"This..." The Sixteenth Emperor began to panic. He could not imagine what would happen if he fell into the hands of Han Qiumiao.
Coincidentally, at the moment when the Sixteenth Emperor's son panicked, the slogan "The tyrant emperor shall not die well" resounded in the sky again.
When the sixteenth prince heard what he said, he couldn't help but tremble all over. The tea cup in his hand fell to the ground, blossomed, and shattered into pieces.
Upon seeing this, Wang Yushi quickly stood up and closed the doors and windows of the study.
Just for a moment, the head of Song Xiguang could not help but appear in the mind of the Sixteenth Prince. However, the bloody head somehow overlapped with his figure.
"Your Majesty?" Wang Yushi greeted cautiously, fearing to disturb the restless Emperor's sixteenth son.
"I'm fine! Dear friends, can you find a way to resolve the current crisis?"
The sixteenth son of the emperor was finally shaken. Wang Yushi, Minister of Taichang Temple, and Minister of Rites looked at each other, and then Wang Yushi took the lead in speaking.
"Your Majesty, to be honest, when Princess Yongming came to the city yesterday, we discussed the current situation. Now that Princess Yongming lacks weapons, she cannot pose a threat to us for the time being, so... while she rushes to forge the armor, we can make the most of it.
Conquer the imperial city quickly."
"There are only about 10,000 guards in the imperial city, while we have 40,000 armored soldiers, which is more than three times the strength of the opponent. Even if there is a head-on confrontation, we are sure to capture the imperial city. There is no need to wait for reinforcements from the north to arrive in Beijing."
"As long as the empress dowager and the prince are captured, Princess Yongming will definitely throw herself into the trap and dare not make any unusual move."
"What will happen to the high walls when we attack the Imperial City?" The Sixteenth Emperor couldn't help but ask. The high walls of the residence area and the gates of the Imperial City are considered to be the two strongest lines of defense in the capital.
"Your Majesty, we can let the 4,000 guards who retreated from the capital city gate the day before yesterday to garrison the high wall." Wang Yushi said with reason. The high wall in the residence area cut off the communication between the imperial city and the outside world, and 40,000 armored soldiers launched a massive attack.
In the Imperial City, Han Qiumiao could not get any news.
They only need to let the four thousand soldiers who were defeated the day before yesterday and retreated from the capital gate to guard the high wall of the mansion area.
When Han Qiumiao saw that there were guards stationed in the towers of the high wall, he naturally did not dare to act rashly and rashly launched an offensive against the high wall.
It only takes a day or two for the gate of the imperial city to be breached, and even if Han Qiumei conquers the high wall, he will be unable to recover.
"But..." The Sixteenth Emperor hesitated. He believed that his 40,000 armored soldiers could indeed capture the imperial city, but he had never done so before.
The sixteenth son of the emperor was worried that once his private soldiers were exhausted, the northern princes would go unchecked and use him as a puppet king. The biggest reason why the sixteenth son of the emperor had to wait for the northern army to arrive in Beijing before attacking the imperial city was
It is military strength that dominates everything.
The emperor who has lost his military strength is, to put it bluntly, a hairless phoenix no better than a chicken, and can only be slaughtered by others.
Because of this, Qi Yuan died in battle with 6,000 elite soldiers. Not only did the emperor's sixteenth son not feel distressed, but he actually felt a little gloating about his misfortune.
The reason why the sixteenth son of the emperor was so angry was because Zhou Xingyun and Han Qiumi put down the chaos.
"Your Majesty, now that things have come to this, we have no choice but to break and then stand up!" Wang Yushi advised earnestly. Time waits for no one. In two days, Princess Yongming will forge a warlike armor, and the initiative will be in the hands of the enemy.
inside.
"I need to think about it. My dears, please step aside first. I will summon you tonight when I think about it clearly." The Sixteenth Emperor frowned and planned to discuss it with the Protector of the Country and listen to the opinion of the Lord of Fengtian City.
"I excuse myself..." All they had to do was done, and if they continued to talk, it might be counterproductive. Wang Yushi and others followed the orders of the Sixteenth Prince, clapped their sleeves, bowed to say goodbye, and walked out of the 'Imperial Study Room'.
Just as Wang Yushi and others left, a pale but very handsome man slowly walked out from the shadow behind the dragon chair in the imperial study room.
If Zhou Xingyun were present, he would definitely ask in confusion, what the hell is this? The Lord of Fengtian City who injured him didn't look like this at all.
"Master, do you think their method is feasible?" The Sixteenth Prince turned to the handsome man and asked.
"Why not?" The handsome man smiled nonchalantly: "The lives of the princes in the north are all under our control, and the emperor can take them at our fingertips. As long as I, the masters of Fengtian City, help me, my emperor will surely be emperor for a long time."
At eight o'clock that night, the sixteenth son of the emperor summoned Wang Yushi and a group of close officials to state his decision. He had already ordered his troops and planned to assemble the army immediately and storm the imperial city in the early hours of tonight.
There are two main reasons why the Sixteenth Prince of the Emperor quickly mobilized his troops.
First, Han Qiumiao is mass-producing armors. If it is delayed until tomorrow, it will be very detrimental to them.
What if Han Qiumiao thought that more than 20,000 armed soldiers were enough to cooperate with the imperial city guards, rescue the empress dowager and the prince, and attack the high wall of the residence area in advance, then he would be damned.
Second, attacking a city during the day is very disadvantageous. The archers and crossbowmen on the enemy's towers and arrow towers have a very wide field of vision and can basically shoot accurately.
It's different at night, everything is dark, and the shooters on the balcony can only listen to the sound to identify their position and shoot blindly based on their feelings.
If the Sixteenth Prince wants to reduce casualties, he can only attack the city at night. If he misses tonight, he will have to wait until tomorrow night. By then, Han Qiumiao may have mass-produced as many as 20,000 sets of armor.
In other words, Han Qiumiao is very likely to launch an offensive tomorrow night, and the Sixteenth Emperor must get ahead of her and capture the imperial city in one go, otherwise the situation will become very complicated.
Wang Yushi left the imperial palace and immediately sent a message to Han Qiumiao, telling her that the sixteenth son of the emperor would probably attack the imperial city early tonight.
On the other side, Zhou Xingyun, who was temporarily staying in Juxian Building, also received a secret letter from Han Qiumiao.
"Do you think this is stupid? Do you think this is stupid?" Zhou Xingyun learned that the Sixteenth Emperor was going to attack the imperial city tonight, and he couldn't help but crumpled the secret letter into a ball in frustration.
Zhou Xingyun was very angry because he was injured and in great need of care, especially care when he spent the night with the beautiful woman. The result? The idiot of the Sixteenth Prince of the Emperor, a brainless man, attacked the imperial city tonight, ruining his wonderful night.
You know, Zhou Xingyun and Qinqin Xiao Suyao were flirting in Juxian Building, with half of their pants taken off, but Han Qiumiao sent a letter. How could he not be angry when encountering such a bad thing?
Knowing that the operation was going to take place tonight, the 1,200 people on standby at the Juxian Building all got busy.
Under normal circumstances, even if you are wearing a paraglider, only an extremely skilled person can take off from the top of the Juxian Building and parachute troops to attack the high-walled building at night.
However, if the flying distance is extended in the form of a relay, even top experts can fly across half of the capital, from the Juxian Building to the high wall of the mansion area.
How to relay? To put it bluntly, it is like a stack of Arhats. 1,200 people take off from the Juxian Building and fly across the capital using Qinggong. When the follow-up fails, half of the people use their bodies as a springboard to assist the other half in the double jump.
According to yesterday's test results, only two relays are needed to send a top warrior to the high wall of the mansion area.
Among the 1,200 Jianghu people, only 300 top warriors are the special attack team parachuted to the high wall tonight. The remaining 900 people are actually the springboard to assist them.
To put it bluntly, two top-notch warriors used their bodies as springboards to send one of the top warriors to the high wall of the mansion area.
"You are injured, I suggest..."
"No. If the Sixteenth Prince of the Emperor attacks the Imperial City tonight, it will be our last battle to put down the rebellion. I must join the battle..."
Wei Suyao wanted to persuade Zhou Xingyun to recover from his injuries and not join the battle tonight, but before she could finish her words, Zhou Xingyun denied it.
"I always feel that the rebellion of the Sixteenth Emperor is not as simple as it appears on the surface." Zhou Xingyun continued to add that in the final battle to put down the rebellion, some unexpected situations may occur.
"It is true that as Senior Brother Xingyun said, the rebellion of the Sixteenth Prince is very strange." Xu Zhiqian agreed very much with Zhou Xingyun's statement. During their departure from the capital, the Sixteenth Prince took control of the situation with lightning speed.
Beijing.
To be honest, with the Empress Dowager's governing skills and ability to control the overall situation, as well as her hidden trump cards and trump cards... the capital should not have fallen into the hands of the Sixteenth Emperor so easily.
Furthermore, through the rebellion of the Emperor's Sixteenth Son, Xu Zhiqian and Zhou Xingyun both vaguely realized that they and the Emperor's Sixteenth Son were more like chess pieces on a chessboard than chess players controlling the game.
Behind the scenes of this rebellion, there seemed to be two invisible hands competing in the air...
Why did Zhou Xingyun have such an idea? Because he connected the whole incident together, it is not difficult to find that the Empress Dowager allowed him and Han Qiumi to leave the capital and return to Jianshu Villa to celebrate the New Year. It was as if they deliberately sold a loophole so that their opponents could make some noise.
As a result, the man behind the scenes directly sold the sixteenth son of the emperor and set up a series of schemes to help him control the capital.
However, the man behind the scenes had no intention of helping the sixteenth son of the emperor seize the throne. He was like an arsonist, lighting a fire and leaving immediately to prevent the fire from affecting him.
Perhaps the people behind the scenes knew very well that the control of the capital by the sixteenth son of the emperor was just a trap set by the empress dowager. The power held by the empress dowager was fully sufficient to quell the northern rebels.
Admittedly, the people behind the scenes didn’t really intend to help the Sixteenth Son of the Emperor become emperor, so...
The people behind the scenes decisively abandoned the sixteenth son of the emperor as if they were throwing away garbage, letting him be used as cannon fodder and consuming the strength of the empress dowager.
Why did the man behind the scenes abandon the Sixteenth Prince of the Emperor so simply?
Analyzing it from the perspective of Xu Zhiqian's little mind, the current sixteenth son of the emperor has no use value.
If it were the former sixteenth son of the emperor, he would still be of some use at critical moments.
However, not even the Empress Dowager nor the 'man behind the scenes' expected that Cheng Yaojin would emerge from the officialdom this year.
The appearance of Zhou Xingyun was like a gray-white chess piece that suddenly fell into the winner's hand on the chess board, completely disrupting the entire chess game.
Zhou Xingyun became an official and did various things. At first glance, he seemed to be assisting the Sixteenth Prince of the Emperor, but in the end, the Sixteenth Emperor of the Emperor and Jin Zhenghan, the Minister of Household Affairs, fell out. In the end, Jin and Zheng Han were accidentally killed.
The han was destroyed.
Without the help from the Ministry of Revenue, the Sixteenth Emperor's son felt as if he had cut off an arm, and the available value was greatly reduced.
What's even more surprising is that after Zhou Xingyun got promoted and made a fortune, he immediately turned his back on him, which made the sixteenth son of the emperor change his temperament drastically.