King Zhongshun was also a little disappointed when he saw Prince Yixiao shaking his head, but he thought it was the same reason. Although Prince Yixiao was close to the emperor and the emperor, such secrets would probably only be in the hands of the emperor and the emperor from ancient times to the present.
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But now that we were at the end of our rope, we still had to fight for it, so King Zhongshun turned around and went straight to the small building where the emperor was imprisoned.
When King Zhongshun came up, Emperor Lou was still reading leisurely there. When he saw King Zhongshun leaving and coming back, his eyes showed a trace of surprise, and then he immediately calmed down.
King Zhongshun came to the emperor and cupped his hands and said: "Brother, the emperor is at the end of his rope. Please stop being prejudiced. I heard that the emperor left a secret passage when he died. Please tell me."
We can go south through this secret passage and regain our strength."
After hearing this, the emperor smiled and shook his head. He knew about this secret passage. The Emperor did explain it before his death, but it was the Empress Dowager who controlled this secret passage.
The relationship between the emperor and the empress dowager was at odds, and the emperor could not force the empress dowager to take any action under Jia Ke's coercion.
When King Zhongshun saw that the emperor was still shaking his head and getting angry, he directly pulled out his sword, pointed at the emperor's throat and said: "Tell me the location of the secret passage, otherwise don't blame me for being rude."
The emperor felt guilty when he saw the sword at his throat. He had already seen that King Zhongshun was a little crazy now, so he could only say: "Father did leave a secret passage before his death, but the secret passage is in the hands of the Empress Dowager.
I, the emperor, really don’t know."
After King Zhongshun heard this, he ignored the emperor and turned around, leaving the small building and going straight to the front hall.
Prince Yixiao was sitting there frowning and looking outside, waiting for King Chungshun to come back and deliver the news.
As soon as King Zhongshun entered the hall, Prince Yixiao hurriedly came up and said, "How is it? Is there any news?"
"The Emperor said that only the Empress Dowager knows where the entrance to the secret passage is. Let's enter the palace now and ask the Empress Dowager to tell us the location."
The two of them looked at each other in the hall, and then their eyes became determined. For the sake of their wealth and life, they could no longer care about etiquette.
So these people led the troops straight to the palace again. When they entered the palace and arrived at Ningshou Palace, they found that the Queen Mother was not here.
King Zhongshun caught a young eunuch at random, and after asking, he found out that the Queen Mother had left Fengzao Palace.
So the group hurried to Fengzao Palace again.
When I arrived at Fengzao Palace, I saw that the place was already deserted.
King Zhongshun still refused to give up and ordered his guards to search inside and outside Fengzao Palace, but the Queen Mother, Jia Yuanchun and the child were nowhere to be found.
Prince Yixiao frowned and said to King Zhongshun with a stern face: "I'm afraid these people have left."
King Zhongshun still refused to give up and directly ordered his guards to say: "Immediately gather people to search the palace for me. I don't believe that this secret passage can be hidden in the sky."
So thousands of people crowded into the palace and began to search around the palace. As a result, they searched for a day and a night, but they found nothing.
King Zhongshun arrested the eunuchs and nuns in Ningshou Palace and tortured them, but he did not get any useful information from these people.
By now King Zhongshun had given up.
Prince Zhongshun and Prince Yixiao returned to Prince Zhongshun's Mansion. The two of them sat in the hall in silence, thinking about their results, and couldn't help but feel chilled.
Finally, Prince Yixiao spoke, "My dear nephew, even if you haven't found the tunnel, you still have to find a way to leave a root for our royal family."
After hearing this, King Zhongshun glanced at Prince Yixiao with a gloomy look. He did not say anything, but lowered his head and pondered.
Now it is impossible to leave the capital. If you want to keep your bloodline, you can only hide the child among the people.
"Uncle Emperor, we are now at the end of our rope. It is impossible to leave the city. We can only hide one or two young children among the people."
After hearing this, Prince Yixiao nodded, and then said: "You are right. The capital is so big, with a population of one million. If we hide a few children, Jia Ke will be looking for a needle in a haystack if he wants to find them."
However, Prince Zhongshun was not as optimistic as Prince Yixiao, "Uncle, Jia Ke has secret guards that our court has established for hundreds of years. It can be said that they are pervasive. If those children who are already governors are sent to the people, I am afraid that they will soon be
will be exposed.”
Prince Yoshitaka was immediately shocked when he heard this, and then he understood what Prince Chungshun meant. He wanted to give up most of his bloodline, leaving only one or two children under one year old.
King Zhongshun glanced at Prince Yixiao and saw the unbearable look on his face. He said helplessly: "Those children who are already governors are used to enjoying glory and wealth. When they come to the people, they will be different from ordinary children. Once there are any clues, let Jia
If Ke's minions get hold of the handle, then we may have to waste all our efforts."
Prince Yoshitaka nodded after hearing this, knowing that this was also true.
When King Zhongshun saw that Prince Yixiao agreed to his request, he continued: "There is a baby in my house. I wonder if there are any children under the age of one in the emperor's uncle's house."
"I have a grandson who was just born, and it seems that his life is good."
"In this case, it is no longer necessary to delay. I will send people to secretly send these two children to the people now, and prepare more treasures for their adoptive parents. After the capital is calm, let them take the children to Jiangnan to buy some
We can still live on some land, which can be regarded as preserving the last bloodline of our family."
After hearing this, Prince Yixiao quickly told King Zhongshun, "Don't give them too much silver, for fear that they will be unpopular and end up using our children to contribute."
King Zhongshun agreed and went out to make arrangements.
While King Zhongshun was searching the palace, huge changes occurred outside the city.
Under Fan Kang's order, the Jiedu envoys and general soldiers around the capital all led their troops to the vicinity of the capital. They joined forces and camped for dozens of miles, surrounding the capital with water.
Niu Jizong saw this situation on the tower and knew that the situation was over.
It would be impossible for the old, weak and remnant soldiers under his command to confront these people below.
Fan Kang summoned the generals in the Chinese army's tent and discussed urgently several times whether to attack the capital immediately.
Although all the generals agreed to attack the city immediately, Fan Kang did not rush to a conclusion. Instead, Fei Ge sent a letter to Jia Ke to inform Jia Ke of the current situation and let Jia Ke make a decision.
Besides, at the border at this time, Jia Ke had been confronting the Tatars for a month.
It can be said that the two sides have had several confrontations, but they have always been neck-and-neck.
Alsileng Khan also learned the original lesson and deployed two thousand armored cavalry in his four weeks just to prevent Jia Ke from storming the camp, but he was frightened by Jia Ke.
Jia Ke is also a little confused now. He has spent a lot of money and food in the past month, but he has not defeated the Tatars. It seems that the Tatars are smarter than before and did not go out to camp with him to fight in the field.
It was under this circumstance that Jia Ke received a letter from Fan Kang.
Jia Ke was silent for a while after reading the letter. The capital was indeed in turmoil as he thought, but he did not expect that not only the royal family was involved this time, but also the four princes and eight princes who he was relatively reassured about, including relatives and friends of the Jia family.
He also participated in this rebellion.
However, Jia Ke thought about it carefully and understood that if he conquered the world, these people would be close to Jia Ke, and in the end he would be just a small official. Now that they all have titles, in this comparison, they tend to
It goes without saying to anyone.
Jia Ke had no intention of confronting Alsileng Khan here anymore. His heart was now in the capital.
So the next day, Jia Ke led the entire camp out of the camp, hoping to fight the Tatars to the death.
Alsileng Khan was in the camp, and after receiving the news that Jia Ke was leaving, he knew that Jia Ke was cruel this time.
Alsileng Khan did not go out to fight with Jia Ke, but ordered everyone to send out troops to guard the camp. Anyone who dared to leave the camp privately would be subject to military law immediately.
Jia Ke had long expected that the opponent would not fight with him, so he was not disappointed at all. Instead, he ordered the infantry to keep moving forward and the cavalry to roam on the left and right wings. This time he must break through the Tatar camp.
After Jia Ke approached the Tatar camp, he immediately ordered the catapult to drop boulders on the opponent's camp, and at the same time ordered the English longbowmen to shoot arrows at the opponent's camp.
The sword player at the front kept approaching while holding a large shield.
Alsileng Khan had already come to the front to take command at this time. He looked at the approaching Southern Army and hurriedly ordered the arrows to be fired.
However, because the Tatar bows and arrows are really weak, they are at an absolute disadvantage when shooting against the English longbows.
As a result, they were suppressed by the English longbowmen and did not dare to take the lead at all.
Coupled with the catapults that kept throwing huge rocks, the Tatar camp began to be damaged everywhere.
Alslen Khan saw that he was really inexperienced in defending this side, so he could only order the cavalry to attack both wings immediately.
And he personally led the armored cavalry to rush towards Jia Ke's infantry, hoping to use the power of the armored cavalry to scatter the infantry.
These armored cavalry under Arslen Khan were not Tatars, they were all Westerners from the Western Regions.
These people are all tall and tall, even the war horses under their crotches are much taller than the Eastern war horses. What's more, they are wearing iron armor and charging like tanks.
Alsileng Khan personally led these people to charge towards the infantry under Jia Ke's command.
Although the people under Jia Ke are elite, there really isn't much they can do against these iron bastards.
In just a few moves, Jia Ke's infantry caused the Tatars to break out of a large hole.
Jia Ke could see clearly from behind the formation that if he didn't restrain these people, he might not be able to win so easily this time.
Jia Ke immediately ordered the English longbowmen to attack these armored cavalry.
The arrows shot by these successful hands were more than one meter long and very powerful. When the rows of bows and arrows reached the armored cavalry, even though these armored cavalry were wearing iron armor, they were caught off guard by these English longbowmen and immediately formed their formation.