Man Tanghong

Chapter 523 Xuanwu Gate ([-])
Xue Wanshu shot an arrow towards the outside of the hall, and said solemnly: "How should we deal with it?"

Li Yuanji thought for a while and said, "Don't worry about it!"

Xue Wanshu hesitated for a moment, but didn't say any more.

As time passed, the fighting at the entrance of the hall became more and more intense. When the second army array prepared by Li Shimin reached the entrance of the hall, the corpses at the entrance of the hall had already piled up into a hill.

The soldiers of Youtunwei who formed the second formation were divided into two when they rushed to the gate of the hall. Some of them met Zhao Chengyong and others and began to fight, and some of them entered the hall along the gap made by the trebuchet. .

It didn't take long for the Youtunwei soldiers to show up in the second military formation, and the third military formation appeared again.

Xue Wanshu gritted his teeth, gave up and continued to fight back with a bow and crossbow, and picked up his weapon to meet him.

Li Yuanji ordered decisively: "There is no need to meet the enemy, after leaving 500 people, the others will follow me!"

After saying this, Li Yuanji walked towards the back of the hall with a big knife and a bronze bow.

Xue Wanshu grabbed the enthusiastic Xue Wanche who was about to go out to fight against the soldiers of Youtunwei, and told the other soldiers: "The people from the Shenlongmen will stay behind, and the others will follow me!"

Then he picked up Xue Wanche and ran to the back of the hall.

Xue Wanche yelled with great reluctance: "Why are you dragging me? I still want to compete with the people from Youtunwei!"

Xue Wanshu glared at Xue Wanche viciously and said, "Shut up!"

Seeing that his younger brother was about to talk back, Xue Wanshu slapped his younger brother on the head without hesitation, and then he surrendered him.

Compared with Xue Wanche's unruly, Li Jiancheng is much more interesting, he pays close attention to Li Yuanji's movement almost all the time, after seeing Li Yuanji start to retreat, he ran to the back of the hall without the slightest hesitation, ran to the back of the hall When I was at the screen, I didn't forget to say hello to Zhao Chengyong.

"Cheng Yong! Take people back!"

Zhao Chengyong felt distressed when he heard Li Jiancheng's greeting.

With 1000 men, he faced Cheng Yaojin and Yuwen Shi and 2000 men, the first formation composed of [-] Youtun guards, and the second formation composed of [-] Youtun guards.

Now that he is surrounded by nearly a thousand Youtun Guards, and hundreds of Youtun Guards surround him from both sides, it is not so easy for him to retreat.

"Your Highness will go first, and the minister will arrive later."

After Zhao Chengyong blocked a wave of attacks by the Youtun guards, he replied to the back of the palace.

It's a pity that Li Jiancheng ran away long ago, and didn't hear his words at all.

"This Zhao Chengyong is quite capable. I heard that he is one of the rare masters under Li Yi's command. If he can be captured alive, capture him alive."

Sitting on the horseback, Li Shimin saw that only Zhao Chengyong and a group of Chang Lin soldiers were left in the Ganlu Hall to resist his attack, and said to Changsun Wuji beside him.

As an invincible commander who grew up on horseback, and as a famous collector of famous generals in history, when he saw a brave general like Zhao Chengyong, he was naturally close to him.

Under the condition that it is possible to let Zhao Chengyong go and subdue Zhao Chengyong, he doesn't mind giving it a try.

Changsun Wuji hesitated and said: "Your Highness, it's at this juncture, do you still have the heart to surrender Zhao Chengyong?"

Li Shimin glanced at Zhao Chengyong who swung away four or five soldiers from the Right Guards with a spear, and said with a sigh: "I won't despise this kind of warrior, no matter how many there are!"

Changsun Wuji hesitated to speak.

Fang Xuanling pondered and said: "Then send another thousand soldiers to kill him and take him down as soon as possible. We don't have much time, so we can't spend it here with him."

Li Shimin nodded, and sent out another army.

When the fourth soldier formation stepped on the stone steps in front of Ganlu Hall, Li Shimin told Du Ruhui, "Stay here and watch. Once our men capture Zhao Chengyong, immediately take them to the back of the hall and follow me." confluence."

Du Ruhui solemnly clasped his fists and said, "Here!"

Li Shimin said to the others: "The rest follow me to the rear of the palace!"

Changsun Wuji and others agreed together.

When Li Shimin led his people around the Ganlu Hall and rushed to the back of the Ganlu Hall, Li Yuanji had already rushed to the back of the hall first. After looking at the bushes on both sides of the avenue behind the hall, he tightened the sword in his hand.

There is no shortcut to this road, and there is no way to retreat. You can only kill it.

After Xue Wanshu led people to Li Yuanji's side, he also looked at the bushes on both sides of the avenue behind the hall, and then asked solemnly, "Your Highness, what should we do?"

Li Yuanji held a big knife with the tip pointing down, and said, "Follow me!"

Before Xue Wanshu could reply, Li Yuanji rushed out first.

Seeing this, Xue Wanshu gritted his teeth and said, "Everyone follow!"

Xue Wanche yelled and followed, the speed was so fast that Xue Wanshu gritted his teeth.

"kill!"

When Li Yuanji rushed halfway with a big knife, Gao Shilian and Li Junxian led people to kill from both sides of the road.

Gao Shilian and Li Junxian didn't know where to find a net, and immediately threw the net at Li Yuanji.

Turning the broadsword in Li Yuanji's hand, he cut a gap in the net, and then with all his strength, he split open a soldier of the Youtun Guard who was holding it.

Blood was scattered all over the ground along the traces of the knife.

"Strong kill!"

Li Junxian gritted his teeth, and forcibly killed him with a big gun with a hook. Along with him were a dozen or so Moqus holding the same big gun.

When approaching Li Yuanji, the big guns in Li Junxian's and his trilogy's hands stabbed at different parts of Li Yuanji's body.

Relying on the hard armor on his body, Li Yuanji didn't care about the attack of Li Junxian and his party at all. When Li Junxian and his party handed out their big guns and couldn't retreat, they quickly swung the big knife in their hands, A sweep.

The big guns in the hands of Li Junxian and his party were cut off or smashed in an instant. Some people who used too much force and rushed too fast even had their stomachs cut, and their intestines followed the wound. flowed out.

"Kill again!"

Li Junxian saw a trilogy cut into two sections with a single knife, his eyes were red, he called the trilogy to gather together, screaming vigorously.

"let me help you!"

Gao Shilian saw that Li Junxian suffered a big loss with just one blow, so he brought someone to help without saying a word.

For a while, Li Yuanji gathered around 50 to [-] people, all of whom were experts.

Xue Wanshu and others were also flanked by two sides, but they were superior in numbers. Even if they suffered a little from being ambushed, they quickly stabilized their formation and began to fight back.

Xue Wanche held back for a long time, and finally he was able to let go of his hands and feet to fight, so he screamed excitedly while struggling to kill.

"die!"

Li Yuanji waited until Li Junxian and Gao Shilian brought people together, and then let go of their hands and feet and began to fight.

Wherever the sword passes, it is either dead or disabled.

Li Junxian was cut off a large piece of flesh just because he couldn't dodge it in time. Gao Shilian just blocked Li Yuanji's knife with the horizontal knife.

The others were even worse. The light ones were stabbed and a big gash appeared on their bodies, and the heavy ones were almost cut in half.

Blood gushed out like rain, and in just a short while, everything around it was dyed red.

Some Youtun guards who stood in Li Yuanji's way began to tremble in their calves.

Li Yuanji wiped his blood-stained face, and greeted Xue Wanshu and others who were still fighting behind him, "Don't love to fight, keep up!"

Then he swung his big knife and opened the mouth in front.

Under the slashing of the big knife and the rampage regardless of any attack, Li Yuanji forced a bloody path under the ambush of Li Junxian and Gao Shilian, and led Xue Wanshu and his party back to Ganlumen.

When Li Shimin arrived with his people, what he saw was blood red.

There was blood everywhere, corpses everywhere, limbs and arms everywhere.

"Even if the overlord is resurrected, he can't kill this kind of scene..."

Fang Xuanling tugged at his beard, talking tremblingly.

Although the others did not speak, their faces were solemn and their hearts were twitching.

Li Shimin took a deep breath, frowned and said, "It seems that Shi Lian and Jun Xian couldn't stop him!"

Changsun Wuji hesitated for a moment and said: "I should have thought of it a long time ago..."

Li Shimin opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word.

He thought that more than 2000 people were enough to hold Li Yuanji back, but he didn't expect that Li Yuanji was stronger and more brutal than he knew.

"Perhaps King Qi died due to exhaustion, or he was taken in by God..."

Liu Shili, who didn't have a strong sense of presence, said hesitantly.

His chances are not good, his status under Li Shimin's command is not high, and he doesn't have much right to speak, so he rarely speaks. He was captured, and he was going to be executed together with Wang Shichong. Li Shimin thought that he still had some ability, so he absolved him of the death penalty, and stayed with him as a personal guard commander.

It is because he is the commander of Li Shimin's personal guard that he is qualified to launch a coup with Li Shimin.

Otherwise, it would not be his turn to be ranked down by seniority.

After he finished speaking, Li Shimin and others fell silent collectively.

Although his words were not very pleasant to listen to, Li Shimin and others had to admit that he was telling the truth.

"Do you want to attack Ganlumen?"

After Fang Xuanling held his beard in silence for a long time, he suddenly spoke.

Compared with the Ganlu Temple, which is easy to attack and difficult to defend, the Ganlu Gate, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, is obviously more difficult to fight.

They had already spent a lot of time ambushing Li Jiancheng and chasing Li Jiancheng, and they had spent a lot of time attacking the Ganlu Palace, and they would only spend more time attacking the Ganlu Gate.

And they don't have much time to waste.

Li Shimin frowned and said, "How long can we use it?"

Changsun Wuji, who had been checking the time, said quickly: "There are still three quarters of an hour!"

Li Shimin thought to himself, "Can we take down Ganlumen in three quarters of an hour?"

Changsun Wuji hesitated to speak.

Fang Xuanling sighed and said: "It won't help if you take it down. King Qi can still retreat to the Liangyi Palace and the Liangyi Gate. We can only take the Ganlu Gate within [-] minutes, and then force King Qi and his party Go to the Hall of Liangyi, and then expand the encirclement to have a chance of winning.

The question is, after we take down Ganlu Gate, will we still have time to force King Qi and his party to Liangyi Hall? "

(End of this chapter)