Yang Xuangan smiled, his eyes fell on the people at the gate of the city again, and his brows furrowed involuntarily: "What do you think these people should do?" If we enter the city, they will also follow in, and it may cause chaos at that time, and if the city gate is blocked, it will be affected when we transfer the troops from the East Palace to come out. Mi brother, do you have any good way to get these people to leave? ”

Li Mi's expression suddenly became stern, he looked at those people, and said in a low voice: "I think these people are by no means simple, if they were ordinary businessmen, if they didn't open the city gate for half a day, they should have dispersed a long time ago, but these people are all concentrated here." And do you see it, most of them are young and strong, carrying carts, big brother, don't you think there is an article here? ”

Yang Xuangan didn't notice this just now, but when he took a closer look this time, he found that most of these people were powerful young and strong, and the people who carried the burden and drove the car were all vigorous when they walked, which was different from ordinary people. In contrast, the ratio of women and children to the elderly is almost negligible.

Yang Xuangan's heart froze: "Brother Mi, do you mean that these people may be traitors with bad intentions?" ”

Li Mi nodded: "It is very likely, it has now reached the most critical moment, I think whether it is Yang Yong or other forces, it is unlikely that they will sit still, most of them will fight to the death, we have been in Changsun Sheng's military camp for an hour, maybe the news has leaked out, so there are so many strong men guarding here, trying to follow us into the city, and with an order, we can start an incident." ”

The more Yang Xuangan thought about it, the more frightened he became: "It's completely possible, if we transfer the guards of the East Palace, and Changsun Sheng doesn't have time to send troops over." Then these people can directly attack the East Palace. Rescue Yang Yong. You can also put Princess Xiao and King Jin, and even the hundred officials who stayed in Beijing in their hands, in order to turn the tables. ”

Li Mi said in a deep voice: "Yes, so Changsun Sheng gave the order to close all the city gates and not open the city, it seems that he has heard some rumors, and this move is not mainly to guard against us, but to guard against the invisible black hand." ”

Yang Xuan remembered that last night in Renshou Palace, Chen Guiren, who had cooperated with Yang Guang for many years, suddenly betrayed Yang Guang. gave Yang Jian the letter between Yang Guang and Yang Su secretly, although he didn't understand the reason for her move, but at least he knew that she had been planning for a long time, and there was indeed an invisible mysterious force involved in the battle for the throne of the Great Sui, the more he thought about it, the more afraid he became, and a cold sweat broke out on his back.

Li Mi glanced at the crowd in the distance, some of them had already looked over, and some of the guys with full faces stood up in groups of three and whispered, suddenly. Li Mi exclaimed in surprise: "Big brother, do you see if those two are your subordinates?" ”

Yang Xuangan looked at Li Mi's fingers. Sure enough, I saw two big men dressed in black, leading their horses, walking around in a hurry like ants in a hot pot, it was the two intelligence officers who met in the Tongshan Mountain Road in the middle of the night before, thinking that it was because their horses were not as fast as their own, and they had already caught up with the city gate to close when they ran to Daxing, so they could not enter the city, and they were in a hurry.

When Li Mi saw these two people, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said, "Big brother, I have an idea." ”

Yang Xuan asked anxiously: "What should I do, say it quickly." ”

Li Mi said: "These two strong men of yours must be able to fly the eaves and walk the wall, and climb the wall with a hook." ”

Yang Xuangan nodded: "Exactly, they are all masters of the rivers and lakes, and they often want to enter and exit the city at night, but this time Daxing City is heavily guarded, and every section of the city wall is guarded by soldiers, so they can't use this method to sneak in." ”

Li Mi smiled and said, "We don't need to get in, we can enter the city openly." Doesn't the eldest brother have that Changsun Sheng's arrow, I expect that when you climb the city, you won't dare to embarrass you and cut the rope, but after you go to the city, you will be surrounded by soldiers, and you can show this arrow when the time comes. After you enter the city, you will transfer the soldiers and horses of the East Palace to come over to guard, and there are Xiaoguo cavalry to open the way, and these people will not dare to act rashly. When the time comes, just close the gates. ”

Yang Xuangan nodded again and again when he heard this, and suddenly remembered something, and said, "Then what should you do?" Do you want to climb the rope with me into the city too? This Daxing city is high and wide, and it may not be easy for the secret brother to go to the city. ”

Li Mi shook his head: "I don't have the ability of a big brother to climb up, but I can go back to Changsun Sheng's camp, this guy doesn't seem to be completely dead, he is still waiting, if these people really enter the East Palace to rescue Yang Yong, it is not ruled out that Changsun Sheng will defect again." So he deliberately delayed the time and did not send troops over, just to see the final result before making a decision. I just went to urge him to dispel his last illusions. ”

Yang Xuangan nodded vigorously and said, "Then do it." ”

The two black-clothed men also found Yang Xuangan and Li Mi, glanced at each other, and rode on the horse, Yang Xuangan waved his hand at the two, pointed to the distance, and ran in the direction he pointed, while Li Mi turned the horse's head and ran towards the camp of Changsun Sheng from afar.

The strong men blocking the city gate did not ride horses, and could only watch the two big men in black run farther and farther, and gradually lost sight.

After Yang Xuangan ran out of two miles, he stopped at the horse, and after a while, two black-clothed men followed, and after seeing Yang Xuangan, he saluted on the horse, and a person on the left was named Liu Si, and said with a ashamed face: "Young master, I'm really sorry, we ......."

Yang Xuangan directly waved his hand to interrupt his words, and said in a deep voice: "Needless to say, I already know everything about the matter, and now that I am in a hurry, I think you two can also see that those people outside the city gate are not good." ”

Liu Si and another man named Li Qi glanced at each other and said: "We also think it's strange, although these are civilians, they all have fierce faces, and they are obviously Jianghu characters, and we also found that these people all know each other and whisper in groups." ”

"In fact, when we first arrived, there were only a few dozen vendors here at the city gate who wanted to enter the city to sell vegetables, and the officers in the city said that after the city gate was closed today, those vendors left, but at about three o'clock in the morning, thousands of strong men came all at once, as if they had made an appointment to come together."

Yang Xuangan nodded: "If my expectations are correct, these people are guys who want to take the opportunity to enter the city to make trouble, the reason why I asked you two to return to the city and inform Steward Yang to close the door of the mansion and prepare to meet the enemy." It's just to guard against these people. Thankfully, the gates are closed today. Otherwise, they will go into the city. Anything can happen. ”

Liu Si and Li Qi gasped and said in unison, "What now?" ”

Yang Xuangan asked, "Do you two have climbing items like flying cymbal hooks?" ”

Liu Si blinked, jumped off the horse, turned out a bundle of ropes in the saddle, and the head of the rope took a claw hook, and asked, "Is this the main thing?" ”

Yang Xuangan was overjoyed when he saw this thing, and said, "It's exactly this thing." Now I want to jump over the moat and use this hook to tie up the walls. Climb up to the city. I have here the arrows of General Changsun and the edict of the emperor, as long as I enter the city, it will be fine. ”

Liu Si smiled: "I see, the young master is really thoughtful, I can't wait for it." ”

Li Qi thought for a while and said, "Young Master, you may not be able to enter the city like this." ”

Yang Xuan felt a slight flurry and asked, "Why is this?" ”

Li Qi took a step forward, patted the armor on Yang Xuangan's body, and said, "The young master's armor is more than a hundred catties. The moat is four or five feet wide, and you're wearing so heavy. This horse is not your black cloud, and it may not be able to jump over, even if you cross the moat, if you want to enter the city, it will be difficult to wear this full body armor. ”

Yang Xuan slapped his head heavily: "Li Qi, thanks to your reminder, I almost missed a big event." ”

So Yang Xuangan jumped off the horse, took off the full set of armor, and threw it on the side of the road, Liu Si looked at the set of armor, his eyes were full of regret and envy.

Yang Xuangan was looking at Liu Si while taking it off, knowing that he was reluctant to throw such a good pair of armor here for others to pick up, and laughed: "Liu Si, a pair of armor is nothing big, if this thing is done, I will reward you and Li Qiyi with ten sets of armor." ”

After Liu Si heard this, he suddenly came to his senses, and he hurriedly thanked Yang Xuangan.

After Yang Xuangan took off his armor, he only wore a middle coat on his body, and inserted the arrow of Changsun Sheng into his belt, while the edict was put into his arms, and the bundle of flying grabs for Shangcheng was hung on the saddle.

After a qiē was about to stop, Yang Xuangan turned over and said to Liu Si and Li Qi: "Let's find a section of the city wall in a while, I will jump directly over the moat and climb the city, you two can take the rope to swim across the river, and then climb up to the city." Both of them clasped their fists and said yes.

The three of them had made up their minds, and they made a detour of two miles in the direction of the south of the city, avoiding the men at the gates.

Yang Xuangan looked at the tall city wall of Daxing City from a distance, and whipped the horse fiercely, the horse neighed after being in pain, lowered his head and galloped at full speed, and suddenly threw off the two horses of Liu Si and Li Qi, and in the billowing smoke and dust, one person and one horse rushed to the edge of the moat in an instant like a sharp arrow off the string.

Yang Xuangan gritted his teeth, kicked the horse's belly hard, and added a whip to the yellow zebra's butt by the way, the horse was a BMW that could travel thousands of miles a day.

After the yellow zebra landed, it was not in time, and almost hit the city wall, but fortunately, Yang Xuangan's riding skills were excellent, and as soon as he pulled the reins, the horse's front hooves stood high, and the hind hooves turned, which stopped castration.

Yang Xuan touched the horse's mane in distress, and said in a low voice: "Good brother, I'm sorry for you." The horse seemed to be human, shaking his head and exhaling, and his front hooves were ground twice.

At this time, there was a loud shout from the city: "What man? Do you dare to cross the pond and want to rebel? ”

Yang Xuangan looked up, and saw an officer dressed as a governor shouting at him, and beside him and him, four or five crossbow arrows were already aimed at him.

Yang Xuangan raised his head, took out the arrow tied to his waist and shook it, and said in a loud voice: "I am Yang Xuangan of Shangzhu Kingdom, and I entered the city with the emperor's edict, because there was a chaotic party at the city gate, so I got the order of General Changsun and entered the city from this city wall." This is the order of General Changsun, you can check it first. ”

Yang Xuangan said, threw the arrow in his hand hard, and threw it directly at the head of the city more than ten zhang high, which happened to be picked up by the brigade commander.

After the brigade commander got the arrow, he saw that it was the right guard order of Changsun Sheng, and then looked at Yang Xuangan, and shouted in a deep voice: "General Yang, the villain also fought back against the Turks with Marshal Yang back then, and saw the heroic posture of the general on the battlefield, but the military order is in his body, and he does not dare to let the general enter the city without the order arrow of General Changsun. ”

Yang Xuangan shouted: "No need! As he spoke, he grabbed the bundle and shook it a few times, and then threw it up to the head of the city, and at once set up the battlements of the city wall.

Yang Xuangan pulled twice and grabbed the fly. Motionless. Peace of mind. He was afraid that the edict would fall if his shirt was loose, so he bit the edict tightly in his mouth, grabbed the rope, stepped on the city wall, and climbed up the city as fast as he could.

When Yang Xuangan jumped into the city wall, he saw Liu Si and Li Qi also swimming across the river, and they were running towards the city wall wet. The governor was about to ask the two of them. Yang Xuan hurriedly said: "These two people are my entourage, and I also ask the general to make it convenient." ”

The brigade commander gave a military salute: "The general has an order, how dare the last general disobey." Turning back, he loudly ordered the sergeants at the head of the city to lower one more rope and let the two climb up to the top of the city.

Yang Xuangan retrieved the arrow from the governor, and rushed down the city, just as a team of patrol cavalry passed under the city, Yang Xuangan stepped forward and directly stopped the team, showed the arrow and his own waist card, grabbed the mount of the leading team, and ran directly to the prince's east palace in the Daxing Palace.

The Prince's East Palace was built in Daxing Palace, which is only separated by a wall from the Imperial Palace. At this time, the five thousand Xiaoguo had already surrounded this palace that was only two miles square by three layers inside and three layers outside.

Since Yang Jian went to Renshou Palace, Chen Guiren and Cai Guiren also followed. There are no important concubines in the harem, and the crown prince Yang Guang's princess Xiao, the eldest son Yang Zhao of Jin, the second son Yang Jun of Qi, and the family of the most important former prince Yang Yong, as well as the father and son of Yang Xiu, the king of Shu, are all concentrated in this east palace.

If Renshou Palace is the present of the empire, then the current East Palace can be said to be the future of the Great Sui, and its importance cannot be overestimated.

Now, the gate of the East Palace is closed, and the palace wall is full of armor soldiers with half of their bodies sticking out, holding bows and crossbows, and looking nervously at the palace road in front of them. On both sides of the gate, there are three sentry posts, and chariots are parked at each sentry post, and there are antlers in front of the car, blocking the wide palace road so that only one rider can enter and exit.

A veteran of medium stature, white beard and hair, neatly draped all over his body is sitting in the square behind the gate of the East Palace, the veteran's two eyebrows are almost connected, like a clump of weeds, and two deep nasolabial folds on the wings of the nose are shaking like a living creature as the veteran's facial muscles twitch.

The veteran is now in charge of the defense of the East Palace and even the entire Daxing Palace, the crown prince Zuowei Yuwen Shu, he is sixty-two years old this year, still energetic, majestic, although he is sitting on the horse behind the palace gate, but as calm and thick as a mountain, there is no tension in the East Palace.

Yu Wenshu looked at a general who was kneeling in front of him, and his voice was calm and calm: "Haven't Yang Xuangan and Li Mi entered the city yet?" ”

The kneeling guard was a heroic, mighty and strong young man between his eyebrows, who looked like he was just in his early twenties, and he was also equipped with the standard equipment of Donggong Qianniu.

Silver helmet, red tassel, bright light armor, shoulder armor cloud swallowing beast, copper nail sleeves, animal skin belt, skirt armor, shin armor, riding boots, from head to toe, everything is available, the young soldier is kneeling on one knee, and said in a deep voice: "The last general has just returned from the city, and Yang Xuangan and Li Mi have been in Changsun Sheng's camp for an hour, and there is still no movement there." ”

Yang Zhao, who was so fat that he moved Roshan, was pacing around Yu Wenshu at this moment, with large drops of sweat hanging on his sideburns, and the silk yellow robe he was wearing was already soaked with sweat, showing the anxiety in his heart.

Hearing the young man's words, Yang Zhao stopped, stared at the young officer and asked, "Chai Shao, is there really no movement at all in Changsun Sheng's camp?" ”

The young officer's name was Chai Shao, a son of an official family, and his grandfather Chai Lie was an official in the same dynasty as Yang Jian in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and became a hussar general.

And Chai Shao's father, Chai Shen, has been serving as the prince of the Great Sui, this official position is purely responsible for the guards of the East Palace, not as close to the prince's personal relationship as the left and right guard rates, so he was not implicated too much when Yang Yong fell, and was finally named the prince of Julu County, and returned home safely.

Chai Shao can be said to be a generation of generals, since he was a child, he likes to dance with guns and sticks, practice a good martial arts, and like to make friends with heroes in the rivers and lakes when he is a little older.

Two years ago, Chai Shao performed the crown ceremony, and Yang Zhao heard about his heroic name, and he yearned for it, so he begged Yang Jian to seal him a prince in the East Palace Qianniu to prepare for the official position of the sixth grade, and let him follow him as a guard.

A year ago, when Yang Xuangan met Yang Zhao after ending Ding Wei, Chai Shao happened to have official business to do temporarily, and he didn't see the world-famous Yang Xuangan, and he was very sorry in his heart, but he and Li Mi served in the East Palace together, and often traveled with Yang Zhao with Li Mi, so he was very familiar with Li Mi.

When Yang and Li first arrived at the city gate, Chai Shao was not in the city, but patrolled around the west gate, and later when Changsun Sheng took the two back to the barracks, he heard the news and rushed to go, but he was a step late, only to see the back of the two riding away horses, and waited for an hour before returning to the East Palace in disappointment to report the matter to Yang Zhao and Yuwen, and by the way, a lot of suspicious strong men suddenly came outside the city gate.

After listening to the report, Yuwenshu nodded, and said to Chai Shao: "You did a good job, go back to the city first and then take a look, if Yang Xuangan really brought the holy decree, and Changsun Sheng dared not let him enter the city, it would mean that Changsun Sheng had a bad intention, and we must be prepared." Also, none of the strong men outside the city are allowed to enter, so they say that this is my Yuwenshu's general order. (To be continued......)

PS: Thank you for the encouragement from netizen fkingbitch.