The soldiers who reported the news had been gone for more than a quarter of an hour, and the remaining soldiers unsheathed their swords more than 20 steps away and surrounded the pavilion. After a while, another group of people came, totaling about forty people. Li Boxen thought to himself that he should have summoned all the soldiers in the yamen that could be gathered at the moment.
But to him, these people were nothing more than nothing. With his current soldiers and armor, if he really used his hands, he could kill them in a quarter of an hour and make them run away with their heads in their arms.
From here to the inner house, there are only about a hundred steps in total. Sui Yilian has not come yet at this time, probably to communicate with the Shenwei Cavalry - while he was listening outside the wall, the sentry in the corner said this.
The Divine Iron Cavalry is a bit troublesome. The Shenwei Cavalry is the elite of the town army. It is said that during the selection process, all of them must be at the spiritual enlightenment level and be naturally strong. Both the man and the horse were wearing heavy armor, with incantations etched on the armor, which could withstand many spells. But Li Bochen had only heard about it before, but never actually seen it.
But it’s not a big deal. Although the courtyard is large, there are not enough men and horses to charge, so the power of the Shenwei Cavalry is reduced by half. If they dismounted and fought on foot - although he was not an arrogant person, he did not think they would be his opponents.
Some of the soldiers surrounding him recognized him, and some did not. But after whispering to the companions around him, he figured it out, and then fear appeared on his face. Sui Zi'ang relied on his waist strength to turn around, probably because he didn't want the soldiers to see his miserable appearance.
Li Bochen sat quietly in the pavilion, hearing the wind and snow whistling in his ears, and couldn't help but sigh lowly. If I can leave here tonight, I will be wanted in the Sui Dynasty and be rewarded. When he was in Wuliang City, he had thought that one day he would become famous all over the world, but he never expected that it would be in this way.
At this moment, the sound of armor clashing was heard. Then I saw a man wearing a big cloak walking quickly through the moon gate, followed by twenty soldiers with guns.
Judging from the look on his face, Li Bochen guessed that the person was Sui Yilian. Sure enough, the soldiers opened a path for him, but he was squeezed out by the soldiers. Sui Yilian stopped and shouted: "Li Boxen!"
Li Bochen sneered and said: "Exactly."
Sui Yilian gritted his teeth and stared: "What are you going to do!?"
Li Bochen smiled again: "Sui Yilian, there is no need to talk nonsense at this time. You naturally know what I want. Have the Tao family and Ye Yinghong brought them?"
Sui Yilian shouted again: "Where's Zi'ang!"
It must be because my old eyesight is too dim to see clearly. Li Bochen stood up and lifted Sui Ziang up: "Here it is."
When Sui Yilian saw Sui Ziang's appearance, he was stunned for a moment, then staggered back a step, his voice trembling: "You...you...how dare you-"
Before he finished speaking, Li Boxen pulled out the dagger from his waist and stabbed Sui Ziang into the back of his heart. The sharp tip of the sword protruded from his chest. When Sui Yilian saw it, he immediately wanted to pounce forward and screamed: "My son!!"
Sui Ziang swayed like a fish out of water. Next to Sui Yilian, a general with a red tassel on his helmet grabbed his arm and stopped him. Li Bochen glanced at the hundred generals, pulled out the dagger, threw Sui Zi'ang on the ground, and looked at Sui Yilian: "Young Master Ling has been subjected to evil spells and is already half human and half devil. Such injuries cannot save him. But if I come here a few more times, I can’t tell. Sui Yilian, bring four people to me within ten counts. Otherwise, after one count, I will insert a sword - one!"
Sui Yilian burst into tears and didn't care what to say. He just said: "Bring it up! Bring it up!"
The soldiers of the government hurriedly separated another way, and four people were tied up with five flowers and led forward.
Li Bochen's heart skipped a beat and he quickly took a closer look - none of the four were wearing prison clothes, but their clothes were all in tatters. He could see clearly that it didn't look like it was scratched, but like it had been broken by a whip.
All four of them had bloodstains on their faces. Ye Yinghong stood very tall and straight, her aura was no different from when they first met. She even nodded and smiled at him. Tao Wenbao stood in the snow, his hair disheveled and his face slightly happy. Tao Chunxi stood beside him, pursed her lips and said nothing, but her eyes flickered, and she should have wanted to cry. After all, Tao Dingchen was still a child. Even though he was young and brave, he couldn't help but be afraid at this time. But when he saw Li Boxen, he immediately shouted: "Master!"
Li Bochen couldn't help but feel sad and ashamed when he heard his voice sounded a little crying. I accepted the apprenticeship ceremony from this child, but the time we got together was very short, and I didn't develop any deep feelings for him. The one I thought about more in the past few days was his sister. But now it seems that this child is very affectionate towards him.
But what Li Bochen was afraid of was that others would notice the "deep affection" and said: "Dingchen, a manly man, don't be afraid."
Tao Dingchen pursed his lips, murmured twice, and then stopped talking.
Sui Yilian said at this time: "Give Ziang back... I will give him to you!"
Li Bochen smiled: "Give the person to me first, and I will hand it over to you. Dozens of people are surrounding me here. What are you afraid of?"
Sui Yilian must have felt sorry for Sui Ziang, and couldn't care less. He immediately said: "Okay - give him the man!"
The soldiers on the side wanted to loosen their bonds. But the Divine Power Cavalry General next to Sui Yilian suddenly said: "Slow down."
Sui Yilian said angrily: "What are you going to do again!?"
The hundred generals said: "Master Fu, when I came here, the general told me that this trip is for Sui Wujiu's rebellion against the party. Since it is such a matter, one cannot abolish public service for private reasons. If these four people are indeed rebels against the party, you Now that I have handed someone over, how can I explain it?"
Sui Yilian was stunned, probably not expecting this hundred generals to say such things. But just as he was about to speak, the hundred generals looked at Li Boxen again and said, "Are you Li Boxen? I heard that you work for Duke Chebei. Did you join the army in Wuliang City before?"
These twenty Shenwei cavalry were all heavily armored, and their faces were also protected, so you couldn't see what they looked like. Li Bochen didn't expect this person to be troublesome at this time, but he still secretly told himself not to be impatient and said: "Exactly."
The hundred generals thought for a moment: "I heard that there are five tiger generals in the Infinite Army."
After he said this, he said no more. Li Bochen was stunned for a moment, but still smiled: "Yes. I was one of them."
Baijiang sighed: "That's it."
Then he raised his hand to lift his face shield and said, "The last general, Pei Song, has met General Li."
This man was actually quite handsome, and it was impossible to associate it with the heavy armor on his body. He announced his name, but Li Bochen didn't recognize him and didn't know what he was going to do. But listening to his words and looking at his expression, he was very calm and calm, and there didn't seem to be any hostility.
Pei Song then said: "Pei Jin, the commander of Wuliang City, is my cousin."
Li Bochen was stunned for a moment, and after taking a closer look, he did find that he looked somewhat similar to Pei Jin.
Pei Song put down his face protector again and said: "My brother once mentioned the general, saying that the general is a general and has a righteous temperament. But when I heard about the general from others, I felt that he was not the same person as what my brother said—— General Li, are these four people really traitors to Duke Chebei?"
Li Bochen's heart skipped a beat. The "other people" he mentioned should probably refer to Sui Yilian. He thought for a while and said: "No. These four people are ordinary people. The cause of this matter now is just because a lustful man failed to take it by force, so he planned to frame and destroy the family. As for me, am I the Sui Dynasty? It doesn’t matter anymore if you are a blameless party.”
Sui Yilian was furious: "Nonsense!"
But Pei Song thought for a while and said: "Okay, I believe what the general says. These four people may be ordinary people, but General Li, you have not denied that you are working for Duke Chebei - there was a summons in the camp a few days ago, saying Duke Chebei has gathered troops to plot rebellion. The responsibility lies with the general, and the general cannot be asked to leave."
Sui Yilian had just finished his anger, but now he became even more angry after hearing what Pei Song said: "You! Shut up!!"
Sui Yilian was probably afraid that after hearing Pei Song's words, he would use Sui Ziang as a blackmail or even regret it. Li Bochen smiled in his heart. But not only did he not want to regret it at this time, but he felt relieved and had another idea.
He said: "General Pei wants to keep me? I'm afraid it will cost a lot of money. But when we were in Wuliang City, Commander Pei Jin took great care of me. Since you are his brother, I don't want to fight with you. Pei General, as long as you promise me one thing, I will stay."
Pei Song said: "Please speak."
"Please separate five people and escort these four people out of Zhangcheng to a place where they feel safe."
After he said this, he immediately heard "no" twice. One was made by Ye Yinghong, and the other was made by Tao Chunxi. Then Tao Wenbao said: "General Li, you don't have to do anything for us——"
Li Bochen smiled: "Sister Hong, Chunxi, Mr. Tao, Dingchen, this is the best way. If you really think about me, don't say any more."
Looking at Pei Song again: "How?"
Pei Song was silent for a moment and then said: "General, do you believe me so?"
They were strangers to each other, so Li Bochen really didn't trust him completely. But listening to him speak and watching him do things, I feel that this man seems to be very upright and peaceful. And in this situation, it would be difficult to take the four people away safely - because he had only known before that everything was set up by Xu Cheng, the leader of the conference.
If I were Xu Cheng, I would make it impossible for anyone here to leave. But Xu Cheng may not have the means or dare to think of a way to ask the Divine Power Cavalry to escort them away.
He said: "I would rather believe it once."
Pei Song sighed: "I know why you got into such trouble."
But he shouted again: "Left Five Guards, listen to the order! Send these four people to where they want to go, and come back in three days to pay the order!"
Then five people shouted in unison: "You have the order!"
This sound was quite powerful, completely different from the surrounding soldiers. Even in Wuliang City, they can be considered an elite army. Li Bochen felt a little more at ease when he heard Pei Song say again: "General, please don't worry. My brothers have all pledged their blood to the emperor's name as an alliance. If the general believes in me, you can also believe in them."
Li Boxen nodded and went to see Tao Chunxi. Tao Chunxi was also looking at him. She bit her lip, her eyes welling up with tears, but she didn't speak. Maybe it was because she didn't want to be distracted by what she just said.
Li Bochen sighed. After listening to Ye Chengchou's words in the cave before, his feelings for Tao Chunxi became much lighter. But thinking that after we say goodbye this time, we will probably never see each other again in this life, I still feel a little sad in my heart.
In any case, she was the first woman in the world who allowed herself to be sincere.
Sui Yilian was able to accept such conditions, and seemed to be afraid that Li Bochen would change his mind again, so he hurriedly said: "Quick, quick! Let him go, let him go!"
The four people were quickly released, and the five soldiers each grabbed an arm and immediately pulled them away. However, Tao Wenbao finally shouted: "My benefactor, take care!"
Li Bochen bowed his hand to him.
After they disappeared behind the Moon Gate, Sui Yilian became anxious again: "Li Bochen, hand over the man!"
Li Boxen sat down again and said in a deep voice: "There's no need to rush. Just wait for another two-quarters of an hour."
When Sui Yilian wanted to speak, Li Boxen threw the dagger and thrust it into Sui Ziang's face with a loud sound. Sui Yilian shut up immediately.
For a moment there was no sound, only the howling wind and snow. But after a while, the faint sounds of people walking and horses neighing on the street gradually became heard. Snow is still falling, and the heads and shoulders of people outside the pavilion are covered with a layer of snow. The soldiers gradually felt the cold and began to rub their hands and stamp their feet, but the fifteen Shenwei armor soldiers remained as motionless as sculptures. Sui Yilian did not move, his eyes stared straight at Sui Ziang in the pavilion, his lips trembled again and again.
Li Bochen stared at him for a while and then said, "Master Fu is wondering if he is in pain, cold, or hungry."
Sui Yilian took a deep breath, raised his hand to wipe his face, glanced at Li Bochen, his face darkened, and he did not answer him.
Li Bochen sighed and said: "Although I don't have children, I do have some friends and comrades-in-arms. Seeing them die around me one after another makes me feel very sad. It is human nature to hurt others."
After another moment of silence, he said, "It's been almost two quarters of an hour."
Pei Song said: "Almost."
Li Bochen stood up, grabbed Sui Zi'ang's breastplate and lifted him up, and then pulled away the cloth stuffing his mouth.
Sui Ziang immediately pouted a few times and said sternly: "Uncle Li——"
But before the word "Chen" came out of his mouth, Li Boxen swung his short sword and chopped off his head.
