The palace is not far from the palace, and there is only a horizontal street to the east. The long street was open, and seven thousand rushed forward like a tide, rushing towards the place where the palace was located at a very fast speed. It stands to reason that there should be a blockade on this street. However, at the moment the street is empty. The road is also clean. The wind lamps swayed, and the bluestone slabs on the ground of the street in front reflected the dim light, making it look lonely and empty.

It is a place that is still a mile away from the big square in front of Daqing. Suddenly, the group was stopped by a hill of debris piled up on the road ahead. The ground was piled up with sandbags and large piles of firewood and grass, completely sealing the intersection leading to Daqingmen Square.

When Guo Kun heard the report, he was puzzled. When he went forward to check on the horse and found that it was all firewood and grass that were all rejected horses, he immediately ordered the soldiers to leave these things. At this moment, above the roof in front of the diagonally, a flaming rocket pierced the night sky and landed accurately on a pile of firewood and grass with a long trajectory. There was a bang, and the fire burned. All the firewood and grass were soaked in grease, and when they saw the fire, they burst into flames.

Everyone was shocked and hurriedly retreated. Fortunately, he retreated in time, but saw that the eight or nine piles of firewood were quickly ignited, forming a raging wall of fire, blocking the entrance of the entire road. If they retreat slowly, some soldiers will be burned to death.

The fire soared into the sky, illuminating a distance of 100 paces. Dozens of steps away, you could feel the flames burning, and the smoke was so hot that you had to turn around and dodge.

In the midst of the chaos, above the roof on the left, someone spoke loudly.

"Little prince. Where are you going with this large number of soldiers and horses? ”

Everyone looked up, and their eyes were sharp and immediately recognized who it was. Gathered on the roof dozens of steps away, Yang Jun stood there with several generals.

"Yang Shumi, it turned out to be you." Guo Kun shouted coldly.

Yang Jun said: "It's the old man." Guo Kun, you haven't answered the official's words yet. The order issued by this official was that the forbidden army of the capital horse foot guards immediately blocked the roads and gates in the city and imposed a curfew. But this official didn't remember to mobilize your men. Why are you gathered here with so many soldiers and horses, and where are you going? ”

Guo Kun sneered: "Less garlic." Yang Jun, as the privy envoy of the Great Zhou, the emperor treats you well, and now Guo Xu and Lu Zhongtian usurp the throne and plot rebellion, you don't save the emperor, but collude with them. Are you worthy of the emperor's favor? Are you worthy of the emperor's reliance on you and making you the privy envoy of the Great Zhou? ”

The smile on Yang Jun's face disappeared, and he shouted in a deep voice: "What nonsense? It's clear that you want to rebel and rebel. Guo Xu did not plot to rebel and usurp the throne, it was the emperor who took the initiative to pass it on to him. It is precisely because of your slander that the emperor appointed King Jin as the crown prince. Now it's time for the emperor to make up his mind, and the emperor is going to pass on the throne to King Huai. The emperor has already issued an order, and it will be announced to the world early tomorrow morning. I blockaded the capital because I didn't want this to cause chaos. Guo Kun, it's you, you want to take the opportunity to make trouble, right? ”

Guo Kun laughed and said: "It turns out that you are so shameless, you are the most shameless person I have ever seen,

Compared to Lu Zhongtian and Guo Xu, you are even more hateful. Do you think no one knows about the things in the palace? Qian Delu desperately left the palace to report the news to us. What is the biography of Guo Xu? Sling the bull. I don't know if it's useful to have an edict without a national seal. If you want the national seal, I'm afraid you're going to find me. Slow tomorrow and early dynasty, that is, the day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, there is still no national seal on the edict. ”

Yang Jun sneered: "What is the national seal? That thing could be carved out of a random one. When you got the national seal, you thought you could take the opportunity to be the emperor of the Great Zhou? I'm afraid I'm thinking too much. Yang advises you to turn around immediately, guard yourself, and wait for the new emperor to ascend the throne. You are the imperial prince, and the emperor will not blame you too much in the future. If you're obsessed, hehe! ”

Guo Kun said angrily: "So what? Don't think a few fires will stop us. It's easy to break through this wall of fire. When I attack the palace and rescue the emperor, I will behead you rebels and thieves one by one. ”

Yang Jun laughed, muttered a few words of the word 'chaotic ministers and thieves', suddenly his face turned cold, and he shouted coldly: "Little prince, since you are obsessed, you can't blame the old man." Originally, the old man still wanted to persuade you to turn back, and he didn't want to attack you. If you had followed the advice of others, you would have been unkind to you. But good words are hard to persuade damn ghosts, and since you don't know how to lift, you can't blame others. Come! Shoot the arrows! ”

Yang Jun's voice fell, the big flag waved behind him, and the next moment, countless figures appeared above the roof ridges on the left and right sides of the long street. They bent their bows and arrows and began to rain arrows at the dense crowd of people in the streets. Although the market is wide, there are too many people, and it is densely packed with soldiers and horses. Those archers didn't even have the luxury of aiming, and the arrows were shot down, and the arrows were not missed. There was a scream and shouting below, and everyone could not avoid it, because even if they hid in the corners of the surrounding shops, they could not escape the arrows on the opposite roof.

The dense rain of arrows caused huge casualties in an instant. Soldiers and horses are in chaos. In the midst of the urgency, someone shouted, "Enter the shop, enter the shop on both sides." ”

Everyone woke up like a dream, and staying on the long street was naturally a live target. Why not rush into the store and take shelter. Soon after, however, they were shocked. On this street, almost all the doors of the shops are locked, and the windows are all nailed with thick wooden boards, as if someone deliberately wanted to make people hide. While realizing this, Guo Kun also realized that this was a well-planned ambush. Yang Jun had long expected that he would raise troops to attack the palace, so he chose this section of the street to ambush. A large number of archers were laid in ambush on the ridges on both sides, and the doors and windows of the shops and the houses of the people were nailed down in advance. This is a conspiracy to invite you into the urn.

"Withdraw! Retreat! Guo Kun shouted.

After being ambushed, Guo Kun was quite panicked and made a wrong decision. In fact, what should be done at this time is not to retreat, but to immediately break through the wall of fire and reject the horse, and rush to the open area on the Daqingmen Square in front. Retreating is the most unwise thing to do, because even if you retreat, you will still be flanked by tall shophouses, still like canyons

Belt of ambush terrain. Yang Jun's archers can also shoot a large number of their own soldiers and horses.

Sure enough, as soon as the order to retreat was given, the soldiers and horses immediately fell into great confusion. The front and rear teams were crowded together, the front team was in a hurry to escape the slaughter of the bow and arrow, and the back team did not know what was happening in front of them. The crowd of people and horses was crowded, and the sound of crying and shouting shook the sky. Soon they fell into a dilemma.

The arrows whizzed and poured mercilessly. Dozens of people fall in a rain of arrows at every moment. The ambush lasted less than a cup of time, and more than 1,000 soldiers and horses were killed by the rain of arrows. At this rate, in less than a stick of incense, all 7,000 people would have to die here.

Fortunately, the soldiers and horses in the rear finally began to retreat backwards, and the entire army was able to retreat along the long street. Or rather, it was not an evacuation, but a rout. Everyone threw off their armor and fled backwards with their heads in their hands, trying to escape the range of the arrows that demanded their lives on both sides. The whole formation has ceased to be a formation, it is completely a rabble.

At the cost of nearly 2,000 men, 5,000 soldiers and horses withdrew from the ambush circle of the archers and retreated more than three miles. After the whining of the feathered arrows in the sky disappeared, everyone gasped in horror, glad that they had escaped death. However, before they could catch their breath, the sound of horses' hooves rumbled in the streets behind them. In their frightened eyes, in front of and behind the long street, the cavalry brigade of the black guards Ma Junsi had appeared in their field of vision.

Guo Kun suddenly began to regret it. He regretted his stupidity and sloppiness. When Lin Jue objected to his proposal to lead troops to attack the palace, he once laughed at Lin Jue in his heart for being cowardly as a mouse, in this case, it was the best time to show his skills, but he chose to escape as soon as possible, which really lived up to his reputation for wisdom and bravery. Guo Kun thought that when he succeeded in raising troops and won the throne of the Great Zhou, he would have to bring up this matter from time to time, ridicule his arrogant brother-in-law, and let him know who would be able to turn the tide at a critical time.

However, the truth is the best medicine to make people sober, and everything in front of him made Guo Kun sober up. It turned out that what he planned was just wishful thinking, and what he wanted was an unrealistic dream after all. He naively thought that as long as he raised his own army, he could ascend to the top and be invincible, but all his actions were controlled by others, and he didn't even see the palace walls of the Ouchi Palace, so he was about to be strangled here. How sad and painful all this is.

The cavalry on the opposite side raised their long knives, and the horses' hooves swayed restlessly on the bluestone slabs. Everyone was spitting nervously, and their hearts were already timid. Guo Kun also understands that this battle is bound to be lost. In this situation, the cavalry will be invincible, and once they charge, they will ruthlessly crush their own soldiers and horses into slag. But at this moment, Guo Kun has no choice.

"Ready! Engage! Guo Kun gave the order hoarsely. The soldiers gritted their teeth and raised their knives and guns. At the same time, sharp bamboo whistles sounded, hooves rumbled, and the cavalry on both sides began their charge.