Chapter 124: The Great Crisis of the Imperial City
Yuan Junfeng turned his head and said to Huo Pinglian, "You stay here, there are too few people here, I have to think of a way!" ”
Huo Pinglian nodded, Yuan Junfeng went down the city wall alone, and as soon as he arrived at the bottom of the city wall, he saw Xue Rou and Xue Fei with many young and promising people.
Yuan Junfeng stepped forward in shock and asked Xue Rou, "These people? It's you! Xue Rou nodded, "I know that the remaining elite guards are really not enough, and now everyone lives in this city, and in the face of this danger, the people are willing to contribute!" ”
Yuan Junfeng looked at Xue Rou and shook her hand gratefully, "Okay!" Good! Leave it to me, you take Miss Xue back first. ”
Yuan Junfeng took the people to the city wall, arranged for the replacement of manpower, and hurried to the palace.
The emperor was lying weakly on the dragon bed, and the fourth prince and the fifth prince held the sixth prince hostage with soldiers and killed them in the dormitory.
Sanfu happened to go out and saw this, and hurriedly ran in and said to the emperor, "The emperor is not good, the fourth prince and others are coming here with the six princes in a menacing manner!" ”
The emperor got up in shock, "What did you say?" The sixth child has been arrested, help me up! ”
"Father, you are sick, it's better not to get up, have a good bed rest!" The four princes and their entourage walked in. Looking at the emperor, the fourth prince said to the emperor with some pity, "Alas, if it hadn't been discovered early, you should have died directly, you said that you found it early, and now you are half dead!" ”
The emperor was shocked and said, "Sure enough, it's you who are the evil obstacles, and you really poisoned me!" I've been suspicious of you for a long time! ”
The fourth prince shook his head a little irritably, "Erchen doesn't understand, what do you like about this stinky sixth prince!" I want to pass the throne to him! ”
The six princes were tied hand and foot, and their mouths were gagged, the emperor saw that the six princes were treated like this, and he was powerless, Sanfu saw this and said, "Fourth prince, you don't want to be rampant, General Yuan will come back immediately!" ”
The fourth prince looked at the emperor and said, "Maybe you don't know that the general of the Northwest Barbarian Rong, Bo Ji Erkon, with 20,000 soldiers and horses, besieged the capital!" Now Yuan Junfeng has no time to take care of his father! ”
The emperor was shocked, "It's you, a brute, who betrayed Zhao State!" ”
The fourth prince shook his head, "No, I didn't betray me, I'm not as stupid as the eldest emperor!" Father, don't struggle, you hurry up and pass the throne to me, this imperial city will not be supported for long, and sooner or later it will be taken by the Northwest Barbarians! ”
The emperor smiled and said, "Since this imperial city is going to be taken, what is the use of me passing on the throne to you!" ”
The fourth prince said, "As long as you pass the throne to me, I will surrender to the northwest barbarians, so that I am still the king of Zhao, father, you have to open a little, at least my surrender can still give the people of this city a way to live!" ”
The emperor suddenly smiled and said, "This is the difference between you and your six emperor brothers!" He will never endure humiliation and steal his life to be a lackey who surrenders to the land and treason! ”
After saying this, the four princes looked at the emperor fiercely, pulled out the sword on his body, and cut the neck of the six princes without blinking an eye!
The emperor immediately spit out a mouthful of blood, crawled off the bed, and could only watch Zhao Yiyan's eyes wide open and fall to the ground!
The fourth prince frantically pointed his sword at the emperor, "Quick, immediately issue an order to me!" Right away! ”
Yuan Junfeng rushed to the palace, only to see Wen Yang patrolling around with the Praetorian Guards, Yuan Junfeng immediately grabbed Wen Yang in a panic, "Why are you here!" ”
Wen Yang was startled and explained, "The fourth prince came and went with a pair of soldiers and horses to guard the emperor, and let his subordinates patrol everywhere, just in case!" ”
Yuan Junfeng angrily pushed Wen Yang away, "Didn't I say that you can't leave the emperor even a step?" After speaking, he thought about the emperor's bedroom and ran to the palace.
Wen Yang was a little stunned, I still knew what was important, and hurriedly led the people and horses to follow behind Yuan Junfeng and ran to the emperor's bedroom!
Close to the emperor's bedroom, Yuan Junfeng asked people to outflank the emperor's bedroom on both sides. Holding a bow and arrow, he jumped lightly from the window and quietly sneaked into the dormitory!
When the fourth prince saw that the emperor closed his eyes and ignored him directly, he raised his sword and was about to cut down. It was a sharp arrow that hit the arm of the four princes.
Yuan Junfeng jumped into the emperor's side and snatched the sword of the four princes. In an instant, the sword was placed on the neck of the four princes, and Wen Yang led people to quickly surround the four princes and others!
The emperor opened his eyes and looked at Yuan Junfeng, and finally said, "Bring the six princes to me!" ”
Yuan Junfeng glanced at Wen Yang, and Wen Yang hurriedly hugged the dead six princes to the emperor's side. The emperor looked at the six princes with wide eyes and dead eyes.
Stretched out his hand to close his eyes, and said to Yuan Junfeng, "Give me the sword!" ”
Yuan Junfeng was a little surprised, but he still handed the sword to the emperor, the emperor looked at the four princes, and cut off the opponent's head with the last sword, and the people below trembled,
The emperor said to Yuan Junfeng, "Drive all these princes out of the imperial city and imprison them in the Zongren Mansion!" ”
Yuan Junfeng whispered to the emperor, "Your Majesty, all the troops have been transferred by Weichen to guard the city gate, and the Zongren Mansion is now unguarded!" ”
The emperor thought about it for a while and said to Yuan Junfeng, "Then you look at it, don't let these beasts run away!" ”
Yuan Junfeng had no choice but to enrich Sanfu's father-in-law to take care of the princess, leaving Wen Yang and others to guard the palace, and said to Wen Yang, "From now on, you are not allowed to leave the emperor for a single step, this is your chance to atone for your sins, if you can't do it again, I can't keep you!" ”
Yuan Junfeng brought the prince and others to the General's Mansion, and Xue Rou said puzzledly, "Why did you bring them to the General's Mansion!" ”
Yuan Junfeng said, "Now that the troops are insufficient, I really don't have the strength, so I will find them a place to live again, imprison them in the general's mansion, and send heavy soldiers to guard them!" After a while, you and your mother pack your luggage, and we will go out to live! ”
Xue Rou was now short of troops in the city, so he hurriedly went to Feng Zhen to explain the reason, packed his luggage, and went to live in an inn outside with Yuan Junfeng!
Bozier Klon looked worriedly at the battle plan on the table, when suddenly a pigeon flew out of the window and stayed in his tent.
Bozier Kron took the letter from the pigeon's feet, and after reading it, he immediately called someone in.
On the second day, most of the people in the capital were infected with the plague, Xue Rou hurriedly worked with the imperial doctor to find out the cause, and finally found that the problem was caused by the continuous flow of water from the moat outside the city.
Yuan Junfeng slammed on the table vigorously, "It must be Bo Ji'er clone, they must have put medicine on the moat outside the village, and they were the only ones who were researching this medicine last time!" ”
The plague on the face of a few days, not decreasing, but increasing, made the people panic, and gradually some people stood up and proposed surrender. More and more people are looking out of the city for a way out.
Yuan Junfeng frowned annoyantly when he heard Huo Pinglian's return. Putting on the armor and walking towards the crowd, Xue Rou looked at Yuan Junfeng's back worriedly, knowing that the only thing she could do was to quickly research the medicine.
Yuan Junfeng withdrew half of the troops of the General's Mansion and came to the place where the people lived, watching everyone quarrel and constantly say surrender. One of them was especially intense,
Talking about the benefits after surrendering, "Let's all surrender, we can only wait for death here, and now the generals can't come up with a way to save us, so many people have died, everyone is festering there, and now they can't get out!" Waiting for everyone to be infected with the plague and die here! ”
Huo Pinglian roared, "Take him down for me!" ”
The excited people immediately said, "Let's all surrender, if we surrender, we still have a way to live, it's better to die than to live, as long as we surrender, they won't want our lives, they just want to kill the emperor,"
Yuan Jun pulled out his sword and killed this person, watching the chaos of the scene where the person fell, he fell into silence,
Yuan Junfeng said at this time, "Do you think you can survive if you go out!" Do you know what it means to slaughter a city! As long as you are from Zhao Guo, you can't get out alive! This is the slaughter of the city! If you surrender, you will still die, and don't forget that if you are not of my race, your heart will be different! ”
Someone among the people said, "But we are getting sicker, what are we going to do?" Are we really going to sit here and wait to die? ”
"You mediocrities, are you all fools? Blind? Xue Rou walked over and said to the people, "We study drugs for you every day and night, don't you see it?" Or do you still want to be so vexatious when you see it! ”
Yuan Junfeng glanced at Xue Rou, turned his head to the people and said, "Because you are from Zhao and we are from a country, we will do our best to research drugs and save all of you, but once you surrender to the enemy and commit treason, they will not save you, and we will not want you again!" ”
Xue Rou continued, "All we need now is time, give us time to develop a medicine to suppress the plague!" You are just sitting and waiting for time, but those warriors are still fighting the enemy with sick bodies, why don't you want to hold on any longer! ”
The crowd gradually lost the voice of doubt, and Yuan Junfeng ordered Huo Pinglian to take people to distribute the medicine one by one.
Yuan Junfeng stood on the city wall with Xuerou and observed the other party's actions. I saw that the other party stopped indifferently outside the three zhangs. It seems that they are waiting, the plague spreads in the city, and in the end they all die of the plague and sit back and enjoy it.
Xue Rou took Yuan Junfeng's hand and comforted him, "Brother Yuan, believe me, I won't let you down!" ”
Yuan Junfeng nodded, and returned to the inn with Xue Rou, only to see Qing'er next to Minghuan running over, "General Yuan, there are assassins in the palace, the third prince and the seventh prince have all been killed!" ”
Yuan Jun was stunned, and after Huo Pinglian opened the curtain and walked in, "Oh no, something happened to the General's Mansion, the five princes and others were all killed and the General's Mansion!" ”
Xue Rou was shocked, and Yuan Junfeng hurriedly asked Qing'er, "Have you caught the murderer!" ”
Qing'er said, "General Wenyang caught the murderer, but the other party was a dead soldier, and as soon as he was caught, he swallowed medicine and committed suicide!" ”
Xue Rou hurriedly asked Qing'er, "Is the princess in danger!" Qing'er said, "The princess was not harmed, when the princess knew the news, she asked the slave maid to come and report to the general, and went to the emperor's bedroom by herself!" ”