Inside Tiance Mansion.
After Li Shimin inspected the defense, he returned to the main hall with a calm look and no expression. Princess Qin, who walked in, knew that her husband's expression was actually a sign of anxiety and comforted her in a low voice.
After all, nothing has been made clear yet. At most, King Qin did not enter the palace after returning to Beijing, which caused many people to have doubts, and there was no formal rebellion in the East Palace.
Li Shimin whispered: "The East Palace is trying to kill the fish and the net is broken, but I don't worry about it, I only worry about Longyou."
I have already asked Yuchi Gong. In just a few days after I left Beijing, the situation in Lingzhou changed again. If the Turks wanted to cross the Yellow River, they could only attack the Longyou Road.
What Li Shimin is most worried about now is that the Turks will destroy Longyou Road... To put it bluntly, Li Jiancheng, who fights to the death, doesn't care, and Pei Shiju doesn't care, but Li Shimin, who has already regarded the world as his own, does care very much.
After a pause, Li Shimin asked softly: "Is there any reward?"
"Only the messengers who went to the residences of Duke Jiang and Duke Fu have returned." Princess Qin's face looked a little unhappy, "Neither Duke Jiang nor Duke Fu has returned to their mansions, and the messengers who went to Duke Song, Princess Pingyang's mansion and other residences have not returned. "
"It seems that the East Palace has arranged manpower around Jinchengfang." Li Shimin looked at the dark night sky outside, "Counting the time, the gate of the square will be closed soon."
"Yes." Princess Qin whispered: "Tomorrow..."
"Tomorrow Wei Chigong will definitely be able to lead his troops to Chang'an." Li Shimin sneered: "Gu, Prince Zhao, Princess Pingyang and their personal guards arrived at Zhuque Gate. Please see Duke Jiang, Duke Song and uncle."
"If my father shows up, of course everything will be fine. If my father and other ministers and ministers don't show up, I will naturally lead my personal guards into the imperial city and take over the Beiya Imperial Guards."
Li Shimin actually didn't pay much attention to the current situation. He knew well that after more than a year of suppression, the only trump card in Dong Palace's hands was the Changlin Army. The 400 personal guards he brought back to Beijing were enough to defeat the enemy. .
What's more, if the Changlin Army really entered the imperial city, it would be equivalent to the East Palace admitting its rebellion. As for the Beiya Forbidden Army, even if Wang Junkuo rebelled, Li Shimin was confident that he could control it.
In fact, Li Shimin knew in his heart that the safest measure was to lead his personal guards to leave Chang'an before the city gate closed. Then the East Palace would have no tricks... He couldn't keep His Majesty under house arrest, right?
It doesn't take long, two or three days... To be precise, if Li Yuan doesn't show up the day after tomorrow, everything can't be hidden, because the day after tomorrow is the tenth day of October, Li Yuan is going to the court, and all the officials who participated in the morning court will be there See you in Tai Chi Hall.
At that time, Li Shimin can do whatever he wants.
But the problem is that firstly, Li Shimin does not want to delay it too long. Longyou Road is likely to change in the near future. The war situation in Hedong has temporarily stabilized, but no one knows whether it will change again. Li Daozong and Li Daoxuan are still trapped in Bingzhou. Li Shiji and Liu Shirang were still separated in Shuozhou.
The second is that the families and children of many generals in the Tiance Mansion are in Jinchengfang and nearby. It is naturally safe to leave by yourself, but if the family members of many generals are killed and captured, it will be fucked... Not to mention others, Li Shimin's own wives and concubines There are so many children, it is impossible to take them away.
The third reason is that Li Shimin's own character is too confident. He is confident that he can quickly put an end to the chaos.
Li Shimin was thinking that as long as Yuchi Gong and his army arrived at Tonghua Gate early tomorrow morning, the overall situation would be decided, but what happened to Li Huairen now...
The state of Yu Chigong that Li Shimin was looking forward to may be different from what he guessed. This brave general's eyes were now breathing fire, and there were three or two feather arrows hanging on his body. Although he was dancing with his horse, he was unable to do anything. More than half of the ten personal guards have fallen.
It wasn't that Yu Chigong was incompetent, but that the attacker was too shameless and didn't want to fight with Yu Chigong at all. After meeting Yuchi Gong suddenly, he immediately rained arrows on him and then flew a kite in the distance.
It doesn't matter if Yu Chigong flies a kite, but the problem is that the target of the attacker is not them, but the mounts under their crotches. It didn't take long for Yuchi Gong and the mounts of the bodyguards to be shot dead.
Obviously this was to prevent him from rushing back to Xianyang County quickly. Yuchi Gong felt a lot of hatred in his heart, and he was also mixed with fear... The reason was very simple. It was only more than thirty miles from Chang'an to Xianyang County. Even if he didn't ride a horse and walk in the dark, There is enough time, and he can still lead three thousand elites to Chang'an tomorrow morning.
There is only one explanation for these people shooting their mounts. The East Palace will take action tonight.
There was a faint light of fire in the distance. Yu Chigong took off his big bow, set it up and fired an arrow. The long arrow passed silently in the dark night and pierced the throat of a big man.
The other party made a loud noise and ran backwards.
Yuchi Gong did not pursue, but thought silently for a while, then suddenly turned his head and looked to the left, "Let's go to Sun Moon Lake!"
At this time, the lights were brightly lit in Dongshan Temple. In the middle hall, Zhu, Su Dingfang, Zhu Wei, Cui Xin, Zhang and others were still discussing. Cui Shiniang, who was yawning, refused to go back to rest.
"Do we really want to send out scouts to investigate?" Cui Xin asked his daughter in a low voice.
Cui Shiniang covered her small mouth and whispered: "Zhao Guogong is a famous general, but he is far inferior to A Lang and Ling Gong in this aspect."
After a hard night's work last night, all the family members and children of each family had evacuated to Dongshan Temple before dawn. Fan Shiyi suggested sending out scouts to investigate the situation in Chang'an, but Su Dingfang hesitated for a while but rejected it... because Li Shan once explained, Once something happens, just retreat to Dongshan Temple and wait for reinforcements, waiting for King Qin to return.
For this reason, both Fan Shiyi and Su Dingfang fell out, and they had a big quarrel. Su Dingfang also had his own reasons, because he went out to test the village in person, and there were a lot of people who had been watching outside for a whole day and still didn't know their origins. , and all roads have been blocked. If the number of scouts leaving the village is small, they may not be able to get out, and even if they go out, they may not be able to come back.
If more people come out of the village, it will be equivalent to starting a war, which may attract more troops to besiege Sun Moon Lake... Su Dingfang's idea is to hang out as long as he can.
To put it bluntly, Su Dingfang felt that if Dong Gong conspired to rebel, Li Shan would most likely have been killed. The key now was to protect the Zhu family, Cui Shiniang, and possibly Li Shan's only heir.
After Cui Shiniang, who had been sleeping drowsily during the day, woke up at dusk, she quickly asked Fan Shiyi to send scouts out to investigate. She also asked Liu Heier to personally lead a hundred personal guards out. Even if they could not repel the enemy, Also make sure that Sun Moon Lake is connected to the outside world.
Although Cui Shiniang was low on energy, she could see that her opponent was staring at Sun Moon Lake just to block the news.
Just when everyone was looking forward to Liu Heier's news, there was a faint commotion outside.
"This is..." Zhang's voice was already trembling, "Could it be..."
Cui Xin showed a rare toughness and scolded: "Shut up!"
Everyone in the hall fell silent and listened intently. The commotion became louder and louder, reaching the entrance of the hall.
Mrs. Zhu stood up suddenly, with a look of surprise on her face, and strode to the door of the palace. Others also got up one after another, and even Cui Shiniang let the maid support her and walked out.
Because everyone heard it clearly.
"Alang!"
"Alang is back!"
Cui Shiniang, who was the last one to walk to the entrance of the palace, looked up. Li Shan, who was quite haggard but still tall and tall, appeared not far away surrounded by dozens of personal guards.
(End of chapter)
