Ji Han Liu Zhang

Liu Hao's face suddenly became panicked when he heard Zhao Hao say the words "please die," and his body trembled slightly unnaturally. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and managed to calm down, his slightly pale face squeezed. He smiled an ugly smile.

"What are you talking about, Mr. Zhao? You and I have just become allies, intending to work together on big things... Now there are powerful enemies outside Wubao, and it's time for you and me to work together and be sincere to deal with the powerful enemies outside." ...If you and I can't talk to each other at this time and are hostile to each other, this will give Ji Yu an opportunity to take advantage of, and I'm afraid we will both become prisoners."

The situation was extremely urgent. Although Liu Hao was panicking, for the sake of his own life, he spoke eloquently, hoping to impress Zhao Wei and make Zhao Wei give up the idea of ​​killing him.

"Sincere cooperation?" Zhao Wei showed disdain when faced with Liu Hao's words that seemed to come from the bottom of his heart.

"My lord, there is no difference between your character and Liu Shijun. Liu Shijun is kind and generous, but you colluded with me, an outsider, to murder your own brother, and you are full of lies. ...You think I don't know that Li Si is leading thirty elite soldiers in the other courtyard. Young master, you invite me to a banquet. What's the point of ambushing the swordsman and axe? Huh, you want to take advantage of the banquet to harm me. ?"

"Ah." Liu Hao, who was exposed by Zhao Wei's inner plan, took two steps back, his mouth was dull, and he could not say another word to defend himself.

"Young master, all the children of my Zhao family in Wubao are my spies. Do you think you can hide the fact that you asked Li Si to hide in the house from my eyes?...As stupid as you are. A dog with a heart like a snake or a scorpion is worthy of the title of Young Master." Zhao Wei scolded sternly. At this time, the soldiers he brought happened to surround the other courtyard.

With life and death at stake, Liu Hao couldn't care less about his dignity. He begged for mercy: "Mr. Zhao, it was all Li Si's idea. He wanted to harm you. I was just coerced... You can't kill me. I am Ji Yu." My only brother, if you kill me, Zhao will be angered by Ji Yu."

On the one hand, Liu Hao cleared away the incident of harming Zhao Wei, and on the other hand, he moved out his brother Liu Zhang to threaten Zhao Wei and make Zhao Wei put the Zhao family first and give up the idea of ​​killing him.

"Mr. Zhao, please let me out of the city now. I will intercede with Ji Yu and persuade Ji Yu to forgive you for Zhao's fault. I will use my life as a guarantee. Mr. Zhao, please believe me this time."

At this time, Li Si, who was ambushing in the house, couldn't restrain his worries after hearing the noisy sounds outside. He walked out and happened to hear Liu Mao's defensive words.

Looking at the many soldiers outside the courtyard, Li Si knew that Zhao Hao knew about his plan. After a moment of panic, Li Si immediately defended himself. He accused Liu Hao: "Mr. Zhao, it's none of Mr. Zhao's business. , it’s all what Young Master arranged for me to do, it’s Young Master who wants to harm you... It’s Young Master who said, as long as I kill you, you can plead your case for me in front of Ambassador Liu and save my life.”

Zhao Wei looked at Liu Hao and Li Si who were blaming each other, with a look of disdain on their faces. This is simply a farce. It's better to end it as soon as possible, he thought.

Liu Hao knew that if he continued like this, there would be no way to survive. He collapsed on the ground, tears flowing down involuntarily, and snot from his nose. He continued to plead to Zhao Wei: "Mr. Zhao, I was wrong. I realize my mistake...you can't kill me. It's written on the silk book that Ji Yu shot into the city, asking you to let me out of the city and protect my safety. If you kill me now, Ji Yu will definitely not let you go. of."

Zhao Wei's face was expressionless, he was like a piece of ice, and the words he spat out were also cold, which chilled Liu Hao's body: "It is Liu Shijun who wants you to live, so I want you to die. "

"Mr. Zhao, this has nothing to do with me. Please let me go... For the sake of our old friendship, let this villain go." Li Si shouted loudly, wanting to beg Zhao Wei to spare his life.

"Hmph." Zhao Wei snorted coldly and taunted him ruthlessly: "Li Si, you come from a poor background. If it weren't for me, you would only be an ordinary person in this life and never have a chance to succeed... I pity you. With your bravery, you were promoted to the position of Captain. Is this how you repay me? For your own humble life, you joined forces with the Third Young Master to harm me... You are really from a poor background, and your character is also extremely mean. I Even if you have fed a dog, it will know how to wag its head and tail at me, but you bite me back, and you are worse than any other dog."

"Old man, shut up." Li Si became furious when he heard the words. At this time, the anger in his heart exceeded the fear of death. Zhao Wei's words were too humiliating to him.

Li Si turned to look at Liu Mao, who was crying and begging, and mocked: "Cry, cry, cry, you know how to cry. With your virtue, you are worthy of being called a young master. You are arrogant at first and humble at the back, and you are capricious."

Liu Mao ignored Li Si. He was so afraid of death that he lost the motivation to escape. He just collapsed on the ground and begged Zhao Wei.Now there are soldiers of the Zhao family from all directions. At this time, the only way to have a chance is to beg Zhao Wei.

Li Si gritted his teeth and called out the guards who were related to his family in the house. He picked up the Huanshou knife in his hand, pointed it at Zhao Wei, and at the same time said to the guards around him: "Come with me and kill him." Kill this old man."

Now there was only this way. Li Si's eyes were bloodshot, like a hungry tiger, needing to eat flesh and blood. He knew that at this time, he had to fight hard and kill Zhao Wei with his sword, so that the Zhao soldiers lost their backbone. , lost his fighting spirit, and he had a chance to live.

It is a pity that the experienced Zhao Wei did not give Li Si a chance to fight. He only waved his hand and the originally dense and airtight formation of the soldiers in the front row dispersed, and an archer appeared in the gap between the soldiers. , the archers drew their bows and shot arrows skillfully, shooting arrows at Li Si like rain.

"Damn it." Li Si thought to himself, cursed, and pulled a personal guard to stand in front of him.

"Ah, ah..." The unfortunate personal guard only cried out in pain twice before closing his mouth.At this time, with more than a dozen arrows densely inserted in his chest, he was already dead, too dead to be dead, and could no longer shout or make a sound.

Li Si's operation of using his personal guards as a shield made the personal guards who were lucky enough to survive the first round of arrows panic. These lucky ones scattered one after another, not daring to gather around Li Si for fear of being pulled by Li Si. Went as a shield.

At this time, Zhao Wei directed the archers to draw their bows and arrows again. He did not plan to send soldiers to fight Li Si and his party at close range, but simply relied on the archers to kill Li Si and his party.

Seeing that the second round of arrow rain was about to arrive as expected, Li Si panicked and looked around. The bodyguard he used as a shield could no longer hold it in front of him due to his loose muscles and weakness after death. To serve as a shield for the second rain of arrows.

So Li Sisi tried to find a second shield. Unfortunately, his bodyguards who survived the first batch of arrows had already been scattered to a distance of about ten steps away from him because of his behavior of using his bodyguards to shield them. It's an emergency.

Suddenly, Li Si saw Liu Hao beside him. Liu Hao was slumped on the ground just now, and his group of people were in front of him, so he survived by chance.

Li Si's face showed joy. He was a little brave and nimbly picked up Liu Hao and blocked Liu Hao in front of him.

At the same time, Li Si began to think about his retreat. After the second round of arrow rain fell, and before the third round of arrow rain was launched, he had time to run back ten steps and retreat into the other courtyard, but other The courtyard was already surrounded by Zhao's soldiers like iron. Even if he entered another courtyard and could escape for a while, he would still be killed in the end.The way to escape into the other courtyard was blocked. Li Si poked his head out from behind Liu Hao and looked at Zhao Hao, who was more than thirty steps away from him. His eyes were filled with murderous intent, but after just one look, he shrank his head. He turned around, fearing that he would be killed by a second round of arrows.

"Send." Zhao Wei looked at Liu Hao, who was held up in front of him by Li Si. Without any hesitation, he just waved his hand and let the group of Zhao's archers fire their arrows.

Facing the rain of arrows from the sky, Liu Hao, who lost his will to survive, panicked in his heart and wanted to run away to escape this certain death situation.

A force arose from the bottom of his heart, and Liu Hao, who was originally clamped by Li Si's hands, struggled. At the moment of life and death, Liu Hao's explosion before death was so powerful that even Li Si, a strong man, could not find it. Clamp down.

"Don't move." Li Si was a little anxious and shouted towards Liu Hao.

But how could Liu Hao listen to Li Si's order at this time? When the cold light on the arrow's head approached, he struggled violently, causing both he and Li Si to appear clearly within the range of the arrow rain. .

An arrow with a cold light in his pupils kept enlarging, and Li Si showed an expression of extreme despair. Before he died, he began to regret. He regretted that he had coveted the position of captain and turned against Zhao Wei. Now he has been pierced by thousands of arrows. end.

Liu Mao's expression was equally desperate. He also regretted that he should not have coveted the position of Yizhou Mu and conspired with people like Zhao Wei. What's more, he missed that even though he was under Liu Zhang's surveillance, he could still fly like an eagle. In the days when I was walking around, I could at least still be alive, but now my death is imminent.

In just a moment, Liu Hao and Li Si each let out a shrill wail, and then the two people, struggling together, fell together in a funny embrace.

Seeing Liu Mao's death, Zhao Wei showed a smile on his face. He gave an order. Zhao's soldiers stepped forward, pulled out the arrows from Liu Mao's body, and dragged him into the other courtyard. Then the soldiers They brought in several barrels of tung oil that had been prepared.

It's just that the valuable tung oil, which was originally used by the owner of the Wubao for lighting, was splashed everywhere by the soldiers on the beams, tables and chairs of the other courtyard at will.

After everything was ready, Zhao Wei picked up a torch and threw it into the courtyard himself, causing a fire.

The crackling sound of burning reached Zhao Wei's ears, and in Zhao Wei's eyes, there was smoke and dust rising into the sky. The raging flames were like a ferocious beast, mercilessly burning and devouring everything in the other courtyard.

At this time, Zhao Wei's heart calmed down, his heart was as bright as the bright moon in the sky, and he gained indescribable peace. At this time, he no longer worried about the safety of his only son Zhao Xi.

As a father, Zhao Wei didn't care much about himself or the Zhao family when his rebellion failed. If there was anything he cared about, it was naturally the life and death of his only son Zhao Xi.

After a while, Zhao Wei stopped observing the fire and turned around without looking back. He wanted to have a good sleep, but he was really tired during this period.After waking up, if there were no accidents, he would surrender Chuwu Fort to Liu Zhang.

Outside Wubao.

Liu Zhang, surrounded by civil and military officials, looked at the smoke and dust rising into the sky from the Wubao.

"Ming Gong, something has happened in Wubao. Let me lead the troops to seize the fort." Zhang Ren was full of fighting spirit, thinking about making achievements and repaying Liu Zhang's service.

Before Liu Zhang could answer, Peng Yi interjected: "No, we don't know what happened in the city. Maybe this is General Zhao Zhonglang's plan to deliberately create some momentum and lure us to attack. Maybe there is something inside Wubao." Is there an ambush waiting for us?... Secondly, the time is now 'determined', and the lights are dim, but it is difficult to use troops."

At this time, all the civil and military officials looked at Liu Zhang, wanting to know Liu Zhang's decision.

"Everyone, go and have a rest. We will know tomorrow what the situation is like in Wubao." Liu Zhang made his decision. He had some hope in his heart that what happened in Wubao would be what he wanted.

The next day.

At dawn, Zhao Wei opened the gate of Wubao and ordered the soldiers under his tent to go out of the city in formation. These soldiers did not wear armor or carry weapons. Zhao Wei even tied himself up with thorn strips tied to his back. , as if he was asking for forgiveness.

At this moment, Zhao Wei knelt down in Liu Zhang's tent, kowtowed to Liu Zhang and apologized for his mistakes.

"The old minister was confused and had a mental illness for a moment, so he kidnapped the third master and fled. Since his escape, he has regretted it endlessly... Today I came here to ask for his death. I also asked your master to take pity on me and serve the two masters. I only want to kill him. Kill the old minister and forgive the others who were deceived by the old minister."

Liu Zhang looked at Zhao Wei who had surrendered. Zhao Wei had no hair tied up and his white hair was a mess. There were many more wrinkles on his face than usual, like a pitiful little old man.

But Liu Zhang didn't take pity on the poor old man. He asked Zhao Wei: "Zhao Qing, where is my brother?"

Zhao Haocheng became frightened. He kowtowed as if pounding garlic, and reported to Liu Zhang in a sad tone: "The courtyard where the third young master lived caught fire last night. Unfortunately, the third young master was buried in the fire... The old minister sent many people to try to rescue him last night. Third Young Master, it’s a pity that the fire is so strong, but it doesn’t help.”

"My brother Di...ah..." Liu Zhang had an expression of disbelief on his face when he heard the news of Liu Hao's death. He yelled, leaned back, and fainted in grief. (End of chapter)