Chapter 184: Extraneous Branches

Jing Zhao was silent at first, and then said with a sad face: "This matter is related to the laws and regulations of the imperial court, and it is not for Jing to be the master." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 However, what Xing'er said just now is not unreasonable, this matter will be waited until the holy car returns to Luan, and Jing has his own measure. ”

Lai Xing'er listened to his tone and no longer forced him, so he opened the topic and asked him in detail about the movements of the officials and troops outside the city.

Everyone has already clarified the goal of action in their hearts, and preliminarily agreed on the methods and steps of action, and suddenly their hearts are much brighter. At this moment, the old servant brought some wine and meat dishes to entertain Jing Zhao, and the old sacrificial wine beckoned everyone to sit down in a group around the desk in the hall, and drank it in a staggered manner, as if they were still in Chang'an City occupied by the Tubo people.

In the next few days, according to the agreement with Jing Zhao, Lai Xing'er explained to Bo Hu the task of disturbing the hearts of the Tubo army, although Bo Hu also felt that this was not as good as doing a real battle with the Tubo people, but he was not as full of heart as Xin Shi Niang, when even if he agreed, as long as he heard the sound of the drums in the Daming Palace, his brothers would spread rumors that the official army had invaded Chang'an at the twelve city gates of Chang'an.

On the day when Jing Zhao went out of the city again to summon the news, he sneaked into the Daming Palace by water, quietly climbed the drum tower, and ambushed there.

Lai Xing'er was concerned about Jiang Zhongshi, lest he be lonely and slack on the drum tower alone, and failed to detect the movement of the Tubo army out of the city in time, so as to delay the big event, so he privately discussed with the old sacrificial wine, and the old sacrificial wine came forward to stabilize Jinping for Lai Xing'er, and he himself slipped into the Daming Palace twice a day in the morning and evening, climbed the drum tower, and replaced Jiang Zhongshi to monitor the movements of the Tubo army.

Fortunately, at that time, the vast majority of the Tubo army was ordered by Nasimo, either selected into the vanguard assault army, preparing to attack Fenning, or busy shouting and supervising the people of Chang'an at the gates of the city to assist them in defending the city, and most of the people who stayed on duty in the Daming Palace were concentrated near the Xuanzheng Palace, so the precautions in other parts of the Daming Palace were not strict, giving Laixinger an opportunity to take advantage of.

Including Jinping, everyone is busy preparing for the decisive battle that may come at any time, only Xin Twelve Niang is alone in the room for a few days, looking idle all day long. Jinping occasionally came to talk to her, but before she could say a word, she was explicitly or secretly ordered to evict guests and kicked out of the room.

In this way, in the early morning of the twelfth day of the Tubo people's invasion of Chang'an City, when Lai Xing'er had just slipped into the Daming Palace as usual and climbed the drum tower, before he could gain a firm foothold on the drum tower, he heard Jiang Zhongshi exclaim: "Big brother, look, the Tubo people are gathering cavalry!" ”

Lai Xing'er was in high spirits, and hurriedly looked in the direction of Jiangzhongshi's finger, and sure enough, he saw that thousands of Tibetan cavalry were gathering in a queue in the spacious field outside Chengtian Gate. The Tubo general who rode his horse and stood in front of the cavalry queue, Lai Xing'er looked at it from a distance, and he looked quite familiar.

"How. Big brother, beat the drums, right? ”

Lai Xing'er turned his head to look at the sound, only to see Jiang Zhongshi's face flushed with excitement, and his hands had already manipulated the two drumsticks with the thickness of the bowl.

However, Lai Xing'er did not rush to signal Jiangzhong Stone to beat the Dengwen Drum, but turned his attention to the Xuanzheng Hall in the Daming Palace. According to Lai Xing'er's expectations, since the Tubo people were going to make a desperate long-distance expedition of more than 200 miles, intending to recapture the Fenning fortress from Jingyuncong, then Nasimo, as the commander of the whole army, would at least show his face in front of the soldiers before this carefully selected cavalry unit left the city to boost morale. At this time, seeing that the cavalry of the brigade had assembled outside the Chengtian Gate, ready to go on the expedition, as long as Nasimo appeared and the cavalry left the city, Lai Xing'er decided to instruct Jiangzhongshi to beat the Dengwen drum and send out the signal for attack.

Lai Xing'er's eyes had just turned to the direction of the Xuanzheng Palace, but he unexpectedly found another familiar figure on a large tree with lush foliage on the east side of the Xuanzheng Palace: Xin Twelve Niang.

Oops, not good! Lai Xing'er only felt a sigh in his heart, Xin Twelve Niang appeared near the Xuanzheng Hall at this time, needless to say, it should be for the purpose of assassinating Na Simo. At this time, the most elite cavalry of the Tibetan army had just assembled and stood by, and if they found out that the Chinese army had broken into the Assassins, then they would not have gone out of the city to attack the Fenning fortress anyway. And as long as this cavalry unit remains in the city, under the condition that the strength of the officers and troops outside the city is weak, even if the inside and the outside are combined, it is difficult to have any chance of victory.

No, I'm going to stop her from doing this reckless act without regard for the overall situation! As soon as Lai Xing'er thought of this, he immediately turned back to Jiang Zhongshi and instructed sharply: "Remember, only when this cavalry leaves the city can the drum be transmitted!" Then, without waiting for Jiang Zhongshi to react to what was going on, he slipped down the drum tower along the rope and rushed in the direction of the Xuanzheng Palace.

Lai Xing'er did not expect that before the attack he planned was about to begin, the Tubo general Na Ximo was trying his best to persuade the puppet emperor Li Chenghong, whom he had personally erected, in the Xuanzheng Palace, to rush with him to the Chengtian Gate to cheer for the vanguard assault army.

Tang Kuan looked forward to it for a few days, only looking forward to the position of a loose official of the Yinqing Guanglu doctor, and he was not ranked as the third prince as Nasimo promised in advance. Therefore, these days always seem to be sluggish and unable to keep up. Fortunately, there are only a handful of ministers who can take on important responsibilities in the new court, and Nasimo reassured him that as long as the situation in Chang'an is stabilized, he will teach him to achieve his wishes, so although he is full of complaints, he still has to go to the Xuanzheng Hall every day to accompany him, and listen to the dispatch of the actual "Emperor Taishang" Nasimo.

Seeing that the Tubo people could not stay in Chang'an City anymore, the cavalry brigade assembled outside the Chengtian Gate early this morning was said to have opened the way for Na Simo to lead the army to withdraw from Chang'an, and learned the news, not only Li Chenghong, who had been sitting on the emperor's seat for a few days, but even Tang Kuan, the earliest minister, felt empty in his heart, where did he have any intention to follow Na Simo to the army to march for them.

At the same time that Lai Xing'er found Xin Twelve Niang hidden near the Xuanzheng Hall on the drum tower, in the Xuanzheng Palace, Tang Kuan was racking his brains and thinking hard about how to find out the true plans of the Tubo people from Nasimo's mouth, but the new emperor Li Chenghong, who was sitting on the dragon seat in the hall, politely declined Nasimo's request to ask him to move to Chengtianmen and see off the soldiers who were about to go out of the city to attack Fenning on the grounds that the Tubo cavalry belonged to two dynasties and did not understand each other's language. (To be continued.) )