Chapter 81 Forcing the Palace

The hot air balloon only bombed for a little more than a quarter of an hour before they finished their work, because they could no longer see a single person standing in the sky, not even anything that could move, and they had no goal but to call it a day and go back for supper.

After confirming the news, Liu Hou waved his hand and ordered the ground troops to advance. The first to enter the scene was naturally the rattan armor troops from the head to the bottom of the feet. The vulture led a regiment under his command and rushed into the barracks, which could no longer see its true face.

He carried a heavy mace and rushed in, bent on finding a few living people to smash it, venting his long-accumulated depression, but following this majesty to fight was doomed to be disappointed.

When he entered the barracks, he was not stopped by anyone, he waved the mace into the air in vain, but could not find a head that could be used to smash, and as far as the eye could see, the whole barracks were in shambles, everywhere was in tatters, both the tents and the buildings were riddled with holes, and the ground was full of wailing wounded soldiers and some incomplete corpses.

The panicked vulture swept all the way with his mace, whether it was collapsed buildings, broken tents, or wounded people, all of them were smashed into the air. Like a bulldozer, he pushed a path into the depths of the barracks. His own soldiers followed him every step of the way, ready to meet him and protect him.

With the tide of rattan armor soldiers pouring into this barracks, Liu Hou no longer has any interest in watching, there is no suspense about the following situation, it just takes time and manpower to clean up the scene, he just needs to wait for the report of the cleanup results.

Liu Hou ordered to march towards the palace, and it was time to solve the final boss. Since Jiangqiaomen was still occupied by the bull-like cow, Liu Hou had to make a detour to enter the imperial city from the Xianyang Gate in the north. After entering the imperial city, the car drove without stopping for a moment and went straight to the palace.

The palace of Shu Han is about one hundred and twenty steps south of Wudan Mountain, Wudan Mountain is not Wudang Mountain, this Wudan Mountain is a small mound about 20 meters high, 40 meters wide and more than 100 meters long, slightly horseshoe-shaped, high in the west and low in the east, covering an area of 680 square meters.

Wudan Mountain is said to be the tomb of the enlightened princess of the ancient Shu king. If there are readers who travel to Chengdu and are interested in the ruins of the Shu Han Imperial Palace, they can go and find it, this place is now located in the southeast corner of the Chengdu Military Region compound on Xinhua West Road.

This place is very good, there is a saying in feng shui called the south of the mountain and the north of the water, and building a house on the south side of the mountain and the north side of the water is a good choice from the perspective of feng shui.

As soon as the Shu Han Palace walked more than 100 meters out of the north gate, it was a small hill, which was not a straightforward pattern, but a practice of "backing the mountain" without hindrance. Although the mountain can be used as a "backer", it can also hinder the operation of luck, so people who know feng shui will build their houses 100 meters away from the mountain, so as to avoid the blockage of luck.

From a modern point of view, there is a certain reason to build a house 100 meters away from the mountain, at least it will be safer in the event of any landslides and landslides.

Building such a big thing as the palace, Liu Bei must have seen it with Master Kanyu, and chose to build it on a treasure land of feng shui, of course, he would not make such a low-level mistake.

There are halls such as the hall and the jue hall in the palace, and the names of the two gates in the north and south are called "Wuyi" and "Huwei" respectively, and there are also two side doors of "Xuanhua" and "Chongli". There is also a small river running through Miyagi, which brings living water to Miyagi and facilitates the transportation of supplies.

There are mountains and rivers, this is what Liu Hou is very satisfied with, he decided that in the future, Wudan Mountain must be encircled as a royal garden, as a rockery in the back garden. Although this hill is small, it is good for your physical and mental health to go up and walk around it often.

Outside the Wuyi Gate in Miyagi, Liu Hou ordered the troops to stop advancing and stand by in place. He planned to wait a little longer to see if the ministers, who had been in the palace for a day and a night, could persuade the mother and son to surrender. He planned to wait until the unitary time, and if there was no news yet, he would launch a strong attack.

Heavy weapons such as "Keqiu Kill" and other artillery, as well as hot air balloons, need time to be transported, and it will take more time to prepare for the attack, so he has to wait. Besides, attacking is the last option, he doesn't want to do it the most, the palace is his future home, who wants to bomb his home with his own hands?

In addition to the reasons for the war situation at that time, it is said that there is an important reason that the warring parties realized that Beiping, as a historical city, the ancient capital of several dynasties, has many cultural relics and monuments, and there are many historical and cultural heritages, which are all things that have been deposited for hundreds of thousands of years, and it would be a pity if they were destroyed in the war.

Now Liu Hou also feels this way, he doesn't want to cause too much damage to Chengdu, let alone any damage to his palace. There are a lot of valuable good things inside, maybe a vase and a urinal are antiques, how can these things withstand the toss of war.

The key is that these good things can be regarded as their own things, and it is enough for him to have heartache for half a day, and it is not enough to blow them all up, and his heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys are all painful? So, he'd rather be patient and wait a little longer.

It was very unpleasant for the ministers to enter the palace yesterday, because the palace had already received the news that the ministers had surrendered and led the Hong army into the city, and the Empress Dowager Wu ordered the palace gate to be closed and no one was allowed to enter or leave.

The ministers asked to see outside the palace gate, but the queen mother refused to announce the meeting, and the ministers were anxious when they saw that they could not complete the task. If you can't atone for the sin of a thief, it's not just a matter of whether the official has to do it, and every minute of your life is in danger. So everyone refused to disperse, and finally simply sat up at the gate of the palace.

They can't help it, their own net worth, their official position, and their future glory and wealth, these are all terrible things, no matter which of these things they can't give up, so it's worth it even if they have to suffer a little now.

The ministers sat quietly outside the palace gate all night, but fortunately, Guo Youzhi was still kind and sent people to bring them food and clothing, so that they would not be frozen and starved.

This morning, the Empress Dowager Wu, who was under pressure, finally issued an edict to meet the ministers. A group of ministers entered the palace and couldn't wait to persuade the Empress Dowager Wu to surrender, the Empress Dowager Wu was upset and irritable by their gossip, and the little emperor Liu Li was still a little kid who didn't understand anything, and was frightened by this group of menacing middle-aged and elderly people to cry.

Empress Dowager Wu was angry and drove them out, the ministers went out of the Empress Dowager Wu's bedroom but refused to leave the palace, and they didn't know who took the lead, they simply knelt down outside the palace to petition, this kneeling was most of the day, and the Empress Dowager Wu still refused to pay attention to these people.

Empress Dowager Wu didn't know that the general trend was gone, but she didn't dare to surrender, their brother and sister made such a thing as plotting to usurp the throne, once they failed, the end would definitely not be much better. It's just for me, but what about my two sons?

Emperors have been ruthless since ancient times, and when all emperors encounter such a thing as fighting for the throne, the loser will be killed by the winner. No emperor would tolerate the existence of people and things that could threaten his throne, and even the slightest possibility, even chasing after the wind, would definitely be nipped in the bud.

Empress Dowager Wu is from a beautiful background, and she is a rare woman who has read books in this era, and she knows very well what those emperors in history did when dealing with this kind of thing.

As a mother, how could she bear to let her son be killed like this? No matter what, she has to fight for her son's chance to live. So she had to hold on, for a while, at least to let her son live a little longer, right?

She is not a scheming woman in the first place, she has no great ambition and no ruthless means, this qiē is planned by her brother Wu Yi and Xu Jing, in the final analysis, she is just a character at the mercy of others.

Of course, she is also selfish, so when she heard that Wu Yi and Xu Jing could help her son to be the emperor, she readily agreed, this is just a little woman's mind, I believe that not only a little woman, but many people may not be able to resist this temptation when they see such a big pie smashed down, let alone such a little woman.

The person who can resist this temptation is either a person with a pure mind and as pure as pure water, or a person with a high vision, who is so high that he has a sense of the overall situation like Zhuge Liang, who can make a longzhong right.

Needless to say, the former understands that it is not their own that they should not take, they are honest and honest people, and such people are naturally blessed.

The latter will also reject this great temptation, because they have a far-sighted vision, knowing that these things do not belong to them, and even if they take them, they will not be able to keep them, and in the end they will bring disaster to themselves.

Except for these two kinds of people, the rest of the people basically can't resist these temptations, and they always think that they are lucky enough to be favored by God, and that they will succeed.

Empress Dowager Wu is now a dazed little woman, with two frightened and trembling sons in her arms, and outside are the crowd of ministers who shout surrender from time to time, how can she bear such a heavy pressure?

The only thing she could do was to remain silent, neither to open her mouth but to surrender or to take other countermeasures. It's as if there, silently waiting for fate to come.

The monarch and the ministers remained in a stalemate until Liu Hou led the troops to the outside of the Wuyi Gate and made an attack posture. When the news reached the palace, the ministers became even more anxious, and they also pressed the Empress Dowager Wu and the two brothers Liu Li and Liu Yong even tighter. The mother and son were completely desperate, and Liu Li and Liu Yong, who were tired of crying, started crying again.

The ministers finally couldn't wait, and if they didn't make any contributions, I was afraid that the heads on their heads might not be able to be saved, and what kind of difference between monarchs and ministers would be taken care of there, and what court etiquette would be taken care of there, and whether it was a crime or not, whether it was a big disrespect, they stood up one after another and slammed their bodies against the door of the palace that had long been closed.

They finally couldn't hold it anymore, tore off the last layer of disguise, and planned to forcibly break into the palace without being summoned. Not to mention, although these ministers have old arms and legs, they quickly knocked open the door of the dormitory with the collective efforts.

The ministers rushed in, the Empress Dowager Wu was scared now, holding her two sons and trembling, the ministers persuaded her to surrender, and the voices mixed together turned into a buzzing sound, but she couldn't hear what they were talking about.