Will Ming

On April 25, the ninth year of Daye of the Great Sui Dynasty, Yang Guang went to Huaiyuan Town in western Liaoning again.On the second day, the Liao army launched a fierce attack, defeated Goguryeo general Eulji Wenqing's soldiers and horses, and killed Liaoshui.This battle killed more than 27 Goguryeo people, and Ulchi Wenqing was seriously injured and returned to Liaodong City.On April [-], Yang Guang's imperial driver crossed the Liaoshui River, and the army besieged Liaodong City again.

On April 29, Yang Guang ordered Marshal Yu Wenshu and General Yang Yichen to lead the army to attack Pyongyang from the North Road.Another doctor Zuo Guanglu, Zuo Wuwei General Wang Rengong was sent to attack Xincheng, and Yang Guang led the army to besiege Liaodong City.During this Eastern Expedition, Yang Guang came here to regain his face, so he ordered that if the Goguryeo people pretended to surrender again, they would ignore it and attack the city with all their strength.

Although Goguryeo won a big battle last year, its national power is far from being comparable to that of the Sui Dynasty.The Sui Dynasty lost 30 elite soldiers, and Emperor Daye ordered to recruit Xiaoguo. The army of this Eastern Expedition still has as many as one million people.However, Goguryeo was in a war last year, and the food harvest was not much. In addition, it also lost a lot of troops, so despite every step of the way, it was still defeated one after another.

Yu Wenshu and Yang Yichen led the army all the way south, winning consecutive battles.General Lai Hu'er led the navy to land, defeated the Goguryeo coalition forces in World War I, and killed tens of thousands of enemies.

Gao Yuan, king of Goguryeo, was terrified and sent people to Liaodong to ask for surrender.

This time Yang Guang refused, and ordered the army to continue the onslaught, vowing to capture Gao Yuan alive in Pyongyang to avenge his shame. Still hard to beat.

Just when the Sui army broke into Goguryeo on the Liaodong battlefield, Zhishilang Wang Bo, who was also not reconciled to his failure, joined forces with several green forest heroes from the north of the Yellow River, Sun Xuanya, Hao Jiande and others, and gathered an army of more than [-]. Crossing the river and going down the river, he vowed to kill Zhang Xutuo for revenge.

At this time, Li Xian's Yanyunzhai Jingqi had already returned to Juyeze.

In the dilapidated temple in the dilapidated village on the border of Dongping County, a few beggars were huddling together and shivering for warmth, when they suddenly saw a few big men in black walking in from outside the temple.These people are dressed in the same attire, black clothes and soap boots, with stern faces, and each of them has a horizontal knife hanging from their waists, looking very ferocious.

When the beggars saw the men in black entering the ruined temple, they trembled even more with fright.

The headed strong man in black walked into the temple and glanced slowly, then his eyes stopped on the youngest beggar.His eyes are as cold as the wind in February in the north, and they seem to be able to cut people's skin like knives.The 14-year-old beggar was taken aback, and subconsciously shrank back and leaned into the arms of the oldest beggar.

"Don't be afraid, son, they are all officials, and they won't be as knowledgeable as people like us."

The old beggar patted the back of the young beggar and said.

He raised his head, smiled humbly and said, "Masters, what are you doing in this dirty place? Is there anything a villain can do for you, you can ask."

Although he is a beggar, he is old enough and has experienced enough things, so when he saw those people in black coming in and looking at something, he vaguely guessed that these people were looking for something.The leading man in black was a man in his 30s. He seemed to have never expected that an old beggar who looked like he might die at any time would have such insight.

"Have you ever seen a very thin person, about 50 years old, not tall, with triangular eyes."

The tone of the big man in black was very kind, but the cold breath on his body made the beggars very uncomfortable.

"No, you know, people like us don't dare to walk around casually, we just wait to die in this ruined temple."

Because the old beggar was flustered, he told a lie that he didn't even believe. Beggar, who would believe it if he didn't go out for a walk?How can a beggar not go out to beg?It's just such a lie full of loopholes, but the big man in black didn't get angry, but nodded and said seriously: "Yeah, dishonest people like you naturally can't go out and walk around at will, otherwise... really will die."

The old beggar shook his hand, and half of the cold steamed bun fell to the ground.

The big man in black took a few steps forward, knelt down slowly, picked up the piece of steamed bun, held it up to his nose and smelled it, then hit a broken wooden fish not far away with the steamed bun a few times, making a loud noise. It was very dull, but the steamed buns were unharmed, but a lot of wood residues from the wooden fish fell out.

"Can you eat this too?"

The big man in black asked with a smile.

The old beggar swallowed hard and smiled wryly.The young beggar shrank back vigorously, as if he was afraid of the eyes of the big man in front of him.

The big man in black dug out a greased paper bag from the package behind him, took out a greasy chicken leg and handed it to the young beggar: "Want to eat it?"

The boy shivered in fright, and swallowed a mouthful of spit with difficulty like the old beggar.But the old beggar was worried and afraid, and he really wanted to eat that chicken leg.He turned his head and glanced at the old beggar, who shook his head slightly at him, while the young beggar was disappointed for a while, but also shook his head firmly.

"Really don't want to eat?"

The big man in black smiled, then threw the chicken leg into a corner.He took out a cloth and wiped his hands, then stood up and said to the boy, "If you had taken that chicken leg just now, I might not have killed you, but asked you sincerely, what kind of dirty clothes are you wearing?" Where did the leather armor come from. And..."

The big man in black pointed to the boy's boots and said, "How did these boots come from?"

Although the boots were already extremely dirty, one could still vaguely see the faded golden lines on them.

"Unfortunately, you refused to take that chicken leg, so I had to kill him first."

The big man in black pointed to the old beggar and said, "If you still refuse to tell, then I will kill others. There are six of you here, if you still refuse to tell after I killed five, then I will have to You take it back. Taking you back is not because I kindly think that you are young so I let you go, but because I don’t have torture instruments at hand now, and even if I extract a confession, it’s nothing more than cutting off your ten fingers and ten toes one by one. Then cut off your ears, nose, and gouged out your eyes, I think a person like you must have a hard mouth, so you should take it back and use all the 36 instruments of torture in my hand."

He smiled and said very gently: "Okay, I still have a little patience now, let me ask you again, should I eat the chicken leg, or wait for me to kill someone?"

The young beggar was so frightened that he was trembling all over, he suddenly got up on his knees and kept kowtowing.He kowtowed so hard that blood flowed from his forehead within a few strokes.Blood flowed down his dirty face one by one, which looked particularly eye-catching.But even so, he still didn't say a word of begging for mercy.

The big man in black froze slightly, then sighed: "So he is really a good man."

He pointed to the old beggar and said, "Chop off his legs first."

The two men in black behind him nodded, and pulled out the horizontal knife from their waists as they walked over.The old beggar's face was as white as paper, he plopped down on his knees and begged, "I said, don't force him, he is dumb!"

The big man in black froze for a moment, then smiled self-deprecatingly.

"And this kind of thing..."

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"died?"

Li Xian looked at Chen Que'er in surprise and asked, "Why... died so easily?"

Chen Que'er smiled and put a dirty leather armor that couldn't see its original color, and a pair of boots that had been scratched with a knife to reveal traces of gold thread, and put them in front of Li Xian.The leather armor is very thick, that's why those beggars gave the leather armor to the young beggar to keep out the cold, and they have never seen gold and silver, so they don't know that if the boots are sold, at least ten days' worth of food can be exchanged .Of course, if they sell them, they might be treated as thieves and beaten severely.

"I've found someone to identify the leather armor and boots. Zhang Jin said it was a bit tragic. He fled back from Daishan after all the hardships. It's a pity that he died on the way. In the hands of those beggars. It is ridiculous to say that according to the old beggar, Zhang Jin said that when he arrived at the ruined temple that day, he did say that Zhang Jin said that he would use the ruined temple as a gathering hall, He accepted those beggars as his subordinates, and promised them a gourmet woman. It's a pity that he was beaten to death by the beggar because he snatched the beggar's broken futon and the little beggar's hard steamed buns."

"Killed to death? Just because of a broken futon? Half a piece of hard steamed bun?"

Li Xian blinked, feeling that the story was absurd and outrageous.In his memory, Zhang Jin said that he died in the 12th year of Daye. At that time, his team had also grown to its peak, conquering Ping'en, Wu'an, Julu, and Qinghe in one fell swoop. He was defeated and fled to Qinghe County with his remnant soldiers. He was captured by Yang Shanhui, the governor of Qinghe County, and beheaded in public.

It is only nine years since the great cause, Zhang Jin said that he died three years early.

Will it trigger a chain reaction?

This was the first thing Li Xian considered.

"I dug up Zhang Jincheng's body behind the ruined temple. Because the weather hadn't warmed up yet, although the body had swelled up, I could vaguely recognize its face. To be on the safe side, I let the original Ju Yeze leave People identified the boots, so it can be confirmed that Zhang Jincheng is really dead."

Chen Que'er said with some disappointment.

Li Xian was also a little disappointed, disappointed that a green forest tycoon who should have been brilliant died so aggrieved, disappointed that the first opponent he picked did not cause him any difficulties, disappointed that he died so easily and simply It's embarrassing to be aggrieved.

"Zhang Jincheng's subordinates were defeated by us in Daishan, killing more than [-] people, and the rest fled. I have asked people to release the news that Zhang Jincheng was killed by us.