Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 800 Luoyang Mutiny
"My father was a man who worried about the world."

Standing on the deck of the Yellow River Carp, the flagship of the Donglai Fleet, Pei Xingyan said to Laizheng who was going to Luoyang.

In today's troubled times, Pei Renji, as a general who was born in the Guanlong family, if he has no ideals and ambitions and just wants to be a nobleman who follows the crowd, then there is no need for him to take the risk of rebelling against Wang Shichong.

After all, even though Wang Shichong seized his military power, he was still appointed Minister of Rites.

"Wang Shichong and Li Yuan are such rebellious officials and thieves, everyone can punish them." Lai Liulang said that his father, Rong Guogong, was loyal to the emperor with all his heart.

It's a pity that he died of illness in Pengcheng in the end, and there is information from the Duwei Mansion of the Great Qin Guards that Lai Huer's death was actually related to Li Yuan, and it was Li Yuan who sent someone to poison Lai Huer to death.

The reason why he poisoned Lai Huer was very simple. When Li Yuan was staying in Pengcheng, Lai Huer met Empress Xiao.Empress Xiao worried about the situation in the world to Lai Hu'er, and said that Da Sui's vitality was exhausted, and she no longer thought about how to restore the court, but only hoped to preserve a little blood for the Yang family.

She hoped that Lai Hu'er could persuade Li Yuan to lead Xiaoguo to join Luo Cheng, so that there would be fewer murders and bring the world back to unity as soon as possible.Lai Huer really went to talk to Li Yuan about something, but they broke up badly at that time, and not long after, Lai Huer died of illness in Pengcheng.

Laizheng completely believed in the result of the Imperial Guard's Mansion.

My father was loyal to the emperor all his life, but the emperor was dead, and the strength of the Great Sui Dynasty was exhausted. At this time, even Empress Xiao didn't want to hold on anymore. My father also had a relationship with Luo Cheng. I knew this person well, and knew clearly that Luo Cheng could end the turmoil. people, so he is willing to think for the people of the world.

But his father died of Li Yuan's ambition.

"If you kill Wang Shichong and Li Yuan, you can kill them if you can bring peace to the world."

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Luoyang.

Pei Renji met Wang Shichong in secret.

"Duke Zheng, Yuan Wendu, Lu Chu, Huangfu Wuyi, Wei Jin and others want to kill Duke Zheng."

Wang Shichong was sitting on the couch, playing with a teacup in his hand, looking at Pei Renji, as if hoping to see something from him, but after looking for a long time, he didn't see anything.

"No way, I am the prime minister of the imperial court like Yuan Gong and Lu Gong, why did they kill me?" Wang Shichong pretended to be surprised.

"Because Yuan Wendu Lu Chu and others have secretly surrendered to Luo Cheng, and Luo Cheng has secretly granted them the title of Duke."

Wang Shichong already knew about this matter, but he didn't know it very clearly, so he asked, "How did Mr. Pei know?"

"Because the dog is under Luo Cheng's command, Luo Cheng wanted to recruit me. Before Yuan Wendu and others wanted to vote for Luo Cheng, they also came to me. I was loyal to His Majesty and supported Zheng Gong, so I agreed on the surface, but in fact it was just I want to inquire about the situation for Zheng Gong." Then, Pei Renji explained the plan of Yuan Wendu and others in detail.

The plan was very simple, that is, Emperor Huangtai recruited Wang Shichong into the palace to discuss matters, and then Wei Jin and others, who were in charge of the emperor's guards, ambushed in the palace. Once Wang Shichong entered the palace, they closed the palace gate and killed Wang Shichong in the palace.

Then let Pei Renji come out to take over Wang Shichong's troops to appease the army, and when things are done, Luo Cheng will send troops over immediately.

"These wall grass, swaying from side to side, where do we put our soldiers? We were born and died for the court, throwing our heads and blood, but they want to betray us like this? If it weren't for our soldiers, Luoyang City would have been captured by Li Mi long ago Thousands of times, those so-called high-ranking nobles have lost their heads, and now they are repaying their favors!"

Wang Shichong cursed loudly. At this moment, he really felt wronged.

You politicians can be shameless, you can be a fool, you can give officials to a rebel like Li Mi, you can surrender to a rebel like Luo Cheng, but are the blood of us soldiers shed in vain?
We have fought for so long and lost so many brothers, is it all in vain in the end?
Wang Shichong was not reconciled.

Scolding turns to curse, anger turns to anger, but things have to be resolved.

Before, Wang Shichong only noticed that something was wrong, but he hadn't figured out the details. Now that he knew it, things would be easier to handle.

"Please Mr. Pei and Mr. Wang enter the palace to meet His Majesty, and report Yuan Wendu and others for conspiracy."

Wang Shi acted as he summoned his own guards, and then made some arrangements for his subordinates.

In the afternoon, he and Pei Renji headed for the palace led by hundreds of guards.

"Duke Zheng, shouldn't we send someone to arrest Yuan Wendu and others?" Pei Renji asked.

The burly Wang Shichong shook his head, and said viciously, "Arresting people directly will inevitably cause turmoil. This is the worst policy."

The old king's plan is very simple, first enter the palace, control the emperor, and then use the emperor's order to get rid of those people in Yuanwendu.

At the south gate of Hanjia City, the outer city of the Luoyang Imperial Palace, Wang Shichong arrived swaggeringly.

When the officers guarding the city asked, Wang Shichong falsely claimed that it was the emperor's edict.

The officer hesitated for a while, and finally let the most powerful prime minister in Luoyang City in.

But someone in the garrison quietly told Yuan Wendu about this situation. When Yuan Wendu heard this, he immediately felt that something was wrong. The plan was not like this.

"No, Wang Shichong must have conspired against him. He wants to hold the emperor hostage."

"Pei Renji is also by Wang Shichong's side? What's going on?"

"It must be Pei Renji who voted for Wang Shichong, you bastard." Yuan Wendu cursed.Yuan Wen didn't even dare to be negligent. At this moment, every second was racing against time, and he didn't even have time to contact Luo Cheng's people.

Immediately, he took a shortcut and rushed to the palace.

After entering the palace to find the emperor, the villains of Yuan Wendu first filed a complaint, saying that Wang Shichong led troops into the palace to rebel, and then persuaded the emperor to issue an order in the name of the emperor that all troops strictly guard the gates of the palace and are not allowed to fight without authorization.

Yuan Wendu's idea is that Wang Shichong controls the army in Luoyang City, but they control the palace, and they have few soldiers, so they hold off first. The longer the delay, the more time they can gain.

In any case, the safety of the emperor must be ensured first, and the palace must be controlled so that Wang Shichong cannot take it away.

It's a pity that Yuan Wen didn't know that since Wang Shichong had been able to control the military power in Luoyang for so long, he naturally infiltrated the palace long ago.

The order of Yuan Wendu was passed down.

Few of the gate guards obeyed the order, and some city gate generals simply led their troops to attack Wang Shichong directly.

Wang Shichong arrived at the front gate of the palace very easily as if he had entered the land of no one. Even at this time there were already thousands of soldiers and horses, many of whom were the original palace guards who joined him along the way.

Hearing this news, Yuan Wen couldn't sit still.

So we could only quickly send Wei Jin and Huangfu Wuyi, two important ministers who knew the soldiers, to lead the troops to stop them in person.

The two sides started a battle in front of the palace.

And Yuan Wendu and Lu Chu, the two civil servants, also temporarily organized a group of troops, preparing to rush to Xuanwu Gate, go out of the north gate of the palace, go around behind the rebels, and attack from both sides.

It can be said that this plan is not impossible.

After all, Wang Shichong's main force was deployed in the camp outside the city at that time, and he walked around the palace faster than Wang Shichong's subordinates should.

Yuan Wendu hurried to Xuanwu Gate.

"Hurry up and open the palace gate, I'm going out of the palace to calm the chaos!"

The general guarding the Xuanwu Gate saw the two prime ministers holding horizontal knives, so he quickly agreed to open the gate.

But after a long time, the door did not open.

"Dawdling what?"

"Going back to Xiangguo, I can't find the key to the palace gate." The guard stammered.

"Why can't I find it?"

"The key was put here before, but it's gone now." The guard also said helplessly.

"Look for it!" Yuan Wendu said angrily.

A group of people looked around, but after searching for a long time, they couldn't find where the damn key was.

In the end, Yuan Wendu had no choice but to believe that Wang Shichong's subordinates had secretly stolen the key. He was furious and had to go back the same way.

But during the time they were looking for the key, Wang Shichong and Pei Renji had already defeated Huangfu Wuyi and Wei Jin, and entered the palace smoothly.

At this time, Lu Chu hurried over from Xuanwu Gate with more than 100 people, but they were immediately surrounded.

Wang Shichong looked at Lu Chu who was holding the knife, and just said coldly, "Hacked to death with the knife!"

Countless soldiers and generals fired random arrows and stabbed with knives and spears.

Lu Chu and the hundred or so guards all died.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Shichong ordered his men to attack Ziweimen.

The emperor was young after all, and when he heard that Wang Shichong had entered the palace, his face turned pale with fright, "Ask Wang Shichong why he led the army into the palace, and what is his intention?"

Wang Shichong was still respectful. He said to others, "Yuan Wendu, Lu Chu, Huangfu Wuyi, Wei Jin and others surrendered to the puppet Qin secretly. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."

At this time, the emperor turned his head and glanced at Yuan Wendu who was in front of him. This Yuan Xiangguo was running around, sweating profusely, panting there out of breath.

"What else did Wang Shichong say?" Huang Taizhu asked.

"Wang Xiangguo said, please Your Majesty to kill Yuan Wendu, and he is willing to plead guilty to Your Majesty."

Upon hearing this, Yuan Wendu turned pale.

"Your Majesty, it is Wang Shichong who conspired against you, and it is Wang Shichong who caused the rebellion."

The emperor was silent.

So Yuan Wen knew that he had been betrayed, and he sighed very sadly, "The minister will die in the morning, and it will be His Majesty's turn in the evening."

But what can the emperor do at this time? Before Yuan Wendu and others, in Luoyang City, Wang Shichong and Pei Renji commanded the troops, Yuan Wendu and Lu Chu were in charge of internal affairs, Huangfu Wuyi, Wei Jin and others were in charge of the palace guards , but now, Pei Renji and Wang Shichong actually stood together, Lu Chu, Huangfu Wuyi, Wei Jin, etc. were killed again, and Wang Shichong had already led his troops into the palace, so what could he do.

"Your Majesty, the old minister will take a step forward." Yuan Wendu still pretended to be a loyal minister, as if he had never secretly surrendered to Luo Cheng before.

At this time, the emperor couldn't help crying suddenly.

While the emperor was crying, Wang Shichong's subordinates had already arrived outside the palace. Yuan Wen knew that he couldn't hide, so he could only walk out of the palace while the emperor was crying. He was hacked to death by random knives.

"Chen Wang Shichong's escort came late, ten thousand deaths!"

Outside the hall, Wang Shichong said loudly.

The emperor's cry became louder and louder!
(End of this chapter)