"Presumptuous!" Li Hong turned around, his face darkened, and he kicked Li Jingye in the chest. Before Li Jingye's body could roll down the steps, he heard a sudden scream from Li Jingye's mouth. scream.
Neither Li Hong nor Bai Chun, who had already run up to him, nor Yue King Li Zhen and Langya King Li Chong, who were kneeling on the ground, could see clearly what was going on, and they didn't know why Li Jingye suddenly let out such a tragic cry. scream.
With a click, a bead-like object, dripping with blood, suddenly fell from the air, hit the steps, and then rolled down in front of Yue Wang Li Zhen.
Li Zhen subconsciously touched the bloody thing with her hand. As soon as she touched it, she immediately realized that it was an eyeball. She felt as if she had seen a ghost. She screamed strangely and retracted her fingers at the same time, trembling back. Climb two steps.
The horrified Yue King Li Zhen and the Langya King Li Chong, whose face was as pale as paper, both looked at Li Hong who kicked him away. After falling to the ground, he struggled to stand up again. One hand was still firmly held by Haidong Qing. Li Jingye was caught.
At this time, Li Jingye's face was covered with blood, and his expression was ferocious and miserable. His left eye was like a blood hole, bleeding out. His right eyeball had already been pecked out by Haidong Qing's steel-like beak, but because of A trace of something like a ribbon is connected, hanging on the face at the moment.
The pain made Li Jingye scream even more pitifully. Haidongqing also showed fierceness, his screams penetrated the clouds and mist, his ruthless and cold eyes were staring at the eye sockets, the beak as hard as iron, and he was ruthlessly and cruelly biting Peck at the two bloody holes.
At the same time, he flapped his wings to resist the attack from Li Jingye's other hand. During the struggle, the feathers on his wings fell off one by one and floated messily in the air.
Li Hong was unmoved, his eyes were cold and deep, and he quietly watched Hai Dongqing torture Li Jingye.
Bai Chun, who was in her arms, could no longer bear to look at Li Jingye, who was thrashing around in the courtyard. His head was buried tightly in Li Hong's chest, and his hands were tightly covering his ears.
Li Jingye, who was blind, had disheveled hair, face covered with blood, and looked like a ghost. He staggered around the courtyard, his severed head rolling around under his feet. From time to time, he would stumble on his feet. Hai Dongqing grabbed his head and body, but immediately got up from the pool of blood, slapped him randomly, and held on to one of his arms.
Li Hong seemed to have deliberately wanted Yue King Li Zhen and Langya King Li Chong to appreciate the inhumane scene in front of them. The screams and ruthless cries made people's scalp numb and goosebumps all over their bodies.
The entire courtyard itself was filled with headless bodies and heads with closed eyes and blood stains. The smelly air made people want to vomit several times. The blood on the ground gradually dried up and turned into dark red.
"Give me a pleasure, please, Your Highness the Crown Prince... ah..." Li Jingye shrank in the corner, protecting his blind eyes with one hand, and his messy hair flew up when Hai Dongqing picked it up, and even took it with him. Small pieces of scalp flew to the ground.
"Give him a good time." Li Hong said lightly, only to feel that Bai Chun's whole body went limp in his arms, and the whole body seemed to be hanging around his neck as if he had no bones.
Unable to lift the knife and drop it, Li Jingye's head instantly flew into the sky. Hai Dongqing flew up immediately, chirped again, and then turned into a black shadow and flew to nowhere.
The head fell in mid-air, as if unable to do it intentionally, and fell from the air in front of the father and son of Yue King Li Zhen and Langya King Li Chong.
A pair of blood holes were still leaking blood. At this moment, they were looking at the two of them quietly, as if they were silently telling them something, which made people extremely frightened and horrified.
"Your Highness, what should I do with Your Majesty?" Bai Chun buried his head in his chest and asked in a low voice.
"I can't control that much anymore. If they don't die, the other royal families think that I, Li Hong, is easy to bully, and they thought they could take advantage of it. Who knows if something like this will happen again in the future? So we must kill them as a warning to others." Li Hong spread out Bai Chun. He took the secret letter with his hand and said.
Li Zhen, the king of Yue, and Li Chong, the king of Langya, knelt at the foot of the steps. At this moment, they didn't care that the blood on the ground was stained on their clothes. They kowtowed and begged Li Hong for forgiveness.
Li Hong's words were like the sharp sword in the executioner's hand. Li Zhen and Li Chong were frightened when they heard it. They could only shout and even lost the courage to stand up and resist.
"Then it will be safely arranged. Tomorrow, together with King Cao's body, we will send it back to Chang'an by water." Li Hong held up Bai Chun's limp body with one hand and walked to the place where the coffin was placed in the courtyard. He paused and looked at the bodies of King Yue and King Langya. Looking back, he patted the coffin with his other hand and said.
"Yes, Your Highness." Lawless bowed and said.
Dragging some heavy steps, Li Hong slowly walked out of Prince Yue's mansion. The carriage was already ready at the door. He walked to the carriage, helped Bai Chun get on the carriage, and said to the people next to him, Mang Zhong and Cheetah: "Dismiss everyone." Ambush, after the matter here is over, let King Luo Bin go to Manjiang Garden to find me."
"Yes, Your Highness. Your Highness, the ministers from Menxia Province, Zhongshu Province, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, including the Yushitai, are expected to arrive in Yangzhou City before the sun sets." Cheetah whispered.
"I know, let them go directly to Manjiang Garden when they arrive." Li Hong nodded and said.
If it was easy to quell this seemingly simple war, it only meant that he had done everything he could in the early stages. The only surprise was why the King of Yue opened the door to his palace.
But after the war subsided, if Yangzhou wanted to restore the city to its former glory as quickly as possible, it would take a long time to slowly recover.
What's more, the current main officials in Yangzhou, Li Jingye and Wei Siwen, have been killed by him, leaving only one to join the army. The other Yangzhou officials were either sent by Li Jingye to assist Li Jingyou and others in the capture of Runzhou. At this time, Yangzhou was already a city without officials.
Fortunately, in Yangzhou City at this time, the functional departments of the government are not busy with endless political affairs every day, and the people will not turn into a turbulent city just because the government offices are temporarily empty.
General Pei Zhong had no choice but to take the order and lead the three thousand pagoda battalion to continue patrolling the streets and alleys of Yangzhou City to prevent possible civilian riots in Yangzhou City and the noble and wealthy families taking advantage of the situation to rob them.
The demobilized soldiers also need to be supervised by the military. No one can predict whether these soldiers, who have no sense of right and wrong in their subconscious minds, will have the intention to commit crimes on the way back.
Therefore, the repatriated ambush troops also need to be supervised by a large number of troops until they are all demobilized in batches.
At this time in Yangzhou, Li Hong would realize that he did not have enough manpower at all, so as soon as people from Zhongshu Province, Menxia Province, Libu and Yushitai arrived at Manjiang Garden, Li Hong arranged for them After a simple meal, he immediately devoted himself to the political affairs of maintaining order in Yangzhou.
A minister in charge of the secretariat, a minister under the door, a minister in the official department, and Zhongcheng in the censorship. These four people are in each department according to Li Hong's requirements, but except for the second person after the first officer, it has to be said that this Once they paid attention to the will of the East Palace.
Li Hong took the list of four people and tried to figure out the attitude of his father and mother. The four people went south to Yangzhou. It was impossible for his father and mother to not know about it. But with these four people, they were equivalent to moving half of the imperial court to Jiangnan. The emperor and his mother didn't even ask them, and they didn't even issue a decree to themselves about why they wanted these four people to go to the south of the Yangtze River.
Could it be that something happened in Chang'an that the father and mother had no time to take care of, or were they too lazy to take care of themselves
"Is there anything big going on in Chang'an or Luoyang recently? Something for my father and mother to focus on." Li Hong put down the list of four people on the table and looked at Bai Chun and asked.
"Not yet. We have hidden our whereabouts a few days ago. Even Xiaoxue and the others can't contact us. So if something happens in Chang'an or Luoyang, if we want to know, we will have to find out tomorrow night, or even the day after tomorrow." Bai Chun's face was pale and weak, as if he was seriously ill.
During dinner today, when Bai Chun saw the meat on the table, he couldn't help but think of the inhumane and maddening scene in Prince Yue's Mansion during the day, so he didn't care whether he was rude in front of Zhongshu and the other disciples. , immediately ran out and vomited all over the place.
Even now, she still hasn't eaten enough. Whenever she sees food, let alone meat, she will immediately think of those bloody and stinky scenes.
"What will happen in Chang'an?" Li Hong held the tea cup in his hand and thought playfully: "Could it be related to the incident in Yangzhou?"
Bai Chun sat helplessly on the chair. At the moment, his mind was groggy and he had no ability to think at all. Facing Li Hong's question, he just curled up weakly on the chair and shook his head feebly.
"If it has something to do with Yangzhou, then it must have something to do with Lao Liu?" Li Hong held the tea cup and muttered to himself: "If I were Lao Liu, and I thought that Yangzhou could be achieved, then for the sake of the crown prince "What do you need to do in Chang'an?"
Looking at the groggy Bai Chun, Li Hong had no choice but to sigh helplessly, picked up Bai Chun who was curled up in the chair, slowly walked into the bedroom, placed him gently on the bed, and covered him with a towel. The bed is thin and quilty.
Looking at Bai Chun's hand that wouldn't let go, he kissed Bai Chun gently on the cheek, patted her hand, and then slowly walked out. Looking at Princess Dalai who was eavesdropping at the door, Li Hong stared. He glanced at her and then said: "Bai Chun was a little frightened today. Since you are fine, why not go in and stay with her."
"Why don't you accompany her?" Princess Dalai asked with a pout.
"Don't you want to go to Chang'an anymore? I will have to... in a few days."
"Hmph!" Princess Dalai looked at Li Hong and snorted disdainfully, then gently opened the door and walked in.
(End of chapter)