No shortage of walls

Less than a moment after the third prince died, more than a dozen people in the imperial city quietly left the city in the evening. The Northern Army flew in from the border; 30,000 cavalry rushed in silently. The leader of the army was a general who was a first-class official of the Northern Song Dynasty and the military commander-in-chief of the Northern Song Dynasty who ranked first in martial arts.

Changwei!

The border gates had already been bribed, and they were not discovered until the inner gates, causing chaos in the capital.

The fourth prince, who had not yet taken the throne, hurriedly ordered the beacon fire to pass the order. Just as he was about to ask the counselor, two daggers had already entered.

The person you trust the most cannot be guarded against. Even Lu Zhi, the second-ranked commander of the Forbidden Army, could not save him.

The two of them had happy faces and laughed:"We are from the Northern Song Dynasty. Haha——"

Although Lu Zhi's sword can kill people, it can't save the fourth prince, tomorrow's new emperor.

The moment the counselor's dagger stabbed in, the fourth prince knew that he had fallen into a trap. As a legitimate prince, he naturally knew that his father would attack the northern border next year. His father would think of unifying the Song Dynasty, and the emperor in the north would also think of unifying the Song Dynasty. After all, the Song Dynasty had not been divided into the north and the south for a long time. The sooner they were unified, the easier it would be for people to surrender. To be like the East and West Hu, it has been seven or eight hundred years. The people of both sides have long been stable and have become enemy countries. It will be too difficult to win over people's hearts. When this moment was not enough, he realized that Mr. Du was so anxious to kill the eldest brother. When it came to running the country, he and the eldest brother really didn't know who was capable; but the eldest brother was the undefeated god of war. He was definitely not as good as him; he knew that it was all a plot by the Northern Territory, and he was being led by the other party in order to weaken the strength of the Southern Song Dynasty. But at this time, all regrets were too late. If the eldest brother was still there, who would dare to touch the Southern Song Dynasty? I know it won't work. He only shouted:"Hurry... Queen Mother——"It's just that he is a spy; no matter how good his martial arts are. It's just a question of hitting or not hitting. Whenever you are stabbed, you have to ask the gods to come down to bring the dead back to life.

Spy, it would be a shame if you couldn't even stab someone to death.

After all, he was the prince of the Song Dynasty. Before he died, he knew that he had to ask the Queen Mother to take charge of the overall situation.

Lu Zhi looked at the fourth prince's eyes that were still wide open after his death, as if he had endless regret. There is no other choice but to enter the harem.

When the Queen Mother heard about this, she almost fainted and hurriedly summoned all the civil and military officials. Before she finished speaking, the soldiers reported that the internal affairs were in urgent need.

Lu Zhi was immediately shocked:"The border pass was broken so quickly?"

The soldier said:"There is no warning at the border pass! The enemy is coming. The general suspects that the border guard has rebelled."

The Queen Mother was shocked and turned pale immediately. He hurriedly said:"The eunuch's regicide has not yet been fully investigated, and all the princes are gone. Please quickly ask the eldest prince, Prince Jing, to make the decision."

Lu Zhi's face was solemn. Said:"Prince Jing is dead."

The Queen Mother's hands and feet were cold for a while, and her face was ashen. He shouted:"My Song family is cut off!"

"Return to the Queen Mother! There are also the sixth prince and Song Xing, the eldest son of Prince Jing."Although Lu Zhi said this, he was very frightened. There was no one left in the huge Song family royal family.

"What is the use of the Sixth Prince? Prince Jing is too young. Hurry, beacon fire urgent order! The Ai family first met with the court and officials."The Queen Mother has seen the world and can handle it with ease. She said:"Use all your strength to mobilize the army from the south of the city to the north!"

"yes!"

King Qin's army in the south of the city is not large, and there is not enough time. Those who come are those who are close to the road. The third prince's troops are still there, but seeing the beacon signal, as soon as the city gate opens, they rush to rush.

Lu Zhi shouted at the gate of the palace :"We, the people of the Southern Song Dynasty, are now slaughtering the city with the Northern Bandits. The army and the people are united to protect our Southern Song Dynasty!"

The Forbidden Army rushed to the north of the city, and they called it"Northern Thief Massacre".

The soldiers and civilians in the city fought back with all their might. It was actually an instinctive reaction from the continuous battles between the northern and southern borders.

No one expected that the enemy would come so fast, and the cavalry in the northern border had been trained for a long time; The army and common people in the capital had just learned that the fourth prince would be the emperor tomorrow, so they relaxed for a moment and did not have time to set up defenses. Did they expect that the border defenders had surrendered to the enemy? In less than half an hour, the inner pass had been broken, and Chang Wei left three thousand cavalry to guard the pass to respond. The army led the remaining 27,000 cavalry to attack the palace. The reason why the inner gate was so weak was actually caused by the changes in the palace. Suddenly, the emperor was assassinated and the princes killed each other. The eldest son of the emperor was given poisoned wine. Various news , which caused chaos in the army.

If the border guards did not surrender and forced the capture. Both sides were guarding each other, and they might not be able to capture it in ten and a half months. The lights inside and outside the capital were brightly lit, and screams were endless. The imperial palace banned 30,000 troops, and the capital defense also had Eight thousand. There are also thousands of troops protecting the border, adding up to no less than 45,000 troops. The Imperial Guards’ capital garrison is responsible for the security of the entire palace and the capital. They are not arranged in a group. Before the troops in the south of the city arrive, they are all scattered. It was opened all over the imperial palace in the capital.

The incident happened suddenly. Even if the soldiers were gathered together, they could not gather the soldiers and arrange the troops at once.

They would not give this chance. He said, wait for you to set up the formation, I Let's attack again.

Chang Wei is worthy of being the best martial artist in the world. He rushes left and right, as if he is in no one's land.

The only thing Chang Wei is afraid of is Prince Jing. He should have been dead for a long time now; although Lu Zhi ranks second , fighting alone may be the second best, but leading an army to fight, but there are not even twenty soldiers. He has fought with King Jing, and this is the evaluation given by King Jing, so he drove him back to protect the palace.

For For the current plan, Lu Zhi only hoped to defeat Chang Wei alone. However, he was able to defeat Chang Wei, but his imperial army did not stop the enemy soldiers. The manpower was too scattered, and he rushed in with orders, but no one rushed in. The arrangements were thorough. If we were prepared and unprepared, we would have won the day. Now the palace is in chaos again. If the hatred between the north and the south had not been known for a long time, and the army and the people were united in thinking that the northern thieves would massacre the city, I am afraid that the city would have been massacred in a long time.

Those iron cavalry of the Northern Song Dynasty, There was no intention of returning alive; these 30,000 cavalry were originally a death squad, but more than ten cavalry broke into the inner palace and killed palace maids, eunuchs, officials, and even the old imperial concubines. A total of more than 40 people were killed before they were shot by the imperial army. Killed them all.

Chang Wei's cavalry gradually decreased, as did the imperial army and the guards of the capital. Lu Zhi was seriously injured, with several bone wounds. If his men had not fought desperately to save him, he would have died tonight.

Chang Wei saw that his men had already died. There were less than 10,000 troops, and another 5,000 troops had arrived in the south of the city. They hurriedly gave the signal to retreat. Following the trumpet sound in the south, they knew that the new troops of King Qin of the other side had also arrived.

The beacon was urgent, and those outside the city who had planned to enter the capital again tomorrow were also Mount your horse, pick up your gun, and advance quickly. The fastest general is called Lin Ziyi! Knowing that the situation is serious, he urgently orders the soldiers to take back the inner pass and pursue them all the way. However, the enemy already has three thousand cavalry guarding the pass, but Chang Wei's army returns Defense, after all, the time was too short, and the preparations for guarding the pass in the Northern Song Dynasty were not enough. They were really afraid that there were too many people and horses, and the southern border officers found out too early; the follow-up troops had not arrived yet.

There were cries of killing and screams, and the attack continued until midnight , then the Southern Army came in one after another, with the cavalry arriving first and the infantry following. It was not until the third watch that the inner pass was recaptured. There were mountains of corpses and rivers of blood. However, they could only hurriedly set up defenses outside the pass and repair and close the damaged city wall overnight.

If the North was not afraid that too many people would be near the border and would be discovered by spies from the South, would the Inner Pass really be recaptured?

Disaster!

Urgent beacon orders came one after another, the nearby defenders arrived, and the follow-up infantry arrived at dawn.

I saw only the imperial palace in the capital and the inner pass. Bodies littered the ground and the sky was filled with dark clouds.

The uncle of the state urgently ordered the soldiers to bury the corpse outside the city in case it rained and caused a plague.

A night of massacre! The smell of blood was so strong that soldiers and civilians moved the corpses to the open space in the southwest of the city all day long to dig pits and bury them.

Although the Neiguan was defended, people were panicked. There was not much blood left in the Tian family. The emperor had to be a blood of the Tian family. If anyone with a foreign surname disobeyed, there would be civil war and foreign war, and the Southern Song Dynasty would be destroyed.

It is no small matter for any court in the world to have an old emperor and three princes die all at once, and then be attacked by others!

The queen hurriedly summoned her brother Zhao Dian, the governor-general of the Privy Council, to discuss the matter. In the Tian family bloodline, the sixth prince's mother's bloodline is noble. But while the war was still going on, when he became emperor, the world was in chaos, and the Southern Song Dynasty fell within half a year. Prince Jing's son can speak well at the age of five; although there has been no news in recent years. But he must be a smart man. Although his mother and grandmother's bloodline is not very good, if he becomes the emperor, he must ensure the interests of the Zhao family, otherwise it will be difficult.

Of course the uncle agreed. If it weren't for such chaos, the Zhao family would have wanted to be the emperor. But Prince Jing had subordinates in all armies, and Prince Jing died again, so the Zhao family didn't want to be exterminated.

At this time, the country is in chaos, and it is difficult for people with foreign surnames to convince the public.

Not to mention Prince Jing’s old department. Even other generals and soldiers cannot be conquered by foreign surnames.

It's a pity that they haven't reached an agreement yet. The eunuch came to report, and the envoy from the North came to declare a challenge.

When the two countries were at war, the envoy was not killed; the queen had no choice but to announce his entry.

I saw that this person was short in stature and ugly in appearance. He was only wearing the official uniform of a seventh-grade civil servant. It seemed extremely insulting. In the War of the Two Kingdoms, you can at least send a good-looking one. You can also send an army soldier, but you can send a seventh-grade civilian official. It's really insulting.

The queen was furious:"Envoy from the North, are you here to die?"

The envoy's face remained unchanged and his nostrils turned upward. Said:"His Majesty the Emperor has sent an envoy here to inform you! The whole country will surrender within seven days! Otherwise, on the day of the country's subjugation, all blood will be gone! If you don't surrender in seven days, we will start a war in ten days. Let's see if you can Can you hold it?"

Zhao Dian said angrily:"The Northern bandits have gone too far! Do you think we have no one in the Song Dynasty? That Northern bandit of yours is rebellious and is about to die in Gentle's dream! How dare you speak like this?"

All civil and military officials He had an angry look on his face and looked sideways.

The messenger laughed. He raised his hands and said solemnly to the north:"Long live my emperor, who is in the prime of his youth. In the first half of the month, he fought with the top master of our court and lost in fifty-three rounds. He is as strong as a tiger. What you heard is all false. I, the four of us, The quarrel between the first and second-grade adults is fake, but the few girls who made Prince Hua Liu die of illness were sent by me."

Zhao Dian took a breath! He shouted:"The king who killed me is also a Northern traitor?"

"Didn’t you already know this? Long live my emperor, he had this plan in mind when he first came to the throne! Long live our emperor! second to none! Forget it, I'm too lazy to talk to you, I'll just fight if you don't accept it! Just now the woman asked me whether I was seeking death, and I stretched my neck to wait."After speaking, he really stretched his neck.

The emperorI'm so angry that this person doesn't even call me a queen, but just a woman.

Zhao Dian said angrily:"Let's fight!"

The envoy laughed loudly:"Okay, okay! If there is a big war, do you dare to send troops to the north? Once the troops are sent to the north, and the news reaches neighboring countries, what do you think they will do? But no The troops are marching north. The border pass is our territory. How long can we block the inner pass? How about this? My surname is Zhao Lao'er. You send an envoy out of the city. I will let you meet the soldiers and generals outside the pass to provide food and grass. I guarantee that after leaving the pass, Eat well, drink well, and come back safely without losing a hair. By the way! Long live my emperor, I have sent envoys to neighboring countries this morning. When the war breaks out, others will know about it."