The fire was blazing, several fire dragons roared wantonly among the pavilions and pavilions of the palace, the wind swept the sparks and swept away many palace maids and eunuchs, and the screams and helpers came out miserably. Just a wall apart is the difference between the region and the heavens, and the royal guards also look back at the imperial city from time to time, their hearts are full of worry, and some people even unconsciously stay away from the city walls. One man shouted: "The Garden of Beasts is also on fire, and the Garden of Beasts is on fire!" ”

"The peony forest is on fire!"

"Hurry up and put out the fire!"

Zhang Xiaowu took a few heavy breaths and asked, "Who is fighting the fire inside?" ”

"It's General Li who is leading the Imperial Forest Army to fight the fire."

"What firefighting equipment did they carry?"

"They're — with knives and guns."

Zhang Xiaowu was furious: "How to extinguish the fire with a knife and gun?" ”

The captain of the Royal Forest Military Academy smiled bitterly: "They are not going to extinguish the fire, they are to save people, save the emperor, save the queen mother, save the queen, save the prince." ”

Zhang Xiaowu suddenly frowned and said, "Save the prince?" ”

"That's right."

This news surprised Zhang Xiaowu, didn't all the Imperial Forest Army know that the prince secretly went to his house this afternoon? If this is the case, it means that the Imperial Guards do not communicate closely with each other, and even the various units of the Imperial Guards are not familiar with each other.

"I'm relieved that my uncle is going to save people." Jing Cong said.

Zhang Xiaowu snorted coldly, and then rushed into the imperial city, and several other imperial forest soldiers didn't dare to stop him, but when they saw his resolute figure, they still admired it, and only those who went against the grain could be called heroes.

From the Imperial City Road Palace, Zhang Xiaowu ran wildly on the Zijin Avenue, in order to reduce his weight, he took off his armor, but kept the Zijin Gong by his side. At this time, I saw that the five gates of the palace were also wide open, and some eunuchs and palace maids ran out and turned to look at the palace in horror. The palace maids and eunuchs who fled in all directions crowded at the gate of the palace while crying and shouting, and even trampled on each other, and several eunuchs even fought.

Zhang Xiaowu rushed against the crowd, came to the gate of the palace, and shouted: "Stop me!" Get out of the way and let me in! ”

The eunuchs and palace maids desperately crowded at the door in order to survive, how could anyone listen to his words, Zhang Xiaowu was angry, picked up the purple gold gong and smashed it, and shouted: "Kill!" Kill! Kill! He didn't kill a single one and shouted, and every time he killed someone, it was a roar, and the eunuchs and palace maids behind saw this, and they were so frightened that they retreated and made way for a way.

Zhang Xiaowu roared: "I am the guard with a sword in front of the emperor, the crown prince Shaobao Zhang Xiaowu, where is the emperor?" Do you know where the emperor is? ”

One of the eunuchs cried, "I didn't see it! I didn't see it! ”

"Back to Lord Shaobao, the junior official is the eunuch of the imperial dining room, and the emperor ate pastries in the Yangxin Palace before, just an hour ago."

"Thank you for informing me."

Zhang Xiaowu resolutely rushed into the palace, and the eunuchs and palace maids gave way one after another and looked at him with admiration. Several eunuchs looked at each other, hesitating whether to follow him to save the emperor, but just now they had this idea, only to hear a loud "boom", which shook everyone to the ground.

"It's a thunderbolt! It's a thunderbolt! The thunder has punished the world! ”

"Run! There is still thunder to fall! ”

"Run!"

The imperial city was divided into ministries and palaces, and there was no fire in the ministries and courtyards, and they were crowded with palace maids and eunuchs who had escaped, but the palace was completely burning, and tonight's fire and strong winds quickly swept through all the palace buildings.

In the palace in winter, the water tank used for fire prevention was full of ice, and it was impossible to put out the fire at this time, so some eunuchs rushed open a door in a panic, and the fire rushed out, but burned his whole body.

Such a fire is definitely not a natural fire, and Zhang Xiaowu smelled the sulfur in the air, he immediately thought of the fire in Beidifang, could it be that someone arranged black powder in the palace?

At this time, only a loud noise was heard, Zhang Xiaowu was stunned for a moment, and shouted: "Bastard thing!" That black powder was actually used to assassinate the emperor, why am I so stupid! Jin Yiwei, it must be Jin Yiwei who colluded with Li Canglan! Quartet, Quartet, it turns out that you are the one behind the scenes! No wonder the Golden Guards never found the clue, not that they couldn't find it, but that you deliberately hid the clue! ”

But at this time, Zhang Xiaowu didn't have time to think about it, he ran to the Palace of Nourishing Heart with his memory, and saw many palace maids and eunuchs who were panicking along the road, and occasionally saw a team of royal forest troops, but he suspected the purpose of these royal forest troops at this time, so he deliberately let go of these people. The fire was so great that the guards seemed to be looking for someone to dodge the fire, and at the same time, after seeing the eunuch and the maid, they first interrogated them and then stabbed them to death with red tassel guns.

The Temple of Heart Cultivation had completely burned, and only the pavilion that was collapsing in the midst of the raging fire remained.

Zhang Xiaowu noticed that under the stone steps of the Heart Cultivation Palace, a small eunuch was being pressed to the ground by a piece of wood, not knowing whether he was alive or dead. He endured the heat and pulled the little eunuch out of the wood, and then used his cloak to extinguish the fire on him.

The little eunuch still hadn't woken up, he looked around, there was no water tank around the Heart Cultivation Hall for firefighting, and the snow around the Heart Cultivation Hall had already been swept clean, and there was nothing to cool down. He didn't have time to think about it, so he quickly unzipped his pants and poured urine on the little eunuch's face, waking him up.

The little eunuch shouted in terror: "Run! Emperor! Come on! ”

Zhang Xiaowu immediately asked, "What about the emperor?" ”

The little eunuch woke up completely, looked around, and then said, "The emperor has run out." ”

"Where has the emperor gone?"

"I don't know, I-I watched the emperor and Laixi run out together, and then I ran out desperately, and as soon as I got out of the Heart Cultivation Palace, I was knocked out by something."

"I see."

Zhang Xiaowu raised his head and looked around, and suddenly realized that the place where the emperor might be hiding was Yuehua Lake next to the Heart Cultivation Palace.

Emperor Dade was once in distress in Yuehua Lake, and since then he rarely goes to Yuehua Lake, and the Empress Dowager had planned to fill in Yuehua Lake, but Yuehua Lake is a lagoon, and in the event of heavy rain, the rainwater from the palace flows into Yuehua Lake to protect other buildings, so Empress Dowager Zhang's opinion was denied. In order to prevent the emperor from drowning again, Empress Dowager Zhang ordered a fence to be erected around Yuehua Lake, and all boats were scuttled to prevent the emperor from going fishing in the lake again. Now the fire is everywhere, obviously someone deliberately did it, according to the wisdom of Emperor Dade, he will definitely go to Yuehua Lake to avoid danger.

Zhang Xiaowu immediately rushed to Yuehua Lake, ran on the ice, and shouted: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I am Zhang Xiaowu, I am Zhang Xiaowu!" Where are you? Where are you? ”

Several eunuchs were standing on the ice of the lake at this time, and when they saw someone coming from a distance, they immediately ran over, and the leader was Laixi, who recognized Zhang Xiaowu and immediately shouted: "General, general, sure enough, it's you, Your Majesty said, you will definitely come, you really came!" Your Majesty asked me to wait here, and if it were you, I would bring you there, and Your Majesty would take refuge from the heavenly fire at the star-picking platform on the island in the middle of the lake. ”

Zhang Xiaowu was overjoyed, Emperor Dade was really there.

He immediately rushed towards the star-picking platform, because he ran faster, the ice on the lake was smooth, and he fell a few times. But no matter how much you fall, it's not as good as the surprise in your heart, and if you can find the emperor, it doesn't matter if the palace burns down.

While running, he thought about how to rescue the emperor, and now Li Canglan led people to rush into the palace and slaughter the palace maids and eunuchs everywhere, obviously their target was the emperor. And Li Canglan is not a reckless person, his purpose in doing this must be for greater power. And the person who can give him so much power, there are only three people in the world, the first is Emperor Dade, the second is Dushan Boye Xiangdong, who is far away in the south of the Yangtze River to exterminate the pseudo-Wu, and the third person is Zhang Kuan, the left minister.

However, Zhang Kuan is a civil servant, even if he overthrows his grandson Emperor Xuanyuan Zixiao, he can only set up another grandson as the emperor, but Emperor Dade is already the grandson-in-law of Dushanbo, Zhang Kuan will inevitably force Dushanbo to save the driver, with Zhang Kuan's cautious temperament, it is impossible to do this.

He had a headache, and the only thing he could explain to him now was Li Canglan. He wanted to see Li Canglan very much, but he was afraid to see Li Canglan, because seeing him meant that the emperor was gone.

At this time, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves and the neighing of horses, Zhang Xiaowu looked behind him, only to see that Laixi and several other eunuchs were surrounded by a group of royal forest soldiers on horseback. They brandished the red tassel guns in their hands and asked where the emperor was, but at this time, Lai Xi and the eunuchs said very firmly: "I don't know, we don't know." ”

"Poof!"

An old eunuch was stabbed in the heart, and the old eunuch fell in a pool of blood, but he did not die for the time being, but scolded loudly: "You chaotic ministers and thieves, sooner or later you will be cut by a thousand knives, and the emperor will avenge us!" You will not die well! ”

One of the guards drew his sword and slashed at the old eunuch's head, and everyone cheered, and the old eunuch died on the spot. The Foresters were about to pull their knives back, but the knives got stuck in the bones, and he cursed, and the other Guards laughed. Laixi has the will to die, and closes his eyes and waits for death to come.

When one of the guards spotted a fleeing man in the distance, he rode his horse after him, but the others thought it was a fleeing eunuch, so they laughed and ignored it. In their opinion, the eunuchs were nothing more than lambs to the slaughter, not worth mentioning, and were not at all their opponents.

Zhang Xiaowu kept an eye on them as he ran towards the woods in the middle of the lake, and when he was about to reach the edge of the woods, the cavalry of the Royal Forest Army rushed over and slashed at them with a single sword. The Imperial Guards are not cavalry, they don't have much experience in horseback riding, this knife is very wrong to cut the position, the center of gravity is too biased, although the sword is exhausted, but it is too confident, and the speed is too slow. Of course, he thought that with the speed of his sword and the speed of his horse, the person in front of him would definitely not be able to resist.

"Huh!"

The silver light flashed, but the person in front of him was nowhere to be seen, and the Royal Forest Army was surprised for a while, and immediately reined in the reins of the horse. However, the ice was shining, and the horse fell to the ground with a thud, crushing the Foresters to the ice.

Zhang Xiaowu had prepared for his knife, and he turned over to avoid this person, and then saw the man fall on the ice with his horse and man. Zhang Xiaowu rushed over without hesitation, picked up the purple gold gong and smashed it at the man's head, the purple gold gong made a sound of breaking the air, and the man's thigh was pressed by the horse, so he could only helplessly raise his knife to resist.

"Dangchang!"

The man's Han knife was directly smashed in two by Zhang Xiaowu, Zhang Xiaowu took the opportunity to kick through the heart, the man couldn't help but open, and was kicked in the heart.

"Hmm-"

The man muffled, and his ribs were all kicked and broken, and the broken ribs pierced into the heart, and he was kicked to death. Zhang Xiaowu pulled the man's body aside, led the horse again, turned over and rode the horse to the rest of the Imperial Forest Army. He knew that if he didn't kill these people, he would be in danger, and the emperor would be in danger, and he had to rush into the crowd without hesitation. Taking advantage of the other party's inattention, he wanted to kill the other party by surprise.

The rest of the Guards didn't expect their people to be killed, they were still immersed in the joy of killing and killing, and for these people, tonight was their complete revelry.

In the palace, the rules of the Imperial Forest Army are more than those of the palace maids and eunuchs, they can't look around, they can't walk around, they can't move, even if the eunuchs and palace maids talk to them, they can't respond to a word, or even make a move, otherwise it is a big crime of colluding with internal officials. Don't look at the misery of the eunuchs and palace maids, but when they are miserable, the royal forest army will not let it go, after all, the men with strong blood are guards, and how can they not be moved when they see the palace maids, but it is a pity that as long as they have the slightest mistake or even peek a few times, they will be whipped and even severely punished.

The beastly nature that the Imperial Forest Army suppressed in their hearts was released together tonight.

At this time, these horseback guards heard the sound of horses' hooves approaching, and only thought that this person's riding skills were extraordinary, and when they looked over, they saw a man in a strong suit coming at a gallop.

"Who are you?"

Before the Imperial Forest Army could react, they were rushed into the formation by this person, and then they felt a pain in their heads, and there was no more.

Zhang Xiaowu's purpose is very simple, he wants to fight quickly, so as soon as he enters the crowd, he will kill with all his strength, and the purple gold mace in his hand does not need to make fancy moves, but just uses horsepower to smash on the head of each opponent. Whether it's a helmet or a tasseled hat, as long as it's next to each other, it's a skull shattered.

"Poof!"

"Poof!"

"Bang!"

No one could stop Zhang Xiaowu for a round, and the person who was hit in the head by him couldn't even scream, and he had already returned to the west. He struck through the crowd, and seven or eight of the Guards fell from their horses, and the whole man could not die again. The others reacted and rushed over with their guns, but unfortunately the still cavalry was a live target, Zhang Xiaowu pulled over a red tassel gun, threw it hard, and the red tassel spear penetrated the two of them.

"Ahh

Finally, there was a scream, Zhang Xiaowu rode his horse around like a ghost, tried his best to control the balance of the war horse, and re-entered the crowd. He flew up and down with a Han knife on the left and right, and smashed the iron mace in his right hand left and right, and the rest of the Imperial Forest Army had never seen such a vicious person, they were used to being pampered, and it was just a good fight to fight a good fight, and when they met such a really fierce person, it would be a death to go forward.