Chapter 415: Epilogue
"Enter the palace and capture Emperor Wu!"
"Surrender and avoid death, and those who resist will be killed!"
The sunset in the west of the sky shone orange and red, and the palace, which had never experienced a great chaos, was full of fighting and shouting, and the eunuchs and palace maids hid in the halls tremblingly, secretly from the gaps in the doors and windows, looking at the various palace roads, the soldiers and horses of the Xia Kingdom who flocked to the palace swept in like a wave.
The palace guards who resisted rushed up, Rao is their martial arts were superb, and in the face of the formation of the army, after a little fighting, they began to show signs of defeat and retreat.
With a cup of tea, the corpses of the palace guards kept holding knives and fell under the guardrails, water pavilions, and palace eaves, stretching in pools of blood.
Following the soldiers who came in, the military discipline was not good, and they rushed into various palaces and began to compete for valuable porcelain bottles, calligraphy and paintings, all kinds of gold and silver.
When he met the panicked eunuch, he slashed with a knife, ran into the woman, and carried it to the corner like a beast, and the palace maid could only struggle and cry helplessly; Some of the palace people who were frightened stupidly sat next to them with dull eyes, looking at everything in front of them.
Hearing that the surrendering army that entered the palace behaved like this, Guan Yu's face was extremely ugly, he had always been arrogant and could not bear to be inferior, bullying the strong but not bullying the weak.
"Pass the order to Zhao Kangzhi, if you don't restrain the soldiers, Guan will cut him first."
Guan Ping and Zhang Bao, who accompanied the left and right, also had ugly faces, they were Ji Han Group, Liu Bei loved the people like a son, and he always valued the people under his rule, and it was rare for the army to attack the city and pull out the village.
Zhou Cang immediately surrendered his hand and rushed away with the order.
was rushing to the East Palace, and Emperor Wu's crown prince and a concubine had been arrested, and when Zhou Cang came over, his heart jumped violently.
He is a border army under his command, and he has worked hard, and he suddenly enters a world of flowers like the palace, and it is inevitable that he will not be able to control it.
At that moment, it was guaranteed that the soldiers would be immediately ordered to be restrained and all the looted things returned.
"General Zhou, rest assured, Zhao understands the meaning of Guan Junhou."
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In the back garden of the palace, when the soldiers and horses of the Xia Kingdom entered the imperial city, the honest emperor Kang Zun, who had already learned the news, walked back and forth in a panic, and her wife prepared two sets of clothes, asked him to quickly change them, and followed the eunuchs and palace maids to escape in chaos.
"I know, I know, Prime Minister Gu and Mrs. Fan didn't have a good heart when I asked me to be the emperor."
Standing at the door and listening to the movement outside for a while, Kang Zun turned around, quickly took off the imperial robe on his body, and took off the crown and threw it on the ground.
After the old wife helped him change, he took a breath, "I don't know what happened to the emperor, whether there is a chance to escape." He gritted his teeth and said dejectedly: "Forget it, I can't protect myself." ”
Just when the couple opened a door and slipped out, they looked at the palace maids and eunuchs who were running in a panic outside, and hurriedly ran along.
At this time, a voice suddenly came from the front of the courtyard: "Your Majesty, come with me!" ”
It was Taiwei Fan Li, who was wearing a cloak with a bloody sword in his hand, and with a panicked look, he ran towards this side.
"Spread out, don't get in the way, I'm Taiwei Fan Li!"
grabbed Kang Zun and his wife who were mixed in the crowd, dragged them to a temple on the right side of the back garden, he waved his sword, killed the eunuchs and palace maids who were in the way, turned around and said with a smile:
"Your Majesty, as long as we escape, we still have a chance to kill back!"
The demeanor between his words was full of madness.
At this time, I saw a guard on the side of the porch running over covered in blood, and halfway down, one stumbled and threw himself on the ground, never getting up again.
The nearby palace maid suddenly screamed and screamed, and in an instant, a wave of Xia soldiers rushed over, and the Taiwei Fan Li still wanted to pull Kang Zun and his wife to escape, but several soldiers grabbed their bows and arrows, stopped in front, and scolded: "Stop, drop your weapons!" ”
Taiwei Fan Li pulled Kang Zun and rushed to a pavilion next to him, and drank lightly: "Your Majesty, go here with the ministers." ”
However, as soon as they entered the pavilion, the surrounding soldiers had already surrounded the pavilion along with the lotus pond. A big swarthy man with a leopard's head and eyes galloped from a distance, and immediately, he turned over and dismounted, walked across the path with a group of guards, and shouted loudly: "The thief who has brought disaster to the country and the people can recognize me Zhang Yide!" ”
"Don't come here!"
Fan Li's hair was disheveled, his robe was in disarray, his lips were pursed, his eyes were red staring at Zhang Fei who was striding over, and he raised the sword in his hand to threaten.
Kang Zun, who was standing behind him, trembled with fright, and from time to time said behind Fan Li, "Captain, let's ...... Let's not resist, we're already besieged anyway......"
"No...... No, ......" Fan Li said two words in succession, the sword in his hand waved a few times from time to time, and his voice roared hysterically: "You are helped by us, you have to listen to us!" ”
"Xia Guoren! Don't think about it, get the ...... of Wu Guo" His eyes were scattered, and he was falling back to Zhang Fei in front of him, and the words that were halfway to his mouth suddenly changed and turned into a voice: "Ah! Screams.
The arm holding the sword was pierced by a feathered arrow, and the weapon fell to the ground with a clatter.
"There are so many useless words!"
On the other side of the pavilion, Wei Yan slowly put down the bow and arrow in his hand, and then threw it to the soldier next to him, and when he came over, he bowed to Zhang Fei, "Third general, take down this emperor." ”
Capturing the Emperor of Wu is a great credit at any time, and Wei Yan said this to give the credit to Zhang Fei.
"Haha, I don't have this credit?"
As if returning to Shu Han back then, Zhang Fei threw the snake spear to the soldiers, stepped forward and patted Wei Yan on the shoulder heroically, "It's all called my third general, what are you polite to me, this emperor and this captain are given to you together!" ”
Over there, Kang Zun looked at Fan Li, who was screaming in pain on the ground after his arm was shot through, he sat down on the ground in fright, looked at the soldiers who came and begged Wei Yan for mercy again and again.
"I don't want to be the emperor, I'm ...... by them," Kang Zun pointed to Fan Li on the ground, "...... They forcibly brought Sheng Kang and put him on the throne, and the two generals are doing well, so they must tell the truth about this matter to your son. ”
In fact, he doesn't need to explain at all, which of the generals who conquered Wu doesn't know?
What's more, in Su Chen's order, there was no mention of killing Kang Zun's family, and he probably understood that the other party was driven to the shelves, and he couldn't kill the whole family.
In the final analysis, the state of Wu is also wonderful, the emperor can't be the master, it is all controlled by the big family, so unlike other countries that want to slaughter the clan, the family of Wu is the first to kill.
In Kang Zun's pleading, the soldiers stepped forward and dragged the honest emperor up from the ground, and took him away from here together with the queen over there, and his prince and daughter were identified by Guan Yu, and after confirming their identities, they were sent to the military camp outside the city, reunited with Kang Chengqian, and then returned to Luyang in the Central Plains together.
The sun was about to set, and the fighting in the palace was nearing its end, and after Zhao Kangzhi executed more than a dozen soldiers who burned, killed, looted, and raped the palace maids, he came to Guan Yu's side to restore his life.
"Fan Li and Xiao Zhiyi were arrested, but their families were not in the city, so they should have moved out in advance."
"Guan already knew about this matter, and he had sent someone to hunt him down before entering the palace."
Walking in the courtyard of the deep palace, Guan Yu looked at this palace complex that was even more luxurious than Luyang with some emotion, "The wealth of Wu is true, but it's a pity that the money and grain are all controlled by the family and put it into their pockets." ”
Zhao Kangzhi was quite aware of the situation in Wu State, so he nodded in agreement, now the entire Wu State Shengkang has been defeated, and the emperor has been captured, only some families in the city have not left, and Gu Chongwen has not been caught.
After a while, Guan Yu ordered again, leaving only a small number of soldiers to control the defense of the palace and the imperial city, and the rest of the soldiers and horses all withdrew from the palace.
"Let's go, let's go and see how Zhou Yu has cleaned up those families in the city."
He and Zhang Liao entered from the west gate, took the imperial city first, and handed over the outside to Zhou Yu's navy and Zhao Kuian's army, but when they went out, they found that Zhou Yu was a talented person.
As soon as he arrived outside, he heard the scout's report, and Zhou Yu told the family that the family had controlled the Wu State for many years, manipulated the emperor to exercise tyranny, and monopolized trade and customs duties.
Guan Yu thought about this strategy for a while, and then understood Zhou Yu's intentions, which aroused the anger that had been pent up in the hearts of the people for many years, making them think that the Wu State had fallen into such a fate because of these families, and in the future, the Xia Kingdom would have fewer obstacles to govern here.
"Zhou Yu is resourceful, if he hadn't died young, the pattern of the world would have changed." Guan Yu sighed with emotion, if Zhou Yu hadn't died early, he would have been the one who led 100,000 troops to fight Hefei, and it might have been different.
(End of chapter)