Chapter Seventy-Six: The Rebel Thief
The moment the saber in Zhu Cihong's hand pierced Sun Ruoxuan's chest, tears slipped silently from the corners of her eyes. Looking at the man in front of him who was still talking warmly yesterday, but now he has become like a demon who has come into the world, and the cold tip of the sword silently sank into his chest, but at that moment, he didn't feel any pain.
Sun Ruoxuan felt that at this moment, her heart was constantly twitching for no reason. Scenes from the past flashed quickly in front of my eyes.
"Is this fate?" Sun Ruoxuan felt the strong cruelty, and her eyes seemed to be carrying a thousand catties of burden, and she closed them involuntarily.
A vague sigh spread from the bottom of her heart, floating in every corner of the hall in an instant.
Li Shichun and the others couldn't help but scatter, and when they turned around and wanted to snatch the sword from Zhu Cihong's hand, Sun Ruoxuan had already collapsed to the ground softly, without a sound.
"Your Majesty ......!" The elderly Yao Minggong fell to the ground with a thud, his face became extremely pale, foaming at the mouth, and every muscle on his cheeks began to twitch, and he lost his life after a while.
"Yao Gong", Li Shichun and others were shocked.
"Brother Huang!" A plain white figure had just entered the Fengxian Palace, but he was startled by the tragic situation in front of him, his hand touched his chest, and he was gasping.
With a "dang bang", the saber fell to the ground, and Zhu Cihong's body trembled. The plain white figure rushed to Zhu Cihong's side and supported him. Zhu Cihong couldn't care about Yao Minggong, who had already died of fear on the ground because he swung his sword to assassinate Sun Ruoxuan, and turned his head stiffly: "Kunxing, why are you still in the palace?" ”
Zhu Yujiao couldn't bear to look at Sun Ruoxuan's body on the ground, although she was also terrified in her heart, she still went to comfort Zhu Cihong first.
Zhu Yujiao tried her best to restrain herself from thinking nonsense, but the scene in front of her clearly had a palpitating sense of familiarity. Do the math, it's only been less than a year!
Suddenly, Zhu Yujiao felt an indescribable sense of fear in her heart. From time to time, because of the scene in front of me, it is the feeling of loneliness that only occurs when the country is ruined.
One of the eunuchs didn't even bother to speak loudly, so he stumbled into the Fengxian Palace.
"Shengshang, the big thing is not good, the cabinet is on duty, I heard that it was Lord Zheng Sanjun who was the first assistant who didn't want to be humiliated, so he lit the ...... on duty!"
Everyone was silent.
"Where have the rebels gone?" Wang Pin asked hurriedly.
"I have occupied the three major halls, and I am coming to the inner court!"
Zhu Cihong woke up like a dream, and suddenly became in a hurry, "Let's go, let's go, let's go to Shandong, let's go to Shandong, with Zhu Ping'an, our lives can be saved!" ”
Everyone was stunned, but Zhu Yujiao nodded resolutely, "Brother Huangjian!" At this time, we can only defect to Shandong! ”
Wang Pin had already ordered someone to prepare some gray robes for eunuchs, and immediately ordered someone to wait for Zhu Cihong and Zhu Yujiao and others to change into clothes, and took advantage of the night to sneak out of the Fengxian Hall and go towards the Houzai Gate north of the Yudai River. In order to hide their traces and identities, Li Shichun and others even plucked their beards while walking.
The direction of the three major halls has been lit with fires, and the shouts of killing are gradually approaching. The eunuchs, miscellaneous servants and others in the inner court are all running around like headless flies,
Most of the rare birds and beasts raised in Miyagi have become dead at this time, and the rest are also blindly scurrying around in Miyagi, screaming in grief.
After marrying Queen Sun Ruoxuan, Zhu Cihong originally wanted to marry two concubines, but now the day has not yet come, so there are no concubines in the harem to flee with them.
Wang Pin and more than a dozen henchmen and eunuchs gathered some of Dongchang's loyal subordinates, all changed into eunuch clothes, and fled all the way north with Zhu Cihong.
But when they arrived at Houzaimun, they found that the rebels had arrived here. The rebel soldiers rushed into the rear gate with shouts, killed people when they saw them, and ransacked them everywhere. Everyone wanted to turn around again, but there were also chasing soldiers behind them, intercepting hundreds of eunuchs and palace people in the Houzai Gate.
After entering the palace, Ma Shiying found that the soldiers and horses under his command, especially the soldiers led by Liu Liangzuo, had become difficult to command. Although the Imperial City of Nanjing is not as magnificent as Beijing, it has accumulated for hundreds of years, and naturally there are many valuable goods. As soon as the rebel soldiers entered the palace, they were immediately attracted by these goods, and they had long since turned a deaf ear to the orders of their superiors. Grabbing treasures and robbing Gong'e, these soldiers and horses under Liu Liangzuo were immersed in burning, killing and plundering and couldn't extricate themselves.
But at this time, Ma Shiying still maintained a calmness. He knew very well that if Emperor Yixing Zhu Cihong took advantage of the chaos to slip out of the palace, but today would be a bamboo basket for nothing. Therefore, although he couldn't mobilize Liu Liangzuo's soldiers and horses, he still gathered his own family soldiers with his son Ma Luan, Liu Kongzhao, Ruan Dacheng and others, and as soon as he entered the palace, he rushed straight to the three major halls and the cabinet room.
The three major halls went to the empty building, and Zheng Sanjun, who was on duty in the cabinet, raised fire and harmed himself. Ma Shiying did not dare to slack off, and ordered his subordinates to arrest many eunuchs and palace ladies for torture, and finally learned that Zhu Cihong had been hiding in Fengxian Hall all along.
But when he arrived at Fengxian Palace, he found that Zhu Cihong had slipped away.
The angry Ma Shiying and others killed several palace people in a row, and only then did they get the exact news that Zhu Cihong rushed to Houzaimen. So, in the rear, he chased after him, and finally intercepted a large number of palace people who planned to take advantage of the chaos to get out of the palace at the back gate.
Ma Shiying let out a long breath, and looked at the hundreds of internal officials and palace people crowded together in front of him with a dark face. He knew very well that Zhu Cihong was very likely to be among them.
Ma Luan and a group of soldiers brandished knives and guns, slashing and killing more than a dozen crying palace people in a row, and the bright blades and dazzling blood finally made these hundreds of people temporarily quiet.
Ma Shiying cleared his throat and shouted loudly: "Jing Nan's soldiers and horses entered the palace just to kill the traitors and villains around the Son of Heaven, and now Zheng Sanjun, Fang Yuegong and others, the first assistant of the powerful and traitorous cabinet, as well as the relatives who support the army and are self-respecting, and try to hijack the Son of Heaven's relatives, Dingbei Bosun Chuanting have been ambushed. It can be said that the thieves have been eliminated, and we want to assist the Son of Heaven to return to the government, but there is chaos in the palace, and the Son of Heaven does not know where to go. If anyone knows the whereabouts of the Son of Heaven, he will be rewarded quickly! ”
Hundreds of people fell silent.
Wang Pin and his subordinates tightly maintained Zhu Cihong, Zhu Yujiao, Li Shichun and others in the middle, but the solemn and tense atmosphere made Zhu Cihong's legs can't help but be a little weak, if it weren't for Zhu Yuanjiao who has been supporting him, I'm afraid he would have been paralyzed on the ground.
Ma Shiying waited quietly for a moment, no one responded, and he couldn't help but sneer, "You are all close ministers serving the Son of Heaven in the inner court, but you don't even know the whereabouts of Your Majesty, since this is the case, what are you left to do!" ”
With a wave of Ma Shiying's hand, the rebels on all sides and his family soldiers will immediately draw their swords and rush into the human rights to kill and slash.
Blood splattered, severed limbs fell to the ground, and wails were deafening on all sides.
Liu Kongzhao hesitantly approached Ma Shiying, "Yao Gong, this is hundreds of lives!" Isn't it against heaven and ...... to do this? ”
Ma Shiying turned his head and scanned his face with cold eyes, the chill in it made Liu Kongzhao feel startled, and he hurriedly lowered his head.
"Brother Fu, why is there still a woman's kindness at this time, if you can't find the Son of Heaven today, I'm afraid I will die without a place to bury me!"
Ma Shiying's words made Liu Kongzhao speechless, and he shouted loudly: "Kill this official, who can tell the whereabouts of the Son of Heaven, this official will spare him from death, and there will be a heavy reward!" ”
Seeing that the rebels were about to be killed, Wang Pin had no choice but to take a group of his men to start a counterattack, and killed him desperately towards the gate of Houzaimun.
Wang Pin's actions fell in Ma Shiying's eyes, making him breathe a sigh of relief, and ordered the rebel soldiers on all sides to light torches, and the Houzai door suddenly lit up.
Ma Shiying stared at the distance carefully for a long time, and then recognized Wang Pinqi. "It turned out to be the eunuch of the celebrant eunuch, this person is the confidant of the Son of Heaven, no need to ask, the Son of Heaven is near the left!"
The rebels swarmed up and immediately surrounded Wang Pin and dozens of others in the middle. Wang Pin and others rushed left and right, but the number of people was huge, and they never broke out of the encirclement, but lost a lot of manpower.
Seeing that there were fewer and fewer people around Wang Pin, and even Wang Pin was slashed with a few knife wounds, Ma Shiying's lips slowly burst into a smile.
"Prince, don't be a trapped beast anymore! I waited for the position of entering the palace to eradicate the traitors, there is absolutely no disadvantage to His Majesty, the prince is a person who understands, as long as I tell the whereabouts of my majesty, the post of the master of ceremonies and the seal of the master of ceremonies is in your pocket! ”
Wang Pin shouted words like "chaotic ministers and thieves" in his mouth, and scolded non-stop.
Ma Shiying smiled coldly, stopped talking nonsense at the moment, and immediately ordered the rebel soldiers to retreat, mobilized more than a hundred archers to the front, and pointed directly at the hundreds of people in the encirclement.
"If you don't say anything, these hundreds of people will be buried together!"
Wang Pin was shocked. Ma Shiying looked at its color, and guessed that Emperor Yixing was definitely in the crowd, and was just about to give the order to open his bow and arrows, but a trembling voice suddenly sounded in the crowd.
"Your Majesty is here! Don't let the arrows go! ”
Everyone followed the sound, but it was Li Shichun who put a steel knife on Zhu Cihong's neck, and grabbed Zhu Cihong's thin shoulder tightly with the other hand and pushed him out.
Li Shichun looked around in horror, quickly pushed Zhu Cihong out of the crowd, and coerced Zhu Cihong to stand facing Wang Pin and the others.
"Li Shichun!" Wang Pin shouted angrily: "You villain who betrays the Lord and seeks glory! ”
Li Shichun shrank and hid behind Zhu Cihong, not daring to look directly into the eyes of Wang Pin and the others, while holding Zhu Cihong tightly hostage, he said loudly to Ma Shiying behind him: "Master Ma, Your Majesty is here, please see that I can sacrifice My Majesty, you must spare my life!" ”
Zhu Cihong's face turned pale, and his eyes pleaded to look at Wang Pin and Zhu Yujiao: "Save me!" Help! ”
Ma Shiying didn't answer, his right arm slowly raised, and then fell down heavily.
The sound of bowstrings sounded suddenly, and Wang Pin's pupils suddenly contracted. R1152