Alternative Jianghu Adventures

Lan Sang said, "I'll go out and check." I didn't expect it to take so long.

It has been so long that Qiao Anyue has been drunk and woke up again, and has prepared all the missing poison | medicines and has not come back yet.

Lansang went out for a whole day and night.

Until the second day, the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, when the dawn was faint, Suhratai broke into the city and did not return.

Listening to the suddenly noisy street outside, Qiao Anyue secretly watched the situation outside from the broken window on the second floor.

No matter how strong the generals defending the city are, they are still no match for Suhratai, which has ten times its strength.

What's more, there are so many dignitaries in the capital, if ordinary people who are used to hunger can survive for a few more days, these "nobles" see the city besieged and the food and grass cut off, many of them have the intention of surrendering.

To put it bluntly, Suhratai didn't even need to work hard to attack the city. He only needed to camp around the capital and watch the city run out of ammunition and food every day. Within half a month, the gate of the capital would definitely be open to him.

To fight or not to fight is just a matter of time before entering the city.

Before that, he was still pretending to play with the defenders of the city, and did not invest more troops, because Yue Ping had never seen the Han army coming from the south, and he was afraid that he would not be able to complete the "mutiny" scene if he entered the city for too long. , Only then did I discuss with Suhratai without doing my best.

As soon as Yu Ying transported the army by ship yesterday and received the news, she naturally had no scruples, and broke into the city in just one night.

"Master Yue!"

Yuan Hua hurriedly pushed open Qiao Anyue's room door. She was dressed in a short jacket that was easy to walk in, and there was still a fine amount of sweat on her forehead. At a glance, she could tell that she had just come back from the street to investigate, and she looked in a hurry, "Su He Latai has brought his personal guards to besiege the gate of the palace!"

"what should we do?"

"Did you encounter any obstacles?" Qiao Anyue raised her eyebrows, and without saying a word, put the hidden weapon prepared yesterday on her body and asked.

Yuan Hua shook his head, "No... the defenders have been defeated, and only a small group of scattered soldiers are left wandering in the city. It is a death sentence to meet the Usai people, and they will not make a fortune."

"Where's the Gao family?"

"Nothing happened." Yuan Hua replied fluently, "Yesterday I sent people to monitor, but until just now, the door of Gao's house was closed, like other officials' houses in the court, they closed their doors and did not leave."

"Where's Qiao's house?"

The Qiao family is not an official, but a merchant at best, but it is also another important stronghold secretly manipulated by Gao Shiyuan.

"...It's still like what we heard when we first came to the capital. The whole family moved out a long time ago. Now there is still only an abandoned house with no one in sight."

The two of them have touched the current situation in a few words.

Qiao Anyue made a decisive decision, "Go to the palace."

"Ah?" Yuan Hua didn't realize it for a while. Now there is no leader among the dragons in the palace, and Suhratai will soon enter the army, and then there will be a long-planned southern army mutiny. In terms of time, it is still too early to go to the palace. , "Isn't it time to wait for Lan..."

"Gao Shiyuan and Zhang Jiwen are both in the palace." Qiao Anyue interrupted the little girl, "Since the moment the gate of the capital was captured, the only place that can make a comeback is the palace they are most familiar with."

Qiao Anyue narrowed her eyes, "As the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, Suhratai will take the lead in the matter of entering the palace out of reason. Other places in the city are already out of order, but these two are entrenched in the palace. For such a long time, whether it is the terrain or the arrangement of personnel, there must be someone hiding it.

If Lu Kun left any instructions, it could only be carried out centering on the big palace they are most familiar with.Let me ask you, if you were those two people, how would you deal with yourself in such a desperate situation? "

Yuan Hua reacted immediately after being moved by Qiao Anyue, "Capture the thief first, capture the king first, lean on the big palace, and take Suhratai's life!"

In this way, both sides can say that the dragons have no leader. Even if the Usai people occupy the capital for the time being, Zhang Gao and Zhang Gao can naturally accumulate strength in secret and wait for an opportunity to counterattack.

The Usai people have a tradition of division since ancient times. It is difficult for a person like Suhratai to gather people's hearts in a hundred years. Once he dies, I am afraid that Usai will disintegrate sooner or later-just like the rebellion that Ulan Tuya faced before. Same.

This is the last and best time to come back.

"Where's Cheng Zhe?" Qiao Anyue passed Yuan Hua and walked out.

"My brother is calling him." Yuan Hua answered smoothly, without even realizing it, her "brother" became more and more fluent.

——After all, I was not familiar with them in the palace when I was a child, and people who met each other were just polite words, and only close brothers and sisters would call them like this in private.

After being rescued and escaped, he slowly changed his name from "elder brother" to the more common "brother".

"Bring it on," Qiao Anyue said succinctly, "The strange magic of the Northern Army can only be deciphered by him."

"But..." Yuan Hua thought for a while, saw the jar of unfinished wine placed in Qiao Anyue's room, and swallowed the rest of the sentence "Master Cheng probably hasn't slowed down yet".

She was sure that when she knocked on the door to report to Master Yue last night, the door of Master Yue's room was locked from the inside.There was a faint smell of wine wafting from the crack in the door, but no one responded.

——Usually no matter what, even if you don't want to talk about things, Master Yue will explain the reason.

But not last night.

She could only hear the sound of shallow breathing in the room - she probably wasn't asleep - but she just didn't want to talk to herself or to anything.

The incident happened suddenly this morning, when she rushed in, Master Yue had already returned to normal, giving orders with ease, she didn't think much about it.

But now seeing the jar of wine with his own eyes, Yuan Hua suddenly realized:

Master Cheng didn't come out, so did Master Yue come out?

She vaguely remembered the time when she and her brother were just rescued by Yuan Mei, Yuan Chong's tone was extremely aggressive, he lost his temper everywhere, and his attitude was extremely bad, but she was uncharacteristically, as if the fire had never happened , was eerily quiet.

No one can come out.

Yuan Hua suddenly realized that both Master Cheng and Master Yue were just a little older than her, and they couldn't handle such things better than them.

It's just that there are more important things to do.

So I can't even cry in front of them, because I'm afraid that my emotions will hurt others; so I don't even dare to get drunk, because I'm afraid that my mind will delay the big event; so after going through such a painful thing, I have to organize my thoughts , I am afraid that because of myself, the things that countless people are fighting for will fall short.

But the master is also a human being, and there are times when his emotions break down and he doesn't want to deal with the outside world, that's why he didn't respond last night.

It's not that I don't want to, but that exhaustion has accumulated to the peak, and even the courage to open the door collapsed in an instant.

"I'm going to prepare the horse, and you guys bring Cheng Zhe down quickly." Qiao Anyue glanced at Yuan Hua, couldn't help but rubbed the little girl's head, and said coldly, "What are you thinking? Don't hurry up."

Then at dawn, I pieced together the fragmented spirit little by little, as if nothing had happened, and continued to live.

"Ah...oh!" Yuan Hua was brought back to his senses by Qiao Anyue's call, nodded quickly, and ran down the steps, almost falling over.

A group of four galloped through the dilapidated streets.

The backbone of some high-rank mansions in the capital was still in court the day before yesterday, so it is naturally impossible to escape in advance. Now all the doors are closed, for fear that the group of legendary "Usai barbarians" will be hacked if they encounter it.

Instead, those who ran away were wealthy businessmen who had heard the news long ago, and the rest were ordinary people who were unable to escape—I thought before that after all, they were at the feet of the emperor, and no one expected that the remaining defenders would be here Vulnerable to the Ursese attack.

However, at this moment, no matter whether they are rich or not, everyone is huddled. The usually bustling and crowded Suzaku Street is like the autumn wind sweeping the fallen leaves. Qiao Anyue is a "lunatic" in this line of work.

Fortunately, both sides are still busy fighting, and they originally chose a different place to stay, and they always choose trails that are not easy to meet people. The few idle soldiers they encountered along the way, based on the principle of not actively provoking, try to avoid it. open.

The few blind-eyed soldiers and bullies I encountered occasionally couldn't bear the murderous aura emanating from the inside out, headed by Qiao Anyue, and the thugs would rest as soon as they were born.

The horse's hooves trampled over without leaving any traces.

The group quickly took a shortcut and arrived at a side entrance of the palace under the leadership of Yuan Hua and Yuan Chong.

"This was originally a dog hole in the back of my bedroom. When I was a child, I was naughty and wanted to see what the outside looked like, so I sent the palace people to secretly dig the dog hole bigger. Later, it was discovered halfway through. But it didn't happen. Instead, they took advantage of the opportunity to open the door—although there are officers and soldiers guarding it on weekdays, because of the remote location, no one has ever used this door.”

Yuan Hua dismounted from his horse, and brushed aside a cluster of dried up weeds with ease, revealing a rusted iron door behind him.

"After the fire, there was no one in this palace. Now that there is a war, the guards have already been transferred away. I'm afraid no one remembers that there is this door."

Yuan Hua pushed Cheng Zhe in front of the door lock, and watched Cheng Zhe easily pry open the discarded lock with two wires. He couldn't help feeling that if Master Cheng had good legs and feet, his ability to steal would be as good as any one on the reward list The Jiangyang Bandits on the Internet.

The door was pushed open by a narrow gap, and Yuan Hua took the lead to explore the way inside, and after making sure that there were no obstacles, he hurriedly beckoned the three people behind to follow.

The palace was eerily quiet, and most of the troops were concentrated at the main entrance.

Because of the large number of people, the soldiers led by Suhratai naturally cannot move faster than the four of them. It may take half a stick of incense to arrive.

They've got a head start.

——Before the arrival of Suhra Terrace, the various arrangements of Zhang Jiwen and Gao Shiyuan were resolved.

The four left their horses outside, and went into the palace lightly.

According to the route agreed in advance, Cheng Zhe was inconvenient in his legs and feet, and Yuan Chong couldn't let it go easily now, so he still maintained the collective action and ran directly to the Xuanhe Hall.

—— Xuanhe Hall, connected to the study at the back, and the Jinluan Hall next to it, are where Lu Kun usually works. If Suhra Terrace is breached, he will definitely go there first. This is the most likely place.

A group of people were quietly avoiding the dispatched troops, and just caught a glimpse of the shadow of Xuanhe Hall, when they heard a person lower his voice, and said to them in surprise, "Why are you so fast!"

Everyone was startled, and when they looked up, they saw Er Gouzi's extremely arrogant eyes looking at the world.

Immediately afterwards, he saw Lan Sang, who was also concealed, with a surprised expression on his face.

The author has something to say: Thank you Qingye Dilei, a small reporter from Zhenshoufu*1