The rise of the prince

Chapter 672 Things Get Out of Control

Yang Hongzhao put a layer of thin armor between the inner lining, took the knife and went out, the old servant was already waiting outside the door.

As the sky darkened, the street opposite was brightly lit and noisy with people, and it was already bustling, but it was pitch black and there was no sound of people here.

"Remember what I said, you have to go faster, or it will be difficult for you to leave when the city is closed." Yang Hongzhao said, and the old man nodded, "Take care, general." As he said, he cupped his hands and tears fell.

"Let's go." Yang Hongzhao didn't say much, and when he turned the corner, there were already more than a dozen old brothers waiting in the dark alley behind.

"Let's go." Yang Hongzhao whispered, several people recognized the voice and followed him.

They didn't take the front, but went around the back of the house and walked to the west of the city. The guard at the west gate was his old department, and they would let people in. At this time, the sky was getting dark, and it was almost time.

On the way, they had to pass through a residential area. Fortunately, at this time, most people went out to the main street two alleys away to the east, so they didn't attract much attention.

When they arrived at a low forest on the west side of the imperial city, it was the place they had agreed upon. This place just avoided the sight of the Ximen defenders and was close to the imperial city.

After Yang Hongzhao signaled, the people around him began to imitate birdsong, which is a special way of communication used by military scouts.

At night, the weather started to get a little cold. Everyone waited quietly in the woods, a little shivering from the cold, and people around them approached one after another, with white cloth strips tied on their arms to distinguish themselves.

Slowly, more and more people gathered in the darkness, and soon hundreds of people gathered.

After more than half an hour, the sky was completely dark, but Yang Hongzhao frowned, because many people didn't come!
Originally, he expected to gather more than 500 people, but now he saw that there were only about a hundred people, and most of them were older old guards.

what happened!

Yang Hongzhao was worried, and sighed helplessly. These 100-odd old people couldn't accomplish much. Everyone looked around and found this problem.

"The sons of a bitch are all gutless bastards!" Someone spat and cursed in a low voice.

Yang Hongzhao said nothing, "Let's go, we're all here, we have to go in no matter what."

So he led people close to the shadow of the city wall, and moved eastward along the high city wall of the imperial city. The defense of the imperial city was indeed as loose as Yang Hongzhao expected, because many soldiers of Wu De Division were transferred into the city, and the rest had to divide their troops to defend the imperial city. There are four doors outside and four doors inside, and the manpower is simply not enough.

After walking for a while, someone suddenly caught up from behind.

"Who!" Someone said alertly.

"My own people, my own people." The person who came from the darkness answered, and then quickly showed the white cloth strips tied around his arms. Everyone saw clearly through the moonlight that the person who came was a young man.

"Why did you come here?" Someone complained.

The young man came over and knelt down in front of Yang Hongzhao with a plop, "General, it's not that the brothers are not coming, but that they are all transferred away!"

Yang Hongzhao was surprised, "Transferred away? Who transferred them? Why did you transfer troops in the middle of the night? Is there a tiger charm?"

"I don't know, I only know the order from above." The man said excitedly: "Brothers are all ready to come, but suddenly came the order."

Yang Hongzhao was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and thought for a while, and realized that something was wrong. Not to mention the blind deployment of troops at night, he said that there was also a problem with the tiger charms. After they returned to Beijing, they all handed over tiger charms. Wang Li Xingzhou, that was chartered by the emperor.

He paced back and forth, feeling increasingly anxious. The tiger talisman is to prevent generals from monopolizing power, but it is not omnipotent, because only high-level officers can recognize the tiger talisman, and all you need to do is to show the tiger talisman to the high-level officers. , then the Tiger Talisman is also useless.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt strange, and his heart became more uneasy. If it was a direct transfer, it would be different from their secretive ones. It was an army with full armor, complete weapons, and formal training!
"General, what should we do now?" Someone asked, the development of the situation was completely beyond their expectations, and things did not go as they imagined.

He was a little depressed, hesitated for a long time, and then said: "You wait for me here first, I will go to find out the situation, if the situation is not right later, you go away immediately."

Everyone nodded, and Yang Hongzhao ran back in a hurry. Although he was old, running with the physique he had trained on the battlefield for decades was not a problem.

After returning home, he hurriedly took a skinny mare from the stable, and then rushed to the imperial city. After thinking about it, he hid a dagger in his sleeve.

He galloped directly towards the east gate.

The East Gate of the Imperial City, also called Donghua Gate, is the outer city gate closest to the East Palace.

When he arrived at the tower on horseback, the city was pitch black and there was no light on the city. This was already very strange, but what made his hairs stand on end was that in the darkness, Yang Hongzhao could smell the smell of blood. The taste is very familiar and sharp.

His heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and he almost wanted to turn the horse's head immediately, but he calmed down, took a deep breath and slowly pushed the horse forward. He couldn't see anything in the dark city, and he was even more disturbed.

He said loudly: "Yang Hongzhao is here to meet the crown prince."

After a long silence on the tower, he repeated loudly: "Yang Hongzhao meets the prince as scheduled!"

After a while, a person came out from the darkness: "General Yang whispered, the crown prince is inside the door, we will open the door for you."

After a while, the city gate opened, Yang Hongzhao calmed his breath, rode his horse and walked into the dark city cave, the smell of blood became stronger, and then under the moonlight, he vaguely saw the dark things piled up on both sides of the east gate behind the gate.

Dead body
Instantly Yang Hongzhao thought of what it was, the corpses of Sergeant Wu Desi, and there were quite a few of them. Although he couldn't see the specifics, based on the volume, there were at least twenty or thirty corpses.

What the hell happened. The Prince's Mansion can't have that kind of strength. The heavily armed Wu Desi soldiers are no joke.

With doubts, he quickly entered the city, and in the distance he saw many heavily armed soldiers gathering in the wide corridor between the outer wall and the inner wall, and then there were not many fires to see a large black mass, at least thousands of people!

The open space under the city wall was full of people, and there were more people standing in the shadow of the city wall that he couldn't see. Yang Hongzhao was stunned. This is a heavily armed army. How could the prince have so many people!

Soon, he saw the excited prince right in front of the army. He was wearing a golden armor and looking at the army in front of him excitedly.

"Your Highness." Yang Hongzhao hurriedly rode over.

The prince saw clearly that it was him by the light of the fire, and laughed: "Yang Hongzhao, you are here, just in time, your people, where are your people? How many have you brought?"

Yang Hongzhao had an idea, and hurriedly said, "More than 500 people, all veterans of the army, are waiting outside the city. I'll come in first to meet His Highness and see if it's safe inside. If it's safe, I'll call someone in right away. "

"500 people?" The prince was slightly dissatisfied: "But it's okay, it doesn't matter how many people you bring, hurry up and ask them to come in, let's join forces and enter the palace!"

Yang Hongzhao rolled his eyes and nodded quickly: "Yes, this subordinate will go and ask them to come in." Then he turned his horse's head and was about to go out. As long as he goes out, he will be safe. Naturally, he didn't call someone, because he wanted revenge. I don't want Jin Wang, Wang Yue and others to be involved, and with so many troops from the prince, Jin Wang will definitely not survive
At this moment, a voice came from the darkness beside him: "Slow down."

(End of this chapter)