Chapter 415 The Xuanwu Gate Incident (1)
On July 2, 626, the fourth day of the sixth lunar month, in the early morning, outside the Xuanwu Gate of the palace of the Li Tang Dynasty, which had just been born for nine years, a tragedy of brothers killing each other. The entire incident involved hundreds of lives, and even shook the Tang Dynasty's rule in Hebei. This is the famous "Xuanwu Gate Incident" in Chinese history.
What was the cause of this palace? After Emperor Gaozu of Tang ascended the throne, he appointed Li Jian as the crown prince, Li Shimin as the king of Qin, and Li Yuanji as the king of Qi. Among the three, Li Shimin made the greatest contribution. Prince Jiancheng knew that his prestige was not as good as Li Shimin, so he was jealous, so he joined forces with his younger brother King Yuanji of Qi to exclude Li Shimin. Helpless Li Shimin planned the "Xuanwu Gate Incident" for this, killing the crown prince Li Jiancheng and King Li Yuanji of Qi in one fell swoop, and being appointed as the new crown prince and inheriting the throne.
For Li Shimin, if there was no Xuanwu Gate Incident, there would be no such thing as an emperor. If there was no Xuanwu Gate Incident, there would be no Zhenguan governance. But it has to be said that the Xuanwu Gate Incident was also a bloody bloody coup, a tragedy of brothers and sisters tragic.
At this time, inside Xuanwu Gate.
Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji left the guards outside Xuanwu Gate, and only a dozen personal guards rode into the palace with the two of them.
The Xuanwu Gate behind them was closed, without knowing that they had been completely isolated from external contact. When they came to the vicinity of Linhu Hall, they suddenly found a horse shadow flashing.
Li Yuanji was originally uneasy and frightened. This time it became even stronger. The hairs on his body stood up, and his heart seemed to be pinched, constantly deepening, making him feel like he was about to suffocate.
He immediately called Li Jiancheng.
"Brother, something is wrong!" Li Yuanji was already extremely uneasy.
"This..." After Li Yuanji reminded him, Li Jianzhen felt something was wrong. Not only was there no one around, but it was also particularly quiet. The silence made people creepy, as if the murderous aura in the air had begun to spread everywhere...
"Brother, the situation is wrong. Let's exit the palace quickly and make plans!" Li Yuanji whispered again at this time. The general's intuition made him feel a very strong murderous intent, and this murderous aura became stronger and stronger.
Li Jiancheng had already felt a strong sense of crisis coming towards him, and even his forehead was already filled with cold sweat.
Li Jiancheng did not hesitate at all and immediately ordered: "Okay! Guard me and the King of Qi, and immediately withdraw from the palace!"
However, in this case, suddenly a gloomy and familiar voice sounded in front of him.
"Brother, fourth brother, since you have arrived, why are you in a hurry to leave?"
The two brothers felt a big deal, so they looked in the direction of the sound, and saw Li Er, with his confidant general, followed by the eight hundred Qin King guards, and rushed towards them with murderous intent.
Li Yuanji's heart suddenly sank into the bottom of the valley. He knew very well what they were about to face and shouted in horror: "No, the second brother is going to rebel, brother, let's run away!"
Li Jiancheng knew that they were running away without any rush, so he sat on the horse's back and did not move. After watching Li Er take people to approach, he said, "Second brother, what are you going to do?"
"What I want to do, brother, don't you know yet?" Li Er sneered and looked at Li Jiancheng with an indescribable madness.
At this time, Li Jiancheng replied calmly. He connected several things together. He understood that the King of Qin falsely accused him of having an affair with the concubine in the palace, but in fact, he asked his father to start tracing the reason, confronting them, and finally setting up an ambush at Xuanwu Gate. In fact, everything was a conspiracy against them.
It seems that the guards of Xuanwu Gate have become treacherous. Why aren't they allowed to bring the guards into the palace? Judging from the situation today, they are going to kill themselves and the King of Qi.
Thinking of this, Li Jiancheng was stunned like a stone man, sweating like rain. He already knew that there was a lot of luck today.
Li Yuanji was even more unbearable, even his lips were trembling, and he had already predicted his fate.
Li Jiancheng advised in a deep voice: "Second brother, it's not your thing. Even if you fight for it, it may not be a good thing. Don't be confused and make a big mistake! Do something that will kill each other."
On the one hand, he also wanted to use this to delay time. As for escaping, he never thought that the commander of Xuanwu Sect behind him could almost conclude that he had betrayed him. At this time, Xuanwu Sect must have been closed. It was impossible for them to fight out with less than twenty of them.
Li Shimin responded with a cold smile when he responded to Li Jiancheng's words. Then, he slowly took off the longbow hanging on the saddle and answered his elder brother's words with his actions. With his actions, the guards of the King of Qin held the bows and arrows in their hands and aimed the bows and arrows at them without hesitation. The people leading these soldiers were Yuchi Gong, Changsun Wuji and others.
"Swoosh!swoosh!..."
"Let me go!" With Li Er's order, the soldiers pulling the bowstring suddenly released their fingers, and sharp arrows shot towards Li Jiancheng and others like lightning.
The two guards were all masters in the army. They used their weapons to dial the feather arrows, and at the same time they tried their best to protect Li Jiancheng and the King of Qi, and stood in front of them. Although these guards had excellent martial arts skills, after a round of bows and arrows, several guards fell to the ground, not knowing their lives or death.
Since we were secretly transporting weapons into the palace, there were not many bows and arrows this time. Fortunately, there were not many archers, otherwise they could be shot into hornet's nests in the first round.
Li Jiancheng saw that there was a palace not far from them. As long as they could enter the palace now, they could use the terrain of the palace to resist for a while, and then find another way, or wait for reinforcements to come and rescue.
Li Jiancheng shouted loudly and said, "Everyone hurry up and retreat to the palace!"
"Kill!" After hearing the elder brother's order, Li Yuanji immediately roared and led everyone to rush over. Although the feather arrow shot like raindrops at this time, it was either dodged by him or pushed aside with his weapons. When he had no choice but to dodge, he could only try his best to dodge the vitals and resist. For a moment, he was hit by several arrows, but Li Yuanji still killed in the direction of the palace.
Unfortunately, before they rushed to the front of the palace, an arrow shot Li Jiancheng's mount. The horse was injured and the person stood up. Li Jiancheng was overturned to the ground on the spot.
"Kill! Li Er took the lead and chased after him with a fierce momentum, followed by the strong man Yuchi Jingde, who was like a black-faced evil spirit.
Li Jiancheng didn't care about the injuries he had suffered after being thrown, so he got up from the ground and ran away. He didn't pay attention to his feet. When the obstacles were mixed, Li Jiancheng staggered and fell to the ground. Waiting for him to get up, Yuchi Gong came over with a steel knife and shouted wildly: "Leave your life."
"Puchi!"
Li Jiancheng's head was cut off by Yuchi Gong's sharp knife, and his body and head were different.
When King Li Yuanji of Qi saw his elder brother's head and his face was so scared that he was no longer looking. He ignored nothing now. Without saying a word, he turned his horse's head and ran away in a panic.
Unfortunately, he didn't escape far and was shot by the subsequent archer, and he fell off the horse's back.
After a fight, the two guards were killed and injured, and Li Yuanji was surrounded by everyone.
"Second brother! Don't kill me." Li Yuanji hugged Li Er's legs and begged hard.
Li Er looked at Li Yuanji and struggled extremely.
Du Ruhui looked at Li Er, clasped his fists and said, "Your Highness, if you don't make up your mind, will there be endless troubles?"
Li Er closed his eyes and thought of the two of them poisoning him in the prince's uterus. He looked at Li Yuanji coldly, his eyes turned red, and he said sternly: "Kill!"
After hearing Li Er's order to kill him, Li Yuanji cursed: "Your second, you must die well. I curse your son to rebel..."
"Puchi!" With a knife, Li Yuanji's words had not finished scolding, but the head was cut off by the King of Qin's subordinates, and his body and head were different.
Li Erhong looked at the two who were killed and ordered: "Open Xuanwu Gate and let the soldiers outside enter the palace, and other generals lead troops to occupy all the yamen in the city."
"No!" The confidant general responded in unison.
"Zhijie, you and Zhang Shigui lead troops to the East Palace and Wude Hall..." Speaking of this, Li Er said with a ferocious and fierce light on his face: "Don't kill me, no matter how you keep the chickens and dogs."
"Here!"
"Here!"
Cheng Zhijie and Zhang Shigui took the order and left.
At this time, Li Xiuning, who was in the villa, was panicked and didn't know how to deal with it. She remembered that her brother and brother were fratricidal, which made her feel even more heartbroken.
After crying for a while, Li Xiuning said angrily: "Li Xueyi, you go to Yaozhou immediately and gather all the soldiers of the Detachment of Women's Army, and then kill into Chang'an City to avenge your elder brother and fourth brother."
"It's a lady!" Li Xueyi stood straight and saluted the military salute.
Li Xueyi did not turn around and leave, but asked, "Miss, how to arrange the battle next?"
Li Xiuning was at a loss and said, "I will take hundreds of personal guards from other courtyards to Chang'an first. After you bring the army back, you can meet with us directly. Let's talk about it then!"
"Take hundreds of personal guards into Chang'an City?" Li Xueyi's face was very heavy and he hurriedly said, "Miss, what should I do if those people are red-eyed when they kill you?"
Li Xiuning lamented and said, "Let's talk about it then? I don't know what to do?"
Li Xueyi frowned and turned to look at Li Yu. He saw his son-in-law sitting on the sofa with a big golden sword, his face gloomy and wondering what he was thinking?
Li Xueyi winked at his lady asking for help from the person beside him, but Li Xiuning seemed not to see it and turned her face aside.
He understood that it must be because the son-in-law did not stop the incident, which made the lady angry with the son-in-law, which was why it was unwilling to ask for the son-in-law.
Li Yu shook his head, took out the monster bag, threw it to Li Xueyi, and said, "Go to you, go quickly!"
Li Xueyi quickly took the monster bag and understood what his son-in-law meant. He asked himself to put the soldiers in the monster bag and bring them over.
He looked at the lady and son-in-law and ignored each other, shook his head helplessly, turned around and left.
When Li Xiuning saw Li Xueyi leave, she turned around and stared at the calm and deep-skinned Li Yu.
Li Yu looked at her with anger on his face. Today he was extremely dissatisfied with Li Xiuning's performance. He was only in the Golden Pill stage and could easily kill tens of thousands of bandits. Her current strength was one level higher than that time. In fact, she could solve this problem alone. Today, she was at a loss and wasted her identity as a monk.
(This month, I have been writing about one chapter every day for more than half a year. I need to stop, recharge and prepare the next book.)
Chapter completed!