Lightning streaked across the dim sky, flashes of dazzling lightning, and only after a few breaths could there be a dull thunder from the distant sky, like the beat of a drum on a battlefield.

The guards escorted Yang Qing across a wooden bridge suspended by iron cables, under a muddy iron gate nailed with copper nails, and behind him was a wide, muddy moat. Under the suspension bridge, a dusky yellow torrent rolled and stirred up many splashes. After passing through the city gate, there is a small and even narrow space, with four high walls, and in front of the doorway is a tall brick wall. This is an urn city, and when he entered it, Yang Qing suddenly felt a sense of depression. He clearly understands that the general gate of the big city has to be the urn city, and in addition to the city gate, another circle of walls has been built to protect the city gate, and the city gate and the city gate of the urn city are not straight, but the psychological crossing. In this way, the enemy army that broke through the urn city would face the high walls of the urn city on all sides, and the iron wall on the opposite side. To attack the city, they had to go hundreds of paces around the small urn city, under the tall walls, before they could attack the real gates. And this distance of hundreds of paces is often the real death zone, which will be more dangerous than the outside. The urn city is small and destined to not be able to have too many people rush into it for a while, and the urn city is surrounded by walls on all sides, and the defenders stand on it and shoot on all sides, occupying a great advantage. Therefore, for the defenders, breaking through the gate of the urn city sometimes does not mean victory, but is very likely to be a trap for the defenders, deliberately letting them in, and then condescendingly closing the door and beating the dogs.

Yang Qing's wrists were tied, and he stumbled into the muddy field of Urn City, and the mud on the ground showed a special dark red. At first glance, it is stained with blood. Combine the muddy ground, and the mud on the city gates, etc. Yang Qing judged that there had just been a big battle here. The icy rain had already drenched him, even though it was summer. But he also felt trembling. The cavalry dismounted and escorted him into the tall and sturdy gate of Jingmen City.

This is the real gate of Jingmen City, the city gate hole is much larger than the urn city, there is a tall arrow tower, layer by layer is full of arrow holes, which makes people look at it.

All the way to a large mansion in the city, the cavalry scout who had captured him unbuttoned his cloak and hung it under the porch of the door so that the rain would not wet the floor of the room. Yang Qing cooperated without saying a word, even if he was already a prisoner at this time. He still tries to behave like a nobleman.

In the hall, several people were sitting in a somewhat dimly lit hall, enjoying wine, barbecue, and steaming fish soup. Under the walls around the hall, several pairs of butter candles were lit, and the thick butter candles emitted a dim and flickering candlelight. Yang Qing listened to the sound of the raindrops beating on the roof tiles outside, along with the sound of cups and plates, and the whispered conversation of several people.

"General," the guard reported loudly, "this man we found in the ranger scouts outside the city. He fled on a war horse in armor, carrying a large bank deposit slip and this thing. As he spoke, the guard presented the object. Delivered to a table for a few people. A gold seal with a turtle button on it, and the seal is engraved with four seal characters "Hejian King Seal".

Turtle button gold seal. This is a high-grade seal, and a generation of emperors used jade to call the seal. The prince used gold to seal it. Most of the seals are generally buttoned, so that the buttons are perforated and tied. Tied on the belt, it is a way to wear a seal. Since the Han Dynasty, turtles, camels, horses, snakes, etc., have been used to distinguish emperors and officials. High-ranking officials generally use turtles and camels, while snake buttons are used for Tibetan tribes.

The golden seal of the turtle button in front of him is undoubtedly so, not to mention that it is clearly engraved with the four words of the seal of the king of the river, which is the golden seal of the king of the river.

Yang Qing stood there like a water dog waiting at this time, his wrist was tightly strangled by the cow tendon rope, which could be swelled after being wet, and he was getting more and more painful, and even the skin on his wrist had been worn out. He had already seen clearly that the three commanders of the Yangzhou Army who were sitting in the hall for dinner, Marshal Guo Yan, Deputy Marshal Duan Da, and Brother Zhang Heng. Although he recognized them, he did not come forward to meet them. He still can't forget the chaos of that night in Jiangling City, the Praetorian Guards guarding the palace suddenly attacked, set fire to the city everywhere, snatched the city gate, besieged the Jingwang Mansion, and killed the Jingzhou army when he saw it. He managed to escape, but was captured halfway through. He still doesn't know what happened that day, was it the emperor who suddenly attacked their father and son, or was it just a rebellion of the Yangzhou army, and what relationship did they play in the three important ministers and generals of the court in front of him? He didn't know anything, he regretted it all the way, he should have listened to Yuan Min if he knew it earlier, and took advantage of the absence of the Jianghuai soldiers to control Jiangling, so as to attach himself to Luoyang, without losing his wealth and wealth, and he would never be like a lost dog and a water dog like now.

Maybe the next moment they will have their men push themselves out and behead them, but at least they won't have to run away anymore, and they won't have to get drenched in the rain anymore. He had already been drenched in soup, and had been running in the rain all day and night, and his muscles were sore, haggard, hungry and tired, and he was almost numb from the huge blow, and he had had enough of the damn summer rain.

Zhang Heng wiped his mouth, then reached out and grabbed the golden seal to take a closer look, and then a lightning bolt lit up outside, and the blazing white electric light instantly illuminated the hall as bright as day. Yang Qing stood at the door and counted silently, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, this time the thunder came much later than the lightning, and after counting seven counts, the deafening thunderclap came from the sky.

The thunder was fleeting, and the hall was dim by candlelight.

Zhang Heng's eyes had already been removed from the golden button, and taking advantage of the lightning just now, he also glanced at Yang Qing, who was overwhelmed.

"Untie him." Zhang Heng turned his head to the guards and said, "Bring another set of clean clothes, this is His Royal Highness the King of Hejian." ”

The guard looked back at the wolf guy with some surprise, and couldn't believe that this was really King Jing, His Royal Highness the King of Hejian. The guards went to prepare clothes as instructed, Zhang Heng got up and walked over, and said to Zhang Heng: "What happened, the king actually appeared here like this?" ”

"I'm not a king anymore, General." Yang Qing and Zhang Heng are familiar with each other, and even in the court of Jiangling, Yang Qing and Zhang Heng are both one of the six nobles of Jiangling. After the death of the crown prince. Zhang Heng even proposed to let the emperor accept Yang Qing as his stepson to calm people's hearts. "There's no more King of the River."

"What's wrong?"

Yang Qing was a little angry. "Do you still need to ask me what's going on, Excellencies, Your Excellency. Shouldn't you know better than I know what's going on? ”

"The king should make things clear." Duan Da looked at him with a stern gaze, "You should be escorting in Jiangling City at this time, not in Jingmen, this is the main road to Chang'an and Luoyang, the king is alone, with a gold seal and a lot of silver tickets, but he didn't come to Jingmen to see us, but wanted to sneak through here, are you going to Luoyang or Chang'an." Your Highness? ”

"I didn't know you were in Jingmen."

"Oh, that means the king didn't come to us at all, so are you going to Chang'an or Luoyang? Could it be that he was on the mission of the emperor? ”

"There is no mission of the emperor, there is no will." Yang Qing shouted, becoming more and more impatient.

"Then why are you here, could it be that the King of the River is going to defect to the enemy?"

Yang Qing didn't expect these people to shout to catch the thief, "It's not me who rebelled, you don't want the thief to shout to catch the thief." My father was loyal to His Majesty and treated you well. When you go to Jingzhou, we will prepare barracks for you, arrange housing, and arrange grain and grass for you. But how do you repay this loyalty? You killed my father, you mutinied. Now, you're going to pretend you don't know what to do to trick me. Isn't that interesting? Kill or chop as you please. It's good to go directly, if I frown, I will be raised by the little maid. ”

If it weren't for this storm, if he hadn't been in a hurry to escape from Jingzhou, he wouldn't have crashed into the Jianghuai soldiers' camp. But things are also very strange, Duan Da and others went to encircle and suppress Liang Gang, not in the Xiazhou area, why did they come to the northwest end of Jingzhou again.

Zhang Heng was shocked by Yang Qing's words, he frowned and looked at Yang Qing carefully, Yang Qing suddenly appeared in Jingmen, and he looked like such a wolf, he didn't even bring a guard, it was too abnormal. And what he said about the rebellion of the Jianghuai army, the killing of King Jing and other things, although it is not very clear, it has already made him vaguely feel that something big has happened in Jiangling City. After the day of Jiangling, 100,000 Huainan soldiers fought in Xia, Gui, Shi, and Fang Prefectures west of Jingzhou, trying to encircle Liang Gang's Yizhou army and annihilate them in one fell swoop. But this Liang Gang is extremely cunning, taking them around in circles, and attacking prefectures, counties and towns from time to time, to feed the war with war, but some of them look more and more brave the more they fight. In the end, the Jianghuai army worked in vain, and after tossing for a long time, they all fell apart, but they were just led by the nose all the time. In the end, Zhang Heng came up with an idea, deliberately transferred a group of soldiers and horses to transport grain and grass, and transported the grain and grass transported from Jingzhou to Jingmen City in the northwest of Jingzhou, and then several main forces pretended to search for the Yizhou army to move westward away from Jingmen.

As a result, Liang Gang's subordinates were really deceived, and after they tried several times, they found that the main force of Jianghuai was indeed far away in Xiazhou, and immediately rushed to Jingmen, preparing to eat this lone army of soldiers and horses, and seize and destroy the grain and grass gathered by the Jianghuai army in Jingmen. It's just that when Liang Gang finally miscalculated, although there were not many soldiers and horses escorting logistics in Jingmen, it was the most elite division led by Deputy Marshal Duan Da himself, and Jingmen was chosen to lure the enemy, also because Jingmen has always been the gateway to Jingchu, and it has always been a place where soldiers must fight, so although Jingmen City is not big, it is extremely strong, and it can be held according to the city and wait for reinforcements. When Liang Feng killed under Jingmen City and launched an attack, Duan Da deliberately concealed his strength at the beginning, and he pretended to be unable to hold on, and he was only about to be broken in the last blow, but he was hanging on to death, and as a result, Liang Gang did not notice it for a while and besieged it for many days. When Liang Gang finally felt that something was not right, Guo Yan and Zhang Heng finally led a large army to copy from Nanbei and acted quickly. Liang Gang wanted to retreat, this time period with the cavalry that had been recuperating in the city, suddenly killed out of the city in the middle of the night, attacked Liang Gang's camp at night, although the Yizhou army was not much killed, but in the following days, several attacks a day, disturbing them could not retreat at full speed, and so on for a few days, Guo Yan and Zhang Heng arrived, a big battle between the two sides, the exhausted Yizhou army was tired, and now it was outnumbered, defeated by the Jianghuai soldiers, and finally 50,000 horses and horses were only a few thousand retreats into the mountains to escape.

Guo Yan and the others withdrew into Jingmen City for repairs, and originally planned to return to Jiangling after the rainstorm, but they didn't expect the scouts to catch Yang Qing nearby.

"Rebellion? You say there was a rebellion in Gangneung City? Zhang Heng read this word, and his face became more and more ugly. What is going on, please tell us Your Highness, we still don't know anything, we have been encircling and suppressing Liang Gang before, and we have just won the victory of destroying Liang Gang's Yizhou army, and we are preparing to return to Jiangling after the rain stops, and we don't know anything. ”

"The Jianghuai army suddenly attacked in the middle of the night, they snatched the city gate, stopped the Jingzhou soldiers outside the city, and then Sima Dejiao raided my Jingwang Mansion, and they killed my father."

"Is Sima Dejiao leading the troops to rebel? Oh my God, he is the emperor's Praetorian general, the general of the Tiger Benlang, who commands the most elite Xiaoguo army around His Majesty. ”

"Not only Sima Deji, but also Yang Xiong and Yu Wenhua, in addition, Yu Wenzhihe, Zhao Xingshu and others all participated. As for who these people are the leaders, I don't know yet, but almost all the Jianghuai soldiers in Jiangling City participated. ”

Hearing the news, Zhang Heng, Duan Da, and Guo Yan couldn't help but sink in their hearts, and the Jianghuai army suddenly mutinied and killed King Jing. The three of them almost immediately thought of one person, Yu Wenshu who stayed behind, among the important ministers who stayed behind, King Jing commanded the army, and Yu Wenshu was in charge, these two people should have to help each other, but now the Jingzhou army and the Huainan army are fighting each other, they immediately thought that it was very likely that Yu Wenshu led the mutiny, especially when they had just heard that Yu Wenhua and Yu Wenzhi and his brothers among the rebel generals. But what they don't understand is why there is civil strife at this time, whether it is a struggle for power, it is unlikely. But now that Yang Qing looks like this, it is impossible for him to be lying.

It is impossible for Yuwenshu to rebel, he has no soldiers in his hands, even if he kills Yang Hong, but the Jianghuai army is still outside.

"Your Highness, please take a shower and change into clean clothes, I will have someone arrange a room for you, and then prepare a meal for you, and then you can sleep peacefully, and we will talk when we wake up." There was too little information in his hand, and Zhang Heng didn't plan to listen to Yang Qing's side of everything, so he planned to wait before making a conclusion, and find a way to figure out what happened in Jiangling City.

After sending Yang Qing away, the three of them sat in silence in the hall, not knowing how to speak for a while.

After a long time, it was Duan Da who broke the silence. "If Yuwenshu rebels, what should we do, fight back?"

There was another sound of footsteps outside the door, and the guards rushed to report it.

"Generals, Yu Wenhua and the general are coming from Gangneung City, and there is important news to report."

Duan Da and the three of them looked at each other, Yu Wenhua and came?

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