Chapter 691: Causing Death
Half an hour later, Qu Tu Gai sat on the main seat of the middle hall of Dugu Mansion, drank a sip of fragrant tea, and said to a group of Guanlong noble family owners with blue noses and swollen faces: "All 'loyal ministers', all family masters...... Can you talk well now? β
"Humph......"
Many family heads almost got angry, they grew so big, in addition to being beaten by their parents who had long since passed away, they had always beaten people, but now, they were ruthlessly cleaned up by Qu Tugai, and what made them even more unbearable was that this dog's Qu Tugai made his soldiers only slap their faces. Especially Hou Mo Chen Ren's thin old face, plump countless times, he can't see his original appearance.
"We don't know what's going on, how do we talk?" When Dugu Cheng spoke, he only felt a burst of pain in his mouth, and he hated Qu Tu Gai a little.
"Since the head of the Dugu family doesn't know, then I'll repeat it again: it's your army that has rebelled. The Holy Mansion is kind-hearted and does not want to kill innocents indiscriminately, so he asks you to come forward to restrain him, and if he wakes up, the Holy One can be spared death. Qu Tugai looked at the miserable Dugu Cheng and said: "The leaders of the rebels are Dugu Yanyun and Dugu Qingyun, their brothers are the generals of your Dugu clan, not to mention that the two of them have nothing to do with your Dugu clan." β
"Dugu Qingyun and Dugu Yanyun are not only the generals of the Dugu clan, but also the sons of Dugu Kai, the former general of the right guard of the Sui Dynasty and the Duke of Runan County. Dugu Kai had five sons, the eldest son Lingyun, the second son Jingyun, the third son Tengyun and his uncle Dugu Sheng, the general of the Right Tunwei, in the coup d'Γ©tat in Jiangdu, learned that Yu Wenhua and the murder of the monarch usurped the throne, desperately protected, and died of exhaustion. After Yang Tong weighed the system, he posthumously presented Dugu Sheng as the Guanglu doctor, Ji Guogong, and his son Sangda and nephews Lingyun, Jingyun, and Tengyun were also rewarded. Dugu Qingyun inherited the lord of his father Dugu Kai, and was demoted to the county prince because of the example; Dugu Sheng's father and son both died, and Dugu Yanyun voluntarily succeeded to the past, and he was also the prince of the Sui Dynasty. β
Dugu Cheng glanced at Qu Tugai, and said without being salty: "Yin Mingyue won the Gaochang Kingdom for the Sui Dynasty, but he only obtained a Duke of Mingyue County, and to this day, the county dukes of the Sui Dynasty are also very few, which shows that the title of the Sui Dynasty is extremely precious and rare." Dugu Qingyun and Dugu Yanyun, as rare county princes in the Sui Dynasty, naturally know the value of the county princes of the Sui Dynasty, how could such a noble figure be willing to be the house slave of my Dugu clan? β
"I see!" Qu Tugai understood what Dugu Cheng meant, and kept sneering: "The head of the Dugu family is saying that these two brothers are not from the Dugu clan for a long time. Isn't that so? β
"As you expected, this pair of brothers does have nothing to do with my Dugu clan."
"Do you think I believe it?"
"General Ma Sanbao used to be the domestic slave of the Chai family, and after becoming famous, Chai and Ma took the initiative to dissolve the relationship between master and servant, which is really admirable for the virtue of fulfilling others. And although my Dugu clan is not talented, I don't want the firewood and horses to be beautiful, so on the day the old master was alive, he took the initiative to dissolve the master-servant relationship with these two brothers. Dugu Cheng admires his far-sighted uncle very much, if his uncle doesn't die, how could Dugu have fallen into this field? Thinking of this, his hatred for Li Yuan couldn't help but increase a little: "If you really don't believe it, you can go to Xiangyang County Ya to check the roster." This was two or three years ago, not recent. β
Qu Tugai also found that Dugu Cheng was far more difficult to deal with than he thought, and after Dugu Cheng said this, Dugu Qing Yun and Dugu Yanyun completely broke off the relationship, and since the two brothers were the princes of the Sui Dynasty, and Li Tang were enemies, it became a matter of course. He looked at Dugu Cheng and said word by word: "Even so, I heard that Dugu Qingyun and Dugu Yanyun came to Dugu Mansion not long ago to visit the head of the family. β
Dugu Cheng said: "During the battle of Guanzhong, the prince and Yang Tong were happy in the Sui army camp, could it be said that the prince colluded with Yang Dong and was willing to be Yang Dong's internal response? Before the New Year, Yang Tong asked Fang Xuanling to bring a few sets of glass utensils to the saint, I heard that the saint couldn't put it down and regarded it as a treasure, could it be said that the saint was bought by Yang Tong and colluded with Yang Tong? β
When the heads of the families heard this, they all secretly said 'amazing' in their hearts, if it weren't for Qu Tugai, they would definitely be amazed.
"......" Qu Tugai was speechless, and said for a long time: "The sophistry of the head of the Dugu family is admirable. β
"Justice is at ease in the hearts of the people."
"Hehe......" Qu Tugai looked at Dugu Cheng and said happily: "What you said, I almost thought that you were a loyal and good general. β
Dugu Cheng sneered at each other and said: "When you arrested King Chu Ai, the late crown princess and the county kings, I also thought that you were a loyal and good general, but what did you expect... The Qu Tu clan, who was regarded as a loyal and good general by Emperor Wu of Sui and Yang Yu, was just like that... Hehe......"
Dugu Cheng spread his hands, stared at Qu Tugai with a mocking look, and after leaving Dugu Qingyun and Dugu Yanyun aside, the fear disappeared, and his thoughts became clearer and clearer. His last words were completely deliberately irritating Qu Tugai.
As the leader of the Dugu faction of the Guanlong aristocracy, Dugu Cheng also has a leader's bearing and arrogance, if Qu Tugai beats him to death and cripples him in a fit of anger...... The problem has changed fundamentally, and he thinks that it is a very cost-effective business to exchange his own life for tens of millions of lives of the Dugu faction.
The eyes of many family owners looking at Dugu Cheng have changed.
They are all powerful people, and they know that Dugu Cheng is worried that after Li Yuan forcibly escorts him to the city, Dugu Qingyun and Dugu Yanyun, who don't know the truth, get off their horses and bow down, and still respectfully call him 'the head of the family', so that all kinds of disputes will disappear. Dugu Cheng thought that only when he died could the lie come true, which repeatedly stimulated Qu Tugai.
"You ......" Qu Tugai was deeply stimulated, and a pair of tiger eyes stared coldly at Dugu Cheng, and he was fierce.
"Isn't it?" Dugu Cheng stared at Qu Tugai, not giving an inch.
"I don't fight with you." After a long time, Qu Tugai's right hand also released the handle of the knife. Although he wanted to cut off Dugu Cheng's head with a knife, but after all, the other party was the head of the Dugu clan and the leader of the Dugu faction, and it was definitely not something he could cut, his eyes swept over Dugu Cheng, and he looked around and said: "The Holy Lord asked me to be in charge of the defense of Xiangyang, are you willing to go with me, or are you willing to continue to be a prisoner of Wuchuan Division." β
Everyone looked at Dugu Cheng together, although Dugu Cheng couldn't figure out what medicine was sold in Qu Tugai's gourd, but he knew one thing very well, although Wu Chuanwei was arrogant, he had never been cruel to them, especially that Han Zhi was unusually calm, which made him very jealous; Although Qu Tugai is known for being square and serious, he is not afraid of the powerful and does not show favoritism, but after all, he is a strong martial artist and a heroic general, judging from the previous game, he is a relatively easy to provoke character, otherwise he would not have fought against many family owners, this person is far easier to deal with than Han Zhi.
Thinking of this, Dugu Cheng said coldly: "I decided to leave with Qu Tuda's 'loyal minister', who is known for his square seriousness, lest he play any shady means to frame me, so as to win the reputation of not being afraid of the powerful and not favoritism." What do you think? β
The heads of the family have always been headed by the Dugu clan, and Dugu Cheng's previous performance won everyone's respect, hearing him say this, although he didn't know what he meant, he also expressed his stance and left with Qu Tugai.
Qu Tugai laughed, got up and said with a smile: "It's so interesting for a long time, why bother to suffer like that?" Ladies and gentlemen, please! β
Dugu Cheng sneered in his heart and took the lead in going out.
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Ten carriages were parked outside Dugu Mansion, and the carriages were surrounded by soldiers brought by Qu Tugai, and hundreds of Wuchuan guards were driven out and lost control of Dugu Mansion.
The heroic young general of Wuchuan Wei was the fourth son of Li Shentong, named Li Xiaoci, who was named the king of Guangping, and served as the general of the tiger in the Wuchuan Division, who was not only Han Zhi's right and left hand, but also the person who was appointed to supervise Han Zhi.
Li Xiaoci has been in charge of controlling Dugu Mansion these days, conscientious, and never made mistakes, who would have thought that Qu Tugai would suddenly bring a large group of soldiers today, and he would take these Guanlong noble family masters to the city as hostages to force the rebels to retreat. If Qu Tugai had a holy decree, Li Xiaoci would never say a word, but Li Yuan's task to Qu Tugai was to defend Xiangyang, and Li Jiancheng was responsible for internal affairs such as Anmin, and the heads of the family were still under the supervision of Wu Chuanwei.
Qu Tugai didn't have a holy order in his body, so he wanted to take people away, of course Li Xiaoci didn't dare to agree, if Qu Tugai accidentally killed one or two family heads, the black cauldron would definitely have to be carried by Wu Chuansi, and he would be the first to be punished, so Li Xiaoci kindly reminded Qu Tugai and asked him to go to the palace to ask for the holy decree first. But Qu Tugai was in a hurry to arm his defense, and he didn't have time to run back and forth.
Although Li Xiaoci is young, he is more or less a county king, and he is polite, it stands to reason that when Qu Tugai faces him, he should speak politely, but Qu Tugai is not, when he served as Jing Zhaoyin in Daxing before, the powerful and villainous were afraid of it, so there was a good sentence: "Rather eat three dou Ai, not Qu Tugai." Rather eat three buckets of green onions, than Qu Tutong. With this smooth self-proclaimed Qu Tugai, how can you put Li Xiaoci, a little hairy child, in your eyes? simply bullied him, a tiger general, with the military rank of a general. So there was an argument between the two sides at the door.
Qu Tugai saw that this hairy child did not give an inch, and saw that time was waiting for no one, so he relied on the large number of people, drove Wu Chuanwei away, and brought out the heads of the family as he wished.
Li Xiaoci was already indignant, when he saw that all the family heads had turned into pig-headed faces, his heart was cold, and he was still in Dugu Mansion, he was beaten like this, if he was brought by Qu Tugai, wouldn't these family heads die cleanly? If you really have to get to that point, how can you have good fruit to eat if you 'let go' Qu Tugai into the house to arrest people?
He was very reluctant to glared at these soldiers, his eyes kept scanning around, trying to take the opportunity to recapture these family masters who had been snatched away by Qu Tugai, seeing that one by one the family masters were forced into the carriage, he was very anxious in his heart, and secretly complained that he had not arrived at Han Zhi for a long time.
At this moment, there was a sudden sound of hurried horses' hooves, and I saw hundreds of Wuchuan guards guarding Han Zhi riding horses.
Qu Tugai shouted: "Be careful, don't let them snatch people away!" β
Qu Tugai's reckless behavior today, his personal character is only a secondary reason, the main reason is that Li Yuan did not give him many soldiers and horses, and Xiangyang Nuo is a big city, and it needs to be defended everywhere, and only 30,000 people can't defend it at all, so he came to ask for various family heads as hostages. Although Li Xiaoci is only seventeen years old and has no experience, he has a very heavy sense of responsibility and refuses to agree.
Han Zhi commanded the soldiers to block the way, dismounted, strode forward, and said angrily: "Qu Tugai, you are really too deceitful, are you really Wu Chuanwei muddy?" β
Qu Tugai's eyes showed a look of disgust, and he said without being salty or light: "Han Changshi, everyone is working for the saint, how can you deceive people?" β
Han Zhi said coldly: "You'd better put people back in the mansion immediately, otherwise, you can only bring a bunch of corpses." β
Since the establishment of the Wu Chuan Division, only Wu Chuan Wei has always bullied others, how could he have suffered today's humiliation? Although Li Xiaoci is the king of the county, he is a half-old child after all, and when dealing with major events, it is rare that he lacks confidence, which makes everyone very depressed. And with the arrival of Han Zhi, everyone immediately had a backbone. As soon as Han Zhi's words came out, Wu Chuanwei, who was full of anger, pulled out his knife and stared at Qu Tugai coldly, as long as Han Zhi gave an order, he would start to cut people.
"Prepare for war." Murong Luohu, the general behind Qu Tugai, was furious, he raised his hand heavily, and more than a thousand soldiers raised their bows and crossbows in their hands and aimed them at Han Zhi and his men.
Qu Tugai motioned to his subordinates to put down the bow and crossbow, and said to Han Zhi disdainfully: "These people are going to be decided." A lowly businessman dares to knife with me? If you don't believe me, you can give it a try. β
"Wearing this skin, it can't change the fact that you are a slave. I, a lowly businessman, are ten thousand times more noble than the three surnamed Xi slaves who rebelled back and forth. β
Qu Tugai is a member of the Xi tribe, and when he was a child, he descended to Zhou with his father Qu Tu Changqing, and later usurped the Northern Zhou Dynasty with Yang Jian, Qu Tugai and his brother Qu Tutong surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and Han Zhi said that the last sentence 'three surnames Xi Nu' does not seem to be an exaggeration.
Qu Tugai's face was white and red, he grew up in the Central Plains Dynasty, learned the Central Plains culture, and regarded himself as a native of the Central Plains, but he couldn't change the appearance of his aliens, hearing that Han Zhi not only insulted himself, but also scolded his most respected father and brother, the ferocious blood unique to the nomads suddenly broke out, and he pulled out his sword, and then killed Han Zhi, and roared angrily: "Despicable villain, if I don't kill you, I Qu Tugai swears not to be a man!" β
His face was terrifyingly cold, his eyes were full of murderous intent, and the horizontal knife slashed through the sky, and a tragic killing aura enveloped towards Han Zhi, who seemed to be stupid and motionless.
"'Three surnamed Xi Nu' is looking for death." Li Xiaoci on the side was listening happily, and when he saw Qu Tugai killing people, his face changed greatly. He knew that Han Zhi didn't know martial arts, and this sword would definitely be cut in half, so he drew his sword to resist without thinking about it.
"When ......"
The swords intersected, Qu Tugai was already a strong martial arts general, with hatred, the horizontal knife in his hand exerted twelve points of combat power, and Li Xiaoci was young, his strength was not enough, coupled with a hasty shot, who was Qu Tugai's opponent?
This hateful knife hit Li Xiaoci's sword, and the castration was not reduced, and the vertical knife and horizontal sword slanted down from his chest, splitting Li Xiaoci into two sections.
With the sound of "poof", Li Xiaoci, who had not yet died, let out a terrible cry and screamed for a while before finally dying.
Li Xiaoci, the dignified king of Guangping County in the Tang Dynasty, is warm-hearted and chivalrous, and is in the prime of his life, but he is just at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and he was stabbed in two sections by the freshly baked Left Guard General Qu Tugai.
Quiet......
Quiet, still......
Still, still, still......
There was silence all around.
The invincible Qu Tugai's face was covered with blood, and the young king's blood instantly made him lose his ability to think, and he stood there in a daze, so frightened that he forgot to withdraw the knife......
This scene made Han Zhi not know what expression he should show.
Funny?
He didn't feel funny at all, because he certainly had the ability to dodge, but Li Xiaoci, a young man with extraordinary righteousness, died because of him, which made Han Zhi feel very uncomfortable. Or do you feel a moment of silence for Li Shentong, who lost his son in old age?
In short, he knew that this freshly baked 'third surnamed Xi slave' had become 'fourth surnamed Xi', and it would not be long before he would follow in Li Xiaoci's footsteps and become a strange-shaped coffee table full of cups......
After a while, Han Zhi came back to his senses, and said with a smile angrily: "What a 'three-surnamed Xi slave', he actually killed me at the foot of the world, the king of Tang County, is majestic and domineering. I think he is the 'four surnamed Xi slaves' who oppose the Tang Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty. β
As soon as he finished speaking, he pulled out his sword and slashed at the frightened Qu Tugai, cutting off his right arm with a single sword, and then slashing his right leg with another sword. It was not Han Zhi's sneak attack that succeeded, but Han Zhijing was good at assassination, and the stupid Qu Tugai had no room to fight back at all, others thought that Han Zhi was desperate, and did not doubt that he would be able to do martial arts.
Han Zhi succeeded in his two swords and shouted: "Brothers, this 'four surnamed Xi' is left to the king of Huai'an Lingchi to be executed, and I will kill this group of rebels with me to avenge the king of Changping County." β
"Kill."
"Avenge the king of Changping."
Wu Chuanwei's eyes were red, and he waved the weapon in his hand and killed the frightened soldiers. These Wuchuan guards originated from Li Yuanji's new army, they were all people who survived the cruel training of the superior to live and the inferior to die, and they were already made angry by Qu Tugai, and seeing Li Xiaoci die tragically, they were convinced of Han Zhi's words. I thought that they were all brave and abnormal, and they started to do it mercilessly.
The soldiers brought by Qu Tugai were terrified, they saw with their own eyes that Qu Tugai cut Li Xiaoci in two, and they also thought that he was the opposite, how dare they fight back, shouting and running in all directions, but they couldn't escape Wuchuan Wei Xueliang's steel knife, the soldiers were suddenly killed to the head, the corpses were all over the field, and the blood and water gathered into a trickle, flowing to the ground, and dyeing the earth red.
In the melee, several Guanlong noble family owners became fish in the 'city gate fire, which affected the pond fish', but in the chaos, no one noticed - there were more than a dozen Wuchuan guards who specially picked the black hands of the Long noble family masters, and the most tragic was the old and frail Hou Mo Chen Ren, who was trampled into meat puree. It's just that Dugu Cheng retracted back to the gate of the mansion in the confusion and quickly explained something to a Tang military captain, who quickly left this long street full of killing and blood.