The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 225 Entering the Palace
Chang'an, the imperial city of Tai Chi Palace.

There are many torches, and the shadows of the guards are dragging on the ground. In the Taiji Hall, hundreds of Chinese and Chinese warriors gathered. On the imperial steps above, the emperor who changed into a dragon robe walked back and forth, and the words continued to come.

"The thieves didn't believe what they said. They suddenly turned back and attacked Chang'an on the way back. Now the west wall is in a fight. The Longyou thieves have already ascended the city. It is useless to ask for advice. I have to let all the ministers and I fight the enemy together. advance and retreat."

The walking figure stood still, Li Ye looked serious, and swept past the officials below.

"I asked all the servants and guards in the palace to gather outside the imperial city. There should be no complaints. The city is destroyed and the country is destroyed. It is not a good thing for you. Only by driving the thieves away can we protect ourselves."

The first time the war broke out, he summoned the city's Chinese military to the palace. He also had considerations, that is, to prevent some of them from being thieves to join forces and gather in the palace right now. If there were such people, he would also be able to detect them.

Fortunately, there was no change at this time. In the past three years, I am quite satisfied with the control of the court.

"The thieves attacking the city is all due to one of the thieves making a plan. This person is full of tricks and is extremely cunning. If I don't pinch his weakness and let him fall into the trap, Chang'an will be in danger!"

Many people raised their faces in civil and military affairs below. They knew who the cunning person the emperor was talking about was, they had some contact with him, and they had received favors from him. At the same time, they were also afraid of being implicated. go down.

On the imperial steps, Li Ye's words continued to ring.

"Zhang Huaiyi is his accomplice. I had doubts before, so I gave him military power. This person led troops privately to assist Geng Qing in killing Cui Xiang in Tongguan. He committed a heinous crime. However, he has not been executed until now. It is because his father Zhang Zhifang once After all the hard work of running around to drive away the yellow thieves, I finally softened my heart, and now, I no longer miss the old love!"

"Also. A woman and child in the city is his wife. He committed a riot. How can his wife be innocent, and he will go to prison and report it!"

"His Majesty!"

At the same time as the emperor's words fell, there was a loud voice among the civil servants, and Qin Huaimian walked out quickly with a slight bow, "Your Majesty, this statement is inappropriate."

Li Ye frowned slightly, he naturally knew who the figure walking out was, and he also knew that the other party had a deep relationship with Geng Qing.

"Qin Shilang, what do you think is wrong with my words? Still can't bear to see my old friend's wife suffer? Do you just have the heart to see the soldiers of the guard city live and die?"

"I dare not."

Qin Huaimian lowered his face, pursed his lips, and said in a low voice: "I just feel that arresting a couple of women and children would be detrimental to His Majesty's prestige. Even if the mother and son had something to do with Geng Qing, they lived an ordinary life in the city. , At best, they are ordinary people who have some intersections, and it would be too much to win the prison."

"Are you questioning me?" Li Ye frowned even more, chuckled twice, and suddenly raised his voice: "How can I allow you to question me!"

When the emperor's temper came up, Li Ye couldn't allow the other party to speak. He raised his hand and waved his sleeves, and immediately summoned the guards to convey the order to arrest the mother and child. At the same time, he sent someone to Dali Temple to execute Zhang Huaiyi!
Qin Huaimian wanted to stop him, but he couldn't.The guards who took the order had just left when a fast horse rushed into the square in front of the Tai Chi Hall. It was the Shence Army outside, half of their body was bloodied, and they galloped up in a panic.

"Your Majesty, the bandit army has broken through the city!"

"what?!"

A group of civil and military men in the entire Tai Chi Hall suddenly exploded. Li Ye in the Dragon Court opened his mouth slightly and stared straight at the soldiers of the Shence Army who were kneeling in front of the hall.

The opened and closed lips squirmed, but after all, there was no sound, and there was a buzzing in my head.

In the field of vision, the lights are intertwined, as if gathering thousands of troops and horses running, and the sound of swords, guns, swords, halberds, gold and iron resounding in the ears like an auditory hallucination.

"kill--"

The galloping horses and the knights on top of the camels rushed through the Kaiyuan Gate like a torrent, and then rushed into the streets and alleys, preventing the resisting army from collapsing at an alarming speed and fleeing in all directions.

The banner with Tang characters was cut down on the city tower, and the brave soldiers who fought and shouted rushed down the city with their blades and followed the cavalry.

In the intertwined streets and alleys, the houses with lights closed their doors and windows, leaving gaps to peek out. The mighty soldiers in armor and holding knives, countless footsteps galloping, shaking the streets.

One after another torrents raged and spread across people's field of vision, with the slogan "Qing Jun's side" ringing, the soldiers forced the imperial city, and the beams that were demolished from the common people's homes were used as battering hammers, and they slammed open the Anfu Gate. On the palace road, the imperial city guards and the servants of the civil and military families gathered in a huge array, with bows and crossbows ready, aiming at them.

The Longyou army who had entered the imperial city also showed no sign of weakness, one after another bowed their bows and set their arrows up to the sky, one after another their shields were pressed against the front, and they stood on the ground with a bang.

After confronting each other for a while, the Longyou cavalry who rushed to the streets and alleys outside the city to drive away the scattered Shence Army arrived. Fu Daozhao only brought two thousand light cavalry. Looking at the number of enemy troops on the opposite side, which totaled more than five thousand, he silently raised his hand and pointed He pointed to the position of the Forbidden Army in the imperial city on the opposite side, and the Chengtianmen behind.

The Longyou phalanx lined up silently changed their formation, squatting forward in a cone shape, the archers followed closely behind, and then the spear formation, slowly advancing forward, their steps were steady, when Fu Daozhao arrived, he led the cavalry slowly. The moment the iron hooves were opened, a voice shouted: "Kill, take down the Chengtianmen, and enter the Taiji Palace—"

The silent and suppressed army formation suddenly burst out from the slow advance, and the sound of footsteps exploded like thunder, and the advancing formation rushed past like a roaring sea tide.

Arrows crossed the sky like locusts, and fell on both sides of the head.

Someone fell down screaming, and the comrade behind him picked up his shield and stepped over the wailing figure and continued to rush forward. In an instant, the two sides collided with each other with a 'boom'.

In the time of half a cup of tea, the imperial guards and domestic servants with a total of more than 5000 people were overthrown and smashed to pieces. The soldiers stepped on the corpses on the ground, interspersed with the fleeing soldiers, and directly attacked Chengtianmen.

The guards on the palace wall who were guarding and shooting arrows gradually lowered their bows. They watched the remaining comrades assemble, line up, and then fled in a rout. palace road.
"Mr. Qing's side—"

When the shouting words resounded through Chengtian Gate, the city gate was opened by an eunuch, and the Longyou soldiers and horses were welcomed into the city. Eunuch Yang Fugong stopped Fu Daozhao's way and pointed in the direction of Dongyuan.

"This general, His Majesty led all the civil and military officials, and was escorted by the [-] Youlongwu Army to the East Palace!"

Hearing that the emperor had run away, Fu Daozhao glared, and without consulting the eunuch, he summoned two thousand light cavalry under his command, walked through the Tai Chi Palace, met the eunuch along the way, asked the other party to point out the direction, and went straight after him.

However, the emperor and all civil and military officials were not found.

At this time, Li Ye was in a mess, sitting on the chariot, guarded by more than ten thousand Longwu soldiers, and fled out of the Chongjiao Gate of the East Palace in a panic. He opened the curtain from time to time, looked back over the civil and military officials, and asked nervously to follow. When the guards or ministers beside the car heard that there were no pursuers, or the news came, they couldn't help but quicken their tone, urging the army commander to speed up.

Along the way, guards of the Eastern Palace were also assigned to guard the various gates. All the way out of the Jiafu Gate, they occasionally encountered Shence soldiers fleeing from the main street, gathered them into the team, and rushed to the Mingchun Gate in a mighty manner. Only then did they leave Chang'an.

Soon, there was a message of chasing soldiers from behind, and the team immediately accelerated their pace. Some old and weak officials stayed behind, crying and chasing after them. How could the anxious emperor take care of them? The Wu army turned around and headed north to Huazhou.

Looking back at Chang'an, there is still the faint sound of war and chaos, the majestic emperor of the Tang Dynasty, like a bereaved dog, was driven out of the capital again.

"I am ashamed of my ancestors! How can there be such an emperor in this world!"

Li Ye was sitting in the carriage, tears streaming down his face, beating his chest and crying.

The night was dominated by fire, and the bloody palace road was filled with corpses being moved away. Little eunuchs carried buckets of water to wash away the blood on the ground.

On the wet floor tiles, teams passed by. On the palace road illuminated by the fire, Li Jiji, wearing a bright armor, was riding on a horse, looking up at the eaves of the palaces in the fire.

Beside him, Geng Qing, who was also riding a war horse, was also looking at the Tai Chi Palace in the distance.

It is a different mood to re-enter the inner garden of this imperial palace in this way.

(End of this chapter)