At this time, Cheng Zhijie stepped out, kicked the scout, and said angrily:
"Speak clearly, who died? Which General Qin?"
The scout quickly steadied himself, knelt down and kowtowed, saying, "Your Excellency, it's General Qin Qiong!"
"What?"
Cheng Zhijie was horrified, "My second brother? My second brother... is dead?!"
"My second brother was invincible. He could take the head of a general from a million-man army as easily as taking something from a bag. How could he die?"
"Tell me, are you a spy sent by the enemy to disrupt the morale of the army?"
"My second brother..."
The more he spoke, the more crazy he felt.
Li Shimin frowned and said:
"Yaojin...enough!"
"You think the situation isn't chaotic enough?"
Cheng Zhijie was stunned for a moment, then he quickly ran to Li Shimin, knelt on the ground, and cried bitterly:
"Your Majesty, that's my second brother, it's my second brother!"
"Second brother...Second brother...is gone just like that!"
Hearing this, Li Shimin sighed heavily, helped Cheng Zhijie up, and said earnestly:
"How could I not know that that was my second brother?"
"But now that things have come to this... the only thing we can do now is to ensure that Second Brother's death is not in vain."
"Come here, issue an order. All citizens in the capital are required to wear mourning clothes for three days to commemorate my good second brother."
"Order the Bad Men to retrieve Qin Qiong's body at all costs, transport it back to the capital, and bury it properly."
"Give General Qin the posthumous title of 'Zhuang', bestow upon him the title of Duke of Hu, and bury him in the imperial mausoleum."
"Yaojin, are you satisfied with what I have done?"
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