The Minister of War Lu Xiao is a person with a regular life. He eats and goes to bed regularly, because in his opinion, if he cannot protect his body and energy, he will not be able to handle national affairs well.

After midnight, Lu Xiao, who was already sleeping, was awakened by a noise. He stood up and asked in a deep voice: "Who is making noise outside?"

"Master, it's not good..." The voice outside was extremely anxious, even full of horror: "Here you kill, you're you kill...!"

Lu Xiao lifted the quilt and put on an outer shirt. When he opened the door, two people were standing anxiously outside the door. This was an old man in the mansion. He appeared in front of the bedroom door in the middle of the night. It was very abnormal. However, this abnormality made Lu Xiao immediately know that something was wrong and asked: "What the hell is going on?"

"Outside the city... there were soldiers and horses coming in outside the city." One person was angry and said angrily: "I don't know where the soldiers and horses came from... to the city at the same time...!"

Lu Xiao was shocked, grabbed the man's collar and sternly said, "What are you talking about? Where are the soldiers entering the city?"

"Master, it's true." Another man said anxiously: "Someone saw the fire rising into the sky, and a large number of soldiers and horses held torches into the city. In the middle of the night, I don't know who led the troops into the city."

Lu Xiao was shocked. The capital was the important place of the country. If the Xuanwu Camp and the Black Knife Camp stationed near the capital were not transferred from the Ministry of War, they would not even leave the camp easily, let alone enter the city. However, a third army could not appear near the capital except those two soldiers.

If the local garrison troops do not have the will of the court, once they enter the capital, it is equivalent to treason.

Moreover, no soldier can be silently approached by the capital. Once a large number of soldiers appear at the post station along the way, it will definitely report an emergency to the capital as soon as possible. Therefore, it is almost impossible for a soldier to approach the capital quietly.

The most important thing is that there are 3,000 soldiers in the Tiger God Camp in the capital, all of which are elite soldiers and horses stationed at all gates in the capital. Even if there are soldiers and horses at the city and Tiger God Camp defending the city gate, it is impossible for foreign soldiers to enter the city.

As the capital of Chu, Jianye Capital City has both high and thick walls. Even if the other party has weapons to siege the city, it would be a delusion to break the city easily.

When Emperor Taizong was the Emperor, he had raised and thickened the Jianye city wall many times, and when Emperor Taizong was the former, he had also repaired it twice. Even when the former emperor, he had climbed the city top himself and looked at the iron walls. He once said that even if there were 100,000 troops coming to the city, with the thickness of the defense of Jianye's capital, the enemy would not be able to break even in one year.

But at this moment, the Minister of War had soldiers and horses entering the city from various gates without knowing it. This was simply incredible.

He suspected that the news was wrong and ordered: "Send someone here to find out what happened."

When the troops entered the city, Qi Ning, who was in the palace, naturally did not get the news immediately. Looking at the dying Qu Xiaocang, Qi Ning felt complicated.

Qu Xiaocang attacked Xuanyuan Po in a straightforward way. If Chi Danmei hadn't helped rescue him, he would have died at the hands of this person.

He thought Qu Xiaocang was using any means to make the title of the Divine Marquis, but today he finally realized that everything Qu Xiaocang did was just to save the emperor.

He could not make a judgment on good and evil for Qu Xiaocang's behavior, and felt that Qu Xiaocang's breath weakened. He knew that the Ghost King had indeed severely injured Qu Xiaocang. If Tang Nuo was here at this time, Qu Xiaocang might have survived death, but Tang Nuo was far away outside the palace. Even if he could take Qu Xiaocang out of the palace without any obstacles, it would not be too late.

"The Emperor... is not in the palace!" Qu Xiaocang coughed and said, "Xiao Shaozong... Since Xiao Shaozong is not in the palace, he will never... will never leave the Emperor in the palace..."

Qi Ning felt a little nervous.

Qu Xiaocang's words reminded him.

The Ghost King claimed that Xiao Shaozong was no longer in the palace, which is likely to be true. If this were true, Xiao Shaozong would certainly not leave the emperor in the palace and hand it over to Qi Ning.

Xiao Shaozong is able to hold great power now, not because Xiao Shaozong has such strength, but because this person has been using the emperor's name to make trouble. Because of this, Xiao Shaozong will definitely hold the emperor firmly in his hands. Otherwise, once the emperor escapes from Xiao Shaozong's control, as long as he appears in front of all civil and military officials, all Xiao Shaozong's previous deployment will be wasted.

For Xiao Shaozong, killing the emperor is of course the easiest way. As long as the emperor dies, no one can shake Xiao Shaozong's current power.

But as Xiang Tianbei said, Xiao Shaozong had been planning hard for many years and finally got to this point today. Xiao Shaozong needed audiences in this big show, and his only audience was the emperor.

Xiao Shaozong needed the emperor to see it with his own eyes, and he thought he should take back the throne that belonged to him.

So before he ascended the throne, he would never attack the emperor easily.

"Where will the emperor be?" Qi Ning asked immediately.

Qu Xiaocang shook his head and coughed even more violently, as if he wanted to get close to Qi Ning's ear. Qi Ning saw his thoughts and put his ears closer. Qu Xiaocang whispered a few words with his ears. Qi Ning's whole body shook and his face changed drastically. But at this moment, Qi Ning felt his arm sinking, Qu Xiaocang's arm drooping, and he died.

Qi Ning raised his hand and closed Qu Xiaocang's eyes, gently put them down, and stood up. The few secret guards around him immediately became alert and held the big knife in his hand tightly. Qi Ning glanced at everyone and sneered: "You are the guards in the palace, responsible for protecting the safety of the emperor, but you are driven by rebellion and don't understand now?"

The secret guards looked at each other. The words said before the Ghost King died had already made the secret guards suspicious, but everyone was confused about what the situation was.

"How many guards are there in the palace?" Qi Ning asked in a deep voice.

Everyone didn't say anything, Qi Ning stared at one of them and said coldly: "You said!"

The man was stared at by Qi Ning, but he couldn't help but say, "No... I don't know how many people there are in the palace secret guards scattered in various places in the palace, and I... we don't know."

Qi Ning thought to himself that the secret guards in the palace were shadow-like existences, and Xiang Tianbei might know how many people there were, but these ordinary secret guards seemed to be very clear.

At this moment, Qi Ning suddenly heard a noise from the north, frowned, swept around, and did not respond when he saw the others. He knew that his internal strength was deep, so his ears were amazing. He probably only heard the sound from the north. The noise was mixed with crying and shouting, which was extremely chaotic. He knew something was wrong and said in a deep voice: "Everyone will follow me!" He stopped hesitating and rushed towards the north. The people he brought over quickly followed quickly. Seeing this, the others looked at each other, but finally followed.

Qi Ning rushed all the way north, and the roads in the palace were intertwined. He had been here twice, but he did not walk around, so he was not familiar with it, so he just followed the noisy sound and looked for it.

He quickly walked, and everyone behind him was quickly left behind. When he reached a palace, he saw a large group of black shadows running towards him. The figures were flashing, extremely chaotic, mixed with crying. Qi Ning went forward, but saw dozens of palace maids and eunuchs messing around. He felt a stern heart and shouted loudly: "Stop!"

But these people were all panicked and ignored Qi Ning's shout. Some people even ran past Qi Ning, and they all looked embarrassed, as if there were ghosts chasing them behind them.

Qi Ning reached out and grabbed one of the arms. The man wanted to break free, but Qi Ning's hand was like an iron hoop. The man couldn't break free. He looked up and saw Qi Ning's face cold and said in panic: "Run, run quickly, the soldiers are coming into the palace..."

"marauders?"

"Yes... it's the Yulin Army." The eunuch said anxiously: "They rushed to the inner palace, and that's to rebel."

Qi Ning changed color slightly, and he naturally knew that although the Yulin Camp guarded the imperial city, the inner palace was a forbidden area. Even the Yulin Army would not have to step into the inner palace. Now the soldiers and generals of the Yulin Camp rushed into the inner palace, which is of course extraordinary. No wonder these eunuchs and palace maids were panicked.

At this time, the secret guards following behind had already followed. Qi Ning turned around and asked a secret guard: "Does the nobles in the palace have anyone guarded them?"

The man nodded and said, "There will be people guarding you near the noble people's residence."

The poor palace maids and eunuchs fled like locusts. Qi Ning led everyone to the north for a while. Along the way, there were terrified eunuchs and palace maids running for life here. Then they saw more than ten armored soldiers appearing in front of them. They were outfits of Yulin Camp. One person heard a loud voice: "The rebel Qi Ning sneaked into the palace to assassinate the emperor. Be sure to kill this person on the spot. The commander has an order. Who can get Qi Ning's head on the neck, and the bounty is a thousand taels!"

At this time, Qi Ning understood that the Yulin Camp rushed into the inner palace and was actually coming for him.

Xiao Shaozong naturally knew that Qi Ning sneaked into the palace, so he mobilized Yulin Camp to rush directly into the inner palace.

At this time, Qi Ning finally knew why Yan Mo and the Ghost King said that the palace was a set trap. Xiao Shaozong calculated that Qi Ning would sneak into the palace. Therefore, after Qi Ning entered the palace, he immediately labeled Qi Ning as an assassination of the emperor and quickly mobilized the Yulin army to come in.

Qi Ning was wondering whether to face these Yulin soldiers head-on, but heard someone whispering loudly: "Who are you? Don't move anyone." Qi Ning looked in the voice and saw another group of Yulin soldiers suddenly appear, and even found himself. After all, there were a group of people following him, with too big targets and being easily discovered by the Yulin soldiers.

As soon as the man shouted, another team of Yulin Army also looked over, and then the two teams rushed towards this side.

Qi Ning stood still, but the secret guards behind him didn't know what to do for a moment.
Chapter completed!