Chapter 44: The Battle of Xi'er River (2)
Time travel sometimes brings trouble to people.
The feeling of helplessness when you know the outcome but are unable to do anything and can only watch helplessly.
Just like Li Jiuzhou at this time, he was full of admiration for Li Mi, but was helpless and unable to prevent his tragic end in the future.
Heaven reincarnates and everything has its own rules. If you just want to rely on one person to turn the tide and turn the world around, that is a plot that can only appear in cool novels.
Li Jiuzhou is also a human being, not a god, not an omnipotent Da Luo.
Therefore, he turned his attention away and turned to Li Mi's dress.
Li Mi was dressed in silver armor, and the tiger-head shoulder pads on his shoulders were very powerful, but the most eye-catching thing was the sword hanging on his waist.
Li Jiuzhou looked at his sword and asked curiously: "Li Yushi's sword is quite unique."
Li Mi then took off the sword and handed it to him.
Li Jiuzhou took it and saw that the hilt of the sword was curved, the handle was decorated with gold, the sword was sheathed with elephant skin, and Zhu Shang also painted emblems on it.
I pulled out the sword and looked at it carefully, but I found it was very different from an ordinary sword: the blade was shaped like a "remnant blade of a halberd", and the sword body was like a 28-year-old girl's deft and crisp body, with extremely soft beauty and hidden murderous intent.
It's so sharp that it can bend even the thinnest hair, and it's so flexible that it can bend the full moon. With a slight wave of your hand at a small tree, it actually split into two halves. It's very sharp.
Li Mi said in a proud tone: "This is the Nanzhao Duo sheath sword that Ge Luofeng gave me back then."
It turned out that this was the legendary Duo Sheath Sword. Li Jiuzhou was even more curious and held it in his hand to observe carefully.
At that time, the people of Nanzhao were good at martial arts. Regardless of their rank or rank, they never left their swords. From ordinary soldiers to ordinary people, they all carried swords with them when they went out.
Nanzhao swords have three treasures: Duo sheath, Yubian, and Langjian.
The Duo Sheath Sword is the first of the Three Treasures and was worn by King Nanzhao. It was once presented as a national gift to the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
The ancient saying of the Bai people divides the Duo sheath sword into six types: "Lvpomoqiu, Kuiyunfu, Duochao, Duomona, Tongduo and Zhuke."
The one owned by Li Mi is the most precious "Green Pomoqiu", and there are not many in the world.
Ge Luofeng gifted him this sword, which shows that the relationship between the two is as close as brothers.
Perhaps neither of them expected that the two of them would be fighting each other at this time. Either you die or I die.
Seeing that he couldn't put it down, Li Mi said: "This sword was given by Ge Luofeng. It is my favorite thing, but I can't bear to give it to General Li. If General Li likes it, I still have a sword in my account, but I can give it to you."
Li Jiuzhou was overjoyed when he heard this. He returned the sword with a multi-scabbard to him and followed him to the tent.
Li Mi took out a very expensive-looking box from under the bed, opened it, and found a sword inside.
This sword was also decorated with a golden rhinoceros head and was golden in color. Li Mi took it out and handed it to him.
Li Jiuzhou only took one look and thought to himself: Isn't this the Golden Snake Sword in the TV series?
"This sword is called Yujian. It requires poisons, insects and fish when forging it, and white horse blood is used when quenching it. The blade of the sword is highly poisonous. It seals the throat when it sees blood. When it stabs a person, it will kill as long as it sees blood."
When Li Mi said this, Li Jiuzhou didn't dare to take it anymore, and put away the sword and returned it to him, "I'm not good at martial arts, and this sword is highly poisonous. If I accidentally hurt someone, it would be very bad."
Li Mi laughed loudly: "General Li is not good at martial arts, but this sword can be used for self-defense."
Li Jiuzhou was disrespectful and immediately accepted the "Golden Snake Sword". He loved it so much that he played with it for a long time before asking again: "How much does Li Yushi think this victory counts?"
Li Mi hesitated for a moment: "According to my understanding of Nanzhao, our army has little chance of winning this battle."
"Why is the chance of winning so low?" Li Jiuzhou asked.
"Just now, I have observed that most of the soldiers in the army are eating porridge. Hundreds of thousands of them. In a day or two, they will run out of food and pay. By then, I am afraid that there will be chaos before there is a fight."
The hero had the same view. Li Jiuzhou also knew that he could not fight a protracted war and agreed: "That is true. It seems that it is only advisable to fight quickly and not stay for a long time."
"It's a pity that Mr. Yang didn't listen." Li Mi sighed, feeling helpless.
The two men went to Yang Guozhong's tent to request an attack.
Yang Guozhong couldn't resist, so he ordered Li Mi and Lu Qianqian to lead the people and launched the first wave of attacks on the Nanzhao camp.
The drums were beating loudly and the sound of killing was everywhere. Li Jiuzhou did not participate in the battle, so he stood and watched from a high place.
But seeing the wind and sand filling the air, and the blood flowing into the river, the front team fell, and the rear team followed up. The two sides were fighting fiercely, and no one dared to take a step back.
Blood and flesh flew everywhere, and the soldiers who rushed forward fell down one by one. They fought until dark, with no winner or loser, and then the drums were sounded and the troops stopped.
After a hard battle, all the generals in the camp were worried. If they could not attack for so long, the Tang army would be defeated in a little while.
Nanzhao is not in a hurry. They have already rebuilt the Dragon Head and Dragon Tail Passes by the Xi'er River, and dug out the Zihe River in front of Longwei Pass. They have advanced positions and fortified them layer by layer. They plan to use fatigue-consuming tactics.
The tactic is to wait until the Tang army is exhausted, then move out to annihilate it in one fell swoop.
Li Jiuzhou thought about it over and over again, but could not come up with a good plan. At dawn, a soldier hurriedly came to report: "General Li, it's not good, Wan Gong has been poisoned."
Wan Nanshan was poisoned! Li Jiuzhou rushed out.
Wan Nanshan was in his tent, his eyes turned white and he was vomiting.
The soldiers next to him kept pouring water into his mouth.
"What's going on?" Li Jiuzhou asked as soon as he came in.
"Back to General Li, because there was no food in the army, Wan Gong took people to dig wild vegetables in the mountains to eat, but one of them was poisoned."
"Hurry up and continue pouring water." Li Jiuzhou knew that he was poisoned by eating wild vegetables, so he relaxed a little. Wild vegetables should not be poisonous to death.
After feeding and vomiting, I saw that Wannanshan no longer vomited, so I stopped feeding him water.
Several people kept watching, and after a long time, Wan Nanshan finally opened his eyes, his face pale.
"How are you?" Li Jiuzhou took his hand and asked.
Wan Nanshan struggled to get up, but he still had no strength at all.
He had no choice but to lie down and said weakly: "The food distributed was getting less and less, and there was simply not enough food to eat. So I took people to the mountains to find something edible. However, Nanzhao is a poisonous den, and the wild vegetables and weeds in the mountains are so...
They are all poisonous, what happened to the others?"
"Fortunately, the poison of wild vegetables is not fatal, and the other ten people are also fine."
The soldiers did not know the wild vegetables in the mountains, but they could not resist hunger. Nowadays, there were more and more diseases and people poisoned by eating wild vegetables. Li Jiuzhou thought that this was not the solution, and became depressed.
In the distance, strong winds swept across the earth mercilessly, and heavy rain poured down, violently washing the battlefield.
It's the rainy season in the south. The rain is heavy and the ravines have turned into streams. I don't know when it will stop.
As a result, the soldiers are eager to return home, and the military spirit is distracted.
Li Jiuzhou sat alone in the tent, trying hard to recall Sun Tzu's Art of War and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. He thought to himself that a situation like this would be difficult for Zhuge even if Sun Wu was alive and Zhuge was reincarnated.
The land and environment are not adapted to the situation, food and wages are in short supply, and the enemy is tightly guarded with no loopholes. It is really impossible to do anything.
Chapter completed!