I cooked at dawn and rested for a long time.

"If it goes well, the pioneer battalion will be able to meet the soldiers and horses from Longquan Town in the afternoon in two days." Chu Jue's brows stretched slightly after frowning for a few days, things were going smoother than expected; The cavalry of the Seventh Princess should have taken over the Beiding Bridge, if nothing else, a big chaos in Eastern Chu will be inevitable in a few days, and after Xiaoliu ascends the throne, his position in Eastern Chu will be under one person and above ten thousand people.

Chu Jue, An Jingran and the generals of the Natsume soldiers were talking freely in the big tent, and the atmosphere was very active.

No one knocked on Mu Qingyan's door that day, and she and Yanran had a good night's sleep. When they got up, it was already dusk, and the two quietly left Tianyi Pavilion and returned to Qingqi Winery.

Mu Qingyan still changed into a plain white cloud brocade men's clothes, tied his hair at the top, and pinned a purple jade carved bamboo hairpin. A piece of carved bamboo purple jade hung on his waist, decorated with tassels, and he shook the jade fracture fan in one hand and went to the ferry in the west of the city.

There was already a big ship ready to get down, and the two boarded the boat and went down the water, and Qin Yan was late for a day and night, and also went to the capital.

The boat must pass through the Beiding Bridge when taking the Wei River, and abandon the ship to land at the Lanxi County Ferry before entering the capital.

As soon as she left, the news of the dragon envoy arrived at Qingqi Winery, and Jing Liang was captured.

Chu Li and Chu Yue appeared in person, and in the Jincheng City Lord's Mansion, together with the three princesses who married into merchants, they coerced him to jointly send troops to attack the capital.

In order to save his life, he had to hand over the Yan Wang Order to Chu Li and was imprisoned in the army. The third prince, Chu Xun, was entrusted with an important task and took the order of King Yan to personally go to the defenders of the Tininggu Pass.

After receiving the message from An Jingran Feigeon, Chu Li and Chu Yue gathered troops and horses in Fengbei Town, and the capital was three hundred miles away, and the smoke was rising.

At night, I received another fast horse flying message, Chu Jue and Xia Mu soldiers have returned to the mountain, and Chu Jue's men and horses from the direction of Taiping Town have converged, and the cavalry of the Seventh Princess has taken the Beiding Bridge.

An Yuqing thoughtfully entered Chu Li's big tent.

"Why are the military advisors worried?" Chu Li was in a good mood today, and he was indescribably happy.

It's okay not to ask, seeing Chu Li asking him, An Yuqing is not good at hitting him. After hesitating again and again, he still reminded, "Emperor Li, Qin Yan has never seen any movement, don't you think it's a little surprising?" ”

"Haha, the other person is in Chuzhou, and the way back to the capital has been blocked by my soldiers and horses, and he has enough time to go back to Beijing to show his means, so don't worry!" Chu Li is full of confidence.

An Yuqing shook her head, "There are 500,000 soldiers and horses in the Zhongshan camp, even if the Liangzhou Rebellion sends 100,000 to suppress it, there is no need for Xi Yanxing to personally lead the troops." His brows furrowed more and more, "Right now, the capital is too calm, and the news from my eldest brother and Nangong Hao is too good, but I'm not sure." ”

"You're a mediocrity!" Chu Li smiled, "The person who came to deliver the letter today is the elite of your Anxin Building, is it still not credible?" ”

An Yuqing pondered, "Let people look at King Yan, I always feel that something is wrong!" ”

All night, he fell into deep thought, always trying to think carefully about the slightest hint of vigilance that he didn't have time to grasp, but he always missed the point, and the more he thought about it for no reason, the more annoying he became.

Before dawn, suddenly there was chaos outside.

He panicked, ran out first, and shouted, "What's the chaos? He casually pointed to the little soldier with a panicked face, with a majestic face, "You come on!" ”

"Report, report to the military division, Yan... King Yan is gone...... "He trembled, and finally finished speaking.

An Yuqing was not in a hurry to blame him, and ran to the very tightly guarded camp with a breath of true anger.

There was nothing in the tent, let alone people, not even half of the ropes that tied people! He was so angry that he took the soldiers guarding the tent and threw them on the ground, shouting, "Say, where are the people?" ”

The little soldier was so frightened that he couldn't possess his body, "Small, small, I came in in the middle of the night to see and see once, the two guards and the Yan King are still there, but, but it's ......"

"Search!" An Yuqing kicked the little soldier out of the tent, and ordered with a calm face, "Search the big camp for me one by one, half an hour, I can't run far!" ”

He turned around and went to Chu Li's big tent.

By this time, all the people in the camp who had received the news had already arrived.

"It seems that there is an internal response, stealing a person out of the army is definitely something that one person can do!" Chu Li paced back and forth on the ground anxiously. Seeing An Yuqing coming in, he hurriedly stood up and asked, "How?" ”

An Yuqing didn't care about the courtesy, and replied in a deep voice, "I ran away, and even the two small soldiers guarding also ran away." ”

"Take the person on duty last night to ask, you can't even look at a person, and you don't need to keep his head!" Chu Yue gave an eerie order.

He and Chu Li each have ghosts.

Chu Li has Xia Mu's 200,000 barbarian soldiers to help, and Chu Yue and Chu Xun have also accumulated a lot of power in recruiting troops and horses, and it is really difficult for the two of them to join forces to fight the enemy regardless of their previous suspicions for the sake of interests.

The people who should be interrogated and asked all tossed around, but they still didn't know how Jing Liang disappeared in the midst of the army, so they had no choice but to give up.

"Sixth Emperor Brother, let people pick up the third child." Chu Yue thought about it for a long time and finally felt uneasy, "King Yan only escaped today, and it's too late to go back to Ninggu Pass to stop the third child." The third child has already received the order of King Yan, and now that so many days have passed, it is time to return, but don't have an accident! ”

Chu Li also felt uneasy, so he sent a person from his cronies and ordered him to take two thousand men and horses to pick up Chu Xun on the way to Ninggu Pass, and track Jing Liang's traces by the way.

After nightfall, the horse came quickly to report that Natsume's army had crossed the Beiding Bridge and camped, and everything was ready, just waiting for an order to attack the capital.

Then the news from Beijing also came, and the emperor personally transferred 200,000 troops to Beiding Bridge to block the enemy, and he had already left Zhongshan.

Chu Li's cronies thought that it was the right time to attack the capital now, and it was advisable to march in a hurry.

So, Chu Li and An Yuqing discussed it carefully, and quickly sent a message to Chu Jue: Now that the soldiers in Beijing are weak, he led Natsume and the people of the Seven Princesses to drag the soldiers and horses from the Zhongshan camp to help; And Chu Li personally led the soldiers and horses of Jincheng to take the opportunity to attack the capital, and joined forces with An Yuxuan, and then came back to help after taking it in one fell swoop.

At that time, Chu Xun entered Beijing with King Yan's soldiers and horses, and just happened to attack Chu Jue from the north and south, and Chu Jue was caught off guard.

And the only 200,000 soldiers and horses in the camp of Zhongshan at this time were ambushing outside the last town of Fengbei Town to enter Beijing, only ten miles away from the capital, waiting for Chu Li to send it to the door himself.

Chu Jue in the wild goose returning to the mountain was blocked by Qin Yan's two ends, and he couldn't advance or retreat, and he had become a pot of porridge. The carrier pigeon has long been released, and half of it has not returned; Those people in the Jianghu sect are used to being unrestrained by the rabble, and as soon as there is something to do, birds and beasts scatter in all directions, scurrying around in the mountains, and a lot of them are secretly taken away by the people of Cangxin.

The 50,000 cavalry of the Seventh Princess, in order to avoid startling the snake, deliberately went straight to Longquan Town around Wu County in the east, and converged with the men and horses of Chu Jue in Taiping Town, and killed Xi Yanxing in the air, and was isolated outside the Beiding Bridge and trapped in Longquan Town.

There is the Beiding Bridge in the south, and there is the Zhongshan battalion in the north, and since then, the two roads of the mountains and rivers have been blocked, and the birds cannot fly out.

After Jing Liang was rescued inexplicably, more than a dozen people wearing Chu Li's army uniforms were sent to Ninggu Pass on fast horses. As soon as he came out of Zhongshan, he met Chu Xun's men and horses.

After a fight, Jing Liang took the lead in capturing Chu Xun and took back the Yan Wang Order. pressed Chu Xun, rectified the 100,000 soldiers and horses on Ninggu Pass, and came in the direction of the capital.

At that time, Chu Li's men and horses had arrived in the suburbs of Beijing.

Dust and smoke are billowing from the direction of the capital, and one is currently sitting at the head of the horse.

"King Xun is back, King Xun is back!" When the news reached Chu Li's array, everyone was comforted in their hearts, and it was too timely. "Send someone to pick it up, and ask the Xun King Array to come and speak!" Chu Li was overjoyed.

An Yuqing was scheming in the end, and hurriedly stopped, "Emperor Lihuang can't be impatient, let people check it out first." He glanced at his entourage, and the man hurried away.

After a while, the man replied, "It's King Xun's person, and he's already five miles away!" ”

"Okay, good, if you can take the capital with Jing Liang's 100,000 soldiers and horses, he will not be punished for the crime of escaping!" Chu Li said generously.

"This place is thirty miles away from the capital, and you can set up camp." Chu Yue ordered, "Rest in place for an hour, and then attack the capital after the two armies converge!" ”

Chu Li's soldiers and horses were messing up, and King Xun's soldiers and horses were hunting with banners, and they had already arrived in front of the camp.

When the spy looked at it, he was so frightened that his legs almost went limp.

"Report!" He crawled into the Chinese military tent.

After marching for most of the night, Chu Li didn't drink a sip of water, and saw him come in without possessing his body and fell to his knees.

"What's the alarm?" An Yuqing asked him.

"Strategist, the Tiger King personally led the troops to attack!" Under his calm face, the young general immediately settled down, "The little one has served in the army under his tent, and he can see it clearly, the first person is the Tiger King Qin Yan!" ”

All the people in the big tent couldn't sit still, and immediately the news came in one by one, making a mess.

An Yuqing stood on the sentry tower and looked at it from afar, her heart was cold, and she finally figured out what she was wrong.

That person didn't die, and the white clothes were fluttering better than before.

At this time, after Chu Xun entered the camp with a horse, he fell from the horse.

Thousands of horses galloped out, Jing Liang sat on the horse in a sauce-colored brocade robe, and the evil smile did not reach the bottom of his eyes. "Chu Xun, thank you for bringing the soldiers and horses into Beijing for the king, all the merits of this king in this battle have been wisely decided by your brothers."

The 100,000 soldiers behind him were brightly armored and their weapons were shining.

And Qin Yan was dressed in a dark robe, blending with the night, only the frost on his face was still conspicuous. Beside him, a slender white-robed young general, with a delicate face and a little smile on his lips, looked faintly into the distance.

Before the two armies could face each other, the white-robed young general suddenly flew up from his horse, leaped in the air, and several ups and downs had already rushed into Chu Li's army, throwing a blood-red long whip in his hand, and everywhere he passed was either dead or disabled, and corpses were everywhere.

When everyone came back to their senses to save him, Chu Li had already been caught by him and dragged away.

The Ice Spirit Sword in Qin Yan's hand was already unsheathed, and he followed him in white clothes, forcing those who tried to get close one after another, and the sword was cold, and no one dared to approach.

Chu Li was caught in the acupoint by the whip and abandoned in front of the horse, from beginning to end, the little smile on the white-robed young general's mouth never changed.

At the same time, Jing Liang took the lead in attacking, and the army rushed into Chu Li's array.

In the midst of the chaos, Chu Yue was captured by Jing Liangsheng.

An Yuqing didn't even have time to look up to the sky and howl, so he was pointed on the wrist by Qin Yan with a sword, and the vest was whipped after the weapon was taken off. But he has been operating for many years, and there are countless secret guards around him, taking advantage of the chaos to snatch him out.

The dream of Emperor Dongchu ended before dawn, and it ended forever.

There is an additional mass grave in the western suburbs of the capital, burying the shattered imperial dreams of others.

Before he could elaborate on the aftermath, Jing Liang took his soldiers to Longquan Town and Taiping Town; And Qin Yan and Mu Qingyan took people to Yangui Mountain. The cavalry of the Seventh Princess wanted to bypass Wu County and cross the water to flee south, but they were stopped by the Wing King on the water's bank, and they won 50,000 good horses for nothing.

Five days later, a ranch that Mu Qingyan had in mind arrived, and there was no Natsume Country in the world from then on.

On this day, the sky that had been overcast for a long time finally cleared.

A team of horses returned from Beiding Bridge, and the Emperor of Eastern Chu took King Jin and Duke An Guo, as well as Princess Ning'an, to personally welcome them out of the city.

The Winged King, the Yan King, the Tiger King, and the King of Ease, who had never appeared since he was enthroned, rode over.

Immediately behind the four kings, the Duke of Zhenguo and the Duke of Dingguo, followed by the Marquis of Wuping, the Marquis of Xuanping, the Marquis of Yonglebo, and the Bo of Helebo......

The capital was not damaged at all, and five years after the national turmoil, it was finally possible to enjoy a peaceful and prosperous world.

Emperor Dongchu has a decree: all the soldiers will rest for three days.

All soldiers who have made meritorious contributions in this national strife will be rewarded, including the lords of each city.

In this battle, the number of soldiers and horses killed and wounded by the emperor's division was less than 20,000, and he won the battle for the throne in which the largest number of princes in the history of Eastern Chu participated.

The early dynasty was already an hour late, and Chu Jue took the four kings to enter the victory gate.

The ministers who had been waiting for a long time in the court all stood outside the main hall and waited, rode to the palace, dismounted and entered the hall.

Congratulations are endless, a few are happy and a few are worried.

"Don't talk about state affairs today!" Chu Jue stood on the steps, looking around at everyone in the hall, his eyes always drifting towards the King of Freedom.

He envied everyone for being able to fight side by side, and he also missed the days together when he pacified Nanzhao. It's a pity that there is a distance between the throne of an emperor, and he can no longer act recklessly.

"The four kings have made meritorious contributions to quelling the chaos, and you are all the pioneers, and I am grateful to the ministers for their hard work for Dongchu." He shouted loudly: "Come, the Jade Snow Palace will hold a banquet!" ”

Chu Jue went out of the hall first, and the four kings, Chu Jin, Crazy Jade, and a group of people with titles were also among them. Bypassed the East Side Hall, and then bypassed the pool of lotuses, and entered the Jade Snow Palace.

From midnight until midnight.

Wei Wanwan rode a horse and came to the gate of the palace to see it twice, and the Praetorian Guards, who were familiar with each other, watched it twice and there was no news. This time, the Five Kings Rebellion was able to win at such a small price, and the four kings with different surnames contributed a lot.

The reward had come down two days ago, and although she also went to Chuzhou this time, she didn't have her share. She also entered the palace five days ago, but the emperor didn't say anything. But she was very confused in her heart, the stunning woman Qin Yan brought to Chuzhou hadn't figured out who it was, and Weiyang actually came back.

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