Chapter 235: Zhang Xuan Goes Out of the Mountain
King Xiangcheng brought the remnants of the Yin Dynasty to the Guogong Mansion, purely to avenge his personal revenge.
This is also the condition that he is willing to give the Yin Dynasty those remnants of convenience after the prince breaks into the palace. He assisted them in all the preparations, and could even help them hide a lot of people in the Taichang Temple in the palace, but they wanted to kill the Chu family, and they also lent him troops to go to the Xinguo Mansion to kill their family.
The family of the Guogong Mansion will not exceed two hundred, this is the rule of the Great Chu State, even if you add the family, there are only more than three hundred people. He led the anti-thieves from the palace to the inner city, because he brought soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Great Chu, so he was not blocked in the inner city, but caused the families to close the door so as not to get into trouble.
But anyone who has a little ability has heard some wind and grass, and this night, if you can not cause trouble, you will not cause trouble.
King Xiang Cheng, with the pleasure of being able to torture and kill Li Rui and his family with his own hands, commanded people to go to the Li family and the Xinguo Mansion in Xifu in batches, but as soon as he knocked the door of the Xinguo Mansion open, he was violently resisted by the generals and family members inside.
The home of the Xinguo Mansion is well-known for its ability to fight, and although the soldiers brought by King Xiangcheng were also the elite of the Dingbei Army, they may not be able to take advantage of it if they really fight.
The only thing that can be relied on is that there are too many people.
Li Mao didn't know what was wrong, but because Li Rui reported the news in time, there was another little prince in the family who had to be cautious, so he was not caught off guard by the people brought by unknown people.
Like everyone else, Li Mao's first reaction when he saw the Shenji crossbow was that the Chinese army had defected.
Li Mao has the emperor's edict, if the emperor dies after returning to Beijing, he will support the little prince to ascend the throne, and Qi Shao brought the jade seal and the edict of succession with the little prince, three things together, enough to support a new emperor.
No one would have thought that there was a madman with a large group of people who rushed into the Xinguo Mansion in order to avenge his personal revenge, so Li Mao could only think that the person who came was plotting against the prince and the edict, so he asked his son Li Ming to escort his mother Fang to leave immediately.
The little prince was personally protected by Li Rui, and led the secret guards to a safe place to hide.
It wasn't until King Xiang Cheng showed up and personally slashed and killed the maiden of the Xinguo Mansion that the family would report back to Li Maolai's identity.
Li Mao didn't know where King Xiangcheng came from, but things were by no means in a good direction, he organized his family to gather the mansion together to resist the villains, and at the same time wanted to withdraw from the mansion.
Li Rui heard the arrogant shouts of King Xiang Cheng on the way to the backyard, and knew why they came, and his heart was cold.
Since King Xiangcheng is here to avenge his personal vengeance, in addition to the Xinguo Mansion, his family ......
Fortunately, he felt that the situation was not right, and sent his wife back to her parents' house overnight.
The sound of killing in the house shook the sky and became a mess.
The fire outside the mansion reflected the moon, and thick smoke billowed in the direction of the imperial city in the north.
Qi Shao and Li Mao didn't know what was going on, and even for Li Mao, this battle was too strange, and it was not his IQ and EQ that he could figure it out.
But that doesn't stop them from taking immediate precautions.
Qi Shao and Li Mao have been staying together, and Qi Shao has brought many guards in the palace.
They immediately set off, Qi Shao was ready to knock on the doors of all the ministers' homes in the inner city, and summoned the ministers to lead the generals and the ministers of Jingzhao Mansion to take people to the palace to Qin Wang, while Li Mao, who no longer believed in Qin Feng and the Xiao cavalry camp, immediately quietly went out of the house from the side gate, and took the generals to ride fast horses outside the capital to find the remaining Chinese troops and quickly return to Beijing to escort them.
King Xiangcheng broke through the Xinguo Mansion, but he didn't catch any masters, and in a fit of anger, he ordered the Xinguo Mansion to be ordered.
The Xinguo Mansion covers a very wide area, it is one of the best mansions in the inner city, and the Xinguo Mansion caught fire, and the surrounding people immediately knew that it was not good. The emperor wants to raid the house overnight, and he will never burn down the minister's house.
Since it was a gangster who broke into the house, there were immediately countless people in the inner city to fight the fire, and they went to Jingzhao Mansion to report to the official. There are also some who have friends with the Xinguo Mansion, and they have the courage to send a family general to find out.
The imperial city was burning, the inner city was burning, and at the same time, the west and east cities were also maliciously set on fire. At this time, it was the middle of the night, everyone was sleeping in a daze, although there were people in Jingzhao Mansion who were vigilant, but after all, the clues they got were in Xicheng, and most of the messengers were patrolling in Xicheng, and Dongcheng burned up first, and spread around at a very fast speed.
When the people of Jingzhao Mansion ran to Dongcheng and united with the merchants and people of Dongcheng to extinguish the fire, the west burned again.
And the imperial city and the inner city were on fire, which made everyone in Jingzhao Mansion scared away, who cares about the east city and the west city, leaving a few soap subordinates to dispatch firefighting, and all the staff hurriedly rushed to the inner city and the imperial city.
In winter, I am most afraid of fire, and the Gaomen compound is also different from stone and green tiles, most of the houses of ordinary people are wooden, and there are many thatched sheds in Xicheng.
Wang Youzi had already asked many people to prepare gongs and water tanks in Xicheng, and when the fire started, he immediately beat gongs and drums to start fighting the fire, so the houses in Xicheng were dilapidated, and the fire was smaller than that in Dongcheng.
"Demolition! It's all demolished! Tear down all the houses around the burning house! Wang Youzi gathered a large group of strong men and homeless people in Xicheng, and pointed to the thatched huts and grass houses around the fire, "I can't save it, the fire is too big, and the wind is strong today, so I can only prevent the fire from spreading!" Brothers, tie ropes to the pillars of the surrounding houses, and we pull together to bring down the houses! ”
"Wang'er, is this okay?"
While talking, someone wanted to rush into the house turned into a fire house to save things, but was pulled by others, and could only kneel on the ground and cry hysterically.
"! Which does such a thing! If you lose your conscience, you will be damned! ”
"Phew! Even killed people and set fires, where are you afraid of God's punishment! ”
"Wang Tou'er, catch a person who set fire to it and tie it up to your brothers!"
"Kill him!"
"Kill! Kill! ”
Wang Youzi glanced at the thief who was tied up by five flowers, and handed him over to the other villagers to take care of, and now the focus is on fighting the fire, and he can't care about sending the thief to the criminal department, so he can only take care of it later.
"Folks! Now that the inner city and the palace are on fire, I don't know what happened! The officials can't control us grass people, we must put out the fire ourselves! The fire was so big that we had to demolish the house next to the fire so that there was nothing left to burn. Wait to keep the house further outer, and finally have a place to live. ”
"Today we demolished some houses, but the houses are dead, and they can still be built in the future, if the fire spreads, I don't know how many people will die!"
"Boss Wang, we listen to you!"
"I still have an ox cart at home, pull it out and dismantle it together!"
"Good!" Wang Youzi glanced at the direction of the inner city, and didn't know what Li Rui was doing now.
But this thought was only for a moment, and he turned all his attention to the people of Xicheng in front of him.
"Let's tear it down!"
Shinkoku Mansion.
With that, Li Rui rushed out of the Xinguo Mansion with his generals and secret guards, and retreated from an inconspicuous corner gate to the east of the inner city.
There were not so many horses in the Xinguo Mansion, and all the horses in the stables were only twenty or thirty. Li Rui wanted to hold the little prince in his arms and ride on a horse, but was stopped by the leader of the secret guard.
Everyone knows that it is impossible for Li Rui to hold an ordinary child in his arms. It's like when you see Zhao Yun, you know that the person he is protecting in his arms must be Adou.
In the end, Li Mei and the little prince had to ride Li Mei's mare and were escorted to Dongcheng by a group of secret guards.
There is the emperor's dark blade team "Drunken Sky Tower" in the east city, and when you get to the Drunken Sky Tower, you can leave the city through the dark passage.
It's just that this group of people is only halfway through the journey, and they find that the entrance from the inner city to the eastern city is already guarded. The leader of the dark guard gritted his teeth and arched his hand at Li Rui:
"Lord Li, the little prince will be handed over to you, let's go and rush the entrance first, and you take the opportunity to escape."
Li Rui glanced at the soldiers guarding the door, and counted them with the method of counting soldiers in the army, there were about a hundred people.
These people, dressed in the armor of Da Chu, seemed to have spotted them and were coming this way.
"No, they've found out. We rushed over. Li Rui drew his sword and pointed ahead. Where will the home be! ”
"We're here!"
"Horse Charge!"
"Yes!"
The soldiers guarding the gate were all infantry, and the inner gate was latched at night, leaving only the doorman to guard the door. These people are obviously not officials, so they must not be good people.
Thinking of the fire in the palace again, Li Rui's heart was beating even more.
Where does he have time to grind here!
He sent off the little prince and was about to go back to greet Madame!
In an instant, more than 20 horses accelerated forward, these generals all had the magic crossbow given by the emperor in order to protect Old Taijun Qiu, and Li Mao also got a few in the hands of the anti-thief wind department, but they were not handed in, and they were all equipped to escort the little prince at this time.
As soon as the crossbow was opened, it immediately shot a group of people, and the general on the horse changed the crossbow and drew his sword, passed by the foot soldiers on the horse, and took away a bunch of people.
Li Rui was like a killing god descending into the world, drawing his sword and taking the lives of three people in a row, jumped off the horse in front of the door, and hit it with his shoulder, and the inner door that was bolted from behind was suddenly opened, leaving only the dumbfounded expression of the thief behind the inner door, which only increased the laughter.
A group of dark guards were taken aback, and then their hearts were all agitated. These people are all warriors and worship heroes the most. Li Rui is a civilian official, doing the things of a military general, and he is doing it so beautifully, how can he not let these people be angry?
For a while, many of the secret guards who slandered Li Mao and only sent a nephew no longer had resentment.
Li Mao sent his nephew, who had the highest force in the family, to escort the little prince, and let Li Ming and the Duchess of the Kingdom, who were powerless to protect many generals, flee separately, which was obviously the greatest duty of a courtier.
Not to mention that Li Guogong also let his daughter cover for the prince and confuse the public.
Li Rui rushed open the inner gate in one breath, and the generals and secret guards shot together, and immediately killed all the unknown soldiers guarding the east gate, Li Mao did not waste time, and immediately commanded everyone to pass and go to the east city.
When we arrived in the eastern city, there was a sea of fire, and at the same time, the direction from which we came was also on fire. Li Rui and his entourage stood in the chaotic streets of Dongcheng, their eyes were red, and they could hardly speak.
"Has a rebel army invaded the capital?" A family will cry out in pain. "What now? Out of town? ”
"I want to go back to the palace, don't go to any drunken sky." The little prince was riding on a horse, protected by Li Mei in his arms, and suddenly made a sound. "The palace is on fire, I don't know how my father, queen mother and prince brother have been raised, the imperial grandmother is sick, and I don't know if I can escape, I want to go back and see the situation."
"But the fire starts first in the palace, and if there are bad people, it comes out of the palace first." Li Mei persuaded the little prince in front of him, "We have to find a safe place first to protect ourselves before we can save our families." ”
"You don't understand, my whole family is in the palace......"
"What don't I understand!" Li Mei's voice also became louder, "My father, my mother and my brother don't know where they are now!" In order to escort you, all the generals of our family are desperately in the front yard, and I don't know how many people have died! If you go back and throw yourself into the net now, won't everyone die in vain! ”
Li Rui knew that his aunt and younger brother must have gone to Yunmeng Pavilion in Pingkangfang. Wu Yuzhou trained a lot of people for his family there, and there were many and mixed people, which was the most suitable for hiding.
But now that the East City has been burned like this, I don't know if Pingkangfang is on fire. Now it's so chaotic outside, there are arsonists, firefighters, looting things, and fighting, and no one knows exactly what's going on.
The fire took advantage of the wind, and now the city did not feel the cold at all.
The little prince stared straight at the flames in front of him, not knowing what he was thinking. Li Mei dragged the corners of his clothes, showing some kind of determination in this way.
"Let's go to the Drunken Sky Tower first." Li Rui couldn't think of a better way.
He pulled the reins and took the lead in the direction of the drunken tower.
The leader of the dark guard looked at the little master worriedly. I saw that his face was full of tears, and he kept looking up at the imperial city in the north, but in the end, he could only endure his grief and let Li Mei follow Li Rui on horseback.
"Don't worry, although there is a fire in the palace, His Majesty the Emperor and Niangniang may have escaped like us. Do you think, your parents can send you out, and you can't think of a way to run by yourself? Li Mei didn't have any confidence to comfort her. You can find so many people to protect you, and there are even more people who want to protect Your Majesty and Niangniang. ”
The little prince wiped his tears, bit his lower lip and nodded.
On the stargazing platform of Qin Tianjian, Zhang Xuanji looked at the emperor star that was gradually dimming, and fell to his knees weakly.
Zhang Xuan stood beside his senior sister and looked at the fire rising in the north palace in surprise.
"How...... Why is there a fire in the palace? ”
"We leaked the Heavenly Secret, and the Heavenly Dao changed the Heavenly Mandate." Zhang Xuanji covered her head and couldn't help crying.
"We shouldn't have told the Emperor that he had half a moon to live. We are not heavenly kings, vainly trying to change our lives against the sky, only more terrible consequences await us. ”
Zhang Xuan didn't say the words that added fuel to the fire, "I told you a long time ago that you can't do this".
He knew that his senior sister must be more painful than anyone else.
"It shouldn't be like this. The number of Great Chu Qi is not exhausted, and the emperor should also have half a month to live. Why did the Emperor Star go dark, and the Northern Broken Army was bright again? ”
Zhang Xuan is not as proficient in astrological phenomena as his senior sister, but he can also understand such obvious astrological signs.
"Senior brother, so far, are you still unwilling to help me?" Zhang Xuanji's sobs hit Zhang Xuan's heart one by one, "Now that the sky is all in chaos, even I can't see what is going on." ”
"Now only you and I join forces and invite the Heavenly Monarch to return to the throne through the stars, keep the foundation of Great Chu, and the peace of the people!"
"Senior sister, you don't have ten years to live. Moreover, I also said it last time, Tianjun doesn't know why it became like this......" Zhang Xuan once again rejected Zhang Xuanji's request. "The calamity of man should be determined by man, we are Taoist priests, not witch sacrifices, how can you treat the king of heaven as a ...... ......"
Zhang Xuan couldn't say what to do.
"The Heavenly Monarch uses your qi to draw out the soul aperture, as long as you help me, I can summon her!"
"It's not that I don't want to, but I can't."
"Two Dao Masters!"
An official of the Qintianjian hurriedly ran to the stargazing platform and shouted to Zhang Xuanji and Zhang Xuan on the stage: "There is a fire in the two cities of the east and west, and the Qingshuifang where the Xinguo Mansion is located in the inner city is all on fire, and the fire is spreading very fast. ”
"Senior brother, are you still unwilling to make a move now? Even the capital is on fire! ”
"Two Dao Masters! Qin Tianjian is next to the palace, and it may burn over at any time! The little official watched the two Taoist priests standing motionless on the stargazing platform, and stomped their feet again and again.
"Someone outside said that the thieves had come in. There are also people who say that the crown prince forced the palace to be killed. There are all kinds of things to say, but the two Taoist leaders should avoid it! It's never a bad thing to avoid! ”
Zhang Xuan was shocked when he heard the words of the junior official of Qin Tianjian.
He is just a Taoist priest who has achieved great things, and he is not an immortal who can pinch and calculate, and he doesn't know what is going on outside.
The senior sister begged him to go down the mountain, but he couldn't rest assured, so he went down the mountain together.
It's just that the situation has changed like this after going down the mountain, and he can't help but feel that his senior sister did it on purpose.
Senior sister has already seen through that it may not be good, so she forced him to act in this way?
"Dao Chief? Michigan! ”
"You're Dr. Miss, aren't you? Thank you for coming. You should follow them and avoid them. Zhang Xuan walked to the side of the stage and said to the officials in the audience. The two of us still have important business, we need to talk about it for a while, and when the matter is done, we will go out immediately. ”
"But Dao Chief, Your Majesty told us to ......"
"Go ahead, Your Majesty will not blame you for poor hospitality. Don't wait for the chaos to get up before leaving. ”
The Emperor Star has been dimmed, where can His Majesty blame anyone?
Although the petty official was kind-hearted, he cherished himself more, and after several attempts to persuade him, he had to turn around and leave.
It's just a few feet away, and the little official can't help but turn back.
Even if the thief comes in and the fire is about to burn, what is the "important thing" to do?
Under the gaze of this missing doctor, Zhang Xuan's robe on the stargazing platform bulged out, as if he was about to volley away.
The back is like a fairy.
The author has something to say: Little Theater:
"The calamity of man should be determined by man, we are Taoist priests, not witch sacrifices, how can you treat the king of heaven as a ...... ......"
The author (looks at it coldly): Think of it as a summoned beast.
Gu Summoning Beast: ......