Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 356 Martyrdom
In the early morning of the next day, the mist in Guangning City began to dissipate, and Li Yongfang's newly recruited soldiers began to gather in the big school grounds in the city, waiting for his coach to inspect and distribute the first month's military pay, so as to buy the morale of the soldiers .

But when the sun had already set on the city wall, and the gorgeous morning glow turned into white clouds, swimming in the sky that had changed from gray to bright blue, Li Yongfang still did not appear.

Seeing this, Li Yongfang's generals thought that his coach might have forgotten about it because he was too tired from running around for days, or it might be because he hadn't tasted meat for a few days and had too much fun last night. The long-awaited Mongolian woman Sai Ya seems to have been secretly summoned into his private house by his commander-in-chief Li Yongfang.

Therefore, Li Yongfang's generals took the recruits back with interest, and Li Yongfang's forehead was still as calm as before. No one dared to ask where their forehead went, because that would be considered a crime. With ulterior motives, he was a spy of Jin Yiwei and was executed immediately.

In the end, Li Yongfang's body was only found on the third day after his death, because according to the past practice, even if it was a big event, Li Yongfang would stay outside for at most one day, and often there was no reason to stay two nights, even though that The Mongolian woman named Sai Ya is indeed quite beautiful, but it is absolutely not enough to make Li Yongfang's people think that Li Yongfang will be so fascinated by her that she doesn't want to go home for several days.

Li Yongfang's son, Li Soltai, was the first to arrive at Li Yongfang's private house. When he arrived, he realized that there had been a fight here. Most of the powerful guards around his father had been shot in the forehead. He has mastered an extremely powerful firearm, which can kill a person in an instant.

And the headless corpse still wearing his Qing Dynasty uniform was his father. Li Sutai couldn't help but shed tears, but he found that there was no corpse named Saiya in the yard, so he guessed the truth to some extent. Can't help but feel very angry, and immediately shouted: "Immediately block Guangning City! No one is allowed to leave the city, and everyone in the city is strictly searched. Be sure to find that Mongolian woman named Sai Ya, yes, and her Batur's brother."

Although Li Sutai is the eldest son of Li Yongfang, he has always been good at poetry and poetry, he does not practice horseback riding and archery, and has no prestige in the army, and his younger brother Gangbatai, who is a martial artist, has also been killed by Jin Yiwei, so now Li Yongfang Once he died, he was powerless to restrain his father's subordinates.

Coupled with the fact that such a careful person as Li Yongfang was also decapitated, and the fate of Ning Wanwo, Fan Wencheng, Li Yongfang's son Gangbatai, and Wu's father and son were also connected, these Yuan Daming who followed Li Yongfang in the past to seek refuge as slaves The Liaodong military officers have become frightened birds, and began to panic all day long, and because of this, they became more depressed and their military discipline deteriorated.

Although it was only a strict search, after Li Yongfang died, these Han Eight Banners who had become a mess turned this strict search into a large-scale looting.

They didn't notice the First Brigade of the First Army of the Imperial Guard and the First Brigade of the Third Army of the Imperial Guard marching secretly outside Guangning City, and they didn't immediately reinforce the city defenses. The families of the people who have been appeased, feel sorry for these people. At first they thought that these traitors who took refuge in the Tartars had done nothing to them.

Li Yongfang's army has turned into a situation where all the dragons have no leader, so that the army's morale is loose and the military discipline is corrupted. However, with the help of the local people, the imperial guard army who rushed to the army marched invisibly into the dense forest outside Guangning City, and shot Okay gunfire.

With a bang, a cannonball collapsed a wall of Guangning City, but when it was astonishing, most of Li Yongfang's Han Eight Banners soldiers had already gone to the city to make a fortune, and they didn't pay attention to it because of the cannonball. Transfer to the outside of Guangning City.

The first brigade of the Imperial Guards didn't even use the prepared gas. Seeing that no one appeared on the city wall, they rushed over directly. Seeing that there was no one on the city wall, they simply climbed in along the incomplete city wall, and quickly The front door opened smoothly.

The cavalry of the third brigade rushed in directly, but they were also very surprised. What happened to Li Yongfang's Han Eight Banners, and why the gate of the city was not guarded.

However, at this moment, he found a few Han Eight Banner soldiers who had shaved their heads and looked like Tartars, dragging a dark-skinned but pretty-looking girl walking towards this side. Holding a chicken, the brigade general of the third brigade couldn't help being surprised when he saw this, but soon he also understood why the defense of Guangning City was so lax, and rushed towards these Han Eight Banners soldiers. .

In a very untechnical battle, five or six Han and Eight Banner soldiers were decapitated like this.

At this time, the infantry of the first brigade also rushed into the city one step ahead of the cavalry, and he did not wait for the cavalry to break up the enemy's formation, because now the Han Eight Banners soldiers in these cities have almost no formation. Just entering a private house with a musket can kill a few traitors from the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty.

However, these Han Eight Banners soldiers who plundered people's wealth and robbed them madly still had some conscience, but some veterans rushed to the Ebofu Mansion and told the news of the Imperial Guard's attack to Li Sutai, the only one who could call the shots.

But Li Sutai is just a literati, and he doesn't know how to integrate his forces to find a way to break through, or stick to the inner city and ask for help from Huang Taiji. After all, considering the strategic position of Guangning City, Huang Taiji will not do nothing. , not to mention that Li Yongfang can be regarded as a relative of the emperor.

However, Li Soltai's performance was to sit directly on the ground, and said to his father's generals dejectedly: "It seems that the general situation is over now, you can find your own way out."

Li Yongfang's generals can be regarded as veterans who have experienced battles, and they were determined to fight to the death with their eldest son. After all, they have been with his father for so many years, so they still have to show some sympathy, but They didn't expect this eldest son to be so pessimistic and negative, so they let them go separately.

In this way, these generals who wanted to fight with Li Shuitai for Li Yongfang's sake suddenly lost their will to fight hard, and they dispersed separately, preparing to contact the ban who came to Guangning City. The guard officers surrendered or managed to break out by themselves.

However, in fact, Li Soltai is very calm now, because he is a literati, so he also pays more attention to literati integrity, that is to say, he wants to win the reputation of being loyal and dying.

For a person like Li Soltai who is pedantic in reading and reading, this is a rare opportunity to achieve a good reputation, so his heart is calm.

Without asking the guards to do anything, Li Sutai ordered his housekeeper: "Go and call your wife, grandma, and young masters and ladies in the house."

The so-called wife is Li Shuitai's mother, and the eldest grandma is his own wife. Li Shutai called them all here at this time, but he didn't want to take his family members to escape, but Let them complete a great mission of martyrdom like myself.

From Li Sutai's point of view, his own death of loyalty seems to be a child's disease, and it seems that it is not enough to shock the world and weep ghosts and gods!
Therefore, he wants the whole family to complete this great cause with him.

Because of this, while he ordered people to gather all the relatives in the family, he also ordered people to prepare a bowl of wine for everyone in the house, and ordered his servants to add arsenic to each bowl of wine!
However, Li Sutai himself would not use this way of drinking poisoned wine to claim his reputation of loyalty. He had already prepared to end his life with a white silk to prove his innocence. One sound.

Li Yongfang's family was called together. Now that Li Yongfang is dead, they have already started to wear sackcloth and filial piety, so when they gathered, most of them looked sad.

But they didn't know what Li Sutai was going to do, but Li Sutai's stepmother, Aning, the wife of Li Yongfang's daughter Li Yongfang, noticed the clue, pointed to a white silk on the beam, and asked: " Taylor, what are you doing?"

"Mother, let me tell you that it has been three years since the Qing Dynasty was established, but the fortunes of the country have begun to show signs of decline, because my Qing Dynasty does not have the backbone of loyalty and justice! Today, let me, Li Sutai, be the number one of my Qing Dynasty." A minister of the death festival, and mother, you are the daughter of Baylor, born in the royal family, you should fully abide by the name of festival, and the rest of you are the members of the Li family, and you are also the ghosts of the Li family. You should also go to the country together like us !"

After speaking, Li Sutai came to his stepmother with a bowl of poisoned wine in hand: "Please drink it, mother!"

"No, no, I won't drink it, Li Sutai, you are crazy, you want to die for me in the name of Da Qingquan's loyalty, why do you drag us!"

Li Yongfang's wife obviously didn't want to die with Li Sutai, but Li Sutai didn't seem to want to let it go, and actually pinched his stepmother's throat and forced it in: "Mother, forgive me, since my father You have died for the Qing Dynasty, as a nobleman of the royal family, you should not leave any stigma behind."

Li Yongfang's wife swallowed a few times, wailed a few times in pain, and then stared at Li Sutai with unrepentant eyes.

But Li Sutai was unmoved at all, and still had a smile on his face, as if he was very satisfied with this, and turned his attention to his wife, who was also the daughter of a certain Baylor, Ye Heshi, who had always relied on her being For the first time, Ye Heshi, the daughter of a nobleman with the characteristics of a Hedong lion, felt afraid of her cowardly husband, and couldn't help but retreat a few steps: "Master, I won't drink, I won't drink!"

"Yuan Liang, go and feed your mother to drink, it's your last act of filial piety!"

In Li Soltai's view, it is a good thing to observe the festival for the Qing Dynasty, and such a good thing should not happen to him, but should let those who are close to him have such honor.

And it is the best thing to let the son help the mother complete this great act of keeping the chastity, and the son can be regarded as doing the greatest filial piety for his mother, after all, this can be regarded as the full name of the mother.

So even though Li Sutai was dissatisfied with his stepmother in every possible way, he still chose to perform this great filial piety in front of her.

Li Yuanliang, the son of Li Shutai, who was supposed to be the Minister of the Household Department of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the original history, is only a child now, but he has become a very obedient child under Li Shutai's precepts and deeds. Said to ask him to serve the poisoned wine in front of Ye Heshi, he really honestly served the poisoned wine in front of Ye Heshi: "Mother, please die!"

Ye Heshi's tears flowed down, she couldn't understand now, how could this result happen, her own son would come to her with a bowl of poisoned wine for herself to drink.

She can refuse Li Sutai's request, but she doesn't know how to refuse the poisoned wine brought by her son, and she just took the poisoned wine in such a mysterious way, nodded and said: "Okay, okay, mother, drink, I just drink it!"

Ye Heshi raised his head and drank, choked up a few times, then fell on his back.

Li Yuanliang, with tears in his eyes, turned to Li Shuitai and said, "Father, let the child go with mother."

Li Sutai nodded with satisfaction: "It's so good, it's not wasting your mother raising you for so many years, and it's not wasting the way your father taught you to be a son."

Li Yuanliang didn't say anything, just took a bowl of poisoned wine and drank it, then lay down in Ye Heshi's arms.

The same is true for other relatives, all of whom chose to commit suicide under the coercion and lure of Li Soltai.

After a long time, the masters of the entire forehead fell to the ground in disorder, but Li Sutai still showed a smile.

As a Taoist priest, he is very satisfied with his masterpiece. He made his entire Li family die for his Qing Dynasty. In addition, he is about to choose to commit suicide. Such a move will definitely be recorded in his Qing Dynasty. The annals of history, and forever.

Because everyone knows that in Guangning City, there used to be a loyal official of the Qing Dynasty named Li Sutai who chose to martyr his whole family before the invasion of foreign enemies.

Li Sutai, who was deeply educated in Confucianism, didn't think there was anything wrong with this, and in his eyes, his master was the Qing Dynasty, and he should be the ghost of the Qing Dynasty.

But to Li Shitai's disappointment, at the moment he put his head into the white silk, soldiers from the imperial guards had rushed into the forehead and decisively rescued Li Shitai.

Li Soltai, who had always wanted to die for his Qing dynasty, couldn't help being furious, because these Ming people prevented his great ideal of martyrdom, which was more uncomfortable than killing himself.

However, as soon as Li Sutai thought that since he could not cut himself off, it seemed that if he died because of scolding the enemy, it seemed to be a manifestation of loyalty, so Li Sutai yelled at the soldiers of the Imperial Guard again: " You dog thieves, occupying my land of the Qing Dynasty, and plundering the people of my Qing Dynasty, are really like jackal ears, I wish I could drink their blood and eat their flesh!"

"A dog thief? You are a fucking dog thief, a dog traitor, how many benefits are given to you by the Tartars, and you are so loyal, you are just a generation of forgetful ancestors!"

An officer of the Imperial Guards scolded Li Suitai a few words back, and Li Suitai wanted to scold him again, but at this time other soldiers of the Imperial Guards followed suit: "You are a dog traitor, you are a dog traitor!"

"Traitor?"

Li Sutai was so scolded at this time that he didn't dare to answer back, and he didn't expect that he would actually get the title of "traitor", which might also be infamy.

(End of this chapter)