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Chapter 770: Siege(1/2)

"PS: I took my family to climb the mountain today. I can't hold on until now. Let's write about the rest tomorrow. Well, I may have to write a brief description. After all, this battle is not suitable for a detailed description... I am so annoying that I will never write about such a sedentary protagonist in the future, and there are various restrictions."

————The following text——

"Princess, something is wrong..."

Just as Xiangrui was thinking about his thoughts happily, another rash palace maid ran in panic.

"What's up?"

The princess immediately raised her face.

She had made up her mind that if the palace maid who came here at this moment was also talking nonsense about Zhou Hu, she would definitely open the girl's butt.

However, to her surprise, the palace maid said anxiously: "Princess, Your Majesty fainted..."

"What?"

When the princess heard this, she changed her expression and sat up on the couch.

Although there are actually many people in this palace who can be regarded as her relatives, in fact, the concubines in the palace, including the uncle of the prince Li Xu and the cousin of the princess Li Xin, are just strangers in the eyes of the princess.

Only her grandfather, Emperor Jin, who loved her since childhood and doting on her, was the only family she recognized in Handan.

Now that I learned that this grandfather fainted, how could the princess not be worried?

So she quickly put on her clothes, stepped on her boots and ran out of the hall.

At this time, Takagi and Gong Jiao had already learned about the incident outside the city and had already taken people to guard the hall. Seeing the princess running out of the hall with a anxious look, the two hurriedly came forward.

"Where is the princess?"

"The situation in Handan is tense at the moment, so please stay in the hall."

The princess reached out and pushed away Takagi who was trying to stop him, and said anxiously: "Go aside, Takagi, I am going to visit His Majesty Grandpa..."

"this……"

Takagi's face showed a look of embarrassment.

In fact, he also heard that the emperor fainted in Daxing Palace. Although he was worried about it, he was not the palace guard in Daxing Palace after all. His mission was to protect the princess in front of him.

The Liangzhou army is currently rebelling and is attacking Handan on a large scale. No one can guarantee whether the Liangzhou army can invade the city. How dare Takagi let the princess run around at this time?

Gong Jiao beside him actually thought so. The reason why he was sent by He Shun to the princess this time was to protect the safety of this princess. After all, this princess will most likely become one of their mistresses, or one of the chief wives in the future. How dare Gong Jiao let the princess take risks?

However, they could not persuade the princess in the end. In desperation, they had no choice but to protect the princess to visit the emperor of Jin.

After half a stick of incense, the princess hurriedly ran in the palace with her hands in her Luoshang, running all the way from Luanming Hall to Daxing Hall, and the palace guards he encountered along the way turned around.

I have to say that this is the first time that this princess, who has been pampered since childhood, has been so disgraced and has run quickly in the palace with a silk skirt. In the past, this princess has not been in a jade carriage carved with blue birds and entered the palace?

When the princess came to the side hall of Daxing Hall panting, the Emperor of Jin who had fainted for a while had actually woken up and was lying on the couch to receive the diagnosis of the imperial doctor.

In fact, in general, the physical condition of this emperor of Jin was quite strong. His previous fainting was just a moment of anger.

After all, no matter how tough the emperor is in his physical condition, he is over 60 years old, so he can't withstand the major stimulation.

The imperial doctor here just ordered someone to make a bowl of calming the spirit, but Princess Xiangrui rushed into the hall in a hurry, and shouted breathlessly: "Where is your Majesty Grandpa? Your Majesty Grandpa? Xiangrui is here..."

The voice of Princess Xiangrui was vaguely heard. The emperor, who had originally looked a little tired and weak, seemed to be cheering up suddenly, and immediately ordered the eunuchs next to him to invite the princess into the house.

As soon as he entered the house, the princess saw the emperor lying on the couch, exclaimed, ran to the couch a few steps, and asked with a look of shock: "Grandmad, how are you doing? Don't have anything to do..."

Seeing her beloved granddaughter's cheeks were red, her forehead was sweating, and she was breathless when she spoke, how could Emperor Jin guess that she was rushing to come?

While feeling relieved, he let his granddaughter hold his hand, then patted the back of his granddaughter with his other hand, and said with a smile: "I have nothing to do, I just..."

Speaking of this, he remembered again the reason why he was angry and fainted, and his expression became a little ugly. However, he did not want to scare the princess, so he restrained it and patted the back of the princess' hand again and comforted: "I have nothing to do, I don't need to worry about my auspiciousness..."

"That's good." The princess breathed a sigh of relief.

I have to say that although the princess once said that she wanted to kill the two uncles of the Crown Prince Li Xu and the Third Prince Li Qian, and even wanted her father, Juancheng Hou, to seize the throne, she never thought of not being good for the grandfather in front of her.

It is no exaggeration to say that her feelings for Emperor Jin were deeper than her biological parents, the Hou and the Hou of Juancheng.

And at this moment, a eunuch suddenly hurried into the inner world to report: "Your Majesty, a court inspector from the palace came to report, saying that there was something important..."

"Can the Liangzhou army attack the city?"

When Emperor Jin heard this, he suddenly felt frightened. He subconsciously listened, but did not hear any fighting sounds.

He breathed a sigh of relief and nodded, "Call him in."

"yes!"

A moment later, a middle-aged man dressed in a general walked into the hall quickly, knocking on the ground and reporting: "Zhong Wu has seen Your Majesty."

"Um."

Emperor Jin nodded and asked immediately: "When?"

The Zhong Sixun hesitated for a moment before he explained carefully: "Just now, His Highness the Crown Prince brought the guards of the East Palace and called a team of palace guards to leave the palace, saying yes... said yes... said yes... said that he wanted to capture His Highness the Third Prince and order the Liangzhou army to withdraw his troops."

Hearing this, the officials standing on the other side of the emperor's sickbed looked at each other, and the emperor even felt angry on his face.

Capturing the third prince Li Qian and forcing the Liangzhou army to retreat?!

Is it possible?

It is undeniable that Yang Xiong's mutiny may have partly been to help his nephew Li Qian seize the throne, but since Yang Xiong has taken this step of treason, it is impossible to stop halfway, because there are only two results waiting for him: either successfully support the third prince Li Qian as the new king, and Li Qian pardon his mutiny; if it fails, then wait for him to be punished for the crime of treason, which will harm the entire Yang family of Liangzhou.

In this case, let alone capture the third prince Li Qian, even if he kills the latter, Yang Xiong would never stop there - because the other party has no way out.

Unless the Emperor of Jin pardoned his crimes... but this is impossible. The crime of treason and rebellion will never be tolerated by the kings of all dynasties, and Yang Xiong is also very clear.

Because there is no way out, the Yang brothers will not stop there anyway. In this case, if the third prince Li Qian is alive, the other party will probably support this nephew to succeed the throne. The best result is that the Yang brothers will choose one of his sons as a puppet.

Perhaps it was his sixth son, Li Liang, the Marquis of Juancheng, or someone else.

What's more, maybe Yang Xiong will do it without stopping...

In short, under the current circumstances, it seems that it is almost useless to capture the third prince Li Qian and use him to threaten the Yang brothers in the eyes of Emperor Jin.

The emperor immediately lowered his face and scolded: "Nothing! Isn't it embarrassing enough?"

After saying that, he said to the censor Zhang Wei in a deep voice: "Zhang Qing, immediately lead a team from the palace to stop the prince, and bring the prince and his three sons Li Qian to the palace together!"

"Yes!" Censor Zhang bowed his order.

Looking at the back of the Censor Zhang leaving hurriedly, Emperor Jin breathed a long sigh and suddenly felt very tired, even a little dazed.

In recent years, the national destiny of Jin State has been getting worse every year.

First, the Chu Marquis Yang Gu colluded with local rebels south of the Yangtze River to rebel, sweeping half of the world. He finally wiped out all the rebels of Jiangdong. As a result, another Zhao Bohu appeared, killing Han Jun and Zhang Jing and the Chen Jun and Wuhu of Chen Jun. He led the Jiangdong rebels to rekindle and became a major concern for the court.

Then the bandits of Mount Tai attacked Handan...

Now, the Liangzhou Army, the reinforcement army invited by the imperial court, actually rebelled...

『Is it true that my Jin Dynasty has arrived?』

Emperor Jin's eyes were a little dazed, and a figure who could not see clearly appeared in his mind.

That was the "best evil" he imagined - the little tiger in the "Two Tiger Prophecy" and Shen Hu!

The Emperor of Jin strongly suspected that the various disagreements in Jin State in recent years were mostly caused by this guy behind him.

What's hateful is that he still doesn't know where the little tiger is hiding.

Seeing that the face of Emperor Jin suddenly became gloomy and terrifying, Princess Xiangrui was also startled and held her grandfather's hand to comfort her: "Your Majesty, don't worry, Zhou Hu will definitely come to rescue him... He doesn't die so easily."

Emperor Jin looked at the princess in surprise and nodded slightly for a while.

In this situation, if Zhou Hu was lucky enough to have not been harmed by the Yang brothers, it might be one of the few blessings.

At the same time, Zhou Hu—or Zhao Yu—was sitting in a party room in the Yangping County Government Office, lying on a chair with his feet raised.

In front of him, the Wei County Magistrate Han Zhan was walking back and forth with anxiety on his face, muttering: "What should I do... What should I do..."

At this time, they were trapped in Yangping City.

Although there are more than 4,000 soldiers of the Lu Ben army from Cao Wu, and the Wei County Army and the minor injured people still have about two or three thousand people, the problem is that there are more enemy soldiers outside the city. In addition to the 20,000 infantry of the Liangzhou army led by Yang Mian, there are more than 4,000 Liangzhou cavalry.

If it were just like this, it would be fine. The problem is that even the Tai bandits from Dongwuyang came to join in the fun, and they joined forces with about 6,700 people and Yang Mian. The two sides joined forces to trap them in Yangping City.

Under such circumstances, they had no way to help Handan, and they could not even send a message of "Liangzhou Army Rebellion".

However, is it really impossible?

Actually, it is not the case.

In fact, Zhao Yu could take Yang Mian's life at any time - as long as he gave Zhang Zhai an instruction.

But he didn't want to do this, at least not yet, because he first wanted the third prince Li Qian to seize the throne by force, and to use the hands of Yang Xiong, Li Qian and others to get rid of the prince Li Qian. I think about it and know that since the third prince Li Qian was not in a proper position, it would be impossible to keep the prince Li Qian. Even the eldest grandson Li Xin, Li Qian, would not let him go.

Forced the father and the elder brother to kill the new king who was as unjust as the third prince Li Qian, naturally it would not be possible to get the recognition of Grand Master Chen, Zou Zan, Xue Ao and others.

There is no doubt that Grand Master Chen and the Five Tigers of Chenmen will inevitably stand opposite to the Third Prince Li Qian.

In this case, as long as Li Qian doesn't want to sit and wait for death, he will inevitably issue an edict in the name of the new king to deprive Chen Taishi and the five tigers of the Chen family, and even falsely accusing Chen Taishi and others on false charges.

If Grand Master Chen, Zou Zan, Xue Ao and others were discouraged and quit their military power, it would be better. However, after thinking about it, Zhao Yu did not think that Grand Master Chen and Zan would give in at this time - but that would be fine. At least in this way, his brother Zhao Bohu would have bought some time. When the matter in Handan was resolved, it would be difficult for Jiangdong Yishi to eradicate it.

And this is probably going to happen a few years later.
To be continued...
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