Book 53 Chapter 1 – Jiande Returns to Heaven (1/2)
Book 53 Chapter 1 – Jiande Returns to Heaven
Translator: Foxs' Wuxia
The drule horns were sounded simultaneously, the music was not the drums and horns of assault, but the happy tune to welcome Li shi+-the-city army the whole nest came out, they lined up in battle array on the river plain outside the city Lantern lights reached the sky, shi+ning upon the nu fro the Cao Canal and the Luo River with the flickering shadows of their sails The moon and the stars in the sky also had to lose their splendor
‘Peng! Peng! Bang! Bang!’
The two giant warshi+ps leading the convoy set off their victory canons, , smoke and fire bits soared into the sky, on the plains, several tens of thousands Tang soldiers and the shi+ps already anchored on the shore to support the Battle of Luoyang shouted and cheered at the sa like a tidal wave, thealhan, Xu Ziling, Ba Yegang, Yang Gongqing and so on arrived at the top of the eastern city wall wang shi+chong, wang Xuanying, wang Xuanshu, along ang Honglie, wang Xingben, wang shi+dan, and a group of high-rankingsurna at the situation of the ene military officers of different surnadan, Meng Xiaowen, Zhang Tong’er, and so on stood on the ith blank expression on their faces, everyone’s countenance was the color of the earth, there was fear in their eyes, as they watched the seizing-people--up ’s city wall, frole one of the defending-the-city soldiers, none did not have his spirit seized away, they were lost in fear and despair
Kou Zhong and the others caht side, they joined the ranks of ’s face, the color of blood has co by his side, and then his gaze was back to outside the city, “Dou Jiande is finished!” he spoke in low voice
Kou Zhong’s scalp went nu!’
The sound of rhyth, ca Arradually di soldiers’ footsteps, neat and unifor the officers and soldiers defending the city to death
The Great Tang Army, which was located on the plains between the Cao Canal and the Luo River, started to advance toward Luoyang, in three separate units At the front were several rows of lance and shi+eld wielders, followed by saber and arroielders and the cavalry With h-spirited morale, they pressed on toward the city
Outside the city, banners were flying everywhere, the disposition of troops was like the ocean, h to , an overbearing momentum that they would not be able to withstand
Kou Zhong focused his power to his eyes to look at a group ofashore froly Li shi+htly, hanging-his-head-dispiritedly Dou Jiande, with a group of great generals Zhangsun Wuji, Yuchi Jingde, Pang Yu, Luo shi+xin, Qin Shubao, Li Shentong, Li Nantian, Kang Qiaoli, Cheng Yaojin, wang Junkuo, and so on crowding around the, Xue Wanche, and so on – welcoether toward Luoyang City
The battle drums rumbled across the sky, the sound of hoofbeats and footsteps shook theArmy formation between the two rivers pushed on until they were about five zhang away from the second layer of trenches Under a shout of order, they halted together, giving up another kind of ihly-disciplined, a threatening force, which, from top to bottom, were of one mind
On the city wall, the officers and soldiers defending the city, everyone’s face was the color of the earth, tirew up inside them
The Li shi+ through the hu to either side, straight toward the outer edge of the second layer of trenches, and then spread into a row, facing wang shi+chong, Kou Zhong, and the others, standing on the city wall
Kou Zhong cast his gaze toward Dou Jiande, whose upper body was tightly bound, his arms tied behind his back, and a rope looped around his neck The latter happened to raise his head to look up, the two men’s eyeshis head down to avert Kou Zhong’s gaze Just by looking at his haggard and dejected expression, his eyes were bri with the-path-exhausted, the-end-of-the-road flurried and despaired appearance, coht-sides, a hundred-percent-self-confidence Dou Jiande, the difference made people sad and was hard to endure
Dou Jiande was held between Li shi+min and Li Yuanji, so that others felt it even more that the victory was entirely in their, two brothers’ hands
Li shi+h they were separated by more than a thousand steps distance, but both sides were all martial art masters, they could see the other side’s expression very clearly Kou Zhong as staring hard at him, the two ed blades, neither gave way to the other
wang shi+chong was like losing control of hi!”
Dou Jiande’s hty body shook severely, but he did not answer
Li shi+, fro, “Shaoshuai! Did shi+ had any chance to respond, Li Yuanji already roared, “Kou Zhong! If you are not an idiot, you should know that the great ed forlife, you won’t find it, seeking death, you cannot”
Xu Ziling and Ba Fenghan exchanged a glance,inwardly that it was just as expected, Li Yuanji was doing everything he could to make Li shi+min and theotiation or to restore relationshi+p
Hearing that, Li shi+ that he could do, because after all, the two sides have become mortal enemy, plus Li Yuanji has received Li Yuan’s secret order Moreover, in his position as the co Army, in front of the three ar and the others?
Kou Zhong calmed hisout a stifled snort, he said, “Qi wang is too polite, but did you seefor mercy?”
Behind Li shi+ Yaojin revealed a sad expression They shook their head and sighed bitterly
“How dare you!” One after another the various generals under Li Yuanji’s co next to Li Yuanji, Li Nantian shouted sternly, “Kou Zhong, death is near at hand, you still dare to boast shaood exa, not a single one can have a good end You ”
Long laughter cahan’s mouth, the sound shook the city wall, above and below, transe-without-fear, looking-disdainfully-out-of-the-corner-of-his-eye-at-the-world confidence and valor, interrupting Li Nantian’s shout and swear, so that the Tang Ar han’s voice thundered, “Right now Luoyang is not broken yet, victory or defeat has not been decided, thy mouths speak out wild idea, wouldn’t it be a joke?”
A hint of hideous s with hatred flooded out of the corner of Li Yuanji’s hter as he said, “Victory or defeat has not been decided? Now that’s a real joke I a [father e, within ten dru fordead with led to straighten his bound-up tight body on the horseback, with his hoarse voice he shouted, “Xiao Zhong, don’t do anything foolish, ree ”
Xue Wanche behind hier swiftly jabbed, he cut off Dou Jiande’s speech
The entire field, crow and peacockautuainst the inside and outside of the city walls, blowing the several hundred and thousands torches that they produced rustling noise, sending randoht sky from time to ti laughed aloud and said, “Kneeling down and begging forfirst, beforebackward, afterwards he rushed out the city wall and made somersault, unexpectedly just like that, he flipped out of the round below Watching this, both sides, the ene also leaped up to the battle that the men and horses fro He and Kou Zhong’s lehandedly rescue Dou Jiande back from within the enemy’s for shi+chong all the way down to the lowest-rank soldier defending the city, none did not croard the wall’s battlements, to bend their head to look at the continuously so They could not bear to see him fall that his flesh split his bones snapped, but they si of height, it was indeed beyond anybody’s physical lirandmasters were still unable to land safely
At once Kou Zhong became the focus of the eye of everyone present, above and below the city wall
Kou Zhongaway frohtly up, and then, as light as a feather, he landed on the ground
On the city wall, the officers and soldiers could not help exploded into shaking-the-heavens cheers, a few even suspected that Kou Zhong was actually an i into the world Ireatly aroused
Li Yuanji roared, “Co for mercy to me first Beat the druround and darted forward, straight to the first layer of trenches outside the east city wall, without the slightest hesitation he soared again, and amidst another beat of drue of the trench, and flew out of the trench, as fast as a flash of lightning
‘Boom!’
The third drumbeat was heard
Apart fro Yaojin and Qin Shubao, everybody quickly picked up the long bow and powerful arrow hanging on the side of their horse, taking ai on the trenches to coe, surely a hundred arroould be released at the saenerals, everyone’s e archer could co, his futile atte the path to his own doo suddenly stopped, exactly a thousand paces away froe of the trenches, still outside their firing range
‘Boom!’
Li Yuanji chuckled and said, “There are still eight drumbeats [sic, don’t ask me, perhaps they don’t kno to count?] Shaoshuai, don’t harm other and don’t harm yourself”
‘Boo down on the ene down like a piece of lead, their breathing could not flow freely
The people on top of the city wall, although their heart was burning with anxiety over Kou Zhong’s dangerous situation, furthernorant person’s bravado and disregarding life or death, leap over the trench to charge into the battle formation, yet no one dared tohisinto a stone statue, his expression was so calm that it made people’s heart turn cold
‘Boom! Boom! Boom!’
Li shi+min’s countenance was solemn and respectful, he did not utter a word