Chapter 828: Old Friends

Just when Wang Roar followed Duguyi into Wanchun-Gong, Nancheng Xiongtumen finally couldn't bear Yan Yunjun's gunpowder and was blown up, and the masonry piled up in the door hole was pushed out, and the defenders inside were injured by the agitated rubble. And at the same time as the city gate was broken, the rebel soldiers, with a white cloth wrapped around their right arm, began to retreat in an orderly manner. Not only that, but when the news that Yan Yun's army had entered the city spread, the rebels who attacked the city gates in the east and west cities also immediately withdrew and assembled in the direction of Wanchun Palace.

It was only at this time that people were surprised to find that there were so many people who had suddenly rebelled against the king. In the shortest possible time, the soldiers who gathered in the Wanchun Palace were no less than 20,000. These soldiers gathered outside the Wanchun Palace and surrounded the palace. If you don't enter the palace, you won't disperse.

Wang Roar followed behind Duguyi, and a cold-hearted person like him didn't dare to look at the surrounding scenes. The palace was full of corpses, and most of the corpses of those palace maids and eunuchs were fragmented, and it was difficult to find even a complete one. Blood flowed down the cracks in the masonry in the aisles, making a chirp sound when stepped on it.

Wang roared and even delusionalized that the blood stuck to his boots, as if there were countless pairs of unjust souls holding his feet, and it was difficult to move an inch.

"Who wants to see me?"

Wang Yan took a deep breath and calmed his heart down a bit.

"I'll be waiting for you in the Imperial Study."

Dugu Yi didn't say much, lowered his head and continued to walk.

"Isn't this going too far?"

Wang roared and pointed to the stumps and severed arms everywhere: "These palace maids and eunuchs have no sin, they are just subordinates, they do some cleaning and serving people every day, why do they need to kill them all?" ”

Dugu Yi paused for a moment, looked back at Wang He and said word by word: "Because they have served you." ”

Wang Yan's face changed suddenly, and he couldn't help but clench the horizontal knife at his waist.

Duguyi's eyes swept over Wang Yan's hand with contempt, and he continued to walk forward: "The horizontal knife in your hand now is useless except for suicide, and I can tell you very seriously and responsibly, even if you commit suicide...... Your corpse will also be chopped up and fed to the dogs. But it would be better if you had the courage to kill yourself now, because I can't guarantee that we would kill you more than you did. ”

"I can't die yet."

Wang Roar's hand left the hilt of the knife and followed: "I am a person who easily gets into the tip of the horns, and when I don't know why you rebel, it is as if I have a stone in my heart. If I don't understand who is behind the trouble, how can I die steadily? ”

"It's like a man."

Dugu Yi sneered and didn't speak.

When he walked to the door of the imperial study, Dugu Yi made a gesture of please and walked to the side. At this time, the palace was full of rebels with white cloth wrapped around their right arm, and all those who resisted were killed. Wang He had no doubt that the more than 10,000 elites of the forbidden army he had arranged in the Wanchun-Palace no longer existed.

When he saw more than a dozen rebellious generals standing in a row at the door of the imperial study, Wang Yan's heart moved faintly. His face suddenly calmed down, and he even tidied up his clothes before entering the door of the imperial study.

When he walked in the door and saw the familiar figure sitting behind the desk, he was no longer surprised, and even smiled with relief.

"Only you can do that...... I just didn't expect that you had the courage to hide in the city of Zhaozhou without escaping. ”

The man sitting behind the desk was gray-haired, square-faced, bearded, and burly. He was wearing an ordinary gray cloth robe, but he looked more like an emperor than Wang Yan.

In fact, he was indeed an emperor.

Dou Jiande

"In front of me, you dare to call yourself me?"

Dou Jiande sneered, looked at the jade seal on the table and couldn't help but sigh: "That's right, after all, you have succeeded in turning my Great Xia into your Great Zhou." ”

Wang Yan smiled, found a chair and sat down, looked at Dou Jiande, and asked calmly, "I just can't figure it out, why did you choose to do it at this time?" Since you have the ability to secretly control so many people, why didn't you remove me from power sooner? It is indeed easy to succeed when Yan Yunjun is attacking the city, but isn't this helping Li Xian? Even if you kill me and snatch that chair back, what's the point? With the tens of thousands of people in your hands, can you still stop the hundreds of thousands of elite Yanyun troops who have already entered Yuzhou City? ”

"Because I'm not trying to get this chair back."

A trace of killing intent flashed in Dou Jiande's eyes, he didn't call himself me anymore, but me.

"Didn't you snatch this chair back?"

Wang was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "Then I can't understand it. ”

Dou Jiande stood up and slowly walked towards Wang Roar: "All I want is to kill you, it's as simple as that." The reason why I started at this time, you are right, because this is the time when the possibility of success is greatest. And one more reason...... I have to find a good home for my loyal sons. ”

……

……

Wang Yan thought about it for a long time, but he didn't understand what Dou Jiande meant.

"I snatched the dragon chair from you, and that alone is enough to fill you with hatred. You're going to kill me, I understand. What I don't understand is why you are willing to make a wedding dress for Li Xian? ”

Dou Jiande shook his head: "Because you only have power and desire in your eyes, you have already gone to other things." I thought about it for a long time during the months I spent hiding in the city, and then I realized that I didn't hate you for stealing my throne. If you investigate it carefully, then the throne was lost by me and not by you. I have always regarded Great Xia as my private property, I am afraid that I will be snatched away by others, and I am afraid that I will not let my children and grandchildren sit on that chair...... So I did too many wrong things. ”

"If I hadn't done so many wrong things, you thought you would have succeeded?"

Dou Jiande asked.

Wang Yan thought about it carefully, and then shook his head: "No." ”

"I hate you, not because you took what belongs to me."

Dou Jiande walked up to Wang Yan, leaned over to look at Wang Yan's face, and said word by word: "It was you who killed my wife." ”

Wang roared and sitting, and Dou Jiande stood.

So Wang Yan suddenly found that he looked a little weak, Dou Jiande looked down at him with a gaze that was not sharp, but it made his heart tremble.

"She wasn't a good wife, and I wanted to abandon her at one point, even ...... There was a time when I wanted to kill her. Because her jealousy is too strong, because she is too domineering. She always thinks about her family, and always thinks that I don't want to hand over the power of the court to others, and it is better to hand it over to their Cao family. I always thought she was left with selfishness...... After she died, I suddenly realized that her selfishness was selfish for me. ”

"She wanted me to hand over the power to her family because she didn't trust anyone else either. She was afraid that my country would be stolen, so she desperately wanted her family to help me. Before escaping from the palace that day, Xiao Yizhen provoked me...... Let me abandon my wife, and it was at that moment that I realized that no matter how beautiful a woman is, it is not as good as the wife who has accompanied me all my life. ”

"In order for me to escape the palace safely, she made an excuse to leave alone. I know he's afraid of getting into trouble with me, because with a woman with me, it's hard for me to escape the search of your soldiers. I searched for her in the palace like crazy, and I couldn't find her in many places...... The next day I found out, and your men caught her. ”

Dou Jiande looked at Wang Yan's eyes, and said in a calm but deep sadness tone: "Since that day, I have been preparing to avenge her. Now that I think about it, I haven't thought about reclaiming that chair once in all these days. Fortunately...... Although I have done many wrong things, the generals and soldiers in the army are far more loyal to me than to you. Duguyi and they are all veteran generals under your father Wang Fubao, and the reason why I didn't immediately turn against you because you killed Wang Fubao was because I was hiding in Duguyi's army at that time. ”

"You've been looking for me, but how could you have thought that I was hiding in the army?"

Dou Jiande said: "I didn't let Duguyi and them turn against you immediately, because I wanted to find a good way out for them." Even if I had done it before, I could still have killed you, but so what? Great Xia is dead, and even if I sit back on that chair, I won't be able to take back the entire country. That's why I'll keep waiting, and I won't do it until the Yanyun army is attacking the city. Such...... Duguyi and they threw themselves under Li Xian, which can be regarded as having a stable future. ”

"As for me......"

Dou Jiande suddenly reached out and grabbed Wang Yan's neck: "As long as I can kill you, what regrets do I have?" ”

Wang Roar instinctively wanted to struggle, but was immediately held down by several soldiers behind him. Dou Jiande, who grabbed him by the neck, did not kill him immediately, but took out a portrait from his arms and hung it on the wall, lighting three sticks of incense.

The portrait is his wife Cao.

……

……

Li Xian predicted many ways to break through Zhaozhou, and he even thought that if Zhaozhou was really impregnable, then he would have to blow up and collapse the city wall even if he was desperate for losses. If you can't climb over the walls, then tear them down. This is already the last stone in front of him in the Central Plains, how could he give up?

Even if the loss is greater, even if the city is destroyed.

He never thought that entering the state would be such a way. It wasn't the secret spies who stayed in the city of Zhaozhou before who established miraculous feats, and it wasn't the generals and courtiers under Wang Roar who took refuge in them for themselves. It was much easier than expected to enter the state because Dou Jiande actually stabbed Wang Roar in the back at this time.

When Li Xian arrived outside the Wanchun Palace, the entire city of Yuzhou had been controlled by the Yan Yun Army. The more than 20,000 Xia soldiers outside the palace were the last enemies who had not yet laid down their weapons.

Seeing King Yan wearing black armor riding a big black horse, the 20,000 Xia soldiers suddenly discarded the weapons in their hands to the ground. They didn't kneel, and they didn't say anything else. They just looked at this man with some apprehension, waiting for this person to make a decision.

When he arrived outside the palace gate, Li Xian already knew what had happened.

For these Xia soldiers, he knew how to place.

"Those who are willing to stay will be paid according to the veterans, and today's military merits can be discounted into ten acres of Xuntian, plus a reward of 20 yuan. If you don't want to stay, everyone will be given 50 yuan of money, issued vouchers, and you can also get 10 acres of Xuntian after returning home. Regardless of whether they stay or want to leave, they will all be handled according to the treatment of veterans of Yanyun Army. ”

"King Xie Yan!"

Dugu Yi, who was driven out by Dou Jiande to greet Li Xian outside the palace gate, bowed down after hearing Li Xian's words, and the Xia soldiers who had lost their weapons broke out into cheers.

"Where is King Xia?"

Li Xian asked.

Dugu Yi glanced back at the main hall of Wanchun-Gong and said in a low voice: "I'm waiting for you." ”

Li Xian hummed, waved his hand to signal the entourage not to follow, and slowly walked into the palace, not far in front of the main hall, under a crooked neck weeping willow, Dou Jiande, dressed in gray cloth, beckoned to Li Xian, like an old friend who had not seen him for many years.