After leaving the Prime Minister's Mansion, it was already dark. Looking at the coarse cloth bag that Chen Xiaomu never left his hand, Wei Yushang thought it contained a gift that Chen Xiaomu had brought to his father, and he didn't expect that it contained a gift that Chen Xiaomu had brought to his father. Now that it was brought out again, I couldn't help but wonder: "Teacher, what treasures do you have in this bag? I haven't let go of it since I saw you today."
When Chen Xiaomu heard the sound, he pretended to be mysterious and said: "This is a good medicine I invented that can cure all diseases. It's called "Stretch Legs and Eyes Anshen Pill!" "
Wei Yushang hesitated and said: "Teacher, isn't it right? You stretch your legs and stare at the Anshen Pills, but why do you still make a clattering sound like iron?"
Chen Xiaomu smiled and said: "Of course the formula of the medicine that can cure all diseases is different from the ordinary medicine, so the sound must be different too!"
Wei Yushang was doubtful. Out of curiosity, she was about to ask Chen Xiaomu to come over and take a look. At this time, the carriage slowly stopped in front of the princess's mansion.
As soon as Chen Xiaomu stretched out his hand to lift the car curtain, Li Gui and Wang Wu came to greet them from the door. Behind them was a young government servant wearing a blue government official uniform. Li Gui stepped forward and reached out to take the coarse cloth bag in Chen Xiaomu's hand. , said: "Your Highness, according to your instructions, everything has been arranged in the camp outside the city. We are just waiting for His Highness's order."
Chen Xiaomu nodded and looked at the Yamen standing behind him. The Yamen quickly stepped forward and clasped his fists, saying: "Chen Prince Consort, I am here to deliver a letter to Chen Prince Consort on the order of the prefect. Chen Xiaomu recognizes This Yamen was the same Yamen who was called out to receive them by Jia Gui yesterday at the Magistrate's Yamen. He stretched out his hand and said: "Bring it here! "
The officer quickly took out a wax-sealed envelope from his pocket and handed it to him. Chen Xiaomu glanced left and right, then walked aside and tore off the wax seal on the envelope, took out the letter paper inside and looked at it, then took out the fire seal. , swayed in the wind, ignited a flame, and burned the letter paper and envelope in his hand.
Watching the ashes of the letter and envelope drifting away in the cold night wind, Chen Xiaomu stood there and pondered for a moment, then walked back to the Yamen official and said to him: "Please go back and bring a message to Magistrate Bai for me, please ask him Send more people to patrol around the Prime Minister's Mansion tonight, and if you find anyone trying to get close to the Prime Minister's Mansion, arrest them immediately."
The officer bowed to Chen Xiaomu and clasped his fists and said, "Yes, Prince Consort, I will definitely bring you with me." After saying that, he turned around and left.
Chen Xiaomu looked at Wang Wu again and said, "Captain Wang, where is Commander Lu now?"
Wang Wu hurriedly said: "Your Highness, Captain Lu is on standby in the princess's palace with 200 selected archers. He has specially sent me to report to Your Highness."
Chen Xiaomu nodded and said, "Go and tell Captain Lu to immediately lead the archers to gather at Goutang Village fifteen miles outside the city. There must be no mistake."
"Here, Your Highness." Wang Wu saluted and returned to the princess's residence.
At this time, Wei Yushang came over and asked Chen Xiaomu: "Teacher, why don't you go into the princess's house and say something to the princess?"
Chen Xiaomu said coldly: "What did you say? If you say it, it will make her worry. Wouldn't it be better for us to deal with it first and then tell her after I finish the matter?"
"Do you think I won't know if you don't tell me?" At some point, Su Xingran and Furong, dressed in black night clothes, quietly appeared in front of everyone. Both of them covered their faces with black cloth, only revealing a pair of eyes. Su Xingran's hands She holds the Fengming Sword in her hand, and Furong carries the rake on her shoulder.
Chen Xiaomu was startled and hurriedly advised: "Honey, you can just be responsible for sitting in the princess mansion. We are the ones who can deal with those stinky Taoist priests!"
Su Xingran shook his head and said softly: "Husband, you probably don't know that the abbot of Sanqing Temple, the most enlightened Taoist, had a nickname when he was the prince in the Qi Palace. It is said that he was In order to compete for the title of the best "Martial Saint Lord" in the world, he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money and beauty to lure experts from all over the world to teach him martial arts. Therefore, his martial arts combined the strengths of hundreds of schools, and the tricks he used were also unpredictable. It’s very difficult to deal with, and there are many masters of martial arts gathered around him, so the people we have now may not be their opponents at all!”
"Holy shit! Are you so powerful?" Chen Xiaomu couldn't help but gasped when he heard this, and even said a popular phrase in later generations unintentionally.
Su Xingran hesitated for a moment and continued: "Husband, how about we wait two days before going to Sanqing Temple? Tomorrow I will go to the master and ask her to come out, and then contact some friends in the world to help us. This way we can win. I’m more certain.”
Chen Xiaomu shook his head gently and murmured: "Wife, no!" If we don't take action tonight, they will. I just received a secret letter from Magistrate Bai, which said that Sanqingguan's carrier pigeons came in and out of the houses of the traitors five or six times today. Magistrate Bai He also said in the letter that after receiving the letter from Sanqingguan, these traitors with military power all went out to the barracks stationed inside and outside the city. They probably went to the barracks to encourage the soldiers inside. The cronies are ready to rebel! "
When Su Xingran heard this, he immediately became nervous, hesitated for a moment, and then suggested: "Husband, then I can send someone to my uncle and ask him to send some imperial troops to help us?"
"Inappropriate." Chen Xiaomu immediately shook his head and rejected Su Xingran's suggestion, and explained to her: "There are also traitors from Sanqingguan in the Royal Forest Army. As long as there is a slightest sign of trouble, Sanqingguan will know it immediately. Next, they will definitely launch a rebellion in advance, and in that case there will be even greater trouble waiting for us.
"What should we do?" Su Xingran was so anxious that he almost cried.
Chen Xiaomu touched the two pistols tucked into his waist and gritted his teeth and said: "Tonight we have to fight for life or death. If it doesn't work out, we will bring the five thousand cavalry from outside the city together with part of your uncle's imperial army. To protect you and your father, the queen, mother, and others will temporarily move to the territory of Chen Kingdom! In short, we can keep Qingshan here so we don’t have to worry about running out of firewood!"
Chen Xiaomu's words reminded Wei Yushang, and she said dullly: "Husband, why don't you use these five thousand cavalry to stamp out the thieves in Sanqing Temple?"
Chen Xiaomu sighed and said with a wry smile: "I have already mobilized some soldiers from the five thousand cavalry to gather in Goutang Village outside the city, and they will go with us to encircle and suppress Sanqing Temple. Most of them have to stay and monitor the inner city. The rebels outside, don’t let these rebels come up from behind us and make dumplings!”
At this time, Lu Yi came over and saluted: "Your Highness, shall we set off now?"
Chen Xiaomu waved his hand and shouted in a low voice: "Let's go to Goutang Village outside the city to meet up with my army, and then we will go to Sanqing Temple together."
A group of people, led by Chen Xiaomu, came to a deserted courtyard under the city wall that was off the beaten track. The entrance to the secret passageway where Wei Yuxin kidnapped him last time to escape from the city was in a dry well in this courtyard. Chen Xiaomu passed through the dry well. The passage successfully reached the moat outside the city. At this time, Wei Yuxin, with a dozen of his men and two carriages, were waiting for them in a forest on the other side of the moat at the exit of the passage. He saw a figure emerging from under the city wall. She hurriedly ran over the ice of the moat and reminded in a low voice: "Don't make any noise. Although there are fewer patrol soldiers on this section of the city wall, there will still be patrol soldiers coming over occasionally and walking around on the top of the city."
It took nearly half an hour for more than two hundred people to cross the city wall through the passage. Fortunately, this place is very remote and far away from the main city tower. The soldiers patrolling the city usually don't bother to come and take a look, let alone this cold night of ice and snow. Even more, no one wants to come over.
At this moment, the sky was pitch black, without even a single starlight, and the wind was freezing all around. Using the dim light emitted by the snow on the ground, more than two hundred people passed through the ice of the moat and reached the woods on the other side. After arranging their team, they arrived at Under the leadership of Lu Yi, they quietly marched towards Goutang Village where they met with 500 Hubei troops.
The group of people had been walking for about half an hour. In front of them, they could see the outlines of some scattered houses in Goutang Village in the dark night. Wang Wu, who was walking in front of the group and was responsible for standing in front, was suddenly turned out from behind a tree. Two soldiers blocked the way, startling Wang Wu. One of the soldiers pointed the tip of his spear at Wang Wu and shouted in a low voice: "Password?"
Wang Wu was shocked at first, but he reacted immediately and hurriedly replied: "Ping Kou."
The soldier put away his spear and said, "Wait here." Then he and another soldier turned around and left.
After a while, two soldiers came over behind a man who looked like an officer. The officer first looked at Wang Wu, and then asked Wang Wu in Edi dialect, "Are you standing in front of me?"
Wang Wu immediately stood up straight, performed a standard military salute, and replied: "Yes."
When the officer saw Wang Wuxing's military salute, he was instantly relieved. He said to the two soldiers behind him: "That's right, these are Mr. Chen's men, otherwise they wouldn't have performed such a military salute." Then he said to Wang Wu : "I have ordered a curfew in this village. All people are only allowed in and not allowed out. Did Mr. Chen come with him this time?"
Wang Wu nodded and said, "Yes."
While the two were talking, Chen Xiaomu and Li Gui had already walked up to them. The officer raised his eyes and saw them. He stood at attention and saluted: "Mr. Chen, General Yi Fang has been ordered to lead his troops to assemble in Goutang Village. Please give the order to Mr. Chen." One move!”
Chen Xiaomu returned the military salute and said with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work, General Yi." "
Yi Fang said hurriedly: "Mr. Chen has done so much for the restoration of our country in Hubei, and we people in Hubei will not hesitate even if we go through fire and water for Mr. Chen!"
Chen Xiaomu was very moved when he heard this. He reached out and patted Yi Fang on the shoulder, "General Yi, tonight we are going to wipe out the Taoist priests of Sanqing Palace who are causing harm to the country and people on Mangdang Mountain. We will go to Sanqing Temple as soon as everyone puts on their night clothes." "
"Night travel clothes?" Yi Fang was stunned for a moment, and then said anxiously: "Mr. Chen, what should we do if we don't prepare night travel clothes?"
Chen Xiaomu smiled and said: "I'm ready." After saying that, he turned around and shouted: "Bring the carriage over."
It turned out that Chen Xiaomu assigned Wei Yuxin to order night clothes and face coverings at major cloth shops in the city on this day, and planned to change all the soldiers going into battle tonight into the clothes of Jianghu masters, in order to confuse the Emperor of Qi and make him There was no legitimate excuse to send troops to Zheng.
Who would have thought that God is not as good as man. Just as everyone was opening the carriage compartment and taking out their night clothes and putting them on, they suddenly saw a soldier serving as a spy running up to Yi Fang and saying breathlessly to Yi Fang. : "Yi, General Yi, about three miles away from the village, he found a group of Taoists wearing Taoist robes and cow-nose hats, coming towards this direction from the direction of Guanshan Town."
"What?" Yi Fang was shocked when she heard this and looked at Chen Xiaomu involuntarily.
Chen Xiaomu was not too panicked. He had already judged from various signs that the Sanqingguan Taoist priests would take action tonight, but he did not expect that these Taoist priests would dare to openly go down the mountain and enter the new capital city. It seems that the new capital city has already They have all arranged it well, and now it's just a matter of time before it's over.
Thinking of this, Chen Xiaomu asked the soldiers who came to report, "Approximately how many Taoists are there in this group?"
The soldier shook his head and said: "It was too dark, so I couldn't see very clearly. In short, there were quite a few people. There should be hundreds of people in this large group of people!"
After thinking for a moment, Chen Xiaomu said to Yi Fang: "General Yi, we must not let these Taoists enter the city, so I decided to stop them in Goutang Village. Now, I will lead the archers to ambush first, and wait until the archers After shooting two boxes of arrows, you can kill them from behind."
Yi Fang hurriedly said: "Mr. Chen, we have brought explosive bags. Otherwise, I will take people over to drop the explosive bags first, and then let the archers attack. First, I will catch them off guard, and finally I will rush up to clean up the battlefield. That’s it.”
Chen Xiaomu was about to speak when suddenly dozens of figures flew over from the night sky, each holding a sword, and landed not far from them. One of them laughed loudly and said: "Okay, tomorrow the new emperor will be the emperor." Ascending the throne, I will kill you people tonight to pave the way for the new emperor!"
It turned out that when the spies discovered these Taoists, this group of Taoists also discovered the spies and immediately sent Taoist priests to follow them.
Chen Xiaomu sneered and said: "You rebels, the current emperor treats you well, but you don't recite sutras on the mountain, but you care about Zheng's throne. It's really abominable!"
The male duck said angrily: "Stop talking nonsense, wait until I take off your dog's head first!" Before he finished speaking, he jumped up from the snow and came straight towards Chen Xiaomu with his sword. As soon as he said it, Su Xingran came from behind Chen Xiaomu. He flew up and took the sword move from the drake. There was only a "dang" sound. The two swords intersected and sparks flew. At the same time, Yi Fang also raised the simple sword in her hand and stood in front of Chen Xiaomu. , shouted: "Protect Mr. Chen. When the soldiers behind him heard this, they made a "crash" sound and quickly surrounded Chen Xiaomu.
