164. Turn a blind eye
"Boss Shen, the last time you left Jiankang City, Your Highness once looked for you, even at that time, you didn't tell Your Highness, why did the Empress Dowager let you come to Jiankang City back then, can't you now?" Chen Luoyan asked.
Shen Wanqian looked at the people around Chen Luoyan, his face was cloudy, and finally gritted his teeth, stomped his feet fiercely, attached himself to His Royal Highness Nanliang, whispered a few words, and raised his head, a little relieved and a little worried.
Chen Luoyan let out a long sigh: "The grass gray snake line, the veins are thousands of miles, the old man's move is thrilling, and he is bold in killing, which is really admirable." ”
"Your Highness, Shen's little Taoism will not live long in Jiankang City, thanks to Lord Chu's guidance in the back, otherwise, let alone success, Shen would have been exposed and beheaded. Shen Wanqian said.
"Boss Shen, let's do this for now, you hurry home now, it's not appropriate to expose your identity too early, and leave the rest to His Highness." Chen Luoyan said and waved his hand, and the number of people had expanded to a full thousand people and walked towards the palace.
Shen Wanqian looked at the back of Chen Luoyan leaving, and had an indescribable feeling in his heart, when he entered Jiankang City in his early years, he had seen the world's first beauty from afar, and His Royal Highness at that time was definitely worthy of this title, it was simply a disaster for the country and the people, and later knew that His Royal Highness was a man dressed as a woman, and he couldn't help but sigh that a man was born so beautiful, it was "blind" Now, looking at Chen Luoyan again, there is a sense of heroism, this time he returned to Jiankang City with the heart of death, presumably the female son of heaven in Tai'an City is also in the same mentality, hey, what kind of pair of people is this, what have you experienced over the years, Ning'er's life experience is already very tortuous and bizarre, it seems that compared with this pair of people, it is even worse.
The defenders of Jiankang City have been greatly reduced, and most of them have been sent to the front line, but in the brightly lit palace, the guards are still tight, and the guards guarding the palace are the 1,500 red fresh troops left by the Zhan family, and Zhan Mingdao is the leader of the palace royal forest army. Zhan Tianyou failed to assassinate and died in the palace, the Zhan family of the eight great families suffered a catastrophe overnight, the Zhan family still exists, and no one died, but as Chen Shixiu said, all the written history books about the Zhan family have been destroyed, the ancestral tomb has been dug up, the ancestral hall has been destroyed, and there is no trace left on the history books.
Treating the daughters and children of the Zhan family, Chen Shixiu did not kill anyone, but was locked up in the Xiuwang Mansion where he once lived, and he ate a ration every day, starving no one to death, but he definitely couldn't eat enough. Chen Shixiu gave Zhan Mingdao a "choice", to continue to be the Imperial Forest Army of the new Emperor of Southern Liang, or the entire Zhan family was wiped out, and the old and weak were not left. Zhan Mingdao endured grief and humiliation, knelt down in front of Chen Shixiu, and shouted long live. With a smile, Chen Shixiu walked up to Zhan Mingdao and stretched out his hand to press on the top of Zhan Mingdao's head: "Those who know the times are Junjie, Zhan Mingdao, you are a good dog." "The new emperor of Southern Liang is wearing the Jiankang City Golden Dragon Sword Formation, and the Red Xian Army of more than 1,500 people is a good combat power, but it is not enough to see in front of Chen Shixiu, not to mention that the men, women and children in the Xiuwang Mansion always have a way to balance Zhan Mingdao. Every time he saw a blood-red red army walking neatly in front of the window, Chen Shixiu felt inexplicable happiness in his heart.
Tonight, Zhan Mingdao continued to stand guard, guarding the safety of the palace, even if he was the leader of the Imperial Forest Army, his duties were the same as ordinary soldiers, and Yu Lu was only half of the third-class army of Southern Liang, or that sentence, I will not let you die, but will only make you worse than dead. In Zhan Mingdao's previous planning, as the son of the Zhan family, he did not hope to be able to make a name for himself in the Zhan family, nor did he pin his hopes on the favor of a big man in the family, he Zhan Mingdao was a side branch, but he was also a backbone of the Zhan family, he respected Zhan Tianyou in his heart, but what he admired most was Zhang Shenggu, the white-clothed sword immortal in Jiankang City, the two had the same background, and some things were self-evident. The white-clothed sword immortal is not allowed to enter, cold as frost, and very arrogant, but he often drinks with Zhan Mingdao and instructs him a little bit of swordsmanship.
Zhan Mingdao thinks that the border pass is the place where he can show his ambitions, before it was the barbarians of southern Xinjiang, 100,000 tribes, and now it is the hinterland of the Central Plains, and the-for-tat confrontation with the Zhennan army, now these are all pavilions in the air, saffron in the fog, unattainable, even if he is now Taoguang and obscure, he has steadily crossed the Jiupin realm, but he still has no chance of winning against Chen Shixiu, and now Chen Shixiu's coercion is like the coercion that his master Zhan Tianyou once gave him, like mountains and seas, unattainable.
One hand on the wall of the palace, Zhan Mingdao was expressionless, his clenched hands rattled because of forbearance and hatred, he glanced at the brightly lit Yuxiu Palace behind him, and his heart was full of mixed feelings, tonight the moon is bright and the stars are scarce, the earth-shattering siege in Tai'an City has begun, and the three-sided battle in the Northern Wei Dynasty has also begun, and in the palace of Jiankang City, Hua Guifei has also begun to give birth, for some reason, the birth of this child is extremely difficult, and there has been no good news.
"General!" the deputy next to him suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed not far outside the palace.
Zhan Mingdao followed the other party's finger and squinted over, and a large group of people appeared there, dressed in strange clothes, with different expressions, and there were no less than a thousand people, just quietly appearing outside the palace.
The deputy shouted: "Set up crossbows and arrows, prepare to meet the enemy!"
No less than five hundred light crossbows showed their heads, one crossbow and three shots, shooting more than a thousand people outside the city without much effort, even if someone could dodge, the 1,500-strong Red Xian Army, both in terms of equipment and combat power, or the degree of training was above that group of people, and the results of the confrontation between the two were obvious.
Zhan Mingdao raised his arm slightly, his eyes gradually narrowed, his brows gradually wrinkled, as long as the arm fell, the bow and crossbow were fired, he was sure to shoot half of the opponent.
Chen Luoyan stood in front of the palace gate, raised his head slightly, and looked at the city.
Looking at each other, Chen Luoyan never spoke, and Zhan Mingdao also pursed his lips tightly, silent for a long time.
"General, give the order!" the lieutenant adjutant urged.
Zhan Mingdao turned around and glanced at him, and squeezed out a sentence from his mouth: "Shut up! now! Open the palace!"
The adjutant general was silent, and the fierceness that the general had hidden for many days broke out: "General, think twice!"
"Think twice!?Open the palace door for General Ben!" Zhan Mingdao paused word by word, his tone became colder and colder, he didn't understand a truth before, but now Chen Luoyan appeared in Jiankang City regardless of life and death, he suddenly understood that people should have dignity in life.
The gate of the Jiankang City Palace slowly opened, and Chen Luoyan arched his hand at Zhan Mingdao in the distance to show respect, and everyone continued to move forward.
In the night wind, the four swords of the academy swept like the wind, standing in front of a thousand people, Kong Shan turned sideways and made way for a road.
Blind eye!
Chen Luoyan nodded at the four of them and walked towards the brightly lit inner palace.