The hour had come to dawn, but there was no light in sight. Ink-colored clouds squeezed the sky like a formation, as if they were about to fall, and the sky and the earth were dark and oppressive.

The Daxing Palace was in full swing all night, and the soil dug out of the ground had been piled up into several hills.

Three local palace people estimated the location of the ground underground, and fifty eunuchs were distributed in a team in the tunnel, digging and sending the newly dug earth solitaire out of the ground in a steady stream.

The people in front were tired, and the people in the back quickly filled the position, and as the tunnel became deeper and deeper, fifty people were far from enough, and more than a hundred eunuchs were put in, and finally, even the stronger palace maids joined the team.

The concubines were ordered to wait in the palaces, and the queen stood guard at the entrance to the hole in the ground. For the past few hours, she had clasped her hands together and silently prayed to the heavens, hoping that she would be able to dig through the tunnel sooner.

Bai Jinyu selected twelve of the only guards with slightly better martial arts, and after boosting their morale with a clear understanding of right and wrong, he took them to load twenty-four wooden barrels of fire oil in the palace.

The imperial dining room cooked a good meal of chicken, duck and fish, and after the twelve forbidden soldiers feasted, they carried long knives on their backs and waited at the entrance of the tunnel with twenty-four barrels of fire oil, waiting for the tunnel to enter as soon as possible.

The gray sky, the gloomy wind, suddenly, an explosion shook the darkness!

"What time is it?!"

Bai Jinyu looked up in astonishment and looked into the unseen distance, which made people blur the time.

A eunuch said, "It's more than half the hour." ”

It's only halfway through!

Bai Jinyu felt a chill in his heart, so early, King Zheng's heart to win was revealed!

The queen hugged Bai Jinyu tremblingly, and said with a pale face: "Lihua, what should we do, they have already started a war...... Can we make it? ”

Bai Jinyu sank into the same frightened heart, patted the back of the queen's hand, and said steadily: "It can be done." "She has to keep the Queen positive and confident, and her faith can sustain a lot of people here.

After receiving an affirmative answer, the queen's eyes welled up with tears, and she looked at Bai Jinyu for a moment.

Bai Jinyu said: "Niangniang, it's windy here, do you want to go back to the palace to rest!" There's me here, you don't have to worry. ”

The queen shook her head majestically, and the steps on her temples trembled: "No, I'm not going anywhere!" My life is tied to the emperor. If this battle is lost, the emperor will no longer be the emperor of the Great Levy Dynasty, and everyone else can survive, but I ......"

Bai Jinyu looked at the queen sympathetically, in the past two days, she deeply felt that this woman who was above 10,000 people under one person, this woman who was glorious and wealthy, and whose status and status were all over the world, was not happy at all.

To be connected with the fate of a man with dozens of concubines, it is not worth it at all.

However, she still encouraged: "Niangniang, do you think His Royal Highness is a good emperor?" ”

The queen was stunned for a moment, thought for a moment, and said, "Of course he is!" ”

Bai Jinyu raised the corners of her mouth slightly for her: "Since he is a good emperor, God will definitely bless him, and we will definitely win!" ”

"Yes!" The queen grabbed Bai Jinyu's hand tightly: "God will definitely help Mingjun!" That King Zheng made the good Chang'an miserable, God has no reason to help such a person! You're right, you're right......"

The queen's eyes glowed again, she groaned for a while, turned her head, grabbed Bai Jinyu tighter, and almost begged: "Don't let me leave here, I don't want to go anywhere!" ”

Bai Jinyu held her excited hand and said kindly: "Okay, you are here, the emperor is Mingjun, you are the queen of Mingjun, and you will definitely be protected by God!" You are here for our good bore! ”

When the queen heard this, she also made a promise, and muttered to herself: "Yes, I am the queen of Mingjun, and I will definitely bring happiness to everyone here." ”

Bai Jinyu gave the palace maid on the side a look, and the palace maid stepped forward with understanding, took the queen from Bai Jinyu's hand, and helped her sit down on the chair beside her.

Bai Jinyu turned around and stepped to the entrance of the tunnel, and asked a eunuch at the entrance of the underground cave in a whisper, "How long will it take to dig through?" ”

The eunuch passed on the question, and after about a cup of tea, the eunuch replied: "About five hours?" ”

Five hours?

Bai Jinyu's heart sank, I'm afraid the daylily will be cold in five hours! ‘

She lowered her head and panicked for a while, and when she raised her head again, she said to the underground palace man: "If you pass the word, if you can open the tunnel before the end of noon, everyone will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver!" ”

The eunuch opened his mouth in shock, and he couldn't believe it.

Bai Jinyu resolutely added: "You tell them that this was said by Princess Jin, and they will come to the Jin Palace" to cash it out after the matter is completed!" ”

The eunuch was dizzy for a while, and then his face was flushed with excitement, and he turned around and shouted into the tunnel: "Princess Jin Niangniang spoke, if it can be completed before the end of noon, the Jin Palace's mansion will give each person a thousand taels of silver!" ”

The words spread agitated through the tunnels, igniting the ground like a tinder.

The cold clouds blocked the brilliant sun nine days away, and the sky seemed to have no change, but the amount of water in the dripping was falling little by little, and time was passing inexorably.

The palace has completely lost the news outside the palace, but as time has passed, the faint sound of fighting outside the high walls has gradually become a murderous sound, and the roaring explosions from time to time seem to fall in front of them in the next moment.

Bai Jinyu's thoughts were messed up by the wind flowing around, she tried her best to restrain her panic, used all her concentration to suppress her thoughts of running around, and stood still.

Wait, time flies so fast, and so slow.

The excavation site is in full swing, and it is eerily quiet, as if everyone's lives are hanging by a thread, and the survey is a silent torture.

I don't know how long it took, but suddenly, a person crawled out of the hole, prostration, and excitedly shouted: "Dig, dig through!" ”

It's like a boulder throwing into the water, stirring up a splash of water that soars to the sky! The queen, palace maids, eunuchs, and janissaries on the ground who were dejected just now let out a cheer almost at the same time!

Bai Jinyu looked at the drip, it was just noon!

It's been two hours!

One by one, the grizzled men climbed up from the tunnels. A eunuch rushed to the queen with a rolling belt, laughing and crying: "Queen Qiyu, we have got through!" The exit is at the grain depot in the south of the city! The tunnel is estimated to be thirty miles away, and it has been opened! ”

Bai Jinyu was stunned in the fierce cheers, this was completely beyond her estimate, thirty miles, it was incredible! Is human potential really so great?!

The next moment, she turned around, and the twelve Praetorian guards had spontaneously lifted the barrel and were ready to go.

She smiled happily and resolutely raised her voice: "Warriors, it's your turn, let's go!" ”