Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 282

In the early morning of the next day, Tang Xuanzong and others set off from Jincheng County and continued to flee.

Since the soldiers of the imperial army had been hungry all day yesterday, most of them only drank half a bowl of rice soup, and they were already hungry, and their walking speed was much slower than yesterday.

In the afternoon, when we arrived at Mawei Station, the soldiers were too hungry to walk any longer. Tang Xuanzong ordered the collection of food, and let the soldiers of the imperial army have a full meal before continuing to flee.

The hungrier the soldiers of the forbidden army, the angrier they felt. Even if Yang Guozhong was careless, he could feel that some soldiers of the forbidden army looked at him very strangely, as if they wanted to eat him.

Yang Guozhong was so frightened that his hairs stood on end, but he thought that he was a dignified prime minister and was protected by Tang Xuanzong, so no one would dare to do anything to him, so he was not too vigilant.

For a whole afternoon, the collected food was still not much, barely enough for everyone to have a bowl of gruel.

Under the backlog of endless resentment in their hearts, the soldiers of the Forbidden Army hated Yang Guozhong even more, thinking that it was Yang Guozhong who caused Datang to fall into such a miserable situation.

Crown Prince Li Heng witnessed the resentment and anger of the soldiers of the imperial army, and saw that the sky had already darkened. He smiled sinisterly: "The time has come, let General Chen Xuanli come to see me immediately!"

Li Heng was very excited at the thought of leading the imperial army to mutiny soon.

In fact, as early as the moment he heard about Tongguan’s disastrous defeat, he had been planning this mutiny. Many generals of the Forbidden Army had been bribed by him long ago. No objection means that the entire Forbidden Army will follow him. Although this mutiny has only just begun, he has already won.

Li Heng is full of confidence.

On Yang Guozhong's side, he didn't know that the crown prince led the imperial army to launch a mutiny and was about to kill him.Yang Guozhong was born as a gangster, he achieved the position of prime minister, and he was used to rich clothes and fine food, and he found it difficult to swallow a meal without meat. While Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guozhong were resting, Yang Guozhong also Bringing my confidants around to search for meat, I got a pheasant yesterday. Under the current situation, it is really delicious, because even His Majesty can't eat it.

Yang Guozhong was walking outside the west gate of the station when suddenly more than 20 Tubo envoys stopped in front of him.

These more than 20 Tubo envoys were specially sent by the Tubo emperor to Chang'an City to inquire about the civil strife in the Tang Dynasty.However, due to the destruction of Tongguan City, the news that the rebels were about to enter Guanzhong came, and there was a great chaos in Guanzhong. The people in all the post stations within three hundred miles from Chang'an City basically ran away, so that the Tubo envoys had two meals. When they were full, they walked to Mawei Post, feeling hungry and tired. They happened to hear that the Emperor of Tang Dynasty was at Mawei Post, so they looked for them.

Of course, it is one thing to stop Yang Guozhong from eating, and more to hope to enter Mawei Station, meet Tang Xuanzong, and understand the current situation of Datang.

Yang Guozhong's face twitched, he was still preparing to leave the post station to find food, how could there be any extra for these Tubo envoys, even if there was, it was only the most common coarse grain, and he couldn't afford it at all.

Frowning for four or five breaths, Yang Guozhong was ready to answer.

However, before Yang Guozhong could say anything, not far away, Crown Prince Li Heng and the Imperial General Chen Xuanli led a brigade of imperial troops to kill here. Seeing that Yang Guozhong was talking to the Tubo envoy, Li Heng grinned grimly and shouted loudly: " Yang Guozhong conspired with the Tubo people to rebel, kill him!"

"Kill!" Hundreds of soldiers of the imperial army surrounded him directly, and the archers even bent their bows and set up arrows, aiming at Yang Guozhong.

Yang Guozhong and the twenty or so Tubo envoys who were besieged turned pale with fright.

"Hoo! Shoo!" The archer let go of his fingers, and dozens of arrows shot towards Yang Guozhong and the Tubo envoy.

Seven or eight Tubo envoys were hit by arrows, and Yang Guozhong was also shot in the back and thigh. He screamed and fell to the ground.

Yang Guozhong stared, unable to believe it.The Tubo envoys didn't even know what happened. Before they could refute, the soldiers of the forbidden army who surrounded them had already rushed forward, attacking with knives.

More than [-] Tubo envoys were all killed, and Yang Guozhong was also cut to pieces. A generation of traitors died tragically at the west gate of Maweiyi.

After killing Yang Guozhong, Li Heng ordered the beheading of Yang Guozhong and the two leading Tubo envoys.

"Prince, General Longwu, are you going to rebel? How dare you kill the prime minister!" Wei Fangjin, the official censor, is Yang Guozhong's confidant. When he saw Yang Guozhong was killed, he was stunned. Accused Li Heng and Chen Xuanli.

"Wei Fangjin is Yang Guozhong's party, kill him!" Li Heng didn't bother to talk nonsense with Wei Fangjin, and directly ordered the guard soldiers around him.

More than a dozen soldiers of the Forbidden Army swarmed up and killed Wei Fangjin with their knives.

"Yang Guozhong still has other accomplices, kill them without mercy!" Li Heng ordered the forbidden army to start killing a group of people who usually followed Yang Guozhong, including Yang Guozhong's family and the family of the three sisters of the Yang family.

People who are loyal to Yang Guozhong are mostly officials and servants, as well as the three sisters of the Yang family. They all seem to be of high status, but there are not many people on hand. How could they be able to fight against the thirty thousand imperial army? All were hacked to death.

The forbidden army first rushed into the place where Yang Guozhong's family lived. Yang Guozhong's son Yang Xuan was first stabbed to death at the door. The forbidden army rushed in and killed Yang Guozhong's wife and concubine and other children.

Then, soldiers of the imperial army rushed into the place where the three sisters of the Yang family lived. Mrs. Qin, Mrs. Han, and Mrs. Guo were beheaded one after another, and their husbands and children were not spared either.

The imperial army continued to suppress and kill some confidant officials who usually followed Yang Guozhong.

The entire Mawei post was in chaos, and the sound of soldiers from the imperial army running and shouting to kill could be heard everywhere.

Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei were woken up.

"Sanlang, what happened outside? Why is it so chaotic?" Yang Guifei asked.

"I'll go out and have a look." Tang Xuanzong said, and with Gao Lishi's support, he walked out.

Concubine Yang Guifei planned to go out with her, but her daughter, Princess Yongping, seemed to be frightened by the chaotic and noisy sounds outside, and suddenly burst into tears.

The little princess Yongping, who is only over one year old, is very handsome, and she is [-]% similar to Concubine Yang. When she grows up, she will undoubtedly be a peerless beauty. She is the treasure of Concubine Yang and Tang Xuanzong. Concubine Yang quickly Holding the little princess Yongping in his arms to comfort him, he didn't go out with Tang Xuanzong.

Because of these days of torture, Tang Xuanzong was physically and mentally exhausted, and his expression was very haggard. The majesty of the throne had long since disappeared, and he looked more like an old man.

Facing them, Prince Li Heng, Chen Xuanli and others carried the heads of Yang Guozhong and two Tubo envoys, and shocked Tang Xuanzong's vision, making Tang Xuanzong's pupils wide open staring at Yang Guozhong's head.
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