Chapter 282: A Dream Broken (Part 1)
Xue Wenhao rode a horse and took his guards to the front of the imperial palace, looking at the closed vermilion lacquer palace door, he couldn't help but tremble his legs and stomach, if it weren't for the guards of King Kang's Mansion who kept staring at him, he might have rolled the saddle and dismounted and fled, but now he had to hold on to the reins tightly, trying to straighten up and stop here. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"What now?" Xue Wenhao turned around stiffly and looked at the guards, his face unconcealed with horror.
Several guards looked at him impatiently: "Since you have arrived at the palace gate, you should order the palace gate to be opened and enter the palace King Qin." Looking at the pony that was already trembling with fright and about to fall off the horse, several of the guards really felt that they couldn't look down on it.
Xue Wenhao cried with a sad face, and said in a trembling voice: "Then, then open the palace gate......" The armor on his body was almost trembling, barely supporting him, and he kept comforting himself in his heart, as long as King Kang really sat on the throne, he would be the emperor's brother-in-law, what a beautiful situation he was at that time.
The guards behind him sneered, and rushed forward with thousands of people roaring towards the palace gate, leaving Xue Wenhao alone on his horse with his eyes closed and afraid. His hands holding the reins began to turn white, all this was too terrible, he was a man who read poetry and books, he was a suave genius, where had he ever seen such a terrible situation of fighting and killing criminals!
Under the impact of so many guards, the tall and closed palace gate soon could not hold on, and the guards guarding the city hurriedly stepped forward to open the palace gate, allowing them to rush into the palace city, and for a while the guards rushed into the palace with waist knives and horses, as long as they arrived at Cining Palace, they could control the Empress Dowager Shao and Queen Xu.
Those guards are all close associates of King Kang, at this time they are already complacent, as long as they capture the palace, the people in the western suburbs will also do it, and then they can welcome King Kang into the palace, they will all be important ministers who have meritorious service from the dragon, and they will naturally be rich and noble in the future. They didn't care about Xue Wenhao, who had already broken his guts, and rushed in with the guards, which was their wealth and glory, and they were already anxious, as for such a nominal general in front of the formation, it was just useless to be famous, and it didn't matter if he went or not.
Xue Wenhao watched for less than a moment, and everyone poured into the palace city, leaving him alone in front of the palace gate, panicking for a while and not knowing what to do, when he came back to his senses, he waved his horsewhip vigorously, and fled quickly towards the other side of the market on horseback.
It's just that he hasn't run far before he was stopped and escorted back, but this group of people was not wearing the clothes of the guards, but the clothes of the palace guards, and they didn't say much to him, and forcibly took him into the palace gate that had been wide open. He struggled and said loudly: "Who are you, you dare to stop me, I am the concubine of the eldest princess of Shouning, and you won't let me go!" ”
The group of people ignored it, as if they had never taken the name of the eldest princess of Shouning to heart at all, and they didn't say a word to him, and directly pulled out the bright waist knife and put it on his neck, so frightened that he didn't dare to speak anymore, so he could only follow them into the palace gate in horror.
Many guards flocked to Cining Palace like wolves and tigers, seeing that they had entered the palace road in front of Cining Palace, but they were blocked by hundreds of brocade guards and Yulin guards who were spoiled, and soon there was the sound of weapons connecting with each other, and the sound of fighting sounded everywhere, and the palace city at this moment was like a battlefield, without any majesty and nobility.
In the Ciming Palace, Empress Xu's face was pale, holding her stomach and fidgeting on the throne, she got up and walked to the window from time to time, listening to the screams of killing outside, her face became more and more ugly, she covered her chest and looked at Shen Ruohua: "Female Doctor Shen, how long will it take for the Queen Mother to wake up?" Her voice became lower and lower, like a sinking heart, "Even Jinyi Wei and Yulin Wei are only a few hundred people, where can they compare to the large number of those guards, the palace gate has also been breached, maybe they still have reinforcements, I am afraid that Cining Palace will soon be unable to hold it, and I and the Queen Mother will also fall into their hands......" She bit her lip, she was born as a lady of the Fuguo Mansion, and she was not afraid of martyrdom, she would rather die than fall into the hands of these chaotic ministers and thieves, and became a shame for the royal family, but the child in her womb was innocent, It made her feel very unbearable.
Shen Ruohua checked the pulse of the Queen Mother and said softly: "The Queen Mother's pulse is stable, but I don't know when I will wake up." She didn't seem to hear the thrilling fighting outside, and it was still as calm as water.
She knew that at this time, Qi Mingrui was leading people to guard Cining Palace outside, and there were Empress Dowager Shao and Empress Xu here, which was the only hope, but she also knew that she was here, so he would definitely do his best to protect Cining Palace. She didn't know what would happen in the end, but she was able to rest assured that she wouldn't think about success or failure.
Although the soldiers of Jinyi Wei and Yulin Wei were very brave, they struggled to block the rebels on the palace road and prevent them from approaching Cining Palace, but after all, there was a huge difference in numbers, and the rebels were already approaching Cining Palace step by step, and it would not be long before they could attack Cining Palace and take down all the people in the palace.
Xue Wenhao, who was once again held and escorted to the gate of Cining Palace, was pushed out, and the group of people who held him handed him over to the guards of King Kang's Mansion and quietly retreated, leaving him alone standing in front of the crowd in a daze.
The guards of King Kang's Mansion glanced at him contemptuously and said, "Please also ask the concubine to step forward and order them to put down their resistance and capture them quickly." ”
But where could Xue Wenhao still make a sound, he was forced by them to move forward step by step, and was about to open his mouth, but he heard an angry shout not far behind him: "Take down this group of traitors and protect the Queen Mother!" The roar of the mountains and a tsunami came from the side, mixed with the sound of countless horses' hooves.
When the guards of King Kang's Mansion and Xue Wenhao and the others looked back in surprise, they saw King Fu and King Rong, who were dressed in bright armor, riding horses and leading many soldiers in silver armor and gray robes to rush towards this side, followed by the Duke of Fuguo and the generals of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, as well as a steady stream of soldiers rushing over.
It was reinforcements, it was the reinforcements who came to King Qin to protect the Queen Mother, and they arrived just before the palace was broken! They led the soldiers and horses of the East and West battalions to the palace, breaking the dream of the rebels.
Xue Wenhao only felt that his knees were weak, he sat on the ground, looked desperately at the steady stream of reinforcements, suddenly woke up, and shouted loudly: "It's them, they coerced me to come, I was forced, quickly, quickly take them down, save me......" He finally became smart at this moment, if he didn't think of saving himself, he would also be regarded as a rebel, or the head of the rebel army! He can't just wait for death, only in this way can he save himself.