The first thousand one hundred and ninety-ninth chapters the shocking noise in Pei's house
The soldiers under Li Shentong were still searching Pei's house, but Pei Ji never showed up.
Li Jiancheng felt Li Shentong's strong murderous intention towards Pei Ji and knew that he could not dissuade him. Considering Pei's power in Hedong and his status among the scholars in the world, and that Pei had always been his supporter, he found a reason not to do so.
Instead of following him, he stayed in the living room in the front yard and secretly gave instructions to the servants of the Pei family to let Pei Ji come to see him first.
Li Shentong didn't know these little actions of Li Jiancheng. He walked through the front yard and stood in front of the fourth courtyard door of Pei Mansion. The feeling of heart palpitations just now still lingered in his body.
He always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say what was wrong. There was obviously no ambush in Pei's Mansion, and there could not be an ambush, because the entire Pei Mansion had been controlled or even taken over by his own soldiers, and there were still 80,000 people directly in Taiyuan City.
The soldiers and horses under his command can kill at any time with a single order, and he himself is also a top master in breaking the power. Even if he suffered some injuries, no matter what kind of masters the Pei Mansion hides, if he really wants to use force
That means he is here to die, and it is impossible to do anything to him.
After confirming that nothing was going to happen and that nothing was wrong, his reason defeated his intuition. Li Shentong shook his head and attributed the inexplicable heart palpitations just now to the fact that he had lost the battle today and was injured again, which led to mental exhaustion. Soon,
Put this bad feeling behind you.
More than two thousand soldiers searched Pei's mansion very quickly. It didn't take long for the general to report that there was nothing unusual in Pei's mansion. All the Pei family members, guards and servants in the mansion had gathered at the training ground on the right.
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Why is there a martial arts training ground? Because although there are not as many people in the Pei Mansion in Taiyuan as Wenxi Pei's old house, there are still quite a few. The Pei family, including their guards and servants, has more than a thousand people. Only the martial arts training ground can gather so many people.
Down.
But Pei Ji was not among those people, and seemed to have mysteriously disappeared.
"Hmph, this old man has a guilty conscience and doesn't dare to see me, so he hides himself." Li Shentong snorted coldly and led people to the Pei Mansion's martial arts training ground.
It is quite normal for the mansions of wealthy families to have secret rooms, secret passages and the like, so Li Shentong was not surprised that Pei Ji was hiding, and he gradually calmed down at this time, knowing that he might not be able to kill Pei Ji, because Pei Ji
It is not an ordinary aristocratic family, not to mention a giant in Hedong. With deep roots, the Wenxi Pei family is one of the few scholarly families among the aristocratic giants. The Pei family's Wenxi Library has been a famous library for hundreds of years.
The holy place in the hearts of scholars all over the world shows Pei's status in the hearts of scholars all over the world.
But what Pei Ji did today really made Li Shentong hate him for a while. He had to see Pei Ji and force him to kneel down to admit his mistake, and then force Pei to take responsibility for the defeat.
On the one hand, he wanted Pei Ji to write a letter admitting his mistake and send it to Chang'an.
On the other hand, he wanted Pei to provide enough manpower to supplement the strength of his troops, enough food and grass to supplement the needs of the army, and send enough money so that he could use it to reward his soldiers, especially
We should reward the soldiers who fought bravely when they defended Taiyuan City.
In any case, using reason to suppress the hatred in the heart and maximizing the chances of winning the next war is the normal operation of a qualified commander.
Of course, if there is a chance to kill a villain like Pei Ji, Li Shentong will never show any mercy.
After Li Shentong and his party arrived at the martial arts training ground of the Pei Mansion, they took a look at the more than a thousand Pei family members who were a little noisy and had angry and frightened expressions on their faces, and then were directly invited to the martial arts training ground by an old man from the Pei family.
There is a living room next to it.
"Go and send a message to Pei Ji. I won't kill him and let him come to see me." Li Shentong said calmly.
The old man from the Pei family seemed to have breathed a sigh of relief and said repeatedly: "Don't worry, Commander, I will go call Pei Ji right now."
After this senior member of the Pei family left, Li Shentong waited in the hall for a while, and gradually felt that something was wrong. Because Pei Ji had not arrived, he couldn't help but feel suspicious and vigilant.
"Send someone to ask the Pei family why Pei Ji hasn't come to see me for so long? You can tell them, is it because he wants to force me to kill someone?" Li Shentong ordered coldly.
Not long after, some soldiers came to report, saying that the action of the commander's soldiers searching Pei's house had frightened Pei Ji, and he hid in the secret room and did not dare to come out. Please ask Li
The supernatural power waited for a while to allow him to gain some courage, and then he came to see him immediately after changing his clothes.
"Huh!" Li Shentong snorted coldly, his face softened a little, and there was a hint of contempt in his eyes.
To be honest, Li Shentong has always looked down on the Pei clan members. Whether it is Pei Shiju or Pei Ji, they just use their mouth to please the king, but they are not loyal enough to the king.
Although the Pei family's behavior of betting everywhere is also done by other wealthy families, the Pei family appears to be more utilitarian and disgusting. In Li Shentong's view, this is the behavior of a villain.
It would be unreasonable to say that such a cowardly old man Pei has the courage to attack me.
Having come to this conclusion in his mind, most of the suspicion and vigilance that Li Shentong had just had dissipated unconsciously.
As if to appease Li Shentong's heart, a group of maids quickly came in from outside the palace door, carrying food plates and dishes, placing them on the table, and then bowed and left.
Immediately afterwards, a group of kabuki and musicians filed into the hall and began to sing and dance in front of Li Shentong. The melodious and comfortable music echoed in the hall, the music as gentle as a spiritual spring, the dancing as fast as a thunderous dragon, and the silver bells.
The sweet singing voice completely dispelled the last trace of suspicion and vigilance in Li Shentong's heart.
"This old man really doesn't have the guts." It was obvious that he was too worried, Li Shentong reflected secretly.
While watching the kabuki in the hall, Li Shentong was very careful not to drink or eat, but he was thinking about how to force the Pei family to provide money and food when he met and talked with Pei Ji later.
Although he has always looked down on villains like Pei Ji, Li Shentong had to admit that when it came to speaking, he was indeed no match for a despicable villain like Pei Ji.
However, after this matter caused the Pei family to bleed a lot, and even drained all the people, money and food of the Pei family in Taiyuan City, the Pei family still had to be on guard to avoid collaborating with the enemy and joining forces with the Far East Army's spies in the city.
The city gate was opened inside.
Of course, if Pei Ji is stubborn and unwilling to provide money and food, Li Shentong doesn't mind killing some members of the Pei family.
Having made up his mind, Li Shentong continued to enjoy singing and dancing. The kabuki performers in front of him were all as beautiful as flowers. With his status, he could naturally take some of them, but his eyes were clear and calm, and there was no hint of lust at all.
A servant of the Pei family walked quietly into the palace with a hunched waist, carrying a jar of fine wine. He carefully placed the jar of wine on Li Shentong's desk, smiled respectfully at him, bowed and silently left.
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This was a very ordinary scene. Li Shentong only glanced at the servant faintly. Unexpectedly, this simple glance allowed him to capture the flash of fear and panic in the eyes of the servant.
The servants of the Pei family had withdrawn from the palace, but Li Shentong was stunned. The fear in the servant's eyes just now was definitely not because he led troops to surround Pei's house today, and ordered his own soldiers to search the entire Pei house, and to arrest Pei.
It's as simple as gathering thousands of people in the house to the martial arts training ground.
"I'm afraid there's something wrong with this matter." Li Shentong vaguely felt that the scene just now was a real abnormality.
Before the Li Yuan Group entered Guanzhong, Li Shentong attended the Pei family's banquets several times in Taiyuan City, and even stayed overnight at the Pei family once. The servants of the Pei family were also familiar with him, and the most important thing was that they were familiar with him.
With his family's status as a giant, the servants in his mansion may be in awe and frightened by the things he led his troops to do in Pei's mansion today, but they will never show such fear and panic.
In short, the reaction of the servant of the Pei family just now was too abnormal...
Li Shentong pondered for a moment, and the familiar feeling of impending disaster after entering the Pei Mansion resurfaced in his heart.
He turned around and looked inside and outside the hall. He saw that his own soldiers were surrounding him inside and outside. More than a thousand people from the Pei family were sitting there quietly in the martial arts training field outside. It seemed that they were a little too honest.
Everything inside and outside the hall is normal, and there are no signs of danger...
But why is the ominous premonition in my heart getting stronger and stronger?
Gritting his teeth, Li Shentong decided to trust his intuition. There was evil everywhere in Pei's house today, so it would be better to leave early and let the soldiers escort Pei Ji to see him.
Thinking like this, Li Shentong immediately stood up and strode towards the door of the living room with firm steps.
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In the front yard living room of the Pei Mansion, Pei Ji hurriedly walked in, knelt down directly to Li Jiancheng, the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty who looked anxious and worried, and said sadly: "Your Majesty, Marshal Li wants to kill me, please save me."
Li Jiancheng had learned the details of today's battle by the Fen River through Li Shentong's subordinates, and was also very angry with Pei Ji, but Pei had always been his supporter, and Pei Ji was his confidant. He was annoyed, but he
I also don’t want Pei Ji to be killed by Li Shentong.
Sighing, Li Jiancheng bent down and helped Pei Ji up, and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Pei, you did something wrong. Today's battle may still be lost in the end, but now it seems that it is because of your advance.
The retreat disrupted the morale of the troops."
Pei Ji cried and said: "Your Majesty, I am just a civil servant with no power to tie a chicken. The situation on the battlefield is unfavorable, so I thought it would be useless to stay. Moreover, if Marshal Li is defeated by the Fen River, Taiyuan City must make preparations in advance.
In order to prepare for the response and defense of the city, we evacuated early. I dare to swear that we were just evacuating at that time, and there was no chaotic escape. Who knew that Wang Junlin was treacherous and actually made people shout that Marshal Li and I had escaped in advance. The battlefield was chaotic and occupied.
As the ground spreads for ten miles, the news continues to spread indiscriminately, and the soldiers in the distance are naturally affected."
At this point, Pei Ji already had a look of remorse on his face, and continued with grief: "No matter what, I have the responsibility. I have persuaded the elders of the clan to give all the manpower, money and food in Taiyuan City to Marshal Li to defend the city.
, in order to atone for my sins, I will personally resign to Duke Tang afterwards."
After hearing Pei Ji's sincere confession of his mistake, Li Jiancheng's face softened slightly, and he helped the crying Pei Ji, who was shaking, to sit down on the soft couch aside, and said sincerely: "Don't worry, Mr. Pei, I will never let my uncle kill Mr. Pei."
, but my uncle is very angry right now. Mr. Pei will wait here for a while, and I will go to my uncle to persuade him."
Pei Ji immediately bowed to Li Jiancheng with tears of gratitude and said, "I would like to thank you, Your Majesty, for saving your life. From now on, I, Mrs. Pei, will look up to you with His Majesty's guidance."
Li Jiancheng was overjoyed when he heard this, thinking that today he would take this opportunity to completely win the Pei family under his command. This is a great gain!
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Li Shentong decided to leave here, but as soon as he stepped out of the hall door, the servant of the Pei family who delivered the wine suddenly appeared in front of him and asked respectfully: "Does the commander want to go back to the house? There has just been news that my family
The Second Master will be here soon, please wait a moment, Marshal..."
While he was talking, the figure of this servant of the Pei family happened to be blocking Li Shentong's face intentionally or unintentionally.
Li Shentong saw the behavior of this servant of the Pei family in his eyes, and became more sure of his intuition and guess just now, and smiled calmly: "Okay, you go and call Pei Ji, I will wait for him here for a while.
Time for incense sticks.”
"Thank you, Marshal." The servants of Pei Mansion saluted him respectfully, then turned and left.
At this moment, the long sword at Li Shentong's waist suddenly came out of its sheath, a flash of snow-white silver light flashed, and the sword had already slashed towards the neck of the servant of Pei Mansion.
However, Li Shentong didn't expect that his sword would cut the whole thing in the air.
Pei Man's head suddenly lowered and he dodged Li Shentong's sword. Not only did he hit Li Shentong with his whole body.
"Seeking death." Li Shentong was furious and slashed with his long sword. The sword flashed and the head of the servant of Pei Mansion was cut off, but he himself was forced back into the hall by the servant of Pei Mansion.
But at this moment, the ground in the hall suddenly flattened with an explosion, the sky collapsed and the earth shattered, and the sun and moon lost all light.
Li Shentong's soldiers outside the hall were all overturned by the air wave, and they flew out involuntarily. Then countless sand and yellow dust filled the surroundings, and the house almost became a ghost monster that could not be seen. Finally, there were countless
People covered their ears and eyes, rolling on the ground and crying in pain.
Outside the living room, Li Shentong's personal soldiers and the more than a thousand people from the Pei family looked here in horror, only to see a small mushroom cloud rising slowly in the living room next to the martial arts training ground.
The living room where the singing and dancing was taking place just now has completely disappeared, along with the kabuki and musicians who were singing, dancing and playing music in the hall, as well as the servants of the Pei Mansion!
Of course, the commander-in-chief of the Li Jiajun North Army and the nearly a hundred soldiers around him all disappeared, leaving only a pile of scorched earth filled with yellow dust and debris.