Chapter 299: A Night of Fish and Dragon Dance
The horse's hooves stepped on the stone slab in front of the imperial city gate.
The cavalry of the Hundred Battles was already neatly lined up behind Ye Yingwu, and all the cavalry were holding the reins of the horse with one hand and the crossbow with the other. And the forbidden soldiers on the Hening Gate didn't mean to follow, after all, they could still feel the oppression of the Hundred Battles on the city gate, let alone on the flat ground.
"Envoy." Jiang Tie rode his horse to Ye Yingwu's side, "There are only soldiers on the city gate in front, and there seems to be no defender generals, and no one answers." โ
Ye Yingwu took two steps forward and shouted loudly: "Listen, the people at the city gate listen, this official is Ye Yingwu, the envoy of the Privy Council of the Great Song Dynasty, and he was ordered to enter the palace to see the driver, and open the door quickly!" โ
Sure enough, as Jiang Tie said, there was not a single voice on the city gate to answer, and the few forbidden soldiers who could see clearly were walking back and forth with knives and guns, as if they couldn't hear the shouts under the city gate at all. Ye Yingwu was slightly stunned, and immediately vaguely understood what was meant on the city gate.
If you don't eat hard and soft, it's good, don't blame me for not giving you a chance. Ye Yingwu's face turned cold, and he waved his hand at Jiang Tie, Jiang Tie suddenly understood, and immediately stepped forward: "Listen at the city gate, I will count five counts, and if you don't open the door after five counts, don't blame Tianwu Jun's sons for being ruthless!" โ
On the city gate, a forbidden soldier nervously tugged at the sleeve of the man next to him: "Xianggong, if this Tianwu Army really kills these days, what should we do, is it difficult to fight?" โ
The person standing next to him and squatting down slightly was Lu Shimeng, I have to say that this Lu Xianggong's courage is much smaller than Chen Yi's, after ordering to pretend not to pay attention to the words of the people in the city, he has been hiding in the city tower, Rao is not enough, and even let the guards occupy a row in front of him, for fear that the following will really shoot arrows if he really moves.
"There's no news from Wende Hall yet," Lu Shimeng couldn't help wiping the sweat on his forehead, and he didn't know what the guy in front of Chen Yizhong wanted to do, so he even said that he would let these people in, and the tall city gate like Ningmen, as long as he wanted to make it difficult to stop it, what he said could make it difficult for Lu Shimeng to catch a cup of tea here.
"Four!" Jiang Tie's lonely voice came from outside the city tower, with a rolling murderous aura.
The head of the head was also sweating: "Xianggong, if those guys below really do it, what should we do, these are all Xiangyang where they really killed with a knife and a gun, and the Mongolian Tartars are killed, this bow and crossbow alone, not to mention strong and durable, is the distance and accuracy of the shot are all very different." โ
Lu Shimeng didn't understand, but this head was very clear, don't look at the one hundred and ten brothers under him, except for the ten people who are not on duty today, and the ten people who are on empty salaries, half of the remaining eighty people still have the spears in their hands are all flowery, and the inside is hollow, and the appearance looks heavy, in fact, as long as you touch it lightly, you have to break it.
There are even some crossbowmen who can't even pull a normal crossbow, let alone wind a god arm crossbow or even a bed crossbow. The four or five forbidden troops on the city gate, if they shoot at each other, they can't compare to the two hundred cavalry under the city, and they are all convinced of this.
"One!" Jiang Tie's voice stopped abruptly.
Lu Shimeng felt that his heart was slammed, Chen Yizhong misunderstood me, and Jia Xianggong abandoned me!
"Siege!" Ye Yingwu drew his sword, and the war horse man stood up!
The next moment the arrows rained down on the gates, and ten horsemen simultaneously mobilized their horses, each carrying a bulging package behind them.
The roaring arrows came intensively, so that the forbidden soldiers on the city gate were taken aback, and they immediately panicked, where was the mighty spirit of patrolling back and forth just now, and even before the arrows could get close, they had already rushed down from the uptown trail crying for their fathers and mothers.
"Ignition!" Xiao Yangzi rushed to the city gate, the fire fold in his hand had been lit, and ten explosive packs that were supposed to be used for the flying thunder cannon were thrown under the city gate at the same time.
"Shoot the arrows!" Jiang Tie pointed to the city gate again, this time mainly for the battlements that might hide crossbowmen, after all, the first ten brothers were going to come back with their backs to the city gate.
Of course, this is only an assumption, in fact, when the first batch of arrows took the lives of four or five forbidden soldiers, they had already collapsed the entire forbidden army in the imperial city. Lu Shimeng looked at the row of guards standing in front of him with some surprise and disappeared in the blink of an eye, and the dense arrows roared and tore through the thin window paper on the city tower, piercing straight into his chest.
"Xianggong Lu, Lord Lu!" The Lu Shimeng, who shook his head and was hit by several arrows in his body and bleeding from the corners of his mouth, saw that Lu Shimeng did not react at all, and only then did he realize that the big thing was not good. Those guys in the city turned out to be really playing, and they didn't show mercy at all.
However, before he could stand up, the entire city gate shook violently, and the heavy wooden city gate, which was originally hard as a barrier, had been blasted open a large hole, revealing the Southern Song Dynasty Imperial Palace protected by it.
A sneer appeared at the corner of Ye Yingwu's mouth, Jiang Tie and the others had already taken the lead in roaring into the city gate, the city gate that once symbolized the royal family and the mortal world was easily torn apart by a hundred battles, and it didn't even need to be opened to the sides, it had already fallen straight to the ground, raising a lot of dust.
"Escort the princess Luan into the palace." Ye Yingwu clenched his sword, "Go to Wende Palace, but there are blockers along the road, don't count as killing!" โ
"Obey!" Xiao Yangzi arched his hand, and there was no need to hide the excitement and excitement on his face.
Although the opponent is the vulnerable Lin'an Forbidden Army, this is enough, and it is better than everyone being aggrieved day by day.
Suddenly remembering something, Ye Yingwu rode his horse to the side of the carriage: "Your Royal Highness Princess." โ
The curtain was opened, Zhao Yunshu's face was snow-white, without a trace of blood, and the hand that grabbed the curtain was also a little trembling, I don't know if she was frightened by the earth-shattering bang just now, or if she was nervous and entangled when she thought that she was about to enter the palace, but she still reluctantly said calmly: "Ye Xianggong has something to do?" โ
"I don't know if Her Royal Highness the princess has the courage to come up," Ye Yingwu patted the half-vacated saddle in front of him, "After all, I don't know what kind of surprise Jia Yidao prepared for a certain person behind this imperial city, after all, the carriage is too cumbersome, and there is no way for Her Highness to explain if there is anything good or bad, so I can only leave Her Royal Highness the princess here first and enter in the empty carriage." โ
The curtain was lowered, and there was silence in the carriage for a moment, but soon Zhao Yunshu slowly stood up, Ye Yingwu smiled and stretched out his hand, anyway, there was a layer of pants in the skirt, Princess Xin'an gritted her teeth, grabbed Ye Yingwu's hand, and then stepped on the stirrup, turned over a little awkwardly, and just fell into Ye Yingwu's open arms.
Although he has been familiar with this embrace for the past two days, Zhao Yunshu still trembles. Ye Yingwu smiled and stretched out his hand to wrap his arms around her waist, and the faint fragrance of the girl's hair was sent into her nose with the wind.
"Does Ye Envoy know that in the Imperial City, no one can gallop on horseback?" Behind him, Ye Yingwu's breathing was obviously three points heavier, and Zhao Yunshu couldn't help but say with a straight face.
"So what," Ye Yingwu replied in surprise, "This question has already been answered before, Her Royal Highness the Princess, because it is Ye Yingwu, and if you want to ride a horse in this imperial city, who can stop it." โ
Angry at Ye Yingwu's hand twisted hard, Princess Xin'an simply closed her eyes and leaned on Ye Yingwu's arms, she hadn't slept well for two days, only slept for a while when she was suffering from cold and low fever just now, and now she was dizzy and tired, so she simply let Ye Yingwu go.
"Xiaoyangzi, let's go."
At the moment when the gate of the imperial city was blown open, Jia Rudao felt bad, obviously he still underestimated Ye Yingwu's means and courage, not because he didn't inform Lu Shimeng that he could release him, but because Jia Nidao also wanted to use this to try where Ye Yingwu's bottom line was.
Who would have thought that this guy has no bottom line at all, as long as he thinks he should rush in, he simply blows up the door and rushes in. Looking at the forbidden soldiers who were slowly retreating beside him, Jia Yidao even regretted a little that he shouldn't have done anything with Ye Yingwu in this place.
With these forbidden troops who bully and bully the people, dealing with the Tianwu Army is like letting babies deal with giants, even if there are more babies, it will not help, just look at the forbidden soldiers who are constantly fleeing under the city gate.
"Reject the pistol!" Jia Rudao barely calmed down and said coldly.
But the soldiers of the forbidden army around him retreated one after another, and no one dared to step forward.
For a while, it turned out to be Jia Rudao, standing alone on the steps of the Wende Palace.
"Isn't that Jia Xianggong?" Jiang Tie was the first to rush to the bottom of the steps, if it was another time, he would not have the ability to gallop on a horse under His Royal Highness Wende, even today's officials do not have this ability.
"Don't be rude, step down." Ye Yingwu slowly came up from behind, and Zhao Yunshu struggled a little uneasily in his arms, but Ye Yingwu had arms like iron, and at this time, he couldn't let this girl break free and jump off the horse.
A cold smile appeared on the corner of Jia Yidao's mouth, these forbidden soldiers are really unreliable, but do you Ye Yingwu think that the old man will really put all the chips on a group of forbidden soldiers, so many years of hard work, it is not something you can imagine.
Several attendants hurriedly ran out of the Wende Palace, and one of them stood respectfully beside Jia Rudao, and said, "Jia Xianggong, the official family is invited to enter the palace." โ
The other attendant ran to the bottom of the steps quickly, and because of his hurry, he stepped on the last step of the air, and the whole person rolled under Ye Yingwu's horse in embarrassment. It's just that the cavalry of the Hundred Battles City all looked at the solemn hall under the bright moon at this time, and there was no smile on their faces.
The chamberlain straightened his clothes and said with a sad face: "Ye Yuanjun, Her Royal Highness the Princess, please also enter the Wende Palace, the official family is already waiting." โ
Ye Yingwu smiled, and finally let go of his arm, Zhao Yunshu jumped off the horse, although he still had a low-grade fever, but he finally had some strength, and ran quickly to the steps. Shrugged helplessly, Ye Yingwu also jumped off the horse, pressed his sword in his hand, turned around and said, "Xiao Yangzi, take two brothers to go up with you, and Jiang Tie, guard against this." โ
"Obey!" Xiao Yangzi and Jiang Tie responded at the same time, but then Xiao Yangzi said with a sad face:
"Envoy, just take two people up, isn't it a bit risky?"
"Are you scared?" Ye Yingwu sneered, "Then change people." โ
Xiao Yangzi didn't say anything more, even in such a situation, being able to take his personal guards to the palace was already breaking the convention, if he rushed up with hundreds of people, this was to enter the palace to see the driver or to rebel, although Xiao Yangzi didn't think that there was any difference between what Ye Yingwu was doing now and rebellion.
Ye Yingwu walked up the steps quickly and caught up with Zhao Yunshu: "Your illness is not well yet, what do you want to do in such a hurry." โ
Zhao Yunshu glanced at him coldly, struggled to walk up two steps, and finally did not hold his knees, panting, and at this time there was still half of the steps. Ye Yingwu walked to her side silently, looked up at a bright moon hanging over the main hall, and was a little distracted for a while.
"This may be the last time this palace will walk this path in front of Daddy." Zhao Yun relieved himself and answered Ye Yingwu's question softly, "Now as the princess of the Great Song Dynasty, I am going to meet the current official family, he is the king, I am the minister, since I have walked this step alone, the next time it may not be this step or this person." โ
Feeling the desolation and bitterness in Zhao Yunshu's words, Ye Yingwu was silent for a moment, and suddenly grabbed Zhao Yunshu's hand and walked up with her. Zhao Yunshu struggled twice, but he also knew that he couldn't climb up with his own ability, so he simply let him pull it.
The two of them had just reached the end of the steps, and the doors of the Wende Hall were all opened, as if a road to the unknown had been opened.
Dozens of forbidden soldiers armed with spears stood in front of the palace, looking at the two in front, three and five in fear as they walked up the steps.
Of course, there are handsome men and girls in the front, and the three people in the back are also holding sabers in their hands, and their eyes are blazing.
In the face of so many soldiers of the Forbidden Army, they never seemed to be afraid.
Zhao Yunshu took a breath and stepped forward slowly, staggering. Ye Yingwu pressed his sword in his hand and followed him closely: "Ye Yingwu, the envoy of the Privy Council, was ordered by the emperor to escort Princess Xin'an into the Hajj official's house, and the forbidden army should obey the orders of the Privy Council and retreat quickly!" โ
It's just that these forbidden soldiers turned a deaf ear, but their feet were obviously trembling.
"Get out of the way." Zhao Yu's somewhat impatient voice came from the main hall, and the forbidden soldiers were like being amnestied, and they dispersed in a hurry under everyone's gaze!
Zhao Yunshu smiled bitterly, didn't look at Ye Yingwu behind him, and stepped straight past the blade that was discarded at random, and stepped over the high threshold.
Zhao Yu walked out of the darkness quickly, and when he saw Zhao Yunshu's bloodless face, he felt a pain in his heart, and hurriedly stepped forward, but Zhao Yunshu fell to his knees on the cold floor with a bang: "Official, my daughter is not filial, but I ask for my life, and I hope that my father will spare Ye Xianggong's life." โ
The hands that stretched out to support Zhao Yunshu suddenly froze there, and Zhao Yu's brows furrowed tightly: "Shu'er, what do you mean by this." โ
At this time, Ye Yingwu had already entered the palace gate, pressed his sword, and stood quietly behind Zhao Yunshu, without the slightest intention of saluting Zhao Yu. Zhao Yu was secretly unhappy in his heart, and he didn't know why his most beloved daughter suddenly turned to outsiders, and he didn't know why Ye Yingwu, who was respectful and polite yesterday, was suddenly so arrogant.
He looked behind him in a little panic, Jia Rudao revealed his figure from the darkness, and a grim smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Ye Yingwu, you are really bold, you dare to break into this Wende Palace." Since you're here, don't think about what will happen to you. โ
Ye Yingwu smiled disdainfully. And Zhao Yunshu looked straight at Zhao Yu: "Daddy, Ye Xianggong was indeed framed by the traitor Jia Nidao, and the West Lake painting boat ยทยทยทยทยทยท"
"Smack!" A crisp sound echoed across the quiet hall.
If it weren't for Ye Yingwu's quick hand to hug him, I'm afraid Zhao Yunshu would be knocked to the ground by Zhao Yu's sudden slap. There were clear marks on the pretty face that originally had no blood, but Zhao Yunshu struggled to stand up.
"Shu'er, you are so confused! This Ye Yingwu wolf-hearted, chaotic minister and thief, why do you want to be with such a person, and you have to protect him! Zhao Yu stretched out his hand and pointed at Zhao Yunshu, his voice became colder and colder, "Don't think that usually your mother still spoils you, loves you, and protects you, so you can do whatever you want, confused, confused!" โ
Zhao Yunshu smiled sadly, looked at Ye Yingwu, and said softly, "I'm sorry." โ
Ye Yingwu shook his head, hugged her and stood up, frowning slightly: "Official, Jia Xianggong, you let so-and-so come, so-and-so has already come, let's talk about it, what are your orders." โ
Behind him, Xiao Yangzi and the other three took a step forward at the same time, and the saber was unsheathed!
Looking at the sudden flash of sword light in the moonlight, Zhao Yu was startled, hurriedly retreated, and fell to the ground unconsciously, but this official family did not mean to face this sword alone, and his embarrassed hands and feet climbed behind Jia Yidao, trembling.
This ยทยทยทยทยทยท This Ye Yingwu dared to show his knife in front of his own Great Song official?!
Ye Yingwu was stunned, and then smiled helplessly. Zhao Yu and Wang Anhe, who met before, why is this Da Song Dynasty so good-looking, energetic and majestic to his own women, but when he meets outsiders, he will not hesitate to soften directly.
"Does it hurt?" didn't even have the heart to take another look at Zhao Yu, Ye Yingwu just gently blew cool air on Zhao Yunshu's slightly swollen cheeks, and then grabbed her wrist, "Don't touch it with your hands, otherwise it will be even more swollen." (To be continued.) )