Not long after Yang Daolin got out of trouble, the forbidden army soldiers in other urban areas, about six or seven thousand people, soon rushed to the city, but when they learned that Li Zhong and Yang Daolin had been out of trouble, Hu Zhibing was defeated and disappeared, and the forbidden soldiers who came in twos and threes did not attack, but dispersed on their own. There is no threat to Li Xun and others.

Subsequently, Li Xun, Liu Hu, Zhu Zhengguo, Zhou Qian and others led 6,000 soldiers to rush to the imperial city.

All the way to the imperial city unimpeded, Li Xun looked at the high place in front of him, on the city wall, countless forbidden soldiers were tightly guarded, they obviously also found Li Xun and others, some people shouted and notified their superiors.

"Hit him?"

Zhu Zhengguo said softly.

Li Xun thought for a while and agreed: "Attack once, see how well the opponent defends, if possible, we will directly enter the imperial city." ”

Zhu Zhengguo nodded to Zhou Qian, who immediately turned around and gave an order in a loud voice: "One to four guards are out of the ranks and ready to fight." ”

One battalion of five hundred people, one guard of a thousand.

The 4,000 soldiers were quickly ready for battle, and they came in a hurry, lacking siege equipment, and only brought a dozen siege ladders.

"Siege."

Li Xun waved his hand and gave the order to siege the city.

Four thousand soldiers poured into the north gate of the imperial city like a tide, and Li Xun only had six thousand people on his side, and there were not many of them, so he could only choose one direction to attack.

The siege had just begun, and not far to the left, hundreds of people were rapidly approaching this direction.

Li Xun looked over there, his heart suddenly became nervous, although the number of people who came was not much, but at this time, any change may change the direction of the entire situation.

Li Xun glanced at Zhou Qian, Zhou Qian understood what he meant, and immediately issued an order for a thousand soldiers to change the direction of the formation and prepare to take the initiative to attack.

A fast horse rushed out of the group, and a familiar voice rang out.

"Where is the lord, I am Ouyang Li."

Ouyang Li?

Li Xun hurriedly stopped the archers' upcoming attack, and then quickly came to the forefront of the team, and Zhou Qian and Zhu Zhengguo hurriedly followed.

When there was still fifty meters away, Ouyang Li turned over and dismounted, and came running on foot, raising his hands high, indicating that he did not have any malicious intent.

After a while, Li Xun saw the face of the person who came clearly, who else could it be if it wasn't Ouyang Li?

"Ouyang Li, see the lord."

Ouyang Li knelt on the ground and shouted excitedly.

Li Xun helped Ouyang Li up and asked urgently, "What about Sima Tu, Chen and the others?" ”

Ouyang Li said: "Mr. Sima, Chen He and others are here, just behind, I will come first and inform the lord, so as not to have a misunderstanding." ”

It's all coming.

When Li Xun heard this, his face suddenly had a joy that he couldn't hide.

Li Xun said to Zhou Qian: "It's your own people, let the brothers not be nervous." ”

Zhou Qian nodded, turned around and ordered to cancel the attack.

Soon, familiar people came to the front, Sima Tu, Chen He and others.

Li Xun swept his eyes away and was surprised to find that there was Ruan Donglang among them.

When Sima Tu saw Li Xun, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said happily: "Lord, it's great that you're okay." ”

"What can I do?"

Li Xun smiled, then looked at Ruan Donglang and asked puzzledly, "Why are you here?" ”

Ruan Donglang smiled and told the story.

The incident happened suddenly, and no one expected that the development of the situation would come so quickly and violently.

After Zhao Ke launched a coup d'état, there was chaos in the city, Li Xun was the main target of the forbidden army to get rid of, Sima Tu, who had a close relationship with him, was of course also in the blacklist of the forbidden army, Ouyang Li, Chen He and others happened to be guests at Sima Tu's house tonight, everyone drank until late at night, so they rested at Sima Tu's house, after the coup happened, they didn't know, fortunately, the action carried out by the forbidden army began to spread from the north of the city, and finally arrived in the city where Sima Tu was located, at the critical moment, it was Ruan Donglang who helped, Everyone was fortunate to compromise and avoid a catastrophe.

Li Xun asked, "How do you know I'm here?" ”

Sima Tu said softly: "The Beijiang Society also has a branch in Fengjing, and we also found out about the lord's information just now, so we rushed here immediately. ”

Li Xun glanced at the hundreds of people with weapons behind them, and Ruan Donglang chuckled: "It's my Beijiang Society's dead soldiers in Fengjing, I brought them all to help the general." ”

Li Xun briefly explained the current situation, and then asked Sima Tu and the others: "What suggestions do you have?" ”

Sima Tu stretched out his hand and pointed at Ruan Donglang: "My lord, I have news for you." ”

Li Xun looked at Ruan Donglang, and Ruan Donglang said in a deep voice: "General Li, I'm afraid you don't know that the crown prince and the emperor are still alive, and Zhao Ke and the others have not held them. ”

Yes! Is the prince still alive?

Li Xun lost his voice, but soon, a strong surprise and excitement rose from his heart, if the crown prince and the emperor were still alive, then many things would be much easier.

Zhao Xun is indeed alive now, for the reminder of Zhao Shuo, the king of Chu, he didn't believe it at first, it was after the persuasion and analysis of the pastoral prince that Zhao Xun changed his mind, and took the emperor Zhao Zhi from the secret road and secretly went to the East Palace.

The departure of the crown prince Zhao Xun and others did not alarm anyone, and when the eldest grandson Wuyang led people into the inner palace and rushed directly to the dormitory where Zhao Zhi was, it was empty.

This change shocked the eldest grandson Wuyang was terrified, and immediately ordered people to search frantically everywhere, and arrested all the hundreds of eunuchs and palace maids around the palace, and immediately tortured them to extract confessions.

After some tossing, it was finally found out from an old palace maid with deep qualifications who had served Zhao Zhi for many years that Zhao Zhi's bedroom actually had a secret passage leading directly to the prince's East Palace.

The Prince's East Palace didn't have any decent troops before, only a few hundred guards, pretending.

Zhao Zhi's favorite candidate for the crown prince has always been Zhao Xun, after he was in poor health, he handed over the power of the prison to Zhao Xun, the father and son are very harmonious in terms of rights and feelings, and there is no contradiction and estrangement, so Zhao Xun did not take the guards of the prince's East Palace seriously before, in his opinion, there is no need for this at all.

It was after several persuasions from Lu Baijiang and Tao Qian that Zhao Xun felt that forming an army that was absolutely loyal to him would still be of some use to consolidate the throne and control the security of the imperial city in the future, so Zhao Xun changed his mind.