Nine hundred and sixtieth chapters comprehensive passive
The two thousand soldiers who monitored the emperor's ships came from Zuoyintai. Zuoyintai was composed of two parts. One part came from the recruited Jianghu rangers and prodigals, and the other part was selected from the elite soldiers of the Shence Army. When the Tubo army came, they
At that time, the rangers and prodigal sons packed up their belongings and ran away. Ju Wenzhen simply disbanded Zuoyintai and formed a new guard with the remaining three thousand elite Shence Army soldiers, who were still under his direct command.
The leader of this new guard was Li Huang, the former commander of Zuo Yintai. Although he was also a ranger, Ju Wenzhen took a fancy to his loyalty and appointed him as a general to command three thousand new guards.
Li Huang didn't sleep either. He faintly heard the sound of horse hooves in the tent, so he came out of the tent and looked around. He didn't see any sign of the cavalry. He was a little surprised and turned around to ask the soldier on duty, "Just now
Is there anyone riding a horse?"
The brigade commander pointed to the distance, "There was the sound of horse hooves over there just now. I heard it was the sound of horses walking away. No one was approaching us."
Li Huang put up the curtain and looked into the distance. The weeds in the distance were thick and blocked his sight. He couldn't see what was happening on the official road, so he raised his head and asked, "Captain Wu, can you see what's happening in the distance above?"
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No one responded, so he raised his voice and asked: "Colonel Wu, do you hear me?"
Still no one responded. Li Huang secretly felt something was wrong and raised his voice again and shouted: "Is there anyone on the boat?"
The boat was deserted, and no one responded to him, "No!" Li Huang knew something was wrong, and immediately shouted: "Something happened up there, get on the boat and have a look!"
The soldiers rushed to the stern of the ship, where there was a rope ladder. Soon a soldier shouted: "General, the rope ladder is missing!"
Li Huang was shocked and shouted: "Sound the alarm!"
At this moment, dozens of rockets suddenly shot from dozens of steps away, landed on the tent, and instantly ignited the tent. The river wind was strong, and a sea of fire formed in a short time. Li Huang stamped his feet anxiously,
"Asshole, are you going to sound the alarm?"
When he turned around, he saw the soldier who had run to ring the alarm lying on the ground with an arrow stuck in his neck. Just when Li Huang was stunned, a spiked arrow was shot silently, very fast, in the blink of an eye.
In front of him, Li Huang was so frightened that he ducked away, but it was still a step too late.
‘Poof!’ The arrow hit his chest. Li Huang yelled and fell on his back.
Fires were blazing on the river bank. The soldiers ran out of the tent, but were mercilessly killed by dozens of people. Dozens of people galloped on horseback in the light of the fire, stabbing with spears and chopping with swords. More than a thousand soldiers were killed and howled like ghosts.
, fled in all directions.
Zhang Yun ran to the bottom of the boat, raised his head and shouted: "Send the Queen Mother off quickly!"
No one responded. At this time, a soldier pointed at the river and shouted: "General, there is fire on the river!"
Zhang Yun urged his horse to rush to the stern of the ship. He saw a torch waving in a circle on the river hundreds of steps away, which meant that someone had received it. Zhang Yun's heart suddenly dropped. He didn't expect the ship to arrive so quickly.
He ordered the soldiers to light a torch and wave it in response to show that they were aware. At this time, the torch on the river was extinguished.
Li Nai shouted anxiously from a distance: "General, the enemy is coming!"
Zhang Yun then shouted loudly: "Evacuate quickly!"
Forty cavalrymen quickly gathered together and withdrew toward the mountains and forests to the south...
Not long after, Huo Xianming, Dou Wenchang and a large number of troops arrived and found out that something was going on. More than a hundred tents were all burned down, and the corpses of soldiers were everywhere on the ground. Many injured but not dead soldiers were groaning in pain.
The general, Li Huang, had been seriously wounded and died. Surviving soldiers were standing around, and they were all at a loss.
"Everyone get out of the way!"
Some soldiers shouted, and the onlookers moved out of the way. Huo Xianming and Dou Wenchang rushed forward impatiently, as they did not care about the soldiers' life or death.
Huo Xianming asked anxiously: "Where are the Queen Mother and the little emperor?"
An eunuch knelt down and said tremblingly: "I would like to inform you, the Empress Dowager and the Emperor are missing?"
"What!"
Huo Xianming was furious, grabbed the eunuch's hair, raised his head, and said viciously: "Where have they been?"
The eunuch was so frightened that his voice changed, "Immortal...Immortal, please forgive me, I really don't know."
Huo Xianming kicked him to the ground, "You are responsible for surveillance, they ran away, and you don't know, what's the use of you?"
After saying that, he pulled out his sword and wanted to kill the eunuch. Dou Wenchang quickly stopped him and said, "Immortal sir, please calm down first and ask the matter clearly before handling it."
At this time, Ju Wenzhen also arrived. He said anxiously: "What happened?"
"The Queen Mother and the little emperor are missing!" Huo Xianming gritted his teeth.
"What!"
Ju Wenzhen was stunned for a long time, and he said angrily: "Who is it? Who did it!"
"We don't know yet, General Shen is investigating."
The three of them were extremely depressed and could only stand aside and wait for Jiedu Commander Shen Quan's investigation. The tragic situation in front of them made it difficult for them to judge the situation.
Shen Quan, the military commander of the Shence Army, came over, cupped his fists and said, "Xian Weng, Dou Weng, Ju Gong, it's not convenient to talk here, let's move to another place."
Dou Wenchang asked: "Have you sent anyone to hunt him down?"
"I have sent three thousand people to search for you."
"Let's talk on the boat!"
The four of them came to a nearby ship, where a eunuch tidied up a cabin and lit a lamp.
The four people sat down and Shen Quan said slowly: "The person who attacked the guards today is no small matter. I asked the soldiers present in detail and found that the opponent only had dozens of cavalry. Although the guards were caught off guard, there were two thousand people after all.
A few dozen men can defeat two thousand men without killing or injuring a single person. This kind of fighting power is terrifying. Only Guo Song and even Zhu Si can do this with such an army."
The four people suddenly turned pale. This was the result they least wanted to hear. The empress fell into the hands of Guo Song.
Shen Quan continued: "Only dozens of them cannot kidnap the Emperor and the Empress. I dare to say that there is an insider on the ship, probably beside the Emperor and the Empress."
"Pa!" Ju Wenzhen slammed the table. He finally understood why the maid serving the young emperor looked familiar. He remembered where he had seen her.
Everyone looked at Ju Wenzhen, and Ju Wenzhen gritted her teeth and said, "It's Ying Caihe. She is from the side of the Queen Mother. She was wearing makeup, but I didn't recognize her."
After saying that, he felt frightened again. Wouldn't it be easy for Ying Caihe to kill him at that time?
Shen Quan nodded, "That's right. There's just one thing I haven't figured out yet. How did the other party's cavalry get here? There were so many checkpoints along the way, how could they not be discovered?"
Huo Xianming and Dou Wenchang looked at each other, and they thought at the same time, 'Preparatory team!'
Huo Xianming's eyes were full of resentment and he said: "It seems that we have not wronged Li Wanrong. He did secretly collude with Guo Song."
The four of them were silent for a while, and Ju Wenzhen said: "Without the emperor and empress, there is no point in moving the capital to Jiangnan. Everyone, can we create a fake emperor and a fake empress, and then kill the empress in Guo Song's hands. Is this a fake?"
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"This is inappropriate!"
Shen Quan hesitated and said: "Many ministers as well as Han Huang, Ma Sui, Liu Qia and others have met the Queen Mother. If the Queen Mother appears in public, it will be difficult for us to clarify."
Huo Xianming waved his hands and said: "Forgery is a last resort. Let's not think about it. The top priority now is to continue searching for the Queen Mother and the young emperor. They can't run far and must still be in Zhongzhou. Three thousand people are too few. Ten thousand are too few." People will search for them, and then publicly offer a reward. If the Queen Mother and the Emperor are found, they will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of gold and promoted to five levels!"
"Immortal, once the news spreads, it will be difficult to fake it in the future." Ju Wenzhen reminded carefully.
Dou Wenchang shook his head and said: "Brother Ju, this kind of news cannot be hidden. Three or four thousand people have already known it. It will spread soon. The immortal is right. They must still be in Zhongzhou now. We will comprehensively There may be a glimmer of opportunity for a search."
Shen Quan added from the side: "I also agree with Xian Weng and Dou Weng's plan. In addition, we must be more vigilant and watch out for Li Wanrong's attack!"
Ju Wenzhen had no choice but to nod and agreed to the three people's plan.