Chapter 542: Brave and resourceful, Li Renjie
"General, our army has taken the city!"
"Storm the city, defend the four gates, and slaughter the city!"
"Slaughter the city!"
The leader who came to give the order looked at Li Kui hesitantly, but Li Kui didn't mean to look at him at all, and his eyes fell on the city. The fight has begun, and the butcher's knife is raised high. At this time, you say stop, what do you think is a game?
After hanging the leader for a while, Li Kui snorted coldly: "Do you think that if you don't kill people, the people in the Liang family's walled city will deliver your belongings to you?" ”
The leader of the slip doesn't understand anything else, but this is very proficient. The party is a nation that started by robbing, attacking cities and plundering land, which soldier will not stain his hands with blood after the city is broken?
The leader suddenly realized, bowed down to Li Kui and said, "General, the villain understands." ”
"I understand, don't go quickly!"
The leader who knelt in front of Li Kui's war horse suddenly realized, jumped on the war horse in a hurry, and galloped away, while running, he also gathered his guards and soldiers. Obviously, this product is selfish, and wants to know the order in advance and do a big deal.
Waiting, for active people, will be tormented over time.
"My lord, are you hot?"
Outside the city gate, Luda carried a big knife and walked around Li Kui's horse money, like a lone wolf in a cage. I feel uncomfortable all over my body, and I don't feel well anywhere.
"It's hot, I won't take it off!" Li Kui snorted coldly.
He helped the hat on his head, although it was autumn, but it was still very hot during the day, Li Kui fought hard in order not to shave his head, and found a fox fur hat, no matter how hot the day was, on the door of his head.
But Luda shaved his shiny head, saying that Luda, who was good at killing an improper monk, couldn't bear the torture of wearing a fur hat at all, so he simply asked the monk of Huguo Temple to help shave his head.
He thought about it, and everyone knew him anyway.
And Li Kui can't do it, no matter whether he takes the monk line or the party line, he will be watched by his colleagues with strange eyes after he goes back. In desperation, he could only use a hat that was closer to the Khitan style to cover up the embarrassment that he was not a nobleman of the Western Xia tribe.
Because he is a civil official, the civil officials of the Great Song Dynasty have not yet shaved their bald hair, if there is a good person to play him, it will be really embarrassing, thinking that it will be cool in a few days, Li Kui is now riding on a horse and enduring his wet head.
He glanced at Ruda, like a mirror in his heart, how could he not guess what this thing was thinking?
Li Kui looked at the city in front of him, although he did not enter the city, but he was also quite worried about the situation in the city. I don't know how skilled the Black Water Army is, one by one, they have raw melons and eggs, if they can't even rob, what else can they do?
"If you can do it to women and children, you can go, I won't stop you."
Women and children?
Layers of anger appeared on Ruda's face, and then he realized that he had a lot of things. This is a Western Xia person, what does it matter to him as a Great Song Dynasty? But even so, Ruda couldn't do anything to women and children. Child with high wheels, wife who watches over her husband at home...... Such a person can do it, is it still a human being?
But the steppe rules are true, surrender, everything is easy to say. If you don't surrender, after the defeat, the women will be robbed and the men will be killed. Children who are over the wheel will be killed as men. This is also why the Central Plains Dynasty has such a strong contempt for the grassland king's account. It's no different from a beast.
He was entangled for a while, and asked Li Kui: "My lord, you gave the order to slaughter the city, do you not respond in your heart?" ”
Slaughter the city.
Such a murderous thing finally began under Li Kui's order. In the Central Plains Dynasty, the most recent massacre was ordered by the rebel leader Huang Chao, but in fact, after Huang Chao broke through Chang'an City, he didn't remember the slaughter, and was driven out of Chang'an by King Qin's army. However, this scholar Huang Chao is worthy of the title of 'Spicy Hand Butcher'. He went from Yizhou, the hometown of rebellion, all the way to Chang'an. Then he retreated all the way from Chang'an to the vicinity of his hometown, and was recently defeated and killed.
And Huang Chao is half of Li Kui's fellow countrymen.
Compared to Huang Chao's vicious methods, Li Kui is a person with a bottom line, and he said awe-inspiringly: "The gentleman is far away from cooking, this is what the sage said." As long as I don't see unkindness, I won't end up enjoying the benefits, and I won't be in an unkind and unjust situation, you know? ”
Ruda opened his mouth, and he suddenly felt that reading was not useless.
Look at adults, even if you do the most despicable thing, you can still find a strong enough reason, and this is the power of knowledge.
Fei Tingduoluo, who was the overseer on the side, couldn't listen to it anymore, he was a close confidant of Li Bingqian, the seventh king, and the reason why he followed Li Kui was that Li Bingqian was afraid that Li Kui would not take things seriously, so he would not be able to end it. The surveillance is real, the foil is fake. Especially the slaughter of the city, which will make the prince of his own country bear a huge criticism. If it weren't for Li Kui's order being too fast, so fast that he couldn't react at all, he would have stopped it a long time ago.
However, it is not too late to come forward at this time.
"Lord Li, the prince had an agreement when he parted, this battle will only punish the Liang family, and it must not be allowed to expand the tense. Especially the slaughter of the city, the prince will definitely bear great criticism for this in the future. Please also ask Lord Li to take back his fate! ”
Li Kui ignored him, and time passed minute by minute.
Fei Tingdoro was also anxious, he was worried that the situation was going to the point where it could not be controlled.
"A few of you go to the city and give an order, only collect supplies, and you can't kill indiscriminately!"
"Who dares to go?"
The big iron spear in Li Kui's hand was horizontal, and he faced five hundred people alone, his face was fearless. On the contrary, the murderous aura on his body emanated, making Fei Tingdoro a little out of breath.
Where had he felt such coercion?
Li Kui was stunned in the face of tens of thousands of party troops, and Fei Tingduoluo even bet in his heart that if his subordinates really disobeyed Li Kui, the iron gun in Li Kui's hand was definitely not an ornament.
But the problem is that the five hundred people brought by Fei Tingdoro, on the one hand, Li Bingqian could not trust Li Kui, and he came to spy on Li Kui. At the same time, it is also the Blackwater Army that is more worried about spying on him. Li Bingqian only has 2,000 men and horses who are pro-army, so he doesn't have to worry about loyalty. The Blackwater Military Division took out 30,000 troops at once, where is the 2,000 pro-army enough? Being in the army, he not only has no sense of security, but is even always worried that once the Blackwater Army rebels, he will really die without a place to bury.
Li Kui pointed at Fei Tingdoro and scolded angrily: "Waste, what do you know? If you don't let the people of the Blackwater Army get some blood on their hands, can they follow the prince with all their hearts? ”
Fei Tingduoluo was dumbfounded, he clearly felt that Li Kui was lying to him, this man who seemed to be a rough mine gave people a blunt illusion, but his heart was as black as his face.
After hesitating, Fei Tingdoro had to ask with a weak heart: "Lord Li, what if?" ”
"Which banner are you hanging at the head of the city?"
As he spoke, the flagpole at the head of the city was cut down by the soldiers of the Blackwater Army who attacked the city, and a huge beam slowly fell to the head of the city in the wind. Fei Tingduoluo came back to his senses, this is the fiefdom of the Liang family, and the prince and other families can talk well, but in the face of the Liang family, it must be a situation of endless death.
Only then did he give up and continue to persuade Li Kui.
It seems that Li Kui's words make sense.
Of course, Li Kui was very patient, after all, he could see that Fei Tingdoro was the first time to rebel, and he was very inexperienced, and he would fall into a kind of fear of gains and losses for any unexpected situation.
He decided to convince people with reason, and explained the ability of rebellion to Fei Tingdoro in a reasonable way, so that he could rest assured: "Old Fei. ”
"No, please don't call me Lao Fei. I'm Fei Ting, and Master Li can be called Doro. You can't call me 'old fee'. Fei Ting Doro dissatisfied.
"It's all the same." Li Kui didn't spin around in these side details, patted Fei Tingdoro's shoulder and said, "You must know that the prince is worried that the Black Water Military Division will not obey orders. After all, the command of the Blackwater Army did not follow the command of the prince, and the pro-army in the hands of the prince was not strong enough to suppress the army. ”
These words suddenly came to Fei Tingdoro's heart, if Hua Tingduo was in the army, the Blackwater Military Division would never be in a scattered situation today.
However, the moment he saw the talisman, he refused Li Bingqian's order, and used a reason to make Li Bingqian speechless. This reason was that he wanted to block the threat from the Liao State for Great Xia. At the same time, Hua Thorn also divided 30,000 people from the Black Water Army to Li Bingqian.
It seems that this person has taken refuge in Li Bingqian.
But in reality, that's not the case at all.
The flower thorn was given to Li Bingqian's army because he saw the talisman and could not disobey the order. As the commander of the army, could he not guess Li Bingqian's intention to ask the entire Blackwater Army? In the fifty years since the founding of the Western Xia, that is, in the last thirty years, it has been suppressed by the Liang family, otherwise, it is not unusual for the emperor to mutiny, and it is not unusual to make a pot of porridge. If Li Bingqian's mutiny was not successful, he would naturally have a reason to shirk it, after all, he did not participate in the mutiny, but only because he saw the military talisman belonging to the national division, he gave part of the army to Li Bingqian. But if Li Bingqian's mutiny was successful and he successfully became the lord of Western Xia, he would also have a contribution to the dragon, and it was also the greatest credit.
Li Bingqian saw this calculation, so he was worried that he would not be able to control the army. If it doesn't go well, will this guy bury a secret in the tens of thousands of troops, and once he is in a bad situation, he will be arrested and sent to the Liang family to ask for credit?
Fei Tingduoluo also heard Li Bingqian's inner worries, although he was a minion, he was a high-level minion. If Li Bingqian really becomes the lord of the country, he will be ruthless, and he will be able to be the chief of the palace in Great Xia. If you don't make up your mind, it doesn't matter, high-ranking officials have it. If Li Bingqian fails in the end, he, as the number one accomplice, will naturally not be able to escape death.
In front of Fei Tingdoro, Li Bingqian had no secrets.
On the contrary, it was Li Kui, Li Bingqian had never said anything about it to him, and before the Blackwater Army sent troops, he didn't even mention his opinion, like a person who stayed outside the matter.
But Li Kui didn't give it for nothing, he didn't say it, it didn't necessarily mean that he didn't know.
As far as this bit of pediatrics in the Western Xia officialdom is concerned, it only takes three months to go to the Bianliang officialdom, and you can see through it at a glance. The centrist officials in the capital of the Great Song Dynasty are all good at this, and their methods are more tactful, not as blunt as flowers. For the party aristocrats who are still relatively simple, the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty is really dangerous. All of them are thousands of troops, competing for IQ to kill the jinshi, in such an environment, let alone learning, even if it is smoked, it is smoked out of a strategy.
In the Great Song Dynasty, the means of flower thorns may not be enough, but it is more than enough to deal with the officialdom of Western Xia.
Fei Tingdoro nervously poked his head into Li Kui and lowered his throat and said, "Lord Li also sees?" ”
"Nonsense, can I not see it? Can't you see that I'm letting them go to the slaughter? Li Kui sat on the horse, he had a loud voice, fortunately, there was no one from the Blackwater Military Division around, and he was sent to the city to make a fortune, just to solve this problem: "What does the chief general of the Heishui Military Division think, I don't express my opinion." But the prince can't do nothing, right? The two ends are flattering to the flower thorn system, once the prince is defeated, are you willing to see the soldiers of the Blackwater Military Division defect? ”
"No, I can't." Fei listened to Doro exclaim.
Li Bingqian didn't think of a way, but he was in a hurry, and he didn't have time to buy people's hearts. Second, he was a newcomer, and he couldn't get the soldiers to obey him. Of course, after making a big deal, that's another story.
"Old Fei, let me ask you, what method does the leader in the cottage use to make the bandits who take refuge obey?"
"Force, intelligence, and perhaps noble status."
"Phew, what a brain you have. It's a vote, a vote! Li Kui said angrily: "If you want to take refuge in the cottage and don't commit any crimes, the leader will accept it." Whether it's a rebellion or a mutiny, it's all the same. The chief general of the Blackwater Military Division gave the vote, but kept his chips left and right. And what about the soldiers and low-level generals of the Blackwater? If they don't become enemies of the entire Great Xia, wouldn't they be able to pull away the army under the command of the prince if they didn't send someone to it? ”
Fei Tingdoro scolded angrily: "The ambition of the wolf is so vicious? ”
Li Kui squinted his eyes and calmed the mount, although the horse was subdued by him, but he was young, and he couldn't resist the impulse, but fortunately, he was carrying Li Kui, and this beast didn't dare to have any dissenting intentions at all. It's just that my heart is a little restless. After pacifying the war horse, he raised the whip in his hand, pointed to the city and said: "There is only one way to make the soldiers of the Blackwater Army assigned to the prince follow the prince with all their hearts, that is, let them kill and kill people when they see them." Kill to the enemy of the world, and they cannot be tolerated in the territory of Western Xia. In this way, the command of the Blackwater Military Division makes it impossible for Hua Thorn to control this army, not to mention, when the time comes, he will not dare to admit that this army is his subordinate. This is half of the completion for the prince to completely control this army. ”
"And half of it?"
Fei listened to Doro's preaching for the first time, and he had the feeling that listening to Jun's words was better than decades of books. He suddenly found that the prince was looking for someone to rebel together, and everyone else was a mallet, and Li Kui was the only one who understood.
Li Kui sneered: "There are still half of the Blackwater Army in the city, and when they find out that they are guilty, they find that Zhi Neng is desperate to follow the prince." Because at that time, there was no place in the world without them. Even after the successful mutiny, the prince could make this army temporarily his guard. ”
"Say a thousand ways and ten thousand, even if the prince has an accident this time, and he controls tens of thousands of troops in his hands, regardless of the military discipline of this army, even if he has no foothold in Western Xia, but what about going to Liao? What about going to the Great Song? He controls tens of thousands of troops in his hands, and he is still the identity of the Western Xia royal family. In order to win over the prince, would the emperor of Daliao be reluctant to give up the title of a prince? Da Liao can give it, can't I give it to Da Song? Where to be a prince, not to be a prince? ”
"Also, the prince has a fatal weakness. I don't know if the treasury of Blackwater City really can't get enough food, or if it's deliberately done by flowers, in short, the army with insufficient food and grass is the most dangerous. From Heishui City to Xingqing Mansion, hundreds of miles away, if there is no grain and grass, do you think this army can reach Xingqing Mansion? Once the food and grass were exhausted, the army of tens of thousands of people scattered halfway through. If you can't get to Xingqing Mansion, how can you know about the Liang family and let the prince become a treasure? ”
"Ha ......" This is an exclamation, Fei Tingduoluo said to Li Kui in surprise: "It's all thanks to the lord for the prince's plan." ”
Served!
Fei Tingdoro was completely convinced.
He suddenly realized why he was so shallow, he had always seen Li Kui as a black-hearted villain, and he definitely misunderstood Li Kui. It's just that in the middle of the conversation, there was a little accident, and suddenly smoke came out of the city. Seeing this, Li Kui's face became ugly, and he scolded angrily: "Who, that muddy ball set fire?" Do you have any brains, just start grabbing, set fire, what if it burns to the warehouse? ”
When Li Kui saw the thick smoke, he immediately became anxious and shouted, "I'll come to the guards." ”
Li Kui took the lead and rushed into the chaotic city, and a soldier ran in front of him, carrying a gorgeously dressed girl and holding a box, and fell to the ground in embarrassment. Even if he fell to the ground, he had no intention of letting go, he was a ruthless person.
Li Kui was condescending, whipped down, and suddenly heard a miserable scream.
Li Kui was unmoved, and said coldly: "Who is setting the fire?" ”
"The villain doesn't know!?" Suddenly remembered: "It's the leader of Garchi, he seems to have robbed a warehouse, it's all oil, and he killed a lot of people in anger." ”
The soldier was scared and thought he was going to be out of luck. Li Kui said angrily to the beaten soldiers: "Idiot, you won't find a cart to pull it?" ”
"Thank you, Lord!"
When he found the main owner, the main man had an unlucky look on his face, anyway, Li Kui's eyes on him were very unkind, even if the auspicious stars were shining before, the next bad luck was not far away: "Bastard, who let you set the fire?" ”
"General!"
Smack-
Li Kui whipped it down, but he didn't expect that the other party not only didn't have the fear after making a mistake, but instead stiffened his neck and said angrily: "You are just a Han man, you can't control Lao Tzu." ”
Before he could finish speaking, the sky seemed to be obscured by dark clouds, and suddenly it went dark. When he looked up and found that Li Kui had jumped up from his horse, swimming in the air like a big peng, the moment he fell, he just saw that there seemed to be a silver light flashing near his neck, and when a huge human head rolled on the ground, everything was over.
Jumping horses, killing people in one go. After landing, Li Kui spoke: "Those who don't listen to orders will be killed!" ”