The night was dark, the Beijing was silent, and there were hundreds of Beijing guards marching towards the palace with guns and knives at each of the four gates in the southeast, northwest, and northwest.

In addition to the gatekeeper captain in charge of 400 elite soldiers, the forbidden army in the capital also has infantry captains, cavalry captains, and longbow captains, and the number of troops in their hands ranges from 1,000 to thousands, and the official positions are much larger than the gatekeepers.

In order to avoid suspicion from the rest of the Jinghu guards, Xu Xin, the captain of the gate, deliberately divided his troops into four routes, each hundred households with a team of people, even if they were discovered, they could be confused by finding a reason.

Not far ahead, a group of infantry was patrolling the night, and when they saw Xu Xin with their men and horses, they raised their hands and greeted:

"Yo, Captain Xu, I'm not at home in the middle of the night and sleeps with my mother-in-law in my arms, what are you tossing?"

Xu Xin has long been accustomed to the other three factions looking down on people, and he is not salty or indifferent:

"I can't sleep, take someone out for a walk, but you, I heard that I just married a concubine, so you are willing to put her at home?"

"Harm, who called us hard work, after the autumn harvest, it is most easy to go to the water and make trouble, there is an order on the peak, let us keep our eyes open and keep an eye on it, brothers have been keeping watch four times this month."

"It's good to be smart, but you also have to pay more attention to your home, don't catch fire outside and the backyard catches fire first."

After Xu Xin finished speaking, he led the team to leave directly, leaving the hundred households staring at the two eyeballs, and said for a while:

"Hey, what do you mean by this surname Xu, curse the little master to be a cuckold?"

A cronie on the side accosted:

"My lord, don't be like him, if it weren't for his brother who was a cavalry captain, where would he get this idle position?"

"It makes sense, our positions are all made by real knives and guns, and they can't be compared with others."

Baihu sneered in the direction of Xu Xin's departure, and was about to turn around, when he suddenly remembered something, and ordered:

"You send two brothers to guard outside my house."

"My lord, don't you really believe the words of the surname Xu?"

"I'd rather believe it, if he really knows something, what about me?"

"Oh yes."

The subordinates answered, and hurriedly went down to make arrangements.

……

At the north gate of the capital, a hundred Beijing guards also hurried towards the palace, and along the way they encountered a group of horseback officers and soldiers, the leader of whom sat on a horse in civilian clothes, raised his horse whip and signaled them to stop.

"Zhao Rong, it's so late, where are you going?"

Hundreds of households at the door saluted:

"Back to Captain Xu, Captain Xiao, he just had a drink in the Qinglou, and he got drunk and got into a fight."

It is somewhat inappropriate to place the titles of big and small captains on others, but the person in front of him is Xu Xin's brother Xu Ju, and the official is from the fourth rank cavalry captain.

There is nothing wrong with the brothers being called big or small, and many soldiers in Xu Xin's team are still borrowed from his brother, and the current hundred households named Zhao Rong are one of them.

Hearing that his younger brother was in trouble again, the man couldn't help frowning and said:

"Does it matter, do you need me to go over?"

"Don't get in the way, the other party is a wealthy businessman from outside, and he has no backers in the capital."

"Proceed with caution."

"Yes."

After Zhao Rong led the team away, a thousand households hugged and said:

"The second master is really getting more and more worry-free, the hundred people he borrowed half a year ago have not been repaid for a long time, and now he sees that Zhao Rong is about to become his person."

"They were all raised by a mother, and if you don't look at his face, you have to look at his mother's face, Zhao Rong will give it to him, if he has the ability to win over his subordinates, he can be regarded as a kid."

The two brothers are less than half a year apart, Xu Juniang died early, raised by Erniang since childhood, Erniang treats everyone equally, never deliberately makes things difficult to favor anyone, Xu Juzhi Entubao, after serving as a cavalry captain, he is a younger brother who can't help him everywhere, but the other party is always a dou who can't be helped.

……

In the palace, the person in charge of the night tonight is Zou Lang, the twenty-seventh generation great-grandson of the Zou family, and the ancestor has a big internal guard commander.

Since Zou Shun went on, the Zou family has had ups and downs for hundreds of years, and the number of descendants reached more than 100 at most, and they have emerged in the palace and the military department.

The dignitaries are only three generations, the Zou family, like other big families, from time to time there are some bastard family owners, obviously lacking ability, but they want to do something more than the ancestors, some defect to the abolished emperor with the intention of making a comeback, some are close to the eunuchs to seek benefits, and some follow the wrong master to lose power in the succession...

After a series of events, the Zou family was almost defeated, and in Zou Lang's generation, the only backer was a distant cousin in the palace.

The Zou family ran for a long time, and finally stuffed Zou Lang into the palace, relying on the fact that he had spent a few years in Cong Mo Yuan when he was young, and practiced a good martial arts, he was soon promoted to a small commander, which was regarded as touching the feet and necks of the ancestors.

For tonight, Zou Lang laid out the layout months in advance, took the silver given by the emperor and invited several commanders in the palace to eat, drink and have fun, and lied that his hometown had found a good job, he was reluctant to give up the brothers, and wanted to stand on the last shift before leaving.

The cannibalistic mouth was short, and several commanders were embarrassed to refuse such a small request, so only Zou Lang was left with his men to guard the imperial city tonight.

In the middle of the night, a cat's meow sounded outside the palace wall, intermittently, Zou Lang was refreshed when he heard it, and said in a deep voice: "Do it according to the plan." ”

The gate of the Sifang Palace was wide open, Xu Xin entered from the east gate with a team of people, Zhao Rong entered from the north gate, and Liu Baoqing, the second son of the Liu family, was also with him; Simon rushed in with a dozen strong men in black, led by a black cloth masked, not stout, with a white sword hanging from his waist; There were two hundred people left, and they poured in from the south gate.

The four hundred Jinghu guards and the hundred inner guards all tied red cloth strips to their right arms and ran cautiously towards the predetermined position.

The Empress Dowager Liu Pheasant is suspicious and cautious, and her sleeping position is far more than one, Shufangzhai in the north, Yangxin Palace in the east, Cining Palace in the west, and Kunning Palace in the center.

Several assassins had infiltrated the palace in the middle of the night, and they couldn't find her after going around in a big circle, and finally they were found and captured by the guards, and the only one who succeeded was a stand-in palace maid.

……

More than 100 people from the north gate were the first to arrive at the destination, and they did not encounter the slightest resistance along the way, even if they didn't even encounter a palace maid and eunuch, Liu Baoqing felt strange in his heart, but he still pushed open the gate of Shufangzhai as planned, and there was no one inside.

Walking out of the room, the young man turned to look in the direction he had come, frowning and not knowing what he was thinking.

On the east side of the palace, Xu Xin took three steps and made two steps, kicking open the gate of the Yangxin Palace, and there was also no half a figure.

At this moment, the sound of hurried horses' hooves suddenly sounded behind him, and nearly a thousand soldiers and horses rushed into the imperial city with open fire, and Zou Lang's guards were killed by the spear and horse before they could even resist.

Iron hooves trampled on the bluestone slab with a crisp sound, and a thousand cavalry stopped in front of a hundred people, and the person leading the team was the cavalry captain Xu Ju.

To the south, two hundred Jinghu guards rushed to Kunning Palace without waiting, and suddenly there was a chord control sound behind them.

With the cold word "kill" coming out, five hundred feathered arrows came out of the string, and all the armor-piercing arrows pierced the back of the robe in front of them with a sound of breaking through the air.

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(End of chapter)