Chapter 228: Rebellion
Zhao Fujin's face was panicked, and after seeing Xiao Ming, he endured his grievances and said to him: "Please Brother Xiao save the prince quickly!" After saying that, I couldn't help but sob.
Xiao Ming was taken aback, could it be that Zhao Kai acted? Why didn't you get any information at all? He persuaded Zhao Fujin not to cry first, and said something slowly, what was going on.
Zhao Fujin told Xiao Ming that the ninth brother Kang Wang Zhao Gou sent several heroes from Fuzhong Hezhong Mansion to her, so that he could find a way to rescue Zhao Kai's wife, Zhu, but when they sneaked into Zhao Kai's mansion, they found that Zhu had been forced by Zhao Kai to hang to death, and his body was hanging on the beam!
Zhao Fujin was sad, and secretly sneaked into Zhao Kai's secret room and overheard the important information of Zhao Kai's move, when they withdrew, they didn't want to be discovered, and there were many good players in the house, all of them were strong in martial arts, in order to cover Zhao Fujin, several martial arts masters in Hezhong Mansion were all killed!
After Zhao Fujin escaped, he went straight to Xiao Ming's residence without going to King Kang's mansion, reported to him, and asked for help, Xiao Ming carefully inquired about some details before he found out why he didn't receive any news in the city, it turned out that King Yun not only raised a large number of martial arts masters in the mansion, he didn't know how to use to mobilize the five thousand soldiers and horses of the Ma Military Division stationed in the western suburbs of Tokyo, and now he is rushing into the city.
This hand not only concealed the chief official of Xiao Ming's three yas, but even King Kang's pedestrian division never thought of this kind of thing, now the situation is urgent, I can't think about it, Zhao Kai has fornicated with Tan Jun, the deputy commander of the inner guard, this person has been controlled by Xiao Ming, but maybe he still has a back hand, if the inner city is in chaos, the prince's east palace will definitely be dangerous.
Xiao Ming immediately sent someone to urgently summon Wu Jue, and asked him to quickly assemble the crossbow camp and go to Xicheng to block the cavalry of the Ma Jun Division who entered the city, and he took Gu Xiaoliu, Guo Shouxin, Wu Song and others, and Zhao Fujin to gather his own tiger guard camp.
But at this time, a large group of forbidden soldiers appeared on the street, and at the same time, the fire in the city suddenly broke out, and the sound of people shouting and neighing horses came, and the pedestrians on the street immediately became chaotic, and the chickens and dogs jumped with the sound of the cavalry's fast horse hooves and chaotic running, and the entire Bianjing City suddenly became a pot of porridge.
Xiao Ming led the people towards the West Gate, but found that there was a sound of fighting coming from the New Sour Zao Gate, and after running there, he found that the two teams of cavalry were fighting, Xiao Ming shouted from the horse: "Where is Yang Xiong?" ”
A small soldier recognized Xiao Ming and ran forward and said: "Commander Yang was tied up by the thief He Yong, we are Wu Yuhou's men and horses who just stopped part of He Yong's men!" ”
Xiao Ming asked, "When will Wu Jue arrive?" ”
"Captain Yu, Marquis Wu Yu is going to rescue the Yang Du Commander, and then he will arrive!"
As he was talking, Yang Xiong, who was accompanied by Wu Jue, rushed over, and the two hurriedly saluted Xiao Ming, Yang Xiong rode forward and said to the cavalry of the Ma Junsi who was besieged: "He Yong's rebellion has been executed, do you still want to be a thief?" ”
When He Yong's men heard this, they dismounted and surrendered, and Yang Xiong confessed to Xiao Ming, claiming that he had been deceived by He Yong, the deputy commander, and if Wu Jue hadn't arrived, I was afraid that he would have been killed! Now He Yong has led thousands of cavalry to the side street of Xihua Gate.
Xiao Ming asked Wu Jue, "Where is your Divine Crossbow Camp?" ”
Wu Jue said: "The last general has arranged two thousand crossbowmen to guard the main gate at the Donghua Gate,"
Xiao Ming said: "Let's go to Xihuamen now!" Wu Jue and Yang Xiong bowed down to receive the order, and everyone got on their horses and headed towards the palace.
On the way, Xiao Ming asked Wu Jue, "Where did you get the horses from your divine crossbow camp?" ”
Wu Jue said: "You asked me to choose the personnel of the Divine Crossbow Battalion by myself, I greeted Yang Du's commander, and transferred a lot of personnel from his Ma Jun Division, I thought, isn't the bow cavalry stronger than the foot bow?" ”
Xiao Ming nodded, knowing in his heart that this Wu Jue was very thoughtful, and he said to Wu Jue: "It's naturally good to have a horse, but it's the ability to defeat a horse without a horse, and you will understand in the future!" Wu Jue was silent, and stepped back to ponder Xiao Ming's words.
Everyone rushed straight to Xihua Gate, passing by Chongwen Gate, just happened to meet the guards led by Zhao Gou, Zhao Gou took a part of the palace guards and Tong Lide sent to him the former infantry guards pro-army, just to the west right door to rush out, see Xiao Ming's troops immediately overjoyed, the two sides immediately joined forces.
The Hengjie outside the Xihua Gate is full of the central level management bodies of the Great Song Dynasty, the Privy Council, the capital hall and other places, today the Privy Council happened to hold a meeting, many princes and ministers were there, as if they were discussing the "anti-autumn plan" proposed by the master Zhao Kai sent people there, and the people were directed at these ministers.
When Xiao Ming arrived with people, he found that things were not very simple, Tong Lide's inner city garrison troops were still arranged too little, and He Yong's cavalry on the side street attacked the guard infantry, and the shouts of killing on both sides became one, and the infantry army was rushed to the east and west, and a large number of people fell, and the form was precarious.
Xiao Ming gave an order, Wu Jue's crossbow battalion suddenly rained arrows, shooting down most of the cavalry in front, one of the generals in the cavalry was supervising the battle, Yang Xiong was furious when he saw that person, this person was the deputy general He Yong, Yang Xiong usually looked sick, but he was a stunt, and he took He Yong directly at the moment.
Sick Guan Suo Yang Xiong made a big knife, and He Yong made an iron spear, the two immediately fought together, within a few rounds, He Yong was slashed by Yang Xiong under the horse, Yang Xiong raised his knife and yelled, Ma Junsi's personal soldiers saw He Yong killed, they surrendered one after another, they were wrapped in the chief association is evil know what is going on? Why did the commanders kill each other, why did the infantry division and the god crossbow battalion come to beat themselves, why are they all messed up?
Xiao Ming led people to rush into the Privy Council, and saw that the ministers were safe, Li Gang and the others didn't know what was going on, Xiao Ming only told them: "King Yun has rebelled!" Everyone was shocked, Xiao Ming inspected and found that among the ministers of the court, Wang Hao, Tong Guan, Cai You, Tang Ke and others were all gone, and they immediately understood what was going on.
That is to say, some of these people must have something to do with this matter, or they knew that this matter would happen, they hid in advance, or they didn't come at all, Xiao Ming arranged for someone to escort all these princes and ministers home, Zhao Gou ran over and said: "The guards in front of the palace are all reversed, and now they are attacking Chongde Gate!" ”
Xiao Ming shook his head and said: "Impossible, Wang Zongwei is the prince's descendant, how could he be the opposite?" Let's hurry to Chongde Gate now! ”
On the east side of Chongde Gate is where the East Palace is located, Zhao Kai led the guards and generals to attack the infantry guards led by Tong Lide, this time Zhao Kai seems to be ruthless, gathered He Yong's five thousand Ma Jun Division men and horses and several infantry army division of the imperial city guards, with the palace guard deputy commander Tan Jun's 3,000 people, ready to attack the imperial city and kill the prince.
But the prince is not completely unguarded, first of all, the palace guards in the entire imperial city are actually under the control of the prince in addition to the emperor, Zhao Kai has invested a lot of money in order to win over Tan Jun, and finally can accommodate Tan Jun for his own use, and even set aside Wang Zongmi, so that when Zhao Kai suddenly attacked, Wang Zongwei was caught off guard.
In fact, Zhao Kai has a killer feature that others don't know, that is, those martial arts masters he recruited on the rivers and lakes through a few years, although these people are not many, but all of them are good hands, they sneaked into the East Palace to secretly kidnap the prince, but who knew that a group of obvious people from the rivers and lakes suddenly appeared around the prince, and the two sides fought fiercely, with each other killed and injured, but the prince was escorted and withdrawn!
Zhao Kai was furious, personally led the guards and generals to storm the gate of the East Palace, Wang Zongwei rushed to fight with them, and Tan Jun came to report, saying that the prince and his party were fleeing in the direction of Xuande Building, it seemed that they wanted to escape into the emperor's bedroom behind the Xuande Palace, Zhao Kai immediately chased after Xuande Building with people.
When Xiao Ming led people to the gate of the East Palace, Wang Zongmian was covered in blood and had been injured, Xiao Ming led people to rush to kill and save Wang Zongmi, the people of the front division of the palace have basically been bought by Tan Jun, and now they have followed him to chase the prince, Wang Zongmian heard Xiao Ming say that he wanted to prevent the prince from having an accident, and asked him to transfer Tan Jun from the deputy commander of the front division of the palace, Wang Zongmian also scoffed, and now he can't help but be ashamed when he sees Xiao Ming.
The Inner Palace Imperial City can no longer ride horses, and all the pro-army guards who followed Yang Xiong and Wu Jue are all on foot, but now that the Xuande Building is on fire, everyone is a little too late to catch up, Xiao Ming ordered to bring all the horses from outside the Chongde Gate, and ride to chase them, and everyone did not dare to disobey him, and they obeyed the order.
However, the horses really can't ride too much, because the pavilions in the inner palace have bridges and steps, and the paved roads are very narrow! If there are too many horses, it is not happy, and at this time Xuande Building is already on fire, Zhao Gou is in a hurry, Xuande Building has the sharp weapons of the Song Dynasty royal sacrifice, as well as the stone tablet left by Emperor Taizu, if these things are destroyed, then everyone will become sinners!
Xiao Ming ordered Zhao Gou to take people to fight the fire first, he took a group of tiger guards to run towards the palace wall, in order to save time, he had to use a stunt that had not been used for a long time, that is, "breaking the wall"! Only by penetrating the wall can you walk in a straight line to the maximum extent and intercept Zhao Kai's rebels.
But Xiao Ming forgot that the palace wall in the imperial city is not as good as the ordinary palace wall, not only tall and strong, it was built with huge masonry and stone, and it was a two-story hollow structure, filled with clay and tamped, Xiao Ming only dug out a big hole after pushing it for a long time with a red face! He himself felt very difficult.
At this time, Qian Baguang came up from behind and said to Xiao Ming: "The lord asked me to come!" "He was holding something in his hand, it was a large grenade made by the Hangzhou Arsenal! , These things belong to the standard equipment of the Tiger Guard, each Tiger Guard has four on his body, some people have six, and Qian Baguang only has two on him.
Not two, in fact, one is enough. After a loud bang, the palace wall collapsed a large area, this compact wall is not broken, a break is a piece, Xiao Ming took people, braved dust and smoke through the broken wall and continued to move forward, along the way after breaking two palace walls, finally stopped Zhao Kai before the rebels broke through the Xuande Palace!
Xiao Ming and the others are not numerous, in addition to the tiger guards of more than 200 people, there are also some people and horses from the Divine Crossbow Battalion who have followed one after another! In the face of thousands of rebels with hideous faces, the tiger guards did not panic in the slightest, the standard Black God crossbow was much more advanced than that used by the forbidden army, and the rate of fire was also fast, and a few rounds of crossbow arrows suppressed the rebels.
Zhao Kai has been out today, he has killed several guards and palace maids, seeing that the attack is unfavorable, he immediately brought Tan Jun to let him capture the Xuande Hall at all costs, and then rushed into the palace to chase and kill the prince, Tan Jun immediately organized shield soldiers to come up, used to guard against the opponent's crossbow arrows, and the team slowly forced up under the cover of the shield soldiers.
However, the second round of Tiger Guard's blow was a grenade, and it didn't take one person to throw it, only forty people threw it at the dense crowd at the same time, "Boom......! "After a few loud bangs, flesh and blood fly! The rebels were stunned, and they immediately retreated.
Zhao Kai was in a hurry, and there were a large number of pro-army guards behind his door, if he was blocked here, it was easy to be surrounded by both sides, at this time, he suddenly heard a bell in the palace, which kind of bell and drum, Zhao Kai couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard it: "The last trick I arranged seems to have finally made a contribution!" ”