The arrow came swiftly and violently, and it was shot off the string at the moment the palace door was opened. It was obvious that someone had planned for a long time, waiting outside the meeting hall and waiting for the door to open to shoot and kill Xiao Jining.

After Liu Ling cut off the arrow, he immediately rushed out of the hall to the edge of the wall where the assassin might have been, but he stopped suddenly when he reached the corner.

Although Wen Yu was a literati, he might be a little better than Xiao Jining in terms of boxing skills, but he was not afraid of danger, so he followed Liu Ling and chased him out.Seeing that Liu Ling had only chased for a few steps, he stopped chasing, and asked him, "General Liu, why don't you continue chasing?"

"Qinggong is so good, the person has already run away, I can't catch up." Liu Ling frowned and said, "And I can't leave the emperor's side."

What's the use of chasing an assassin who knows it's hard to catch?What if this is a trick to divert the tiger away from the mountain?Their secret discussions were discovered, and under such circumstances, they couldn't leave Xiao Jining's side.

"That's right." The Seventh Prince, who was guarding the palace with the Eighth Prince and protecting Xiao Jining, walked to the gate of the palace, frowned and said, "...There may be a change tonight, we'd better make preparations early."

"Brother Eighth Emperor, you go out of the palace with Wen Yu with the soldier talisman, and call the Imperial Army's imperial battalion after seeing the situation in the palace." The Seventh Prince took out the gold soldier talisman from his cuff and handed it to the Eighth Prince.

The Eighth Prince looked down at the soldier talisman that was handed over to him, then raised his head and opened his eyes wide and said, "Then where are you and Brother Ninth Emperor?"

The Seventh Prince turned sideways slightly, glanced back at Xiao Jining who was blocked not far behind him, and said: "I'm to blame for this, I didn't expect that there might be Xu's rebellious party among the forbidden army, and now the forbidden army has surrounded the palace layer by layer. It's a dilemma, among the brothers, the Fifth Prince fears me and Brother Ninth Emperor the most, you are a little better, so you can still leave."

There is a huge disparity in national strength between Dongying and the Great Xiao, and there is a great river and sea, so the fourth prince can still sit on the throne for a few days.The Eighth Prince is different, he has Daliao blood on his body, even if the members of the royal family are all dead, otherwise the ministers would not let the Eighth Prince take the throne if they would support the princess as the empress.It is precisely because of this that even if the fifth prince wants to force the palace tonight, he will not choose to kill the eighth prince first.

"I'm not leaving!" The Eighth Prince also knew this truth, but he was not willing to leave the Seventh Prince and Xiao Jining alone, "Jingyuan has just arrived at the border, and the Tubo army has not yet started to take back Guanzhou City. At this time, five What kind of palace is the prince forcing? If you want to go out of the palace, just let Wen Yu go out with the soldier talisman."

"He's the number one scholar!" The Seventh Prince glared angrily, and couldn't help but swear, "He knows the art of war!"

"That, that..."

The Eighth Prince was suddenly at a loss for words.

Didn't it say that Xiao Jining would not be in too much danger before Jing Yuan won the battle and returned to Beijing?If Xiao Jining died at this time, it would not be surprising that Jing Yuan would run back directly from the border.

"Yes! Jingyuan will come back for the ninth brother!" Seeing the eighth prince's obsession, the Seventh Prince grabbed his collar and gritted his teeth, "But have you ever thought that in the eyes of the Fifth Emperor, the ninth brother is right? For Jing Yuan, it may not be that important at all!"

That's right, since ancient times, the emperor may have hoped for the death of a soldier like Jing Yuan who has been close to the master of the game. In the same way, when the emperor dies, the threat of the soldiers will disappear. Who would not be happy?

How do they know...

But he didn't know that if Jingyuan died because of Xiao Jining, he would definitely give up the border, even if the whole Great Xiao was under the hooves of the Tubo cavalry, he didn't care, but this thought subconsciously appeared in his mind, and the Eighth Prince didn't understand it either. why.

So as soon as the Seventh Prince's words fell, the Eighth Prince was stunned in place.

"Come here!" The Seventh Prince shouted, and beckoned two attendants in green clothes to forcefully carry the Eighth Prince away from the palace.

Wen Yu also followed the Eighth Prince and left the palace with him.

Because of what Xiao Jining said, on the way out of the palace, the Eighth Prince specially observed the imperial guards passing through the palace, and his heart beat faster the more he watched.

He even couldn't help but said to Wen Yu: "Martial law in the palace, do we need so many patrolling guards?"

"No need." Wen Yu's usual composure was gone, he frowned and said, "We have met seven teams of 50 people on the way here, this is just a way out of the palace."

There are so many forbidden troops on a single road, it is really hard to imagine how many "martial law forbidden troops" there are in other places.

But Wen Yu took a deep breath, and comforted the Eighth Prince, "Eighth Prince, don't worry, this is good news."

The Eighth Prince asked him back: "Master Wen, do you think you can coax me with your words?"

Wen Yu: "..."

"Eighth Prince, I'm not coaxing you." Wen Yu was also a little helpless. The Eighth Prince may be good at using soldiers, but his brain is too straight. He had to explain to the Eighth Prince in detail, "The number of forbidden troops in the palace The number is unusual. From the looks of it now, the fifth prince may really launch a mutiny tonight. The increase in the imperial palace's forbidden army means that the fifth prince has transferred all the available forbidden troops to the palace. Most of them are usable soldiers."

Only then did the Eighth Prince realize: "What you said makes sense."

Wen Yu breathed a sigh of relief: "So please listen to what the Seventh Prince said, and hurry up and stand outside the palace with your military talisman. If there is any change, we will immediately enter the palace to rescue the emperor and them."

"Okay!" The Eighth Prince nodded.

They did not encounter too many obstacles when they went out of the palace. After the Eighth Prince met his attendants at the palace gate, he got on his horse and headed towards the imperial camp with a soldier talisman.

The silence of the palace was broken when the first bell rang in Xu time.

The majestic bells on the bell tower are long and distant, as if they came from ancient times, but before their lingering sound completely dissipated, they were replaced by the sound of the clash of weapons that only appeared on the battlefield.

The fifth prince has indeed mutinied and forced the palace.

Today, there are more than [-] forbidden troops stationed in the palace, but [-] of them are the remnants of the Xu family, who are under the command of the Fifth Prince—to be precise, they are not under the command of the Fifth Prince, but Xu Jiuqing.

She mixed with the team escorting Ji Xingming back to Beijing, and returned to the capital together from the border.

The rebellion of the forbidden army tonight came from her handwriting.

After careful calculation, adding the forbidden soldiers who were beheaded during the Mid-Autumn Banquet riots, and the 8 forbidden soldiers that Jingyuan investigated, there are a total of [-] remnants of the Xu family mixed in the forbidden troops, almost occupying the entire capital of the forbidden army. number.

However, this is not surprising, this number is not much.

The goalkeeper of the Xu family was the founding general of the Great Xiao. When Emperor Yunhong arrived, the Xu family was still one of the three generals who held the military power of the Great Xiao. If Xu Junhui hadn't been on the wrong team, the Xu family would never have fallen Today there are only [-] soldiers left to follow.

However, if it is used to force the palace, [-] is enough.

After the fifth prince and his party slaughtered all the forbidden troops in the palace who were not from the remnants of Xu's party, they went straight to the place where Xiao Jining was in the Golden Dragon Palace.Liu Ling and the Seventh Prince led the remaining hussar battalion guards to guard outside the Golden Dragon Hall, swearing to the death not to let the Fifth Prince attack.

"Seventh emperor brother, why do you do this?" The fifth prince just sighed softly when he saw this, "I really don't understand what benefit Xiao Jining has given you, just to make you disdain the throne, that's all. Can you still ask you to risk your life for him?"

The Seventh Prince clenched the Yueshuang sword tightly, and said with a sneer, "Because he is my younger brother, my brother. As an older brother, I should protect my younger brother."

The Fifth Prince is older than the Seventh Prince and Xiao Jining, and he is also the elder brother, but now he is facing each other with swords in this pair of blood-related brothers. Every word that the Seventh Prince said is a satire of his evil deeds.

"Brother?" But in the eyes of the fifth prince, the royal family has never had the word "blood relative" at all. Even if Emperor Yunhong was able to force the prince to death, what if he killed a few younger brothers who were not born to the same mother?

The fifth prince raised his sword and pointed at the main entrance of the Golden Dragon Hall and said, "The brother you are talking about let you come out to die, but he is curled up in the Golden Dragon Hall and dare not even come out?"

But as soon as he finished speaking, the palace door was pushed open by the people in the room.

The young man in the golden dragon robe stood with his head held high in front of the main gate of the Golden Dragon Hall, followed by his close followers Xi Shu and Mu Kui. At this time, the Golden Dragon Hall was surrounded by the Xu Clan's imperial army led by the Fifth Prince, and it was difficult to fly even with wings He came out, but there was still no trace of fear on his face, he just raised his eyelids, looked at the Fifth Prince on the horseback, and said slowly: "Who said I dare not come out?"

Seeing this, the Fifth Prince called him, "Ninth Emperor Brother."

"Brother Wuhuang." Xiao Jining blinked, opened his lips and said softly, "You also know that I am still sitting on the throne. Now that you know, don't you feel that what you have done today is a little too much?"

"Of course I know that you are the emperor now." The fifth prince laughed, and then continued, "But I think your position should be enough, and it's time for someone else to sit."

"Who should I replace? You?" Xiao Jining also laughed when he heard the words, and then suddenly turned cold, and said coldly, "You deserve it too?"

"Okay, Brother Ninth Emperor, don't pull your face." The fifth prince shook his head and said, "Brother Seventh Emperor just said that as an older brother, he should protect the younger brother. I think there is some truth in what he said. Anyway, we Brother, I don't want to kill you, you just need to learn from the fourth prince, and you will be in the Zen position."

Xiao Jining still stood quietly with his hands behind his back, and his voice was as calm as water: "Even if I die here today, it's not your turn to sit on the throne."

Hearing what Xiao Ji Ning said, the fifth prince also lowered his face, there was no smile on his face, he raised his sword and pointed at Xiao Ji Ning and said in a cold voice: "Since this is the case, then don't blame Brother Wu Huang for disregarding brotherhood."

However, just after he said these words, a sharp arrow shot out from behind him quickly and hit the fifth prince directly. The arrow was so powerful that it directly pierced the fifth prince's shoulder blade.

The fifth prince's body was pushed forward half way by the arrow force, and he almost fell off the horse.

"Zheng-"

But although the other person did not fall, his shoulder bones were broken, and he could no longer hold the silver sword in his hand. After the sword fell to the ground, it collided with the cold floor tiles in the palace, making a hideous sound.

The Fifth Prince lowered his head slowly, looking in disbelief at the black iron arrow that pierced his chest with the blood in his body.

And behind him, Xu Jiuqing, who had followed him all the way into the palace, was now holding a longbow, and the bow was aimed at the direction of the Fifth Prince—this arrow was shot by Xu Jiuqing.

"Five Princes." Xu Jiuqing put down his bow and arrow, and said, "When you rescued me, I said that one day I will kill all the members of the royal family and avenge my Xu family."

The author has something to say: Fifth Prince: Save you, kill my brother, understand?

Xu San: Understood, if one day the sword is in hand, it will kill all the rich and noble dogs of the royal family.

Fifth Prince: Cao, I didn't let you kill me first!

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