Sui Yuan strode forward, stepped on Yang Hao's back with his foot, brandished the horsewhip and whipped it deadly, scolding while beating: "Affectionate thing, when will my Sui family be sorry for you, you will break my bloodline." Hu Lingyi hurriedly persuaded her: "There are many of his henchmen in the city, so it is better to hand him over to Wen Dashuai as soon as possible." "Hu Lingyi was an old general in Hedong, was convicted and absconded to the Tiande Army, and was a general of Wang Benya, after Wang Ben died, he switched to the Xining Army.

But in the Xining Army, which is full of talents, he was not satisfied, and later saw that Yu Chongchong, Wu Chizan, Sui Crouching Tiger and other Hedong generals won Yang Hao's favor, so he entrusted a lot of relationships to Sui Crouching Hu, and privately became brothers with Sui Crouching Tiger.

Sui Yuan gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, keep him alive first, and then clean him up later." Everyone tied Yang Hao to the back of a horse and threw himself into Wujiabao overnight.

……

It was a dark, damp, musty cell, with bluestone walls and brick floors, and the only door was made of hardwood, and the door was wrapped in iron.

Yang Hao has been imprisoned here for more than ten days, but these ten days are as long as more than ten years, these days he can see Yizhimei's body that was shot like a hedgehog as long as he closes his eyes, he feels sorry for what happened to Yizhimei, and he also regrets his stupid mistakes, when he woke up from the bumpy horse that day, he immediately understood that it was the Sui family brothers and sisters who betrayed him, the traitor is hateful, but the more hateful thing should actually be himself, how can he not be aware of Sui Crouching Tiger's conspiracy, Meng Ming reminded himself, Why are you still obsessed?

In the past, when I read history books, I often laughed at Song Xianggong for being stupid, but now when it comes to my head, I may not be smarter than Song Xianggong, it is my own stupidity that has harmed myself and others, the brothers and sisters of the Sui family must have secretly colluded with Wen Shimao, which means that while their lives are not guaranteed, there are tens of thousands of people to be implicated, Yang Hao every time he thinks of this, his heart aches like a knife, and he can't wait to die on the stone wall.

The big mistake has been made, death does not solve the problem, he wants to live, even if there is a glimmer of life, he must live, only by living can he turn the tables and heal the day of regret,

The iron door burst open, and six strong men rushed in, pressed him to the bed made of blue bricks, and in addition to the shackles and handcuffs, they added a pair of wooden shackles to Yang Hao, and then, everyone dragged Yang Hao through the cold and dim corridor, and came to a secret room with smoke and fire.

"Ding-dong, ding-dong......"

A shirtless stout man is burying his head in iron, his head is very bald, his skin is frighteningly white, this is a blacksmith shop in the cell that specializes in making "iron faces" for heavy prisoners,

"Iron face" commonly known as iron mask, made of wrought iron, is an extremely cruel torture instrument, divided into two parts, when put together just like the shape of a human head, there are four holes in the front, corresponding to the mouth, nose, eyes, the wearer in addition to breathing through the reserved holes, seeing, eating and drinking, can not see any inch of skin on the face, the hair is wrapped in the iron face, the longer it grows, the more itchy, the more miserable,

The jailer tied Yang Hao to a wooden stake that could automatically adjust the height, and his hands and torso were tied with hemp rope, exposing his head and neck, and the blacksmith brought a well-made iron face to Yang Hao, signaling everyone to hold Yang Hao's head, and then he tried the mask on Yang Hao's head, the size was just right,

The blacksmith grinned, there was not a single tooth in his mouth, he turned back to the iron felt, and stamped an iron seal on the iron face to nail out the number, and then he put the iron mask on the charcoal fire to burn, when the edge of the mask burned red, he held two masks in one hand and one iron tong, and walked quickly to the wooden stake, Yang Hao's head was fixed by two jailers, unable to move, the blacksmith slammed the red-hot iron mask together,

"Snort." A burnt smell of flesh and skin suddenly diffused, and Yang Hao couldn't help but let out a wail:

"Ahh

The iron face was glued together like this, and the bald blacksmith immediately poured a basin of water on his new work to cool down, but these didn't mean much to Yang Hao, the moment the red iron touched his scalp, he had already passed out, but this was only the beginning of a series of suffering,

The scalding of the iron mask made Yang Hao's scalp inflamed, and the jailers obviously didn't want him to die so quickly, so they poured the potion to clean the wound into the crack in the mask's mouth and nose, and came over regularly to shake the iron mask to prevent the new skin and flesh from sticking to the mask, Yang Hao didn't know if such a rotation was really necessary, but he knew that the pain it brought was enough to destroy anyone's will,

In addition to the pain on the **, the pain in the heart is even greater, two young officials in their early thirties, they have to come to prison at least three times a day, and after they came, they began to count down Yang Hao's various crimes, everything Yang Hao did in Fengzhou became a sin in their mouths, they quoted the corresponding provisions of the Datang Criminal Law, and threatened Yang Hao that he might be sentenced to death,,

At first, Yang Hao was dismissive of this, and responded with a sneer, disdainful of their questioning, but after each sneer, he would be severely beaten by the jailers, and the method of beating people was to stab the ribs with a short stick, which made you sweat in pain every time, but it would not break your ribs, and even leave obvious bruises,

Yang Hao sneered and was silent, the two officials felt the feeling of being insulted, and he slapped the shocked wood in anger, and shouted in a sharp voice: "What you have done, the gods are angry, and now the evidence is conclusive, don't you still admit guilt." Then no matter how Yang Hao reacted, the two jailers wanted to come up and try their skills as usual.

In addition to stabbing the ribs with wooden sticks, they also picked their fingernails with bamboo sticks, smashed their fingertips with wooden mallets, or simply kicked their calves with their feet.

Yang Hao privately guessed that Wen Shimao may not be able to control the overall situation for the time being, and he is leaving a way back for himself.

Wen Shimao did not be able to quickly control the situation in the northwest, the night when Sui Crouching Tiger launched a rebellion, the flag cutting army raided the Flying Tiger Battalion station, Sui Crouching Tiger relied on the rebellion of eight hundred soldiers in Hedong, the slightest could not resist the attack of more than 100 people in the flag cutting army, fierce battle until midnight, Sui Crouching Tiger took more than ten horsemen out of the city to escape, and there has been no news since then,

During the civil strife in Xiaochang'an, Dejing defended the military city and marched north, trying to support, but halfway through hearing that Sui Crouching Tiger was missing, he withdrew his troops back to the city because he didn't know the reality of the city.

As soon as the news of Yang Hao's capture spread, it immediately dealt a fatal blow to the Xining army, and after the various departments were suspicious, they shrank their forces to the north, Yu Yanlu heard that Yang Hao had an accident under the Goose Lake Village, and was frightened, and left the troops to continue to besiege the Goose Lake Village, and rode back to Xiao Chang'an alone to listen to the truth.

The flag slashing army was ordered to go out to find Yang Hao's whereabouts, most of the Xuanyi whistle and the scarlet whistle were annihilated in the mutiny, and the security in the city could only be maintained by the two sentinels of the Flying Tiger Battalion who did not participate in the mutiny, but the reputation of the Flying Tiger Battalion has become stinky, and there is no prestige to control the inside and outside, Yu Yanlu was embraced as the town guard as soon as he entered the city, and under the maintenance of Yu Yanlu, the situation in Xiao Chang'an was temporarily calmed,

The Agni Battalion was immediately transferred back to the city, and Yu Yanlu informed Meng Ming, Cheng Keling, Suo E, Yao Meng and others that they were hiding from Gu Duoli, although Gu Duoli's Weiyuan Battalion was one of the seventeen battalions of the Xining Army, but only Yang Hao could control it, Gu Duoli had high qualifications, and he didn't care about the other battalion commanders, if he knew that Yang Hao had an accident, no one could guarantee that he could do anything.

Yu Yanlu's secret letter to Yao Meng asked Yao Meng to try to put Gu Duoli under house arrest and bring Weiyuan Camp back to Fengzhou safely. Yao Meng nodded yes, and was about to send someone to invite Gu Duoli,

But he saw that Gu Duoli's personal companion Centurion Kudler rushed over, and after giving Yao Meng a salute, he said: "My general hunted a fat wild deer, and prepared mellow wine, and asked me to invite General Yao to the banquet." Yao Meng thought secretly: "If I don't go, I will be suspicious, and I will go for a while, and then invite him to drink back on this ground, it will not be abrupt." "The idea was made, Yao Meng happily came to the Gu Duoli camp for a banquet,

As soon as he entered the camp gate, he was dragged down from his horse by Kudler, Yao Meng fell on his head, and lost two front teeth, and asked Kudler in surprise: "You stupid man, what are you doing?" Kudler pulled out a scimitar and put it on Yao Meng's neck, laughing and said, "You plotted to kill my general, when I don't know." Yao Meng was stunned, and was about to deny it, when he suddenly saw Gu Duoli striding towards a small colonel with a beaten nose and swollen eyes.

Xiao Xiao Xiao is no one else, it is Xiao Xiao Xiao sent by Yu Yanlu to deliver the secret letter, Xiao Xiao Xiao lay on the ground and glanced at Yao Meng, lowered his head in shame, Yao Meng understood everything, he pointed at Gu Duoli and scolded: "Do you want to rebel against the handsome." Gu Duoli laughed and said: "Bullshit handsome, he is a sinner in the court, the crime is unforgivable, and he wants to kill the nine clans, I have abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, I advise you to also know each other, so as not to be a ghost under my knife." ”

Yao Meng sneered and shouted: "Although I, Yao Meng, am illiterate, I also know the word loyalty, not like you, a shameless man." Then he drew his sword, and died by the neck.

At the same time that Yao Meng was forced to die, the main force of the Weiyuan battalion joined Han Linjiang's third division to complete the encirclement of the Jinfeng battalion.

Once the threat of the western front was lifted, Mao Fulin immediately mobilized the Wansheng battalion to attack Xiaochang'an, Yu Yanlu set up the Nanfeng Fort, and the Wansheng battalion fought fiercely for days, the Wansheng battalion never got closer, at this time Han Jianglin's third division, Xiong Biwu's fifth division, Gu Duoli's Weiyuan battalion also approached Xiaochang'an, in order to prevent the credit from being snatched away, Mao Fulin urged the Changliu battalion and the Dehua battalion to go north overnight, and the Dehua battalion drove thousands of people from Dejing County to the road,

Rushed to the south wind fort, Mao Fulin ordered the people to take off their skirts and put loess on their pockets, regardless of men, women and children, no exception, and then he pointed to the dozens of feet high south wind fort and said: "Whoever can put the soil under the fort can go home, and each person will wrap one or two hairs." "The people knew very well that they would inevitably be hit by arrows when they stepped forward, and everyone cowered.

Mao Fulin ordered the supervising team to start sharpening their knives, and on the other hand, they released rumors that the Xining army was short of arrows and would not shoot the people.

The shape of the south wind fort is like a large wooden barrel with a wide bottom and a narrow top, all made of boulders, and there are hundreds of bow and arrow holes around it, which can shoot arrows outwards and fire hard crossbows, and on the top of the castle it is assumed that there are eight stone cannons and six large crossbows, and the whole stone fort can be stationed with eight hundred soldiers, and the hoarded grain and grass arrows can support as long as a year.

At this time, although it has not been completed, it has quite a combat power, even if it is as strong as the Wansheng battalion, it will not be able to attack for a long time, but in the face of the people who are pouring like a tide, the guards are dumbfounded, and no one can bear to attack these defenseless people, but if they are allowed to go down with a bag of loess, the stone fort will be flooded with loess sooner or later.

Yu Yanlu weighed it again and again and ordered to shoot the people close to the stone wall, dozens of people lost their lives, but the waves of people still kept coming, one wave after another, unstoppable, although the arrows were like raindrops, but the people were driven by Mao Fulin's warlords, and they still had to rush over,

Blood soaked the white stone wall, the loess and the corpse mixed together, pushing the earth ladder up continuously, after a guard shot a dozen men and women, suddenly an arrow hit a seven or eight-year-old girl, the arrow pierced her calf, the girl fell to the ground, just cried, and then was trampled to death by a pair of big feet rushing from behind,

The guard broke his bow and arrows in two and cried out in pain, "This battle cannot be fought. His words quickly got a lot of responses, the guards dropped their bows and crossbows one after another, and left the stone fort, and the rest of the soldiers were also half-hearted, looking at the sky and releasing arrows indiscriminately, Yu Yanlu sighed and said: "Withdraw, if we continue to fight like this, what is the difference between us and beasts." ”

When the Xining army retreated, tens of thousands of people in Xiaochang'an also followed, and the people blocked the road, pulled the bridle of Yu Yanlu's horse, and said with tears in their eyes: "Didn't you say that you should have to share the difficulties, you can't leave us alone." Yu Yanlu said: "It's not that we don't care, it's really impossible to manage it, no one can go out if everyone is entangled like this, you better go back to the city, they are all the people of the Tang Dynasty, will the Son of Heaven Forbidden Army embarrass you." ”

When the people heard this, they let go of the road and let the Xining army go north, and everyone returned to the city one after another, and Xiao Chang'an fell into the hands of Mao Fulin.