Zhu Nao

Imperial City.

The soldiers of the various government armies scrambled in and out of the palaces, looking for the leader of the rebel army and the whereabouts of the emperor. In order to encourage the soldiers to seize credit, the officers gave extremely generous rewards.At this time, if anyone can find an important person, there is no need to mention promotion and fortune.If anyone is lucky enough to capture the leaders of the thieves, Guo Jinli and Li Cui, or find out the trapped emperor first, it would be no exaggeration to jump ten levels!Such an opportunity is once in a lifetime!

There were also soldiers who thought it was hopeless to find someone, so they just went deep into the palace, lifted the mattresses and lifted the curtains everywhere, looking for valuable things.After all, the utensils used in this palace are treasures, no matter what can be taken away, it is enough for ordinary people to eat for several years.

It's a pity that when the rebels in the palace heard that King Qin's army had entered the city, they ran away with oil on their feet, and they didn't forget to take away the valuable things in the palace before they left.So no matter people or things, what is left to the various government troops are just small fish and shrimps that slipped through the net.

While everyone was searching like headless chickens, someone suddenly ran outside and shouted: "Heavenly General Guo Jinli has been captured by the Yanzhou Army!"

When people heard the news, they couldn't help but feel annoyed.I don't know which lucky person has earned such a lot of money, and there is only one less chance to soar into the sky!

Fortunately, fortunately, there is still a little emperor. If he can find the emperor first, there will still be a chance to smoke from the ancestral grave.

So the soldiers accelerated their pace and searched everywhere.

Not long after, there was another call from outside.

"The emperor is dead!"

Everyone was shocked.Some people were afraid that the news was not true, so they hurriedly asked: "Really? How did you die? When did it happen?"

"The Son of Heaven has already let the rebels kill him!"

As the news spread, there was a burst of wailing in the imperial city.However, the heartache of the soldiers was not that the majestic national army was brutally murdered by the rebels, but that their chances of prosperity were abruptly lost.

Some people were afraid that this was a fake news released by a certain army, in order to prevent other troops from serving the king, so they continued to search in the palace without giving up...

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Outside the Imperial City.

Lying on the bed, Yan could only feel the buzzing in her ears, as if thousands of troops galloped past the house.Enduring the soreness in her throat, she called out to her youngest son in a hoarse voice: "Ah Sheng..."

The toddler heard his mother's call, and in a short while, his bony little hand came over with a bowl of water.

Yan Shi barely swallowed two saliva, said: "It's so noisy outside, is it because King Qin's army has entered the city?"

Ah Sheng muttered, "Mother is sick. How can there be any noise outside?"

Yan said: "Impossible! I heard the sound of horseshoes and cries. Tens of thousands of people must have come... What are they calling?"

Asheng didn't know what to say.

When Yan saw her husband's body back that day, she planned to ask a few neighbors to help collect the body the next day, but unfortunately she collapsed the next day.After many days of hunger and hard work, she never got out of bed after she fell down, and she also suffered from hysteria. Every day, she said that she heard someone making noise outside, and asked her youngest son to see if Qin Wangjun had entered the city.

But this capital city is like a dead city, and people's voices are rarely heard.Everything is Yan's auditory hallucination.

Ah Sheng persuaded his mother to continue to rest, but Yan was very stubborn, insisting that he must have heard the sound, and asked the youngest son to go and see how many people Qin Wangjun came back, how the battle outside was going, who had the upper hand, and Qin Wangjun. There is no chance to quell the bandits in one fell swoop.

Ah Sheng couldn't hold back his mother, so he had to put down the small bowl and go out.

After an unknown amount of time, the youngest son stumbled back and threw himself on his mother's bedside, extremely excited.

"Mother!! King Qin's army has really entered the city!! It has already entered the imperial city!!"

Yan Shi was stunned.She clearly heard the sound, and she was the one who insisted on the army entering the capital, but she really didn't believe it after hearing people say that.

Her eyes were cloudy, and she tremblingly grabbed the hand of the youngest son: "Really?"

"Really! Mom, really!"

"Don't coax your mother."

"It's true, everyone ran out to have a look. I haven't seen so many people for a long time."

Yan's grip on the youngest son's hand became tighter, trembling and struggling to get out of bed to have a look, but unfortunately her whole body was swollen and exhausted, she moved around for a long time, not to mention getting out of bed, she was exhausted after only moving an inch or two.

She asked weakly: "Whose army has entered the city? From Henan Mansion, from Guangjin Mansion? Or are they all here?"

A Sheng said: "I don't know, I only heard that it was the advanced city of Yanzhou Army and Shu Army. Mother wants to know, I'll go out and find out."

When Yan heard this, she finally believed it.She slowly let go of her son's hand, and repeated in a low voice: "Yanzhou Army, Shu Army..."

Although Ah Sheng was young, he was sensible early on. He knew that his mother had been waiting day and night for more than a year for someone to come to suppress the bandits and rescue them from the dire straits.If it weren't for this, he wouldn't be able to imagine the scene of King Qin's army entering the city every day after he got sick.Unexpectedly, now I finally look forward to it.

He hurriedly held Yan's hand that was gradually losing strength: "Mother, Qin Wangjun is here, are you happy?"

Yan Shi twitched the corners of her mouth, trying to show a gratified smile.But after a while, she broke down and cried.

She has not been so sad for more than a year, and she has not cried so sadly.

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As the sun was setting, Zhu Nao was sitting on the stone steps beside the imperial city.Cheng Jingzhe brought some food from the city, and the two of them sat and ate together with a few guards.

Not far away, Xie Wuji stood on the stone platform.The sky was getting darker, and the wind was getting stronger, blowing his shirt away and turning his face blue, but he didn't realize it.

Zhu Nao said, "Thank you General."

He called a few times, Xie Wuji finally heard it, and turned his head slowly.

Zhu Nao said, "General Xie, are you hungry? Let's have some food together?"

Xie Wuji shook his head: "I can't eat it."

Junao shrugged and continued to eat his food.

There are several groups of troops nearby, all of them are officers from various government armies, waiting for news from their subordinates.Xie Wuji was not the only one who couldn't eat right now.In other words, Zhu Nao is probably the only one who still has the leisure and elegance to sacrifice to the Wu Zang Temple.

Xie Wuchen was also in the crowd.He leaned against the stone wall, sometimes looked at everyone around him indifferently, and sometimes stared at Xie Wuji and Zhu Nao with dark eyes.

Suddenly, a group of people came galloping from a distance, they were soldiers of the Yanzhou Army.

The soldiers who rushed over jumped off their horses in front of Xie Wuji, saluted first, and then threw the ground and shouted: "General Qi, our army and the Shu army have captured the leader of the bandits outside the west gate, Li Cui, and captured thousands of enemy troops! Please show me!"

The soldier's voice was quite loud, and the officers from all the surrounding prefectures were in an uproar when they heard this.The eyes of everyone looking at Xie Wuji and Zhu Nao became more and more complicated.

Long before using troops, Xie Wuji calculated the possible escape routes of the rebels, so he allocated a part of his troops to set up an ambush outside the capital to ambush the fleeing rebels.As expected, Li Cui escaped from the west gate with his subordinates, and jumped into the ambush circle he had prepared as soon as he escaped.

However, although the ambush was arranged in advance, the situation outside the west gate was actually more dire than that in the capital.The rebels in Beijing would be defeated at the first touch, and they would be defeated without a fight.On the contrary, those rebels who fled knew that this was their last chance to escape, so they fought tenaciously and fought for a long time before being calmed down by the Yanzhou Army.

As for the Shu army, Zhu Nao fully supported Xie Wuji this time, and mobilized all the troops he could mobilize, so he followed this honor.

This is a good time, Guo Jinli and Li Cui, the two chief thieves, were captured by the Yanzhou Army and the Shu Army, and thousands of rebels were also captured.Although the armies of other prefectures have caught up with this wave of hustle and bustle, the credit they have won in this battle is pitifully small. In short, all of them combined cannot compare with the Yanzhou Army and the Shu Army.

Not long after, soldiers of various soldiers came out of the palace one after another, reporting the situation inside to their officers.

Xie Wuchen leaned against the wall, his Jiangning soldiers also came out of the palace and came to him.

"Chang Shi." The soldier saluted him.

Xie Wuchen asked: "How is the situation?"

The soldiers reported honestly: "We asked several surviving palace officials and captured rebels, and they all said that the emperor was indeed killed. I heard that the bones were buried in the imperial garden, and someone has already dug them up."

Xie Wuchen frowned.

When the Yanzhou Army captured Guo Jinli just now, they had already heard about the murder of the emperor.It's just that all the government troops are afraid that this matter is fraudulent, and dare not believe it easily, so they still sent people in to investigate and search.Now, the news has become more and more clear, I am afraid it is true.

He quickly asked: "When was he killed? Who killed it? Why didn't you hear the news before?"

The soldiers said: "I heard that one month ago, on the night when the Jiangling army attacked the capital, Guo Bandits and Li Bandits wanted to take the Emperor out of the palace to take refuge. The Emperor wanted to take the opportunity to escape, so he was killed by Guo Bandits."

Xie Wuchen frowned: "A month ago..."

No wonder, it turned out that the incident happened not long ago, and Guo Jinli and Li Cui were afraid that they deliberately suppressed the news, so that the princes from all walks of life did not hear about it.It wasn't until I visited Wang in Beijing that I realized that Wang was no longer there.

This is really nothing.

Xie Wuchen immediately set his sights on Xie Wuji.

Although the method and process were unexpected to him, this was indeed the result he wanted.What he wanted was for Xie Wuji to go through twists and turns, but in the end he got nothing, and then regretted the pain.He wanted to see Xie Wuji crying and repenting.

However, it does not.

Xie Wuji just stood alone on the wide and weed-filled avenue, facing Miyagi, his eyes seemed a little out of focus, and his expression seemed blank, no one knew what he was thinking.There was no sorrow and despair on his face, and his grief and indignation were not even as good as those of the officers in other prefectures.

Those officers who came to suppress the bandits on the spur of the moment today began to beat their chests and stumble after hearing the exact news, as if they had missed a huge opportunity.And Xie Wuji just stood there calmly.

Xie Wuchen thought he would be disappointed, but he didn't.He thought he would be happy, but he wasn't.He looked at Xie Wuji, and seemed to read great sorrow from Xie Wuji's empty eyes, and suddenly his nose was sour, and tears welled up.

He hurriedly turned his head away and quickly wiped it with the palm of his hand to cover up his emotions.

He was definitely not sad because of Xie Wuji, but sad because of today's absurdity.What exactly did his third brother die for?For this ridiculous dynasty?

The setting sun is like blood.

Not long after, a group of Yanzhou soldiers came out with a bunch of things wrapped in cloth.They spread out the cloth on the flat ground, which contained bloody blades, children's filthy clothes, and some utensils used by the emperor during his lifetime.

"General," said the soldier, "these were dug out from the imperial garden..."

With the testimonies and the evidence, the death of the emperor is a certainty.

Xie Wuji looked down at the dirt-covered filth on the ground, and didn't speak for a long time.

He didn't speak, and the crowd around him seemed to lose their voices.

Most of the commanders of the various government armies left today are not in high positions. After all, they are not staying here as King Qin, but to hinder the Yanzhou Army and the Shu Army.It was a coincidence that they encountered such a big event, and they were all at a loss.

Xie Wuji cast his eyes on Zhu Nao not far away.He has always been decisive, and he can make decisions on big things without blinking an eye.Tens of thousands of troops have always relied on him alone.But today his mind was blank and he had to rely on another person.

Zhu Nao happened to have just finished eating the cake Jing Zhe brought back, when he raised his eyes, he met Xie Wuji's gaze.He wiped his hands, stood up, looked at the things on the ground, and wrinkled his nose with some headaches: "These... let's take them back and bury them."

Xie Wuji was in a daze before he had time to respond, someone jumped out from beside him, it was Liu Song, Governor of Henan Province.

Although everything that happened today was dominated by the Yanzhou Army and the Shu Army, but Liu Song always regarded himself as the leader of King Qin, and he and Zhu Nao were officials in the prefecture, so he couldn't let Zhu Nao and General Xie Wuji be in charge. Snatch——Now that the sky is over, the emperor has been murdered, and the world has no master, it is a great time to fight for power!Whoever wins the right to speak a few words at this time may be the hegemony who dominates the world in the future!

So he plausibly said: "Buried?! The emperor was killed. The matter is very important. Something strange happened. The truth has not been found out yet. How can we just bury these things?! Governor Zhu, what are you worried about?"

Jing Zhe heard Liu Song's bad tone, immediately put his hand on the handle of the knife, and glared at Liu Song.The guards around Zhu Nao also raised their knives.

Liu Song's personal guards were taken aback, and their first reaction was to back away. After a while, they came back to their senses, and hurried forward again, holding a knife to confront the Shu army.It's a pity that the momentum has been lost.

However, Zhu Nao sneered slightly, and said, "It seems that Governor Liu has other ideas?"

Liu Song puffed up his chest and said, "Of course we want to find out the truth!"

Zhu Nao dragged his tone "Oh—" and said: "Liu Fuyin is a high-ranking official, so these matters should also be presided over by Liu Fuyin?"

Liu Song thought he was mocking himself.After all, the so-called investigation and evidence collection is full of tricks.For example, if someone is more courageous and directly "discovers" a handwritten edict written by the emperor during the investigation process, then there is a big fuss to be done.

Liu Song pondered for a while, and felt that it was impossible for him to monopolize the power, but he couldn't let Zhu Nao and Xie Wuji take all the power, so he could get a piece of the action if he wanted to.So he said: "If Zhu Fuyin has any thoughts, he can speak up."

Zhu Nao smiled and said, "I don't. If Yin Fu Yin is willing to host, then let Yin Fu Yin Liu."

Liu Song froze, unable to believe his ears.Officers from other prefectures also looked at Junao in disbelief.After Liu Song spoke, they had already figured out something, but because of their low status, they didn't know how to intervene.But Junao would give up on his own initiative? ?

Even Xie Wuji was taken aback, looking straight at Zhu Nao.

Zhu Nao looked back at Xie Wuji, and said: "If General Xie also intends to host, then I will naturally support General Xie."

Liu Song's heart tightened, he thought they were singing a double reed, and immediately stared at Xie Wuji vigilantly.

But Xie Wuji just looked at Junao.His eyes were dark and deep, and there seemed to be thousands of words in them, and it seemed that he was just distracted.After a long silence, he said hoarsely: "Then leave it to Mr. Liu."

There was a total silence on the wide palace gate avenue, no one expected this, and even couldn't react for a while.

Zhu Nao smiled and said: "In that case, then this place will be handed over to Governor Liu. It's getting late now, we need to settle down the army as soon as possible, so as not to disturb the people in the city at night. Then we will leave first."

After finishing speaking, she arched her hands, took Jing Zhe and others, turned around and left.

Xie Wuji glanced slowly over all the people present, and then led the Yanzhou army to follow Zhu Nao's footsteps and withdraw from the imperial city.

Only the troops from all over the world were left stunned in the dim light of the sky and the cold wind of the winter night.