The commander guarding the Vermilion Bird Gate made Sun Lang unable to live in peace all morning, and strange things happened one after another.

Early in the morning, a large group of soldiers and horses came over, without taking any paperwork, and asked for a change of guard, and the two sides are still facing each other at the gate of Suzaku! Just after noon, the reinforcements that were supposed to go to Guizhou poured into the city again.

Sun Lang was promoted to commander by surprise because he was close to Ma Xichong and people would come to trouble, he could drink and have fun, but it was really not good to fight! The current situation is too complicated, and the inside and outside of the city walls are full of soldiers wearing their own military uniforms, what can we do? Should I open the door? Sun Lang's heart was completely confused, and he sat behind the battlements with his hands curled up, making a mud fetus god.

Directly down Antai Avenue to the north, the originally spacious road was blocked by those mysterious and fierce soldiers, and not even a fly could fly over; The people who went to the Chu Palace, who went to the palace of the king of Chu to understand the situation, have not come back until now, and their thousand-number people are completely trapped in the Suzaku Gate.

Sun Lang doesn't accept the offer, which doesn't mean that others don't make a move.

Suddenly, a thundering arrow came out of the city, and the scream pierced the sky, attracting the attention of all the soldiers above and below the city walls.

Immediately, one of the soldiers ran up the stairs of the city wall and shouted: "The group of soldiers in the city has moved, and they have been pressing forward!" ”

Before the words fell, one of the guards who had been staring at the outside of the city said loudly: "The soldiers under the city walls are also pushing forward, and it looks like they are about to attack the city!" ”

Sun Lang hugged his head and curled his body deeper. When there is no way, you can only drag it hard!

However, this matter is not something that Sun Lang's "head shrinking magic" can avoid. At this time, a loud roar suddenly came from below the city: "The edict of the King of Chu has arrived, and Sun Lang has received the order!" ”

Sun Lang was excited, and immediately got up and ran towards the stairway of the city wall.

The edict was read by a middle-aged strong man on a horse, followed by nearly a hundred bloodied cavalrymen.

The content of the edict is very simple, saying that Ma Xichong's treason has been ambushed, and Sun Lang will be arrested immediately, and his subordinates will not be held accountable, and anyone who resists will be killed.

When Sun Lang heard this, his whole body immediately softened and he collapsed on the ground. The two horsemen dismounted and escorted him aside, and his guards watched and did not dare to move.

The menacing cavalry stepped forward and drove the soldiers defending the city to the side, and the soldiers who had been facing each other rushed forward, took away the weapons of the soldiers defending the city, and pushed them aside to watch.

The gates were soon pushed open.

Feng was frightened and rushed in, and whispered a few words to Liu Qi, who was reading the edict, before turning around and shouting to the recruits who were entering the city with a face full of surprise: "Brothers, don't worry!" Ma Xichong's rebellion has been successfully quelled, and Tanzhou City is safe and sound! ”

"Oh!" A group of recruits who frantically rushed back to Tanzhou City immediately cheered.

When everyone's cheers fell a little, Feng Jingyun continued: "Everyone must be worried about their relatives, from now on, everyone can go home to visit their relatives by themselves!" Two days later, we gathered in front of the palace of the king of Chu! ”

The cheers of the recruits intensified, and they immediately dispersed in all directions, rushing in the direction of their homes.

At this time, Liu Qi gathered Feng Jingyun, Zhang Longxing and others, and whispered a brief account of what happened in Tanzhou City, Feng Jingyun was even more relaxed and excited, and immediately ordered some soldiers to escort the soldiers defending the city into the South Gate military camp, and followed the rest of the soldiers to quickly rush to the Chu Palace.

The process of dealing with the Suzaku Gate in the south is very simple, and it is even simpler to deal with Ma An, the general guarding the city at the West City Gate, and a false edict was drafted on the spot, saying that there was a small change in the palace of the king of Chu, and Ma An was invited to go to the palace to discuss matters quickly.

Ma An immediately brought three guards to ride over, as soon as he arrived at the scene, he learned about Ma Xichong's rebellion, Ma An has always been Ma Xichong's right-hand man, two months ago when the city of Tanzhou was broken, it was Ma An who led the troops to abandon the east city gate for the first time, so that the tribal soldiers could easily enter. Hearing the bad news, Ma An immediately fell to the ground.

Shortly thereafter, a slight disturbance broke out in the warship under the command of Ma Xixu outside the West City Gate, and the large ship suddenly caught fire and turned into a flame, and no one on board was able to escape.

By the time of Shen (3 p.m.), the city had basically returned to normal order.

Fast horses drove out of the Chu King's Mansion and rushed to all parts of Tanzhou City, and the order they received was simple: the Chinese military minister must rush to the Chu King's Mansion at five o'clock in the afternoon to discuss the state of the state.

The city that has been in turmoil for most of the day has already made the people and ministers in the city panic, and the words "country is" in the messages carried by these cavalry have made the hearts of many ministers jump wildly.

The country is, the language comes from the Southern Dynasty Fan Ye's "Book of the Later Han Dynasty? The Biography of Huan Tan Feng Yanlie": "King Zhuang said: 'Good. May the prime minister and the doctors jointly determine the country. And "yes, then also", and "then, often also", "law also". The "yes" of the country is the rule, the law, and the long-term governance of the country. Generally speaking, the state does not refer to general state affairs, but specifically refers to major affairs such as national decision-making and planning.

Because of these mysteries and doubts that are enough to make people crazy, there is no need to urge them at all, and these ministers rushed to the Chu Wangfu as soon as they received the order.

From the gate of the palace, what these ministers who arrived one after another were shocking, and the traces of blood on the ground, on the trees, and on the wall had not yet completely dried up, and it looked terrifying.

Seeing that these people's footsteps became a little hesitant, Feng Jingyun and Lin Renzhao, who were in charge of serving as the guests, immediately greeted them with a smile on their faces, and enthusiastically invited these ministers to enter the Nine Dragons Hall to wait.

In the Nine Dragons Palace, all the ministers looked at each other, looked at each other, and asked what was going on? No one knows the truth! Tuoba Heng, the old minister who came in late, stood alone outside the crowd, slightly closed his eyes, and leisurely recuperated.

When the time came, a large number of heavily armed Tang soldiers poured in from the entrance of the hall, and the one in front of them was none other than His Royal Highness the Ninth of the Tang Dynasty, which everyone was familiar with-Li Congqian.

As soon as he entered the main hall, Li Congqian was guarded by ten special soldiers including Feng Jingyun, Lin Renzhao, Chen Desheng, Liu Qi, and Qin Hansheng, and went straight to the dragon seat in the middle. The rest of the soldiers slammed the door of the main hall to death, and then dispersed around the main hall, staring at the ministers in front of them.

The hall suddenly became a little gloomy, and the hearts of a group of ministers were even more chaotic, and their eyes were all fixed on Li Congqian in the center.

Li Congqian stood in front of the throne and did not sit down, but spoke in a still somewhat naïve voice - "The battle of Guizhou, my Chu-Tang coalition army won a great victory, and the results were brilliant, annihilating the Southern Han army and recovering Wuzhou!" Lord Lin Feng and Lord Liu Renzhen are unharmed! Li Congqian's first sentence made all the ministers on the scene startled, is this true? Why do you keep hearing the news of the fiasco on the front line and Lin Feng's death?

Next, Li Congqian spoke quickly and told the story of the incident.

A few days ago, he rushed back to Tanzhou City with several special soldiers to report the good news, and was secretly received by Ma Xichong, but since then he has been under house arrest in Huang Zongwang's mansion. Ma Xichong, who intended to usurp the throne, concealed the news of the victory from the outside world, insisted on claiming that the battle of Guizhou was a fiasco, and on this ground, all the main forces of the defenders were transferred out of Tanzhou City, and sent Xu Wei to lead the army to surround the Tang elite soldiers at the east gate last night, and at the same time sent a master to raid the palace of the king of Chu.

The besieged Tang army fought all night, and finally succeeded in killing Xu Wei, and rushed into Huang Zongwang's mansion to rescue his group. By the time he led his army to the Chu Palace, it was already too late. The king of Chu and all the people in the palace have been killed, and even the warship commanded by the king of Chu outside the west gate has been burned. He was about to lead the army to take down Ma Xichong, but Ma Xichong committed suicide on the spot.

The ministers who were originally surprised by the news of the victory in the Battle of Guizhou became more and more shocked the more they heard it, how did this thing sound like a myth?

Tuoba Heng opened his eyes slightly for a moment at first, and then closed them again, but a face that always kept smiling appeared in his heart: Lin Feng! It was precisely because of the arrival of a Lin Feng that this Chu country quickly came to an end. All this now must be Lin Feng's plot again, I am afraid that from the first day of entering Chu, Lin Feng has been planning how to steal the entire Chu State!

Li Congqian finished his introduction concisely, and with a wave of his hand, the soldiers on the periphery stepped forward and put the six burdens on the ground in the middle of the minister, and untied them at the same time. A cadre of ministers immediately exclaimed, these six heads are all faces they are very familiar with every day:

Ma Xichong, Xu Wei, Cao Jin, Sun Lang, Ma An, Xie Yanhao.

Looking at the heads on the ground with explosive hair, hideous blood, and angry eyes, all the ministers retreated in shock, and several ministers who were usually close to Ma Xichong couldn't help but weaken their knees and fell to the ground. Only Tuoba Heng took a few steps forward instead, looking with pitiful eyes at the heads of Ma Xichong and his entourage, who had been invincible the day before.

Li Congqian pointed to the head of the person underground, and said loudly: "The country of Chu is unfortunate, it is really heart-wrenching to have a great man like Ma Xichong do evil and destroy the foundation of Great Chu. However, the national economy and people's livelihood cannot be interrupted for a day. Because the state of Chu has declared itself a minister to our Tang Dynasty, from today onwards, from humble and untalented, temporarily led the Great Chu on behalf of the Tang Dynasty for a short period of time, and issued the following holy decree for the Tang Dynasty:

First, the land of Chu is difficult and the people are poor, and the people of Chu will be exempted from rent for three years from next year; ”

The first is a major piece of good news, but these ministers are not happy, looking at the head in the ground for a while, and Li Congqian for a while.

"Second, the army of Chu will be reorganized from now on to eliminate every black sheep;"

"Article 3: All the surviving ministers of the DPRK and China shall temporarily take up their original posts and ascend to the DPRK as usual from tomorrow; In the daily court, the old man Tuoba Heng temporarily leads the classes. Li Congqian still sang loudly.

As soon as he heard the third article, Tuoba Heng could obviously hear the relaxation of all the ministers, and there were more than a dozen clever ministers in front of him who reacted very quickly, and they had already knelt down on their knees and kowtowed to Li Congqian, and couldn't help but sigh in their hearts, in the eyes of these ministers, their official position was much more important than this Chu State and the people of Chu State.

However, when these people heard that the daily court was led by Tuoba Heng, their expressions had basically returned to normal, and the ministers invariably cast envious eyes on Tuoba Heng.

Tuoba Heng stood there, his eyes still slightly closed, but the slight trembling of his beard proved that his heart was by no means at peace.

Since the official founding of Ma Yin in August of the second year of Tiancheng (927 AD) of the Later Tang Dynasty, at this moment, the state of Chu in the land of Hunan and Hubei has only lasted 23 years, and it is about to officially disappear!

Tuoba Heng sighed slightly in his heart, and mourned silently for a moment for the Chu State that had come to an end!