Zhenguan Crown Prince Li Chengqian

Chapter 164 Interception
"Your Highness, it's going to be dark soon. When we get to Chang'an City, the city gate will be closed long ago. Shall we leave tomorrow?" Henglian pointed to the sky with his left hand and reminded carefully.

As the head of the guards of the Eastern Palace, Li Chengqian's safety is his code of conduct. Before Changsun Wuji went north, he gave him thousands of instructions. Now that the court situation is unclear, Li Chengqian's safety cannot be compromised.

"Be careful, you are under the feet of the emperor, and there are still people who dare to assassinate me here." After Li Chengqian fastened his cloak, he patted Henglian on the shoulder to reassure him.

Sun Simiao has been here for three days, and he has already recovered from his fatigue. The sooner he enters the palace, the sooner he can diagnose the empress.As for safety, the three hundred guards outside are not enough.

After two hours like this, Li Chengqian and Sun Simiao went down ten miles away from Chang'an City under the escort of [-] guards.The horse-riding row couldn't help letting out a sigh of relief to Heng Lian in front of the team, he will be there soon, it seems that he was too careful.

"Sir, I will rest in the East Palace tonight, and I will go to ask my mother's pulse tomorrow, what do you think?" Li Chengqian has always admired Sun Simiao, a national scholar, otherwise he would not be so condescending.

"His Royal Highness, it is not a problem to ask the Empress for pulse. But this East Palace is the inner palace after all. Isn't it inconvenient for a man like this old man!"

The old man has not entered the palace once or twice, so he is naturally clear about the rules there.After the palace gate is locked, there are only two men, the emperor and the prince, in the entire inner palace. This is the constant rule of the palace for thousands of years.

"Sir, don't worry too much. I haven't married yet, and there are no female relatives in the East Palace. There are only a few maids who do odd jobs."

Li Chengqian's East Palace can be said to be the strangest existence in the imperial palace. It is more like a barracks than an imperial palace.Except for the maids for special positions in the Eastern Palace, there is not a single eunuch, and the guards of the Eastern Palace are doing all the other work.

Empress Changsun also reminded Li Chengqian more than once, but every time she made him shirk it on the grounds that she had no female relatives.There are too many examples of eunuchs meddling in politics in the past dynasties, even if they are as strong as the Han Dynasty, they have not escaped the evil hands of eunuchs.

Hearing that there was no concubine in the East Palace, Sun Simiao gave Li Chengqian a meaningful look. If he hadn't seen his flushed face and deep confidence, he would have thought that the crown prince had some hidden illness.

Even an ordinary son of a noble family would have several wives or concubines at his age.And the prince in front of him is so self-disciplined in this respect, which is really admirable.

"Then honor His Highness's kindness, old man today." Before Sun Simiao finished speaking, a feathered arrow shot through the window with a sound, and at the same time there was the sound of killing.

How the hell did I meet an assassin "Zhang Sizheng, protect Mr. Good, if you want him to lose a hair, I will peel off your skin." After finishing speaking, he grabbed the sword beside him and killed him.

"Guard the prince, form an array", after hearing Henglian's order, the guards of the Eastern Palace quickly formed a circular array.

"Kill Li Chengqian, I will reward you ten thousand gold." A masked man roared.It can be seen from the constant downfall of the guards that there are obviously more assassins surrounding Li Chengqian than Li Chengqian.

The two sides fought hand in hand, and the sound of the collision of weapons and the screams of people could not stop hearing. "Kill, kill, let me go up.".
The regular army is the regular army. Although the guards of the Eastern Palace were a little caught off guard before, they quickly stood up under Li Chengqian's command.

Just when the long sword in Li Chengqian's hand passed through a man's chest, he suddenly felt a chill on his neck, and all three feathered arrows shot him impartially.

"Your Highness, ah, kill." When the guards in the battle formation saw Li Chengqian collapsed, they rushed forward like assassins desperately.

"Don't move the arrow on His Highness, there is golden sore medicine in the old man's medicine box, sprinkle it on the wound first." Sun Simiao yelled at Zhang Sizheng who was crying and crying.

It only took three quarters of an hour for the guards of the Eastern Palace to kill the assassin.

"How is your Highness?" Heng Lian, who was like a blood gourd, ran up to him and knelt down with the rest of the guards, looking at Sun Simiao with a hopeful face and asked.

"Sir, talk! How is Your Highness?".
They were afraid of hearing bad news from Sun Simiao. Although Li Chengqian was their master, he never treated them like other princes.

"The arrow is not poisonous, and the bleeding has stopped, but you must enter the palace immediately. Take out the arrow sooner and you will be safe. No one knows if there are any assassins." I've seen it, this must be another infighting between the royal family. .
"I am the deputy commander of the guards of the Eastern Palace, Zhang Sizheng, open the door quickly." After speaking, Zhang Sizheng hung his token on the arrow and shot towards the top of the city.

"General Zhang, the gate of the city has already been locked, why don't you enter the city tomorrow." Looking at Zhang Sizheng, who was holding a torch below, covered in blood, the small school really didn't dare to open the door for him, what if something happened.

"Fuck you, go and call E Guogong here. I have something urgent." Zhang Sizheng, who has just experienced a big battle, is extremely vigilant. Who knows if there are any assassins on the top, and hundreds of assassins have been dispatched near Chang'an City. It can be calculated by hand.

He couldn't say a word without seeing Yuchi Jingde, the emperor's absolute confidant.

"Zhang Sizheng, you kid is not serving the crown prince at Cuihua Mountain, what are you talking about here?" Old Yuchi let out a sigh of relief.This bastard disturbed Lao Tzu's dream just because he was the prince's confidant, and he insisted on kicking him to vent his anger in a while.

"Duke E, Your Highness is injured, quickly open the city gate." Zhang Sizheng's words almost startled Old Yuchi and fell from the top of the city. .
"Hiss, damn it, this bastard did it, it's a rebellion!" Looking at Li Chengqian being carried by the guards on boards, Yuchi Jingde gasped, and quickly asked someone to bring a carriage to escort Li Chengqian himself back to the palace.

"What's going on?" Yuchi asked the half-dead Heng Lian sitting at the other end while driving the carriage.

"When we were ten miles away in Chang'an, we suddenly killed a large number of them, but when we were about to kill them all, the cold arrow hit His Highness, the last general." As he spoke, the guard who had lost too much blood The commander passed out. .
Yuchi Jingde fought, and from the wounds on the surviving guards, it can be seen how tragic the long battle just experienced was.Looking back at the unconscious Li Chengqian in the carriage, he couldn't help speeding up.

He couldn't imagine what the emperor would do if the prince died.And the [-] tiger and wolf masters in the East Palace, who else could control them except Li Chengqian.

(End of this chapter)