The 160,000 troops of the Wu Zhou Dynasty were wiped out, and several generals were wiped out, except for Li Duozuo, who was transporting grain and grass, and the rest were wiped out.

Cao Renshi, the general of the left Yingyangwei, was in a different place, Zhang Xuanyu, the general of the right Jinwuwei, and Ma Renjie, the new Sinong Shaoqing, were captured, Yan Banditshi, the chief of the march, died in the chaos, and Zong Huaichu, the deputy chief of the march, committed suicide.

The news was transmitted back to Beijing, and there was an uproar.

How long has it been since the imperial court had suffered such a defeat?

Even against a strong enemy like the Turks and Tibet, although the imperial court has been defeated from time to time, it has never been defeated so quickly and so miserably, and the 160,000-strong army was wiped out in an instant, and the generals of the army were almost wiped out, which was unimaginable before.

Wu Zetian was like a slap on the head. Wu Zhou Dynasty, the biggest and only martial arts is to recover the four towns of Anxi, the previous record is really lackluster, I never thought that I suffered such a heavy defeat in the blink of an eye, especially in the hands of the Khitans who had never been put in the eyes of the imperial court.

There was a lot of noise between the government and the opposition for a while, and the disdain for the Khitan people from the beginning turned into extreme fear in the blink of an eye. 160,000 people is 160,000 families, the news spread, the entire Tang Dynasty is full of miserable wind and rain, countless parents, wives and children, wearing linen and filial piety, are in pain.

Wu Zetian originally planned to let Wu Sansi be the ambassador of Yuguan Province to appease, lead the army to Shengzhou, and rebel against the army for the second way, but in fact, the main purpose was to gild this nephew.

Although the military system has been controlled by the Wu family now, the Wu family has never had any exploits in the war, and in the army, a group of generals who do not stand an inch will never have a solid foundation.

Wu Chenghei is not in good health, and in recent years, he has often been sick in bed, otherwise, Wu Zetian may also send this nephew to the front line, so that these two nephews who can play a major role in the Wu family can establish their own military prestige.

But now, the army of Wu Zhou is 160,000 people. The first battle was wiped out. The court was shaken, and Wu Zetian didn't dare to act rashly anymore.

Her two nephews were both scholars, and when they were young, they were exiled to the border by her, and they only ran around for food every day. Later, when she wanted to ascend the throne, she found that outsiders were unreliable and had to rely on the Wu family, so she pardoned these nephews. Get them back to the capital and entrust them with important tasks one by one, but these two nephews have never even commanded an army of dozens of people, so let them go to war......

However, almost all the famous generals left by the Tang Dynasty were killed by her, not to mention that now the more the generals of the Wu family have lost the battle, the more she needs the Wu generals to win another big battle. In order to consolidate the position of the Wu clan in the army, Wu Zetian decided to send Wu Youyi as the second rebel general to expedition to the Khitan.

Wu Youyi has been in charge of Yulinwei for her, the longest time in the army, is the second generation of Wu's nephews are the most familiar with the military, Wu Zetian immediately issued an order, ordered Jian'an County Wang Wu Youyi to be the right Wuwei general, re-recruit soldiers and horses. Led by him, he re-attacked the Khitan. At the same time, Chen Ziang and Qiao Zhizhi were appointed as their staff members of the Governor's Office.

Unable to gather so many soldiers and horses for a while, Wu Zetian ordered all the prisoners held in various places to be escorted to Jingshi. Let them make meritorious contributions, and at the same time recruit soldiers, form a new expeditionary corps, and order the border states east of Taihang Mountain to build martial cavalry regiments to train in order to prepare for countermeasures.

The angry Wu Zetian did not use the prime minister's ministers to discuss the matter this time, exercised his arbitrary power and quickly made a decision, and returned to the inner court in anger, and suddenly remembered that Li Zhaode, who had asked for the official position of the third grade for Sun Wanrong, vented his resentment on him, and ordered him to be immediately escorted to the execution ground to be executed!

Zhang Changzong and Zhang Yizhi heard it beside her, and immediately mentioned Lai Junchen in a roundabout way, and Wu Zetian, who was furious, ordered to behead Lai Junchen together.

Li Zhaode was impeached and imprisoned by Lai Junchen, and now he was executed on the same day as Lai Junchen.

Not to mention, this major incident has shifted the investigation of the government and the opposition for this defeat to a certain extent, you must know that Cao Renshi, Zhang Xuanyu, Ma Shaojie, Yan Bandit Shi, Zong Huaichu and other generals are all generals of the Wu family, and there is only one Li Duozuo who escorts grain and grass, which can be regarded as a centrist who is neither left nor right.

On the day of the execution, Luoyang City was empty of thousands of people, and the execution scene was crowded.

The scene of the execution was set in Beishi, and all the shops in the entire Beishi were not open that day, and even those who did business went to see the killing.

The first cool official of the Wu Zhou Dynasty, also after the major cool officials were awarded the head one after another, the undead Xiaoqiang Lai Junchen, who has always been tenacious, is finally going to be beheaded, and the same day is also the powerful prime minister Li Zhaode, who has dominated the dynasty in recent years and is above tens of thousands of people under one person, this matter is not trivial.

Li Zhaode and Lai Junchen both blocked wooden balls, wore death row uniforms, and were escorted to the execution ground.

This system of blocking wooden balls began in the fourth year of the vertical arch, that year Wu Zetian executed the prince and the general secretary Hao Xiangxian, Hao Xiangxian scolded and generously stated on the execution ground, and counted Wu Zetian's sins, and even the ugly thing of her adultery with Xue Huaiyi was said, Wu Zetian was very embarrassed, and since then, the court executed people and criminals, and they all stuffed wooden balls, so that he couldn't say a word on the execution ground.

Li Zhaode and Lai Junchen both stuffed wooden balls in their mouths, squeezed their cheeks a little deformed, and were pulled by the prisoner cart and slowly approached the execution ground. Although Li Zhaode was too domineering, so he was hated by hundreds of officials, but he still had a very good reputation among the people, and the people couldn't help but sigh when they saw Prime Minister Li unkempt and embarrassed.

However, in ordinary dynasties, the people of Jingshi are afraid that they will not see a scene of the execution of the prime minister in their lives, and the people of Luoyang in the Wu Zhou Dynasty, not to mention those royal princes of the phoenix and dragon grandsons, the prime minister alone has seen several killings, although he sighed, he was not too shocked.

Then it was Lai Junchen who was escorted, and when Lai Junchen was escorted to the execution ground, there was a strange scene in the scene. The people crowded there, countless people crowded, staring at Lai Junchen with a dead plate on the back of the prisoner car, but surprisingly there was no sound, everyone stared at him, the scene was extremely quiet, and the silence was terrifying.

Li Zhaode was escorted to the execution ground, knelt down, and headed in the direction of the prison officer, and then Lai Junchen was escorted to the execution platform. Lai Junchen's former majesty and domineering were completely gone, with a huge wooden ball stuffed in his mouth, it was a little difficult to breathe, and his distorted face could no longer see the handsome and graceful of the past.

Li Zhaode was speechless, but seeing Lai Junchen being dragged to the execution platform in despair, Li Zhaode's eyes showed a happy smile, he couldn't laugh, but the pale head he raised clearly showed that he was daxiao. Li Zhaode's shoulders shrugged, he laughed silently for a long time, slowly closed his eyes, and two lines of tears slowly flowed from the corners of his eyes and flowed down his cheeks......

Lai Junchen was different from him, Lai Junchen didn't look at this old rival from beginning to end, his head kept twisting in the direction of the palace, when he was dragged onto the torture platform and pushed to the ground, he still stretched his neck, staring straight in the direction of the imperial city, just hoping that there would be a horse galloping over, shouting loudly, "Keep people under the knife!" ”

This kind of thing is not undone by the empress, in the imperial history, Wei Yuanzhong was specially ordered by the empress to be exempted from death before the execution. Lai Junchen always firmly believed that he was loyal to the empress, he had killed so many opponents for the empress, and the empress was able to ascend the throne and sit on the throne, and he was very meritorious, and the empress would never kill him.

He looked forward and waited, and when the warden read the decree dryly, he did not listen to a word; When the executioner plucked the dead card from the back of his shoulder, he was unaware; He is like a puppy abandoned by his owner, looking in the direction of his home, hoping that his owner will change his mind.

A noose was put around Li Zhaode's neck, and Empress Hong'en gave him a whole corpse, the noose was pulled up suddenly, and Li Zhaode's body was in the air, and his body writhed violently and strangely because of suffocation.

But what is surprising is that at this time, no one went to see the death of the prime minister, and countless eyes were staring at Lai Junchen.

Many people's palms were dripping with sweat, the corners of their eyes twitched nervously, and their hearts beat like drums.

They seemed to be worried about something, and they seemed to be nervous about something, and it was a strange fear.

Lai Junchen suddenly woke up from his senses, and moved his gaze from the direction of the palace to the prison platform.

On the prison beheading platform, Chen Dong, the chief torturer of the Criminal Department, took out a blood-colored torture stick from the lottery holder with an expressionless face, threw it in front of the stage, and shouted coldly: "Behead!" ”

Lai Junchen suddenly understood that the holy decree of forgiveness would never come, and the empress had really abandoned him!

He suddenly jumped up from the ground, kneeling so straight and straight, it was difficult to stand up, but Lai Junchen actually jumped up all of a sudden.

He couldn't shout, his eyes were unusually wide, as if the corners of his eyes were cracked, he stared at the direction of the palace, looked at the corner of the cornice, looked at the towering Tianshu, and felt dizzy in his mind.

Before the two executioners' assistants stepped forward and knocked him down, his knees went limp, and he fell heavily on the torture table......

"Boom!"

The sharp ghost-headed knife slid through his neck, and the executioner's knife was the most stabbed in his life.

The blade slid accurately through the bone gap between Lai Junchen's neck, and without a moment's hindrance, the human head and a cavity of blood spurted out more than a foot away, fell heavily to the ground, rolled forward a few times, and stopped.

Lai Junchen's headless body slowly fell forward in a slow pouring posture, and fell to the ground with a "tom".

At this time, Li Zhaode's body had just stopped shaking a little.

The frightening silence of the execution ground continued, which had never happened before, and when the executioner looked into the crowd with some surprise, the crowd suddenly erupted into a tsunami cry, and countless people rushed to the stage, and the silk servants who were responsible for pulling ropes to block the people watching the execution were like scarecrows, and were overwhelmed by the boiling crowd in the blink of an eye.

Countless people poured onto the execution platform, competing to tear apart Lai Junchen's corpse, and one person rushed to the front, pounced on Lai Junchen like a wolf, and bit off a piece of meat fiercely, before he could swallow it, he was dragged aside by the crazy people, and then more people filled the gap he left like ants.

This man bites a mouthful of flesh and blood, looking up to the sky and laughing wildly!

His name is Duan Jian.

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