Chapter 611: No Owner, No King, No Forgiveness

Chu Qiao took the five thousand elites who had been assembled a long time ago and went straight to the Xuanwu Gate, and the generals who were not on duty were all taken by Chu Qiao, so the big courtyard seemed empty and a little depressed. Liu Hongji took off his armor by himself, changed into a new set of clothes and walked into the yard, poked the unsheathed horizontal knife in his hand into the frozen soil with a pop, looked at the persimmon tree that had lost its leaves, and let out a long breath.

All the personal soldiers were sent out by him to follow Chu Qiao to the Xuanwu Gate to rescue him, and he was the only one left in this courtyard, looking extremely lonely.

"You are a bare tree, I am a bare man."

Liu Hongji looked at the tree and smiled self-deprecatingly and said to himself: "When Taiyuan raised troops, I followed His Highness, saddled up and behind the horse, and killed the enemy together. His Royal Highness is noble but likes to charge ahead, almost every time I follow him closely with a lance, and I don't know how many arrows and swords I have blocked for His Highness over the years, counting up, most of the injuries on my body were left at that time. It's because there are too many injuries on the body, and every rainy day is cold, there is no place on the body that doesn't hurt. Your Majesty took pity on me and asked me to guard Chang'an and make me the prince of the county, which is also a great honor. ”

He paused for a moment and said with a gloomy expression: "Today, His Highness has no side for me to block arrows and swords, and I don't know who it is...... Thinking about it, he is a first-class tiger general in the world, and with him by his side, His Highness will not be hurt at all. Wei Chi and I are both shields in front of His Highness's body, but we can't stop His Majesty's anger......"

"Your Highness...... You're really on the wrong track. If you want to fight for a courtier, you still think that you are overstepping the courtesy, not to mention that it is no longer a struggle but a rebellion? ”

He raised his head and looked at the sky, smiled and said: "Bare, bare, life is like the empty floating clouds in the sky, since the sky doesn't want to keep the clouds, how can the clouds be kept if they want to stay?" It's just a breeze that can blow away all fame and fortune, and that's it......"

He slowly pulled out the horizontal knife that had been poked into the frozen soil and put it on his neck, and when his wrist was about to be forced, a young eunuch hurriedly ran in with a golden scroll in his hand, and was startled when he saw Liu Hongji putting a knife on his neck. As he ran, he shouted sharply: "General Liu, stop, there is His Majesty's will!" ”

Liu Hongji was stunned, and then said to the little eunuch: "I think it was Your Majesty who gave me a death, so you don't want to come near and splash your blood." ”

"Since he always has to die, why doesn't General Liu listen to the holy decree and die again?"

The little eunuch didn't dare to come forward, and said in a somewhat anxious tone: "Could it be that the general is in a hurry at this time?" ”

Liu Hongji was stunned, smiled and asked, "You are also interesting to talk about." In that case, I will listen to your advice, and I will kneel down and listen to the decree before I die. ”

"The Holy Word"

The little eunuch cleared his throat and said solemnly: "Do you know what will happen to the felony of conspiracy against the murderer?" Even if you only know and don't report this article, you can't get away with the sin, and the prince has been slow to transfer troops, obviously rebellious, and I am full of indignation! Eating the king's fortune and not being loyal to the king, what kind of face do you have to live secretly? ”

The little eunuch paused slightly when he read this, and his face suddenly became ugly. He thought that he was eager to save an important minister of the court, and he said that he would not be able to form a good fate for the future. What he said before was nothing more than trying to stop Liu Hongji from committing suicide. Who would have thought that this was really the meaning in this holy decree, and he suddenly felt panic and regret in his heart. He glanced at Liu Hongji, but saw that there was no trace of surprise on the other party's face, just listening indifferently. When he read the words of rebellion and indignation, the expression on his face changed, and then turned into a wry smile.

The little eunuch said in his heart that the first time he came out to pass the decree was to give death to the important ministers of the court.

"But every time I think of the ninety-seven injuries on your body, they seem to be dense with ravines, and the roads and bones are all traces of my exploits carved for my charge, and it is really difficult for me to kill you. Liu Hongji, you go into the palace to see me immediately, I want to hear your explanation! If your explanation doesn't make sense, it's not too late for me to kill you! ”

After reading this sentence, the little eunuch immediately smiled, took a few steps forward to support Liu Hongji, and said with a smile: "General Liu, the slave maid said that you are in a hurry to seek death, what are you doing?" Your Majesty is nostalgic for the old, and your Majesty has not forgotten every single piece of your merits? Hurry up, General Liu packed up and went to face the saint with the slave and maid. ”

Liu Hongji received the holy decree, and the shock in his heart had not yet calmed down.

How could Your Majesty spare me? How could Your Majesty spare me?

I suddenly remembered that Deputy General Chu Qiao said just now that he had never said to His Majesty that he was not at all. Thinking about it, Your Majesty must have felt that although he had some contact with King Qin, he still didn't dare to rebel after all, or Chu Qiao said a lot of good things for himself in front of His Majesty, plus the merits he made at the beginning of the army, so he had an opportunity. Your Majesty wants to listen to your own explanation, but how can you explain this kind of thing?

The King of Qin has the intention of rebellion, and he knows it, as His Majesty said, just a crime that is not reported will be atonement.

It's just that since His Majesty let him enter the palace, he naturally can't die anymore.

"There's nothing to clean up, I'll follow you into the palace."

Liu Hongji followed behind the little eunuch, and suddenly remembered something and asked, "May I ask how many decrees Your Majesty has issued in total?" Who else but me has the decree? ”

"Pei Chengchun, the general of the left guard, Xin Wenli, the general of the right Lingjun Wei, plus you, and those who go outside the city will give a holy decree, as for who the slave and maid will be given."

When the little eunuch saw that Liu Hongji was polite to him, his heart warmed and he said everything he knew.

"Oh......"

Liu Hongji thought as he walked, and he didn't know if Xin Wenli and Pei Chengchun had the same meaning as the will he received. The three people who came out of His Royal Highness King Qin's army unanimously chose to betray King Qin and be loyal to His Majesty today, and I don't know how miserable and helpless King Qin will be in his heart now.

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Outside the city gate of the West Inner Garden, the 36,000 Son of Heaven has rushed over from the Yong'an Palace like a tide, Fang Xuanling is now in a dilemma, if he enters the city, then the back road will be given to the forbidden army, the forbidden army only needs to seal the gate of the West Inner Garden, then his own 10,000 horses and His Royal Highness King Qin's nearly 30,000 male soldiers will be wrapped in dumplings and blocked in the narrow area from the Xuanwu Gate to the city gate, and then the people and horses of the imperial court only need endless arrow rain to sprinkle down, and these tens of thousands of people will have no second end except to be shot into hedgehogs.

But if he didn't enter the city to support His Royal Highness King Qin, his troops would be pinned down and he would not be able to divide his troops to attack the imperial city, then he would definitely fall short today, Fang Xuanling said that he didn't think that the plan he had formulated would become so passive and embarrassing at a critical moment. If you advance, you will die, and if you guard, you will die, and you will be in a dilemma. Unless it was to take advantage of the fact that the forbidden army that poured out of the construction site of Yong'an Palace had not had time to block the back road, the army immediately turned around and rushed out of the city to return to the eastern capital to join Duan Zhixuan.

This is the only way to survive, with the prestige and talent of His Royal Highness the King of Qin, it is not impossible to build a piece of the country with the skills of Qu Tutong, Yin Kaishan, Tang Jian and others, step by step, and after three or five years, it may not be impossible to compete with His Majesty.

But now, His Royal Highness the King of Qin just refused to order the withdrawal of the army, Fang Xuanling remembered that he almost rushed into the city and asked loudly what the King of Qin was waiting for!

Fang Xuanling has a lot of schemes, but he is indeed not a qualified general. When the smoke and dust were billowing in the northeast and watching the forbidden army brigade rushing over, he was in a hurry to stomp his feet, but he couldn't think of a good way. The subordinate generals saw that the main general had panicked, and their hearts became even more chilling.

Tang Jian stood aside and looked at the eagerness on Fang Xuanling's face, and couldn't help but shake his head and said, "Qiao Song, why don't you let me command?" ”

Fang Xuanling had long been so panicked that he had forgotten that Tang Jian was from a serious military background, and when he heard him speak, he woke up and took Tang Jian's hand and said, "This is very good!" You lead troops to block the forbidden army, and I will go into the city to persuade the king of Qin to withdraw immediately. Staying in the green mountains is not worrying about no firewood, as long as you return to the eastern capital of the world, it is still desirable! ”

Tang Jian nodded and said: "You can take care of yourself, with my ability, I can block it for at most an hour, if you can't persuade King Qin within an hour, then ...... Then let the soldiers tie up the King of Qin and take him away! ”

"Tied up?"

Fang Xuanling was stunned, then nodded vigorously and repeated: "Tie up!" ”

Xin Wenli, the general of the right leading army, put Li Shimin into the city gate, and he has been worried in his heart, and when the king of Qin asked him where the prince was under the city, he hid behind the battlements and only dared to show half of his face to answer. Although the city wall was tall and not very close, Xin Wenli clearly felt the contemptuous and disdainful look on his face when His Royal Highness King Qin looked at him. This look was like a knife poking at his heart, and it seemed to have been slapped in public.

Before His Royal Highness King Qin entered the city, he raised his chin and said to Xin Wenli: "Lonely, don't blame you for retreating from the battle, Lonely's work is too big, it's not that a random person has the courage to accompany Lone to do it, and it's not that a random person is qualified to accompany Lone to do it." You can hide on the city wall in peace, and hide until you have a fight. If Lone wins, remember that you did not block the gate of Lone entering the city, and Lone will not kill you. If Lone is defeated, His Majesty will not kill you if you do not go into battle with Lone. ”

Li Shimin smiled heroically at the time: "The turtle always thinks that the safest place is the shell on its back, how can it know that the huge waves rolled up when the dragon flies into the sky can open mountains and crack rocks?" ”

As soon as he thought of this, Xin Wenli's face was hot.

Turtle ...... King Qin actually looked at himself like this.

Just when he was annoyed and uneasy, Nayan Pei Lin led a group of forbidden army generals to kill him from Yong'an Palace, and in an instant, Xin Wenli knew that King Qin would definitely be defeated this time. Remembering the sentence that the turtle always thought that the safest place was the shell on its back, Xin Wenli rushed over with his men and horses in his head.

He didn't go to resist the forbidden army led by Pei Lin for King Qin, but rushed to Pei Lin and gritted his teeth to express his willingness to exterminate the rebels for the vanguard. The contempt in Pei Lian's eyes when he looked at him at that time was exactly the same as Li Shimin, which made Xin Wenli ashamed. But at this time, he has to choose which team to stand in, and these things are not even a fart compared to saving his life.

Pei Lin nodded and allowed him to lead the army to attack the rebels of Fang Xuanling's department.

At this time, a eunuch hurriedly arrived with a holy decree, which was to give a new gift to the right leading army general Wei.

Only eight words.

There is no need to ask for sin, and there is no forgiveness!

Xin Wenli was shocked, and was just about to stand up to plead, when a general came out from behind Pei Lian, and pulled out a horizontal knife and slashed down like lightning. Poor Xinwen Li's knife technique is very strange, and now he is the only one who can use the knife trick, but he has no time to grab the heavy and sharp Qinglong Yanyue knife carried by his own soldiers.

The general's sword was like lightning, and Xin Wenli only had time to scream, and the blade slashed through his neck, and the sword slashed like a practice, and a good head was unloaded and rolled out far away. Speaking of which, this sword victory is abrupt, and Xin Wenli has no time to resist at all.

The general who killed Xin Wenli sneered, stepped on the human head and said sarcastically: "If you are not loyal to the Lord, if you are not loyal to the king, what is the use of Your Majesty the two-faced villain keeping you?" ”

This person is none other than Li Xiaogong, the king of the county.