The streets and alleys of the city are narrow, which greatly limits the galloping of war horses. The cavalry who lost their speed swung their swords hard, but were always stabbed by more guns.

After nearly half of the loss, the cavalry officer saw that he was defeated and stepped back with the remaining cavalry to beat horses. The battlefield finally calmed down, leaving only the groans of the wounded soldiers.

Lan Shaozhong found several injured cavalry from the battlefield and simply coaxed and scared them. These people successively admitted that they were originally stationed in Xiangyang, but they just obeyed orders to come to Ezhou to "clear the king's side and serve the king". No matter how many of them were, they were confused. Cao Di secretly mobilized tens of thousands of troops, but the officials were kept in the dark. There was no warning from the prefectures and counties along the way. When Lan Shaozhong recalled, he couldn't help but start angry and reported the situation to Deng Su, and asked if he wanted to behead the rebels on the spot.

"Forget it." Deng Su's face was pale. He looked at the corpses on the ground and shook his hand.

Not far away, there were people secretly looking out from the crack in the door.

"It's so much, how can you get rid of it?" Deng Su shook his head and sighed in a low voice: "It's all my people from the Song Dynasty. The rebels have escaped a lot. Move these people to the side of the road and let's go out of the city." Lan Shaozhong nodded and said that the barricades of the Musket Battalion were built in a concise way. Without passing here, the rebels could not attack the Prime Minister's Mansion. On the contrary, the people in the inner city could not go out. This fierce battle drove the rebels away. The streets and alleys in the city of Ezhou were densely packed with streets and alleys, and there were nine gates in the southeast, west and north. The rebels had just arrived and were short of troops, so they would definitely not be able to take care of them one by one. The people in the rank of Fangshi were local tyrants. As long as they were careful and they were eight sure they could reach the outside of the city. Although the battle just now was fierce, there were not much casualties in the Musket Battalion. Only one of them died in the battle and two centurions were seriously injured. Lan Shaozhong immediately appointed officers to make up for the vacancies and selected a few clever ones to be scouts in front.

In the middle of the journey, he encountered rebel cavalry only several times, and were all avoided by dangerously. Finally, he left the city from a small water gate next to Hanyang Gate and entered Hanyang City by boat. Hanyang was still the renovated one of Zhao Xingde when he was in Ezhou. The city was small and strong, with two artillery battalions and four musket battalions stationed inside, all led by reliable officers. Chen Yuan, the Hanyang guard general, was a confidant who was promoted from the battalion commander and also Lan Shaozhong's old subordinate. As soon as he entered Hanyang Gate, Lan Shaozhong breathed a sigh of relief. He ordered his personal soldiers to summon Chen Yuan to see Deng Su immediately. However, when he quickly walked to Deng Su, he found that the prime minister's face was very pale. Then, Lan Shaozhong found that a dark red blood color was faintly revealed in the corner of Deng Su's robe.

"Mr. Deng," he turned his head and almost angrily asked the two personal soldiers who protected Deng Su, "What's going on?"

Although Lan Shaozhong respectfully acted like a guard in front of Deng Su, he was known as the Iron-faced King of Hell in the army. When he drank, the two personal soldiers were immediately frightened and could not speak. At this time, Deng Su smiled and said, "Shaozhong, don't blame them, it was the original commander who ordered them not to disturb the morale of the army." He said, and frowned, as if he took a breath of pain, and reached out to cover his waist. After pressing, Lan Shaozhong realized that the robe there was almost completely soaked in blood.

"Sir" Lan Shaozhong's voice almost cried.

"Just hit the trap," Deng Su smiled while sucking air, "So quickly summon Chen Yuan and ask him to prepare for a horse to provoke a rebellion. In addition, he ordered the eight camps outside the city to meet in Hanyang, and also sent paper and pen to my ministers."

He was injured while fighting in the city and was hit by a flying gun. At that time, blood was flowing. In order to avoid affecting the morale of the army, Deng Su forbidden the guards to make noises. The guards could only wrap the wounds for him quickly. Even the guns were not even enough to get out, so he ran on his back. During this period, Deng Su was often in a semi-coma state, and he forced himself to not completely lose consciousness. At this time, the pain became a helping force that prevented him from completely losing consciousness. For more than ten miles, Deng Su did not moan. In addition to briefly dealing with Lan Shaozhong's request, he just silently recited the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period in a low voice, which surprised even the guards carrying him. The blood-wiping sweat towel was replaced with several pieces. Such serious injuries were already so severe that ordinary people screamed in pain and fainted.

"Yes, sir." Lan Shaozhong bowed respectfully and said.

If it were ordinary, Deng Su must have waved his hand and said, "Go to do business." However, this time, the upper part was silent for a long time, without any sound.

He looked up and his face changed, holding Deng Su who had fainted and shouted: "Sir, Lord Deng!"

Deng Su's face was pale, similar to the wounded soldiers who were dying on the battlefield.

This expression was very familiar to Lan Shaozhong. He suppressed the panic in his heart and hurriedly asked Chen Yuan, who had just arrived, to invite the best doctor in Hanyang City, and issued a ban to his subordinates who knew about it. Deng Su was unconscious for a whole day and a night. The doctor cleaned his wounds again and dug out half a gun remaining in his body. The next night, Deng Su woke up and only explained two things, one was to let the eight camps outside Ezhou City concentrate in Hanyang, and the other was that Lu Yunsun, the political affairs officer who was the gangster, may be a conspirator of the gangster. Finally, Deng Su dictated another verbal manifesto, appointing Yue Fei as the Grand Marshal to fight against rebellion, and Han Shizhong as the deputy commander, calling on the troops and horses of the world to fight against rebellion. However, this manifesto was only half oral, and Deng Su fell into a coma again.

During this period, the doctor continued to get low fever. He knew that he had been infected with lead poison. How to drive away the poison was a detrimental recipe. It was a shame that the auspicious people had their own nature. Lan Shaozhong could not, so he could only wait and hire famous doctors to treat them. The situation was imminent. During the three days when Deng Su was unconscious, the eight battalions outside Ezhou City arrived one after another, and more than 30,000 troops gathered in Hanyang City. However, the heads of the eight armies each had their backers. Although they were usually respectful to Lan Shaozhong and the officers, it was also based on Deng Su's face behind him. At this time, Deng Su's life and death were uncertain, and it was difficult for Lan Shaozhong to coordinate the army. He had no name and had no ability to dispatch this army to counterattack the rebels. No one wanted to fight the front line, so he could only gather in Hanyang and watch the rebels occupy Ezhou. A few days later, the Xiangyang army arrived, and Cao Di immediately surrounded Hanyang City, but the attack had not yet begun.

From Xiangyang to Ezhou, there were 73,000 people when the army set out. They rushed all the way. When they arrived in Ezhou, there were still 56,000 people left. Because they had been exhausted for several days, the officers and soldiers were exhausted and had no fighting spirit. Therefore, Cao Di did not blindly force his subordinates to attack the city. In his opinion, the gangsters in Hanyang City, Deng Su were in a turtle in the jar. Looking at the world, he had more important things to do, which was to re-establish the imperial power. The first thing he did when he entered Ezhou was to care about the granary of the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War. Although most of the grain storage was transported north, the grain stored in the warehouse was still enough for the army to support it for a year, which made Cao Di feel relieved.

When Deng Su was besieged in Hanyang City, it was difficult to communicate with the outside world. Now, Cao Di felt that only one edict was needed, and the people in the world would be rectified.

However, more than ten days passed, and dozens of edicts were sent out, and only one or two were given congratulations were received. Cao Di realized that the matter was far from as simple as he thought.

In addition to the followers who fled with Deng Su, most of the civil servants of the six departments of the court were stranded in Ezhou City. At the beginning, Cao Di did not take these people seriously at all. He thought that the big things were settled and the imperial power was above. Those who were entrusted with the court's salary would cry and shout to come and serve. Then they would be distinguished from each other and use them one by one. However, he never expected that in just one day, most of the ministers and ministers of the six departments would escape, and the rest would be closed to thank the guests like dead people.

, obviously did not intend to cooperate with Cao Di. Not only that, even Lu Yunsun, the deputy governor who had always supported Cao Di in the court, was unwilling to come out to preside over the political affairs hall. If it were not for the emperor's summons, Lu Yunsun would not even want to see Cao Di at all. He sighed in front of the emperor, saying that Cao Di's return to the army without authorization not only delayed the major events of the Northern Expedition, but also made the court uncontrollable. In the end, after His Majesty's repeated requests, Lu Yunsun reluctantly agreed to the position of "temporary acting" prime minister.

Just when Cao Di breathed a sigh of relief and thought that this old peddler could clean up the situation for him, he did not expect that the real trouble had just begun.

After the states refused to submit a letter to the emperor Cao to rectify the trouble, they were still watching each other. Chen Dong and Wu Zilong, who had retired, published articles one after another, publicly accused Cao Di of violating the great etiquette. Wu Zilong's articles were particularly fierce. He said that Cao Di expelled the prime minister for being unrighteous. He did not listen to the orders of the Ministry of War to fight against the enemy north, which was disloyal and equivalent to rebellion. On the surface, he was under the banner of clearing the monarchy, but in fact he thought that the ruler was weak and wanted to alienate the monarchy and his ministers, and wanted to repeat the story of Cao Cao using the emperor to command the princes in the late Han Dynasty. These two articles were like throwing two matches into a pile of gunpowder barrels, spreading all over the country for several days. Wu Zilong's article was more intense and happy, and was passed down by word of mouth among the neighbors, and its influence even exceeded Chen Dong.

Someone used a pigeon book to pass on Wu Zilong's manifesto at a price of one or two silvers, and he wanted to see it everywhere.

In various state schools, county schools, and private schools and teahouses, scholars who were already ready to move seemed to have received orders, and articles that rebuked Cao Di for rebelling and usurping the throne were covered with snow.

Someone joked that if a thousand men were referring to it and died without success, Cao Di would probably be a dead person.

This was just the beginning. On the second day after the articles of Chen and Wu were published, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Quanzhou issued a report on the same day, saying that Cao Di was a rioter who held Your Majesty hostage. Because Your Majesty was hostage by Cao Pirates, all the imperial edicts were not signed by Deng Su, so they could not become formal emperor orders, but "disordered". In order not to allow the taxes paid to fall into Cao Di's hands to help the evildoer, these three states intercepted the taxes themselves, and called on all prefectures and counties in the world to "not be subject to disorderly orders". The provincial students sent another person to Hangzhou to discuss together.
Chapter completed!