The North City Gate Huben were trained by Bei Sima, who came from the Ying Clan, and while they were loyal to the King of Wu, they were equally loyal to their top boss. They were loyal to the king of Wu, but also loyal to their superior. Besides the high prestige of Hussar General, he was also the head of Bei Sima's family. The Huben of the North City Gate always believed in the words of the Hussar General, and when they heard the call of the Hussar General, they all slashed at the guards of Jiang Dafu in order to avenge the death of their superior.
The personal guards brought by the big housekeeper are the elite of Jiangfu, they face the sneak attack, not like the private soldiers in the hutongs were destroyed in one fell swoop, in a moment they reacted and raised their weapons to counterattack, under the counterattack of the personal guards, the dead soldiers and the Huben fell down several times. However, the valor of the guards is valor, but a good man can't stand the group beating, more than fifty guards, facing Yu Kui's same number of dead soldiers and henchmen, the Hussar General's dozen of family members, hundreds of Huben near the city building, outnumbered and outnumbered, not able to resist for a long time, one after another, fell in a pool of blood.
"Yu Kui! Lord Jiang has treated you well, and you betrayed, being that ungrateful, a pig and dog!" The Grand Steward cursed profusely.
"It's not that Dr. Jiang treats me poorly? It's me who treats Dr. Jiang too well!" Yu Kui smiled coldly as his sharp sword tightened, cutting a bloodstain in the Big Steward's neck.
Dazhuang put down the lantern in his hand and searched the big housekeeper's body all over, and searched out two warrants.
When Yu Kui saw that Dajiang had searched his body cleanly, he ended the big housekeeper's life with a sword.
Hussar General called the Huben guarding the north city gate together, counted the number of people, a total of more than two hundred people, he took a hand order to carry a lantern, with more than two hundred Huben to the nearby barracks to curry favor, so that Yu Kui with more than four dozen of his men, their own dozen of family guard the city gate, Yu Kui's dead and men in the battle of the citadel lost seven or eight, which seven or eight people's names, Dajiang are written down in charcoal pencil.
"When will my grandfather return?" One of the first grandsons of the Hussar General had tears in his eyes, this young man had grown up to the age of eleven and had always been well-dressed, it was good enough that he didn't fall over in fear in the face of the tragedy at home.
"Hurry back!" Yu Kui looked at this child with pity, what happened to the Ying Clan was so similar to the Yu Clan eight years ago, it was all a scourge of extinction.
"Is my father failing?" The teenager's eyes were red.
Yu Kui looked back at the first son of the Hussar General who was lying on the wooden planks of the city floor covered in wounds, and touched the youngster's head, "Don't cry! You have the noble bloodline of the Ying Clan in you, you will have to avenge the family in the future and carry the responsibility of the family's prosperity."
"I just want to go back to the old days." Another slightly younger boy wept, the eldest son of the second first son of the Hussar General when this boy was young, he had watched his father, his sister, and his brother get shot halfway across the country by Dr. Jiang's private soldiers, and his mother, who had hanged herself before they left the house.
"My child, once upon a time there was no more! Remember the blood and tears, and pay back with those who hurt you!" Yu Kui clenched his hands as if talking to himself.
The teenager stopped crying, hatred shining in his eyes.
"Revenge! Revenge!" The first-born son of the Hussar General was murmuring on the plank, and Dajiang, who was tending to him, shook his head; the future patriarch of the Ying Clan had lost a lot of blood, and was not going to make it.
Hussar General successfully turned back the eight hundred Huben in the barracks, together with the two hundred Huben in the citadel, he now has one thousand men in his hands, but these men have no chance of winning against the tens of thousands of men in the hands of Ripple Ji and Jiang Dafu, the action of breaking into the palace to rescue the King of Wu is unrealistic, not to mention that whether the King of Wu is still alive or not is still unknown, Hussar General's only option now is to take his troops to the south-west to embrace the King of Azure Mountain.
When the Hussar General returned to the North City Gate with his troops, his first-born son had already lost his breath and was dying with his eyes closed. The Hussar General looked at his son in silence for a while, reached out to help his son close his eyes, and turned around to start making arrangements. The few feudal lords he thought he could win over sent reliable Huben to contact them, the city gates were opened, the drawbridge was lowered, his son's body was carried on his back, and more than a thousand men left the northern city, the beacon on the city gates was set on fire, and the drawbridge was burned to stop the pursuers. It was only after thirty miles or so out of the city that the Hussar General found a place with a landmark geographical feature and dug a deep pit to bury his son hastily.
Yu Kui arranged the escape road there are two, one is from the south gate to go to the city of land, go to the land need horses, on foot, if you will give Ripple Ji sent cavalry to catch up. One is northbound, from the mountain road to the Wu-Tang border, by the border near the Tang small bay to take a boat back to the south port, the danger of this road is from the Wu border to the Tang small bay this section, because with Ripple Ji collusion of the Tang soldiers and horses are near the border.
The first road was originally laid out for the rescue of the Hussar General, and for this reason there were also two dozen war horses placed in the roadside villages; now that the Hussar General had turned back more than a thousand Huben, and there were only a hundred or so Huben with horses, escaping back to Dacheng on horseback was no longer feasible. Going to the territory of Tang to take a boat once again became the best escape plan.
Rapid march from the King of Wu to the border of the Tang Dynasty to about eight days, the army with supplies traveling even slower, no fifteen days to the border, Hussar General and Yu Kui with Huben is lightly loaded on foot, all the way to the pre-set Chu Chaohui strongholds to take care of, although not prepared for more than 1,000 people's food and grass, but a few hundred people are prepared for the supplies are sufficient, Yu Kui with the strongholds to stay in the money with the surrounding people to buy, but still barely maintain the army Huben and horses to eat. The army was barely able to feed the tiger ben and horses. Because of the strongholds along the way, coupled with the mountain road, the horse chasers have to dismount when walking on the mountain road, a horse is the same as no horse, the speed of the chase can not be fast, in this way, Yu Kui and their Ripple Ji sent to chase the horses and men left behind. Every stronghold, ready carrier pigeons will be released to fly back to the valley to bring the latest movements.
"The Ripple Princess tried to lay her hands on the duke at the Harvest Festival? Why didn't your lordship expose the Ripple Ji plot when he knew about it?" On the way north, Yu Kui told the Hussar General about Ripple Ji's plot to murder Gongzi Guang last year in the name of mountain bandits.
"Great General! My two adults just speculate from the abnormal phenomenon, and did not catch the real evidence of Ripple Ji, how can go to report and expose, so that everyone will believe? It is just that the duke has always been on the defense of Ripple Ji, after the discovery of the abnormalities, in order to be safe and sound before borrowing the Tang to go back by boat. Later, the same southwestern road pedestrians, on the day of the duke's return trip was killed, only to confirm Ripple Ji to carry out the conspiracy. It was from then that Councilor Zheng and Chu Sima asked Yu to pay attention to Duke Jiang's every move, and it was only then that Chu Sima arranged a stronghold on the north road, all just for a rainy day."
Yu Kui can not say that Zheng Chu two people early Ran Yi Ji's conspiracy, to be so, the family broke the Hussar generals still do not hate Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui.
"Not bad, last year harvest festival, the southwest is the occurrence of bandits robbing and killing traveling merchants." Xihou went back to the same direction as Gong Ziguang, because Xihou has always done things slowly, Gong Ziguang left before he moved slowly, not yet reached the western city gate, the news of the bandits halfway to kill the king's capital, so scared that Xihou asked the king of Wu to send a thousand Huben escort before he was willing to go back to his own fiefdom.
"The Prince has always believed that it was Ripple Ji who plotted against Lady Wei and Gongzi Ming, after determining that Ripple Ji had done it to him, he felt that this treacherous consort was not dead to the throne, and worried that the Crown Prince and the Great General would be in danger, so he let Lord Wei send a message to the Crown Prince and the Great General, but unfortunately," Yu Kui stopped and didn't say anything else.
"Shame! The Crown Prince and the old man are ashamed of a piece of your son's mind."
Hussar General regretted, Wei Shen from the harvest festival back, often sent people to contact him, the words implied to beware of Ripple Ji, but unfortunately at that time he thought that the big thing had been decided, a woman is not enough to be afraid of, Wei Shen attentive to the contact, but also in turn came to suspect that Wei Shen on behalf of the Duke Guang pulling together the big families it.
In fact, Wei Shen sent people to contact said vaguely, only repeatedly say bad things about ripples Ji, Gong Ziguang on ripples Ji never false, Gong Ziguang disgusted ripples Ji things, the royal court ministers know, hussar general thought Gong Ziguang because of the disgust of ripples Ji, want to borrow their hands to help get rid of ripples Ji, and now think about it, really want to be wrong.
Yu Kui saw the hussar general's face was ashamed, his heart relaxed, knowing that the hussar general would not have suspicion of Gong Zi Guang and Zheng Chu trio, suspecting that they sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight, using Yi Ji to get to the throne after destroying the crown prince.
The Hussar General had been traveling with his army for seven days, and was immediately approaching the border of Tang, when the scouting horses came back to report that there was a Wu army in front of them, and that they were catching up with the Wu army on the northern expedition.
"Great General, can we turn East Sima and South Sima Ye?" Yu Kui coveted the tens of thousands of troops in the hands of the two Sima, if he fought over these tens of thousands of troops, it would be in vain for Yi Ji to control the royal court.
"This is difficult, the Eastern Sima and Southern Sima are loyal to the Great King, as long as the Great King is in the hands of Ripple Ji, the two Simas will honor their duties." The Hussar General shook his head. He didn't know whether the King of Wu was alive or dead, but whether he was alive or dead, he was now in Ripple Ji's hands. The two Sima were foolishly loyal, and Ripple Ji would be able to hold them in check if she had the King of Wu.
"Then we can only avoid it?" Yu Kui deflated.
"No, old me is going to meet the two Simas." The hussar general was resolute: "I will go alone, and if I am unfortunate, please ask Strongman Yu to bring my two grandsons to defect to your son."
Lobbying the two foolishly loyal Sima is dangerous, the Hussar General has already put his own life and death at risk, but the two grandchildren he can not give up, he hopes that after the grandson defected to Gong Ziguang, under the shelter of Gong Ziguang grew up to adulthood.
"Great General, please take Yu Mou there, Yu Mou is a bit eloquent, I hope to help the Great General." Yu Kui admired this old general and a sense of bravado rose in his heart.
"Haha! Good! I didn't expect that I would meet a man of character in my old age, but if you don't think I'm too old to be a friend, will you be willing to befriend me?"
"Yu Kui begs to differ!" Yu Kui smiled brightly and bowed to the old general, the Hussar General returned the same salute, and just like that, the two old and young, whose age difference was more than double, became close friends in front of more than a thousand people.
The hussar general made arrangements for the army, Yu Kui explained some matters to Dajiang, and the two of them walked jointly towards the place where the Wu army was encamped.
East Sima and South Sima are both around forty years old, they have not stayed under the Hussar General, they are the King of Wu's personally cultivated close confidants, the Hussar General and Yu Kui with the yuanyuan gate guards to inform the army, led by the herald into the middle tent, East Sima as soon as he saw the great general bellowed out, "Ying's do you know the crime?"
As soon as Dong Sima's words fell, the swords and spears of the left and right Huben clattered against the two men.
"I, the Ying Clan, followed King Mu to the land of Wu, and have been loyal for hundreds of years, spilling my blood and throwing my head for the Kingdom of Wu without hesitation, this rebuke from the Dong Sima Clan is so strange!" The Hussar General's eyes glared, his snow-white beard blown high by his breath.
"Great General, the late king's edict of inquisition was sent to the border by fast horse, the edict says that the general is plotting treason and tells us to kill him on sight." Nan Sima sighed and waved his hand for Huben to retreat.
"The late king? The Great King is sworn in?" As soon as the Great General heard Nan Sima address the late king, he couldn't help but see his eyes turn red.
The East Secretary and West Secretary looked at each other, the situation in the royal capital had left them puzzled, and the death of the King of Wu had left them even more at a loss.
"The king's capital express horse sent the great general's edict of inquisition for two days, and sent the obituary of the great king's death by death, and Duke Yong has succeeded to the throne on the day before yesterday."
"Great King!" The Hussar General 'poofed' and fell to his knees, facing the south, crouching on the ground and crying in pain, Yu Kui followed closely.
"Traitorous consort, you will be struck by heavenly lightning for plotting against the king and the crown prince!" The Hussar General pounded the ground and howled.
"How is it that Consort Ripple plotted against the Great King and framed the Crown Prince? It was clearly the Crown Prince who colluded with the Lord of Zhao to sell out the city of Wu, the incriminating letters and letters had already been seized from the Crown Prince's residence, it was only in anger that the Great King issued an imperial edict to abolish the Crown Prince and instead set up Duke Yong, and it was only after the seizure of the Crown Prince that the Great King became angry with the princeling." Dong Sima stared closely at the Hussar General's complexion.
"What? The Prince is selling his country?" The Hussar General was stunned.
Kneeling behind the hussar general Yu Kui pounded the ground: how stupid is this prince in the end, such a handle is not destroyed after the incident, preferring to put it in the house for supply!