Du Hongze struggled hard to prop up his upper body, and scolded sonorously: "Yang Zhong! Stop dreaming! Our Du family will not be embarrassed by the anti-thief, let alone kill me, you will kill all the people in the world, don't think about it! ”

"My son is right, the Du family will never be a thief!" General Du looked at his son with satisfaction, although he was unwilling, but with such a sensible and loyal son, if he died today, he could go to see his ancestors and ancestors with peace of mind.

Yang Zhong was so angry that his two eyes almost burst into flames.

"Okay, well, since you want to die so much, then the old man will fulfill you! Come on, pull them down, behead them! ”

"Yang Zhong! The emperor is about to rush back to the capital, do you think that with only your tens of thousands of people, you can compete with the emperor? Du Hongze shouted, "When the emperor invades the capital, you will die without a whole body, and it's too late to stop now!" ”

"Thank you for reminding the little general, the old man doesn't care about life and death for a long time, does he care if he keeps the whole corpse?" Yang Zhong laughed twice, and suddenly thought of something, beckoned the jailer to come over, and said in a low voice: "Keep the little one, and cut the old one." ”

He wouldn't be so merciful to let the father and son reunite under Jiuquan, he wanted them to be like himself, separated from their relatives by yin and yang, and separated from their flesh and blood!

In the end, the general of Zhenguo, a generation of loyal ministers, died in the middle of the night under the sword and axe of the traitor.

Yang Zhong is still as calm and ferocious as ever, every day he takes pleasure in torturing those ministers in the prison, every time he tosses down one with torture, he is extremely happy, when someone bends his waist because he can't stand the pain and surrenders to him, his mood is a little complicated, sometimes he will accept their submission, sometimes he will surrender too late, and directly push people out to behead.

Whether to kill or stay, there is no regularity, it seems that everything depends on his mood.

In this way, everyone is even more afraid to say goodbye.

More than half a month has passed.

On this day, Yang Zhong was having fun in the prison again, and when he was rising, someone suddenly came in a hurry to report, saying that the emperor had arrived with troops, and the army was stationed outside the city.

"How many people did the emperor bring back?"

From Yunzhou to the capital, if it is a large force, it will take at least a month and a half, and the emperor arrived so quickly, which means that he just led the light cavalry to rush back first, and the number of people is definitely not much, so Yang Zhong is not very anxious, but calm, his eyes are shining with excitement.

The subordinates looked quite puzzled, but they didn't dare to ask more, so they only answered truthfully: "There are about 20,000 light cavalry, and 10,000 infantry, a total of only 30,000 horses." ”

These 10,000 infantry were probably drawn from which battalion on the way back to Beijing, Yang Zhong thought so, and couldn't help but speed up his pace and personally went to the direction of the city tower.

Out-of-town camp.

Mu Liancheng stood in front of the military tent with his hands in his hands, looking forward to the capital with the city gate closed, his heart was full of mixed feelings, so far, he had fought countless battles large and small, and he had faced many opponents, but none of them could compare with Yang Zhong in terms of military ability, so he had never been so nervous as at this moment, and he never thought that one day he would actually fight against his own uncle.

This one thing alone is enough to annoy him, but Qin Luo's side has not had news of Feng Qingmad for a long time, which makes him even more anxious, this way back to Beijing, he is preoccupied all the time, and he has hardly slept well, standing here today, looking at the city like a cage, he suddenly feels tired.

If he wasn't the emperor of Dayan, just an ordinary person, he would have a much easier life in this life, right?

"Your Majesty." Eryou walked over, his expression slightly solemn.

Mu Liancheng came back to his senses and asked, "How is the situation in the city?" ”

"Not so good." Eryou frowned and replied with three words, paused for a moment, and said: "Uncle Guo has a total of 60,000 horses in his hands, plus the Shangchun camp and the forbidden army, there are almost 100,000, nearly half of the ministers have been submitted to him, and the other half of those who refuse to submit have either been sent to the heavenly prison and tortured every day, or they have been mutilated to death with various tortures, and the people are panicked and do not dare to go out." ”

His eldest brother Dayou was also imprisoned in the prison, and he still doesn't know whether he lives or dies.

The Shangchun camp and the forbidden army are directly under the command of Mu Liancheng, even if they are suppressed by Yang Zhong, they will definitely not be sincere in submission, Mu Liancheng is confident that as soon as the news of his return spreads, they will echo, therefore, Yang Zhong can only use the 60,000 horses in his hands.

Although he only has 30,000 people now, they are all elite soldiers, if the forbidden army in the city and the soldiers of the Shangchun battalion join forces with him to besiege Yang Zhong, it is not impossible to win, but this fight will definitely have casualties, and the people will suffer, this is what he does not want to see, it is best to resolve this war without using swords.

Mu Liancheng returned to the camp and wrote a letter and handed it to Eryoudao: "Send someone to send this to Yang Zhong, and bring him a message, saying that I miss my uncle and nephew's affection, and I can't bear to meet him with swordsmen, and I hope to talk to him. ”

Eryou took the letter, paused, and wanted to ask something, but after thinking about it, he didn't speak, and immediately took the order.

In fact, Mu Liancheng still hasn't figured out why his uncle rebelled.

The Yang family was the first of the military ministers in the previous dynasty, and the blessing of the deceased Queen Yang in the harem can be described as unattainable in glory and glory, as the uncle of the country, Yang Zhong is already above 10,000 people under one person, besides, the Yang family is very strict, and the old general Yang has always taught Yang Zhong to be loyal to the monarch and protect the country as his own responsibility, Yang Zhong did this, it has been like this for decades, how could he abandon a loyal bone in just a few months?

After Yang Zhong got the letter, he sent someone to deliver a message to the Muliancheng camp, promising to meet with him.

Two days later, the two met in a tent temporarily set up at the southern gate of the city, Mu Liancheng only brought a second tour with him, and Yang Zhong came out of the city alone, which seemed to be just an ordinary private meeting.

Looking at his uncle, who had gray temples and was more than ten years old, Mu Liancheng was surprised at the same time, he couldn't help but sigh, and at the same time felt strange, what happened?

"Uncle, please be seated."

Yang Zhong glanced at him, stroked the corner of his robe, sat down at the table, and then arched his hand and said, "Thank you for the emperor's reservation." ”

Mu Liancheng didn't care about any etiquette, after he sat down, he personally added a glass of wine to the other party, and then asked, "How is Uncle lately?" ”

"It's not bad, I can eat and sleep, and I can get by." Yang Zhong replied casually, his tone was a little strange, and after that, he glanced at Mu Liancheng again and said, "The emperor looks a little haggard, and he is anxious to come here, isn't it good?" ”

"Indeed, I have been worried all the way, if I meet my uncle in the future, the queen mother will know in heaven, will I be blamed."

Mu Liancheng had something to say in his words, implying that Yang Zhong wanted to take care of his deceased sister.

However, Yang Zhong didn't care, just didn't hear it, and sat and drank leisurely.

After being silent for a while, Mu Liancheng finally asked the question in his heart: "Why did my uncle do this?" Did I treat you badly? If so, you can make amends. ”

"Compensation?" Yang Zhong let out a sneer, "Can a person be compensated if he dies?" Yi'er died because of you, what can you do to get her back? ”

"What? Cousin died? Mu Liancheng was taken aback, and a touch of sadness flowed out of his eyes, although he had no love for Yang Fuyi, but after all, there was a brother and sister relationship, and there were only a few of his relatives left, and now that she was gone, it was inevitable that she would be sad.

"When?"

Yang Zhong lowered his eyes, his gaze fell on the white jade wine glass, and said slowly: "Just two months ago, on the night of the third day of junior high school, he died of a serious illness. ”

After a pause, he said: "She is only nineteen years old, and in her good years, she has slept like this, and this is all caused by you, caused by you!" ”

Speaking of excitement, he slapped the wine glass in his hand and glared at Mu Liancheng angrily.

The latter's face was full of surprise, and he didn't know why, "You said that my cousin died of illness, what does it have to do with me?" ”

He didn't shirk his responsibility, but he really didn't understand.

Yang Zhong said: "Yi'er's heart for you, you can't be clearer, she just wants to be a concubine in your harem, you don't agree, since the palace came back, she has been depressed, her body is not as good as day by day, she is depressed, why has nothing to do with you?" ”

Because it was Yang Fuyi who took the initiative to ask to leave the palace, and sometimes it was fine, Mu Liancheng was not worried, thinking that she had gradually let go, and he didn't expect that she would become depressed because of her refusal, and when he heard Yang Zhong's words at first glance, he didn't know how to react for a while.

"That's why you raised the army? You rebelled against me because I rejected my cousin? ”

"So what?" Yang Zhong sneered and said, "I want to get justice for Yi'er, and I want you to know how wrong you were before!" ”

Mu Liancheng sighed helplessly, he could understand the other party's feelings about losing his daughter, and he did feel that he was partly responsible for Yang Fuyi's death, but the public and the private were private, how could he rebel because of a few personal grievances, and make such a big move?

In this way, he will not be able to use troops with Yang Zhong, and he will not let the people and tens of thousands of soldiers in the city become the victims of Yang Zhong's personal anger.

"Uncle, my previous handling of my cousin's affairs was indeed inappropriate, which caused my cousin to die of depression, I'm sorry, but this is all a personal grudge, why involve other people? As long as you promise to withdraw the troops from the city, I can say yes to whatever you ask, okay? ”

Yang Zhong hooked the corners of his lips and sneered: "Okay, this is what you said, I'm afraid that if I make a request, you will regret it." ”

Mu Liancheng saw that he seemed to be about to let go, and suddenly his heart was overjoyed, and he hurriedly said, "Come and hear it?" ”

"Yi'er's biggest wish before her death was to be the emperor's queen, but now that she is gone, this wish cannot come true, but I hope that she can enjoy the treatment of the mother of a country after her death."