bookcurios Chapter 1937: Take action and destroy them all!
Chapter 1937: Take action and destroy them all!
The jade cup smashed onto the hard gold brick floor, making a sharp and crisp sound of shattering, and the wine splashed everywhere and fragments flew everywhere!
This is like a signal!
Ran Ming, who had been lying in ambush outside the water pavilion, moved upon hearing the sound!
"Dangdangdang!" The heavy and orderly footsteps suddenly sounded like thunder!
The curtains around the water pavilion were roughly torn open, and dozens of Chu army warriors, who were as fierce as wolves and tigers, fully armored and holding shining steel knives, rushed in like a tide, led by the bald warrior Ran Ming!
In an instant, dozens of family heads were surrounded!
The blade was unsheathed, shining coldly, reflecting faces distorted by extreme fear!
The cold murderous aura was like a substance, freezing the entire water pavilion!
The family heads who were trying to bargain just now were now like chickens with their necks strangled.
All the sounds were stuck in their throats, leaving only boundless fear and despair, spreading wildly in their eyes!
They finally understood that the young emperor of Chu had never left them any room for maneuver.
The crisp sound of the jade cup shattering was like a death knell, ringing in the hearts of all the heads of the aristocratic families.
The splashing wine and debris seemed to represent their shattered fantasies and hopes at the moment.
The footsteps sound like thunder and the sword flashes like snow!
Led by Ran Ming's iron tower-like figure, dozens of Chu army warriors, as fierce as wolves and tigers, instantly rushed into the water pavilion. The friction sound of cold armor and heavy footsteps drowned out all thinking space.
The sharp blade flashed with a cold light of death under the light coming in from the window, forming an airtight encirclement that trapped dozens of family heads dressed in gorgeous clothes but now pale in the center.
The sickeningly strong murderous aura, like tangible ice water, flooded the entire space and caused the temperature to plummet.
Chu Ning slowly sat back in the main seat. He even elegantly brushed away the non-existent dust on his robe sleeves, as if the thundering rage just now had never happened.
He held out his hand, and the eunuch cautiously brought him another glass of wine.
He picked up the wine glass and looked calmly at the slaughterhouse surrounded by blades. His eyes were indifferent as if he was watching a drama that had nothing to do with him.
"these people……"
He spoke, his voice not loud, but with a cold texture like the clanging of metal, clearly penetrating the tense air.
"They relied on their family's power to occupy the local area and treated the imperial power as nothing."
"Today, you dare to speak sweet words in front of me, vainly trying to bargain with me by using so-called stability and public support. You are ruthless!"
He uttered the last three words very slowly and heavily, like a final verdict, carrying an unquestionable breath of death.
"Ran Ming."
"The general is here!"
Ran Ming suddenly clasped his fists together. His shiny head looked particularly ferocious in the murderous aura, and his leopard eyes flashed with bloodthirsty light.
He stuck out his tongue and licked his cracked lips, as if he was about to enjoy a feast.
"These people..."
Chu Ning's voice was calm, as if he was ordering the disposal of a pile of garbage: "Kill them all, leave no one alive."
"Your Majesty, don't worry!"
Ran Ming grinned, revealing his sharp white teeth, forming an extremely hideous and terrifying smile.
"My knife has been thirsty for a long time! I promise not to let any of them escape!"
Before he could finish his words, he suddenly let out a roar like a wild beast.
His huge body displayed a speed that was inconsistent with his size. The heavy sword in his hand cut through the air, bringing with it a shrill sound, and he first chopped towards Zhao Kuo of the Zhao family of Xingyang, who was closest to him and was already frightened silly!
"Tyrant Chu Ning! You will not be in good health..."
Zhao Kuo's angry curse had just come out when it was forcibly interrupted by a bright knife light!
"Pfft——!"
Blood splattered!
Zhao Kuo's head, filled with unwillingness and anger, shot up into the sky. His headless body stood for a moment before falling heavily to the ground, gushing blood.
This bloody scene was like lighting a powder keg!
"kill!"
The surrounding Chu soldiers roared in unison, like hungry wolves pouncing on a flock of sheep, brandishing their steel knives and mercilessly hacking at the unarmed family heads in brocade robes.
The waterside pavilion instantly turned into a Shura slaughterhouse!
"Your Majesty, please spare me! Please spare me!"
"I agree! I agree to everything! I'll give you all my land and all the profits! I only ask Your Majesty to spare my life!"
Wang Jing of the Taiyuan Wang family collapsed to the ground, tears streaming down his face. He kowtowed and begged for mercy desperately, his forehead instantly covered in blood.
However, what responded to him was the cold tip of the knife piercing his chest. His eyes were wide open, and he died with endless regret and fear.
"Tyrant! Shameless! You have betrayed us and will not have a good end! Even if I, the Cui family of Qinghe, were to become a ghost, I will not let you go!"
Cui Yan's eyes were bloodshot. He knew there was no hope of survival, so he uttered the most vicious curse, trying to maintain the last dignity of the leader of the aristocratic family.
But before he could finish his words, Ran Ming's blade, as wide as a door panel, swept across, and the huge force directly cut his body in half!
Viscera and blood splattered out, staining the exquisite carved railings of the waterside pavilion red.
"Ah! Don't kill me! I'm Li from Longxi..."
"Your Majesty! We know we were wrong! Please forgive us!"
"Chu thief! You are so cruel, the whole world must punish you together!"
"I'll give you all my property! Please only spare my family!"
Begging for mercy, crying, cursing, the muffled sound of sharp blades cutting into flesh and bones, the wails of the dying, all kinds of sounds intertwined together to compose an extremely sad and terrifying symphony of death.
The gorgeous dress was torn and the precious accessories rolled to the ground, mixed with the splattered blood and fallen corpses, forming a scene of extreme contrast and horrific sight.
Blood spread like a stream on the smooth ground of the pavilion, and the sticky scarlet quickly covered the original color.
The extremely strong smell of blood was almost suffocating.
On the throne, Chu Ning still sat calmly, slowly sipping the amber wine in the glass.
His eyes swept across the carnage in the field.
Looking at those aristocratic family leaders who used to be able to shake the Han Dynasty with just a stomp of their feet, and now being slaughtered like pigs and dogs, there was no expression on his face, no excitement, no disgust, not even a trace of a ripple.
It was as if the bloody massacre before their eyes was just a performance to liven up the atmosphere.
He would occasionally nod slightly, as if to express his approval of the clean and efficient methods of Ran Ming and others.
Time passed by little by little in this cruel killing.
A full three-quarters of an hour!
The screams, curses, and pleas for mercy in the pavilion gradually became sparse from the initial bustle, and finally returned to complete silence.
When the last family head was beheaded by a soldier and his body fell helplessly in a pool of blood, there was no longer a single standing guest in the pavilion.
Dozens of family heads representing the most powerful families in the Han area, their ambitions, calculations, glory, inheritance... all came to an end at this moment.