A rush of footsteps sounded above the imperial city, and several soldiers of the forbidden army in armor rushed to the two of them, knelt down on one knee, and said a few words. Fan Xian stood behind the eldest prince and listened calmly, there was no surprise in his heart, he searched all night and caught the queen, but he did not catch the prince, and the soldiers sent to the two mansions of Ye Qin also pounced.

Just as the eldest princess sent people to surround Fan's Mansion at the beginning, she was helpless to pounce on a reason, these characters of the older generation, even if they don't have the strength of the past, they still see the trend of the turmoil very clearly. Especially like the Ye Qin family, since they are determined to hold the hem of the eldest princess's skirt and rebel, where will Fan Xian and them catch any useful hostages.

As for the other schools, they reported to the eldest prince separately about the defense situation in Kyoto at this time. After hearing this, the eldest prince frowned slightly, waved his hand to let them go down, turned to Fan Xian and said, "The current situation is that if you shrink into the palace according to the established method...... If all the terrain outside the palace is handed over to them. The rebels have set up a position to surround this palace, and we have no power to turn the sky upside down. ”

Fan Xian looked at him.

"But the problem is that if we start harassing the rebels from the moment they enter the city, it can only play a role in disturbing the city, and it will not have much effect at all. The eldest prince said, "I have too few troops in my hands. ”

At this time, the morning sun has risen, and the red light shines on the vermilion sè palace wall, and then the reverse shè goes out, so that the entire palace city and a large square in front of it are shrouded in warm sè, which is the clear and quiet moat behind the side of the palace, and it is also soaked in palpitating red, like blood.

"If you want to delay time, you have to strike at the first moment they enter the Kyoto gate. The eldest prince looked at Chaoyang, squinted slightly, and said: "The problem at the moment is that the spies of your Supervision Yuan are isolated by the walls of the four directions, and they can't send in information at all, we must guess which gate the army will enter the capital through." ”

"There is a distance from the city gate to the palace, which is enough for us to kill each other's sharp energy. Fan Xian lowered his head and said, "If I really want to guess where the army entered the capital from the city gate, I bet ...... Zhengyangmen. ”

"Same as I thought. The eldest prince nodded, the rebels stabbed Kyoto directly from the Yuantai battalion, the nearest city gate is Zhengyang Gate, and the Ministry of the Thirteen City Gate Division is also located in that place, although Zhang Deqing rebelled, but only that city gate was personally controlled by him, and the army of the eldest princess entered Beijing through this gate, which was the safest and smoothest.

The eldest prince frowned and said, "I left a cavalry team there. ”

Fan Xian glanced at him, and a hint of strangeness flashed in his eyes, the difference in strength between the enemy and me was too great, and it was impossible to resist the enemy outside the city gate, but he and the eldest prince had to give each other a painful and memorable blow the moment the rebels entered the city, so as to reduce the rebels' spirit a little.

However, this army that has only been thrown into the army will definitely be swallowed up by the surging momentum of the army, and I am afraid that no one will survive.

As if sensing what Fan Xian was thinking, the eldest prince frowned slightly, and said in a deep voice: "As a soldier of Qingguo, it is natural to sacrifice life and forget death." ”

Fan Xian thought slightly, it was just a struggle for power and profit from the Son of Heaven's family, but he wanted these ordinary soldiers to throw their heads and spill their blood. At this moment, a gust of morning wind came, and with the wind came some voices full of blood and murderous aura in the imperial city, it was the school officers in the forbidden army who began to carry out the final mobilization of their subordinates before the war, and for a while, inside and outside the imperial city, there was a slaughter, and the air seemed to be filled with tension.

"One last time I asked you if you wanted to go. The eldest prince squinted at the city gate in the east, and didn't look at Fan Xian, "When the army besieges the palace, it will be impossible to break through." ”

He had discussed this issue with Fan Xian several times, and the eldest prince originally intended to lead the forbidden army to attract the rebels to Kyoto for a bloody fight, while Fan Xian, with the help of more than a thousand secret agents in the Supervision Yuan, took those people in the palace to find a way to live, kill out of the city gate, and quickly go south to Weizhou.

Fan Xian still shook his head lightly as he had done in the previous discussions, not to mention that breaking through was a few points of success, even if he could break through, he would not let the eldest prince be torn to pieces by the army of the eldest princess alone, and he also had a great expectation in his heart, so that he could stand firmly on the city wall.

He followed the direction of the eldest prince's eyes, staring at the increasingly solemn Zhengyang Gate under the rising sun, without saying a word.

The whole of Kyoto did not wake up with the rising sun, hundreds of thousands of people stayed at home in fear, listening to the movement outside, the streets and alleys between the houses, Tianhe Avenue, and the yamen were empty and silent.

It's so quiet, so deserted, that it feels like the first day is still endless late at night, and the whole of Kyoto has become a lonely city, a dead city.

At this moment, an ominous sound suddenly came from the morning wind, and it seemed that the heavy gates of Kyoto had been opened.

You can't hear the hooves of horses, you can't hear the neighing of horses, you don't hear the sound of armor and swords colliding with each other, you don't see the flag flying, and you shouldn't hear the city gate opening and closing from such a distance.

But in such a deathly silence in Kyoto, the slightest movement from the city gate will touch the sensitive minds of these people at the Imperial Palace.

Fan Xian Huoran turned his head, looked at several directions in the west and south, and stared at the green smoke of intelligence emitted by the secret agents of the Supervision Yuan, and his pupils shrank. After a moment, he and the eldest prince looked at each other and said, "We all guessed wrong. ”

The expression on the eldest prince's face was extremely solemn, and he nodded.

The green smoke is everywhere, the horn is gradually sounding, and from the condescending view of the imperial city, you can find that at this time, dozens of clouds of smoke and dust appeared in different directions on the outer city wall of Kyoto, and the sound of hooves is like thunder, and it is rumbling from the city gate, along the avenue that extends in all directions in Kyoto, towards the direction of the imperial palace!

Fan Xian and the eldest prince guessed that the rebels would enter Beijing from Zhengyangmen, but they didn't expect that the rebels would be so upright and imposing...... Nine city gates enter Beijing at the same time!

The two princes above the imperial city gasped, thinking to themselves how many rebels were under the eldest princess's command?

In an instant, Kyoto was surrounded by wolf smoke.

―――――――――――――――――――― outside the Zhengyang Gate in Kyoto, the loess was trampled and crushed by the galloping horses' hooves, and then kicked up, turning into a cloud of dust and smoke, which gradually rose to become a piece of yellow smoke, obscuring the light cast by the rising sun that initially rose above the horizon, making the entire city gate a little dark inside and outside.

The cavalry army of 5,000 people was riding in a row, at a steady speed, towards the open Zhengyang Gate, all of them seemed so silent and fast, the smoke and dust brought up by the horses' hooves, rushed by these horses, and scraped towards the city gate, looking like a headless and tailless yellow dragon, constantly struggling to enter Kyoto, intending to devour those poor mortals.

In the loess in the sky, a big military flag is waving in the wind, and the black sè flag is painted with a big Qin character, and the last blade of the Qin character is stabbed out vigorously, which seems to give people an indestructible power, even in the smoke and dust in the sky, it is still full of murderous spirit.

The former deputy envoy of the Privy Council, the current commander of the Kyoto garrison, and the leader of the second generation of the Qin family, Qin Heng was under this banner, calmly watching his army, and entered Kyoto with an irresistible momentum.

He squinted his eyes, but he didn't cover his mouth and nose so as not to inhale the loess, he just looked at this qiē calmly, and an extremely complicated situation appeared in his chest, as the commander of the Kyoto garrison, he was very familiar with this Zhengyang Gate, and knew that if the city gate was closed, if he only relied on these three thousand cavalry, he was afraid that he would not be able to rush into Kyoto for three years.

The capital of Keongkoku has been besieged by foreign enemies in history, but it has never been invaded by enemies, and this relatively small Kyoto has fully demonstrated its strong defensive strength.

Today, however, the gates of Kyoto have finally been conquered - as Zhuang Mohan once said in his book, the most powerful kingdoms in history have fallen, often from within.

Today's rebellion in Gyeongkook is no exception.

Qin Heng looked at this qiē, as a Qing ** person, he was in a very complicated mood, and he felt extremely admired and frightened for the eldest princess who easily controlled the Thirteen City Gate Division.

However, the situation at this time did not allow him to think too much, and now the army entered the capital through nine city gates, and the cavalry brigade he led took the Zhengyang Gate, and he had to rush to the palace before everyone.

This time, the army gathered the armies of the two families of Qin and Ye, as well as the Kyoto garrison, a total of more than 30,000 people, and the total defense force of the palace was less than 6,000 people.

For Qin Heng, it was really not difficult to fight this battle with a six-to-one force, he never thought that those acquaintances in the palace could compete with such a powerful army.

His eyes flashed over the galloping horses in front of him, and the soldiers ...... Then a person's name flashed, for Qin Heng, he was not worried much about the palace at the moment, but worried that Ye Zhong would rush to the palace before him.

Thinking of the name Ye Chong, Qin Heng let out a breath of turbidity, this permanent member of the Kyoto garrison received the will of the Queen Mother, but did not return to Dingzhou! Although it seems that the Ye family's non-retreat is also the secret arrangement of the eldest princess, and it is of great significance for the battle of Kyoto today, but for the Qin family, the preservation of the Ye family's military strength has some other meanings.

Ye Zhong is the father-in-law of the second prince, and the Qin family naturally supports the crown prince. Therefore, the old man Qin issued a death order, in order to stabilize the crown prince's throne in the future, the Qin family's army must be strong enough in this battle, and it must arrive before the Ye family!

Qin Heng clamped the horse's belly, led his own personal battalion, and joined the team entering the city, turning into the brightest scale on the Yellow Dragon.

............ The rebels entered Kyoto in nine directions, the Qin family occupied six roads, and the Ye family occupied three roads, precisely because the rebels were powerful and knew that Kyoto's defense was empty, so they didn't care about the division of troops.

Thousands of officers and soldiers of the Thirteen City Gate Division did not join the ranks of the rebels, and the ordinary soldiers watched this scene dumbfounded, not knowing what was happening, and some smart school officers had already guessed which prince had rebelled, but they did not dare to move under the suppression of the commanders. Commander Zhang Deqing is a smart person, knowing this kind of rebellion, even if he adds another hand, he will not have much credit, and it is a really smart choice to hold on to his city gate division first.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded like thunder on the avenue leading from Zhengyang Gate to the palace, and the cavalry of the Qin family's army took out their weapons and began to jerk, but their speed did not decrease in the slightest, and galloped like a gust of wind.

Today's world advocates black sè, and the light armor of the Qin cavalry is also very deep, which is very close to the black cavalry of the Supervision Yuan, but there is a touch of the thickest black sè, and there are a few bright patches on the breastplate.

A dozen or so running cavalry suddenly broke away from the brigade, accelerated forward, pierced into the quiet streets like lightning, brushed the low eaves of the houses, and began to reconnoiter the advance of the army.

As usual, these dozen or so cavalry galloped into the streets and alleys, turned around again, spread out like arrows, and began to march into the depths, which happened extremely quickly and naturally, fully demonstrating the training level of the Qing ** team and the strength of the Qin family's army.

The cavalry brigade did not slow down, and continued to move forward in the direction that the dozen or so cavalry had taken. Qin Heng rode a horse, led the pro-military camp, and looked indifferently at the front of more than 100 zhang, he knew that Fan Xian and the eldest prince would definitely not sit still, and there would definitely be snipers and difficult fights on this quiet long street.

But he didn't care, how many people Fan Xian and the Great Prince had in their hands, he knew that what he was asking for was the speed of the march, the strong momentum, no matter what kind of obstruction he received, he must ruthlessly crush it with the army!

............ The speed of the rebels' advance was so fast that the dozen or so leading cavalry could not play the role of scouts at all, and they were just brave bait, and they were a little like the martyrs who bravely rolled through the minefield in Fan Xian's world, and used their lives to touch the danger of what kind of danger existed in the deathly silence of Kyoto.

However, the rebels had already broken through from the Zhengyang Gate for 500 feet, and the dozen or so brave cavalrymen still did not encounter any sniping, until they could faintly see the eaves of the palace under the morning sun, and the streets and alleys were still quiet.

............ "Hiss!"

The rebel brigade, which was about a hundred zhang away from these dozen cavalrymen, and the few war horses rushing to the front, were breathing the air of Kyoto vigorously, maintaining a steady speed, but at the same time, they neighed in pain!

The neighing sound was extinguished, and several horses fell to the ground at the same time!

The heavy body of the war horse slammed into the bluestone floor of the street, shaking up a few dusts, but it shook the streets as if they were trembling. The horse's head slammed into the ground, and blood flowed!

And no matter how good the cavalry on the horses were, they were caught off guard by this sudden change and fell to the ground. Before they could recover from the pain of their broken legs, a few black crossbow arrows came out from the houses on the side of the street and stabbed them fiercely.

Just as the first few horses fell to the ground and the cavalry was killed by crossbow arrows, there were suddenly countless neighing sounds in the entire quiet street.

These noises did not come from the mouths and noses of the galloping horses, but from the ground. The streets of Kyoto are paved with square bluestones, and the gaps between the bluestones are filled with loess.

The hissing sounds came from the fine loess between these bluestone slabs.

At the same moment, the loess between the bluestone slabs on the long street suddenly cracked! There seemed to be some magical power on both sides of the street, and from the cracked loess, a thin black sè leather cord bounced, the piso was too thin to tie a hook and thorn, but it was faintly visible to shine with a faint light, which should be a quenched needle.

Dozens of special tripwires of black sè suddenly and magically appeared on the street that was still a smooth road a moment ago!

Countless muffled sounds sounded at the same time, and the cavalry brigade of the Qin family's army suffered a merciless blow at this moment, totaling about a hundred horsemen, and in front of these dozens of tripwires, they fell into the clouds and smashed into the deep earth.

For a while, people on the street turned over on their backs, screaming miserably, I don't know how many people or horse tendons were broken and broken, and they were smashed together, rolling, and bleeding.

Immediately afterward, the sound of swishing through the sky sounded, and these sounds were like the sentinels of the netherworld coming to harvest and reap their lives, which made people tremble. Countless black crossbow arrows came out of the houses on the side of the street, and shè stopped their screams in an instant on the rebels who fell to the ground.

But in an instant, there were more than a hundred dead people on this half of the street, and these dead men were all stuck in their bodies with crossbow arrows. The ambushers had no horses, and the horses with their severed limbs and poisoned lay limply on the ground, beside the corpses of their masters, neighing in pain and kicking their legs one after another.

The scene is extremely miserable to watch.