Chapter 37: The Water Flows Eastward
"Hahaha......" Qiu Shiliang suddenly let out a sneer. When it came to the end, they could laugh out loud, and everyone looked at each other for a while.
"Oh, no!" Han Yue suddenly let out an exclamation, and before he could finish speaking, the more than twenty elite armor soldiers in front of Qiu Shiliang suddenly lost their weapons and choked their throats one by one, with a look of horror on their faces. Blood was gurgling from between their fingers. More than 20 people began to repeat the same movements: holding their throats with their hands, kneeling on their knees, bowing their heads, and falling forward, finally dying of gas.
There was chaos in all directions, and all the armorers retreated.
The inconspicuous little eunuch beside Qiu Shiliang slowly raised his arm at this time, and he held a steel-forged pruning knife in his hand, and a drop of blood was falling from the blade. It turned out to be this inconspicuous knife that killed more than 20 armor soldiers in an instant. Hundreds of armor soldiers retreated again, and they were all intimidated by the strange martial arts of the little eunuch, and their faces were like ashes, like ghosts.
The little eunuch sneered, and didn't seem to talk about the hundreds of people in front of him at all. He turned around and looked up at Meng Bochang on the roof, and said coldly, "Why don't you try whether your arrow is fast or my knife is fast." Meng Bochang sneered and replied, "I also have this intention." As he spoke, he threw away the golden arrow in his hand, put down the carved bow, and hung his hand at his side. When the little eunuch saw this, he put the knife in his boot and stood with his hands down.
Everyone's hearts hung in their throats.
"Whoosh!" A silver light went straight towards Meng Bochang.
"Shhh A golden light went straight to the little eunuch.
No one could tell which of the two would strike first, and no one could predict who would fall first.
The result of victory and defeat was instantaneous: Meng Bochang fell! There was a dead silence in the courtyard of Zuo Jinwu.
The little eunuch raised his hand, and he was holding a golden feather arrow in his hand! It's the golden feather arrow that only the "fatal judge" Meng Bochang has! He flipped his wrist and raised the golden feather arrow high above his head, and the golden feather arrow was like a flaming torch, driving the hundreds of stunned armor soldiers in the courtyard back step by step.
"Wow-" Han Yue opened his mouth and vomited blood, and immediately fainted.
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On the Longwei Road on both sides of the Hanyuan Palace, a group of eunuchs shouted "Long live", crying and rushing upwards, and the Qianniu guards and prison guards guarding the Longwei Road waved sticks and leather whips, scolding loudly, and the sticks rained down on the eunuchs crowded in the front. Seven or eight eunuchs had already died of their injuries on the Dragon Tail Road, but more were still pouring forward.
Before a stick of incense, Qiu Shiliang told the eunuchs in the palace that the traitorous minister Li Xun colluded with the ministers of the court and the central government to design to kill all the eunuchs in the Daming Palace. More than a dozen eunuchs in charge of the Inner Servant Province had been slaughtered by Li Xun's henchman Han Yue in the Zuo Jinwu Courtyard, and their mutilated bodies were then carried around the Daming Palace by dozens of sturdy eunuchs.
The eunuchs of the Daming Palace were enraged.
Thousands of eunuchs quickly gathered in the square in front of the Hanyuan Palace, and they lay on the cold ground, prostrating their heads to the Hanyuan Hall and shouting long live, asking the emperor to make decisions for themselves. Their wails echoed over the Daming Palace and also reached the ears of Emperor Chinese of Hanyuan Hall. Li Ang frowned, his eyes stared at Zuo Jinwu Courtyard, according to the agreement, once Han Yue succeeded, he would release colorful wolf smoke to report the good news, and then he would summon the ministers and hundreds of officials to announce that Qiu Shiliang and Yu Hongzhi had been executed for rebellion, and immediately sent someone to take over the left and right Shence Army, so that the eunuch disaster that harmed the Tang Dynasty for nearly a hundred years would be solved once and for all. He will also go down in history because of this, and will be admired by future generations.
Alas, the palace will once again become a slaughterhouse.
In Li Ang's eyes, the thousands of eunuchs under his nose were nothing more than a group of sheep to be slaughtered, and the Danfeng Gate a mile away had been quietly opened, and five hundred armor soldiers with sharp blades were quietly approaching the crowd. These 500 people were warriors recruited privately by Guo Xingyu, the envoy of the Suining Festival. Originally, outside the Danfeng Gate, there were 500 Jiashi from Hedong Jiedu who made Wang Fan's private placement. After Li Xun designed to send Qiu Shiliang and Yu Hongzhi to Jinwu Courtyard, he immediately sent Guo Xingyu and Wang Fan into the palace to see them. At the moment of crisis, Wang Fan hid. The 500 Hedong soldiers he led were leaderless and scattered in a hurry.
A wonderful picture appeared in front of the eyes of the Tang Emperor: the corpses of the eunuchs were all over the field, the blood was flowing like a river, the limbs were flying wildly, and the liver and brain were smeared on the ground. The loyal and brave soldiers held bloody blades to present the heads of the culprits in front of the dragon chair, and the officials shouted long live, and the people in Chang'an City beat gongs and drums and traveled in full costume, and its grand occasion was ten times more lively than their own enthronement ceremony.
This picture has already appeared in dreams more than once, and today, this scene will become a reality!
Screams came one after another, and the armor soldiers with sharp blades rushed into the flock like a fierce tiger, rampage, and invincible. It took a long time for the stunned eunuchs to come to their senses, this is to kill themselves. In order to save their lives, they had to resist, they grabbed with their hands, gritted with their teeth, and banged their heads against ......
Guo Xingyu saw this tragic scene, and only felt that his scalp was exploding. The eunuchs in the square in front of Hanyuan Hall couldn't see the edge at a glance, although his five hundred armor soldiers were as brave as tigers, but the tigers also had times when they were tired, it was not an easy task to kill so many eunuchs! It didn't take long for all five hundred to turn into blood, and the slaughter was still going on with impunity, but the warriors' arms had begun to sore, the sharp blades had begun to crack, and even more fatally, their hearts had begun to tremble!
Finally someone began to quietly retreat.
"No retreat! Kill me! Guo Xingyu brandished his bloody long sword and roared loudly, his face distorted with horror. His whole body was covered in blood, his purple robe and armor were dyed dark red, and even his gray beard was dyed red, and he was extremely anxious in his heart: there were fifteen thousand eunuchs in the Daming Palace! If you continue to kill at this rate, when will it be a head? He looked at the towering Hanyuan Palace, and shouted exhaustedly: "Your Majesty, Li Xun is incompetent and has failed you." ”
Li Ang, who was standing on the high platform of Hanyuan Hall and watching the battle, was also a little breathless, he turned around in a daze, his footing was unsteady and almost fell, Li Xun hurriedly came over to help, and was pushed away by him. Qi Mo stretched out his hand to support Li Ang, and he comforted the exhausted and pale emperor: "Lord Luo and Lord Li's two ambush armies have not yet arrived, and things still have a turnaround." ”
"Turnaround?" Li Ang smiled bitterly twice, "There is no turnaround, I lost." ”
"The minister should die, the minister should die." Li Xun fell to the ground and wept bitterly.
"You deserve to die, you deserve to die!" Leon became furious. He was about to get out of his chest, but was interrupted by someone. Qiu Shiliang had already entered the main hall surrounded by more than 20 eunuchs. Li Xun took two steps and whispered in Li Ang's ear, "Please take refuge in the inner hall." ”
The scale of the building of Hanyuan Hall is very large, ten rooms deep, divided into two parts before and after. The first half is a place for court meetings and grand ceremonies, and it is about six rooms deep. The second half is a place for the emperor to rest and work, and there are four deep rooms. Between the two parts is a solid wall, with only a copper-clad hardwood gate on the wall, which is very solid.
Li Ang was also a little moved when he heard this, and he turned around and was about to leave.
Qiu Shiliang shouted: "Your Majesty, don't fall for Li Xun's tricks, this thief colluded with the party to rebel!" Please send a decree to punish the nine clans! Li Ang actually said with a smiling face: "Aiqing, don't talk nonsense, how can Li Xun's loyal ministers be a chaotic party?" Qiu Shiliang didn't want to fight with his tongue, he waved his hand, and the four tall eunuchs behind him had already strode in front of Li Xun and reached out to grab Li Xun.
Li Xun suddenly sneered, a green-robed little official beside him bent down suddenly, and the four eunuchs swept to the ground together with a sweeping leg, and before the four of them got up, he kicked one by one, like kicking a ball, and kicked the four out of the main hall.
Everyone was stunned, not knowing the origin of this green-robed little official.
"You really have a back hand." Qiu Shiliang sneered, pointed at the green-robed little official and shouted, "If what I said is right, you are the notorious Mosha killer Dust, right?" When Li Ang heard the words "Mosha", he was shocked, pointed at Li Xun and asked, "What is his origin?" Li Xun said: "Your Majesty, don't listen to him to sow discord, he is Li Hong, a scribe from the eighth grade of Zhongshu Province." ”
"Whether it's the scribe Li Hong or not, you'll know if you try it." Qiu Shiliang waved his hand, the figure behind him flashed, and the little eunuch rushed straight to the green-robed little official, the action was as fast as lightning, and the green-robed little official saw him coming fiercely, and he jumped up two or three feet high, and landed steadily on the beam of the main hall, and there was more of a shining soft sword in his hand! The little eunuch also chased after him, and the two stood opposite each other, but neither of them moved.
Qiu Shiliang shouted: "He is the little Sumeru sword dust, Li Xun, don't you still admit it!" ”
Li Xun's face changed, and he shouted: "So what? It's better than your ghost martial arts, right? He didn't wait for Qiu Shiliang to argue, so he played to Li Angyu: "Qiu Shiliang colluded with the underworld in the rivers and lakes to rebel, and this little eunuch is the notorious ghost hand Wu Kui on the rivers and lakes!" Emperor Wenzong looked blankly at Qi Mo beside him, and Qi Mo nodded. Fuchen and Wu Kui are both masters in the world, Qi Mo has heard of his name for a long time, although he has not seen himself, but looking at this martial arts, he should not be far from ten.
He glanced at Shao Ming and motioned for him to bring Li Ang into the inner hall. Shao Mingchong was about to make a move, when he suddenly saw Li Xun lift the wat board in his hand and slam it to the ground. The hall suddenly burst into applause, and hundreds of people instantly killed in the two compartments of the main hall and the inner hall. The leader is Jing Zhao Yin Luo Liyan and Yu Shi Zhongcheng Li Xiaoben. At the same time, the door of Hanyuan Hall slammed shut.
"Aiqing, they?" Li Ang was confused by this sudden scene, and when he figured out who it was, he suddenly became angry in his heart, and scolded Li Xun: "What is your intention in ambushing so many people in the main hall? ”
"He is using His Majesty as bait to lure his ministers to death!" Qiu Shiliang smiled.
Li Xun's brain was buzzing, he couldn't figure out why Li Ang was still hiding now? As soon as he opened his golden mouth, hundreds of people in the hall rushed up to kill Qiu Shiliang first, and then the rest could slowly dress up and whitewash. However, in this situation, he had no choice but to confess his guilt on the ground, and said with tears streaming down his face: "Your Majesty, don't listen to his nonsense, the minister heard that someone in the Golden Sword Guard wants to rebel, and the minister really has a last resort to do this." ”
"Someone is going to rebel?" Li Ang didn't understand for a moment that this was just an excuse for him to shirk, so he asked, "Who is it, who wants to rebel?" ”
"Golden Sword Guard Captain Yang Hao." Li Xun excitedly Chen Zuo, "This person colluded with the Mosha killer to plot misdeeds, and the minister had already noticed it. ”
"He? …… What evidence do you have? Li Ang subconsciously took two steps forward, breaking away from the Golden Sword Guard's guard. But he also saw through Li Xun's heart, this person can do anything in order to achieve his goal, if he really killed Qiu Shiliang, will he be able to control him in the future?
"The minister will show the evidence to His Majesty." Li Xun glared at Li Ang coldly, "Qiu Shiliang has mistaken power and misled the country, please Your Majesty immediately issue an order to execute Qiu Shiliang." ”
"If Your Majesty kills a minister, the minister is willing to die. However, the traitorous minister was in charge, and the minister did not dare to take it lightly, so he asked the saint to send a decree to kill the shameless traitor Li Xun. Qiu Shiliang didn't give an inch, and the two worked together to put Li Ang on the fire. If time could be rewound by half an hour, Li Ang would not hesitate to order Qiu Shiliang to be executed, but now he has changed his mind, after all, it was Li Xun who was hiding in the main hall in ambush, what if these people were coming for him? Isn't it possible to kill yourself and then frame Qiu Shiliang, and then nominate a newcomer to be the emperor, and let them control the state politics of the Tang Dynasty? Too likely.
"This ...... The two Aiqing are both my ministers......" At the critical moment, Li Ang used a "drag" trick, and he was thinking viciously in his heart: "You guys just bite, the dog bites the dog's hair, it's better to bite and lose, it's all fucking over." ”
There was a sudden scream from the beam of the room, and the little Sumeru sword fell down, and his abdomen was cut by the pedicure knife in the hand of the ghost Wu Kui, and a wound about a foot long was cut, and his intestines flowed to the ground, but he did not die immediately, but rolled on the ground and wailed. There was chaos in the main hall. Qi Mo took the opportunity to stand by Li Ang's side again, and this time Li Ang did not resist him.
Wu Kui floated down, standing in front of Li Ang like a ghost, Qi Mo stopped him with a horizontal sword, and shouted: "Retreat." This sentence was addressed not only to the guards behind him, but also to Leon himself. The Golden Sword Guard escorted Li Ang step back. Luo Liyan led the soldiers to answer, Qi Mo nodded to Duan Yuming, and secretly handed Li Ang into his hands.
Duan Yuming's martial arts were above Qi Mo, and it might be more advantageous for him to protect Li Ang in this chaos. Without the burden of Li Ang, Qi Mo can deal with Wu Kui wholeheartedly, Wu Kui's martial arts are indeed very high, but with more wins and fewer victories, Qi Mo is still sure to defeat him. But at this moment, there was a commotion behind him, and I saw a team of Jing Zhaoluo soldiers embracing Li Ang and following Qiu Shiliang to retreat to the inner hall. And Duan Yuming, the leader of the pawns, was lying in a pool of blood at the moment, with a short dagger stuck in the back of his heart.
All the people in the hall were stunned by this sudden scene, Li Xun reacted at the earliest, and shouted urgently: "Close the door quickly!" He knew in his heart that if Qiu Shiliang hijacked the emperor and retreated into the inner hall, then he would really be defeated. Guarding the gate of the inner hall was the warrior recruited by Li Xiaoben, who heard Li Xun's shout and immediately moved to close the gate, but it was too late.
A silver arc flashed, and more than a dozen people were slashed their throats in unison.
After Qiu Shiliang hijacked Li Ang and retreated into the inner hall, the bronze door slammed shut, and the sound of long live suddenly sounded in the hall. Li Xun threw a few punches at the door, beating his chest and crying. It was only at this time that everyone realized the seriousness of the problem, and the pale-faced Luo Liyan sneaked out of the hall while no one was paying attention. Li Xiaoben asked Li Xun urgently: "What should we do now?" Li Xun frowned, gritted his teeth and said: "So far, I can only fight with these eunuchs." Don't panic, there is a strange soldier outside the Danfeng Gate. Captain Qi, you quickly escort me out of the palace and summon them in to escort me. ”
When everyone heard that there were still strange soldiers, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and they all urged the two to leave quickly. At this moment, Guo Xingyu's Suining army had collapsed without a trace, and the front of Hanyuan Hall was surrounded by eunuchs. Li Xun looked down, he couldn't help but be frightened, he hurriedly took off the purple robe on his body and replaced it with the green robe of his subordinates, cut his beard short, lowered his head and followed Qi Mo down the path behind the Hanyuan Palace. There were also many eunuchs squatting behind Hanyuan Palace, and when they saw Qi Mo escorting Li Xun down, they immediately surrounded him.
Qi Mo shouted: "I will be ordered to do an errand, but if you are obstructed, do you want to rebel?" When the eunuchs heard this, they retreated one after another, and when they saw Li Xun's short-bearded green robe, no one cared.
The group rushed to Danfeng Gate, Li Xun asked Qi Mo to wait in the door, and he went out alone to summon him, as soon as he got out of the gate, he immediately got on a horse that had been prepared for a long time, and whipped away. Qi Mo couldn't wait for the left or right, so he was suspicious, so he went out to check. It was deserted outside the Danfeng Gate, how could there be any shadow of an ambush? Only then did I know that I had fallen for Li Xun, and was about to turn around and go back to Daming Palace to report the news.
I didn't want the defenders of Danfengmen to suddenly change to the soldiers of the Shence Army. Qi Mo knew that something was wrong, but he remained silent, and still stepped forward to call the door. The sergeant replied: "Your Majesty has a decree, if you don't open the palace gate today, you should retreat quickly, otherwise you will release the arrows." As he spoke, he aimed his bow at Qi Mo. Qi Mo turned around and left when he heard this.
After walking two steps, I suddenly saw a group of remnants rushing out of the Jianfu Gate in the west, about sixty or seventy people, including Jingzhaoluo soldiers and Jinwu guards, all of whom were scarred and bloodstained. The crowd was scattering and fleeing, and a group of ironclad sergeants chased after the door, and slashed and killed a dozen of them, while the others fled without a trace. Governor Qi Mo couldn't help but burst into tears, and took advantage of the fact that the gate of Chang'an City had not yet been closed, and took a horse out of Tonghua Gate and went east.