Chapter 698 The Devil's Promise
After ten days of negotiations, Gao Dezhu, the main general of Baiyan City, finally got Li Ke's affirmative promise and Kaicheng surrendered to Li Ke. {/Book friends uploaded and updated}
On this day, the east sky had already hung with a fiery red sun, but the soldiers under Baiyan City in Liaodong still felt a chill. Especially the Goryeo defenders, when they threw down their weapons and slowly walked out of Baiyan City and came to the front of the Tang army, he found that he felt a sense of sadness in his heart.
Instead of coming to Baiyan City to accept the surrender of the generals in Baiyan City, Li Ke handed over the task to Pei Xinglian and Xue Rengui. He felt that with the ability of both of them, he could definitely complete the tasks he deployed.
Xue Rengui and Pei Xinglian did not disappoint Li Ke's expectations. Xue Rengui was responsible for accepting the surrendered prisoners and gathered all the more than 100,000 prisoners in the city in the prisoner-of-war camp specially set up by the Tang Dynasty for him. Pei Xinglian was responsible for taking over Baiyan City.
The two stood at Baiyan City and watched the Goryeo prisoners step by step into the prisoner-of-war camp set up by the Tang army.
Finally, the generals of Baiyan City led by Gaodezhu remained.
Gao Dezhu thought that he would be received by Li Ke by his identity as the general of Baiyan City, but when he faced the two young generals Pei Xinglian and Xue Rengui, he was very angry. When he saw the two riding on horseback and looking at him with a condescending expression, Gao Dezhu almost had the idea of leading the army back to the city to continue fighting against the Tang army. But seeing that his more than 100,000 troops had entered the prisoner-in-law camp set up by the Tang army, he suppressed his anger and saluted the two, "The Lord of Baiyan City will meet the general--"
He saluted, and the Goryeo generals around him also saluted, "See General--"
"General Gao, are there any troops in the city?" Pei Xinglian asked with a smile.
"No more-" Gao Dezhu replied briefly. He thought the two people in front of him had insulted him, so he spoke loudly, "I wonder when will this general meet His Highness the Northern King?"
"Huh?" Xue Rengui said coldly, "You can't see His Highness the Northern King--"
"What does the general mean?" Gao Dezhu was shocked, and an ominous premonition suddenly arose in his heart. He looked at the Tang army general in front of him coldly. (_"")
"General Gao, do you still remember what General Lan Dong said when His Highness first arrived in Baiyan City?" Pei Xinglian asked with a smile.
"What do you mean?" Gao Dezhu asked in confusion.
"Kill prisoners - massacre the city -" Xue Rengui said word by word.
"What?—————" Gao Dezhu was shocked. He couldn't believe the four words that Xue Rengui said. The Goryeo generals around him couldn't help but retreat. Some of them had already started to tremble and their bodies were trembling. They all focused their eyes on Gao Dezhu.
"General Lan Dong, you can enter the city--" Pei Xinglian ordered Lan Dong on the side.
"No——" Lan Dong replied coldly.
Immediately, he ordered the Turkic cavalry, "Warriors, kill into the city - slaughter the city -"
"Kill--" After saying that, he was the first to draw his sword and rushed towards Baiyan City.
"Kill--" The 20,000 Turkic Spirit Cavalry followed him excitedly and rushed into Baiyan City.
"You—you—the King of Northern has promised me that I would treat the prisoners very favorably and the people in the city well-" Gao Dezhu said in a furious manner, "You, you are all in your own right. I will personally meet His Highness, and explain the situation to him-"
After saying that, he was about to walk towards the Tang army's camp.
However, after he took a few steps, he heard screams coming from behind him one after another. He turned around and found that the generals who followed him out of the city were constantly falling under the Tang army's bow and arrow.
"General Gao, I said you can't see Your Highness-" Pei Xinglian smiled faintly, and slowly pulled out the sword on his waist, "I don't want to do it, General, please do it yourself-" After saying that, he still placed the sword in front of Gao Dezhu. With a "clang--" sound, Pei Xinglian's steel sword inserted into the ground in front of Gao Dezhu.
"Is this what the Northern King meant?" Gao Dezhu slowly raised his head, his eyes full of grief and regret.
He seemed to understand the real price behind this surrender.
Pei Xinglian and Xue Rengui did not speak, obviously accusing Gao Dezhu's words.
"Sure enough - haha - indeed - haha -" Gao Dezhu laughed to himself, "The devil's promise - who will be the promise of the new devil? Well - let me and Bai Yancheng live and die together-" After saying that, he picked up Pei Xinglian's sword, slashed his neck, blood gushed out, and his body fell to the ground.
"I'm going to enter the city, I'll leave the prisoners to you-" Pei Xinglian said, urging his horse to rush towards Baiyan City.
Xue Rengui slowly walked towards the prisoner-of-war camp.
In the prisoner-of-war camp, the Korean prisoners were already gathered together. They had already tied them with ropes and allowed them to stand in front of the promise. One hundred thousand people were black, like one hundred thousand wooden stakes.
Xue Rengui walked to the door and asked the guards guarding the door, "Are you ready?"
"General, prepare-" said the guard at the gate.
"Get ready--" Xue Rengui finished speaking, leaving and rode his horse.
The guards at the gate blew the horn and saw hundreds of cavalry holding lit torches appearing around the camp. They threw the torches into the camp.
Suddenly, there was a huge fire in the camp.
Hundreds of thousands of Korean prisoners became lambs in the fire and allowed them to be swallowed by the fire.
The prisoner-of-war camp had already set fire with tinder soaked in tinder oil, and the fire of the ignition of hay was very strong, so the guards of the Goryeo could only be burned to death.
Similarly, there were constant shouts of killing in Baiyan City.
With a powerful city-slaughtering machine like the Turkic Spirit Cavalry, Baiyan City has Shura Field and Hell.
In addition to killing men in the city, women became the lambs of the Turks, allowing them to ride on them to vent their anger. Many women endured many people killed themselves by being ridden by many people, but most of them became the stalkers of Turkic spirits, except for horses.
They vent their anger and enjoy the feeling of the girl screaming!
At night, the shouts of killing in Baiyan City ended.
Li Ke was discussing the next battle situation with Pei Xinglian and Xue Rengui in the tent.
At this time, Lan Dong strode into the big tent.
"See Your Highness--" he bowed to Li Ke.
"Have Baicheng been cleaned up?" Li Ke asked.
"All the scumbags in the city have been cleaned up--" Lan Dong replied.
"Well——" Li Ke nodded and asked Lan Dong to sit down and continue discussing military information with everyone.
At this time, a burst of rapid horse hooves interrupted everyone's conversation.
Hearing heavy footsteps, the curtain of the big tent was lifted. A centurion of the eagle guard strode into the big tent and reported to Li Kehui, "Your Highness, Chang'an urgently reported--"
"Say—" Li Ke said, he knew the centurion's oral message and had no letters on him.
"The prince, together with the Minister of War, the East Palace Liuru and a few ministers rebelled, and had been captured by the emperor-" the centurion said coldly, "The emperor was critically ill-" the centurion continued, "The condition is difficult to determine-"
"Is that true?" Li Ke said lightly, as if he had expected this result, so he continued to ask, "Is there any other news?"
"No—" the centurion said, fainting on the ground. Obviously, he had been rushing to the road for a long time, so that his body could not hold on and fainted.
Li Ke ordered the Eagle Guard to carry the centurion out of the tent.
Suddenly, the atmosphere in the tent became suffocating. No one expected that the prince would rebel. What was more important was that the emperor's condition would be so serious.
Therefore, the generals' eyes turned to Northern King Li Ke, waiting for his orders.
Because they knew what the King of Bei should do and what to do at this time!
Chapter completed!