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16. Fire From Dragon Fault

In the end, Hun Yu and Zhang Guangsheng only found two or three hundred Jinwu Guard soldiers and ran to Yanying Palace.

The emperor was still waiting in Yanying's Palace, and asked eunuchs Huo Zhongtang and Tan Zhizhong to call the Shen Ce Tong and the Six Arms of the Northern Yamen in the forbidden gardens on both sides of the Daming Palace.

"Your Majesty, where is there any troops to be summoned!" Duan Xiushi made a quick decision and rushed forward with Yan Zhenqing and other ministers, pulling out of Yanying Hall with the endless calls from Li Shi. His Highness Lu Qi and Guan Bo were still kneeling there.

At this time, Huo Zhongtang and Tan Zhizhong ran back. They actually pulled dozens of horses from the Feilong Stable of Xuanwu Gate. More than a hundred eunuchs living near Zuoyintai Gate and Longshou Hall, holding various "weapons", followed Huo Hetan, shouting for escorts.

At this time, in the Dong Shaoyang Courtyard, the Crown Prince Li Song, the Imperial Concubine Xiao, and dozens of palace servants, also rushed to Yanying Hall.

This is the first time that many ministers have seen the crown prince himself.

When the prince saw his father, he cried and then pushed his son out. Li Shi hurriedly stepped forward and held Changsun's hand.

"Your Majesty, please take the emperor's grandson and let the child come to the palace." Then the weak prince stood up, turned around and drew his sword, and shouted to the eunuchs and Jinwu's children who gathered over: "Don't let the thieves break into the forbidden garden!"

Before he finished speaking, Guo Ziyi's son Si Nong Shaoqing Guo Shu led dozens of family members, servants, riding horses and carrying bows and arrows, and came from the north in panic. When he came to Yanying Hall, he shouted that Li Huaiguang had already attacked the Northern Yamen and Xuanwu Gate, and His Majesty was not leaving quickly!

At the same time, Bai Zhizhen, the envoy of Shen Ce, came over with three or four hundred soldiers. When he saw the emperor, he shouted: "Your Majesty, go quickly, I will come to the palace."

"Bai Qing misled me!" The emperor stomped his feet in hatred, and then was helped by Duan Xiushi on his horse, then lit up torches. The emperor shouted immediately: "King Shu drives forward, the prince's palace behind... go out to Fengtian City." So King Shu also stepped on his horse and shouted with a group of ministers and went out towards the Xi Neiyuan.

"Don't let the thief break the Xiwei Bridge first." At this time, Duan Xiushi turned over and galloped out first.

"My concubine, where is my concubine?" The emperor who was surrounded and ran out realized that his wife was missing. "Where is Tang An, Yiyang, Tang An and Yiyang?"

Outside Xuanwu Gate, the torch held by Li Huaiguang's Changwu Army shone brightly on the sky and earth. It was full of fire. The tail dragged the blue-gray smoke, drawing dense trajectories in the twilight, and continuously shot into the towering Xuanwu Gate and the North Yamen Tower. Flames began to burst out from the roofs, pillars, window lattices and other places, and then gathered into a raging fire, swallowing all the buildings.

In the royal garden workshops in Beiyuan, Changwu soldiers ran around everywhere. Some of them were busy plundering and destroying, while others were demolishing houses and cutting trees, creating siege hammers and ladders, and the howling sound was like thunder.

The military appearance of Zhai Wenxiu called out to the sky and the earth. He was hung and tied to a high pole like a mast, with wheels pushing under it, more than twenty feet above the ground. The angry Changwu Army soldier cursed and kept shooting the fire arrows in his hand at him. Zhai Wenxiu first twisted his body and was shot like a porcupine. Then the fire in his body ignited and gradually turned into a torch screaming. After the rope was burned, the fire fell to the front of Xuanwu Gate like a meteor and was wiped out.

"Shi Yanfen, I will give you five hundred elite cavalry and quickly break the Xiwei Bridge and prevent the saint from going west - if the saint carries out of Beijing, then I will not be able to wash it clearly. As long as the saint does not leave Beijing, we will be the merits of clearing the emperor." Looking at the Daming Palace where the fire is soaring into the sky, Li Huaiguang hurriedly told the general whom he trusts the most.

Shi Yanfen took the order and left.

At this time, Gao Yue and the three princesses rushed to the Jinwu Courtyard, "Your Majesty has already traveled west!" Looking at the chaos in the palace, Gao Yue shouted.

At this time, a strong man rushed over from the Dragon Shou Hall and pulled a car with a famous old woman, a young woman, and two children, "My benefactor, benefactor, you saved me again this time, otherwise I would lose my virginity!"

The visitor was Cai Fonu. After reporting the message to Li Sheng, he stayed in the Shence Military Camp of Guangtai Sect. After receiving the news from Gao Yue, he took Xiruan and the whole family without hesitation and headed straight out to the west. At this time, he happened to meet his benefactor.

There were more than a dozen Shence Army soldiers running out from the same place next to him.

It happened to be just right, and Gao Yue hurriedly asked them to protect themselves and the princesses.

When they rushed to Jixianyuan, Xu Hao, Chen Jing, Lu Shiyue and other former colleagues, as well as Pei Yanling, all of them were panicked and climbed up the walls, and they were all covered in dust. Gao Yue asked these people to go out of the city and walk towards Fengtian City, which was west of the city.

In the Hanlin Attendant Courtyard, Sang Daomao also ran out with everyone and saw Gao Yue riding a horse. "Master Sang, please go west and go to Fengtian City!"

Sang Daomao calculated with his fingers and found that he was not good for Qian's position today, so he did not listen to Gao Yue, but walked south with the Yin and Yang masters, chess masters, and doctors of the Hanlin.

At this moment, the emperor had rushed to the Jiacheng outside the gate of Youyintai, where Jiang Gongfu and Lu Zhi ran out.

Jiang Gongfu immediately knelt in front of the emperor's horse, "Your Majesty must prepare for the future. Have you ever summoned the troops of Jingyuan and Fengxiang to Beijing before?"

Li Shi hurriedly said yes, but before he arrived in the capital, Li Huaiguang became rebellious.

Jiang Gongfu suggested: "Your Majesty can quickly let the thief-capturing officials from Jingzhao Prefecture kill Zhu Li, the Grand Marshal in Zhaoguofang, otherwise Zhu Li would be resentful and incite Jingyuan and Fengxiang's army, even if Your Majesty reaches Fengtian, he will not be at peace."

Lu Zhi also advised: "Your Majesty, now Fengxiang's army Sima is still Zhu Li's former general Li Chulin. Zhang Zhonglang (Zhang Yi) appointed to guard the town is a civil servant. If Li Chulin makes a violent rebellion, Feng Xiang will be in danger!"

Li Shi shouted, "It's too late! (It's too late, don't you see me busy running for life? I don't even care about my wife and daughter, and I can still care about Zhu Li and Zhang Yi?" Then he whipped his grandson Li Chun behind the saddle, and rushed straight through the right Yintai Gate. Jiang Gongfu and Lu Zhi could only run and follow him.

What's strange is that the little Li Chun was lying on the horse, acting very calm, and did not cry or make a fuss.

About a moment later, Gao Yue and a group of people rushed to the gate of the Right Yintai. At this time, Tang An heard a woman calling her in the corner of a palace.

"My mother!"

I saw the noble lady wearing a tunic running over panting, "Tang An, there is a seal here that Your Majesty has not yet taken away. Mother, I will return to the bedroom and snatch it out."

This woman is Li Shi's wife, also known as the Imperial Concubine Wang.
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