The eunuch who was delivering the order looked at the dozens of Tang army generals kneeling on the ground and smiled slightly.

Afterwards, the eunuch spread out his imperial edict and slowly read that under the gate of Hulaoguan, all the generals of the Tang army knelt on the ground and buried their faces.

But when he heard the eunuchs recited word by word, suddenly the Tang army soldiers looked ashen and an incredible look appeared in their eyes.

The anger gradually spread on the faces of the Tang generals.

The eunuch recited: "Come to the King of Qin and his soldiers to return to Chang'an today to receive the reward. If there is any delay, those who are killed!"

cut!

This word floated out of the eunuch's mouth. All the generals of the Tang army lowered their heads. The old eunuch looked at Li Shimin and closed the imperial edict with both hands, waiting for Li Shimin to step forward and take it with both hands. He served the imperial edict on the side and said, "Your Highness the King of Qin has not received the imperial edict yet, thank you for your kindness."

Li Shimin knelt on one knee, but did not move.

The scene became silent, and one of the generals of the Tang army said, "This is a false imperial edict, don't listen to him."

"Bold!" A sharp look on the old eunuch Cihe's face made people realize that this person was not a good man. He was prepared by Qianniu Mansion, who was burly on the left and right of the eight burly old eunuchs, and pressed his sword forward. Although the prepared self was an eighth-rank military position, Qianniu Mansion was the imperial guard of the emperor, representing the imperial power of Li Tang.

"Who said it? I have the courage to say it again!"

But when he saw among the Tang generals, a general stood up and said, "I said that."

Everyone looked like it was Hou Junji, a general under Li Shimin.

"Take it!"

"Who dares!"

The old eunuch's eyes drooped and said lightly: "If you don't want to be the nine tribes of the Yi, just give it to me honestly."

Hou Junji drew his sword and said, "Nine clans! Since I, Hou Junji, dare to question, I am not afraid of your danger. My 100,000 soldiers in the Tang Dynasty fought for half a year and finally captured Luoyang. I told us to give up in one sentence. Where can one of the soldiers of the three armies here be convinced?"

As soon as Hou Junji finished speaking, several Tang army generals stood up together.

The old eunuch looked at Li Shimin and said, "Your Highness, King Qin, do you think this is what you mean? Or what the generals mean?"

When Li Shimin heard this, he stood up slowly, turned around and looked at Hou Junji and shouted: "Hou Junji, how many lives do you have to question the imperial edict? Why don't you get out of here!"

Hou Junji lowered his head after hearing Li Shimin's reprimand, and then he clasped his fists and strode away.

Li Shimin looked at the old eunuch and said, "I will apologize to my father and emperor for this matter."

"This is okay. Your Highness, the incident just now. I can take it as if I didn't see it, and it was about withdrawing troops."

Li Shimin smiled and said, "Assues everything as an arrangement."

The old eunuch immediately showed a look of relief.

Li Shimin changed the subject: "It's just that the Zhao army is stationed outside Hulao Pass. If we want to withdraw at this time, I'm afraid that the Zhao army will take advantage of the situation to pursue it, then our army will inevitably be defeated."

The old eunuch was stunned and said, "What does Your Highness Qin King mean?"

Li Shimin smiled and said, "The emperor ordered the withdrawal of the army, and Shimin would never dare to violate it. However, the matter has changed. If the Huzhu is suddenly given up, the Zhao army will definitely go straight in. It will be difficult to escape unscathed at that time."

"Your Highness, King of Qin!" The old eunuch's face changed.

Li Shimin laughed and said, "Just joking."

Hulao Pass was as majestic as ever, and Li Shimin looked at Hulao Pass with a resolute expression: "Finding the city!"

Under the sunset, the majestic Hulao Pass burned in the flames. The flames soaring into the sky at Hulao Pass were a little redder than the sunset, and clouds and smoke were rising.

"It's a fire that was about to dusk. The Tang army must have piled up a lot of firewood here, otherwise it wouldn't have burned so much!"

Li Chongjiu was wearing a piece of clothing. He woke Wei Zheng in the middle of the night. In the past few days, the Zhao army has been planning to attack Hulao Pass, siege ladders and half-section ships. The towers and cars have been built. They have been deduced on the sand table for seven or eight times. Zhang Xuansu, Ji Chuan and others all believe that under the combined attack of water and land, and under the powerful weapon of Zhao's siege, there is great hope that they can capture Hulao Pass.

Now that the army was about to attack Hulao Pass, Li Shimin suddenly burned Hulao Pass and retreated.

"History is really unpredictable. The originally expected Hulao Pass Battle did not happen." Li Chongjiu thought so in his heart. He guessed several possibilities, and knew that the biggest possibility was that Li Yuan had doubts about Li Shimin, so he issued an order to retreat, asking him to return to his division Chang'an.

However, the soldiers on both sides were full of joy, and they were very happy to be able to conquer such a dangerous barrier without fighting.

Du Yan and Changsun Shi'an congratulated Li Chongjiu, and Du Yan suggested to Li Chongjiu: "At present, Li Shimin is like a dog that is strayed from a family. Our army should take advantage of the victory to pursue the Zheng army in Luoyang, and fight against the Tang army together."

As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, Wuguna and other Zhao army generals asked Li Chongjiu for orders to pursue him.

Zhang Xuansu said: "You can't be neglected. Although the Tang army retreated, it may also be retreating as advance. You can backfire on the way to retreat at any time. If you advance urgently, you may be impoverished. Or Li Shimin's plan is exactly this. Don't forget that the prince of Zheng was ambushed by Tang army general Li Junxian outside Hulao Pass, and his troops were lost. We cannot repeat the same mistake."

Zhang Xuansu's words made Li Chongjiu nod, being cautious without any big mistakes, but if he missed the pursuit of Li Shimin, it would be a pity. The three-day journey from Hulao to Luoyang, anything could happen during this period. If Luoyang surrenders at this time, all major events will be over.

At this time, the general of Zheng army Guo Shiheng said, "What big thing can be achieved if you shrink? But you are a coward. You should make it the most important thing to save Luoyang. Huzhu is now out of place, and you cannot let the guest army be in front of you, so let someone be in front of you for the vanguard, so you should feel at ease."

Guo Shiheng is a general under the command of King Shibian of Xuzhou Xingtai. He has always been brave and strong. His words meant that Zhang Xuansu was too cowardly, and he also had the first intention to lead his army to save Luoyang and achieve great success.

"Well said." Wang Xuanying nodded. He was about to say something, but when he saw Li Chongjiu's eyes swept at him, he remembered the two slaps in the face and dared not speak.

Guo Shiheng received support from Wang Xuan and felt that he had successfully taken credit in front of the future prince: "It's all said that, Your Majesty Great Zhao begs you to let someone be the pioneer."

Du Yan hurriedly said, "There is a way to make the master not to send guests, so let General Guo explore the way forward."

Li Chongjiu nodded after hearing this, thinking that it would be good to have Zheng Jun clear the way forward. Although the idea of ​​a fellow Taoist who died of a tragedy was a loss of the king's mind, Wang Shichong and his son were all ungrateful from top to bottom. At present, they were just rejecting Tang when they rescued Luoyang.
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