Chapter 133 Li Laiheng: How difficult is it to prosper
Ji Gui's expression was both excited and haggard. Gao Ruli and Wang Liangzhi were both sitting back and watching the success or failure, and no longer cared about Ji Gui's madness.
In these short two days, he was able to control all the power in Chang'an City and act arbitrarily. The citizens were still resentful, and the fire of uprising seemed to be ignited at any time. Although the soldiers still obeyed his orders, it was obvious that only Gao Ruli and Wang Liangzhi could
These rebels will switch sides at any time at the slightest order.
Ji Gui thought that no matter what the future holds, his fate is actually over now.
"Shuai Cao, why are you so stupid?"
After the rebels were defeated in the Battle of Lutai, Ji Gui told Gao Ruli, Wang Liangzhi and others that Luo Rucai, who was under house arrest, had been executed, so that the generals did not have to worry about internal changes.
But at the end of the day, it seemed that he was still unwilling to forget the relationship between king and subject and master and servant for many years. After all, he did not kill Luo Rucai directly, but only gave him poisonous wine and waited for Luo Rucai to die slowly.
Ji Gui walked into the backyard of the government office, and Luo Ru, who was struggling to his death, found it very difficult to move his body. Cao Cao, who once dominated the world, now looked like a balloon with its skin punctured, with all the fat on his body.
It makes people unable to find any vitality of life at all.
Seeing his old master like this, Ji Gui sighed, scratched his head with both hands, then threw the city defense seal letter to the ground and cursed:
"Cao Cao! Luo Rucai! I have thought in every possible way and calculated in every possible way to achieve the great cause of being an emperor for eternity for you and Cao Ying. It's just that you are willing to be driven by Li Zicheng. What kind of heroes are Li Guo and Li Laiheng father and son?
After all, Li Zicheng is a figure who is on par with you in the world, but he is already dead!
Commander Cao, open your eyes and see, Li Zicheng is already dead, why do you still need to be driven by Li Laiheng? You are crazy, but you should not have led everyone in Cao Ying crazy together and ended up like this today."
Luo Rucai had already drunk the poisonous wine. His body was already weakened by the alcohol and sex, and could not hold on for much longer. The pent-up breath in his chest gradually became hard to breathe out. Luo Rucai opened his mouth wide, as if he wanted to exhale, but the result was just
He cried feebly "Ah, ah".
Ji Gui hated iron and said: "Back in Henan, if you had listened to my plan, sneaked into the camp, and attacked Li Zicheng first, the person who is called a lonely Taoist and a widow today would not be the young Li Chonger, but you, Cao Cao.
Right? With one fell swoop, I followed you, a thief and robber, for so many years. Why? Is it just for the sake of the Li family? It’s ridiculous, it’s ridiculous.”
Luo Rucai grabbed his own throat with one hand. The poison of the poisonous wine had begun to gradually appear, and his face was completely covered with pain.
Cao Cao struggled and used all his strength to say a complete sentence.
He struggled to speak out loud:
"The thief will not kill the thief... I am fighting with brother Zicheng. Who will be the emperor? What difference does it make... I am lazy and lustful. I can't do without beautiful women and luxurious enjoyment. I am not an emperor in the first place.
My talents. If I were to be the emperor, I would probably ruin the world.
I only raised the army to live a happy and carefree life. The world belongs to me, but I actually don’t want to do anything.”
"You...!" Ji Gui gritted his teeth and pointed at Luo Rucai, his whole body trembling violently, "Don't talk about Chen Youliang, you are not even as good as Zhang Shicheng. My life has been wrongly paid, Luo Rucai, you really deserve to be lowered to the eighteenth floor.
Execution in hell."
Luo Rucai couldn't help coughing in pain, and blood quickly flowed down the corner of his mouth. He wiped the blood with the back of his hand, looked up at the roof, and suddenly asked Ji Gui:
"How will the great Chang'an end?"
Ji Gui stared at Luo Rucai hard and said word by word:
"I, Jizi Yucuo, have pinned my life's fame on you, and I have ended up today. You are buried alone, how can you repay my ten years of hard work? If a man is alive, since he cannot be famous for eternity, I will also be infamous for eternity. I want Chang'an and the people to live.
They die with me."
Luo Rucai slowly closed his eyes. The poisonous wine had reached its peak, and a strong pain locked his throat.
"Ji Gui, you are going to destroy Chang'an... Shaanxi will fall into the hands of the Tatars."
Ji Gui bit his teeth so hard that his gums drew blood. He pointed at the door and cursed:
"Li Chuang has insulted us so far. Li Laiheng, a brat, dares to go south and claim to be an orphan. I don't hesitate to count the hairs on my head to let Li Chong'er know that Cao Ying cannot be insulted... Now Gao Ruli and Wang Liangzhi have second thoughts.
, I probably won’t be able to defect to the Qing Dynasty. Then I will burn down Chang’an City and let hundreds of thousands of people be buried with me.
Without Chang'an, how can I resist Prince Rui's march south? I have been in contact with Prince Rui for a long time. After the Qing Dynasty unified the country, I will be included in the annals of history and be called a wise minister. At that time, my Ji Ziyu will be famous again.
For a hundred generations!"
After Ji Gui finished speaking, he flicked his sleeves and left the last sentence:
"Gao Ruli and Wang Liangzhi thought that I demolished palaces and houses to get wood to make equipment for defending the city. These two people were also stupid and did not notice that I mixed building materials and gunpowder in several places and scattered them throughout the city.
Now all preparations have been made, just waiting for the time to come. The hundreds of soldiers left by Yang Chengzu only know how to light gunpowder everywhere, and they don't know my plan to burn down Chang'an... It's almost time, the time is coming,
Luo Rucai, let’s meet again in the underworld!”
Luo Rucai's physical strength was losing rapidly, but for some reason, he felt that his sense of smell had become more sensitive, and a faint burning smell was rushing into his nose.
Is it already burning?
Cao Cao hung his head, burned Chang'an, and fell Shaanxi Sangzi into the hands of the Tatars. This rebellion in Cao Ying's camp actually caused such serious harm to Dashun.
Yuan Cong of the Dashun Army was mostly from the Qin Dynasty. Now that the Three Qin Dynasties have been lost due to Cao Ying's rebellion, Yan Qing, how will you live in the world of Dashun from now on?
The flames were slowly igniting. Dozens of fires broke out in the city at the same time. The fire spread rapidly. There was a faint yellow outline on the edge of the red flames. The flames jumped in all directions. There were several "pop" and "pop" sounds, and tens of thousands of sparks erupted from the flames.
The top burst out, and the wind blew bigger and bigger.
The wind was so powerful that the water turned into smoke, and the flames quickly grew to several feet long. The wood on the ground turned into giant dragons of fire, dancing crazily, rotating with the wind, and soon became a sea of fire. It was more than ten feet long.
Long tongues of flames licked the eaves of nearby houses, and then started to burn again. Only the roof tiles could be heard violently exploding, and the tiles flew all over the sky like hailstones, injuring more than a dozen people in an instant. There was a loud explosion and a tragic scene.
Trumpet, black smoke rose up, and there was scorched earth and ashes everywhere.
It was not until the fire burned to the point of no return that Gao Ruli and Wang Liangzhi slowly realized the horror of the current situation. Although they were despicable and shameless villains with no firm stand, they did not dare to sit back and watch a flames destroy Chang'an for dozens of people.
Thousands of civilians were involved, and they quickly led troops to put out the fire everywhere, not even caring about the defense of the city.
At this time, outside Chang'an City, Li Laiheng was mobilizing his troops to the north of Chang'an, preparing to prepare for the Qing cavalry that might rush down from the north when the Shun army attacked the city.
The soldiers of Dashun Army were digging trenches and building extremely strong fortifications according to Chu Chuang's practice, preparing to reproduce Chu Chuang's fine tradition of defending danger but not the city when the Qing army's cavalry moved south.
Suddenly, tens of thousands of people saw the sky above Chang'an City at the same time. The flaming red flowers were blooming in the dark night. There was a black cloud high in the sky, but the silvery Milky Way could still be seen clearly, and the fire light reflected red.
On the other side of the sky, large plumes of smoke spiraled upward, and the outline of the earth flickered and appeared as the smoke gathered and dispersed.
Everyone was belatedly aware of it, and only Li Laiheng woke up first:
"There are hundreds of thousands of stone, grain, and military supplies in Chang'an City. There are hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Chang'an City. Ji Gui is crazy!... No, it's me who is crazy..."
Li Laiheng turned his head to the north and was speechless: "Ji Gui has destroyed Chang'an, and it will be more difficult for the Dashun army to defend northern Shaanxi."
The other generals were also completely shocked by the fire. Wu Dading quickly asked:
"His Royal Highness, Prince Jin, do you still want to attack Chang'an now?"
Li Laiheng looked at the crowd and then at the sky. He looked at the dark night with few clouds at all, knowing that God had not favored the once great Chang'an.
But he also believed that man can conquer nature.
"Attack the city immediately. After entering the city, all the rebels will be recruited regardless of good or bad. As long as they are willing to surrender, they will immediately go into fighting the fire.
Chang'an City...hundreds of thousands of people must not suffer any loss!"