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Chapter 184 Chapter 193: Death of Cao Tian
Early the next morning, Dililarna prepared an army of [-], went to see Chakesuier, the envoy of Gaochang, and told Chakesuier the original words that Yipi Duolu wanted to increase the money. She thought that Chaksuier would not be able to It was determined that at least someone should be sent back to report to Qu Wentai. Unexpectedly, Chake Suier just smiled, nodded and agreed: "Okay, everything will be done according to Yipiduluhan's request." Sure enough, he is rich and self-willed.

Dililarna was also quite helpless, and could only take [-] troops and Chakesuier to Gaochang. Although there were many people and horses, they did not bring luggage and food, because all these would be provided by Gaochang, so they marched The speed is quite fast, and I arrived in Gaochang in only half a month.

The [-] troops did not enter Gaochang City, but went to Jiaohe City, because Gaochang City was too close to Xizhou, and the large-scale mobilization of troops could easily be detected by Xizhou, and Jiaohe City was located in the northwest of Gaochang, and it was also close to Tingzhou.

From the second day after the looting of the camp, Li Yuanzhong and Wang Yuantai searched everywhere for sulfur (realgar) and saltpeter. If they were in Guanzhong, it would be easy to find these things, but in Tingzhou, it was really difficult to find them. Li Yuanzhong even took them with him. More than 100 government soldiers went to the distant mountains to look for saltpeter.

Li Hao started busy ordering people to burn clay pots for gunpowder. To be honest, iron shells are the best for gunpowder. Pottery pots are easy to break, and if they are thrown out and broken, they will be duds Yes, but the current conditions are limited, and Li Hao has no extra pig iron, so he can only use clay pots, but his clay pots are so thick that they will not break when dropped on the ground, and they are almost solid. What can we do, Li Hao himself was also very helpless, the conditions were difficult, so he could only make do with it.

He doesn't need to do it himself to burn pottery pots, he only needs to supervise and inspect, and he also has to inspect the progress of the city wall construction. Although Li Hao defeated the Gaochang army, all the people in Tingzhou felt a sense of crisis and participated enthusiastically The fortifications of the city wall were built, and the labor was voluntary. No money was required, and the food was enough. Now more than 7000 people participated in the repair of the city wall, and they worked hard.

Every time Li Hao went out from the governor's mansion, he would see a person, that is Cao Tian, ​​who was locked in the prison car and placed on the street in front of the governor's mansion, and more than 30 soldiers from the governor's mansion took turns guarding him to prevent the public Get close, and don't throw sundries at him, because Li Hao is afraid of smashing him to death. He said that he would starve Cao Tian to death, so he must be starved to death.

It is now early summer, the sun in Tingzhou is very poisonous, and the surface temperature has exceeded [-] degrees. Cao Tian was just placed on the hot street, exposed to the poisonous sun, scorched by the hot air, and his broken lips were swollen. It was lumpy, continuously bleeding pus and blood, and attracted many flies to stare at him. In just one day, Cao Tian was tanned like a boiled lobster, bright red.

Seeing Cao Tian's sickly appearance, Li Hao felt that he was about to die, so he ordered to feed him more water tomorrow to ensure that he was alive, and then starved to death. He is usually very casual, but once he gets serious, then It is quite serious, if you want to starve him to death, you must starve him to death.

The next day, the guards fed Cao Tian water every other hour. Although Cao Tian knew that starving to death was painful, it was also painful to be sunburned and thirsty. Almost instinctively, he drank water crazily. I am thirsty, but I still want to drink, and my mouth hurts unbearably, but I still want to drink.

Drinking water was really helpful. Cao Tian endured another day. In the evening, Cao Tian's whole body had been sunburned and shed skin, his stomach was full of water, and he felt full, but when he drank too much water, he wanted to pee. Hao didn't have the kindness to let him go to the toilet, he could only pee on himself.After urinating twice, he felt very hungry and uncomfortably hungry. At this time, he cursed Li Hao crazily in his heart. If it weren't for Li Hao, he would still be able to cover the sky with one hand in Tingzhou, sitting on dozens of Wan Jiacai, eat whatever he wants, play whatever he wants, kill whoever he wants, Li Hao's appearance changed everything, he thought about it boredly, the reason why he lost to Li Hao, there are two factors, one is the five hundred right guards, and the other is Wang Yuantai.

If Li Hao hadn't been backed by five hundred right guards, Cao Tian wouldn't have to be afraid of Li Hao at all. The former governors are the best examples. In the end, it fell into the hands of such a small person, really not reconciled.

On the third day, Cao Tian still felt very hungry even though he drank water vigorously. After all, he hadn’t eaten for three days, and he still felt pain like cracking skin all over his body. Pray that Gao Chang quickly organizes an army to attack again, and quickly captures Tingzhou, and maybe he can save himself. This is his last hope, and it is also the only motivation for him to survive for so many days.

On the fourth day, Cao Tian was starving with starvation, his skin was really cracked by the sun, attracting more flies, his lips had begun to fester, and tiny maggots were already wriggling in the festering parts, but he couldn’t see it himself. That's all, he has only one thought in his mind at the moment, looking forward to the arrival of Gaochang's army soon.

On the fifth day, Cao Tian no longer had the energy to drink water, and his whole head was slumped on the prison car. Pus and blood flowed from the cracked skin on his body, which was stained with his clothes. His consciousness had begun to trance.

When Li Hao returned to the Governor's Mansion after inspecting the fortifications from the top of the city, he passed by Cao Tian, ​​stared at him for a long time, and asked coldly, "Is it painful?"

Cao Tian didn't reply, and he didn't have the strength to answer either.

Li Hao continued: "As a citizen of the Tang Dynasty, you have been persecuting the compatriots of the Tang Dynasty. Do you know how many people have been destroyed and their wives and children separated by you? Burning it down is not only a matter of counting Thousands of grains of grain, and probably tens of thousands of lives."

Cao Tian still didn't speak, just looked at Li Hao with drooping eyelids.

Seeing his pitiful appearance, Li Hao sighed softly, and said: "There is a way that a person who is about to die speaks well. You are now a person who is about to die. I don't know if you have the heart to repent. Just say something." I was wrong', I will let you be executed now, and let you be free."

Li Hao waited for a while, only to hear Cao Tian struggle to force out a word: "Get lost!"

Li Hao narrowed his eyes, and suddenly said in a deep voice, "Feiying, go get a basin of salt water!"

Feiying took the order to get a basin of salt water. Li Hao took the basin from Feiying and poured the basin of salt water on Cao Tian. Cao Tian raised his head and let out a heart-piercing scream. And he screamed endlessly. He who seemed to be on the verge of death was actually screaming so loudly now.

Salt water can disinfect the wound, but when the salt water flows into the wound, the pain is also very painful, which is a kind of cruel torture to Cao Tian, ​​who is already physically and mentally exhausted.

Li Hao handed the water basin back to Feiying, looked at Cao Tian coldly, and said, "Since your bones are so hard, then I will refresh you."

He turned around and glanced at the ambush guards, and ordered: "From now on, every hour, no matter day or night, pour a basin of salt water on him to refresh himself!"

"Yes!" All the government soldiers took orders in unison.

The people around pointed at this side, and praised Li Hao's behavior one after another. Cao Tian has harmed Tingzhou for many years, and the people have accumulated deep grievances. In this way, it is natural to applaud.

On the sixth day, Cao Tian was splashed with salt water every hour. His skin was cracked everywhere. The severe pain drove him almost crazy, squeezing his last energy.

At night, Cao Tian finally died, his energy was overdrawn, when the government soldiers found that no matter how much salt water was poured on him, there was no response, one of the government soldiers went up to check, and he was already dead, so he rushed into the The governor's office went to report to Li Hao.

Li Hao went out to check and confirmed that Cao Tian was indeed dead, so he ordered his body to be hung above the newly built city tower. It's hard to escape the crime.

Early the next morning, Wang Yuantai and Li Yuanzhong came to him together and offered Li Hao the sulfur and saltpeter they had searched for in the past few days, 37 catties of sulfur and 120 catties of saltpeter.

Looking at this poor material, and looking at Li Yuanzhong and Wang Yuantai's tired and hopeful looks, Li Hao really couldn't bear to hit them, so he could only sigh helplessly: "You have worked hard, these materials... I will use them first. "

Li Yuanzhong and Wang Yuantai understood the meaning of what he said, and thought it was too little, they didn't say much, they just left one sentence: "Let's look for it again!" After saying that, they ran away like the wind.

Li Hao ordered Feiying and others to move all the saltpeter and sulfur to the inner courtyard. First, let them help him grind the saltpeter into fine powder, then crush it into powder, collect it, burn some charcoal, and crush the charcoal into powder. This way all the ingredients are ready.

Next, Li Hao found a small scale, weighed out the three raw materials in proportion, mixed them, and the next step was the most important step, boiling the gunpowder.

(End of this chapter)