Oriole Line

Slightly absent minded, he didn't notice that a Forbidden Army was stabbing at his right shoulder.Wen Tao held his sword and was about to jump over to respond.

Pu Chen subconsciously said: "Don't come over, you can't reach it!" He checked Wen Tao's distance with his eyes, and he instinctively didn't want Wen Tao to come and take risks.He raised his right arm as a shield, and he wore leather armor inside, so even if he was stabbed, the injury would not be serious.

"Bang!" There was no sound of a sword piercing the leather armor, but the sound of metal colliding.

"Don't tell you..." just as Pu Chen opened his mouth, he found that Wen Tao had perfectly thrown away the imperial army who was trying to stab Pu Chen with his sword.Wen Tao frowned and said with a smile: "I use the left-handed sword, the distance is different." After saying that, he jumped out again.

Pu Chen froze for a moment, in his memory he rarely saw Wen Tao smile.The only time was when Qi Dai saw him off, he had a beautiful smile, like a spring flower in March and a spring in September.

This daze was only for a moment, and Pu Chen soon returned to the battle.

Half an hour passed.Even though the two were excellent in martial arts, after all they were facing an imperial army whose number was several times that of theirs. Pu Chen gradually felt his arms start to tingle, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw that Wen Tao's cheeks and mourning clothes were covered with blood.He thought of Wen Tao's injuries, first the ten lashes he received in the execution room, and then the injury he received in Xikou Lane.Pu Chen's sense of irritability came up little by little, he obviously has 5 horses, why hasn't he arrived yet!If he and Wen Tao died here today, what is the meaning of all this...

Pu Chen gritted his teeth, blood spattered his eyelashes, what he saw turned into a blood red, in this blood red, the expression of the King of Chu was like a beast, a desperate beast.

squeak……

Pu Chen heard the sound of the gate of Chaoyang Hall opening.The door of this hall has been closed for too long, so long that the bloody smell inside is so thick that it can't even dissipate.

Why is the temple door open?If it was Xiang Hu who came in, the door of the palace should have been smashed open.Pu Chen was puzzled.

The sky outside the temple became brighter.The snow seemed to have stopped, and the reflected white light outside the hall made everyone in the hall stop their movements.A small black dot appeared in the white light, approached them little by little, and slowly turned into a human shape.

It's not Xiang Hu... Pu Chen looked at the figure of the man and was very sure.After the man approached step by step, everyone realized that the man was holding a human head in his hands, and the blood from the head was still dripping down. way.

Who is this man?Pu Chen couldn't recognize it for a while.Wen Tao was in a daze for a moment, as if he had seen this person before.

"Ye Chi, you're here!" the prince's voice.

Ye Chi?This is...the commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army.Didn't he say he couldn't get sick these days?Pu Chen was full of doubts, and suddenly heard the king of Chu wailing: "Cousin!"

Everyone took a closer look, and the head that Ye Chi was holding was Qi Yan!

"The last general is too late to save you! The last general has beheaded Qi Yan, the leader of the rebel army!" Ye Chi's voice was loud, and he said to the imperial army in the palace: "Your commander-in-chief has been punished. I think you are forced by the Qi clan's despotic power to kill you!" You have only aided the evildoers, and I order you to surrender on the spot, so as to save your life!"

While speaking, another group of forbidden troops entered the palace, but they were all Ye Chi's men.Originally, most of the Forbidden Army in the palace was the Northern Army. Seeing that the general Qi Yan was dead, they abandoned their armor and surrendered.At this point in the matter, the overall situation has been settled, and the king of Chu, who was still in the upper hand just now, has now become a lonely family. He is staring at Qi Yan's head, still immersed in pain.

"King Chu, let's capture him without a fight." Ye Chi said.

The king of Chu turned his eyes to Ye Chi's face, his expression seemed to be extremely sad, but also seemed to be crazy: "Didn't you say you were sick at home? Didn't you take the initiative to hand over the military power of the southern army in the palace to Qi Yan? How could you appear here?"

"The ambition of the Qi family to seize the military power of the southern army is obvious. If I don't take the initiative to claim power, with the strength of your northern army, our 1 people have no chance of winning. It's better to wait for the opportunity and wait for you." If you show the intention of treason, I will wait for the opportunity to dispatch and kill Qi Yan to restore the situation!" Ye Chi's voice resounded loudly, resounding through the hall.

"Hahahahahaha!" King Chu knelt down and laughed loudly: "One or two of you are all fucking acting! What are you trying to do, you are just setting up a game for this king! This king doesn't want to rebel at all! Father, did you hear that father? Your Majesty! This king doesn't want to rebel at all..." The king of Chu said in the end that there was a voice of sorrow.

"Come here, take down the king of Chu and escort him to Zhao Prison for trial!" the prince ordered.

"Hmph!" The King of Chu knelt on the ground, holding up his sword and said, "Brother Prince, it's already time, don't act for me any more! Wait for the fucking trial! You can't wait to kill me at this very moment, so that you can't die!" Future troubles! I only hate that my father is so ill that I can't see this scene of fratricide!" The king of Chu was very angry, he took a few breaths and said, "I will do what you want, so that you won't have long nights and dreams." Putting the saber by his neck, he sneered and said, "You acted well, you acted really well..."

A bloody flower, the king of Chu kissed his neck and killed himself.

A quarter of an hour later, Xiang Hu led the Wuchang Army into Miyagi.There are still many northern troops in the city who are fighting stubbornly. Under the combined efforts of the Southern Army and the Wuchang Army, the rebellious Northern Army has been wiped out. The palace is still defended by the Southern Army, while Jiankang City is temporarily defended by the Wuchang Army.Concubine Qi hanged herself after learning of the upheaval in Chaoyang Palace.Since then, King Chu and Qi's party have been wiped out.

On this day, until late at night, the officials who were not killed were released one after another.

It was almost midnight, and Pu Chen, who cooperated with Ye Chi to deal with the follow-up and returned to the palace, found that Wen Tao was still waiting for him.There are only a few dim candles in Nuo Da's hall.He felt very tired, and when he saw Wen Tao, he only said softly: "It's all over."

Wen Tao followed Pu Chen out of Chaoyang Hall step by step.Pu Chen looked back at Chaoyang Palace, when they came this morning it was still a piece of plain, but now it is a sea of ​​blood.In the center of the sea of ​​blood, Pu Yang's coffin was still there, and Pu Chen's eyes seemed unwilling to move away from the coffin for a long time.

"There will still be national funerals." Wen Tao said, "Now that the truth about Da Sima's death is revealed, I believe that Da Sima's spirit in heaven can also be comforted."

Pu Chen nodded, and walked into the snowy night with Wen Tao.

24, 24.

In the general's mansion, Dou Da's lamp was still burning.

When Pu Chen came back, he washed his face with cold water, changed into clean clothes, and looked at the evidence that Cai Bo gave him before he died, all of which were Qi Chen's correspondence with him.Judging from the letter, Qi Chen had shown favor to him several years ago, trying to buy him off with a lot of money.Cai Bo's reply letter at the beginning was quite violent, but later his attitude gradually softened, especially after he got a few large sums of money, he began to collude with the Qi family, and was ordered by Qi Chen to secretly harm Pu Yang in order to help the king of Chu ascend the throne .The whole process stretched over several years and seemed natural.

Pu Chen stroked his forehead, Chaoyang Palace is very dangerous today, with ups and downs, all of this started when Cai Bo reversed the case in court.In the letter, Uncle Cai had promised Qi Chen that he would identify Wen Tao as the assassin who killed Pu Yang, so according to Qi's plan, Wen Tao would be accused of being a murderer and sentenced to a felony, while Pu Chen would be convicted of a serious crime for covering up a repeat offender. Filial piety was disqualified due to his reckless behavior, and he was even imprisoned.The military power of the Wuchang Army probably fell into the hands of Pu Xuanzhi, a branch of the Pu family.The reason why the Qi family dared to do this is because they believed that Qi Yan had the command of the palace city and the Jiankang imperial army, while Pu's soldiers and horses were all outside the city. They thought that Pu Chen would not dare to take the risk of attacking the city, but they did not Thinking that Pu Chen had arranged Xiang Hu's false surrender a long time ago, he could put the Wuchang Army into Jiankang when it was really necessary, and it should not be a problem for Pu Chen to retreat at that time.

But today, although the Wuchang army was sent to Jiankang, it was not for Pu Chen, but for the prince.Pu Chen had an inexplicable feeling in his heart, as if he was in a chess game, but he couldn't tell whether he was a chess player or a chess piece.

"You haven't slept yet?" Wen Taosu asked casually after taking a shower, her wet hair draped over her shoulders, leaning over to read the letter in Pu Chen's hand.

Wen Tao's hair-pointed water dripped on the back of Pu Chen's hand, and Pu Chen's thoughts just now were interrupted. He only felt that the drop of water fell on his skin, and there was still a trace of warmth.

Seeing that Pu Chen didn't respond, Wen Tao took the letter by himself and read it by candlelight, thinking while reading.Pu Chen looked at Wen Tao's expression, he probably just took a bath, Wen Tao's eyes were shining brightly, like water drops on the tip of grass after a summer shower.Pu Chen unconsciously looked at it for a long time.

"Hey, that woman is not mentioned here." Wen Tao flipped through it quickly, and said in confusion, "The woman I followed in Xikou Lane should be Cai Bo's biggest bargaining chip in betraying Pu in the end. not mentioned?"

Immediately, Pu Chen read the letter again, only money was mentioned in it, but this woman was indeed not mentioned.He recalled Cai Bo's confession in the hall today: "In the Chaoyang Hall today, Cai Bo didn't mention that woman. Maybe it's too secretive, so he didn't explain it in the letter?"

Wen Tao turned the letter over and over again to read it.Just now the letters were delivered several times between him and Pu Chen, so the order was messed up, so Wen Tao had to try to rearrange the order of the letters according to the date when the letters were written.Wen Tao's pupils suddenly dilated after half of the reasoning. He looked at Pu Chen and said, "Didn't you find something wrong with these letters?"

When Pu Chen heard it, he refocused his eyes on the letters, and looked at the date of each letter.In a blink of an eye, he suddenly understood, and blurted out: "This is fake!"

"Not bad!" Wen Tao said, "If according to the letter, the Qi family and Cai Bo started exchanging songs a few years ago, then the earliest letter should be a few years ago.