Saleh and Sultan looked solemn, holding telescopes in one hand and listening to the occasional sounds of fighting and screams in the woods.
Everything indicates that the battle in the woods is not a competition. Both he and Li Hong know very well that this is a fight!
It is a game that truly involves fighting with blood and life. It is not a stop-and-go game, but an encounter or ambush that never stops.
Even Li Hong's eyes were filled with solemnity and fierce light at this time. The screams coming from the forest from time to time made Li Hong and Saleh involuntarily look at each other.
With eyes as deep as ink and fierce killing momentum, the two of them saw a strong fighting and killing intent in each other's eyes.
"Whether it's in the court or in the restaurant, it doesn't count as your victory. Do you dare to follow me into the woods..."
"I should have known you would say this. You are responsible for your own casualties. If you have broken arms and legs, just don't go to Yeyue to complain." Li Hong reached back and Yutu Qi immediately handed over the spear he usually used. .
Holding the cold spear, the fighting spirit in Li Hong's eyes became even stronger. The bloody killing aura made people think that he was a general covered in blood who had just survived a fight on the battlefield!
All the muscles in Saleh's body were in a state of excitement at this time. A scimitar passed across his mouth, and the tip of his tongue gently kissed the sharp blade: "Pray for yourself, I will not show mercy."
"drive!"
The two of them roared at the same time, and slapped the horse's belly with both legs. Like two arrows, they instantly swooped down from the hill and ran towards the woods far ahead.
"I'm going too!" Sudan roared wildly, and at the same time he rode his horse to follow the smoke and dust raised by the two men, and rushed quickly into the woods.
"You... you... won't follow?" Prince Ojin shrank his neck, with a frightened look on his face. The tense and suffocating atmosphere on the hills just now scared him to the point where he didn't dare to speak.
Now he saw that the three people had left, but Li Hong's personal guard captain and personal eunuch were still standing on the hill, so he turned around and asked Noonuo while swallowing his saliva.
At this time, he felt that as his brother-in-law, he should help Li Hong, but he did not dare to enter the woods that seemed to make people feel weak, so he had to ask for help from the soldiers around Li Hong.
"They are no match for His Highness!" Yu Tuqi looked at Prince Dajin with disdain and said plausibly.
"Oh... Okay." At this moment, Prince Ojin felt more at ease.
"It would be great if His Royal Highness the King of England was here at this time. He could follow His Royal Highness the Crown Prince into the woods and clean up these arrogant and ignorant people like Dashi." Hua Meng kept lowering his eyes, which once made Prince Dajin think that he was I fell asleep standing up, but I didn't expect this sinister-looking guy to be so conceited when he opened his mouth!
Yu Tuqi glanced at Hua Meng and smiled confidently with a row of white teeth. The reason why he was so confident was because he recognized that the bird that flew straight down from the sky just now was the bird raised by His Highness. Hai Dongqing has a cold head.
"There is no guarantee that His Royal Highness will be able to come back. If this battle is to end, it will have to be tomorrow. The battle should be the most fierce at night." Yu Tuqi wanted to rush into the woods, But because His Highness did not acquiesce, he could only stand here and wait.
"What? It won't end until tomorrow?" Prince Ojin was confused. He looked up at the sun hanging high above his head. He thought that this war would be over in a short while.
"I'll go greet the envoys from other countries. You wait here." Hua Meng raised his eyelids again, ignoring Prince Dajin's shouting, and after saying something to Wei Tuqi, he turned around and got on his horse to leave. go.
Yu Tuqi nodded silently. He had to wait here until His Highness the Prince came out of the woods. No matter whether it was windy or snowy at night, he had to stay here.
"There are eight hundred people, and the forest is much larger than you think. Putting eight hundred people in there is nothing. It will take a long time to annihilate them all." Yu Tuqi finally answered Prince Dajin. words.
After hearing what Yu Tuqi said, Prince Dajin swallowed his saliva again and began to think, could it be that he had to wait here until tomorrow
In the Central Army barracks, other envoys from various countries already knew during the Yuan Dynasty meeting that there would be a contest between Datang and Dashi today, but they did not expect that no one informed them at all, so they waited. When they arrived at the barracks, Datang's cavalry and Dashi's cavalry had already disappeared into the woods, and all they could do was wait here for the final outcome.
In the East Palace, several girls, led by Yan Lingbin, were rehearsing nervously and orderly for the opera "The Legend of White Snake" that will be performed in the palace during the Shangyuan Festival.
Pipa, guzheng, erhu, drums, sheng and other musical instruments are playing together at the moment. Beautiful notes, smooth melodies, and Bai Suzhen in white clothes and Xiaoqing in green clothes on the stage are crying and complaining. Singing sadly.
Bai Chun and others listened in a mesmerizing way, completely immersed in the inner world of the characters on the stage. Yan Lingbin lowered his head from time to time and flipped through the notes in front of him, listening intently for any loopholes in the melodies.
In the Daming Palace, the white elephants were sent back to the west inner courtyard again, but the expression on Li Zhi's face was not much relaxed.
The Xiaohuangmen came and went from time to time, and the envoys from Goguryeo and Silla, accompanied by Zhang Lushui and Jin Rongqi, sat upright and watched the Xiaohuangmen whispering something to Li Zhi and Wu Mei.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince entered the woods, and Prince Dashi and the Sultan of the Hashemite Family also entered the woods at the same time."
"Where's Li Zhe?"
"His Royal Highness is rushing back from the Qinling Mountains. Based on the fastest distance, he can probably reach the Central Army Barracks before sunset."
"Are all the envoys from other countries at the posthouse outside the city?" Wu Mei put down the memorial that Li Zhi had just read in her hand and asked calmly.
"Yes, Queen, some of them entered the Central Army Barracks with the permission of His Highness the Crown Prince." Xiao Huangmen quickly replied.
"Are Li Lingyue and Shangguan Wan'er also in the post house?"
"This... back to the Queen, yes. But there are still some students from the Chongwen Hall accompanying Her Royal Highness the Princess and Shangguan Cairen." Xiao Huangmen was stunned for a moment, and finally replied with some anxiety.
Originally, the queen had ordered them not to leave the palace for the past two days, but early this morning, Her Royal Highness the Princess aggressively shouted to go out, and even threatened them with Her Royal Highness the Crown Prince. They had no choice but to turn a blind eye. , allowing Her Royal Highness the Princess to leave the palace.
"Nonsense! Something went wrong yesterday. I don't have a long memory and ran out again today. How unbecoming is it for a majestic Princess of the Tang Dynasty to run around like this!" Li Zhi put down the tea cup heavily and said with a snort.
Xiao Huangmen was so frightened that he immediately knelt on the carpet in the hall. The Goguryeo and Silla envoys not far away also trembled in their hearts and almost knelt down too.
"Needless to say, they are naturally running for that newspaper of theirs. The Ministry of Internal Affairs should send people to keep an eye on it. Just don't make mistakes like yesterday." Wu Mei was not angry for the first time, but continued to speak calmly.
The entire Chang'an City and the East Palace are still in a festive and lively atmosphere. In obvious contrast, the Daming Palace, which seems a bit quiet, and the Central Military Academy Ground seem to be filled with the smell of blood and murderous intent.
The woods in the entire school grounds are so big that if you rush into the woods blindly, you may even lose your way.
If the sun hadn't started to move westward and he could still travel through the forest without the cover of leaves, even if Li Hong had penetrated several miles into the forest, his sense of direction would have slowly disappeared.
The entire forest is extremely quiet. Horses' hooves step on dead branches and leaves, making a thick crunching sound. Occasionally, dead branches broken by horses' hooves make a small snap, but other than these, the whole forest is filled with There was a lifeless silence.
When he and Saleh were about to rush into the woods, in order to prevent their position being determined by each other, they unanimously chose to separate from each other. As soon as they entered the woods, the sound of the other party's horse hooves that was still in their ears disappeared in an instant. not see.
Towering trees make it impossible to look up for a long time. The longer you look up, not only will your head feel dizzy, it will also make your sense of direction worse and worse.
He held the spear halfway in his hand, letting the war horse step on the thick leaves and walk forward casually. From time to time, he would encounter some tough vines connecting two trees.
Li Hong chooses to take a detour every time and never forcefully splits his way through. He knows very well that once that happens, it will be easy for people to follow the vines that are considered damaged and track you behind your butt. , bringing you great danger.
The silence in the woods has been going on, and the sound of the horses snorting sounded much louder than usual. No matter how hard you listened, in the towering woods, the occasional sounds drifted around, making people Unable to accurately grasp the source of the sound.
Trees are criss-crossing each other, and the source of the sound is blocked and reflected, so when you hear a sound coming from far ahead, the exact location of the sound will even be on the far left.
In the dense woods, as the sun continues to set, the shadows of everything in the world are lengthened. The slanting shadows make the shadows of the trees in the dense forest easy to hallucinate after looking at them for a long time, especially when the human spirit is highly concentrated and Nervous times.
So at this time, Li Hong hoped that Hai Dongqing would appear in front of him soon instead of continuing to greedily enjoy the delicious deer.
There was a sound of flying overhead, and Li Hong looked up instantly. A white figure swooped down from a high tree branch, and the brightly shining short knife in his hand was pointed directly at the back of his heart!
(End of chapter)