Chapter 122

The commander of the forbidden army saw that King Yong did not successfully get the edict, and he was already half relieved. He didn't understand, since he had colluded with Dongchang, how difficult it was to force an old man in his last years to stamp the seal on the edict of succession? If you don't have the guts to kill your father and kill the king, you still learn what others do to force the palace, isn't it good to stay in the fiefdom and be a rich prince?

He was stunned and weighed the pros and cons, when he suddenly heard King Yong's voice interrupt: "Commander Sun, what are you doing?!" Kill King Qi, I am the only imperial heir! ”

Commander Sun suddenly realized that his ambition had been revealed, and he was tied to the same boat as King Yong, and there was no way out.

The officials of the Qi Palace, Shen Yu and several military attachés, took the King of Qi to avoid the pursuit of the forbidden army, Huai Ming and Lu Xian infiltrated the Qianqing Palace to meet the emperor, got the edict, and tried to get out of the palace for help.

"It's too dangerous for you to go with such a swagger!" King Qi grabbed them: "Take the secret road." ”

They had long heard that there were secret passages under the Forbidden City, but the rumors came true, and King Qi used tree branches to draw the outlines of the three major halls on the ground, and roughly marked the location of the secret passages.

It dawned on everyone that the so-called "secret passages" were not artificially built secret passages in all directions as they imagined, but some abandoned dry ditches and drains.

King Qi was treated harshly by the eunuchs and female officials when he was young, and ate the leftovers and cold burned, In order to get some decent meat for Wenyang, he went to various palaces to find food in the dark passages, The most frequent is the Taimiao, where there are many sacrifices, and later found that the sacrifices are not fresh, so he went to the Shoukang Palace where the Queen Mother lived, and after being discovered by the Queen Mother, he knew the situation of their brothers and sisters, and personally took care of them and disposed of the palace maids and eunuchs who abused them, and life was better.

Lu Xian took Huaiming along the route drawn by King Qi, drilled out of the dark ditch, and really came to the Yongsu Palace, the side hall of the Qianqing Palace.

"What people!" The two eunuchs walked towards them very alertly.

Huaiming touched a stone from his feet, and Lu Xian said, "It was Gonggong Feng who called us here." ”

"Father-in-law Feng?" The two looked at each other: "Catch them!" ”

Huai Ming picked up the stone and slapped it the head of the eunuch who rushed up, and the eunuch blinked and fell to the ground.

looked at the other eunuch again, and before he could do it, he suddenly turned into a cross-eyed and fell down by himself.

Huaiming looked confused, and the two stepped forward to check, but saw that the two eunuchs were foaming at the mouth one after another, and they died of anger.

"Look at your usual Lisven square, why are you so ruthless?" Lu Xian was stunned.

Huai Ming hurriedly explained to his father-in-law: "I didn't touch him. ”

"Oh...... Killing invisibly? ”

"I really don't!" Huaiming was extremely wronged.

Lu Xian patted his son-in-law on the shoulder: "If you dare to treat my daughter badly......"

Huaiming couldn't cry or laugh: "The son-in-law must be good to Youning, but I really didn't kill him!" ”

Lu Xian sneered: "Just kidding." ”

Huai Ming only dared to roll his eyes behind his back, when was he still in the mood to joke.

The two stripped off the eunuch's clothes and disguised themselves as eunuchs to sneak into the Qianqing Palace.

The square in front of the hall was silent, and there was a corpse lying on the ground, dressed as a eunuch, and there was no trace of blood.

The two turned over the corpse, Lu Xian recognized this person, it was the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi and Fang Tai in charge of the East Factory, only to see him foaming at the mouth, his lips were purple, his eyes were open, and he was quite shocked to die.

"How did he die?" Huai Ming asked.

"It seems to have been poisoned." Lu Xian replied.

The two did not dare to delay, and walked into the East Warm Pavilion in the hall, and there was a withered old man sitting on the magnificent dragon couch, with a large blood stain on the front placket, but no one took care of it.

Weng and his son-in-law knelt on the ground and saluted: "Long live my emperor, long live, the ministers are too late to save the driver, I hope Your Majesty will forgive your sins." ”

No one responded. The entire hall was silent, as if the air had frozen.

The two glanced at each other, raised their heads, and only then did they feel that something was wrong, Huai Ming was about to step forward, but Lu Xian stopped him, got up alone and approached the emperor's side, and stretched out a hand to test the emperor's snort.

His eyes suddenly widened, and he touched the neck of the Son of Heaven again.

"Father-in-law?" Huai Ming tentatively spoke.

Shocked, Lu Xian's voice trembled a little: "The dragon is in the sky." ”

If it weren't for Huai Ming's sight of the holy face, he really couldn't believe that the king of a country would die quietly alone in this empty hall.

If King Yong killed the emperor first and then the eunuchs outside the palace, why didn't he get the edict?

The same doubts rose in the hearts of the two, but they were very tacit, silent, and were about to leave quietly, when they suddenly saw a torn corner of the emperor's clothes under the layered dragon robes.

He had the courage to grope for the emperor and found nothing.

The two walked out with a disappointed mood, Huai Ming suddenly stopped beside Fang Tai's corpse, and finally touched a bright yellow rag in his front placket, on which were written a few lines of text in blood, and the writing was even a little sloppy at the end, but fortunately it was stamped with the imperial seal - this was a blood edict that made King Qi the crown prince!

……

Shen Yu provoked a big chaos, took advantage of the chaos to take King Qi, and fled from the Golden Gate to the Wenhua Hall under the cover of the hundreds of officials and women who were dancing wildly. Lu Xian and Huaiming also hurried at this time, the two parties converged, and Huaiming took out the blood edict from his sleeve.

The Wenhua Hall is where the cabinet is on duty, guarded by a special guard, subordinate to the 26 guards, not under the deployment of the forbidden army or the military department, and is directly responsible to the emperor.

The holy edict was hung at the door of the pavilion: "Confidential land, officials and miscellaneous people, etc., are not allowed to trespass, and violators will not be punished." ”

The oracle can be intimidating, and the guards can resist one or two.

There are a large number of documents and scriptures hidden in the Wenyuan Pavilion, surrounded by the Jinshui River, and once the heavy rain occurs at the beginning of the country, it will be backfilled, and many scrolls have been flooded. Therefore, during the reign of Taizong, the Ministry of Industry opened an independent water gate in the river section of the Wenhua Palace, leading to the moat outside the palace gate.

However, the water gate is closed by an iron net, which needs to be broken by brute force, and it is necessary to swim in the water for forty steps, which is the thickness of the city wall.

A military attache named Liu Yunting stood up: "Your Highness, the minister has a good temperament, and I am willing to leave the palace with the edict and go to the Soldiers and Horses Division to transfer troops to the King of Qin." ”

King Qi nodded: "Then it's all up to Yun Ting." ”

Shen Yu put the blood edict into a bamboo tube, sealed it with fire paint to prevent water ingress, and solemnly entrusted it to Liu Yunting, watching him remove the excess clothes and plunge into the Jinshui River.

Before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, they only heard a loud "bang", the courtyard door was broken, and it was Commander Sun who led a team of forbidden troops to chase and kill.

His muscles were bulging and his eyes were split, and he had obviously been cornered, and without saying a word, he slashed at the cabinet guards with his knife.

The guards and several military attachés were outnumbered, and before they could resist for a moment, they fell to the ground, or lay on the ground, or were captured alive, so as not to be embarrassed.

Shen Yu asked Lu Xian and Huaiming to help King Qi withdraw to the palace and fight alone with his sword.

Although he was born in a military household and has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, after all, he is a civil official who works hard every day.

Shen Yu staggered and stood firm, and said to Commander Sun: "Sun Jian'an, you have to think about it, Sima Zhao's nectar, only Chengji will be punished by the three clans." ”

"Ah!!h Commander Sun was almost crazy, and he swung his knife to overtake Shen Yu and slash it, one by one, cutting the blade in Shen Yu's hand a few holes, forcing him into a corner.

Shen Yu put the hilt of the knife across his chest, confronted it with all his might, and continued: "Once King Yong takes the throne, for the sake of righteousness, he will not hesitate to beat you as a rebel and thief, and push you to the front to bear the responsibility." Sun Jian'an, the eldest husband was born in heaven and earth, if you dare to do it, you must dare to be, are you really willing to be a scapegoat that has been received by generations and make wedding clothes for others? ”

"Shut up!" Commander Sun glared at Shen Yu viciously.

Shen Yu's voice was so loud that the forbidden troops rushing up outside the door stopped and hesitated.

Commander Sun is going to die no matter what, so where should they go?

King Qi opened the door of the palace at this time and shouted to everyone: "Lone knows that you are all acting on orders, Lone can promise you, those who surrender immediately, the court will not be guilty of the past!" ”

These words are indeed very shocking, and many people in the forbidden army have slowly dropped their weapons.

"Follow me to kill the rebels, and those who have the merit of following the dragon and taking the head of King Qi will be rewarded with 10,000 taels!" Outside the gate of the courtyard, King Yong shouted loudly, came out of the crowd, and when he saw Shen Yu, he was even more angry, and said viciously: "Those who kill Shen Yu will be rewarded with a thousand taels!" ”

Shen Yu desperately resisted the knife of Commander Sun, beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down his forehead, and he didn't forget to sneer: "It's just a promise, who wouldn't." ”

King Qi sneered: "The one who kills King Yong, the marquis, and the hereditary replacement." ”

"Whoever kills King Qi will be crowned a first-class duke." Yongwang Road.

The forbidden army looked at it, and the originally boiling blood slowly extinguished in the absurd sound of the two, and more and more people put down their weapons.

It's okay to draw cakes, but the cakes are too big, and it is inevitable that you will have indigestion. It's still important to save your life, it's important to save your life......

Seeing that he had lost control of the forbidden army, King Yong roared angrily, and actually took out a fire gun from his waist, and aimed the muzzle of the black hole at his brother.

The moment the fire rope was lit, King Qi suddenly opened his big box, revealing a wooden plaque on his chest.

King Yong's eyes widened, the fire suddenly changed direction, the muzzle of the gun was facing the sky, and there was a gunshot, the shaking crows flew wildly, and the masonry trembled.

Because what hangs on King Qi's chest is his mother's tablet.

"Forget the Bastard!!"

His eyes were bloodshot, and he threw down his arquebus and rushed into the Mandarin Palace, tearing his brother with his bare hands.

……

However, it was said that Zhou Yue led the troops into Qi'er Village, and indeed encountered a small branch of Mobei Liukou invading the villagers.

The villagers had already taken precautions, and all the men carried sickles and hoes to guard the only way into the village, and mingled with the Mobei people.

The nomads had a harsh living environment and strong soldiers, which were not something that ordinary Central Plains men could resist, but fortunately, General Zhou led his troops to arrive and annihilated them all in the blink of an eye.

A trace of doubt rose in Zhou Yue's heart: "Huai'an said that there are at least tens of thousands of people, how can it be so little?" ”

The adjutant general said: "The words of a child are not reliable." ”

"He's so old, can't you tell the difference between a few hundred and ten thousand......" Zhou Yue pondered for a moment, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and his eyes burned: "Quick, the whole team will go to Andingmen and rush to the capital!" ”

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Soon after Huai'an returned home from outside the city, the streets of the capital were under martial law, and the Terracotta Division ordered the closure of the nine gates.

The alarm bell rang frequently, and the people outside the city hurriedly crowded into the city, and the crossbowmen behind the arrow battlements of the city wall opened their bows and set up arrows, waiting for the battle.

Li Huan took the reins of the moon and rubbed the sweat on his forehead: "The young master is back!" I'm in a hurry! ”

"It should be the Mobei people who have hit the city. My mom and dad haven't come back yet? Huai'an asked.

"Nope." Li Huandao: "It's also strange, it's almost time, the imperial concubine is funeral, and the hundred officials don't have to go to the imperial tomb to sacrifice." ”

Huai'an frowned, there were grandmothers and aunts at home, and he couldn't care so much: "Seal the second door, and all the little guys will block the door." ”

"Yes!" Li Huan agreed without thinking, and sighed with tears in his eyes: "The young master has really grown up and become a little man!" ”

Huai'an was very useful when he heard this, broke into his father's study, jumped on the chair, took off a sword from the wall, and walked towards the gate "murderously".

"Eh, Ancestor!" Li Huan rushed up to stop him: "What are you going to do again?" ”

Huai'an Cang pulled out his sword and said firmly and decisively: "I want to go to the city to kill the enemy!" ”

"Oh my God, you're not as tall as a battlement." Li Huan instructed the little servant to block the courtyard gate and pull Huai'an to the second gate.

"Let go of me, let go of me!" Huai'an had just found a little feeling of blood boiling, broke free of Li Huan's hand, and ran to pull the latch.

Li Huan stood there and looked at him quietly.