Chapter 610 Why not take action?

The rebels had attacked Xuanwu Gate for more than half an hour, and the dead bodies piled up under the city wall were half a person tall, but it was obvious that the rebels did not become afraid because of the blood flowing. They shouted loudly the slogan of killing the prince and establishing the King of Qin, and stepped on the corpse of their comrades and tried their best to erect the ladder.

It was not until this time that the generals guarding the city, including Li Jiancheng, realized that everyone had a violent rebellious heart in their hearts. This rebellious heart could not even have any reason, and they just wanted to overturn all the oppression they saw in front of them. Even though they knew that what they were doing was to perish themselves and were flying to the fire, they would never retreat again once they flapped their wings and flew towards the candlelight.

Human nature is crazy and full of violence.

A soldier from the Tiger Crack Camp climbed up the city wall, grabbed the battlements with one hand and showed half of his body, and began to laugh excitedly. In his opinion, being able to climb here was already a great victory, with satisfaction and pride in his smile. Just as he tried hard to climb up the city wall, the soldier guarding the city slashed his forehead with a knife, and the sharp horizontal knife directly cut off half of his head, and the head with his hair fell down and stuck to the face of a soldier below, who fell from the ladder because of panic.

The soldier who broke his legs was chopped to death by his comrades before he could stand up. The rebels who had already killed their eyes could not tell whether they were his own or an enemy. They could not attack the city wall for a long time, so the rebels below were as crazy as beasts. Anyone who fell from above, whether the enemy or the comrades became the target of their murderous intent. Six or seven horizontal knives were chopped off one by one, and when the knife was raised, a lot of minced meat would be thrown out.

The soldier of the Rishu Camp who had lost half of his head did not die for a moment. He could subconsciously reach out and grab the guard's clothes that hit him. The two fell down together amid the panic shouts of the defender. The body fell into the crowd under the city, and a bloody flower stirred up again.

General Yin Kaishan frowned very tightly. He kept urging the soldiers to fight hard to kick the city, but his heart became colder and colder. He knew that the hope of attacking Tai Chi Palace had become very small, and failure had been placed in front of him. As a third-rank general, he knew what it meant once he failed. Not only would his fame and fortune turn into dust and dirt, but his family would probably be implicated.

He looked back at His Highness the King of Qin who was sitting on the back of Zhaoye Yu lion, and found that from beginning to end, His Highness the King of Qin had been staring at some point on the city wall. He couldn't figure out why he could clearly see hope, but why did His Highness the King of Qin not retreat? Taking advantage of the fact that the imperial court had not blocked the city gate, after rushing out, as long as the King of Qin led everyone back to the Tang army camp of the Eastern Capital to meet Duan Zhixuan, it was not difficult for the King of Qin to still have more than 100,000 troops in his hands to conquer a country.

But the King of Qin seemed to be waiting, but he didn't know what the King of Qin was waiting for.

"Arrowman! Three-wheeled volley!"

Qu Tutong ran back and forth in front of the formation. When he saw that a soldier from the cracked tiger camp on the city wall finally broke through a gap, his eyes lit up. He mobilized hundreds of archers to rush to the city wall in the rain of arrows, and shouted at the small section of the city wall that the soldiers of the cracked tiger camp fought hard and shouted: "Tear the city wall into the enemies on both sides of the brothers, so that the brothers could guard the ladder behind him!"

Hundreds of archers took the order and began to shoot arrows one by one on the city wall with all their might. Some people's fingers were bleeding from bowstrings, but they seemed to feel no pain. They still pulled the hard bow in their hands and roared wildly to send the wolf-tooth arrow out.

The dozen soldiers of the Rifted Tiger Battalion who rushed up the city wall only occupied a small area on the city wall, and were soon suppressed by the soldiers guarding the city mobilized by Chai Shao to retreat. But the soldiers still gritted their teeth and persisted, hoping that the comrades who were climbing the ladder behind them would be faster.

At this moment, a rain of arrows came over, and the soldiers guarding the city who squeezed from both sides of the city wall were shot overturned. The pressure on the dozen soldiers of the Tiger Strike Camp suddenly became lighter. Under the leadership of the captain, a sword light poured out and expanded the direction of the occupied land four or five steps away.

On the two cloud ladders behind them, rebel soldiers climbed up one after another to join the array of guarding cloud ladders, and then they relied on their lives to fill a section of the city wall that had been snatched five or six meters away. Qu Tutong was overjoyed and kept urging the archers to shoot arrows to relieve the pressure on the soldiers on the city wall. The hope of success was that Li Shimin, who had been sitting on the horse's back, was lit up.

"Dugu Huai'en!"

Li Shimin personally issued an order for the first time: "Gou gives you thirty personal guards, go up to the city to guard that section of the city wall. As long as you persist in an incense stick, you can go up to a group of people!"

Dugu Huaien's face changed for a moment, and he knew that nine points in the upper city were destined to die. But when he thought of the words His Highness of Qin had said before, he gritted his teeth and nodded, "Don't worry, your highness, even if he died on it, he would not take a step back."

"Go!"

Li Shimin pointed to the city wall and said, "If you break through Xuanwu Gate, I will be the one who is the county lord!"

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Dugu Huai'en responded and led Li Shimin's thirty guards toward the city wall. While running, he pulled the iron helmet that was blocking his sight, and then took off his clumsy skirt armor. He rushed to the city with only one single dress and stuffed the horizontal knife into his mouth. Dugu Huai'en silently said in his heart that I wanted to steal his future, and then climbed up the city wall with all his might.

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Chang'an City is so big that the battle at Xuanwu Gate has been more than half an hour. Most of the people in the city who are in the 108 yards still don't know that something is happening in the palace city that is enough to shake the world. However, many people have smelled something from the unusual actions of the government today. The people are extremely smart and choose to stay at home and not go out. Teams of city defense troops rushed towards the north city on the street, and the sound of the boots stepping on the bluestone road shocking people.

Half an hour after the war started, Pei Chengchun, the general of the Southern Three Gate City Guard, dispatched 3,000 elite soldiers to the North City, and Li Daozong, the general of the Western Three Gate City Guard, dispatched more than 4,000 elite soldiers to rush towards Xuanwu Gate. Only Liu Hongji, the general of the Eastern Three Gate City Guard, held his troops unmoved.

The order for His Highness to dispatch troops to help was placed on his table, and Liu Hongji, who was sitting on a chair and watching the prince's handwriting, frowned his eyebrows into a bump. The King of Qin still rebelled after all. He had actually known it a long time ago. Li Shimin had sent someone to find him before leading his army back to Chang'an City, asking him to raise troops to rebel together on the day the army arrived in Chang'an. But until now he still had no idea, but he had been sending people to stare at the movements on the Xuanwu Gate.

"General..."

The deputy general Chu Qiao frowned slightly and whispered: "Pei Chengchun and Li Daozong have both led their troops to the direction of Xuanwu Gate. Are we..."

"Where is the new Wenli?"

Liu Hongji asked.

"Xin Wenli led his troops and the imperial guards led by Na Yan Pei Ji together trapped Fang Xuanling's 10,000 troops outside the city."

Liu Hongji was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and smiled bitterly: "The four generals of the city defense army guarding Chang'an, Xin Wenli, Pei Chengchun, and I, are all from the Qin King's army. Only Li Daozong is not... If... if all three of us raised our troops with His Highness the King of Qin, we wouldn't say that this matter would be really done today."

He raised his head and looked at Chu Qiao and said, "Do you know why I didn't respond to the King of Qin?"

Chu Qiao was stunned for a moment and then shook her head and said, "I don't know why the General did not do this, but I know that General, you made the most correct choice. The King of Qin is indeed extremely prestige in the army, but this prestige is not enough to make all soldiers take risks with him. You must know that this is a serious crime of treason and disobedience that will be implicated in the nine tribes, and no one will easily take such a big risk."

"I know you were sent by His Majesty to monitor me."

Liu Hongji suddenly said something, which shocked Chu Qiao.

"General...I..."

He opened his mouth but didn't know what to explain. Liu Hongji waved his hand and smiled bitterly, "I don't mean to blame you. I don't have any resentment in my heart when His Majesty did this. After all, I am very close to His Highness King Qin. I think that when I sent you here, His Majesty had already expected that the King of Qin would rebel."

"General!"

Chu Qiao mustered up the courage and said, "I know you value kindness, but you can't hesitate anymore. I respect your character. Since I came to you, I have never said anything wrong with you before His Majesty. Today I don't want to see you make mistakes. If you are undecided, I am willing to lead troops to the Xuanwu Gate instead of the General."

Liu Hongji sat on the chair, looked at the prince's command to transfer troops for a long time, and finally nodded slowly and said, "Go... If... if the King of Qin is defeated, I will tie myself up to your subordinates to apologize. Although I did not send troops to assist the King of Qin's rebellion, it is a hundred deaths to redeem it if you don't know how to report it. If you take over my soldiers in the future, don't be too difficult for them."

Chu Qiao felt sad and didn't know what to say. She just sighed and grabbed the prince's handwriting and walked out quickly.

"Life is less than a hundred years..."

Liu Hongji looked at the sky outside the door and murmured to himself: "Your Highness, you are not a person who voluntarily gives up. No matter whether you win or lose, maybe your life will be wonderful and worth your life."

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Imperial study room

Because there was no morning court today to welcome the coffin of King Qi, Li Yuan's memorials reviewed were all accumulated a few days ago. These were the most important memorials. Prince Li Jiancheng dared not be proficient and respectfully sent them to him. He had never read them on Li Yuan's desk these days, and he didn't know what happened today. The shouts of killing outside Tai Chi Palace were clearly transmitted into the imperial study room, but he was in the mood to finish reading all these memorials and give instructions.

After reading it, he stretched his body and stretched his body. Suddenly he raised his head and looked at Wu Yinghai, the eunuch who was standing not far away, and said four words.

"I'm waiting for you."

Wu Yinghai, who was a little dazed and ecstatic at the stove beside him, was obviously startled. When he raised his head and looked at Li Yuan, his face turned pale. His hands clenched in his cuffs turned into fists, and both arms were trembling constantly because of the force. He didn't know how ugly his face was at this time, but he knew that maybe his life, which was not glorious, was about to come to an end today.

"I'm wrong."

Wu Yinghai slowly knelt down, said four words, and then pressed his forehead against the ground and bowed down.

"I just can't figure it out."

Li Yuan stood up and walked to him, looked at him with his head down, then stretched out his hand to roast the fire on the stove: "You are a eunuch. You only have an old mother and no children in your family. You are already an eunuch eunuch. What else do you have to feel in this position? What made you think so boldly?"

"I'm wrong!"

Wu Yinghai repeated with a trembling body.

"explain!"

Li Yuan's tone suddenly rose.

"The King of Qin promised me a title of marquis in the village."

"Ha ha!"

Li Yuan laughed furiously, pointed at Wu Yinghai and laughed continuously, his body trembling: "You are a castrator without Yang Gen, he actually promised you a village marquis... My title in the Tang Dynasty is so worthless?! Wu Yinghai, you can even believe such a lie!"

"My brother died of illness the previous year... I have a son left at my knees, only seven years old... I originally wanted to adopt the nephew to him. I am a disabled person, but the Wu family's roots are still there... The King of Qin said that I would give me a title of hereditary village marquis."

"No wonder!"

Li Yuan stopped laughing and pointed at Wu Yinghai's forehead and asked, "Then why don't you take action? Should you poison it in wine or in tea? It doesn't seem difficult to use these actions as yours. Tell me... why don't you take action?"
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