Volume 1: Lin'an Unrest Chapter 13: The whole world attacks Liu Chan
Wan Yanxue is a very cold-blooded person, so she never hesitates when faced with choices.
But she hesitated today, because the choice she faced would determine the future fate of the entire Song Dynasty.
"Yes, I like the prince. If you hadn't forced me to do so, how could I have committed myself to you?"
The choice is quicker than imagined and more decisive than before.
"Father, what else do you have to say now?"
Zhao Yuan's voice was cold. Even though the fire in Zichen Palace was still burning, it still gave people a cold feeling.
Liu Chan glanced at Wan Yanxue, and then looked at Zhao Yuan calmly. At this moment, he finally understood that he had fallen into a trap.
I don't know who set up a huge chess game between him and Zhao Yuan.
Taking advantage of Liu Chan's recent great success, he cleverly implemented a honey trap to alienate the relationship between him and Zhao Yuan.
This chess game is not difficult to figure out, but it is just a puzzle for those in charge.
The fire was still burning, and the officials fled in panic, not even noticing Liu Chan and his party in front of the apse gate.
At this time, Yue Fei and Yue Yun were driven to the north and west by Liu Chan. If they were here, this kind of thing would not have happened.
Liu Chan looked at the masked man in black next to Zhao Yuan and laughed mockingly.
"Why are you smiling?" Zhao Yuan had seen Liu Chan's smile before. It was a smile that looked down on others, a smile that looked down on someone.
In this situation, why do you look down on me?
"I'm laughing at your incompetence. Since you are going to kill your father and emperor, you haven't even prepared a crossbow. Do you think you can succeed with the swords in the hands of dozens of people like you?"
"Why don't you give it a try?"
"You are still too naive." Liu Chan snorted coldly, looked at the masked man in black surrounding him, and asked sternly: "I am the emperor of the Song Dynasty. I drove away the Tatars, restored the Central Plains, personally conquered the Jin Kingdom, and pacified Xixia.
Attack Dali in the south. After more than ten years, we rebuilt China and completed what our ancestors had not been able to accomplish for hundreds of years. As Song people, you dare to besiege your majesty. Are you looking for death?"
Prestige and majesty are things that Zhao Yuan has not yet understood.
Just like when the prince rebelled in the last years of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was it because the prince's ability was not enough? Was it because the prince's power was too weak?
neither!
In the final analysis, the prince's prestige was not as good as that of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty!
The people in black looked at each other, their originally firm thoughts were dispelled by Liu Chan's questioning.
Even Zhao Yuan's personal bodyguard Yang He hesitated at that moment, but then his eyes became firm.
"I remember that you are young. If you regret it now, I will not hold you accountable for your fault, and I can even help you hide it." Liu Chan then looked at the group of men in black and continued: "As for you, put down your sword, I
You can also be exempted from punishment, but you need to inspect Lin'an City for a month. I swear here on the reputation of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, and this statement is absolutely true."
Yang He's firm eyes became hesitant again, and everyone looked at Zhao Yuan.
Zhao Yuan pointed at Wan Yanxue angrily and said, "What about her? Why don't you give me an explanation?"
The fire was burning more and more fiercely, and some people began to notice that Liu Chan was missing.
"Explanation? The explanation is that this woman has evil intentions and was used by others to drive a wedge between you and my father and son."
Liu Chan is the most familiar with the honey trap thing.
Isn't this what Wang Yun did, using Diao Chan to drive a wedge between Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu's father and son?
Speaking of which, Dong Zhuo and Lü Bu had an adoptive father-son relationship, and Liu Chan and Zhao Yuan also had an adoptive father-son relationship.
What kind of strange trap have we fallen into?
Zhao Yuan didn't believe it, or maybe he didn't want to believe it at all. For a boy who hadn't been interested in a girl for more than ten years, the first time he fell in love with a girl, he would always beautify the other person in his heart.
So Zhao Yuan didn't want to believe what Liu Chan said at all.
"Hey, go ahead. I can promise not to chase you."
"Oh, don't forget that your life is still in my hands. Are you stalling for time? There is no chance. Give it to me."
Zhao Yuan finally reached this point, although his eyes were a little tangled. But once something starts, there is no way out.
Apart from Liu Chan, the only person in Liu Chan's group who could fight was Li Hui. As for Qin Hui, who was following him, he couldn't even compare to a woman.
But there were actually sixteen people on the opposite side. Sixteen people sneaked into the palace without being discovered. Should it be said that Zhao Yuan had prepared for this day for too long?
"Are there any flares left?" Liu Chan turned to look at Li Hui, and saw Li Hui shaking his head. If there were any, he would have let them go.
Liu Chan sighed, he and Li Hui only have one sword!
Fighting, fighting, silent roars, and angry flames were staged behind the Zichen Hall.
Ten men in black were killed, Li Hui was seriously injured and almost lost his life, and Liu Chan was also seriously injured.
Finally, someone discovered this place and shouted quickly. Seeing that things were not going well, Zhao Yuan hurriedly led the people out.
Liu Chan endured the pain and came to Li Hui's side to check his injuries.
But there were fatal injuries everywhere, and it was obvious that there was no way to save it.
"Your Majesty, I didn't expect that I could die lying in His Majesty's arms. This life was not in vain."
Liu Chan held back his tears and said, "What are you talking about? I want you to continue to lead the Shadow Guard. The Shadow Guard commander cannot do without you. Without you, I don't believe anyone."
"Then I may have failed Your Majesty."
Li Hui's face turned pale and he smiled lightly. In his opinion, dying like this was not impossible.
"Stop talking, I have already sent someone to find the imperial doctor and will be here soon."
"Your Majesty, I have a few words to say to Your Majesty before I die."
"Tell me when you feel better."
"Your Majesty, I believe that under your leadership, our dynasty will definitely become stronger and stronger. It's just that your habit of overjoying success needs to be corrected. This must not happen again."
"Okay, I promise you, I will never have a grand success again in the future."
"There is also the prince. I hope you can forgive his sins. I am begging you as if it is for the sake of Prime Minister Zhao."
Liu Chan's face froze. Now that things had happened, he wanted to kill Zhao Yuan. How could he let him go?
"The prince is still too young and will inevitably be addicted to love, so he did such a ridiculous thing. Fortunately, he did not cause any big trouble, so I hope that your majesty can forgive him."
"But you?"
"My life is worthless and not worthy of your Majesty. Besides, before Prime Minister Zhao committed suicide, he asked me to take good care of His Highness the Crown Prince. It's a pity that I never thought that things would turn out like this. Please agree to your Majesty's request. This will be a good thing for me."
Yan went underground to meet Prime Minister Zhao."
"Okay, I promise you."
Liu Chan said seriously.
"Then I would like to thank Your Majesty."
When Li Hui heard these words, he immediately felt relaxed, his eyes gradually dimmed, and finally he said: "It's such a pity that I haven't finished reading this wonderful country."
Then, Li Hui died.
Liu Chan put Li Hui on the ground and looked in the direction of Wan Yanxue. Unfortunately, when the prince escaped, Wan Yanxue had already escaped with him.
Liu Chan looked at the empty space where Wan Yanxue had stood, silent, endless silence.
The imperial doctor hurried over but did not dare to come forward when he saw this scene.
Liu Chan waved his hand and asked the imperial physician to treat his injury, and then the imperial physician stepped forward to bandage it.
Liu Chan understood that if Wan Yanxue could do this, there must be someone in the court to help him. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Shadow Guards to not find out any clues.
Liu Chan asked the shadow guard to investigate Wan Yanxue many times, but every time it was clean. Except that Wan Yanxue concealed that she was a Jin man, everything else was no different from what she said.
There are very few people in the world who can hide the truth from Shadow Guard.
And the most likely one is staying by his side now.
This is really interesting.
However, what Liu Chan didn't expect was that Zhao Yuan's assassination was nothing compared to what happened next.
In January of the twelfth year of Shaoxing, Zhao Heng appeared again in the north, calling on the people of the world to raise troops to help him regain the throne and expel Liu Chan.
I thought it was just an ordinary thing, because Zhao Heng has been appearing in the Northland recently.
But what no one expected was that the remnants of the Jin Kingdom actually responded to Zhao Heng's call and sent 20,000 imperial guards to help.
What happened next shocked everyone even more.
On the grounds that Liu Chan had stolen Zhao Heng's throne, Mongolia sent 30,000 troops to help Zhao Heng seize the throne.
Western Liao sent 50,000 troops to respond to Zhao Heng.
The remnant forces of Xixia were not willing to be left alone. They raised 10,000 troops to support Zhao Heng's return to the throne.
Tubo sent 70,000 troops and Dali sent 5,000 troops.
Coupled with various small forces, the total number of troops is as high as more than 200,000.
So Zhao Heng announced to the world that he would lead an alliance of more than 500,000 soldiers from various countries to go south to attack the Song Dynasty.
This time it is not a one-way attack, nor a four-way attack, but a four-way defense!
If we fight, even if Zhao Heng is dethroned as emperor by Liu Chan, he is still the late emperor. Ordinary people are fine, but if they, civil servants and generals, hurt the late emperor, it will be bad.
And everyone thinks that Zhao Heng really has a chance to regain the throne this time. Wouldn't it be wonderful if he could do the Conglong Gong?
What contribution can be compared to Conglong, so some people in the Song Dynasty secretly contacted Zhao Heng.
At this time, it can be said that the whole world is attacking Liu Chan!
Liu Chan had been the emperor of Shu all his life. He had never seen such a scene before, and he was a little scared. A fight was definitely going to happen. If the so-called alliance of countries really broke through and went south, then the Song Dynasty would have to repeat the Jin Dynasty.
The end of the dynasty.
Liu Chan does not allow it and will not accept this situation.
In his opinion, it does not matter whether the world is controlled by his old Liu family, but the world must be the world of the Han people!
So, he looked at the cards in his hand.
Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Yue Yun, Liu Qi, Liu Guangshi, Wu Jie, Wu Lin!
There seems to be no shortage of generals, how can we lose?
Especially when the food and grass were still available, Liu Chan didn't think he would lose even if the whole world launched a crusade against him.
This card is so good, I really don’t know it until I see it, and I’m shocked when I see it.
It turns out that all I have in my hand are kings and four twos!