After saying that, he felt something was wrong. Seeing the smiles of King Jin and Di Renjie, Zhang Jianzhi said angrily: "Your Highness, Renjie! Don't tease me."
Li Zhi explained: "You can see clearly during the day."
Di Renjie smiled and said: "If you can see the marching formation in the distance, this thing will be of great use."
Li Zhi took back the telescope, "My brother-in-law only has three of these treasures. One brother-in-law is using it, one belongs to the brother-in-law's daughter, the princess, and the other belongs to me."
Seeing the greedy looks of Di Renjie and Zhang Jianzhi, Li Zhi added, "My brother-in-law said that when the technology becomes better in the future, we can have as much of this thing as we want."
The night passed without any movement in the city, and it was daytime.
Li Zhi still looked at the top of the city with a telescope, and there were many figures. They were still preparing to defend the city.
Di Renjie said: "Why is this official so uneasy?"
Zhang Jianzhi asked in confusion: "Why are you so uneasy?"
"No!" Di Renjie said angrily, "What did You Wenzhi say before leaving?"
"It's to give him a good name after his death."
"Not good." Di Renjie stamped his foot, "Something is probably going to happen."
In Prince Qi's palace, You Wenzhi followed Yan Hongliang into the main hall.
Li You, who still had a healthy beard, put his hands behind his back and said with a smile, "I'm very happy that Lieutenant Youxian came to join us."
"Your Highness!" You Wenzhi bowed and said, "When I got close to King Qi, I felt that King Qi was a far-sighted man, but I didn't know that King Qi would dare to rebel."
Li You chuckled and said, "Don't you dare?"
"Your Highness, stop it!"
"Stop?" Li You's eyes became more fierce, "Father is going to demote me to a commoner, a commoner! Do you know how a commoner lives?"
At this point, Li You took a few steps back and said: "I have Qizhou City and tens of thousands of soldiers in my hands now, why should I stop! Once I stop, these will be gone! Father! I will take away everything that belongs to me.”
He crazily picked up a handful of copper coins, and then threw the coins on the ground, "It's gone! Nothing is gone, nothing!"
You Wenzhi said: "What's wrong with being alive?"
"Alive?" Li You glanced at his main hall, "Exiled thousands of miles away?"
"If Your Highness stops, at least His Highness will not be executed."
Li You looked crazy and cursed loudly: "My father forced me to do this! Just because Quan Wanji died, my father will demote me to a commoner!"
Li You looked like a crazy child. He shouted: "Why! Tell me!"
"Quan Wanji was a loyal and good minister. Didn't His Highness feel regret when he killed him?"
"Don't mention him to me!"
"Quan Wanji tried so hard to persuade you, why didn't His Highness listen? Yan Hongliang and Xu Xuanhui are both villains, so why did Your Highness get close to them?"
"Stop talking!"
"Your Highness, please stop." You Wenzhi said again.
Li You breathed heavily and suddenly smiled, and he pulled out a horizontal knife.
puff……
The horizontal knife stabbed into You Wenzhi's chest.
He endured the suffocation of the knife cutting into his chest, stretched out his hand to grab Li You's collar, and said tremblingly: "His Royal Highness, King Qi, five years ago you told your subordinate that you would govern Shuofang together and protect the countryside. People, I am so lucky to be respected by the prince. I am grateful for your highness's appreciation and have always fulfilled my duties as an official."
"Always remember these words, you were a good boy, and you still have a chance now."
"Opportunity? Father, have you ever given me a chance?"
Li You was furious and stabbed You Wenyi in the chest one after another. "If I die, you won't be able to live!"
You Wenzhi finally fell down in a pool of blood.
From outside the city, there is still no movement in Qizhou City.
Li Zhi saw the reflection on the city wall, and the lens was put on, "Something happened..."
Di Renjie also noticed the reflection on the city wall and felt heavy.
Half an hour later, a corpse
After being thrown into the city, Li Junxian ordered people to pull the body back.
Seeing You Wenzhi's body, Li Zhi choked and said nothing.
Di Renjie bowed and saluted, "Youxian Lieutenant, you must be known as a loyal and upright minister. You will never be wronged again."
Li Zhi gritted his teeth and clenched his hands into fists.
At night, another guard escaped from Qizhou City. He hurriedly walked into the tent and said, "Your Highness, General, the defense of Qizhou City is lax. It is difficult to enter, but easy to leave."
He took out a piece of cloth and said, "The humble minister escaped from the drainage channel. The general has already drawn a picture of the situation in the city. The people of Qizhou are all on the south side of the city, while the north side is guarded by soldiers."
Li Junxian nodded and said, "If it won't hurt the villagers, you can use artillery to deal with the rebels."
Li Zhi thought of You Wenzhi's death, covered his face and whispered: "Attack the city tomorrow! Capture Li You!"
Li Junxian stood up after hearing this and said, "Here!"
The army began to prepare and sent messages to various state capitals to prevent rebels from fleeing.
Zhang Jianzhi and Di Renjie stayed up all night and were finally about to attack the city. Both His Majesty and the current King of Jin gave Li You plenty of opportunities.
Liu Dewei whispered: "Another loyal minister has died. His Highness, King Qi, can no longer bear it."
Di Renjie nodded, "Yes."
"I see that your young man is calm and graceful in times of crisis. Is it possible for you to become an official?"
Di Renjie looked apologetic and saluted, "I'm young, not yet old enough to take the imperial examination."
Zhang Jianzhi said quickly: "I, Zhang Jianzhi, have met Liu Shangshu."
Liu Dewei said again: "Di Renjie? Well, what a good name. Where are you from?"
"Father Dickerson."
"Well, it turns out he is Di Zhisun's child." Liu Dewei stroked his beard and said, "Very good."
Zhang Jianzhi said again: "My father, Zhang Xuanbi."
After that, wait for the other party's response.
But seeing that Liu Dewei only had Di Renjie in his eyes, and not himself at all, Zhang Jianzhi was in a lonely mood, and I had credit for catching Xu You and Xu You.
The army is preparing to attack the city. Lishan's new artillery is a slender cylinder with wheels at the bottom that can be pushed into the shooting range.
Arriving three hundred steps away from the city wall, Li Zhi planned to give him one last chance and shouted towards the city gate: "Li You! Come out!"
The response was arrows fired from the city.
Li Junxian shouted: "Raise your shield."
The range of the arrows was not far. Most of the arrows landed in front of them, and only a few or two landed on the shield.
Liu Dewei snorted: "The defenders on the city are all mediocre people. They don't even know how to use arrows."
Li Junxian ordered in a deep voice: "Fire!"
"Here!"
Immediately a soldier in the army shouted: "Fire!"
The fuse of the artillery was ignited, thick smoke rose, and there was only one explosion. The shells shot out, landed on the city wall, and opened a gap.
Bang!
Bang!
There were two more cannon shots, and the city was in chaos. When the smoke cleared, two more gaps appeared.
Li Junxian said again: "Fire!"
"fire!"
There was another response, and the medicine bag was refilled.
Li Zhi said in a deep voice: "Aim at the tower."
"Here!" Li Junxian said loudly, "Aim at the tower!"
The sound of cannons sounded again, and the cannonballs shot out from the barrels and landed on top of the city tower. For a moment, rubble flew everywhere, and the defenders in the city fled in chaos.
Li Zhi turned his back and did not watch this scene, but let Li Junxian keep bombarding the tower with artillery.
I don't know how many times I bombarded him until all the medicine packs he brought out were used up.
Looking at the top of the city again, the city tower had collapsed, the city was filled with smoke, a large area of the city wall collapsed, and a huge gap appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
Li Junxian ordered: "Enter the city! Capture the rebel King Qi!"
"Here!"
The soldiers finally rushed in with swords in hand.
Li Zhi and Zhang Jianzhi, followed by Di Renjie.
Gongsun Xiaoniang was guarding King Jin with her sword.
Liu Dewei caught a defender who was fleeing in panic and said, "Take us to Prince Qi's Mansion."
The defender looked flustered and didn't know what he was talking about. It wasn't until he kicked him that he honestly led the way.
Prince Qi's Mansion is located in the very center of the city, and the war here is already clear. When Li Junxian led the army to rush in, the defenders fled in panic.
The moment the artillery blasted through the city wall, they had already lost their military morale.
It will be much easier to deal with the rebels.
Just as they were about to reach Prince Qi's Mansion, another group of rebels blocked the way.
King Jin's bodyguards were standing in front of them, confronting this group of rebels. There were many of them, at least a thousand.
Someone came running quickly. They were from Qizhou City. Facing Li Zhi, he suddenly knelt down on one knee and said, "I, Du Xingmin, have met His Highness King Jin! I am willing to surrender to King Jin to capture the rebel King Qi!"
"Du Xingmin?" Li Zhi asked suspiciously, "Who are you?"
"The last general was originally from Qizhou Prefecture to join the army!"
After saying that, Du Xingmin stood up and said to the soldiers behind him: "The King of Qi is unruly! Do you want to help Zhou to commit evil? You have lost your weapons!"
Someone looked at Du Xingmin and then at King Jin. One person dropped the knife in his hand, then the second, the third...
Then a group of people abandoned their armor and fled in panic.
The remaining people followed Du Xingmin and changed directions, facing Prince Qi's Mansion together.
It wasn't until Liu Dewei nodded that Li Zhi accepted the general's surrender.
He explained: "Xiaguan came to Qizhou before. He joined the army and has always disobeyed King Qi's discipline. He has been bullied by King Qi for many years. He has to obey when he serves in Qizhou, but he has never done anything harmful to nature."
"I made an agreement with him at the beginning. If the King of Qi makes a rebellion, he can cooperate inside and outside. This person has never followed the King of Qi to do evil. He is reliable."
Li Zhi nodded slowly and walked towards Prince Qi's Mansion together.
At this moment, the door of Prince Qi's Mansion was closed tightly. The guard came forward and patted the door heavily, and reported back: "Your Highness, the door is blocked."
Li Zhi looked calm and said slowly: "Burn."
"Here!"
The guards brought torches and placed them under the door.
"Your Highness, there are three gates to Prince Qi's Mansion. They are all guarded at this moment. Some rebels have informed that Prince Qi is in the Mansion."
The flames burned down the gate of Prince Qi's Mansion bit by bit.
Until the door collapsed to the ground.
Li Junxian arrived with his troops and horses, and immediately rushed into the mansion and killed all the rebels who were stubbornly resisting.
Liu Dewei then led the people in.
Bodies can be seen everywhere in the mansion. Compared with the well-trained soldiers in Li Junxian's hands, these people are nothing but dust and are vulnerable to a single blow.
Li Zhi walked step by step into this chaotic place and heard laughter coming from the main hall of the mansion.
Looking up, he saw Li You holding a wine bowl.
There were two people beside Li You. They were holding a wine bowl in one hand and a knife in the other, standing next to King Qi.
Li Junxian ordered people to release arrows, and the arrows shot down the last two people around King Qi very accurately.
The midday sun shone on Qizhou City, and the wine bowl in Li You's hand fell. He seemed to realize that he had lost at this moment.
Li Junxian stepped forward and said, "I have been ordered to take King Qi back to the palace to settle down."
"Li You!"
There was a loud shout outside the hall, and Li Zhi rushed forward and kicked him to the ground, "You are so brave!"
While shouting and cursing, Li Zhi raised his fist and landed one punch after another on King Qi, "Rebel, you hopeless bastard."
Li You held his hands and was beaten until his nosebleed splattered.
The fist in Li Zhi's hand was still falling, "Quan Wanji is dead! You Fangzhi is also dead. You caused them all to die!"
"You will be despised by all nations."
"You don't deserve to be a human being!"
…
Li Junxian pulled Li Zhi away, and Li You covered his face
The door said nothing.
Liu Dewei looked calm and whispered: "No one has forced King Qi. King Qi brought all this on himself."
King Qi was taken out, and this time the power of the artillery was once again confirmed. Within the range of the artillery, the city wall was like nothing.
Maybe there are still lunatics like Li You in this world.
But there will no longer be a city wall that can stop the Tang army, no matter how high the mountains and rivers are, or how thick the city wall is.
Li You was taken away by Li Junxian.
Liu Dewei began to clean up the property of Prince Qi's house, and Li You made a lot of money in the fiefdom. When he opened a warehouse door, copper coins kept pouring out like a mountain.
Li Zhi walked around the mansion and listened to Liu Dewei telling about the bad things Li You had done in the past.
When Li You was still young, many maids died in the palace because of him.
Li Zhi thought of the teachings he had received in Lishan, and felt grateful that his brother-in-law had taught him so that he would not become a lunatic like Li You.
My brother-in-law often emphasized that the masses were the greatest strength of the country. Even artillery was insignificant in the face of the power of the masses. Therefore, in order to be strong in the Tang Dynasty, the mass base was particularly important.
Li Zhi whispered: "Use this money to rebuild Qizhou City."
Liu Dewei saluted and said: "I will stay in Qizhou and govern Qizhou. When the matter here is settled, I will return to Chang'an to report on my duties. Your Highness, King Jin, can rest assured."
He looked at Di Renjie again, "When will you take the imperial examination? When I return to Chang'an, you must become an official and work under my criminal department."
Di Renjie smiled awkwardly, "Liu Shangshu loves me so much."
Zhang Jianzhi sighed sourly, "I am obviously more graceful and courageous than Renjie, why can't I see my grace?"
Hearing Jian Zhi's words, Di Renjie wanted to kick him, but held back.
Li Zhi did not want to stay in Qizhou for a long time, and the rebellion in Qizhou was quelled quickly, without even using the soldiers and horses transferred from the state capital by his father.
It only took Li Junxian a thousand troops to put down the rebellion of King Qi.
Things went smoothly, perhaps it was not a big deal at all to the powerful Tang Dynasty.
It started to snow again in Qizhou. Liu Dewei called on the people in the city to rebuild Qizhou and release the people here to farm and build houses that could avoid the severe cold.
Li Zhi saw the smiles on the faces of the villagers again, and then returned to Chang'an City with Li Junxian.
Li You was sitting in the prison car, and with him were the remnants of the Qizhou rebellion, Xu Xuanhui, Yan Hongliang, Zan Junmo and others. (End of chapter)
