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The night was quiet, but Li Beihong never closed his eyes.

He still took what Han Ziqian said to heart. Worried that King Liuyang would launch an attack in the middle of the night.

Sure enough, an emergency report was received in the middle of the night. A small group of people used firearms to attack the weakest defense of the small north gate, and even rushed in on horseback.

The other party hacked bravely and killed all the men and horses at the north gate during the night rain. The guard was so frightened that he immediately sent someone to report the news.

I thought that a large army would follow, but unexpectedly a man rushed in on horseback and said a few words to the leader, then turned around and retreated with others.

It seems just to find out the truth.

It turned out that this was a solo action by a powerful general named Chang Lian, the second son of King Liuyang.

After the breakthrough was successful, Chang Lian sent people back to report the news. As a result, the eldest son and the second son happened to be together.

The eldest son was afraid that his younger brother and Chang Lian would take the credit for the city's destruction, which would be detrimental to his future inheritance. On the one hand, he scolded his younger brother for his unauthorized actions, and on the other hand, he ordered the people who came to report the news to recall Chang Lian. He even dragged his younger brother to his father's tent and sued him.

The King of Liuyang has been worrying about finding a famous excuse to commit regicide for the past few days.

The father and son disagreed.

The King of Liuyang wanted to ask the regent to hand over Jiang Yuebai, the evil concubine who had brought disaster to the country, with the idea of ​​"purifying the emperor and killing the evil concubine". There were a lot of crimes that could be listed. There is a high probability that the opponent will not surrender, then you can use this as an excuse to attack the city.

The prince wanted to directly demand the handover of the left prime minister Meng Xin on the pretext of "clearing the emperor's side and killing the treacherous minister Meng Xin". After all, Prime Minister Meng took the initiative to hand over the money he had embezzled, and engaged in a trick of giving leniency to each other when reporting, confessing, and refusing to get strictness. Officials in the capital had to hand over what they had embezzled for many years, and the officials complained a lot.

The second son wanted to ambush the emperor on his way back to Beijing and pretend to be a bandit on the way to kill Li Beichen. Then he encouraged the ministers to jointly support him, and especially encouraged Meng Xiang to imitate the powerful minister Huo Guang of the Western Han Dynasty and support their lineage as the emperor. After all, it was well known that Li Beihong was frail and sickly, and could not be used well.

Finally reached an agreement in the evening, using the prince's suggestion. Because they got the news that Prime Minister Meng was not in the city at this time, and was sent away by the emperor to the south of the Yangtze River for disaster relief. In this way, Li Beihong would definitely not be able to hand over anyone, so they could just raise troops reasonably.

Therefore, King Liuyang was furious when he heard that his second son had acted without permission, thinking that he had exposed his ambition to grab credit and become the emperor himself. The key is that if the attacking team is captured, their intention to rebel will be exposed, making them morally passive and giving them reason to attack them.

As expected, Li Beihong immediately sent people to intercept Chang Lian. As a result, Chang Lian ran away before he could make it in time. The other party acted very decisively and viciously. Before retreating, all those who were injured and fell to the ground were hacked to death, no matter whether they were friendly or enemy, no one was left alive.

After Chang Lian returned, he was used by the King of Liuyang to establish his power, and he was prepared to be beheaded as a military measure for his unauthorized actions. His master, the Duke, begged for mercy on his behalf, so the punishment was changed to forty lashes. He was beaten until he was covered in blood and half dead.

As a result, in the middle of the night, everyone dreamed of the dream sent by Jiang Yuebai. These dreams, combined with memories from their daily lives, vary in their specific details. There are also different continuations.

For example, the King of Liuyang knew Feng Yuan, the general of the Gyeonggi garrison, so the scene in his dream in which Feng Yuan captured Huan Huan Qie'er was full of detailed imagery.

When he was killed by his eldest son at night, his feelings were too real, pain, shock, disappointment, and he would never die with his eyes closed...

He couldn't believe how his eldest son, who he relied on and trusted the most and who was usually very honest and filial, could do such a heinous act as killing his father for glory.

Could it be that it's all just for show? Or was it too early to give birth to him, in the prime of his forties, so the prince couldn't wait to become the emperor himself? !

He thought of Li Shimin who killed his father and brother.

The war scene in the dream between the Crown Prince and the Duke only lasted for two seconds. The general could not see his appearance clearly, and his identity was only known by his clothes.

They also don’t know what the Mongolian Khans Huan Huan Qie’er and Ye Sizha look like, so these scenes only have big scenes of charging into battle, and the imaginary Mongolians have big beards, dark skin, and high nose bridges. They met Emperor Li Beichen. So the subsequent scenes are very clear and profound.

The emperor returned in triumph surrounded by soldiers, high-spirited, majestic and brave.

In the dream, the eldest son was still hesitant and afraid when he killed his father, but when he killed his younger brother, he was only left with numb hands lifting the knife.

When the emperor ordered him to inherit his father's title and be crowned King of the Northwest, he felt lucky and relieved to be alive without having to die with his father on charges of treason.

He solved it for himself. In this way, he could still retain the bloodline of King Liuyang, and he would accumulate strength to avenge his father and brother in the future. Later in the dream, he also killed all the concubine brothers who had previously sided with his younger brother.

The second son dreamed that his brother poisoned his father and him while they were eating. When he died, he had severe abdominal pain, bleeding from all his orifices, and could not rest in peace.

Unexpectedly, his own brother would take action before him to save his life. Chang Lian, who was seriously injured, heard something strange and came to save him, but was stabbed to death by his brother with a sword.

He turned into a ghost and saw his brother carrying his and his father's heads to the emperor, and was named the King of the Northwest. He wanted to take revenge, but found that he could only frighten, and nothing else could be done. The elder brother also asked Taoist priests to beat him and his father to death.

After he woke up, the scenes in his dream circled in his mind, and he became even more angry when he thought about what his brother had done after he knew what he had done after sneaking into the city at night.

He picked up his sword and called his cronies to rush into his brother's tent. And his brother had just woken up from a dream, and he remembered everything in the dream clearly. Seeing that his brother came to kill him, he simply refused to do anything and obeyed God's will.

Both of them were taught swordsmanship by the same teacher, and they were inseparable from each other.

The people who supported them all had similar dreams, knowing that today there would be a life-or-death battle between the Crown Prince and the Duke, and they all fell into a melee.

King Liuyang looked heavy inside the tent.

Because after he woke up, he was about to order his cronies to tie up his eldest son, but he heard someone coming into the tent to report. Without saying a word, the two sons started fighting with swords, and their respective people also fought desperately.

King Liuyang thought that his second son was taking revenge on his elder brother for informing him that night, so he led his people out of the tent.

"You all stop it, my king!"

King Liuyang looks tough and wise, with wrinkles at the corners of his eyes that show his age. His voice is not loud, but he is full of momentum.

Some of the people fighting in the melee obeyed the order and stopped holding their swords, but they were cut several times by people who did not follow martial arts ethics.

The Crown Prince and the Duke were still fighting fiercely, both trying to kill each other, and no one wanted to retreat.

"You two scoundrels, stop it!"

King Liuyang pointed a firegun at the two of them, "If you don't obey the order and stop, I will deal with you according to military law and beat them to death together."

The second son shouted in desperation, "Father, the prince is going to kill us and become the king of the northwest!"