At the end of the Sui Dynasty, I am the king

Chapter 498: The death of Li Er

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Suddenly it was discovered that the samurai Xun was Chen Sangliang's accomplice and running dog. Why was the Li clan sweating profusely and their faces ashen

Because, the Li clan not only understood the reason why the warrior Xun would help them surrender and dedicate the city like a ghost, but also suddenly discovered a more important problem-the warrior Xun seemed to have known their plan to surrender and dedicate the city for a long time! Otherwise, when the Li clan took Li Jiancheng and Liu Dewei hostage, the warrior Xun would never have cooperated so calmly, without the slightest bit of panic and tension! And then thinking that the warrior Xun had deliberately separated Li Jiancheng from the guard brigade early on, and killed Li Jiancheng's guards early on who tried to call the police loudly, saying that the warrior Xun didn't know about the Li clan's rebellion plan beforehand, I'm afraid no one would believe it!

Since the samurai Xun probably knew of the Li clan's rebellion plan in advance, a new question arises, when and how did the samurai Xun know about it? Did you know it after that event, or did you know it when it happened? If the samurai Xun knew about the Li clan's rebellion plan when that incident happened, then did the samurai Xun know about the more critical and important matter? !

Fortunately, Li Er is also a person who is very good at adjusting his emotional reactions. He tried his best to suppress the fear in his heart, forced a relaxed smile with a fluke mentality, and said to the warrior: "Wu Junjun, you are really not mean. It’s fine if you don’t want to reveal your identity in Taiyuan City, but why do you keep it a secret from us when you leave Taiyuan City? If you said you were a servant of King Tang, we could flatter you earlier and ask you to say something nice for us in front of King Tang. "

There was laughter in the tent, and most of them were members of the Li clan who were laughing. Taking this opportunity, the Li clan, who had already looked a little wrong before, quickly adjusted their expressions, and kept praying in their hearts that the worst might not happen. The samurai Xun hurriedly cupped his hands and replied: "Duke Wei made atonement. After leaving the city, I should have disclosed my identity to you, but I was anxious to meet His Highness Tang Wang, whom I had never met before, and to report what happened to His Highness. Please His Highness was relieved to enter the army, so he hurriedly identified himself to His Highness's officers and soldiers, requesting to pay an immediate visit to King Tang, so he did not immediately identify himself to you."

Taking a peek at Chen Sangliang's reaction, seeing that Chen Sangliang was holding Li Jiancheng's second son but smiling without any abnormal expression, Li Er relaxed a little, and asked in feigned surprise: "Wu Canjun, have you never met with Li Jiancheng?" Has His Royal Highness Tang met?"

The warrior Xun nodded to admit, and Chen Sangliang over there finally took up the conversation, and said with a smile: "This king has never seen General Wu before, or I heard from Yu Wenxin that General Wu has returned to Taiyuan to serve, so this king hastened." Send someone to contact General Wu to dig into Li Jiancheng's wall. Fortunately, General Wu is very face-saving and decisively accepted my king's consolation."

"Your Majesty was really flattered at that time." Samurai Xun hurriedly said to Chen Sangliang: "I never dreamed at that time that Your Highness Tang Wang would personally write a letter to a humble minister and give you such a high evaluation. , entrusted with the position of a trusted aide, His Royal Highness the King of Tang thinks highly of his subordinates, if the subordinates fail His Highness's kindness again, they will be too ignorant of flattery."

The warrior Xun turned out to be recruited by Chen Sangliang himself? Everyone knows why Chen Sangliang valued the warrior Xun so much, but the members of the Li clan and the civil and military soldiers of the Sui Army inevitably had some inexplicable reasons. They couldn't understand why Chen Sangliang valued the warrior Xun so much. Over there, Chen Sangliang said with a smile: "General Wu doesn't have to be so modest. It's a pity that I invite you to join the Wang Shi. It's a pity that your talents are not met. I want you to show your strengths and achieve your ambitions in the Yining Wang Shi. I really didn't expect that after successfully inviting you to join the Yining Wangshi, there would be such an important windfall."

"Your Highness, is there any other important windfall?" Feng Deyi asked curiously.

"Of course it is the granary in Taiyuan." Chen Sangliang replied with a smile: "From Linfen to Taiyuan, our grain and grass are all transported by land. Every stone of grain sent to the front line costs nearly two stones. It is really overwhelmed. Our army Being able to get rid of such a burden and consumption is all thanks to General Wu and the generals Li."

Hearing this, Li Er and the others quietly breathed a sigh of relief, but after finishing the matter, Chen Sangliang added with a smile: "There is another very important point, if General Wu hadn't reported to the king, I would have How could the king know? Some people join the Yining king's division, but they still hold back the idea of becoming Murong's family."

a bolt from the blue! For Li Er and members of the Li family, Chen Sangliang's understatement is definitely a bolt from the blue! So much so that after hearing Chen Sangliang's words, the city mansion was as deep as Li Er couldn't help jumping up, but Chen Sangliang's guards in the tent were already prepared, and immediately drew their swords out of their sheaths. A group guarded every member of the Li clan from behind, first put their weapons on their necks, and then turned their arms back. At the same time, Yuchi Jingde immediately took a step forward and stood by Chen Sangliang's side for protection.

The incident happened suddenly, not to mention the face of everyone in the Li family changed drastically, most of the civil and military officials of the Sui army in the tent were all speechless, and Feng Li and Li Jiancheng's wife Zheng Guanyin, who were still in the tent at the moment, were also together. He screamed out, never dreaming that in the blink of an eye, members of the Li clan who had just betrayed Li Jiancheng and the Taiyuan Army would suddenly become Chen Sangliang's prisoners again.

"Murong generals, you must be wondering why General Wu knows about you?" Chen Sangliang spoke again, and said with a smile: "To tell you the truth, you underestimate the warrior general Xun. He is a teenager. He carried a load of tofu to travel across the country, and then sold all kinds of goods to do business to make money, and became a rich man. What kind of black shop has he never lived in? What kind of Mongolian sweat medicine has he never seen? At that time, your hangover soup had just been placed in front of him. He has already added special condiments in it, took a sip and didn't swallow it, put it in his mouth and pretended to be drunk and fell down, took the opportunity to overturn the hangover soup so that you can't see how much he drank, and played these tricks with the general, you still Too tender."

Li Er, Li Yuanji, and every member of the Li clan were ashen-faced, and their legs were trembling involuntarily. Chen Sangliang smiled at the warrior again: "General Wu, tell everyone the situation at that time, let us The civil servants and generals under this king have all heard with their own ears, what is the purpose of these generals Murong surrendering and offering the city."

The samurai sang Nuo, cleared his throat, and then briefly introduced what happened that night to the civil and military personnel of the Sui army, especially the situation where Li Er proposed to go to Chen Sangliang's command to imitate Murong Chui's conspiracy against the Lord, It also shows that everyone in the Li clan applauded and unanimously decided to wait for an opportunity to rebel under Chen Sangliang's command, kill Chen Sangliang and make a comeback. Everyone in the Li clan was as pale as paper when they heard this, while all the civil and military members of the Sui army were all ashen-faced, and people with bad tempers like Xue Renguo and Guo Feng even shouted angrily, "Kill them! Kill these shameless rebels!" thief!"

"Duke Qi, Governor of the Right, the last general still underestimates you." Feng Li, who swore his allegiance to Li Jiancheng, couldn't help but sneer, and said: "Before surrendering, I have already thought about how to rebel in the future. I really see far away. But This is not surprising, you can even turn against your own brother, let alone a stranger with a different surname? This time, I want to see what will happen to you!"

"General Feng is right." Chen Sangliang smiled and said, "It is true that this king is kind to those who surrender, but no matter how magnanimous this king is, he is eager to seek talents, and he will make a decision before he surrenders." When Murong Chui, looking for an opportunity to force this king to death, no matter how magnanimous this king is, he can't bear it? General Murong, tell yourself, how should this king repay your intentions?"

Faced with Chen Sangliang's problem of cat playing with a mouse, the second brother Li and the members of the Li clan were all sweating, sweat rolled on their foreheads, and their minds went blank. After a long time, Li Er was the first to come back to his senses. He screamed: "Your Highness, please forgive me. Your servant was just trying to persuade all the uncles and brothers to open the city and surrender, and just randomly quoted Murong Chui's allusions in a moment of confusion. It was not intentional rebellion!"

Hearing Li Er's words, the members of the Li clan who came to their senses one after another also begged for mercy, all insisting that they just used the wrong allusion in a moment of confusion and did not intend to rebel. Chen Sangliang sneered and said, "Used the wrong allusion in a moment of confusion? Why does this king think it doesn't look like it? If you really used the wrong allusion in a moment of confusion, why are you still discussing which of the king's subjects has the hope of becoming Murong Chui? Why do you think that Murong Chui has not yet appeared under this king's command, and believe that after you are under this king's command, you can ascend the throne and proclaim yourself emperor like Murong Chui, and force this king to die?"

After all, Chen Sangliang turned to Xue Renguo who was next to him and said with a smile: "General Renguo, I have something to tell you by the way. I mentioned you, thinking that you have hope for Murong Chui."

Xue Renguo, who was originally a gunpowder barrel temper, immediately burst into flames when he heard this, and immediately jumped up and yelled, asking who was talking nonsense, planting himself in an attempt to plot rebellion? The samurai Xun over there carried the whistleblower to the end, and immediately pointed at Li Shentong and Li Er. Li Er spat blood from the beating, and his teeth fell out. Li Er didn't dare to resist, and just wailed and begged for mercy: "Your Highness, spare your life, Your Highness, spare your life! Your Highness, you have given your ministers the gold medal to avoid death, and they will not die for life!"

"This king gave you the gold medal for avoiding death." Chen Sangliang said coldly: "But this king clearly wrote on the gold medal for avoiding death, except treason!"

Li Er was stunned for a while, only to realize that Chen Sangliang had actually set him up a long time ago. Although he had indeed issued a check, whether and how to cash it was still up to Chen Sangliang, who opened the bank. The final say. After waking up, Li Er also screamed in his heart with great remorse, "I've been tricked! I underestimated this bastard too much. He never thought of forgiving me from the very beginning, even if there is no such a bastard as Samurai Xun Informant, sooner or later he will accuse me of treason, and kill me with justification!"

Calmly glanced at Li Er and the others, Chen Sangliang spoke again, and said indifferently: "The Li clan deliberately rebelled, the evidence is convincing, and the crime should be exterminated! For the sake of your little meritorious service to this king, this king.net On the one hand, I will give you a whole corpse, escorted out of the tent, and hanged to death!"

"Your Highness, spare your life! Your Highness, spare your life!"

Li Yuanji, Li Shuliang and the others were all out of their wits, and hurriedly struggled together to beg for mercy, but Chen Sangliang's guards ignored them at all, forcing them to push them out of the account. However, at this moment, Qu Tutong quickly stood up and shouted: "Wait a minute! Your Highness, although everyone in the Li family deserves to die, they have just surrendered and made great contributions to our army. Put to death, I'm afraid that everyone who surrenders will be in danger! Also please His Highness extrajudicial grace, spare them not to die!"

Everyone in the Li family was overjoyed when they heard that, and hurriedly followed Qu Tutong's wishes and begged for their lives. Feng Deyi, Yuan Tiangang and others were also worried about the ensuing surrender, and they all stood up to plead for the Li family. It's a pity that Chen Sangliang yelled: "Don't forgive me! You have already discussed how to plot rebellion before surrendering. If you keep such a wolf-hearted person, you will cause future trouble! Why is everyone in danger? Xue Renguo, Wang Fubao, Feng Deyi, you all come from this place. Are you in danger if the king’s enemy camp surrenders? Are you afraid that this king will kill you like he did with the traitors of the Li family?!”

"Not afraid! Not dangerous!" Xue Renguo, Feng Deyi and other people who were named quickly shook their heads and denied it. Feng Deyi also said plausibly: "Your servants stand upright and loyal to His Highness. Naturally, there is no danger or fear. Only people like Li Rebels, shameless and despicable people who are unfaithful and unfilial, will be in danger of themselves."

"That's right, you are open and selfless, so naturally you don't need to be afraid or in danger." Chen Sangliang nodded in satisfaction, and said coldly, "Push it out, hang yourself!"

"ordinary man!"

At the same time that Chen Sangliang's guards promised to promise, Li Er suddenly roared, and like a mad lion, he threw away the two guards who clasped his hands, and then rushed towards Chen Sangliang with red eyes. The speed was so fast that even Yuchi Jingde, who was guarding beside Chen Sangliang, didn't have time to step forward to stop him. He could only reach out and grab Li Er's neck. Grabbing Chen Sangliang's throat, he roared like thunder, "I'll fight you!"

Before he finished speaking, Li Er's fingers touched the skin of Chen Sangliang's neck, but at this moment, Li Er suddenly felt a chill on his chest, as if something hard had been inserted into his body, subconsciously Looking down, Li Er saw in disbelief that a dagger had appeared in Chen Sangliang's right hand at some point, and the dagger had been directly inserted into his heart! Blood quickly stained Li Er's bright clothes red.

At the same time, Yuchi Jingde had already grabbed Li Er's neck, and grabbed his hands like lightning, pinching his wrist bones crackling.

Staring into Li Er's terrified eyes, Chen Sangliang said lightly: "Do you think that when I deal with people like you, I can be more careful? Not only did I wear soft armor in my underwear, but I also hid a bag in the shoe tube. The dagger really came in handy."

After calmly speaking, Chen Sangliang cut open Li Er's abdomen with a sharp dagger, and hot blood splashed on Chen Sangliang's face, but Chen Sangliang remained expressionless and said more calmly: "Don't worry. Well, I keep my word, I will leave you a whole body, and I will also record your meritorious deeds in the history books, which shows that you are just unlucky and unfortunately met this king's enemy."

After all, Chen Sangliang pulled out the dagger, and the blood sprayed again, and once again sprayed onto Chen Sangliang's face. Chen Sangliang, who had never opened his eyes on the battlefield, did not close Li Er's eyes until the blood flowed all over the ground, his breathing stopped, his eyes lost their luster...

At the same time, Xue Renguo and other generals of the Sui Army also neatly overthrew Li Yuanji and others who were trying to take the opportunity to cause trouble. After leaving the tent of the Chinese army, according to Chen Sangliang's order, they strangled everyone in the Li family to death one by one with white silk. The Li family either cursed out of remorse, or begged for mercy in tears, but they still avoided being killed. Bai Ling was strangled to death one by one, and everyone died with reluctance to die, and they didn't close their eyes until they died.

After ordering Li Er's body to be carried out of the tent for burial, Chen Sangliang also ordered Liu Dewei, a general of the Taiyuan army who had joined the rebellion of the Li clan, to be brought into the tent. Liu Dewei also said that he would die, but Chen Sangliang asked the warrior Xun whether Liu Dewei was involved in Li Er's rebellion. The warrior Xun truthfully stated that Liu Dewei was not involved, and Li Er and others did not trust Liu Dewei very much. Chen Sangliang nodded after hearing this, and said to Liu Dewei: "General Liu, since you did not participate in the rebellion of Li's rebels, then this king will not pursue it. I think you have contributed to the city, and this king will entitle you as the Marquis of Fenxi. General Marquis Wu, if you follow the army, you will be rewarded five hundred taels of gold and silver each, one thousand bolts of silk and satin, one hundred households in the food town, and actually thirty households. If you make meritorious service in the future, this king will naturally reward you heavily."

Liu Dewei was overjoyed when he heard this, and quickly saluted and thanked Chen Sangliang. Chen Sangliang waved him back, and then said to Feng Li who was still in the tent: "General Feng, have you seen it? This king treats loyal people with respect." What kind of reward, and how to deal with treacherous and despicable people? You are a loyal person, I will give you another chance, if you surrender now, this king will use it again, if you still refuse, then this king will not force you , and fulfill your loyalty, allowing you to commit suicide and martyrdom. But you can rest assured that your parents, wife and daughter, this king will not hold them accountable, and will keep your property for them, so that they will not suffer from cold and hunger .”

Feng Li is indeed a loyal person. Seeing that Chen Sangliang decisively executed Li Er and others who betrayed Li Jiancheng, forgiving the innocent Liu Dewei who was implicated and rewarding him as usual, and seeing that Chen Sangliang was really full of sincerity towards him, he hesitated. After a long time, Feng Li finally knelt down to Chen Sangliang and expressed his willingness to surrender. Chen Sangliang was overjoyed, and quickly helped Feng Li himself, and made Feng Li Wu Chengbo on the spot, General Huben, and gave him wine, food and medicine, and let him listen to the army.

It was also at the end that Chen Sangliang turned his attention to Zheng Guanyin, who had been so frightened for a while, and said very sincerely: "Sister-in-law, you are shocked. Originally, my younger brother could let you temporarily withdraw from the account, but my younger brother really wants you to leave the account. I told Brother Jiancheng everything I saw and heard, that’s why I kept you here. Now you can go, take my two little nephews back to Taiyuan Dongcheng, reunite with Brother Jiancheng, and explain what happened today Tell him everything."

Zheng Guanyin hurriedly agreed, and thanked Chen Sangliang, who shook his head and said, "Sister-in-law, you don't have to thank me. If you want to thank me, you can persuade Brother Chengcheng for me. Your Li family has only This last bit of bloodline made him think about the inheritance of the Li family's incense, Taiyuan Dongcheng is short of food, even if I don't have to flood the city, I can still break through it easily, and now he still wants to keep the Li family's incense in time."

Zheng Guanyin promised with tears, and left under the guidance of Chen Sangliang's guards. However, when she led Li Chengzong and Li Chengdao out of the big tent, Chen Sangliang chased her out and stopped her, saying to her: "Sister-in-law, If brother Jiancheng still refuses, you don’t have to force him, just tell him for me that if he still wants to break out of the encirclement and flee northward to Mayi and Mobei, then he will leave one of my little nephews behind no matter what, and I will take care of him for him. The nephew brought him up and passed on the incense to him."

Zheng Guanyin finally cried out, hugged the child and bowed to Chen Sangliangji, weeping uncontrollably, "Thank you, thank you uncle."