"Li Rui!" Li Yuan cried out in alarm, his eyes turning red from anxiety. He didn't even bother to shout Li Rui's name. In the Great Sui Army, who didn't know that Mai Tiezhang was one of the best generals in the world? In front of the two armies, the sixty jin iron staff in his hand would usually smash the opponent and his horse into meat paste. Li Rui had challenged Mai Tiezhang without a word. Although it did not violate the military law of Great Sui, it was equivalent to sending himself to death.
Li Yuan knew that Li Rui's archery skills were amazing, and he also knew that Li Rui could fight more than ten people by himself. However, he believed that Li Rui would never be a match for Staff Mai. Fighting was one thing, and fighting to the death was another. How many people did Li Rui kill? The number of people Mai Tie Staff had killed was countless.
After hearing Li Rui's words, Mai Tiezhang was not angry. Instead, he laughed. He pointed the horsewhip at Li Rui's face and said," I'm not wrong. You really have guts!"”
As a Great General, Iron Staff Mai naturally wouldn't be afraid of a small colonel's complaint. It was even unknown whether Li Rui would be able to run to Yang Guang and report to him. But at this time, he couldn't say that he was going to start a massacre as a general, because that would be as if he was afraid of Li Rui.
Thinking about it calmly, Mai Tiezhang knew that he was indeed in the wrong today. This matter had been started by the Left Military Guards from the beginning to the end. The grain guards had only been passively fighting. The reason why Li Rui didn't fear death to challenge him was also because he was forced by him. However, Iron Staff Mai could not apologize to a junior or give up the chance to vent his anger for his brothers.
In this dilemma, Iron Staff Mai opened his hand and intended to take out his iron staff to teach Li Rui a lesson. Without waiting for the guard to bring his iron staff over, Li Rui added loudly,"Li Rui still has something to say."”
"Speak!" Iron Staff shouted with his eyes wide open.
Li Rui looked at his angry brothers, then at the helpless Li Yuan. He smiled and said," If I lose to Old General Mai, today's matter will be over. No one will mention the grain guards again!"”
"If you, Little Rabbit Yizi, win, this old man will never pursue today's matter!”Iron Staff answered casually. This was originally a cliché between the heroes of the forest. After he followed Li Rui's words and answered, he suddenly realized that he had been tricked.
His original intention was to pursue the other party's crime of detaining the Left Martial Guards, but in the end, it turned into a private fight. Now that they had won against Li Rui, they would at most injure him. The other people in the grain protection army naturally wouldn't pursue the matter. If he lost even a single move, not only would he lose all of today's reputation, but he would also lose half of his life's reputation.
before the battle began, the initiative was lost. Mai Tiezhang held the famous weapon in his hand, and his mood suddenly became extremely heavy.
"This place is narrow and not suitable for General Mai. Why don't we go to the drill ground and guide him?”Yu Wenshu seemed to be considerate and gave Mai Tiezhang an idea, but in fact, his words sealed off the possible retreat of both sides.
"Alright! I haven't exercised for a long time, and my bones have rusted!”Mai Tiezhang carefully sized up Yuwen Mi and replied coldly.
Li Yuan took a few steps back helplessly and pulled up his horse. He didn't have the strength to do anything else. If the person being challenged was Yu Wenshu, he wouldn't argue with a mere colonel. All he needed to do was to say that he was offending his superior and Li Rui would be left in the lurch. Unfortunately, Li Rui had challenged Iron Staff, and Yu Wenshu had added fuel to the fire.
Sweeping his gaze across the indignant grain guards, Li Yuan suddenly felt that he understood Li Rui's thoughts. Li Rui was helping him maintain the hearts of the people. Thinking of this, his tears could not help but flow down. He took it for granted that Li Rui was his man, and Li Rui was helping him by maintaining the morale of the army. But what was the truth? Haha!
Mai Jie walked forward and shouted at the soldiers of the Left Martial Guards,"Brothers! Let's see how Marshal will deal with this brat!"
"Let's go and watch the show!" The soldiers of the prefecture clamored in unison and went to the drill ground aggressively to cheer for their commander.
The grain guards were not willing to show any weakness and followed closely behind. Compared to them, their neat military appearance was even more neat. Even Cui Jianren, Zheng Chong, and the others held their heads high and puffed out their chests with righteous expressions.
Everyone took it for granted that Li Rui had no chance of winning, but his challenge to Iron Staff was purely to stand up for his brothers. Therefore, the brothers of the grain guards would rather watch him get knocked off his horse by Mai Tie's staff than let him have his last glory.
"Shi Min! Do you think Brother Po Zhu can win?" Li Xiu Ning chased after Li Shi Min and asked uneasily. She was even a little angry with her father. As the Duke of Tang, why didn't he try his best to stop this competition that had no chance of winning?
"Brother Po Zhu has already won! I now understand why he did this.”Li Shi Min said something that was out of place for his age.
"Why is he so stupid?" Li Xiuning asked angrily.
"He's not stupid at all!" Li Shi Min sighed and said," He's smarter than any of us.”
"He's smart? Why would Congming challenge General Mai?”Li Xiuning said angrily," How can he beat General Mai?!"”
"Then why are you asking me if he can win?”Li Shi Min laughed.
" You…" Li Xiu Ning was speechless. After seeing the cunning look in Li Shiming's eyes, her face couldn't help but turn red. Could it be that his younger brother had already seen through his thoughts?
No one thought that Li Rui could win, including the silkpants of the grain guards who had seen Li Rui fight 30 people by himself. Although Iron Staff was old, he had earned his reputation for half his life. When Comrade Old Mai was still Comrade Barley, he had once single-handedly, no, single-handedly killed tens of thousands of people on his iron horse. He had killed hundreds of people along the way, but he was unharmed. The entire Great Sui was shocked. Although he was older now and his strength was not as good as before, his experience was not something that could be compared to when he was young.
Therefore, no one had any objections to Li Rui's defeat, but they didn't know whether Iron Staff Mai would stop at the end or directly take Li Rui's life.
However, there were two people whose understanding of this duel was different from the others. One was Li Rui, and the other was Mai Tiezhang.
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