Chapter 204: The Plan Falls Through
As soon as King Cheng's words fell, he suddenly heard the sound of drums outside the city shaking the sky, and the sound of the mountains shouting and tsunami came from far and near.
Waiting under the city gate, he saw the army gradually pressing in, King Cheng's heart sank, or was it too late, who was sabotaging his plan?
The vice general was also frightened next to him, "His Royal Highness King Cheng, are we still opening the city gate now?" ”
"What else to open, if we open the city gate, the army outside the city takes the opportunity to enter, we will not be able to fly."
"But if we don't go out to meet it, the 10,000 troops outside the city will not be covered."
King Cheng clenched his fists and looked at the 10,000 troops stationed outside the moat, which he had spent countless efforts to convince him to live and die with, and now he was going to die in vain, and King Cheng couldn't think of it.
So what now?
"Open the gates of the city and let in the army from outside."
A quarter of an hour later, the retreat of the reinforcements was decided, and the east gate was slowly opened under the order of King Cheng, and the 10,000 troops who lived on the banks of the moat fled to see the holy capital at night.
And the reinforcements from a kilometer away had not had time to enter the gate, they had already been stopped outside the holy capital, and the leader was led by a gray-haired old man, King Cheng stood on the city wall and looked at him condescendingly.
"General Luo, I haven't seen you for a long time, I didn't expect this king to actually face you this time, if this king accidentally injured General Luo, then this king is not welcome."
The old man known as General Luo in the reinforcements outside the city snorted coldly.
"Rebel, you actually killed the saint, you are so ruthless and unrighteous as you, how can you ascend to the throne of my dynasty, the general just heard the emperor's order to come to help, if you dare to murder the emperor, this general will never let you go."
"The general is too confident, now the general will keep you out of the holy capital, you travel thousands of miles to help, I'm afraid it can't be worth my holy capital."
"The general is here to see what you can do."
General Luo secretly thought in his heart, this place of the East City Gate cannot be fought for the time being, if there is no accident, the main battlefield should be in another place.
King Cheng pondered for a while, turned around and went down the city tower, and the deputy general hurriedly chased after him.
"Lord, what should we do now?"
King Cheng stood firm and commanded coldly, "Defend the city gate, and you must not let a single soldier of the Luo family army come in, otherwise there will be no mercy." ”
After King Cheng finished speaking, he rode on a tall horse and hurriedly went to the west city gate, at this time the guards of the west city gate were guarding the city gate to death, but unfortunately King Cheng was still a step late, and when the south of the city arrived.
More than half of the troops outside the city had been killed or wounded, and General Li of the camp in the western suburbs suddenly stood outside the west gate, looking at the high city wall, eager to kill the people on the opposite side with his own hands.
"General Li, you dare to deceive this king?!"
King Cheng looked at the banner of the camp in the western suburbs and snorted.
General Li stroked his beard and glanced at King Cheng, who was high above.
"His Royal Highness King Cheng's words are wrong, I didn't deceive General Chengwang, I just listened to the emperor's orders, and came to rescue you, as for what you are, don't think that when you come to the battle of this general, this general will listen to your orders, this general is loyal to the Jade Emperor, loyal to the dynasty, but don't listen to you, a villain."
"If you do this, you won't be afraid that this king will kill you."
"Ben is already old, and he can't care about much, just hoping to be loyal to the emperor before entering the coffin, as for you? Hmph, if you have the ability, you will come down to fight with the old man, and Ben will accompany him at any time. ”
King Cheng was so angry with General Li that he vomited blood, and the troops he valued so much were so anti-water, and now the reinforcements outside were deeply wounded, and most of them surrendered to the western suburbs battalion, and that part of the reinforcements was the army he had specially transferred from the local area before, but unfortunately the combat strength was limited after all, and they could only hope for the heroic soldiers in the western suburbs.
"Lord Wang, we only have 15,000 troops left, and the rest are scattered in Dongcheng and Beicheng, and now he is not enough to resist the attack of the Xijiao battalion, what can we do?"
"Don't do it, no matter what, you can't let them enter the city today, and if you can't keep it, you have to guard it for me, as for the rest, I don't care what method you use, you must stop them for me, as for those shrimp soldiers and crabs, you can do whatever you want, if you can't stop them, you don't want to see me again."
King Cheng gave a death order to the generals guarding the door, and what he was thinking about now was those people in the palace, the forbidden army led by Zhou Ren made the imperial city firm, but King Cheng may not have no way to attack it, but he has already done this step and cannot give up.
He is the son of the emperor, he is already one step away from that position, the previous step is the supreme position, and one step back will be a bottomless abyss, no matter what, he must attack the imperial city and accept the worship of all the people, as for these people inside and outside the imperial city, when his reinforcements arrive, he must clean them up one by one.
"Lord Wang," the adjutant general watched the back of King Cheng departing from a distance, and the attendants behind him followed closely.
King Cheng went to the central street, then looked at the direction of Yiwangfu, turned the horse's head, and ran directly towards Yiwangfu, at this time, Yiwang's Mansion was already empty, whether it was Ouyang Lanzhi or the people below, they were all not in Yiwangfu, the entire Yiwangfu was empty, and there was not even a single person.
Ouyang Lanzhi's mother, Gu, Ouyang Zheng and the emperor had already appeared in the Zhuangzi in Qingshan outside the city.
Liu Jun and Li Huashang were busy asking for people to serve a few distinguished guests.
It turned out that when King Cheng was about to launch a mutiny, Ouyang Lanzhi had already taken the people of the Ouyang family and the emperor out of the city and came to Li Huashang's Zhuangzi, Liu Jun and Li Huashang had already received the news, knowing that King Cheng would definitely catch the emperor and Ouyang Zheng and others, and it was really not safe to stay in the palace.
If King Cheng catches them as an example, it will not be easy to do.
Or Ouyang Lanzhi immediately thought of sending people away first, although the entire palace was vast, but Ouyang Lanzhi was very low-key, and did not use the carriage with the palace logo, and used a simple small sedan chair to send the emperor and Ouyang Zheng and others out of the city respectively.
Ouyang Zheng followed the emperor into the villa, the emperor stood at the top of the villa and looked at the direction of Shendu, they could not see the tragedy on the west gate on the east mountain, but could only look at the east gate of the holy capital from a distance, there were many troops stationed.
At this time, it has been stationed, and the closer ones can still see the stove cooking, it seems that it is going to be fought for a long time, whether it is a siege battle, if the eastern cities have become hell on earth, then the people of the holy capital are not necessarily good.
"Your Majesty, you better go back first, now that the rebels have entered the city, I think that the king will not let the rebels harass the people in the city, the emperor will put a hundred hearts."
The emperor sneered, "Don't harass the people, with Chu Tiancheng's temperament, how is it possible, he can't wait for the whole world to know that he has entered the palace, ascended to the status, and will accept the admiration of all the people when the time comes, if anyone jumps out against him and kills the first person, it is those who oppose him, how can you let me rest assured?" ”
"And those ministers in the city are one or two fate, because with Chu Tiancheng, do you think Chu Tiancheng is a fool? In any case, he is my son, and if he kills one or two chickens and monkeys, he will deter those who are flamboyant, and maybe he will really succeed. ”
"The emperor's words are wrong, if the ministers were so easily rebelled by the king, do you think he would go so hard to enter the city with so many soldiers? I'm afraid that if he accepts Wenchen's noble words, he will already be able to ascend to the throne, the emperor still doesn't have to be anxious, everything is fine in this villa, and when His Royal Highness King Yi finishes handling the matter, he will inevitably welcome the emperor into the city, and the emperor will take care. ”
"I can't take care, I can only count on King Yi when I'm really old, by the way, how is King Yi now?"
"King Yi has not come out of the city now, I'm afraid the whole city is under martial law now, but King Yi also has a sense of ability around him, and I think he can live in King Yi and escape the encirclement and suppression of the rebels this time."
"That's for sure, I gave him so many soldiers, even the jade seal, if he can't grab that position, don't become a king to rob it, that's no wonder."
Although Ouyang Zheng was standing on the side, his face was serious, but after all, he was happy in his heart, and even the jade seal cared about it now, King Yi's body was not sure, his son-in-law could really imagine that position.
But Ouyang Zheng is just thinking about it, now the emperor is still in good spirits, and he wants to show off that position, I'm afraid there will be a long time, so let's wait, I hope King Yi can clean up the rebels of King Cheng now, and don't leave any more handles.
Ouyang Lanzhi was sitting in Li Huasheng's room, Gu was making children's small clothes and shoes on the side, Ouyang Lanzhi didn't want to move after moving twice, and she was very upset.
"You just want too many men to do their jobs outside, isn't it good for you to take care of the backyard at home? is so uncontrollable, it's not like your mother and my daughter. ”
Gu Shi turned out to put the small clothes in his hand back in the closet.
"Mother, how can my daughter compare with you, you are the female general of our Holy Dynasty, and when we were normal and young, you were second to none, and now in the Holy Capital, just ask anyone who doesn't know you."
"But my daughter grew up in the boudoir, and she has never been able to march and fight outside like her mother, and she can't raise her mother's momentum, so even if I am my mother's daughter, I haven't learned the calm courage of being young after all."
Gu didn't even raise his eyes, and he sewed the tiger head shoes in his hands, you can see what you said, "If the prince is fighting outside, you can't let go of the war at home for the first moment, and in the end it is you who work hard, why don't you want to open some." ”
"Since you married King Cheng, you may not be sure, you will have to bear such a day, and it is not only now, but from beginning to end, Prince Yi has her responsibility."