, don’t leave me!”

"Let's go!" Li Xu leaned over, picked up Li Wan'er around the waist, grabbed several sets of bedding in the room that were not on fire, and threw them onto the flames one after another. The thick winter bedding immediately suppressed the fire in the window. It was too late to speak.

, at that moment, Li Xu gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, holding the wooden barrel above his head, Li Waner, and jumped out.

The dry and hot air made people's nostrils hurt. It was cold, hot, and cold again. Li Xu felt that there was no more flames in front of his head. He rushed forward a few steps and took advantage of the situation to throw himself on the ground. He fell down and rolled quickly.

, using the cold ground to extinguish the flames on his body.

A dozen shocked soldiers immediately stepped forward and poured buckets of cold water on him. The smell was so bad that it made people cry, but all the sparking embers were doused. Li Yuan and Jiancheng rushed forward at the same time. , one helped Li Xu up, and the other pulled up the "barrel" with raw legs. He reached out and wiped the mud and soot from the other's face, revealing two faces full of hope.

"Zhong Jian!" Li Yuan looked at his daughter and his newly acquired nephew, and he was extremely moved.

"Daughter!" Mrs. Dou, who saw the miracle in despair, completely lost her composure and cried loudly while holding Li Waner who had escaped from death.

After taking off the barrel, Li Waner seemed to be petrified. She looked at her mother in shock for a while, then gently got rid of Dou's arms and walked to Li Xu, who was being helped to remove his armor and wash his wounds. He saluted and thanked Li Xu. Said: "Brother Zhongjian, thank you very much! I knew you wouldn't abandon me!"

"Fu Li, don't leave me -" In the wind, there was a faint sound of howling wolves. Li Xu was stunned, and his eyes were filled with pink again.

Note 1: The three counties of Liaodong, the main front line of Yang Guang's first attack on Goryeo, are divided into Liaodong, Yanjun and Liucheng, which respectively correspond to the current western Shenyang, Liaoxi and Chaoyang Jinzhou areas.

Note 2: Pi Bian, a hat commonly used by warriors, is usually a deerskin seat. The Zi Guan worn by Li Xu below is a hat commonly used by Wensheng, regardless of rank.

Note 3: The big bow is a kind of Han ritual, which is performed by the younger generation to the elders. The elders usually give a flat bow. In the article, the old man thinks that he is lower than Li Xu, so he has to kneel down in a higher level. The knees of Han and Tang people are not the same. Kneeling often, and bowing when meeting friends. When meeting strangers for the first time, they bow their hands in a salute. Only when worshiping the ancestral tablets, they kowtow three times.

Note 4: Li Jiancheng, 589-626, his name is not recorded in history. Zi Gu was made up by the author.

Note 5: Cai's Five Nongs, namely "Spring Outing", "Lushui", "Secluded Residence", "Sitting in Sorrow" and "Autumn Thoughts", are all famous songs through the ages, and were once listed by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty as a required subject for Jinshi. .

Note 6: Huaiyuan Town is marked in the Sui and Tang Dynasty volumes of "Historical Map of China" in Yi County on the edge of the Liao River today. Some people think that it is too close to the border and doubt this statement.

Note 7: Li Wan'er, Princess Pingyang, one of Li Yuan's nineteen daughters, was born to the same mother as Jiancheng, Shimin and Yuanji. After the Song Dynasty, when the history was compiled, the woman's name was not recorded, so only her name was left in the history. Romance of the Late Qing Dynasty It was called Li Waner in the novel, and Mr. Huang Yi made up that she was Li Xiuning. When Li Yuan started the army, Li Shimin was nineteen years old, and Princess Pingyang had been married for many years. Therefore, she should be Shimin's sister rather than his younger sister.

Note 8: Qin Wuyang, a famous warrior in the late Warring States period, killed people in a busy city at the age of thirteen. Later, as Jing Ke's deputy, he joined the Qin Dynasty to assassinate Yingzheng, but failed and died.

Note 9: This action is the whole process of the big bow in the Han rite. The following is the flat bow performed by Li Yuan in the Han rite. Liu Hongji is Li Yuan's junior, so he greeted Shibo with a big bow, and Li Yuan returned the flat bow. Han Li Basically, there are four categories: kneeling down, big bowing, flat bowing, and cupping fists, with the severity decreasing in order. Kneeling down usually only respects ancestors.

Note 10: Historically, Li Yuan and Li Shimin were both very brave men. When Li Yuan was guarding Shanxi, he used two thousand troops to prevent the Turks from going south. In the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Li Shimin would go forward in every battle and attack the enemy directly. Core. At that time, the Chinese people's thinking had not yet been castrated. In addition to the feminine and power-minded, many people had masculine qualities in them.

Note 11: In the military system of the Sui Dynasty, ten people were called fire, and the fire was as long as the fire.

Note 12: Sun Anzu was a native of Qinghe (historic city in Hebei Province) at the end of the Sui Dynasty. In the seventh year of his reign, his hometown was flooded and he begged to be exempted from military service. The government did not allow it, so he captured his wife and children and forced him to do so. His wife and children all starved to death. Anzu was angry and killed him.

The official rebelled and called himself Moyang Gong.

Note 13: Changbai Mountain, now Zhangqiu, Shandong

Note 14: Sui Dynasty military uniform, yellow clothes and red flag.

Note 15: In the Sui Dynasty system, the captain could govern between 800 and 1,200 people, under which there could be a chief history officer, a military officer, one general, and six lieutenants. A regiment of 300 soldiers would have a lieutenant;
Chapter completed!