Wen Jing, as a sect, should dominate the world by making plans.

Among the eight gates, the sect ranks second and the fire gate ranks sixth. This shows that Taiping Dao was originally a very important strategy, and he would use force only if he had to pursue it.

The superior army attacks the plan, and defeats the enemy without fighting. This is the essence of military strategy. If the force is used, it will be a situation where both sides suffer losses.

Li Jing used military force and had the first plan. He decided to win or lose without fighting. Liu Wenjing was a counselor, but he only wanted to work hard, but did not need labor.

Thinking that now, when the aristocratic family, the vassals and Xin Gui control the world, Liu Wenjing is just a poor family with little background. She can first gain trust and then get Li Shimin's gift. Now, as the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and was named Duke of Lu, it can be said that he has reached his current position step by step with his own strategy.

But he was not convinced, he was distorted. Because such a smart person, how could he tolerate a mediocre person like Pei Ji riding on him? His status depends on his mind, but what does Pei Ji rely on? So he hated Li Yuan’s injustice!

How big is the world? How many people can he do this?

But such a smart person has never beat Pei Mingcui once since he got on the carriage. He is always restrained from beginning to end.

He thought Pei Mingcui was looking for him to get something from him, but he didn't expect Pei Mingcui knew more than him. When he was frustrated, Pei Mingcui inadvertently gave him another blow.

Li Xuanba was not dead, and the news rumbling was rumbling, stirring Liu Wenjing's mind, making him unable to breathe.

After learning the news, he had fully understood Li Yuan's sinister intentions. It was not that Li Yuan did not know Taipingdao, but that he knew too much. Therefore, Li Yuan wanted to take advantage of Taipingdao's power to ascend the throne, then become emperor, erase all Taipingdao's efforts and let Taipingdao eventually disappear in this world.

For hundreds of years, all the founding monarchs have been like this!

Even without the letter from him who surrendered to Dongdu, he would inevitably die. Liu Wenjing actually knew it well, but he never thought that Li Yuan was so sinister and so poisonous!

Li Yuan will never show mercy if he wants to kill you, but before killing you, he will have to do your last sweat. Li Yuan promoted Liu Wenjing's official position little by little, but finally wiped out Liu Wenjing's contributions and took them all back.

Liu Wenjing had arrived under the carriage at this time, and the surrounding mountains were silent. The sound of horse hooves was gone, and his heart was as cold as snow.

No wonder Li Yuan always uses him, his intentions are very sincere, but when things are done, he is as cold as snow. He always thought that his identity was a mystery, but never thought that he would have been naked in the eyes of others.

If Li Xuanba is not dead, he is Liu Wenjing! He waited until after Li Xuanba died that he chose Li Yuan, but he never thought that this was just a scam.

He worked hard for several years and tried his best, but unexpectedly he made a wedding dress for others. He was arrogant and strategist, but he was just a pawn for others.

My whole body was a little chilled. When the huge shadows of the mountains finally slowly enveloped him, I looked up and found that the sun was setting.

It turns out that twilight is approaching.

It was getting dark, and Liu Wenjing was in great pain and hatred became stronger. He seemed to be like the setting sun, and he would eventually fall into darkness. But the setting sun finally rose to the east, and what about him, Liu Wenjing, would he be removed from this struggle from now on?

He stood blankly until the huge dark cage came over and covered him. He didn't know that in the Taiping Road, he was not the only one who was suffering at this moment. Xu Yuanlang was still guarding the city alone, Luo Shixin was like a lost lamb, Pei Juzhi was unable to turn things around, and Xu Hongke's life and death were unknown. These people are rare talents of a generation, but those who are not in line with the trend will eventually be obscured by the torrent of history, without any mercy!

On a lonely night, the carriage is walking alone, towards the lonely horizon, without stopping.

Pei Mingcui pondered for a long time and did not move at all.

The shadow finally spoke. She was not afraid of loneliness, but only afraid of the ladies being lonely. She was Pei Mingcui's shadow. In her life, perhaps relatives, friends, lovers, and enemies will always leave you, but only the shadow will not.

"Miss, I thought you would kill Liu Wenjing."

"Why do you think so?"

"He is a man from Taipingdao and a person who disrupts the situation."

"He can only disrupt the situation, not control the situation. Although he is a chess piece, he is just a chess piece." Pei Mingcui said leisurely: "In fact, even if he is not a person from Taipingdao, if he does this, Li Yuan will definitely kill him."

"Why?" Shadow asked strangely.

Pei Mingcui smiled, "Actually, before Li Yuan arrived in Shanxi, Liu Wenjing played Li Shimin's talent. Not long after Li Yuan's throne, Liu Wenjing had secretly promoted Li Shimin as the true emperor, so that Li Shimin could ascend the throne and gain the greatest gain. Let me ask how Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng could tolerate such actions? Even if Li Yuan won the world, this true emperor was Li Yuan or Li Jiancheng, not Li Shimin.

Liu Wenjing was arrogant and smart, so ignorant of the importance of it, and had already provoked Li Yuan. Li Yuan never took action, just waiting for the opportunity to kill him."

Shadow nodded with some understanding and said helplessly for Liu Wenjing: "He has no choice. He thought that because of his identity as a Taiping Taoist disciple, he had always been cautiously used by Li Yuan. In terms of credit, he was far superior to Pei Ji, but he was ridden by Pei Ji. Pei Ji had no other ability, and his greatest ability was to know what Li Yuan wanted... Pei Ji knew that Li Yuan valued Li Jiancheng, so he vigorously supported Li Jiancheng. If the world was unified, after Li Yuan's death, it was undoubtedly Li Jiancheng who inherited the throne. Liu Wenjing and Pei Ji had always been disagreement. When Li Jiancheng ascended the throne, it must be the day when he died. Since this is the case, it would be better to break the sunken boat."

Pei Mingcui nodded, "Liu Wenjing is indeed in a dilemma, but now that he has escaped, he has been empty-handed again. I guess he is unwilling to accept it?"

"Miss, do you want Liu Wenjing to deal with Li Xuanba when you tell Liu Wenjing that Li Xuanba is not dead? "

Pei Mingcui closed her eyes and said after a long time, "I looked for Liu Wenjing to confirm my guess. See if Taiping Road is in decline and whether Liu Wenjing knows Li Xuanba's identity. Everything is very clear now, and our guess is not a problem. Liu Wenjing knows Li Xuanba's identity, so she waited for Li Xuanba's death before turning back to the Central Plains and surrendering to Li Yuan. As for dealing with Li Xuanba, Liu Wenjing has no time to do it. If there is really someone in the world who can deal with Li Xuanba, it is undoubtedly Xiao Buyi. But I don't know, what's going on now?"

She seemed to have fallen asleep, and Shadow felt heartbroken with her body. Knowing that she could still hold on was nothing more than wanting to see Li Xuanba for the last time.

Pei Mingcui wants to say that she is smart, but she is extraordinary. If she is persistent, she will not be able to pull back the nine-headed cows.

Pei Mingcui suddenly smiled and said, "Shadow, you must think, I'm very stupid, right?"

Shadow burst into tears and said, "I don't know what others think. If I were a lady, it would be a general approach. It has nothing to do with the world, nothing to do with affection, I just want to understand."

She couldn't speak clearly, and Pei Mingcui understood what she meant. She was moved and sighed, not saying anything more.

It was getting deeper in the night, and the stars were everywhere.

Suddenly, the horse's hooves suddenly flashed, and the shadow flashed out of the carriage. The horse's hooves stopped, and the shadow flashed in and handed Pei Mingcui a piece of paper and said, "Miss, Sishui has decided to win, Xiao Buyi wins!"

Xiao Buyi wins!

When Pei Mingcui heard these four words, she sighed. The shadow said in confusion: "Miss, you have been secretly helping Xiao Buyi, and you are extremely pleased to give Xiao Buyi. Why do you sigh when you hear him win?"

"I just think that Xiao Buyi won. These four simple words are mostly exchanged for the lives of 40,000 people." Pei Mingcui opened his eyes and said, "Now in the Battle of Sishui, the Hebei Army has tens of thousands of troops, but in fact, the Xiliang Army has been mobilized by about 100,000. The two hundred thousand head-on battles are inevitable, and death and injury are inevitable."

"As long as you fight, how can there be no casualties?" said Shadow.

Pei Mingcui whispered: "Yes, as long as you fight, death and injury are inevitable. I don't know... Can I see peace in the world in my lifetime?" He reached out to take the letter. Pei Mingcui knew that Xiao Buyi won, but he wanted to see how he won.

This strange man is her friend.

Even if my friends are separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, they still have concerns. She helped Xiao Buyi to win the Dongdu, and I really hope that this friend will restore peace to the world as soon as possible.

After only a few glances, Pei Mingcui slapped the carriage window and cheered: "What a Xiao Buyi, what a Li Jing!"

Shadow said in confusion: "Miss, has Li Jing also joined the war?"

Pei Mingcui shook his head and said, "Xiao Buyi deliberately showed weakness and lured the enemy into deep, but with more than a thousand crossbows and ten thousand iron arrows, they formed a crossbow formation to block the enemy. They killed thousands of enemies in one breath and defeated the Hebei army in one fell swoop. Now the Hebei army has been defeated again and again, and has retreated to Niukou. The Western Liang army is as powerful as the rainbow. It seems that Xiao Buyi is about to drive the Hebei army out of Henan. Dou Jiande was defeated, just like Li Mi back then, and he has no power to turn over again."

"Serial crossbow?" Shadow understood, "That was Li Jing's development."

Pei Mingcui nodded, "Li Jing is a talented but not lucky. Although she is silent, she is like a proud phoenix. She refuses to follow the trend and has only been for decades. But now, the sword has been sharp. This time, she joins hands with Xiao Buyi to show her ambitions."

"Miss, you and Li Jing are also good, and help him study some strange things from time to time. If you didn't have your hard work that day, you wouldn't have the crossbow machine today. When I was in Dongdu, you were the only one who looked forward to him." Shadow sighed: "Now Xiao Buyi, Li Jing, and Xu Shiji are all admired by the world, but you..."

She wanted to speak but stopped, her voice choked, but Pei Mingcui smiled faintly, "Look at my brothers and friends, isn't it fun to be the best of all talents in the world? But I'm tired and can't be with them..."

This time she finally closed her eyes and fell asleep deeply.

The shadow stared at the lady's side face, her eyes were filled with tears, she pulled the blanket and covered the lady's body, and quietly got off the carriage.

The summer night is slightly cold and the insects chirping brings some autumn mood to the summer night. I only saw the distant mountains majestic and the shadows are illusory. The moon is hanging well, the stars are numerous, and the shadows look up at the sky. I only feel that the world is so big and the mountains and rivers are magnificent, but Pei Mingcui has no place to live. For a moment, sadness comes from it, and tears fall on her clothes.

The shadow didn't know that after she got off the carriage, Pei Mingcui's eyes closed, but her long eyelashes flashed, and her thin and desolate face also slid two tears.

The bright moon is thousands of miles away, and the mountains are flying.

At the mouth of the bull, mountains stand and trees are full of forests.

Although the moon is bright, it shines with shadows on the continuous mountains. The wind blows the trees and makes a sound.

This was originally a quiet mountain scenery, but everyone knew that it contained endless murderous intent.

The terrain of the Niukou is dangerous, like an old ox opens his mouth and waits for you to enter. Not far from both sides, there are two peaks towering, one sitting and the other looking back. These two peaks and a valley mouth are like the shape of a bull's head. After passing along the narrow valley, there is an extremely narrow area called the ox's throat, where the walls stand steep and the terrain is rugged, which is extremely important.

Dou Jiande was here long ago and was under heavy control.

As for the entrance of the valley, countless elite troops were arranged. If the Xiliang army rushed in, it would have to pay a huge price.

It turned out that after almost one day of battle in the Sishui Army, the Xiliang Army retreated first and then attacked, and was extremely resilient. Even though the Hebei Army was brave, they resisted on the east bank of the Sishui for nearly two hours. They were exhausted and finally gave up Sishui and retreated to Niukou.

This abandonment can be said to be a huge loss of morale.

If a single soldier fights alone, the group battle is not as good as the Xiliang Army. The Hebei Army already has imitations in its heart. How to fight this battle?

But Dou Jiande obviously did not want to give up. Although Luo Shixin retreated, he was not defeated. During the retreat, there were soldiers who were wings to kill him. Therefore, the Western Liang army rushed several times, and the two sides suffered losses. When they arrived at Niukou, based on the terrain, Xiao Buyi saw that the soldiers were exhausted and could not attack, so he chose a site to set up a village and was in a stalemate with the Hebei army again.

The terrain of Niukou was rugged, and the Hebei Army took a breath for the time being, but his heart was still in mid-air.

Dou Jiande was in the valley and was worried and difficult to relieve.

Sitting in the central army tent, Dou Jiande was upset and fought for many years. Even when Shixiong's army was approaching, he did not have such a time of panic.

Last time, I could win in a dangerous situation. This time, where is the chance of winning?

After lifting the curtain tent, Luo Shixin walked in and knelt down and said, "King Changle, his subordinates are not in favor of their leadership. They deserve to die for ten thousand times. Please punish King Changle."

After this battle, the Hebei army suffered heavy losses. Liu Ya and Su Dingfang escaped by chance and survived the chaos. However, Cao Kangmai died in the arrow. The Hebei general who was shot dead by the iron arrow was counted after Dou Jiande turned around and counted that seven more people died.

After all, these seven people did not have Su Dingfang's martial arts skills. Liu Ya's luck and Dou Jiande's dead soldiers are still here, but there are only more than 40 people left.

In addition, the Hebei Army's horses suffered more than 2,000 losses in this battle.

When the two armies fought, there were no soldiers to recruit, but the loss of horses and generals was extremely difficult to make up. As the main general, Luo Shixin was in charge of offense and defense. Of course, this failure was at fault.

Dou Jiande had long been looking forward to Luo Shixin, and his expression was complicated.

Although Luo Shixin was extreme, he never evaded responsibility. He actually felt guilty. Dou Jiande trusted him so much, but he lost his troops and failed his love.

Looking back on his life, Luo Shixin was a little excited, and a thought flashed through his mind, that if he had died with General Zhang, he would not have to suffer these pains again.

Living...is it really that meaningful thing?

Dou Jiande stood up, patted Luo Shixin on the shoulder, and sighed, "If I lead the army, I will not do anything more than you. I don't blame you!" After he finished speaking, he had already left the camp. Luo Shixin knelt on the spot and did not get up, but his fists were clenched. He was so sad and angry that he no longer knew who his opponent was!

Dou Jiande left the camp, full of bleakness. He walked around and saw the bright moon peeking at people, with sparse shadows slanting. The beautiful moonlight could not shine with a good mood.

He was filled with sadness and suddenly wanted to see his daughter.
To be continued...