Lu Xiao, the secretary of the military department, is a person who lives a very regular life, he eats regularly and goes to bed regularly, because in his opinion, if he can't protect his body and energy, he can't handle state affairs at all.

After a while, Lu Xiao, who was already asleep, was awakened by a noisy sound, he got up and asked in a deep voice, "Who is making noise outside?" ”

"Master, it's not good......!" The voice outside was unusually anxious, even full of horror: "Kill in, kill in.....!" ”

Lu Xiao lifted the quilt, put on a coat, and when he opened the door, there were two people standing anxiously outside the door, this is the old man in the house, who appeared in front of the bedroom door in the middle of the night, very abnormal, but such an abnormality made Lu Xiao immediately know that something was wrong, and asked, "What is going on?" ”

"Out of town..... Soldiers and horses came in from outside the city. One person was out of breath and said: "I don't know where the soldiers and horses came from, from ..... Enter the city from several gates at the same time.....! ”

Lu Xiao was shocked, grabbed the man's collar, and said sharply: "What nonsense are you talking about? Where are the soldiers and horses entering the city? ”

"Master, it's true." Another person hurriedly said: "Someone saw the flames soaring into the sky, a large number of soldiers and horses carried torches into the city, in the middle of the night, I don't know who led the troops into the city." ”

Lu Xiao was shocked in his heart, the capital is the important place of the country, and if the Xuanwu Battalion and the Black Knife Battalion stationed near Gyeonggi do not have the order of the military department, even the large battalion cannot easily leave, let alone enter the city, but in addition to the two soldiers and horses near the capital, it is impossible for a third army to appear.

The local garrison, without the will of the imperial court, once entered the territory of Gyeonggi, it was tantamount to rebellion.

And any soldier and horse close to the vicinity of the capital, it is impossible to be silent, once the post station along the way finds that a large number of soldiers and horses appear, it will definitely report to the capital as soon as possible, so a soldier and horse want to quietly approach the capital, almost impossible.

The most important thing is that there are 3,000 soldiers of the Tiger God Battalion in the capital, which are all elite soldiers and horses, stationed at the gates of the capital, even if there are soldiers and horses coming to the city, there is the Tiger God Battalion to defend the city gate, and it is impossible for foreign soldiers and horses to enter the city.

As the capital of the Chu State, the city walls of Jianye are both high and thick, even if the other party has siege weapons and wants to easily break the city, it is also wishful thinking.

When Emperor Taizong, he had repeatedly heightened and thickened the city wall of Jianye, when the first emperor had repaired it twice, and even the first emperor had personally climbed the top of the city, looking at the iron-clad city wall, he had said that even if there were 100,000 troops coming to the city, with the thickness of Jianye's capital defense, even if the enemy could not break through it for a year.

But at this moment, without the knowledge of his own military secretary, there are soldiers and horses entering the city from various gates, which is simply unbelievable.

He suspected that this news was wrong, and ordered: "Send someone over quickly to find out what is going on." ”

When the soldiers and horses entered the city, Qi Ning, who was in the palace, naturally did not get the news immediately, looking at Qu Xiaocang who was dying, Qi Ning was in a complicated mood.

Qu Xiaocang simply attacked and killed Xuanyuan Po neatly, if it weren't for Chi Danmei's rescue, I am afraid that he would have died in the hands of this person.

He originally thought that Qu Xiaocang would do whatever it took to get the title of Divine Marquis, but today he finally understood that everything Qu Xiaocang did was just to be able to rescue the emperor.

He couldn't make a judgment on Qu Xiaocang's actions, he felt that Qu Xiaocang's breath weakened, and knew that the ghost king had indeed hit Qu Xiaocang hard, if Tang Nuo was here at this time, Qu Xiaocang might be able to escape from death, but Tang Nuo was far away outside the palace, even if he could take Qu Xiaocang out of the palace unhindered now, it might not be too late.

"Your Majesty...... Not in the palace! Qu Xiaocang coughed and said, "Xiao Shaozong..... Since Xiao Shaozong is not in the palace, he will never ..... I will never leave the emperor in the palace.....! ”

Qi Ning's heart sank.

Qu Xiaocang's words reminded him.

The ghost king's claim that Xiao Shaozong was no longer in the palace was probably true, and if that was the case, Xiao Shaozong would certainly not leave the emperor in the palace and hand it over to Qi Ning.

Xiao Shaozong can now hold great power, not because Xiao Shaozong has such strength, but because this person has been using the name of the emperor to make waves, and because of this, Xiao Shaozong will definitely firmly control the emperor in his hands, otherwise once the emperor is out of Xiao Shaozong's control, as long as he shows up in front of the civil and military officials, all Xiao Shaozong's previous deployments will be in vain.

For Xiao Shaozong, killing the emperor is of course the easiest means, as long as the emperor dies, no one can shake Xiao Shaozong's current power.

But as Xiang Tianbei said, Xiao Shaozong has been planning hard for many years, and finally got to this point, this big drama, Xiao Shaozong needs an audience, and his only audience is the emperor.

Xiao Shaozong needed the emperor to see it with his own eyes, and he thought that he would take back the throne because it should belong to him.

Therefore, before he ascended the throne, he would never attack the emperor lightly.

"Where will the emperor be?" Qi Ning immediately asked.

Qu Xiaocang shook his head and coughed more violently, as if he wanted to get close to Qi Ning's ear, Qi Ning saw his thoughts, put his ear close to the past, Qu Xiaocang whispered two words in his ear, Qi Ning's whole body was shocked, and his face changed greatly, but at this moment, Qi Ning only felt that his arm sank, Qu Xiaocang's arm fell, and he died.

Qi Ning raised his hand to close Qu Xiaocang's eyes, put them lightly, stood up, and the few remaining secret guards around immediately stood on guard, clenched the big knife in his hand, Qi Ning glanced at everyone, and sneered: "You are the palace guards, responsible for protecting the emperor's safety, but you are driven by rebellion, and you haven't understood it yet?" ”

The dark guards looked at each other, and the words that the ghost king said before his death had already made the dark guards suspicious, but what the situation was, everyone was ignorant.

"How many guards are there in the palace?" Qi Ning asked in a deep voice.

Everyone didn't speak, Qi Ning stared at one of them, and said coldly: "You say! ”

The man was stared at by Qi Ning, but he couldn't help but say, "No.... I don't know, the secret guards in the palace are scattered all over the palace, how many people are there, I ..... We don't know. ”

Qi Ning thought to himself that the secret guards in the palace were shadow-like existences, and Xiang Tianbei might know how many people there were, but these ordinary secret guards really didn't seem to know.

At this time, Qi Ning suddenly heard a noisy sound from the north, frowned, swept around, and saw that everyone else had no reaction, knowing that his internal strength was deep, so his ear power was amazing, and the sound from the north was probably only heard by himself, the noisy sound was mixed with crying and shouting, and the chaos was abnormal, he knew that something was wrong, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone comes with me!" He did not hesitate any longer, and rushed quickly to the north, and the few people he brought with him quickly followed, and the others saw this, and looked at each other, but they finally followed.

Qi Ning rushed all the way to the north, the roads in the palace were staggered, and he had been to this inner palace twice, but he didn't move around, so he wasn't familiar with it, and he just followed the noisy sound to find it.

His steps were fast, and the people behind him were quickly left behind, and when he reached the edge of a palace, he saw a large group of black shadows running towards him in front of him, the figures were flashing, chaotic and abnormal, mixed with crying and shouting, Qi Ning stepped forward, but saw dozens of palace maids and eunuchs in a mess, he was in a heart, and shouted: "Stop!" ”

But these people were all panicked, ignoring Qi Ning's shouts, and some even ran past Qi Ning, looking embarrassed one by one, as if there were ghosts chasing after them.

Qi Ning reached out and grabbed one of the arms, the man wanted to break free, but Qi Ning's hand was like an iron hoop, the man couldn't break free, looked up and saw Qi Ning's face was cold, and said in a panic: "Run, run, the rebels are coming into the palace.....!" ”

"Rebels?"

"Yes..... It's the Yulin Army. The eunuch hurriedly said: "They rushed to the inner palace, what ..... That's to rebel. ”

Qi Ning changed color slightly, he naturally knew that although the Yulin Battalion was garrisoning the Imperial City, the Inner Palace was a forbidden place, even if it was the Yulin Army, it was not allowed to step into the Inner Palace for half a step, and now the soldiers of the Yulin Battalion actually rushed into the Inner Palace, of course, it was not trivial, and it was no wonder that these eunuchs and palace maids were panicked.

At this time, the secret guard who followed behind had already followed, and Qi Ning turned back to one of the secret guards and asked, "Are all the nobles in the palace guarded?" ”

The man nodded and said, "Near the residences of the nobles, people will be arranged to guard them." ”

The poor palace maids and eunuchs scattered and fled like locusts, Qi Ning led everyone to the north and rushed out of the way, all along the way were frightened eunuchs and palace maids fled for their lives, and then saw more than ten soldiers in armor appear in front of them, which was the costume of the Yulin camp, and only one person said loudly: "The traitor Qi Ning sneaked into the palace to assassinate the emperor, be sure to kill this person on the spot, the commander has an order, who can get Qi Ning's head, a reward of 1,000 taels!" ”

Qi Ning understood at this time that this Yulin camp rushed into the inner palace, and it was actually coming at him.

Xiao Shaozong naturally knew that Qi Ning infiltrated the palace by mobilizing the Yulin camp and rushing directly into the inner palace.

At this time, Qi Ning finally knew why Yan Mo and the Ghost King said that this palace was a trap, Xiao Shaozong calculated that Qi Ning would sneak into the palace, so that after Qi Ning entered the palace, he immediately put the hat of Qi Ning as entering the palace to assassinate the emperor, and quickly mobilized the Yulin army to kill him.

Qi Ning was thinking about whether to confront these Yulin troops head-on, but he heard someone say in a loud voice: "Who are you?" Don't move anyone. Qi Ning followed the sound, only to see another group of Yulin Army suddenly appear, and even found his side, after all, he was followed by a group of people, the target was too big, and it was easy to be discovered by Yulin Army.

As soon as the man shouted, another team of Yulin troops also looked over, and then two teams of men and horses rushed over in unison.

Qi Ning stood still, and the secret guards behind him didn't know what to do for a while.

These secret guards already felt that something was wrong, this protector might not really be rebellious, but at this moment, even the Yulin Army entered the palace to find Qi Ning, and they really didn't know whether to assist the Yulin Army in arresting Qi Ning, or help Qi Ning and the Yulin Army to become enemies.