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Chapter 591: Chaos in the Eastern Capital (4)

The leader of nearly forty men in black approaching the root of the city was none other than Zhu Kaizhi, but seeing him put his ear on the city wall and listen carefully for a while, he confirmed that the two teams of patrols marching towards each other had moved away from this section of the city wall. Not daring to delay any longer, he immediately raised his hand and signaled upwards, and immediately saw a dozen or so masked men in black untie the flying claws wrapped around their waists, and threw them onto the top of the city in unison, with a slight jingling sound After that, everything was hung on the city disc.

"on!"

When he opened the bow, there was no turning back. Seeing that Fei Zhuo had landed on the top of the city, Zhu Kaizhi immediately let out a low cry, stretched out his body, and took the lead in charging the city, but seeing his emaciated body like a civet, he just " After a few clicks, with the help of ropes, they quickly rushed up to the top of the city. Seeing this, the men in black dared not neglect to go, stretched their bodies one after another, and followed closely to climb to the top of the city. Climbing up, the speed is extremely fast.

"Who? Ah..."

The men in black are all masters of martial arts, the movement in the upper city is not too big, the patrols of the two teams have already deviated from here, they have not noticed the actions of the men in black, but a drowsy The guard sentry inadvertently found Zhu Kaizhi under the moonlight. Seeing that the situation was different, he unconsciously yelled and asked him. It shot out, and inserted it into the throat of the sentry with incomparable accuracy. The unlucky sentry only had time to let out a half howl before falling heavily to the top of the wall.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!"

As soon as the sentry post died, there was a lot of commotion. Many sentry sentries who were dozing off were all awakened. When they saw a lot of men in black rushing to the top of the city, they all panicked. He roared at the top of his voice, and in just a moment, the entire Guancheng was in chaos.

"Take down the gate tower, kill!"

Now that Xingzang had been exposed, Zhu Kaizhi naturally gave it up. With a loud roar, he led dozens of men who had already climbed the city wall and charged towards the gate tower, killing the officers and soldiers of the Habayashi Army who were rushing forward in an instant. Nearly half of them are really invincible. Of course, this is not because of how brave Zhu Kai's men are, but because the Habayashi Army is too weak. The Ya Army is the imperial guards guarding the imperial palace. It sounds very powerful, but in fact it is the worst army in the Tang Dynasty, because the origin of this army is that it followed Tang Gaozu in Taiyuan. The descendants of the heroes of the incident, they are said to be meritorious, but in fact they are all veteran soldiers who have never seen blood. They can make do as a guard of honor. !
A group of men in black are all desperadoes from the rivers and lakes, they are extremely ruthless, and they are killing each other with swords and swords. The poor officers and soldiers of the Habayashi Army were originally incompetent, and they were attacked suddenly. They were completely powerless to block the attack of the men in black. Once the casualties were heavy, the rest had no fighting spirit at all, and they all broke down screaming and screaming. In less than a quarter of an hour, the low combat effectiveness is really ironic.

"Open the city gate, open the city gate quickly!"

Seeing that the officers and soldiers defending the city had been routed, Zhu Kaizhi did not pursue any pursuit, and led his troops to kill the city gate tower, and issued an order with a roar, and immediately saw two thick city gates being slowly pushed open from the inside. , the first gate of the imperial city has been completely opened!
"My sons, on the side of the Qing emperor, kill the treacherous and sycophant, in one fell swoop, come with me, go!"

Li Xian, who had already changed into a military uniform, saw that the gate of the city had opened, and his nervousness stabilized for the most part, but he did not dare to take it lightly, because the Tongxun Gate was only the first gate to enter the imperial city. If you enter the harem, there is still a gate to conquer - the Anning Gate to the west, and the Xuanwu Gate to the north. No matter which gate, it is not easy to capture, and things are far from being celebrated. Li Xian knew this very well, and he didn't dare to be careless. With a roar, he led his troops into the general training gate, and the idea was to take advantage of the fact that the Habayashi army had not yet fully recovered. Before he could react, he rushed into the harem in one fell swoop!

"On the side of the Qing emperor, kill the traitor, on the side of the Qing emperor, kill the traitor!"

Seeing that the crown prince had moved, all the armored soldiers of the Eastern Palace dared not delay any longer, roared and charged up, and followed Li Xian, all the way across the small square in front of the Deyang Hall like a tide, with the momentum like a rainbow. Killed towards the Anning Gate——among the gates of the imperial city, the Xuanwu Gate is the closest gate to the Harem. It is the headquarters of the Beiya army, the defense has always been strict, not to mention the large number of troops on duty, and various fortifications are also extremely complete. Li Xian did not have the courage to attack the iron gate, but chose to walk through the training gate, and then The relatively tortuous and long road of killing and rushing to the Anning Gate is to catch the Habayashi army by surprise, and before the Habayashi army adjusts, they go down two gates in one fell swoop, thus entering the harem and holding Gao Zong, to order hundreds of officials!
"What's going on? Why is it so chaotic?"

When Li Xian's subordinates entered the palace, there was a lot of movement, and the roar was loud, and the whole imperial city became chaotic. Gaozong, who had always had a bad sleep, finally felt a little drowsy. Suddenly, being agitated by the chaos, he immediately woke up, and when he heard something wrong, he couldn't help panicking, and anxiously asked the ladies and eunuchs who were accompanying him.

"The Queen of Heaven is here!"

All the attendants stayed in the palace all the time, how could they know what kind of chaos was going on in the outer palace, but they heard the wrong noise, they were all panicked, they couldn't answer Gaozong's question, they were panicking Uneasy, but in the midst of a shout, the plain-faced Empress Wu led a large group of eunuchs and maids to walk in from outside. Her robes were quite messy and she had never put on the phoenix coronet, as if she had just gotten up. shape.

"Meiniang, what the hell is going on outside? I don't sound right."

Seeing Empress Wu approaching, Gaozong's uneasiness suddenly eased a little, he turned over and complained angrily.

"Change your majesty's clothes quickly!"

Empress Wu was not in a hurry to answer Gaozong's question, but gave an order first, and then went up to do it herself, and cooperated with the maids in the palace to put on the robe for Gaozong.

"Meiniang, what's going on? I'm so anxious!"

Hearing the noise from the outer palace not only didn't stop, but it got louder, obviously there were a lot of soldiers and horses rushing towards the inner palace, Gaozong couldn't hold himself any longer, he pushed the two people away impatiently. A little palace maid who was doing the final arrangement for it asked impatiently.

"Ugh……"

Empress Wu still didn't answer Gaozong's question, but her eyes turned red, she let out a long sigh, and lowered her head with sadness and guilt on her face, as if there was something unspeakable hidden.

"Meiniang, what's wrong with you? Tell me what happened!"

Seeing Empress Wu like this, Gao Zong's already impatient heart suddenly became more anxious, stamped his feet angrily, and asked questions repeatedly.

"Oh, Xian'er, Xian'er has turned against him."

Empress Wu sighed again, the tears could not stop flowing down, but she didn't reach out to wipe it off, she just looked at Gao Zong in great pain, and replied with a choked voice.

"What? This, this, this is impossible! I don't believe it, I don't believe it!"

As soon as he heard that the prince rebelled, Gao Zong felt as if he had been struck by five thunders, his whole body was shocked, his eyes widened in astonishment, and after a long while of silence, he suddenly roared loudly, he couldn't believe what he heard Such shocking news.

"Your Majesty, I don't want to believe it, but, alas, it's just that the soldiers led by Xian'er have already broken through the Tongxun Gate and are heading towards the Anning Gate. When they come to such a field, I can't believe it or not. It's my fault for not being able to discipline Xian'er well, and for being so tired that His Majesty was frightened."

Empress Wu wiped away her tears with her hand, bowed her head in pain, sobbed a few times, and explained in a low voice. The words were full of guilt and self-pity. Kind of pitiful feeling.

"Oh, that's all, that's all, it's fate, since he wants to go this way, he can't blame Mei Niang, let alone this, I want to raise an army to put an end to this chaos, come here, pass on my order, Instruct Xue Rengui, Qibi Heli to send troops to Anning Gate immediately, and arrest the traitors!"

Seeing that Empress Wu was in such pain, Gaozong was very reluctant to give up, since it was impossible to blame Empress Wu at this time, he just shook his head in distress, and immediately his expression became serious, and he roared loudly and made his will.

"promise!"

Gaozong's order was given with great arrogance, but it was nothing more than empty talk. At this moment, Li Xian's soldiers and horses were about to reach the Anning Gate. Soldiers, how can they save the place in time? It's almost the same when they come to collect the corpses. Although they don't understand military affairs, such a simple truth is still clear. It's just that Gaozong has made an order, but no one dares to say "no For the word ", I could only bow down and agree, and several young eunuchs hurried out of the palace, and rushed towards Xuanwu Gate... Although Anning Gate is an inner city gate, its scale is not large. It is not small, but a huge building complex in the shape of a "gate" connected by gate towers, dolor towers, tower towers and the corridors between them. The scale is magnificent and magnificent. If you retest from the sky, you can find The city gate building is in the shape of a "concave". In front of the gate is a huge square with a length of more than [-] steps from east to west and a depth of [-] steps from north to south. Because it is the gate of the inner city, there are not many garrisons on weekdays, and there are only two teams of Habayashi troops on duty here, which is just doing some work to clear the gates and clear the way. As for the combat effectiveness, that is Not even a little bit, this is the reason why Li Xian chose this gate as a breakthrough point. At this moment, there was already a lot of killing noise in the palace, but the huge Ning'an Gate was silent without a single sound, even Without a trace of light, it was as if a giant beast was lying on the ground quietly, and it was eerily quiet.

(End of this chapter)