Chapter 4 Rescue from the Well
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On this day, the sky was gloomy, the cold wind was howling, and heavy snow was flying all over the sky, and the city of Bianliang was covered with silver everywhere.
In order to appease the soldiers and civilians in the city, Zhao Huan drove to Xuande Gate early in the morning in the snow.
Zhao Huan once again ordered the pardon of the officials and civilians who defended the city to be lost, and announced that the two countries had peace talks and comforted and persuaded the military and civilians to return to their business.
After hearing the news, people all came from all directions.
Tens of thousands of people soon gathered in the square in front of Xuande Gate. They shouted long live and cried while crying.
The warm and sad scene moved Zhao Huan. He waved his hand and cried.
Soon, four Jin envoys climbed the Xuande Gate Tower and met Zhao Huan.
As soon as Zhao Huan saw them, he said, "I would rather harm me than harm the soldiers and civilians in the city!"
The Jin envoy said: "The two countries have been reconciled, and the city remains unmoved."
Zhao Huan then asked Sun Fu beside him to immediately make a list and announce to the people of the whole city: The two countries have been reconciled, so everyone should not worry anymore, and the military and civilians will all belong to their own industries.
Shortly after Zhao Huan returned to the palace, a eunuch suddenly ran into the hall in panic and said, "Your Majesty, the guards split the left-wing gate with an axe and rushed into the palace. They said they wanted to see Your Majesty!"
Zhao Huan was shocked and hurriedly got up and ran out!
As soon as he ran to the gate of Xiangxi Palace, Jiang Xuan, Li Fu, and Banzhi Lu Wan led hundreds of guards to break into the hall.
The guards shouted: "We are willing to fight for His Majesty and protect His Majesty and rush out of the city!"
Jiang Xuan then brought Zhao Huan's imperial horse and tried to help Zhao Huan on the horse.
Zhao Huan struggled hard and refused to get on the horse.
An eunuch rushed over and angrily scolded Jiang Xuan: "Don't be rude, this is the emperor!"
Jiang Xuan was furious and waved the sword in his hand. The eunuch fell to the ground and died on the spot, blood spurting all over the floor.
Zhao Huan was shocked!
Li Fu hurriedly stepped forward and kowtowed, saying, "Jiang Xuan did not dare to be rude, but actually wanted to save the officials from disaster. The Jin people were deceitful and the peace talks were not credible. The prime minister and the eunuchs were mostly meticulous. I hope that Your Majesty and our killing generals would go out and win a glimmer of life for the Song Dynasty!"
Lu Wan also said: "It's not too late, I hope Your Majesty will make a decision early!"
Seeing that Zhao Huan was hesitant and afraid of their appearance, Jiang Xuan was very disappointed. He said angrily: "I forgot my family and sacrifice my life, and I want to be loyal to Your Majesty. If Your Majesty does not use our loyal ministers, the Song Dynasty will be in danger!"
Zhao Huan refused to listen to Jiang Xuan's words and ruthlessly said, "If I really want to leave the city, I will also go back to the inner palace to prepare."
After saying that, Zhao Huan looked around and saw that only He Li, Sun Fu, Qin Hui, and Mei were the only ones who were in charge of the lord. Lu Haowen, the five ministers rushed to protect the emperor, and ordered them to come forward to persuade Jiang Xuan, the other ministers, and they were all scared away.
When Sun Fu heard the words, he stepped forward to scold Jiang Xuan and others, and ordered them to retreat outside the hall immediately.
Lu Haowen and Qin Hui followed Jiang Xuan and others to the outside of the hall, and temporarily coaxed them with words.
When the danger passed, Zhao Huan immediately ordered He Li and Sun Fu to draft an edict, saying that under the pretext of Jiang Xuan, Li Fu and Lu Wan's rude cause chaos, Zuo Yan, the commander of the four-box, immediately led his troops to suppress him.
After the edict was written, Zhao Huan sent the secretary and attendant Tan Shiji to send it to Zuo Yan.
In order to stabilize Jiang Xuan and others, so as not to forcibly abduct him, Zhao Huan first pretended to sign Jiang Xuan as the tutor Guandian Qianshi, and Li Fu, Lu Wan and others also had rewards.
Jiang Xuan and others immediately thanked them, and then the guards sat under the palace and waited for the imperial edict to deal with it.
Soon, Zuo Yan led his troops to protect the enemy and arrested dozens of head guards including Jiang Xuan, Li Fu, Lu Wan.
At this time, the four guards in the palace still had more than 10,000 troops, thousands of horses, and two thousand elite troops prepared specifically for the protection of the carriage. The key is that most of the guards wanted to break out and break out.
If these forces can be effectively organized, breakthroughs may be successful.
However, Zhao Huan is not such a character at all, so he is destined to be unable to reverse the world and rewrite history - only outstanding people can turn the world and rewrite history at critical moments.
It was precisely because of the incident where Jiang Xuan, Li Fu, Lu Wan and other guards broke into the palace that Han Qing and his three thousand "elites" were transferred to guard the palace.
Han Qing's first mission to take office was to secretly execute Jiang Xuan, Li Fu, Lu Wan and other guards.
This order was given to Han Qing by Zhao Huan himself.
Han Qing thought to himself: "Maybe Zhao Huan didn't want other guards to lose their hearts and then lost their last support, so he let me, an outsider, do this."
Han Qing took the order without any ambiguity and personally brought a hundred trusted generals Jiang Xuan, Li Fu, Lu Wan and other guards from Dali Temple and took them to a forest behind Dali Temple.
Seeing this, what else does Jiang Xuan, Li Fu, Lu Wan and others not understand?
Jiang Xuan hated: "He deserves Zhao Huan to be the king of the country who destroyed it. He does not trust loyal ministers and listens to the truth. How can he not lose his ancestors' power?"
Li Fu also said: "If we are greedy for life and fear of death, we can take our horses and leave. Why do we have to ask for trouble to protect him and leave?"
Lu Wan said in grief and anger: "It's a pity that we can't die in the battlefield, but we have to die in the hands of our own people. Your Majesty is really not the Lord!"
Others were also indignant. Some of them were disappointed or resentful to Zhao Huan, who directly called Zhao Huan stupid and incompetent, and even cursed Zhao Huan as the king of the devastated country.
Seeing this, Han Qing clasped his fists at Jiang Xuan, Li Fu, Lu Wan and others and said, "You are all heroes with strong bones. Han Qing really can't bear to kill all the heroes... Let's just run away, heroes."
After saying that, Han Qing untied Jiang Xuan, and then untied Li Fu, Lu Wan and others one by one.
Jiang Xuan reacted for a moment, and hurriedly clasped his fists at Han Qing and said, "If the general lets us go, why should he report to His Majesty?"
Han Qing said with a sigh: "It's worth it to exchange for the lives of dozens of heroes for Han Qing's life."
"No!" Lu Wandao.
"Yes, how dare a real man owe this kind of favor?" Li Fu also said.
Han Qing waved his hand and said, "Han Qing regrets that all the heroes cannot die on the battlefield and have to bury their bones in the deep mountains, so that they can release all the heroes and have no plans. Heroes don't have to worry about them."
Jiang Xuan said: "The general is noble and honest, and we cannot trap the general in a dangerous place to survive alone."
Li Fu also said: "Brother Jiang said this well. If a real man dies, he will die. How can he let others replace him?"
Lu Wan said: "The general saved people from the well, and he was righteous. It is a blessing that we can meet the general before we die. How dare we be greedy for life again?"
"If all the heroes are those damn people, Han Qing will never save them. However, if all the heroes want to abandon their families and sacrifice their lives for their loyalty and righteousness, how can Han Qing ignore them?"
After hearing what Han Qing said, Jiang Xuan, Li Fu, Lu Wan and others also felt that they were not worth dying, and then they were all silent.
After a while, a guard said, "There are messes everywhere now. If we have a hiding place, no one should have noticed us and these dead people. General Han doesn't have to take on this great risk of killing."
After hearing the words of the guard, Jiang Xuan, Li Fu, Lu Wan and others lit up. Han Qing even said, "This hero is right." Then he looked at Jiang Xuan, Li Fu, Lu Wan and others and asked, "Then... do you have a place to hide?"
Jiang Xuan, Li Fu, Lu Wan and others looked at each other!
If they were just one or two people, it would be fine if they just found a place or stashed among the refugees.
But they have dozens of people.
If you hide separately, even if there is only one person, you will definitely involve others and other people's families.
If we do not hide separately, how can we hide so many people?
Seeing that Jiang Xuan, Li Fu, Lu Wan and others didn't seem to have a hiding place, Han Qing said, "If all the heroes don't have a good place to go, I have a good place here."
Jiang Xuan asked: "I don't know where the general said?"
Han Qing spit out three words: "Make gunpowder."
Chapter completed!