Funing Hall

Du Yu originally planned to go directly to the city gate to meet Jiang Wei, but before he reached the city gate, he was frightened when he saw the elite soldiers running around the city.

He was very worried about His Majesty's safety, and he couldn't care less about it at this moment, even if he conspired, he would go to hell.

If something happens to His Majesty in Taiyuan, the entire Du family will be buried with him!

Furthermore, for an emperor like His Majesty, he will protect him to the death.

He quickly sent the Xiang Army to confront Jiang Wei at the gate of the city, while he rushed to His Majesty's foothold first.

When he arrived in a hurry with his bodyguards, Zhao Cong had just woken up and was listening to his bodyguards replying.

After all, the road to Taiyuan was a bit bumpy, and it was not very slow. His body was already a little uncomfortable, but when he first came, things had not been arranged, so he couldn't relax.

At this moment, everything is properly arranged, and he can feel relieved even if he has a headache.He was sleeping soundly, and such a big thing happened in the city, how could his people not know?

As soon as the guard opened his mouth, he frowned.

He immediately discovered the crux of it, and he was afraid that his whereabouts had been exposed.

Like Shao Yi, the first thing he doubted was Du Yu.

As soon as he suspected Du Yu, Du Yu hurried over, before he had time to report, he followed Lu Yuan, came in and knelt down and said: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty is late!"

Zhao Cong rubbed his forehead, his doubts about Du Yu immediately dissipated, he stood up and said, "Get up and talk."

Du Yu quickly described the situation in the city to Zhao Cong.

Zhao Cong asked, "When you came, were you ever followed?"

Du Yu was taken aback for a moment, he saw those elite soldiers at that time, he only thought about His Majesty's safety, but he really didn't expect it.

"Jiang Wei is afraid that he already knows that you are here."

"The minister deserves death."

Zhao Cong leaned back on the pillow, closed his eyes and said: "The matter has come to this point, it is useless to pursue responsibility, anyway, they will always find it, so it is better to see how to deal with this matter. Jiang Wei is very thoughtful, Du Qing I'm afraid I don't know, even Zhao Congde, the prince of Weijun, has a relationship with him and has been bribed by him long ago."

Du Yu is not Zhao Cong's confidant, the first time he heard about this, he couldn't help opening his mouth.

"Since Jiang Wei has a deep mind, he dare not act rashly. He only has [-] troops, and if he really wants to fight against me, he can't fight at all. It can be seen that Jiang Wei has a backer. Guess, this backer is Jurchen, or is it?"

After all, Du Yu was also experienced in many battles, so he quickly calmed down, thought for a moment, and said seriously: "Your Majesty, I don't think it's Jurchen. Even if Wan Yanliang colluded with him, he only brought dozens of people with him on the road. These people It's not even enough to give Jiang Wei courage."

Zhao Cong laughed.

When Zhao Congde escaped smoothly when he was in Jinmingchi last time, he felt that someone in the court had tipped off the news.It's just that he didn't know what this person wanted at that time, but at this moment, he felt that he could figure it out.

But now is not the time to care about that.

Du Yu hurriedly said again: "Your Majesty, Jiang Wei is currently sending people all over the city to search for His Majesty. Even if you follow the minister, you can't get the news immediately. You should hide it first! The minister knows that there is a place——"

Zhao Cong laughed, then opened his eyes.He was not feeling well, his complexion was not good-looking, but his eyes were extremely bright.

Du Yu stopped speaking.

He said in an orderly manner: "I am the emperor of the Zhao family, and I am here. Let's see what abilities Jiang Wei has."

When Zhao Cong said this, no one looked at him, he just spoke slowly.

But Du Yu couldn't help being dumbfounded listening to it, and also staring dumbfounded.

In fact, in the past, he really didn't take this sickly emperor seriously.Even if the emperor succeeded in taking charge of the government, brought down the entire Sun family, and even sent him here, he still didn't think that the emperor was very powerful.He just felt that the emperor had really good luck.

It wasn't until this moment that he realized that this seemingly weak emperor was wrapped in an extremely interesting, tough and powerful soul.

Du Yu was terrified at first, but when he heard this sentence, which is strictly speaking an understatement, he suddenly calmed down.

Zhao Cong looked forward.

He really had nothing to fear.There is no one in Jiang Wei, and Li Liangcheng is his helper, but Li Liangcheng is not an abandoned son of Xixia, and he wants to fight for the throne in Xixia, how many soldiers can he give him?

He owns the Xiang Army of the entire Taiyuan Mansion, and Xie Wenrui who is rushing over quickly.

Want to surround him both inside and outside?

He owns the whole world.

He sneered, who surrounded whom.

Originally, he wanted to bypass Jiang Wei's life and take him back to Kaifeng Mansion for the sake of big plans, to take care of the thoughts of the civil servants and the common people, and to barely preserve the rules of his ancestors.

Although Jiang Wei killed his biological father in this life.

Now he can't be blamed, it just so happens that he has long wanted to chase after his biological father, but he is worried that he can't find an opportunity.

Use the blood of Jiang's family to pay homage to his parents.

As Zhao Cong and the others said, Jiang Wei's elite soldiers used the search for Xixia police as a cover, but they were actually looking for Zhao Cong.

Taiyuan City is so big, 1000 people scattered to look for it. In fact, they found it very quickly, and they could find it at night at the slowest.But because Du Yu made a mistake in his busy schedule, those who followed him had already known where Zhao Cong was staying in advance, and hurried to the city gate to inform Jiang Wei.

Jiang Wei laughed happily, stepped out of the carriage, looked at the tightly closed city gate with his hands behind his back, and then turned to look at the entire Taiyuan City.The sun had set, and the streets were in disarray due to the extensive search. Many shops had closed early, there were few lights, and the world was extremely dark. Except for soldiers, there was no one there.But he felt very bright in his heart. The Jiang family had been looking forward to it for 100 years, and Jiang Wei had been waiting for more than [-] years. This day will finally come!

He looked at the commander of the Xiang army sent by Du Yu who was confronting him, and said sternly: "Lord Li, you and I are doing things for His Majesty. Xixia Xizuo is indeed in the city right now, can we just let it go like this?! I don't know." Reporting to Master Du, closing the city gate without authorization and sending people to search the city is indeed wrong. But if these Xixia minions are allowed to do whatever they want, it is really wrong! At that time, His Majesty will blame you and me, Lord Du Also, how can I bear His Majesty's anger?!"

Before Zhao Cong came to power, there were more Xiang troops than there are now, but they were full of crooked melons and jujubes. They were not so much Xiang troops, they never trained soldiers, and they usually did some odd jobs in the city.It's even worse when selecting candidates, regardless of height and physical strength, in order to make up for the number, it is necessary to be a man.After Zhao Cong came to power, he streamlined the Xiang army, and divided the forbidden army in Beijing into several parts, scattered them to various state capitals, reorganized the army, and strictly recruited them. After several years of training, the current Xiang army was formed.

However, the status of the Xiang army was not high in the past. It has lasted for a hundred years and its concepts are deeply ingrained. It cannot be reversed in the past four or five years.The Jiang family has been in Taiyuan Mansion for many years, and some of the Xiang armies here do not have the awe-inspiring aura of the East and West Xiang armies in Hebei.

What's more, Mr. Li didn't know that the so-called Xixia Xizuo was actually His Majesty. When Du Yu sent them, he only asked them to stop Jiang Wei from doing anything. He didn't know anything about it.Seeing Jiang Wei being so strong at this moment, he was very angry, but he couldn't say that Jiang Wei was inferior, and his momentum was not as good, so he could only say in vain, "You—"

That's it, I haven't finished talking yet.

Jiang Wei turned around in disdain, and ordered loudly: "Everyone get on fire!"

He was tall and strong, with a loud voice, and at this moment he was gaining momentum again. His voice was heard for several miles, and the elite soldiers lined up one after another quickly lit the torches in their hands.

Jiang Wei looked towards the west, and said loudly: "Xixia secret agents have come to my Taiyuan many times, stealing information about my soldiers and horses in Taiyuan, and offending my Song Dynasty! Your Majesty has been dissatisfied with this for a long time, and ordered me to capture these secret agents! I, Jiang Wei, At His Majesty's will, we have searched carefully for a long time, and today we got reliable news, sent troops to search all over the city, and finally found Xixia Xizuo's hiding place!"

The soldiers roared in unison: "Good! Good! Good!"

Jiang Wei pressed his hand, and then said loudly: "Your Majesty has been worried about this matter for a long time. As soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, we have strictly regarded it as our duty to solve His Majesty's worries. Now, I, Jiang Wei, will order you to take these Work carefully, so that His Majesty can rest assured!"

After he finished speaking, he continued: "Fight for Your Majesty! Don't disappoint Your Majesty!"

The soldiers said in unison: "Yes!!!"

As soon as the voice fell, horseshoes sounded outside the city gate, Jiang Wei laughed even more arrogantly, and said happily, "Open the city gate!"

The guards guarding the gate, one left and one right, struggled to push open the heavy city gate.

Dust and morale came oncoming, and the person sitting on the horse with his head high was the Zhijun of the Pingding Army. He got off his horse, walked up to Jiang Wei, knelt down and said, "General, the subordinates are late!"

"It's not too late! To serve His Majesty, it's never too late, and it's never too late to come!"

Zhijun cupped his hands, Jiang Wei called out, and squinted to see the dark area behind him, about 1 people.The Pingding Army has 8 to [-] people. If all of them come over, it will definitely arouse suspicion.

But at this time, the more people the better, he ordered the Ping Ding Army to come in batches and act at night.Tomorrow night at the latest, the Pingding Army will all rush to Taiyuan City.And according to what Li Liangcheng's confidantes said, he has already started in Xixia, and some of his helpers will be able to rush to Taiyuan to help him at the latest tomorrow night.

At that time, his military strength will be more than [-]? !

This time, Zhao Cong is a turtle in the urn, he has caught it!

The more he thought about it, the happier he felt. He raised his hands and said loudly, "Follow me!"

He got on the horse first, stretched out his cloak, threw the reins angrily, and the steed galloped away.

Behind him, all the soldiers ran and followed, holding up the torches in their hands, lighting the way.Then there is the dark and imposing Ping Ding Army.

Mr. Li led the Xiang army from Taiyuan Mansion to the last, so he was so angry that he could only lead his people to follow immediately.

Zhao Cong settled in a house with three entrances, in a very quiet alley, they stopped at the entrance of the alley.Jiang Wei stretched out his hand and pointed at the house in the distance, and said loudly: "Xixia Xizuo is in it! I want to catch it alive!"

Everyone should be like this, two columns of elite soldiers holding high torches ran into the alley first, and then lined up one by one again, illuminating the entire alley.

The group of people brought by Zhijun of the Pingding Army are almost all archers, which was specially requested by Jiang Wei before.

Right now, Zhijun didn’t say much, and deployed directly. After a while, almost every wall and roof in the alley was covered with soldiers with bows and arrows. Their directions were all in Zhao Cong’s direction. The courtyard where I live.

Jiang Wei half-closed his eyes again, he also wanted to burn Zhao Cong directly, save time and effort, and also burn the old thing Du Yu by the way, and save night and dream.

But he still asks for a lot, the Zhao clan is not empty, he wants righteousness, but also reputation, he can't be so hasty.

His deputy knew his intentions best, so he yelled at the house right away, saying all righteous words, eloquently and forcefully arguing for justice, and even more so wanting the other party to be arrested quickly.

These words fell into the ears of Zhao Cong and others verbatim.

Zhao Cong was not very angry, the rest of the people were all very angry.Even Doctor Bai raised his beard and trembled with anger: "Absurd, Your Majesty! Jiang Wei is planning to rebel! Absurd!"

Lu Yuan also said cautiously: "Your Majesty, should we take some precautions..."

Zhao Cong was very calm, and only said one word: "Wait."

Jiang Wei didn't dare to attack him immediately, he wanted to see what skills Jiang Wei had.

The people who inquired outside soon came back and said: "Your Majesty, there are all archers outside."

Du Yu was trembling a little, let alone an old man like Doctor Bai, he was so angry that he couldn't speak.

Lu Yuan had a bitter face, not because he was afraid that he would die, because bows and arrows have no eyes!There are only so many of them, what should be done for His Majesty's safety?He often walks in front of the imperial court, how capable Jiang Wei's elite soldiers are, and he also often hears from His Majesty, how can Du Yu's people fight against them?

Mu Fu raised his eyebrows and stood behind him, his mind spinning quickly.

They do have soldiers in their hands, and there are quite a few, and they have been training all year round, but it is a pity that the distant water cannot save the nearby fire!

In the current situation, even if he delivered letters outside, he couldn't deliver them.

But unlike others, he wasn't very panicked. After getting along with him these few days, he became more and more sure that this emperor was not easy.Seeing the appearance of the emperor's old god, he also knew that there was a backup.

Instead, he was looking forward to it, not knowing what kind of backhand it was.

Shao Yi returned the same way, and as soon as he turned over from the city wall, he hurried to His Majesty's place.

From a distance, he saw that the lights lit up half the sky, and he panicked.He didn't have time to rush to His Majesty's side, and he didn't dare to get too close. He just jumped a few houses ahead, leaned firmly on the roof, carefully looked around, and finally saw the leader of the queue wearing a bright red cloak. Jiang Wei.

He only thought about the moment, so he took down the short bow he was carrying with him from behind, without hesitation at all, he straightened up slightly, squinted his eyes and drew the bow and arrow, aiming it at Jiang Wei.

After aiming, his hand was about to drop when suddenly a few houses away, archers on the roof saw him.

Before his arrow could be released, four feathered arrows had already shot at him first.

In order to avoid the feather arrow, he hastily shot the arrow in his hand, but he was also hit by two arrows.

The archers used longbows, which did extremely high damage, and the two arrows went directly towards his atrium. Shao Yi felt pain and felt dizzy, but he still remembered that he couldn't be caught.Even if he was about to faint, he still remembered to turn around and roll down first, avoiding the rest of the archers.

And Shao Yi hastily shot the arrow with a short bow, even though he still hurt Jiang Wei, but because of his dodging, the arrow missed Jiang Wei's eyes.The feather arrow just hit Jiang Wei's arm, Jiang Wei pulled out the arrow directly, and then said loudly: "There are still secret agents in the city! Search quickly!"

"Yes!"

Immediately, a line of soldiers turned to Shao Yi's direction to search for people.

Taking this opportunity, Jiang Wei said loudly in person: "I advise you not to hide anymore! Come out quickly! It is useless to hurt people! This is Taiyuan Mansion, the territory of our Great Song Dynasty! Don't struggle anymore!"

The rest of the soldiers echoed loudly, the voice was loud.

The shock made the whole city of Taiyuan look more and more lonely, like an empty city.