"What do you mean?" Jin Yongkang was furious and shouted tremblingly, "You mean our Jin family treated you harshly?"
Jin Yongxiu glanced at him coldly, bowed his hands to the emperor, and walked up the tower.
Zhang Yuqing leaned into the embarrassed Jin Yongkang's ear and advised: "What are you doing? Your arms can't lift your thighs! If you say a few more words, what if he really hangs you from the tower? This is his territory, and he wants to
It’s not easy for you to die! Mr. Jin, you and I should keep our tails between our legs and be human beings!”
In the late autumn night, with the cold wind and rain, Jin Yongkang suddenly broke out in a cold sweat on his forehead.
The emperor must rely on Jin Yongxiu to defend the city and prefer Jin Yongxiu. Whatever Jin Yongxiu says will be done. If Jin Yongxiu wants to kill him, it will be easy.
This guy has a vicious mind and ruthless actions. What kind of immoral thing can he not do? Just robbing people of their food rations is enough to nail him to the pillar of shame in the history books.
In comparison, killing a brother is nothing!
"Your Majesty, let's go back!" Jin Yongkang said tremblingly.
After returning to the magistrate's office, Jin Yongkang and Zhang Yuqian slept in the same room. The two frightened young masters tossed and turned and sighed alternately.
In the middle of the night, enemy troops invaded several times outside the city. The shouts of killing and banging on the door would come every one or two hours, which was so thrilling that it was impossible to sleep peacefully.
Zhang Yuqian shivered and buried his head in the quilt, covering his ears, as if this would keep him away from the terrible battlefield.
I finally waited until the middle of the night, and after an hour or two it was dawn. Suddenly, there was a loud shaking of the ground, which made my scalp numb and my heart almost stopped beating.
There were panicked footsteps in the backyard of the Yamen, and someone shouted in horror: "No! The Jiangxia rebels have broken through the city gate!"
Jin Yongkang jumped up from the bed like a frightened bird. The tense string in his heart snapped. He lost all reason. When he got out of bed, his legs went limp and fell to the ground.
He stumbled to the place where the emperor was resting, and saw Zhang Yuqing running out.
Zhang Yuqing's face was full of panic and he shouted: "What's going on? Why did the city gate suddenly be breached! What should we do?"
"How do I know!" Jin Yongkang shouted, "Where is the Emperor? Your Majesty!"
The emperor also quickly dressed under the service of his chamberlain, and strode out of the room, his hands and feet trembling unconsciously.
Jin Yongkang shouted: "Your Majesty, we have to leave quickly! If we don't leave, it will be too late!"
"This is not good!" Zhang Yuqing objected, "General Jin is still outside killing the enemy. Maybe he can kill all the rebels who come in!"
There was hesitation on the part of the emperor. This time, his personal campaign was huge. Everyone knew that Emperor Taichang personally conducted the campaign. As a result, cities were lost one after another. He led his army back step by step. Is it possible that he has to run again now?
What a shame! How should the world comment on him?
Unless absolutely necessary, he would definitely not leave Nanyang and run away.
Jin Yongkang shouted with a distorted face: "What if he can't finish killing him? The emperor's safety is closely related, how can we let the emperor be put in danger!"
"Yes, yes!" Zhang Yuqian also panicked, "We can't put the emperor in danger!"
There was more and more chaos outside the magistrate's office. The commotion of hundreds of thousands of people was not a small movement. More and more people were screaming in horror, saying that the city gate was broken and they should run away quickly.
"Your Majesty, leave quickly! If you don't leave, it will be too late! There are hundreds of personal guards around you, enough to take us to a safe place!" Jin Yongkang shouted in fear. He was still young and he didn't want to risk his life.
Nanyang City died worthless, and the title of the Jin family was handed over to Jin Yongxiu.
Just when Emperor Taichang was in shock and confusion, the gate of the prefect's Yamen was violently hit several times.
Hundreds of guards ran out from the corner, drew their swords and stood in front of Emperor Taichang, staring ahead with tense expressions.
At this tense moment, someone actually shouted that the emperor must be here with a lot of gold, silver and jewelry.
Emperor Taichang's face turned pale and he immediately said: "Let's go!"
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers have no food to eat and no place to live. They are miserable in Nanyang City, suffering from the cold and rain. They also have to worry about the massacre of Jiangxia rebels. Their spirits are tense and their bodies are exhausted.
It's enough to make hundreds of thousands of angry and fearful soldiers mutiny, turning soldiers into robbers and bandits.
After all, Jin Yongxiu's soldiers have all done robbery before, and they are familiar with it. Not to mention robbing him of gold, silver and jewelry, even killing him as an emperor is a trivial matter.
Now that the emperor is in control of the world and holds supreme power, can he still tell who robbed him or even killed him in this dark night?
Can the prince kill hundreds of thousands of young soldiers to avenge him? I'm afraid in the end, for the sake of the stability of Daxia, he can only let it go and admit it with his nose pinched.
"But General Jin..." Zhang Yuqing spoke reluctantly.
After hearing the emperor's words, Jin Yongkang felt at ease and reprimanded: "If you are not afraid of death, just wait here!"
Wait until Lu Wei comes to collect the body for you! Jin Yongkang said in his heart.
"No, no, no!" Zhang Yuqing turned pale and waved her hands hurriedly, "I, I, I, my wife will naturally follow the emperor and Lord Jin!"
Now that it was decided to leave, everyone left immediately without further delay. Zhang Yuqing had to go back to pack her clothes and jewelry, but was scolded by Jin Yongkang.
However, when they opened the gate of the magistrate's office, everyone was dumbfounded. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers were running around like headless flies outside. There was a roar of wind, cranes, and soldiers everywhere, shouting that the Jiangxia rebels had come in, and they were killing people among the crowd.
If they went out like this, they would not be able to avoid being hit by the crowd and trampled into mud. Moreover, everyone would see the emperor fleeing from the battlefield, and they would not be able to stop hundreds of thousands of Youyous in anyway.
The prefect of Nanyang immediately took the emperor out of the back door and walked through the alley.
The alley was narrow and only three or four people could walk side by side. Jin Yongkang immediately asked the emperor to walk at the front. They protected the emperor, followed by hundreds of guards.
Until the emperor and his entourage walked through several alleys, the guards had not yet come out from the backyard of the prefect. In addition, from time to time there were soldiers running back and forth like headless flies, and in the dark, no one could see anyone clearly, and the guards were very nervous.
They were soon dispersed, separated from the emperor by a long distance.
After a while, there were less than a hundred guards left following the emperor, guarding him every step of the way.
Zhang Yuqing is also missing.
Jin Yongkang roughly counted the number of people and felt a little reassured. As long as they could escape from Nanyang City, these one hundred people were enough to protect him and the emperor.
As for Zhang Yuqing, I really can't help it. Jin Yongkang sneered in his heart. Women are inherently slow and delicate. They can't walk. There is nothing they can do if they get lost in the dark. Who told her that her life is bad? It's Lu Wei.
Nothing can be said here.
It's a good thing that they got lost. They were running for their lives. Wouldn't it be a problem if they took a woman with them!
Zhang Yuqian followed the emperor closely, his eyes widened and he did not dare to blink, for fear that if he relaxed for a moment, he would be separated from the emperor.
Zhang Yuqian simply couldn't imagine what he would experience if he got separated.
The emperor hurried from the alley to another city gate, from which he could go to Yizhou.
The soldiers guarding the door held the door open, urging the emperor not to leave, and not to abandon the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the city.
If the emperor was still a little hesitant about escaping from Nanyang before, but when he came out and saw the chaos, and then looked back at the Nanyang Magistrate's Yamen that had been set on fire by the rioting soldiers, he was really frightened. If he had
If you take one step too late, will you be trapped in the fire?
The soldiers who were blocking the emperor were beheaded by the emperor's order. He just opened the city gate, snatched dozens of horses and hurriedly left Nanyang.
Jin Yongxiu, who was fighting bravely at the city gate and almost drove out all the enemy troops who rushed into the city, heard the soldiers below coming to report that the emperor had killed the officers guarding the west gate and ran away with Jin Yongxiu and Zhang Yuqian.
Didn't fall off the horse.
Why is he fighting so hard to defend Nanyang?
The emperor actually ran away like that! He left hundreds of thousands of his soldiers behind and ran away with his guards!
The emperor's personal convoy is the general. The general is so greedy for life and afraid of death that he abandons the city and flees. Even if he is the reincarnation of the God of War, he cannot defeat the Jiangxia rebels!
"Sir, what should we do?" the deputy general asked in fear.
Jin Yongxiu gritted his teeth and said: "First guard the city gate, close it, and then rectify the soldiers. Nanyang can't be in chaos anymore!"
If the chaos continues and hundreds of thousands of soldiers attack the city gate, the last army of the imperial court will be destroyed. What else can be used to resist the rebellion of the feudal princes, and how can they suppress the Red Lotus Sect and Qingzhou thieves?
At this moment, someone came to report again, saying that someone set fire to the prefect's Yamen in the chaos. Now the fire was too big to put out the fire, and there was no manpower to put it out.
Jin Yongxiu suddenly turned his head to look in the direction of the prefect's Yamen. The blazing firelight shone in his eyes, making his pupils shrink.
In the thick black smoke, a firework soared into the sky, and a golden flower exploded in the dark night sky. It was probably the fireworks stored in the back house of the prefect's Yamen that were ignited by the flames.
"Block the news!" Jin Yongxiu made a decisive decision, "Just say that there was a fire in the magistrate's office, and the emperor temporarily moved to a house in the south of the city. No one should know about the emperor..."
Before he could finish speaking, someone among the confused soldiers was screaming, "The Emperor has escaped! The Emperor has abandoned us and fled!"
"Let's run too!"
"We are just human shields for the emperor, blocking the Jiangxia traitors!"
Jin Yongxiu was furious, pointed at the chaotic crowd and shouted: "Quickly lead people to arrest these people who are deceiving the public and disrupting the morale of the army! Behead them in public!"
The lieutenant hesitated for a moment, then turned his horse and ran over with the people.
How could this fool know who was shouting? What the Commander-in-Chief said was just a last resort. Something must be done to prevent the further spread of words that shake the morale of the military.
There was the sound of swords and halberds clashing in the darkness, and it was obvious that soldiers were directly killing him. Jin Yongxiu's mood became heavier and more frightening.
The emperor's escape was revealed, and the morale of the army was even more dispirited. In addition, supplies were delayed, and the soldiers were in such chaos that even if he could block the attack once or twice, he would be unable to recover.
The rebel soldiers who ran in at the city gate were killed and returned. The scarred and tattered city gate was slowly closed.
Just like the turbulent and embattled Daxia court, it was scarred and dilapidated. How many more years could it last?
