In Kyoto, the summer country, these days have not been very peaceful.

The tens of thousands of troops of the Xia State were defeated in Jeju, the government and the opposition were shaken, and the Xia Emperor Zhang Yiyun suffered a recurrence of his head disease, and this time, compared to the last time Li Luo burned the army in Thunder City, for five days, Zhang Yiyun's bedroom did not move at all.

The government and the opposition talked about it for a while, and they all said that His Majesty was dying soon, and although the imperial court had the crown prince Zhang Cheng in charge of the country, this rumor was not curbed in the slightest, but it had the meaning of intensifying.

In the DPRK, it is even rumored that many people secretly instigated Zhang Cheng to ascend the throne and succeed to the throne on the same day, but Zhang Cheng has been silent, which makes this rumor feel a little self-defeating.

However, despite the turmoil in the imperial court, Li Luoke, who had won a great victory in Jeju, was not idle, and only a few days after the uprising was declared, Li Luo led the army to continue to advance, and now he has captured Tianfeng Castle, the gateway to Kyoto.

Dozens of urgent documents have been sent to the border, but on such a major matter as the deployment of troops, Zhang Cheng still does not dare to assert himself, but only tries his best to stabilize the internal court, probably meaning that he wants to wait for Zhang Yiyun to completely recover before making plans.

Outside Kyoto Castle, in the middle of the Minamiyama ......

In the depths of winter, the fallen leaves in the mountains and forests are scattered, and the South Mountain is dead.

But there was a young man in brocade clothes sitting quietly on the ground, his face was delicate, but there was a thick shadow in his eyes.

In his hand, he held tightly a strip of cloth, on which were written in bright red cinnabar: "The time has come!" ”

The young man lowered his eyes slightly, and there was a touch of remembrance in his eyes.

Just a few months ago, he had gone to Miaowang Mountain alone, on Miaowang Mountain, he got his wish to see the so-called poison man on the mountain, originally he wanted to ask the former to go down the mountain to help him achieve a great thing, but the former decisively rejected him, only left a sentence for him.

"In the depths of winter this year, Your Majesty should have an illness, if there is a strong force in the hands of the second prince at that time, he will definitely be able to approach the palace and make a final decision!"

The young man is the second prince of Xia Kingdom, Zhang Liang!

For this sentence of the poisoner, he worked hard to train a group of elite dead soldiers in Nanshan, although there were only 10,000 people, but all of them had terrible combat power of one as ten, in order to wait for this day.

Now, when Zhang Liang finally received Ji Wushuang's letter, the originally inflated ambition in the young man's heart finally began to grow unscrupulously.

Slowly putting the strip of cloth into his arms, Zhang Liang stood up and raised his right hand violently.

"Drink!"

With Zhang Liang's actions, the next moment suddenly broke out in the mountains and forests.

One after another, the soldiers in armor suddenly walked slowly from the valley towards Zhang Liang's position.

Headed by a burly man with a long knife at his waist, he respectfully held a dragon robe engraved with a golden dragon in both hands, walked to Zhang Liang's side, and then bowed:

"The last general, Mao Men, please change your clothes."

Taking a deep look at the dragon robe in Maomen's hand, Zhang Liang stroked it with a complicated face, and then shouted violently to the soldiers in front of him: "My father is seriously ill, the border is urgent, and the prince is incompetent. ”

"Today's incident, in fact, is the plan of the Xia country, he will be on the throne of the day, you are the founding heroes, you can go down in history, and you will be famous for centuries!"

"Wait, would you like to kill with me?"

After a brief silence in the mountains and forests, a thunderous voice soon sounded:

"Long live Your Highness, long live Your Highness!"

On this day, in the middle of Nanshan, the second prince Zhang Liang led his troops to the palace and went straight to Kyoto.

Above the court, the civil and military officials were still in the early dynasty, and the crown prince Zhang Cheng sat on a separate seat under the throne and listened to all this quietly, but except for those trivial things, Zhang Cheng almost didn't care about the big things, and all responded with four words: "Let's discuss it later!" ”

Suddenly, a guard rushed into the hall and hurriedly said, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, something is wrong. ”

"The second prince, Zhang Liang, led an army of 10,000 and killed at the gate of Kyoto."

"What?!" Hearing this, not only Zhang Cheng couldn't sit still, but even many ministers in the palace were frightened.

The rebellion of the prince is not a minority in history, but without exception, the dynasties where the prince rebelled are all dynasties that have long been deaf, and these ministers could not have imagined that the powerful Xia Kingdom had fallen to such a point.

"10,000?!" Zhang Cheng was surprised: "The prince forbids raising government soldiers, this is the father's ban, why does Zhang Liang have 10,000 people?" ”

The guard shook his head and said bitterly: "His Royal Highness the Prince, don't worry about it so much, now General Zhou Ruchun's army has not returned to the court, and the nearest defenders around, even if they travel day and night, it will take a whole day to arrive in Kyoto, and now there are only 8,000 Yulin troops in Kyoto, which is not the opponent of His Royal Highness Zhang Liang at all, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince still puts the country first, and leaves Kyoto with His Majesty first." ”

"Presumptuous!" When Zhang Cheng heard this, his face showed a rare touch of anger: "Kyoto is the foundation of a country, I am the prince of a country, can you say such a thing as discarding Kyoto?" ”

The guards did not dare to speak, so they could only kneel on the ground and wait for orders.

Zhang Cheng turned his head to look at Xue Qingsi, who was silent below, and said in a deep voice: "Prime Minister, what do you think should be done now?" ”

When Xue Qingsi heard this, he just shrugged his shoulders slightly: "Your Highness, you are the future king of a country, and you can't rely on others to make decisions for you in everything." It's up to His Highness to make up his own mind about this matter. ”

"This ......" Zhang Cheng heard this, his face obviously showed a look of embarrassment, from beginning to end, he had never made such a major decision, because this is not only about personal honor and disgrace, but also about the future trend of the fate of Xia Kingdom.

Looking around, he saw that the ministers around him avoided Zhang Cheng's gaze, obviously not wanting to get too involved in this matter.

After all, this is a royal fight, and if you really stand on the side of this court today, if it is the one outside the city who sits on the throne in the future, there will be a disaster of death in the future.

Looking at the court, where no one was accosted, Zhang Cheng took a deep breath, a resolute look suddenly appeared in his eyes, and said loudly:

"My father is critically ill, Zhang Liang rebelled, the situation is in crisis, and the prince can only perform the duties of supervising the country and make decisions on behalf of his father."

"Order, order the guard Captain Meng Chang, lead 4,000 Yulin troops, rush to the gate of Kyoto to defend it, and it is bound to not let the rebels enter Kyoto!"

"Yes!" The guard bowed down and ran out quickly.

"Report!" Suddenly, another guard ran into the main hall quickly, and said with a frightened face: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, the big thing is not good, Han Yue, the commander of the Hundred Battles Battalion, has defected to Zhang Liang, and at this moment, the 10,000 soldiers of the Hundred Battles Battalion have joined Zhang Liang's army and are storming the gate of our Kyoto City." ”

Some people died, but not completely......