The rise of the prince

Chapter 674 Mutiny + Waste of Emotion
A person came out from the prince's side, through the light of the fire Yang Hongzhao slowly saw that it was Tong Guan, his old acquaintance.

"General Tong!" He exclaimed, and instantly understood the general outline of the matter.

Tong Guan smiled: "General Yang, why should you be surprised? You want to live, and I want to live too. We all choose the same path, don't we?"

Yang Hongzhao didn't speak anymore, he silently looked at the well-armored army behind him, and fully understood what was going on.

"How did you mobilize them?" Yang Hongzhao asked curiously.

"Brothers don't want to work for the dog emperor for a long time." Tong Guan said casually, and then looked at him: "General Yang, it's enough for your people to go out and call in, and you can stay with me and the crown prince. "

"You! Could it be that you don't believe me!" Yang Hongzhao said loudly, showing an angry look.

The prince also interjected: "It's only a hundred steps, let him go out and call someone."

But Tong Guan shook his head: "General Yang, it's not that I don't trust you. King Jin was your subordinate in the Southern War. Before leaving, King Jin talked to you alone. How can you make me feel at ease?"

"Although the King of Jin in the South is my subordinate, he is not under my control. Before the Northern Expedition, he was an envoy from the northern part of the country to provide food and grass for our army. Naturally, we have to talk." Yang Hongzhao said loudly.

"Okay, okay!" The prince was impatient, and pulled out the sword on his waist and threw it to Yang Hongzhao, "Go in later, you are responsible for killing that evil Li Xingzhou, or it will be over." The prince smiled triumphantly after finishing speaking , It seems that I have made a clever arrangement.

The moment Yang Hongzhao received the sword, he suddenly leaned forward on the horse and stabbed at the prince with the long sword in his hand.

Boom!
In the darkness, sparks flashed past, between lightning and flint, Tong Guan beside him was quick, and drew his sword to block it, but Yang Hongzhao's force was heavy, simple and fierce, and the sword still crossed the prince's shoulder after deflecting, and the prince staggered back After a few steps, I screamed in pain.

Yang Hongzhao failed in one blow, without saying a word, he turned his horse's head and ran towards the west along the main road of the inner and outer cities.

Tong Guan didn't ride a horse, so he couldn't catch up, but he still roared for the soldiers to release arrows. When the soldiers hurried up to shoot their bows and arrows, the horse he got off had already galloped dozens of steps away, and finally disappeared in the shadow of the city wall.

In the darkness, Yang Hongzhao kept hearing arrows whizzing past, but he was tense and kept running forward.

Soon, the sound of horseshoes slowly came from behind, and it was getting closer and closer, it was the pursuers!

The little mare under his crotch couldn't outrun the war horses in the army at all, and the pursuers behind him were getting closer and closer. If they were caught up, they would only have a dead end!
Yang Hongzhao kept patting the horse's belly, and the filly tried his best, but the sound of hooves behind him was getting closer and closer. On the dark and empty Imperial City Avenue, he was almost desperate.

At this moment, he suddenly saw some light in the distance, and Yang Hongzhao rushed towards that side desperately. The fire was getting closer and closer, and he slowly saw that it was a dozen Wu Desi sergeants with torches, riding horses in front of them. The person in question seems to be Ji Chunsheng, the envoy of Wude!
Hope ignited in his heart, Yang Hongzhao hurriedly shouted: "Prince and Tong Guan rebelled, the army has arrived in the east of the city, King Jin, run!"

"Prince and Tong Guan rebelled, the army has reached the east of the city, King Jin run!"

He yelled twice, and the attention of the people on the opposite side was all attracted by him. Ji Chunsheng rode his horse and raised his gun, and suddenly rushed towards him from a distance of twenty steps.

It was only twenty steps, but in the blink of an eye, Yang Hongzhao was stunned, and he had already passed him on the wrong horse. Turning his head slightly, he saw the pursuers behind him were picked off by Ji Chunsheng who was galloping at high speed, and the corpse was on the ground. Rolled several times before stopping.

Then he reined in his horse and turned around halfway, and stabbed the other person who was caught off guard again, but this time he only stabbed in the shoulder socket.

"catch him!"

The sergeant of Wu Desi rushed forward and firmly restrained the second pursuer who was stabbed off his horse. In fact, this man had already fallen so badly that he couldn't move at all.

Yang Hongzhao sighed in his heart, what a strong general, he was indeed the number one general under Prince Xiao's account, he fought with half his body, and he himself was considered a very capable person, but he had never seen such a neat skill like Ji Chunsheng.

"Master Yang, what did you just say?" Ji Chunsheng hurried over.

"Prince Tong Guan rebelled, and the forbidden army has already entered the city, take King Jin away!" Yang Hongzhao hurriedly said.

Ji Chunsheng became anxious when he heard the news, and asked, "How many troops are there in the rebel army?" He handed the badges to his soldiers and asked them to transfer the defenders of Xi'an Gate and Baihu Gate to Xuanwu Gate. .

Then he hurriedly took him and asked his subordinates to escort the pursuer who was still alive to the inner city, speeding all the way.

Yang Hongzhao was also very anxious, he didn't mean that, he just wanted to kill the officials, but he didn't want to harm Jin Wang, like Xue Fang, Wang Yue and many colleagues who spoke for him, they couldn't suffer such a random disaster.

The prince covered the wound on his shoulder and yelled, the pain caused tears to flow from his eyes, Tong Guan hurriedly examined him for a while, and then said: "It's nothing, it's just a skin injury."

"Skin trauma hurts so much!" the prince said angrily.

Tong Guan didn't speak, and gave him a cold look: "Your Highness, won't you thank me for saving your life?" A sword is not a scratch, but a pierce through his heart, and he will not be able to survive nine lives.

The crown prince snorted, but did not agree, and only said: "I didn't expect Yang Hongzhao to be that kind of person! Send me more people from the palace, and don't leave anyone alive!"

Tong Guan retorted, "Your Highness, there are priorities. Now it is the right way to invade the palace and force the emperor to take the throne. When you become emperor, you can kill whoever you want, and bring more than 3000 people before entering the city through the east gate." , it is completely enough to divide the army to attack the Prince Jin's Mansion, and the manor should be dead by now."

The prince showed a look of relief, and gritted his teeth: "When I kill in, I will definitely smash the evil species into pieces! And Yang Hongzhao, that treacherous villain!"

Tong Guan glanced at him, turned around and began to order the army to approach the Qinglong Gate. The emperor and all the officials were in the Imperial Garden.

The aisles between the inner and outer cities of the palace are spacious, but after entering the inner city, the aisles become narrow. At this time, it is necessary to divide the troops to guard each pass, and command becomes difficult.

So Tong Guan simply ordered that as long as you see someone wearing the official mansion, you can kill him!He will never be held accountable for the crime, and the prince also promised that since the future emperors have spoken, they will have no burden to think about.

The imperial army, who had been deducted from military pay for many years, had long been full of resentment towards the imperial court. With this order, the army's morale was greatly boosted, and they rushed from various corridors to the Xuanwu Gate in the northwest.

The flames soaring into the sky danced under the dark sky, and the crowd slowly became agitated.

"What's going on?" The emperor stood up, and everyone quickly moved out of the way. He took a few steps forward and said, "Wei Li, go and have a look."

"Yes!" Wei Li was about to go out when Li Xingzhou stepped forward to stop him: "Don't worry about it, take the emperor away."

"What?" Wei Li still couldn't react.

Li Xingzhou looked at it and said: "Something must have happened. Immediately assemble the direct guards and take the emperor away."

The emperor looked at him, and his face suddenly turned ugly: "You mean?"

"I don't know, but I'm not afraid of [-], just in case! I have been marching and fighting all year round, so I still have common sense. If the brightness in the east is a torch, at least there are more than a thousand people!" Li Xingzhou said seriously, But many ministers have gradually understood what he meant, and their faces were pale and trembling with fright.

The emperor glanced at him, and then said: "Wei Li, hurry up! Do as King Jin said!"

Wei Li also knew that something was wrong, so he hurriedly went to the rear to gather his immediate relatives near the Xuanwu Gate Martial Arts Field.

However, no matter how powerful the Shangzhi army was, there were only a few hundred people. Li Xingzhou had no direction in his mind.

At this moment, there were screams of killing from the east, mixed with screams, and the flames became more intense. Now the imperial garden was in complete chaos. Some elderly people even fainted from anxiety, and some were so scared that they wanted to Running outside, I was in a hurry again.

"Calm down! What are you afraid of!" The emperor said loudly, and everyone fell silent when he said this.

"Where's Ji Chunsheng?" the emperor asked.

Li Xingzhou stepped forward: "Uncle Ji found out that something was wrong before, so he said to go out and have a look." Naturally, he would not say that he doubted the prince, which is not good.

The emperor nodded, at this moment, the sound of horseshoes came from outside the wall, and soon Ji Chunsheng strode in, dressed in military uniform, with a lot of blood on his body, but it was obviously not his, but splashed on it.

All the officials were shocked, and the emperor asked, "What's the matter?"

"Your Majesty! The crown prince and Tong Guan jointly conspired against each other and led the forbidden army into the city. They have already broken through Donghua Gate and Qinglong Gate, and are heading towards Xuanwu Gate!" Ji Chunsheng knelt in front of the emperor, and hurriedly finished.

As soon as this remark came out, the entire imperial garden exploded instantly, and most people were left bewildered.

The emperor's face turned red, the veins on his forehead popped out, his arms trembled, and he said angrily, "Rebel! Rebel!"

"Your Majesty, the last general has gathered the defenders of the six gates, and more than 500 people have gathered outside the Xuanwu Gate, which can resist for a while, but according to Lord Yang Hongzhao, the rebels have at least a thousand armored men, or even more. There are important roads outside Xuanwu Gate, and the defenders of Donghua Gate and Qinglong Gate may be in danger."

"Yang Hongzhao?" The emperor frowned.

Ji Chunsheng hurriedly asked someone to bring Yang Hongzhao in, but Yang Hongzhao was also very embarrassed at this time, with disheveled hair and beard and disheveled face. "The guilty minister has seen the emperor." He bowed.

"Why are you in the palace?" the emperor asked coldly.

When Yang Hongzhao was questioned, Li Xingzhou's thoughts changed, and he came to his senses in an instant, and directly stepped forward and cupped his hands, "Your Majesty, I let him in. I wanted to lead Lord Yang to make an apology tonight. He has done nothing but hard work to my royal family."

This time the perfect circle passed, and the emperor nodded.

Yang Hongzhao gave him a grateful look, and then said anxiously: "The emperor's prince and Tong Guan are gathering an army at the east gate. I have a secret message from the old department in the army, and I want to inform the emperor in time. Entering through the east gate, the guards at the east gate have already arrived All of them were killed, if General Ji hadn't rescued them, the criminals would have been almost killed by them!"

The emperor looked at Ji Chunsheng, Ji Chunsheng nodded to show that what he said was true, the emperor's eyes softened, "Thank you for your hard work!"

At this time, the shouts of killing were getting closer, and the Xuanwu Gate at the back of the imperial garden had already heard the shouts of killing, and many timid court ladies and eunuchs were frightened and cried.

Li Xingzhou made a decisive decision: "Your Majesty, is there any horse in the palace? I will go out and lead the new army to rescue."

"It's too dangerous!" Degong stopped him.

"Waiting here is waiting to die." Li Xingzhou shook his head, "The Wu De Division only has 500 people, and the Shangzhi Qin Army must not be able to transfer at this time, and it won't last long."

De Gong stopped talking, and all the officials looked at him, like a drowned man grabbing a life-saving straw. Sure enough, after a while, Wei Li, who was hit by two arrows and covered in blood, also retreated, and reported the rebels' blockade in pain. After passing the various intersections outside the Xuanwu Gate, he couldn't go out to dispatch troops at all.

After all, this is not the world of martial arts. It is impossible to use melee weapons to block arrows and crossbows. Although Wei Li is known as the best master in the capital, his skills are amazing. As long as the rebels send dozens of crossbowmen to guard the intersection No matter how powerful a master is, he will become a sieve, not to mention the situation of black lights and blind fire.

Now the emperor was helpless, and held his hand tightly: "Don't force it, bring some people!"

"No, the emperor's body is the most important thing, how can you take someone away!" Someone immediately jumped out to object.

"Yes, yes, the safety of the emperor is the first priority."

"Think twice, Your Majesty!"

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Looking at these rotten Confucian ministers, Li Xingzhou couldn't understand their thoughts. They were just worried that they would take away too many people, and their lives would be lost if the rebels invaded, but they just wanted to think that the emperor was thinking of it as an excuse.

Ji Chunsheng stood up and said: "I promised my lord to take good care of my little lord, so I will go with me."

"This old man is a guilty minister, and this is an opportunity to make amends, so I will go with him." Yang Hongzhao also stood by his side.

He Zhao's face was dark: "It's only natural for a minister to die for the king, and the old man will go with me. I can't wield knives and guns, but my life is enough to attract the attention of the rebels."

As he said that, he turned around and bowed to the emperor: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid I won't be able to serve the Emperor anymore." After speaking, he stood beside him as if he was dying.

The emperor nodded with red eyes.

With He Zhao as an example, several ministers stepped forward one after another, expressing their willingness to break out of the siege with him and dispatch troops to escort them.

Li Xingzhou sighed, this was also the last helpless move, if he waited any longer, there would be only a dead end, if the crown prince attacked, no one would know what would happen, but he would definitely die.

So he would rather fight to the death than sit and wait for death.

The shouts of killing in the direction of Xuanwu Gate continued, and Wu Desi's soldiers retreated again and again, and slowly retreated to the aisle outside the wall of the Imperial Garden. The two sides fought fiercely, and even arrows flew into the Imperial Painting Garden in the dark , scared many people trembling.

De Gong took his hand, with complicated eyes, "Remember to divide the troops to your palace, the prince will never let the people in your palace go."

Li Xingzhou nodded, and Yang Hongzhao who was next to him stepped forward: "I have already sent someone to Tongzhi Wangfu."

De Gong nodded, and then bowed his hands to Yang Hongzhao: "Thank you, I only hope that Gillian can escape this disaster."

Li Xingzhou was stunned, and asked Yang Hongzhao, "Did you send someone to inform the palace?"

Yang Hongzhao nodded.

"Sure!" Li Xingzhou became excited and spoke three points higher.

Seeing how excited he was, Yang Hongzhao nodded again.

"When?"

"About... more than an hour ago." Yang Hongzhao didn't know why he was acting like this all of a sudden.

Li Xingzhou relaxed, sat down on the ground, and laughed loudly: "cao! Just now, it was like parting with life and death, wasting my feelings."

Degong's face darkened suddenly: "You kid said something stupid, you can't be scared stupid! So what if you know, your palace is not a strong city soup pool, how can you resist the imperial army?" Degong lamented.

(End of this chapter)