At the turn of Shen You, the long street outside Dugu Mansion in Xiangyang City had been crossed by blood, and it was difficult to see the original color.

Although the officers and soldiers of the Tang Army were also desperately resisting, they could only be killed in the face of Wu Chuanwei, who was like a mad tiger. Han Zhi is not a soldier figure, if you talk about the art of war, the way of battle, you don't have the qualifications to give Murong Luohu shoes, but under the mobilization of Wu Chuanwei, he used his life one by one, and killed the soldiers far more than them in the way of disrupting the battle by cutting down every person, and the incomparably fierce momentum was like a cold blade, and it would not return to the sheath without blood.

The tragedy of this war made the soldiers of the Tang Army and Wuchuan Wei struggle in front of the cliff of hell, shouting and killing, the sound of blades clashing, and screaming one after another, endlessly.

"Stop, stop me." Seeing that the battle was tragic and both sides suffered heavy casualties, Murong Luohu's voice was hoarse, but now that the sound of killing shook the sky, who could hear his voice alone? And both sides are red-eyed, and they both want to slaughter each other like crazy, and stopping is equivalent to stretching their necks to each other's knives, so even if anyone hears it, no one will stop.

Han Zhi, who was protected by a team of Wuchuan Wei Tuan, heard it, but this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, how could he stop? There was a sneer on the corner of his mouth, his eyes flashed with excitement, and he ordered: "The rebellious ministers and thieves killed the king of Changping County, and the brothers killed, leaving no one behind." ”

"The rebellious ministers and thieves killed the king of Changping County, and the brothers killed, and no one was left." Wu Chuanwei beside him roared in unison.

"Kill."

"Kill all these traitors."

"Kill not a single one."

Wu Chuanwei has been brutally trained by Li Yuanji, all of them are murderous and unblinking, and they will go crazy when they see blood, and they all shout and fight bravely.

"Dog, mother, raised, Han Zhi, I don't think it's big enough, right?" Murong Luohu was so angry that he screamed, and he wanted to rush up and reason with Han Zhi. But before he could take a few steps, the bowstring behind him cracked, and three crossbow arrows were driven into his heart.

Murong Luohu threw himself forward with a miserable howl, and then it was dark in front of him, and a Wuchuan guard rushed up from behind and stabbed him in his vest with a knife.

"Whew......"

Murong Luohu let out a roar and struggled desperately.

He Murong Rahu is a fierce general of the Tang Dynasty, he once killed Xue Ju in the Battle of Shallow Water Plain, and was captured by the enemy, Xue Ju cherished him as a fierce general, not only did not cause harm, but was courteous, hoping that he would join Western Qin, but he would rather die than obey, and was finally ransomed by the imperial court. But is he, a man who even respects the enemy chieftain, just die in the hands of a pickled and lowly soldier?

It's a pity that he was unlucky today, and instead of Xue Ju, who respected him, he met someone who had been waiting for the opportunity for a long time and was going to kill him, and the soldier didn't wait for him to react, and had already swung a horizontal knife and wiped it at his neck.

In an instant, Murong Luohu's throat spurted blood outward, and this fierce general died in the enemy army so sadly.

Without the command of Murong Rahu, the soldiers were even more chaotic.

Kill, kill, kill!

Wu Chuanwei was red-eyed, but anyone with different clothes and armor saw it and cut it down with a knife.

The long street was full of corpses and blood.

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The shouting and killing sound in front of the gate of Dugu Mansion alarmed the Taiji Palace several miles away, and the urgent alarm bell of 'dang, dang, ......dang' rang in the palace, and the palace doors were all closed, and a team of forbidden soldiers carried bundles of arrows and rushed to the palace wall to prevent the enemy from attacking.

In the Wude Palace, Li Yuan's eyes showed a look of horror, pacing back and forth like an ant on a hot pot, gritting his teeth and saying, "Who can tell me what happened?" Didn't you say that the rebels hadn't entered the realm of Xiangyang yet? Who betrayed me? ”

Li Jiancheng and many civil and military officials were also shocked, they were discussing the matter of defending against the rebels, and suddenly there were murderous voices in the south of the city, and this sudden sound of killing had no warning, and no one knew what happened.

"Holy." Just when the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers were about to see through it, a guard rushed in and reported loudly: "Qiqi Shengshang, General Qu Tu's soldiers and Wuchuan Wei have turned against each other and are fighting fiercely outside Dugu Mansion......"

This news was unexpected, making the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers stand in the hall like a chicken, but after all, Li Yuan is also an emperor who has experienced wars and various opportunities, and the unexpected news of infighting made him instinctively fall into a stupor, but he quickly calmed down and asked the newspaper guard: "Why are the two sides turning against each other?" ”

"Returning to the Holy ......" The guard quickly said: "It is said that Qu Tugai reversed, and he was very cruel to cut the king of Changping County in two, and Wuchuan Wei fought bravely......"

"My son, you died so miserably......" Li Shentong only felt a sharp pain in his chest, his eyes went dark, and he fell headlong in the main hall.

"Quick, pass on the imperial doctor." Li Yuan was afraid that Li Shentong would wake up and make a big fuss, so he would not be able to deal with the matter, so he quickly changed his words and said, "No, carry King Huai'an to the Imperial Doctor's Office for treatment." ”

"Whoa." A team of guards rushed into the main hall and carried Li Shentong, who had fainted, out.

Li Yuan pondered for a moment, took out a gold medal, and ordered: "Ma Sanbao, bring 5,000 yuan from the forbidden army to stop the two sides from fighting, and those who dare to disobey will be killed." ”

"Whoa." Ma Sanbao respectfully accepted the gold medal and left quickly.

"What an eventful time." Li Yuan yelled angrily, "Who can tell me what I should do now?" ”

"Father......" Li Jiancheng said: "There are two things to do at the moment. ”

"Emperor, you say." Li Yuan, who lost his mind, was overjoyed when he heard this, he now has no master of the six gods, so he hopes that someone will say something real and come up with a real way.

Li Jiancheng hurriedly said: "Father, judging from the marching speed of the rebels led by Dugu Yanyun, Fangling Yongqing County should be lost, if so, they should rest in Yongqing tonight, and they will be killed in Xiangyang at the latest by this time tomorrow, Erchen thinks that the first thing we should do now is to send someone to take charge of the defense of Xiangyang." ”

"It makes sense." Li Yuan nodded abruptly and looked at Dou Liang below: "Dou Xiang, you are responsible for this matter." ”

As early as the period of the great cause, Dou Rail entered the office with the shade of the door, started from Cao Peng, East of Ziyang County, was a general of the Tang Dynasty, when the troubled times came, Dou Rail initially gathered thousands of people to attach to Li Yuan, slightly Weinan, conquered Yongfengcang, accompanied by Li Yuan to capture Chang'an, and then followed Li Shimin to defeat Xue Rengao, very experienced in marching operations and military deployment, Li Yuan trusted him very much.

"Wechen obeys." Dou Rail saluted and obeyed.

"The second thing is to imprison Qu Tugai's relatives." Li Jiancheng's eyes flashed with a fierce cold light, and he said coldly: "If Qu Tugai really reverses, he will just avenge the fifth brother and them." ”

The fifth brother in his mouth is Li Zhiyun, the king of Chu Ai, before Li Yuan's Taiyuan uprising, he sent a secret envoy to Daxing and his hometown in Hedong to summon relatives, the matter was revealed, Li Yuan's fifth son Li Zhiyun, and Li Jiancheng's former wife Wang and the children she gave birth to died under the Sui saber, although it was Wei Xuan and Yin Shishi who ordered the killing, but if it wasn't for Qu Tugai to catch people in advance, there would have been no later events.

Li Jiancheng is generous and tolerates Qu Tugai, who is loyal to the Tang Dynasty, but he is absolutely unwilling to let go of Qu Tugai after the betrayal. It's just that he is not an innocent person after all, so before the truth is known, he just said 'imprisonment', not arson.

"Zhao Cijing, you are in charge of this matter." A trace of guilt flashed in Li Yuan's eyes, as well as a strong murderous intent.

When he was seven years old, he survived alone, and stumbled all the way through the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the era when Emperor Wen of Sui was in power, until Yang Guang ascended the throne, he began to be valued and released as an official. In those years, he has been running outside, getting together less with his children and more often, and he has been together with Li Zhiyun less than ten times in his life, and the grandson and granddaughter born to Li Jiancheng's ex-wife Wang have never even met once. Because of this, Li Yuan was condemned in his heart and loved the remaining children. Li Yuanji's actions, Li Yuan is naturally like a mirror, but he still covers up and connives, patiently teaches, and cares carefully. So his mood at this moment is exactly the same as Li Jiancheng.

"Wechen obeys." When Li Yuan rebelled against the Sui, Zhao Cijing, who was his son-in-law, and his wife, Princess Guiyang, were actually in Daxing, but the couple couldn't bear to abandon their mother and flee alone, so they were arrested by Qu Tugai and imprisoned in prison. After Li Yuan attacked Daxing, he released the couple. Zhao Cijing, who witnessed Li Zhiyun and others being beheaded alive, naturally understood the feelings of Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng, and said: "Weichen guarantees that no one is lost. ”

"Go ahead."

"Whoa." Zhao Cijing saluted and left the hall in a hurry.

Li Yuan rubbed his eyebrows and sighed: "The two sides are fighting, the dead and wounded are all our soldiers, and the specific loss is not clear, but no matter how much we lose, we must allocate a part of our forces to supervise the whole city and check the rebel soldiers one by one, so as not to cause trouble to the people and collude with the rebels, but the rebels will not give us time." I'm a little worried about the lack of troops, and I can't defend Xiangyang with a circumference of dozens of miles, let's talk about it, what else can we do? ”

Liu Wenjing came out and said: "Saint, Weichen also has two emergency methods. ”

Li Yuan was overjoyed: "Liu Xiangguo, please speak." ”

"Wechen's approach is not new." After Liu Wenjing commented on herself, she continued: "The rebels attacked, the people in the city were already panicking, and now there is another rebellion, the people have no confidence in the army in the city, once the war is in a stalemate, the people are estimated to do everything possible to leave Xiangyang and go to the countryside to join relatives, which will bring great pressure to the court and the army, at the same time, the rebels and the people in the city will also get in touch, and then take advantage of the riots of the people to come to a meeting with the outside." In the opinion of the micro-ministers, the most elite troops should be sent to the city to frustrate the rebels. ”

"The most elite troops?" The most elite force is naturally Li Yuan's 30,000 yuan from the forbidden army, but he didn't think about letting this army defend the city, because this is his army to protect, and he is reluctant to take it out.

"Shengshang, if Weichen is not mistaken, the rebels should not have brought large-scale siege weapons, so the security of Xiangyang City itself is not a big problem, but the rebels are under the imperial capital, which will affect the morale of the army and the people, and will shake the confidence of the army and the people in our Tang Dynasty, the people think that we can't even beat the rebels, if the Sui army comes to attack, the consequences are unimaginable. Therefore, it is necessary to dampen their vigor in order to set the hearts of the army and the people. ”

"Okay, I'll let Yuan Cong go to the city from the forbidden army." Li Yuan finally relented.

"The second way is to recruit Xiangyang Qingzhuang to help defend the city." Liu Wenjing said: "Xiangyang is tall and heavy, the rebels can't fight in, and the impact on these young and strong people who have not fought is not great, a day or two later, they will settle down and become our reserves, if there is an offensive and defensive battle with the Sui army one day, these people's combat power and will are far higher than now, and they can play a role in the defense of the city, and they can also consume the energy and sharpness of the rebels, and lay the foundation for the victory of the elite division." ”

Li Yuan said with a smile: "Xiangguo means to use the rebels to train soldiers and train courage? ”

"Exactly."

"That's a good idea, quasi-play."

After discussing this matter, the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers waited for the news of the rebellion, while discussing various issues, many problems were solved, such as the Tubo matter, after nearly half an hour of fierce debate, the vast majority of people are inclined to form an alliance with Tubo, these people think that even if Tubo did not participate in the Sui and Tang wars, even if Tubo did not cause trouble in the Hehuang region, the Sui and Tang wars would also occur, and the Tang Dynasty would also be brutally attacked by the Sui army. Wouldn't it be nice to have a few more chances of winning?

As the debate progressed, Li Jiancheng was lonely, and many courtiers who were originally on his side also chose to remain silent. In the end, Li Yuan decided to form an alliance with Tubo, so that the Tubo minister led the troops into the battle, after the end of the war, the princess and a thousand teachers followed the Tubo army to Tubo, and the princess was the widowed Pei Lian's daughter-in-law Princess Linhai.

"Initiation of the Holy One." At this time, the voice of the eunuch came from outside: "Wuchuan Guard Chief Shi Hanzhi asks to see." ”

Everyone was in good spirits, and finally came.

"Xuan."

With Li Yuan's order, Ma Sanbao walked inside with Han Zhi, who was covered in blood, and the three Tang military captains walked inside, and paid homage together: "Weichen/The last general will see the saint." ”

"Flat."

"Thank you." The five of them and the others hurriedly got up.

Li Yuan knew from the clothes that the three captains were military figures, and they were obviously here to confront the court, and said angrily: "What happened to make you kill each other." Han Zhi, you speak first. ”

"Enlighten the Holy One." Han Zhi bowed and said loudly: "Dugu Mansion is supervised by Wuchuan Division, and it has been fine these days. But today, Naqu Tugai and Murong Rahu don't know who they were instructed by, and they don't know what kind of madness they wanted, and they wanted to escort the heads of the Guanlong nobles away, and they opened their mouths and said that they would let the heads of the families go to the city as hostages to force the rebels to surrender. ”

"Weichen was handling official business in the military government at that time, and the chief general who was responsible for supervising Dugu Mansion was King Changping. King Changping asked them to show the holy decree, or the holy gold medal and oracle, but the two of them had nothing. King Changping always forbade it, and reminded them kindly, let them enter the palace to ask for the decree, as soon as the holy decree arrived, Wu Chuanwei would give way to the road, so that they could enter the palace to raise people. ”

"King Changping's request is very reasonable." Li Yuan commented.

"But Naqu Tugai and Murong Luohu not only did not listen to good words and persuasion, but relied on the old and betrayed the old, bullying the young King of Changping, and there was a lot of humiliation between the words, as a junior, the King of Changping endured; Qu Tugai forced him to work hard again as a general, but King Changping still endured it. But although he was young, he was always loyal to his duties and did not get out of the way......" Speaking of this, Han Zhi was extremely angry and said: "Immediately afterwards, Qu Tugai forcibly drove away Wuchuan Wei led by King Changping with the advantage of troops. When Weichen arrived outside Dugu Mansion, the heads of the families were forced to get on the car by the old thief Qutu, and Weichen found that all the heads of the family were beaten by the old thief by the old thief, and they were all unrecognizable. ”

"Is that really the case?" Li Yuan asked Ma Sanbao in surprise.

"As Han Changshi said, all the heads of the family were beaten badly, and everyone was unrecognizable." Ma Sanbao arched his hand and said: "The last general has also asked many people, and every word Han Changshi said is true. These three military attaches are witnesses. ”

"Isn't that so?" Li Yuan stared coldly at the three captains.

"Returning to the Holy Place, No False ......"

"Okay, that's good." Li Yuan nodded and motioned for Han Zhi to continue.

Han Zhi said: "The heads of the family were beaten like that when they were still in Dugu Mansion, once they fell into the hands of the old thief Qutu, I am afraid that their lives will not be guaranteed." Wei Chen naturally refused to let go, so he went to reason with them, but Qu Tu Lao Thief couldn't argue, so he made unbearable words and insults, and Wei Chen ridiculed each other. Qu Tu old thief was angry and pulled out a knife and slashed at Weichen, King Changping knew that Weichen was a person who did not know martial arts, under a knife, how could there be a life? So he drew his sword and greeted him...... Who would have thought that the old thief Qu Tu was infinitely powerful, and after the swords were connected, he would castrate unabated, and cut King Changping into two together......"

"My son, you died so miserably......" Li Shentong hurriedly entered the hall, and when he heard that his son had died so miserably, a sharp pain came from his chest, his eyes went dark, and he fell headlong in the hall.

"Quickly pass on to the Imperial Doctor. No, carry the King of Huai'an to the Imperial Doctor's Office for treatment. Li Yuan said loudly.

A group of guards carried Li Shentong away again.

After the silence, Han Zhi continued: "Weichen saw that King Changping was murdered, and he thought of Qu Tu's strange behavior... poop..."

"Why do you think it's weird?" Li Yuan interrupted Han Zhi and asked in a deep voice.

"The rebels will only arrive outside Xiangyang City tomorrow, and the old thief has time to set up defenses, and if he gallops on his horse, it will only take about a moment from Dugu Mansion to the palace. If you ask for a decree to go back and get someone, it will only be half an hour at most, which is nothing compared to a day and a night, but under the reminder of King Changping, he is still unwilling to enter the palace to ask for a decree, or forcibly arrest people, isn't it weird? Han Zhi glanced at Li Yuan, whose face was sinking like water, and continued: "The old thief Qu Tu is in charge of the defense of Xiangyang, and his behavior is strange, and he also brutally killed the king of Changping... The combination of the three, Weichen thought that he was taking advantage of his position to plan to send the heads of the family to the rebels... In a fit of rage, he gave the order to do it. ”

"What a bastard." Li Yuan scolded, he didn't bother to ask these three lieutenants again, if Han Zhi's words were false, they would have refuted them a long time ago, how could they let Han Zhi say so much?

And he also deduced through Han Zhi's 'combination of the three' that Qu Tugai wanted to send the Guanlong noble family master out of the city. The reason why he beat people in the mansion was because he was in a hurry, but the heads of the family did not cooperate, so he fought in the Dugu Mansion in an attempt to force the heads of the family to go with him in a violent way. Tsushima Sanbao shouted: "Immediately arrest Qu Tugai and Murong Luohu to see me, I want to ask what they want to do." ”

"Holy Lord, Qu Tugai was cut off one hand and one foot, and then trampled into pulp, as for Murong Luohu, he also died in the chaos." Speaking of this, Han Zhi then said: "There are also twenty-three family heads who also died in the melee. ”

"What did you say?"

Li Yuan trembled, his face turned pale in an instant, and he only felt a roar in his head, and the whole person was a little unstable.

His side was shocked, and there was already an uproar in the hall.

After a long time, Li Yuan was churning with anger all over, and roared angrily: "Chen Xiang, what do you think? ”

"Saint, now it seems that all these disasters are Qu Tugai, Murong Luohu broke out, so openly bullying the royal family, mutilating the loyal county king, no matter what their purpose is, the court should be severely punished, this is not only the saint for the loyal ministers and good generals Changping King to seek justice, but also involves the majesty of the royal family, if you let it go, in the future, there will be a royal family member down, or someone is weak, there will be a tragedy of evil slaves and bullying masters. If it is not severely punished, where is the prestige of the monarch and where is the minister's outline? Chen Shuda sighed and said worriedly: "In addition, they caused so many Guanlong noble family heads to die for no reason, once this news reached the rebels, the rebels immediately became a terrible mourning army; If it is not handled well, it will even fall into a protracted stalemate, and Yang Tong will be cheapened in vain. ”

"What Chen Xiang said is extremely true." Xiao Yu listed: "The four crimes of killing the virtuous king, violating the monarchy, shaking the stability of the country, and deceiving people with military positions, only one is a capital crime, not to mention that the four crimes are committed together, and they should be severely punished to set the record straight." ”

Li Yuan's eyes flashed with murderous aura, and he shouted, "Han Zhi." ”

"Wechen is here."

"The three clans of the Qutu clan and the Murong clan. Tomorrow at noon, all of them will be killed, and the monarch will be right. Li Yuan's eyes were full of heavy murderous intent, mixed with a hint of hatred.

"Whoa."

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The puppet was furious, and blood splattered three feet; The Son of Heaven was furious and ambushed millions of corpses.

The next day, hundreds of bloody corpses fell on the execution ground, blood stained the execution platform red, and the onlookers trembled, and many vomited when they saw it. The people of Xiangyang were all shocked by Li Yuan's generosity, and they no longer dared to discuss national affairs, and this was also one of Li Yuan's goals.

The way of the emperor is both hard and soft, not only to have the heart to soothe the world, but also to kill, so that the people can be in awe. And in troubled times, you should use heavy canons.