"superior!"
Lao Ai gave the order, and saw the two lieutenants beside him waving their arms, followed by the sergeants behind him rushing up.
Several people pushed and pulled to open the palace door wide, and Lao Ai and all the soldiers around her rushed into the palace door.
Sure enough, as Jiu'an said, no guards of the Imperial Guard were seen.
"Let's go to Huayang Palace first!" Lao Ai gave the order, and the soldiers behind him ran towards Huayang Palace.
The teams behind also entered the palace gate and ran in different directions.
"who?!"
Hearing a loud shout, a patrol team appeared in front of Lao Ai. They looked like they were dressed as guards.
"Kill!" Lao Ai drew his sword and shouted loudly.
For a moment, the sound of sharp blades being unsheathed came one after another, and then the soldiers rushed forward one after another.
However, an incredible scene occurred.
Lao Ai and others thought that these imperial guards would rush forward to fight, but unexpectedly they turned around and ran away.
While running, he shouted: "There are assassins, escorting us!"
It can be said that these Imperial Guards were running in an extremely embarrassed manner. They didn't even look back when they were running away, and they didn't even look like Imperial Guards at all.
"Haha, I was so frightened." Tuoba Hai shouted loudly, "It must be the fake imperial guards sent by Lu Buwei. It's important to protect the harem, go for it!"
This shout mobilized the Chang Xin army who rushed into the palace, and there was a cry of killing.
At this time, many women's screams were heard in the palace.
The soldiers of the Changxin Army all lit torches, and then surrounded the palaces one by one. All the palace doors were locked inside, so they all broke the windows and entered.
Some soldiers took the ladders prepared in advance, climbed over the wall, and jumped into the Gucheng Palace.
The entire Xianyang Palace and Gu Cheng Palace were immediately in chaos.
Lao Ai led people to Huayang Palace, and the soldiers also broke in through the window.
After a moment, the palace door opened from the inside, and Lao Ai quickly walked into the palace door of Huayang Palace.
I saw an old woman sitting in a corner, already trembling, and she was wearing the clothes of the Queen Mother.
Lao Ai walked quickly to the old woman and was about to say something, but before she could make a sound, her mouth froze and stopped moving.
The old woman in front of her was not Mrs. Huayang, the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother whom Lao Ai knew. After searching through her own memory, Lao Ai did not remember that there was such an old woman in the palace.
"Who are you?" Lao Ai asked urgently.
This sentence confused the soldiers behind him.
What? Isn't this old lady the Queen Mother?
But I saw the old woman umming and gesticulating with her hands.
He is still a deaf mute!
Lao Ai suddenly felt something bad in her heart, and turned around and said urgently: "Quickly, come find Jiu An and ask him what's going on."
A general next to him raised his hand and said: "Master, we have searched all over Huayang Palace, and there is no one else but this old woman."
"What?" Lao Ai's eyes widened, "How could this happen?"
No matter how stupid you are, you can use your toes to figure out how come there is only this deaf-mute old woman in this huge Huayang Palace?
"No!" Lao Ai said urgently, "Go and find out if there is anyone else."
Not long after, several middle-aged men who looked like guardsmen were tied up and escorted over.
"Your Majesty, except for the imperial guards we met just now, there are only some old men and women." Tuoba Hai said with his hands in hand.
Cold sweat had flowed down Lao Ai's ears to the back of her heart.
With a clang, Lao Ai pulled out his saber, put it on the neck of one of the guards, and said sternly: "Say! What on earth is going on?!"
The guard trembled and said: "
No, please don't kill the villain. "
"What are you talking about? The Marquis asked you, who are you, and why is this palace so empty?" Tuoba Hai's loud voice was like a thunderbolt from the blue.
The guard was frightened and said quickly: "Hui, Hui Lord, we are all prisoners in the dungeon. We were taken into the palace half a month ago. The military masters asked us to put on the clothes of the guards. , stay here for a month, and if everything goes well, we will be released from prison."
Lao Ai's brows knitted together, and an ominous premonition suddenly emerged: "Then when you come, there will be no one in this palace?"
"Back to the Marquis, when we came, there were only some half-deaf and mute old women or old people in the palace. The military masters' explicit orders were to allow us to serve them comfortably during this period. "." Probably out of fear, the teeth of this prisoner dressed as a guard kept chattering.
"Then who are these deaf-mute old people?" Lao Ai asked.
"I heard that they seem to be just beggars wandering the streets with no children." The fake guard replied.
"...!!"
Lao Ai was stunned, her mind went blank.
No, in addition to the blank space, there seemed to be hundreds of millions of flies buzzing.
At this moment, outside the palace, which had gradually become quiet, bursts of shouts of killing suddenly came. Along with the shouts of death, there was the sound of drumming with a rather lively rhythm.
Lao Ai immediately straightened her back, and her chaotic consciousness suddenly awoke: "Is there an ambush?"
Previously, Lao Ai thought that the people in the palace were moved away as a precautionary measure by Ying Zheng, but now it seems that there is an ambush behind them.
"Master Hou, what should we do?" Tuoba Hai didn't look very panicked.
Perhaps it was Tuoba Hai's calmness that allowed Lao Ai to regain some confidence: "Huh, so what if there is an ambush. I have 80,000 troops, how can I be afraid of Lu Buwei."
Until now, Lao Ai has not forgotten to blame Lu Buwei, because only in this way can he control his sergeants.
"All officers and men, listen!" Lao Ai regained her strength and said loudly, "The rebel Lu Buwei occupied the palace before us, and then set a trap to seduce us into falling into the trap. The only way to survive now is to fight hard. Kill, capture Lu Buwei alive, and rescue the royal harem!"
"The First Cause of All Realms"
"kill!"
Lao Ai, whose eyes were bloodshot, was the first to jump out of the palace gate.
The generals behind also jumped out of the palace gate and passed the order as quickly as possible: counterattack immediately and arrest Lu Buwei.
In Huayang Palace, only the few captured fake guards and the deaf-mute old woman were left. Several people looked at each other, as if they were glad that their heads were still on their necks.
Since it was an ambush, how could it not take advantage of the position?
Suddenly, looking at the wall of the palace, two rows of archers suddenly appeared, neatly arranged around the palace, aiming their arrows at the Changxin army below in a condescending manner.
It was the Western Chu army led by Lord Changping who was ambushing in secret!
It turned out that after Jiu An left Lao Ai, he rode the war horse sent by Lao Ai to find Lord Changping, who had been lurking in secret for a long time, and told him that Lao Ai would take action at three o'clock in the morning.
Jiu'an did not return to the palace, and was sent to Jingyao by Lord Changping.
Before that, the people in Xianyang had also been evacuated and left the city to seek refuge with their relatives. As for the people now in the city, some were pretended to be the Western Chu Army, and some were the family members of the Western Chu Army that Lu Buwei had taken to Xianyang before.
Before Ying Zheng left, he had already sent everyone in the palace to Jingyao. In order to confuse the fake with the real, he brought the prisoners who were severely punished in the dungeon and pretended to be the imperial guards.
In fact, if Lao Ai carried out the investigation in the same detail and sent him actual information carefully, it would be very fast.
Knowing Ying Zheng's strategy, as long as he did not enter the palace, or even if he did not enter Xianyang City, he would not be so passive.
It's a pity that he thought Jiu'an was his work, and he didn't consider that the palace was dead but the people were alive.
Just after hearing an order, countless arrows flew down from the palace walls on all sides.
The Changxin Army did not carry shields, and they were instantly killed and wounded, and they retreated into the palace.
Seeing that the arrow feathers were no longer useful, Lord Changping ordered his infantry to attack the palace directly.
If we were to attack other places, fire would be the most effective method, but this was Xianyang Palace. We couldn't burn it with fire or hit it with stones, we could only rely on people to attack it.
Seeing the enemy troops outside attacking in, Chang Xin's army rushed out again.
The two sides collided and immediately blocked the yard.
There were just under 30,000 Chang Xin's troops in the palace, and the rest were responding a little further away from the palace. When they heard the loud killing noises here, they knew that a fight was about to start, and they rushed to reinforce them.
The Western Chu Army was also well prepared. Another round of arrows was shot from the beams and windows on both sides, catching the incoming reinforcements of the Changxin Army by surprise.
However, after all, the Changxin Army had a numerical advantage. After stabilizing their position, they fought with the Western Chu Army.
Since the enemy has set up an ambush and the archers and crossbowmen have occupied favorable terrain, the most effective way of defense is to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the opponent's infantry. In this way, in order to avoid hurting one's own people, the enemy's long-range The hard bow and crossbow lose their effect.
For a time, more than 100,000 people were fighting in the entire palace, inside and outside. The scene was extremely bloody and horrific.
Lao Ai panicked, completely panicked. He didn't expect that Xianyang, which was originally an empty city, would have so many ambush troops.
"Master Hou, what should I do?" Tuoba Hai, who had been guarding Lao Ai's side, asked anxiously.
"What to do? I don't know what to do." Lao Ai looked around at the situation and said sternly.
"It seems that our military strength is slightly better than that of the enemy. Why don't we break out?" Tuoba Hai said.
Lao Ai looked at the fighting soldiers around him, and finally felt relieved: "All soldiers, let's fight our way out of Xianyang City!"
"Kill!" Tuoba Hai raised his knife and rushed forward.
The Chang Xin army in the palace all knew that they had fallen into a trap and were surrounded by enemy troops. They would definitely die if they stayed here. Now that someone was taking the lead, they all rushed forward like hungry wolves.
Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes, but those who are strong are afraid of their lives.
The Western Chu army, which had already blocked the gate of the palace, was already under attack from both inside and outside. Now it was hit hard by the strong impact inside the palace, and it was suddenly unable to withstand it.
Tuoba Hai's whole body was covered in blood, but the reddest thing on his body was the soles of his shoes. I saw him trampling on the corpses of his companions and enemy soldiers, wading through the river of blood that was about to solidify, and forcefully opening a gap in the palace door.
The ladders previously erected on the palace wall also came in handy. Many soldiers climbed over the palace wall and broke out from the ancient Chenggong Palace.
Lord Changping had never expected that there would be so many people in Lao'ai's Changxin Army. Seeing that the situation had changed, he immediately sent messengers to Jingyao to find Meng Tian for immediate support.
As soon as the messengers left, they saw that the palace gate had been completely lost. Not only were more than half of the 10,000 infantrymen who had blocked the palace gate suffered casualties, but they were also surrounded by the Changxin Army who responded internally and externally.
Lord Changping quickly sent out three more messengers and ordered the Western Chu army surrounding the palace to encircle them in front of the palace gate.
After receiving the order, the 40,000 Western Chu troops on the periphery began to compress towards the palace gate.
The outermost Chang Xin Army also followed suit and squeezed in.
In this way, the palace was surrounded by three floors inside and three floors outside.
If you don't climb up and look out, you won't be able to see the way you came.
