Li Xun originally wanted to stay in Lijia Village for a few more days and take a look at the results of Liu Fu's handling of Wang Chun, but late that night, Chen Peng suddenly came here.

Li Xun walked out of the room in his clothes, and Chen Peng half-kneeled and saluted: "See the lord."

"What happened?"

Li Xun asked directly, and Chen Peng suddenly came here, and it would not be for no reason.

Chen Peng stood up, took out a letter from his arms, stepped forward and handed it to Li Xun with both hands.

Li Xun opened the letter to watch, and a look of shock appeared on his face.

On November 28, the first year of Kaiyuan, Shi Hu was besieged for many days. Seeing that the time was ripe, Zhao Baian immediately offered the conditions for the end of the war, and only eliminated the crimes of the people, regardless of the rest. As soon as this news came out, the city of Qianzhou suddenly became turbulent, and many rebel generals had aroused their intentions. The situation was settled, so they naturally had to consider themselves and their families.

Knowing this situation, Shi Hu knew that Qianzhou could not be defended for a long time. He issued the final combat order that night. The entire army broke through from the north of the city, and he led 5,000 confidant guards to take the opportunity to go west of the city. Zhao Baian was prepared for this and divided his troops into four groups in advance to encircle them.

The rebels who broke out from the north of the city, led by several leading generals, immediately put down their weapons and chose to surrender. Shi Hu, who suddenly came from the west of the city, fought fiercely with the surrounding Zhao Bai'an's army. In the end, Shi Hu successfully broke out and fled to Champo with less than 3,000 remaining soldiers.

After successfully taking over Qianzhou, the entire battle situation became clearer, with only one Jiayan City left, which won’t be supported for long.

Zhao Baian's army will be stationed in Qianzhou City and will take a temporary rest. At most two days, he will move to Jiayan City to completely end the war.

But at this moment, a bad news came.

Ma Kui and Jie Bing are both veterans who have followed Zhao Baian for many years. They are both colleagues and brothers. They have been with each other for many years, living and dying together, and sympathizing with brothers. Qianzhou City was broken, and there was no suspense in the entire war. Under such circumstances, Ma Kui and Jie Bing felt that under such a situation, the morale of the rebels in Jiayan City must have collapsed and no fighting spirit. They are also conceited and want to give Zhao Baian a big gift, so they are preparing to take Jiayan City before Zhao Baian leads his troops back and end the war directly.

Therefore, Ma Kui and Jie Bing ventured into Jiayan City despite everyone's opposition, hoping to persuade Cao Shi to surrender and let him surrender.

But in the end, after Cao Shi received the news that Shi Hu was defeated and Qianzhou City had fallen, he not only did not lose his fighting spirit, but instead went to another extreme and fell into madness. Ma Kui and Jie Bing were killed immediately, with their heads hanging on the city wall.

In the crazy situation, Cao Shi forced all the people in the city to defend the city, and detained all the families of all the generals in his mansion and kept them strictly in their residence to prevent internal changes.

Upon learning that Ma Kui and Jie Bing were killed, Zhao Baian was extremely angry and raised his troops overnight to return to Jiayan City. Regardless of the strong opposition of Huang Hui, Sima Zhong and others, he immediately issued a strong attack order against Jiayan City.

After five days of strong attack, Jiayan City was finally captured, but Zhao Baian also paid a price of nearly 20,000 people for this.

After breaking the city, Cao Shi returned to his home and ignited the entire mansion. Hundreds of people were buried in the fire with him.

After five consecutive days of fierce fighting, tens of thousands of people died in battle, the Jin army was also furious and a little lost in their minds. In addition, the strong opposition from Huang Hui, Sima Zhong and others angered Zhao Bai'an and was detained by him. This led to the fact that after the city was broken, Zhao Bai'an might not take timely control and prevent it out of negligence. In addition, there was no control of the main generals, which led to tens of thousands of troops entering Jiayan City, like wild horses that broke away from reins and began to burn, kill and rob.

Li Xun raised his head and asked, "The specific numbers are out?"

Chen Peng knew what the number Li Xun asked about refers to, and how many people were killed.

Chen Peng said: "I don't know the specific one yet, there is only one approximate number."

"How many?"

"Hundreds of thousands."

Li Xun took a breath of air. Jiayan City is a big city with more than 200,000 people. Chen Peng said the 100,000 yuan, which is just a rough idea. That is, the number of massacres, at least more than 100,000 yuan, which means that nearly half of the people in the entire Jiayan City were killed.

This is a very terrifying number, especially the regular official army of the court. Such behavior will definitely shock the world.

Chen Peng said: "The news of the massacre of the city will be sent back to Fengjing at dusk tomorrow at the latest, and the lord needs to make plans early."

Li Xun remained silent, frowned, and fell into deep thought.

Chen Peng glanced at Li Xun, then turned around and left.

The incident of the city massacre will inevitably shock the government and the public and will also arouse the anger of the vast majority of people, but excessive emotions cannot solve any problem, and it is still rational to dominate the overall situation.

From a subjective perspective, the massacre of the city can be said to be angered by both humans and gods and cannot be forgiven, but it is a common behavior of tens of thousands of people. Even if the court holds the responsibility seriously, it is impossible to kill all the tens of thousands of imperial soldiers involved in the matter. This is simply impossible. From a rational point of view, this matter cannot end without a rest. Zhao Xun must give an explanation to the people of the world for such a big thing. The final result is that it is very likely to find a few people to take the blame. This person may not be Zhao Baian. The situation in Lingnan has just been settled. If Zhao Baian is moved at this time, no one can predict what will happen.

For the court, stability is more important than anything else. Zhao Xun will not delay the matter of massacre, but will make a decision as quickly as possible to quickly calm the bad impact of the matter.

"Come."

"What are the instructions of the sir?"

Bi Xiangzu walked in and asked with his hands.

Li Xun stood up and said, "Prepare, we will hurry to Jiangnan immediately."

"Yes, sir."

Bi Xiangzu agreed and turned around and left.

Li Xun sighed. He was not planning to go to the Jiangnan area when he was out. Because there was no need. What he really wanted to do was the disaster in Henan. Now he was on the right track and just waited for the results to come out. He could have spent a while easily, but now it seems that he may not be able to escape. No matter what decision the court makes, he, the prime minister in the place, will definitely not be able to avoid it. Since he can't avoid it, he should take the initiative to go to Jiangnan first.

Liu Fu didn't expect Li Xun to leave suddenly and rush to leave. Something must have happened, but he didn't ask too much because he didn't have the qualification yet.

Before leaving, Li Xun finally told Liu Fu a few words, hoping that he could take care of Lijia Village one and two more. This is also the last thing he did for his hometown.
Chapter completed!