Chapter 665: Capture Xianyang (Second Update)
What Qian Chen said was not wrong at all.
The next day, the queen suddenly "fell ill".
Three days later, at the request of the queen, it happened to be a day of heavy snow and sunshine, and the crown prince and queen's chariot drove out of the palace city under the escort of the five thousand Qin State Guards, heading towards Ganquan Palace.
The main reason for choosing Ganquan Palace is that the queen suddenly became ill, and according to the imperial doctor, she needed "geothermal therapy", that is, hot springs.
There are a few hot springs in the middle of the palace.
The hot springs are a great place, and even in winter, the hot springs are still flowing with scorching water, and the whole pool looks like a fairyland.
This was originally the place where Empress Dowager Xuan's eight sons lived, and since the death of eight sons, it has become a place for the Qin royal family to vacation.
The crown prince originally wanted to arrange for the queen to live here, but the queen refused, and the queen did not want to live in the Ganquan Palace, which was far away from the Xianyang Palace, but preferred to live in the Xingle Palace, which was closer to her son.
Ganquan Palace is not close to Xianyang City, even a fast horse takes a day, such a distance can ensure that the central officials of the Qin State will not report everything to the court, and can ensure that once there is any change, the prince can also know the first time.
So the crown prince decided to give himself a vacation, and he and his mother were going to spend the winter in the Ganquan Palace.
Because the guard captain LΓΌ Buwei led 3,000 soldiers and horses to escort him, during the prince's absence, the political affairs of the Qin State were mainly handled by Xiangbang Mi Chen, and Gang Chengjun Cai Ze assisted from the side.
It is worth mentioning that the crown prince also left a profound order, that is, during this period of time, any decree must be agreed by both Mi Chen and Cai Ze before it can be issued.
If any of them objected, the decree had to be reported to the Ganquan Palace for the prince to review.
Due to Lu Buwei's departure, the previous investigation of Mi Chen's family was also invisibly relaxed a lot.
But Mi Chen didn't feel any relief because of this, because most of Mi Chen's cronies are still in prison, and as long as the investigation is not over for a day, these cronies will have to eat a day's prison food.
So after knowing that the prince and queen were leaving, Mi Chen began to contact Bai Qi impatiently.
Soon, Mi Chen got a very positive answer from Bai Qi.
This made Mi Chen breathe a sigh of relief.
So Mi Chen called Sima Jin and patted Sima Jin on the shoulder with a very solemn expression.
"General Sima, whether you and I can become rich and noble in the future is completely up to this move!"
Compared with the more or less nervousness in Qi Chen's heart, Sima Jin was obviously much calmer, only to see Sima Jin laughing, and a trace of evil aura flashed on his rough face.
"Please rest assured, Yangquanjun, we will definitely succeed in this battle!"
For Sima Jin, he felt that the victory in this battle was not too much of a problem.
Five hundred elites, including thirty Qin Ruishi. Such a lineup makes it no problem for Sima Jin to raid a camp of 10,000 people, let alone a mere 3,000 forbidden army?
Sima Jin has never taken those fancy forbidden troops in his eyes.
On the other side, Wu Anjun gathered his three sons in vain and quietly instructed them.
"The three of you immediately took their families to the Bai Manor in Lantian and waited for my news. If we still haven't sent anyone to look for you two days after you arrive in Lantian, then you will leave Guanzhong immediately and go to Zhao! β
Bai Qi's solemn attitude obviously startled the three sons, and the youngest son couldn't help but speak: "Father, what happened? My son is willing to stay in Xianyang and help his father! β
Bai Qi snorted heavily, suddenly raised his hand and slapped his youngest son fiercely, and said coldly: "Stupid! This is not something you can participate in, just go quickly! β
In the afternoon of the same day, the children of the Bai clan hid in several carriages, rushed out of the city before the Xianyang city gate was closed, and after merging in the city, they went in the southeast direction in the night without stopping.
What the Bai clan people didn't know was that the scene of their departure was all watched by a small team of secret agents under several candidates.
The spies who learned the news were happy in their hearts, they must know that the order given to them this time was to keep an eye on the Bai clan, since the Bai clan chose to run away quietly, then something big must have happened.
As soon as he thought of this, the squad leader of this team of spies immediately issued an order to the two spies beside him: "You and the others will go back to their lives immediately, and the others will go out of the city with me to track the traces of the Bai clan!" β
The two spies who received the order did not dare to slack off, and immediately hurriedly returned to their lives.
In winter, it was dark early in Xianyang City, and the two spies had just walked for a while, and the sky was already completely dark.
As the two agents passed through an alley, several figures suddenly appeared in front of and behind them.
The two spies were vigilant and shouted, "Who are you to ...... here?"
The answer to the two agents was a few chilling sword lights.
After a burst of swords, the two spies fell into the alley, and the blood flowing from the corpses filled the alley with a faint smell of blood.
"All dead?"
"Dead."
"Good. Has anyone been following a few sons? β
"There should be, but there are ambushes outside the city, and those spies will definitely die."
"Very well, let's go, there's still a lot to do."
The figures of the two agents they had just killed quickly disappeared into the darkness.
Wu Anjun dressed in white and appeared in front of the lobby of his mansion.
In front of Bai Qi, there were a full one hundred and twenty-four retainers and disciples of the Bai Mansion.
Unlike other feudal lords who prefer to use money and beauties to attract doormen, almost all of Bai Qi's retainers and doormen are old subordinates who have followed Bai Qi's expeditions to the east and west.
It is no exaggeration to say that once on the battlefield, these 100 men can defeat any 500-strong army head-on.
Under the blazing firelight, Bai Qi narrowed his eyes slightly, and slowly said in a deep voice to the one hundred and twenty-four retainers in front of him: "The prince has no way, he wants to kill me and destroy the Bai clan, I am in trouble today to save myself, are you willing to follow me?" β
The retainers knelt on the ground in unison and raised their weapons high.
"I wish to follow the king and die in battle!"
Bai Qi nodded slowly and said, "Since that's the case, then let's start!" β
Wu Anjun took the lead and led hundreds of his retainers directly towards the Zhongdafu Mansion to kill.
Zhongda Doctor Ling Qi was LΓΌ Buwei's deputy, and controlled the forbidden army in the city after LΓΌ Buwei left.
Although he had already sensed that something was wrong and closed the door of the mansion in advance and summoned people to face the battle, the elite of the hundred battles under Bai Qi's command was not comparable to those cats and dogs in the Qi Mansion after all.
Just a quarter of an hour later, blood flowed everywhere in the entire Zhongda Doctor's Mansion, and a large number of corpses lay down.
Zhongda Doctor Ling Qi was put in front of Bai Qi by several warriors under Bai Qi's command.
"Wu Anjun, do you really plan to rebel?" Ling Qi's face had both unconcealed shock and deep fear.
Bai Qi glanced at Ling Qi coldly, and said slowly: "Doctor Zhong, you have two choices, one is to hand over the token, and the other is to die here with all your wives and children. β
The fire was fierce, shining on Ling Qi's face uncertain.
Just when Bai Qi was about to lose patience, Ling Qi finally gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'm done!" β
A moment later, Bai Qi rushed out of Ling Qi's mansion with Ling Qi and more than a hundred of his elite retainers.
At this moment, in Xianyang City, there is already a sound of killing, and there are flames everywhere.
This time Bai Qi was not the only one who started the incident, many ministers who stood on Bai Qi and Mi Chen's side led their retainers to appear, and the troops behind Bai Qi quickly swelled to more than 2,000 people.
The people in Xianyang City were panicked, the doors and windows of every house were closed, and countless pairs of curious and frightened eyes looked nervously at everything outside through the gaps between the windows and the door.
After galloping for a while, suddenly thousands of people were besieging a mansion not far away.
Bai Qi thought about it for a while and found that it should be the mansion of Cai Ze, the inner history.
Bai Qi rode forward, and sure enough, he saw the figure of Mi Chen here, this Yangquan Jun was hoarsely ordering his subordinates to attack Cai Ze's mansion.
It seems that Cai Ze has been prepared, there are dozens of doormen with bows and crossbows standing on the courtyard wall of the mansion, and whenever Mi Chen's people want to attack, they will always be shot back by a wave of arrows.
Bai frowned, came to Mi Chen's face, and shouted: "This is not our plan in advance!" β
Mi Chen glanced at Bai Qi and said, "I will kill Cai Ze and then hurry!" β
Bai Qi shook his head, and the murderous intent in his eyes flashed.
Obviously, Bai Qi was very dissatisfied with Qi Chen's attitude of only caring about personal enmity and ignoring major matters at this time.
Mi Chen looked at Bai Qi without showing weakness.
After a while, Bai Qi snorted heavily and said, "Come on, attack the Inner History Mansion!" β
With the addition of Bai Qi's elite, only a quarter of an hour later, Cai Ze's mansion was completely breached.
Mi Chen gave a murderous order: "Slaughter this mansion, not a single one will be left!" β
Bai Qi shook his head and said, "I have to go to Lang Zhongling's Mansion." β
With Ling Qi's help, only Bai Qi and Mi Chen were able to take charge of part of the forbidden army, and the other part of the forbidden army was in the hands of Lang Zhongling.
Mi Chen smiled, suddenly took out a token from his hand, and said, "It's okay, Lang Zhongling has been controlled by me." β
Bai Qi took the token from Mi Chen's hand, nodded after looking at it, handed the token back to Mi Chen, and said: "You go to take over the Lang Zhong Ling Department, I will take over the Wei Wei Department, and you must control the entire Xianyang City before dawn!" β
At this moment, a cronie of Mi Chen rushed out and said to Mi Chen: "Your Majesty, you have all looked for it, and Cai Ze's family is nowhere to be found." β
"What?" Mi Chen was furious when he heard this, and shouted: "How can you not be found? β
Bai Qi snorted heavily and said, "Yangquanjun, this is not the time to be entangled in Cai Ze's whereabouts, and it is not too late to make plans after taking control of Xianyang City!" β
Mi Chen gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, without further ado, you and I will set off immediately!" β