Li Jingye looked at the note Li Hong threw to him repeatedly in disbelief, with trembling hands and angry eyes. After a while, he suddenly crumpled the note into a ball in his hand and dropped it to the ground angrily.
"I don't believe that Li Jingyou, Li Jingzhen, and Li Zongchen are dead! Do you think such a little trick can make me believe it?" Li Jingye couldn't believe the fact that his two younger brothers and his loyal men were assassinated by Li Hong.
"Whether you believe it or not, you are getting farther and farther away from your goal of becoming king and prime minister." Li Hong's eyes were sharp, and there was Hai Dongqing with even sharper eyes standing on his shoulder, giving people a look of disdain. The feeling of coercion in the world.
When Li Jingye faced the fierce Li Hong in front of him, he couldn't help but start beating the drum in his heart. Looking at the ashen faces of Yue King Li Zhen and Langya King, he felt even more uneasy.
The sound of horse hoofbeats sounded outside the door again, which suddenly made Li Jingye's heart drop to the bottom.
According to the agreement between him and Li Hong, no one's soldiers and horses were allowed to move around at will before the terms were negotiated. They monitored each other, but at this moment, Bai Chun suddenly ran over easily.
what 's wrong? What's going on outside? How could his own soldiers let them come without any obstruction
Three well-made coffins were slowly moved in under Bai Chun's command. Without Li Hong's instructions, soldiers picked up King Cao's body and placed it in a new coffin.
The remaining two coffins were placed aside, and Wei Siwen was not placed in the coffins.
The situation before them made King Li Zhen of Yue and King Langya look even paler. As expected, these two coffins were obviously prepared for them.
Li Jingye looked at the remaining two coffins, then glanced at King Yue and King Langya as if they were looking at dead people, and asked, knowingly: "What does the prince mean by this?"
"It's very gracious to put a coffin in Wei Siwen's body after his death, but you don't need to, because you will die in the wilderness." Li Hong glanced at Li Jingye, then saw Bai Chun walking closer, and said lightly: "Everything is under control outside. , including the soldiers in the mansion, all the generals have also been controlled. "
After Li Jingye, King of Yue Li Zhen, and King of Langya Li Chong heard Bai Chun's words, they all looked at each other, somewhat understanding, but also somewhat confused as to what Bai Chun meant by his words.
"Bring them here and execute them right here!" Li Hong snorted coldly, then walked to the door of the hall and looked down at the door.
After a while, a group of government soldiers with rank of captain and above, led by Generals Lawless, Wei Tuqi, and Pei Zhong, were led in tied up.
Li Jingye's face turned completely pale, he couldn't help but look at Li Hong, and suddenly realized that he had been fooled!
There were no spies planted by Li Hongan in the Zhechong Mansion that he firmly controlled, and... King Luo Bin betrayed him... No, he didn't rebel at all. He had always been the prince's man and was sent to his side.
"You...you actually lied to me?" Li Jingye was shocked and asked dryly as he looked at the school captain, lieutenant general, captain, etc. who were all tied up.
And Langya King Li Chong naturally discovered from those few people that when he led the troops into the mansion before dawn, the school captains, Zhonglang generals, and the captain were also there.
Seeing this, he couldn't help but turn his attention to the Yue King Li Zhen. His father's guess was wrong. The prince did not send any internal troops to the army at all. This Zhechong Mansion was the same as the Zhechong Mansion in Li Jingye's hands. They are all completely their own.
"You have not thought about peace talks, you are just delaying the war!" Li Jingye and Yue Wang Li Zhen asked in unison.
Li Hong, standing at the top of the steps, glanced at Bai Chun, then at Lawless and others below, smiled and said: "Peace talks? Why should I negotiate with you? Are you worthy?"
There were 3,000 people in the Futu camp, and most of them were replaced by King Luo Bin to the nine Zhechong mansions in Yangzhou City. However, in order not to alert the enemy, and to protect himself from Li Jingye finding out that he had second thoughts, King Luo Bin never dared to get involved with Li Jingye and Li Jingye. The Zhechong Mansion controlled by the King of Yue and others.
This also allowed Li Jingye and Yue Wang Li Zhen to maintain their absolute control over Zhe Chong Mansion, preventing Li Hong from infiltrating personnel into it.
Bai Chun's Jingwei were only suitable for assassination, not combat, so when King Luo Bin replaced Zhe Chongfu, he secretly replaced all the elites available to the Jingwei into the army led by Li Jingyou, Li Jingzhen and Li Zongchen.
The purpose was that once Li Jingye ordered them to set off from Yangzhou or other camps and prepare to capture the city, they would begin the beheading operation customized by Jingwei to assassinate Li Jingyou, Li Jingzhen and Li Zongchen.
In this way, when facing the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, they would collapse because their commander was assassinated before they had time to attack, and the people of Jinling, Runzhou, and Changzhou would be thrown into war.
So when Li Hong received Hai Dongqing's message, a real smile of relief appeared on his face, and he no longer feared the 100,000 troops outside Li Jingye's city.
The purpose of inducing them to negotiate peace and bringing Li Jingye into the Prince of Yue's Mansion was to get rid of Li Jingye. In order for Bai Chun and others to negotiate with Li Jingye's soldiers when they came back from buying and selling coffins, Li Jingye would be missing. After the backbone, before there is no idea for the time being, this creates opportunities for Wei Tuqi, Lawless and others to control Li Jingye, the chief general of the Zhechong Mansion.
The development of the matter could not all be planned by Li Hong. What he did not expect was that when he was outside the Prince of Yue's Mansion and had just reached the terms of peace talks with Li Jingye, the door of the Prince of Yue's Mansion suddenly opened.
Adhering to the principle that every movement is worse than silence, Li Hong did not see any soldiers rushing out of the mansion, and he and Li Jingye rode horses to the gate of the mansion, fearing that they could run faster if there was an ambush.
But what he didn't expect was that he didn't see a single soldier at the door of the mansion. What he saw was King Li Zhen of Yue and King Langya standing at the door of the hall, ready to be captured.
Li Hong and Li Jingye at the door were both stunned at the time, not understanding what was going on! But he had already reached the door, so he had no choice but to take advantage of the situation. He and Li Jingye walked straight in and started peace talks with the King of Yue.
The reason why Li Hong didn't ask the King of Yue why he opened the door of the palace was because he was afraid that the King of Yue would suddenly become suspicious and ruin the good deeds of General Pei Zhong who sneaked in quietly.
So until now, Li Hong didn't know why the King of Yue wanted to open the gates of his palace.
This was also the reason why when he was talking to Li Jingye, he focused most of his attention on the King of Yue. He forgot to answer Li Jingye's words several times and only focused on testing the thoughts of the King of Yue and others.
Li Jingye still didn't believe that his huge advantage and bargaining chip had disappeared without a trace in such an instant, so he said without giving up: "Your Highness, you must know that Li Jingyou and others outside the city are without me. They will not stop attacking the city under my orders. If you kill me, you will be the culprit of putting the people of the three states in war!"
Li Hong didn't even look at him and said calmly: "Execution."
As Li Hong's words fell, the sound of Hengdao being unsheathed sounded in front of the hall. In an instant, dozens of cold and sharp Hengdao flashed with dazzling light in the sun.
Bai Chun didn't want to see such a bloody side, so he slowly walked into the hall alone.
I heard a command behind me, the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, and even an exclamation from King Langya.
After a while, the entire hall and even the outside began to be filled with a thick, pungent smell of blood that made people want to vomit.
In the courtyard outside the hall, dozens of heads rolled onto the ground in disorder, and the blood from their necks sprayed on the stone floor. In an instant, most of the courtyard became homeless. The blood was like water, but it was still quiet. Swimming downwards.
Without Li Hong's order, dozens of headless corpses lay quietly in the courtyard, their heads stained with blood, and their lifeless hair dyed red and black with blood.
Hai Dongqing on Li Hong's shoulder became impatient because of the smell of blood in the air. He was not jumping around on Li Hong's shoulder, but because he couldn't fly over without Li Hong's order, he was anxious. It screamed involuntarily.
The faces of Yue Wang Li Zhen and Langya Wang Li Chong turned pale. They resisted the nauseating smell of blood and almost wanted to vomit, but they were forced to hold it back. In this way, their expressions were different from those of the torsoless heads. His face had the same color, gradually turning green.
With two "pops", Yue King Li Zhen was the first to fall to the ground. King Langya was unable to stand, and followed his father, who also fell to the ground with a blue face.
King Li Zhen of Yue climbed a few steps forward with difficulty, knelt down at the foot of the steps, and said with difficulty: "Your Highness, I request that for the sake of the royal family and Your Majesty, please leave me a complete body."
At this time, all he could think about was Li Chong's negligence in lifting King Cao just now, and King Cao's head suddenly seemed to be broken and swaying.
Now that they knew that the death penalty was inevitable, they hoped that Li Hong could leave a whole body for them instead of having his body and head separated like King Cao.
Hai Dongqing's eyes turned sharply back and forth. Just as Li Zhen was speaking, and Li Hong slowly turned to look at Li Zhen and Li Chong, Li Jingye suddenly took a lunge and rushed up from the bottom of the steps, holding in his hand At some point, a dagger appeared and stabbed Li Hong straight at him.
"Be careful." Bai Chun turned around and immediately saw Li Jingye's dazzling dagger stabbing Li Hong in the heart.
But before she could run up to Li Hong and deliver the blow for Li Hong, Shanghai Dongqing suddenly screamed on Li Hong's shoulder, and her wings flew like sharp claws made of cast iron, flying as fast as lightning in the air. He grabbed Li Jingye's wrist holding the dagger.
Then there was another high-pitched, scalp-numbing cry. Hai Dongqing flapped his wings vigorously, grabbed Li Jingye's arm, and raised it high above Li Jingye's head.
Li Jingye couldn't hold back his momentum, and his body that was charging forward was suddenly caught in the air by Hai Dongqing, who grabbed his wrist and dragged him back from moving forward.
Suddenly there was a heartbreaking pain in his wrist. When he looked up, the moment the dagger fell, he saw blood flowing from his wrist up his arm.
(End of chapter)