Cai Jing stepped forward and saw a picture of calligraphy placed on the table. Next to it was the picture of beauty that Zhao Ji had just painted.
Looking over, Cai Jing stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Your Majesty's writing skills have improved so much, I'm afraid that after a while, even the ministers will be unable to catch up."
Hearing what Cai Jing said, Zhao Ji, who originally looked worried, couldn't help but smile a little and said, "Cai Qing needs to work harder."
Cai Jing quickly bowed and said: "I must remember your Majesty's teachings."
As night falls, Bianliang City is a city that never sleeps. Several bustling streets in the city are brightly lit, and the liveliness is no worse than during the day.
Groups of city guards patrolling the streets passed by, but the people on the streets were doing their own thing without being disturbed at all.
On the city wall, figures stand there one after another. However, if you observe carefully, you will find that the soldiers guarding the city are not staring at the movement outside the city with their eyes wide open. Instead, they are leaning on each other one by one.
Dozing on the battlements.
Bianliang City has been in peace for a long time, and it has never been attacked by foreign enemies. Over time, even the soldiers guarding the city have become very lazy, and they are just going through the motions.
Not to mention these soldiers, even the generals responsible for defending the city did not even come to inspect the city most of the time, and even left such important matters as defending the city to their deputies.
Under such circumstances, one can imagine how tightly Bianliang City was defended. There were hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops in the capital of the Song Dynasty, but there were only a few who could truly stand up to a fight.
During this night, a group of people was slowly approaching Bianliang City.
The leader is none other than Lu Junyi.
This time, with Lu Junyi, Wu Song, and Lin Chong as the vanguard, the army headed straight for the capital.
Marching at night was originally a difficult task, but neither Lu Junyi, Lin Chong, nor Wu Song complained, but were eager to try it.
Most soldiers cannot see clearly at night, and the problem of night blindness cannot be solved in a short time, but this cannot be difficult for Lu Junyi and others.
At least his cultivation has reached the innate state, and his whole body has been tempered, so seeing things at night is not a problem at all.
Among the tens of thousands of vanguard troops, generals large and small, it is really not a problem to find hundreds of powerful people in the innate realm.
In this way, under the guidance of these people, the tens of thousands of troops were still in order despite the darkness, and there was no trace of chaos at all.
In the distance, through the hazy light above the city wall, the huge Bianliang City came into view.
Seeing the tall city that looked like a ferocious beast entrenched on the earth, Lu Junyi couldn't help stroking his beard and exclaimed: "What a prosperous Bianliang City. If we hadn't attacked at night, once the city was fortified, we would be afraid to break through it again."
But it’s not that easy.”
The city defense of Bianliang City is obviously better than that of Yingtian Mansion. Even if it is Yingtian Mansion, if it is not for the cooperation of Zhongshi Dao, it is really not that easy for them to capture Yingtian Mansion.
As for Bianliang City, as the core of the Song Dynasty, if all the soldiers in the city were united, no one in the world could defeat Bianliang City.
It's a pity that Bianliang City has a fortified city but no qualified soldiers to defend the city.
After quietly lurking a few hundred meters below the city, they saw dozens of figures following Lu Junyi and Wu Song running towards the tall city wall.
These dozens of people are all strong men in the army. Each one of them has a cultivation level that is no less than the innate realm. These are at least one of the leaders in the army. In order to successfully capture the city gate this time, Lu Junyi and others
But he couldn't care much about it.
Even though the internal strife in the Song Dynasty was serious and the army was even more vulnerable to a fight, don't underestimate the foundation of an imperial city. After all, the Zhao family has been a country for hundreds of years. If they can't attack the city, they will fall into a stalemate and try to break the city again.
I'm afraid it won't be that easy.
Of course, the premise is that Chu Yi does not take action. If Chu Yi does take action, not to mention a Bianliang City, even a few more cities will not be able to stop Chu Yi.
Lu Junyi looked at the high city wall and shouted in a low voice: "Destroy the city."
While speaking, Lu Junyi flew up and landed on the city wall. Several city guards near the city wall were sleeping in a daze, and even Lu Junyi did not notice that he landed on the city wall.
However, Lu Junyi is still a strong man in the realm of heaven and man. If even these ordinary soldiers are alarmed, it can only be said that Lu Junyi's cultivation is too poor.
He stretched out his hand and flicked, and suddenly the soldiers around him had their acupuncture points tapped one by one, and fell asleep in a daze.
Soon dozens of figures all climbed onto the city wall, and then ran towards the city gate.
In the city gate cave, a group of dozens of soldiers are inside the city gate cave. The task of these dozens of soldiers is to close the city gate as soon as possible when attacked. They can be regarded as the elite of an army.
It's a pity that there is no difference between the soldiers here and the soldiers guarding the city tower. Almost all the soldiers are sleeping soundly in the city gate hole.
Creaking, the heavy city gate slowly opened under Wu Song's magical power, and the extremely thick city gate was opened just like that.
There was a lot of noise when the city gate was opened. When several soldiers in the city gate heard the movement, they got up in a daze and cursed at Wu Song and others: "Who doesn't know that opening the city gate at night is a capital crime..."
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Unfortunately, before they could see clearly who was on the other side, several of them felt their heads shaken, and they fainted due to the pressure of Wu Song's momentum.
As the city gate opened, the army, which had not moved much outside the city, suddenly rushed toward the open city gate, led by thousands of cavalry.
You must know that these thousands of cavalry are about 20% of all the cavalry under Chu Yi. It is simply unbelievable that there are only a few thousand cavalry among nearly 100,000 people.
But in the Song Dynasty, this was a fact. With the loss of several excellent horse farms, the Song Dynasty had been experiencing a severe shortage of horses for hundreds of years. It could even be said that it was very difficult to form cavalry.
Although this scene of thousands of cavalry galloping cannot compare to the scene of tens of thousands of horses galloping, it still makes a lot of noise.
Under the earthquake, many people who were not far from the city at least noticed the movement even if they were asleep.
Under the huge commotion, many people had doubts in their hearts as to what was going on. It sounded like soldiers and horses were entering the city.
However, these people just had such thoughts in their minds. They really did not believe that in the capital of the Song Dynasty, soldiers and horses would enter the city at night. The Song Dynasty had been peaceful for a long time, and people had already lost their vigilance.
But as a large number of soldiers and horses entered the city and began to occupy the city walls everywhere, the soldiers who were originally guarding the city walls finally reacted.
"Enemy attack, enemy attack..."
Although it is not clear where this sudden enemy came from and who they are, as a defender of the city, you still have to react appropriately after discovering the enemy attack.
Suddenly, there was a lot of noise on the city wall, but facing the wolf-like and tiger-like siege soldiers, these soldiers defending the city had no resistance at all. Some soldiers even lay on the ground and shivered.
Surrender with your head in your hands.
With such a big movement, people in the city finally realized something was wrong, and faintly heard shouts of killing. Now even a fool knew that something was wrong.
Of course, more people thought it was a military rebellion and did not realize that Bianliang City had been breached.
Groups of soldiers and horses rushed into the city, but at this time, the soldiers in the city had not even reacted. Just relying on the few troops on the city wall obviously had no effect.
On the long street, a group of cavalry was heading towards the palace. The leaders were Lu Junyi and Wu Song. As for Lin Chong, he stayed behind to lead the army to defend the city. Even if he could not occupy the whole city because of the night, he tried his best to
There is still no problem in expanding the results.
It would only take an hour or two at most before the army would arrive. As long as the city gate was still in hand at that time, the overall situation was decided.
Following Lu Junyi, Wu Song and the others rode through the long street. The people living on both sides of the long street were all dignitaries in the court. Many people hid behind the door and watched the cavalry passing by, especially those running by.
As they left the palace, many people had looks of horror on their faces.
Cai Jing's residence was not too far from the imperial palace. As Zhao Ji's most favored minister, the residence Zhao Ji gave to Cai Jing was naturally located near the imperial palace.
When Cai Jing was woken up by his men, the sound of horse hooves was getting closer and closer.
The elderly Cai Jing said to the old housekeeper in a daze: "It's so late at night, disturbing people's dreams, what happened?"
The old housekeeper is the person Cai Jing trusts the most. It can be said that even Cai Jing's son may not be able to make Cai Jing trust him as much as the old housekeeper.
While serving Cai Jing to dress, the old housekeeper told Cai Jing the collected information one by one in an orderly manner.
"Sir, our people just got the news that Chu Yi's men have entered the capital..."
"What?"
Hearing the old housekeeper's words, Cai Jing, who was still a little sleepy, almost jumped up, opened his eyes wide, and stared at the old housekeeper in disbelief.
The old housekeeper was still as calm as water and said: "If you want to leave the capital, you must leave immediately. Otherwise, once Chu Yi's army surrounds you, it will not be that easy to leave the capital."
After all, it was Cai Jing. After the initial shock passed, Cai Jing calmed down and said with a solemn face: "I see, that's it. I finally understand why there is no news from Yingtian Mansion. If it is what I expected."
, that old man Zhong Shi Dao has already colluded with the Chu thief. Otherwise, with the strength of the Zhong Family Army and the ability of the old guy Zhong Shi Dao, even if Chu Yi has the power to reach heaven, Ying Tian Mansion will not be able to do this.
It fell within a short period of time.”
The old housekeeper looked at Cai Jing and said, "It's useless for me to say this now. Just let me escort you to leave Beijing quickly."
When Cai Jing heard this, he slowly shook his head, looked at the old housekeeper and said, "Leave Beijing? Others may be able to leave, but I'm afraid I won't be able to leave."
The old housekeeper was stunned for a moment. After he realized what he was doing, he suddenly appeared at the door like a ghost. His eyes were shining brightly and he shouted in a deep voice: "Why don't you show up yet?"
Two figures appeared in the courtyard, and they were Fang La and Guan Sheng.
The two of them watched in surprise as the old housekeeper's rickety figure gradually became taller and straighter, and his whole aura changed drastically. He was clearly a strong man in the realm of heaven and man.
Everyone knows that Cai Jing is not a strong martial artist, but he has a bad reputation all over the world. However, he can be safe and sound under such circumstances. There are countless people who wanted to assassinate Cai Jing and become famous all over the world. They entered Cai Jing's house and never came out again.
When several well-known and powerful people entered the Cai Mansion, they were as thick as mud sinking into the sea. Even fools guessed that there must be a peerless powerhouse in charge of the Cai Mansion.
If not, Chu Yi would not have sent Fang La and Guan Sheng here to prevent Cai Jing from taking advantage of the chaos in the capital.
Whether it is Fang La or Guan Sheng, they are both strong men in the realm of gods. Even if there are two or three gods around Cai Jing, they are not unable to stop Cai Jing.
It's just that no one thought that the strong man in the Cai Mansion who protected the Cai Mansion would be the old housekeeper beside Cai Jing.
The old butler Cai Rong is very low-key in the Cai Mansion and is rarely known to the public. Everyone only knows that Cai Jing has an old servant who has served Cai Jing for decades.
This Cai Rong is also Cai Jing's old servant, and he was also Cai Jing's bookboy. The master and servant have been in love for decades. Cai Rong happens to have extraordinary martial arts qualifications. Under Cai Jing's training, Cai Rong becomes more and more successful.
Before the advent of the great age, he was already a strong man in the realm of heaven and man.
Cai Jing went through many ups and downs, and even later became a traitor reviled by people all over the world. He was not assassinated. It was Cai Rong who relied on him.
Seeing Cai Rong guarding Cai Jing in front of Cai Jing, Fang La stared at Cai Rong with interest and said: "I, Fang La, never kill unknown people, you should report your name to avoid becoming that unknown ghost."
The old housekeeper sneered. Over the years, he had seen too many strong men who wanted to assassinate Cai Jing. He was very familiar with the killing experience. He ignored Fang La at all and appeared next to Fang La in a flash. The fierce tiger
The claws went straight towards Fang La's waist. If this blow had landed on him, a bloody hole would have been dug out of Fang La's waist on the spot.
I have to say that this old butler is really not an ordinary person. Fang La was shocked by the old butler's surprise attack. If he hadn't reacted in time and Guan Sheng on the side had not made a timely slash to force Cai Rong back, he might not have been able to do so.
On guard, Fang La was already injured by Cai Rong.
Fang La, who was so shocked that he was sweating coldly, was ashamed and angry. He stared at Cai Rong with his eyes and gritted his teeth and said: "Old man, hand over Cai Jing weirdly and come with me to plead guilty to the Lord. Maybe you can spare your life...
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Cai Rong had no intention of answering, and came towards Fang La again. This time Fang La reacted, and reflexively slapped him with his palm.
With a bang, a terrifying wave of air swept around, but the energy blowing towards Cai Jing was stopped by Cai Rong. It was precisely because of this that Cai Rong took a step back compared to Fang Lalai.
At the same time, an extremely sharp sword flashed, and it came towards Cai Jing. Cai Rong couldn't help being shocked and angry when he saw this situation: "How dare you!"
Obviously Guan Sheng has found Cai Rong's weakness. Cai Rong is most worried about Cai Jing's safety, and Guan Sheng is running towards Cai Jing. It would be surprising if Cai Rong is not frightened and angry.
Fang La on the side couldn't help laughing when he saw this, and flew straight towards Cai Jing.
But he said it was in the palace.
Zhao Ji had just sent away the two concubines who were sleeping with him. Zhao Ji was limp and weak, lying on the bed half asleep and half awake.
Suddenly the curtain was lifted, and Zhao Ji felt someone appear beside the bed, and then he heard a familiar voice saying: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, wake up..."
Zhao Ji opened his eyes in a daze, glanced at the man and said, "What's the matter?"
The person who woke up Zhao Ji was an eunuch who was very loyal to Zhao Ji. Hearing this, he said anxiously: "Your Majesty, something bad has happened. Chu Yi has led his army into the city. I am afraid that the palace will fall into trouble soon."
Surrounded."
Suddenly, Zhao Ji sat up, his sleepiness disappeared, he grabbed the eunuch and shouted: "What are your intentions? How dare you deceive me like this? I will kill you..."
The great eunuch said with a sad look on his face: "Even if this old slave dies, he will not deceive Your Majesty. If Your Majesty doesn't think of a way, I'm afraid he will never be able to leave."
No matter how mediocre Zhao Ji was, he was not a fool. He pushed the eunuch away and shouted loudly: "Here, bring me someone."
Soon I saw several small Huangmen and palace maids staggering in. Zhao Ji, who was barefoot and wearing only a medium-coat, shouted: "Hurry up and recruit Cai Jing, Li Bangyan, Gao Qiu and others into the palace to see you."
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After saying that, Zhao Ji added: "Go quickly and ask the elder Zhao Yu to come and see you."
Several Xiaohuangmen ran out quickly, but soon they saw those Xiaohuangmen running back with frightened faces, lying on the ground and kowtowing at Zhao Ji.
Seeing this situation, Zhao Ji had a look of astonishment on his face. Apparently he couldn't figure out what was going on with these little yellow sects, so he couldn't help shouting: "If you don't convey my will, will you come back to seek death?"
One of the little yellow gates trembled: "Your Majesty... we can't leave... someone is blocking us and we are not allowed to leave the palace..."
When Zhao Ji heard this, it was almost a conditioned reflex, and he roared: "Who is so bold? Dare to stop the angel I sent..."
No wonder Zhao Ji reacted so fiercely. You must know that this is the palace. It can be said that he, the emperor, has the most concentrated power. If his orders cannot be reached here, then he, the emperor, is no different from a puppet.
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When Zhao Ji learned that someone dared to stop the eunuch he sent to deliver the order, Zhao Ji was filled with anger and fear.
Just as Zhao Ji got angry, a voice came from outside the hall: "It's me!"
When he heard that voice, Zhao Ji was stunned for a moment, then his expression changed, he laughed loudly, and said while laughing: "Hahaha, I thought about everyone, but I didn't expect it to be you...
