In November, the war in northern Xinjiang was suspended, and the capital could breathe a little easier, but the emperor still had to punish this major strategic mistake.

Li Jingrong took the initiative to step forward to tell about his mistakes, admitting that he was reckless and disobedient to orders, and asked his father to punish him.The emperor looked at Li Jingrong's calm face and was very angry, while King An couldn't help admiring. In his impression, although the eldest prince was straightforward, he was very stubborn. So calm?

Although Li Jingrong has been so frank, the emperor still did not give any punishment on the grounds that Li Jingrong does not have any titles now, and only reprimanded him as "not good at learning", but it is not so easy for King An and others Cleared.

After the political training was over, Li Jingrong was a little embarrassed towards King An, but King An patted him on the shoulder tolerantly, and said with some relief: "The eldest prince has matured a lot!"

"Brother!" The young man's refreshing voice came, King An and Li Jingrong looked over together, and saw a young man with gentle brows coming over, and greeted King An respectfully: "I have seen uncle."

"Isn't this the fifth son? He's getting more and more promising." Prince An was unreasonable, looking at Li Jingxuan with a knowing smile, "Is the fifth son here to find the eldest prince? We just finished talking, so let's go ahead. "

"Oh," Li Jingxuan clasped his hands and smiled, "Uncle, I don't have anything important, I just came to see my brother."

When Li Jingrong saw Li Jingxuan, he was a little surprised and frowned, "Is there anything Fifth Brother wants from me?"

Li Jingxuan smiled gently, "My little brother is nothing serious, isn't this big brother, you just came back from the battlefield, brother, come and see if there is anything that needs help."

"Oh," Li Jingrong heard that he had nothing to do, so he didn't plan to talk nonsense with him here, "Since there is nothing serious, I'll go back first."

"Brother, please." Li Jingxuan turned sideways to make way for him.

King An Jun frowned and looked at the back of the eldest prince leaving, he comforted Li Jingxuan and said: "Your eldest brother has such a temper, don't be surprised."

Li Jingxuan shook his head, smiled and said, "I understand the character of big brother."

"That's good." Seeing that he was so reasonable, Prince An smiled in relief. Li Jingxuan's gentle attitude made him very fond of it.

After the two exchanged a few more pleasantries, King An invited Li Jingxuan when they were parting: "Fifth, come and sit with uncle when you have time!"

Li Jingxuan replied politely: "If you have time, you must bother uncle. My nephew still has something to do, so go ahead."

Looking at Li Jingxuan's back, King An said to himself, "This old fifth is not bad, neither arrogant nor impatient."

As soon as Li Jingyu came out of the hall, he saw Li Jingxuan and King An standing together, and he didn't know what they said.When passing by, I heard King An's praise for Li Jingxuan, and I was immediately upset.This fifth younger brother is really good, he knows how to meet the uncle at such a young age, he is not small!

……

On the battlefield, the sound of killing shook the sky, blood flowed like a river, corpses were left all over the place, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood.

Li Jingrong took the lead, rode his horse and rushed towards the enemy without hesitation, with a cold face, one after another enemy soldiers fell down in front of his horse, hot blood splashed on his shining silver armor, blurring him Red eyes.

"Kill!"

Suddenly, a group of troops rushed out from the rear and charged into the invincible Xia Dynasty army.

"No, there is an ambush!"

"Quick retreat!" Li Jingrong shouted hoarsely, then turned his horse's head and ran back.

At this time, an arrow suddenly flew from behind and hit him in the back, blood flowed down, he let out a muffled groan, and the general who had been following him swung his knife, temporarily helping him to block the enemy soldiers and flying arrows around him .

"Prince, run!"

Li Jingrong didn't dare to turn his head back, he yelled "drive", and ran forward desperately, and then several war horses galloped over, surrounded him and separated him from the generals.

Two fists were no match for four hands. After fighting hard for a while, Li Jingrong was finally exhausted, his eyes darkened, and he fell off his horse.

"Elder Prince!!!"

……

"What?!" The emperor slammed the memorial to the ground with a look of disbelief, "How dare Li Jingrong... how dare he run back to the battlefield without authorization?! Did he die?!"

"Your Majesty, calm down!" Prince An hurriedly stood up and cupped his hands to comfort him, "I'll take someone there right now, and I will definitely bring you the eldest prince back intact."

"Hmph! Does he want to rebel if he doesn't obey the military order?"

"The eldest prince is just...just worried about the situation on the front line, the emperor is still..."

"Okay, don't speak good words to him," the emperor waved his hand and said, "You take people to the front and bring this disobedient and unfilial son back to me. I will teach him a lesson and see if he dares to do so next time." How dare you act recklessly!"

"Yes!"

……

When Li Jingrong woke up, he was in a dark and dirty prison cell. The shaft of the arrow shot at him had been broken, and the arrow had penetrated deeply into his back. His white underclothes had been stained. It was full of blood, and the blood had clotted, showing a purple-black color.

"Hiss—" Li Jingrong snorted, gritted his teeth secretly, stretched out his tongue and licked his dry lips, and the bloody smell spread across his mouth instantly.

Before he could react, a large bucket of water had already been splashed on him, his eyes widened suddenly, he couldn't help grunting, his teeth were clenched, and his lips were trembling.

"How is it? Doesn't the taste of salt water feel good?"

The soldiers guarding around laughed loudly, Li Jingrong had no time to take care of them, the wounds on his body were already burning with pain.

Blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, his body trembled, and it took him a while to recover.

Even when the salt water was splashed on the bleeding wound, he never made a cry of pain, kept silent, neither begged for mercy, nor acted like a hero, just sat there expressionless, looking at the soldiers in front of him coldly.

The wound on his back was excruciatingly painful, and the blood-stained white clothes he was wearing had almost turned into black clothes. Li Jingrong stretched out his hand to touch his back tremblingly, and sure enough, it was festering. It smells bad.

Li Jingrong gritted his teeth and tore off the clothes behind him, dripping with cold sweat. He gritted his teeth and squeezed the wound vigorously, squeezing out the pus and blood little by little. deterioration.

The guarding soldiers stood at the door of the prison. Seeing such a scene, they felt a pain in their backs, and the arrogant smile on their faces froze all of a sudden.

After being stunned for a while, the soldiers finally realized what they were doing, opened the cell door roughly, and before Li Jingrong could finish treating the wound, they dragged him out one by one, dragged him all the way into a dark room, and then dragged him out. Throw it heavily on the ground.

Candles were burning in the dark room, three sides were hard and thick stone walls, and one side was an iron door, and the dull and dead air filled the space of less than ten feet in radius.

There was a chair where the door stood, and a middle-aged man was sitting on the chair, with his legs crossed, in an indescribably leisurely way. There was a table in front of him with four dishes and a Jug of wine.

Li Jingrong looked at the dark room silently. There were various instruments of torture hanging on the walls. It turned out to be a torture room.

The man in the seat glanced at Li Jingrong from the corner of his eye, silently sizing up the prince of the Xia Dynasty.His dirty face was red, and it looked abnormally red, probably because he had a fever.Heh, didn't it mean that martial arts are strong and invincible?

The man sneered, and his eyes fell on the leather whip hanging on the wall.

The accompanying soldiers immediately understood what he meant, and immediately took off their leather whips, while the other two soldiers set up Li Jingrong and tied him to the cross.

The whip fell on his body like raindrops, it was tricky and ruthless, and the whip saw blood.

"Barbarian, if you have the guts to kill me, what's the point of torturing me here!" Li Jingrong spat out blood and said viciously.

The man looked at him mockingly as if he had heard some joke, "The prince of the Xia Dynasty? He is just a reckless man who only knows how to fight on the battlefield."

"What did you say?!" Li Jingrong struggled angrily, with the iron chains on his wrists and ankles rattling.

With a sound of "wow", a bucket full of chili water was poured on him.

"Ah——" The piercing pain made him unable to bear it any longer, and he yelled. His forehead and neck were protruding with blue veins, and he clenched his fists tightly.

The man's heart filled with joy, what kind of prince and general, but that's all, "I know, you Xia Dynasty people are not afraid of death, but are you afraid that life is better than death?"

There was no answer, and Li Jingrong didn't even look at him.

"Get on the tiger bench!" Anger rose in the man's heart, and his eyes were full of viciousness.

Li Jingrong's heart trembled. He had also heard a little about the tiger stool. The prisoner's legs were tied to the stool, the thighs were fixed, and bricks were placed on the heels, one by one. Staggered upwards.

He frowned, and a trace of anxiety flashed in his eyes. He was not afraid of death, but he couldn't lose his legs.

Seeing that he was afraid, the man said contemptuously: "What kind of prince is that? That's all! This king should be someone who is not afraid of anything!"

Li Jingrong raised his head and stared at him, "Kill me if you have the ability!"

"Kill you?" There was a cruel smile in the man's eyes, and he seemed to be very happy. He stretched out a finger and shook it, "No, no, no, how could I kill you? It's of great use."

Li Jingrong had a bad premonition, he raised his voice and asked sharply, "What do you want to do?"

"Tsk tsk tsk, are you scared? It's okay to tell you. Although you are not very useful as a prince, you must still have some status in the eyes of your emperor's father, right? You said that if we brought you there before the battle, What will your group of brothers and courtiers do?"

"How dare you!" Li Jingrong shouted, panting heavily.

The man said coldly: "Why don't I dare? You don't think you are some kind of prince, do you? You are just a prisoner, you are at my mercy, and you are still threatening others here?"

"My father will not let you go!"

"Oh, let's wait and see."

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