A few miles away from the Tang Army's camp, Li Ji felt something was wrong. Under his severe questioning, Liu Xing, the commander of the army, had to tell the truth.
An enemy army of 20,000 people raided the camp. Li Qinzai sent Li Ji away and led 5,000 troops to fight against the enemy army.
Li Ji was angry and distressed, and immediately ordered Liu Xing to turn around and return to camp.
He is the commander-in-chief of an army. When the enemy raids, he will never allow himself to escape, nor will he allow his own grandson to fight against the enemy alone in order to cover him.
No matter from the perspective of elders or soldiers, for Li Ji, escaping was a great shame.
But Liu Xing refused Li Ji's order.
He only remembered Li Qinzai's words. No matter what Li Ji said, he could not return to the camp. He must protect Li Ji and rendezvous with the main army. In the face of a powerful enemy, both grandfather and grandson could not be killed at the same time. One of them had to survive.
Like his last words, Liu Xing remembered it with tears in his eyes.
This was a farewell with no choice, and Li Qinzai's decision was the most sober and rational.
But Li Ji couldn't agree. Seeing that Liu Xing refused to obey his order, Li Ji struggled left and right and almost fainted with anger.
Liu Xing gritted his teeth and endured Li Ji's yelling and anger. For the first time in his life, he disobeyed.
It was not until dozens of miles away from the camp that Li Ji finally gave up.
He knew that Li Qinzai had already encountered the enemy at this time. Even if he rushed back, it would be of no avail. It would be too late.
But Li Ji did not give up rescuing Li Qinzai. In order to save his life, his grandson was standing at the front and fighting bloody battles with the enemy. As a grandfather, what could he do?
Li Ji sent out one by one, each with two horses, to report the news to Qibi Heli's main force. It didn't matter if the horses were gone or the men were gone. Reinforcements had to be mobilized as quickly as possible. , rescued Li Qinzai.
Looking up at the sky, it is already dawn.
Li Ji lay on the soft bag, and the scenery on the roadside receded rapidly.
The famous general of the Tang Dynasty, who was in a very anxious mood and did not change his expression despite the collapse of Mount Tai, could no longer conceal the worry in his heart.
He hated his old age and Li Qinzai's rash decision.
He made the wrong choice, and it was Li Ji who should be sacrificed.
What a pity for dying in his old age, Li Qinzai is the future of the Li family. If he has three strengths and two weaknesses, how can Li Ji have the dignity to survive?
This idiot!
Li Ji, who had not shed tears for many years, finally shed two old tears.
On the dome, the young eagle finally grew up, and under its outstretched wings, it protected the drooping eagle.
When the chick is strong, it holds food in its mouth and feeds it back.
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The Tang army's camp was five miles away.
The Tang army, with only two thousand left, was exhausted. After a fierce battle, it still did not take a step back.
The situation is certainly not optimistic. Every soldier knows that today will be a deadly battle.
Either the enemy army was completely wiped out or retreated in panic, or all the Tang army soldiers died heroically in battle.
There is no other choice.
Now that things have happened, Li Qinzai is no longer anxious.
If you already have a death wish, why worry about living?
When it's time to die, the bird just lies on its back and that's it.
In this life, I have been a high-ranking official, well-dressed and well-fed, and I have married several wives reasonably and legally. What is there to regret?
Li Qinzai is very free and easy, knowing that he is in a desperate situation, but he is not sad at all.
He even talked and laughed with the soldiers.
Collecting gunpowder from the soldiers, making the last explosive bag, and tying it around his waist, Li Qinzai hummed an unknown tune.
Feng Su looked at him quietly, and hesitated several times.
Li Qinzai didn't even raise his head, but he seemed to know what he was going to say. He said calmly: "Don't tell me to escort me to escape first. I can't afford to lose that person."
Feng Su couldn't help but said: "The Fifth Young Master has a body of thousands of gold, why bother..."
Before he finished speaking, Li Qinzai raised his head and glanced at him, and interrupted: "When the soldiers are trying their best, they keep saying 'Brother Paoze'. The coach is about to run away, and he says 'body of gold'. You can't be so shameless."
"I gave the order to hold on, and I also gave the order to fight to the last soldier. After I gave the order, I ran away first when the situation was bad, leaving the soldiers to go up and fight desperately. Do you think I can still do it in the future? Looking up to see someone?"
After tying the explosive around his waist, Li Qinzai moved his hands and feet and felt that it would not fall off, so he nodded with satisfaction.
Feng Su sighed: "But Fifth Young Master doesn't have to tie this deadly thing around his waist. If it really explodes, you will... have no bones left."
Li Qinzai said with a smile: "What I want is that there are no bones left. Otherwise, even if I die in battle, I don't know how the enemy will mess with my body. If I threaten my grandfather with my body, maybe my grandfather will really compromise. He is going to die anyway, so why bother?" Let’s make things difficult for our elders again.”
Feng Su lowered his head sadly, and Li Qinzai's smile at this moment was incompatible with the atmosphere on the battlefield.
What kind of determination can make you laugh at this moment?
This fifth young master, who was usually not serious and had an alien personality from the Li family, turned out to be such a free and easy real man.
Sacrificing one's life to go to the country's disaster, seeing death as a sudden return home.
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The battlefield has been cleaned, and the corpses of the soldiers who died in the battle have been collected by the robes and placed on the flat ground in the distance.
The atmosphere around them was solemn, and the crowd howled from time to time. As soon as they made a sound, they were slapped shut by the general.
"Why are you crying! Are you afraid of death or unwilling?" Liu Renyuan walked back and forth among the crowd with his scabbard raised, cursing fiercely on his face.
"Look at Li Shuai, have you seen that? A man with so much money has never retreated even a step like our Paoze brothers. Even if he dies, Li Shuai will be with us. There is nothing to cry about!"
Everyone raised their necks and looked at Shuai Qi.
Under the commander's banner, Li Qinzai had just tied the explosive bag around his waist and raised his head and smiled at the soldiers.
"Don't talk about swearing to serve the country to the death. I actually want to escape, but I don't dare to escape." Li Qinzai smiled with his white teeth grinning: "I'm not that brave. I just get a higher salary than you and eat better than you. There are more things than you enjoy..."
"You see, my life is better than yours in everything, but when you try your best, I turn around and run away. I feel quite embarrassed, haha."
As soon as he said a few words, the crowd immersed in sorrow suddenly burst into laughter, and the solemn atmosphere gradually became cheerful.
Li Qinzai gradually suppressed his smile, looked around at the soldiers, and sighed sadly: "To be honest, not many brothers survived today's deadly battle. Including me, we have already stepped into it." At the gate of hell."
"But, I still say the same thing, you can't retreat, you can't retreat."
"We have given up this only way to go south, and the main force of our king's division will be attacked from both sides. The imperial court has been preparing for many years for the Eastern Expedition, a national war supported by countless people's taxes. If we fall short because of our escape, how can we deal with it? Father Jiangdong will explain."
(End of chapter)
