Chapter 22: The Demon Queen
Li Xiu only stayed in Xuzhou City for a short quarter of an hour, and in this short period of time, he explained everything in the future, and at the same time, the morale of millions of soldiers in Xuzhou City was raised to the peak.
For the Tang soldiers, there is a difference between Li Xiu and the Tang Emperor, but there is no particularly big difference, of course they are loyal to the Tang Emperor, but the Tang Dynasty is not the Tang Dynasty of the Tang Emperor alone, but the Tang Dynasty of the Tang people in the world, if the Tang Emperor dies and loses the leader's people, they will feel lost in the state of the dragons without a leader.
But Li Xiu has royal blood, and if Emperor Tang really dies, Li Xiu's succession to the throne is not unacceptable in their eyes.
What's more, Li Xiu is still Li Laizhi's son, and his prestige in the army is higher, neither Cui Yasi nor Beidi will have any objections.
Of course, the premise is that Li Xiu is forced to take the position, not take the initiative.
But in Li Xiu's own opinion, he had no intention of being the emperor, and that position was far from the pleasure of walking on the road of cultivation.
Before leaving, he hugged Cong Xiaoxiao for a long time, leaving Xiong Fat at Liang Xiaodao's side, and he found a fast horse and ran towards Chang'an City, Xuzhou City is ten days away from Chang'an City, and he didn't dare to delay at all.
But before he could ride his horse out of the city gates, he stopped.
Because Xu Yingxiu was standing there.
I haven't seen it for a few years, and it's still the familiar Taoist robe from before, but the whole person is much more restrained and beautiful compared to a few years ago.
She didn't hold the whisk in her hand, Li Xiu's eyes were slightly red, and she jumped down from the horse and hugged Xu Yingxiu.
He rarely reveals any special feelings, but Xu Yingxiu is like a sister to him, he has been taking care of him since he was a child, and the person he is most afraid of in this world is Xu Yingxiu, he is afraid that Xu Yingxiu will be angry, afraid that she will be sad, and afraid that she will not be satisfied.
So no matter how good his relationship with Zui Chunfeng is, no matter how much he hates Wang Zhiwei, he has never affected Xu Yingxiu's choice.
Xu Yingxiu patted him on the shoulder and said softly, "The young master has become a cultivator of the Four Realms, and his progress is really fast. ”
Li Xiu smiled, this was the first time he had shown such a heartfelt smile since he returned to Datang, he looked at Xu Yingxiu and didn't speak, but he had a lot to say.
Xu Yingxiu naturally saw it, and knew that now was not the time to catch up, so she said: "It's important to do business first, I will wait for you to come back in Xuzhou City, and I will personally cook for you when the time comes." ”
Li Xiu was a little disgusted: "Green pepper fish and potatoes?"
Xu Yingxiu glared at him.
Li Xiu hugged her again and said softly: "When this matter is over, I will go and burn Wudang Mountain, why is the girl I am afraid of melting in my hand is worthless in the eyes of others?"
Xu Yingxiu's eyes were red, and she cried quietly in Li Xiu's arms.
She cried quietly, but she cried very hard.
In the past few years, she has been on Wudang Mountain for the closest years to Wang Zhiwei, but it is also the farthest years.
No one could confide in such grievances, until she saw Li Xiu now, and Xu Yingxiu's thoughts that had been suppressed for several years finally flowed out with tears.
Li Xiu was a little distressed, since he was a child, he had only seen Xu Yingxiu cry a few times, every time because of himself, but this time it was because of others.
"Wait for me to come back in Xuzhou City, and then let's take someone to tie up Wang Zhiwei. ”
Li Xiu raised his hand to wipe the tears from her face, then turned over and galloped towards the capital.
Xu Yingxiu stood in front of Xuzhou City, snow fell in the sky, and the wind and snow blew her robe, making her figure look a little blurry and chaotic.
Li Xiu is not the only one who wants to save Chang'an City, at this moment in Chang'an City, the twenty Five Realm Grandmasters who are still alive at the moment are all gathered together, gathered in the East Palace to resist the erosion of the city protection array.
Twenty Five Realm Grandmasters guarded around Donggong, resisting the Great Array of Protectors while also protecting Li Xianyi, who was seriously injured.
In the East Palace, Li Xianyi lay on the bed breathlessly, unconscious, although there was still one breath left, but it seemed that he might die at any time.
The new national teacher Chen Yanyan and the assistant minister Yang Feihong, as well as the national teacher Yan Hui and Xu Ziji, as well as Ying Zi'an, who had retreated into the background before, and some court officials basically all gathered in the East Palace.
"Don't be sad, the top priority now is to find a way to wake up His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and see if he has any way to contact His Majesty, and now the situation in Chang'an City can only be solved by His Majesty. ”
Yang Feihong looked around at the hundreds of officials around him and said in a deep voice.
At this moment, he is very different from the previous cowardice, and he can't care about playing those tricks outside the edge of walking at the moment of crisis.
The officials looked at each other, but there was no good way.
Chen Yanyan frowned and said, "There is not much we can do now. ”
Yang Feihong tilted his head to look at him.
Chen Yanyan explained: "Since the Empress dares to do such a rebellious thing, it proves that she has enough confidence to control Your Majesty, and now that she has fifteen Five Realm Grandmasters by her side, and she also controls the Great Array of Protectors, we don't have a chance to get close to Your Majesty's retreat. ”
Wanxiang City Snow Country and Yin Cao originally sent a total of twenty-six Five Realm Grandmasters, but although their whereabouts and aura were secret, they couldn't hide from these top Grandmaster powerhouses in Chang'an City, and after discovering the horse's feet, they started to fight, and after paying the price of four Five Realm Grandmasters, they killed the eleven Grandmaster powerhouses of the Queen's Clothing Workshop.
Just when they thought the victory was decided, they found that the queen took advantage of this chaotic time to imprison the Tang Emperor in some way, and controlled the city protection array, seriously injured the crown prince Li Xianyi, if they hadn't arrived in time, I'm afraid Li Xianyi would have died.
But Rao is like this, and the royal bloodline in Li Xian's body has also been stripped clean, which means that even if Li Xian wakes up at this moment, there is still no way to control the city protection array.
The queen still has fifteen Five Realm Grandmasters left, who have to guard the crown prince and other officials, and there are only about seven or eight who can be used at the moment, and it is precisely because of this that they can defend the East Palace under the grinding of the city protection array.
But this situation obviously can't last long, and if it can last for half a month at most, everyone will be wiped out in the city protection array.
It's a well-known thing, and it's the thing that makes them feel powerless the most.
Chang'an City, which was once impregnable, became its own Shura field after the accident.
Yan Hui slapped the table fiercely, and said angrily: "National thief, national thief, my Tang Kingdom treats her well, but she colluded with foreign thieves to trap my Tang Dynasty in fire and water, I really hate that I didn't kill her ruthlessly at the beginning, and indulged in her ambitions, which made me where I am today." ”
"And that Qi Qin, the Lu of the food monarch bears the worries of the king, as the captain of the Tang State, one person is above 10,000 people, not only does he not contribute to the country at the critical juncture, but stays in the house and does not go out, what is he weighing? It has reached the step of breaking the mountains and rivers of the country, what is he still weighing at home? Could it be that he still has a glimmer of hope for the demon queen now?"
"And that Li Wenxuan, the dignified King Wu, the second son of the Tang Emperor, is just fighting for power and profit on weekdays, and at this moment, can't he still see the situation clearly?
"Did His Royal Highness teach him to bury his country with his own hands?"
Yan came back and walked back and forth in the East Palace, and the sound of scolding spread far, far away, and even on the streets outside the East Palace, he could hear it very clearly.
Xu Ziji frowned, glanced at him but didn't stop him, he knew in his heart that everyone was panicking at the moment, and it was not a bad thing to scold and vent two sentences, and now being trapped in this protective array is like a turtle in an urn, waiting to be slaughtered, without any ability to resist at all.
"Ahem!"
At this moment, a slight cough suddenly sounded in everyone's ears.
Yang Feihong and Chen Yanyan glanced at each other and hurriedly got up and walked to the bedside, and sure enough, the crown prince Li Xianyi had already woken up.
"Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince, you have finally woken up. ”
Li Xianyi's voice was very soft and weak: "Lord Yan's voice is so loud, I just want to sleep a little longer, I'm afraid it will be difficult to do it." ”
Yan Hui's old face flushed, and he was embarrassed to speak.
Although the royal bloodline in Li Xian's body has been stripped away, in the eyes of everyone, that thing is gone, and after becoming the emperor, there will naturally be dragon qi condensation in the body, and it will be regenerated at that time.
It's just that now that he has no royal blood, he has no way to compete with the queen for the right to use the protective array.
Chen Yanyan quickly recounted what had happened during the time he had been unconscious.
"Li Anzhi led the army to guard outside the East Palace, with him and twenty grandmasters on his side to protect me, and I can protect the East Palace without worry before the city protection array is grinded and killed. ”
No one expected that at the critical moment of the queen's rebellion, the city patrol guards led by Li Anzhi, who should have been the queen's cronies, would send troops to guard outside the East Palace at the first time, prohibiting all people related to the queen from entering and leaving.
Moreover, the strength of this successor Chen Liuwang was so terrifying that no one could have imagined, the top fifteen of the heavens.
Li Xianyi was not surprised by this, he closed his eyes and thought about the current situation in the city, and came to the same conclusion as Chen Yanyan and Yang Feihong and others, now they are indeed the turtles in the urn, and they will be killed in a short time.
"I can't figure it out, why would the queen do this?"
Hearing his inquiry, the officials in the East Palace were silent, and no one wanted to answer, and no one knew the answer.
If you want to support King Wu to ascend to the throne, will the price of doing so be too great?
And after this incident, who will support King Wu among the hundreds of officials in the court?
Li Xianyi lay on the bed and thought for a long time, and finally said: "Since the queen has joined forces with the Snow Country and the Desolate People, then it is not only Chang'an City that has undergone a shocking change at this moment, but also the northern and southern borders will be attacked by the enemy. ”
"Xiaonan Bridge will definitely be broken, and finally the army of barren people will come to Xuzhou City. ”
Chen Yanyan said: "Chang'an City is trapped, we can't leave, and His Royal Highness's order can't be passed on, although the outside world has Cui Yasi in charge to ensure that there will be no chaos, but Cui Yasi can't do it freely, Xuzhou City may become a lonely city, and it can only last for a few months at most." ”
Li Xian turned his head to look out the window, and could see snowflakes falling from the sky, but none of the snowflakes fell on the ground, and they were obviously cut off by the city protection array.
"The Tang Kingdom is shocked, Li Xiu must get the news, and if he rushes back from Huangzhou to sit in Xuzhou City, he can freely dispatch the world's troops to solve the danger of Xuzhou. ”
Hearing Li Xiu's name, the hundred officials present were all relieved, indeed, now there is only Li Xiu who is still outside Chang'an City and has the ability and prestige to dispatch the world's army.
And this is indeed the case, if Li Xiu can really sit in Xuzhou City, then he does have the ability to defeat the invading enemy.
Chen Yanyan sighed when he heard this, and said, "Li Xiu will not stay in Xuzhou City, he is very likely to come to Chang'an." ”
Hearing his words, all the officials looked at him.
Chen Yanyan explained: "There are too many involvements in Chang'an City, even if His Royal Highness the Prince can defeat the invading enemy in Xuzhou City, but when the queen takes power in Chang'an City, even if it is Li Xiu, there is no good way to solve it, and in that case, His Majesty and the crown prince will definitely die, Li Xiu and His Royal Highness the prince will not sit idly by, so he is likely to come directly to Chang'an City and find a way to solve the affairs in the city first." ”
Hearing his explanation, the brows of the officials were furrowed, it was a good thing that Li Xiu wanted to solve the affairs in Chang'an City first, but the problem was that the affairs in Chang'an City had fallen into a dead end, and if you wanted to turn the tables, you must first master the city protection array.
But the royal blood in Li Xian's body has been stripped away, and he can't control the city protection array.
And Li Xiu certainly has royal blood in his body, but he doesn't know how to control the city protection array, this thing needs to be honed for several years or even ten years to be able to do it, even if the talent is as high as Li Xiu's desire to learn in a short period of time, it is simply impossible to do it.
"I'm sure he'll have a way. ”
Li Xianyi said slowly.
Chen Yanyan and Yang Feihong glanced at each other again and did not speak.
Because they didn't know what to say, all these changes happened suddenly, and there was no time to react, and they never thought that the queen would be able to commit treason one day, and they didn't think that they would naturally be defenseless.
And the queen sealed His Majesty at a lightning speed and controlled the city protection array, which is equivalent to being invincible.
They want to turn the tables around, it's hard.
Now it can only be pinned on what Li Xiu can plan, that's all, and in addition, there is really no way to turn the tide.
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