Everyone in the Shenwu Army expressed their willingness to advance and retreat together with Zhonglang. And Qin Jin told the generals and soldiers in the army to be calm for a while, and the matter was far from the Jedi of the last battle, and asked them to wait for further orders.

And just as Qin Jin was calming everyone's emotions, an entourage came to his side and whispered a few words. It turned out that the prince only went to the army once, and then went to the Taiyi Courtyard in Yongjiafang.

The Taiyi Courtyard was built by Li Longji for one of his daughters, but the owner of the Courtyard passed away, but the incense continued. It is also suitable for the prince to choose to live here, and Yongjiafang is also under the strict control of the Shenwu army, so it is difficult for the rebels and thieves to take advantage of the opportunity. But Qin Jin still added a hundred forbidden guards in Yongjiafang, just in case.

Gao Lishi's threat and Chen Xuanli's first rat did make Qin Jin a little panicked at the beginning, but after thinking about it calmly, he found that things might not be so simple.

If Chen Xuanli has already fallen to Gaolis, then why should Gaolishi attack Chengtianmen and Yonganmen with great fanfare, from here to Xingqing Palace, you have to pass through half of Chang'an City. On the contrary, if Gaolishi enters Chang'an City from Tonghua Gate or Chunming Gate, then Xingqing Palace is close at hand.

Gao Lishi gave up the near and sought the distance, it must be Chen Xuanli's refusal to cooperate, or Gao Chen and the two did not collude. The reason why Chen Xuanli made his previous move was completely due to the instinct of leaving a way back and self-preservation. With this judgment, Qin Jin slightly let go of a heart that was always hanging on and began to plan how to turn the plate over again.

Pei Jing returned to the defense area of the Imperial City and the East Palace after delivering the letter, although the Gaolishi soldiers pressed the territory and were aggressive, but as long as they did not go through the battle, they could not mess up their positions first, and they could not give up anywhere they should defend.

Lu Qi and Yang Xingben both came to the room where Qin Jin was at this time, and they were waiting for Zhonglang to make a decision.

"General Zhonglang, give the order to break the door!"

The Xingqing Gate and the Longyue Gate to the north of the Xingqing Palace were the key points of attack that Lu Qi and Yang Xing suggested.

The former of these two gates is the main gate of the palace, and the latter is located on the central axis of the north wall. And the threat of Colliers, in their opinion, is not far from farting. Now the competition is who has to move the fastest, as long as the Son of Heaven is caught and killed with a sword, the new army attached to Gaolishi has no goal of marching, won't it become a big thing, and it will naturally become.

However, General Zhonglang's attitude made Lu Qi and Yang Xing extremely anxious, and it seemed that General Zhonglang still had some scruples, and it was difficult to make a decision.

In fact, after Qin Jin had the judgment that Chen Xuanli did not collude with Gao Lishi, he did not have the idea of breaking the palace city, but he always felt that there was a dark cloud in his heart, and he couldn't grasp it for a while.

After thinking about it for a long time, Huo Ran remembered that he had always ignored an important person. That is Gao Xianzhi, who has been protecting Li Longji in Xingqing Palace. He didn't believe in a veteran of a hundred battles, and he was so silent because he was desperate for the situation.

And now the Shenwu army is already fighting alone, only 3,000 people can be relied on, if the battle is won, Chen Xuanli will fall to the prince, but once he is negligent and defeated, maybe this person will fall to the Son of Heaven is unknown.

While hesitating, the eunuch Li Fuguo rushed to the army with the prince's order. And the life of the prince he brought made Lu Qi and Yang Xing both mentally shocked.

I only listened to Li Fuguo reciting the prince's orders in the eunuch's unique male duck voice.

"Zhonglang will immediately use the Shenwu army to break through the Xingqing Palace before noon today, stabilize the situation, and don't let the ill-intentioned people have another chance to make trouble......

Hearing the prince's order, Lu Qi and Yang Xingben both cast eager and expectant glances at Qin Jin.

However, Qin Jin's reaction disappointed Li Fuguo.

"Please return to the prince from the inner prison, the prince personally promised last night that the military affairs would be let go by Qin and not interfere with a single finger, I don't know if this can be counted?"

Li Fuguo immediately became angry, pointed at Qin Jin's nose and said:

"Qin Jin, do you dare to disobey the prince's orders?"

Qin Jin was afraid of Li Fuguo's threat, and immediately responded with a sneer.

"At the prince's place, Qin will go and ask for guilt. However, the matter of swords and soldiers, how can it be child's play, relying on the empty mouth and white teeth of an inner prison to make a decision?"

Li Fuguo never expected that Qin Jin would go toe-to-toe with him, and even had a lot of hints in his words, so he just stretched out his hand and pointed at Qin Jin angrily, and he didn't just have to say more, so he could only stomp his foot fiercely in the end.

"Okay, good, you wait, there will be a day when you regret it!"

After saying more, Li Fuguo left the Shenwu Army without looking back.

This scene stunned Lu Qi and Yang Xingben, they could never have imagined that General Zhonglang would refuse this order, and even offended the prince's close attendants.

At night, Qin Jin personally went to the imperial city to investigate and defend, and Lu Qi took the opportunity to mobilize the people of the headquarters to storm the Xingqing Gate of Xingqing Palace, but unexpectedly encountered unprecedented resistance, and the defenders in the palace city, who had been showing weakness, suddenly burst out with amazing combat effectiveness. In less than half an hour, Lu Qi's men had already killed and injured more than 100 people.

But Lu Qi has become a difficult situation to ride a tiger, so he can only order his troops to attack.

The palace wall of Xingqing Palace is only more than two zhang, at best, it can be compared with the city wall of Zhongxian, and the difficulty of the attack is not great. One way, the palace gate was attacked with logs that were difficult for three people to surround, and the other way was climbed up the city wall with a ladder, hoping to use a two-pronged offensive to make it difficult for the defenders in the palace to take care of both sides, so as to achieve the goal of breaking the city as soon as possible.

As long as the raw rice is cooked rice, Lu Qi believes that Zhonglang will gladly accept it.

However, the current situation makes him unable to advance or retreat. In order to defend the city, the defenders in the palace city did everything they could, pouring basins of hot oil and hot water on them, and in the blink of an eye, the number of Shenmu soldiers who were burned as a result reached nearly 100. Immediately afterwards, the arrows shot down in unison, and the offensive of the persecuting Shenwu Army had to slow down.

If it continues to attack like this, the men and horses of the Shenwu Army will not be as good as this, and they will be consumed like this, but I am afraid that they will have to kill everyone before dawn.

Lu Qi saw that his plan failed, so he had another plan and decided to dig a tunnel under the palace wall to lead directly to Xingqing Palace, so that the palace city would not be attacked. However, only half of the tunnel was dug up, and for some reason water suddenly gushed out from under the ground, and the earthwork of the tunnel collapsed in the water, and even crushed more than a dozen people who could not evacuate to death.

After tossing in the middle of the night, Lu Qi looked at Xingqing Palace unwillingly, and couldn't help but sigh. His reputation in the army was destroyed tonight under the gate wall of Xingqing Palace.

In this raid on Miyagi, he did not pull Yang Xingben. Although Yang Xingben shouted happily, he was very obedient, and Zhonglang would not dare to disobey his orders, but without Zhonglang's order, he would not cooperate with anything.

Frustrated, Lu Qi suddenly glanced at the flag floating on the Xingqing Gate, and then the reflection of the fire of the city tower, a big "high" word came into his eyes.

Lu Qi's heart was shocked, and then he suddenly remembered that it was Gao Xianzhi who was in command in the Xingqing Palace, wasn't it Gao Xianzhi who was in command of the mighty Anxi? Originally, he only thought that Gao Xianzhi had become a tiger with a wooden tire and clay sculpture, but now it seems that he was very wrong, and the emaciated camel is much better than the horse.

After Qin Jin received the report from the imperial city, the battle in Xingqing Palace had ended, and the Shenwu army suffered his first fiasco under the Xingqing Gate, although the defeat to Gao Xianzhi was not ashamed, but it could bring endless consequences. For example, will Chen Xuanli take action after learning the news of the new defeat of the Shenwu Army, and turn to Gaolis?

Lu Qi is also very responsible, and after realizing that the big mistake has been made, he took the initiative to ask Qin Jin to plead guilty, just asking for death and giving an explanation to the hundreds of Shenwu soldiers who were killed and injured.

"How? Do you want to escape responsibility by dying? Qin will not let you get your wish!"

Facing Qin Jin's rebuke, Lu Qi raised his head and looked at Qin Jin puzzled.

Lu Qi originally thought that Qin Jin would severely punish him, and the Shenwu army has always attached great importance to strict military discipline, and it is natural that such an act as tonight, which causes major consequences, will fall to the ground. And at this time, listening to Qin Jin's tone, he didn't intend to execute him, how could he not be frightened and confused.

Qin Jin looked at Lu Qi kneeling in front of him, and felt a little remorseful in his heart, regretting that he didn't notice Lu Qi's abnormal movement in time, and made today's mistake. Fortunately, the news was blocked at night, and Gao Lishi could not get the news in time, otherwise he would have done his best to go out of Chengtianmen, and the Shenwu army fighting on two fronts might face a catastrophe.

However, Qin Jin did not entangle Lu Qi more about tonight's defeat, but asked:

"Do you know what happened when Qin went to the imperial city tonight to investigate?"

"I don't know!"

"Okay! Qin will tell you now, the turning point of the Shenwu Army is here tonight!"

"Huh?"

The people present were stunned, not understanding the meaning of Qin Jin's words.

But he heard Qin Jin say again: "Gao Xianzhi has experienced a hundred battles, and the palace guards are mourning soldiers, and if the attack is unfavorable, a rash attack may not win." On the other hand, Gao Lishi, who is not familiar with military affairs, and is a new army with unpaid salaries, seems to be a large number of people, but in fact it is scattered, and the Shenwu army may not be able to fight with it. ”

An extremely bold plan had already taken shape in Qin Jin's mind, and success or failure would be in one fell swoop.

"Lu Qi transferred troops without following the military order, and he should have been shown to the public, but when he hired people, he could be disposed of as appropriate and ordered to serve in front of the army as an ordinary soldier. After saying that, Qin Jin's gaze turned to Pei Jing again, "Mobilize all available soldiers, and only leave suspicious soldiers in Xingqing Palace for confusion." The rest of them all followed Qin to attack the Taiji Palace at night, seize the Chengtian Gate and Yong'an Gate, and return the color, otherwise it would really make those little ones look down on my Shenwu Army!"

When everyone heard this, their spirits were shocked, and Zhonglang General finally made up his mind to let go of the fight.

However, the time of the night attack changed slightly, originally Qin Jin set to raid Taiji Palace tomorrow and night, but tonight Lu Qi attacked Xingqing Palace without authorization and failed miserably, I am afraid that the city will be known as soon as dawn, and the attitudes of all parties may change irreversibly.

As long as the night attack is successful, the palace gate of the imperial city will be recaptured, making it difficult for Gao Lishi to enter an inch. Qin Jin believed that as long as it took a little longer, coupled with the setbacks of the troops, those new troops who were in arrears would definitely be in chaos without a fight. As a result, the dilemma of the Shenwu Army being constrained was lifted, and Chen Xuanli's attitude would inevitably change......