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Chapter 33 The Forbidden Palace Besieged

On the third day of the Tianyou Army’s dispatch, Sang’er, the general of Tianyou, wrote a letter stating that 20 troops had arrived at Xianshan Pass. The 30 troops led by Prince Wei Anguo attacked Xianshan Pass half a day later. Under the mountain pass.The dangerous mountain pass is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is a natural barrier for the post-Chu state. The 20 Tianyou troops guarding the dangerous mountain pass can not only guard the pass, but also use the terrain to kill the enemy troops stationed.As long as there is no sneak attack from the rear, the Tianyou army can spend half a month at the dangerous mountain pass, and they can wipe out the 30 Wei An Guojun.Sang Er was worried about the capital, and Emperor Ming wrote back to reassure him that nothing would happen in the capital.

"Emperor brother, emperor brother." Xia Wang Li Xiaer ran into the imperial study room holding a scroll of calligraphy.

"Xia'er, what's the matter?" Li Zheng sat at the imperial criticism table in the imperial study.

"Emperor brother Jin An." With a small body, he knelt on the ground and saluted very standardly.

"What are you holding in your hand?"

"Brother Emperor, it's almost the Empress Dowager's birthday. This is a birthday gift I prepared for the Empress Dowager. I want to show it to the Emperor's brother." Li Xiaer walked to the imperial criticism table with the scroll, and weighed it. Put your feet on the table.Li Zheng had eyes to stop Wang Fu from helping King Xia, and looked at him with a smile on his lips.It would be nice to have a well-behaved and sensible child like Li Xiaer.

"The frame is good, but the word Xia'er needs to be practiced more. Except for a few commonly used fonts, the others are not very good." Li Zheng took the scroll and looked at it. Li Xiaer's handwriting is already very good. Except for a few ancient characters that are difficult to write, the others have a good look, but because I am still young, I just copy it from the copybook, and I don't have my own style of writing.

"Then I will study some more characters when I go back." Li Xiaer stood beside the table with his head lowered, his mouth pursed as if he was about to cry.

"Okay! You don't look like a prince like this. You just need to practice hard when you go back. It's fine if you study or practice calligraphy properly. If you overdo it, you won't be able to practice well."

"Yes, Brother Emperor."

"Go back and tell your master that today I will give you half a day off, go to Zixi Palace to find some interesting things to play with!" The contraptions he used later remained in the womb.

"Thank you, brother of the emperor, the younger brother is resigning." King Xia Li Xiaer immediately laughed when he heard what the emperor's brother said, and ran out without waiting for the little eunuch to lead him.

"Run carefully."

Not long after King Xia walked out of the imperial study, a whistle sounded from the south of the Forbidden Palace. "Xingye, what is the meaning of this whistle?" Li Zheng put down the memorial in his hand.

"Master, I'm afraid they did it."

"Okay, Wangfu, hurry up and take King Xia to the Huangji Palace and let him read in my study and not go out. Tell all the palaces to close the palace gates. Without my permission, you are not allowed to go out. The Queen Mother The Fuze Palace and the Empress's Ci'an Palace are the same."

"Zunzhi" Before Li Zheng was hindered by Wangfu's presence, he didn't call the shadow the bright place, but after giving him and Fengxiang a pair of food, he didn't care more and more.

"Xingye sent Shadow to tell Princess Ning Ya that the mouse has come out of its hole, and they are going to exterminate the mouse."

"Yes, master."

Li Zheng sat on the dragon chair, looking at the still bright sky outside.Aren’t there all TV dramas? It’s only early in the morning, and it’s only after six o’clock in the afternoon, and the rebellion scene is about to start. Isn’t this mouse a little too impatient?He took off the black stone at his waist and played with it in his hand. Every time he looked at this stone, it was wonderful.

"Your Majesty, one hundred thousand troops of the city army will surround the Forbidden Palace at the four gates, intending to rebel." Li Yong, the commander of the Forbidden Army, flew into the Imperial Study Room, his body was already wounded.

"Famous palace gate, who will lead the army?" Li Zheng asked calmly as he sat on the dragon chair like a normal person.

"Nanhua Gate is Liu Zheng from the Qianfeng camp, Xiping Gate is from the right-wing camp An Jingben, Dong'an Gate, and Beile Gate is from the left-wing camp Li Jingzheng."

"Okay, you lead [-] forbidden troops to guard the Nanhua Gate, and the three gates are under the command of your four deputy commanders. I order you to block the rebels for an hour, and for an hour, these rebels are not allowed to step into the inner palace."

"I swear to the death that the rebels will not step into the inner palace." Li Yong knelt down on one knee, raised the knife on his body above his head, and saluted the Chu army.

"Go."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

The Forbidden Palace is a group of palaces with an outer side and an inner side, with a moat on the outside and a moat on the inside.The moat is ten feet wide, and people and horses cannot cross it.The river moat is one foot wide and is mostly used for fire fighting.There are four palace gates and sixteen small palace gates in the Forbidden Palace.The Nanhua Gate is the main gate of the Forbidden Palace. There are five palace gates, the largest in the middle is the emperor's prince's way, and the two doors on the left and right are the official way.There are two wing towers outside the Nanhua Gate, on which there are guards. After the wing towers, you will find the most prosperous street in the capital.Beilemen is backed by mountains and is a royal garden.Xipingmen is adjacent to the west side of the capital, while Dong'anmen is the east side of the capital.The gates of the sixteen small palaces are used by court ladies, eunuchs or beautiful women. The gates are narrow and low, and they are usually closed when no one comes in or out.After entering the palace gate, it is only the outer palace of the forbidden palace. The outer palace is the barracks where the forbidden army is stationed, and the inner palace is the emperor's home.When the outer palace enters the inner palace, there is another palace wall, which is the same as the outermost palace wall.There are turrets at the four corners of the Forbidden Palace, which are used to look out and detect the enemy's situation. The first whistle was made by the shadow on the turrets.

"What's the matter, Xingye, you are frowning like your master." Although the imperial study room was still far away from the outer palace, the sounds of fighting could still be heard.Emperor Ming's imperial army had the advantage of having the palace walls and wing towers as shelters, but they couldn't get the slightest benefit in terms of numbers, and if they hurt the enemy a thousand, they would hurt themselves a hundred.

"Master, my subordinates sent someone to report to Princess Ning Ya, but the princess ignored her."

"Hahaha, she's just too arrogant. I order you to tell me. I'm afraid you will be taken as underestimating her. The more she says this, the more confident she is. Put your heart in your stomach."

"Yes, master."

The night was as dark as ink, without any starlight. The cold wind of the winter night howled and cried miserably, and the shouts of killing and fighting in the distance were disturbed by the wind.On weekdays, the Forbidden Palace was already brightly lit, but today it was pitch black.There were terrified and noisy servants who were dragged down and beaten to death. Their dying roars were more terrifying than the fighting in the outer palace.Among the masters of the various palaces in the inner palace, some were still chatting and laughing, some kneeled and worshiped the Buddha, some hugged each other tremblingly, some were afraid of being hanged, and some even ran away.Li Zheng was sitting in his Huangji Hall with a book in his hand and a cup of hot tea on the table.King Xia fell asleep in the side hall, sleeping unsteadily but not afraid at all.Wang Fu and Qi Xiang stood behind the Emperor Ming to serve, one on the left and the other on the right. Wang Fu's apprentice Xiao Anzi stood trembling at the gate of the hall.

"Your Majesty, a talented person from Ziying Palace is asking to see you." A young eunuch walked into the hall and knelt down. There was water in the crotch of the eunuch's clothes, and the cold wind outside the hall brought a stench.

"Xuan come in." Li Zheng raised his head and gave Wang Fu a look. Wang Fu complied and followed the little eunuch out of the palace gate, welcoming Xu Cairen to punish this timid servant casually.

"My Majesty, my Majesty is blessed and safe." Xu Cairen knelt in the hall and looked up at Emperor Ming.

"Didn't I ask all the palaces to stay in their own palace? What are you doing here?" Li Zheng looked at her, not seeing her for two months, and he became a lot more courageous, and even dared to look him directly.

"I heard from them that there were rebels forcing the palace, so I wanted to come and see His Majesty." The childish face, with a charming smile that didn't belong to her age, looked very weird.

"Get up and talk!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Xu Cairen walked towards Emperor Ming and stood directly in front of him.

"Aren't Xu Cairen afraid?" Li Zheng narrowed his eyes, with a faint smile hanging from the corner of his mouth.

"With His Majesty here, I am not afraid of myself."

The author has something to say:

"His Majesty is there, and you are not afraid." looking forward to newer kids

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