Because the incident happened suddenly, neither Zeng Chaosheng nor Bi Zhongyou were actually prepared.
So at the beginning, there were actually not many people participating on both sides, and the battle situation was maintained in the area of Dianzhong Province and Yanyi Pavilion.
But as the fighting continued, Zeng Chaosheng's advantage came out, because after Empress Cao learned that the fighting had begun in the palace, she took the initiative to walk out of Baoci Hall.
He personally went to Yimo Gate to boost morale and started performing in front of everyone in the Imperial Guard.
It is said that Bi Zhongyou deliberately conspired to rebel and attempted to overthrow the Song Dynasty, and directly took over the title of Dayi.
Then Empress Cao began to make a wish by appointing officials: "Except for Bi Zhongyou and other main culprits, everyone else is innocent. Whoever kills Bi Zhongyou can be granted the title of Jiedushi!"
Then Empress Cao was not very familiar with the people below, so she simply asked Zeng Chaosheng to report a few names, and then rewarded them all.
Now the morale of the Imperial Guards naturally increased greatly, and with Zeng Chaosheng's cronies taking the lead, the Imperial Guards immediately rushed toward Bi Zhongyou with great momentum.
At this time, Zeng Chaosheng also said goodbye to Queen Cao, preparing to go to the front line to watch and preside over the war situation.
But who knew that Queen Cao said: "I will go with you, let's go."
After hearing this, Zeng Chaosheng was shocked and said immediately: "I'm afraid the scene there is not very nice, so don't rush into the Queen."
Empress Cao explained: "Don't forget, I am also a general, so this little scene doesn't scare me.
It is unlikely that all of Bi Zhongyou's men were determined to rebel like him. Many of them were just coerced.
Some of the things you said are not as convincing as what I said personally. There can't be chaos in the palace for too long now. It will always be smoother if I go there. "
After saying that, he stood up and walked towards Yanyi Pavilion.
Upon seeing this, Zeng Chaosheng hurriedly followed with his people to protect Queen Cao, lest anything happen and it would be over.
The situation on Bi Zhongyou's side was indeed not good. Although he also helped Zhao Zongquan grant officials and wishes to his subordinates, he was not Zhao Zongquan himself after all, so the credibility of his words was greatly reduced.
If we can strike first, take advantage, and fight with the wind, we may be able to break out.
But in the current situation, even though he is led by his own hard-core confidants, he still has a certain advantage over the attacking Imperial Guards.
But this is also because the current battlefield is close to the headquarters of his palace, and there are many people on his side.
However, as the number of reinforcements of the Imperial Guards increased, Bi Zhongyou's advantage became smaller and smaller, and Bi Zhongyou could only barely maintain a stalemate with the Imperial Guards.
At this time, Bi Zhongyou had given up hope in his original plan to capture Funing Palace and control the Guan family and Empress Cao.
In order to protect himself and to reverse the situation in the future, Bi Zhongyou has begun to plan to abandon this place.
Of course, Bi Zhongyou will definitely not be able to go to Xihua Gate. After all, the location is now one east and one west. If he has to cross the entire palace, he is afraid that there will be no one at his command.
Therefore, Bi Zhongyou planned to take people to the direction of Donghua Gate, capture Zuo Chengtianxiangfu Gate and Donghua Gate, and then wait for reinforcements from the soldiers and horses from the western suburbs camp.
Although Donghua Gate is a bit far away, it is somewhat different from the plan. People from the western suburbs camp need to make a circle to get there. ….
But now there is no other way. No matter what, you have to survive first.
Just when Bi Zhongyou had made up his mind and was preparing to move, Queen Cao, accompanied by Zeng Chaosheng, had already arrived outside Yanyi Pavilion.
Zeng Chaosheng asked the imperial guards to retreat first and distanced themselves from Bi Zhongyou's people. The people in front of the palace, who were already at a disadvantage, thought it was a trap and did not dare to attack.
Suddenly, the battlefield that was once full of excitement suddenly became quiet.
Bi Zhongyou, who sensed the movement outside, also walked out of the house at this time.
At this time, Empress Cao was heard shouting: "Fellow officers and soldiers of the imperial palace, I am the empress of the dynasty. I believe that you are not deliberately plotting rebellion, but are just being coerced by evil people.
I now give the order in the name of the official family. This time only
Kill the evildoer, never ask for threats! No matter who it is, as long as they capture Bi Zhongyou, they will be granted the title of commander. "
Then the soldiers arranged by Zeng Chaosheng also shouted loudly: "The queen and the officials have an order. This time we will only kill the chief villain, and we will never ask for threats! No matter who it is, as long as Bi Zhongyou is captured, he will be granted the title of commander."
After shouting continuously, hearing the front secretary look at each other, he could not help but feel shaken in his heart.
From the first moment he heard Queen Cao speak, Bi Zhongyou already knew that something was wrong.
He hurriedly walked out and shouted directly: "It's a joke, who would believe this! And where are the officials? If you have the ability, let the officials come out. We will listen to whatever the officials say?"
Bi Zhongyou thought to himself, if Zhao Zhen could come over and hear such a big noise, he would have come long ago and would not let Empress Cao come forward.
What's more, what if Zhao Zhen comes, he has already tied his head to his belt and rebelled. If Zhao Zhen really comes, he has to shoot two arrows at him.
Then he turned to the people in front of the palace and said: "Don't you all want to die? This is a beheading deal. Now you just need to stick to it. When the eldest prince's troops enter the imperial city, everyone will enjoy endless glory in the future. Wealth, so if you don’t want to die, give it to me.”
After saying that, he took out the only ten bows and arrows he had, roughly sensed the direction of Queen Cao, and then shot them all.
Although the target was not hit due to the distance, it still shocked Queen Cao and Zeng Chaosheng.
You must know that it is strictly forbidden to carry crossbows in the palace. After all, the attack range of crossbows is much farther than that of swords and guns.
It’s not like there have never been rebels among the imperial guards. Who dares to hand over long-range weapons to them?
Moreover, to protect the imperial city normally, there is no need for bows and crossbows.
Even though there are Yulong Crossbows, Yulong Bows and Arrows, Archery Squadrons, and Crossbowmen Squadrons in the Imperial Guard, and the squadrons do have bows and crossbows in their hands, they only have three arrows in their quivers. Five of them are all decorations.
So when faced with the real arrows shot by Bi Zhongyou, Zeng Chaosheng's first reaction was to directly let people attack inside, messing up the scene and not giving Bi Zhongyou a target for his arrows.
Then he hurriedly apologized to Queen Cao. After all, it was the duty of the Imperial City Secretary to search the palace, but now someone unexpectedly brought the arrow into the palace.
Fortunately, this battle happened early and Bi Zhongyou did not find the opportunity to attack Empress Cao and the others, otherwise the consequences would have been serious. ….
I only heard Zeng Chaosheng say: "I am guilty of an oversight. I allowed a traitor to take advantage of the loophole and bring an arrow into the palace. I deserve death. Please allow me to accept my crime and make meritorious service."
In addition, the queen is also asked to move to avoid being strayed and injured. "
Of course, this is something that has to be said in a scene. After all, there is no way that Empress Cao could punish herself at this time.
Sure enough, Empress Cao said: "Don't be surprised if you don't know. It turns out that you don't know Bi Zhongyou's true face, so you will inevitably be deceived by him.
You can just deal with Bi Zhongyou with peace of mind. I will watch here and watch you take down these traitors with my own eyes. "
Queen Cao's last words were specially amplified, and the soldiers on the side sounded confident. After all, to the soldiers below, with Queen Cao watching, their achievements were clear, and at least they didn't have to worry about being robbed. Go.
But Zeng Chaosheng was worried. What if Empress Cao was really hurt by the loss? Now his biggest reliance was Empress Cao.
If something happens to her, even if Bi Zhongyou is really killed, the fate of his whole family will not be better.
Dangjiang advised again: "Madam, after all, there are bows and arrows on the other side. You might as well stand back to prevent others from accidentally hurting you."
Empress Cao also listened to these words. After all, everyone is afraid of death. If the death is valuable, then it is okay. If it is really just killed by Chuan, it would be too unjust.
So Queen Cao moved back a little, basically far away from the effective range of ordinary bows and arrows.
In addition, Zeng Chaosheng arranged some armored soldiers as guards and asked them to stand in front of Queen Cao to block arrows.
Then he left with peace of mind and went to the front to direct the battle.
Seeing that the battle situation was reaching a stalemate and there was no sign of a breakthrough in a short period of time, Zeng Chaosheng began to zoom in again. After asking Queen Cao for instructions, Zeng Chaosheng began to call the names.
He said directly: "Wang Zhong! If you go back and give Bi Zhongyou a blow now, you will immediately be ranked above me. You are the Jiedushi! You are the Taiwei!"
This is a promise made by the Queen and the officials. Think carefully about what you can gain by following Bi Zhongyou in rebellion.
This huge benefit will belong to others if you don’t take action now. "
Then he called everyone around Bi Zhongyou and started to sow discord blatantly.
Facing Zeng Chaosheng's conspiracy, Bi Zhongyou could only grasp one thing, that is, the official family was already dead.
"Don't be so sanctimonious, the official family originally intended to make the eldest prince the crown prince.
I think you people have already harmed the official family, and then you clearly ignored the official family's wishes and wanted to force Zhao Zonghan, the second-in-command, to succeed to the throne in order to do what Lu Wu did.
If the official family is really fine, then you ask the official family to come over in person, and I promise to obey your orders. "
This is the basic quality of being an official for many years. You can make it up at any time if you want to throw dirty water on me. Anyway, as long as Zhao Zhen is not there, you can't prove that what I said is false.
"Okay, then you watch! The officials will be here soon, let me see what you do!" Then Zeng Chaosheng shouted to everyone, "Come on, if you kill one thief, you will be promoted to the official rank. If you kill one more thief, you will be promoted to an official level." Whoever can kill Bi Zhongyou will be the governor!"
After stimulating Bi Zhongyou, he had to encourage him. Anyway, for Zeng Chaosheng, as long as he could win Bi Zhongyou, it didn't matter who did it. ….
Anyway, after hearing these words, the people from the Imperial City Division immediately broke out and beat the people from the Palace Front Division back again and again, but in the end, Bi Zhongyou stabilized the situation.
But Bi Zhongyou may have been happy too early, because Cheng Zhu, who had been ignored before, seized the opportunity and jumped out.
Originally, Cheng Zhu had been blocked by Bi Zhongyou's people, but later the war with the Imperial City Division was tense, so people were transferred from there. Naturally, the blockade here was weakened.
In addition, Zeng Chaosheng shouted so loudly that Cheng Zhu and the others naturally heard it.
So Cheng Zhu and others discussed it. Anyway, even if they offended Zhao Zongquan to death when they beat Bi Zhongyou, it would be better to directly raise the flag to help Zeng Chaosheng.
If luck really kills Bi Zhongyou, wouldn't it be nice to get the position of commander?
Because the fight at Yanyi Pavilion was going on, most of the people outside were paying attention there.
After Cheng Zhu and others discovered the opportunity, they rushed out. They were caught off guard and rushed out.
After rushing out, Cheng Zhu and others did not stop and rushed directly towards Bi Zhongyou's troops.
Because Bi Zhongyou and the others did not expect that enemies would come up from behind, they did not arrange many people to defend them.
[In view of the general environment, Cheng Zhu was actually beaten into the Yanyi Pavilion for a while, but Bi Zhongyou reacted quickly and directly led people to counterpress, plus there were pursuers behind him.
After all, Cheng Zhu had too few people here, and he had not communicated with Zeng Chaosheng. He was worried that his lone army would be surrounded, so after the attack was blocked, he found a way to rush out from the side and went to meet Zeng Chaosheng and the others. and went.
Although Cheng Zhu and the others didn't really kill many people, this move still disrupted Bi Zhongyou's arrangement. That is to say, Zeng Chaosheng and Cheng Zhu had no contact with each other, otherwise the outcome might be decided in one wave.
It was precisely because of this situation that Bi Zhongyou finally made the decision to abandon Yanyi Pavilion and take everyone to Donghua Gate.
According to Bi Zhongyou's calculations, Yanyi Pavilion is basically home to most of the Imperial City Division's troops. There should not be many people coming to the various city gates.
It was just right to capture it in one fell swoop, and use the terrain of the city wall to hold on, waiting for Zhao Zongquan's support to arrive.
As he said, Zhao Zongquan immediately summoned the generals and said, "Now that we have stood in Yanyi Pavilion for enough time, the support of the eldest prince will arrive soon, and we need to open the city gate for him in advance.
Therefore, I decided to retreat with the entire army to Donghua Gate, storm Donghua Gate, and escort the eldest prince into the city. "
Hearing that his support was coming soon, everyone present felt a lot more at ease. After all, these people still had some vision and knew that if the fight continued like this, their side would definitely lose.
Now that we know that a turning point has come and victory is in sight, everyone's low morale finally breaks out.
After Bi Zhongyou gave the order, everyone immediately went back to organize their soldiers, and a wave broke out to drive back the people from the Imperial City Division.
Then he quickly turned in and ran towards Donghua Gate.
This wave of operations left Zeng Chaosheng confused. Although he didn't understand what Bi Zhongyou was going to do, Zeng Chaosheng was still happy at this time.
After all, Zeng Chaosheng didn't know that Bi Zhongyou had a large wave of support outside the city, so he just thought that victory had been established.
After this, Bi Zhongyou no longer poses a real threat to Queen Cao and the official family.
But this good mood completely disappeared with the arrival of Cheng Zhu.
Originally, Zeng Chaosheng was not prepared to meet Cheng Zhu. Anyway, Bi Zhongyou couldn't make a difference now. As long as he spent some time, he could finish it by himself, so why let others share the responsibility.
Moreover, Zeng Chaosheng did not trust Cheng Zhu and believed that Cheng Zhu might have problems.
So even if Cheng Zhu said that he had something important to report, it would affect everyone's life and death.
Zeng Chaosheng did not give Cheng Zhu a chance. In the end, Empress Cao wanted to calm down the chaos as quickly as possible, so she gave Cheng Zhu a chance to speak.
Of course, there are still precautions that should be taken.
When Cheng Zhuzai walked up to Queen Cao, he had already gone through a search and confirmed that there was no problem before he was allowed to approach.
I just heard Empress Cao say: "You just said you had something big to report, what did you mean specifically?"
Cheng Zhu replied: "Reporting to the Empress, what I want to report is the collusion between Zhao Zongquan and the soldiers and horses of the western suburbs camp."
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