Chapter 1040: Breakout
Pen~fun~pavilionwww.biquge.inforeadx;? The two palace maids were startled, Tang Ling and Tang Mingzhu also looked at Shangguan Xiu in puzzlement, not understanding why he asked the palace maids to take off their clothes.
Shangguan Xiu explained: "When breaking through, it will be safer for Xiang'er to wear the clothes of the palace maid,"
When everyone heard this, they suddenly realized, under the instruction of Shangguan Xiu, a palace maid with a similar figure to Tang Ling quickly took off the clothes on her body, Tang Ling pondered for a while, or took the clothes handed by the palace maid, and walked behind the screen,
Tang Mingzhu looked down at the clothes on his body and asked in a low voice, "Brother-in-law, do I want to change it too?"
Shangguan Xiu smiled at her, shook her head and said, "Zhu'er doesn't have to," she is just a little girl, even if she is dressed gorgeously, no one will notice her,
Tang Mingzhu sighed and didn't ask any more,
It didn't take long for Tang Ling, who had already changed into the palace maid's costume, and walked out from behind the screen.
Taking off the dragon robe and wearing the palace maid's light and simple pink skirt, Tang Ling's body was a little less majestic than a little more feminine jasper, not only did not damage her beauty at all, but it was more bright and moving.
Seeing Shangguan Xiu looking at him intently, Tang Lingyu's face turned crimson, looked down at the dress on his body, and asked, "Ah Xiu, is there anything wrong?"
Shangguan Xiu coughed lowly, gathered his thoughts, and said with a smile: "There is nothing wrong, it's very ...... It's very good-looking," as he spoke, he took Tang Ling's hand and walked out quickly, and at the same time said to Tang Mingzhu on the side: "Zhu'er keep up, remember, don't leave Your Majesty's left and right when you break through,"
Tang Mingzhu lowered his head, his little face was expressionless, and he followed Shangguan Xiu and Tang Ling out of the palace together.
Now, the soldiers of the First Army led by Luo Guang are already ready to go at the west gate of the palace, just waiting for Shangguan Xiu's order to kill out of the palace.
Shangguan Xiu let Tang Ling and Tang Mingzhu sit in a bright carriage, in addition, he arranged for a beautiful palace maid to wear Tang Ling's dragon robe, and also sat in the carriage.
Looking up at the sky, the sky is already bright, the scorching sun is overhead, the sky is clear, and it is as clear as a wash.
Shangguan Xiu narrowed his eyes slightly and looked around, at this time, the ministers of the court and the ministers' families had already gathered,
As far as the eye can see, there is a large area of black oppression, hundreds of officials and their families, the families of the officers and soldiers of the Central Army, plus domestic slaves and servants, there must be at least tens of thousands of people.
At this moment, Cai Xiao hurriedly walked over with a few entourages, and when Shangguan Xiu approached, he arched his hand and said, "General,"
Cai Xiao was unwilling to recognize the identity of Shangguan Xiuguogong, let alone to be commensurate with His Royal Highness, so he kept calling him an official.
Shangguan Xiu glanced at Cai Xiao and replied casually: "Lord Cai,"
"Cai Jiu's matter, I have already understood, the general can send him on the last journey, the old man thanked the general on behalf of Cai Jiu," Cai Xiao gave a slight salute,
Shangguan Xiu shrugged disappreciatively, he didn't like Cai Xiao, this impression had never changed, even if Cai Xiao was an unswerving Baotang Ling faction, he asked, "Lord Cai is coming to me now, just to say this,",
Cai Xiao straightened up, glanced around, and said, "Don't you think that the general is too cumbersome for us to break through this time?"
Shangguan Xiu understood what he was referring to, and he asked, "What about Lord Cai's opinion?"
Cai Xiao said: "The family members of officials above the third grade can break through with His Majesty, and the family members of the rest of the officials can stay in the palace,"
Shangguan Xiu said: "According to Lord Cai's suggestion, if they stay, they are waiting for death," let them stay in the palace, and wait for the rebels to come in, I'm afraid that no one will survive.
Cai Xiao Zhengse said: "Those who become big things, do not be informal, when necessary, when you have to give up, how can you be comprehensive, with such a big burden, it will only slow down the speed of our breakthrough, once our side is dragged and trapped by the rebels, even Your Majesty has a worry about his life, which is more important, the general does not understand,"
Giving up the family members of officials below the third grade can indeed get rid of a huge burden on oneself, but in this way, it is inevitably too chilling.
When the rebels broke through the city, the officials who were willing to bring their families into the palace were the most loyal to Tang Ling, they pinned their lives and their whole families on the emperor, and now they wanted to abandon their families, let these officials feel in their hearts, and let the people of the capital and even the people of the whole country feel in their hearts, if an emperor doesn't even care about his loyal courtiers, and only cares about fleeing for his own life, who will support such an emperor?
If something else is lost, it is easy to recover, but once it loses people's hearts, it is difficult to recover it.
Lost the capital, lost the palace, Tang Ling's throne was supported by the popular will of the Fengren, Shangguan Xiu didn't dare to risk this matter, he said categorically: "No one can be left behind, they must all be taken away,"
"The general is inevitably too young and vigorous, at a critical moment, the overall situation should be the priority," Cai Xiao said in a cold voice,
Shangguan Xiu said in a deep voice: "When I do this, I am focusing on the overall situation,"
"Hmph, the old man looks at you, he just wants to kill His Majesty and become the emperor himself,"
His words startled everyone present,
Shangguan Xiu raised his eyebrows, and suddenly laughed out loud, laughing angrily, while he laughed, a powerful spiritual pressure emanated, Cai Xiao felt that there seemed to be an invisible wall in front of him, pushing himself back again and again,
The entourage who followed Cai Xiao hurriedly blocked in front of Cai Xiao, clasping the hilt of the sword one by one, and at the same time exuding spiritual pressure in unison, competing with Shangguan Xiu's spiritual pressure.
However, even if several of them joined forces to resist Shangguan Xiu's spiritual pressure, they were still squeezed back by the oncoming strong strength, and people slid backwards with their feet on the ground, making a squeaky sound.
"Lord Cai, don't fight anymore, just take everyone with you according to the general's wishes," Tang Ling's voice came from inside the carriage, her tone was very flat, but it revealed irresistible firmness,
Tang Ling's words made the spiritual pressure on the scene disappear in an instant, and also made the murderous aura of the two sides sharply reduced.
Cai Xiao sighed secretly, but he still bowed to the carriage and said, "Weichen obeys the order," After speaking, Cai Xiao glared at Shangguan Xiu fiercely again, and summoned all his entourage back,
Shangguan Xiu didn't pay any more attention to him, and shouted sideways: "Order General Luo, open the west gate, and all of you break out,"
"Yes," the leader of the Praetorian Guard nearby agreed, conveying Shangguan Xiu's order,
After two quarters of an hour, I heard the artillery fire on the side of the West Palace Gate, shouting and killing, Shangguan Xiu turned over and shook his head at the Shura dignified army and the Praetorian Guards who were guarding around him and said, "Go,"
In the case of Gan Lin's envoy to the rebels to negotiate peace, the people led by Tang Ling and Shangguan Xiu will suddenly break through to the outside, which is indeed beyond the expectations of the rebels.
The rebels to the west of the palace were unguarded, and the soldiers of the First Army who broke through and rushed out were taken by surprise.
In the streets and alleys on the west side of the palace, the two sides launched a bloody battle to the death.
This battle, for the soldiers of the First Legion, was a mortal battle to restore the honor of the Legion, and when the attack was launched, people completely ignored the firepower of the rebels and went crazy to attack.
After the projectiles in the fire gun were shot, people no longer stopped at all and reloaded into the fire gun, but hung up the gun directly, held the fire gun, and rushed forward with all their strength.
The soldiers in front were defeated by the rebels one by one, and the soldiers behind did not blink an eye, crossed the corpses of their comrades, and continued to attack.
The officers and men of the First Army attacked the rebels one after another in a red-eyed manner, and they had already overwhelmed the rebels in terms of momentum alone.
In the face of such a wolf-like enemy, no matter how strong the psychological quality of the rebel soldiers is, they are all panicked at this time.
Seeing that the enemy army was getting closer and closer, the rebel soldiers who loaded the guns with their hands trembled, some of the soldiers trembled their hands, and they couldn't put the paper shell bullets into the guns, and some of the soldiers' paper shell bullets crackled down the gaps in their fingers.
"Bomb dropping," the two sides were less than twenty meters, and some of the generals in the first army shouted, and then, one after another, stone mines flew out of the crowd and fell into the rebel crowd opposite, and after a while, the rumbling explosions were connected,
In an instant, thousands of rebels were killed and wounded.
Many of the rebels were stunned by the explosion, struggling to get up from the ground, and they were greeted by twisted and hideous faces, bloodthirsty scarlet eyes, and swords that flashed with cold light.
Puff, puff, the sound of the sword penetrating through the body came and went, and the bloody tip of the sword poked its head out behind the rebels in a row,
The screams of the people were like ghosts crying wolf, and the rebels in the back row finally finished loading, picked up the firearms, and shot forward, and they hit a row of enemies who were close at hand, but they didn't have time to put down the firecrackers, and another row of enemies killed in front of them, and the cold guns and swords passed through their bodies.
The rebels in the back row couldn't care about loading, and people poked out the fire guns with guns installed on them, and as far as the eye could see, the front end of the rebel camp seemed to have become hedgehogs, and all that poked out were the tips of the shiny guns.
But the soldiers of the First Legion seemed to be completely invisible, and they really stared straight up.
People were stabbed into a beecomb by the rebels' swords, but the swords in their hands also pierced the enemy's chest, two rows of soldiers on both sides, were brushed to the ground, the rebels in the back row did not have time to react, the soldiers of the first army arrived one after another, the swords in and out of people's bodies, poof, endlessly, blood arrows sprayed out on the streets, splashing red the walls on both sides of the street, and also staining the bricks on the ground, and the people who fell in pools of blood were not one after another, but one after another, one group after another, one group after another,
The corpses on the ground were stacked on top of each other, and the blood flowed like a river, and the whole street was dyed red.
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The soldiers of the First Legion, many of them have whistles tied around their necks, and when people rush forward to kill, they all have whistles in their mouths, and attack while blowing whistles, and the soldiers behind are completely guided by the whistle to rush forward.
For a while, in the streets and alleys, whistles rang out, listening to the ears of the rebels, the sharp whistle was like a magic sound, as if it was a roar from hell, and the terrible thing was that there were whistles all around, and it was not clear which direction it came from, as if there were enemies in front of and behind them, left and right,