Fan Wencheng, who was also kidnapped by Wu Hua Da and led to the city, said nothing and allowed the city guards to drag him forward. Shang Kexi also allowed Shang Kexi to curse, but remained silent.

As for Ban Zhifu, who had resisted before, because he had just been shot several times and was now covered in blood, he had lost most of his life. He was half dead and had no choice but to be dealt with by Zhang Chen's musketeers.

In the blink of an eye, these three people were dragged to the top of the city.

At this time, the generals in the city who had already gathered around Yang Zhen fully understood Yang Zhen's intentions.

After knowing that it was indeed impossible for Yang Zhen to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, many people finally let go of their secretly hanging and tugging hearts.

At present, the backgrounds of the generals under Yang Zhen's command in Zhenjiang Fort are very complicated. They have different backgrounds, and naturally some of their ideas are different.

Those who came from Guangning Houtunwei or Xuanfu Town, such as Li Lu, Zhang Chen, Yang Shen, and Zhang Guogan, of course followed Yang Zhen's lead in everything.

If Yang Zhen really makes up his mind to surrender, if they can't stop him, they will eventually continue to follow him, because their interests are completely tied to Yang Zhen.

But in addition to these people, there are other generals with different backgrounds in Zhenjiang Fort, such as Qiu Zhenhai, Jin Yukui, Liu Lin, An Yingchang and other court generals.

Fortunately for An Yingchang, he has no other way out except following Yang Zhen wholeheartedly.

However, Qiu Zhenhai, Jin Yukui, Liu Lin and others are completely different.

Qiu Zhenhai not only killed Shang Kexi's trusted generals Xu Erxian and Xu Ersheng brothers with his own hands, but also took away the Liaohe Navy in Tianzhuangtai, leaving the Qing captives without a large number of naval warships to use. His feud with Shang Kexi was

It's difficult to resolve.

Moreover, he defected after shaving his hair, changing clothes, and surrendering, and he did not dare to go back.

Including Jin Yukui, the situation is similar.

Not only did he surrender to Yang Zhen with the artillery team carefully organized by Jierhalang and Shang Kexi, but he also led the navy of Jinhai Town along the Yajiang River north to the mouth of the Koha River to attack the Qing captives who had been working hard for more than half a year.

The Jiuliancheng Shipyard was established and burned to ashes.

If Yang Zhen really couldn't resist the temptation and surrendered, then he really didn't know what to do.

People who were also worried about this were Liu Lin and the soldiers of the Grain and Grass Battalion under his command. They had played the role of internal agents in the city when Yang Zhen invaded Zhenjiang Fort.

Although the role they played was not decisive, the role they played was the most hated.

Therefore, since the news that the Qinglu sent people to surrender came out, they are the ones who are most worried about Yang Zhen's will wavering.

Now that they saw Yang Zhen completely clarifying his attitude, and looking at the three Shang Kexi who had been gagged and tied up on the floor tiles of the city and were about to be beheaded, they finally let out a sigh of relief.

However, at this time, Jin Yukui, who had been watching the changes in the situation since Shang Kexi and others entered the city without saying a word, suddenly came out of the crowd, knelt on one knee in front of Yang Zhen, cupped his fists and said:

"Captain, since Beizhong led his troops to surrender, he has been worried day and night about the family members of Beizhong's brothers who stayed in Jiulian City. Since the Governor has taken Shang Ke today, can he be handed over to Beizhong to ask a few words before killing him?"

"Of course you can. Including beheading them in public in a while, I can also leave it to you to carry out the execution!"

Of course Yang Zhen agreed to Jin Yukui's request.

It would also be a good thing if we could take this opportunity to completely win over the hearts of Jin Yukui and his subordinates and make them loyal to him wholeheartedly from now on.

However, after Yang Zhen said this, Shang Kexi, who had been gagged by Li Shouzhong for cursing Yang Zhen, immediately struggled hard and kept yelling without knowing what he was yelling.

When Yang Zhen saw this, he raised his chin towards Jin Yukui.

Jin Yukui immediately stood up, turned around and took a few steps forward, came to Shang Kexi, pulled out his waist knife with a clang, put the tip of the knife on Shang Kexi's neck, and looked at him coldly.

Soon, Shang Kexi became quiet, and the only sound left was the whistling wind blowing over the entire city.

"Shang Kexi, I, Jin Yukui, have been working with you for so many years, and I can be considered a brother. Today, tell me the truth. Jin's family in Jiulian City, and the family members of the brothers who follow Jin anyway, are still

Are you here?"

After Jin Yukui finished asking these questions, he reached out and pulled out the rag dumplings from Shang Kexi's mouth, and then looked at Shang Kexi with a cold look and a gloomy face, waiting for his answer.

In fact, during his previous contact with Ban Zhifu, Jin Yukui had realized that his family was probably in trouble in Jiulian City.

But at that time, Ban Zhifu was evasive and did not tell him the truth, so Jin Yukui still held on to the last glimmer of hope or fantasy in his heart.

However, the gratifying answer completely disappointed him.

What completely disappointed Jin Yukui was not the "bad news" Shang Kexi said, but the "good news" Shang Kexi said. It's just that this "good news" was so good that Jin Yukui was so excited when he heard it.

I know it's fake.

"Here, here, here, all here, all here, brother Yukui, your wife, children, and children are my very happy wife, children, and children. Don't worry, brother, don't worry, they are fine now, fine!"

After Ban Zhifu returned to camp that night, of course he reported to Shang Kexi how he met Jin Yukui after going to the city. He also mentioned that Jin Yukui asked him about the whereabouts of his wife, children, and children.

Shang Kexi felt very uneasy when he learned that Jin Yukui was indeed in the city and seemed to be under Yang Zhen's high regard.

Fortunately, Ban Zhifu told Shang Kexi very clearly that he had not leaked the situation in Jiulian City. Jin Yukui and his subordinates did not know that all their wives, children, and children had been killed.

But even so, the person Shang Kexi least wanted to meet when he entered the city this time was still Jin Yukui, because he did have something evil in his heart and felt guilty.

Because they had known each other for many years and were very familiar with each other, although the execution of Jin Yukui's wife, children, and children in Jiulian City was not his order but Nikan's order, in order to avoid suspicion, he did not object, stop, or rescue him at that time.

If he was willing to rescue him, it would be difficult to save all of Jin Yukui's wives, children, and children, but it was still very possible to save Jin Yukui's concubine who was about to give birth.

However, instead of rescuing him, he played a very disgraceful role. When ordered to arrest and execute Jin Yukui and the wives, children and children of his artillerymen, he acted faster, more accurately and more ruthlessly.

On the one hand, after Jin Yukui surrendered to Yang Zhen, he led Jinhaizhen's fleet to attack Jiuliancheng Shipyard, which made him very angry.

On the other hand, Jin Yukui's act of surrendering to the enemy caused Jierhalang, Nikan and Jierhalang's younger brother, Zhenguo Gongfei Yangwu, who led the army to be stationed in the Kuandian area, to attack the Xianglan Banner Han army adapted from the Tianzhu Army.

A became suspicious.

In order to clear away the suspicion and stabilize his position, Shang Kexi knew that doing so would chill the hearts of his subordinates, but he still did it.

At that time, he never imagined that one day he would meet Jin Yukui, the former rebel general, again.

So when Jin Yukui put the knife on his neck, he did not dare to tell the truth anyway. In panic, he glanced at Ban Zhifu, who was closing his eyes and dying, and then forced himself to calm down and made up the story.

lie.

However, Jin Yukui has been following Shang Kexi for many years and knows him very well. When he opens his mouth, Jin Yukui knows which words are true and which words are false.

Although the words Shang Kexi said at this time sounded like the best news to Jin Yukui at first, when they fell into Jin Yukui's ears, he immediately knew that they were all lies.

After all, Jin Yukui had been with the Qinglu for so many years. Of course he knew very well how the Qinglu treated the rebellious Han people.

Even if Shang Kexi said with a heavy heart that Jin Yukui's wife, children, and children had been arrested and imprisoned, it would be much more credible than if he said that everything was fine.

Now the more Shang Kexi puts the situation in a good light, the more it proves that the truth is absolutely not the case, but quite the opposite.

"It's gratifying. As the saying goes, when a person is about to die, his words are good. Now that you are about to die, are you still unwilling to tell the truth?"

After hearing Shang Kexi's answer, Jin Yukui's last hope was shattered. He let out a long sigh, and while speaking in a cold tone, he exerted force on his hand and cut Shang Kexi's chin upward with the tip of the knife.

Shang Kexi felt the pain caused by the tip of the knife slicing his chin, and at the same time he felt the uncontrollable anger behind Jin Yukui's cold tone.

Shang Kexi, who was originally confused because of his guilt, now knew that Jin Yukui had seen through his lies, and became even more panicked. He was afraid that Jin Yukui would kill him, so he stopped hiding it:

"Brother Yukui, please be merciful, be merciful! You are all my brother's subordinates. How can you do anything to your wives, children, and children because you are my brother?! They are all Nikan's orders!

"Nikan lost Zhenjiang Gate and the shipyard. In order to escape guilt, and to kill one person as a warning to a hundred people to abide by the orders of Jiulian City - thousands of others were executed together with him that day. It was not because of brother that he was willing to stand by and watch, but actually because of

I can’t bear to persuade you, brother!”

Fortunately, the half-life hero Shang Ke is really capable of bending and stretching. At this moment, his face is full of sadness, and a few tears squeezed out of the corners of his eyes. If his hands were not tied behind his back, and if he was not staring at the sharp knife at his throat, he would probably jump forward and kowtow to beg for mercy.

.

However, after Jin Yukui heard Shang Kexi's true words, not only did he show no mercy, but his eyes were tearing as he stared at him, showing no mercy to him.

Before everyone onlookers could react to Shang Kexi's submissive begging for mercy, they saw the knife in Jin Yukui's hand thrust forward and inserted directly into Shang Kexi's throat.

Even Shang Kexi himself seemed not to have expected that Jin Yukui would kill him like this. His eyes instantly widened, and he looked at his former brother Jin Yukui half in horror and half in disbelief.

Blood was pouring out from the severed throat, and he was muttering in his mouth.
Chapter completed!