Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 769
In King Yan's tent, after King Yelu Talu of Yan sent out Xu Wang Yeluning who had brought him the good news, his eyes were full of murderous intent, and he thought to himself: "Xiao Zhen, you think you can hide the truth by making a family of Han officials as scapegoats? Pass me over. Since you are so shameless, don't blame this king for being vicious. It's just that Xiao Zhen is the younger brother of Empress Dowager Xiao, and this matter must be discussed in a long-term manner."

On the second day of hunting, Empress Dowager Xiao personally ordered to release another group of wild beasts, including a white wolf, and the one who caught the white wolf was the winner.

However, when a group of people were chasing the white wolf together, Xiao Zhen's horse suddenly went crazy, and he fell off the horse. In the process of chasing the white wolf, one of the guards of Yelu Talu, the king of Yan, who was also chasing the white wolf, also went crazy. Xiao Zhen was shot to death with an arrow from a tricky angle, and then the guard was chopped into pieces by the enraged Xiao Zhen's guard on the spot.

When the news reached Empress Dowager Xiao, the latter was furious, and took down Yan Wang, who had no surprises, and locked her up.Empress Dowager Xiao interrogated herself overnight, and King Yan cried and swore that he did not do it.But less than an hour after Empress Dowager Xiao left, King Yan died suddenly.

Afterwards, many people saw Xiao Zhen's mother and the Great Princess of the North Court entering the tent where King Yan was imprisoned with a look of madness and hatred.

Killing a prince of the royal family privately, even if the prince is suspected of instigating the killing of Xiao Zhen, this problem is extremely serious.But Xiao Zhen's mother is the mother of the Empress Dowager Xiao after all, and it is impossible for the Empress Dowager Xiao to kill her mother when she is angry again. In the end, she just found the nanny next to the Empress Dowager Xiao, that is, Xiao Zhen's nanny, as a scapegoat.

How could this practice of not having 300 taels of silver here fool the Yelu royal family.This has seriously exceeded the bottom line that the Yelu royal family can tolerate.It also means that Empress Dowager Xiao has completely pushed the royal family headed by King Xu who originally supported her to her opposite.

That night, all the royal families who came to hunt began to communicate secretly, and an undercurrent began to surge.When the news reached Xiao Chuo's ears, Xiao Chuo became murderous.She has always been famous for her decisiveness and cruelty.Since it is absolutely impossible for him to kill his mother to give the royal family an explanation, it is already impossible to win the support of any royal family.At this time, the best way to deal with it is naturally to simply kill all the direct royal families except her son.

Xiao Chuo thought so, and he did the same. He secretly summoned his confidant Yeluxiu, prepared five hundred knives and axes, and then sent people to summon all the royal family to come to have an audience.Unexpectedly, for some reason, the news leaked, and the terrified royal family took the lead, each with their own personal guards, and a total of more than 3000 people rushed towards Xiao Chuo's tent.Xiao Chuo's 3000 guards and the 3000 knives brought by Brother Yeluxiu fought with the more than [-] guards of the royal family for half a stick of incense, and Brother Yeluxiu called in the [-] guards from the outer palace. In the end, the more than [-] guards of the royal family were wiped out , All the royal family who came to hunt died.

It's fine if you don't do it, once you do it, you will cut the weeds and roots, so Xiao Chuo has sent people to kill the royal family in the capital who did not come to hunt, and is going to kill them all.At the same time, Xiao Chuo ordered that it is strictly forbidden for anyone to disclose the slaughter of the royal family in the hunting ground, because there are still some royal families who are not in Shangjing, and they have soldiers in their hands, especially some tribes are loyal to the royal family. After the news of all the killings spread, there will inevitably be a rebellion, and a civil war cannot be avoided.

During this process, Yu Daoxiang and Shangguan Bingyun naturally took advantage of the chaos to escape.

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The next day, at dawn, even before dawn, the hunting ground pulled out the stronghold and returned to the city. In order to prevent accidents, Xiao Chuo dispatched another 3000 troops early in the morning, a total of [-] troops to escort her and her confidants Back to the city.Xiao Tiancheng, the king of the North Academy, personally led [-] people to serve as pioneers for Empress Dowager Xiao and Emperor Liao.In front, there were [-] wolf cavalry from the Pishi Army clearing the way, and there were [-] rangers on the left and right patrolling both sides of the road, and after that came the nearly [-] troops led by Empress Dowager Xiao.

The army completely surrounded Empress Dowager Xiao and Emperor Liao, and the scout horses in front had been released for thirty miles, and Xiao Tian became the pioneer again.It seems that no one can hurt Queen Mother Xiao and Emperor Liao.

On the top of a high mountain more than 20 miles to the right of the team, stood two graceful and beautiful figures.Both had a telescope in their hands.

"Shangguan Bingyun, you put stone mines on the road, so there is a very high possibility of being stepped on by horses' hooves."

Shangguan Bingyun shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, the servants will place stone mines in the potholes of the road, so that the hooves of the war horses will not step in. Because no matter what country it is, when training war horses, it is necessary to avoid the potholes. , otherwise there are not enough horses to break their hooves. But small potholes, the carriage will not care."

Yu Daoxiang smiled and said: "Obviously Xiao Chuo can't be bombed... But that's okay, Emperor Liao is my brother's son after all. Anyway, my brother was very good to me before he was alive. I want to kill Xiao Chuo, but he is not yet one year old." However, his nephew can’t die in vain. Well... according to what you said, Xiao Chuo’s father, Xiao Tiancheng, was sitting in the first carriage, and if he was lucky, he would be killed by the bomb.”

Shangguan Bingyun said: "Your Majesty knows the lesson."

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After a stick of incense, there was a bang from the three thousand pioneers led by Xiao Tiancheng. To be precise, it was where Xiao Tiancheng's carriage was located. Fuzzy, dead to death, and dozens of cavalrymen were either dead or injured.The horses of the pioneer [-] cavalry were frightened, causing a burst of confusion, but the [-] wolf cavalry were the elite of the elite, and they quickly calmed down their horses, and scouted around, searching for suspicious people nearby.

A few months ago, Xiangfu State was able to defeat Song State first, and then Liao State. One of the main factors was the extensive use of gunpowder kits and stone mines.Therefore, to this day, the gunpowder kits and stone mines of Xiangfu Kingdom have long been famous all over the world, causing headaches and fear to all the monarchs and ministers of Song and Liao.Over the past few days, countless secret agents have been dispatched to the weapons and equipment production base outside the capital of Xiangfu State to inquire about the formula for granulating gunpowder, as well as how to make gunpowder bags and stone mines.According to the report of Hu Sanguang from the Ministry of Security at the latest meeting of the Great Court, since the end of the war, a total of 790 people from the Song and Liao countries have been arrested and killed. There are 74 people in the country and 19 officials.

Therefore, even though many people have not seen or heard of the explosion of stone mines, Xiao Chuo and important ministers, down to tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, guards, and servants at the scene of the Liao Kingdom, judged or thought of this in the first time It is the method of Xiangfu Kingdom.

Xiao Chuo hugged his son himself, and was sitting on the dragon carriage thinking about what happened on the hunting ground in the past two days. There are still seven or eight miles away from Xiao Chuo's dragon chariot. The sound of the explosion has little impact on the horses, but this sound gives direction to some strange things in Xiao Chuo's mind, and his face changes drastically. , becomes very ugly.Without her ordering, someone figured out the situation and reported to her. After learning that her father was killed, Xiao Chuo trembled with anger, but she did not lose her composure and ordered everyone to stop. She ordered that no one dares to move forward at this time, who knows if there are any stone mines underground ahead.

Next, it is obviously an exaggeration to say that the ground was scraped three feet, but there are still three inches of scraping. During the period, the Liao army dug out a porcelain bottle, which scared all the soldiers nearby, because the Liao army had never seen what the stone mine looked like. , not to mention who knows if this is a new weapon of Xiangfu Kingdom.In the end, Brother Yeluxiu forcibly sent a daredevil to 'clear mines' with a mortal heart. As a result, everything happened. The porcelain bottle is just a porcelain bottle, but after opening, there is a note inside with a sentence written on it "Xiao Chuo, if you dared to slap me twice, I would have killed your father and younger brother."

The note was delivered to Xiao Chuonian by Yeluxiu at the fastest speed. Just when Xiao Chuo was about to take over to read it, a voice came from afar: "Queen Mother! Don't touch the note, be careful it's poisonous."

Xiao Chuo's face changed again, and the maid holding the note also dropped the note on the ground.At this time, a fast horse galloped ahead and shouted from a distance: "There is poison on the note, the Queen Mother must not touch it."

The person who came was the first deputy commander of the palace guards. The first commander Yeluxiu was already poisoned because he touched the note. Fortunately, he had a deep inner strength, so he felt something wrong at the first moment, so he sat down and used his inner strength to suppress the toxin from spreading. , The soldier who touched the note first was dead, and his whole body turned into pitch black.

At this time, when the note was delivered, the soldier who was still kneeling in front of Xiao Chuo's dragon chariot let out a miserable scream, and then fell to the ground, his whole body also turned black and completely dead.

Immediately afterwards, the court lady who touched the note last fell down with a terrified cry, her whole body was pitch black, because she was very close to Xiao Chuo's dragon chariot, this scene was witnessed by Xiao Chuo at close range, It gave Xiao Chuo a great shock, even with her city mansion, she couldn't help but scream.

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Hurrying over, it was Zhang Wumeng who reminded him that he had just received the news that Shangguan Bingyun and Yu Daoxiang had arrived in Shangjing, and after hearing about what happened in the hunting ground, he felt something was wrong, and happened to witness it from afar. After digging out the porcelain bottle and the note, he suspected that the note was poisonous, so he stopped it, but he was right.

When Xiao Chuo thought that if Zhang Wumeng hadn't reminded him just now, he would have touched the note, just like a dead palace lady, he couldn't help sweating profusely, trembling slightly, his face had already turned pale.

(End of this chapter)