Chapter 135 of Volume 1: If you don't open the city gate, you will die.

The emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty roared at the civil and military officials. The military officials didn't care. They didn't agree with the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty framing Yue Shenqiang and Yang Wudi.

Now they are threatened by Qin Guogong and Bai Qi, they deserve it!

Anyway, even if Bai Qi came, they would only applaud.

Some civil officials looked ugly. After all, they also contributed a little to putting Yue Shenqiang and Yang Wudi in prison.

After these civil officials who had made suggestions for the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty looked at each other, the Minister of Rites stood up and saluted:

"Your Majesty, for now, how about releasing Yue Shenqiang and Yang Wudi first?"

"It would be best if Yang Wudi and Yue Shenqiang persuade Bai Qi to withdraw his troops!"

This makes sense!

Many people think that the suggestion of the Minister of Rites is good and has a level.

Bai Qi doesn't listen to others, so doesn't he listen to Yang Wudi?

If they can come forward to dissuade them, it means that they are fine, and Bai Qi will have no reason to continue to lead troops to attack the imperial city.

"My dear minister, what you said makes sense!" The

emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty felt relieved, thinking that these people are indeed old foxes, and this method is quite good.

So he ordered the eunuch beside him to go to the prison of the Ministry of Justice to ask Yang Wudi and Yue Shenqiang what they meant.

The eunuch went there in a hurry, and when he opened the prison door, he was stunned.

He saw that Yue Shenqiang was hooked by the iron hook on his scapula and hung on the torture device. The prison

uniform on his body was full of rips, and even his hands and legs had been broken and hung limply.

It was really horrible.

When the people of the Ministry of Punishment saw the popular people around the emperor coming, they immediately stood up to greet them and said, "Hey, what wind blew you here?"

"This...what's going on?"

The eunuch beside the emperor pointed at Yue Shenqiang and felt his heart trembling.

These people were too cruel.

"This Yue Shenqiang is too stubborn. He refuses to confess and even refuses to sign the confession! So we can only use some tricks."

The man from the Ministry of Punishment spitted on the ground and cursed.

The eunuch beside the emperor wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, kicked the man from the Ministry of Punishment to the ground, and then came to Yue Shenqiang with a shameless face and asked carefully: "

General Yue, Bai Qi is leading his troops back to the capital now. His Majesty asked me to ask you if you can persuade Bai Qi to lead his troops back to Honghua City?"

Yue Shenqiang opened his tiger eyes, looked deeply at the eunuch, opened his mouth, and let out a sad sneer.

Then he said in a hoarse voice, "Well... If a monarch wants his subjects to die, the subjects have to die! You still use me."

"So, General Yue, you agree!"

The eunuch asked cautiously. When he saw Yue Shenqiang nodded, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then he felt awe for Yue Shenqiang from the bottom of his heart.

General Yue was injured like this, but he still had to abide by the duties of monarch and subject!

Such a loyal minister met the emperor of today, it would be a waste of such a peerless general!

Even he felt sympathy.

I just hope that General Yue will be reborn in a good family in the next life, and don't meet such a tyrant like the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty again.

"Thank you, General!"

He knelt down from the bottom of his heart and bowed deeply to Yue Shenqiang.

Then he turned around and looked at Yang Wudi. Yang Wudi's situation was much better, and he was not tortured at all.

Because the emperor's sanctions on Yang Wudi were mainly because Yang Wudi used 400,000 taels of silver to provide pensions for soldiers, which was indeed done by Yang Wudi.

Yang Wudi didn't waste any words and signed the contract directly. He thought that it was right for him to provide relief to the soldiers, so how could he refuse to admit it?

As for whether he should be put to death, future generations will judge.

When the eunuch looked at Yang Wudi, Yang Wudi snorted coldly:

"Go back and tell the emperor that he asked me to persuade Bai Qi. I can go, but you also ask the emperor to prepare for how to face the soldiers who have been fighting on the border for decades!"

"Soldiers can't be bullied!"

Yang Wudi sighed. When will these kings understand the role of soldiers? When

the eunuch heard that this matter was promising, he saluted Yang Wudi and ran back to the palace in a hurry.

When the eunuch returned to the Jinluan Palace and reported the attitudes of Yue Shenqiang and Yang Wudi to the emperor and the civil and military officials,

the Great Zhou Emperor laughed excitedly: "With Yue Shenqiang and Yang Wudi, I don't believe that Bai Qi can still command 100,000 troops to besiege the capital!"

"Yes, yes, yes! Bai Qi has only been in the army for a few years?"

"These troops are all soldiers under the command of Yang Wudi and Yue Shenqiang, especially Yang Wudi, who has been stationed in Honghua City for decades."

"As long as Yang Wudi gives an order, I don't believe that these people can still listen to Bai Qi?"

The civil officials all thought that what the Great Zhou Emperor said was right, only the military generals sneered in their hearts!

Is it really like this?

Don't invite Yang Wudi and Yue Shenqiang out at that time, it will be counterproductive!

But they have no obligation to remind the Great Zhou Emperor, because every military general has a sense of grief for the death of the rabbit.

Just wait to see the joke of the Great Zhou Emperor.

General Cao Changqiu sneered and said, "Don't forget that even if Bai Qi doesn't have an army under his command, Bai Qi's own combat power can still kill the enemy's head in an army of 100,000!"

At this point, he looked at the neck of the Great Zhou Emperor with ill intentions.

This idiot, does he really think that Bai Qi is so easy to deal with?

Hearing this, the Great Zhou Emperor suddenly felt a chill on his neck, and immediately clamped his legs together, and a urge to urinate rushed to the top of his head.

But then he realized that this was very inappropriate, and he pretended to be calm and said, "It's just a little Bai Qi. As long as I invite the three offerings, 10 Bai Qis are not enough for me to kill!"

Thinking of the offerings of the Great Zhou royal family, the Great Zhou Emperor was more confident.

Then he ordered: "Pass on my edict, order the prefectures and counties along the way to defend the city to the death and prevent Bai Qi from leading his troops back to Beijing. Whoever can resist Bai Qi outside Tongguan can be promoted to the third level and be granted the title of Wanhu Hou!"

The generals cursed in their hearts, we fought to the death in the front and you didn't even say that we would be granted the title of Wanhu Hou!

You can be granted the title of Marquis of Wanhu just because you stab your own people?

Such a tyrant is nothing more than that!

..........

Three days later.

Tongguan!

Bai Qi has arrived here with 30,000 vanguard cavalry.

During this journey, Bai Qi basically just needs to announce his name to any place and the soldiers guarding the city will open the gate, because these people guarding the city are all old Qin people.

But this Tongguan is different. Tongguan is the gateway to the northwest. The emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty is also afraid that the Duke of Qin will get Tongguan and truly become a vassal king.

Therefore, the generals and soldiers guarding Tongguan were all direct descendants of the Zhou royal family!

There was not a single Qin person among them.

The general guarding the city was also a member of the Zhou royal family,

and was named General Zhenxi. The General Zhenxi was responsible for the Qin Duke in the northwest.

On the top of Tongguan City, General Zhenxi looked at the cavalry below and roared: "Bai Qi, I advise you to return as soon as possible! Are you really going to rebel?" Rebellion

?

Bai Qi sneered and shouted coldly at the General Zhenxi on the top of the city wall:

"Marshal Yue has fought all his life and is about to destroy Beiliang. The emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty framed loyal people for immortality!"

"Marshal Yang Wudi has been guarding the northwest for decades. When the Huns besieged Honghua City, Marshal Yang almost starved to death in the city."

"But he didn't step back!"

"These loyal and brave ministers who are loyal to the Great Zhou Dynasty did not die under the enemy's iron hoof, but died under the conspiracy of the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty!"

"I, Bai Qi, just want to return to Beijing and question the emperor in person!"

"Open the city gate now and let us pass Tongguan!"

"Otherwise, I will regard you as a party of the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty and will not be polite to you!"

Bai Qi raised the Fang Tian Huaji in his hand. He didn't want to raise the butcher knife against his own people, but if these people insisted on colluding with the tyrant.

Then he would not be polite.

"Open the city gate! Open the city gate!"... The cavalrymen slapped their armors frantically with their spears, making rumbling sounds.

"Humph, what can you do if I don't open the city gate?"

General Zhenxi raised his head proudly. Although he was a member of the royal family of the Great Zhou, he was too distant from the current emperor of the Great Zhou, so he could only be made a general, not even a duke.

If he could solve the current troubles for the emperor of the Great Zhou this time, he would at least be able to enter the core sequence of the royal family of the Great Zhou.

"If you don't open the city gate, you will die!"

Bai Qi's eyes turned cold. He didn't want to take a detour. To enter the capital of the Great Zhou from the northwest, he had to pass through Tongguan.

If he didn't go through Tongguan, he would have to take a detour to the lower reaches of the Yellow River, which would be a waste of time. It was estimated that by the time he rushed back, Yue Shenqiang and others would not be able to hold on!

So Bai Qi took the fastest route this time!