With Qin Fan's departure, Ji Xuan immediately called people to inform Fan Changyun and several other cabinet ministers, as well as Lin Yuan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and asked them to come to the East Palace as quickly as possible.

"How should we deal with the rebellion of the king?"

Only Ji Xuan and Gong Que were left in the room, and Gong Que asked worriedly: "He must have been planning for a long time, if he doesn't deal with it well, I'm afraid he ......."

Although Gong Que has been staying in the capital in the past few months and is very close to the imperial power, he is only a Jianghu person after all, and he has never participated in court politics.

Compared with Gong Que, Ji Xuan was much calmer, and he had been thinking about how to deal with it.

"It is impossible for King Cheng to rebel only by relying on the forbidden army, there must be other forces...... The only ones in charge of the defense near the capital are Xiang Cheng and Huai'an," Ji Xuan said while thinking, "If both Xiang Cheng's army and Huai'an army are used by King Cheng, then there will be no army that can come to the rescue quickly, and we can only rely on the forbidden army to hold on." But if only one of these two armies is used by the king, we have a chance to ......"

Speaking of which, Ji Xuan called a few people who were guarding the door, and he asked these people to go to the four gates of the forbidden army with the East Palace token, and let the four battalion masters come to the East Palace immediately, without delay, before the main general returned to the camp, the four battalions of soldiers and horses stuck to the camp and entered a state of combat readiness, and no one was allowed to move without the prince's edict. In addition, Ji Xuan also sent someone to find Commander Hu and asked him to come to the East Palace as well.

After A Niu and a few people took the order and left, Ji Xuan sent people out of the city to inquire about the movements of the Cheng army and the Huai'an army.

The forbidden army is the key to victory or defeat, and King Cheng must also understand this, so it is impossible for him to only coerce and lure the two deputy commanders, and I am afraid that there are also people in the fourth battalion of the forbidden army who have taken refuge in him.

The forbidden army is divided into five battalions, east, west, north, south and middle, the middle military battalion is responsible for protecting the palace city, which is directly controlled by the commander of the forbidden army, and the remaining four battalions are stationed according to the four districts of the capital, responsible for the protection of the four gates of the capital and the security patrol within the jurisdiction. After Xue Chen left Beijing, the Chinese military camp was controlled by two deputy commanders, and now Jiang Fan has reported King Cheng, leaving Commander Hu and the main generals of the four battalions, as long as they are summoned to screen one by one, you can know who else has taken refuge in King Cheng, so that you can clear the unstable factors in the capital.

Of course, King Cheng must have other means, but as long as the forbidden army does not change, Ji Xuan will have the confidence to fight with King Cheng.

"Shall we arrest King Cheng first?" Gong Que asked.

Ji Xuan said with a smile: "I'm afraid he is no longer in the capital, even if he is in the capital, he will hide." However, it is still necessary to send someone to keep an eye on the Chengwang Mansion. ”

Ji Xuan immediately called someone to go outside the Chengwang Mansion to check.

......

The soldiers sent by Ji Xuan to investigate the movements of the Xiang Cheng army and the Huai'an army left the capital from the north gate and the south gate respectively. The two people who left the city from the north gate had just walked more than ten miles when they felt a strange movement ahead. Two men stopped their horses, and one of them jumped off his horse and put his head on the ground.

"No, there's a big group of people coming ahead. The man turned on his horse, panicked and said eagerly, "Shall we go back at once and tell us, or shall we see who it is?"

Another person said: "This route is to be garrisoned by the Cheng army, if there is a large group of people, it must be them, we will immediately go back to the city to report to His Royal Highness the Prince, so as not to miss a major matter." ”

The man from earlier nodded, and the two immediately turned their horses' heads and galloped towards the capital.

When the two returned to the north gate of the capital and sought to enter the city with their identities revealed, they responded with a rain of arrows.

The two never expected that the forbidden army defending the city would suddenly shoot arrows at them, and they were both caught off guard by several arrows, one was killed and fell from his horse, and the other was seriously injured and fell to the ground.

At the same time as the two of them landed, the rain of arrows stopped. The rain of arrows stopped not because the two of them landed, but because someone on the wall prevented the shooting from continuing.

"Sun He, what are you doing?"

The speaker was Shen Yue, the deputy general of the North Battalion of the Forbidden Army, and the one he called Sun He was also the deputy general of the North Battalion of the Forbidden Army. Pang Hong, the main general of the northern camp, was summoned to the East Palace by Ji Xuan, leaving behind two deputy generals. Shen Yue was stepping up the defense of the north gate according to the prince's order, and suddenly someone came to report, saying that Sun He had taken the archers to the city tower, he felt suspicious, so he hurried over, and saw Sun He ordering the archers to shoot arrows under the city.

Sun He walked towards Shen Yue with a smile and said, "There are two spies below who wanted to enter the city and were shot by me. ”

Shen Yue glanced under the city wall, and then asked, "How do you know that they are spies?"

Sun He said: "If it's not a spy, why do you want to pretend to be someone from the East Palace to enter the city at this time?"

Shen Yue said: "Since they said that they were from the East Palace, why didn't you send someone to check their identity and then order someone to shoot them with arrows?

Sun He smiled: "They can't be from the East Palace. ”

Shen Yue asked, "What if it's you?"

Sun He said: "These are extraordinary times, we must be careful in everything. ”

Shen Yue said: "Just now the two guards of the East Palace went out of the city with the prince token, you and I are here, and now the two people outside the city call themselves the people of the East Palace, we should check whether they are the two who went out before and then make plans, instead of shooting them without asking." If they were really the two East Palace guards who went out before, you would be making a big mistake by doing so. Qi Five,"

Sun He turned to the person behind him and said, "You take people out of the city and bring those two people into the city." ”

"Yes!" Qi Wu turned and left.

Shen Yue turned around, looked at the archers on the side, and said to Sun He in a cold voice: "General Sun seems to have the ability to predict the future, and he actually knew in advance that there were people outside the city, and brought these archers to prepare. ”

Sun He smiled and said, "Brother Shen is joking, how can I have any skills as an unpredictable prophet." This is not an order from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, let's strengthen our defenses and enter a state of combat readiness. ”

Shen Yue said: "It is true that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has let us enter a state of combat readiness, but he also said that we must not act rashly. ”

Sun He smiled: "I didn't make a move, I just stood here." Okay, Brother Shen doesn't need to panic, there is something I will take care of alone, and it won't hurt Brother Shen. ”

Sun He was already standing two steps away from Shen Yue, but now he took a small step forward, and the distance between the two was closer.

There was a sound of the door opening from the downstairs of the city, and Qi Wu quickly walked out of the city gate with four people and came to the two to check.

The man who did not die said to Qi Wu in a weak voice, "Hurry up and get the report... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, there are... A large group of people drove to the capital......"

The man used the last of his strength to finish what he had to say, and then died.

Qi Wuren took the two people back to the city, and then hurriedly ran up to the city tower to meet Shen Yue.

"General, it's not good!"

Shen Yue turned to look at Qi Wu, who had just run up the city tower, but at this moment, Sun He suddenly pulled out his saber and stabbed him.