The clever Li Qi walked away with a beautiful vision, and he didn't notice the disdain in his eighteenth brother's eyes when he looked at him.

It was still the old man, standing quietly behind Li Mao, looking at Li Qi's departing back, and chuckled: "But what a fool!"

Li Mao didn't respond, still sitting expressionlessly, but there was a lingering anxiety between her eyebrows.

I was worried that the arrow had been sent out, and I couldn't turn back, but fortunately, I was hiding in the shadows, so I shouldn't be discovered soon......, right? As Li Qigang said, no matter what the outcome is, these little things don't matter.

That's a clever idea!

"Your Highness, the fire is already burning, do you want to fill up some firewood?" Behind him, the old man's voice sounded.

Li Mao was silent for a while, and shook his head lightly: "Forget it, the current situation is not under my control, wait for the result!"

"Good!"

……

Where the fire started, the fight had already begun, but this fight seemed a little monotonous.

Thick smoke filled the entire street under the flickering firelight, and there were shadows of people in the smoke, and the roars and shouts kept coming, but they could not tear apart the seemingly weak fog.

"Damn, where the hell are they?"

"Fuck it!

"Oh no, another brother has fallen, what kind of weapon are they using, and how can they not find a wound when they are bleeding?"

"Three, three, hold on! cough cough...... Damn, there's poison in this smoke!"

……

There was a panic in the smoke, but on the upper floor on the side of the street, the teenagers were a little leisurely.

"Third brother, this gun is really exciting!" Zhang Li touched the rifle he had just been distributed, with an excited face.

"Damn, why can't you always fight?" Wang Ce also tried several shots, but with little success, and couldn't help but be a little depressed.

"Haha, the eldest brother said, this shot depends on talent, if you want to shoot accurately, you have to look at the person!"

Wang Ce gave him a blank look and admonished: "Don't play around! This bullet is expensive! Just hold them off first, and someone will come to clean them up later!"

"Okay, good!" Zhang Li responded, and hurriedly raised the muzzle of the gun, and suddenly shot two more shots.

The front end of the barrel is equipped with a simple silencer made of cork, the effect is okay, but it has to be replaced after a few uses, but fortunately, the cost is low.

It happened suddenly, Xu Fan's response was a little different from Xu Chen's expectations, and now that the situation is like this, in order to be safe, Xu Chen still sent the rifle down.

"You stay here, I'll have to look elsewhere!" Wang Ce fired a few shots before putting down his rifle.

"Bring the gun with you! I don't know what the chaos will be on this road, bring a gun to defend yourself!" Zhang Li raised his head and said to Wang Ce.

Wang Ce smiled and patted his waist: "I have a short one, or this one is more suitable for me!"

"Hehe, I still think it's good! It's only fun and cool when it's long!" Zhang Li said with a lewd smile.

"Go aside!" Wang Ce glared at him, and then instructed: "Don't forget! Wait a while, remember to dispose of the corpse below, if not, throw a few more flame bombs down, and the house will burn, it's a big deal that we pay for it to be rebuilt, but the secret of the rifle must be kept!"

"Don't worry, I know!" Zhang Li nodded seriously.

This is just one of the many flames, Xu Chen is not a lot of people, but fortunately, the group of people organized by Li Heng are all scattered into the city, scattered and hidden, although the soldiers and generals in each place can be regarded as elite, but the number is not much. As long as Xu Chen uses a small number of people and various equipment here, coupled with the geographical advantage, he can successfully drag them down, and it is inevitable that the fish that slip through the net will pass, but it is difficult for the large army to pass on time.

Such actions are interlocking, and once the cooperation between them is chaotic, the consequences are unpredictable, and of course it will not be a good thing!

The flying bird swept over Chang'an City, startled by the billowing smoke and skyrocketing fire, and flapped its wings violently, all the way north, gliding over the imperial city.

Xu Chen and the others had been waiting in front of the Vermilion Bird Gate for a while, and the soldiers of the forbidden army in the palace inside the Vermilion Bird Gate were already fully armed and mobilized.

Although each has its own thoughts and dependents, the nervous mood is also real, after all, the sword has no eyes, the city wall is on fire, and there are always a few unlucky fish in the pond.

There are people on the royal road galloping on horseback, the situation is like this, no one cares about these, but this galloping horse and the people on the horse attracted the attention of the forbidden army soldiers one after another, if it weren't for the scribe accompanied by a few golden armor guards with long feathers on their heads, I am afraid that the rain of arrows would have already roared.

"Open the door quickly!" Shi Nanting said loudly.

"No!" In front of the palace gate, a square-faced man carried a pair of purple gold hammers and shouted: "The palace gate is keyed, and the trespasser will be killed!"

"I have Xu Xiang's warrant, stamped with the big seal of Zhongshu Province and the left and right prisons!" Shi Nanting took out a warrant from his bosom and shouted loudly.

"No, no!" said the big man with a grim face.

"You don't need to open the main door, just the side door next to it!" Shi Nanting said again.

"Who do you think you are? Can you walk through the main gate of this palace?"

This was the first time Shi Nanting had entered the palace, and it was also in the morning when Xu Fan had a temporary idea, thinking that there were still a few urgent things left in the political hall, so he brought them in. As the prime minister, Xu Fan got Li Longji's permission, and it was easy to bring a few staff assistants.

Later, Xu Chen entered the city and made a fuss at Mingdemen, Xu Fan took advantage of the situation and prepared to start in advance, but he didn't want the other party to start earlier.

Now the situation is dangerous, everything has been passed to Xu Fan, a lot of important things are waiting for him to make an idea, if it weren't for the forbidden army guarding the door saying that Xu Bo went and returned, and brought a few young people, guessed that Xu Chen was going to enter the palace to see him, there must be something important, Xu Fan didn't have time to take care of it.

deliberately sent Shi Nanting to pick up people, but he also knew that Xu Chen's kid was suspicious, and sent someone Xu Bo knew, otherwise in such a situation, maybe something would happen to this kid!

It's just that Shi Nanting entered the palace for the first time, and he was not very familiar with the rules of the palace ban, Xu Fan was busy again, and after writing a warrant, he asked him to go and stamp the big seal by himself.

"At this time, unless the Holy Lord orders it, the palace door must not be opened!"

The situation was stalemate all of a sudden, and the few Yu Linwei who came with him were at most symbolic, and the things in front of them naturally wouldn't help, and they really couldn't help.

Speaking of which, Shi Nanting didn't pay much attention to this errand that could barely be regarded as a task, but now there is a big change, Xu Fan's various things are complicated, and he can't be busy, and he comes all the way to pick up a young man into the palace, which is really a little out of tune.

Run back again, don't say what Xu Fan thinks of him, Shi Nanting himself is troublesome, he is also thinking of a way, but to be honest, what he thinks about is more about Xu Fan's rhetoric after going back, which can be regarded as a decent explanation.

He didn't care much here, but another general who was guarding the Vermilion Bird Gate came over, and after receiving Shi Nanting's warrant, he smiled and said to the square-faced general: "The procedures are complete, and besides, Xu is worth it today, his old man is so anxious, Xu is in a hurry!"

"Let's let people in! There may be something really going on outside, but this martial law order has not been handed down yet, and the original procedures can still be used!"

"What are you kidding!" The square-faced general ignored the faces of his colleagues and rebuked loudly: "Are you blind? You don't know what's going on outside? Just let someone in, will you cut off your head or mine if something happens?"

"You...... Why do you talk like that!"

"That's it, it's okay! I don't want to take care of it!"

“……”

The quarrel lasted only three or two sentences, and the situation returned to the original again.

Just when Shi Nanting hesitated whether to turn around and turn back, there was a sound of a string of horses stepping on the royal road from behind.

"Mr. Shi! Mr. Shi!" The person who came rushed all the way to Shi Nanting's side, and said with a hint of complaint: "How did Mr. Shi go so fast?

"Sun Shanggong?" Shi Nanting looked puzzled.

The person who came was Sun Desheng, since Sun Desheng went to Yuzhang and brought back more than 3 million pieces of silver to the emperor, Li Longji Longyan Dayue, with a stroke of the pen, promoted Sun Desheng from the original father-in-law in charge to the father-in-law of the imperial palace, and still managed the palace bureau, but his status was already the highest among all the eunuchs except Gao Lishi.

The inner palace of the Tang Dynasty followed the Sui Dynasty, with six palaces and twenty-four bureaus, among which the Shang Gong Bureau was the most respected. There is naturally no shortage of skills to slap horses, but he who has read with Xu Fan, he really can't do such a work, Gao Lishi's attitude towards him has always been ambiguous, and Sun Desheng's grade is also the same as that of the chief eunuch of the other five bureaus.

However, since he came back from Yuzhang, not to mention those former competitors, even Gao Lishi's attitude towards Sun Desheng has become subtle, and he rarely regards him as a subordinate or godson, and vaguely regards him as a peer.

There's no way, who asked Sun Desheng to help Li Longji get money!

Wang Hui, who can make money, was once in charge of the household department, and Yang Zhao, who can also make money, is also prosperous at the moment, and the appointment of foreign officials still has to take into account the views of the prime minister and the ministers, in the palace This acre of three points of land, the emperor has a unique right!

Fortunately, Sun Desheng is not rampant, and how he treated Gao Lishi in the past is still the same since then.

Not only was Gao Lishi satisfied, but even his previous competitors had completely given up the idea of competing with him and agreed with Sun Desheng's status as the second eunuch.

For such a character, the guards of the forbidden army who still have to work in the palace naturally dare not be cold-eyed.

"It turned out to be Sun Shanggong!" another guard walked by and asked with a smile, "I don't know what is the matter with Sun Shanggong here?"

As he spoke, he glanced faintly at the square-faced general.