Although Xue Yao's mother refused to return to the Xue family for refuge, she advised Xue Yao to beg the Xue family's old lady to take her in, or to immediately arrange a marriage and set up her own business, so that she would be free from Grandpa's influence as much as possible.
Naturally, Xue Yao didn't agree and reassured his mother that the Emperor would keep Grandpa.
He himself doesn't believe that today's puppet emperor can keep anyone, the emperor may not even be able to protect himself, because the annual Huanqiu sacrifice will take place in three days.
Every year at the winter solstice, the emperor had to make sacrifices to heaven and earth, and had to walk to the Huanqiu altar on the same day.
Surrounding the Emperor on the way was a ceremonial guard of honor, followed by a band of nearly two hundred men, which was the perfect time to assassinate him.
Lu Jinan, in order to prevent the third prince's people, in the emperor out of the palace gate to the Temple of Heaven this section of the road, set up a dragnet-like forbidden army defense.
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Winter solstice day, seems to be colder than in previous years, Xue Yao accompanied the five pups six pups in the library to wait for news of the emperor's safe return to the palace.
The year of repression had left the two pups much more reticent than before.
Xue Yao looked out the window and rubbed his cold hands together, thinking that at this time of the year, the little chubby boy's face would turn into his little hand oven.
No matter how cold it was, his little fat cub was warm.
In the midst of his thoughts, Xue Yao realized that a group of patrols had already passed by the courtyard gate five times, it was the same group of patrols, and he had almost memorized the leader's face.
Xue Yao immediately told the Fifth Prince about this odd situation.
The Fifth Prince said, "Most of the forbidden guards in the palace have been transferred by Big Brother to protect Second Brother, and in our area, we may only have this one team of guards left to patrol."
Xue Yao felt that it was not normal: "In the old days, when there were many people, there were no patrols passing by the Shangshu Room so frequently."
The Sixth Prince reacted as soon as he heard, "No wonder I always feel that something is not right, this team of patrolling soldiers passes by every once in a while, as if they are specialized in circling around our Shangshu Room."
These words caused Xue Yao's heart to thump as he turned his head to look out the window at the courtyard gate.
Shortly afterward, that same patrol, indeed, passed by again.
Xue Yao immediately turned around and whispered to the duo, "We have to get out of here, and when they pass by the south gate again, we'll escape the Shangshu Room through the west window and go to the schoolyard to find Zhang Si, so that he can take us to escape from the palace."
"Who are these patrols?" The Sixth Prince asked nervously.
"Definitely not from the palace, their running posture is different from the forbidden army." The Fifth Prince had already seen the clues.
Xue Yao could only tell that the armor of this group of people did not fit, and that this group of people picked such a time when the guards were empty to pretend to be forbidden soldiers, most likely it was the Third Prince who messed things up.
Got to get rid of them!
Waiting for the patrol to pass by the southern window again, Xue Yao led the two pups over the western window to the west side of the courtyard.
Yard wall is ten feet high, good thing the fifth prince has been practiced a good light work, not difficult to climb up the wall, the light work is slightly inferior to the sixth prince also pull up.
Together, the brothers pulled Xue Yao over the fence and ran towards the practice school grounds.
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At the beginning of the hour, the sacrifice of heaven had proceeded to the execution of the first offering.
The altar was set up on the three-tiered altar of heaven, and the emperor stood in the center of the top tier, surrounded by dozens of people, standing in rows in front of the alabaster railing.
The Third Prince, now King Yu, stood at the head of the two rows of the queue on the east side of the Emperor.
In the past, when sacrificing to the heavens, the forbidden army would not be arranged around the altar, this time the situation was special, in order to ensure safety, Lu Jinan let the layers of forbidden army stand within the lower two layers of the altar railing, arching to defend the emperor.
Lu Jinan stood in the second row of the queue behind Yu Wang, from the emperor out of the palace gate, walking to here, he did not relax his vigilance for a moment, alert gaze over the surrounding forbidden army, always observing whether there is any unusual movement in the distance.
In the midst of this eerie silence, the sudden explosion of blades unsheathing caught everyone off guard.
A High Guard standing on the second level of the Celestial Altar suddenly leapt onto the altar and swung his sword down at the Emperor!
In the midst of this unexpected assassination, something even more puzzling happened--the
King Yu surprisingly went up to save the Emperor before the Crown Prince, and with his bare hands, he stopped the high guards who could beat him ten by one, protecting the safety of the puppet Emperor.
Lu Jinan was one step slower than him, and the other forbidden guards were one step slower than Lu Jinan, and the mutinous assassin was unexpectedly captured on the spot by Lao San.
The Emperor was stunned and stood behind his third brother, who had been "successful in protecting the Emperor".
Lu Jinan frowned and clenched his fists, he had already guessed the plot of the person behind the Third Prince.
Sure enough, the captured assassin confessed on the spot, saying that Lu Jinan had instructed him to assassinate the emperor.
This ridiculous planting of evidence was not believed even by the surrounding forbidden troops, so when King Yu, who had been credited with protecting the emperor, ordered his guards to take down King Rui, no one in the Temple of Heaven, which was crowded with forbidden troops, moved.
Lu Jinan's face was expressionless, he just calmly told Lao San, "The Governor of Huguang has already brought his men to surround the capital, and your uncle Tong Ningzhao has already been ordered to arrive at the frontline of the anti-Japanese resistance last month, so he can't take care of you."
After saying that, Lu Jinan ordered the assassin to be arrested and awaiting trial along with Lao San, and the forbidden guards immediately obeyed, unsheathing their swords!
However, the tip of the blade of one part of the guards suddenly turned and stabbed at the chest of the guard next to him.
The long sword in the sneak attacked guard's hand slipped and fell to the ground with a resounding thud, and through the mist of blood that filled his chest, he looked in dismay at the brother who had sneak attacked him.
The tip of the blood-soaked blade was pulled out of his chest, and the group of guards fell to the ground with such confused and disbelieving eyes.
There are spies of the Third Prince in the forbidden army!
Seeing that the situation was not right, Lu Jinan made a lightning strike and snatched the long sword of the forbidden army beside him, who did not know whether it was a friend or foe.
Lao San, however, was also prepared for this, pulling the emperor back a few steps, and immediately a group of forbidden soldiers blocked in front of him, with the tip of their swords pointing at Lu Jinan!
The forbidden soldiers on the periphery drew their swords, and among them were Lu Jinan's men as well as King Yu's men.
In a flurry of panic, the forbidden troops, who did not know whether they were enemies or friends, all retreated backward to avoid being attacked, and no one cared about the emperor's life or death.
"Eldest brother, you are truly a thief, how dare you deliberately arrange for the forbidden army to surround the Emperor at all levels on the day of the heavenly sacrifice, and take the opportunity to rebel and commit an assassination!" The oldest three revealed a strange smile.
Lu Jinan looked calm: "Lao San, just tie your hands, I guessed that you would make a move today, it's not enough for you to just buy a group of forbidden soldiers, there are 80,000 generals waiting for their lives outside of the city, you don't have enough money to make these forbidden traitors sell their lives for you."
"All generals listen to the order!" Not waiting for him to respond, Lu Jinan's gaze turned cold and ordered the crowd, "The capital has been surrounded, those who are under the compulsion of the traitor King Yu will be spared if they repent in time, those who capture the traitor alive will be rewarded with 10,000 gold and be crowned as a General of Auxiliary State!"
This gracious sentence caused the mutinous forbidden soldier with the tip of his sword pointed at him to change his expression.
The Third Prince, however, sneered nonchalantly and said, "Eighty thousand soldiers and horses, is it worth big brother showing off like this? I'm afraid that even the city gates can't be breached with this amount of men?"
Lu Jinan coldly said, "Open your eyes and see clearly, the forbidden troops guarding the city have all been ordered to come here to protect the emperor, who can resist the soldiers and horses outside the city?"
"That's right, I'm really thankful to big brother for making it happen." The oldest three laughed, "Now above the nine gates of the citadel, there isn't a single forbidden soldier, all of them are my uncle Tong Ningzhao's generals."
"Impossible!" The Emperor, standing behind him, said sharply, "Tong Ningzhao was already ordered to go to war last month."
Lao San turned his head to his second brother and smiled, "Your Majesty, there is an urgency to things, and with such a traitor on your side, of course General Tong had to clear the ruler's side before he was ordered to fight against the Japanese."
The Emperor's face went white.
"I wonder if our Daqi's 150,000 elite Tong Family Army can hold back Big Brother's 80,000 ragtag men who have never fought before?" Lao San's smile abruptly withdrew, his eyes revealed a murderous aura, and he sternly ordered, "Take down King Rui for me!"
"Who dares!" Lu Jinan lifted the tip of his sword and slowly swept his gaze around the circle, the mutinous forbidden soldiers that surrounded him were forced back a step by that gaze.
"What are you still frozen for!" The oldest three roared, "General Tong's 150,000 troops are stationed at the city gates, and at this point, they've already killed all those 80,000 rebels, do you all want to be King Rui's rebels as well, and die under the sword of the Tong family's army!"
The group of forbidden soldiers no longer hesitated at his words and swung their swords to attack Lu Jinan at the same time.
The emperor on the altar shouted towards the forbidden troops on the stage, ordering them to protect King Rui.
The oldest three followed with a threat: "The rebels have blinded the Holy Congregation, the assassin has already confessed to King Rui's treason, whoever dares to act rashly will be punished for treason!"
Lu Jinan did not have the advantage of one against many, and in the midst of the chaos of swords, he steeply felt the cold air approaching behind him, turned around and swung his sword to block, knocking down an arrow!
Only then did he look in the direction from which the bow and arrow had come, and he actually realized that there were archers ambushed on top of the roof not far away.
Lu Jinmin was startled and hurriedly looked at the surrounding rooftops, and before he had time to confirm that there were a total of several ambushes, arrows were shot from three sides!
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh."
"Big brother!" The emperor hissed and cried out, but he could no longer block the sharp arrow that shot towards Lu Jinan's back heart!
There was a muffled "ding."
Lu Jinan knocked down two arrows, the expected pain in his back did not appear, and when he turned to look, he found that the hidden arrow, which he could not avoid, had crashed to the ground and snapped in half.
"What man!" King Yu didn't see how the arrow that was supposed to pierce his elder brother's back was knocked down, and a sense of foreboding made him turn around and grab the emperor as a way to blackmail the unknown visitor.
When he turned back again, he actually found a general in armor standing in front of him, with his back to himself, facing Lu Jinan.
Lu Jinan saw the person who suddenly appeared on the opposite side of the room and gradually opened his eyes wide, his face astonished.
The surrounding forbidden guards were stunned by the sudden appearance of this figure and were just about to move forward with their swords, but they were stopped by King Yu.
Because Lao San had already recognized the familiar armor of the person in front of him, belonging to his uncle's Tong family army, he was overjoyed and quickly stepped forward to ask, "The group of losers outside the city, have all been wiped out?"
"Wastes outside the city? Aren't all the trash standing on the city gates?" The slender figure wearing the armor of the Tong Family Army slowly turned around, and in a pair of demonic shallow pupils that were hooked internally and picked out externally, Lao San's gradually stunned and twisted face was reflected.
"You ...... you barbarian bastard are still alive?!" After a year, King Yu could hardly recognize the young man in front of him, who was half a head taller than himself, as his seventh brother Lu Qian, who had been missing for over a year!
That unfamiliar and dangerous aura made Yu Wang unable to stop trembling, he took two steps back and tried to grab the emperor, but he saw Lu Qian raise a finger.
His ankle instantly felt like it had been hit by a stone, and with an unsteady hand, he dropped to one knee in front of Lu Qian.
"Protect the Emperor!" King Yu reached out and grabbed the pants leg of the forbidden guard beside him, an inexplicable sense of wariness that made him want to grab whatever he could to block the incoming person.
He seemed to forget that the thousands of forbidden soldiers present were under his control, and shouted one after another, "Go! Go to the Dongzhimen Gate and summon General Tong to escort the Emperor!"
Lu Qian, who was blocked a few steps away, spoke softly, "General Tong couldn't make it, Third Brother didn't recognize the armor?"
King Yu was startled, and only now did he realize why this armor looked so familiar and could make him recognize it at once.
This was clearly his uncle Tong Ningzhao's armor!
"Impossible! Eighty thousand rabble, what are they going to fight my uncle with!"
Lu Qian tilted his head and spoke with a puzzled expression, "What about adding the five land vassal kings? Third Brother's reuse of Lord Ma has disappointed the Imperial Uncles so much."
King Yu turned pale in an instant!
A few months ago, Ma Qiu Ming, a member of the Crown Prince Party who had fallen out of favor with the King of Yu, snitched to the King of Yu, saying that the King of Rui was conspiring to collaborate with all the feudal lords inside and outside the country.
King Yu thus cut down the power of the vassal kings in the name of the emperor, and also put the pot on Lu Jinan's head, falsely claiming that the emperor was instructed by King Rui to resolve to cut down the clan.
Now Lu Qian's words have awakened him, that Ma Qiu Ming is simply a fake fall! With this little bastard hiding out in the outside world, so that the clan king's spearheads are all pointed at him!
"Impossible ...... Come on people ...... Come on people ...... Take him down for me!" King Yu struggled to get up, spitting and snarling, "Take down the traitor for this king!"
The forbidden soldiers were just about to go forward, when the sound of trumpets suddenly came from all directions, with the sound of countless hoofbeats of neighing horses--
"Purge the king's side! Jingguo traitors!"
"Purge the king's side! Jingguo traitors!"
......
The hissing of the generals came closer and closer.
King Yu was shocked as he looked around, blackened men and women surrounded the altar from all sides!
"He is a traitor of the state ...... " Yu Wang brew staggered this stood up, as if crazy pointing to Ning Wang Lu Qian, roared harshly: "He is a traitor of the state! He is a traitor of the state!"
"I am a humble, inherited the ancestors Piye twenty-seven years, night clothes and sunset, trying to achieve the ultimate rule ......"
Lu Qian's expression became calm as he stared at King Yu, reciting the late emperor's posthumous edict word for word in a deep voice-
"The eldest son of Yingzi thick virtue, on the ancestral training, under the people's feelings, the original should be the emperor, but because of the rescue of the audio is not available, and for the time being to set up a virtuous prince Ning Wang for the storage, the civil and military qunchen concerted to assist ......"
Lu Qian narrowed his eyes and read the last few words word by word: "Together, we will protect the cause of the clan community for ten thousand years!"
Hearing the late emperor's posthumous edict, the surrounding forbidden soldiers suddenly reddened their eyes.
"Purge the king's side! Jingguo traitors!"
I don't know who in the forbidden army shouted this slogan, and immediately afterward, all the tips of the swords were turned in the same direction without a word--
All of them pointed to the third prince, King Yu!
The author has something to say:
The seven pups are back! Yao Yao has hand-warming special bun face spice again!
A reader asked why the last chapter of the two factions of the Crown Prince and the Three Princes fought directly fast-forwarded the transition.
①This year's fight to be written in detail, it will have to appear a lot of brand-new role of the officials, not in detail, it will be the same as over the house, write in detail at least a dozen chapters to be able to show the situation in a more complete way.
② This episode, the main team is not at all dominant, the process of the chapter can not hit the face, there is no ups and downs, watching will be very depressed.
③ this section of the plot, remote can participate in the part is too little, write a dozen chapters of the protagonist completely unable to insert the hand of the dynastic struggle is not appropriate, so simply just write a with the protagonist of the grandfather related to the fragment, the transition over, so that the little fat cubs to come back, can be quick to smooth up.