With a long blow on the palace gate, it opened suddenly.
The angry horse rolled up the red light of the torch, and the brigade of nobles and horses drove straight into the palace. In the passage of the palace where the civil servants and military officers dismounted in the past, there is now a clear and crisp sound of horseshoes.
The one leading the horse was Xuanyuan Yu from the Xuanyuan family. Under the firelight, the tall horse with a golden crown and jade belt, facing the shivering palace people, his face was flushed with complacency.
The son of the aristocratic family who was the first to seek refuge with the queen has now also become the head and main contact of the first big family to rebel against Jing Hengbo. According to him, before he surrendered to Jing Hengbo, he was forced by the situation, resigned himself to fear, hibernating and waiting, but now he abandons the dark and turns to the bright, puts order out of chaos, and clarifies the sky. The queen acted perversely, the gods and men were angry together, and all talented and virtuous scholars in the world were punished.
When he accepted the instigation of those nobles, he told them a lot of hardships, such as how the queen squeezed the Xuanyuan family, how he killed his father, son and brothers, and how the Xuanyuan family suffered incalculable losses during the period when they were forced to submit to the queen. With sincere affection, he beat his chest and stomped his feet, and the listener sighed helplessly and burst into tears.
This hit it off, and it became a great cause.
Behind him, there was a huge team, and the palace people stood at both ends of the road, quietly identifying those people by the firelight. Only two of the five chief ministers came, four deputy ministers, and honors of all levels and their descendants. The principals of each department... Almost all of the people who were deposed from the Great Wilderness Court came, and even now, less than half of them are safe and sound. At first glance, it makes people feel that this is a grand court meeting.
The guards in the palace came and were kept away by these well-prepared family allied private troops. Judging from the situation of the battle, it seemed that it was not too fierce. Xuanyuan Yuan turned to look at the crowd, and they smiled knowingly.
The rich and nobles have already discussed it, and they will appease and win over the Hengji army, so as not to arouse their heart to defend the queen to the death. This matter started early on, for example, taking advantage of the opportunity of General Kanglong's old age to have a son, he had a big banquet for the guests, and took the opportunity to establish friendship with the general of the Hengji Army. A considerable number of middle-level generals in the Henglong Army were formerly titled lieutenants of the Kanglong Army, and they have a close relationship with the Kanglong Army. Now the wealthy and powerful families have spared no expense in buying houses and land for them, and relocating their families. To instigate in the middle, to lure and persuade those Hengji sergeants who came from the humble tortoise shell family, and try their best to win over and divide them. In Xuanyuan's words, we must move people with emotion, persuade people with reason, and confuse people with gold, so that these generals who were originally unwilling , truly feel the warmth of the Emperor Ge family.
Looking at the inside and outside of the palace at this time, the resistance they received was not considered fierce, and there were few casualties on both sides. Everyone was very relieved—if they could not kill their own people, they could win over the Halberd Army, and then kill the queen. You will get the most perfect ending.
Xuanyuan Yu laughed and asked the palace people: "Where is our respected Majesty the Queen?"
The palace people flinched and pointed to the main hall of Yuzhao Palace. Someone said, "Your Majesty...haven't slept yet?"
"Oh?" Everyone was nervous for a while, and suddenly remembered the legendary queen's ability to appear and disappear. They all looked around in panic and ordered the guards to get closer and closer.
"That..." Someone whispered again, "...Your Majesty seems to be drunk again..."
"Hahahahaha, this is called God helping me!" Xuanyuan Qi raised his head and laughed loudly, taking the lead, "Let's hurry up and pay homage to His Majesty!"
Seeing his hurried back, everyone curled their lips behind their backs, mocking a frivolous idiot secretly. Of course, it is always a good thing for someone to die first, and they all shouted: "I will wait with Patriarch Xuanyuan!" and galloped away.
He drove all the way to the front of the main hall, and saw from a distance that the lights were dark and the lights were not burning, and it was deserted and no one was there, Xuanyuan Yuan turned his head and said to the crowd: "I heard that Her Majesty the Queen does not allow people to come near when drinking, is it possible that you don't know about such a big commotion? "
"Brother Xuanyuan, be careful." Someone looked around vigilantly, clenched the weapon in his hand, "Maybe the Queen is trying to trick you..."
"Hahaha brother, you are too timid, cheating? The smell of alcohol is spreading out of the hall, haven't you heard it?" Xuanyuan laughed, suddenly grabbed the torch from the guards around him, raised his arm and threw it, "Let's see if we can catch it!"
The torch crossed a long dark red line, flashed in the dark hall, fell to the ground with a "pop", landed on the brocade carpet in the hall, and ignited immediately.
Everyone stared at the burning fire, the darkness was gradually burned and peeled off by the fire, gradually revealing the crimson palace pillars, vermilion dandelion, white marble railings, golden jade pond, flying phoenix inlaid throne... and the reclining figure on the throne head, the woman with the flagon slightly tilted.
She seemed to be startled by the flames at last, and when she turned her head to look, in the leaping flames, a pair of eyes were angled obliquely like a bird's flying feathers, and the eyes were moist and crystal clear, like a dream.
The flames made half of her face reddish, as clear as rouge.
Everyone was silent for a moment, startled by the brilliance, and then overjoyed—the queen really didn't know about the mutiny, she was so decadent, she was really drunk!
A drunken queen, alone in the palace, what deterrent can she have?
Just looking up at the burning hall, I felt uneasy after all, even though I did such a thing as a traitor, I always wanted to leave three points for myself, looked at each other and refused to go forward, it was still Xuanyuan who was as stunned. Qi, laughing loudly, stepped into the hall, and called out strangely, "See Your Majesty, Your Majesty Wanan."
"Oh... Goji berry..." Zuo Shangjing Hengbo tilted his head, looked at him for a long time before he recognized him, shook the jug, and hiccuped, "It's so late...to do...what?" He laughed and shouted again, "What about people, what about people, why did the lamps fall to the ground?"
The people outside the hall listened and felt more at ease, they were already drunk enough to see the flames on the brocade carpet as palace lanterns.
The crowd began to climb up the steps one after another, and instead of the fear and anxiety they used to step into the hall, they raised their heads and sneered, staring at the hall.
Jing Hengbo squinted his eyes and counted with his fingers, "One, two, three... oh, why are there so many people? Is it time to go to court...? Is the weather bad today... why is it still dark..." After speaking, he tried his best to probe Wanting to see the sky outside, he leaned forward, fell to the ground with a thud, and rolled twice, the jug hit his back with a bang, and immediately spilled wine all over his body.
Everyone looked at him coldly, and they all sneered, and someone said loudly: "That's right, this is the court, you should hurry up, this is the last time in your life!"
Jing Hengbo raised his arms from the drink, leaned on his forehead and muttered: "Hey! Where is the bold madman who dares to roar at the Golden Palace... Goji berry... Goji berry... Hurry up and drive this madman... out!"
"I obey the decree!" Xuanyuan Qi folded his arms, grinning and loudly agreed, strode up Danchi, stooped and pulled the brocade carpet under the throne, Jing Hengbo immediately rolled down the white marble steps, and hit his head on the ground with a slap. By the pool. Can't help but "Ah yo."
Her cries were drowned out by laughter, and more and more people entered the hall, smiling like Xuanyuan Yuan with their arms folded, they were all happy to enjoy playing the queen at this moment, and washed away the repressed resentment that had been suppressed for many days.
And those private soldiers of the family, seeing that no one was stopping them, poured into the square inside the palace. Some people were wandering in the square, taking the opportunity to admire the palace, which is usually invisible, and some people sneaked into the next room, and hurriedly stuffed the jewels and jade objects into their arms. .
Jing Hengbo turned over on the ground, and had already been pressed against the flames burning all the way on the brocade carpet, "Ouch." He jumped up quickly with a sound, and slapped again and again, and everyone burst into laughter again.
In the laughter, Jing Hengbo's face turned red, and he pointed at Xuanyuan Yu unsteadily, "It's so big... so courageous... come! come!"
The figure flickered, and Jing Hengbo suddenly disappeared. Everyone exclaimed, quickly grabbed their weapons, looked around themselves first, and then looked at each other—the queen flashed? Where did Flash go?
"Madman!" With a slightly hoarse yell, a slender figure reeking of alcohol flashed out from behind the curtain, with long hair hanging over his face, and he stretched out his hand to scratch Xuanyuan Yu's face fiercely.
When she appeared suddenly, Xuanyuan Yu hastily turned his face away, he was already a step behind, he let out a scream, blood splashed in the firelight, his right cheek to his neck had already been scratched deeply by Jing Hengbo's nails, his flesh was torn apart .
"Bitch!" Xuanyuan Qi was in severe pain from the injury, suddenly furious, and slammed his knife.
The light of the knife hangs upside down, brighter than the light of the fire.
Everyone stared wide-eyed and subconsciously held their breath.
As soon as the knife light came on, the queen subconsciously dodged backwards in front of the curtain, but because she tripped over the curtain and her feet were unsteady after being drunk, the dodge did not dodge far, and she fell forward as soon as she fell, sending a face to her face. To Xuanyuan Yu's knife.
At this moment, everyone's eyeballs seemed to pop out of their sockets.
This moment is just an instant, but in everyone's eyes, it has become a slow motion.
I saw the light of the knife chopping down without stopping, I saw the queen dodging the vital point but not her face, I saw a rainbow of blood suddenly lit up in the darkness, splashing marks on the crimson mantle from bottom to top, like a tail The giant leaping fish.
Then I heard the scream that I always wanted to hear. It was sharp and pierced. I don't know if it was the eardrum or the beating heart at the moment.
Everyone stared straight at them, watching the queen fall down with her face covered, deep red blood splattered out from between her fingers.
At this moment, a completely irrelevant thought flashed through many men's minds: It's a pity that such a face...
Xuanyuan Qi also seemed to be startled, he was stunned for a long time before he smiled ferociously, and pulled away the queen's hand, the ferocious muscles on his face made the onlookers close their eyes suddenly.
But Xuanyuan Qi burst out laughing, and the laughter resounded through the deathly silent hall, "Bitch, you also have today!" With a kick, the queen was kicked into the curtain, and the overlapping brocade curtains hung down, Clinging to the queen's body, the blood was still quietly spreading under her body.
The air in the hall seemed to be frozen. Everyone stood in the hall, smelling the intertwined smell of fire and blood, looking at the shadows of trees dancing in the windless outside, and seeing the blood flowing slowly like a snake on the ground, they all suddenly felt There was a bone-chilling chill.
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The moment Xuanyuan Yu and others entered the palace gate.
On the top of the city, the soldiers on duty all night were preparing to change shifts.
The soldier was still the same soldier who opened the door to send Pei Shu out of the city. He stared at the flames and crowds in the city all night from the top of the city. He saw that the fighting dwindled and the flames of people entered the palace area. However, the battle never spread to the west city, and did not affect any city gates. , I immediately understood that this was an internal struggle, and it seemed to have ended successfully.
This made him feel relieved, but at the same time felt a little bit sad—the soldiers didn't feel the queen's "tyranny". On the contrary, he had a good impression of the queen. After the queen came, their heavy tasks in the past were relieved, and the military pay that was always in arrears in the past began to be paid on time. During the Chinese New Year, each of them received three catties of meat and issued a cotton jacket. , to avoid the smoke and fire of inferior charcoal in the past. I heard that this is all ordered by the queen to step up preparations. Before that, Husi was crying poor every year to the end of the year, so he couldn't care about them little soldiers.
With a heavy sigh, he turned and leaned the spear against the plate stack. What's the use of little people thinking it's good? Right and wrong and power are always in the hands of big men with fat heads.
As he turned around, his body froze suddenly.
The darkness in front suddenly felt a sense of flow, and large swaths of darkness moved slowly from a distance.
Then I heard a loud rumbling sound, with a neat rhythm, rising and falling like a sound, this is the hoofbeat of the cavalry.
And then, he saw clearly what it was - the light blue sky stripped off the silhouette of a black flag flying, and the shiny spear tip pointed straight to the sky, and a man in black armor and golden robe was in front of him, his eyebrows and eyes seemed to be the same as his black hair fly.
That posture, so familiar, the night before yesterday, I just saw him so angry that he took only a dozen riders out of the city!
"Young Marshal Pei!"
"call out!"
The sharp hiss overwhelmed his screams, and there seemed to be a light shining behind him. When he turned his head, he saw the fireworks in the center of the city, suddenly flying straight into the sky.
Then he saw the same scene as before, but in the opposite order.
The young marshal brought the army back to the city with a token. After the city gate was opened, the army rushed in like a tide and went straight to the east of the city.
And at the junction of the east and west of the city, the stalemate seems to have broken the ice. One side is withdrawing the line of defense, and the other side is rushing in. The originally calm Imperial City Square suddenly boiled like porridge. Almost instantly, it just calmed down. The emperor's song, clamoring again.
And Pei Shu's army pierced through the streets like arrows and shot directly at Yuzhao Palace.
The soldier stood on the top of the wall in a daze, looking at the flames that suddenly erupted from afar, he felt a sudden chill on his back, and his inner clothes were soaked in cold sweat.
Lu Li was in the middle of the night, and he didn't know what night it was. He vaguely felt that the day and night when he was on duty, he witnessed the most turbulent scene in the history of Dige, and witnessed the layers of Dige City from calm to hustle and bustle to calm and then to hustle and bustle. Suddenly, in such a dizzying change, it seems to see the torrent of history, throwing up a wave that pours into the sky.
In the waves, many buildings collapsed.
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