—— After Li Heng's men and horses were defeated by the soldiers of the Zuolong Wu Army led by Pang Zhong and finally commanded by Yang Xi, he fled back to the East Palace, closed all the palace gates, and made a final struggle. Yang Xi sent people to persuade him to surrender, so he ordered to prepare to attack the East Palace. But as soon as the order was issued, and when the soldiers were about to charge on the ladder, Gao Lishi hurriedly came to announce the decree, saying that as long as the prince opened the door and surrendered, the court would give leniency. Seeing that Li Longji still had a gentle heart, Yang Xi immediately stopped the order to prepare for the attack, and ordered the sergeant to shoot Li Longji's edict into the East Palace.

But just when he ordered the sergeant to shoot the edict out of the East Palace, and once again ordered Li Heng and his followers to open the palace gate and surrender, Guo Ziyi brought Li Longji's new will, announcing that in addition to Li Heng's crown prince, he would be demoted to a commoner, and the other followers must be severely punished, and ordered Yang Xi to quickly capture the East Palace. In just a while, Li Longji made several decisions, and several decisions were still largely disagreeable, which made Yang Xi a little crying and laughing. It seems that Li Longji is really old, not only his physical functions have deteriorated, but even his thinking ability is no longer good. Otherwise, two edicts would not have been issued in a short period of time with different ways of dealing with Li Heng and his followers.

"Tell the generals, prepare to attack immediately!" Yang Xi once again decisively gave the order to attack the East Palace.

He did not consult Gao Lishi and Guo Ziyi on the side, but took it upon himself to order the sergeant to attack, and ordered the sergeant to fight bravely, and all those who dared to resist would be killed. This made Gao Lishi, who had a certain intersection with Li Heng, uncomfortable, and after Yang Xi's order was issued, he couldn't help but remind: "Young Eunuch Yang, Your Majesty hopes that the crown prince and his subordinates can take the initiative to surrender, and I hope that Young Eunuch Yang can understand what Your Majesty really means." He deliberately did not call Yang Xi "Marshal Yang", but only commensurate him with the young superintendent of the ordnance superintendent, with only one purpose, that is, to let Yang Xi know that there were many people with higher status next to him.

Yang Xi originally had a bad impression of Gao Lishi, but now he has received Li Longji's new order, and now what he has to do is to capture the East Palace as soon as possible and eliminate all the rebels, how can he still give Gao Lishi face, and refused unceremoniously at the moment: "General Gao, thank you for the reminder, but what the last general has to do now is to put down the rebellion as soon as possible and eliminate all those who participated in the rebellion." ”

As he spoke, he ignored Colliers and ordered again, "Pass on the order, speed up the attack, and destroy all the rebels who dare to resist." His Majesty has decreed that Li Heng be removed from the crown prince's throne, demoted to commoners, and cut down the official positions of all those involved in the rebellion. There is no one in it that we need to take care of, they are all rebels who plot rebellion, and anyone can destroy them. ”

Hearing Yang Xi announce such an order in public, he didn't care about his face at all, and the muscles on Gao Lishi's face couldn't help twitching. Yang Xi is too arrogant, he must tell the emperor about today's affairs, and let the emperor beware of the youngest minister in the court, this person is too unruly, and it may become a big disaster for the Tang Dynasty in the future.

Seeing Yang Xi openly contradicting Gao Lishi, the red man in front of the emperor, Guo Ziyi on the side couldn't help but sigh, he knew why Yang Xi did this. Yang Xi had told him several times before that what he hated the most was that eunuchs interfered in politics, and he must find a way to remove eunuchs from the court in the future, and never let them have the opportunity to interfere in politics again. Today, he openly contradicted Gao Lishi and did not give face to this eunuch who leaned towards the government and the opposition, and it is likely that Yang Xi was the beginning of arguing with Gao Lishi.

Gao Lishi won the trust of Emperor Li Longji, although Yang Xi was also favored, his father's status in the court was no worse than Gao Lishi, and his father-in-law, who was appointed to the prime minister's position, but who the emperor would favor and who would prevail in the battle was unpredictable.

But now he can't say anything about Yang Xi, otherwise Yang Xi's prestige will be ruined. Another point, Pang Zhong is Yang Xi's cronies, and no one knows whether he will listen to his orders as a martial arts scholar. Therefore, he chose to remain silent and not express any opinion on Yang Xi's order, that is, he acquiesced to Yang Xi's attack order and eliminated anyone who dared to resist.

Seeing that Yang Xi, Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi, Pang Zhong, Gao Shi and others ignored him, Gao Lishi was furious and walked away.

But no one paid attention to Gao Lishi's departure, because at this time, the soldiers who attacked the East Palace were already attacking fiercely.

How could a group of rout soldiers withstand the attack of the morale-boosting Zuolongwu soldiers, not to mention a few elite sergeants of the special operations team in the evening, and soon the palace gate was opened, and the soldiers rushed in one after another. Yang Xi, who knew that there was no suspense in the next battle, did not rush in with the soldiers, but just ordered Pang Zhong to personally lead people to kill them, capture the ministers of the DPRK and China and Li Heng who participated in the rebellion as much as possible, and hand them over to Li Longji after the battle was over. If anyone dares to resist, the Fa will be rectified on the spot.

After Pang Zhong received the order, he immediately rushed into the East Palace with his men.

Guo Ziyi, who had not spoken much, walked to Yang Xi's side and said worriedly: "Ziliang, why do you want to not give face to Colliers like this?" He is the most favored person in front of His Majesty, and if you do this, it may cause you a lot of trouble. Now that the situation between the DPRK and China is changing, no one knows who will be unlucky, so you have to be careful!"

"Father-in-law, the son-in-law knows, thank you for the reminder," Yang Xi saluted, and then said softly: "Father-in-law, Li Heng and Gao Lishi have a very close relationship, but the son-in-law has a lot of evidence of their close relationship, I believe that many witnesses have been arrested now, Li Heng's rebellion, Gao Lishi can't get out of it!" The son-in-law will definitely present all the situation in front of His Majesty, so that His Majesty will punish this rootless man. ”

This is a decision that Yang Xi suddenly made after Gao Lishi left.

Originally, he didn't want to do this in a hurry, but he knew that Gao Lishi would definitely say something to him in front of Li Longji, he couldn't give Gao Lishi this opportunity, and he must take advantage of Li Heng's rebellion to eliminate Gao Lishi by the way.

"Huh?!" Guo Ziyi sighed softly, he couldn't imagine that Yang Xi had this purpose, and he had been collecting evidence all this time, that is to say, Yang Xi had been staring at Li Heng and Li Heng's cronies for a long time, otherwise he would not have said so. The worry was slightly reduced, but when I thought of something else, the worry that had just been reduced came up again, and I couldn't help but ask Yang Xi: "Ziliang, if Your Majesty knows that you have been spying on these people, and even Gao Lishi, Your Majesty's personal eunuch, aren't you worried that Your Majesty will suspect you of something?" ”

Yang Xi was stunned for a moment, and also understood what Guo Ziyi was referring to, and immediately smiled and said, "Father-in-law, if all this is confessed by the person who was captured, then Your Majesty will definitely not think so." Gao Lishi, Li Fuguo, and Yu Chaoen are all evil-destroying villains, and they were originally not qualified to meddle in major affairs of the court, but now that they are meddling, then let them taste the bitter bar they brewed. ”

Hearing Yang Xi say this, Guo Ziyi also suddenly realized, didn't say anything anymore, stroked his beard and laughed-

After Pang Zhong commanded his men and horses to attack the East Palace, the battle was almost over.

There were less than 2,000 rebel soldiers who retreated to the East Palace, and most of the 2,000 of them gave up resistance and chose to surrender after the East Palace Gate was opened. Only those sergeants who guarded Li Heng, Xiao Hua, Du Hongjian and others who retreated to the Chongwen Hall continued to resist.

These are the die-hard people around Li Heng, and in order to protect Li Heng's safety, they completely ignore their own surnames.

In the end, these people were all shot to the ground one by one by the elite sergeants of the special operation team, and they were either killed or wounded, and the blood in the Chongwen Hall was pouring into the river. After eliminating the last of these resistants, the Einsatzgruppen withdrew from the battlefield and soon disappeared without a trace.

They have made a huge contribution in this major operation, and there is no need for them to play again.

Pang Zhong's men and horses surrounded the Chongwen Palace, all doors and windows were opened, and there were sergeants with bows and arrows ready to shoot.

The hall was crowded together with the participants of the rebellion, many of whom were slumped on the ground in fright, and some were even scared to the point of urine.

Jokingly, they watched as the resisting sergeants were shot one after another, and the corpses were still piled up everywhere in the temple, full of blood, and the hall was full of murderous sergeants. Under such circumstances, there are still people who can remain calm, and the Venerable Master's state of mind is too unusual.

Li Hengqiang sat calmly in the hall, closed his eyes tightly and did not look at anyone. His heart was like ashes, knowing that everything was over, and what awaited him was a fate that he had already expected, but did not dare to believe.

Because of the urgency of the situation, Li Heng's concubines and his sons and daughters were not here, and they were controlled by the soldiers who attacked the palace in the other hall, and similar to the situation in the Chongwen Palace, they were all besieged in other halls.

After Pang Zhong controlled the situation in the East Palace, he immediately sent people to invite Yang Xi, Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi and others.

After hearing the report sent by Pang Zhong, Yang Xi, who was whispering to Guo Ziyi, immediately beckoned everyone to enter the East Palace together.

When he walked to Chongwen Hall with Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi, Gao Shi and others, Yang Xi ordered Pang Zhong to retreat the soldiers who had taken bows and arrows as a threat, and pulled down the bodies of the guards who died in the hall.

After the sergeants cleaned up the corpse at a very fast speed, Yang Xi followed Guo Ziyi into the hall.

"Li Heng, this is Your Majesty's new edict, remove you from the crown prince, and abolish you as a concubine!" Guo Ziyi unfolded Li Longji's latest edict and threw it in front of Li Heng, who was sitting with his eyes closed.

"Come on, quickly stake Li Heng and all the rebellions present!" Yang Xi followed behind Guo Ziyi and gave an order, and then ordered Pang Zhong, "General Pang, detain everyone in the East Palace, take all of them out of the palace, and no one shall be let go, and those who violate military law will be involved." And immediately clean up the corpses and bloodstains in the East Palace, and you personally lead people to guard the East Palace, waiting for His Majesty's latest order. ”

"Yes, Marshal Yang," Pang Zhong immediately ordered his sergeants to arrest Li Heng, who was sitting in a wooden position, and those Li Heng's cronies who looked like ashes and behaved differently.

Some screamed and roared, some whimpered, and some were so frightened that they couldn't say anything.

Yang Xi didn't let Li Heng come to his eyes, he didn't want to face Li Heng as a victor.

Li Heng has been the crown prince for decades, and his dignity must be maintained, even if he is a loser. (To be continued.) )