In the evening, inside the city of Yunding.

Everything seemed to be harmonious, the banquet was staggered, there were hundreds of people under the table, as the host Wang Yu was sitting on the side table at this time, he munched on the roast civet pork that had just been served, but his eyes wandered off the young man in the main seat from time to time.

The young man was holding a knife at this time to cut the barbecue piece by piece, Wang Yu noticed that the young man's technique was very sophisticated, it was indeed the posture of a military traveler, but the hands were delicate and white, like a woman's hands, if it were not for a few small scars, it was really impossible to connect the owner of these hands with the famous Zhennan Army.

The young man cut the meat, raised his eyes slightly, Wang Yu immediately looked away as if nothing happened, Wang Yu knew that now this young man is not just a soldier, he is about to become the king of a country, although there is no trace of kingly spirit from him.

For this new monarch, Wang Yu actually doesn't have much awe in his heart, if it weren't for some special reasons, Wang Yu wouldn't want to see him at all.

"If such a girl-like person really returns to the capital to succeed to the throne, our Southern Chu Kingdom can be regarded as exhausted. Wang Yu thought angrily in his heart, and stuffed a piece of meat into his mouth.

He quietly glanced up again, and saw that the young man sitting on the throne had also cut a large piece of meat and sent it to his mouth at this moment, Wang Yu was slightly surprised in his heart: "I didn't expect this girl's feminine little white face to eat meat so rudely, but it is very peculiar." ”

Although his heart was full of contempt, Wang Yu still greeted the young man with a smile on his face, and the other party was not polite, picked up the big bowl in front of the case and drank it all, Wang Yu also drank it all, and praised it against his will: "Your Majesty, refresh!

Wang Yu is not slapping the horse like this to welcome the new monarch, on the contrary, now he sincerely hopes to accompany this main master, so that he can indulge in this beautiful banquet, have a dream of dominating the world, and then die quietly in this ethereal dream.

Yes, less than ten days have passed since the last rebellion against the monarch, and someone is about to attack the new monarch, Zhu Ning has secretly sent someone to instruct him, looking for an opportunity to get rid of the fourth prince who wants to return to Diyun City to succeed to the throne.

When Zhu Ning, the national teacher, heard that Gao Yuan had driven back to the national capital with an army of 40,000, he began to worry that the fourth prince who had been sent to the frontier since he was a child was not as easy to control as he imagined, and he might have changed from a weak scholar to an iron-blooded general.

In any case, the 40,000 Zhennan Army is a real super combat power, once they return to the capital, they may sweep through the royal city and clean up the powerful ministers and different parties.

Zhu Ning decided to give it a go, and secretly instructed Wang Yu, the confidant of the Zhu family in the army, to secretly assassinate the new monarch Gao Yuan on the way to meet Wang Shi, and strangle him in the cradle before the other party became powerful.

Halfway through the dinner, night fell.

At this time, the defenders in Yunding City began to move, and the Zhennan army that had just entered the city did not seem to have any defense against this, and the march lasted for a few days, and finally entered a city to settle down.

The wind began to blow outside the window, and the sound of the howling wind mixed with the sound of the trees outside the city, and the dark clouds on the horizon were slowly sinking, obscuring the moon that had just risen.

At this moment, the jubilant atmosphere during the banquet reached a climax, Wang Yu stood up, saluted Gao Yuan, who was slightly drunk, and said loudly: " I heard that the king of the new monarch succeeded to the throne, the first stop on the way back from the southern Xinjiang back to the capital is my Yunding City, the last general is deeply honored, specially ordered people to go to Lingqiu Mountain, in the depths of the water to catch a nine-foot tiger Jiaoyu, cook it and offer it to the king, this fish tabby Jiaowei, is the ancient era of the saber-toothed tiger and the dragon combined descendants, these two are the king of land and water, its descendants alienated into fish, the meat is delicious and flexible, just suitable for the king such a brave king to enjoy!"

As soon as the words fell, four wrestlers carried a square copper tripod into the hall, the golden soup in the tripod was tumbling, and suddenly a delicious fragrance permeated the entire hall.

Gao Yuan seemed to have drunk a little too much, two blushes appeared on his originally fair face, he shook his body, lowered his head, rolled his eyes, and slowly walked towards Tongding step by step.

Wang Yu squinted his eyes on the side, his expression gradually became cold, he quietly gestured back, and more and more guards outside the hall began to approach the main hall.

In order to ensure that this assassination is foolproof, he made two preparations, in addition to the army that is assembling and ambushing, another killing move is the delicacies in this copper tripod, perhaps in the eyes of others, the rich fragrance in this hall is an intoxicating delicacy, but Wang Yu knows that this is actually a poison that seals the throat with blood.

Gao Yuan walked to the edge of the tripod and looked down, in the copper tripod, the huge and friendless tiger Jiaoyu held its proud head high, and the slightly open mouth of the fish could faintly see countless fangs flickering with cold light.

A waiter stepped forward and offered a wooden spoon, Gao Yuan glanced at it with his eyelids drooping, and didn't look at the waiter, he directly waved his sleeve and knocked the wooden spoon to the ground, but picked up a meat cleaver from the table next to him, everyone was shocked, and no one noticed that a small gray shadow slipped out of Gao Yuan's sleeve.

Gao Yuan raised the knife and slashed towards the Dingzhong, only one knife cut off the hard neck bone of the tiger Jiaoyu, and the meat cleaver was also broken, Gao Yuan threw the broken knife aside, regardless of the hot soup, reached into the Dingzhong, and grabbed the fish head the size of a bucket. Seeing this scene, Wang Yu also had to admit that this good-looking new king really impressed him.

At this moment, the little thing that had just slipped out of Gao Yuan's cuffs rushed onto the copper tripod, and everyone saw that a yellow rat slipped into the hall at some point, and the yellow rat jumped into the tripod, lay on the fish, tore off a piece of fish meat and chewed greedily.

Gao Yuan shook his head and sighed: "I was originally the king of the rivers, but I was hunted and killed by the villain, and now I am curled up in this Quartet Copper Ding, and I have become the ration of the rats!" As he spoke, the corner of his eyes glanced at Wang Yu who was standing aside, intentionally or unintentionally.

However, before the words fell, the feasting yellow squirrel suddenly stiffened, struggled to jump out of the copper tripod, fell to the ground without running two steps, convulsed twice, and died.

Everyone was in an uproar, and at this time, even a fool could see that someone had poisoned Dingzhong with the intention of killing the king.

Gao Yuan threw the fish head back into the ding, turned sideways, squinted and stared at Wang Yu coldly, Wang Yu didn't expect that there would be a sudden change between the lightning and flint, and after standing for two seconds, he finally reacted, and yelled outside the hall: "Do it!"

The guards who had been ambushed for a long time swarmed in, Gao Yuan kicked on the copper tripod, which was full of tiger and fish soup, and it took four wrestlers to lift the big tripod was actually kicked out by this kick, seven or eight guards who had just broken in from the entrance of the temple could not dodge, and were smashed by the oncoming big tripod, and the hot soup splashed everywhere, and the surrounding guards were poured into screams.

Only then did Wang Yu realize that the little white face in front of him, who looked soft and weak, turned out to be a hidden master, and this master was now eyeing himself.

Gao Yuan knew the truth of capturing the thief and capturing the king, and after temporarily stopping the opponent's offensive, he took advantage of the second wave of attacks to force Wang Yu towards the Yunding City Lord as soon as possible.

And the adjutant general entourage he brought into the hall also began to show their might at this time, defeating the guards who had just poured in, and one of the adjutants grabbed a few oil lamps and smashed them on the window paper, and the hall suddenly burst into flames.

As soon as they saw the fire in the main hall, the Zhennan troops who had been resting before turned over as if they saw the command signal, picked up the weapons they put around and killed them towards the main hall.

At this moment, the gate of Yunding City was secretly opened at some point, and a tooth-squeaking sound came, followed by a shocking shout of killing from outside the city.

Gao Fei led another part of the Zhennan army out of the woods outside the city, and quickly rushed into the city, and before the defenders of Yunding City understood what was happening, they were cut down to the ground one by one by the Zhennan army who suddenly killed the city tower.

Goofy himself took the lead, with the fury and pleasure of revenge, wielding a long knife like a demon harvesting life in the dark night, taking a life with each sword, and the defenders were strewn with corpses everywhere he went.

"Let the guards of the cities behind take a look, and let Zhu Ning, who stays in Diyun City, see what the fate will be if he kills the king and rebels!" Gao Fei thought to himself, and shouted to the Zhennan army behind him: "Kill all these rebels!"

As the night grew thicker and thicker, Goofy brandished his long knife wide open and closed, and it seemed that only the black of the night and the red of blood were left in front of his eyes.

He remembered that on the night of the coup, he hid under the dark eaves of the Ligong Garden, and he was also like a ghost that melted into the night, and his eyes were full of blood and howls, but the people who died that day were the most familiar faces around him on weekdays, and they were all the attendants and palace maids in his palace.

He watched as those people died, and then worse news came: his father, his mother, and his eldest brother had all passed away. All along, the constant crisis around him suppressed the seeds of hatred, and finally at this moment, Goofy heard the voice of hatred sprouting in the bottom of his heart, no, not only the sprout, it was growing wildly, wantonly, savagely.

The battle of the city tower did not last long, in the face of such a fierce raid, the defenders on these city towers were all wiped out almost without organizing resistance, because Wang Yu did not arrange the task of ambushing Gao Yuan for these defenders, so the vast majority of the defenders did not understand to death why these brother troops wearing the uniforms of the Zhennan Army would raise their butcher knives to themselves.

Inside and outside the hall, Wang Yu, who was entangled with Gao Yuan, knew that the plan had failed, and he originally just wanted to take advantage of the Zhennan Army to recuperate, and he invited Gao Yuan to poison or assassinate him, and then announced to the outside world that Gao Yuan's subordinates had defected, and it was too late to save him, but he didn't expect that this plan would be seen through by the other party at the beginning.

Once the face is torn, the Zhennan army has 40,000 people, and all the troops in Yunding City together are less than 10,000, so if they continue to fight so hard, the whole army will be annihilated. Thinking of this, Wang Yu made a move with Gao Yuan, took more than a dozen steps back with his strength, and yelled with enough internal strength: "Stop!"

This sound was deafening, and more than 10,000 people on both sides present were actually suppressed by this sound and involuntarily stopped. Wang Yu threw away his weapon, knelt down towards Gao Yuan, and asked for surrender in a loud voice: "Wang Yu, the guilty general, knows that he has committed an unforgivable rebellion, and is willing to apologize for his crimes, and ask the king to spare the other soldiers of my Yunding City, they are just acting on orders, and they don't know the inside story!"

Everyone was stunned, only Gao Yuan sighed expressionlessly, his face was still drunk, he looked around and said to Wang Yu: "You tell them to put down their weapons." ”

Wang Yu was still kneeling on the ground, but he held his head high and shouted at the soldiers: "All lay down their weapons!"

Seeing that their master had already bowed down and confessed, the soldiers of Yunding City could only give up resistance one after another, and for a while, the sound of "clanging" weapons landing on the ground was endless.

Gao Yuan squinted his eyes, tilted his head and listened for a while, until he could no longer hear the new "jingle bell", he pointed to the open space below the main hall and shouted at the soldiers: "Stand over there." ”

A few of the soldiers took two steps, and when they saw that most of them were still looking at the direction where Wang Yu was kneeling, they shrank back and looked towards Wang Yu as well.

Gao Yuan looked at these soldiers coldly and said to Wang Yu: "It seems that what I, the new monarch, said still doesn't work, then it can only trouble General Wang again." ”

Wang Yu sighed in his heart, and had to repeat the order: "Stand up." ”

When all the defenders of Yunding City outside the hall were all concentrated in that open space, Gao Yuan slowly walked in front of Wang Yu, he sat directly on the ground, spread his feet, looked at Wang Yu levelly, and said softly: "Now let's talk about it again." ”

Wang Yu's expression was calm: "Please let go of these soldiers and my family, Wang will break it himself." ”

Gao Yuan glanced back at the unarmed soldiers standing below, "They can avoid death," and looked back at Wang Yu, "But you can't cut yourself, tomorrow you will be escorted to the city tower and beheaded in public." ”

Wang Yu's expression was a little complicated, "Wang Mou has been guarding the frontier all his life and has made countless contributions, please give the guilty minister a decent death." ”

Gao Yuan raised an eyebrow, "You want to be decent?"

He leaned forward, frowned deeply and stared at Wang Yu's eyes, "Are you plotting rebellion, this is already very unseemly, a person who is no longer decent, who can give him decency?"

Wang Yu was silent, and Gao Yuan said again: "Unless, you come forward to testify, it was the Zhu family who instructed you to kill the monarch and rebel, and you will tell the world in this way, so that you may be saved from death." ”

Wang Yu sneered, but his smile was a little bitter, "The national teacher and I have the grace of acquaintance, and the criminal minister will never dare to repay virtue with grievances and slander the national teacher." If the king wants to hide his bow and kill the meritorious minister, he can do the same without the confession of the guilty minister. ”

Gao Yuan also smiled, "Zhu Ning's wolf ambition has been revealed, if I didn't know that you are his henchman, I wouldn't have made this arrangement today, when I get to this step of the field, why do I have to cover it up like this?"

A flash of lightning swept across the sky, and after a while, a thunderclap followed, followed by a torrential downpour, and it didn't take long for everyone to be drenched.

Wang Yu didn't speak again, it was a tacit acquiescence, not only a tacit acquiescence to the black hand behind the scenes, but also a tacit acquiescence to his own fate, his expression returned to calm, his eyes were clear and relieved.

He looked at the soldiers who were standing in the torrential rain below, and a sense of sadness and guilt swelled in his heart.

Suddenly, his eyes widened, and in the direction of the city tower in the distance, a team of blood-soaked troops came out of the darkness, led by a person, holding a blood-colored long knife in his hand, and killed the group of unarmed soldiers at the bottom of the steps with lightning speed, and for a while it was like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, setting off a bloody storm, and the group of red-eyed soldiers behind him didn't think too much, just followed him to wave their weapons and rush into the crowd to slash and slash.

Another massacre began.

"No-" Wang Yu looked up to the sky and roared, his heart was like a knife, and a sweet taste welled up in his throat, but as soon as the warm liquid came to his mouth, it was washed away by the rain and his tears poured into his mouth.

Gao Yuan turned his head in surprise and saw that the third brother Gao Fei, whom he respected, was actually slaughtering soldiers like crazy, so he immediately stood up and rushed over and shouted: "Stop!

Thunder and a terrible howl drowned out his shouts.

I don't know how long later, the clearing where the soldiers had gathered was full of corpses, and blood flowed all over the ground. Wang Yu, who was kneeling on the side, was already hoarse, still letting out a silent dry howl in vain, and suddenly, he stared resentfully at the man standing in the center of the corpse, holding a long knife dripping blood, the man was covered with blood, but Wang Yu still recognized him: "You are Gao Fei! You are Gao Fei!"

Gao Fei was silent, and he didn't look at Wang Yu, he looked calmly into the distance, not knowing what he was thinking.

Wang Yu raised his knife to his neck, raised his head and shouted with the last strength of his life: "Gao Fei, I curse you with my blood! I curse you!" A narrow bolt of lightning swept across the sky, illuminating the last blood-soaked knife light in this killing night.