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Political struggles have always been cruel and bloody, and winners often have to kill all the losers, which is difficult to avoid in any historical dynasty.
Dragging his body and physically exhausted body, Xue Feihong's sad face still appeared in Bai Qi's mind, with her husband and father. The two closest people stood opposite each other and both wanted to kill each other and then quickly. Faced with such a situation, Xue Feihong's inner pain can be imagined.
The palace was surrounded by a group of people, and all the gates of the capital were firmly guarded by the army. Now Xue Yiran is desperate and can only hide in the palace and survive. It is only a matter of time for him to fail.
When they walked out of the house, except for the occasional soldiers walking around on the street, everyone was closed, and the people hid at home and dared not come out, so as not to become fish caught by the seedlings. What should we do next? Bai Qi decided to go to Bai Qiwei and Su Yuncheng to discuss who will control the power of the court in the future, whether to build a new dynasty or change a lord, in short, someone will come to take the lead.
Bai Qi stood up and walked towards Qingshui Lane, where Su Bai and his two families lived. As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the alley, Bai Qi found that a large number of soldiers had surrounded the alley. Bai Qi hurriedly went up to inquire and found out that it was his father who had asked Ye Zhuifeng's house to be surrounded. Everyone inside was arrested and waiting for Bai Qiwei to deal with it.
This kind of thing is really common in history. The loser's family and tribe members were implicated. There is nothing strange about this. With the friendship between Ye Zhuifeng and Su Bai and his sworn brothers, they would never attack the Ye family members, Bai Qi thought so.
When Bai Qi returned to the Bai family, he had to pass the Ye family's gate. When Bai Qi passed the Ye family's gate, he heard a scream and crawled into his ears. The scream was so shrill that Bai Qi couldn't help but feel creepy.
The Ye family's door should be open, but it was closed at this time. Bai Qi wanted to go in and see what was going on, but was stopped by several soldiers guarding the door.
"Brother, the city guards are doing things inside, so those who know each other will avoid it." After all, they saw Bai Qi wearing military uniforms. The soldiers were quite polite to Bai Qi, but the bright knife was already facing Bai Qi. The politeness they thought was disrespectful in Hu Zi and the others' eyes. Seeing that these two pawns dared to stop Bai Qi, they even pointed the knife at Bai Qi. Hu Zi, who was determined to protect the master, rushed forward and kicked the soldiers who were holding the knife at Bai Qi to the ground.
"A blind thing, you dare to look at Brother Qi with a knife." Hu Zi was not idle either. He immediately alarmed all the soldiers beside him and surrounded him. Fortunately, some of them knew Bai Qi, so he immediately took the lead in kneeling for Bai Qi and said, "I have met Master Bai Qi."
This scared the soldiers in the gatekeeper. Bai Qi is definitely a hot figure at the moment. It is very likely that he will lose his life if he offends Bai Qi.
The soldiers guarding the door were kowtowed by Bai Qi like pounding garlic, but Bai Qi didn't take it to heart at all. Bai Qi just wanted to know what was happening in the Ye family?
"Open the door!" Bai Qi said expressionlessly. Seeing that Bai Qi was not concerned, the soldier quickly got up and pushed the door open.
Although Bai Qi was mentally prepared, when he entered the Ye family compound, he was still stunned by what happened inside. A strong and bloody smell came to his nose. On the rockery in the middle of the yard, a child's body was hanging on it, and his brain was already full of stones below. You don't have to look at the child who was thrown to death. Looking next to him, a young woman was taken off by two soldiers, and his eyes were dumbfounded at the child on the rockery. His mouth had been stuffed with rags. Two soldiers took off their pants, one was playing with the young woman's breasts in front, and the other was moving hard behind.
Although Bai Qi had seen this scene when he led his troops into the Huns, he was facing the enemy of the nation that time, and a nation that wanted to enslave the Chinese kingdom, so Bai Qi didn't mind very much. But now, the one who was treated like this was the people of his own nation. Bai Qi felt a kind of grief and anger that was pouring into his heart.
When the two words "Beast!" emerged from Bai Qi's teeth, Bai Qi's body had already moved. Before the two happy soldiers could react, they were already picked up and smashed on the rockery. Bai Qi was so angry that they used all their strength, and their heads also hit the rockery. The two brains broke through the bond of their heads and flew out.
After killing these two people, Bai Qi's steps did not stop, but continued to walk inside. The more he walked in, Bai Qi's face became ugly. Almost every few steps, Bai Qi could see one or two corpses, sometimes several, and the deceased showed despair and fear. Judging from his outfit, most of these people were male servants of the Ye family.
These soldiers didn't even let the servants go. Bai Qi's heart couldn't help but sank down suddenly as they received the order.
The most unbearable scene of Bai Qi appeared. Three or five soldiers surrounded a woman who had stopped struggling. The woman was undoubtedly completely wiped out. One soldier was lying on it and was doing it. The others helped hold their hands and feet.
"Damn, this girl committed suicide!" A soldier cursed unluckyly, then stumbled on his nose with his hands: "I'm so angry!" As a result, the soldier crawled on it said something that made Bai Qi furious.
"Damn, I'm hung up before I finish it. While my body is still hot, I will continue to do it. You can go find other prey." The soldiers who followed Bai Qi felt a cold murderous aura coming out of Bai Qi's body, and couldn't help but look at the soldiers with sympathy.
This time, before Bai Qi could do it, Hu Zi couldn't help but jump out. The sword in his hand suddenly turned off the head of the soldier climbing onto the corpse. When the other three little brothers saw Hu Zi take action, they immediately followed him to kill. With their current skills, it was too easy to kill these ordinary soldiers, not to mention that these guys were not even wearing clothes. In a moment, five soldiers splattered blood on the spot, and they didn't even have time to scream.
Bai Qi was unwilling to go in and said to the soldiers following behind him with a cold face: "Go and call your heads." Although there were still screams and cry for help from inside at this time, Bai Qi no longer had the mentality to bear it.
Not much effort, an officer ran to Bai Qi panting and said, "I have met Master Bai Qi!" These soldiers were very enthusiastic. They no longer called Prince Bai Qi, but instead called Master Bai Qi.
Bai Qi looked at him coldly and pointed inside and said, "I don't care what order you received. Now I order you to take your people and the people inside, as long as they are people, I will leave no one behind."
"But there are my own brothers inside!" The officer hesitated a little and carefully explained.
"Do you want me to repeat it again? I can repeat it, so don't think about keeping your head?" Bai Qi, with a ferocious expression, frightened all the soldiers present.
"Yes! The officer will do it now." The officer's face turned pale, for fear that he would slow down Bai Qi's next target would be himself.
"Stop! I tell you, if they are alive, I will take your life." Bai Qi's words were sentenced to death by the soldiers inside.
When Bai Qi walked into the Bai family, Bai Qiwei was not there. After inquiring, he found out that Bai Qiwei was now taking his subordinates to search the house. Almost all the officials who had close ties with Xue Yiran and Ye Zhuifeng were unable to escape this disaster.
When Bai Qi saw Bai Qiwei, Bai Qiwei was deploying troops outside the palace to prepare to attack the palace. Bai Qi, like Ere, did not call him "father", but coldly said to Bai Qiwei: "General Bai! Why do you want to kill so many irrelevant people?"
Bai Qiwei was obviously dissatisfied with this title and snorted coldly: "If you don't kill them now, they will kill us in the future. If you want to win the world, sometimes you have to be more ruthless."
"If I ask you to stop killing innocent people, can you agree?" Bai Qi asked again next.
Bai Qiwei sneered and pointed at the palace and said to Bai Qi: "Go and ask Xue Yiran, if he was the winner now, would he let you go and me? I thought your wings were hard now. I told you that without me, you would not be able to enter the capital. Maybe your life is gone first. I have the final say in the Bai family, and it is not your turn to point fingers at me."
Bai Qiwei's performance made Bai Qi suddenly understand a lot of things. It turns out that when ambition is expanded to a certain extent, people often lose their rationality. At any time and under any circumstances, strength is always the first priority. If a person has no power, his words often have no effect.
Bai Qi didn't say anything and turned around and left. Bai Qi went home immediately after leaving. First, he asked Thunderbolt Dong Qiu to clean up the troops and let the women clean up everything. Although Bai Qi knew what to do in some things, Bai Qi really couldn't do it.
According to Bai Qi's meaning, Xue Yiran was placed under house arrest at most, but looking at Bai Qiwei's performance now, he must have been killed. While Bai Qi lamented that he had no power to stop him, he also realized the importance of strength. In this era, only by holding the army in his hands can he have the right to speak, which is exactly what Bai Qi lacks.
The day passed quickly. Bai Qiwei did not attack the palace, but instead massacred dissidents in the capital. As for Su Yuncheng, he has been actively engaged in activities and sent his own people to take over the yamen everywhere. It seems that the two of them have agreed that the rebellion was successful and the interests were divided equally. However, Su Yuncheng may not have noticed that Bai Qiwei's mentality had undergone subtle changes.
It finally got dark. Bai Qi, who had been waiting at home for a long time, gathered his subordinates together.
"Everyone! I decided to leave and leave the capital. Now I will ask you a question: whether you are willing to follow me or do what you are willing to do with me. Let's fight back to Jiezhou together. If you don't want to, I won't force you."
Bai Qi's question obviously surprised all his subordinates. What does Bai Qi mean? Although everyone doesn't understand, this passage has been invincible with Bai Qi, and it has also created a blind trust in Bai Qi.
No one said he would withdraw, and everyone was willing to follow Bai Qi.
Fortunately, the city gate has always been controlled by Bai Qi's hands, so when Bai Qi was still in the direction of the palace, Bai Qi took advantage of the night and quietly left the capital with his troops and headed straight to Yulong Pass.
In the palace, Xue Yiran might have known that she had not had much time, so Xue Yiran called Mr. Yun and the princess who were close to protecting her, and began to explain her funeral.
"Old Yun, Princess, Xue Yiran has only one offspring in her life. You bring all the good guards and fight out of the city overnight, which can be regarded as leaving a root for the Xue family." When Xue Yiran said this, Princess Li Liying wanted to interrupt, but was stopped by Xue Yiran waved her hand.
"The current Yulong Pass is the nephew of Taiwei Ye. You can go to find him first and then go to Jiezhou. The current coach Liu Mingyu is definitely the only one who can finally join him. Everyone can trust him with confidence."
"Your Majesty, I'm leaving, everyone goes together!" After all, Li Liying is a married couple, and she is still in love at this time.
"My goal is too big. As long as I am in the palace, they will never chase you too tightly. Mr. Yun, after the prince leaves the capital, Xue Yiran begs you something." Xue Yiran suddenly saluted Mr. Yun respectfully.
"Your Majesty, you must not. If you have anything to do, please explain it." Although it was the end of the hero, Xue Yiran was the king of Taiping for 30 years after all, so how dare Mr. Yun receive his courtesy?
"The main reason why the country has today is me. However, the two major rebels, Bai Qiwei and Su Yuncheng, are the masterminds of this rebellion. I hope that after I die, Mr. Yun will help me with them." Xue Yiran said that he looked at Mr. Yun with pleading, so that Mr. Yun waited for him to take action after he died. It was because Xue Yiran knew that Freedom was dead, and Bai Qiwei and Su Yuncheng would relax their vigilance.
"Don't worry, your Majesty, even if you are trying your best, you will do your best." Mr. Yun agreed.
It was already early at this time, and it was almost midnight. Ye Zhuifeng, who had been supervising the battle outside, walked in and said, "Your Majesty, everything is ready."
Xue Yiran smiled miserably and said, "You all go down and prepare. In an hour, I will take people out and fight. Then you will go out quietly while the chaos is in the future. I guess after tonight, they will attack the palace."
Just when Bai Qi led his army out of the city, Xue Yiran also launched a final attack on the rebels besieged outside. The soldiers on the death ground also burst out with huge combat power at this moment. After a fierce rush, they were about to kill them to open a bloody road. Fortunately, Bai Qiwei dispatched his troops in time to block the gap again. Seeing that there was no hope of breaking through, Xue Yiran was just trying to cover the prince and his wife out of the city, but now her goal has been achieved, so she retreated to the palace.
With Xue Yiran's breakthrough, Bai Qiwei became more careful and sent additional troops to surround the palace like an iron barrel. He blocked Xue Yiran, but the news of Bai Qi leaving also came. Bai Qiwei's face turned pale at the time and even kicked the soldiers who came to report the news several steps away. At this critical moment, Bai Qilai's move was obviously going to draw a clear line with him, at least he was dissatisfied with what he did and was not optimistic about his prospects.
It was dawn, and Bai Qiwei, who had been preparing for the whole day, used fire attacks on the palace. A big fire burned the palace to ashes. After the most tenacious resistance, Xue Yiran and Ye Zhuifeng both committed suicide in the palace. At this point, the rebellion of the Great Qi Kingdom came to an end.
Bai Qi rushed to Yulong Pass as fast as possible, and immediately took over all the troops of Yulong Pass. Until the next day, Bai Yunfan and his 60,000 troops arrived at Yulong Pass.
Bai Yunfan was surprised to see Bai Qi in this place. At this time, Bai Qi should be in the capital. Why did he come here? Could it be that the capital failed?
Of course, Bai Qi would not tell Bai Yunfan the real reason for leaving the capital. Bai Qi told Bai Yunfan the first time in his life. Bai Qi took Bai Yunfan to an empty place and took out a pre-prepared flying pigeon and passed it on: "Brother! I received emergency information. On the third day after you left, the Hun Khan was furious about Duanmuming's failure. Now he has sent another general to lead a 100,000 troops to attack Dingbiancheng. I am worried about the safety of the border, so I specially asked my father for instructions here to wait for you so that I can bring troops back to reinforce."
Bai Yunfan didn't expect Bai Qi to deceive him, so he was happy to divide half of the troops in his hands and gave them to Bai Qi. Bai Qi didn't keep many troops when he got them. He immediately brought his troops to Jiezhou on the grounds that the border was tight.
When Bai Yunfan returned to the capital, he realized that Bai Qi ran away privately. Bai Qiwei even scolded Bai Qi in front of Bai Yunfan, saying that he had nothing to do. Bai Yunfan did not express his opinion directly about Bai Qiwei's remarks, because Bai Yunfan understood that Bai Qi had always been a very opinionated person, and there must be a reason for Bai Qi to do this.
In fact, Bai Qi's departure is very simple, that is to protect himself. In the past, Bai Qiwei might not have done anything to him, but when Bai Qiwei's immediate interests were threatened by Bai Qi, especially when political interests were threatened, Bai Qi believed that Bai Qi would definitely attack him, so Bai Qi decided to avoid it first. However, simply leaving cannot guarantee his safety, so he could take his soldiers away, or even deceive Bai Yunfan.
With Xue Yiran's death, the Great Qi State was already considered to be destroyed. Bai Qiwei gained temporary control over the country, but it was only in the area near the capital, and in other parts of the Great Qi State, many local forces did not accept Bai Qiwei's new master.
On the fifteenth day after Xue Yiran's death, Bai Qiwei claimed to be king in Duliang and changed the country's name to Lu. Just three days later, Xue Yixin, the Jiangzhou army, announced that she would become the King of Qi and began a military confrontation with Bai Qiwei. In addition to Jiangzhou, four other continents announced that they would only be loyal to the original king and did not recognize Bai Qiwei.
At this time, Bai Qi was always very low-key in Jiezhou. There was no movement except for the command of Jiezhou to reconcile Jiezhou Prefecture. Although Bai Qiwei was very annoyed to Bai Qi, Bai Qi had nearly 100,000 troops under him, and Bai Qi had several heroic names to establish, so everything in Jiezhou was still calm. Bai Qiwei had no choice but to go south to suppress Jiangzhou and try to pacify the rebellion in other parts of the Daqi area. Only by destroying Jiangzhou, the last base of the Xue family, could Bai Qiwei talk about the actual title of the previous country's king.
This year, the Great Qi Kingdom fell into complete chaos, and the princes from all over the country were independent and fought against each other. Perhaps it was God's arrangement that the Huns who had been peeping at the Central Plains could not take advantage of the opportunity of civil strife in the Great Qi Kingdom. The reason was very simple. The Tatar Later Jin Kingdom, which had been suppressed by the Huns for a long time, took advantage of the repeated failures of the Huns on the border of the Great Qi Kingdom and their morale was relatively low, and they suddenly launched a counterattack on the Huns. Due to the sufficient preparations of the Later Jin Dynasty, the Huns suffered heavy losses in the early stage of the war, and a large area of territory stolen from the Later Jin Dynasty was stolen back. Faced with the powerful threat of the Later Jin Dynasty, the Huns had to give up the idea of going south and focus on dealing with the Later Jin Dynasty.
Although Zhang Chu always wanted to take advantage of the Great Qi Rebellion, Bai Qi in Jiezhou had 100,000 soldiers staring at him. At the same time as the Great Qi was in chaos, a peasant uprising that swept half of Zhang Chu's country broke out.
Zhang Chu was busy with peace and had no time to attack the Great Era. As for the Later Wei Dynasty, the king of the country was still good to protect himself and was not enterprising enough, so he didn't think about it at all. As long as he kept his own land, he would be very satisfied.
In the Northern Qin Dynasty, because the Tatars went to war with the Huns, the Empress Dowager from the Later Jin Dynasty had been inciting the domestic military forces to secretly aid the Later Jin Dynasty as the main task. In addition, the king was young, and everything was decided by the Empress Dowager, so he could not take action against the Daqi in the chaos.
Jiezhou, Bai Qi, who cleverly occupied Jiezhou, was not easy. The peasant uprising in Zhang Chu can be said to have been planned by the Daozun Sect. For more than ten years, Zhang Chu has always advocated force in China, levying heavy taxes at home, and using its main national strength to military investment. All of this has certainly turned Zhang Chu into a military power, but the public grievances among the people have accumulated over time and accumulated strength. In addition, Bai Qi ordered each church to actively engage in activities and organize everywhere. Finally, when Bai Qi was facing threat, it triggered a major uprising in Zhang Chu. Although the final outcome of this uprising was destined to fail, Bai Qi won time. Of course, Bai Qi would also try his best to handle these uprising troops, and the gate of Jiezhou was always open to them, not to mention food and grass, Bai Qi would give as much as possible.
Chapter completed!