Chapter 603: Who are crying like tears in the rain of arrows?

Seventy-five miles south of Chang'an City

A thousand cavalrymen escorted a carriage along the official road and quickly advanced in the direction of Chang'an City, and the rhythm of the hooves of the war horses was like the sound of raindrops hitting the banana leaves. Each of the cavalrymen was covered with a layer of dust, and it was clear that they had not removed their armor for a long time. Judging by their faces, they were also very tired, and some people poured cold water out of the kettle and wiped their faces to keep them awake.

Except for two hours of rest a day, they hardly dismounted from their horses since they had left the brigade to escort the cart north, and when they were hungry, they stuffed a few mouthfuls of dry food into their mouths, and when they were thirsty, they poured a few mouthfuls of cold water. They didn't know who was in the carriage, the general Liu Enjing gave a very strict military order, whoever dared to inquire indiscriminately would be killed on the spot, and there were more than a dozen brocade guards around the carriage, and no one was allowed to approach easily.

The old man who was driving the car, these soldiers naturally didn't recognize him as the eunuch Su Buxing of the imperial study.

In fact, the soldiers were very curious about what kind of big man was in the carriage, so much so that General Liu Enjing needed to personally order the transfer of 1,000 elite cavalry to escort him into Beijing.

They had discussed it in private, but no one could have imagined that the emperor would be in the carriage, who was supposed to be dead. The crown prince has ascended the throne and called the emperor to change the Yuan Xinghuang, and the emperor's funeral has also been held, and the soldiers will never think that the emperor is still alive.

And the reason why Liu Enjing ordered that no one should be allowed to inquire about who was in the carriage was not a helpless move. Before the emperor arrived in Chang'an City, he could not leak the news that he was not dead. It's not just those people in Jiangnan Tonggu Academy who want to kill the emperor, and there may not be no people in the capital.

If they knew that the emperor was still alive, those who strongly supported the crown prince's accession to the throne would tremble in their hearts.

Even if they don't have the intention of rebellion, this is already a rebellion.

Seeing that it was not far from Chang'an City, the soldiers were also a little relieved, although they were in a hurry along the way, they came over without any danger.

Or maybe it was because they could enter Beijing early tomorrow morning at the latest, so the big man in the carriage who didn't know who ordered the cavalry to rest for a while, eat something, and indeed feed the horses.

The team stopped on the side of the road, and many of the soldiers had their thighs - the inside - the skin had been worn and glued to the pants, and the pain when they dismounted made them can't help but whisper**. A rush of this intensity, even putting a layer of cotton pad on the saddle will not help. What's more, they don't have a place to find cotton pads.

After the carriage stopped, Su Buwei immediately got into the carriage, and he looked at the emperor who was completely unable to keep his spirits up, and his heart trembled.

"Your Majesty, would you like something to eat?"

He asked softly.

The Emperor opened his eyes slit, then shook his head slightly. Not to mention eating, now he can't even drink water, drink and spit out, the person is thin like a piece of wood with a piece of clothing, and his face is so bad that people dare not look carefully. He weighs less than half of what he did when he was healthy, curled up under the covers, looking like a dried corpse if he doesn't move.

"How much longer?"

The emperor asked.

Su Buxing hurriedly replied: "If it's fast, you can get to the outside of Chang'an City after dark today, but you can't go in before closing the city gate." If Your Majesty is in a hurry, should you send someone back to inform the prince first, and let the prince personally go out of the city to greet him? ”

"No ......"

The emperor swallowed and foamed with difficulty, and his lips were all chapped and chapped: "Prince...... The crown prince must not leave Chang'an City, once he leaves the city, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will take the opportunity to cause chaos...... Now those who want to kill my father and son are not absent from Chang'an City. As long as the prince does not leave the Taiji Palace, they ...... They didn't dare to do anything wrong, and I left the camp in the Taiji Palace, just because I was afraid that someone would be unfavorable to the prince. ”

Su Bu was afraid to say: "However, if you don't inform His Royal Highness the Prince, the slave is afraid that someone in the city will not want you to return to the city." ”

"There must be a ......"

The emperor muttered: "They are in a hurry to let the crown prince succeed to the throne, in fact, they want to control the power of the court, the prince is young, in their eyes humiliating and bullying, and if I go back, they are afraid that I will retaliate against them." In fact, those people in Chang'an City and the people outside are not the same mind...... Ahem...... They are all plotting to seize the country of the Yang family. It's just that some people want to rob openly, and some people want to control secretly. ”

He paused and said, "Now the prince is surrounded by their people, and once they send someone back first, they will know earlier than the prince...... To be honest, Liu Enjing was able to send troops to escort me back to Chang'an, and I was already a little surprised. Now those in charge of Chang'an City, there are those who I left to the crown prince, and some of them climbed up by themselves, they are all afraid, once I go back, can their position be kept, will I change someone to assist the prince......"

"Who wants to give up what they already have?"

Su Buxing opened his mouth, and he didn't dare to say anything about his concern.

He actually wanted to say, the crown prince...... Looking forward to your return, Emperor?

At this moment, there was a sudden noisy sound outside the carriage, and from time to time someone shouted loudly, Su Buwei listened attentively and heard that it was the cavalry general who ordered the cavalry to assemble. He was a little displeased, he hadn't informed them to go on the road yet, so in such a hurry, could they be in a hurry to enter Chang'an than His Majesty?

"The slave goes out and sees"

Su Buwei said, and then withdrew from the carriage.

As soon as he came out, he was startled by what he saw, and immediately understood something. The brocade school guarding the carriage looked at the cavalry with angry faces, and some of them had already bitten their lips.

"What's going on?"

Su asked without fear.

"Dozens of cavalry came from behind just now, and the cavalry general who found the leader of the troops got together and said something, and then the cavalry general ordered the soldiers to gather, and no one informed us, but they actually left with the cavalry!"

Su Buxing looked at the team that quickly assembled and rushed out along the official road to the south, his face turned pale.

He knew that what he was most afraid of coming was still coming.

"Your Majesty"

Su Buwei took a deep breath, then returned to the carriage and bowed down and said softly: "The road ahead may not be easy to walk, please Your Majesty to the slave and maid on their backs, and the rest of the way, the slaves and maids will carry you on their backs." ”

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The carriage was abandoned on the official road, Su was afraid to carry the emperor on his back, and asked the guards to tie the emperor to himself with a cloth, the emperor at this time was thin like a layer of skin, and those guards had not seen the emperor for many days, and their hearts were sour when they saw his appearance at this time. It was not very obvious in the wide clothes, but when the guards helped the emperor and tied it to Su Buwei's back, the strips of cloth fell into the clothes with a slight strangle, and they knew how thin the emperor was.

"Your Majesty, it may be harder."

Su Buxing climbed on the horse and said to the emperor behind him: "Riding a horse should be bumpy, and if Your Majesty feels uncomfortable, tell the slave maid." ”

When the emperor got out of the carriage, he already understood what was going on when he saw the thousand cavalry withdrawing, although he no longer looked like a living person, but he was still alive after all, as long as he lived, there was not much he couldn't see through. Although sometimes, it doesn't help for him to see through it.

"Let's go"

The Emperor only said two words lightly, and then closed his eyes again.

"Let's go!"

Su Buxing pointed forward, and the remaining dozens of brocade schools separated from the left and right, protecting Su Buxing and the emperor in the middle. Dozens of war horses marched in the direction of Chang'an City again, looking particularly tragic.

"Su is not afraid, why did you say that Liu Enjing didn't kill me directly, but sent someone to send me not far from Chang'an City, but transferred people away?"

The emperor asked.

Su Bu was not afraid to control the war horse to run steadily, and when he heard the emperor's words, his heart tightened, he knew an answer, but he didn't dare to say it.

"The slave can't guess."

He replied in a trembling voice.

"You can't guess...... You don't dare to say. ”

The emperor smiled bitterly, and then shook his head: "I am actually very pleased, and it is really the same......

Su Buxing's heart hurt as if he had been poked by a knife, he didn't dare to talk to the emperor anymore, biting his lip and urging the war horse to gallop forward. Dozens of people ran out less than three miles, and a loud horn sounded in front, followed by countless soldiers rushing out of the woods on both sides, blocking the official road. It looked like there were at least thousands of people, densely packed there, and the hard bows in their hands had been drawn.

Su Buxing immediately reined in the war horse, and dozens of brocade schools all stopped. They looked at each other, and then fixed their eyes on Su Budang.

More than a hundred steps away on the opposite side, a Lang general ran quickly to the back of the military formation and clenched his fist at an old man in armor sitting outside the woods: "General, people have stopped you!" What to do? ”

The old man sitting outside the woods was Yang Soon-hui, the assistant minister of military affairs of Gyeonggi Province who was personally appointed by the empress.

"Do what you have to do, why bother to ask me again!"

He glared at him fiercely, turned his head away from the south, and no one noticed that his nails had pierced into his palms.

"Whoa!"

The general replied and ran back quickly.

In a short time, a shout came from the military formation: "Archers ready!" Those people in front of them are traitors' spies, and they don't leave any of them, and they let go of their arrows! ”

Hearing this shout, Yang Shunhui, a veteran general who had been on the battlefield for a long time, trembled violently, and with trembling hands, he untied the wine bag from his waist, and then spilled the wine on the ground.

"Your Majesty...... Minister...... I have no choice! ”

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Seeing the archers in the opposite military formation putting feather arrows on their bows, the brocade schools around the emperor looked at Su Buxing one after another.

"Father-in-law, what should I do?"

Someone asked.

"What should I do?"

Su Buwei snorted coldly: "Your Majesty believes that you use you, it is a blessing from your three lifetimes." Now the time has come to be loyal to Your Majesty, so why do you need to ask me what to do? I'll just say one thing...... Even if all of us die, I'll be the last one to die, understand? ”

He said that we people do not include the emperor.

"Understood!"

Dozens of brocade clothes pulled out horizontal knives and urged the horses to protect Su Budor Tuan in the middle. At this moment, a shout came from the opposite side, and the archers released their arrows!

The dense feather arrows like a rainstorm poured down towards this side, and Su Buxing turned his head slightly and whispered to the emperor: "Your Majesty close your eyes and rest for a while, and the slave maid will take Your Majesty back to Chang'an." ”

The Emperor nodded, really closing his eyes and not looking any further. He hugged Su Buxing's arm tightly, and Su Buxing's heart was immediately shocked.

"For Your Majesty!"

He shouted loudly, and dozens of brocade schools followed with a shocking shout: "For Your Majesty!" ”

"Rush!"

Dozens of people rushed fearlessly towards the arrow array composed of thousands of elite soldiers. In the rain of arrows, they brandished their horizontal knives to block the feather arrows for Su Buwei and the emperor behind him, and because of this, they couldn't take care of themselves, so they fell off their horses one after another.

"A good boy of Jinyi School, give up his hometown for His Majesty, fearless of spring thunder and summer rain, regardless of the autumn wind and winter snow, Your Majesty points to the direction and swings forward with a knife!"

I don't know who sang it first, and the Jinyi schools immediately sang together. They waved their arms to shield the Emperor from arrows, but one by one, the feathered arrows burrowed into their bodies.

No one stopped, until only the thin eunuch, whom the emperor called an old dog, was left in the rain of arrows, and galloped forward with his thin emperor in his arms closed on his back.

Arrows rain down like tears

I don't know who I'm crying about.