Chapter 102: How the Drought Is Like a Danger to the Heart (6)
"Lu Lang-kun lied to me?!" Chen Da still couldn't believe it: "But he has a secret letter written by Duhu himself." ”
"Forgery is a breeze for the prince." Wang Fei hurriedly said: "Don't rub it off, hurry up." Gongsun Gate breaks through the camp of the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army, and you need to rely on your identity. ”
"Okay, a certain letter Lang Jun!" Chen Da, who was out of breath, made up his mind.
The blue edge is dignified, and the sword aura is horizontal.
"Spare your life!" The sharp blade around his neck made Li Ren's ghost cry wolf. He thought that he was a hunter who drove eagles and rabbits tonight, but in the blink of an eye, he became the prey under the claws of the beast.
"Renzhilangjun, everyone in Chang'an City knows that you are talented and intelligent, and I want to see if you are really smart tonight." Aunt Gongsun's hand was slightly strained, and Li Renzhi's neck had a thin red line.
"Royal Guards, stop, let them go." Li Renzhi spared his life like gold.
In order to win the heart of the Xiangguo Party, King Sheng attached great importance to Li Renzhi and handed over the palace guards, which had been expanded several times, to him. The guards were half from Li Linfu's disciples, so they naturally obeyed Li Ren's words.
"Foolish, how can you let the assassin go." Shi Chaoyi's voice came from the east window of the dormitory, but without waiting for the Pinglu Ya mutiny formation to attack, a feather arrow followed the sound and broke through the window, if it weren't for Shi Chaoyi's long-term military formation and agility, this arrow would be enough to hurt his life.
"Rest assured, in the lower lowly and the like, they will never harm the life of Li Xiang's grandson." Surrounded by her disciples, Aunt Gongsun slowly withdrew from the northeast with Chen Da. Fan Qiuniang swung to the roof of the east side hall and fired several arrows in succession, killing four tooth soldiers and guards who were about to move.
The whistle flies in the air, and the night bird wakes up.
After Fan Qiuniang disappeared from the roof for a while, Wang Fei whistled to warn. Liu Xiaofei quietly left according to Wang Fei's order. Soon, the sound of bows and crossbows breaking through the air came from the palace wall in the northeast corner, but it was immediately drowned out by the neighing of war horses on the periphery of the palace.
"Your Highness, the assassins are afraid of His Highness's tiger might, and have retreated." Wang Fei took off his armor and shouted in front of the sword and shield array.
"Pinglu Tooth Soldiers, protect Your Highness!" Shi Chaoyi held a horizontal knife in his hand, cautiously walked out of the dormitory, and assigned four tooth soldiers to go away with fish talismans: "As a scholar of Hanlin, Fei Langjun is so skilled in swordsmanship. ”
"Shi Beijiang, I heard that when you were young, you went out with Lingzun to attack Hu, and you were unstoppable. Although he is not talented, a few years ago, he also followed his father to the west to conquer the stone country and fight Talas. After the gate, how can you not learn to ride and shoot? ”
At this time, the brigade of Pinglu soldiers in armor and swords poured into the courtyard like a tide to control the situation. After receiving Shi Chaoyi's hint, they unsheathed their knives and surrounded Wang Fei.
"What does Shi Bei mean by this?" Wang Fei withdrew the horizontal knife, and the wind was light.
"Fei Langjun, offended. However, the situation is not clear, and a certain dare not be sloppy. After Shi Chaoyi repeatedly confirmed that there was no threat in the courtyard, he invited King Sheng out of the palace.
"Where's Renno-kun?" Li Qi, whose face was pale, looked around and ignored Wang Fei.
The horses were restored, and the soldiers were moving.
"Your Highness, I'm late!" From the south side of the courtyard came Zhang Shouyu's angry roar.
Hundreds of Flying Dragon Forbidden Army armed with torches stood by under Gao Xiangui's command. Lu Qi hid in the shadows, pulling Liu Xiaofei to listen carefully to the chaos in the palace.
Zhang Shouyu turned over and dismounted, and before he could reach King Sheng, Li Renzhi suddenly stumbled into the courtyard from the north.
"Your Highness! Your Highness! Catch Wang Fei, he is an accomplice of the Assassins! ”
As soon as several palace guards were about to make a move, Gao Xiangui immediately rode his horse forward, and the flying dragoon urged the horse with a flat lance, putting on a charging posture, and the huge coercion made the palace guards stop in a sneering manner.
"High division, don't mess around!" Zhang Shouyu was stern in his mouth, but there was a bit of approval in his expression. Lu Qi took the opportunity to come to Zhang Shouyu's side and whispered a few words.
Before leaving, Gao Weng summoned Zhang Shouyu to the mansion, and in addition to telling him to protect Wang Fei, he also warned him to be loyal to the saint and not to get involved in the battle for succession.
"General Shouyu should remember that no matter who enters the East Palace, the world is still the world of saints. Thou shalt not be fooled and unsteady. ”
Colliers's beating words are still in his ears, and Zhang Shouyu also knows that the saint has strong bones and can still swing a stick to play polo. Therefore, he firmly remembered Gao Weng's entrustment, and did not deliberately get close to King Sheng on the road, but always paid attention to Wang Fei's safety and did not dare to be negligent in the slightest.
The torch is blazing, and the armor is forested.
"General Zhang, General Shibei, Renzhisheren, why can assassins kill a certain dormitory?" Li Qi was furious.
"Your Highness atons for your sins, and the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army obeys His Highness's order and guards the palace. However, the gate of the palace was guarded by the Pinglu Ya soldiers, and the dormitory belonged to the royal guards. If it weren't for the whistle of Fei Langjun, I really didn't know that there was such a big movement in the palace. Zhang Shouyu skillfully played an official tone and shirked responsibility.
"Your Highness, it was Wang Fei who colluded with the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army and let the assassins enter the palace!" The embarrassed Li Renzhi shouted.
"Renzhilang-kun, you can't talk nonsense. The Wyvern Forbidden Army escorted His Highness to pray for rain at the behest of His Majesty, how could it collude with the assassins? Zhang Shouyu immediately retorted.
"General Zhang, according to the tooth soldiers stationed at the south gate of the palace, it was indeed Chen Da, the commander of the Flying Dragon Army, who brought the assassin to the palace." Shi Chaoyi recruited several tooth soldiers and put on a posture of proof.
"Where's Chen Da?" Zhang Shouyu turned his head and shouted.
"General, Chen Lvshuai took more than 20 brothers to patrol the night tonight, and suddenly disappeared at the beginning of the day, and a certain person sent someone to search for a long time and found the rest of the soldiers, only Chen Lvshuai was missing. According to the soldiers, it was a group of female swordsmen who attacked them by surprise, kidnapped Chen Lushuai, and robbed a lot of battle robes. Lu Qi replied in a deep voice.
"Oh, in that case, it was the assassins who kidnapped Chen Da." Zhang Shouyu knelt down and said: "Your Highness, you are not strict in managing the troops under you, and after you go back, you will ask the saint and Gao Weng for their guilt." ”
"Nonsense, a certain look is true, Chen Da attacked the palace guards and the Lu Ya soldiers." Li Renzhi, who was frightened, was so angry that he no longer had the graceful and suave attitude of the past: "You mean that the deer is a horse and a female yellow mouthful." ”
"Renzhi Langjun, whether General Zhang refers to the deer as a horse does not dare to say anything, but he has seen it with his own eyes tonight." Seeing that Li Ren's death was entangled, Wang Fei decided to criticize and fight back against his vital points.
"Back from the dead?" Everyone in the courtyard looked at each other.
"Your Highness, do you know why so-and-so came here suddenly?" Wang Fei said eloquently: "In fact, before His Highness was assassinated, his residence in Xia was also attacked. Fortunately, my father was very strict, and he was able to repel the assassins and capture a few prisoners. According to the captives, their leader was Wang Zhun, the son of the criminal minister Wang Jie. ”
"Nonsense!" Li Renzhi was originally very nervous when he heard Wang Fei mention Wang Zhun, but when he heard that Wang Fei did not catch Wang Zhun, his arrogance resurged.
"If Your Highness doesn't believe it, you can send someone to the southeast corner of the courtyard to rummage through it, and Wang Zhun's body will lie there."
When Wang Fei arrived, he found that there were many corpses lying on the ground, and several of them were dressed similarly to the killer who assassinated him. Judging from the wounds, Wang Zhun was killed by someone who cut his throat with a sharp sword, and the perpetrator was ruthless and accurate, and his method was quite similar to that of Gongsun Gate.
"Hey, it's really Wang Zhun." Gao Xiangui has played several polo games with Wang Zhun since he entered Beijing: "Didn't Lingnan Dao say that he died of summer fever?" ”
The sudden change made King Sheng quite incredible, Li Renzhi was panicked at first, and then calmed down, while Shi Chaoyi was thoughtful.
"Your Highness, I was worried that Wang Zhun had a bigger conspiracy, so I hurried to remind General Shi Bei and Renzhilangjun. It was still a step too late, and the Assassin was already approaching the dormitory, intending to commit murder. Wang Fei took out the energy to tell the story to Ayitengna, and started to talk about it with a colorful voice.
"Wang Zhun is not on good terms with his subordinates, and everyone in Chang'an City knows it. When the Suyeju hot pot restaurant opened, the gangsters who came to provoke and make trouble were all directed by Wang Zhun. And he relied on the power of the criminal minister Wang Ji to run rampant in Chang'an. After being convicted and exiled, he must have been very angry with the saint and the court in his heart. I don't know what means he used, or if he had accomplices secretly helping, Jin Cicada broke out of his shell, absconded back to Beijing, and recruited manpower, intending to find an opportunity to take revenge on the saint. ”
"His Royal Highness is favored by the saint, and because of the big pheasant ceremony, he left the palace and entered the mountain, for Wang Zhun, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Therefore, he ordered his subordinates to kidnap Chen Da, the commander of the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army, deceived the Pinglu Ya soldiers, and invaded the palace, intending to assassinate His Highness, and killed him by the way. ”
"But His Royal Highness, the phoenix son and dragon grandson, the bell of the mandate of heaven, and the blessing of the sky, how can it be hurt by the young. General Zhang and General Shi Bei were not surprised and dealt with well. In the end, the culprit was captured and killed, and a major hidden danger was removed for the saint. When the rest of the Assassins saw that the king had given him the head, they scattered as birds and beasts. ”
The sound is clear and tight.
"Fei Langjun made it up like it was real, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would definitely not have thought that there were actually two groups of assassins...... Liu Xiaofei was convinced of Wang Fei's ability to "make things up".
"I occasionally heard the Lord of the True Pearl recite a sentence: When the fake is true, the truth is also false, and there is no inaction. What is true and what is false in this world, what everyone sees is only what they expect to be true......" Lu Qi's thoughts were much more far-reaching.
"Witty words, export chapters." Gao Xiangui sighed to himself: "My mouth is clumsy, Xiaoyun naturally won't like ......"
King Sheng and Shi Chaoyi were silent, bowing their heads in contemplation.
"Fei Langjun is very eloquent, and the monks in the Temple of Mercy and Grace are just like that." Li Renzhi high-fived and sneered: "However, Wang Zhun is dead, everything is dead without proof, Fei Langjun can say whatever he wants." However, listening to your words alone, is it a bit boring, and I also want to talk about a paragraph to change the text......"
Without waiting for Li Renzhi to finish speaking, Wang Fei asked: "Renzhi Langjun, if you don't want people to know, you can't do anything unless you do." Although Lingnan is far away, it can finally be reached by galloping horses and boats. ”
"This ......" Li Renzhi heard the threat in Wang Fei's words, his face changed greatly, and he covered his neck and said, "Blood...... Find the accompanying medical officer......"
After the palace guards helped Li Renzhi back to the east side of the palace, Wang Fei untied the horizontal knife and threw it to Gao Xiangui, approached Li Qi and said, "Your Highness, can you take a step to speak?" ”
"Yes!" Li Qi waved his hand, signaling Shi Chaoyi not to worry.
After everyone dispersed for more than ten steps, Wang Fei said in a low voice: "Your Highness is naturally intelligent, and you must know how much speculation you have to say. However, His Highness is accustomed to seeing turmoil in the court, and he should understand why the truth is never important, what matters is what the saint wants to see. At present, His Royal Highness's grace is flourishing, and a higher level is just around the corner. What the saint needs to see is an outstanding, heroic and extraordinary highness who can inherit the Tang Dynasty. If at this critical juncture, it is rumored that His Highness has no way to control his subordinates and the royal palace guards are disorganized, what good will it do His Highness? His Highness knew who had sent the assassins, but without the slightest evidence in hand, it was not enough to put the other party to death. What is useless is not done by the wise. A certain word is all here, I hope His Royal Highness will think twice. ”
Dark clouds floated, and forest waves bursted.
After staring at Wang Fei for a long time, King Sheng finally nodded and said: "I have heard Gao Weng and Li Zhao Langjun praise for a long time, and tonight I know that there is no vanity under the fame." If he has time in the future, can he come to a certain house to talk about poetry. ”
"Your Highness, as long as there is no objection to Renzhilangjun, how dare you disobey your fate." Wang Fei arched his hand and left in style.
"Your Highness, is the assassination so easy to expose?" Shi Chaoyi couldn't help but mutter: "This son is cunning and should not be underestimated." ”
"People who can make the emperor's brother love and hate are not easy to match." Li Qi sighed: "Although he hides his selfish intentions, he can keep up with the key points of the current situation, so he will play the saint according to his words." But you secretly want to send more men to search for the traces of the assassins, and see if you can use this to completely bring down the crown prince. ”
After Shi Chaoyi was ordered to leave, Li Qi returned to the dormitory and said to himself: "Li Renzhi is far inferior to Wang Fei, but in order to rein in Li Linfu's henchmen, he has to show his favor. Wang Fei is not a thing in the pool, and he has wings like a tiger; If it is not used by me, it will be killed in the future! ”
Wash the mountains and rivers, such as burning.
The next day, the Assassins, who had not slept all night, climbed to the top of Lishan Mountain, burned incense to the heavens, and prayed for rain. What made Li Qi overjoyed was that on the way back to Chang'an to restore his life, clouds suddenly gathered, and Gyeonggi Pu rained.
Li Qi, who was full of joy, jumped out of the carriage and danced in the rain, bowing to the sky; Li Renyi swept away the decadent Tang and shouted loudly in the dust stirred up by the raindrops: "The destiny of heaven returns, the king is a thousand years old!" Shi Chaoyi, who has always been cautious, couldn't stop his turmoil and raised his arms and shouted! Zhang Shouyu and other soldiers of the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army were also shocked by the spectacle, and they dismounted and knelt down one after another.
Among the crowd, only Wang Fei, who raised his eyes to the sky, was worried: "The clouds are thin and the rain is thin, which is just a drop in the bucket for the drought." Moreover, Gyeonggi is not a place of serious disaster, and a light rain has made the king famous, but it also means that the crown prince has no way to retreat, and the battle for the heir will become more and more tragic and endless. After returning to Beijing, it is necessary to weaken the power of the Jiedu as soon as possible, otherwise once the center falls into chaos, no one can control the Sifang Jiezhen, and the world will be in turmoil. ”
A drizzle moistened Chang'an, a few people were sad and a few people were happy.
Chen, who thought about it behind closed doors. Xilie drank at the rain and was overjoyed. This summer rain is simply his life-sustaining golden pill, and he will no longer have to worry about being excluded by Yang Guozhong in the future, nor will he have to worry about the wealth of his children and grandchildren.
The top and bottom of the East Palace were discouraged and depressed. Only the prince seemed indifferent and still fasted in the quiet room of the apse.
"Your Highness, the more dangerous the situation, the more impatient you can't be, Wang Jue's plan is a big gamble with no advance or retreat, the possibility of luck is not great, once it fails, it will be lost. Fortunately, Aunt Gongsun was still clever and retreated early, leaving no handle......"
"Jingzhong, listen to the sound of rain outside the window, is there a way out?" Li Heng interrupted Li Jingzhong's complaint with a cold face.
After a long time, Li Jingzhong said in a voice like a thin thread: "Your Highness is willing to follow Emperor Taizong?" ”
"If it weren't for Wang Zhonghei, he would have been the emperor twelve years ago!" Li Heng slapped his palm on the desk.
"So far, since the saint has taken the lead and pressed step by step, not giving His Highness room to breathe, why doesn't His Highness overturn the chessboard?" Li Jingzhong's face was full of anger.
"It may have been like this back then, but now a certain force is lonely, Wang Zhengjian is more unreliable than Wang Zhonghei, how can he lift the chessboard?" Li Heng was gloomy.
Li Jingzhong whispered a few words, and Li Heng stroked his beard and sighed: "This thief is as cunning as a fox, how can you lure him in?" ”
"Yang Guozhong." Li Jingzhong said in one word.
A few days later, Su Shisanniang, who accompanied her parents and helped with disaster relief in Huaizhou, ushered in a group of uninvited guests who were dusty and injured; Chen Da's family, who was far away in Tingzhou, quietly disappeared and was never heard from.
The Central Plains is dry, and the south of the sword is green.
At the end of June, after crossing the Dadu River again by boat, Li Sheng, the captain of the Jiannanya Military Academy, looked back, but saw the banner covering the sky and the spear like a forest, but he was worried in his heart: "After this battle, how many robes will be buried in the wilderness?" What is the benefit of such a fight for the country and the people? Marshal, why does no one spare the lives of the soldiers except you? Where is your real murderer hiding? ”