At three o'clock, the Xuande Gate was on fire, and Rong Xian opened the door to welcome the rebels into the palace, and there was chaos in the palace.

However, this is just the beginning.

After Wu Mu took control of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, he sent out rangers to run through the streets of Bianjing City, and when he encountered flammable wooden houses, he poured fire oil on the roofs, threw torches, and set fire to the houses.

In the dark night, the flaming torches are like a meteor shower, which is very eye-catching.

It didn't take long for a raging fire to break out everywhere in Bianjing City, and the fire grew bigger and bigger, lighting up the entire night sky.

Such a large fire quickly attracted the attention of the patrol soldiers under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture.

The patrol soldiers are all over the city of Bianjing, with a total of 3,000 people, mainly responsible for the daily routine of anti-theft, fire prevention, street sweeping and other general affairs in the city.

If they can be effectively organized, these patrolmen can be used as a new force to rush to the palace and pose a threat to the rebels of the Yan King.

However, these patrol soldiers did not know what had happened in the palace at this time, and when they saw the fire everywhere in the city, they immediately focused all their attention on the fire, and immediately scattered and devoted themselves to their own work of fighting the fire.

This is also the purpose of King Yan asking Wu Mou to send people to set fire to the city, using the fire to contain the last armed force in the city that threatens the rebels, so that the rebels can attack the palace without distraction.

In Bianjing City, the flames were soaring, and the gongs and bangs in charge of warning rang out hurriedly, and the sound of hurried and panicked firefighting was heard in all directions.

The patrol soldiers picked up water bladders, pumps, hemp and other firefighting tools to put out the fire, and threw themselves into the nearest fire, so busy that they were too busy to do anything.

At this time, the people who were sleeping were also awakened by the noise outside.

When they opened the door and saw the chaos outside, some people immediately picked up the guys and helped to put out the fire together;

Some people rushed home, closed the door and locked it, and hid in the house and did not dare to go out;

There are also some people who have their eyes shining and take advantage of the chaos to start their own careful thinking......

However, in just one or two hours, the city of Bianjing in the middle of the night became noisy and noisy from quiet and silent, and the people in the city were like headless flies with six gods and no masters, and people everywhere were panicked, and there was a chaos of war.

The chaos spread to the whole city of Bianjing, and the Wei Mansion located in Lao Ya Lane was also difficult to stay out of.

At this moment, everyone in the guard house was woken up and gathered in the front yard.

Rulan and Minglan were taken aback when they heard the advice of their subordinates, they had never encountered such a situation, and they were inevitably a little overwhelmed.

But now that Wei Chen is not there, the two of them are the backbone of the family, and after a short period of tension and panic, Rulan and Minglan quickly forced themselves to calm down.

They first gathered the guards and servants in the house, distributed weapons to them, asked them to light torches, guarded the corner gate of the main gate, watched the wall of the back garden, and divided into several groups to patrol the courtyard to avoid being taken advantage of by the small night.

After such an orderly arrangement, the hearts of the originally frightened and restless people in the guard house finally settled down.

Seeing this scene, Rulan, who had been fighting her spirits, couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, she sat back in her chair, pulled Minglan on the side's sleeve, and whispered: "How is it, I behaved well just now, right?" ”

"It's not just good, it's just calm, not afraid of danger, Mount Tai collapses in front of you without changing color, and she is a model of being a housewife!"

Minglan smiled and quipped, and suddenly her voice was lowered, her brows were frowning, and she sighed softly and said, "Look at this, it's already a mess outside, and I don't know if my husband will have something to do in the Hanlin Academy?" ”

"Don't worry, the Hanlin Courtyard is a palace powerhouse, what thief dares to go there to spread wild?"

Rulan smiled a little reluctantly, but her face was also difficult to hide her worry.

Although her vision is worse than Minglan's, she can also see the situation in Bianjing City now, there is such a mess outside, except for a few patrol soldiers, there has been no sergeant to maintain order, it is obvious that the imperial court has lost control of Bianjing City.

In case there is really a man-made rebellion, let alone the Hanlin Academy, even if it is not safe to stay by the side of the Son of Heaven, it may be even more dangerous.

Thinking of this, Rulan couldn't help but turn pale.

Seeing this, Minglan hurriedly whispered and comforted: "Sister, don't worry, husband, he is so clever, he will definitely be fine." ”

"Well, it's going to be fine." Rulan held Minglan tightly and nodded heavily.

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At this time, in the dark alley on the other side of Bianjing City, a tragic battle was taking place.

In Bianjing City tonight, there are many similar street battles, which are basically small-scale battles with more than a dozen people.

After the rebels entered the city, small groups of men and horses, rangers who set fires everywhere, bandits who took advantage of the fire to rob, patrolmen who tried to maintain order, soldiers who escaped from Wu Mou, the soldiers of the Five Cities, and some escorts organized by the people themselves......

The forces of all parties are mixed, and in the darkness it is impossible to distinguish the identity of the person who came, and when they meet on a narrow road, they will start fighting if they don't agree with each other.

At this time, in this dark alley, there were rebels at both ends, blocking an inner hall of seven or eight people in the alley, and the young man who was protected by the inner hall was Wei Chen, who had just escaped from the Funing Palace.

Now the imperial city is full of rebels, and the Funing Palace, where the Son of Heaven's bedroom is located, is surrounded by rebels.

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However, with the guidance and help of the Imperial City Division, Wei Chen still escaped from the palace smoothly.

Of course, escaping all the way also made Wei Chen very embarrassed.

First walked out of the dormitory, and then through a path of cheating between the palace maid and the guards to the outside of the Funing Palace, and then went up the tree, climbed over the wall, drilled the dog hole, and lay in the ditch......

After this set, when he escaped from the imperial city, Wei Chen's life was almost gone, his clothes were dirty and torn, his face was full of sludge and dead leaves, and he didn't know where he was rubbed a few blood marks.

After experiencing this, Wei Chen finally understood why Zhao Zhen knew the way out of the palace, but didn't escape by himself.

As for Zhao Zhen's physique that breathes after taking two steps, he is afraid that before he escapes from the imperial city, he has already broken his body and scattered it.

However, although the Imperial City Division is powerful, it is not omnipotent, otherwise the Yanwang rebellion would not have happened.

After Wei Chen and his party escaped from the imperial city with great hardships, they still accidentally encountered a small group of rebels and were blocked in this dark alley.

In the night, fierce battles are raging.

The seven inner sanctuaries guarded Wei Chen in a semi-circular formation, fearlessly facing more than twenty rebels on the opposite side, and the two sides were entangled together, and the inner sanctum, which was inferior in numbers, did not fall behind at all.

This is of course because the inner hall, who is the personal guard of the Son of Heaven, is strong enough to be good at fighting, but it is also indispensable for Wei Chen's contributions.

Wei Chen carried a longbow captured from behind the rebels, stood behind the inner sanctum straight, and kept firing his bow and arrows.

the first arrow, which went into the left eye of a rebel; The second arrow opened a bloody flower in the face of the second rebel, and the third arrow pierced the third rebel's heart.

Three arrows in succession, but the arrows were not missing.

After these three arrows, when Wei Chen raised his hand again, the rebels on the opposite side were already frightened, and they involuntarily began to retreat.

Seeing this, the seven inner sanctum straightened their spirits, and immediately shouted in unison, taking advantage of the rebels' stunned kung fu, they raised their knives and cracked down fiercely, reaping five lives again.

These rebels didn't know Wei Chen's identity, but they just happened to bump into Wei Chen and his party, thinking of taking credit for it.

Seeing that Wei Chen and them were so tricky, these rebels immediately lost the heart to fight again, threw down the corpses of their companions, and hurriedly turned around and retreated.

After this battle, several inner temple straights have been completely impressed by Wei Chen's courage and decisiveness.

Who would have thought that the dignified Hanlin Scholar would have such accurate archery skills? Relying on Wei Chen's archery skills, only three of his own side were slightly wounded, and he repelled several times the rebel army.

When he looked at Wei Chen, who was leaning over to recover the missing arrow, the eyes of the inner temple straightened down with a little more respect, and one of the inner sanctum straightened his fists to Wei Chen and asked, "Master Wei, what should we do next?" ”

Wei Chen couldn't help but bow his head and think about it when he heard this.

From Bianjing to Yuzhou, it is naturally the closest to the West City Gate. However, the camp in the western suburbs where heavy troops are stationed is just outside the West City Gate, and if the Yanwang party wants to succeed, they will definitely guard this direction.

So the west gate could not be reached.

At this time, a familiar face suddenly flashed in Wei Chen's mind.

If I'm not mistaken, Sheng Hualan's husband Yuan Wenshao seems to be stationed at Xuanhuamen in the south, right?

As soon as he thought of this, Wei Chen suddenly had an idea in his heart, he raised his head, looked at the inner temple in front of him with a solemn expression, and said in a deep voice: "Let's go south and go to Xuanhua Gate!" ”