this cruel offensive and defensive battle.But it was hard for him to stay out of the matter, could he live to see Kou Zhong killed? Kou Zhong jumped out from behind the bushes and trees, rushed towards Qiupo like a shooting star, and rushed towards Li Shimin.

Facing this side, Pang Yu and the two master guards were on alert at the same time, yelling loudly, and when they realized that it was Kou Zhong, they hurriedly jumped off their horses, drew their weapons, and intercepted Kou Zhong head-on with one sword and two swords. Li Shimin, Changsun Wuji, Yuchi Jingde, Luo Shixin and sixteen personal guards on the top of the hill did not make a mess as Kou Zhong expected. Li Shimin laughed and said, "Young commander, don't come here!" Changsun Wuji and others took out their weapons one after another, surrounded Li Shimin in groups, and then separated five master guards to dismount to deal with Kou Zhong.

Kou Zhong felt that it was a pity, if he was able to sneak up to Qiupo only to be discovered, or if the opponent rode his horse to intercept him, he could use his agility much more flexible than a horse, and seize the opportunity to attack Li Shimin in close quarters. Now it has become a battle between the two sides.Responding: "Brother Shimin is still in style, gratifying to congratulate." "Zheng"! Jing Zhongyue came out from her back, swung forward, hit the sword that Pang Yu was attacking, and then moved slightly to the right, only narrowly avoiding the knife that was supposed to be cut to the head and neck, Jing Zhongyue swept across, viciously On the back of the sword that the master on the right is chopping from the side.

Pang Yu first let out a muffled snort, Yun Jian's right hand was vacant, with nowhere to focus, and was extremely sad.He had fought against Kou Zhong in Luoyang before, but at this moment Kou Zhong seemed to be reborn as another person, with unfathomable skill and unfathomable sword skills, he retreated in shock and regrouped. "when"! The master guard on the right was staggered and fell away by him with a knife. It turned out that Kou Zhong had borrowed part of his inner strength from Pang Yu, how could this gentleman not suffer immediately. When Kou Zhong swept away the enemy on the right, his left foot flew out, and the toe of the boot hit the blade of the enemy on the left. People spurted blood and fell back.

When Pang Yu hurriedly retreated, five master guards armed with guns passed Pang Yu and rushed towards Kou Zhong without thinking about their own safety. Li Shimin and others on the top of the hill gasped when they saw that Kou Zhong had become so powerful, he was no longer the familiar Kou Zhong. Kou Zhong laughed, stood up, and fired five long spears into the air. Kou Zhong is so shrewd, seeing five people using their spears in unison, he judged that these five master guards must be proficient in some kind of formation that can bring out the advantages of long spears, how dare they be entangled by them.

Pang Yu, who swooped back from Qiupo again, was puzzled. Kou Zhong shot straight up into the sky, and when he was exhausted, he would fall straight back to the ground. How could he deal with the five long spears waiting for him on the ground? I can only stand by and wait. On the top of the slope, Li Shimin and the others had no time to think, except for Li Shimin, everyone put down their weapons, took the bow with their right hand, and the arrow with their left hand, and shot at Kou Zhong who was still ascending. The sound of the bowstring exploded in succession, fourteen powerful arrows flew out, weaving into a net of arrows, and shot towards Kou Zhong. As long as Kou Zhong follows the current rising speed, he will definitely become a target.No matter how high his martial arts are, he still cannot block fourteen powerful arrows at the same time under such circumstances.

Li Shimin couldn't bear it, but felt faintly that Kou Zhong would not be killed so easily. Sure enough, Kou Zhong let out a long laugh, his true energy changed, he changed from straight up to sideways charge, not only dodged the deadly arrow, but also passed Pang Yu, and rushed towards everyone on the hill. Pang Yu shouted loudly, leaned towards the sky, and chased after Kou Zhong's back with his long sword. Kou Zhong's castration increased, he quickly distanced himself from Pang Yu's sword, and threw at Li Shimin on the top of the hill. Yuchi Jingde and others didn't expect Kou Zhong to have such a unique skill of reversing the true energy and changing the direction of the movement, all of them lost their budget, they didn't have time to take out their usual weapons, they jumped off their horses one after another, volleyed to meet Kou Zhong, and with the big bow in their hands, Swing hard attack.

They are all experienced warriors, and they are not chaotic in times of crisis. Not only do they not slam into a ball in the air, but they also cooperate with each other. Half of them form a net of attacking and intercepting people, while the other half are busy drawing their bows to draw. Weapons, stay put. From Kou Zhong's invasion to this moment, it's only a blink of an eye, which shows how intense the battle is. Li Shimin drew out his saber, he himself was very skilled in martial arts, although he saw that Kou Zhongyong was unstoppable and sent out strange moves, he was still fearless.

Pang Yu's sword went straight to Kou Zhong's back, and the five gunmen also fought back. As long as Yuchi Jingde, Luo Shixin and three personal guards succeeded in intercepting Kou Zhong, Kou Zhong would be surrounded and he would die. Changsun Wuji guarded Li Shimin's side, staring at Kou Zhong's approach intently. Among the generals, he and Yuchi Jingde had the highest martial arts skills. Take into account various contingency methods under changing circumstances. The first to meet Kou Zhong was Yuchi Jingde, a master like him, even though he had a longbow instead of the customary Guizang whip, his moves were fierce and mighty.Seeing that Jing Zhongyue was about to hit the opponent, how could he know that Jing Zhongyue came with a sudden attack, but she suddenly changed, when she was screaming in her heart, the longbow was too late to change, and Kou Zhong's blade picked it up on the bowstring.

Kou Shen laughed loudly and said, "This is called deception! What appears to be true is false, and falsehood becomes reality." "collapse"! The bowstring is broken in half, and the bow body bounces straight. The most ingenious part of this knife is that it avoids the most serious and takes the lightest, instead of fighting head-on with Yuchi Jingde, it strikes at the weakest part of the longbow to defuse the enemy's attack.Just imagine how the bent bow turned into a straight wood, plus the strength produced when it was straightened, Ren Yuchi Jingde is so good, it is difficult to change his moves for a while to fight back, and he is afraid that Kou Zhong will kill again, so he has no choice but to sink, but he is not Worrying, Luo Shixin's saber and the swords of the other three personal guard masters can teach Kou Zhong to deal with it poorly. Who would have thought that Kou Zhong would use the strength of the bowstring to pick up the bowstring, use his strength to rise up, and with a somersault, he completely avoided the air interception, and then threw it at Li Shimin who was only guarded by Changsun Wuji and the remaining three personal guards on the hill. Regardless of the strategic knife technique, Kou Zhong can use it superbly and brilliantly. Pang Yu, who was too late to catch up with him, fell back to the ground, regretting in his heart, if he had just braked quietly and stood firm on the top of the hill, he would not have fallen into the situation in front of him, if Kou Zhong attacked Li Shimin head-on, even if Li Shimin was unharmed afterwards, they would not be able to escape protection Ignorant sin. Changsun Wuji made a quick decision, seeing that Li Shimin was about to swing his sword to meet the enemy, he shouted wildly: "You stop him!" Grabbing the reins of Li Shimin's mount, he turned the horse's head and ran towards the camp. The three guards have right swords and left shields, and they all catch up with Kou Zhong who is descending from the sky and rush forward. "broken"! Jing Zhongyue hit one of the shields like lightning, took advantage of the momentum to bounce upwards, called out another breath out of thin air, and shot towards Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji like arrows.Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji had just rushed down the hillside, although their horses were very handsome, they still couldn't let go of all four hooves and reached full speed, but Kou Zhong's physical skills had already fully unfolded, and he arrived as quickly as a meteor. Changsun Wuji was ready for a long time, turned over, landed from the back of the horse, and the jade Xiao in his hand turned into thousands of light spots reflecting the stars and moon in the sky, heading towards Kou Zhong, whose feet were about to touch the ground in the storm. He calculated very accurately, and shot before Kou Zhong touched the ground.Kou Zhong yelled violently, stretched out his toes, and touched the ground one step earlier than Changsun Wuji expected, and then spun towards him like a top, and the human sword merged into one. The sound of "ding ding" was endless, Changsun Wuji tried his best to hit Yu Xiao more than ten times, all of which were on Jing Zhongyue's saber body, but he still couldn't stop the mad attack from the saber, so he had to go Fly back, otherwise, if Kou Zhong ran into his arms with a knife, he would be chopped into multiple pieces like being dismembered by five horses. Kou Zhong sighed deeply in his heart, and secretly praised his elder Sun Wuji for his great kung fu, because he blocked these moves with all his strength, he made himself miss the golden opportunity to get rid of Li Shimin, a formidable enemy, and failed. Chang laughed and said: "Brother Shimin, go slowly, I won't see you off!" Li Shimin rushed down to Qiupo early, turned his head and said with a smile: "How about having a heart-to-heart talk with the young marshal later?" Kou Zhong quickly slipped away before being surrounded by the enemy. Xu Ziling arrived at Dahe, and then walked west along the river for an hour. When it was almost dawn, the terrain became flat, and a ferry appeared in front of him. In the darkness before sunrise, there was no one there. Xu Ziling thought he had found the wrong place, and when he saw the small stone tablet engraved with "Wengshan Ancient Ferry", it must be the correct place where Lei Jiuzhi, Song Shidao and others agreed to meet up in Chang'an, so he sat down at the ferry and stared blankly at the endless stream of people rolling eastward. Great river water. It was Chen Fu who was in charge of notifying Lei Jiuzhi. He and Ou Liangcai had a communication channel by means of a speedboat, and the news could be returned quickly. Lei Jiuzhi and others should be waiting for him here, but there is no sign of the boat yet. Just as he was hesitating whether to wait or go directly to Lei, Song and the others, Fan Ying appeared upstream, and a small sail sailed downstream. Xu Ziling felt something was wrong, of course Situ Furong's boat was not such a small single-masted sail, but a huge ship with three to five masts, so he hurriedly hid in the woods beside the ancient ferry. When the sail was moored, Ou Liangcai appeared on the boat, looking around. Xu Ziling still didn't understand what was going on, so he flashed out from the forest. When Ou Liangcai saw him, he was overjoyed and said, "Hurry up and get on the boat, Ziling." Xu Ziling boarded the boat, and Ou Liangcai ordered the boat to turn around and head west towards the direction of entering the customs, saying: "This is what Brother Lei meant. He said that while everyone in the world knows that you are going to see the King of Qin, find someone who is as tall as you." If someone similar to Situ Furong comes to Beijing pretending to be Situ Furong, then no one will guess that Situ Furong is related to you. But Ziling must rush to Chang'an now, otherwise if the fake Situ Furong is allowed to talk to people, you are the real Situ If Furong pretends to be him again, there will be flaws." Xu Ziling laughed dumbly and said, "Am I the real Situ Furong? How does the fake Situ Furong behave?" Ou Liangcai said happily: "Situ Furong hid outside the Great Wall, thinking that it was a place where the Song family was out of reach, and he might not dare to come back after a year or so. We sailed a big boat from Pingyao at the same time, and let out rumors that he was going there. Chang’an avoids the limelight; the merchants in Pingyao are all their own people, and everyone agrees, who will go to check again to confirm that there is no suspicious news on the surface?” Xu Ziling looked at the sky with the morning light, feeling a burst of emotion in his heart, the battlefield where Kou Zhong and Li Shimin are fighting for victory is getting farther and farther away from him, but can he put the battlefield away from his heart? The sound of weapons clashing was endless, and amidst the crowds of soldiers watching and applauding, Kou Zhong, shirtless, practiced martial arts with twelve Yang Gongqing's personal soldiers selected by Ma Changjing. Live applause, the atmosphere is hot. "Chachacha"! Kou Zhong unfurled his stride, escaped from the siege quickly, raised his knife and said with a smile: "That's it for today, let's save some energy to get Li Shimin's egg!" Kou Zhong came to Yang Gongqing, who was watching the battle with a smile on his face, and the soldiers who took his clothes hurriedly wiped off his sweat and put on his clothes. Yang Gongqing said with a smile: "The young commander is so sharp, isn't he afraid of attracting the sage's taboo?" Kou Zhong kept the sun-shooting bow well, and said lightly: "He should be grateful to me." Looking at the defenders who were still saluting to him on the wall, he said: "This is the best way to boost morale, that is to use your body Preaching, using actual actions to show my strength, it will have unexpected effects on the battlefield. This trick is learned from Xieli. Before attacking Longquan, Xieli and a group of soldiers shot arrows in the rear camp for fun. This is the style of a true general." Yang Gongqing said happily: "I should be the person who respects your saber skills the most here. Except for the young commander, who can treat Li Shimin's personal soldiers as nothing, so that he can only ride for his life to kill him." Kou Zhong said dejectedly: "Don't mention it! It's only a little bit close to me and I don't have to wake up early to perform a monkey show." There was a sudden sound of hoofbeats, and a horse galloped out of the city. The two of them saw that it was Zhang Zhi, the general who was officially ordered to deliver orders for Wang Shichong. Kou Zhong and Yang Gongqing were confused. Zhang Zhi got off his horse in front of the two of them, and said, "We'll talk about it after we enter the account." Kou Zhong didn't move, he frowned and asked, "Does General Zhang have an order from the Holy One?" Yang Gongqing snorted coldly: "What instructions do you have from the Holy Spirit?" Zhang Zhi said in a low voice in embarrassment: "My lord ordered me to verbally order to cancel today's proactive attack, and to wait and see what happens." Kou Zhong and Yang Gongqing lost their voices at the same time: "What?" Even though Yang Gongqing originally did not agree to go to war today, Wang Shichong's order to change the government is a big taboo for military strategists.Now that everyone is ready and morale is booming, Wang Shichong's cowardly behavior is like pouring a plate of cold water on them, how can people not be disheartened. Zhang Zhi smiled wryly, "The Holy One thinks..." Kou Zhong gestured to stop him from continuing, then jumped on his horse and shouted: "I'll go tell him." Ignoring Zhang Zhi again, he rode his horse straight into the gate of the city to meet Wang Shichong, who used the Cijian Governor's Mansion as his temporary residence. Kou Zhong broke into the general manager's mansion, but the guards didn't dare to stop him, he went straight to the lobby, only to be stopped by Wang Shichong's personal guards, Kou Zhong shouted: "I want to see the Holy Majesty." Wang Shichong's voice came: "Let the young commander in!" Kou Zhong stepped into the hall angrily, and Song Mengqiu and Lang Fengzhi, who were talking to Wang Shichong, left the hall. Only Wang Shichong was sitting alone on the handsome chair in the south of the hall, enjoying the tea in his spare time, and motioned for Kou Zhong to come to him. Sit down on the lower right. Kou Zhong came straight to him, and asked in a deep voice, "What's going on?" Wang Shichong said displeased: "What's the matter? I couldn't sleep last night, thought it over and over again, and finally decided that it is still not suitable to use troops today. The reason is very simple. The fortifications are still unfinished, so troops are sent out in a hurry. If they fail, the positions on the left and right sides of the city will be affected." Shock, the consequences are dire." Kou Zhong said unhappily: "But did you ever think about the fact that you only ordered the comprehensive preparations last night, determined to attack today, and suddenly changed, this will have a bad impact on morale. Moreover, our strategy is to preemptive strikes, to show that our army is against the enemy. Tang Jun has nothing to fear. If Li Shimin takes the lead, our passive counterattack is completely different from the active attack." Wang Shichong snorted coldly: "Don't be angry, young commander. I just postponed the attack for a day until the trench defense is done, and I will go out when I am sure. On the battlefield, you must not only fight for strength, but also for wisdom. Impatience is taboo for military strategists. It only takes one day, and Li Shimin's position is not stable now, so he needs a few days to rest and prepare, tomorrow is no different from today." Kou Zhong laughed angrily and said: "If Li Shimin is so easy to guess his behavior and strategy, he is not worthy of being called an invincible general. He arrived three days earlier than the Holy Majesty predicted. How can people guess when he will come now? Commit? Li Shimin's military art is stable and amazing, and his odds are endlessly varied. If we look at him with mediocre military rules, we will definitely not have good results." Wang Shichong looked angry and said: "I have my own opinion, so I don't need you to teach me." Kou Zhong couldn't hold back his anger anymore, he looked up to the sky and said with a smile: "Since that's the case, I, Kou Zhong, have no choice but to go back to Pengliang as soon as possible to enjoy some happiness." Wang Shichong's face sank, and he was about to speak when Song Mengqiu and Lang Feng rushed in in a panic, shouting in unison: "Li Shimin's army is fully mobilized and is approaching our army."