Ji Xuan saw the old emperor's strange appearance, although he didn't know who the old man sitting in the four-wheeled car was, but he could make the old emperor show a trace of horror, this person must not be simple.

"Father, who is this person?"

The old emperor stared at the old man, and said slowly with a serious expression: "King Huai back then. ”

Ji Xuan, the king of Huai back then, couldn't help but gasp, wasn't that the same King Huai who rebelled more than 20 years ago, causing a great deal of trouble......? Didn't he commit suicide by jumping off a cliff in defeat? How...... How are you still alive.

This is the doubt in Ji Xuan's heart, and it is also the doubt in the old emperor's heart.

"Jumping off a high cliff can still survive, Brother Huai Wang is really fateful. ”

When King Huai was defeated, he did not want to be captured, jumped off the cliff, and afterwards the old emperor sent people to the cliff to look for his body, but did not find it, but the cliff was extremely high, the bottom of the cliff was full of rocks, and the person who jumped off had no chance of survival. The old emperor was not very worried about not finding the body of King Huai, so he sent someone to seal the mountain, and searched for more than a month under the cliff and in the mountain, but finally did not find it.

The rebellion was initially decided, and all kinds of waste were waiting to be rebuilt, and the old emperor was very busy, and gradually he couldn't take care of the affairs of the king. At that time, King Huai was seriously injured, and even if he jumped off the cliff and did not fall to his death, he would definitely not be able to survive in the besieged mountain for more than a month. Besides, there are many fierce beasts in the mountains, and perhaps he has already become the belly of the beasts. It was on the basis of these that the old emperor gave up his search for King Huai.

After so many years, I didn't expect King Huai to die!

King Huai himself turned the two big wheels on both sides of the four-wheeled cart and walked forward, and then said to the old emperor: "My life is big because God knows that my wish is not fulfilled, so he refuses to accept me and gives me a chance to take revenge." I don't know if the fourteenth brother has thought of being a brother over the years, but he has been thinking about the fourteenth brother all these years. ”

The old emperor said: "Back then, the imperial brother rebelled in order to compete for the throne, causing chaos in the world, the royal family and hundreds of officials in the court were killed and injured, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced, and countless dead and injured were killed.

When King Huai heard this, he said with some excitement: "Why should I feel guilty? If my father passed the throne to me at that time, how could there be those things that followed?"

The old emperor said: "You know very well why your father didn't pass on the throne to you. Although you are the most gifted among the princes, you are suspicious by nature, hot-tempered, and fond of killing.

King Huai said angrily: "You are a woman's heart!

The old emperor reprimanded: "Is your ambition to sacrifice the stability of the world and the peace and contentment of the people to continue to fight and kill?"

King Huai said: "Conquest and killing can bring a broader territory to the Great Wei and achieve my great dream of being an emperor through the ages, why not?"

The old emperor said, "Why not? Because that will cause chaos in the world, the people will be displaced, and there will be countless deaths and injuries due to the war." You need money and food to fight a war, and without money and food, you will increase your taxes, which will put a heavy burden on the people. ”

King Huai said: "What do you know? As long as I succeed, I will be able to achieve peace in the world, and I will be able to achieve the foundation of eternity, so that the people of the world can enjoy a peaceful world, so that they can live and work in peace and contentment." ”

The old emperor said: "There is no foundation from ancient times to the present, and the foundation of the world is not obtained by conquest and killing, you need to be diligent and love the people, so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment, so that you can get the support of the people, so that no one opposes you." ”

King Huai said angrily: "I don't need you to teach me a lesson! If it wasn't for you, I would have become the emperor back then, if I had become the emperor, would you still have the opportunity to teach me a lesson?"

The old emperor said: "In order to be the emperor, you rebelled, killed your father and brother, and killed countless people, and the royal family was even more dead and wounded, if I didn't have the help of an evil son, I would have died at your hands, but even if I died, even if the entire royal family suffered, you couldn't be the emperor, because you were disloyal, unfilial, unkind, and unjust, and no one wanted to let someone like you be the emperor." ”

King Huai said: "I can't be the emperor, and you can't be stable." Back then, I didn't die, I just wanted to watch the destruction of the Great Wei in your hands, and see how you, an emperor who can't govern normally, govern the country. But I didn't expect you to be so lucky, to produce a loyal and talented first assistant, who helped you take care of the government so well. So then I changed my strategy, poisoned your sons to death, and then used poison to control your second son, so that he could help you destroy the country. But what I didn't expect was that the innocent son would save your other son and finally let him enter the capital alive. ”

Judging from Ji Xuan's poisoning back then, the old emperor also thought about his children who died unexpectedly or were poisoned, but he never thought that all this would be done by King Huai, and at the moment he clenched his fists with hatred, and stared at King Huai with anger.

Seeing that the old emperor was so angry, King Huai was very happy in his heart, and said with a smile: "Actually, those sons of yours all died at his hands. King Huai pointed to King Cheng beside him and continued: "Since I have made a plan, I need someone to implement it. Originally, I was thinking about how to get close to your sons, but one of your decisions made it convenient for me, you let your sons study in the country, so that I could easily approach them, do you think I should thank you?"

The old emperor ignored King Huai, he asked the princes to study with the children of the country, so that they could study with students from all over the country, and let them know how those ordinary children studied hard, but he didn't expect that it was his decision to let his children die under the conspiracy of King Huai. The old emperor was full of remorse and looked at King Cheng with hatred in his eyes.

Seeing that the old emperor did not speak, King Huai continued: "I borrowed the time when your sons went to the Guozi Prison to secretly observe their character, so as to choose him, and it turns out that I did not choose the wrong person. In order to become emperor in the future, this child showed no mercy when he attacked his brothers. However, although he is ruthless enough, his qualifications are poor, or he would not even be the crown prince. ”

The old emperor was already extremely disappointed in King Cheng, but now he learned that he had attacked his brother back then, and he wanted to execute him immediately. But hate to hate, but the old emperor did not follow King Huai's words.

"If you hadn't forced him too close and let him cause trouble for the court, he would have been the crown prince by now. ”

King Huai said: "If he kills Ji Xuan, do you still have a choice? I asked Tianyi Sect to cooperate with him, but he couldn't kill Ji Xuan, it's really a waste." ”

King Cheng has been standing silently beside King Huai, no matter what King Huai said to the old emperor, he stood there expressionlessly.

The old emperor said coldly: "Even if there is no Xuan'er, with his character, I will not pass on the throne to him." I can't let the Great Wei be ruined in his hands. ”

King Huai said: "The Great Wei Jiangshan will not be destroyed in his hands, because it will be destroyed in your hands." Over the years, I have let him cause trouble in the dynasty, just to consume the national strength of the Great Wei, so that it will fall apart one day. However, because Fan Shoufu was here, he didn't do well enough, so I had to redo what I did back then and raise troops to fight in the capital. In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, I promise to use Beiyan to make heavy profits, and then assist them in killing the main general of the northern border and breaking through the northern defense line, so as to involve most of the forces of the Great Wei, and more importantly, transfer Xue Chen. Then he united the Jin State and the Western Xia, and also asked them to involve the Great Wei troops on the border, so that when I let the Huai'an army and Xiang Cheng's army attack the capital, there would be no reinforcements. ”

Ji Xuan knew the current situation better than the old emperor, so he didn't wait for the old emperor to speak, and said, "Even if you plan like this, you haven't been able to break through the capital until now, and you won't be in the future." ”

Huai Wang smiled: "There will always be accidents, but as long as you respond in time when accidents occur, you will still get the desired results." Although my plan was not realized due to an accident in the middle, as long as there are no reinforcements, the capital will be breached sooner or later. ”

Ji Xuan said: "How do you know that there are no reinforcements? At the beginning of your siege, I sent people out of the city to find reinforcements, and it should be there in a few days." ”

King Huai said: "How many days should come? Then let's wait and see." The surrounding guards are either involved in the fighting in the north, or they are stationed on the border, where do you get reinforcements?"

Ji Xuan said: "Even if there are no reinforcements, you will definitely not be able to break through the capital." ”

Of course, Ji Xuan knew that the current deployment of Great Wei's troops, most of the troops were involved in the border, and there were only a small number of guards in various places, if these guards were to be gathered to support the capital, it would take a lot of time, otherwise Zheng Tai would not have been without any news after so many days.

King Huai said: "I wonder how long His Royal Highness the Crown Prince thinks he can continue to attack you like this today?"

Ji Xuan frowned and didn't speak, today's rebel attack was too fierce, desperately rushing to the city wall regardless of life and death, although the rebels suffered heavy casualties, but the forbidden army also suffered a lot of casualties, according to this kind of attrition, he really didn't know how long the forbidden army could last.

King Huai looked at the old emperor and said, "After the original plan failed, the reason why I didn't order the siege of the city like this after the siege is to wait for you to wake up and let you see the city break with your own eyes." ”

Old Emperor: "I'm afraid you'll be disappointed." ”

King Huai sneered and did not speak again, but signaled to continue the siege.

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When Bai Hao came to the south gate, he was just in time for the conversation between the old emperor and King Huai, and he was stunned. When he saw what King Cheng was going to ask, he couldn't say it for a while. When King Huai saw Bai Hao, he ordered him to rush back to the north gate immediately without saying a word, and asked the deputy general to bring 20,000 Xiang Cheng's army here, while he stayed at the north gate to command the battle at the north gate.

Bai Hao was nearly twenty years old when Wancheng was in trouble, he saw the tragedy of the war with his own eyes, and he also knew how fierce King Huai was, so although King Huai was not the King Huai of the year, Bai Hao did not have the slightest hesitation and disobedience to his order, and immediately turned over and left.

Together with the 20,000 people in Xiang Cheng's army, the rebels at the South Gate reached nearly 90,000 people, and King Huai divided these rebels into four echelons and launched a fierce attack on the South Gate in turn.

Although the rebels' frenzied offensive suffered heavy losses of its own, the Forbidden Army also suffered heavy casualties. The other three city gates are also fighting, the forbidden army can not draw troops from these three places, Ji Xuan asked almost all the forbidden troops guarding the palace to rush to support, the emperor is not in the palace, the forbidden army guards the palace city is meaningless. In addition, Lin Yuan asked those recruits to replace the forbidden army that had patrolled the city, so that those forbidden troops also entered the battle.

If the fight continued in this situation, the number of forbidden troops was still insufficient, and the cabinet and the Ministry of War issued an emergency recruitment order to mobilize all the people in the capital to participate in the defense of the city.