In the afternoon, the snow that had been falling for two days and one night finally stopped. The entire Xiangyang City was covered with thick snow. As soon as the snow stopped, every household and tens of thousands of soldiers took to the streets to clear the snow. It was necessary to clear the snow from the streets in time.
Keep it clean, otherwise it will be impossible to walk if it freezes.
Officials from Jiedu Prefecture also came out to clear the snow. Everyone used bamboo brooms and shovels to remove the snow, and worked enthusiastically.
At this time, a carriage stopped in front of Jiedu Mansion. Huang Kai got out of the carriage. Wearing only a thin singlet on his upper body, he knelt in front of the gate with a bundle of firewood on his back, and shouted tremblingly:
"The Huang family is guilty, and Huang Kaite comes to plead guilty to His Highness King Lu!"
The officials all looked at him in surprise. Someone ran to notify Li Ye, who quickly walked out of the door after hearing the news.
When Huang Kai saw Li Ye, he shouted again: "Huang Xinwu is guilty, and the head of the Huang family, Huang Kaite, is here to plead guilty!"
Li Ye looked at it and said calmly: "It's such a cold day. You may feel sick. Please put on your clothes and talk about it later!"
Li Ye neither agreed nor disagreed. He just asked the other party to put on his clothes and not to show off here.
Huang Kai quickly said: "Huang Xinwu has committed a serious crime. The Huang family firmly supports His Highness to punish him severely in accordance with military law and will never protect his shortcomings!"
This attitude is not bad. Li Ye nodded, "The attitude of the Huang family is admirable. Please rest assured, Head of the Huang family, that everyone is responsible for the work, and will never get involved, hurting the family or even the family!"
"Thank you for your kindness, Your Highness. Yu Ze is my niece-in-law. He went crazy after drinking and burned down the warehouse. Although Your Highness dealt with it according to the regulations, the Huang family is willing to compensate for the burned warehouse at the price!"
Li Ye said calmly: "If the Huang family is willing to compensate, then I can reduce Yu Ze's crime appropriately and exempt him from the death penalty. However, Huang Xinwu is a murder case and has nothing to do with the warehouse case. These are two different things. Please know the owner of the family!"
Huang Kaixin was filled with regret. If he had known that compensation would save him from death, why would he rob someone? Now that he has caused big trouble, it is too late to regret.
"Thank you, Your Highness, for your forgiveness. We will definitely compensate according to the price!" Huang Kai's teeth were chattering from the cold.
Li Ye smiled and said: "It's cold, please go back home quickly!"
Huang Kai was also freezing and couldn't stay any longer. He quickly bowed and hurried back to the carriage.
The carriage started slowly and soon moved away.
Li Mi stepped forward and smiled: "Your Highness, do you think Huang Kai will secretly inform Huang Xinwu to escape?"
Li Ye sneered, "How can it be so easy for the person who killed me to run away?"
At the third watch, Huang Xinwu quietly left the camp with a team of 1,000 people. He had 5,000 people, 1,000 of whom were former Dengzhou state troops. They had followed Huang Xinwu for many years and were his confidants.
The other four thousand people were troops loyal to Li Ye, including deputy general Yang Wanda and several generals, who were all members of the Pei family and followed Li Ye to Suiye.
After Huang Xinwu received the flying pigeon message from his family master, he decided to flee overnight and go to Yangzhou to seek refuge with King Yong Li Lin.
In fact, what Du Yan meant was to just let Huang Xinwu escape with a few followers and leave the soldiers alone. However, Huang Xinwu felt that without an army, he would not be strong enough and would not be reused by King Yong, so he must put his
Taken away by the army.
Hanyang also has hundreds of warships on the battlefield. If all the warships are mobilized, Li Ye's order is required. As the chief guard of Hanyang, Huang Xinwu also has the right to mobilize some warships. He can mobilize two thousand-stone warships and eight Mongolian warships.
Huang Xinwu wrote the order to adjust the ships in the afternoon, so the warships were ready. A thousand soldiers boarded the ships one after another, crowding the ten ships. The soldiers cut the cables and rowed the warships to set off.
Just as Huang Xinwu left, deputy general Yang Wanda summoned several generals and read out the order from His Royal Highness King Lu, ordering them to cooperate with Lei Wanchun's army and trap Huang Xinwu's army in the center of the river. They could accept surrender but refused to surrender.
Then shoot without mercy.
Li Ye did not let them take action in Hanyang because he was afraid of internal strife and unnecessary heavy casualties.
Li Ye has informed Lei Wanchun, who is stationed in Jiangxia, to be responsible for the interception, and Yang Wanda's department is responsible for cooperating with the interception.
"This is the order from His Highness King Lu. I can mobilize all the ships with this order. Wang Sima, can you agree?"
The Jianghan Army's troops and warship supplies were managed on two lines. The army's armor, food, grass, and warships were all in the hands of the army's Sima. The Sima of each army were unified under the control of Li Mi, and the army was controlled by Li Ye. Of course, Li
Ye also had full authority to allocate soldiers, armor, supplies and warships, but he did not use this power easily.
Sima Wang Wusheng nodded, "It can be mobilized!"
Four thousand soldiers began to gather quickly, leaving the camp and rushing towards the army dock.
It is easy to collide with boats at night, and the water surface conditions are also complicated. Generally, boats are not allowed to sail at night. If you must sail, you must drive slowly and hang a large red lantern on the bow of the boat.
Ten warships carrying a thousand people were slowly sailing on the river. At this time, someone suddenly shouted from the front, "Stop the ship, stop the ship quickly!"
The ships stopped one after another. Huang Xinwu walked to the bow of the big ship and suddenly took a breath of air. There were hundreds of warships on the river in front of them, as well as a dozen large ships of ten thousand stones, which had begun to surround them.
The big ship was covered with blue lanterns of the Jiangxia army. A tall man could be faintly seen standing on the bow of the ship, it was Lei Wanchun.
Huang Xinwu shouted anxiously: "Retreat! Retreat!"
"General, there are warships behind us too!"
Huang Xinwu turned his head and looked behind. There were also more than a hundred warships densely packed behind them, cutting off their retreat.
"Like us, the red lanterns are also from the Hanyang Army!"
For a moment, Huang Xinwu felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave. He knew that he was doomed. Li Ye had already completed the deployment, and he could not escape at all.
Huang Xinwu knew that he could not escape the death penalty. At this moment, he thought of his two sons. Maybe he could save his sons by killing them himself!
Huang Xinwu sighed, pulled out his sword, and wiped his neck hard.
Huang Xinwu committed suicide too suddenly, and the soldiers could not rescue him in time. They were all stunned. For a moment, there was a "clang!" and the long sword fell on the deck. Huang Xinwu fell on his back, with blood gurgling from his neck. The gods also rescued him.
Not alive anymore.
Huang Xinwu was dead, and his men hung up white flags to surrender. Yu Ze also raised his hands to surrender.
A few days later, Huang Xinwu's body was transported to Xiangyang, and Yu Ze was also sent to Xiangyang. He confessed that he resold 300 sets of bows and arrows. Fearing that he would be found out, he set fire to the warehouse and put a beggar who had frozen to death on his clothes.
He pretended to be himself in official uniform and was burned to death.
Since the Huang family had fully compensated for the damage to the warehouse and Yu Ze had not actually killed anyone, Li Ye sentenced Yu Ze to be exempted from the death penalty, beaten with fifty sticks, and sent to Chenzhou to guard the city gate for three years.
Only then did the warehouse burning case come to an end.
Huang Kai knelt in front of his cousin's body and burst into tears. Huang Xinwu was the second most important person in the Huang family in Xiangzhou and had a very high status. His death made everyone in the Huang family very sad.
The son-in-law Du Wensi and his two sons persuaded their father, "Father, there is no resurrection after death. My father is ill. Don't be too sad. Just be sad!"
The last time Huang Kai suffered from the cold and suffered from the cold, he fell ill when he returned home. He has not recovered yet. He thought that he would be able to save his cousin's life by losing the face of a public apology and thousands of money. Unexpectedly, his cousin ended up
Still dead.
Although Huang Xinwu committed suicide, Huang Kai would never think that he committed suicide. He would only think that his brother was forced to death by Li Ye. If Li Ye was lenient and allowed his cousin Huang Xinwu to escape, that would be fine.
But Li Ye refused to give up, and his cousin was forced to commit suicide. Of course, Li Ye should bear the blame, at least everyone in the Huang family thought so.
Huang Kai wiped away his tears and gritted his teeth and said: "Kill my brother, this is an irreconcilable hatred!"
This chapter has been completed!