Zhao Gao's party also moved quickly, just when Xiang Kang made up his mind to gamble and deliberately sit back and watch the Xianyang Lieutenant Army's division, Zhao Gao's son-in-law Xianyang County Ling Yan Le, also under the banner of chasing thieves, with more than 1,000 Xianyang County soldiers, directly drove to the vicinity of Wangyi Palace, where Qin II Hu Hai currently lives.

According to the Qin law, no matter which palace the emperor lives in, there must be a guard army stationed outside the palace to protect it, Wangyi Palace is no exception, there are also 6,000 guard soldiers stationed outside the palace gate, seeing Yan Le coming with troops, the strictly trained guard soldiers in addition to immediately out of the camp to line up, in addition to stopping the Xianyang County soldiers on the road, they immediately sent messengers to negotiate with Yan Le and ask Yan Le about his intentions. Yan Le was already prepared, and immediately took out Zhao Gao's handwritten warrant, and said loudly: "On the order of Prime Minister Jun, come to hunt down the thieves who fled from Xianyang, and then retreat quickly!" ”

"Catch the thieves who escaped from Xianyang?"

The envoy of the guard army was suspicious, and out of prudence, he also came up to take a closer look at the Zhao master order in Yan Le's hand, and Yan Le urged impatiently according to what he thought: "Have you seen it clearly?" Is it a prime minister's warrant? If you see it clearly, quickly withdraw your people, otherwise let the thieves escape, the prime minister will blame it, and you Zheng Weiwei can't afford to bear it. ”

Carefully see that the order of Zhao Gao's master in Yan Le's hand is indeed stamped with the prime minister's seal, and he knows that Zhao Gao covers the sky with one hand in the imperial court, even if the Wei Wei who commands the Wei Wei Army is the ninth secretary of the imperial court, he does not dare to speak loudly in front of Zhao Gao, and the envoy of the Wei Wei Army does not dare to slack off, and hurriedly confesses a crime to Yan Le, and rushes back to report the situation. Wei Weicheng, who commanded the troops to block the road, did not dare to offend Zhao Gao, and just after asking about the situation, he immediately ordered the Wei Wei army to get out of the way, and did not dare to continue to block the advance of the Xianyang County soldiers.

Still after seeing the Wei Wei Army obediently give way, Yan Le, who had been sweating in his heart, quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly took the Xianyang County soldiers forward, directly crossed the interception position of the Wei Wei Army, and instructed the Wei Wei Cheng standing on the side of the road: "Bring your army back to the camp, and if necessary, please send troops to help." ”

I had already seen clearly that it was Yan Le, the son-in-law of Zhao Gao, the minister of power in Great Qin, who was leading the team, and seeing that Yan Le, who was arrogant and domineering on weekdays, actually said a word of invitation to himself for the first time, Wei Weicheng still had a feeling of flattery, and hurriedly nodded his head and agreed, and hurriedly went to the camp of Wei Weijun to wait for his life, and was ready to help Yan Le at any time, and indirectly patted his boss's boss Zhao Gao on the back.

The cringe of the guard army gave Yan Le the opportunity to lead the troops directly to the gate of Wangyi Palace, but it was okay for Qin II Hu Hai, although Lang Zhong (guards) who were on duty at the gate of Wangyi Palace were all subordinates of Zhao Gao's younger brother Zhao Cheng, the guard who led the team was not Zhao Cheng's confidant, and seeing Yan Lejun rushing directly, this guard ordered the servant to immediately order his subordinates Lang Zhong to guard the palace gate, but also personally came forward to negotiate with Yan Le, shouting and saying: "Stop!" You are so bold, the palace gate is heavy, and you dare to trespass? ”

Glancing coldly at the guard's servant, Yan Le suddenly shouted to his own soldiers, "Take him down for me!" ”

After all, it was Yan Le's personal soldiers, not only had they been fed by Yan Le with money for a long time, but they had also long been accustomed to unconditionally obeying Yan Le's orders, so as soon as Yan Le's words came out, his personal soldiers immediately rushed up, and held down the guard servant, and Lang Zhong, the subordinate of the guard servant, was shocked and hurried up to stop them, Yan Le had already urged the army to step forward and stop them. Then Yan Le drew his sword and pointed at the guard servant, and shouted: "Piff, as a guard servant, you are ordered to guard the palace gate, and a thief has entered Wangyi Palace, why don't you stop it?" Are you an accomplice of thieves? ”

"A thief entered the Wangyi Palace?" The unlucky guard almost suspected that he had heard it wrong, and said in surprise: "Then there are thieves who have entered Wangyi Palace?" There are guards outside the palace, and there is Langzhong at the palace gate, all of which are heavily guarded, how can thieves enter Wangyi Palace? ”

"Dare to quibble? The official clearly saw that a thief rushed into Wangyi Palace just now, and you even said no? It seems that you are indeed an accomplice of the thieves! Yan Le loudly reversed black and white, and shouted: "Come on, behead this thief accomplice on the spot!" Fast! ”

The unlucky guard ordered the servant to shout loudly, and Yan Le's personal soldiers were also a little hesitant, but after Yan Le urged again, a personal soldier of Yan Le with an axe still got up and fell with an axe, and cut off the head of the unlucky guard servant, Yan Le took the opportunity to shout loudly: "Rush in and catch the thief, there are those who dare to stop it, and there will be no forgiveness!" Fast! Rush in! Kill! ”

Out of the instinct of obeying orders, the Xianyang County soldiers immediately shouted and rushed into the gate of Wangyi Palace, the Langzhong guarding the door was only a few dozen people, and they couldn't stop it at all, and they were quickly dispersed, Yan Lejun rushed straight into the palace, but because of the suddenness of the incident, the Langzhong eunuchs in the palace were at a loss, and they could only scatter and flee, only a few people came up to stop them, and Yan Le ordered repeatedly, forcing the Xianyang County soldiers to quickly kill all the Langzhong eunuchs who dared to resist.

At this time, Zhao Gao's younger brother Zhao Cheng also came with a group of his henchmen to meet Yan Le, and led Yan Le to find Hu Hai, Yan Le took the opportunity to loudly declare that he had found the thief, and under the guidance of Zhao Cheng and others, he went straight to the dormitory where Hu Hai was currently located, and ordered the soldiers to kill people all the way, and the Wangyi Palace was also in chaos, Lang Zhong, eunuchs and palace maids screamed and rushed to escape, and many of those who couldn't dodge were directly buried under Yan Lejun's knife, and the magnificent Wangyi Palace was also full of bloody rain.

When rushing directly to Hu Hai's dormitory door, because they were afraid of revealing the stuffing, Yan Le and Zhao Cheng did not dare to rush in directly to meet Hu Hai, and they were very cunning and loudly declared that the thief was in the dormitory, and ordered the Xianyang County soldiers to release arrows in the palace, and this trick really worked, and Hu Hai, who originally wanted to question the reason, saw the arrows rain left and right, and none of them did not hurry to flee to the apse, and no matter how Hu Hai shouted and urged, he did not dare to go out of the palace to stop him, and then a feather arrow hit Hu Hai's dragon robe. Hu Hai could only quickly flee to the apse with the support of a eunuch, Yan Le and Zhao Cheng saw the situation outside the palace, and immediately rushed in directly with the army.

Pampered since childhood, and at this moment he was so frightened that his hands and feet were weak, and he could hardly even walk, Hu Hai of course was quickly caught up and surrounded by Yan Le and Zhao Cheng led the army, but it was also at this time that Yan Le finally tried to see the dagger, showed Zhao Gao's warrant to Hu Hai, and said loudly: "Under the order of Prime Minister Jun of Great Qin, kill the tyrant Hu Hai, and those who dare to disobey the order will be beheaded!" ”

"What's wrong with me? Why did the prime minister kill me? Hu Hai asked with a crying voice, and added in his heart, "Why am I so miserable, the first time I played, the first time I said my lines, why did I have to get a boxed lunch soon?" ”

"Why did you want to kill you?" Yan Le snorted loudly and coldly, and said: "The feet are arrogant and lascivious, wolves are unkind, and they kill innocents indiscriminately, everyone in the world hates you to the bone, and everyone gets to punish you, and you still have the face to ask why you want to kill you?" If you're smart, decide it yourself, don't wait for us to do it! ”

"I want to see the prime minister!" Hu Hai trembled and shouted loudly: "As long as he spares my life, I can agree to him on any terms!" ”

"The prime minister doesn't want to see you!" Yan Le flatly refused, and shouted, "Don't you want to cut yourself?!" ”

Hu Hai cried loudly, struggling to lie down in front of Yan Le and begging desperately, but Yan Le was afraid of long nights and dreams, so he didn't give Hu Hai a chance to continue talking, and directly raised his sword and stabbed Hu Hai in the back, Hu Hai screamed loudly, and the only eunuch who helped Hu Hai escape before also cried and pounced on Hu Hai's body, and pointed at Yan Le and scolded: "You traitor, you dare to kill the king, you deserve death!" ”

Directly stabbed the loyal eunuch in the chest, Yan Le pulled out the sword, tore off the seal ribbon that Hu Hai was carrying, held it in his hand, wiped the blood splashed on his face, and shouted: "Collect the troops, take Hu Hai's body back to Xianyang!" ”

When the soldiers of Xianyang County hurriedly withdrew from the Wangyi Palace, which had been completely chaotic, the guards guarding outside the palace also hurriedly assembled again, and rushed to the gate of Wangyi Palace to understand the situation, Yan Le and Zhao Cheng did not dare to fight hard with the Weiwei Army, and chose to send a Lang Zhong under Zhao Cheng to step forward and say loudly to the Weiwei Army who blocked the way: "On the order of the Prime Minister of Great Qin, kill the tyrant Hu Hai, now that Hu Hai is dead, you and others immediately return to their respective camps, wait for the new monarch to succeed to the throne, if there is disobedience, they will be punished for treason!" ”

After that, Na Langzhong immediately pointed to the corpse of Hu Hai carried by Yan Le's own soldiers, but after seeing the corpse of Hu Hai who was still wearing a dragon robe, of course, the soldiers of the Wei Wei Army were in an uproar immediately, and the previous Wei Wei Cheng was even more stammering, suspecting that he was in a dream. Yan Le took the opportunity to urge the army to step forward and shouted loudly, forcing the guards at the palace gate to give way back to the camp.

It is also the luck of Yan Le and Zhao Cheng, Wei Weicheng, who commanded the Wei Wei Army, is a person who has no responsibility, after seeing Hu Hai's corpse, he was directly frightened, helpless, and did not dare to have the slightest idea of resisting, not to mention what is taking advantage of the fact that he has many soldiers now, and rushed up with the army to split the corpses of Yan Le and Zhao Cheng and others, and avenge Hu Hai. ”

As soon as the retreat order was given, the guards and sergeants who had already been in turmoil immediately dispersed, and fled back to the camp of their own army, Yan Le and Zhao Cheng were overjoyed, and hurriedly loaded Hu Hai's body in a carriage, and hurriedly returned to Xianyang with the county soldiers, and then according to the original plan, Zhao Cheng immediately rushed to Xianyang Palace with his henchmen to take over the Lang Zhong Guard of Xianyang Palace, and at the same time rang the bell to summon the hundred officials to the court, and Yan Le returned to Zhao Gaofu with Hu Hai's body to hand over the order.

The incident happened too suddenly, Xianyang had already declared martial law, the news transmission was difficult, and I didn't have time to know what happened in Wangyi Palace, so after hearing the bell of the court in Xianyang Palace, all the officials of the Qin court hurriedly put on official uniforms and rushed to Xianyang Palace to go to the court, but they just entered Xianyang Palace and immediately found that the situation was wrong, Langzhong in the palace city had three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry, Zhao Cheng's henchmen also guarded the palace gate, as long as any official entered Xianyang Palace, he was not allowed to go out for half a step.

Even if he found that the situation was wrong, he couldn't help it, afraid of being modified beyond recognition by Zhao Gao's harsh Qin law, the Qin court officials still went to the palace to line up, waiting for the court meeting, and then soon, except for Zhao Gao alone, all the Qin court officials who were qualified to participate in the court meeting arrived, and then, what made the Qin court officials stunned happened, their prime minister Zhao Gao actually walked into the front hall from the apse, and walked directly to Hu Hai's throne to stand still, and directly wore Hu Hai's seal ribbon around his waist, He also directly held the heirloom jade seal of the Qin State in his hand.

What made the hundred officials of the Qin court even more shocked was still to come, Zhao Gao stood in front of Hu Hai's throne and just clapped his hands, and Lang Zhong immediately carried out Hu Hai's body in the apse and put it directly in front of the hundred officials of the Qin court, and the hundred officials of the Qin court also exclaimed, "Emperor! The corpse of the Emperor! ”

"Be quiet, be quiet." Zhao Gao finally spoke, and said with a relaxed expression: "Colleagues, I think you must have seen it clearly, this is the corpse of the tyrant Hu Hai, he was killed by the prime minister, as for the reason, you must be clearer, since this faint monarch has been perverse, brutal and unkind, poisonous and poisonous, and plunged Huaxia Kyushu into a monstrous sea of suffering, resulting in chaos in the world, and the six countries outside the border have raised troops to restore the country. Colleagues must agree with this approach, right? ”

He had long been killed by Hu Hai and Zhao Gao so that he didn't dare to tell half the truth, and all the officials of the Qin court were silent, and no one dared to answer, so Zhao Gao got off the donkey and said: "Since all your colleagues have nothing to say, it proves that you all agree with the prime minister doing this." In addition, there is another thing, Qin was originally a kingdom, because the first emperor unified the six countries before changing the name of the emperor, now the six countries outside the Guanwai have been restored, and the territory of the Qin State is getting smaller and smaller, it is too inappropriate to still use the emperor name, the meaning of the original phase is that in order to facilitate peace talks with the six countries outside the Guanwai and end the war, our Qin State should restore the old system, and the emperor should be renamed the King of Qin, what do you think? ”

The hundred officials of the Qin court still didn't dare to say anything, and Zhao Gao was also a little angry, and shouted: "Why don't you speak?" What do you think? ”

Unable to resist Zhao Gao's obscenity, several Qin court officials could only nod and say, "It's all up to the prime minister." ”

"That's right." Zhao Gao smiled and said: "Then it is decided, the Qin State will restore the old system and officially recognize the restoration of the six countries outside the Guanxi." But there is one thing very important, the country must not be left without an owner, colleagues think, who should we support as the king of Qin? ”

After asking this sentence, Zhao Gao deliberately flashed the Huhai seal ribbon on his waist, as well as the jade seal in his hand, implying that the hundred officials supported him as the king, but unfortunately Zhao Gao completely miscalculated this time, including several Qin court officials who were forced to respond to him before, all the Qin court officials present were silent, lowered their heads to look at their noses with their eyes, and looked at their hearts with their noses, and the hall was so quiet that even a needle dropped on the ground could be heard clearly. Zhao Gao was furious, and shouted again: "Why don't you speak, you think that who should be supported as the king of Qin?" ”

The hall was still very quiet, only Zhao Gao's younger brother Zhao Cheng stood up and said: "The prime minister has made great contributions to the country and should be called the king." ”

Zhao Gao ignored his younger brother's words, but nervously observed the reactions of the hundred officials, and what disappointed Zhao Gao was that all the officials of the Qin court were silent, and they didn't even dare to take a breath, and Zhao Gao suddenly understood in his heart that none of the hundred officials in the Qin court wanted to support him as king.

It stands to reason that with the jade seal in hand, and the palace guards are all in the hands of Zhao Cheng, Zhao Gaoda can forcibly claim the title of king and force the hundred officials to admit that he is the king, but Zhao Gao knows very well in his heart that if he does this, he is afraid that by tonight, more than half of the hundred officials of the Qin court will be able to escape, and the Guanzhong army and local officials in various places are also very likely to refuse to recognize themselves as kings, and they will do their own things or even directly rebel, and they will also completely lose the qualification to negotiate and surrender with Xiang Kang - the Great Qin court will completely collapse and the hearts of the people will be scattered, Xiang Kang will continue to negotiate with Zhao Gao unless he is stupid, how to surrender conditionally.

Because of this, in order to temporarily unite people's hearts and leave his bargaining chips with Xiang Kang, Zhao Gao could only grit his teeth, was forced to activate the backup plan, and said loudly: "This is relatively loyal to Great Qin, how dare you peep into the throne?" The prince's son, the nephew of the first emperor, is the closest to the emperor's bloodline, benevolent and frugal, and should succeed to the throne as the king. ”

The hundred officials of the Qin court still didn't dare to say anything, but many people quietly raised their heads and peeked at Zhao Gao's expression, Zhao Gao saw the secret anger in his heart, knowing that these people still preferred to let Ziying succeed to the throne, but at this point, when there must be a puppet to temporarily stabilize people's hearts, Zhao Gao still ripped off the Huhai seal ribbon around his waist, held it together with the jade seal of the country, strode in front of Ziying in front of the palace, and begged Ziying to succeed to the throne and become king.

knew that even if he became the king of Qin, he was just a puppet in Zhao Hao's hand, of course Ziying was prevaricating in every way, but Zhao Gao resolutely refused to allow it, and together with Zhao Cheng, he forcibly dragged Ziying to the throne and sat down, and led the hundred officials of the Qin court to pay tribute to Ziying. Ziying was helpless, so she could only say this: "Since the prime minister and the hundred officials want me to succeed to the throne, then for the sake of Daqin's Jiangshan Sheji, I don't dare to shirk it, but the succession event can't be a child's play, I must follow the etiquette, first fast in my home for five days, and then go to the temple to say goodbye to the ancestors, and then I can accept the seal and officially claim the king." During this period, all the major affairs of the court were decided by the prime minister, what did the officials think? ”

"The king is wise, and his subordinates are cautious of the king's orders." The hundred officials of the Qin court agreed very neatly this time, and Zhao Gao was quite happy when he saw Ziying taking the initiative to hand over power, and he agreed to let Ziying officially become king after fasting for five days.

That night, without waiting for Xiang Kang's reply, Zhao Gao of course had to send an envoy to Lantian again, asking his plenipotentiary negotiator Zhao Juan to reach a negotiation with Xiang Kang as soon as possible, and at the same time to order Xi Teng, who commanded the Xianyang Lieutenant Army, to ask Xi Teng to block the young marshal's army in Lantian no matter what, leaving himself the last bargaining chip to negotiate the surrender conditions.

Of course, Zhao Gao's daydream was too beautiful, and the envoy he sent later had just arrived in Lantian, and was immediately interrogated by the traverser Xiang Kang in every way, and he quickly took out the important news of the coup d'état in the Qin Palace from the mouth of his envoy, and Xiang Kang was still calm in his joy, and did not immediately make the matter public, but patiently waited for the young marshal's army to send Xianyang to bring accurate news, confirming that Hu Hai had been killed by Zhao Gao, and also reported that Zhao Gao supported Ziying as the king. Xiang Kang happily summoned the young marshal's army and officially announced what happened in Xianyang.

Hearing this good news, the young marshal army who had gritted his teeth and missed the opportunity for the decisive battle was of course thunderous, all of them were overjoyed, and Xiang Kang sent someone to send Zhao Gao's nephew Zhao Juan, who categorically rejected all the surrender conditions proposed by Zhao Gao, and asked Zhao Juan to go back and tell Zhao Gao, so that Zhao Gao could persuade Ziying to lead the Qin court officials and the Guanzhong army to surrender unconditionally, in exchange for Zhao Gao's family to survive after surrendering. Zhao Juan was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly asked: "General Right, didn't you say before that as long as my uncle can lead the people to surrender, you can consider splitting the earth with my uncle and becoming king in Guanzhong?" Why has it changed again now? ”

"It used to be considered, but now it can't." Xiang Kang, who went up to the house to draw the ladder, was straightforward, and said with a heartfelt voice: "Your uncle Zhao Gao killed the king with his ministers, and he was a great rebel, and everyone in the world was punished. Surrender and live, this is already my special kindness to your uncle! ”

"Then the prince, the prince can do it." Zhao Juan hurriedly changed his words and said: "General Right, my uncle gave an explanation to the villain when he was leaving, as long as General Right can promise to make him a prince and reward him with several county fiefs, he can also lead the people to surrender." ”

Xiang Kang didn't bother to pay attention, just waved his hand, and the guards in the tent understood, and immediately stepped forward to forcibly erect Zhao Juan out of the big tent of the Chinese army and drive him out of the camp of the young marshal's army. Xiang Kang instructed the young marshal's generals: "Announce the news of the civil strife in the violent Qin court to our whole army, boost morale and morale, and by the way, ask our soldiers to make torches and dry food and prepare for night battles." ”

"And." Xiang Kang added: "Send an envoy to contact Xi Teng, the commander of the Lieutenant Army of Tyranny Qin, promising him a high-ranking official and persuading him to surrender. ”

Xiang Kang decided to send an envoy to recruit the Xianyang Lieutenant Army, of course, the purpose was to temporarily paralyze Xi Teng, the commander of the Xianyang Lieutenant Army, so that the young marshal army could perform the best sneak attack and camp robbery tactics at night, but what Xiang Kang never expected was that his move caused consequences that Xiang Kang had not expected beforehand......