Space-time SWAT

Chapter 40 Night Attack

This day was King Duan's 16th birthday. Since he was not a full-year-old and he was young, the queen didn't do much, and the emperor just rewarded him with a lot of things.King Duan didn't entertain guests with much fanfare, he only planned to invite the two imperial brothers and cousins ​​who were close to each other to have a meal together.

Not long after King Duan came out of the palace and opened the mansion, the concubine he married was only one year older than him. Although she came from the queen's natal family Cheng Guogong's mansion, she was young and hadn't straightened out the huge palace.King Duan didn't treat guests in the mansion, but brought a group of brothers to a mountain villa in the suburbs.

This is one of the Huangzhuang rewarded by the emperor when he left the palace to open the mansion.When the queen blows the pillow wind, all the Huangzhuang he gets are good.This Zhuangzi has hot springs, peach blossoms, a vast area, beautiful scenery, and is very suitable for gatherings.

It was a sunny day, and more than a dozen young people, all surnamed Nangong, rode horses or cars to the mountains in the southwestern suburbs, unaware that a catastrophe was coming to them.

They spent a happy day in Peach Blossom Villa, soaking in the hot springs and drinking peach blossom wine. There were beautiful boys playing the piano hidden in the mountains and forests, and some beauties singing by the water.

In the evening, except for Nan Gongxun who insisted on keeping his filial piety and avoiding women, the princes and grandchildren returned to their warm and comfortable room with a beautiful woman in their arms. After several fierce battles, they fell asleep soundly.

In the middle of the night, when the moon and stars were thin, dozens of men in black climbed over the wall and poured into the villa, using various means to attack and plot, killing the guards while rushing towards the main courtyard.

The guards patrolling the night gave warnings in time, and the fireworks that asked for reinforcements continued to rise high into the sky and bloom. The nearby Xishan Camp and Fengtai Camp immediately dispatched after seeing it, and respectively dispatched the fastest maneuvering Xiaoqi Battalion to speed to the rescue.The city gate guards in the capital didn't understand what they meant when they saw it, and didn't report it, so they didn't send troops to support it in time.

There are nearly 200 bodyguards, secret guards, long followers, and servants around these princes and grandchildren, but most of them have not experienced actual combat. elite.They guarded around their master's yard, desperately blocked the attackers, and held back the enemy's progress with their blood and lives.

A quarter of an hour later, reinforcements from the Xishan Camp arrived first.Accompanied by the thunderous sound of horseshoes, thousands of brave officers and soldiers rushed into the villa holding torches, cutting down people who were wearing black or covering their faces when they saw them. Incessantly lingering, flesh and blood flew all over the place.The guards standing guard in each courtyard felt the pressure was greatly reduced, and they all assigned some people to cooperate, so as to prevent the officers and soldiers from accidentally injuring their own people.

After a cup of tea, reinforcements from the Fengtai camp also arrived.Seeing that there were already people hacking and killing inside, and many people in black were fleeing outside, they didn't go in. Instead, they encircled outside the wall and pulled a net to wipe them out.

In less than an hour, all the assassins in the villa were killed or injured, and half of them escaped outside the villa, either killed or captured, and almost no one escaped.The leaders of the two battalions were quite satisfied with the results of the battle, so they asked to see the prince together, only to find that something happened to the three princes in the chaos.

King Ning was hit on the head by a tile that fell from the beam, King Jing was scratched on the face by a hidden weapon flying in from the window, and King Duan was broken by a big rock that flew from nowhere and broke his leg.King Ning was fine, his injuries were not serious, but King Jing was disfigured, although it wasn't scary to look at, it was an eyesore after all, King Duan's leg was a comminuted fracture, even if healed he would definitely be limping.In this way, King Jing and King Duan are no longer destined for the throne.

In addition to the three princes who were injured, the young masters of the royal family's palace and the princess's palace who followed to play also suffered various injuries. The most serious one was Nangong Xun, the eldest son of King Kang, who was stabbed in the abdomen. , the intestines were broken, the bleeding continued, and she was unconscious all the time, fearing that her life might be in danger.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately caused an uproar.

The emperor was furious, and ordered the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, Metropolitan Procuratorate and Jin Yiwei to investigate the matter thoroughly at the same time.In just half a day, many clues surfaced, pointing directly at An Guogong's mansion and Huanxianghou's mansion.

Yan Fei was caught off guard, there was no time to search for more clues, and he didn't have time to cover up for Duke Anguo's government.

It is a fact that the Hu family bribed people from the rivers and lakes through middlemen in an attempt to assassinate Su Dongchen.However, the middleman unknowingly sent out some people to attack and kill the prince during the buying process, making the Hu family bear the big scapegoat.

As for the residence of the Marquis of Huanxiang, King Ning benefited the most from this matter, and his concubine is the daughter of the Marquis of Huanxiang, which aroused suspicion. After an in-depth investigation, it was found that they had cultivated a killer organization for many years , which are full of orphans bought from childhood, who have been brutally trained to become cold-blooded and ruthless murder weapons.Some of the assassins who attacked and killed the prince also came from this organization, and they seemed to be among those who attacked Su Dongchen at night.

Hu's act of buying a murderer is quite rough, and an insider can easily find clues after a search, but the stepmother buying a murderer to marry a wife has happened before, so it can't be farfetched to say that the night attack on the prince must be done by her of.

It is even more difficult to tell whether the fact that Huanxiang Hou's mansion cultivated killers was true or not. Whether someone else planted the blame and let them take the blame, and then pulled King Ning off the horse, is a bit hard to say. If you really want to investigate carefully, you can't get away.

Now that the instigator behind the scenes has been found out, how could those ministers exonerate the suspect.Since Anguo's mansion is also a murder suspect, and Huanxianghou's mansion is also the family of his sons and daughters, some officials boldly suspect that the night attack on Su Dongchen is mostly a smoke screen, trying to clear his suspicion. In fact, Anguo's mansion has secretly taken refuge in King Ning Only then did he do the treasonous thing of buying murder to assassinate the prince.

The censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate swarmed up, and the accusations of impeaching An Guogong, Su Dongchen, and Huan Xianghou flew to the emperor like snowflakes. Their words were so fierce and their speculations so bold that they were all worth the money.

The emperor naturally didn't believe that "An Guogong's government secretly took refuge in King Ning".Su Dongchen has raised the great emperor's grandson for more than ten years, and loves him like a father and son, so how could he take refuge in others?However, it does not rule out the possibility that the Anguo government wants to abolish the three princes in one fell swoop, so as to support the great emperor's grandson.

If things come to pass, and the three princes all fall from the horse, Su Yuzhong will naturally become the grandson of the emperor.When he came to the throne in the future, Su Dongchen might be able to become the Supreme Emperor with his family support, life-saving grace, and meritorious deeds from the dragon.

Although the three princes couldn't satisfy the emperor, they were his own sons after all, how could the courtiers play with them wantonly?

Thinking of this, the emperor's eyes darkened.

After two days, the military exercise ended.The Tongzhou camp took the lead and destroyed Su Dongchen's coach camp first.Then, Fengtai Daying overthrew Shi Qing's handsome account and won the second place.The Xishan camp was at the bottom and became the loser, because Su Dongchen was attacked by assassins at night and disrupted his deployment, so he had a legitimate reason to lose. Therefore, the officers and soldiers of the camp were not depressed, but they were dissatisfied and their morale was even higher.

He led the team back to the camp and told the officers and soldiers who participated in the battle to conduct a summary of the military exercise. Su Dongchen received the imperial decree, ordering him to resign from all duties, hand over the seal, go back to the mansion and confine his feet, contemplate his mistakes behind closed doors, and then defend himself.

Su Dongchen had heard the news from Yan Fei immediately after the incident, and was not surprised by the emperor's reaction.He calmly handed over the military affairs of the Xishan Camp to the deputy general and Fu Minghan, and handed over the seal letter to the Ministry of War.Under the supervision of the eunuch who passed the decree, he completed the suspension procedures, and then returned to Anguo Mansion to thank guests behind closed doors.

The mansion was in chaos, when Mr. An heard what Hu did, he immediately slapped her several times, causing her head and face to swell, her ears to ring and her eyes to swell, and then she was locked in the courtyard where she lived and was not allowed to step out of the courtyard step.

After Su Dongchen came back, he didn't care to appease his father, younger son, younger siblings, and first arrested Hu's accompanying mother.

"This old godmother is a nail planted by others. She has been lying in bed for more than ten years and has won the trust of the Hu family. Over the years, she has helped the Hu family to suppress us wives, treat the concubines harshly, and greedy Mo Gongzhong's property. She made many ideas and did a lot of bad things, making Mrs. Hu rely on her as her confidant and obey her. This time she urged Mrs. Hu to buy me and kill me, so it was logical, Mrs. Hu agreed without any doubt." Su Dongchen sat sitting In the study, he calmly explained to An Guogong, "It's also my fault. After I came back, I sorted out the people in the mansion, cleaned up a lot of garbage, and pulled out most of the nails that others put in, but still left some people untouched." , thinking that it is not appropriate to startle the enemy, and let them spread some false news to paralyze the enemy, but now they are careless in Jingzhou. Alas, I never thought that the Hu family would be so stupid."

An Guogong's complexion was ugly, his hair was much grayer, as if he had aged ten years.He sighed, "I'm sorry for you, father."

"Why do you say that?" Su Dongchen said with a smile, "The truth can't be fake, and the fake can't be true. Those people want to frame me, but it's not that easy. It's expedient for me to hide for a while. When the truth comes out, Naturally, everything will be fine, everything will be fine."

Duke An sighed, "If it wasn't for... Zhong'er, it would be easy to clarify this matter, but now... alas, being implicated by such a stupid woman, our father and son would not be able to clean up by jumping into the Yellow River."

Su Dongchen thought for a while, "It stands to reason that Mrs. Hu has lost her morality and violated the criminal law, so she is not qualified to be the head wife of our An Guo Gongfu. But now the situation is special, and she can neither be divorced nor let her die of illness, but a little It’s unjustifiable without any punishment, and it’s not okay to have no explanation to the emperor. According to my son’s wish, we should first set up a Buddhist hall in the mansion, let her think about her mistakes in it, and recite more scriptures. Daddy thinks this is good?”

"Okay." An Guogong said without hesitation, "Let her chant scriptures and recite Buddhist scriptures. Don't let her see people again, and don't let her take care of things anymore."

The father and son were discussing, and the Marquis Huanxiang's Mansion invited the original matchmaker to come over and withdraw the marriage.

The stupid things that the Hu family did are well known to everyone. Su Qinlan is the biological child of the Hu family. The sentence "like a mother, like a daughter" is enough to be a reason for retiring the engagement.However, the Marquis of Huanxiang's mansion still did not sweep the face of Duke Anguo's mansion too much. He only said that his youngest son was deeply loved by the old lady in the family, and the old lady believed in Buddhism. In a catastrophe, the old lady decided to change the date of the marriage, and they might not be able to get married until seven or eight years later. They originally decided to stick to the marriage, and the old lady was so angry that she almost fell ill.As children and grandchildren, they must be unfilial, so they dare not let their children get married as scheduled. In order not to delay Miss Anguo's mansion, they voluntarily resigned from the engagement.

An Guogong and Su Dongchen have always wanted to withdraw from this marriage, but at this moment they couldn't wish for it, but on the surface they pretended to be regretful and reasonable, expressing their understanding of the difficulties of the Marquis of Huanxiang, and willing to cooperate with them in withdrawing the engagement, and return the dowry in full.

Unhappily, the two governments quickly dissolved the engagement, completed all the formalities within a day, returned the engagement gifts they had given each other before, and took back the Geng Tie from both parties' children. Everyone was happy.

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