The seventh year of Tiansheng, the second day of the seventh lunar month.
The two saints arrived at Huaqing Palace.
Different from the previous ceremonial guard that was like moving the capital, this time, the Second Saint only brought troops, kings and some high-ranking officials and dignitaries.
After all, the southwest generals and the Toungoo royal family have entered Shu, and most of them are still staying in Chang'an to prepare for the chieftain's ceremonial ceremony.
Long Xiang, Feng Xiang, Yu Lin and Suzaku cavalry accompanied and escorted him.
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Southwest of Lintong County.
East Palace Station, in the room in Wei Ci's courtyard.
Wei Ci put on his middle coat and single coat in turn, then carefully put on a layer of gold silk armor on his upper body to protect his chest and heart, then picked up the arm armor and put it on.
This is the soft armor given to him by the late emperor, and it has saved his life countless times.
He bent his knees, uncovered the extra knee pads, tied them to his thighs and calf posts, put on his soap leather boots, and put on his greaves.
Standing up, except for the joints, which were not covered with armor, the rest of the body was basically covered with inner armor. The whole person looks like an iron man.
The soldier on the side picked up the coat and put it on him. He held the breastplate and asked another soldier to fasten his belt.
Finally, a thin cloak was put on, completely hiding the armor.
The whole process was very quiet.
"Mirror." Seeing that the armor was put on, Wei Ci said to the soldiers.
The soldier held the bronze mirror in front of his chest.
Wei Ci calmly adjusted his makeup. Whatever happened today, it would be a failure or failure. He wanted to be in the best condition, including his appearance.
Finally smoothing out the last wrinkle on his sleeves, Wei Ci nodded and led his soldiers out of the room to the prince's courtyard.
Wei Ci walked quickly to the prince's side, and stood on either side of the prince with Sun Zhiming on the left and right.
Looking at everyone, the officers in the courtyard became quiet. Wei Ci nodded and then looked at the prince.
"Your Highness, it's time to say something."
The tone left no room for doubt.
"Yes, I understand." Chen Pingyuan responded quickly.
He swallowed nervously, took a deep breath, and took a step forward.
"Heavy rain is about to come, and the wind is blowing all over the building. This matter is originally a family matter, but it involves everyone. If there is anything I can't do, Chen Pingyuan is here to apologize to you."
As he spoke, he cupped his fists and bowed.
Everyone hurriedly returned the gift.
"I swear allegiance to His Highness to the death, and we will live and die with His Highness!"
A group of fanatical officers knelt down on one knee and clasped their fists, shouting at Chen Pingyuan.
Finally, I can get my revenge!
"Okay, okay, if things come true in the future, Gu and you will not only create a prosperous age together and share the glory and wealth. After your death, the descendants of Gu will also enshrine you in the temple of meritorious officials forever. I want you and Gu to receive royal worship forever." !" Chen Pingyuan also straightened up and looked excitedly at the four officers of the East Palace who were kneeling in the yard, as if he really wanted to take back the throne.
Oh, what a dream, you are just a bastard, how dare you dream of the throne of my master!
Sun Zhiming sneered inwardly, but he saluted Chen Pingyuan and shouted with everyone.
"I swear to follow His Highness to the death!"
"Okay, okay, Master Wei?" Chen Pingyuan's face flushed with excitement, but when he felt Wei Ci's gaze, he quickly gestured to him to see if he had anything else to say.
Wei Ci was not polite and took a step forward to speak.
"Your Highness, may I allow you to do a fortune-telling for me in the East Palace?" Sun Zhiming suddenly interrupted Wei Ci and bowed to Chen Pingyuan.
"This" Chen Pingyuan doesn't believe this. If there are gods and Buddhas in this world, why don't the gods and Buddhas respond every time they pray to them for lightning to kill Sun Zhiming?
But the power is stronger than others, so how can he dare to disobey him?
"Good, please ask Master Sun to do a divination for us!"
"Yes." Sun Zhiming nodded with satisfaction and began to put things on the table.
When Sun Zhiming just took out the turtle shell, Wei Ci, who was ashen-faced, stepped forward, grabbed the turtle shell, and smashed it to the ground.
"Your Highness, could it be that the result of the divination is not good and I won't do it anyway?!"
After saying that, Wei Ci glared at the dissatisfied Sun Zhiming with a murderous look, which made his legs weak and he almost fell to his knees without being able to stand.
The atmosphere in the courtyard instantly became solemn.
Everyone looks at me and I look at you, but I don’t know who to listen to.
"Your Highness, I don't think this is necessary." Upon seeing this, Cui He quickly stepped forward and clasped his fists to express his position.
A husband is valued based on his wife. Because of Li Sananniang, he was successfully promoted to Qianhu in his Qianhu office.
"Yes, Your Highness, the general trend is in the East Palace, and the destiny is in Your Highness, so what does it matter if you don't count it?" Another Qianhu came forward and said.
After hearing the two big bosses speak, a group of subordinates behind them also quickly came out to support the big boss. Sun Zhiming's direct descendants couldn't afford to cause trouble. Soon, the hospital unified their opinions and agreed that it didn't matter whether it counted or not. ,waste time.
"Hmph!" Sun Zhiming, who had been humiliated, snorted coldly and secretly scolded these reckless men for not knowing how to commend themselves, but since they all decided not to make any calculations, it didn't matter.
Seeing that everyone didn't care, Wei Ci pulled out his sword with a clang.
"Must win!"
Everyone clenched their fists and raised their hands, "We must win!"
Only victory is allowed here, no defeat is allowed!
East Palace must win!
After the training, everyone dispersed on the spot and returned to their respective units to prepare for the night's battle.
Cui He also hurriedly ran towards his yard, and everyone wisely gave him way.
It was not entirely because he, Cui He, became Qianhu, but more because Li Sananniang almost died trying to obtain information, and they had to respect her.
Cui He quickly ran back to his yard and walked into Li Sananniang's room.
"Hoo ma'am." His yard was still a little far away from the yard where the mobilization meeting had just been held, and Cui He was out of breath.
"Husband, are you going to start?"
Li Sananniang, who was lying on the bed and staring blankly at the beam, turned her head and looked at her husband with a worried look on her face.
Although the emperor and the prince promised to allow them to do whatever they wanted, the sword had no eyes, so who knew what would happen tonight?
"Yeah, it's about to start." Cui He took a deep breath and finally stabilized his breath, smiled slightly, and sat on the edge of the bed.
"Don't worry, you know your skills as a man, and I followed Old Zamao Sun and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's reserve team to go up the mountain from another trail. It's very safe."
"Shut up!" Li Sananniang raised her left hand that could barely move and covered her husband's mouth with difficulty.
"No, it's unlucky to say this. Not many people who say this in the script can come back alive. Bah, bah, bah, it's so unlucky! Husband, you understand what I mean anyway." Li Sansanniang said incoherently towards Cui. Crane explained.
"I know, but I am already a Qianhu, I have to go." Cui He stretched out his hand to straighten his wife's messy hair one by one, and then tucked it behind the ears.
"well"
Cui He looked at his worried wife. He had a thousand words in his heart but couldn't say a word. He could only lean down and hug her gently.
Feeling her husband's frustration, Li Sananniang's eyes were red and she was holding back tears. With difficulty, Li Sananniang raised her left hand and put it on Cui He's neck. She could no longer hold back and sobbed softly. .
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The emperor's banner and honor guard arrived at Huaqing Palace in Lishan in the late afternoon.
"Oh, I have heard of the name of Huaqing Pool for a long time, but I have never had the opportunity to come here. I never thought that today I would be lucky enough to follow my father and my brother here. I am determined to do it."
"Are you going to drink a lot of bath water?"
Just as King Zhongxin was intoxicated looking at the palace of Huaqing Palace and flattering the Second Saint, King Zhongshun interrupted him with a wicked smile, causing everyone to laugh, even the emperor laughed.
"You guys!" King Zhongxin was furious after being humiliated. He turned around and wanted to fight King Zhongshun. However, after seeing his thirteenth brother's thick body, he snorted and disdained to be acquainted with him.
vulgar!
King Zhongxin has beaten King Zhongshun in his mind countless times!
Click!
There was thunder on the ground, and the weather that was originally clear and clear suddenly turned into torrential rain.
The rain was pounding on the ground, and the royal people who had been taking a leisurely walk just now quickly quickened their pace and walked into the main hall of Huaqing Pool to take shelter from the rain.
Perhaps out of interest, the emperor came to the corridor to listen to the rain. Seeing this, the emperor and the kings also came to him.
"I'm a little uneasy for some reason." The seventh prince, who had actually participated in the battlefield, was a little uneasy, just like before the battle.
This confused him.
Something is wrong.
Holding the dagger hidden in his sleeve hard, he suddenly felt a gaze. The seventh prince looked vaguely in the direction of the gaze, and found that the third brother with only one eye had the same serious look on his face.
. . . . . .
At the foot of the mountain, inside Jia Hui's shogunate.
Jia Hui, Guan, Lin, and Yang, the three direct subordinates of Qianhu, and Lu Xiuwen and other generals from the direct subordinate army gathered around the Lishan sand table in the center of the shogunate.
Jia Hui looked around at the generals with a serious expression.
"I have received information about the rebels in the East Palace. They have already entered the mountain at this time, and they will take action tonight.
Everyone must know the enemy coach. Eight years ago, the former Donggong Zuo Siyu led the commander Wei Ci."
"Hiss!" A sound of inhalation came from the crowd, and Jia Hui felt that the shogunate was getting a little warmer.
"What, Uncle Liu, are you scared?" Hearing the sound of breathing, Jia Hui knew who it was, and then looked at the bald man with sweat on his forehead in the crowd with a teasing look on his face.
"So and so is afraid! It's just a Wei Rabbit. The last general can suppress it with a backhand! Taiwei, the last general is asking for a fight. I am willing to fight to the death with that Wei Rabbit as a pioneer!" Holding back the fear in his heart, the bald man Liu Shen said He excitedly pushed away his colleagues and challenged Jia Hui to fight. He looked like a warrior!
It would be better if he didn't tremble while speaking.
"Come on, Liu Er, I remember when we were fighting the rebellion, your old boy's Qianhu was smashed to pieces by a charge led by Zuo Siyu of Wei Rabbit. If you hadn't been so lucky in the end, You Siyu was left alone. Take command of the envoy. Who is that? You capture him alive, otherwise, because of your defeat, everyone will have to raise horses for the emperor for a few days!"
The commander of the Fengxiang Guard began to laugh at his old friend Liu Shen, who had been appointed as the commander of the Longxiang Guard.
"Fuck you! Did I lose the battle? At that time, Wei Rabbit rushed in desperately. I cherished the strength of the troops and changed my tactics. I and the other thousands of households in Longxiang attacked Zuo Siyu in front and back to kill Zuo Siyu's rate. The shit was smashed to pieces. !”
What followed was "There were more people than us at that time", "In the end I wiped out all Zuo Siyu and his leader", etc., which caused everyone to burst into laughter, and the shogunate was filled with a happy atmosphere.
"Ahem, be silent!" Lu Xiujie, who had been sitting on the sidelines, saw that the atmosphere was lively enough, so he raised a straight face and scolded the generals who were directly involved in the army.
The generals of the Shangzhiqin Army were like mice seeing a cat, and they immediately became quiet.
"I don't need to bother Uncle Liu about the vanguard officer. In other words, there is no need for the vanguard officer at all. We only need to station troops and horses here, here, and here. When they rush to Huaqing Palace, we can cut them off and annihilate them." ." Jia Hui twisted the small wooden stick in his hand and pointed at several locations on the sand table.
"It is said that there are six troops in the East Palace. In fact, there are no six troops anymore, and they can't afford to support them. According to the intelligence, they only have four troops at most. They may not be able to make up for it, but their combat effectiveness is definitely stronger than that of the guards. It's like a battalion soldier." Jia Hui thought for a while and said.
"In addition, I would like to emphasize again that we must annihilate all the remaining evildoers in the East Palace and eliminate all evil!"
"We will obey the Taiwei's military order!" All the generals of the Shangzhi army, including Lu Xiujie, saluted Jia Hui as promised.
"Very well, go get ready. Be sure to be in position before sunset." Jia Hui took a deep breath and placed the wooden stick in his hand on the sand table.
"Annihilate all the remaining evildoers and eradicate all evil!"
"Annihilate all the remaining evildoers and eradicate all evil!"
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It rained heavily from afternoon to night.
There was no sound in Huaqing Palace, only the main hall was brightly lit.
The two saints sat on the verandah and played chess, and no one said a word.
The kings remained in the palace, pacing anxiously and distraught.
At this time, he should have finished his dinner early and then took his wife and children to take a warm bath, but the Second Saint just asked someone to bring a simple meal hastily, and he ate it.
The kings who were trapped here and were not allowed to go out were already holding back their anger and were about to get angry when they saw how simple the meal was. However, when they saw the two saints finishing their dinner in silence without saying anything, they also They could only endure their anger and pick up their own meals and finish them as quickly as possible.
Bah!
A black stone landed on the chessboard, instantly killing the white dragon and losing the whole game.
"His father's chess skills are really becoming more and more exquisite." The emperor, who originally wanted to continue to make moves to improve his chess game, took a breath and said with some emotion.
"It's not bad, but the emperor's chess skills haven't improved much." The emperor cleaned up the black stones on the chessboard again and again, and said to the emperor with a nonchalant expression but a proud tone.
"I can't help it. I've been so busy these years that I haven't played much chess, so my chess skills..."
As soon as the words came out, the emperor suddenly froze in place.
That's bad, I said something I shouldn't have said!
"Huh? What's wrong with being busy? As an emperor, how can you be free? Do you want to be a foolish emperor? Or are you blaming me for letting you become an emperor?" This depressing atmosphere made the emperor very angry, and he turned the The chess pieces were thrown on the chessboard, and the emperor looked at the emperor with an unkind expression.
"Here I am aware of my mistake!" The emperor skillfully changed his kneeling position.
No matter what, the angry father will not listen to your explanation, otherwise the eldest brother would not have to die.
"Are you wrong? What's your fault? You're right! It was me who was wrong. I really shouldn't have given up the throne in the first place."
Boom!
A firework suddenly exploded in the sky and was quickly extinguished by the rain
(End of chapter)
