Chapter 42: Picking up the Pieces
At the time of the stalemate, Ye Xianglun found that Mr. Liao next to the sixth prince suddenly whispered a few words in his ear, the sixth prince nodded slightly, and Mr. Liao quietly slipped into the Taihe Palace.
Although Ye Xianglun knew that this Mr. Liao was scheming, he couldn't guess what kind of trick he had for a while, and at this time, he and General Cai were trapped in the core and could only wait and see.
The stalemate between the two armies continued, and after a long time, the stalemate armies on both sides suddenly heard a person outside the Taihe Hall shouting: "The palace is on fire!"
After the cries, everyone smelled the pungent smell of grease wafting from the harem, and everyone knew that most of the buildings in the palace were made of wood, and if the fire burned, it would not be long before the fire would spread to this place. Everyone understood that if they continued like this, they would inevitably be trapped by the fire, so the sergeants on both sides began to whisper.
Unexpectedly, only a moment later, I saw the raging flames from the backyard of the palace to the Taihe Palace, because of the mixture of grease, the fire was mixed with a large amount of smoke, on the square of the Taihe Palace, the soldiers on both sides saw the smoke blowing, and for a time everyone in front of the palace was panicked.
Ye Xianglun expected that this was Mr. Liao's poisonous plan, so he stared at the sixth prince with his eyes in case he made any changes, but he never expected that the sixth prince would blow in the smoke and the smoke would blow.
At such a critical moment, the commander of one side abandoned his troops and fled, and the armies of the two sides of the stalemate did not expect such a sudden change at all, especially the army of the six princes, seeing the commander fleeing, coupled with the fire fighting, they had no heart to fight, and some sergeants directly dropped their blades and fled to the Taihe Palace.
Seeing that the other party was defeated first, the Cai family army seized the opportunity to take advantage of the situation to encircle and suppress, and the six princes had to reluctantly respond to the battle, so the two armies fought in front of the Taihe Palace.
The six princes' sergeants, has already been defeated, only Luo Wenjin and his subordinates in the army fought hard, because Luo Wenjin was brave, no one could stop him in the chaotic army, and no one in the Cai family's army could stop his edge, so he could only be surrounded, and there was no way to take it for a while.
Seeing that the fire was blowing, and his own army had no way to take Luo Wenjin's army, and if it continued like this, it would be detrimental to both sides, and after thinking about it, Ye Xianglun had no choice but to come forward.
"Luo Wenjin, do you recognize this song?" Untied the guqin and sat cross-legged in the chaos army, Ye Xianglun shouted to Luo Wenjin who was trapped in the chaos army.
Ye Xianglun finished speaking, only listening to the guqin Zheng Zheng and moving, a familiar melody rippled in Luo Wenjin's ears, the sixth prince abandoned him, which had already made Luo Wenjin uneasy, at this time I heard this familiar and uneasy tune again, for a while Luo Wenjin's heart was disheartened, and the fighting spirit was completely lost, this song was the tune that Ye Xianglun played when he defeated Luo Wenjin in front of Shangwu Gate before, the song is called "Wine Mania".
The artistic conception expressed in this piece can just touch the depression in Luo Wenjin's heart, when Ye Xianglun defeated Luo Wenjin, he had not yet obtained the full note, but now with the blessing of the whole note energy, it is the strings that pull the heart and lungs, Ye Xianglun only played a chapter, and Luo Wenjin, who was trapped in the chaotic army, spit blood and lay on his back.
The Cai family's army took the opportunity to take Luo Wenjin and his entourage together.
Seeing that their own lord would be captured, the remaining remnants of the army were defeated without a fight, and the situation in the palace instantly fell to General Cai's side, and General Cai took advantage of the situation to subdue the remnants of the six princes.
After subduing the remnants of the army, General Cai ordered the sergeant to notify the army outside the palace to inform the whole city, arrest the fleeing six princes, and he stayed to appease the frightened ministers, and saw General Cai after the victory, the ministers all looked ashamed, and looked up without a face, General Cai knew that the ministers were out of helplessness, so he took the initiative to help Xiangguo to ask the reason, Xiangguo refused to speak, but listened to a Shiqing next to him said: "General Cai, I and other family members were threatened, and I was helpless!"
After General Cai heard this, it suddenly dawned on everyone that the fire in the palace was already big, and after General Cai hurriedly put his ministers in a safe place, he ordered the soldiers to rush to the palace to put out the fire.
At this moment, Concubine Zhen, who was mixed with the ministers, saw that General Cai was gaining power, and her son was taken away by the sixth prince, so she crawled in front of General Cai on her knees and cried: "General Cai, please help me save Ying'er, the sixth prince is the real murderer of the king, and my younger brother Shuyan is used by them!"
General Cai helped Concubine Zhen up, and asked her to tell the details to the ministers, so Concubine Zhen told her brother Shu Yan about her plan to tell the ministers, it turned out that the six princes had already had the intention of self-reliance, and induced Shu Yan to poison the king, the poison that was promised to Shu Yan was not effective three days later, King Luoqiu ate the poison that the six princes gave to Shu Yan, and was killed on the spot, and the six princes who had been prepared immediately found out the poison on Shu Yan's body, announced the ministers, beheaded Shu Yan, after Shu Yan's death, Zhen Fei's mother and son were controlled by the six princes, so far the six princes mastered the palace situation.
In order to prevent the ministers from getting out of trouble, the six princes tricked the ministers' families into the palace and imprisoned them after imprisoning the ministers.
After hearing this, the ministers scolded the six princes.
After all the situation became clear, General Cai learned that the ministers and their families were imprisoned, and in order to solve the worries of the ministers, General Cai sent another army to search for the ministers and their families in the palace.
About less than half an hour later, a group of family members were brought to the ministers by a team of sergeants, from the coming and going army, after the family members and ministers met, hugged each other painfully, it turned out that the family members of the ministers were imprisoned by the six princes in a palace in the West Palace, fortunately the fire did not spread to here, and the ministers and their families were safe and sound.
After a series of two hours of fighting, the fire in the palace was finally extinguished by the Cai family's army, General Cai led the army out of the palace noon gate, and the garrison outside the noon gate to make peace, the garrison came to report, Cai's army captured the six princes and Mr. Liao who tried to escape at the north gate of Luoqiu, as well as the kidnapped prince Hou Ying.
It turned out that after the six princes kidnapped the prince Hou Ying and escaped from the palace, they tried to escape from the north gate of Luoqiu, and when they came to the north gate, they found that the north gate of the city had been controlled by the Cai family's army, so the six princes were in chaos, killing two Cai family sergeants, and after changing into the clothes of the sergeants, the two wrapped the prince Hou Ying with their own clothes, and the six princes and Mr. Liao carried Hou Ying on the city wall, trying to climb down the royal city along the cable in the dark, but Hou Ying was too young to climb, and cried under the threat of the two, which just attracted the attention of the nearby patrols, and under the order of the patrols, the two intended to resist, and an archer just shot the six princes, and the troops rushed forward, only to take down the three of them together.
After the six princes and others were captured, so far, all the rebel parties have been arrested, and the political turmoil launched by the six princes has come to an end.
In this political turmoil, Ye Xianglun stood up many times when he was in danger and used his outstanding personal ability to change the complex battle situation, which undoubtedly played an indelible role in this coup. After the end of the war, General Cai praised Ye Xianglun's outstanding performance in front of his ministers.
Ye Xianglun did not take credit at all, and put all the credit on General Cai's excellent command.