Chapter 261: The King Wants His Ministers to Die, and the Ministers Are Not Dead (14)
Although the people under him didn't know what it meant, as a professional royal guard, they never asked why, strictly carried out all orders, and the execution was very strong. So after getting these large jars of poison, several people carried them directly to the water source and poured them into the river.
A few guards thought as they fell, why did they poison the river? (β_β) We are downstream, the army is going to drink the water in this river, didn't we poison all our own people this time?
If it was another emperor, the guards might think he was mistaken, but Emperor Wen Xuan was a madman, maybe he just wanted to poison his own people to play?
Almost no one can understand Emperor Wen Xuan's brain circuit, if you say more, maybe he will think you hate you and kill you directly, so the guards have developed a good habit of silence!
A few guards mourned in silence for the soldiers on their side, but even if they knew that the river was poisonous, they couldn't say it, because the emperor was afraid of leaking the news, so he specially ordered that no one could say ~~~~~~~
After the three guards who had been poisoned went back, they silently stood at the door of the barracks, silently watching everyone go out to carry water, silently watching the cook cook the freshly killed horse meat, and silently watching the soldiers who had been hungry for a long time happily eat their last meal and then collectively threw themselves into the street. The dead are all very miserable, and all the seven orifices are bleeding, and there is basically no need to rescue them!
Several guards looked at each otherβ_ββ_β!
Early the next morning, Emperor Wen Xuan got up in good spirits. After the palace ladies were dressed, they called the guards in and asked, "Have you done what you did?"
The guard bowed and replied, "Tell your majesty, the poison has been put into the water source." β
"Are there any dead people?" asked Emperor Wen Xuan with some expectation.
The guard secretly said in his heart, that he must die. Don't want the whole barracks to die yesterday!
Although the emperor was very strange, the guards still replied with a straight face: "Dead, it is said that nearly thirty or forty thousand people died! Later, it was found that the water was poisonous, and General Zhao ordered that everyone should not drink it!"
"Haha, it's worthy of the royal secret poison, and there are only a few jars of poison that seals the throat with blood! Thirty or forty thousand people died, and I still thought I could be poisoned!" Emperor Wen Xuan slapped the table happily and regretfully, and then asked casually, "Who is that General Zhao?" How did you find out the news? You even know how many people died!"
The guards are very strange, they still need to inquire about this, and the whole military camp knows about it!
The guards bowed down and replied, "General Zhao is General Zhao Yuqian, who is now in the position of General Shi! The matter of the news was not found out by the humble position, and now the whole military camp has known about it, and now the whole army is not allowed to drink water." General Zhao is looking for other sources of water. β
The guards kept their heads down. I didn't hear Emperor Wen Xuan's voice for a long time, I carefully raised my head and glanced at Emperor Wen Xuan with my spare eyes, only to see him staring at him with a hideous face, the guards faintly felt that they seemed to have made a mistake, their hearts were cold, their brains were dizzy, and they hurriedly wanted to kowtow and ask for guilt, but the next second I saw Emperor Wen Xuan pull out the sword on the wall. Cut off the guard's head directly.
After Emperor Wen Xuan finished cutting the guards, he left the camp with his sword in his hand, and saw that corpses could be seen everywhere. There was panic and panic on everyone's faces.
Now it's useless to kill the guards, it turns out that it's miserable enough to have no food, and now that even the water has been cut off, the soldiers are running even more, that is, Emperor Wen Xuan ordered that all those who run away are divided into five horses, and it is useless! Now that the horses are slaughtered, what kind of corpses can be divided!
The officers and men defending Qianyang City have been full of question marks in the past few days, why is the enemy's style so strange? It is really incomprehensible to ordinary people! The two armies basically did not fight much, and as a result, the 200,000 troops on the other side were almost wiped out!
In fact, it doesn't matter if this side is downstream in July, a few years ago, July had already led people to dig many deep wells in the city, and now the residents of Qianyang City eat well water. In order to ensure safety, July has ordered that no one can use the river water anymore, and the only impact on the residents of the city is that they will not be able to eat the fish and shrimp in the river.
There is nothing here in Qianyang City, but the Liang army outside the city has begun to go to Ganling, and in just a few days, the remaining soldiers fled with thirst, and only 20,000 horses remained.
At this time, Zhao Wu was already afraid, and persuaded Emperor Wenxuan to return to Beijing first, and talk about it later.
Emperor Wenxuan agreed with his opinion very much, so Emperor Wenxuan returned to Beijing and asked Zhao Wu to attack the city with 20,000 people, and if he couldn't capture it, he would be crushed!
Zhao Wu: I mean, let's go back together!
Emperor Wen Xuan now attributed all the blame to Zhao Wu's bad idea, if he hadn't been pampering Zhao Wu, I'm afraid he would have chopped Zhao Wu into stuffing by now.
Emperor Wen Xuan had actually made up his mind to run away, but he was afraid that when he retreated, Qiyue would pursue behind, and the purpose of leaving Zhao Wu behind was also to let him cushion behind.
Zhao Wu had no choice but to know that there was a lot of bad luck, but he had to obey the order.
Emperor Wen Xuan ran away in the middle of the night with his personal guards, and the next morning, Zhao Wu, who was half dead in fear, could only tremble and open the battle column, intending to fight to the death face to face with July.
The war drums sounded again, and the tide attacked Qianyang City again, but this time Qianyang City did not shoot half an arrow, only the strong smell of food came.
The 20,000 people of Liang Jun have been hungry and thirsty for a long time, and now they smell the fragrance of food, and the whole person will immediately die. At this time, I heard a shout from the city wall, "Brothers of the Liang army, as long as you kill the commander and then surrender, you will have something to eat when you enter the city, the large pieces of meat have been stewed, and the cakes have been steamed, just waiting for you!"
There was silence behind the voice, only the sound of the wind kicking up dust. The Liang army heading towards Qianyang City stopped as if it were stationary, but the next moment, Zhao Wu, who was standing in the rear to supervise the battle, saw all the Liang soldiers in the distance looking back at him in unison, and then rushed towards him together.
Liang Bing was afraid that he would surrender to others, almost everyone wanted to tear off a piece of meat on Zhao Wu's body, and almost Zhao Wu was demolished alive, only the head was intact, because Liang Bing was afraid that his head would be damaged and he could not prove that this was Zhao Wu.
This surrender was so happy that July didn't even have to do ideological work for them, and after a meal, immediately this group of people turned into the leading party.
In July, he led people to kill the capital directly, and he was invincible along the way, and almost many cities did not even have to fight, and he arrived in Kyoto unimpeded.
Emperor Wen Xuan was scared and trembling, at this time he no longer had the bloody madness of the past, when he was killed in the palace in July, Emperor Wen Xuan was trembling and got under the bed, his head was facing in, and his buttocks were facing outward, as if he had been a quail.
A month later, in July, he was called the emperor, the country was called the wind, and in July, he was called the wind Taizu.
Shortly after becoming emperor in July, a fire broke out in the palace where Emperor Wenxuan was imprisoned, and the historical records record that Emperor Wenxuan caused too many evils and was burned to death by thunder and fire.
After five years of reign in July, the situation was stable, and the Zen position was given to Fu Zhiyuan, Fu Zhiyuan never expected that July would do this, kowtow and refused, but July insisted on this, and Fu Zhiyuan could only succeed to the throne, known as Feng Taizong in history. During the reign of Taizong, following the ambition of Taizu, the political clarity was clear, encouraging agriculture and commerce, developing industry, and making the country more and more powerful.
July sent off his "grandson" who had come to greet him, turned around to a hidden courtyard, and then entered a secret room, and walked down the deep and dark corridor for half a cup of tea, and came to an iron gate.
There were two guards guarding outside the iron gate, and when they saw that July was coming, they all bowed and saluted.
"That's it. July waved his hand, then asked, "How far is the criminal law going?"
"Master, it's already the two hundred and thirtieth one! The slave seems to be really bad, and fed him the medicine you dispensed, but he still has less air in and more breath, and yesterday he took a thousand years of ginseng to hang his life, and the slave didn't dare to let him swallow his breath without permission, so please ask the master to see what to do!" replied the guard.
July looked at the person crawling on the ground inside the iron gate, covered in flesh and blood, white bones, and crawling with maggots, and his brows furrowed slightly.
"Forget it, it's cheap, if it's dead, he'll die! I wanted to let him try all the torture tools he invented, but unfortunately he only has one life!" July looked at Emperor Wen Xuan, who was almost humanoid in disgust, and turned around and disappeared into the darkness of the corridor!
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