On the day when the Northern Capital City was defeated, Xu Yue led his troops into the city and saw at a glance the young woman wearing silver light armor with a sword in her hand on the empty, messy and dirty streets.
Xu Yue raised her hand to stop the army behind her that was about to charge in. She was afraid of being deceived. She looked at the determined female general in front of her and asked cautiously:
"who are you?"
The woman replied: "Gongsun Baoyue!"
"Are you the Queen of the North?" Xu Yue raised her eyebrows. Zhao Yuanji ran away as fast as he could. How could he leave the queen behind?
Gongsun Baoyue seemed to be unhappy with the title "Bei Hou". Gongsun Baoyue frowned and reiterated:
"I am the eldest lady of the Gongsun family, Gongsun Baoyue!"
Xu Yue asked in surprise: "Has Zhao Yuanji reconciled with you?"
If this is the case, it is not difficult to explain why Gongsun Baoyue is the only one left in this capital.
Gongsun Baoyue clenched her sword tightly and did not answer Xu Yue's question, because in her heart, she had already divorced Zhao Yuanji!
The delicate black eyebrows raised, and she scanned Xu Yue from top to bottom, "Are you Xu Yue?"
Xu Yue nodded.
"I kill you!!!"
Gongsun Baoyue rushed over without warning, and the thin sword in his hand flashed a silvery cold light in the air, showing his murderous intent.
As the cold air approached, Xu Yue's eyelids didn't even droop, and she watched coldly as Gongsun Baoyue rushed over, and was quickly slapped on the cold stone floor by Xu Dalang who fell from the sky!
Those scenes of being moved by the opponent's integrity, retreating from the left and right, going into battle in person, and then being accidentally killed by the enemy, cannot happen to the Xu family.
"Tie them up!" Xu Yue ordered in a deep voice. She only glanced at Gongsun Baoyue's incredibly angry face, then withdrew her gaze and led the army into Beigong.
Not surprisingly, Zhao Yuanji was no longer in this new palace.
Long before entering the city, Xu Yue learned from Wang Pingping in the sky that Zhao Yuanji and others were fleeing in panic. She had already sent people to chase them. As for whether they could catch them, it depended on whether Zhao Yuanji could continue to behave well.
transport.
Xu Jiajun rushed into the palace gate, and the palace maids and eunuchs who had no time to escape were so frightened that they turned around and ran away.
The officials surrounded Beidi and left in a hurry. Where could they find any support for the emperor? They only managed to take away two eunuchs who were close to him.
The remaining palace residents were either scattered around the North Palace to hide, or they took advantage of the chaos to hide in dog holes in residential areas.
However, what everyone in the palace did not expect was that Xu Jiajun, who rushed into the palace, actually took out a loudspeaker and stood in the main hall of the North Palace and shouted loudly:
"All the palace maids and eunuchs must gather in the main hall. If the leader shows mercy, all the palace maids and eunuchs should be released from the city. From now on, there will no longer be eunuchs in this world who are such unnatural products!"
The loudspeaker was so powerful that Xu Jiajun's voice spread throughout the Beigong.
The eunuchs and maids who were busy running for their lives were all stunned, unable to tell whether this was true or just a trick to coax them out.
There is the story of General He in the old capital of Luoyang who killed ten regular servants without leaving a single eunuch behind. The first reaction of the eunuchs in the Beigong when they learned that the Xu family army had entered the city was - these rebels hated the eunuchs!
However, the loudspeaker was broadcasting the news over and over again that Xu Jiajun would not kill the palace maids and eunuchs. The eunuchs hidden behind the palace gate looked at each other with hesitation.
"Shua!" sounded, and a group of Xu Jiajun appeared in front of the eunuchs at some unknown time.
Xu Jiajun looked at the eunuchs' clothes up and down, as if to confirm their identities, and then yelled impatiently:
"Can't you hear what's being shouted above? Come and gather in the main hall!"
The eunuchs tensed up and were almost frightened by the roar, and they knelt down to beg the hero for his life.
However, as soon as the knees were bent and before they could kneel down, they heard these words shouted by Xu Jiajun, and the eunuchs were shocked.
Did Xu Jiajun really not kill the eunuch?
The Xu Jiajun soldiers who had shouted impatiently before seemed to feel that their attitude was not good, so they quickly slowed down their tone and reminded them again:
"Hurry and gather in the main hall. The leader knows that you are not willing to become eunuchs. Beidi lost such a large capital and fled alone. Sooner or later he will be punished!"
After saying this, the Xu Jiajun soldier gave them what he thought was a kind smile, then turned around and led other soldiers, and continued to dig out the hidden palace maids and eunuchs in every nook and corner.
Not long after, the eunuch chief was brought to the main hall by Xu Jiajun soldiers.
Xu Yue asked: "How many maids and eunuchs are left in the palace? Is there a roster?"
The chief eunuch knew that the woman in front of him should be the female bandit in the Xu family army... Oh no, she was the female leader!
Knowing that the woman in front of him was the leader of the Xu family army, the chief eunuch raised his hand high and bowed deeply:
"My servant pays homage to the leader!"
"We Xu Jiajun don't do this kind of courtesy."
Xu Yue said a word, and the soldier next to him immediately pulled the eunuch chief up and gave him a warning look.
The head eunuch's face turned pale, and he raised his hand to slap himself in the mouth.
The soldier was a young and strong boy from a farm. He had never been to the palace and did not know that there were special existences like eunuchs in the palace.
Seeing this beardless young eunuch about to slap himself for giving a warning, he was deeply shocked, so he stopped him and reminded him in a low voice:
"If the leader asks you, just say it."
Seeing the chief eunuch stunned and looking at him at a loss, the soldier urged: "Say it!"
The chief eunuch tilted his head slightly, as if asking the soldier: Just say it directly?
The soldier was speechless and nodded fiercely, yes!
Xu Yue was already impatient with waiting, her black eyes were extremely oppressive. The head eunuch swallowed hard and then said carefully:
"Reporting to the leader, there are 365 maids and eunuchs in the North Palace, including 160 eunuchs and 205 maids. Your Majesty... No, yes, yes, yes...
..."
He accidentally said the wrong thing, and the eunuch in charge was so panicked that he stuttered.
Xu Yue took a deep breath and lost her temper for the chief eunuch, but she was no longer in such a hurry. She sat down on the corner of the luxurious dragon chair where Zhao Yuanji had sat, and waited for the chief eunuch to calm down, thinking
:Look, what a gentle and kind leader I am.
The head eunuch was so anxious that he almost cried. He took a breath and hurriedly poured out all the rest of his words.
"In addition to the two close eunuchs and four palace maids that the Northern Emperor took away, there are still a total of 361 palace servants left in the Northern Capital!"
"Three hundred and sixty-one..." Xu Yue tapped her fingers on the hard dragon chair under her buttocks and sneered: "One person needs more than three hundred people to serve him. No wonder everyone wants to be the emperor."
The soldiers also sighed with emotion: "There are actually more than 360 people in the palace. How can we live in this small Beigong?"
The newly built imperial palace is not as luxurious as the two old capitals of Luoyang and Chang'an. The Beigong covers an area of 0.2 square kilometers, and the Forbidden City known to later generations is more than twice the size.