Chapter 499: Turning the Tide (1)

Li Canglan hesitated, the situation was urgent, in fact, the coup d'état was full of uncertainties from the beginning. When the prince agreed on the Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve, Empress Dowager Zhang of the West Palace invited Emperor Dade to come to the West Palace to listen to the play and watch the flint powder burn, and the banquet was controlled by Li Canglan and put Emperor Dade under house arrest. Then the other four roads controlled the capital, among which Chen Qing and Helanzong led the Qinglong Army, Bian Wen led the Xuanwu Army, the two departments totaled 20,000 people to control the Yinyi Wei, the King of Jin led the Zilong Army directly into the palace, and the deputy marshal of the four parties led the Jinyi Wei to control the Longdu Mansions, and they took advantage of the Chinese New Year's Eve to launch a coup d'état.

However, unexpectedly, on the night of the 27th, there was an explosion of flint powder stored in Beidifang. The deputy marshal of the Quartet sent people to pretend to investigate, but the person in charge of the investigation worked very hard, and even found Wu Dong, the Marquis of Liyang, and found that there were more than 1,000 soldiers hidden in the Marquis of Liyang's mansion. This person was suddenly in a hurry, first reported to the deputy marshal of the Quartet, and then went directly to the palace to face the saint. But he didn't know that Li Canglan had joined the rebels, and after this person entered the palace, he was deceived by Li Canglan that His Majesty was accompanying the Queen Mother in the West Palace at this moment, and strangled her in the West Palace.

The Marquis of Liyang immediately reported the matter to the prince, who did not hesitate to change the time of the coup to the night of the 29th, and asked the Empress Dowager Zhang to invite Emperor Dade to the West Palace to listen to the play. However, Emperor Dade was busy with official affairs and worried about his son in Zhang Shaobao's mansion, so he politely declined the invitation to listen to the play.

Li Canglan said that there were 3,000 guards in the palace, and in addition to 1,000 rests, another 500 people were transferred to Zhang Shaobao's mansion, and the remaining 1,500 people needed to guard the two major places of the imperial city and the palace. The prince trusted him very much, and he was the commander-in-chief.

After Li Canglan ordered the fire, the fire was suddenly out of his control, but fortunately, the fire came and went quickly. Li Canglan then sent a letter to the other four roads, telling them to rush to the palace immediately, as long as they controlled the emperor and forced the emperor to write an edict to abdicate to the king of Jin, the coup d'état would be successful.

However, tonight, the Zilong Army is gone, the Xuanwu Army is watching from the wall, and the gold-clothed guard Lux knows where to go, how can the three-way army with a small number of troops resist the silver-clothed guard head-on.

Li Canglan knew from Zhang Xiaowu's combat effectiveness that the combat effectiveness of this silver-clothed guard, which was dominated by the elite of the ghost guards, was so strong that Zhang Xiaowu could fight against a hundred, or even against ten thousand, and if there were more wolf-like ghost guards to help, their plan would most likely be ruined.

At this moment, he immediately shouted: "Don't waste time, kill them, kill them all." Everyone, give me arrows, arrows! ”

When Xiahou Bao heard this, he hurriedly stopped: "General Li, you can't release arrows, you can't release arrows." ”

Li Canglan ignored Xiahou Bao and ordered: "Shoot him for me!" ”

Xiahou Bao ran back and stopped in front of Li Canglan, pleading: "I can still persuade him, general, I can-"

"Poof!"

Li Canglan pierced Xiahou Bao's chest with a shot, and then pulled out the silver spear, the blood in Xiahou Bao's chest touched his face, full of fishy smell, he wiped it, the blood was slimy. He wiped the blood with his sleeve in disgust, looked at Xiahou Bao who was looking at him with a puzzled face, and said coldly: "Give me arrows and kill them!" ”

Soon, the rebels began to fire arrows at the platform, and one after another flew up and over the platform.

Zhang Xiaowu picked up the purple gold gong and retreated a few steps, but he was quickly shot in the shoulder by an arrow, and an old eunuch saw this and shouted: "General, you and Your Majesty are squatting in the center, and the old slaves will help you block the arrows." The old eunuch hid Zhang Xiaowu and Emperor Dade in the center, and then several old eunuchs resolutely pounced on them and sacrificed their lives to block the arrows. Soon, the backs of these people were full of arrow feathers, but the old eunuchs looked resolute and showed no remorse.

Emperor Dade cried and said, "Thank you, thank you, I will bury you and so on." ”

It's a pity that the old eunuchs can't speak anymore.

"Whoosh-"

There are arrows inserted everywhere in the star-picking platform, but speaking of the rebels' arrows, there are many people who have injured themselves, these rebels are nothing more than some farmers who have been trained for half a year, and they have not been on the battlefield to kill the enemy, so they only rely on training to shoot, but the more panicked they are, the more inaccurate the shooting, and the location of the star-picking platform is special, Zhang Xiaowu and Emperor Dade are hiding in it, but they are not hit by arrows.

"Stop!" Li Canglan ordered, and then commanded: "The next team, continue to attack." ”

Another group of rebels climbed cautiously up the steep icy steps, and they had to be careful, for on the one hand there was a murderous "monster" on it, and on the other hand, the blood-soaked spiral ladder was so slippery that they had to use their blades as crutches and climb cautiously.

Suddenly, a tall figure appeared at the mouth of the spiral staircase, and then kicked the rebels down. The rebel soldiers in the back were accidentally involved, and they fell down one by one, which was extremely funny.

Everyone raised their heads, and by the light of the fire, they saw a blood-covered Shura still standing proudly at the mouth of the spiral staircase, and after laughing three times, he shouted loudly: "Come on! Come on! You have the ability to kill it! ”

"Why isn't he dead yet?" Everyone couldn't help but be stunned, and a soldier's knife fell to the ground in fright.

Li Canglan was dumbfounded, pointing at Zhang Xiaowu and being silent for a long time, is this still alive?

Helan Zong was the most calm, and he silently said sorry in his heart, since you participated in the coup d'état tonight, you and I are enemies of life and death, and the military attache has a personal relationship. He opened his bow and took aim at Zhang Xiaowu, and with a "whoosh", the sharp arrow penetrated Zhang Xiaowu's thigh, and Zhang Xiaowu knelt on one knee.

The soldiers of the Blue Dragon Army suddenly became anxious, and they looked at Helan Sect with annoyance, but Helan Zong was unmoved, and slowly drew out the second arrow.

"You can't fire arrows, General." A veteran of the Blue Dragon Army suddenly said, "The secret arrow hurts people, and where are we placed?" ”

Helan Zong put down the arrow, looked at his soldiers and smiled bitterly, and said: "He must die tonight, he dies so that we can live, if he doesn't die, we all have to die!" ”

Zhang Xiaowu cut off the arrow, staggered to stand up with the support of the purple gold mace, and said proudly: "Will you only release cold arrows?" Come, come, come! What is the trick, just use it! Lao Tzu is alone, not afraid of you. St. Han! Years! ”

The rebels have an indescribable feeling in their hearts, as saints and Han people, they all know that Zhang Xiaowu is loyal and patriotic, and they know that he is immobile in the face of the Inuyi army, he is a national hero and a national hero. And what they are doing today is really not a good person, they didn't know that they were here to kill the emperor until they entered the palace. Even if someone wants to escape, they can't escape at this time, they are like good citizens on a thief ship, and they can only survive by continuing to be thieves. But they still admire Zhang Xiaowu in their hearts and admire this Han hero.