Chapter 256: The End of Licking the Dog
The matter of revenge should be above board since ancient times.
Among Sima Qian's assassins, the first-class assassins were all enemies who killed the lord in public.
Capture the opponent alive, put it in front of the spirit of the deceased, and sacrifice it alive, this is the best example, such as Wu Song killing Ximen Qing and Pan Jinlian, Guo Jing killing Duan Tiande, this is such a killing method.
Questioning his crimes, he was dealt with by royal law or military law, beheaded and displayed to the public, with the whole law, it was also the same fair and honest way of killing, Guo Jing helped Temujin catch Wanyan Honglie and behead him directly, which is also a wonderful revenge.
Fighting in the formation of the two armies, killing the opponent in full view of everyone, and avenging the hatred of the country and the family together, is a sub-optimal choice.
The most boring revenge is to see this person walking on the street one day, jump out and stab him in the back, so that the other party will die in vain.
Xu Yongzhi's revenge for Zhou Zhuocheng has always been pursuing public execution, but now, because the battle situation is stalemate, he must make this suboptimal choice.
"A shot to death is too cheap for him." Xu Yongzhi inevitably felt a little regretful.
Xu Yongzhi's horse is fast, although this white horse has age, but it is still a divine horse, the main general of the white horse silver spear rushed in front, and there were more than 20 of the strongest knights on the side behind to support him, and he suddenly had momentum in the battle formation.
On the way, people kept joining this torrent, and soon, this arrow was only twenty zhang away from Zhou Zhuo's achievements.
"Crossbowman!"
Zhou Zhuocheng shouted loudly, his face was calm, but he was actually panicked in his heart.
Twenty crossbows appeared.
Xu Yongzhi hesitated slightly, but when he thought that there were Zhou Zhuocheng's infantry in front of him, it would be good if they were mixed together so that they could not fire.
Zhou Zhuocheng didn't care about his own people dying, and twenty crossbows opened fire together.
Behind Xu Yongzhi, four or five soldiers suddenly fell off their horses, and an arrow was directly nailed to his left shoulder.
Of course, the heavier casualties were the Tang infantry standing between the two main generals, eight or nine people fell to the ground, and the war horses of the Song army carefully dodged the bodies of these people, still advancing.
Suddenly, a group of spearmen stood in front of Xu Yongzhi's horse and pushed forward, and Xu Yongzhi wanted to raid Zhou Zhuocheng again, but there was no way.
"Hahahaha, surnamed Xu, come!" Zhou Zhuocheng couldn't help but feel a little proud.
When the bad guys hahaha, things tend to change.
"Is it cloudy?" Zhou Zhuocheng suddenly felt that the sky was not right.
Something obscured the sun.
A dragon with wings outstretched, coming from the direction of the sun, swooped down from the sky.
"Fire Petal!" Xu Yongzhi was overjoyed.
Most humans have never seen a dragon in their entire lives, and pelicans and geese are enough to beat most people.
When a reptile with scales and yellow eyes appears in the sky, ordinary people instinctively pull their legs and run.
"Mom!"
The Song army also stopped, comforting their war horses.
"Dragons of their own!" Duan Meimei shouted loudly.
She manipulated the flaps, aiming at the platoon of spearmen and crossbowmen.
"Burn it!"
Huo'er was a little reluctant, but she still sold Duan Meimei a face, she opened her mouth and spit out flames.
The dragon fire ignited on the body of the Tang Army.
Some people are smart and hurry to roll underground, but with the anti-infection technology of the Song Dynasty, most of them will die slowly and painfully if they roll on the wound and roll in the soil; Others were stupid and tried to jump into the Qinhuai River, but were killed by the Song army after not running a few steps, or fell to the ground without support.
There was a scorching smell in the air, but there was also a smell of meat.
"I'm sorry Koukou," Duan Meimei hugged Huoban'er's neck tightly, "Huopetal'er, let you go to the battlefield, I don't want to." ”
Zhou Zhuocheng ran away with his horse, and the officers of the fifth generation of the Tang Dynasty first learned to escape.
The arrow carried by Xu Yongzhi took the opportunity to cut the ranks of the Southern Tang Army.
No matter how fierce the infantry was, as long as they found that the back road was cut off by the cavalry, they would be at a loss, and the Southern Tang Army began to scatter and flee.
The killing began.
This kind of killing of the defeated army cannot be stopped, and the previous grievances, pain, and sadness of losing their comrades must be recovered from the collapsed enemy, who also has trophies, exquisite helmets, and weapons in hand......
Xu Yongzhi didn't have time to pity these soldiers, they were Zhou Zhuocheng's cronies, they all had a part in the burning of Linquan and Longhu Mountain back then, and there was no innocent person.
"Zhou Zhuocheng!" Xu Yongzhi chased Zhou Zhuocheng behind him.
"Can't catch it!" Zhou Zhuocheng had already run away.
It's not easy to break through the chaos of the army.
When Zhou Zhuocheng was about to arrive at the Jinling City Gate, he was suddenly blocked by an army.
It was a strange-looking procession, with people riding low ponies and wearing armor like bamboo mats, which was particularly incongruous in winter.
The banner of this team, Zhou Zhuocheng does not know.
"Get out of here!" He reprimanded the vanguard of this team, it seems that it should be the Yue people from Wulingxi or Jianzhou, maybe it is the reinforcements that have just arrived.
"Hahaha!" A loud voice laughed loudly at Zhou Zhuocheng, according to the current words, this lung capacity must be at least 8,000 or more.
"What people!" Zhou Zhuocheng was a little worried.
A fat face wearing a crown appeared in front of him, it was none other than Duan Meimei's younger brother, the silly boy Duan Zishou.
On the apricot yellow python flag, there is a big "paragraph" word.
"The lord of Dali is here! Zhou Zhuocheng quickly dismounted and surrendered! Next to him, Li Sigui and Gao Dashang were both literate and martial, accompanying Duan Zi to guard his side.
Great Song Dynasty, Wu Yue and Dali, the Three Kingdoms Siege Jinling.
"A small country like you, are you also here to take advantage of the fire to rob?" Zhou Zhuocheng knew that he was not Duan Zishou's opponent, but it was not difficult to escape around the city, he shook a shot and was defeated towards the east, and as soon as he took two steps, he felt that the earth was trembling and the horse was trembling.
Twenty giant elephants appeared before him, arrows were shot from the towers above them, and javelins were thrown.
"Oh my God!"
This animal used to appear in Henan and Liangguang when the climate was warm, but in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, only wild elephants appeared in Yunnan and Guangxi.
Therefore, the defeated Southern Tang army saw the wild elephants, and there was no one who did not tremble.
There were no zoos and no televisions to see elephants.
"How can this pig be as big as a mountain!"
When the war elephants began to attack, the defeated army fell like mowing grass.
Zhou Zhuocheng has no subordinates around him, and if he wants to pass through the gaps between the war elephants, he will definitely be shot into a hedgehog.
He turned his horse's head, and behind him was Xu Yongzhi, who was chasing.
"It's over, let's take my life!" Xu Yongzhi shouted.
Zhou Zhuocheng jumped off the horse and stuck his gun on the ground.
Xu Yongzhi saw it, also got off the horse, and pulled out his two-handed sword.
Xu Yongzhi was like a cat playing with a mouse, waving his hand to let Zhou Zhuocheng come over.
The soldiers and horses formed a large circle and watched them.
Zhou Zhuocheng pulled out his gun and grabbed it to stab Xu Yongzhi.
"Haunted boy!"
"It's the return of the king, I want you to feel the feeling of being destroyed."
Indeed, Zhou Zhuocheng's more than 20 years of operation were ruined, and more than 6,000 people were killed on the banks of the Qinhuai River in this battle, and there may be more than 10,000 defeated troops killed after the collapse.
He attacked three shots, and Xu Yongzhi defended it well.
"Okay, these three shots are your offense to the court, I'm not taking revenge now, I'm taking you for the official family to fight against Tianwei, so I arrest you." Xu Yongzhi said.
When the fourth shot came, Xu Jin directly pressed the sword on the barrel of the gun, and with a push of the blade, eight of Zhou Zhuocheng's ten fingers were cut off by Qi Gen.
"Ahh
A scream.
Zhou Jiedu knelt on the ground, and there were two thumbs left in his two round hands, and he couldn't make any gestures except for thumbs up with both hands.
"If you have the ability, you can find Li Forsythia to settle accounts, what are you doing to make it difficult for my little character!"
"This should be told to you by the innocent residents of Linquan Town!"
"That's all orders!" Zhou Zhuocheng was sweating in pain.
"Phew, it's obvious that you're cruel and easy to kill! You could have avoided doing those bastard things! Why doesn't she find someone else and find you! Xu Yongzhi took a sip of Zhou Zhuocheng.
"yes, why do you do that kind of? Why didn't she find someone else and find you? Zhou Zhuocheng said, "Xu Jin, I'm jealous of you, you used to be so close to the eldest princess, why don't you live with her well, you serve her well, where can there be so many grievances and so many deaths?" She's a little ruthless, but that's how much insults and injuries it takes. ”
"The mouth is full of other people's harm to herself, so you can hurt the whole world, this poisonous woman has always done this, as for you, you accomplice, I will use official law to judge you." Xu Yongzhi said.
"Don't you think about it!" Zhou Zhuocheng turned around and ran.
Xu Yongzhi strode to catch up, and cut his tendons with a single sword.
"Bundle up!"
The soldiers carried Zhou Zhuo down like a pig.
The Song army completed the encirclement of the three gates of Jinling City, leaving one gate, which was also to prevent the enemy from jumping over the wall and burning the whole city, but as long as someone wanted to leave through the empty gate, they would be surrounded and intercepted by cavalry along the way.
Burying corpses, cleaning up booty, digging new trenches, and setting up trebuchets were still busy with the Song army.
However, Xu Yongzhi still organized a simple military court, and invited Cao Bin, Fei Yanggu, and Li Sigui, the Taifu of Dali, to serve as judges to try Zhou Zhuocheng.
It is also a retribution, when Lin Quan sentenced Xu Zhixun to death, it was Zhou Zhuocheng who forced Li Sigui to sign and did not allow Li Sigui and Fei Yanggu to save him, and today, the one who was tied up and ready to die became Zhou Zhuocheng.
Zhou Zhuocheng was locked up in a wine cellar, which was all bluestone walls, and was heavily guarded outside.
The wound on his hand was dry, he was dizzy and thirsty, but he knew he couldn't drink water.
"Give me wine!" Zhou Zhuocheng shouted.
No one paid any attention to him.
In a daze, a woman came to Zhou Zhuocheng.
Her steps are light and her demeanor is elegant and lovely.
It's none other than the eldest princess Li Lianqiao that Zhou Zhuocheng thinks about day and night.
"Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess......"
"Okay, where is there any Royal Highness after the Tang Dynasty is dead, now I am the princess of King Jin." Li Lianqiao looked at Zhou Zhuocheng happily.
Zhou Zhuocheng seems to have seen a savior.
"Princess, get me out."
"How is it possible, hey, don't talk about such unimportant things yet, I have something to ask you."
Zhou Zhuocheng looked at his hands: "I'm already a wasted person, can I help anything?" ”
"Anyway, it's a wasted person, so it's just a favor for me."
"What's the busy?"
"You will be punished tomorrow calmly, and you will not bite your tongue and kill yourself."
"Why do you want me to suffer such humiliation, Your Highness, you can give me a good time!" Zhou Zhuocheng pleaded.
"Don't say that, if you die in prison, Xu Jin will be very angry tomorrow, if he is not angry, he will settle accounts with me sooner or later, you have to let him vent, it is best to provoke him to kill you, he may not hate me so much." Li Lianqiao said.
"And what's in it for me?" Zhou Zhuocheng's face was miserable.
"Isn't it the greatest happiness that you can do things for me when you're dying?" Li Lianqiao said.
"That being said...... Hey...... "Zhou Zhuocheng said.
Seeing that he was bargaining so much today, Li Lianqiao also understood three points.
She opened the placket and stuffed Zhou Zhuocheng's bloodstained face into her chest clothes, and only let go after a while.
"Are you satisfied?"
"Hmmm......"
"Any thoughts?"
"I haven't lived in vain in this life." Zhou Zhuocheng calmed down.
Li Lianqiao looked at the patrols around him and walked in, and said again, "Remember, you have to die to the end." ”
She invoked the witchcraft, opened the portal, and walked away.
Zhou Zhuocheng suddenly let out a burst of smug and self-defeating laughter.
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