After being silent for a long time, Zhu Di finally said slowly with a calm face: "Then you have to make a decision and act when you see the opportunity." Speaking of this, he couldn't help but reach out and firmly grasp Zhu Quan's sleeve and said: "All in all, if the foolish brother is lucky enough to enter the city, he really doesn't want to see this stubborn nephew in the Forbidden City again." Speaking of this, a cold light could not help but shine in his eyes.

Zhu Quan heard Zhu Di's ominous words, but he didn't ask any more questions, and finally nodded and took on this difficult task, which can be described as a life-and-death task. At that moment, the two agreed that four days later, Zhu Di would lead the elite of the army to Jinchuan Gate, and the soldiers would act under the city.

On the second day, when the dawn was slightly dewed, Zhu Quan changed into a green shirt, pretended to be a down-and-out scholar, and set foot on the official road to Yingtian alone.

At noon on the third day, there were 13 city gates such as Chaoyang Gate and Zhengyang Gate in Yingtian City, and the official road was already congested. The people in a radius of dozens of miles outside the city have been frightened by the Yan army that crossed the river, and in order to avoid the scourge of war and chaos, they have fled from their homes, helped the old and the young, and rushed towards the city.

The Yan army was close at hand, and Jingshi Yingtian had already fallen into great chaos, and Zhu Quan quietly entered the city among the chaotic people, without attracting the attention of the soldiers defending the city. ”“

Walking aimlessly on the long street, Zhu Quan walked forward alone.

When the gate of a very imposing mansion came into view, Zhu Quan took a closer look and realized that he had unconsciously come to the Ning Wang's Mansion in Yingtian City, where he had been in Yingtian City.

I saw that the gate of the palace was closed, and the seal was impressive, but there were no soldiers stationed at the door. Zhu Quan immediately went around to the backyard of the palace and plunged into it while there was no one around.

Looking around, I saw that the small lake in the former quiet courtyard was still there, and the grass was knee-high in all directions, a desolate and desolate scene. Since he followed Zhu Di to rebel, the mansion here was closed by the emperor's decree, and after a few years, it became a paradise for wild mice and birds.

Rebellion and rebellion to protect himself, he and Zhu Di, the king of Yan, can be said to be in the same boat, but unfortunately for Zhu Di, who is the fourth son of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who has the possibility of breaking through the Beijing division, ruling the world, and the fourth son of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he does not need and cannot have any allies who share weal and woe. If he took advantage of the chaos in the city to sneak into the palace and kill Zhu Yun, God knows whether the ruthless Zhu Laosi would reverse the charge of killing the monarch on his head, and then eradicate himself under the banner of righteousness. Thinking of Zhu Biao, the prince of Yiwen who treated him quite affectionately in the past, could he really make such an instant decision when facing his son?

Slowly came to the lake tree where Xu Ying used to fish for fun in the past, Zhu Quan recalled the past in this courtyard as a free prince, the fun of practicing martial arts with Xu Ying here every day, and the past of having a family in this place, thinking of this, although he is facing a great problem related to life and death, he also suddenly seems to be out of the world, what thousands of troops, ruling the world, as if they are no longer related to himself, and the voice and smile of Daning, Xu Ying, and Feng Xuan, who are thousands of miles away, can not help but smile and say: Ying'er, Hermes-Epitek doesn't know if he still remembers me.

The wooden door on the small building opened silently, and a figure in a black shirt quietly walked out of the room, towards Zhu Quan, who was sitting alone by the lake, Zhu Quan's scenes of death and survival in the past few years are unknown, and the person who came into the three-zhang radius was already aware of it, and when the other party pounced, under the wave of his right hand, a pebble that had been secretly held in his hand flew out, and went straight to the opposite door. At the same time, the body turned to the side, avoiding the opponent's fierce blow like a goshawk pounced on the rabbit.

The pebbles thrown with all his strength flew out like arrows shot by a strong bow and crossbow, and disappeared silently, Zhu Quan was shocked in his heart, and he already knew that the other party's martial arts were outstanding, and he stood up and carefully looked at the faces of the outsiders who stopped at Zhangyu, only to see Qin Zhuofeng, the master who had slightly gray hair on his sideburns, and stood like a towering mountain, and couldn't help but be stunned.

Qin Zhuofeng saw that his beloved disciple's martial arts were much better than in the past, and he couldn't help but bow his head slightly with satisfaction, and asked in a deep voice, "Why did you also enter the city?" It turned out that Jing Kun, his former teacher of Zhu Quan, told that if the country changed hands, the great danger that his family might encounter after Zhu Di, the king of Yan, ascended the throne, and he had already come south, and he came to the former Ning Wangfu to hide and settle down after entering the city yesterday.

After giving the master a salute, Zhu Quan immediately told what King Yan had planned with him the day before yesterday, as well as the hidden worries of Zhu Di crossing the river and demolishing the bridge.

Hearing this, Qin Zhuofeng couldn't help but sigh and said: "It is easy to share hardships and hardships, and it is difficult to share wealth and wealth, not to mention that this matter involves imperial power. Speaking of this, he looked at Zhu Quan and said with a smile: "Fortunately, the old sour Confucian has already taken precautions for a rainy day, and has already taken care of this matter, and has already made a plan for the teacher, so that even if Zhu Di is the king of the world, he must have three scruples about you and Ying'er, and dare not act rashly." ”

Zhu Quan saw the slightly old face of the master who had not seen him for several years, and recalled the foresight of the teacher Jing Kun, and couldn't help but warm his heart, and asked, "I don't know what the teacher is planning?" ”

Qin Zhuofeng said in a deep voice: "With the old sour Confucian's plan, even if Zhu Di ascends to the throne, he will never dare to openly kill his nephew, abolish it, since he sent you into the city, we will plan and find an opportunity to sneak into the palace, so that Zhu Yun will not see anyone alive or dead, and only you know his whereabouts in today's world." ”

In the dead of night, in the mansion of Cao Guogong, a few streets away from King Ning's mansion, under the light of candles, a figure pacing back and forth was reflected on the window paper of the study, showing the confusion and anxiety of the owner here.

When the door rang softly, it was obvious that someone was tiptoeing into the room, and Li Jinglong, the Duke of Cao Guo, who was dressed in fancy clothes, was frightened because of the fact that the Yan army was about to enter the city, and he was already restless in panic, thinking that someone in the house was not allowed to enter without permission under his own summons, and he didn't turn around at the moment, and scolded angrily: "Get out." ”

"Cao Guogong is okay if he comes?" A man's chuckle came to his ears.

Such a very familiar whisper reached Li Jinglong's ears, but it was as terrifying as the thunder of the Nine Heavens. He shuddered and turned around, and saw Ning Wang Zhu Quan, who was dressed in a green shirt, smiling, sitting on the chair behind the desk.

Although Li Jinglong was incompetent, after all, he had also commanded hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, looked at the three-foot long sword placed on the rosewood coffee table in front of Zhu Quan, and suddenly sobered up in his mind, and said with a wry smile: "Your Highness visited late at night, so that the lower officials are far away." He has known Zhu Quan for a long time, and knows that His Royal Highness King Ning has strong martial arts, and within a few years, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, has repeatedly defeated the imperial army, not to mention, he even miraculously led the army to attack thousands of miles, crossed the Yangtze River and came to Beijing dozens of miles away, although there are hundreds of soldiers in his house, but he can't save the fire from the far water, and he is afraid that he will have blood splashed three feet between shouts and die under Zhu Quan's sword.

"Thinking that Cao Guogong had a good relationship with me and the fourth brother in the past, the two armies were at war, and it was really a last resort to fight for life and death, wouldn't it be sad to think about it." When Zhu Quan said this, he couldn't help but sigh for a long time.

Li Jinglong heard him say that Zhu Di, the king of Yan who he was more afraid of, couldn't bear the overwhelming pressure of Mount Tai in his heart after all, and after trying to calm his mind, he asked: "Your Highness came here late at night, I'm afraid it's not to catch up with the lower officials, right?" ”

Zhu Quan said in a deep voice: "On the day when the fourth brother soldiers come to the city, you only need to lead the army to sacrifice the city, which should be a great achievement." ”

Li Jinglong's heart was shocked when he heard this, and he said to himself: "If the lower official insists on refusing, will His Royal Highness take his life?" ”

Unexpectedly, Zhu Quan was not annoyed when he heard this, shook his head slightly and said: "This king doesn't need to make such a decision, he only spreads rumors in the city, saying that Zhu Laosi has promised to be a high-ranking official, and Cao Guogong will sacrifice the city and return to obedience in the near future, and be the hero of the dragon." ”

Thinking that at this time, when the Yan army was about to approach the city, the army and the people in the city were in chaos, and rumors were flying all over the sky, if such a false and indistinguishable rumor reached the ears of His Majesty the Emperor, who was already restless, it was self-evident what would happen to his family, Li Jinglong sat down in the Taishi chair with a dejected face, and asked after a long sigh: "I heard that His Highness is so good, does the lower official still have a choice?" ”

"Nope." Zhu Quan's answer this time was short and unquestionable, and he sighed secretly in his heart: Since Zhu Yun's drastic reduction of the feudal domain, since Zhu Laosi and I led the army to rebel, all those who are in this life-and-death whirlpool of imperial power struggle have no choice. I didn't, Zhu Laosi didn't, you didn't, and His Majesty the Ming Emperor, who is still in the Forbidden City, won't have it.

The next day, more than 100,000 Yan troops came in a mighty manner, and Chen soldiers were outside Yingtian City.

In the afternoon, pretending to be a hundred soldiers, Zhu Quan, who followed Li Jinglong, the Duke of Cao Guo, and Zhu Quan, who was on the side of Zhu Wang, stopped at the gate tower of Jinchuan Gate. It turned out that Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yun not only abolished the four uncles of Zhou Wang Zhu, Qi Wang Zhu, Acting King Zhu Gui, Min Wang Zhu and other four uncles as concubines, but also forced Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang, to be humiliated and close his family, so that Gu Wang Zhu and other princes already had a sense of rabbit death and fox sorrow in their hearts, and the feeling of things hurting them, thinking that even if it was King Yan, King Ning was defeated and died, and he was in the hands of his nephew emperor, and a rotten Confucian also decided not to end well, and there was already a rebellion in his heart.

Seeing that Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was standing tall on the sweat and blood horse, leading the army to gradually approach the Jinchuan Gate, Zhu Quan immediately drew out a three-foot long sword at his waist and shouted: "This king is Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, His Royal Highness the King of Yan is coming with an army, and those who surrender will not be killed." ”

Li Jinglong and Zhu knew that at this time, Zhu Quan was already difficult to ride a tiger under his identity, and there was no way out, so he immediately no longer hesitated, and led hundreds of his own henchmen to rush down, killing dozens of generals and soldiers who were still loyal to the imperial court, opening and closing the lock, and opening the Jinchuan Gate.

Zhu Di heard it from afar from the city gate, Zhu Quan's internal force, very clear shouting, in the heart of the ecstasy under the military order, 10,000 Yan troops under the leadership of the general Zhu Neng, rushed forward, towards the Ming Jingshi Yingtian open city gate.

Although there are many generals and soldiers who are still loyal to the imperial court, at this time, seeing Cao Guogong and Gu Wang, the two leaders who are responsible for guarding the Jinchuan Gate, are in rebellion, and the army is in turmoil, and in a hurry, almost no resistance is formed, and the Yan army takes the city gate and attacks the city.

Zhu Di rode his horse straight into the Jinchuan Gate, and shouted to a group of court soldiers and generals who were still holding weapons and at a loss: "This king is coming from Tianjing, and he only punishes traitors in the court, and those who surrender will not be slaughtered." ”

Seeing more and more, the wolf-like Yan soldiers rushed in, and the Ming soldiers and generals who were at a loss heard King Yan's words again, and they threw away their weapons one after another, kneeling and asking for surrender. His Majesty the Emperor is the grandson of Emperor Taizu, and His Royal Highness King Yan is also the fourth son of Emperor Taizu. In the chaos of war, the only way to save your life is to save your own life.

Zhu Di saw that the overall situation had been decided, and immediately ordered Qiu Fu and other generals who led the army into the city one after another, as well as Li Jinglong, the prince of Cao Guo, Zhu and others, and asked them to lead their respective soldiers and horses to the rest of the city gates in Yingtian, and ordered the generals to restrain military discipline.

Zhu Quan saw thousands of Yan soldiers rushing onto the streets of Yingtian, and suddenly recalled in his mind the imaginative chess game of the old monk Daoyan before he set out from Beiping, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and sighed: "One son is wrong, the whole game is lost, every step is wrong, and the country changes hands." Yan Ba and Qin Zhuofeng, the master of the Ming army who was disguised as a thousand households, rode their horses and galloped away, following the street in the direction of Hongwu Gate of the Forbidden City.

Jinchuan Gate was lost, the news of the Yan army entering the city in a big way spread in the city, the guards of several city gates saw that the general trend had gone, and led the crowd to surrender, but within half an hour, 20,000 Yan soldiers entered the city from several city gates under the leadership of their respective generals.

The Jinwuwei forbidden army responsible for guarding the forbidden city knew that several city gates were lost, and the army was in turmoil, and the thousand households who were responsible for guarding the Hongwu Gate had seen Zhu Quan in the past, and saw that His Royal Highness King Ning, who was valued by Emperor Taizu in the past, came and immediately led the people to surrender.

Zhu Quan and his master Qin Zhuofeng walked on the wide imperial road, and saw the fireworks rising in the direction of Fengtian Hall in the distance, and they didn't know what happened, so they didn't have time to take care of the eunuchs and palace maids who rushed out in a hurry and fled towards the Forbidden City, and walked quickly along the imperial road towards Fengtian Palace.

When he got to the bottom of the stairs of the Fengtian Palace, he saw that this former carved beams and painted buildings, magnificent and magnificent, and the flames of the hall specially designed for the civil and military officials of the early dynasty were soaring, and they had fallen into a sea of fire, Zhu Quan couldn't help but be stunned, and went up the stairs, only to see a young man in a dragon robe in tears in the open ground in front of the palace door, crying bitterly on the ground, but who is Zhu Yun, the emperor of Jianwen?

Zhu Quan saw that the fire in Fengtian Temple was raging, and it was difficult to rescue, and he already felt that it was hot and scorching a few feet away, and he was afraid that it would be a ruin in an hour, so he couldn't help but jump like thunder, and scolded: "Whoever the hell set the fire, if it is caught by Lao Tzu, it must be peeled and cramped, and it must be dismantled." In his opinion, there must be a eunuch who coveted the treasures in the palace, and the sergeant deliberately set fire to rob him.