Due to the errand of the chief priest, King Zhongshun was exhausted physically and mentally when he came out of the imperial mausoleum. He was too lazy to talk to the accompanying ministers. He directly got into the carriage and began to close his eyes and fall asleep.

On the contrary, Prince Palace Chief Shi Zhou Mo caught up on his sleep on the way out of the city, and had not entered the imperial mausoleum to participate in the burial ceremony. Instead, he cheered up, abandoned his car and rode on horseback, and went on inspection tours with Song Qianhu.

It was said that they were patrolling back and forth, but in reality they were just circling around the carriages of King Zhongshun and the Crown Prince.

When he saw the prince, who was also exhausted, covering his mouth with his sleeves and yawning from time to time, also getting into the carriage following Jiao Shun and the two noble ladies' retinue, Zhou Mo felt a tension in his heart.

Then he let go.

He was about to urge his horse to report to the front, but suddenly he saw that the concubine's motorcade, which had been behind him when it came, actually started up with King Zhongshun's carriage and began to follow the way it came, away from the imperial mausoleum.

"How is this going?"

Zhou Mo looked like a horse whip and ordered with a stern face: "Song Qianhu, send someone quickly to ask, how come this is not following the rules?!"

Song Qianhu was also a little surprised and doubtful, so he hurriedly ordered his deputy Qianhu to urge his horse to investigate.

Not long after, Qianhu came back to report that the Queen Mother was unwell, so the Queen Mother temporarily changed the order - the funeral procession had already ended, and it was not necessarily necessary for the officiant and the prince to go in front.

This reason...

Zhou Mo couldn't find any reason to blame.

However, an unplanned situation still made him a little irritable instinctively, so he hurriedly approached the carriage in front and reported the situation to King Zhongshun.

After hearing this, King Zhongshun opened the curtain and knocked at the back, asking, "Is the prince in the car behind?"

"Still, I saw with my own eyes the carriage that the prince boarded."

"Then let them go."

King Zhongshun withdrew his head indifferently, yawned and said, "Just protect these two carriages, don't worry about the others."

Li'er was such a reasonable person, but Zhou Mo was still a little uneasy.

So I discussed it with Song Qianhu and simply 'protected' him from the side of the prince's carriage.

Jiao Shun, who was sitting on the carriage shaft, saw this scene and laughed silently. He put his arms behind his head, crossed his legs and closed his eyes to fall asleep.

About half an hour after traveling, just as it was about to merge into the main official road, the speed of the motorcade suddenly slowed down.

Zhou Mo, who was already a little sensitive, immediately ordered Song Qianhu to send someone to investigate. When he learned that there was something wrong with the concubine's car and blocked the way, so that the concubines had to go around one by one, he swung his horsewhip restlessly.

Said: "Isn't it good when you come here? Why is there a problem again? Song Qianhu, do you think there is something fishy here?"

Song Qianhu held the reins with one hand and clutched the command knife at his waist with the other. Although there was a look of panic on his face, it was more ruthless and ruthless. He swallowed hard and looked at the carriage beside him.

He went up and said coldly: "Don't worry, Mr. Zhou, even if there is some trick, with Song and the hundreds of guns under Song's hands, they can't keep it to cause trouble!"

Zhou Mo didn't answer, and his eyes were fixed on the carriage beside him. Hundreds of guns couldn't give him much sense of security. Only the prince in the carriage could make him feel at ease.

Emperor Longyuan only left such a son. Even if he wanted to take action against the prince, the queen and Concubine Wu would never allow him to risk their lives.

unless……

A thought flashed through Zhou Mo's mind, and he quickly threw this ridiculous idea out of his mind.

When the prince boarded the car just now, he saw it with his own eyes.

Even if it is not very clear from a distance, the two cabinet ministers and the official minister Wang Zhe all had face-to-face conversations with the prince. Is it possible that they all admitted their mistake?

Besides, Jiao Shun and Princess Nan'an could see it clearly.

Thinking of this, Zhou Mo's eyes turned to Jiao Shun, who was still asleep, and he carefully 'screened' his eyebrows for a moment, feeling much more at ease.

"History of Zhou Chang."

At this time, Song Qianhu asked again: "Do you want to inform the prince?"

Zhou Mo thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "No need for the time being."

He could clearly see the tired look on Prince Zhongshun's face just now. If he disturbed the prince's sleep at this time, he would probably be scolded.

Besides, what can the prince do even if he wakes up?

It's better not to create extraneous problems.

Just like that, another quarter of an hour passed.

After bypassing a dense forest, the broken carriage finally came into view.

Before Zhou Mo felt anything, Song Qianhu suddenly became alert. He urged his horse to come close to Zhou Mo and gritted his teeth and said: "Zhou Changshi, something is wrong with this matter. The car is tilted at an angle, as if it is deliberately blocking the road."

!”

"What?!"

Zhou Mo was shocked when he heard this, and was waiting to take a closer look. Suddenly, the grass on both sides of the road rolled up, and countless ambush soldiers with guns and live ammunition emerged from the potholes below. At the same time, uneven roars came from the front, back, left and right: "

King Zhongshun's crime of conspiracy to rebel will not be pardoned. We follow the Queen's decree to fight against rebellion. Anyone who resists as a traitor will be killed without mercy, the three Yi tribes!"

This time, he became hasty. Facing the countless black gun muzzles and listening to the roars of the "Yi Tribe", Zhou Mo's mind went blank. He subconsciously turned the horse's head, only to spin back and forth in the same place.

Most of the color on Song Qianhu's face had faded, but he was from the army after all, and he had long had the idea of ​​fighting to the death to gain great wealth, so before the roar stopped, he pulled out his command knife with a clang and shouted: "

Protect the prince, protect the prince, the prince is here, who dares to make a mistake!"

More than half of his men had not yet reacted, and only a dozen officers subconsciously surrounded the prince's carriage.

Zhou Mo finally came to his senses at this time, and hurriedly reined in the reins and yelled: "Where did the thieves come from, dare to falsely convey Yi's decree?! If it disturbs His Highness the Crown Prince, it will not be an exaggeration to punish you and other nine tribes!"

With that said, he got off his horse and tried to climb onto the prince's carriage.

Song Qianhu dismounted faster than him, took off his short gun from the hook on the horse's belly, walked around the car behind the car, pointed the gun at the car without hesitation, and then shouted hysterically:

"I don't care who you are or whose orders you are following. You must put down your weapons right now. Otherwise, if you disturb His Highness the Crown Prince, none of you will survive!"

Zhou Mo followed closely behind, snatched the musket of a Dragon Guard next to him, and imitated Song Qianhu in pointing the gun at the car, shouting: "If you hear me, put down your weapons, otherwise no one will

Don’t even think about living!”

The actions of the two of them not only caused some hesitation among the pickets ambushing on both sides, but also caused commotion among the Dragon Guard soldiers around them.

Except for a few die-hard confidants who followed Song Qianhu without hesitation and turned their guns on the car, most of the others were caught in a hesitant dilemma, not knowing for a while whether they were decent people or villains.

At this moment, a man carrying a flag walked out from the woods diagonally behind. He ignored the smell of gunpowder around him and strode straight to the carriage.

Song Qianhu subconsciously tilted the muzzle of his gun, but quickly stabilized his position and shouted to his close associates: "Go and stop him!"

The henchman subconsciously pointed the gun at the person, and the next second he found more guns pointed at him. He shrank his shoulders and said along the line of saliva: "Master Qianhu, this, this person doesn't have anything in his hand."

arms."

Song Qianhu glared at him and was about to appoint someone else, but that person had already walked around the trench and walked around to the carriage.

Song Qianhu hesitated for a moment when he saw this, and then the man strode across the trench, half-kneeling in front of the chariot shaft and handed out the big flag.

"As expected, that traitor!"

Zhou Mo gritted his teeth and cursed. Although he could not see clearly from his angle, it did not affect his guess who was the mastermind behind the scenes.

Song Qianhu also guessed that Jiao Shun was leading the ambush.

but……

Even if the man surnamed Jiao doesn't care about his own safety, there is still a prince in the car. You must know that the reason why this man is able to gain a foothold in the court depends on the imperial power. If something happens to the prince, what if he can capture King Zhongshun?

?Aren’t you going to be attacked by a group of civil servants?

Just as he was thinking about this, Jiao Shun had already taken over the big blue flag, stood on the shaft of the carriage, raised it high, and shouted: "Everyone, raise the muzzle of your gun three feet!"

When Song Qianhu and his men heard the loud shout, they all looked at the ambush soldiers in the trenches on both sides, with only their upper bodies exposed, and saw that they had indeed raised their guns.

To be more precise, long before Jiao Shun shouted, these people had already adjusted the muzzle of their guns according to the pre-agreed signal.

The reason why Jiao Shun shouted this was actually to remind Song Qianhu's men.

Just after Song Qianhu and others confirmed that the muzzles of the ambush soldiers were pointing upward, Jiao Shun waved the flag vigorously twice, and then heard a series of "bang bang bang" gunshots.

Song Qianhu's expression became increasingly ugly. Judging from the intensity of the gunshots just now, it was easy to tell that there were at least a thousand people in the ambush.

What made him even more desperate was...

"The continuous ball spears are all Te Niang's continuous ball guns!"

A member of the household shouted in a high voice the fact that everyone had discovered, and then there was another commotion around the carriage.

It has been more than half a year since the Renju Gun was built. Even those who have not seen it with their own eyes know the general parameters of this thing. Its biggest problem is that its range is slightly short. But the problem is that the distance between the two sides is only three or four feet at most.

Muskets have overwhelming advantages over old-fashioned single-shot muskets!

Song Qianhu felt a chill in his heart. He originally thought that King Zhongshun had recently spent a lot of money to win over many people. As long as he could stabilize the situation, those losers might be able to take advantage of him, and they might not be able to fight by then.

Now facing the deadly threat of volleys of muskets, those on the fence can definitely not count on them. The only thing they can count on is the ones in the car...

"Hold it for me."

At this time, Jiao Shun's voice came from the carriage shaft, followed by the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, and then the sound of approaching footsteps.

Song Qianhu's heart tightened. He saw that there were still six or seven guns pointed at the carriage on the left and right, so he simply turned the gun and aimed it at the direction of the incoming person in advance.

When Jiao Shun's burly figure appeared in sight, he immediately roared: "Don't move! Jiao, you don't want to..."

"The surname is Jiao!"

At this time, Zhou Mo raised his voice and asked in a trembling voice: "On the car, on the car, is it on the car, is it..."

"Ha ha."

Jiao Shun smiled heartily, spread his hands and said, "It seems there are some smart people here. Zhou Changshi guessed right. The prince is not in the car at all. He should be with the queen now."

"impossible!"

When Song Qianhu heard this, his bloodshot eyes almost burst open. He thrust the musket in his hand at Jiao Shun's chest and hissed: "Impossible, absolutely impossible! Zhou Chang Shi Mingming and I...

…”

Before he could finish speaking, the door of the carriage opened to the left and right, and the first thing that came into view was a little girl with braids, then Jia Tanchun with a smile on the right, and a pale and trembling figure on the left.

Princess Nan'an.

Then, there was no one else in the unobstructed carriage!

Plop~

Facing this scene, Zhou Mo immediately collapsed to the ground.

Song Qianhu wasn't much better. The muzzle of his gun unconsciously moved a few points. Suddenly, he felt a chill on his forehead. However, the person who brought the flag hid behind Jiao Shun. He suddenly jumped out and put the muzzle of his gun against Jiao Shun's unpreparedness.

He took the opportunity to cover Jiao Shun's forehead.

"Disarm everyone."

Jiao Shun waved his hand as if to shoo away flies: "Anyone who dares to resist will be killed without mercy. The three Yi tribes."

The ambush soldiers from two places immediately jumped out of the trench like wolves and tigers, disarming all the dragon guards around the carriage.

Song Qianhu gritted his teeth. He knew that even if he surrendered, he would not be able to escape death, and he would not even be able to escape the fate of the Yi clan, so he was determined to fight to the death to help someone else.

but……

He raised his eyes and looked at the person in front of him who was pointing a gun at each other. The other person was a dark-faced man who didn't look very smart. More importantly, he was wearing a ninth-grade official body!

If Jiao Shunpai can be killed, what's the use of dragging a ninth-grade sesame official on his back?

In just such a moment of hesitation, someone had already pounced on him and shot him. Song Qianhu subconsciously jerked away, but soon he gave up resistance like a deflated rubber ball.

Jiao Shun smiled slightly when he saw this, walked around Song Qianhu and others, and stretched out his hand towards the car.

Jia Tanchun's starry eyes twinkled, and his face showed no signs of panic at the moment of life and death. Instead, it was as bright as his beautiful eyes.

She took hold of Jiao Shun's extended hand, but instead of jumping out of the car, she threw herself into Jiao Shun's arms like a swallow in the forest.

Jiao Shun put his arm around her waist and put her down gently. Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly heard a loud shout from in front of him: "I am the brother of the Supreme Emperor and the uncle of the late Emperor. Who dares to touch a single hair on his head?"

?!"

Not to mention this, there was a gunshot right after.

Jiao Shun frowned, not caring about Tanchun anymore, and immediately led the people around to the front of the car.

They saw King Zhongshun, who was as fat as a pig, using a musket as a club. He hit anyone he saw without hesitation, including the Dragon Guards who were originally guarding him. Several of them had their heads smashed and were bleeding.

The Dragon Imperial Guard stopped talking. The people on the picket team stopped moving forward when they heard him announce his identity. For a moment, they seemed loyal and scornful to the king.

Jiao Shun frowned slightly and waved behind him: "Chen Wansan!"

Chen Wansan, who had a dark face, immediately stepped out from the crowd, quickly walked around to King Zhongshun, and when he was swinging his gun in the air and unable to withstand the force, he suddenly restrained King Zhongshun's fat body, and used his strength to lift him directly.

Fall to the ground!

King Zhongshun was stunned at first, and then became furious. While struggling desperately, his mother-in-law cursed him, and at the same time he did not forget to bring out the Supreme Prince and the late Emperor in an attempt to intimidate Chen Wansan.

Jiao Shun originally just watched indifferently, but when he saw King Zhongshun struggling and his clothes were scattered, his eyes suddenly lit up, and then without thinking, he stepped forward and pressed his knee against the back of King Zhongshun's neck.

Then I heard King Zhongshun scold angrily: "You bastard, you dare to do this to me... cough cough cough, my king, I... cough cough cough... I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I... cough cough
Chapter completed!