After rebirth, I made the princes cry

Since all the ministers of the Yang family could be bribed by Queen Mother Yao, it is certainly possible that Hong Tao would betray Madam Wei!

Because Shouyeduan "captured" the palace supervisor alive, he was able to sort out a little clue about the sudden change tonight - if the Dongyu delegation intended to break into the palace and escape, they must wait for a boat to pick them up. However, the palace guards who stayed at the Dongping Gate had not sounded the alarm until now, indicating that they did not find anything unusual at the palace ferry. After all, the Dongyu envoys were two delicate women, and it would be impossible for them to break into the Dongping Gate without the help of the delegation guards!

After all, the guards of the envoys were not equipped with bows and crossbows, so they knew that they had no chance of success if they forced their way through Dongping Gate. Even if they broke through Dongping Gate, it would be impossible for them to avoid being shot and board the boat. And even if they escaped to the county town, it would be impossible for them to get out of Wuguan and return to Dongyu with the help of the spies who came to pick them up!

Why would the envoy want to die? !

Therefore, it could only be that Yang Jiachen obeyed the orders of the Queen Mother and killed the envoy, Madam Wei and others first. They set fire to the palace to give the impression that they had succeeded. The Lantian Order might have been bribed by the Queen Mother. Even if he had not been bribed, when the Lantian Order saw the palace being burned, he would report to the capital. The Queen Mother, who had been prepared, would force Prince Zhenhuang to come and investigate. As long as Prince Zhenhuang followed the Queen Mother's instructions and turned the tables, saying that it was him who colluded with Ming Buchang in collusion with Northern Zhao or Northern Qi and other countries to assassinate the Yu envoy, she would be able to control them and release Yang Jiachen and other criminals!

Only if Yang Jiachen committed the crime could he escape safely.

Since Shouye Duan had already locked onto Yang Jiachen as the murderer, he immediately thought: Yang Jiachen could win over not only Hongtao, but also the palace servants who originally obeyed his orders, and perhaps the palace servants in the temporary palace. These people would never be bribed or intimidated by the foreign envoys, but they would be very likely to cling to the empress dowager for glory and wealth. With the cooperation of these people, the key being Hongtao, Yang Jiachen had the opportunity to poison the Yu envoy's personal guards and even the maidservants in Baohua Palace, but why did he leave the palace supervisor alive?

By the way, Yang Jiachen wanted the palace supervisor to lure us to search the palace. His gang of thugs is small in number and does not need a large ship to help them escape. In other words, Yang Jiachen does not necessarily need to break into Dongping Gate, as Xiping Gate is unguarded!!!

Although we have a living witness like the Palace Supervisor, as long as Yang Jiachen escapes from the palace and is nowhere to be found, we will not be able to escape the Queen Mother's accountability, and the crime of assassinating the envoy will be firmly pinned on us. Yes, Ming Buchang must have been killed. Even if Hong Tao could kill Ming Buchang by herself when he was not prepared, how could she have the ability to set fire to Liangsheng Garden and Xiping Gate at the same time?

Yang Jiachen guessed that when I discovered the fire, I would first determine whether there was any change in Baohua Palace, and then lead me here step by step. This would give him and his group enough time to ambush and kill the people I sent and escape through Xiping Gate!

At this moment, as if in line with Shouyeduan's speculation, a warning sounded from the direction of Liangshengyuan.

The sharp whistling sound completely tore apart the silent night.

"Go and tell the crossbowmen at Dongping Gate to quickly support Xiping Gate, and inform the guards that it was Yang Jiachen who instigated the rebellion. We must not allow the Dongyu envoys to riot at this time, and we must do our best to appease them!"

After Shouyeduan said this, he led his team to Xiping Gate.

They had already arrived at Zhongxing Gate by then, so they naturally would not return and take a detour, but had to take a shortcut to Xiping Gate. Shouye Duan only thought that the ten infantry guards arranged in advance had not all been ambushed and killed by Yang Jiachen, so he fired the arrows to give a warning.

This mingled arrow was actually fired by Liang Hui.

He personally led the team and easily succeeded in an ambush at Liangsheng Garden, first eliminating ten infantry guards, leaving only ninety Northern Han palace guards.

The sudden sound of whistling arrows startled the guards of the envoys. Of course, they could no longer "pretend to sleep". At the same time, they also discovered several fires. Of course, they had to make sure whether the envoys were safe. However, they were stopped before they left the courtyard. At this time, the palace guards who stayed at Dongping Gate had not received orders from Shouyeduan and did not know what was happening in Baohua Hall. Therefore, they had a small conflict with the guards of the envoys. It was because of the threat of the archers that the small conflict did not escalate further.

The East Road was still eerily quiet.

Shouyeduan thought that Yang Jiachen and his gang were still fighting with the ten infantrymen he had sent earlier, so he rushed to support them. On the way, he relaxed his guard and still let the ten crossbowmen go in front. As Qiuliang Garden was in sight, he suddenly heard a groan. Shouyeduan felt a chill on his back, turned around, and saw about seven or eight infantrymen falling to the ground one after another. He immediately realized that he had been ambushed!!!

However, the place where they were standing now was an alley, and the dark wall became an excellent barrier for ambushes, but they held torches and exposed themselves to the light.

Before Shouyeduan could even come to his senses, he felt a slight tingling sensation on one side of his neck, as if he were pricked by a needle. He subconsciously raised his hand to touch his neck, and a flash of blood suddenly passed before his eyes. His mind suddenly went blank, and he knew that he had made a wrong judgment. However, this sudden realization became his final consciousness.

Although the crossbowman was in the front, he was of course aware of the changes behind him. He turned around immediately and heard a few muffled sounds, which were not too loud, as if sandbags fell to the ground. In an instant, he smelled a spicy smell. The crossbowman could not see anything and was shocked. He raised his crossbow and fired randomly. After a wave of random shots, before he could reload the arrows, ten slim and masked women in black jumped down from the wall. They drew their swords and killed the panicked crossbowman in a few breaths.

When the crossbowmen are in high places, their attack power is very formidable. However, once the crossbowmen are in low places and their numbers are not large enough, the flying mustard balls invented by Zhou Jinghe are enough to catch them off guard and make them panic. When the crossbow arrows are missed and they have no time to reload, the crossbowmen become lambs to be slaughtered.

The thirty people led by Shouyeduan were ambushed and killed by ten maids.

Another whistling arrow was shot into the starless and moonless night sky.

Ying Shu had already surfaced from the bottom of the water. When she heard the second sound of arrows, she felt relieved: "Shouyeduan is dead. Now there is no one in the palace guards who can give orders!"

But there are still forty archers and crossbow guards!!!

However, because of the order given by Shouyeduan before his death, these forty archers and crossbow guards had already rushed to the Xiping Gate for support. There were no more bows and crossbows at the Dongping Gate to provide deterrence. When the second whistling arrow was fired from the west area, the leader of the guards who had come to appease the envoys under Shouyeduan's order naturally had no idea what crisis had occurred.

In order to mobilize the crossbow guards, he had to be the leader of a team affiliated with the crossbow guards. But now he only had one person and one crossbow. It was impossible for him to stop the nearly 100 "doubted and uneasy" envoys' guards. Therefore, he could only follow orders and focus on appeasement. But gradually he ran out of words and had no choice but to tell half the truth.

"It was Yang's retainers who started the rebellion and took the envoy hostage. They must be trying to break out through Xiping Gate. Guards, rest assured, the commander has already rushed to Xiping Gate to stop them and will definitely not let the rebellion succeed!"

But how can the Tuanwei feel at ease?

Not to mention the envoys' guards, even the remaining twenty infantry guards were all puzzled. Their leader Ming Buchang was nowhere to be seen, and there were dangers in many places in the palace. None of the thirty infantry guards sent away by Shouyeduan returned, and their lives were uncertain. Although they also knew that Ming Buchang and Shouyeduan had always been close friends and were unlikely to kill each other, the situation tonight was too strange. One of the infantry guards couldn't help but ask: "There are still ten guards in Baohua Palace. How could a mere eunuch of Yang Jiachen take the envoy hostage? What is the situation in Baohua Palace now? Wu Ding, you must tell the truth!"

Since Nan Ci returned, Liang Hui has actually been "promoted" to the position of the head of the delegation, so naturally a team leader will be promoted to the position of deputy commander. Deputy Commander Mo Daying should have been the first to question, but he fell behind. At this time, he tried hard to hold back his laughter and frowned hard: "It's not that we don't follow the orders of the Palace Guard. Captain Wu Ding himself said that our envoy was held hostage, but he prevented us from launching a rescue. Captain Wu Ding's behavior is indeed strange. Our mission is to protect the safety of the envoy, but now the envoy's life and death are uncertain. If Captain Wu Ding still insists on stopping us from going to Baohua Palace to find out, don't blame us for breaking the rules!"

Mo Daying drew his sword, and the guards of the envoy group also displayed their weapons.

The leader who had questioned Wu Ding just now, seeing the tense atmosphere, suddenly realized that his side was no longer in numerical advantage. Moreover, Shouyeduan was the archer commander after all. Even if there was a conspiracy, he could not fight head-on but only outsmarted them. So he said, "Deputy Commander Mo, please be patient. I can go to Baohua Palace to check the situation first."

Wu Ding was panicked when he heard this, fearing that this reckless leader would report the bloodbath in Baohua Palace. How could the envoys keep calm when they heard that the Palace Master and the Left Deputy Envoy had been killed? They would not easily believe that Yang Jiachen was the culprit. If the envoys rioted, the situation would undoubtedly be even worse.

He wanted to stop the leader of the team, but when he turned around, he saw that the leader had already run more than ten steps. It was useless to stop him. Wu Ding had to shoot a crossbow arrow, not aiming at the leader, intending to warn him. Who knew that this crossbow arrow angered the reckless leader. At a command, the remaining ten infantrymen drew their swords and rushed towards him. Wu Ding immediately raised the command token, which was the certificate given to him by Shouyeduan. He had shown it just now, and now he had to use the command token to intimidate.

An arrow flew out from nowhere and hit a guard in the back.

"It is Shouyeduan who is plotting treason!!!" The team leader who was not hit by the crossbow arrows had now completely fallen into the trap of discord.

Of course, Mo Daying would not show mercy. While Wu Ding was stunned, he chopped off his head with a knife. Then, it was the leader of the Northern Han Palace Guards who led the way and ordered the infantry guards of Duanning Gate to release their orders and join them in "suppressing the rebellion". He also seriously discussed with Mo Daying: "Let's go to Baohua Palace to check the situation first, and then decide how to pursue the rebels!"

How could these twenty exposed Northern Han infantry guards be a match for the envoy guards who outnumbered them by more than three times? The assassination was also extremely swift, and now, the Northern Han palace guards only had the forty archers left.

The forty "elite" soldiers are now in confusion.

The Lantian Palace has a total of six palace gates. Because the palace was built against the Nanshan Mountain, the palace gates are only distributed on three sides. Between the six palace gates, there are of course towering palace walls, and defense roads are built on the palace walls. Archers do not have to go down the wall, and can rush to any palace gate or sentry post through the palace wall defense road. If the emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty visits the palace, these three palace walls will of course be stationed for defense. However, the Northern Han Dynasty is now at war, and the city of Chang'an is in danger. Therefore, only two groups of palace guards, totaling a hundred people, were transferred to garrison the palace. Now the sixty groups that have not climbed the wall have been destroyed, and the remaining forty archers and crossbow guards rushed to Xiping Gate through the palace wall defense road. Looking from a high place, they did not see anyone attacking the palace gate, and for a moment they did not know what to do.

They all obeyed Shouyeduan's orders, but Shouyeduan was nowhere to be seen. Fortunately, the rain suddenly increased and the fire at Xiping Gate, which was not very fierce to begin with, was extinguished by the rain. However, Liangsheng Garden and Shenji Hall were still ablaze. There were eight squad leaders and four team leaders, and although there was no dispute, no one knew how to make a decision.

Of course, they had all heard the second sound of arrows just now.

The sound of arrows was a warning, of course, indicating a critical change, but how could the people standing on the city wall witness the changes in the palace on such a dark and rainy night? The forty "elite" soldiers stood on the wall for two full moments. Looking inside, they saw no one breaking the rules, and looking outside, they saw no boats crossing the river. But no one came to report the news or give orders. After all, they were all soldiers with rich experience in fighting on the battlefield. How could they not feel something was wrong?

Suddenly, behind the Shenji Palace, all the way to the north, there was a flame rising into the sky again.

"The Zhongnan Building is also on fire!"

There was another panicked shout, and the four team leaders were completely thrown into disarray. They only knew that Yang Jiachen was causing chaos and intended to escape through the Xiping Gate, but they saw that many parts of the palace were on fire, and even the highest point of the East Road, Zhongnan Tower, was on fire. How could this be a small group of criminals causing chaos?

We can’t just stand on the city wall and watch!

"We must first determine the situation at Dongping Gate!" a team leader suggested.

Finally, someone made a proposal. Everyone felt relieved and no one raised any objections. The situation below the wall was unclear and the people on the wall had to unite to get through the danger. So the forty people ran back to Dongping Gate. The leader of the team who made the proposal only took two archers down the wall to check the situation. He looked solemn when he came back.

Nearly a hundred guards of the envoys have disappeared, but Wu Ding is found dead in the courtyard!

But Baohua Palace was still dead silent.

Wait, or don’t wait!

This was an extremely difficult decision. No one dared to make it. The people on the wall were in a panic. Looking at the increasing number of fire spots that seemed to be blooming everywhere, they finally realized that on their side, there were probably only forty people left who were still watching on the wall!

what on earth happened???

"Look! There is indeed movement in the direction of Xiping Gate!"

In fact, it was outside Xiping Gate. In the distance, there were bamboo rafts crossing the Bashui River.

So they had to divide their troops, and twenty archers rushed towards Xiping Gate. However, at this time, ambushes had already climbed up the city wall and were hiding in the gatehouse of Changping Gate, the most important gate of the palace. This ambush was completely based on suppression by numbers, and it was also a great success.

Then the gate tower of Xiping Gate was once again ablaze with flames.

There were only twenty crossbow guards still guarding Dongping Gate.

But now, Dayu's envoys' guards have seized thirty crossbows and at least two hundred crossbow arrows. They can even reach the city wall and form a "horizontal" battle position with the remaining twenty crossbow guards of the Northern Han. Their own archers are already better than the enemy. Even if the Northern Han has more crossbow arrows, it takes time to reload them. Dayu's envoys' guards have more people and are no longer afraid of a head-on confrontation.

The fearful party became the Northern Han Palace Guards.

Staying on the city wall would lead to death. Even if he did not surrender directly, at least he could go deeper into the palace. There might be a glimmer of hope. The situation might not be as bad as he imagined. He might be able to capture a few criminals who had not escaped and use them as a token of his crime. Even if he gained nothing, he would always have an explanation for what he had done.

But as soon as they got off the city wall, they were ambushed!