At dawn, the rain that had been falling for a long time stopped.
The rising sun is rising in the east, and a rainbow is looming in the blue sky. The scene is indescribably beautiful.
On the city wall of Hulao Pass, Dou Jiande, who was dressed in a white elegant plain robe, stood with his hands behind his back, complementing Li Shimin who stood next to him in a black robe.
Below the city, yesterday's horrifying scene of mountains of corpses could no longer be seen. Only some strange bright red could be seen in the puddles dotted with stars.
Dou Jiande quietly watched the Tang soldiers cleaning the last battlefield, and after a long time he said, "What does King Qin plan to do with the tens of thousands of surrendered troops under my command?"
Hearing this, Li Shimin smiled and asked, "Why didn't King Xia ask himself first? Instead, he started caring about others?"
Dou Jiande smiled slightly and said: "Haha, I know that my fate is not long, so I don't care about myself! As for those subordinates, they all obey orders and have no fault on their own, so I hope King Qin can let them go."
"Oh? Are you so sure that you will die?" Li Shimin did not rush to answer Dou Jiande's question, but was very curious about his free and easy performance at this time.
Dou Jiande glanced at Li Shimin and sighed: "If you treat me the same as you treat Changsun Anshi and the others today, then I may have a chance of survival. But now, they are being thrown into a prison car and suffering, but I am being treated politely here." , so I’m not going to die soon.”
There was no expression on Li Shimin's face, and he continued to ask: "You know your fate is not long, so do you think I will let those surrendered soldiers go?"
Dou Jiande nodded and said: "Yes!"
"What's the explanation?"
"Because you want the land of Hebei and Shandong! And the families of these surrendered soldiers are waiting for them to go back, so you can't kill them!"
"Oh? Then since I can let more than 100,000 troops go home, why can't I leave you to comfort the two places?"
Li Shimin's words were a bit playful, but Dou Jiande smiled confidently: "You don't dare!"
Li Shimin's smile gradually solidified, and he had to admit that Dou Jiande's guess was correct!
This time, everyone else can survive, except Dou Jiande!
Because everyone knows that as long as Dou Jiande is released, with his reputation and prestige, countless armies will be gathered in an instant, and this is absolutely impossible for the Tang Dynasty to tolerate!
"Hey, you are so smart, why are you doing this? If you hadn't come here in the first place, wouldn't this have happened?"
Sighing deeply, Li Shimin had to admit that Dou Jiande was born with a special affinity!
Just one morning of getting along gave him a feeling of sympathy for each other. If they weren't on opposite sides, they would have become a pair of very good friends.
A night of silence seemed to have made Dou Jiande look away from everything. He looked at Li Shimin and smiled and said, "It's the same, if I don't come, you will go in the future."
Hearing this, Li Shimin couldn't help but fell silent.
For some reason, he suddenly didn't have any joy of victory in his heart now.
Glancing at the silent Li Shimin, Dou Jiande turned back and continued to look at the scenery outside the city.
He was afraid that he would never see this beautiful scenery again.
"Those surrendered soldiers will be released today. As for your family, I will also have people send them back to Hebei! Well, you may not be worried about my people, so just let Qi Shanxing escort you! Get ready now, We will go to Luoyang later!"
After saying these words in a low voice, Li Shimin turned around and left without any regret.
He knew very well: after killing Dou Jiande, he would not be happy for a long time.
Luoyang City.
Xiao Han still blocked the city gate arrogantly.
It's just that yesterday he still had 5,000 strong soldiers, but today there are only more than 1,000 left. Also missing at the same time are Liu Hongji and Yuchi Gong.
Yun Dingxing has not returned to the city since last night, but no one cares about him at this time.
When the building is about to collapse, everyone is too busy taking care of themselves, how can they have time to see others?
Wang Shichong has been standing at the top of the city since last night without eating a grain of rice.
By noon, he was already pale and shaky.
"Ahem...Uncle, let's eat something first!"
Behind him, Wang Wan coughed and brought a bowl of rice porridge, but Wang Shichong just waved his hand.
At this time, let alone a bowl of rice porridge, he couldn't even eat dragon's liver, phoenix and gallbladder.
Time passed by, just when the sun was about to rise to the center of the sky.
On the road in the distance, a cloud of smoke and dust suddenly rose, and at the same time, a shocking sound also came.
"It's finally here!"
Looking at the smoke and dust, Wang Shichong's heart suddenly sank, and he quickly raised his eyes to look into the distance.
I saw that there seemed to be a big flag looming above the smoke.
"Li Shimin!" Wait until you see the big word "Li" on the flag! Wang Shichong's fists clenched unconsciously, and then quickly unclenched.
The arrival of this cavalry seemed to have completely verified Dou Jiande's failure. It also shattered the last glimmer of hope in his heart!
The speed of the cavalry was very fast, and in less than a moment, the entire army had arrived in front of Xiao Han's formation.
Li Shimin, who put on his military uniform again, was the first to jump off his horse. Without saying a word, he gave Xiao Han a big bear hug!
"Thank you for your hard work!" Li Shimin said with some emotion as he hugged Xiao Han tightly!
Unexpectedly, Xiao Han, who should have been equally moved, rolled his eyes at this moment, bared his teeth and screamed: "Let go... let go! Prick, stab me to death!"
"Ah?" Li Shimin heard this and quickly let go of his arms!
When he saw Xiao Han, who was jumping around on the ground like a rabbit, he realized: It turned out that this man was only wearing a thin cloth and didn't even have a wallet. No wonder he was so panicked!
"Nonsense! Where is your armor? Why don't you wear it!" Li Shimin asked angrily.
Xiao Han groped for the skin that was hurt by Li Shimin's armor, and said angrily: "You're soaked, let's cool down over there!"
"..."
Rubbing his head in pain, Li Shimin was completely speechless towards Xiao Han.
Not wearing armor on the battlefield? Should I call him stupid? Or stupid?
Without further ado, he took off the chain armor on his body and put it all over Xiao Han. He also put the helmet on his head along the way!
Li Shimin gave a wry smile and said with a wry smile to Dou Jiande, who had a surprised look on his face: "This is Xiao Han, my brother! He was the one who blocked Wang Shichong's 100,000 troops with five thousand men yesterday and didn't dare to move!"
"Oh? Disrespectful!"
Dou Jiande was initially a little disdainful when he saw Xiao Han acting unconventionally, but when he heard Li Shimin's introduction, he immediately stood in awe!
This is how people are, as long as they have real abilities, no matter how big their flaws are, they will be ignored.
But if you don't have the ability, even the smallest fault will be singled out and magnified infinitely, and used as a reason for reprimand!
