Night, it's night, and there is no moonlight in the dark night.

In the palace of the Daduan Dynasty, it was quiet, very quiet, as deep as the silence of death, and all the palace doors were tightly closed, impermeable.

Occasionally, there are a few palace maids and eunuchs who are squatting and trembling on the side under the palace wall.

The only place in the entire palace that is still lit is the Qianlong Palace.

The crown prince was wearing armor, and behind him, a team composed of three thousand Praetorian Guards and elite soldiers of the Prince's Mansion surrounded the entire Qianlong Palace, holding sharp weapons to confront the forbidden army of the Qianlong Palace.

Xu Tong, the commander of the forbidden army of Qianlong Palace, held a long knife in his hand, looked at the one in front of him with wide eyes and wary, and said angrily: "The emperor's bedroom is important, and you can't trespass without the emperor's summons, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is coming so late with so many people, is he going to make trouble?"

When the crown prince heard this, he smiled coldly and said: "This prince is just here to clear out the rebellious ministers and thieves for his father, and his father has not been to the court for many days, and this prince suspects that you have imprisoned your father." Now, the prince has come to the rescue, and the prisoners are not quick to be arrested, so that the prince can still open the net. ”

The fire soared into the sky, reflecting on the Qianlong Hall like daylight, Xu Tong, the commander of the forbidden army, looked calm and cold, and the long knife in his hand did not relax in the slightest, but behind such a firm surface was his back that had been wet with cold sweat.

When the crown prince was far away, he began to enter the no-man's land with his own soldiers, entered directly from the Nantian Gate, and killed the guards who were too late to stop on the road all the way to the Qianlong Palace.

Originally, the power of the Praetorian Guard had been withdrawn from the hands of the crown prince, but I don't know why most of the people in the Praetorian Guard had obeyed the prince's orders, but as the commander of the Praetorian Guard beside the emperor, he didn't get the slightest news about this matter.

As the commander of the Praetorian Guard, Xu Tong also learned the news when the prince entered the Nantian Gate with a group of people.

Because of this, there is a confrontation on the spot.

The crown prince looked at Xu Tong who was blocking the way, and said confidently: "Xu Tong, you are a talented person and a smart person, at this time, you know best how to choose." ”

There are many of them, the four princes are not in the capital, and Mu Rin was made an article by him about the death of Mu Zhao, and he has no time to take care of anything else, except for Mu Rin, only Xu Tong in the capital can survive for a while, but it will definitely not be long.

Because, now the only elite troops in the capital are in his hands, and these Praetorian Guards in front of the Qianlong Palace alone with Xu Tong can't carry it for long.

Xu Tong looked at the imposing prince Junyuan, although he was not afraid of fighting in his heart, but looking at it, he had already suffered a big loss due to the lack of manpower on his side, and even if they were to defend it, it was just to delay time.

According to the experience of the war, the crown prince Junyuan has done enough work this time, and they can't stop it.

"Why is it so noisy outside, ahem......"

The door of the Qianlong Palace slowly opened, and a majestic voice sounded in the vicissitudes of life.

I saw that in the firelight of the night, the arrogant and weak figure of the emperor appeared at the entrance of the Qianlong Palace.

"Prince, what are you doing here?"

The crown prince took a step forward and said: "Erchen found out that someone in Qianlong Hall was plotting to rebel, with bad intentions, and he was afraid that something would happen, so Erchen brought someone to rescue him." ”

"So, have you found someone who rebelled? Isn't it here?" the emperor was proudly supported by Duke Gui, as if he was going to fall at any moment.

The crown prince Jun Yuan pretended to bow his hand and said: "Erchen is already on the way here, slashing and killing all suspicious people, and now only these anti-thieves on the Qianlong Palace can be ambushed." ”

This is a beautiful statement, however, everyone with a discerning eye present knows that the people who were killed by Prince Junyuan are just unlucky ghosts who died in vain. What I'm saying now is just for show.

After saying this deceitful words without blinking an eye, if it weren't for the wrong position and the wrong occasion, Xu Tong really had to applaud him.

When Emperor Junao heard this, a sneer flashed on his exhausted face, and he said: "Since you have slashed and killed all the suspicious people, and the people in this Qianlong Palace are not suspicious, you can go back!"

As soon as these words fell, a person walked out behind the crown prince.

"Ye Lingtian!" Emperor Jun Ao's hand held by Gonggong Gui tightened suddenly.

Gonggong Gui also felt it, and his gaze fell on Ye Lingtian, who was extremely eye-catching under the light of the fire, and surprise flashed in his eyes.

Ye Lingtian stepped forward and bowed and said: "The emperor has been silent for a long time, and the court cannot be without a monarch for a day, the emperor has not been in the court for many days, and many major and small matters in the court have not been dealt with in time. State affairs are piled up, the country is unstable, the courtiers have no backbone, and the people of Li live in fire and water. ”

"Conform to the people's feelings, I see that there are more ideas that conform to you!" Emperor Jun glanced at Ye Lingtian coldly and said, "Someone!"

"Father, my son advises you not to think that there are people other than this person in the Qianlong Palace. Crown Prince Junyuan's gentle smile was particularly dazzling and even distorted in the light of the night, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly and said with a smile: "All the people in the palace have left the palace, father, don't expect Mu Rin to come here." This time, the people of the Four Emperor Uncles will not be as timely as before, and no one will be able to stop what happened tonight. ”

As he spoke, he deliberately paused and said, "Lin Hanting and Lin Tao are already on the way to attack with troops in Hengzhou, and they also ask my father to make a decision quickly." ”

As soon as the words fell.

Outside the palace gate, a little eunuch stumbled in, and when he stepped over the door, he fell and rolled several times before stopping, climbed to the front with his hands and feet, trembling and breathless, and said, "Your Majesty...... The Ministry of War reported urgently, the Hengzhou mutiny Lin Hanting was attacking the capital with a large number of men and horses, and the border was also in an emergency, and Xiao Yan, a famous general of Chu State, led 100,000 elite soldiers to attack the border. After the heroic general Mu Rin received the news, he had already taken all the elite soldiers to the border to block it as soon as possible, and the rebellion in Hengzhou had not yet been intercepted, so please pay attention to the emperor quickly......"

Emperor Junao was shocked by this news, and the whole person fell backwards, fortunately, Gonggong Gui was holding him on the side, and he fell on Gonggong Gui's body after retreating a few steps.

Hengzhou and the border, one in the north and one in the southwest,

If Mu Rin does not go to the border, then the border will definitely be broken by the army of the Chu State, and without resistance, he will soon be able to directly attack Huanglong and capture the imperial city of the Daduan Dynasty.

Although Hengzhou is in the southwest and the road is far away from the capital, there are not many generals that can be used by the imperial court......

"The heavens are going to destroy me, and the big end is ......"

Ye Lingtian stood in front, with a pair of scheming eyes, looking at the emperor's arrogance, and said, "Your Majesty, at this time, what are you still hesitating about?"

Emperor Jun Ao looked at Ye Lingtian beside Prince Junyuan, his face turned blue and white with anger, he stretched out his fingers and pointed at the person in front of him tremblingly, and just about to speak, he suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood......

Gonggong Gui was on the side, shocked, and shouted in horror: "Your Majesty ......"

Next.

The eunuch chief of the eighteenth emperor Jun Ao of the Daduan Dynasty, Gong Gui, was above the court, in front of hundreds of civil and military officials, and said in public that the emperor Jun Ao's oral edict was located in the crown prince Jun Yuan.

At this point, the nineteenth emperor of the Daduan Dynasty was produced.

On the same day, the valiant general Mu Rin rushed to the border with all his troops, and rushed to the border night after night, hoping to solve the danger of the border as quickly as possible.

However, Hengzhou has been captured by Lin Hanting and his army in the form of a caravan.

Lin Hanting led a long procession of carriages and carriages in rows under the city gates of the neighboring county town of Suzhou in Hengzhou.

Early in the morning, the officers and soldiers guarding the city looked at the long procession of carriage captains outside the city gate, rubbed their sleepy eyes with their hands, yawned, and shouted to the team under the city wall: "There is still an hour before the city gate is opened, why are you here so early?"

The carriage team took the lead, and Lin Hanting, who was dressed as a businessman's boss, smiled at the guards on the city wall and said, "There are more people, and if you want to do things in a hurry, you can only come early." Is it convenient for the official to come down and open a door and pass through?"

As he spoke, he made a gesture of digging something into his sleeve.

When the officers and soldiers defending the city saw it, their eyes lit up, and they must know that such a large-scale merchant must be extraordinary.

Guarding the city gate was not a position with oil and water in the first place, the salary was very low, and the work was hard.

At this time, it's just a convenience for people to get a lot of money, anyway, the city gate is about to be opened, and it's not the same to open it in advance for people to come in.

Thinking like this, the officers and soldiers at the city gate quickly ran from the tower to the bottom of the tower.

The officers and soldiers guarding the gate with the key to the city gate looked at the officers and soldiers who should have been on the city tower, and said strangely: "You are not guarding the city tower, why did you run down?"

The officers and soldiers on the tower of the city said, "There is a big caravan outside the city gate, and there are many people, I will come down and open the city gate for them to come in." ”

The officers and soldiers under the city gate listened to this, were puzzled, and said: "It's too early to come, there are still two hours before the city gate can be opened. Don't open it, wait until everyone else is on duty!"

After listening to this, the officers and soldiers on the city tower said very mysteriously: "If that time comes, what benefits can the two of us get?"

The officers and soldiers downstairs in the city saw his appearance, and they knew it and said, "You want their reward!"

"Of course, I saw him take out the silver, and besides, there must have been a lot of shots from such a big businessman. Receiving a reward like this should be more than our annual income!" said the officers and soldiers upstairs very excitedly.

The officers and soldiers downstairs at the city gate were also moved by the words at this time, and asked with some apprehension: "Really, really?"

The officers and soldiers on the tower of the city gate hurriedly said: "Of course it's true, don't believe it, you go up to the city tower and take a look, this merchant's team is so big, and the reward will definitely not be less." ”

When the officers and soldiers under the city gate heard this, their hearts were moved, and they said: "Since you say so, I will believe you......"

With that, the two of them took the key to the city gate and unlocked the city gate, and then moved the crane on the side to rationalize the giant wooden bar on the door.

If the gate of the city is large, it will be opened slowly.

Outside the city gate, Lin Hanting, who was dressed as a businessman, had already walked to the open city gate, took out a bulging money bag from his sleeve, and stuffed it into the hands of the officers and soldiers on the city tower.

The officers and soldiers were full of joy in their eyes, took it, and nodded to Lin Hanting, who was dressed as a businessman, and said, "I don't know if Your Excellency needs any help, the little ones are willing to serve you!"

The officers and soldiers under the city gate saw that what their colleagues around them said was true, and they also smiled and nodded on the side, and said in agreement: "Yes, yes!"

Although Suzhou County is a place where you don't have to worry about eating and drinking, there are not many errands, and the consumption in the city is also expensive, which is not something that they can access.

At this time, if you can meet a rich businessman and sell it well, maybe you will have a lot of benefits for them in the future.

"At this moment, only the two of you are guarding the city gate?" Lin Hanting asked.

Although he was familiar with many things about the military headquarters of the Daduan Dynasty, and he also knew that the city gate guards were the weakest in the morning, he didn't know how many city gate guards there would be in each county or city.

So, at this time, it's best to ask first.

The officers and soldiers in charge of guarding the city gate heard Lin Hanting ask such an irrelevant question, although they felt a little strange in their hearts, they didn't think much about it, and said with a smile: "This city gate is only guarded by the two of us in the morning, and the other city guards will come over to change guards in two hours." ”

Lin Hanting listened, his eyes flashed, and then he raised his hand and made a forward movement towards the carriage procession behind him, and after a while, the carriage team walked to the city gate.

The two officers and soldiers guarding the gate naturally did not dare to stop them, and stood aside and watched their carriage walk in with a smile, after all, taking people's money to eliminate disasters for others, eating people's soft mouths, and that people's hands are soft.

However, just as the fourth carriage passed in front of them after three carriages, the cloth covering the carriage suddenly fell to the ground.

The two officers and soldiers guarding the gate picked up the cloth on the ground and wanted to put it back on the carriage, but they saw a cold glow in the sack on the carriage.

"Stop, what are you guys doing?"

Looking at the carriages that had walked in front of them and continued to move behind, the two officers and soldiers guarding the gate were frightened and panicked, and shouted loudly.

When Lin Hanting heard this, he smiled coldly, stepped forward, and slashed the sack on the carriage with a long knife to reveal many weapons that had been sharpened, flashing with a white cold light, which was very terrifying.

It is impossible for the two officers and soldiers to break their heads, and it is impossible to imagine that what is contained here is not a commodity but a sword.

"Who are you who dare to make weapons without permission, don't you know that this is a crime?" The officers and soldiers guarding the city gate said tremblingly, their faces were so frightened that their faces were bloodless.

How could Lin Hanting be frightened by such words, and made a gesture to the people around him.

The people around him were all well-trained, drew their weapons from the carriage and immediately stepped forward.

A knife fell, and the characteristic cold sound of a terrifying weapon sounded.

The officers and soldiers on the city tower hurriedly drew the big knife beside them to face the battle, but the disparity in strength was huge, and a bloody hole deep into the bone was immediately cut in the chest by a sharp weapon, and he fell to the ground in an instant.

And the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate, who were stronger than him, barely dodged the fatal blow of the two men, rolled to the side with injuries, and with the injured hand struggled to pull the line of the emergency notification fireworks pinned to his waist.

"Bang!", a dazzling blue firework appeared in the sky.

The person who found him was about to report the news hurriedly stabbed him with a knife, and the blade pierced his neck and sank into the ground.

I saw that his body was twitching, his eyes were wide open, and he didn't look dead......

Under the city gate of Suzhou, there was a pool of blood, and there were two more souls who died in vain.

"Damn it!" the people around Lin Hanting took a sip of the corpse on the ground and scolded fiercely.

Lin Hanting watched as the signal flare representing danger exploded in the sky, and his pupils were full of Sen Sen's killing intent......

In the capital.

Hengzhou and the border are in an emergency, and Junyuan, the new emperor, doesn't seem to be worried at all.

On the first day of Jun Yuan's reign as emperor, he did not meet the civil and military officials or worship the Taimiao, let alone hold a ceremony, but met a person in the East Palace.

The big movement here, the people in the capital have received it, all of them have exploded, and some people have exaggerated the size of the whole family together, and the pots and pans and dishes have fled outside the capital.

At one point, the entire gate of the capital was blocked, and some people even fought for the position in front of them in order to get out of the city early.

Lin Hanting of Hengzhou attacked Suzhou City with his troops, occupied Suzhou City, a city that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and was attacking the city leading to Kyoto.

Xiao Yan, a famous general of the Chu State, took 100,000 elite soldiers and sent troops to attack the fortresses on the border, and the defense line on the border was extremely dangerous.

The Daduan Dynasty was attacked by two groups of people without warning, and was powerless to resist, only the ability to resist, and Mu Rin was pinned down by the army of the Chu State and was unable to go back to the capital to guard, and the battle situation of the Daduan Dynasty was very critical.

On the seventh day of the mutiny, Pingzhou, thirty miles away from Suzhou City, was captured, and the city defenders were killed in battle, and the city of Pingzhou was almost washed in blood, because the city guards here did not surrender that everyone in the city had the heart of not surrendering.

The nearby small counties were unable to resist the war, and the common people could only flee to the larger county towns for refuge, while the county officials defending the city could only surrender to the wind, for their own lives and the lives of the people in the city.

On this day, Mu Rin arrived at the border, and the soldiers on the border had been killed and wounded, and the barracks were full of wails.

The people left in the barracks by the fourth prince hurriedly told Mu Rin, who was covered in dust, that they had just stood in the barracks hall all night before their feet got off the ground.

At the same time, Lin Hanting's army, which originally wanted to attack Huanglong, was stopped by a mysterious team after nightfall and cut off the pursuit road, using this as a dividing line to draw the distance between the capital and Lin Hanting.

The person led by the mysterious team turned out to be Shao Dong, and the west corridor, which was thousands of miles away from the capital, became a roadblock for Lin Hanting to be unable to advance, and Shao Dong, who was supposed to be guarding the Four Kings' Mansion in the capital, personally went into battle and led the troops to guard the back door of the Daduan Dynasty.

At this time, at this moment, the Praetorian Guards and the Imperial Forest Army, which should be resisting the enemy, are in the hands of Jun Yuan, who is forcing the palace, and they are still threatening people who should not be threatened in the capital.

On the twelfth day of the incident, Mu Rin sent people to expedite the delivery of the book, asking for food, grass and medicine at the border.

The food, grass and medicine on the border were far from enough to start the war without preparation.

Lin Hanting attacked inside, and the army of Chu attacked on the border, and both teams wanted to approach the capital of the capital, and all of a sudden, the capital of the capital became a treasure to be robbed.

Anyone can see this situation clearly, if one of the two sides is breached, the capital will no longer exist.

When they heard the soldiers sent back by Mu Rin to quickly mobilize grain, grass and medicine to prepare for war, they looked at the new emperor who had not yet gone to the court without tears, and found the eunuchs in front of the palace and said that they were going to ask the new emperor to decide.

At this moment, the new emperor was sitting on the dragon chair in the imperial study, and Ye Lingtian was standing in front of the imperial case.

"Lin Hanting and Lin Tao didn't say yes, they just made a mess, why did they really attack?"

Ye Lingtian frowned and said: "Okay, as long as Mu Qingyan's people are handed over to them, this is the plan in place, if there is no mutiny, how can Mu Rin go to the sideline, and the fourth prince will not bring Mu Qingyan back to Daduan." ”

"That means that as long as I don't deal with the ministers' requests, the Fourth Emperor Uncle will come back to deal with it?" the new emperor said in a deep voice: "How do you know that the Fourth Emperor Uncle will definitely bring Mu Qingyan back to the capital, at this time, the capital can be said to be very dangerous. How could someone like the Fourth Emperor Uncle not think of it?"

Ye Lingtian squinted his eyes and said, "Lin Hanting has sent news that there is a mysterious team blocking their advance, and at this time, the person with the most ability will have nothing else after the Four Princes' Landing......"

When Jun Yuan heard this, his eyes flashed with a gleam, and he said, "So, the Fourth Emperor Uncle will definitely come back......"

Outside the imperial study, there was a sharp voice.

"Your Majesty, report urgently, there is news from the border that there is not enough food and grass and medicine, I am afraid that it will not last long, and now the civil and military officials are begging the emperor to find a way to mobilize food and grass. ”

The eunuch who was forced by the civil and military officials at the door of the imperial study was trembling and knelt on the ground and said.

Hearing this, the new emperor Jun Yuan frowned, his expression was gloomy, and said: "We know about Lin Hanting's mutiny, so what is going on with this Chu State's attack on the border of Daduan? How could it be such a coincidence?"

Ye Lingtian's expression was also solemn, he shook his head, and said: "I don't know about this matter, the top priority now is to mobilize grain and grass for the border, if the border is breached, even if you, the new emperor, have Lin Hanting and their supporters, it will be useless." After all, the national strength of the Chu State is much greater than that of Lin Hanting. ”

"The person behind Lin Hanting is not ......," Jun Yuan said meaningfully.

Ye Lingtian's eyes were cold, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and he sketched a cold sneer, and said, "The people of the Lin family are not very ambitious......

On the same day, the carriages of the Four Kings Mansions galloped day and night......