"Escort the prince out of ...... quickly"

Hou Lian roared and ordered, asking his subordinates to escort Li Yu to withdraw from the river valley, and on the other hand, he organized the defense line as much as possible, thinking that Li Yu's safe departure would be delayed for a longer time. None of the scouts sent came back alive, and Hou Concrete knew very well that if the horses were not horned, they might run into this unidentified strong enemy head-on and still didn't know it.

These people were mainly based on the six rates of the East Palace, and later supplemented the armored soldiers recruited along the way, although there were thousands of people, but they were a group of rabble with almost no experience in battle battles, improvised and unable to cooperate tacitly.

"Array, array, those who violate the order will be killed, and those who retreat without the order will be killed!"

At this critical juncture, Hou Concrete tried to maintain the integrity of the military formation with a series of slashes, but his efforts were obviously in vain, shocked by the thunderous roaring cavalry, and everyone's faces, bodies, and hearts were filled with unspeakable fear. The twists and turns of the valley blocked their view from seeing the cavalry, but the fear of the unknown was even more terrifying.

Even Hou Lian's nervous mouth was dry, and the hands that were clenching the handle of the Mo knife turned white from excessive force.

Although his qualifications in the forbidden army are not low, he has not participated in a few real field battles, and when he served in the border army more than ten years ago, he did not experience a war, because of the shadow of his family, he was easily promoted and was transferred back to the forbidden army of the Sixteen Guards of Chang'an.

The help provided by the illustrious family for Hou Lian's promotion is extremely enviable, but now it has become his biggest shortcoming. If it had been killed from the battlefield with a knife and a gun, I am afraid that it would be a different situation at this time.

In the final analysis, Hou Lian is also a military general who is good at officialdom and power, but weak in battle experience. But no matter what, he still has the most basic way of being a minister, and he is willing to sacrifice himself in order for the prince to be able to avoid this sudden encounter safely.

There had never been a battle, from Hou Concrete to ordinary sergeants, and no one thought they would win this encounter. Since Sun Xiaozhe broke through Tongguan and rampaged in Guanzhong, the backbone of the forbidden army of the Tang Dynasty was completely discounted, and any wind and grass made them instinctively rush to fear, and the first reaction was not to meet the enemy and defeat the enemy, and to trample the enemy under his feet, but to think that this battle would be defeated, and there was no hope of victory......

Fortunately, they have not yet degenerated into a group of cowards who flee from the wind, knowing that they will be defeated, even if they tremble, they all stay in the military formation, waiting for the moment of engagement.

Finally, a large force of cavalry turned around the twists and turns of the valley and appeared in front of them one after another.

Hou Xu's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe what he saw in front of him, this was obviously not the border army of Longyou in the Tang Dynasty, but the cavalry of the Tubo people.

It turns out that everything that those "deserters" said is true, and the Tubo people have broken through the defense line and are pressing towards the right hinterland of Long. As a result, his heart was also twitching, dripping blood, presumably Zhenxi Jun and Du Wanquan were also unlucky.

The Tubo soldiers didn't give Hou Concrete much time to think, and soon they were only a few dozen steps away from them. Hou Lian woke up like a dream and shouted loudly:

"Crossbow bolts!"

Even if the six rates of the East Palace are a group of rabble, but the equipment is extremely sophisticated, the powerful crossbow bowstrings rattled, and thousands of crossbow arrows were shot out like rain, and they smashed down a piece of Tibetan soldiers when they landed, just like a boulder falling into the torrent and splashing waves.

But no matter how fierce the boulder was, it couldn't stop the roaring torrent from rolling forward. The well-trained Tang Dynasty frontier army may be able to fire the bow more than five times before the enemy army is a hundred paces away from them until they reach the military formation, but the sergeant of the sixth rate of the East Palace only had time to fire the third time, and the cavalry of the Tubo people was already close at hand.

Hou Lian shouted, blood surged, his eyes were red, and he put the Mo knife in his hand in the attack position, ready to engage at any time. He knew that at this moment, there was no chance of any luck, either to kill the Tibetans, or to step on their corpses.

"Kill ......"

……

In Chang'an, a mutiny thundered loudly and rained little. On the second day of the palace change, Empress Zhang convened hundreds of officials on behalf of the Son of Heaven and announced that the crown prince Li Yu intended to commit a lot of crimes, although the officials knew that Li Yu had always been generous and loyal and filial, and would never do such a rebellious evil thing, but because of Zhang's authority, no one dared to stand up and say a word of justice for Li Yu.

It's not that there are no people who are willing to speak for Li Yu, but those who can speak have been arrested overnight and thrown into prison, allowing them to shout in the rain and break their throats, in addition to the jailers and jailers, how many people can hear it?

Prime Minister Choi Juan, Kyung Zhao Yoon, Choi Kwangwon, and other officials of the first line of the crown prince and the first line of the Shenwu Army were all imprisoned. The seemingly calm and subtle situation suddenly shook the waves, and Zhang, a woman who was not very conspicuous, showed her amazing skills in a very short period of time.

However, this is only the beginning, solving Li Yu is not the final result, only by leveling Qin Jin, who is leading the troops outside, can the situation of the government and the opposition be firmly controlled.

Empress Zhang was apparently well aware of the situation they faced, and her two brothers tried to persuade her to immediately kill all of Qin Jin's supporters who remained in Chang'an, including Cui Lian, who was loyal to Li Yu. But Empress Zhang obviously had other ideas, and was frequently frowned by the chatter and quarrel of the two brothers, and finally couldn't help but reprimand:

"Kill, kill, you know to kill, today you put a knife on someone else's neck, don't you think that one day this knife may also be on your neck?"

Zhang An led the troops in the mutiny, and behaved extremely bravely, and the prince's henchmen were killed by him in an instant, so his self-confidence was also extremely high, and he was very dissatisfied with his sister's rhetoric of growing his ambition and destroying his own prestige, and pouted and said:

"What are you talking about, sister, our brothers are being knifed to the neck, who else will support my sister?"

However, Zhang Qing knew their situation very well at the moment, and immediately stopped his brother's bastard words from the side.

"It is not advisable to make too many enemies at the moment, getting rid of Li Yu is a big step forward, after all, Qin Jin has a heavy army, and we can't afford to turn this face. The top priority is to make King Lipuan the crown prince, as for the Shenwu army, it is only advisable to divide and co-opt and gradually disintegrate, otherwise once we tear our faces, we may not be their opponents!"

Zhang An pouted and said:

"Isn't it a turnaround now?"

"Count? Li Yu sent someone to assassinate Qin Jin, let's abolish him in one fell swoop, and we are also on his side in a reasonable way, as long as these superficial articles are done seamlessly, with Qin Jin's character, he will definitely not act rashly. What's more, the current situation of the Shenwu Army also has the taste of the iron cable across the river, and there are remnants of thieves in Hebei who are still recovering, and Guanzhong has suddenly changed the sky. Tell me, if you were Qin Jin, what choice should you make?"

Among the courtiers, Zhang Qing has always been an inconspicuous character, Li Longji once judged the word "mediocre" when he was in power, but this person is also not bad at official luck, and has always achieved such an idle and important position as the Taifu Siqing. Now the analysis of the situation is reasonable, and there is no mediocrity, and it is obvious that he has been doing Taoguang to paralyze the world.

Zhang An thought for a moment when he heard this, and then laughed:

"The third brother asked well, Qin Jin can't enter or retreat now, cooperating with his sister, I'm afraid it's his best choice!"

Zhang Qing smiled silently, and Empress Zhang asked with a worried face:

"When it comes to dividing and winning over the Shenwu Army, does the third brother have a plan?"

This is what Empress Zhang is most worried about, as long as she can divide and disintegrate the Shenwu Army, she will have nothing to fear.

"Sister, rest assured, I have already started planning the layout half a year ago, Pei Jing, who is stationed in Tongguan, and Lu Qi, who is sitting in Hedong, are the key objects of attention!"

Zhang An looked at his younger brother in surprise, and he didn't expect that Zhang Qing, who had always been low-key, had already been secretly arranged.

"Lu, do you have a reply?"

Zhang Qing shook his head, which made Zhang An feel disappointed.

"It's not empty words after saying so much!"

"Not necessarily, although Lu Pei and the others did not have a solid reply, they did not turn their faces, which shows that they have a wait-and-see mentality in their hearts, as long as we fan the wind again and add a fire, maybe we will get miraculous results!"

Zhang An immediately asked:

"What should I do, the third brother won't sell Guanzi!"

Three days after the palace mutiny, the edict of the Son of Heaven was issued again, and Cui Guangyuan and other officials of the Shenwu Army were all acquitted and reinstated. At the same time, he was promoted to Lu Qi as the imperial historian and the ambassador of the eastern section of the river. General Pei Jingjin Zuo Wuwei......

That night, the gates of Jingzhao Mansion were closed, and the authority of the past seemed to gradually dissipate after a mutiny, replaced by trembling and cautious. A side door was quietly pushed open from the inside, and a figure swayed in the darkness and walked in.

"General Zheng, Da Yin has been waiting for a long time!"

During the day, the edict of the Son of Heaven promoted dozens of officials, and more than seventy percent of them were important members of the Shenwu Army distributed in various places. Zheng Xianli was originally just an ordnance supervisor, but he was also promoted, from a small supervisor to Zuo Wuwei Zhonglang General.

Therefore, the servants in the Jingzhao Mansion are called generals.

After meeting Cui Guangyuan in the back hall, the two sat for a long time and were silent. Unexpectedly, the crown prince was defeated so suddenly, so quickly, that they actually misjudged the situation in an emergency.

"Zhang's intentions are sinister, and they want to invite people to buy people's hearts with high-ranking officials, but Zheng is afraid that someone will not be able to stand it and turn his back on Dr. Qin!"

Cui Guangyuan smiled embarrassedly, Empress Zhang promoted many officials of the Shenwu Army, but she excluded him, what does it mean, it shows that in the eyes of others, he is just a little ant who can be manipulated at will......

"This matter must be reported to the doctor as soon as possible, but I don't know how the doctor will deal with it......"