Chapter seven hundred and ninety-ninth reluctant to die
The emperor held a long sword in his hand and rushed out of the courtyard protected by several personal guards, Feng Shun and others.
Seeing Feng Shun holding a sword in front of him, the emperor was stunned for a moment. He did not expect that Feng Shun had such skills.
But can they really escape?
After leaving this courtyard, he had to leave Fengyang City. Even if he could escape, where would he go? The emperor was at a loss.
"Your Majesty, hurry!" Feng Shun urged, "The back door is open, let's leave from there."
The emperor did not come back to his senses for a moment. He always felt that what happened tonight was too unexpected. Not only was Prince Ning rebellious, but the people around him seemed to be different.
"Your Majesty, we can't delay." Feng Shun urged again.
The emperor raised his feet and walked forward.
As expected, the back door of the yard had been opened, and several people who came from nowhere stopped the guards at the back door.
"Sir," one of the people stepped forward to talk to Feng Shun, "Fengyang Mansion is heavily guarded. Our people have already gone to the north gate. We will try our best to open the city gate. There will naturally be people to support you as you go north."
Feng Shun nodded.
The emperor looked at the man who was talking to Feng Shun. This man was wearing short brown clothes. He was not one of his own soldiers, nor did he appear to be an informant of the imperial court.
"Who is that person?" The emperor asked immediately after Feng Shun came back.
Feng Shun's eyes flashed: "Master Yu Jiang specially left manpower outside to provide support to avoid any mistakes."
The emperor nodded. Yu Jiang was always cautious, but why didn't Yu Jiang mention it to him when he left just now?
"Your Majesty," Feng Shun saw the emperor's doubts, "there are many things you don't know. I will explain it to you in detail when I leave the city. Prince Ning's rebellion has been exposed by us. I am afraid that he will attack the emperor because of this. The emperor is in Feng Shun."
The news about Yangcheng hasn't spread yet, if something goes wrong... Prince Ning pretends to know nothing, and no one can do anything to him."
The emperor nodded. Prince Ning would blame the Zhang family, and then he would have an excuse to go to the capital to capture Zhang Yuchi. Even if he died, he could not be a stepping stone for Prince Ning.
"Let's go." The emperor took out the sword from his waist and went to the north gate with Yu Jiang, leaving Fengyang City. Let everyone in the world know his whereabouts, so King Ning would not dare to risk the disapproval of the world to attack him and kill the king.
His crime can never be cleared.
Feng Shun helped the emperor mount his horse and fled to the north of the city.
The sound of fighting was heard not far from the city gate. There were already men and horses facing the city gate defenders. The emperor looked at the life-and-death fight scene from a distance and suddenly stopped his horse.
He seemed to hear the sound of pursuit coming from behind him getting closer and closer.
Since Prince Ning has captured Yu Jiang, he will definitely come to deal with him. His hasty escape is just a last ditch effort. How can he escape with just these people in his hands?
Unable to escape, the emperor felt sad for the first time. He was the Emperor of Zhou sitting on the dragon throne. He could decide anyone's life or death with just one word, but now he was running around.
The people around him rebelled one by one, and abandoned him and the court one by one.
There is no royal land in the world, but he, the emperor, can't find a place to stand. Where can he go if he leaves Fengyang? The place he has worked so hard to reach may just be the next Fengyang.
Perhaps sensing the emperor's retreat, Feng Shun turned his head and said, "Your Majesty, leave quickly." He had already overwhelmed everyone, and he ordered his confidants to summon the men hiding in secret. This was his last chance.
Feng Shun almost turned red.
"I'm going to ask Prince Ning," the emperor said, "ask him what exactly he wants to do. If he also wants the throne, how can he deal with the Zhang family? Prince Ning doesn't dare to kill me. If I die, the Zhang family will hold it in their hands."
The prince has really become the new emperor, and everyone must surrender to the new emperor. Prince Ning is not that stupid, he will not kill me.
I am safe and sound, and can adopt Prince Ning’s heirs, so that Prince Ning’s lineage can inherit the throne.”
The emperor seemed to have thought of a good idea, his eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had found a way out for himself, solved the current predicament, and would have the opportunity to figure it out in the future.
"Your Majesty," Feng Shun gritted his teeth and said, "haven't you seen it yet? Prince Ning is not the one making the decision here. How could Prince Ning have such ability to train such soldiers and horses?
This place is so close to the southeast, yet so stable. As soon as we arrived at Fengyang City, there were carriages and horses transporting grain and grass leaving the city and heading north..."
When the emperor listened to Feng Shun's words, his expression became even more ugly: "It's Song Chengxuan. Prince Ning and Song Chengxuan have colluded for a long time. He came to Fengyang just to help Song Chengxuan.
It turns out that they have long been conspiring to plot my fortune, but I have been kept in the dark."
Feng Shundao: "The late emperor dealt with King Wei, and Song Chengxuan will definitely avenge King Wei. Your Majesty, you cannot stay here."
"Southeast, Fengyang, Shandong, Nuergan," the emperor's eyes were a little distracted, "they are all in his hands, where else is there?
The Queen Mother said that I still have a chance within five years, but in less than five years, am I going to lose like this?"
"emperor."
Feng Shun shouted again, but the emperor still talked to himself.
"Back then, we should have eradicated the problem and killed all those who had anything to do with King Wei. One wrong step and the next, the late emperor left such a disaster for me.
If I had known this, the first time I saw Song Chengxuan, I should have asked my personal guards to kill him.
It's late, it's late.
The most ridiculous thing is that I came here by myself, and before he could take action, I threw myself into the trap."
After the emperor said this, he laughed strangely. After laughing for a long time, he said loudly: "Where is Song Chengxuan? I asked him to come to see me, but now he is still hiding behind him."
The emperor suddenly changed direction and walked towards the city.
"emperor."
The emperor felt a pain in his arm and stopped involuntarily. Then he saw Feng Shun's twisted expression.
"The emperor must leave with his servants."
Feng Shun's voice was a bit sinister.
"Presumptuous," Feng Shun's attitude made the emperor angry, "What are you going to do? Are you planning to rebel?"
As soon as the emperor finished speaking, he suddenly felt a coldness in his throat, and a sharp blade was placed across his neck. The emperor shuddered, and it took him a while to recover.
The emperor panicked and said: "What are you going to do?"
As the blade moved, the emperor felt his skin being cut open, and hot blood immediately flowed from the wound. All the strength in the emperor's body seemed to be drained away in an instant. His eyes widened in disbelief, and his expression froze on his face.
"You want to fall into Song Chengxuan's hands, but I don't want to," Feng Shun said. "If you can't leave Fengyang, you have no chance of surviving."
Feng Shun's voice was cold, mixed with a bit of disgust: "When the former emperor was hunting down the remnants of the previous dynasty, he regarded us as wastes lingering on. He must have never thought that his son would be worse than wastes. When things come to an end, he will be greedy and fearful.
To die, I don’t even have the courage to fight for the last time.
Could it be that this is retribution due to the laws of heaven?"
After saying this, Feng Shun pulled the emperor towards the city gate: "If I hadn't wanted to watch the chaos in the Zhou Dynasty continue, I would have killed you long ago. When King Jian wooed me, he thought I was loyal to you.
He refused to cater to him. He was wrong... I want to watch the Great Zhou Dynasty decline. With a ruthless and suspicious person like you sitting on the throne, my expectations will be realized soon.
After King Jian died, the Zhang family also bribed me and asked me to act according to the situation and attack you. I still couldn't bear it. The chaos will be even worse if you are alive.
So...if you want to survive, come with me, I may be the only one who wants you to live."