16. The fire rises from the dragon

In the end, Hun Yang and Zhang Guangsheng only found two or three hundred Jin Wuwei soldiers and ran to the front of Yanying Palace.

The emperor was still waiting in the Yanying Palace, and asked the eunuchs Huo Zhongtang and Tan Zhizhong to summon the Divine Strategies and the Six Armies of the Northern Ya in the forbidden gardens on both sides of the Daming Palace.

"Your Majesty, where are there any troops to summon!" Duan Xiushi immediately made a decision, hugged Yan Zhenqing and other courtiers, and forcibly pulled Li Shi, who was constantly calling, out of Yanying Palace, where His Royal Highness Lu Qi and Guan Bo were still kneeling.

At this time, Huo Zhongtang and Tan Zhizhong ran back, they actually pulled dozens of horses from the flying dragon stable in Xuanwu Gate, and more than 100 eunuchs living near Zuoyintai Gate and Longshou Palace, holding various "weapons", roared behind Huo and Tan, shouting to escort the car.

At this time, in the East Shaoyang Courtyard, the crown prince Li Yu, the imperial concubine Xiao, and dozens of palaces and eunuchs also rushed to the Yanying Palace.

This is the first time that many courtiers have seen the crown prince himself.

When the prince saw his father, he fell to the ground and cried, and then pushed his son out, and Li Shi hurriedly stepped forward to hold the eldest grandson's hand.

"Your Majesty, please take the emperor and grandson with you, and the child will come to the palace." Then the prince, who was a little weak, stood up, turned around and drew his sword, and shouted to the gathered eunuchs and Jinwu's disciples, "Don't let the traitors break into the forbidden garden!" ”

Before the words fell, Guo Ziyi's son Sinong Shaoqing Guo Shu led dozens of families and servants, riding horses, carrying bows and arrows, coming from the north in a panic, and shouted when he came to the Yanying Palace, Li Huaiguang is about to attack the North Yamen and Xuanwu Gate, Your Majesty is not going to leave quickly!

At the same time, Bai Zhizhen, the envoy of the gods, also ran over with three or four hundred soldiers, and when he saw the emperor, he shouted: "Your Majesty, go quickly, and the ministers will come to the palace." ”

"Bai Qing mistakenly!" The emperor stomped his feet in hatred, and then was helped on the horse by Duan Xiushi, and then lit torches, and the emperor shouted on the horse: "King Shu is ahead, and His Royal Highness is behind...... Go out of the west of the city and go to Mukden City. So King Shu also stepped on his horse, and a group of courtiers shouted and went out in the direction of the West Inner Garden.

"Don't let the traitors preemptively break the Xiwei Bridge." At this time, Xiushi turned over and galloped out first.

"My concubine, where is my concubine?" The emperor, who was surrounded and ran out, realized that his wife was missing, "Tang An, Yiyang, what about Tang An and Yiyang?" ”

Outside the Xuanwu Gate, the torches held by Li Huaiguang's Changwu Army shined brightly, firing a fire arrow, dragging a blue-gray smoke on its tail, drawing a dense trajectory in the twilight, and shooting into the towering Xuanwu Gate and the North Yamen Tower in an endless stream, the roof ridges, pillars, window lattices and other places of the building began to burst out of flames, beepping vigorously, and then gathered into a raging fire, devouring all the buildings.

In the royal garden workshop in Beiyuan, there were Changwu soldiers running around, some of them were busy looting and destroying, and some were demolishing houses and cutting down trees, making siege rams and ladders, and the sound was like thunder.

Zhai Wenxiu was hung and tied to a high pole like a ship's mast, with wheels pushing below, more than twenty feet from the ground, the resentful Changwu soldiers cursed, and the fire arrows in their hands continued to shoot at their bodies, Zhai Wenxiu first twisted his body, was shot like a porcupine, and then the fire of the whole body ignited, and gradually turned into a miserable and wailing torch, after burning the rope, the fire fell to the front of the Xuanwu Gate like a meteor, and was extinguished.

"Shi Yanfen, allocate five hundred elite horses to you, quickly go to break the Xiwei Bridge, and don't let the saint go west - if the saint's car leaves Beijing, then I can't wash it clearly, as long as the saint doesn't leave Beijing, we are the merit of the Qingjun." Looking at the blazing Daming Palace, Li Huaiguang hurriedly instructed the most trusted general.

Shi Yanfen took the order and left.

At this time, Gao Yue and the three princesses rushed to the Jinwu Courtyard, "Your Majesty has already traveled west!" Looking at the chaotic situation in the palace, Gao Yue shouted.

At this time, a strong man rushed to the side of the Dragon Head Palace, pulling a car, and there was an old woman, a young woman, and two children, a man and a woman, "Engong, Engong, you saved me this time, otherwise I would have lost myself to a thief!" ”

The person who came was Cai Fonu, after he reported to Li Sheng, he stayed in the Shence military camp in Guangtaimen, and after getting the news of Gao Yue, he did not hesitate to take the fine soft and the whole family, and went straight to the west, and happened to meet Engong at this time.

There were more than a dozen Shence Army soldiers running out of him beside him.

Just in time, Gao Yue hurriedly asked them to protect himself and the princesses.

When they rushed to Jixian Courtyard, Xu Hao, Chen Jing, Lu Shiyue and other Gao Yue's former colleagues, as well as Pei Yanling, all came out of the wall in a panic, all of them were disgraced, and Gao Yue wanted this group of people to just go out of the city and go in the direction of Fengtian City in the west of the city.

In the Hanlin Imperial Court, Sang Daomao also ran out with everyone, and also saw Gao Yue riding a horse, "Master Sang, please go west and go to Fengtian City!" ”

Sang Daomao pinched his fingers and calculated that he was not conducive to the cadre position today, so he did not listen to Gao Yue, but walked south with Mr. Yin and Yang, chess masters, and doctors of Qun Hanlin.

At this time, the emperor had rushed to the sandwich city outside the right Yintai gate, and Jiang Gongfu and Lu Zhen, who were straight here, ran out.

Jiang Gongfu immediately knelt in front of the emperor's horse's head, "Your Majesty has to take precautions, has you summoned the armies of Jingyuan and Fengxiang to Beijing before?" ”

Li Shi hurriedly said yes, but before he arrived in the capital, Li Huaiguang rebelled.

Jiang Gongfu proposed: "Your Majesty can quickly let the thief catcher of Jingzhao Mansion kill Zhu Zhu, the Tai Lieutenant in Zhaoguofang, otherwise Zhu Zhu will be resentful and incite the armies of Jingyuan and Fengxiang, even if Your Majesty is not at peace in Fengtian." ”

And Lu Zhen also admonished: "Your Majesty, now Fengxiang's marching Sima is still Zhu Zhu's old general Li Chulin, and Zhang Zhonglang (Zhang Yi), who was assigned to guard the town, is a civil minister, if Li Chulin is violent and chaotic, Fengxiang will not be protected!" ”

Li Shi shouted: "It's too late! (It's too late, didn't you see that I was busy running for my life, I couldn't even take care of my wife and daughter, and I couldn't take care of Zhu Zhu and Zhang Yi?) With a whip of his horse, he tied his grandson Li Chun behind the saddle and rushed straight through the right silver gate, and Jiang Gongfu and Lu Zhen could only run behind him.

The peculiar thing is that the little Li Chun lay on the horse, acting very calm, not crying or making trouble.

About a moment later, Gao Yue and a group of people also rushed to the right silver platform gate, when Tang An heard a woman calling out to her in the corner of a certain palace.

"Mother!"

I saw a noble lady in a ceremonial dress running over panting, "Tang An, here is the national seal that His Majesty has not had time to take away, and I have returned to the dormitory to snatch it out." ”

This woman is Li Shi's wife, that is, the noble concubine Wang.

"How can you let the concubine walk?" Cai Fonu's mother and wife, Song Zhuzhu, immediately jumped out of the car to bow down and beg the concubine to get into the car.

"This ......" Wang is still a gentle and polite woman, and he was a little hesitant in an instant.

"Concubine Niangniang, it's too late to excuse yourself, get in the car!" Gao Yue shouted.

Wang Shi cast a grateful look at Gao Yue and Cai Fonu, and then hugged the imperial seal in his middle coat, and then stepped into the car.

At the same time, Li Huaiguang's team had rushed into the Xuanwu Gate and began to climb and destroy the city.