Chapter 150 – Offering the Divine Lord’s Plaque at the Head of the City

“Cheng Qian, surrender ……”

Fan Xian’s gentle words, let the palace inside and outside tens of thousands of people at the same time dumbfounded, feel incomparably ridiculous, right now is the rebel army surrounded the city, your people in the palace is up to the sky into the ground also can not run out, the little Fan Lord actually when this moment, in the head of the city to persuade the surrender of the big talk!

Riding on the horse of the Prince Li Chengqian in military attire, sucked in a breath of cool air, secretly think of Anzhi’s skin is really getting thicker, actually said out such words, and said so natural, if let people who do not know the situation heard, I am afraid that I will think today Li Chengqian is driven like a rabbit like a poor man, rather than his Fan Xian.

To say is also marvelous, only one night’s work, Fan Xian will from the imperial court prisoner changed into the so-called supervisor, from the career of exile to get rid of out, burst into the palace, nearly captured the Prince, successful flip. And in the early hours of the morning immediately afterward, the crown prince escaped and the army entered the city, but in turn, Fan Xian was besieged in the palace.

The so-called city head changes the flag of the king, said is probably this night happened in the story, the story was extremely ridiculous, Fan Xian said such a ridiculous words and what is it?

Li Chengqian looked up at the two brothers above the imperial city, smiled bitterly and then shook his head, laughing to himself, thinking that after Master Qin’s words, he should persuade his elder brother to surrender with sincerity, but unexpectedly, Fan Xian grabbed such a sentence, instead of blocking his own words in his mouth, this Fan Xian, is really a thief to the extreme.

On the right side of the square there were scattered hoofbeats, Li Chengqian subconsciously turned his head to look, only to see that the Dingzhou army that entered the capital from the west city gate was slowly approaching the center army where he was. He frowned, and in front of those thousands of people, he saw the handsome face of the second prince, and a faint chill grew in his heart. What this second brother had in mind was not simple, his face was extremely similar to Fan Xian’s, and he was afraid that the calculations in his heart were just as devious.

Dingzhou army slowly stopped on the right flank side of the rebel army, carefully maintaining a courteous attitude towards the rebel army’s center camp.

“Big brother, you and I ……” Crown Prince Li Chengqian glanced at the second prince and finally opened his mouth. He couldn’t wait for the second prince to open his mouth, it was just that without the internal power to boost his voice, he had to use shouting in order to be heard by those above the imperial city. Although he still maintained the majestic imperial aura that the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace had cultivated for more than ten years, in comparison, it was not as strong as when Fan Xian had rebuked the Qin family.

Fan Xian pulled out his ears and glanced at the Grand Prince, not saying anything because the Grand Prince was listening very attentively at the moment. What the Crown Prince had said was all within his calculations, and it was nothing more than the intention to convince the Grand Prince with brotherly love, while still planting the matter of the Great Eastern Mountain on Fan Xian.

Although the Crown Prince knew that the Grand Prince would not believe that Fan Xian was the murderer of the assassin, he still had to say this. Any brotherly love always had to be based on a logical foundation that made sense.

The Grand Prince’s face clouded over. The emperor had a total of five sons, if he did not count Fan Xian, who had grown up in Tanyuzhou, and the oldest three, who were born last, he and the crown prince and the second prince were considered to have grown up together since childhood, and although the crown prince had an esteemed status, the feelings of the three brothers were still quite good, especially before his majesty had shown his favor to the second prince, and the comings and goings among the three emperors were much more to be cherished than those bloody conspiracy stories in the history books.

Anyone has thought about it, but no one would like to envision that one day, these three brothers, who grew up together since childhood, will meet each other with swords.

Right at this moment, the Second Prince, who had remained silent since the rebels surrounded the palace, also spoke. He gently used the heel of his boot to knock the mount underneath him, letting the horse take himself out of the rebel line one foot away, looking at the imperial city above, following the words of the crown prince, extremely sincere to the eldest prince began to shout.

It must be admitted that the second prince did have a trick up his sleeve in gathering people’s hearts, and he did not mention the matter of having the grand prince surrender, but only dealt in the camaraderie of past years, using a tone of indignation, stating his dissatisfaction with the grand prince’s help to Fan Xian and vaguely mentioning that the Emperor of Qing’s attitude …… toward the grand prince was not really like that of a father toward his son.

Fan Xian glanced at the Grand Prince and realized that the face of the Grand Prince beside him was becoming more and more somber. He was not worried that the grand prince would fall under the force of the situation and under the affectionate attack of the crown prince and the second prince, because he would always analyze a matter only in terms of a person’s character, and he knew that the grand prince’s nature was like a fiery fire.

He turned to look at the second prince who was still shouting and frowned slightly as he recognized that the general beside the second prince was none other than Ye Chong.

Ye Chong had already been the commander of the Kyoto Guard Division thirty years ago, and was now in his fifties, but he looked none the worse for wear, and his entire person was not as imposing as the usual famous Qing generals, with a somewhat shorter and fatter figure.

But Fan Xian would never underestimate him, because he knew that this man was a long-famous ninth rank expert, Ye Liuyun’s closest nephew. Anyone who had once fought that horrible old mom of his was very uncomplicated. And a person who could become the commander of the Kyoto Guard Division when he was in his twenties was not something that could be described as uncomplicated.

Fan Xian’s frown grew deeper and deeper, but his eyes grew brighter and brighter, as bright as the star that still refused to recede under the light of the rising sun.

The First Prince suddenly shouted at the rebels below the city, “Enough!”

The second prince smiled helplessly and stopped his mouth.

The Grand Prince snapped, “What time is this? You guys still don’t forget to frame Fan Xian! I know that for the sake of the throne, you guys won’t hesitate to do anything ugly, but don’t forget that there are things I can’t do! If you want to attack, you guys attack, don’t learn from some pussy babbling here!”

These words were spoken with determination and vigor, not giving the Second Prince of the Crown Prince under the Palace the slightest room for maneuver at all.

The second prince’s always gentle face finally became gloomy at this moment, somehow becoming so angry, angrily yelling at the imperial city, “Big brother! Don’t you forget that we are the brothers!”

“Brothers?” The Grand Prince had been worrying about the guards of the palace as well as the great event he was plotting with Fan Xian for several days in a row, his mind was extremely depleted, and his eye sockets were deeply sunken in, but instead, his eyes appeared to be very sharp.

He looked at the Crown Prince, then at the Second Prince, and suddenly said in a stern voice, “Brothers! You guys won’t even be sons anymore, and you’re still willing to be brothers!”

There was a silence, and these words punctured too many things. The forbidden soldiers on the Imperial City had already known about this from the posthumous edict, and emotions of grief and hurt immediately flowed from their eyes. On the other hand, the faces of the rebels below the Imperial City became somewhat strange. Although His Majesty the Emperor had been assassinated on Dadong Mountain, but His Majesty’s dragon authority still existed, as a son of the Qing army, carrying the banner of the Crown Prince, but actually doing regicide and usurpation, who would not be horrified, who would not be beating drums in their stomachs?

The great prince stood between the battlements of the imperial city, frowning deeply, looking at the crown prince and said sadly: “The matter of the Great East Mountain was done by the eldest princess …… I know that you do not have this ability. But you surely know! Father even if he wants to abolish you, but you are a son, how can you do something so beastly?”

The Crown Prince’s countenance was a bit dull, and he actually remained silent, allowing the Grand Prince to rage. Beside him, Elder Qin frowned and willed his hand to wave, and the rebels behind him began to make preparations to attack the city. Gradually behind the queue resounded with a gust of drawn bowstrings, a toothsome sound.

At the moment when the three imperial princes were fiercely talking about the royal family’s shady dealings and each other’s anger on and off the city, no one noticed that Fan Xian had already left the city alone, descending down the long stone steps to the interior of the palace, traveling across the empty plaza, and heading toward the Hall of Great Ultimate Justice.

Along the way, Fan Xian watched carefully and realized that although the Grand Prince was good at field battles on the grasslands, the effort he put into the city’s defense was also extremely deep. Every place has been prepared, even in the stone steps next to the entrance, has dismantled two imperial city corner tower, ready stone and heavy wood, looks like it is ready to cope with later siege war.

As for the three palace gates under the imperial city, some strange shaped stones had been prepared, and there was even moss on them. Fan Xian squinted and thought to himself, “Could it be that the wigwam in the palace was also demolished by the boss? Just as he was thinking, a team came in front of him, only to see that under the escort of a few forbidden soldiers, more than a hundred eunuchs, who looked exhausted, were pushing the mossy stones with cars, which were really the wigwams in the palace.

The three palace gates at the main city of the palace will always be open on weekdays, but when the rebels attack, of course, they will not choose only one, Fan Xian understands that the great prince is ready to use the rockery, the three palace gates will be blocked to death, and this work is afraid that it is the early morning before the beginning of the preparations.

The rebels will be blocked outside the palace, will be trapped in the palace, this is the so-called dead guard. Fan Xian sighed, knowing that the boss had already made up his mind to die.

The forbidden army that he saw along the way was not enough, and compared to the empty palace, it was even a bit sparse, so there really wasn’t much of a bottom line.

Fan Xian then sighed, know more than a thousand people of the forbidden army has been allocated to the eunuchs and palace maidens daily living in the palace workshop, one for the suppression of the disturbing factor in the palace, two also because the whole imperial city, is that one of the most easy to break through.

Entering the Taiji Hall, looking at the worried ministers, the heavy-faced Ning Cai Ren and Yi Gui Concubine, and the fidgety Third Prince, Fan Xian sighed three times in his heart. To Hu Shu two bachelor salute, but face pile up a smile to the third prince said: “Chengping, to start the war, do not feel exciting?”

The third prince, Li Chengping, was after all a small child, and since learning that the palace was trapped, he had begun to be afraid, and although his face was forcibly suppressed, at this time, after hearing Fan Xian’s words, he couldn’t help but flatten his mouth, and in his horror, there was still a laugh that was teased out by Fan Xian, making him look very comical.

Fan Xian turned to the pale Empress Dowager and glanced at the Empress, who had her long hair draped in a messy manner, and said in a deep voice, “I ask the Empress Dowager and Empress Dowager to go up to the city to watch the battle.”

The work of articulating the great righteousness and labeling one’s own orthodoxy that must have been done since ancient times of rebellion had ended in the fury of the Grand Prince and the depression of the Crown Prince’s second prince. The rebels below the imperial city had already approached, especially the rear army camp with thousands of archers, began to make preparations for a flurry of fire.

At this time, there were only a thousand or so forbidden troops above the city, so I was afraid that after this shower of arrows, they would lose a lot of them.

The Grand Prince’s hand pressed the long sword, silent walking on top of the city, from time to time issued a few orders, so that all the generals and soldiers to prepare to meet the rebel attack. This is the first time that the Qing Dynasty Palace was baptized by the rain of arrows, and I don’t know after the rain of arrows, what kind of blood rain and wind can be resisted to wash away.

Because there is no budget to guard the palace, because there is no control of the city guard division, the defense of the forbidden army has been in a strategic disadvantage, because their hands do not have enough bows and arrows, only the four city guard crossbows on the four corners of the imperial city can be supported, however the rebel army is tens of thousands of troops, these four crossbows are the cannons to hit the mosquitoes, and how many of them can be killed?

“Prepare!” The Grand Prince’s hand tightly gripped his sword, staring at the black and numb swath of rebels under the Imperial City, listening to the sound of taut bowstrings coming from his ears, his heartstrings could not help but tauten as well.

Thousands of archers drew their bows at the same time, and that kind of palpitating creaking sound seemed to penetrate the eardrums of everyone on the Imperial City, shaking through everyone’s heart and soul.

The forbidden troops on top of the imperial city had already hid behind the arrows, and the soldiers holding shields were also waiting behind the grand prince.

The battle was about to start. Everyone was waiting for the moment when the rain of arrows would come roaring down.

However, Fan Xian did not let this happen, he had no interest in enjoying the view of the siege, and even less in pretending to offer up his wonderful or evil hands after the forbidden army had suffered heavy losses.

Above the stone steps, there was a rush of footsteps. Along with the sound of footsteps came Fan Xian, as well as dozens of panting old ministers behind him, and several women who were half-supported and half-guarded by the eunuchs.

These women were originally the most honorable characters among the women of the world, but today they had become the most humble and humiliated characters in the world.

Fan idle a hand holding the third prince, walked behind the eldest prince, squinted at the imperial city under the raised potential to shoot the rebel battalion, the heart can not help but be shocked for a moment, thought so many arrows shot over, this palace still guard a fart ah …… only to hear him transported the true qi, to the imperial city below the rebels shouted: “Chengqian, the oldest two …… quickly stop.”

The crown prince and the second prince were stunned at the sound and raised their heads to look above the imperial city, then saw a scene that made their hearts palpitate.

“Mother!”

“Mother!”

“Empress Dowager!”

Looking at the women who suddenly appeared above the Imperial City, the Crown Prince and the Second Prince couldn’t help but cry out in shock. Even Elder Qin and Ye Chong couldn’t help but frown. Then they heard Fan Xian shouting to himself beside those women:

“Don’t panic and fight yet …… I’ve brought your moms and grandmothers and brothers to see you ……”

Hearing these words, many people developed the urge to vomit blood, no one could have imagined that Fan Xian, who was famous for being a Poetry Immortal and who had made a great show of his dark power with the Supervisory Court’s Tisch, would say such shameless words.

However, only Fan Xian knew that after experiencing life and death on the meadow, his own life had finally produced an extremely welcome change, getting rid of the yin and acidic qi contained in his two lives, and gradually leaning back, gradually going to merge into one place with the little boy who had shouted that it was raining to collect his clothes on the roof of Tanyuzhou.

This kind of Fan Xian was the cute Fan Xian, the smug Fan Xian, the shameless Fan Xian, and the scary Fan Xian.

The Crown Prince and the Second Prince, no matter how sophisticated they were, couldn’t help but become angry at this heart-stopping scene. The Second Prince scolded sternly, “Fan Xian! You’re shameless!”

Fan Xian glared back and scolded, “You just realized?”

The Crown Prince was also furious in his heart, but he said in the first instance to Elder Qin beside him in fear, “No arrows allowed!”

Qin old master frowned, thinking that these nobles were in the palace, and it was a matter of course for Fan Xian to use them to threaten himself, could it be that the Crown Prince had not thought of this section……. The old general’s heart sighed, the Crown Prince was benevolent and generous, yet the cowardice that had gradually disappeared over the past two years had finally surfaced.

For soldiers, when this you die at the moment, there should not be any hesitation at all, the so-called throw the mouse, but it is cowardice.

However, Mr. Qin didn’t understand that cowardice was sometimes called human nature.

Undoubtedly, there was nothing humane about Fan Xian’s behavior at this time; he had simply calculated the prince’s disposition and calmly smiled as he stood beside the grand prince and said, “I just don’t want to be shot into a hedgehog.”

“Why did you bring Chengping here, he is still a little kid.” The eldest prince sighed, looked at the ministers beside him and the Empress Dowager Empress Shu Guifei, then glanced at the third prince and said disapprovingly.

“As the future monarch of Qing Kingdom, you must see this scene with your own eyes.” Fan Xian gently shook the Third Prince’s shaking hands. The Third Prince had witnessed so many rebels with his own eyes, and was truly terrified.

Fan Xian smiled at the cronies beside him and instructed, “Please ask Your Highness to stand in the left corner tower, and ask the Empress to stand in the right corner tower, please ……” He glanced at the Empress Dowager, who was white in the face, but didn’t say a word, and said, “Please ask the Empress Dowager to stand right at the my side.”

“I’ll set up three divine lord cards here …… to see if their arrows are so accurate.”

Everyone above the Imperial City felt a chill in their hearts at these words.

After a cacophony of noise, Fan Xian looked at those in the rebel camp who were arguing fiercely about something and said, “Regardless of whatever decision the Crown Prince and Elder Qin end up compromising on, I’m sure it will be very unpleasant for each other.”

The Grand Prince sucked in a breath of cool air as he looked at him and said, “You’ve even calculated this?”

Fan Xian twisted his head to look at the cold-faced Second Prince and Ye Chong, who was like a short iron tower beside him, and said, “There’s a lot more that I’m calculating.”

“If the one leading today is the Second, I’m only afraid that the rain of arrows would have already arrived by this time. Although the Empress is not as kissable as Shu Guifei, her life is much better than Shu Guifei’s because her son is stronger than Shu Guifei’s son ……”

“Even if we don’t release the arrows, the rebels will still have to attack ……,” Fan Xian said with a slight bow of his head, “You go and get ready, I need to figure out a problem.”

The eldest prince glanced at him and ordered his personal soldiers to keep the third prince under heavy protection, and then glanced at the empress dowager who didn’t say a word, his heart was suspicious, but he was not in a position to say much and left the place.

Fan Xian let go of the third prince’s hand, holding the empress dowager’s old and slightly stiff hand, walked a few steps to the left, like a filial grandson holding his grandmother, so that the empress dowager in a bright yellow phoenix dress appeared above the city, like a bright light, hanging high in the morning sky, reflecting in the eyes of all the rebels.

The rebel archers subconsciously loosened their bowstrings. Although the orders from their superiors hadn’t come yet, their arms had already begun to ache, and the worst thing was that everyone guessed who that old woman in the phoenix costume was – His Majesty the Emperor’s mother, His Highness the Crown Prince’s grandmother, the only surviving elder of the entire Li Clan’s royal family of the Kingdom of Qing, and such an honorable figure was afraid of blasphemy even if they talked about it, not to mention the fact that the arrow’s blade was directly in front of the city. What’s more, the arrow is pointed directly, in case of accidentally injuring the Empress Dowager …… who dares to bear such consequences?

As long as the people of Qing are not willing to let the Empress Dowager suffer a slight loss, so when Fan Xian took the Empress Dowager on the imperial city, the mood of the eldest prince is a little twisted, and Shu Hu two university professors in the discouragement of not listening to the part of the sigh – know the details of last night’s palace change is clear, Fan Xian has always been not expounded in the most sinister means to deal with the most noble The most honorable people.

The trace of a sword mark that remained on the Empress Dowager’s neck was the strongest evidence of this.

Fan Xian gently straightened out the collar of the towering phoenix dress for the empress dowager, carefully removed a trace of hair, and said in a harmonious voice: “It is true …… that the empress dowager still needs to wear formal attire, so that she can have enough deterrence, and it’s not in vain that I wasted my time earlier ordering those old grandmothers to dress up for you. ”

The empress dowager suddenly turned her head, her old and tired eyes suddenly showed infinite resentment, as if she wanted to swallow Fan Xian.

Fan Xian, however, did not even look at her gaze, and whispered beside her ear, “I also know that it’s painful to not be able to speak, and it’s also painful to take my medicine, but think about it, your old Li family deserves this kind of retribution …… I’m punishing you in the place of old mother.”