The narrow alleys of the market largely restricted the galloping of the horses, and the cavalrymen who had lost their speed swung their swords hard, but were always stabbed off their horses by more guns.

After nearly half of the loss, the cavalry officer saw that he was invincible, and retreated with the remnants of the cavalry, and the battlefield finally quieted down, leaving only the groans of the wounded soldiers.

Lan Shaozhong found a few wounded cavalrymen from the battlefield, and simply coaxed and frightened, and these people successively confessed that they were originally stationed in Xiangyang, but they were only ordered to come to Ezhou to "Qingjun Side Qin King", and they didn't know any more. Cao Di secretly mobilized tens of thousands of troops, and the staff department was all 'blinded' in the dark, and there was no warning from the prefectures and counties along the way. Lan Shaozhong recalled it, and couldn't help but feel angry in his heart, reported the situation to Deng Suyu, and asked if he wanted to behead these rebels on the spot. ”

"Forget it." Deng Su's face was pale, he looked at the corpses all over the ground, and shook his hand.

Not far away, there were people secretly looking out in fear through the cracks in the 'door'.

"What is the same as one, how can it be any more?" Deng Su shook his head and sighed in a low voice: "They are all the people of my Great Song Dynasty, the rebels have escaped a lot, move these people to the side of the road, and let's go out of the city." Lan Shaozhong nodded yes. The barricades of the Gun Camp were built so that the rebels could not attack the Prime Minister's Mansion without passing through it, and conversely, the people of the inner city could not get out. This vicious battle drove the rebels away, the streets and alleys in Ezhou City are dense, there are as many as nine 'gates' in the southeast, northwest and northwest, the rebels have just arrived, the troops are insufficient, and they will inevitably not be able to take care of them one by one. Although the battle just now was 'fierce', the casualties of the fire battalion were not large, but one of them was killed in battle, and two centurions were seriously injured.

There were only a few encounters with the rebel cavalry along the way, but they were all narrowly avoided, and finally they left the city through a small water 'gate' next to the Hanyang 'gate' and entered Hanyang City by boat. Hanyang is still Zhao Xingde in Ezhou when the business reconstruction, the city is small and strong, there are two artillery battalions stationed in it, four fire battalions, are reliable officers to lead, Hanyang guard Chen Yuan is Deng Su's cronies who were promoted from the battalion command, and it is also Lan Shaozhong's old department, as soon as he entered the 'gate' of Hanyang City, Lan Shaozhong was completely relieved, he ordered his soldiers to summon Chen Yuan to come to see Deng Su immediately, however, when he walked quickly in front of Deng Su, he found Xiangye's face' The color was very pale, and then, Lan Shaozhong found that the corner of Deng Su's robe faintly revealed a dark red blood 'color'.

"Deng Xianggong," he turned his head and asked the two pro-soldiers who were protecting Deng Su almost in a rage, "What's going on?" ”

Although Lan Shaozhong was respectfully like a guard in front of Deng Su, he was known as the iron-faced king of Hades in the army. At this time, Deng Su smiled and said: "Shaozhong, don't blame them, it was the prime minister who ordered them not to disturb the morale of the army." As he spoke, his brows furrowed, as if he was in pain, he took a breath, and reached out to cover his waist, and when he pressed it, Lan Shaozhong found that the robe there was almost completely soaked with blood.

"Adult" Lan Shaozhong's voice almost cried.

"It's just a stray arrow," Deng Su said with a smile as he inhaled, "Quickly summon Chen Yuan, ask him to prepare a horse to prepare a rumor to rebel, in addition, order the eight battalions outside the city to converge in Hanyang, and send a pen and paper for the prime minister." ”

He was wounded in the battle in the city, and was hit by a flying gun, and blood flowed profusely. In order not to affect the morale of the army, Deng Su forbade the guards to make a noise, and the guards could only hurriedly wrap his wounds, and they didn't even have time to get out of the gun, so they ran all the way with him on their backs. Throughout this time, Deng Su was often in a semi-comatose state, only holding on to not completely losing consciousness, and at this time, the pain became a help to keep him from completely losing consciousness. For more than ten miles, Deng Su didn't groan for half a word, except for briefly responding to Lan Shaozhong's instructions, he just whispered silently 'spring' and autumn righteousness, which made even the guards carrying him extremely surprised. The sweat towel that wiped the blood was changed several times in a row, and with such a serious injury, ordinary people would have screamed in pain and passed out.

"Yes, sir." Lan Shaozhong bowed his head respectfully and said.

If it was ordinary, Deng Su would have waved his hand and said, let's do something. This time, however, there was silence for a long time.

When he looked up, he couldn't help but change his face, supported Deng Su who had fainted, and said loudly: "Lord Xianggong, Lord Deng!" ”

Deng Su's face was pale, similar to a wounded soldier on the battlefield.

This kind of face 'color' is very familiar to Lan Shaozhong, he suppressed the panic in his heart, and hurriedly asked Chen Yuan, who had just arrived, to invite the best Langzhong in Hanyang City, and issued a gag order to his subordinates who knew about it. Deng Su was in a coma for a whole day and a night, and Lang Zhong cleaned his wounds again and dug out half of the guns that remained in his body. The next night, Deng Su woke up and only 'handed over' two things, one was to let the eight battalions outside Ezhou City concentrate in Hanyang, and the other was that Lu Yunsun, the governor of the political affairs, may be an accomplice of the traitors, and finally Deng Su dictated a passage, appointing Yue Fei as the generalissimo of the rebellion, Han Shizhong as the deputy marshal, and calling on the soldiers and horses of the world to rebel, but this text was only half dictated, and Deng Su was 'unconscious' again.

During this time, he continued to have a low-grade fever, and Lang Zhong knew that he was poisoned by lead, and how to expel the poison was a bitter remedy, and it could only be said that Ji people had their own natural appearance. Lan Shaozhong couldn't, so he could only wait while hiring famous doctors to come over for diagnosis and treatment. The situation 'forced' people, Deng Su 'dazed' for three days, the eight battalions outside Ezhou City arrived one after another, and more than 30,000 soldiers and horses gathered in Hanyang City, however, the head of the Eighth Army has its own backers, although it is usually in awe of Lan Shaozhong and the staff division, it is also to see the face of Deng Su behind him, at this time, Deng Su's life and death are uncertain, and it is difficult for Lan Shaozhong to coordinate the army. He had neither the name nor the ability to dispatch this army to counterattack the rebels, and no one wanted to fight in the front, so he could only gather in Hanyang and watch the rebels entrenched in Ezhou. A few days later, the Xiangyang army arrived, and Cao Di immediately surrounded Hanyang City, but the siege had not yet begun.

From Xiangyang to Ezhou, the army had 73,000 men when it set out, and they marched all the way, and when they arrived in Ezhou, there were still 56,000 men left, excluding those who had fallen behind and held the rear road. Therefore, Cao Di did not blindly 'force' his subordinates to attack the city, in his opinion, the rabble in Hanyang City, the turtle in Deng Suurn, looking at the world, he has more important things to do, that is, to re-establish the imperial power. The first thing he did when he entered Ezhou was to care about the granaries of the household and military departments, although most of the stored grain was transported north, but the grain stored in the warehouses was still enough for the army to last for a year, which reassured Cao Di.

When Deng Su was besieged in Hanyang City, it was difficult to communicate with the outside world, and now, Cao Di felt that all he needed was an edict, and the hearts of the people in the world would be 'chaotic' anyway.

However, more than ten days have passed, and dozens of edicts have been sent, only in exchange for one or two greetings, Cao Di found that things are far from being as simple as he imagined.

In addition to the entourage who fled with Deng Su, most of the civil officials of the six departments of the imperial court were stranded in Ezhou City, at first, Cao Di didn't take these people in his eyes at all, thinking that the big thing was decided, the imperial power was above, and these people who ate the imperial court would cry and shout to come to serve, and then separate relatives and distant people, and screen and use them one by one. However, he never expected that in just one day, most of the Shangshu and 'waiter' Lang of the six departments would escape, and the rest would be like dead people, and they obviously did not intend to cooperate with Cao Di. Not only that, but even Lu Yunsun, the governor of the government who has always supported Cao Di in the court, is unwilling to come out to preside over the political affairs hall anyway, if it is not for the emperor's summons, Lu Yunsun is not even willing to see Cao Di at all, and sighs in front of the emperor, saying that Cao Di returned to the army without authorization, which not only delayed the Northern Expedition, but also made the court situation out of control. In the end, it was only under His Majesty's repeated requests that Lu Yunsun reluctantly agreed to the position of "temporary" prime minister.

Just when Cao Di breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that this old pedant could clean up the situation for him, he didn't expect that the real trouble had just begun.

After the states refused to express their efforts to congratulate Cao Taishi and set up 'chaos' anyway, while they were still watching each other, Chen Dong and Wu Zilong, who had already sent a letter, successively published articles publicly accusing Cao Di of violating the Great Rites Law. Wu Zilong's article was particularly 'fierce', he said that Cao Di's expulsion of the prime minister was for injustice, he did not listen to the military orders of the military department to go north to resist the enemy, it was for disloyalty, and other complicity in rebellion, on the surface under the banner of the Qing monarch's side, but in fact, he thought that the lord was weak, and wanted to separate the monarch and ministers, and wanted to repeat the story of Cao Cao's '' of the Son of Heaven in order to order the princes in the late Han Dynasty. These two articles were like throwing two matches into a pile of fire 'medicine' barrels, and they spread all over the country in a few days, and Wu Zilong's articles were passed on by word of mouth in the neighborhood because they were more 'intense' and happy, and their influence even surpassed that of Chen Dong.

Someone used a pigeon book to pass on Wu Zilong's essay at the price of one or two pieces of silver, and everyone everywhere wanted to see it.

In various state schools, county schools, and 'private' school teahouses, the scholars who were already stupid and 'wanting' seemed to have received an order, and the articles reprimanding Cao Di for plotting against the usurpation of the throne were like snowflakes and half of the articles were overwhelming.

Some people joked that if Qianfu pointed out that he died without a disease, Cao Di would probably have died ten thousand times.

And this is just the beginning, on the second day of Chen Wu's article, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, and Quanzhou issued a report on the same day, saying that Cao Di was a "chaotic" thief who held His Majesty hostage, because His Majesty was held hostage by Cao thief, and all the holy decrees were not countersigned by Deng Su, so they could not become official imperial orders, but "chaotic" orders, in order to prevent the taxes paid from falling into the hands of Cao Di to help Cao Di to help the abuse, they intercepted the taxes themselves, and called on the prefectures and counties in the world to "not obey the 'chaotic' orders", and the state school sent people to Hangzhou, Consult together.