Qizhou Governor's Office.
The emperor also noticed that the atmosphere in the Governor's Office was a little different in the past two days.
Yesterday he heard a lot of noise on the other side of the Governor's Office. When he went over to see, he only saw a lot of people carrying boxes.
The emperor didn't ask much, but he knew that Ma Zhiyuan was preparing to deal with him.
There was no rest here at night.
But just after midnight, a fire suddenly broke out on the northwest courtyard side, which was quite sweeping everything.
"Father, Ma Zhiyuan has taken action!" Li Ke rushed in with a nervous look on his face.
Li Ke himself was not afraid, he was just worried about the emperor's safety.
What Li Ke did not expect was that Ma Zhiyuan and the others took the initiative to ignite the Governor's Office.
Zhao Chen had this plan before, hoping that the emperor would escape smoothly under the cover of the fire.
But now it seems that Ma Zhiyuan also wants to burn them to death with a fire.
This has also reduced them a lot of trouble.
"They actually wanted to burn me to death with fire, which was cruel." The emperor said lightly, standing at the door and looking at the fire in front of him, not knowing what he was thinking.
The emperor didn't know what he was thinking, but Li Ke was worried now.
Their current situation is not very good. If they are accidentally burned to death by the fire, it would be a joke.
"Father, should we rush out now?"
"A little later, the fire will burn us all to death!" Li Ke and the emperor persuaded.
Li Ke felt that it was very likely that they would rush out now while the fire just started.
If you leave the corpses you prepared here before then, it will be able to cover up their whereabouts well.
"Now, rush out, that's to be a target for Ma Zhiyuan and the others to shoot."
"Since they took the initiative to set fire, they naturally would not let us rush out."
"Now the gate of the Governor's Office is probably full of crossbowmen..."
"Your Majesty, there are all archers at the door, and our people can't rush out at all!" As soon as the emperor finished speaking, a soldier from the Northern Imperial Army ran and said.
Li Ke's expression changed slightly.
This is a little different from their previous plan.
"Father, what should I do now?" Li Ke was somewhat out of control.
He was very worried about the emperor's safety, and it was because of this that he was at a loss.
The emperor waved his hands with the Northern Imperial Army soldiers.
After the soldiers of the Northern Imperial Army retreated, the emperor looked at Li Ke and said, "Go and hang the body on the beam of the house. If you are similar to you, put it on the ground beside you."
The soldiers of the Northern Imperial Army were willing to die for the emperor.
When he learned of the emperor's plan, many people wanted to commit suicide to help the emperor escape.
The emperor had no choice. The Governor's Office had strict investigations before, so it was completely impossible to bring the body in.
Li Ke nodded and quickly disposed of the two bodies.
Then he returned to the emperor and waited for the emperor's next order.
But after a while, Li Ke did not wait for the emperor to speak, and he couldn't help but feel a little surprised: "Father, what's next?"
"Next?" The emperor seemed to come back to his senses.
"Let's wait here next." said the emperor.
"Wait?" Li Ke was stunned.
What are you waiting for here?
Waiting to die?
...
"Zhao Da, look at the direction of the Qizhou Governor's Office!" In the restaurant, Zhao Chen and Cheng Chumo stood at the window.
Suddenly, Cheng Chumo and Zhao Chen pointed in the direction of the Qizhou Governor's Office.
Zhao Chen looked in the direction Cheng Chumo pointed, and saw a fire suddenly soaring into the sky in the distance.
The huge fire illuminated the night sky in the direction of the Governor's Office.
"Cheng Er, go to the city gate and put the soldiers of the Zhechong Mansion in Huangzhou into the city. I will go to the Governor's Office to stare at it." Zhao Chen and Cheng Er said.
Zhao Chen is also not sure about Ma Zhiyuan's specific action time.
He just guessed that it might be possible in these two days.
So I kept talking to Cheng Chumo here, but I didn't expect that Ma Zhiyuan and the others would attack the emperor just after midnight.
Cheng Chumo nodded, and then jumped out of the window.
The door of the restaurant has been blocked by the inn shopkeeper, so he can only go down from here.
Zhao Chen glanced at Cheng Chumo who had disappeared into the darkness, and then jumped down from the window.
...
"All of you must give me a spirit to guard the city gate."
"No matter who it is, if you dare to have someone close to the city gate, you will be killed without any hesitation!"
At the gate of Qi County, Huang Duwei of Zhechong Prefecture looked at the sky-crowing fire in the direction of the Governor's Office in the distance, and smiled, then turned around and said to dozens of soldiers guarding the city.
"Yes!" the soldiers all responded loudly.
They didn't know what they were doing, but Huang Duwei was their commander, and they would do whatever Huang Duwei asked them to do!
Captain Huang looked at the city guards in front of him and nodded with satisfaction.
He felt that he was becoming more and more like a duke.
Ma Zhiyuan said that after today, he, Huang Duwei, will be the Duke of the Kingdom.
Huang Duwei turned his back and he had to go to other places to take a look.
There is more than one city gate in Qi County. If soldiers from Huangzhou Zhechong Prefecture rushed in from elsewhere.
That's also very troublesome.
Huang Duwei rode a war horse and was about to go to another city gate when he suddenly saw about thirty people appearing in front of him from afar.
These people were all holding weapons and rushed towards them with great momentum.
"Who are you? Stop it." Huang Duwei immediately drew out his weapon and shouted to the people in front of him.
The person who came did not answer, and the crowd rushed towards them at an extremely fast speed.
"Everyone, beware of it immediately!" Huang Duwei shouted when he saw this.
The soldiers of the Zhechong Mansion behind him also ran over and pulled out the weapons they had returned from their hands.
"Kill!" The visitor just said a word coldly, and then went straight toward the Huang Duwei in front of him.
Huang Duwei was calm and blocked with a knife.
But unexpectedly, the huge force almost caused him to fall off his horse by blocking this knife.
Huang Duwei was shocked and saw that the visitor was slashing at him with another knife.
He jumped off the war horse quickly.
The man slashed the horse with a knife, and the war horse fell to the ground and died instantly.
Huang Duwei retreated repeatedly, and he didn't know where such a burly young man appeared, and almost lost his life with one move.
"If you fight to the death and don't retreat, kill!" The visitor gave another order, and Huang Duwei saw that the visitor abandoned him.
Kill the soldiers who were still desperately resisting.
No soldier was the enemy of the visitor. In a short while, several soldiers died under his sword.
To be continued...