No. 1 Girl in the Imperial City

Chapter 297 A crushing defeat

Seeing King Ancheng getting closer and closer, King Ning's expression became more and more ugly.

Following behind King Ancheng, the middle-aged general with a somewhat dejected expression was none other than the deputy commander of the South Camp of the Wuwei Army who had already secretly taken refuge in King Ning.At this time, although he was still following the King of Ancheng, he had no weapons in his hand, and he was accompanied by two guards of the King's Mansion of Ancheng, obviously already in a state of involuntary control.

waste!King Ning cursed secretly in his heart.

In fact, King Ning didn't want to make trouble so quickly if he could, but as soon as Xie Yan came back, he began to rectify the Wuwei Army and Yulin Army.Firstly, Luo Jinyan took over the Dong Daying of the Wuwei Army, and then Yu Mingqiu took over the position of General Weiwu. If he dragged on, all the chess pieces he had wooed in the army for so many years would be abolished.

But in any case, King Ning didn't count, and there would be such a variable as King Ancheng.

The king of Ancheng County did make great military exploits when he was young, but he surrendered his military power very early because of injuries and went home to recuperate. He has not touched military power for more than ten years.

These years, because of Princess Ancheng's illness, she doesn't even care much about court affairs.During the Three Kings' Rebellion five years ago, King Ancheng cooperated with Xie Yan to put down the rebellion, but at that time Xie Yan was too sharp, who still remembers King Ancheng?
I heard that Princess Ancheng is dying, and King Ancheng almost stays behind closed doors for his wife.King Ning always felt that King Ancheng was already a tiger whose teeth had been pulled out, so why would he take him seriously?
But I didn't expect that with one careless move, it was this person who ruined her.

"Prince Ancheng! Do you also want to seek rebellion with Xie Yan?" The smile on King Ning's face finally faded, and he simply preemptively struck.

King Ancheng strode towards the crowd like a shooting star. Behind him, a large number of military guards rushed over, and together with the Zhen Guojun Ding Guojun, they surrounded the empress dowager's palace.

King Ancheng took a look at King Ning from a distance, and walked towards Xie Yan and others in front of the palace gate.

In front of the palace gate, there are several people from both sides blocking the road, including the guards of the Zhen Guo Army, the Ding Guo Army, the rebellious Imperial Forest Army and the Wu Wei Army, and some men in black who don't know where they came from, but none of these people dared to go. Ban Ancheng the king of the county involuntarily gave way.

Under the night, Xue Ya's expression was a little gloomy, and he gestured towards the dark place without any trace.

"Whoosh!" In the darkness, a piercing sound resounded from nowhere.

Wei Changting was startled, "Prince Ancheng, be careful!"

King Ancheng turned his head, raised his hand and firmly grasped the feather arrow that was shot at him.

There was a green light on the arrow, and it looked like it had been poisoned.

"Small tricks!" King Ancheng snorted softly, and the feather arrow turned in his hand. He raised his arm and threw it, and the feather arrow shot towards the direction it came from with a sharp sound of piercing through the air.

After a while, a person fell from a tree not far away.

"This... this..." Wei Changting was stunned. He could use the bow and arrow's lethal power just by throwing it with his hands without using a bow?What kind of power is this?Doesn't this method look like a hidden weapon?
Xie Yan glanced at the wide-eyed Crown Prince Wei and Princess Regent, and said, "The Duke of Ancheng was a famous archer in Dasheng when he was young. In terms of archery, even this king is no match for him." Archery requires arm strength.Obviously, although King Ancheng has been disarmed for many years, he has not given up on this aspect.

The king of Ancheng obviously heard Xie Yan's words, came over and said with a smile: "My lord is absurd, I have nothing else to do these years, let's have fun when I have nothing to do."

Due to physical reasons, the regent princess, whose strength has been unable to keep up, shed tears of envy.

"Mr. Xie Zong, see the regent!" King Ancheng walked up to Xie Yan, his tall figure fell short, and knelt down on one knee to greet Xie Yan.

This was not only the King of the County saluting the Prince Regent, but it also showed to everyone present that King Ancheng did not believe that Xie Yan was rebellious at all, or that the Prince of Ancheng's mansion wanted to stand with the Prince Regent's mansion.

Xie Yan stretched out his hand to support him, "You don't need to be polite."

King Ning's face was gloomy, "Prince Ancheng, I advise you to think twice!"

King Ancheng looked back at King Ning and said with a smile, "King Ning, give up, you lost."

King Ning snorted, no wonder Xie Zong could only waste his time at home with his wife these years, how could there be any room for giving up when things got to this point?

Seeing King Ning like this, Prince Ancheng shook his head and said, "Prince Ning thinks that I am the only one here?"

"What do you mean?"

King Ancheng sighed and said, "Now... the entire palace has been surrounded. Not only me, but also the Marquis of Lingchuan, Duke Cheng, Duke Lu, and others brought troops into the palace just now. General Gu Jue of the Zhen Guojun, the second son of the Luo family, all the gates of the palace have been sealed off. Today, none of the people in the palace can leave."

"This is impossible!" King Ning gritted his teeth, and the officials who followed King Ning gradually became agitated.

If what King Ancheng said is true, then the situation in front of them is obviously not good for them.

King Ning said: "Don't listen to his nonsense, now outside the palace...he doesn't have so many people!"

King Ancheng shook his head and said, "The riots outside the palace have already been quelled." It's been the middle of the night in the palace, do you really think that the people outside the palace are all idiots, so nothing can be done?

After talking about this, King Ancheng felt that he had nothing to say to King Ning, so he took a few steps back behind Xie Yan.

Xie Yan calmly glanced at the crowds at the gate of the palace. It is estimated that there have never been so many people in front of the empress dowager's palace since the day it was built.

At this moment, standing at the gate of the palace and looking over, I feel that there are people everywhere.

Xie Yan said in a deep voice: "Soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army and Wuwei Army, put down your weapons immediately, and I will give you a lighter punishment!"

"Don't listen to him!" King Ning no longer had the usual smile on his face, and even his voice seemed a little sharp, "He's lying to you! He killed the Queen Mother! Xie Yan killed His Majesty's biological mother, everyone thinks he will Let His Majesty live?!"

This point directly hit the nerves of many die-hard royalists, and those who were still a little hesitant immediately became firmer, looking at Xie Yan with hostility in their eyes.

But those military guards and Yulin army are different, they are not directly loyal to King Ning.It was just because their superiors took refuge in King Ning that they were forced to follow orders.

Looking at the situation in front of them now, and hearing Xie Yan's words, many people put down their weapons one after another.

Can live who wants to die?Conspiracy is a serious crime that involves ransacking one's family and exterminating one's family.

Xie Yan, together with Prince Ancheng, who is quite prestigious among the middle-level generals of the Wuwei Army, is still very deterrent to these soldiers who just follow orders.

"You are talking nonsense!" A sharp female voice suddenly sounded from the door behind Xie Yan and the others. The expression on King Ning's face became more and more rigid. Did not speak.

Naturally, they all recognized who the owner of the voice was.

This is clearly the voice of the Empress Dowager Zhu who should be imprisoned in the Empress Dowager's Palace at this time or who is already dead!
The subordinates clearly came to report that Empress Dowager Zhu is dead!Ning Wang's face became more and more gloomy.

Luo Junyao also frowned slightly, her hearing was not very sharp, and she could tell that it was indeed the voice of Empress Dowager Zhu.

Did she guess wrong?
Empress Dowager Zhu was still wearing the clothes that Luo Junyao brought her here before, but for some reason she looked a little messy and messy.Even the bun on the head was messed up, the long hair was scattered over the shoulders in a mess, and there was a redness and swelling on the forehead, I don't know where I touched it.

Luo Junyao recalled it carefully and made sure that he did not let Empress Dowager Zhu touch his forehead, which should have happened after her.

Empress Dowager Zhu rushed out from the arch, pointed at King Ning and Xueya and said, "It is King Ning who wants to plot rebellion! They are the ones who coerced me! It is they who... falsely spread my will, and even wanted to kill me! It is the regent's mansion." Someone saved me!"

"This..." Several old officials looked at Empress Dowager Zhu, King Ning and Ruan Ting, not knowing what to do for a moment.

King Ning said with a pale face: "Can't you see it? The Queen Mother has been held hostage! How can you count on what you say? At this point, what else do you want to do?"

Empress Dowager Zhu said: "He is the one who really holds my palace hostage!" Empress Dowager Zhu pointed to Xueya, "He is a remnant of the previous dynasty! The whole palace, except the empress dowager's bedroom, is controlled by him! He forced me to slander the regent King, after I wrote the imperial decree, someone killed me and silenced me, trying to put the blame on the Prince Regent's House. If the people from the Prince Regent's House hadn't rescued them in time, I'm afraid the Palace would have been..." At this point, Empress Dowager Zhu covered her face and burst into tears .

Xue Ya narrowed her eyes slightly, looking at the Empress Dowager Zhu in front of her.

this woman...

Xue Ya took a step forward, and was about to speak when suddenly a gust of cold wind hit him, Xue Ya thought someone was sneaking up on him, so he turned sideways and looked back at Pavilion Master Mingyin who was standing behind him.

But he didn't think there was no hidden weapon at all, the cold wind passed in front of him, and a faint fragrance penetrated into his nostrils.

Xue Ya thought something was wrong in his heart, the next moment he felt his tongue was a little stiff, and his limbs gradually went limp.

Two hands quickly supported him, and Pavilion Master Mingyin said softly, "Are you alright?"

Xue Ya remained silent, staring at him fiercely.

The master of Mingyin Pavilion was not guilty, and said calmly: "I told you, don't bring me with you. Although I am not a member of Ceremony Luan, I was raised by Ceremony Luan."

Luan Yisi's people know the means, but he may not be able to.

The little movement on their side did not disturb King Ning, who was in a panic at this time, but Ruan Ting glanced at him.

But he didn't say much, just frowned slightly.

King Ning knew that it was useless to say anything now.

Those royalist old men are unreliable at all, they do reject Xie Yan, but with the words of Empress Dowager Zhu, these people will not firmly stand on their side.

"Grandfather..." Xie Chengzhao stood beside King Ning with a dignified expression.

After all, he was still young, and the situation changed too fast tonight, so he was a little nervous.

King Ning snorted lightly and said, "What's the use of being afraid now! Now that things are up to now, we can only go one way to the dark!"

King Ning said loudly: "Don't forget the lesson from five years ago! Anyone who doesn't want to die, fuck me!"

King Ning gave an order, and those who took refuge in King Ning and wanted to fight for a success from the dragon had no choice but to bite the bullet.

After all, what King Ning said was right, just looking at how Xie Yan treated those who participated in the Three Kings Rebellion five years ago, one knew that they had no way out.

Someone shouted, and after a while, the fighting sounded again.

Xie Yan casually swept across the chaotic battlefield, this kind of rebellion is actually meaningless.

If the rebellion of the Three Kings really took some thought and effort to put down the rebellion, the rebellion of King Ning and Luan Yisi, which was purely based on conspiracy, basically broke up with one poke.

If it wasn't for the purpose of attracting everyone to the palace to wipe them all out, he wouldn't have given them the opportunity to make such a big fuss.

And even without him, even if King Ning really succeeded, it would not last long.

The three kings who rebelled back then, Xie Yan still regarded them as opponents.As for King Ning, Xie Yan didn't even bother to pay attention to him.

Xie Yan lowered his head and shook his head to Luo Jun who was beside him: "It seems that there is nothing wrong, let's go in and see the emperor's aunt, there are people here to deal with it."

"..." Wei Changting, Yu Mingqiu, Prince Ancheng.

Luo Jun shook his head, pointed inside and said, "There is one more person."

Qu Fang didn't take the opportunity to slip away, he still stood in the palace and watched the whole scene with them.

Xie Yan chuckled and said, "It's not that he doesn't want to leave, but he can't."

"Huh?" Luo Junyao's eyes widened in surprise, Qu Fang didn't seem to be seriously injured, did he?

This was obviously a misunderstanding. Qu Fang was wearing black clothes at night, so he couldn't tell if he was injured.Of course, it is also possible that the self-esteem of the supreme master did not allow him to show that he was seriously injured.

Of course, if he was injured elsewhere, Qu Fang would have left long ago.

But if there are dozens of bows and arrows and several masters watching him, even a top master like Qu Fang will not bet on whether he can rush out alive.

Luo Junyao pulled Xie Yan to walk in, but before he could pass through the gate, he heard a sudden scream from behind.

Luo Junyao turned around abruptly and saw Empress Dowager Zhu being stabbed in the chest, "Bitch! Go to hell! How dare you go back on what you say!"

In the chaos, a man in black jumped up and stabbed Empress Dowager Zhu in the heart.

It was too late for Wei Changting and King Ancheng to go forward to rescue him, so King Ancheng stepped forward and knocked the man flying.

The man fell into the chaos and was killed by the people in the chaos in an instant.

Wei Changting supported Empress Dowager Zhu, blood was continuously flowing from the wound on her chest, and blood was also overflowing from her lips.

She opened her eyes wide, as if she didn't expect such a thing to happen to her.

"I, I..." Empress Dowager Zhu struggled to say something, but the blood foam constantly overflowing from her mouth made it impossible for her to utter a complete sentence.

Xie Yan and Luo Junyao stepped forward quickly, and Taifu Su and other officials who supported Xie Yan, who were protected by others, had also arrived.

Empress Dowager Zhu stretched out her hand tremblingly, as if she wanted to grab something.

But her fingers only touched the hem of Luo Junyao's clothes who was closest to her. Luo Junyao sighed softly and said, "Don't worry, sister-in-law, we will definitely take good care of Ah Cheng."

Empress Dowager Zhu's eyes widened, but she wanted to speak but couldn't. Finally, she could only lower her hand weakly, and slowly closed her eyes.

(End of this chapter)