Chapter 43 Chapter 43: Catch a Turtle in an Urn

Yang Hao slowly glanced at the dark crowd in front of him, and said loudly: "This king won the world, and all the tribes in Hexi have made great efforts; this king won the world, and it is inseparable from the dedicated efforts of all tribes and tribes. If you say credit, Luzhou, Yinzhou, and Dangxiang Seven Clans took the first place. And you, you just obeyed the fate. From the beginning to the end, have you ever lived and died for this king? This king has won the world, and he has not treated you badly. The people of this king are not just the Tuoba clan. They love all clans and treat them equally. This is the foundation for the stability of the society and the rule of the world. You can't ask for it, but you blame others, Youtian, brazenly raise your troops, and use force to commit crimes. It's really thanks to you who keep saying that you are the mainstay of Xixia and the backbone of the party! "

Yang Yanpu shouted loudly: "Your Majesty is in charge of the fate of the heaven, the fate of the king is the fate of the heavens, where the fate lies, and vice versa, you will punish the nine clans!" The Tuoba clan members who knelt down have long lost their arrogance in the past. The Northern Wei Dynasty established by the Tuoba clan has been destroyed for more than 400 years. Although they are proud of the royal blood, they have already returned to the habits of the grassland people and forgot the monarchy. The majesty of the king's order, the strictness of the national laws and criminal laws, and at this moment, they deeply felt the kind of power that cannot be challenged and overrides everything.

A leader argued tremblingly: "Your Majesty, I... I just... just feel that Your Majesty is partial to other clans and tribes. It's all because of... because some of the ministers around Your Majesty have repeatedly slandered them. The royal palace has no intention of harming the king, but just wants to get rid of these treacherous sycophants, the side of the Qing emperor, and the ruler of the court." Yang Hao laughed: "The side of Qing Jun? What is Qing Jun's side? It's just a good excuse for Chen Ling Jun. You are still not guilty?" "The minister... the minister waits to be convicted."

The Tuoba clansmen who knelt down did not dare to make further arguments, so they could only bow their heads and apologize.Yang Hao said: "The chief culprit has been punished, but you are deceived by others, so your crime will not lead to death..." The leaders of Tuoba were overjoyed when they heard the words, but Yang Hao went on to say: "The death penalty is inevitable, but the crime of living is hard to forgive. If you raise troops to rebel, besiege the palace, and kill the ministers, if you don't punish them severely, isn't it conniving to others? Come here, tie up all these people, put them in prison, and hand them over to the third division tomorrow, and punish them according to their crimes! Their tribes will be reorganized by the cabinet and the household department according to the regulations of the Ministry of military affairs."

As soon as these words came out, the heads of the Tuoba clan all looked ashen. At this moment, a cold arrow flew in the night sky. This arrow really pierced Yang with a hundred steps. . With a "choke", a petite figure beside Yang Hao jumped up with his sword drawn, his toes pointing a little on the horse's back. The members of the Tuoba clan nodded their shoulders, and then moved forward for more than three feet, and they rushed towards the person who shot the arrow without touching the dust, and they didn't care about Yang Hao at all. "Pfft!" The cold arrow hit Yang Hao's heart accurately and accurately, and the arrow tail shook slightly before falling to the ground.Yang Hao leaned forward and retreated quickly, and seven or eight knights on tall horses rushed forward, and a wall of flesh blocked him tightly behind.

No wonder the dog didn't care about Yang Hao's life at all, obviously he was already wearing soft armor under his robe, the arrow hit immediately caused a commotion, Li Tianlun held a sharp knife in his hand, and shouted loudly: "The picture is poor, the king finally found it!" It's out of your original purpose. Members of the tribe, do you still want to wait for death? Pick up your sword and gun, and fight him!" Just now, he was the general who suppressed the rebellion, but suddenly he stood by their side, and the tribal leaders stayed there one by one, unable to react for a while.

"Li Tianlun, do you want to rebel?" The guard team stepped aside slightly, Yang Hao stared at Li Tianlun, the son of Li Si'an, the defender of Yuanyou Prefecture, and asked coldly. Youzhou is one of the five prefectures in Dingnan that surrendered without a fight due to the general trend. Since the surrender, they have not sent troops to fight for Yang Hao's conquests, they just kept their position and did not cause trouble.In order to appease this state capital, Yang Hao didn't think much of himself, and still entrusted him with an important position. When he showed obvious surrender and support, he even promoted him further. Unexpectedly, he stood up at the critical moment, but It's him who has been lying still.

At this moment, the dog had already rushed to the front of Li Tianlun's team, and dozens of long spears and halberds were stabbing towards him. The dog turned around, used its strength to probe in mid-air, and swept forward five feet, forming a dozen large shields. An iron wall pushed towards her fiercely, the dog's toes touched the shield, and the sharp spear in the gap in the shield had just pierced out, and she bounced back like a sparrow, lightly waving the sharp sword in her hand, "Dang Dang Dang Dang "There was a sound of weapons clashing, and seven or eight weapons were already blocked.

In the battle formation, personal martial arts are greatly restricted, let you have peerless skills, and well-trained soldiers cooperate with each other, as if they have grown hands and feet, greatly getting rid of the shackles of personal force, so that you can't use it at all, dog She didn't stop for a moment, and walked away as quickly as possible, flying across Li Tianlun's army formation, causing Li Tianlun's soldiers to panic, but it was not easy for her to rush to Li Tianlun who was waiting in full force. "Xiao Yi, come back!" Yang Hao was afraid that Ma Yi might lose something, so he called out urgently. The dog obeyed Yang Hao's words, and when he heard his call, he immediately turned around and let go of the two long spears picked from the stabbing, and the sharp sword shot from a soldier's throat Pulled out from the center, the blood spattered and flew back. She rushed into Li Tianlun's formation alone, and killed fourteen people in a row without a drop of blood on her body. This skill shocked the whole city and the whole city. Although there are thousands of troops and horses in front of the Meridian Gate, there is no sound at this time.

Yang Haohan said in a cold voice: "Li Tianlun, you led the army to put down the rebellion. You have made great achievements. This king still wants to reward you generously. Why do you want to kill the king?" Yang Hao intentionally pointed out the fact that he was still hostile to the Tuoba clan leaders who were present just now, and those Tuoba clan leaders who were eager to move suddenly hesitated again. Li Tianlun pouted angrily, pointed his halberd and shouted: "Yang Hao, you speak honey with swords, Buddha speaks snakes, do you still want to argue? Yes, the leaders of various tribes tried to harm you, and I resolutely sent troops to resist. There is only one reason, they are me The king is also a member of my family, and he is also the lord of my Tuoba clan. The balance between the two is the most important, and Li Tianlun can only kill his relatives righteously to protect the king!"

He made a generous speech, and said with a dignified look: "But your treatment of them finally made me realize your real purpose. If you hadn't intended to annex all the ministries and bring them all under your rule Excuse me, why do you want to find a reason to engulf the people of all ministries? This is true for brothers Tuoba Hanchan, and it is still the same for the leaders of the various ministries present, hum! Even if they did not deceive the emperor, if you have this heart, you will sooner or later Would you fabricate a crime to achieve your ulterior motives? You are so scheming, how can you act like my master of the Tuoba clan?If you do it like this, within a few years, my Tuoba clan will become one with other tribes and cease to exist.When you say that you want to dismantle the ministries, you are no longer the king of our party. The ministries tried to offend. Between the king and the ministries, Li Tianlun naturally wanted to side with the king. Now the king has betrayed I, the Tuoba clan, and I, Li Tianlun, as a descendant of the Tuoba clan, between the king and the Tuoba clan, naturally have to choose to be loyal to the Tuoba clan. Is this wrong? " He swept his eyes around, raised his arms and shouted: "A man will die if he dies, so why not be afraid, if Yang Hao's treacherous plan succeeds, we will all be worse off than die! The leaders of the ministries, now I, the Tuoba family, will live and die At the critical moment, I hope that we can put aside our previous suspicions and go to the trouble together to protect our family. Tuoba Haofeng, Li Jitan, what do you say, will you stand with us, or continue to defend this struggling Yang Hao? If you still think of yourself as members of the Tuoba clan, you should make a wise choice at this time!" As soon as Li Tianlun said this, everyone turned their attention to these two people. An invisible pressure weighed heavily on everyone's heart, and everyone was waiting for the choice of these two people. Li Tianlun's sudden betrayal surprised even the leaders of Tuoba who were waiting to die. Although Li Tianlun had fought to the death with them just now, compared with Yang Hao, the few casualties Li Tianlun caused to them just now were completely nothing. Can be ignored.People can be reborn after death, but if the entire tribe is deprived, they will immediately fall from the high altar of power. Pass down their ancestral inheritance from generation to generation. If they had to make a choice, they would rather choose to cooperate with Li Tianlun, even if Li Tianlun had just killed his own father, but they didn't have the courage, Yang Hao still had the upper hand right now, they were surrounded by groups, and only one Li Tianlun stood In the past, between death and being swallowed up by their kind, or just swallowed up by their kind, they had to choose the latter. Now, Tuoba Haofeng and Li Jitan are the weights that control them. If they are willing to stand up against Yang Hao, even if only one of them stands up, the entire distribution of power will be broken immediately, and the center of gravity will be broken. Leaning to their side, they will have the courage to pick up their swords and guns again, and directly transform from the side of the Qing emperor to regicide and self-reliance. The square was quiet, and even Yang Hao cast his eyes on Li Jitan and Tuoba Haofeng. Yang Yanpu and Ju Xing were a little nervous, and their palms were sweating. The slightest sound, I am afraid that there will be a slight change, which will cause misunderstanding between the two and lead to unexpected changes. In the square, there was only a little sound from the cold wind whimpering softly... After a long time, Li Jitan coughed and said in a rambling voice: "The king of Xiping first, Lord Li Guangrui, the envoy of Dingnan Jiedu, is Jitan's uncle. In the battle by the Wuding River, my uncle was defeated, and Lord Guangcen won the battle." Xiazhou. Ji Tanfei was not loyal to King Xiping, because one person and one clan were more important than the latter. At that time, the Eighth Clan of our party had frequent civil strife, and fought against Tubo and Huihe for years, and could no longer bear the toss. Since returning to Shun Guangcen, until Yang Hao inherited the mantle of Guangcen, Ji Tan has always been loyal, and the world can learn from him.However, Yang Hao is really disappointing. Since he became king, he has been out of harmony with Song and Longyou externally, and has stirred up the Huihe change in Ganzhou and caused discord among Tuoba tribes.Today, the tribal leaders use force to cleanse the king. Although their behavior is inappropriate, they should be appeased. But you, first investigate the crime, and then swallow the crime. Your ambition is obvious and self-evident. Now, one person and one family, I need to make a choice again.I, Li Jitan, am determined to protect my clan and obey the will of heaven. I am willing to join with all clansmen to eliminate the faint king and return the glory of my Tuoba clan! " He raised his bloody long knife, and said heartbrokenly: "Yang Hao, it's not that Li Jitan was unfaithful, it's really you... It's so disappointing!" Seeing Li Jitan's virtue of "I entrusted my heart to the bright moon, who knows that the bright moon shines on the ditch!", Yang Hao couldn't help laughing: "It turned out to be him! He should be the person behind the deepest lurking, and now When Tu Qiongdagger appeared, there should be no one else. To be able to dig out this scourge buried deep in my heart is not in vain after my careful arrangements, and now I can finally close the net." After Li Jitan finished speaking, he turned his head and shouted to Tuoba Haofeng's camp: "Tuoba Haofeng, I have made up my mind, what are you going to say?" Seeing such a change, many party leaders were both surprised and happy. They grabbed their swords and guns and stood up again. Those who had a good relationship with Tuoba Haofeng immediately shouted: "Brother Haofeng, stand up! Yang Hao Is it possible to buy you with an official position? Are you not afraid that one day Yang Hao will take over your Cangshi tribe? If you can be an official, can your children and grandchildren also be officials? " "Nephew Haofeng, turn against him! Now that Jitan and Tianlun have stood up, and our military strength has surpassed Yang Hao's city guards and palace guards, are you still obsessed with obsession and going through life and death for an outsider? Stand up, with our force, no one in the entire Xingzhou City can resist us." The mutiny of Li Tianlun and Li Jitan, coupled with the yelling of these people, caused a commotion in Tuoba Haofeng's team, and many people turned their attention to their young patriarch, while Ju Xing and Yang Yanpu had already begun to shrink their troops, preparing to deal with a storm. It's an uphill battle. Tuoba Haofeng glanced at Yang Hao, gritted his teeth, and said loudly: "Don't listen to the nonsense of Li Jitan and Li Tianlun. My Tuoba family lost the Central Plains and lived in Hexi for four hundred years. The whole day's price is nothing but civil wars. Fighting non-stop with other tribes, in the hands of the king, this Hexi can be regarded as unified, and your parents, wives and children can live a peaceful and good life. Now you have to start another war? I, Tuoba Haofeng, am an upright man. Those who have sworn allegiance to the Great King to the Great God Baishi, who will be the King for the rest of their lives, my sons and daughters, hold your swords and guns and eradicate these rebellious officials and thieves." Seizing the opportunity, Yang Yanpu immediately raised his spear and shouted: "Soldiers, kill the thieves bravely!" Ju Xing led his people to hurried to Yang Hao: "Your Majesty, please go back to the palace and close the gate of the palace!" Li Tianlun sneered, "It's too late!" Just now, when they were fighting with the various tribes of the Tuoba Clan, Li Tianlun and Li Jitan intentionally preserved their strength. Watching the lively fight, Yang Yanpu and Ju Xing bore the main pressure. The two teams deliberately approached each other. On both sides of the palace gate, there was a big battle now, and the two troops immediately intercepted Yang Hao's guard of honor, and wanted to keep them all outside the palace. Ju Xing, Yang Yanpu, Tuoba Haofeng urged their horses forward, those Tuoba warriors who were about to abandon their weapons and surrender picked up their swords and guns and fought with them again, Li Jitan took the lead and charged at Yang Hao, Li Tianlun divided his troops At the same time, they went all the way to copy Yang Hao's back route, while turning back to meet the enemy Yang Yanpu's troops, and the two sides immediately started a scuffle. On the top of the city, Ding Chengzong shouted: "Hurry up and cover the king back to the palace city, quick, quick!" Yang Hao retreated in a hurry, Li Jitan chased after him, the guards at the palace gate tried to close the palace gate as soon as Yang Hao retreated, but the palace gate was heavy, and the several-ton gate was not fast to push. He was killed by Li Jitan's men and rushed into the palace gate. As soon as the pursuers rushed in, they fought together with the oncoming palace guards. Ma Yi closely guarded Yang Hao. Not far ahead was Li Jitan under the cover of a large shield and spear. Li Jitan was in high spirits. , is no longer the usual honest and reserved look in front of Yang Hao.It's just that he knew that the girl next to Yang Hao was very good at martial arts, and Yang Hao himself was also very good at swordsmanship, so he was still very careful not to get too close to him. "Li Jitan, do you think you can succeed with these tricks of yours?" "Why not?" Li Jitan laughed loudly: "Tuoba Wu, Tuoba Qingyun and others' changes can't be hidden from your eyes and ears. It's ridiculous that these arrogant fools thought they could succeed in remonstrating lightly and skillfully. I happened to use them to attract you Pay attention, use them to consume your troops, now that your power is gone, what else can you do?" Right now, all the people rushing into the palace are Li Jitan's people, so he speaks recklessly. Yang Haodao: "Li Jiyun borrowed troops to enter Xiaoguan, presumably it was your accomplice? Even if you succeed, he is the one who sits in the world. What good do you have?" Li Jitan looked upright, and said solemnly: "Speaking of which, I really didn't mean to oppose you at the beginning. There is no difference between being under Li Jiyun and being under yours, but... when you want to take our tribe, you will directly When I was brought under your command, I had to turn back." His expression turned ferocious: "Yang Hao, you forced me to oppose you." "So, your intention to rebel was just around the time when the two brothers Tuoba and Han Chan were killed. In such a short period of time, you were able to plan such a clever method. Li Jitan, I really underestimated you before." "Hehehe, if you don't have some means, how can you gain my uncle's trust? The troops who were sent to supervise Zhang Chongwei by the Wuding River? But then again, before you want to kill Tuoba Hanchan and engulf his tribe, Someone has already contacted my cousin Jiyun, wanting to join forces to deal with you, I just happened to be at the right time." "Who is that person?" "It doesn't matter if I tell you, that person is Li Tianyuan, Li Zhiyi, Mr. Li's nephew, the former Jingzhou defense envoy, hey! You relied on my Tuoba family to make a fortune, but you have always been wary of my Tuoba family and refused to reuse it." , even if you don’t kill Tuoba Hanchan and engulf his tribe, this day will still come sooner or later.” Yang Hao chuckled: "Listening to what you said, I don't have to feel guilty. Li Jitan, no matter how I treat them, I will always treat you well. Since you are determined to oppose me, you are not afraid that after things fail, you will be punished by me." Killing the Nine Clans?" "You have no chance." Li Jitan also smiled: "Your palace city has been taken by me. As long as you get your head, even if Ju Xing and Yang Yanpu still have to fight, will their soldiers still be willing to fight? Zhang Pu repeatedly I have made great achievements, but I have been repeatedly suppressed by you, and I have long been dissatisfied. Zhang Chongwei and the others hold heavy soldiers. Although he did not participate in my plan, but you are alive, he is willing to listen to your orders, and you are dead. Will he work hard for a dead man? Aguli rebelled in Ganzhou, cutting off the route back to the east for Muen Mukui, who was most loyal to you; you exiled Zhe Yuxun, and the old Zhe family probably resented you more than grateful; there was only one Yang family left. What can they do when you are dead?" "You deliberately use those clansmen, aren't you afraid that they will settle accounts with you afterwards?" "The people around here are all my people, how would they know? Even if they know, they are already seriously injured. From now on, they can only rely on me, how dare they resist? Besides, if you don't use them, how can you get rid of you?" If they don’t get rid of you, they won’t be able to preserve their own tribe, and they should be grateful to me if I take advantage of you a little bit!” After Li Jitan finished speaking triumphantly, he said word by word: "If the sky does evil, you can still live. If you do evil yourself, you can't live. Yang Hao, you asked for it all yourself." He took a long breath, raised his arms and shouted: "Boys, rush in, take Yang Hao's gold and silver treasures casually, and Yang Hao's concubines and maids, whoever grabs it will own it, rush in!" This cry is like taking the most powerful aphrodisiac. Yang Hao's concubines are as beautiful as flowers and jade, and they are all charming and charming. Who doesn't know in the whole Western Region?For a while, Li Jitan's subordinates were like a group of bulls in heat, howling and rushing forward, but with the bravery of the palace guards, they couldn't resist.Li Tianlun also knew that killing Yang Hao was the top priority. Outside, Yang Yanpu and Ju Xing charged like crazy tigers. He was under the greatest pressure. When he saw that Li Jitan's people had rushed into the palace, he immediately retreated in and held on. the palace gate. Yang Hao retreated all the way, hastily avoided entering the Forbidden Palace, the Forbidden Palace is already the residence of concubines in the harem, although this palace gate is also magnificent, each rivet is as big as the mouth of a bowl, but the thickness of the gate and the palace wall The height of the palace can no longer be compared with the palace gate of the royal city.The guards of the royal palace risked their lives to stop them, while Li Jitan and Li Tianlun used their fame, fortune, money and sex to motivate the tribal soldiers to fight to the death.Now the palace gate has become the battleground where those idiots and their subordinates who followed Tuoba Wu and Tuoba Qingyun to rebel and were used by Yang Hao and Li Jitan successively fought against Tuoba Haofeng, Yang Yanpu and Juxing. If Ding Chengzong hadn't escaped, he would still be on the tower now, but no one cared about him. Everyone knew that Yang Hao was the root of everything.If he is alive, those people will stand firm here. If he is dead, all resistance will disappear immediately. Only by killing him can the problem be finally solved. "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" Li Jitan found a giant log from the unfinished palace building, and asked someone to hold it as a battering log, and hit it heavily on the palace gate. There were already some cracks in the palace gate, and it would soon be smashed. Four or five split. "Boom! Boom! Boom!" "Tom! tom! tom!..." This sound is really a kind of beautiful music, but... the rhythm seems to be a bit too fast, how can you use enough strength at such a frequency?Li Jitan frowned, and was about to ask the guards in front to adjust the rhythm of the door banging, when he suddenly felt that the obviously faster-paced tom-tom sound came from the left and right, and the sound became louder and louder, as if the ground was falling trembling. Li Jitan looked back in surprise, and saw the dense crowd lined up in the tightest formation, rolling over from left to right like a moving palace wall, getting closer, getting closer, and you can already see their full armor, as if Lin's sharp knife... "Mo Dao Formation!!!" Li Jitan's pupils suddenly shrank like needles: "Aren't they still stationed in Suzhou? When did they hide in the palace? As the commander of the city guard, why didn't I know?!" "Boom! Boom! Boom!" His heart echoed the heavy footsteps, his face was as pale as paper...