Qin Dong, Liu Yang, Alfard and a group of more than 60 people grabbed a carriage on the street, installed Marcy in the carriage, and sent four retinue guards to guard him in the carriage, and then hurried to the west city gate.

Seventy men had arrived, but now there were only sixty-three, seven of whom had been killed in the battle they had just had, their bodies tied to several horses and led away, but they had not long been out of the arena when they heard the sound of the trumpets.

Liu Yang's face changed, and he said, "It's not good, this is the sound of the horn to notify the city gate defenders to close the city gate!" ”

Qin Dong said: "It doesn't matter, we have the emperor in hand, they don't dare to do anything to us, but they have to open the city gate to see us off, unless they don't want the emperor to live!" ”

"Alright, let's continue in the direction of the Golden City Gate to the west!"

On the way to the Golden City Gate to the west, they happened to encounter the Seventh Army that was shrinking the encirclement, Qin Dong carried the big sword and shouted to the army coming from the opposite side: "Listen to the general on the opposite side, your Emperor Xià Marcian is in my hands, if you don't want your emperor to die, now immediately get out of the way and let us pass, otherwise, I will kill him!" ”

After the army on that side stopped advancing, the leading general rode on horseback and was furious: "It's just a fart, His Majesty the Emperor is the supreme of my empire, how can it be at the hands of you death row prisoners who have disturbed the gladiatorial arena?" After saying that, he commanded loudly: "The archer obeys the order, step forward, seventy meters ahead, draw the bow, and shoot the arrow."

"I'll rub—" Qin Dong scolded when he heard this order, and then shouted: "Quickly hide under the eaves." Carry the emperor under the eaves! ”

Liu Yang and the others immediately took the others to hide under the eaves, and the four entourage guards in the carriage also jumped down and ran under the eaves with Emperor Marcian on their shoulders.

Arrows can't shoot far and straight ahead, and can only shoot far enough if they form a parabola. The bows and arrows fired by the archers of the Seventh Legion were blocked by the eaves above, and the carriages parked in the middle of the streets were instantly shot into hedgehogs, and the horses were killed.

Qin Dong shouted: "Damn, they don't want the emperor to live!" ”

Liu Yang hid behind a stone pillar and said: "Brother Xian, this seems to be the soldiers and horses of the Seventh Legion, and the commander of the Seventh Legion is the Prime Minister's person!" ”

It's no wonder, Qin Dong immediately said when he heard it: "No." This road is not going to work, let's change the road immediately, and retreat! ”

Due to the small number of people. And there was no burden, at most it was only the corpses of seven or eight companions, Qin Dong and the others retreated very quickly, but they were blocked by the army in several other directions. And there are too many of the army. There is simply no way to break through. If Qin Dong was alone, he could have killed it alone, but now he couldn't take more than sixty people, and he couldn't leave them alone.

Everyone went around and walked in several directions and were forced back, Liu Yang said: "Brother Xian, it's getting late now, and martial law is under fire in the city. So many of us are still on the street and we must think that there is a problem, and I just paid attention to it. We seem to be surrounded in the middle, now we have to find a place to hide, and wait for the rumors to pass before leaving the city, you also saw the situation just now, Prime Minister Alpas obviously wants the emperor to die, otherwise these troops will not be able to ignore the emperor in our hands! ”

Qin Dong nodded, Liu Yang's analysis was correct, Alpas clearly wanted to kill Marcian, for Alpas, the emperor was no longer effective, and now he had to hide, he turned his head to look, and suddenly saw a minaret in the distance, which seemed to be a church, and hurriedly asked: "Big brother, where is the location of the minaret?" ”

Liu Yang said: "That's the Aya Sophia Cathedral!" Why do you want to go into the church and take refuge? I'm afraid this won't work, when the time comes, the army will search, and we still won't be able to escape! ”

Qin Dong said with a smile: "Don't underestimate the energy of the master of the Ayasophia Cathedral, now let's go and beg that master for food, to be honest, I'm hungry!" ”

When Liu Yang heard Qin Dong say this, he knew that he had a way, and he didn't object anymore, so everyone quickly rushed to the Aya Sophia Cathedral.

......Under Qin Dong's assignment, Alphard pounded the door of the church with a tom sound.

It wasn't until a few minutes later that the door of the church was being opened, and a priest dressed in priest's costume opened the door and was about to speak, when Qin Dong had already pushed open the door and broke in, and Liu Yang, Alfard and others also rushed in one after another.

The priest was anxious: "Hey, hey, who are you, what are you doing when you break into the church?" This is God's place, the holy quiet place, get out of here! ”

No one paid attention to this priest, after Qin Dong and the others broke into the church, several attendant guards immediately closed the door, and the people in the church suddenly increased by sixty or seventy people, and the noise also sounded.

Soon a coquettish voice came from behind the church hall: "Who, who? I'd like to see who dares to break into the church and make trouble! ”

After the words fell, the person said, Qin Dong looked back, who is this not Soma? Daru, a giant slave who was still following her, smiled and said, "This world is so small, little girl Soma, it seems that we are really destined!" ”

"Ha, Qin, did you run out? Haha, that's great, by the way, how did you get out? Father Anatorius and I were still talking this morning about how to get you out, but I didn't expect you to run out on your own, and them, where are they hiding these days? As soon as Soma saw Qin Dong's chatter, he couldn't stop talking.

Qin Dong was really big for a while, and hurriedly said, "I'll talk about this question later, what about Father Anatorius?" ”

"Oh, he's in the back, he'll be out soon!"

It didn't take long to see Anadolius come out, this old god stick was very surprised to see Qin Dong, according to Qin Dong's agreement with him, there were still several days to escape from prison, but he didn't expect Qin Dong to come out so soon. This caught him a little off guard, because Qin Dong asked him to help get some armaments, and he hadn't finished raising them yet.

"I just heard that there was a riot in the gladiatorial arena, but I didn't expect you to escape!" Anatorius said.

Qin Dong nodded and said, "That's right." It's us, let's not talk about that, we're already hungry. Please get us something to eat, and the curfew has been imposed by the army outside, and there is likely to be a city-wide search, so you have to be mentally prepared! ”

"Okay, I got it!" Anatorius nodded in agreement.

At this time, Alfald came over and reported: "My lord, how does the emperor arrange it?" Look at him, as if he is about to wake up! ”

Anadorius was shocked: "Oh. My God, Qin, what have you done? You kidnapped the emperor. Do you want the two countries to go to war? Hurry up and release the emperor, I will act as if nothing has happened."

Qin Dong pressed his hand and said, "Priest, you have to be calm, you must be calm." What is the kidnapping of the emperor? Believe it or not, I'll kill him now? ”

"Oh. Lord, forgive him for his sins. Qin, you'd better not do that, do you understand? He is an emperor, not an ordinary commoner, and if you kill him, no matter who the next emperor is, he will go to war with you. This is about the dignity of an empire, and it is also about maintaining the authority of the emperor! ”

Qin Dong smiled: "Of course I know this. But Marcian is our talisman, and if I let him go, I'm afraid we won't be able to leave the Eastern Roman Empire, so we must let him send us back, and when we get to our land, I'll let him go!" Now he has to stay with me! Judging from what we have just encountered on the street, Prime Minister Alpas may want to kill the Emperor, and the Seventh and Ninth Legions he has accused him of still attacking the Emperor even though they know that the Emperor is in our hands, and they are afraid that they will rush into the church to search, Father, you had better be mentally prepared! ”

Anatorius said: "So you can't kill the emperor now, if you kill the emperor, you will be an accomplice of Alpas, Alpas is afraid that he will not take your affection, and the queen and the emperor will not let you go, in addition, he is not so easy to succeed, the guards are in the hands of the queen, the city guards and the palace guards are all controlled by the emperor, if they are united, it is unlikely that Alpas will succeed in seizing power!" ”

Qin Dong thought for a while and said, "So, shouldn't we hide well and wait for Alpas, the empress and the emperor's family to separate the winners and losers before we can go out?" ”

"I'm afraid so!"

Alpas was waiting anxiously in the Prime Minister's Mansion, he wanted to force Qin Dong to kill the emperor, but Qin Dong didn't fall for him, and hid in the church with his own people, so that the army could not find it.

The Seventh Legion and the Ninth Legion compressed the encirclement to a minimum, and finally lost the trace of Qin Dong and others, and got the command of Qin Dong and others with the news of the emperor's disappearance, Alpas was anxious, and he immediately ordered the army to collect the whole city.

After receiving the order, the Seventh and Ninth Legions immediately began to search from house to house, as long as they saw the faces of the Orientals, they were all arrested first, and in the second half of the night, all the Orientals in the city of Constantinople were arrested, a total of more than 5,000 people, most of these Orientals were from the Northern Wei Dynasty, a small number of Southeast Asians, and the prison was overcrowded for a while.

Qin Dong and the others naturally got the news quickly, and when Qin Dong heard the news, his heart moved, if only he could get these Han people to his own territory.

At this time, the main officials and senators of the Emperor and Empress families had arrived, and due to the martial law and interrogation of the Seventh and Ninth Legions, the officials of the Imperial Palace, who should have arrived a few hours earlier, had only gathered in the Imperial Palace.

Pulkaria walked up to His Majesty and sat down and said, "Elders and ministers, you must all know the matter, right? The emperor was arrested by the death row gladiator Qin Dong, his real identity is the commander of the southeastern border region of the Balkans of the Xiongnu State, he asked us to pay a ransom before releasing people, his requirements were 10,000 pounds of gold, 10,000 sets of cavalry armor and a full set of weapons and equipment, 1 million pounds of wheat, 200,000 pounds of pig iron, 200,000 feet of cloth, 500 craftsmen of all kinds, 1,000 women over 15 years old and under 30 years old.

Money, armor, materials, craftsmen and women are all trivial things, and we can still take them out with our national strength, I will first state that the emperor must be saved, we must raise these things as quickly as possible, and the key now is that someone does not want the emperor to come back, and this person is Prime Minister Alpas!

Just now you also heard the sound of the horn, this is the horn of closing the city gate and martial law, the seventh army and the ninth officer are now searching the city, he is obviously going to kill the emperor, now what are we going to do? Whether to help Alpas kill the emperor, or to kill Alpas first, if we don't kill Alpas first, we can't save the emperor! ”

After Pulkaria's words fell, the whole hall began to quarrel, some people advocated negotiating with Alpas, everyone sat down and talked about it, first rescue the emperor back, these people are some officials who are afraid of things, Alpas is a powerful minister after all, and it is normal for many people to be afraid of him, and the other people are advocating the death of Alpas, and now Alpas clearly wants the emperor to die, this kind of thing does not open the bow and turn back, as long as it is done, it can only be done to the end, there is no way back to go, and it is impossible to stop halfway.

In the end, the officials who advocated that the two factions unite and kill Alpas first prevailed, and one of the officials of the emperor's family stood up and saluted Pulkaria and said: "Your Majesty, you have agreed to get rid of Alpas first, this man has been rampant in the empire for many years, and he is simply evil, without him, I think the people will be happy!" ”

Some of the Senate officials were Alpas's men, but they didn't come, so the Senators agreed to get rid of Alpas first.

Pulkhari Adam immediately issued an order, the Guards were ordered to pin down the Seventh and Ninth Legions, and the City Guards had to rush into the Prime Minister's residence as fast as possible to capture Alpas, and after the order was given, the generals at all levels were ordered to launch.

At about dawn, the city of Constantinople, which had been quiet, was noisy again, and the streets of the city were ablaze, and groups of soldiers ran around the streets with torches, shouting and killing, swords and blood, and screams one after another. The citizens of the city knew that there was probably a coup d'état, and they all hid under their beds and could not come out.

The main force of this battle is the Guards, the Guards is a super-large army, but it is composed of two legions, and a separate army, a total of 24,000 people, it is the main force to defend Constantinople, the highest commander of the Guards is generally held by the old and heavy generals, but many times, the highest commander of the Guards has the role of influencing the emperor's choice, and there have been many times in the history of the Roman Empire The commander of the Guards abolished the emperor and set up a new monarch. (To be continued......)