The fifth prince raised the knife in his hand, and along with his shouts, Concubine Xu's screams also sounded.
Concubine Xu pounced on Chu Xiurong almost at the same time. She didn't care that Chu Xiurong was surrounded by guards. Even if the guards aimed their knives at her, she turned a blind eye. Even if they were pierced through her body and split open, she only wanted to protect her.
Live with your own son.
Concubine Xu did not pounce on these swords and guns, but there was a buzzing sound first.
Sharp arrows flew from both sides, grazing Concubine Xu and shooting at the seven or eight imperial guards. Before they could raise their swords to strike Chu Xiurong, they fell down screaming.
The fifth prince's face suddenly changed, and his eyes became even more angry. He raised his knife and was about to rush over. The next moment, there was a clanging sound, and a whisk came over and hit his wrist.
The fifth prince let out a wail and dropped his hand weakly, and the knife fell to the ground.
Concubine Xu almost tripped over the dead guard lying on the ground, but Chu Xiurong reached out to support her.
Concubine Xu hugged him and cried loudly: "Axiu, my Axiu, I was scared to death."
Chu Xiurong comforted her: "It's okay, my father is here."
From the time when the fifth prince raised his sword and shouted, to when Concubine Xu pounced, to when seven or eight guards were shot to death with sharp arrows, and when the fifth prince's hand was broken by a whisk, it all happened in an instant.
People in the main hall were still having their hearts beating loudly, and they still hadn't taken a breath.
"I guess you may have evil intentions." The emperor's voice also fell from the throne, without anger or shock, "I just still have a trace of hope, hoping that these people will not be used."
What these people mean is that when everyone looked around, they discovered that two rows of guards had appeared on both sides of the palace at some unknown time - they were different from the guards. They did not wear the robes of the guards, but they were equipped with knives and holding swords in their hands.
The crossbows are more terrifying than the guards.
This is the secret guard beside the emperor.
In addition to the few guards who were shot dead on the spot, the guards at the door were also surrounded by secret guards inside and outside.
Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Concubine Xian clutched her chest and sat down softly on the ground, calling out to your Majesty, "How could this happen?"
King Yan pointed at the fifth prince on the ground - pointing from a distance: "Chu Murong, you are so unrepentant! You disappoint your father so much!"
King Lu hummed and scolded him together.
Chu Murong's hand was broken, and he struggled to get up while continuing to curse: "Chu Xiurong deserves to be killed! Chu Xiurong deserves to be killed for harming the prince! Father, don't forget how those princes and kings killed the emperor's grandfather back then.
, who is bent on harming you again! Chu Xiurong is so ambitious!"
Chu Jinrong, who had been kneeling on the ground, stood up, walked over, raised his hand and slapped the fifth prince: "Shut up!"
The fifth prince, who had just stood up, was slapped and fell to his knees on the ground, bleeding from his mouth and nose.
"Brother Prince!" He raised his head but there was no hatred in his eyes, only sadness and anger, "Look at how you have been bullied? I was killed, my mother was killed, what's the difference between you being alive and dead now!
"
Chu Jinrong raised his hand to hit him, but then lowered it seemingly powerlessly: "Father, my son is guilty, please escort us back. We have no shame standing here anymore."
The emperor hummed: "Don't worry, let me tell you what happened before I leave."
What happened?
Chu Jinrong's eyes covered by his messy hair flashed with a sinister look. The emperor was indeed on guard. Fortunately, he was also on guard. All this was done by Chu Murong, and it was something Chu Murong could do. From childhood to adulthood,
Chu Murong was brought up to have such a mindless and cruel temperament. His father knew it in his heart, and if he asked about it later, it would just be a question——
As he was thinking wildly, the emperor's voice came to his ears again.
"Xiurong, how did the fifth prince bring people in?"
Instead of asking the fifth prince, he asked Chu Xiurong? Is this an intimate discussion between father and son? Is he trying to teach the court officials about human nature? Just like how he taught him before, Chu Jinrong’s eyes under his messy hair looked at Chu fiercely.
Trimming.
Chu Xiurong was helping the crying Concubine Xu to sit down. When the emperor asked, Concubine Xu cried and said: "Your Majesty, Xiurong has been so frightened. Don't let him think about such things. Such things, the fifth prince
Naturally, I am very clear in my heart.”
The emperor didn't speak. He didn't know whether it was the secret guard who emerged from the palace with a crossbow or the body of the dead guard lying on the ground but had not been ordered to be moved away. There was something ghostly in the bright-as-day dormitory.
.
Chu Xiurong patted Concubine Xu on the shoulder and said to the emperor: "There are people hidden in the fifth prince's palace. When my father's imperial guards went to escort them, they killed them and replaced them. They took the opportunity to follow the fifth prince into the palace.
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The emperor nodded: "Killing the imperial guards is simple if it is said to be simple, but it is not simple to say that it is not simple. We must also make arrangements outside, okay?"
Chu Xiurong nodded with a smile: "Yes, we need to make arrangements to at least create a good opportunity for them without being discovered."
The more he listened, the more something was wrong. Chu Jinrong couldn't help but raise his head, his eyes no longer concealing his messy hair. What does this mean?
The emperor said: "Aren't you afraid that Chu Murong will really kill you?"
Chu Xiurong chuckled: "I believe that my father can protect me."
The emperor smiled coldly: "In other words, even if he kills you, you will be satisfied if I can see this scene?"
A play? What does that mean?
Everyone in the palace looked at the emperor and Chu Xiurong in shock.
A man was sitting on a high throne, surrounded by no one, and it seemed that even the candlelight could not illuminate him.
There was a man standing in the center of the hall, with dead bodies of guards lying around him, and burning lamps and candles shrouding him.
All the noise in the palace disappeared, and everyone seemed to disappear. Only the emperor and Chu Xiurong faced each other.
.....
.....
What happened in the emperor's palace was sudden and strange. Many people present could not imagine it, and even those who were not present could not imagine it.
But Zhou Xuan thought about it and kept waiting to see it, but he couldn't see it now.
When the fifth prince raised his sword in the emperor's palace, he stood on the highest turret of the imperial city and looked into the night in the distance.
The city gates on all sides were exceptionally bright, but they seemed to be covered with clouds, and there seemed to be muffled thunder rolling in between.
Of course it was not thunder, but the sound of horse hooves.
The soldier general reported the latest news: "It's the Northern Army. The Northern Army has entered the city."
Zhou Xuandao: "I am here, who ordered them to enter the city?" However, there was no anger on his face, but a smile, "I don't know if I know them or not."
The soldiers next to him were not so relaxed: "Master Marquis, they are coming to the imperial city."
"Come right here." Zhou Xuandao, looking outside the imperial city, "I'm waiting for him to come."
I was originally worried that Chu Yurong wouldn't be able to come.
Chu Yurong was also convicted of murdering the emperor. He was still on the run and was being arrested in fear of the crime. Now he brought troops and horses to attack the imperial city.
In the palace, three princes are fighting to the death. Outside the palace, a prince is attacking the city. The emperor's sons are all ready. The emperor should enjoy this unique family happiness.
Let everyone in the world see that what this emperor has done is unprecedented and unprecedented.
Zhou Xuan couldn't help laughing, come and fight, the more lively the fight, the better, so that he can tell the emperor the good news.
"Master Marquis!" The general next to him interrupted his laughter and pointed forward, "Here he comes!"
The news of the Northern Army's entry into the city was already known to the guards outside the imperial city, but there was no fighting at the city gates, and there was no chaos in the capital. The capital city under curfew was calm. The entry of the Northern Army into the city was like a night rain brewing in late autumn, adding to the darkness of the night.
Feeling nervous and bored.
Dark clouds rolled towards the city gate.
The sound of horse hooves became more and more rapid, and the soldiers and horses coming from all directions also appeared under the light of torches.
The guards outside the city gate gripped their weapons and formed a battle formation.
"Bold—who dares without orders—"
The imperial city guards formed a formation, and the general in front of the formation looked forward and shouted.
His voice was carried out by the night wind, and someone walked slowly from it, a black horse and a thick black cloak. The cloak fluttered, revealing the person's dark red armor.
The armor was covered with golden animal patterns. The night was dispersed by the golden animal patterns, but the firelight was soaked in the dark red of the armor. With the sound of horse hooves, everyone's vision seemed to be covered with a layer of blood.
Amidst the blood, the general in front of the formation saw the face of the incoming man. His face was also dark red, with golden animal patterns all over it.
That's not a face, it's an iron mask!
The general in front of the formation was instantly scalped.
"General, general -" his voice trembled, and he shouted hoarsely, "Iron-faced General!"
The iron-faced general.
Zhou Xuan stood on the imperial city and watched as with this shout, the array in front of the imperial city was like a rice field blown by the wind, undulating and swaying for an instant. Not only them, but the guards on the city wall also rushed forward and down.
look.
"General——"
"It's General Iron Mask——"
Countless shouts blurted out and gathered into rolling thunder, shocking countless people.
Standing on the city wall, Zhou Xuan was also a little stunned. Chu Yurong, I really have you!
Is this to make the prince plot a rebellion and attack the city, turning the imperial city into a haunted place in the middle of the night?
