Chapter 16: Breaking into the Palace at Night

Yancheng is divided into two cities, the outer city is the daily residence of ordinary people, and the inner city is the settlement of dignitaries and dignitaries, and its city lord's mansion is also in it.

If the Son of Heaven accompanies the national teacher to summon rain, he will inevitably set up the palace in the city lord's mansion.

During the day, the altar cast by the national teacher Qi Yu is on the square at the junction of the inner and outer cities.

He crossed the street in front of him, turned left and crossed three streets again, stopped at a corner, and looked at the inner city gate behind the altar.

I saw nearly ten people standing on both sides of the gate in front of the huge city gate, guarding the city gate. Outside the towering city walls, there are also many patrolling janissary guards, wearing iron armours, holding knives in one hand and torches in the other, patrolling back and forth around the city walls, which can be described as heavily guarded.

"It's Li Chuan's men!"

Zhao Yi saw that the faces of several of them were quite familiar, and after thinking about it carefully, he suddenly said: "I see! At the beginning, Li Chuan said that he had received a holy decree ordering him to return to Yancheng and wait for the national teacher to rain. ”

"Actually, Yancheng is a city bordering enemy land, and war can break out at any time, just like Jiafeng City in the Han Dynasty. So they really received the order to guard the emperor's safety!"

After a pause, he said: "If you want to break in directly, I'm afraid it will be as difficult as climbing to the sky, and the worst result is probably that Li Chuan will seize the opportunity, and just find an excuse and start killing me. ”

While thinking about it, he saw several bamboo poles next to him leaning against the corner of the wall scatteredly, frowning, and thinking about it.

He took three bamboo poles that were full of toughness, and in between the inspections of several patrol guards, he found a high wall and threw the three bamboo poles towards the wall.

Duh~Dumm~Duh~

Only three voices were heard in turn, and three bamboo poles were smoothly inserted between the brick joints, one higher than the other, and the last one was only a zhang away from the wall.

"There seems to be a sound over there, go and see!", a guard noticed the movement here, so he came to Zhao Yi's side.

"Oh no!

After saying something secretly, he jumped forward, as light as a monkey, and grabbed the first bamboo pole.

The bamboo body bent and straightened again, Zhao Yi used this force to jump on the second bamboo pole again, spin around, and once again borrowed his strength, flying to the third bamboo pole alone.

Zhao Yi, who arrived at the third bamboo pole, saw the firelight at the corner of the city wall, immediately climbed to the top of the city, found a tall tree next to it, and jumped straight over, just avoiding the forbidden guards who heard the strange sound and rushed to investigate.

When they saw three bamboo poles stuck in the inner city wall and the ends were shaking, they looked at each other and asked, "What is this?"

"Bamboo poles?"

"Last time we patrolled here, did you have this thing?"

"Who knows?"

"Let's go, whatever?"

The group walked away in a majestic manner, directly ignoring the three bamboo poles that seemed to be shaking by the cold wind.

In the inner city, there was a sound of rustling from a tall tree near the city wall, and then a figure jumped down from above, it was Zhao Yi himself.

The clothes and ornaments on his body were in tatters, and there were many wounds, some from the previous fight, and some were scratched by his branches on the tree just now.

"Before they find me, we need to find the Holy Palace!"

Zhao Yi sighed and said, "It's so difficult just to enter the inner city, wouldn't the Holy Palace be even more ......?"

"Well, it's all here, it's okay to give it a try, if it doesn't work, then find another way!"

Once again, he made his decision and headed to the heart of the inner city. During this period, many patrolling forbidden troops were avoided.

Eventually, he came to the City Lord's Mansion and looked at the huge palace in front of him.

At the top of the red vermilion lacquer gate, there is a black golden silk nanmu plaque, and there are three big characters 'Gaoyan Palace' inscribed on it.

Zhao Yi guessed that this palace was most likely the Holy Palace.

There are so many palaces in the palace, only this palace is more majestic.

But what made him strange was that there were only two guards in front of the door, if this was really the Holy Palace, there should be guards everywhere here, and it shouldn't be just these two people!

"No matter! Let's go and explore first!"

Zhao Yi picked up two pieces of gravel on the ground and threw them at the necks of the two.

Two muffled snorts rang out at the same time, and the two of them fell to the ground and fainted.

After looking around and making sure that there was no one around, he came out of the darkness to the palace and pushed the door open.

The sound of creaking and rattling sounded in the empty hall, and there was not the slightest candlelight in the hall, and it was pitch black.

Suddenly Zhao Yi had a slight retreat, not only that, but he had a strong feeling of uneasiness in his heart.

In the end, he moved his legs and poked into the dark.

At that moment, there was a click, and the door closed.

Torches rose on both sides of the dark hall, and suddenly, the flickering light of the fire illuminated the entire hall as bright as day.

The surroundings are full of long-awaited Praetorian Guards, and the person on the throne is the emperor of Zhao State, Zhao Ling Zhao Tianzi!

"Zhao Yi, you can plead guilty!"

When Zhao Yi heard this, he saw that it was the enemy he had ever dreamed of, Li Chuan!

It's ridiculous that he shamelessly asks for guilt here, anyway, the saint is also here, so he simply confronts him face to face.

So, he reprimanded loudly: "You don't have preconceived ideas, don't you have a trace of repentance for your treason?"

Li Chuan was roared by Zhao Yi, and said pretending to be angry: "You don't have to be strong, colluding with the enemy, many generals died at your hands, and you still don't admit your guilt!"

Then he clenched his fist in the direction of the upper seat and said, "Now I have to add another one, break into the Holy Palace!

"For trespassing in the palace, Wei Chen is really helpless, but the minister will never do anything that endangers the saint!"

Zhao Yi ignored Li Chuan's words, but knelt on his knees and said to the emperor in the upper seat: "Weichen has something extremely important to start!"

Li Chuan was about to speak, but was interrupted by Zhao Tianzi, and said in a flat tone: "What important thing do you have that make you risk your life and risk killing your head to trespass into my palace?"

As soon as he heard this, Zhao Yi's heart suddenly calmed down, it seemed that the Son of Heaven was not completely blinded by this villain.

As long as the saint is willing to listen to Zhao Yi's next narration, black is black, white is white, black cannot become white, and white cannot become black, I believe that the saint will definitely make a holy judgment.

Immediately, he began to tell the story: "It has been four years since my Zhao State waged war with the enemy country. And when they invaded our territory for the first time, the opponent's forces were strong and powerful, and the land they set foot on was like locusts crossing the border. ”

Then his voice changed: "But! Its momentum cannot last long, and under the dispatch of our sages, the situation will gradually be leveled out!"

"Chengde Sheng can afford it, so that the ministers can have the opportunity to set foot on the battlefield and serve the court. It also allowed the minister to get acquainted with a good man here and defend the country together. ”

Those few heroes are naturally Zhao Yi's sworn brothers, including Li Chuan and Unit Ce, the two thieves!

"After several battles, large and small, both the enemy and the enemy fell into a period of exhaustion. In the first few battles, the morale of our army was significantly higher than that of the other side, and the opponent was weak, so he won easily!"

"At that time, we guessed that there was something wrong with the other party's grain and grass! So we sent troops to Feiyun Pass, and the other party directly hung up the anti-war card, no matter how we scolded and humiliated, we just didn't send troops to meet the battle. ”

"Feiyunguan Mountain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, so I have no choice but to retreat and defend!"

"While several of our generals were discussing countermeasures, the spies outside reported that the enemy army was transporting grain and grass to Feiyun Pass with all their might. This not only confirms the previous speculation, but also is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!"

"Several of us have thought of a point, that is, cut off their grain and grass, besiege Feiyun Pass, starve them to death, and within a few days, they will definitely surrender! This pass is the most important pass for the other side, once it is broken, then the Wei State will be in danger."

"So, Xiao, Jiang, and Hao and I divided into three routes, and each took a light cavalry to intercept the enemy's grain and grass overnight. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Yi's emotions were a little out of control, he stood up, pointed to Li Chuan not far from the left, and scolded: "You bastard who eats inside and out!"

"At the beginning, our four brothers were really blind, and they actually married you and Unit Ce as brothers of the opposite sex!"

took a sip and continued: "You thief first secretly colluded with the enemy army in disregard of the country's righteousness, and then disregarded the morality of your brothers to ventilate the enemy and design the four of our brothers, so that they would be buried in a different place, and their bones would be cold!"

"And I escaped death, escaped Tuoba Rock's encirclement and suppression again and again, and finally returned to the barracks, and was designed by you again, and the Wei thieves chased and killed me for a whole day!"

"I really don't know what face you have standing here, you sinner of Zhao Kingdom!"

Zhao Yi clenched his fists, knelt down again, and said solemnly: "Please also ask the Holy Lord to be aware of everything and give my dead brothers a satisfactory explanation!"