Chapter 898: Burning Daming Palace
The smoky palace of the Son of Heaven is full of smoke, and the strong sandalwood can't hide the rancid smell of being bedridden for a long time. However, things have long been wrong here, and a faint voice in the heavy curtain trembled out.
"Yes, is it an auxiliary country?"
This is exactly what Li Heng, who has been sick in bed for a long time, is calling in a low voice, Li Fuguo has mixed tastes for a while, his nose is sour and his eyes are hot, he is not a person who is easy to be emotional, and he has already practiced a hard-hearted heart after many years of palace prohibition fighting, but somehow he heard Li Heng's low call from the sickbed, and there was such a big fluctuation in his heart. He knelt on the ground, kneeled forward, and soon passed through the heavy curtains, and when he saw Li Heng's thin and gray face, it was almost impossible to recognize that this was the Tang Dynasty Emperor who had turned the tide.
"Your Majesty, the old slave is late......"
After saying half a sentence, I couldn't hold back anymore and cried.
Li Heng tried to get up from the couch, but no matter how he struggled, his body could only writhe weakly like a dying long worm.
"You, don't cry, I, I can't die!"
Li Fuguo's heart was gloomy, and he said in his heart, how could he cry because the Son of Heaven was worried about his life? Compared with death, the addition of illness at this time may make Li Heng more painful. But there is a difference between kings and ministers, masters and servants, and many words cannot be spoken. He gently shook Li Heng's hand like a dead branch, and Li Heng's hand was cold and stiff, as if it were a dead man's hand.
"The old slave is guilty, please move your ......"
While Li Fuguo was speaking, Li Heng's emotions suddenly became excited, and his speech was a little slurred.
"Why did you move, what about the queen, what about the prince, where did they go?"
Although Li Heng is physically disabled, his mind has recovered to be no different from a normal person, he has not seen the prince enter the palace to greet him for many days, and even the queen who came to see him every other day has lost his voice, he is naturally sensitive, he has long had a premonition that something big will happen, and at this time, he suddenly heard that Li Fuguo was going to move by himself, how could he not be nervous?
Li Fuguo wanted to change a lie and prevaricate in the past, but unfortunately Li Heng at this time was not as biased as when he had a stroke just now, and under the constant questioning, he had to tell the truth in a hurry, from the prince being expelled to the arrival of the Tubo soldiers in the city, including Empress Zhang's abandonment of the court and the escape of the clansmen overnight, everything was said. Of course, he took all the responsibility for his expulsion of the crown prince, and all the sins were blamed on Empress Zhang, who could not come forward to argue.
In fact, Li Fuguo did not wronged the Zhang family, that vicious woman was eager to kill Li Yu, but many generals in the city sympathized with the prince's plight, and more or less secretly did some convenient things, otherwise he might not be able to escape from Chang'an calmly and safely.
Hearing that Li Yu did not die in the hands of the Zhang family, Li Heng's mood gradually calmed down, among his many sons, I am afraid that he is the only one who can inherit the unification and keep the society, and the rest are either unusable, or they are still young and have no qualifications to shoulder heavy burdens.
"Okay, it's good that the prince left Chang'an safely, Fuguo, you promise me that you must find the prince alive, assist him, and assist him......"
Without catching a breath, Li Heng coughed violently.
Li Fuguo hurriedly persuaded:
"Your Majesty, Chang'an City is no longer able to hold, and it looks like it is about to be broken by the Tubo people, and it will be too late if you don't leave!"
"I, I'm going to abolish the Zhang family, the grass edict, the grass edict ......"
Hot tears rolled down from Li Heng's eyes, and then he shouted with all his strength:
"Take my sword, take my sword......"
At this time, there was only one elderly eunuch left in the palace, and the rest of the people had already gotten the news and wanted to find an opportunity to escape from the Daming Palace. The old eunuch took the sword from the arrow carriage that had not been unsheathed for a long time. Li Heng motioned to Li Fuguo for this sword, and with a skewed face, he spit out two words from his somewhat crooked mouth:
"Kill me!"
Li Heng didn't call me me, just used a word that was ordinary to an ordinary person, maybe as a son of heaven, he still had a certain role in living, but as a person, he had long lost the courage to continue to live in the world, rather than living in the world and suffering pain and humiliation, it was better to die happily.
When there was a loud sound, Li Fuguo's hand was unstable, the sword fell to the ground, and then she immediately knelt down and kowtowed.
"Your Majesty is a member of the people of Li Shu and the society of the country, and you must not have the thought of suicide......"
Li Fuguo didn't dare to carry out Li Heng's edict no matter what, and only kept persuading on the sidelines, hoping to move this paralyzed and stubborn son of heaven.
For a long time, Li Heng answered the question:
"What about Qin Jin? Doesn't Qin Jin know, doesn't he know that another catastrophe is coming to Chang'an?"
Li Fuguo shook his head gloomily, not to mention the change in Chang'an, the imperial court did not send someone to inform Qin Jin, even if he informed the Shenwu Army, what could he do? Luoyang is thousands of miles away from Chang'an, can he still lead his troops to fly back to Guanzhong?
It was a good thing for Empress Zhang and Li Fuguo that the Shenwu Army didn't have time to come back, but the sudden appearance of the 200,000 Tubo army caught everyone by surprise, and everyone also thought of the Shenwu Army, and the previous happiness suddenly turned into frustration and disappointment.
"Qin Jin has led the army to recover Luoyang, and Anqi Lushan has also been given the head, and the remnants have fled back to Hebei without a foothold in the Central Plains, if they work harder, the rebellion is just around the corner, but now this situation is ......"
Li Fuguo stopped talking, even if he didn't say the rest of the words, Li Heng could understand and guess it.
Suddenly, a eunuch outside rushed into the Son of Heaven's dormitory in a panic.
"General, I just found out that there was a large-scale riot in the city, and it seems that the situation will soon spread to the Daming Palace, so we must make a decision as soon as possible!"
The so-called decision is naturally to take away the Son of Heaven Li Heng, Li Fuguo frowned and asked:
"Are you ready for the rest?"
This question is about King Qi and King Xiang.
"Everything is in place!"
In this way, Li Fuguo turned back to face Li Heng and kowtowed repeatedly.
"Your Majesty, don't blame the old slave for being unfounded, it's all a last resort......"
After finishing speaking, Li Fuguo Huo Ran got up, personally covered the quilt for Li Heng, tightened the corners of his back, and waved his hand:
"Carry the whole couch out!"
Li Fuguo was afraid that Li Heng would not be able to stand the bumps and his condition would worsen, so he wanted to carry the whole bed out, but the eunuch persuaded:
"The couch is too big, if you carry it, I'm afraid we won't be able to get out of Chang'an City!"
"Then even the futon is carried to the carriage together, be light, don't let Your Majesty suffer the cold......"
Now it is almost late autumn, and it will be as cold as cold water after nightfall, and people like Li Heng who are weak are the most susceptible to oblique cold, so they have to be cautious, otherwise they will die soon under the impact of bumps and wind cold.
Although Li Heng was unwilling, he also seemed to have been appointed, closed his eyes weakly, and let the eunuchs fiddle with him.
As soon as the mattress was carried away from the couch, Li Fuguo smelled a strong stench, and the wooden planks of the couch had already been soaked with feces and urine.
Although he had long expected that the situation of the Son of Heaven might not be too good, he never imagined that the Son of Heaven would be taken care of during his illness far inferior to an ordinary person. However, there was no longer time to delay at this time, so he had to pinch his nose and wave his hand, and his subordinates carried Li Heng to the horse as soon as possible.
Through the dim light in the hall, Li Fuguo noticed that a trace of embarrassment seemed to flash on Li Heng's eyes tightly closed, and then it was completely painful.
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When Li Fuguo also embarked on the road of escape along the road of escape of the Zhang sisters and brothers, the Shence army watched the army and made Yu Chaoen set up a large number of loots, and as the situation in Chang'an City became more and more chaotic, his eyes began to fall on Danfeng Gate and Daming Palace.
The Son of Heaven and the Empress were in the Daming Palace, and as more and more people echoed the rebellion, his courage and ambition also swelled rapidly in just a few hours.
"Rush into the Daming Palace, kill the Zhang family who has brought disaster to the country and the people, and eliminate the harm for the Son of Heaven!"
Yu Chaoen is also a politically very shrewd person, even if he wants to kill Queen Zhang out of selfish revenge, but he must also use the banner of eliminating traitors for the Son of Heaven, and only if there is a valid reason for righteousness, he will calmly kill Daming Palace.
At this time, the Daming Palace experienced the successive escapes of Empress Zhang and Li Fuguo, and it had already become a pot of paste, and the people of the Eunuch Palace, including the forbidden army, began to steal and rob the treasures in the Daming Palace frantically, and the porcelain and jade that could not be taken away were smashed in the competition, and many people's waists were stuffed with bulging and swollen, and they wandered around with a large number of fleeing people like headless flies......
"Knock open the Danfeng Gate!"
With Yu Chaoen's order, the Shence army began to violently slam into the magnificent palace gate.
Looking at the heavy city gate of Danfeng Gate trembling in the impact again and again, Yu Chaoen smuggled at the corner of his mouth, this palace gate will never allow them to pass, and today he wants to take the Shence army to enter the Daming Palace from this gate.
Just as he was proud, his subordinates discovered something strange, because none of the forbidden troops in charge of guarding Danfengmen showed up, and it can be said that the Shence army was carrying out an attack without resistance.
For about a quarter of an hour, someone opened the Danfeng Gate inside, and the Shence Army swarmed in with Yu Chaoen. However, the results he got were very different from what he expected. Empress Zhang ran away, Li Fuguo ran away, the Son of Heaven and the princes were all taken away, and all he got was a useless palace city.
In an instant, triumph turned to anger, and in the heat of rage, all reason ceased to exist.
"Set fire to it, burn the Daming Palace for me! Burn it clean, and there is no scum left!"
Of course, looting property before setting fire is also a proper action, every time the Shence army loots a palace and puts a fire, in less than half an hour, the fire in the Daming Palace has already risen to the sky!