People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 852 Internal strife, bloodshed, and killing

On the banks of the Tiebojia River, countless Tang soldiers began to work hard to widen the river channel on the south bank.

Although there hasn't been much water recently, which makes it easier for them to move, it's still confusing.

Li Xuan rode across the river bank, looked at Su Baotong on one side, and asked, "How is the situation upstream?"

"Water has been stored in the dam." Su Baotong followed Li Xuan and reported seriously: "According to the prince's request, the dam will be completely built in three days."

"Yes!" Li Xuan nodded slightly, put her hand on the hilt of the Eight-sided Han Sword, and then looked up at Su Hegui who had just arrived on the city wall.

He could clearly see the look of horror and fear in Su Hegui's eyes.

With a chuckle, Li Xuan turned around and quickly headed towards the camp.

On top of the city, looking at the increasingly thin water in the Tiebojia River, how could everyone present not know what Li Xuan wanted to do.

"Is he crazy? What good will it do to him if he destroys Fuqi City?" General Su Anxi, who had just returned from the front line, was angry and angry. As he waved his huge fist, everyone around him was frightened and fell back. A few steps.

"They don't have enough food and wages. Since they can't feed the whole city, they will simply destroy everyone in the city. In this way, they can go to fight against Tubo without any worries." Chi Hongzang came up from one side.

His thin body seemed to kill him instantly if he was punched.

Even Su Anxi restrained her fists in an instant.

Su Hegui looked at Chi Hongzang calmly and said softly: "Brother Chi, what do you have in mind?"

"Don't dare." Chi Hongzang looked at Su Hegui with worry on his face and said: "Guardian, since yesterday, hundreds of households in the city have not had a grain of rice. Even my family has no food left. If it exceeds three days, if there is no food supplement after three days, then we, too, may starve to death."

"What else, keep talking." Su Hegui looked at Chi Hongzang coldly.

With a "plop", the sixty-year-old Chi Hongzang knelt down directly in front of Su Hegui, and then lowered his head in worship: "Daduhu, please, please take out some of the food stored at home so that the people in the city can survive. .”

With a "bang", Chi Hongzang hit the ground hard, and then "bang bang bang" three or four times in a row. He was extremely sincere and choked with sobs and begged: "I beg you, please open a warehouse to help the people." , otherwise we really won’t be able to survive.”

Seeing this scene, Su Hegui suddenly felt chills all over his body.

Looking at Chi Hongzang, Su Hegui's eyes had already stared hard, as if he wanted to eat people.

The people on one side were already extremely shocked when they witnessed this scene with their own eyes.

Because from the past few days, there have been rumors in the city that Su Hegui kept a huge private warehouse at home. There was a large amount of food accumulated in the warehouse, enough for the whole city to eat and drink for a month.

The big families in the city were initially dubious about this news. After all, they all knew that anyone with an official position would make a fortune from their own family, let alone a protector like Su Hegui. The private collection at home is many times more than that of ordinary people.

But although that is true, if he says that he has enough food for the whole city to eat for a month, not many people will believe it.

But now, Chi Hongzang fell to his knees and begged sincerely, hoping that Su Hegui could open a warehouse to help the people, which confirmed that he did have a large amount of food in his home.

In an instant, everyone looked at Su Hegui with eyes filled with hatred and longing.

With a "bang", Ren Enci on one side knelt down, then crawled to the ground, and said with great sincerity: "Please protect the people and open the warehouse to help the people."

Like dominoes, someone started, and everyone knelt down one after another, and at the same time sincerely called: "Please open a warehouse to help the people."

"You, you..." Su Anxi looked at all the people kneeling in front of her in shock and anger, and her hand had already tightly grasped the handle of the knife.

Su Hegui ignored the others, just stared at Chi Hongzang, and said softly: "Brother Chi, I have never treated you badly since that incident, why do you do this today?"

"Dad Protector, in the current situation, either we kneel down and beg for surrender to the King of Nanchang, or we surrender to Murong Nuohebo, but no matter what, the food and grass we need must be dispatched from Tang Ting. With what happened back then, how can Tang Ting be sincere? Treat me.

When the time comes, we hand over the blade, but we can't get food in exchange, and we end up stretching our necks to be chopped off by others. We might as well grit our teeth and persist, wait for Tibet to defeat the Tang Dynasty, and then survive. "Chi Hongzang looked sad. Who can do anything about the current situation.

"So, if you go to see the King of Nanchang, he will not agree to your surrender." Su Hegui pursed his lips with a sneer. He has controlled Fuqi City for more than ten years, and any disturbance in the city cannot be hidden from his eyes. Although Chi Hongzang and others work in secret, their every move is under his watch.

"The King of Nanchang has no food in his hands." Chi Hongzang sighed deeply, and finally looked at the Tang army outside the city, and said softly: "It is precisely because of this that he began to expand the river channel and wait for the raging river water to overwhelm the city; after all, if the city really He doesn’t want a city like this with dead bodies everywhere and plague everywhere.”

With the words "dead bodies everywhere and plague everywhere," everyone present could not help but shudder.

At this time, everyone looked at the city again and immediately understood that Li Xuan was not planning to use floods to destroy Fuqi City, but to use floods to clean Fuqi City. Thinking of this, everyone couldn't help but feel scared.

The next moment, everyone present, except Su Hegui, Su Anxi, and Gui Runuo, all knelt down, and even everyone who was close to the Su family prayed sincerely: "Please protect me with mercy." .”

Su Hegui stood there, and for a moment, he seemed to hear everyone in the entire city shouting: "Please protect me with mercy."

Countless voices echoed in Su Hegui's mind, giving him a headache for a moment.

After a long time, Su Hegui finally couldn't help but waved his hands and said, "Go ahead and open the warehouse to stock up on food. It's been dragging on day by day. Also, tell the north that starting from today, the daily military rations will be doubled. We must double the daily military rations." Murong blocked it."

For today's Fuqi City, although Li Xuan is constantly digging trenches, not many people believe that he really dares to open the floodgates and release water, unless Chen Zhong is already a corpse and full of plague, then he will use floods Come clean everything.

Therefore, they had to hold off Murong's army, open warehouses to stockpile grain, and then grit their teeth and wait for the Tibetans to defeat the Tang Dynasty. Only in this way could they have a chance of survival.But the premise is that too many people in the city must not die, otherwise the King of Nanchang will break free from the constraints of human ethics and directly burst the dam to release the flood.

"Dad." Su Anxi was about to say something more, but Su Hegui waved his hand and said calmly: "Let's do it."

Su Hegui turned around and looked at Li Xuan at the bottom of the city. He sighed in his heart: That man, is he really just waiting for the city to run out of food?

……

"Three days have passed."

Li Xuan stood on horseback in front of the camp, with a dark night sky above his head and no wind in the surrounding areas.

He turned to look north and asked in a low voice: "How long does it take for the governor of Anle Prefecture to arrive at Fuqi City?"

"Reporting to the prince, in recent days, the resistance of the Tuyuhun people has been very strong. The army under Zuo Xiaowei is moving very slowly. It will take six or seven days to reach Fuqi City." Cui Ding rode forward and held his hands in a solemn expression.

"He is still so hesitant and indecisive." Li Xuan snorted disdainfully, and then said: "Send an order to tell General Zuo Xiaowei that I will wait for him for three days. If he doesn't arrive within three days, Then there’s no need to come.”

"Here!" Su Baotong bowed immediately, then turned around and quickly made arrangements.

"Are you all ready?" Li Xuan turned sideways.

Cui Ding and Nan Ju raised their hands at the same time: "Your Majesty, everything is ready."

"Okay, let's enter the city." Li Xuan gave the order, and immediately, two thousand right guards and right guard cavalry rushed towards the city gate like a torrent.

The wooden planks had long been built into a bridge, and everyone followed Li Xuan slowly towards the city gate.

The feet of all the horses were wrapped in black cloth to annihilate all sounds as much as possible.

There was no sound from the city gate, as if no one was on duty tonight.

Standing under the city gate, Li Xuan could smell the clear and strong smell of blood. As for where the smell of blood came from, it was unclear.

With a "squeak" sound, the city gate opened in the darkness, and two torches illuminated the left and right sides of the city gate.

The two people who couldn't clearly see their appearance didn't say much. They just bowed to Li Xuan and then walked towards the city first.

Li Xuan gently urged the horse and then entered Fuqi City.

Cui Ding and Nan Ju looked around cautiously, as if there were countless ambushes in the darkness.

High in the sky above our heads, a gray eagle kept circling. Ever since it turned dark tonight, he had been circling high in the sky.

Everything in the city is under its watchful eye.

After Zuo Wei entered the city, he immediately boarded the city gate and quickly occupied every corner of the east gate.

Li Xuan calmly walked forward to the left. Wherever he passed, he could hear exclamations from the room from time to time, but they were immediately annihilated into nothingness.

In the alleys on both sides, countless black shadows were moving forward, and any possible hidden dangers had been completely eliminated silently.

There are countless such people in the entire city.

Countless Tang cavalrymen on Central Street rode calmly toward the center of the city.

It was originally the location of the Tubo Palace, but now it has become the Protector's Mansion, and even the entire Su family lives in it.

An inner city, an inner city like a palace.

The city wall is so high that it isolates the outsiders from peering in, and also isolates the inside from the gaze of the outside world. Especially after someone has betrayed, everything happened silently, and it was terrifying and deadly.

Throughout the inner city, lights were still brightly lit in the darkness, and they seemed not to be aware of the impending crisis from the outside world.

Silently, Li Xuan stood in front of the Su family's inner city, and two thousand cavalrymen slowly surrounded the entire inner city.

Make sure that once activated, no one in the entire inner city will escape alive.

With a "squeak" sound, the tall city gate opened, and a bloody smell suddenly rushed out.

Then a figure appeared at the door, holding a long knife and covered in blood. It was a gift from Ren.

When he saw Li Xuan, his eyes were full of excited Ren Enci, and the fire in his eyes extinguished, and then he bowed to Li Xuan solemnly: "Welcome to the king."

Li Xuan smiled and looked into the mansion.

Invisible places, countless killings are going on quietly.

(End of this chapter)