Updated: 2012-06-15

Although there were still two or three hundred bandits, when the head of the black-armored general was shot through the head, everyone had no intention of fighting again. Someone greeted him, and the two or three hundred turned around and fled far away. Li Xian raised his eyes and looked forward to look for Zhang Jinzhi, where could he find his shadow?

Li Xian wanted to chase again, but saw many defeated soldiers from the rebels rushing towards this side. Although the bandits were completely defeated, countless people escaped in a mess. The soldiers of Qi County and County unexpectedly won a big victory because of the help of Li Xian's cavalry. However, after all, the number of soldiers of Qi County and County could not control the situation at all. Once the defeated soldiers fled, the soldiers of various counties chased them behind for a while and Zhang Xutuo ordered them to retreat and rectify them. In this battle, King Bo of Zhishilang came with a hundred thousand troops. When he escaped, there were less than 10,000 troops around him, which was severely damaged.

Li Xian chased Zhang Jin alone and said that he had to return with regrets.

On the way, he met Luo Shixin who was already shaking, and Li Xian simply bandaged his wounds. The two of them slowly returned to the foot of Daishan. Luo Shixin had too many wounds on his body. Although there were no fatal injuries, he bleeded too much, so his face was a little scary. He relaxed in one breath when fighting on the battlefield, and seemed particularly weak at this time.

But he had too many questions in his heart, and he felt uncomfortable if he didn't ask clearly.

"Anzhi, I want to ask you something."

Luo Shixin coughed a few times and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth casually with his clothes.

"you say"

Li Xian handed over a soft cloth handkerchief.

Luo Shixin took the cloth and looked at it, thinking about something.

"And, the imperial court expeditions to Goguryeo last year..."

"It's me."

Before Luo Shixin could finish asking, Li Xian nodded and said, "Yan Yun is me."

Luo Shixin was stunned, raised his head and looked at Li Xian but didn't know what to say. The two of them walked forward speechlessly for a while. Luo Shixin couldn't help but ask, "Why did you join the army? So what..."

"How did you become a thief?"

Li Xian smiled and said, "You want to ask this."

Luo Shixin nodded and did not deny it. He was an open and honest man, and he was straightforward in everything. However, when Li Xian said the word "名名", Luo Shixin subconsciously felt nervous. Since he arrived in Qi County, his views on the thief have changed. When he was chatting with Qin Qiong in private, the two of them also mentioned that the Sui Dynasty had only been in 30 years, so why did the chaos start to chaotic? Those thieves really had ulterior motives and deliberate rebellion?

Qin Qiong said something intriguing at that time.

There are so many ambitious people in this world. If there are, they are all in aristocratic families. If ordinary people can eat and wear food, who would be willing to be displaced and buried in a foreign land?

Qin Qiong was twice as old as Luo Shixin. He experienced much more human feelings and coldness than Luo Shixin. Moreover, Qin Qiong was kind and righteous, and he often saw the level that Luo Shixin could not see when he saw the problem. Before Luo Shixin came to Qi County, he hated evil and saw those rebels who burned, killed, looted, and wanted to chop them into meat paste. In the past two years, he killed the most thieves in Qi County, but after killing people, he was not as happy as before. Many of the people who died under him were forced to rebel with the kitchen knife and wooden stick.

Only after contacting the officialdom can he truly see clearly. Those who are officials often suffer more harm than bandits.

Seeing that Luo Shixin's face was strange, Li Xian smiled and said, "Looking at your outfit, you have become the commander in just two years. It's really amazing."

Luo Shixin smiled bitterly and shook his head and said, "You have been in Liaodong for just a few months and have achieved the fifth-grade no-one!"

Li Xian slowly relaxed and said, "If you don't ask, I didn't want to mention that trip to Liaodong to anyone. If you don't join the army, you don't know the darkness in the army, you don't be an official, or you don't know the dirtyness of the officialdom. I originally wanted to join the army to serve the country. I fought against the Goguryeo people on the battlefield in Liaodong, and killed foreign invaders. Even if I kill more, I feel happy."

"From the Liaoshui River to the Sashui River, all the people who killed Goguryeo all the way. But..."

Li Xian turned his head and looked at Luo Shixin and said, "When he retreated from Sashui, he returned to Liaodong with all the hardships. Do you know who blocked our way home?"

Luo Shixin's face changed, and he guessed something in his heart.

"It's a soldier from the Great Sui Mansion!"

Li Xian said in a cold voice: "I finally rescued a team of more than 20,000 people from the siege of hundreds of thousands of Goguryeo people. I returned to Liaodong with great difficulty. Before everyone could be happy, I was completely heartbroken by the court! You also saw that my brothers under me are all from the army. If people like them don't give up on the court, are they willing to be thieves? Their families are all military households and good families! Who would like to carry the word "thief" on their backs?"

"Why?"

Luo Shixin asked Li Xian with a very ugly face: "Why did the court do this!"

"Why?"

Li Xian sneered: "Because the nine generals were all defeated, the 300,000 army died in Goguryeo, but I came back with a team of 20,000 people. Can those generals tolerate me? Even though the emperor knew that there was another army behind him, why did he order the burning of the floating bridge on the Liao River?"

Luo Shixin had already guessed this, but his heart still felt a sudden pain.

"Maybe... Your Majesty doesn't know."

His voice was very soft, so light that he felt that he had no confidence in saying it.

"The Emperor doesn't know?"

Li Xian sneered: "He just doesn't want to know, doesn't want to know, and he pretends not to know if he knows! Which one would he choose between more than 20,000 soldiers and several aristocratic families?"

Luo Shixin was speechless.

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When he returned to the foot of Daishan Mountain, Luo Shixin was startled by the scene in front of him! He turned his head and looked at Li Xian. Seeing that Li Xian looked bad, he quickly urged his war horse to rush forward. In the empty space at Daishan Mountain, the soldiers of Qi County were already lined up and confronted the five thousand elite cavalry under Li Xian!

On the Qi County soldiers, Zhang Xutuo and Qin Qiong stood in the front of the team, and the archers were already on the string. Except for some of the people who were guarding the captives, most of the county soldiers gathered together, and it seemed that they were ready to fight. On the Yanyun Village, Daxi Changru, Zhang Zhongjian and others led the cavalry and had already formed an attack formation, and the battle seemed to be about to begin.

"Wait a minute!"

Luo Shixin rushed to the front of the two armies and stopped Zhang Xutuo and said, "General, why is this?"

Zhang Xutuo glanced at him and said, "You retreated in the last battle and ignored the army. After you go back, you can't escape the military law!"

Luo Shixin said with a miserable expression: "General, I know that I have violated military law and should be punished, but General, we would not have won this battle today without them! If it weren't for the people from Yanyun Village coming, I'm afraid we would have died in the battlefield at this time. General, you must not distinguish between enemies and me!"

"Empressive?"

Zhang Xutuo stared at Luo Shixin coldly and asked, "Then tell me who is the enemy and who is me?"

He snorted coldly and said, "You are right. Without the help of their Yanyun Village, the men in Qi County today would not be able to hate this place. Luo Shixin! But you have to understand one thing! The official army is the official army, and the thief is the thief! Look at the people on the other side, what is the difference between them now and Wang Bo and Zhang Jin and others!"

"But they were all soldiers of the Great Sui Dynasty."

Luo Shixin said almost begging.

Zhang Xutuo widened his eyes and said word by word: "But they are all thieves now! The soldiers of the Great Sui Palace do not serve the country but follow the thief, which is an unforgivable death penalty!"

"What a good Zhang Xutuo, Qi County, and his appearance as a dog official!"

After Li Xian returned to the formation, he sneered a few times.

"I am ungrateful, I will destroy bridges when crossing rivers, and I will not distinguish between black and white, and I will be a fake benevolence and false righteousness, and I will really be an official!"

Li Xian's words pierced into Zhang Xutuo's heart, like a knife cutting his heart. Zhang Xutuo's face changed color in anger, pointed at Li Xian and said, "I don't care why you came today, nor what your identity was before. I only know that you are now a rebel who is a disaster! Zhang has been deeply favored by the emperor and will protect him. I am an official and you are a thief. This is enough, this is the reason!"

Li Xian waved his hand and said, "Why do you have to act such a disgusting attitude? If you want to fight, just bring someone to attack. I want to see, what can you do to me?"

The cavalry of Yanyun Village were also very angry at this time. Originally, they were all from the Great Sui army, and Li Xian took them to kill Juyeze and Zhang Jin and said that such a thief was nothing. They were willing to follow Li Xian. But they always felt a little uncomfortable when they let them fight with the official army. But today, they had just helped Qi County and County soldiers defeat more than 100,000 thieves, and Zhang Xutuo immediately turned against each other, which made their previous hesitation dissipate. They had been betrayed by the court once. If Li Xian had not brought them back, they would have been a headless and dry bone in Liaodong. At this time, they were angry with Zhang Xutuo's face. They were just waiting for Li Xian to give them the order and they would have killed them without hesitation.

"General!"

Qin Qiong approached Zhang Xutuo and whispered: "The soldiers no longer have the power to fight, and the enemy is all light cavalry... When the battle comes, many of our Qi County's children can't go back."

Zhang Xutuo's face looked extremely ugly. He sighed and said, "Shubao, can we still be afraid of fighting and lose the prestige of the court?"

"prestige?!"

Luo Shixin said coldly: "Is the prestige of the court so powerful?"

Zhang Xutuo was furious and said, "Shut up! Make private bandits and ignore the overall situation. After I go back, I will report to the court to punish you!"

Luo Shixin smiled miserably and said, "Responsible? Why should we wait until we go back? After being taken care of by the general in the past two years, Luo Shixin is very grateful! But General, Shixin is unhappy! Yes, they are all from the government soldiers and become thieves, but do you know the reason? 300,000 government soldiers were buried in Liaodong, but they came back. It was because the court did not tolerate them, but His Majesty wanted to kill them! If they were not forced to do so, they would be willing to be thieves? I don't understand what the prestige of the court is, and I don't understand the laws of the court. I only know that justice and morality are in the hearts of the people! Shixin once thought that if he was killed directly against the thieves, he would just kill them. But now it seems that the biggest thief is not in the deep mountains and wilderness, but in the court!"

"Since today's battle is inevitable, since the general insists on this, Luo Shixin will take the lead and repay the general in the next life!"

After saying that, he pulled out a horizontal knife from his waist and stabbed it in his heart!

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