Chapter 268: Killing is Loyalty

Shangguan Sheng sat alone in the palace of Qinzheng, feeling lonely, he tried to sublimate this loneliness into some kind of nobler emotion, such as the loneliness of the emperor, but the result was powerless, he could not get rid of the little fear in his heart, it was this impurity that made his loneliness reduced to mediocrity. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Therefore, when the soldiers brought the king in, he was so pleased that he immediately got up from his stool.

The King rubbed his eyes and yawned, sat on his throne, and said listlessly, "Why did you wake me up so early?" ”

"Because someone wants to take His Majesty's throne." Shangguan Sheng's expression was serious.

The King of England yawned again, and snorted, his indifferent attitude angered Shangguan Sheng, "Doesn't Your Majesty care about the throne?" ”

King Ying was shocked, not worried about the throne, but afraid of Shangguan Sheng's hideous face, his eyes were red, tears welled up, and his mouth was flattened, so he was about to cry loudly.

Shangguan Sheng hurriedly knelt down, "Your Majesty, don't worry, as long as I am here, Your Majesty will always be the Emperor of Great Chu." ”

"Good...... Yes. The king did not cry, "You are a loyal servant...... Can you let the King of the East China Sea and the Tired Marquis enter the palace? ”

"These are the two who want to take the throne." Shangguan Sheng had already said about it, but King Ying always went in and out, and never took it to heart.

Even now, the King of England didn't care, his tears were not dry, and a smile appeared on his face, "The two of them, probably joking." ”

Shangguan Sheng stood up, walked to the bottom of the throne steps, and said in a soothing tone, "Is Your Majesty willing to go somewhere else to play?" ”

"Yes!" The king jumped up suddenly, completely sleepy, "The palace is really boring, whoever has more food, let's go ask for food." In his memory, the most interesting experience was following a group of people to the champion Hou's house to "ask for food".

"Tokai Country."

"Donghai Country? Is it the kingdom of the King of the East Sea? The King immediately thought of the connection between the two.

"Well, let's go to the hometown of the King of the East China Sea, rob him of his grain and land, and when he arrives, scare him."

The King of England cheered, "Go, go!" ”

"Yes." Shangguan Sheng needed this verbal "will".

From this point on, he no longer let the King of England leave him.

Then, Shangguan Sheng called in more than a dozen important generals under his command, these people were personally promoted and hired by him after he took office, and they should be loyal to him, "How is the battle outside the city?" ”

"It's still going on, Cui Taifu's southern army really wants to exterminate the Tired Hou, and with all our strength, we estimate that after dawn, we will soon be able to completely defeat the Tired Hou."

"It's going to be dawn." Shangguan Sheng muttered, and suddenly asked, "Do you like the capital?" ”

The generals were at a loss, and no one dared to answer this question.

"Until now, no minister has come out to support the new emperor." Shangguan Sheng said coldly.

One of the generals spoke: "When the war is over and the new emperor officially ascends the throne, the ministers will rush to bow down. ”

"Hey......" Shangguan Sheng sneered, "This battle is over, there is the next one, and there is even more next, the tired Hou is finished, but the Northern Army is on the way, which side do you think the Northern Army will support after it arrives in the capital?" ”

"Yes, of course...... Holy today. ”

Shangguan Sheng laughed loudly, hearing the lie, and also hearing the nervousness and lack of confidence in the lie, "The northern army will support the southern army, although the two armies compete with each other, they don't like the Su Guard, the contradiction has been going on for a long time...... Your Majesty has just issued an order to patrol the East China Sea Kingdom, so you should prepare immediately, and as soon as the battle outside the city is over, you will immediately escort and set off. ”

The generals looked at each other, and Shangguan said sharply: "What other questions?" ”

No one dared to refute, these people came from all over the world, most of them were not from the capital, and they had no objection to the "patrolling" of the East China Sea, but they felt that the timing was a little strange, Shangguan Sheng was angry, and they immediately softened, and said yes, and discussed the matter of leaving the city in front of Zhonglang General and the "emperor".

An officer hurriedly ran in, "General Shangguan, people from the palace...... Rebellion. ”

"Huh? Who rebelled? Who would dare to rebel? Shangguan Sheng held the hilt of the sword, and in the Qinzheng Palace, he was the only one with a weapon.

"Those eunuchs and palace maids, they opened the north gate of the palace......"

"Eunuchs and palace maids? Aren't they all arrested? ”

"Grab some and keep arresting people, they ...... And they rebelled. ”

Shangguan Sheng was furious, and suddenly thought of one more thing, "How can a group of slaves open the north gate?" What about the guards of the guards? ”

The officer replied in a panic: "I don't know who stole the key, opened the north gate, and...... And the soldiers guarding the gate seem to have deliberately let those eunuchs and palace maids escape......"

Shangguan Sheng slapped the table heavily, startling both the generals and the British king, "I know that these people are unreliable. ”

The Su Guards have undergone a great expansion and a great change, but there are still a group of old people left, whose main duty is to guard the palace gates.

The second officer who reported the news arrived, and was even more alarmed, "The people from outside have attacked from the north gate......

Shangguan Sheng was annoyed and ashamed, and yelled at the generals: "What are you waiting for? That's a rabble, stop them, kill them! ”

"Those eunuchs and palace maids ......"

"Kill! Kill them all, not one is left, they already have different intentions. There are also the guards guarding the gate, all of whom will be executed! ”

Shangguan was furious, and motioned for a general to pick up the king and take the lead to walk out, "Call your soldiers, as long as you are trustworthy." ”

There are still nearly 10,000 soldiers of the Su Guard Army in the palace, and the proportion of those recruited in the later period is seventy or eighty, and the generals will immediately carry out the order, and there are more and more followers behind Shangguan Sheng.

He walked to the depths of the palace, and as long as he met the eunuchs and palace maids along the way, regardless of whether the other party knelt down and kowtowed, or fled in all directions, he ordered to be killed, and soon, his soldiers no longer needed his orders, and they would kill anyone they saw.

Shangguan Sheng needed a killing, and he believed that the more people he killed in the palace, the more loyal the soldiers would be to him.

At the gate of the Empress Dowager's dormitory, Shangguan Sheng ordered the soldiers to stop killing, but other places, especially the area around the north gate, were not restricted.

The Queen Mother refused to meet her nephew, and more than a dozen eunuchs stood at the door, all terrified.

Shangguan Sheng said loudly through the door: "The palace is difficult to protect, Your Majesty has decided to go to the East China Sea Country to patrol and hunt, please prepare the queen mother immediately." ”

After a while, a voice came through the door and said, "I won't leave the palace, you can go." ”

"Queen Mother, we will come back sooner or later."

"I've made up my mind." The Queen Mother's voice was very cold.

The anger in Shangguan Sheng's heart jumped up again, and the eunuchs on the opposite side probably felt it, and they all knelt down in unison.

"Queen Mother, it was you who said that Great Chu needs a fresh start, and the East China Sea Country is the place to start over, and that is the hometown of our Shangguan clan."

"You shouldn't take my word for granted."

"The Queen Mother's ......"

"If you are the queen mother, you don't have to say much, if you don't think I am the queen mother, why do you have to say more?"

Shangguan Sheng felt angry, and there was a sense of humiliation of being deceived, but he didn't have a seizure, but slowly knelt down, kowtowed, got up and walked out.

There were a large number of soldiers lined up outside the gate of the dormitory, and the king was frightened, lying on the shoulders of those who carried him, and did not dare to raise his head.

Shangguan Sheng said loudly: "The Queen Mother wants to stay in the palace to be loyal to the first emperor, but there are too many demons and monsters in the palace, and before we leave, we must clean them up!" ”

Prior to this, the soldiers of the Su Guard Army only killed the people they met on the road, although they had killed the red eyes, there were not many people who really died, and after Shangguan Sheng gave the order, they began to break into the house and slaughter the palace people.

Shangguan Sheng came to a courtyard near the Queen Mother's dormitory, "The mother and wife of the King of the East China Sea, the wife of the Tired Marquis, and the son of the Champion Marquis all live here, and they are the leaders of the demons and monsters in the palace, and they are all executed. ”

The soldiers who have always been very obedient did not immediately carry out the order, Shangguan Sheng was slightly stunned, and understood that these people did not dare to make a move, and the Su Guards left the capital, saying that the emperor must be one of the kings of the East China Sea and the tired marquis, and killing their families would cause big trouble.

Shangguan Sheng stepped forward in person, the courtyard door was closed, he raised his hand and smashed it twice, and someone inside said in a trembling voice: "Unless the Queen Mother comes, this door will not be opened." ”

Shangguan Sheng snorted, pulled out his knife, turned to a general, and said coldly, "Set fire." ”

The general hesitated, then nodded, summoned his soldiers, and ordered them to collect firewood or cut down nearby trees.

Firewood was quickly found, some of which were piled up at the door and lit, while others were distributed among the dozens of generals present and lit into torches.

Shangguan Sheng was the first to move, struggling to throw the torches into the courtyard, and then supervised the generals and watched them throw the torches out one by one.

The fire grew bigger, and screams rang out in the yard.

Shangguan Sheng didn't wait to see the final result, he didn't have much time, and led the soldiers all the way to the north gate, still to see who killed whom. Halfway through, he turned to Taizu's clothing room and wanted to kill Yang Feng, but the eunuch who was tied to the pillar was nowhere to be seen.

The rabble that had stormed the north gate had been dispersed, leaving behind a litter of corpses, and the rest had either escaped from the palace or taken refuge elsewhere.

The soldiers of the Su Guard prepared their horses outside the north gate, and Shangguan Sheng mounted his horse and looked at the city wall, because the city gate was open, and he could hear the sound of fighting outside.

He planned to wait a little longer, and when the Su Guards returned victoriously, he would go out through the East City Gate as soon as possible.

Shangguan Sheng looked west again, and suddenly regretted joining forces with Cui Taifu, if he had planned to flee earlier, he should have introduced the Tired Marquis into the capital to confront the King of the East China Sea.

"Lin Kunshan!"

The Qi Seeker was pushed out by the soldiers and came to Shangguan Sheng Ma with a smile.

"You lied to me."

"The grass people don't dare, and the grass people don't have the ability to do this."

"You persuaded me to go east, why did you persuade me to join forces with Mrs. Cui to exterminate the tired marquis? Wouldn't it be better for me to have them compete with each other for victory? ”

Lin Kunshan really had no way out, so he could only bite the bullet and say: "Tired Hou is scheming, this time it may not be exterminated, but it will only weaken his strength and make him and Taifu Cui closer to being evenly matched, so that they will fight more fiercely in the future, and the more beneficial it will be to General Shangguan." ”

Shangguan Sheng stared at the Qi Watcher, "If you are tired, you will die too." ”

"General Shangguan's eastward trip this time is exactly the intention of employing people, Lin is incompetent, but ...... But...... Can attract the world's heroes......"

Lin Kunshan was searching his intestines and scraping his stomach, and the news of saving his life came in time.

A soldier came running on horseback and shouted from afar: "The Northern Army is coming!" The Northern Army is coming! The Tired Marquis was rushing towards the north gate. ”

Lin Kunshan was relieved, Shangguan Sheng gave an order to the generals around him with an expressionless face: "Go, take him." ”

There were only a few thousand of the tens of thousands of Su guards left, Shangguan Sheng didn't have time to gather more soldiers, and he wanted to kill some more people in the city, but it was also too late.

When Shangguan Sheng galloped out of the East City Gate, Han Ruzi happened to lead troops into the city, and soon after, he saw the tragic situation in the palace. (To be continued.) )