I am not a deposed emperor of Han Dynasty

How could Huo Yu and others not see this eye-catching movement?
Everyone, including Huo Guang, who was being held on horseback, showed panic and surprise on their faces.

Anything unplanned is not a good thing.

Huo Yu and Huo Shan looked at each other on horseback and shook their heads. They didn't know what had happened.

"Little general, what are we going to do next?" Huo Shan asked anxiously, the sound of the wind making his words fall into pieces.

Huo Yu looked around and found that except for Hengmen, there were no fires on the other city gates.

However, it was too late for them to turn around, and the private troops led by Huo Yun were waiting outside Hengmen, so changing to another city gate would cause problems.

What's more, time has passed for a long time, and those dead soldiers pretending to be pavilion soldiers can't hold on for long. If they stay in Chang'an City for a while, there will be many dangers.

"Hengmen remains unchanged, keep moving forward and adapt to changes!" Huo Yu shouted.

"only!"

The distance of one mile was quickly covered under the rapid charge of the cavalry. Huo Yu and his team of fake Yu Linlang stopped three feet below the door.

Although the upper and lower walls of Hengmen were as bright as day, there were no guards guarding the walls.

However, under the bright firelight, one could see the graceful figures cast from the city wall.

A large number of human figures were thrown to the ground, each one showing its teeth and claws, like a ghost.

The way to escape is right in front of you. Normally, you could just lift your legs and pass by.

But at this moment, horse-repelling stakes had already been piled up under the city gate, firmly blocking the path of Huo Yu's cavalry.

Although he could send people to move it, it would definitely take a lot of time. Huo Yu was worried about an ambush, so he naturally did not dare to send people to move it.

Huo Yu looked at the cavalrymen following him. Their armors and flags were all very bright, so they should not reveal their secrets.

The only ones who looked a little strange were Huo Guang and Huo Xian, who were surrounded by the cavalry.

The former was tied to the horse, with a huge body and a stiff posture; the latter was too petite and could only hold the reins stiffly to prevent himself from falling off the horse.

But they would not attract the attention of others if they were mixed among the cavalry.

At this time, the turmoil in Shang Guanli seemed to have gradually subsided, and there was less and less time left for Huo Yu, so he could no longer hesitate.

"Huo Shan, go call the door!" Huo Yu ordered seriously.

"Wei!" Huo Shan replied, then rode alone to the Juma Zhuang and shouted loudly towards the city wall.

"I am Chen Zhuo, leader of Habayashi Lang's A Division. There is chaos in the city, and there are bandits outside the city. We are going out of the city to clear them out. Please open the door quickly!" Huo Shan shouted.

The figures on the city wall were shaking, but no one came out to answer.

"I am Chen Zhuo, leader of Habayashi Lang's A Division. There is chaos in the city, and there are bandits outside the city. We are going out of the city to clean up, please open the door quickly!" Huo Shan shouted again.

This time, a figure finally appeared on the city gate, but this figure was not dressed as a pavilion soldier.

Huo Yu was overjoyed. At least what greeted them was not a cluster of arrows covering their heads and faces.

However, the joy in Huo Yu's heart did not last long. When the man on the city gate spoke, his mood immediately hit rock bottom.

"Team leader Chen Zhuo? I think you are not Chen Zhuo, but Huo Shan. As for the person behind you, is it General Huo?"

It turned out that the person whose head was exposed on the city wall turned out to be the emperor's crony-Guang Luxun and Weiyang Guard Wang Ji!
Thinking of all the changes that happened on the road, Huo Yu was already cold from the heart to the bones.

They may have fallen into the emperor's trap!
It's just that Huo Yu still doesn't know whether the bamboo stick buried under the trap is a quick death, or a slowly tormenting thorn.

He had no time to think about how his plan was leaked, and now he wanted to see if he could find a way to survive.

"General Huo, the county magistrate locked you up in the back house, why did you pretend to be Mr. Yulin? Are you trying to sneak out of the city and escape?" Wang Ji mocked again.

"Prince Fujun, since you appear on this city wall, you naturally know what I am going to do. Why are you so sarcastic?" Huo Yu said immediately, patting him.

"Can the general and his wife be in the team?"

"Of course I am. I risked my life and returned to Chang'an just to save my father and mother. I hope that the prince will make way for me to fulfill my filial piety."

Wang Ji did not answer immediately, but gave an order behind him. In an instant, five or six hundred soldiers stood out from behind the wall stacks.

At least half of the hundreds of pavilion soldiers were holding big yellow crossbows. Although they had not drawn their bows yet, they had already cocked the arrows.

The Yulin Langs behind Huo Yu were originally rogues pretending to be rogues. When they suddenly saw such a change, they suddenly became panicked.

Huo Guang, who was gagged, began to struggle even more, as if he wanted to jump off his horse and let Wang Ji save him - not to save his life, but to save his reputation.

Huo Shan quickly turned around and scolded him several times before holding his ground.

The two fake Yu Linlang who were guarding Huo Guang immediately became angry when they saw him struggling.

So, he raised the scabbard mercilessly and slapped him on the back several times, hitting him so hard that he couldn't even lift it up, but he also calmed down.
"General Huo, you rescued the general, where are you going?" Wang Ji asked.

"You don't need Prince Fu to worry about this matter, right?" Huo Yu said with a gloomy face.

"I am a swordsman and you are a fish. General Huo had better say it, otherwise the arrow in the hand of the patrolman will not recognize anyone!"

This is not negotiation, but outright coercion.

"I'm going to the north!" Huo Yu said through gritted teeth.

"Hmph, I'm afraid General Huo is not just going to the north, but also going to surrender to the Huns!"

When Wang Ji said this, he deliberately raised his voice to the highest level, so that everyone in the city could hear it clearly.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the soldiers on the city wall were in an uproar.

To defect to the north and work as a dog for the Huns is simply more shameful than treason.

In the past few months, whether it was Fan Mingyou's rebellion or Huo's house being raided, the people of Chang'an City still had some respect for the Huo family.

Now that I heard that Huo Yu was going to defect to the Huns with his general, the remaining respect completely disappeared.

At this moment, Hengmen City Gate Sima Tao Anran was standing next to Wang Ji, and he naturally heard it most clearly, and his eyes seemed to be spitting out fire.

Tonight at Xu's hour, Wang Ji suddenly came to Hengmen with hundreds of soldiers and told him to prevent Huo Yu and Huo Guang from defecting.

At that time, Tao Anran only thought that Huo Yu and Huo Guang were going to escape from Chang'an City, but he didn't expect that the other party was going to the Huns!
The war between the Han and the Huns has been going on for hundreds of years, and the people in Chang'an City have more or less enemies with the Huns.

Just like Tao Anran, his great-great-grandfather died on Baishan Mountain following Emperor Gao, his grandfather lost a hand in Shangjun, and his father died on the way to attack Lang Juxu.

Therefore, the people of the Han Dynasty not only hated the Huns, but also hated the Han people who wanted to flee to the Huns and serve as pawns for the Huns.

If Tao Anran hadn't been responsible for his duties and had to abide by military orders as a city gate commander, he would have pulled out the big yellow crossbow in his hand and shot Huo Yu with an arrow.

Tao Anran can still control his emotions, but ordinary Tingzu is already furious.

They did not dare to disobey the military order and shoot Huo Yu and others, but they began to abuse them wantonly.

All kinds of vicious curses rang out one after another, threatening to drown Huo Yu and others under the city.

"You're actually going to be a dog for the Huns bandits, you're so shameless!"

"It's more than shameless, it's worse than a pig or a dog!"

"Huo Guang should have died a few years ago. The trees on his grave are so thick together!"

"It's just a disgrace to the prestigious Champion!"

"We must burn Huo Zhai to the ground to relieve our hatred!"

"The Han thief Huo Guang, hurry up and capture him!"

"Vicious Huo Xian, give back my sister's life!" The scolding in the city became louder and louder, and the horses below the city were frightened into chaos. The knights kept restraining them to stabilize themselves.

The fake Yulin Lang who were still murderous just now are already thinking about retreating, and they don't know whether to retreat or advance.

The most desperate person was undoubtedly Huo Guang. He listened to the continuous scoldings in the city and his heart was completely filled with despair.

The little dignity he had left was finally buried under this Hengmen by Huo Yu and Huo Xian.

Matters of rebellion and regicide are matters far away from the court. Even if the emperor has a final conclusion, the people will suspect that there is fraud.

But now, in full view of hundreds of soldiers, Huo Guang rebelled against the Han and defected to the Huns. How could he have any room for sophistry?
One word spreads to ten, and ten spreads to hundreds. In less than two or three days, the entire Chang'an City will know about it.

In ten days and a half, everyone will probably know it.

Thinking of this, Huo Guang, who was tightly bound and gagged, felt angry and annoyed, and burst into tears for a while.

Huo Guang wanted to explain himself, but in this chaos, where would anyone notice him?

What's more, this is the result the emperor wants, otherwise there wouldn't be hundreds of pavilions and hundreds of pairs of eyes on the city wall.

"Since Prince Wangfu already knows, why bother asking again!?"

"Either open the city gate and let me wait out, or come down and fight. Don't humiliate me again. The soldiers can be killed but not humiliated!"

Huo Yu roared angrily, and at the same time he had drawn out his sword. The fake Yulin Langs behind him were also about to fight against the trapped beasts.

"Drum roll, I have an edict from the emperor to pass on!" Wang Ji shouted again.

Soon, the war drums under the city tower rang, and six to seven hundred pavilion soldiers holding spears and halberds rushed out from the alleys on both sides of the city.

Before Huo Yu and the fake Yulin Lang under his command could react, they were surrounded by a forest of spears.

"The emperor's edict, I read one sentence, and all the soldiers in the pavilion follow it. The general and the junior general must hear it clearly!"

"Wei!" All the pavilion soldiers responded in unison.

Wang Ji already knew the content of the emperor's edict.But at this moment, he still solemnly took out the edict in his arms.

Then, he started reading word for word.

"The Huo family rebelled against the Han and were treasonous and immoral. Surrendering to the Xiongnu will not be tolerated by the world."

"It's going to rain and my mother wants to get married. I won't stop her and let her go north."

"Tai Yi is at the top, and the people are at the bottom. Whether he is loyal or traitorous, everyone has to decide for themselves!"

Every time Wang Ji recited a sentence, hundreds of pavilion guards up and down the Hengmen also recited it.

The sound shook the heaven and earth, as if it would wake up the entire city of Chang'an.

The edict only had three sentences and 48 words. With the combined efforts of thousands of people above and below the city, each word was sharply nailed to the Hengmen by Huo Guang and the Huo family.

From now on, when the common people of the Han Dynasty mention traitors to the Han, they will probably not mention Zhao Xin, Li Guangli and others, but Huo Guang!

"I'm afraid that General Huo and General Huo can't hear clearly. Please read it again!" Wang Ji ordered again.

"The Huo family rebelled against the Han and were treasonous and immoral. Surrendering to the Xiongnu will not be tolerated by the world."

"It's going to rain and my mother wants to get married. I won't stop her and let her go north."

"The sky and the earth can be seen, and the people can discuss it. Whether you are loyal or traitorous, you can decide for yourself!"

When the final word "public opinion" came to an end, there was a strange silence in Hengmen.

The soldiers in the city had already guessed that the emperor let Huo Guang go in order to make the latter infamous and discredited.

They also felt that it was too easy for them to let Huo Guang go. Such ambitious powerful officials and Han thieves should all receive five punishments.

But the emperor had orders and they had to obey them, so they could only express their anger and dissatisfaction with silence.

Huo Yu, who was under the city, naturally saw through the emperor's "intention".

But since he has put the name of loyalty and filial piety behind him, and only has fame and wealth in his eyes, he naturally does not feel inappropriate, but feels lucky.

"Do you really mean what Wang Fujun said?" Huo Yu asked impatiently, not caring about the angry looks of the soldiers.

"This is the edict written by the Emperor himself, so of course we take it seriously!" Wang Ji said coldly.

"In this case, Prince Fu, please quickly open the city gate and let us go!"

"The emperor's edict only said that the Huo family should be allowed to flee north. People who are not the Huo family are not allowed to leave Chang'an. Order them to dismount and surrender immediately!"

As soon as Wang Ji said this, he immediately aroused resistance from the fake Yulin Langs.

They are the dead soldiers raised by the Huo family, but they are absolutely unwilling to stay and wait for death in vain.

Since Hengmen can't go out, he can at least go back to Chang'an, find a place to hide and still have a chance of survival.

At that moment, 50 people turned their horses and prepared to forcefully break out of the encirclement formed by the pavilion soldiers.

Before they could set off, the crossbowmen surrounding the outer circle immediately drew their bows and nocked arrows, firing a volley of arrows.

In the blink of an eye, 30 people were shot to the ground.

Arrows flying around almost hit Huo Guang and Huo Xian who were mixed in the crowd, and the scene became even more chaotic.

"Dismount, accept surrender!" The pavilion soldiers holding spears shouted in unison, while the crossbow warriors behind them readied their bows and nocked arrows again.

These fake Yulin Lang no longer had any thoughts of struggling and resisting, and they all dismounted and surrendered.

Pavilion guards armed with short blades had already swarmed up, tied them up one by one, strung them into columns and took them elsewhere.

In just a quarter of an hour, the situation changed suddenly, and in the end, only four people named Huo were still sitting on the horse.

Huo Xian was panicked, Huo Guang was desperate, Huo Shan was silent, Huo Yu was indifferent...

Huo Yu looked at the dead soldiers who were taken away and was not moved. He even felt that they were somewhat useless.

"Prince Fu, can you open the door now?" Huo Yu asked again.

"The emperor has no words to say, so he can open the door naturally!" After Wang Ji finished speaking, he said to Tao Anran beside him.

Although the latter was a little unwilling, he still ordered his men and pavilion soldiers to go down to the city to clean up the Juma stakes.

"Mother, are you injured?" Huo Yu asked, staring closely at the slowly opening city gate.

"No injuries." Huo Xian said tremblingly, although he was a little panicked and a little excited.

"Father, are you injured?" Huo Yu asked again.

Huo Guang was still gagged and speechless. After a long time, he shook his head in despair.

"Huo Shan, look at father, I'll leave the city together!"

"only!"

Huo Yu's words were obviously unnecessary. Huo Guang would not struggle anymore. In this field, even if he was killed under the city gate, no one would believe him.

The heavy city gate finally opened. Under the glare of hundreds of gate guards, the four people with the surname Huo rode out and then disappeared into the darkness.

"Master Fu, are you really going to let this Huo thief escape?" Tao Anran said unwillingly!
"God Taiyi is above us, and the ancestors of the Han Dynasty are above us. Even if they escape from Chang'an City, they will not be able to escape from heaven's punishment!"

There is no punishment from heaven, but there is punishment from the emperor!
Wang Ji looked at the increasingly blurry backs of those people, with a cold smile on his lips. (End of chapter)