Li Yuanji's face darkened and he said, "Then I gave the order to give up resistance?"
Li Xiaogong gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "You are so cruel!"
Li Yuanji grinned and said, "That's right!"
To your mother!
Li Xiaogong cursed loudly in his heart.
Li Yuanji patted Li Xiaogong's shoulder again and said: "Cousin, if you help me, I'm helping you. My second brother is capable of attacking his own brothers, and my eldest brother is also planning to attack his own brothers. I have never thought about this.
thing.
So whether my eldest brother comes to power or my second brother comes to power, you will not have a good life.
So you can only help yourself to have a good life by helping me."
hehe!
Li Xiaogong sneered in his heart and cursed secretly, "You are not a good person either."
"Yuanji, please don't slander me. I never wanted to hurt any of you."
Li Jiancheng felt very uncomfortable when he heard Li Yuanji say bad things about him in front of him, so he defended himself without hesitation.
Li Yuanji paid no attention to Li Jiancheng, and neither did Li Xiaogong.
They all knew what Li Jiancheng had done and what he planned to do. How could they believe Li Jiancheng's lies?
To put it bluntly, if the current situations of Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin were reversed, Li Jiancheng might be even more cruel than Li Shimin.
"Cousin, please remember, after you capture Anlimen, you must defend Anlimen to the death and do not let my second brother and the others leave at any cost, otherwise there will be a great disaster in the Tang Dynasty."
Li Yuanji stared at Li Xiaogong with a serious reminder on his face.
This matter is the most important thing in this palace turmoil. No mistakes can be made, otherwise, everyone involved in this palace turmoil will become sinners through the ages.
Seeing Li Yuanji's unprecedented seriousness, Li Xiaogong hesitated for a moment and nodded.
"Okay, I have clearly explained what needs to be explained. You can quickly go to Ganlu Gate and wait for the soldiers and horses from Zuojianmen Mansion to gather."
When the soldiers from Shenlongmen and Anrenmen rushed to the front of Ganlu Hall, Li Yuanji signaled to Li Xiaogong that he could leave.
The total number of soldiers from Ganlu Gate, Shenlong Gate, and Anren Gate is 2,000, plus the 1,500 Changlin soldiers under Li Jiancheng, plus more than 500 troops led by brothers Xue Wanshu and Xue Wanche, there are almost 4,000 soldiers.
If there are many people using the Manlu Hall as a barrier, they should be able to resist Li Shimin for a while.
The remaining soldiers and horses no longer need to gather at Ganlu Hall, Li Xiaogong can take them to Anlimen.
Li Xiaogong glared at Li Yuanji fiercely and left in a hurry.
After Li Xiaogong left, Li Yuanji ordered all the soldiers and horses in front of the Man Dew Hall, "Everyone enter the Man Dew Hall and use the Man Dew Hall as a base to fight the rebels!"
Xue Wanshu and others, as well as the soldiers from Ganlu Gate, Shenlong Gate, and Anren Gate, rushed to Ganlu Palace without any hesitation.
Li Jiancheng still hesitated, and his people also stood still and did not move.
Li Yuanji glanced at Li Jiancheng coldly and said, "If you don't want to die, give me your people."
Li Jiancheng gritted his teeth and said, "Why should I trust you? What if you deceive me into the Manna Hall and do something wrong?"
Li Yuanji sneered, "It's up to you!"
After saying this, he entered the Manna Hall carrying a big sword.
Li Jiancheng stood there, his expression changing rapidly, struggling and hesitating in his heart.
Zhao Chengyong hesitated and said, "Your Highness, His Highness King Qin is about to bring people to kill him. Now is not the time to hesitate."
Li Jiancheng glared at Zhao Chengyong and said, "There is a wolf in front and a tiger behind. What do you want me to do?"
Zhao Chengyong gritted his teeth and said, "Why don't you just listen to His Highness King Qi..."
Li Jiancheng looked at Zhao Chengyong with a look that looked at a traitor.
Zhao Chengyong raised his fists and said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, the only one who can save you right now is His Highness King Qi. Although His Highness King Qi had previously
The defenders of Yiqiumen turned against you and almost caused you great harm. However, His Highness King Qi never meant to harm you from the beginning to the end. On the contrary, he saved you at least twice.
Therefore, I feel that His Highness Prince Qi will not harm you."
Li Jiancheng thought suspiciously about everything that happened after meeting Li Yuanji and Li Yuanji's people.
But before he could think through some of the details he needed, Li Shimin's men arrived.
A crossbow with strong wind grazed his shoulder and was nailed to his back, scraping off a large piece of flesh from his shoulder.
He felt the burning pain on his shoulder, and also felt a chill rushing from his tail bone to Tianling Gai.
He said to Zhao Chengyong without any hesitation: "I will trust you just once. If you harm me, I will support you even if I die."
After saying this, without waiting for Zhao Chengyong to react, he hurriedly led the people to the Ganlu Hall.
Zhao Chengyong looked at Li Jiancheng's slightly embarrassed figure, smiled bitterly, and called on his brothers to follow him.
When the group entered the Manna Hall, Li Yuanji had already ordered Xue Wanshu and Xue Wanche to arrange the defenses in the Manna Hall.
Using the Manlu Palace as a barrier to resist Li Shimin's attack is actually far less advantageous than using a hilltop or a canyon as a barrier.
But there are no hills or valleys in the palace that can serve as barriers, so we can only settle for the next best thing.
Besides, behind Ganlu Palace is Ganlu Gate, which is where the main palace complex of Taiji Palace is located.
If you can't defend Ganlu Hall, you can retreat to Ganlu Gate, Liangyi Gate, Zhuming Gate, and Taiji Gate.
The consumption of one portal after another will definitely consume the physical strength of the soldiers of Youtun Guard, and they will be able to hold on until Li Yuan leads the army.
This is why Li Yuanji chose to fight Li Shimin in Ganlu Hall.
This time he entered the palace to participate in Li Shimin's coup, not to kill the enemy, nor to become an oriole, so there was no need to decide the outcome with Li Shimin, let alone fight to the end with Li Shimin.
He just wanted to dethrone Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, make them scapegoats, and then force them to accept his proposal.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! As long as Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin become scapegoats, they are not qualified to make conditions with Li Yuan, and they have only one choice left.
Two roads.
One is to agree to his proposal; the other is to be dismissed from office by Li Yuan, stripped of his power and demoted to a commoner.
After all, one of them is killing his brother, and the other is preparing to kill his brother. No matter how optimistic and favored they are, Li Yuan cannot let them continue to stay in the position of prince and king of Qin.
Li Yuan cared about the Li family's fortune and the orderly succession of the Tang Dynasty throne, but he also cared about the lives of his sons.
If his sons kill me and I kill you endlessly, and if the direct line is extinct, then what's the point of caring about the Li family's family business and the orderly inheritance of the Tang Dynasty throne?
"Zhao Chengyong, lead a thousand men to guard the gate of Ganlu Hall, and leave the remaining 500 men to Xue Wanche's command!"
After Li Jiancheng and Zhao Chengyong brought people into the palace, Li Yuanji handed over the most difficult task to Zhao Chengyong without hesitation.
Zhao Chengyong smiled bitterly and said nothing.
Li Jiancheng said dissatisfied: "Why should my people hold the door? Why not let your people go?"
Holding the door means facing a frontal attack from Li Shimin and his group, which will be very stressful and cause heavy casualties.
Li Jiancheng only had so few people, and he had already lost half of them at Anlimen and Hongwen Hall. If the losses continued, he would become a mere commander, and of course he didn't want to.
Li Yuanji showed the sword in his hand without hesitation, stared at Li Jiancheng coldly and said: "Do you listen to me or do you listen to you?"
Li Jiancheng opened his mouth unwillingly, but finally succumbed to Li Yuanji's threat.
He had no choice but to give in. Li Yuanji showed the sword to scare him. Li Yuanji really dared to take action.
"Remember, when you can't stand it, you must
Tell me, never show off."
Seeing that Li Jiancheng had given in, Li Yuanji ignored Li Jiancheng and looked at Zhao Chengyong for instructions.
Zhao Chengyong cupped his fists and saluted: "I know the importance!"
"Swish swish swish!"
"kill!"
"..."
When Zhao Chengyong and his men formed a battle formation at the entrance of the Manna Hall, Li Shimin had already reached the front of the Manna Hall.
The front army, with Cheng Yaojin and Yu Wenshi as the vanguard generals, rushed to the front of Ganlu Hall, first a hail of arrows came, and then led the soldiers and horses up the stone steps without any hesitation.
"Array up!"
Zhao Chengyong shouted solemnly after Cheng Yaojin took the lead and rushed up the stone steps.
The Changlin soldiers beside him quickly formed a battle formation and blocked the gate of Ganlu Hall tightly.
In fact, they are not good at fighting on foot, let alone fighting people in this way.
But Li Jiancheng insisted on using them as foot soldiers, so they had no choice but to bite the bullet.
Fortunately, they have been in the army for a long time and have long developed extremely high combat qualities. Some of them have also served as infantry before, so they have the ideas to deal with any battlefield and the determination to fight to the death.
Therefore, even if they faced a force several times their own, they did not have the slightest fear.
Li Yuanji glanced outside through the hole shot by the crossbow gun. After instructing Xue Wanshu and others to see the opportunity to fire arrows, he picked up a crossbow gun, pointed it at the window covered with silk cloth of Ganlu Hall and threw it out.
The crossbow gun blasted a hole in the window of Ganlu Hall, and it was in front of Li Shimin and others in a flash.
By the time Li Shimin and others reacted, the crossbow had already pierced Zhang Gongjin's chest, stabbing Zhang Gongjin through the eyes.
Fang Xuanling and others suppressed the shock in their hearts and quickly gathered in front of Li Shimin. They stared at the window of Ganlu Hall, guarding against the next crossbow.
"One shot penetrates the armor, but the remaining power is still there. Only Yuanji has such ability!"
Li Shimin watched helplessly as Zhang Gongjin fell straight off his horse and said with a heavy expression.
Although chariot crossbows can also achieve this effect, Li Yuanji and his party did not have chariot crossbows, so it must have been Li Yuanji who pierced Zhang Gongjin's family armor and Zhang Gongjin's body with one shot.
"This is an order to everyone, beware of hidden guns!"