Fast horses like the wind, raising a cloud of dust and mist on the road behind them, making the scene more and more confused and uneasy.

Li Zhen was anxious, because only he knew where Li Mo had gone;

Only he knew what kind of desperate situation Li Mo would face.

"Erlang, this idiot! I should have expected what he was going to do! ”

Li Zhen was guilty of self-blame and remorse in his heart, and galloped his horse in the empty road, and his left hand inadvertently touched the black barrier knife hidden in the robe.

A chill suddenly penetrated into the bone marrow along his fingertips, and Li Zhen slammed his spirit, and then pulled the reins back desperately with both hands.

With a long roar, the front hooves of the war horse under the crotch were raised high, and it took half a circle in place to stop the ferocious castration, shaking his head irritably and panting, and his hooves kept spinning in place.

Fortunately, the three hundred elite horsemen behind him did not chase too close, otherwise Li Zhen was afraid that he would die in the hands of his own people first.

"Li Changshi!"

A brigade leader shouted from afar.

Seeing Li Zhen's frowns, he suddenly thought of a question, whether Li Mo went to Chunmingmen or ......

Li Zhen looked up into the distance, and there was the direction of Taiji Palace.

Chunming Gate is located in the north of Yanxing Gate, separated by only four squares, although the main force of the Heshuo coalition army is gathered outside the Yanxing Gate, but if the city is attacked, it will never stick to one place, and as the Chunming Gate adjacent to the Yanxing Gate, it is naturally also surrounded by Heshuo soldiers and horses.

Therefore, after Li Mo opened the Yanxing Gate without much effort, he was bound to go straight to the Chunming Gate, and the two cities were opened in a timely manner, which would inevitably provide extremely favorable conditions for the rapid entry of Heshuo soldiers and horses into the city.

That's why Li Zhen rushed to Chunmingmen non-stop, not because he didn't believe Li Mo, but because he knew the cruelty of war too well.

He couldn't let Li Mo be hurt in the slightest, he couldn't before, he couldn't now, and he couldn't in the future.

"Li Changshi, there are still some brothers outside the Chunming Gate......"

Without waiting for Lu Yu to finish speaking, Li Zhen asked slowly: "If it were you, would you go to attack Chunming Gate or Taiji Palace?" ”

"Too ...... Tai Chi Palace? Why? "The travel rate is unknown.

"Kill someone!" Li Zhen then said.

"Who?"

Li Zhen's eyes were like torches, and he slowly stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of Taiji Palace.

"Qiu Shiliang!"

After hearing this, Lu Yu was stunned for a moment, "God...... Lieutenant of the Divine Army? ......”

Before he finished speaking, he saw Li Zhenjing turn the horse's head to the left and leave.

On the twentieth day of the first lunar month, with a tight opening drum and the sound of the galloping horses' hooves on Suzaku Street, Chang'an has gradually woken up from sleep.

......

Tai Chi Palace.

Qiu Shiliang stepped over the corpse of a female official with an expressionless face, as resolute and ruthless as ten years ago.

Ten years ago, Qiu Shiliang wanted to give himself more choices in the future, so he decided to kill Yu Hongzhi.

But now, ten years later, he finds himself still without more options, even fewer than he did a decade ago.

Ten years ago, Qiu Shiliang's murder was to exclude dissidents and establish authority.

Ten years later, Qiu Shiliang killed people and had nothing else to do.

Qiu Shiliang always believed that only by letting others truly understand the approach of death could he make himself invincible.

Wenzong Li Ang, who was the emperor of the Tang Dynasty back then, was like this, so Qiu Shiliang firmly believed that Li Chen would make the same choice even if he was alive.

What's more, not only has Emperor Li Chen ordered the palace of Lishan in the current Tang Dynasty, but even those civil and military ministers have become prisoners of their own subordinates.

At this time, the only person who made Qiu Shiliang jealous was one person.

Li Zhen.

Qiu Shiliang would never have dreamed that the history of the governor of Youzhou, who would not even look at it on weekdays, was actually the eldest son of the Tang Emperor.

Not only that, but at this moment, it has become the biggest threat to his own life.

Qiu Shiliang knew that in this "game" that seemed almost absurd to him, Li Zhen was undoubtedly the most important one.

As long as Li Zhen disappears completely, then he will be able to redeem everything, and even what he will get from this will be far better than before.

I have to say that Qiu Shiliang has always maintained an extremely sober mind, even now that Chang'an City has been surrounded by King Qin's army, he can keenly grasp the key to the matter.

But Qiu Shiliang seems to have overlooked one thing.

Man's greed.

Although the center of Datang has long been transferred from Taiji Palace to Daming Palace, it is still the first choice for important sacrifices and ceremonies in Datang.

That's why.

The treasures and gold and silver hidden in the Taiji Palace are countless, and from the moment these soldiers unscrupulously broke into the Taiji Palace, it was destined to be not only a bloody massacre, but also an irreparable catastrophe.

The soldiers stared at the blood-red eyes to snatch everything they saw that was valuable in their eyes, and the panicked chamberlains and female officers huddled together, watching in horror as these Divine Forbidden Army, which had once made the entire Tang Dynasty proud, now trampled on the palace they had once guarded like wild beasts.

Qiu Shiliang had no intention of stopping it, his face swept expressionlessly over the faces of one chamberlain after another, and then he was dragged away like a livestock, and the screams in the distance resounded in the sky.

Qiu Shiliang couldn't remember how many people he had killed, he only remembered that he still hadn't seen the face that he hated.

Suddenly, Qiu Shiliang's old face froze slightly, and then he raised his head and stopped in the distance.

The rising red sun reflected everything here like blood, and although the vermilion wall blocked Qiu Shiliang's view, his gaze seemed to have already passed through all obstacles and landed on the heart of the Tang Empire.

Fall in that place called "Daming Palace".

"The Empress Dowager!"

Qiu Shiliang muttered, but the smile on his face became more and more terrifying.

If there is a second person in the capital who knows Li Zhen's true identity, Qiu Shiliang believes that this person must be the empress dowager, who is also Li Chen's biological mother.

At the same time, she is also Li Zhen's grandmother.

Even if Li Zhen is not in the Daming Palace at this time, as long as the Empress Dowager is in his hands, Li Zhen will definitely not abandon it.

"Hehe......"

Qiu Shiliang smiled faintly, he knew that the step he didn't dare to take ten years ago would eventually go on today.

......

Chenshi.

Chang'an City, which had long since woken up from its slumber, had lost its former hustle and bustle, and was full of uneasiness, and the faint blood in the air made everyone feel desperate.

Because this time everyone didn't know who the enemy was, all they could do was to huddle with their parents, wives and children behind closed doors, and chant "Amitabha" in their mouths.

So much for.

The streets of Chang'an are as cold as yesterday, but the clouds in the sky are still changeable.

The sound of horses' hooves resounded through one street after another, tightening the already tense heartstrings of the people in the city.

Hong Lam Gate is located in the northwest of Chang'an, adjacent to Tai Chi Palace, separating Hong Lam Garden on the north side from Chang'an City on the south side.

A group of elite horsemen dressed in the uniform of the forbidden army wandered uneasily in front of the Hong Lim Gate, the soldiers' brand-new armor had not yet been stained with dust, and even the goose feathers on the arrows had not yet spread out, still maintaining their original tightness.

The leader was a tall and stout young man, who was sitting on horseback at this time, looking up at the Hong Lim Gate and was stunned.

"This ...... Is that what you call Hong Lim Gate? Why is it not as magnificent as the city gate of Gangneung Province? ”

The young man asked a monk beside him who was already trembling with a suspicious expression.

Obviously, this is the first time this young man has come to the capital.

When the monk heard this, he hurriedly said: "The general doesn't know, this Fanglin Gate is a side gate of Fanglin Garden, and it is naturally incomparable with the Vermilion Bird Gate in the Imperial City!" ”

After thinking about it, the young man nodded slightly, and said, "I believe that the monks will not let me take you to lead the way, I hope you will not regret it!" You're good to go! ”

When the monk heard this, he suddenly received amnesty, and clasped his hands together and said: "Thank you general, the little monk does not dare to deceive the general, and the little monk is in the Longdian Temple in Buzheng Fang, if the general has any orders, he can be summoned at any time!" ”

Only then did the young man grin, and said to the monk: "My name is Li Mo, if I can relieve the siege of Chang'an in one fell swoop today, I will definitely let Brother Ah make a contribution to the monks of Longdian Temple for you in front of Your Majesty!" ”

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