Great Tang princess

Chapter 343 Cut Weeds But Not Roots
After following Liu Huaiyu into the Dudu's Mansion, it was almost the You hour, and the clouds in the western sky had gradually been rendered orange-red, and the originally blue sky seemed to be covered with golden light.

Everyone entered the main hall of the Dudu's Mansion wearing the sunset light. Liu Huaiyu ordered his servants to serve tea quickly, and then hurriedly called the princess and others to sit down.

There were no seats yet, so everyone sat around a low table and knelt down.

After a while, the servants brought up the brewed tea, and Liu Huaiyu greeted him warmly: "Your Highness has been exhausted all the way, drink some tea and have a good rest."

"Thank you, Commander Liu." Li Yuechen nodded.

But he didn't go to get the cup immediately, Fulai behind him took a sip first, and let Li Yuechen drink after a while when he felt that there was nothing wrong.

As a royal princess, one should be cautious, and Liu Huaiyu didn't say anything about it.

The army had already been stationed outside the city, and the only staff who followed Li Yuechen into the city were Linghu Zhitong, Qiu Shenji, Geng Yunqiang and Zhong Qing.

"Liu Dudu should tell you as soon as possible, how is the enemy's movement now?" Li Yuechen asked before dinner.

"Returning to Your Highness, the enemy army left voluntarily three days ago. Afterwards, the lower officials also sent several scouts to inquire about their whereabouts, but none of them have returned yet." Liu Huaiyu replied respectfully.

Li Yuechen frowned: "No one came back? Are Xu Jingye's soldiers so capable?"

It stands to reason that soldiers in this era have not received professional anti-reconnaissance training, so it is difficult to find the existence of scouts.

Especially when retreating, the scouts followed and watched from afar, and it was difficult to find its exact location.

In this era, the only ones with this ability should be the army under him.

But in any case, now that we have reached this point, the first step must be to collect information first.

……

Liu Huaiyu couldn't find anything useful to ask here, so everyone didn't chat much, anyway, the time was almost up, so Liu Huaiyu arranged for everyone to have dinner first, and took this opportunity to welcome the princess well.

Because the stir-fry hadn't reached here yet, the dinner arranged by Liu Huaiyu wasn't as delicious, it was Hubing with roast lamb.

Li Yuechen was never someone who cared about these things, let alone other people. When they were fighting outside, it would be nice to have meat to eat, and they all sat behind their respective desks to feast on it.

Liu Huaiyu arranged to serve wine nearby, but was rejected by Li Yuechen: "The war is imminent, so don't drink!"

Hearing these words, Linghu Zhitong and Qiu Shenji, who were still looking forward to it, withered like eggplants beaten by frost.

Geng Yunqiang and the others didn't say anything, Li Yuechen's rules are like this, when there is a big event, you must not drink or touch a drop.

The white wine in the army's logistics department is used for disinfection, and each bottle is counted. If it is found that drinking during wartime, it will be dealt with directly by military law. There is nothing wrong with it!

Li Yuechen was taught by Liu Rengui to lead the troops, and at the same time combined a lot of things he learned during the military training. The most basic one is to distinguish between rewards and punishments!
Don't look at her being able to mingle with the soldiers at ordinary times, she doesn't seem to have the majesty of a princess or general, but no one dares to violate the military law!

"This...Your Highness won't go out tonight, right? A little..."

Liu Huaiyu wanted to persuade him a little bit, but when Li Yuechen turned his head and looked at him, he couldn't say the rest.

……

After the dinner was almost finished, Liu Huaiyu said with a smile: "Your Majesty has cleaned up the post house, Your Highness, please rest at ease tonight..."

"Don't worry," Li Yuechen waved his hand, and asked with a smile, "I don't know what kind of benefits Xu Jingye gave to make Liu Dudu betray Datang?"

As soon as this sentence was asked, both Linghu Zhitong and Qiu Shenji turned their heads subconsciously, not knowing why she asked such a question suddenly.

But Liu Huaiyu himself shrank his pupils, and then without any explanation, he threw the teacup in his hand to the ground, and at the same time shouted: "Do it!"

With a sound of "click", the teacup was thrown to pieces on the ground, at the same time Liu Huaiyu got up, pulled out a dagger from his back and rushed towards Li Yuechen.

"presumptuous!"

"you dare!"

Linghu Zhitong and Qiu Shenji roared at the same time, and were about to rush over to counter him, but it was already too late.

Originally, the distance between him and Li Yuechen was not far away, and he had taken the lead, and he was almost in front of her at this time.

However, Li Yuechen remained calm and sat where he was, but suddenly stretched out his hand and slapped the low table in front of him away.

Although this kind of table case may look low, it is basically made of solid wood and weighs at least [-] kilograms. Few of them can be picked up by ordinary people with one hand.

However, Li Yuechen was different, she had the strength of a horse in one arm, and this thing was basically heavier than a plastic toy in her hands.

With a sound of "kuang", the table that was shot flying flew a few times in the air, and directly hit Liu Huaiyu's body.

At the same time as the dagger in his hand was blown away, his chest felt as if he had been hit by a truck. He flew upside down for two or three meters before falling to the ground with a muffled sound.

At the same time, the back door of the main hall suddenly opened, and a group of soldiers in armor and holding horizontal knives rushed in. It was obvious that Liu Huaiyu's call to do it just now was an order for them.

But at the same time, the main entrance was kicked open with a "bang" sound, and a dozen soldiers in camouflage uniforms and holding light hand axes also rushed in. They were Li Yuechen's bodyguards.

Because everything that happened just now was so fast, when the soldiers from both sides rushed in, what they saw was the scene where Liu Huaiyu just fell to the ground.

The soldiers he arranged didn't seem to expect such an ending, and they all froze in place after entering.

On the contrary, the soldiers on Li Yuechen's side didn't hesitate at all, they surrounded her as quickly as possible to protect her, and looked solemnly at the soldiers holding horizontal knives in front of them.

Although they were all wearing armor, the hand axes used by the Qianniu Guards were originally made to break through armor. In a real fight, this side had the upper hand.

Li Yuechen took a step forward, looked at the soldiers and said: "Speaking of which, you are also obeying orders. If you put down your weapons, I can let the past go. But if you are obsessed, don't blame my subordinates for being merciless!"

These soldiers looked at each other, and one of the soldiers immediately let go, and the horizontal knife fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

Seeing this, the other soldiers also dropped their weapons to express their surrender.

After all, now that Liu Huaiyu is lying down, there is no need to continue to work hard for him.

Li Yuechen also breathed a sigh of relief. To be honest, she really didn't want to kill her own people. Since they were willing to surrender, there was no need for them to fight each other.

She came to Liu Huaiyu who was lying on the ground, and knelt down to check.

He was hit in the chest by the solid wood table, his ribs were all broken, and even the broken bones were pierced into the internal organs, and he was lying on the ground vomiting blood non-stop.

His breathing sounded like a bellows with a hole in it, obviously more air was coming out and less air was being taken in.

Seeing Li Yuechen approaching, he asked with difficulty: "Your Highness... how do you know..."

"You have too many loopholes..." Li Yuechen shook his head lightly, but didn't intend to say anything more to him.

In fact, when he first entered the city, he said that Li Yuechen felt that something was wrong with the person who sent the message several times.

If Liu Huaiyu really had no intention of surrendering, then a righteous refusal would be enough. Why did the messengers need to come and go to the city several times?
Obviously, this is the idea of ​​negotiating conditions, not to mention the attitude is not right. Since Li Yuechen was surrounded three days ago, Li Yuechen should come here as if seeing a savior. I wish she would kill Xu Jingye as soon as possible.

However, Liu Huaiyu didn't mention this, and just warmly entertained him for dinner and tea...

Li Yuechen originally asked that question just to test it out, but she didn't expect that Liu Huaiyu would really ambush someone to deal with her.

Liu Huaiyu seemed to want to say something more, but she couldn't say anything. After coughing a few times out of instinct, she tilted her head and died.

Li Yuechen frowned and regretted not asking some information from him.

Just throwing the table subconsciously, if there is still some reaction time, maybe other methods will be used to control it, so maybe I can ask something.

As for why Liu Huaiyu dared to attack him, the answer is too simple.

If he would rather die than surrender here, at most he will receive some rewards, and it is impossible to continue to rise.

But if Xu Jingye became the emperor, it would be different. It would be equal to the power of the dragon, and a prime minister would not be able to escape.

"Hong Feng!"

"To!"

Li Yuechen stood up and immediately issued an order: "From now on, the Qianniu Guards will take over Chuzhou City! All the Qianniu Guards will enter and station in the city, guard the city walls, and at the same time ensure the security of the city!"

"Yes!"

Geng Yunqiang saluted and agreed, and immediately turned around to handle it.

"Fulai, I'll write a letter, you send someone to send it back, it's five hundred li urgently!"

"Here!" Fulai immediately agreed.

Then Li Yuechen turned his head and said: "The two generals first let the army station outside the city, and the Palace will send Qianniu Guards to investigate and guard. If there are traces of enemy troops around, they must leave at any time!"

"Yes!" Linghu Zhitong and Qiu Shenji agreed at the same time, and immediately went to prepare.

After issuing the order, Li Yuechen sighed, secretly thinking in his heart that the flag should not be set up, and now he may not be able to go back years ago.

It would take nearly a month to send it back five hundred li in a hurry, and then send a new governor over. It would be the beginning of December.

……

Qianniuwei's speed was very fast. When Li Yuechen finished writing the letter and asked Fulai to send it, he had already entered the city and officially took over Chuzhou City.

The soldiers on duty on the city wall have been replaced by Qianniuwei. At the same time, the military power of thousands of soldiers in the city has also been temporarily taken over by Li Yuechen.

After 10 minutes, Geng Yunqiang brought a group of people who were tied up to Li Yuechen.

These people are all Liu Huaiyu's family members, and they are all tied up now.

After learning about Liu Huaiyu's assassination of the princess, everyone was crying, crying that they didn't know and it had nothing to do with them.

"Your Highness, how should we deal with it?" Geng Yunqiang asked.

Li Yuechen looked at the group of women and children crying in front of him, and raised his eyebrows slightly.

To be honest, she has always paid attention to a person who has a wronged person and a debtor. If Liu Huaiyu's crimes committed by killing all his family members together, it would be a bit difficult to do so.

What's more...Looking at those two little boys who were only in their teens, who were also tied up and crying, I felt a little complicated.

After thinking about it, Li Yuechen stood up and walked towards the two little boys.

The woman next to her cried loudly: "Your Highness, please let go of the two children! Please, Your Highness, let them go!!"

She kowtowed to the ground while crying, and soon there was blood on her forehead, but she still didn't stop.

Li Yuechen stretched out her two hands, and gently placed them on the heads of the two little boys, but surprisingly, she didn't do any unnecessary movements, but just gently stroked the tops of their heads.

Feeling her warm palm, the two little boys gradually stopped crying, and raised their heads in a daze, with tears still in the corners of their eyes, looking at Li Yuechen who was smiling in front of them.

The woman next to her was also a little dazed, not knowing what she meant for a while.

"Liu Huaiyu assassinated me and has now been executed! However, his crimes will not implicate you." Li Yuechen said with a smile.

Everyone around turned their heads to look over, including the woman, and felt very incredible.

Li Yuechen looked at the two little boys, chuckled and continued, "You guys must always remember that Liu Huaiyu is guilty! Therefore, his descendants and grandchildren are not allowed to serve as officials in the imperial court! You two, if you grow up to be big If Tang does good deeds, I will be very pleased. But if you want revenge, you can come! But remember, by then, I will not show mercy!"

After finishing speaking, she smiled, let go of the heads of the two little boys, stood up and waved her hands: "Okay, untie them and let them go!"

The woman immediately came to her senses and kowtowed non-stop with her two children: "Thank you, Your Highness, for not killing me!!!"

Li Yuechen didn't say much, he waved his hand and asked Geng Yunqiang to take them down.

The student next to him, Zhong Qing, didn't quite understand, so she asked, "Why did Your Highness let them go?"

"My Tang people, not everyone will rebel!" Li Yuechen turned around and explained, "Cutting weeds and exterminating roots is just a temporary pleasure, but it is not good for the future. You should also remember that invincibility is not a good thing. Enemies can remind you to keep improving and move forward!"

"Letting go of them today is also a reminder to myself. Because there is no telling when they will come to me for revenge when they grow up! Therefore, for the rest of my life, I will be more careful and try my best to make the country better and the system more perfect... Prevent giving them such an opportunity!"

Speaking of this, she turned her head and looked at her students: "You are still young now, maybe you will become a general in the army in the future! But even then, you must remember that you should not enjoy yourself because of being in a high position. , otherwise, there is a possibility of eternal doom!"

(End of this chapter)