Chapter 41: The Verge
It didn't take long for Bai Fan's matter to gradually subside, after all, neither side of the contradiction wanted to fight to the death with the other party!
However, the political disputes between the DPRK and China are becoming more and more intense, the Prince's Mansion and the Qin Wang's Mansion are almost like fire and water, and the entire Chang'an City seems to be filled with an extremely tense atmosphere!
At this time, Chang'an is like a powder keg, it may only take a spark to completely detonate it!
On June 3, the crown prince Jiancheng received a secret report that Li Shimin, the king of Qin, relied on his prestige in the army and secretly dispatched 50,000 military horses to Chang'an!
This news caused the entire prince's mansion to boil, and Li Jiancheng urgently summoned his subordinates to discuss countermeasures!
In the end, everyone came to a conclusion that the Qin Wangfu was suppressed by the Prince's Mansion for a long time, and was ready to fight back desperately!
Knowing in his heart his second brother's ability to lead troops to fight, Li Jiancheng couldn't help but panic a little, when the second brother surrounded Luoyang with 100,000 soldiers and horses, even though Luoyang City was as strong as iron? It's still been captured!
Chang'an City today? Not to mention whether the city is strong or not, just say that many generals in the city can respond to the army, and it is estimated that the city will not be broken for half a day!
"Zhuqing, when this time of life and death is at stake, is there a good plan?" Li Jiancheng asked.
The next strategist Wang Si pondered for a moment, and replied: "Your Highness, the situation is urgent, we can't hesitate any longer, we must strike first, as long as we take the King of Qin, then the army will be leaderless, and this crisis will be solved!" At that time, the matter of the Qin Palace's gathering of troops to rebel will be confirmed, and it will be difficult for the King of Qin to turn over! ”
Everyone immediately seconded the proposal, and what Lord Wang said was extremely true!
Wei Zheng also nodded, looking at Li Jiancheng, the meaning is obvious, just wait for the prince's decision!
Li Jiancheng hesitated for a moment and said, "Having said that, but King Qin's subordinates have countless martial arts, how can they take it?" Who to send? ”
Everyone was silent, that's right, the Tang Dynasty was in charge of the Tiance Mansion of King Qin, although all the generals were suppressed by the Prince's Mansion and swallowed their anger before, but when it came to their lives, it is estimated that those martial artists would also fight hard!
It's not that the Prince's Mansion doesn't have people who dare to fight, and the Xue brothers alone have the courage of ten thousand people, but there are still no more people in Tiance Mansion!
Just when everyone was thinking hard and there was no good solution, a young man on the side of the advisor spoke up.
"Your Highness, Weichen has a plan!"
Everyone looked at this man, and it was him!
This person is Ma Zhou, a strategist who served the prince's mansion a few months ago, although he is young but talented, and has many strange schemes, many of the various methods of the prince's mansion against the Qin Wangfu were his proposals, and the prince's mansion has been able to suppress the Qin Wangfu in recent months, and there is a credit for this person!
"Oh? Ma Qing has a good plan, let's talk quickly! Li Jiancheng urged.
Although Ma Zhounai is a newcomer, he has won the unanimous trust of everyone in the prince's mansion, and no one doubts his background and personality.
This person was originally the prince's general Chang He Menke, and later heard that the prince's mansion intended to recruit talents to compete with the Qin Wangfu, so he came to the same place, and soon after the effect, he repeatedly resorted to strange schemes to harm the king of Qin and the generals of the Qin Wangfu, just imagine, a person who can think of such means as hiding from the prince and secretly poisoning and assassinating the king of Qin, how can it be the side of the king of Qin, and even many people wonder if this product has a grudge against the king of Qin!
Ma Zhou got up and said loudly, "The matter of King Qin's gathering of troops, we are secretly investigating and knowing, and the top priority should be to go to report to the saint as soon as possible, although there is some intention to startle the snake, but if the saint is not known, we will not be able to rely on our strength alone!"
This matter has not yet spread, and after reporting to the sage, the sage will definitely send someone to investigate, or summon the king of Qin to confront him, so that we will have a chance to do it! ”
Wei Zheng asked, "Even so, King Qin has a lot of guards, where to do it?" On Chang'an Avenue? Or is it in the Imperial City? Not really! ”
Ma Zhou said with a smile, "Lord Wei's words are wrong, although we can't do it in the city because of the influence among the people, but we can do it in the palace!"
The following ministers speculated that when His Majesty asked King Qin to enter the palace to confront him, King Qin should enter the palace through the Xuanwu Gate, and the palace was full of forbidden troops who could not do it, but what about the Xuanwu Gate? The guards there are our men!
At that time, as long as we secretly ambush our two hundred archers in the Xuanwu Gate, as soon as the King of Qin comes, Guan Bao will shoot them into hedgehogs! ”
In the end, Ma Zhou's tone was calm, and everyone was arguing, this product is here again, if it weren't for the enmity with King Qin to kill his father, we wouldn't believe it!
Good! King Bin (Ma Zhou's word) is high, this plan is wonderful! Your Highness, the old minister seconded the proposal!
Ministers seconded! The strategists shouted in unison!
Li Jiancheng was still nodding his head in approval when he heard it at first, but at the end of hearing it, he imagined that his second brother was shot into a hedgehog, and cold sweat flowed down in an instant, and he couldn't bear it in his heart, his own brother, he had never thought of killing him! After all, I grew up watching it since I was a child, where can I give it up!
Li Jiancheng said, "Okay! Ma Qing's plan is very good! But if you want to replace 200 archers with 300 sword and axe men, I and the King of Qin are brothers of flesh and blood, how can we kill them? The so-called two fists are hard to beat four hands, there are three hundred people, it is enough to take him down, remember, only capture and not kill!
The King of Qin gathered troops to rebel in the name of Yicheng, and was captured by us and others, there will be no threat to us in the future, remember not to kill! Preserve the righteousness of our brothers! ”
All the civil and military congratulated in unison, Your Highness is benevolent and righteous!
Just when the crown prince entered the palace to play Li Yuan, a secret message was received in the palace of King Qin, and the prince was going to do it in Xuanwu Gate tomorrow!
Li Shimin secretly summoned a group of confidants to discuss with the civil and military, and after months of hard work, the great cause was achieved in the Ming Dynasty!
"Auxiliary, have things been arranged?" Li Shimin asked the eldest grandson Wuji.
"King Qin, rest assured, Xuanwumen will be on duty tomorrow by General Chang He, on the surface he is the prince's person, but in fact, he has already taken refuge in our Qin Palace! And in order to prevent accidents, His Majesty also arranged General Chang's adjutant general as our follow-up, and this matter will be foolproof!
In addition, most of the guards in other parts of the Xuanwu Gate are from our Qin Palace, so after something happens, they won't make a move on us! ”
Well! My brother-in-law's ability to plan and calculate is really reassuring!
Fang Xuanling asked, "Your Highness, the most important thing tomorrow is how to arrange the guards, after all, there are many armor soldiers on the other side, and the safety of Your Highness is the key!" ”
Li Shimin nodded, not bad! was about to make a statement to arrange the guards and the people who made the move, when he suddenly remembered Bai Fan's words, so he pondered for a long time and said: "Tomorrow Wenchen will not go, the military generals will bring Jingde, Shubao, Zhijie, and Junji, plus my personal guards are enough!"
Outside the Xuanwu Gate, Duke Mao and Gong Jin are in charge of everything, and Zhixuan in the Qin Palace's mansion is responsible for guarding!
Auxiliary, Xuanling, Keming, you are sitting in the center, just in case! ”
Wait for the command!