"Zhai Biao actually called him. What should I do?"

After receiving the news, Ji Zheng, the King of Zhou, was shocked and hurriedly ordered the closing of the four gates of Luoyang and quickly summoned Ji Huan, Gui Lan, Tuishu, Taozi and other civil and military officials to discuss countermeasures.

Uncle Tuo, Gui Lan and others have been bribed by Ji Haru. In their opinion, Ji Zheng, who is old and weak, is as if he is in a state of decline. The Zhou royal family led by him is dead and cannot see any future.

In comparison, Ji Dai, who was a teenager younger than Ji Zheng, was undoubtedly more courageous and capable, so they chose to take a gamble, chose to follow Ji Dai to overthrow Ji Zheng, and then push Ji Dai to the position of emperor, and become a minister of the revival who revives the grand ceremony of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Now the prestige of the Zhou royal family has disappeared. In the early years, Shen Kingdom ruled by Jiang Huan often attacked the Zhou royal family. Now the Zhai Kingdom has launched troops to invade, and all the princes and the people of Luoyang have long been used to it.

But Ji Zheng was scared by Jiang Huan, so he swept the civil and military officials under his feet and shouted at the top of his voice: "I ask you about your countermeasures. What's the use of staring at me here? Can I stare at Zhai Guo's soldiers to death? I'll quickly think of a plan to get rid of the enemy."

Guilan's first fist was out: "I am willing to lead troops out of the city to fight and defend the enemy outside Luoyang City."

Gui Lan made up his mind in his heart. If Ji Zheng handed over the troops to his command, he would pull them out and not come back, leaving Zhai Biao an empty city to attack, so that he could capture Ji Biao alive without any effort.

Ji Huan frowned slightly and stood up and stopped him loudly: "No, we were kidnapped by Fang Li a few days ago. At present, we have less than 30,000 soldiers in our hands. We have no chance of winning when we go out of the city to fight. We should guard the door and ask for help from the princes."

Ji Zheng Ru Meng woke up and waved her palms and said, "Call for help, ask for help, immediately ask for help from the Qin army. The Qin army led by Bai Qi is in Hongnong, three hundred miles away, immediately ask for help from the Qin army."

"The Qin army and the Chu army are fighting hard to separate. Bai Qi has not taken any advantage. How could he easily divide his troops to help?"

Uncle Tuo, who had a sharp mouth and a monkey-faced face, immediately stood up to refute Ji Zheng's decision, "Zhai Biao only has 30,000 troops, which is comparable to the strength of our Great Zhou Dynasty. In addition, Luoyang City has a high wall. If we mobilize the people to climb the city to defend, it will definitely be as solid as a god, so that Zhai Biao will return in disgrace."

Guilan clasped his fists and echoed: "The soldiers come to block the water and come to Tutun. There are 25,000 soldiers in Luoyang City. Why should we ask for help from other countries? I hereby promise with Xiang Gong's head that I will never let one soldier and one soldier of the country enter the city!"

There is a saying that echoed in Guilan's heart, "I can only let tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the country of Zhai into the city, and I will never just let one soldier into the city!"

Ji Huan also underestimated Zhai Kingdom a little, thinking that he could not show his ability from asking for help from the princes. He immediately pinched his chin and said, "Zhai Biao only has 30,000 troops, so we don't have to be afraid of him!"

"So should I ask for help from the princes or not?"

Just as Ji Zheng was hesitating, the Zhou Dynasty's border troops rushed to report: "I heard from Your Majesty that 30,000 Tang troops came from Xingyang, and have passed Gong County, and are only seventy miles away from Luoyang."

"ah?"

Ji Zheng was so scared that his face looked like earth and his forehead was sweating, "This Fang Li suddenly sent troops to come. Could it be that he colluded with Zhai Biao and attacked each other in the east?"

At this moment, the lieutenant guarding the city gate came to report that several envoys from the Tang Kingdom came outside the city, demanding to meet the emperor and express the purpose of the Tang army.

"So Xuan the envoy of Tang Kingdom came to the city to meet me."

Ji Zheng felt a little relieved when he heard this. It seemed that the Tang army had no malice. Otherwise, Fang Li would not have sent an envoy to Luoyang to ask for his meeting. He just led the Tang army to fight.

A moment later, the envoy of the Tang Kingdom came to the Luoyang Palace Hall to meet King Zhou Ji Zheng. The person who came was not someone else. It was Deng Zhi, who had just successfully separated from Ji Zheng's brother a few days ago, and came to pay homage to the emperor with Fang Li's order.

"If you don't report to me, you will send troops to our royal family without authorization. What is your intention?" Ji Zheng stroked his beard and asked anxiously.

Deng Zhi bowed and bowed, and said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "When you say to Your Majesty, when you hear the army of Zhai Kingdom invaded Luoyang, Tang Gong was indignant, afraid that the Zhai army would attack the city first, so he did not care about reporting to Your Majesty, so he sent troops to help the court retreat. He also ordered the minister to come to Luoyang in advance to inform Your Majesty that our Tang army would vow to defend the royal family to the death."

"Haha... Fang Li is really a loyal minister!"

Ji Zheng was overjoyed after hearing what Deng Zhi said, and gave a thumbs up and praised him, "With the heroic army of the Tang Dynasty coming to support him, why worry about not being able to repel the rebels and kill Zhai Biao and his son?"

When they heard that the Tang army came to help, Gui Lan, Tuishu and others could not help but change their faces suddenly. After the scattered court, they hurried to meet Ji Dao secretly and discussed that they would launch a coup to control Luoyang without waiting for the arrival of the Zhai army.

In the middle of the night, Uncle Tuo and Taozi gathered more than 700 servants. Guilan led 8,000 soldiers under his command to control the West Gate and North Gate of Luoyang, and surrounded the Palace of Zhou, shouting loudly: "Ji Zheng is in a stupid and indignant, and he should abdicate in the prince Ji Bing!"

The Zhou royal palace was in chaos, and nearly a thousand imperial guards closed the palace gate, climbed the city wall to fight in a hurry, and shot arrows with the rebels.

Ji Huan was shocked when he received the news and hurriedly lit up his troops to rescue Ji Zheng. He started a street fight with the rebels outside the Luoyang Palace, killing corpses everywhere and blood flowed all over the streets.

The two sides fought from midnight to early morning, and it was still difficult to decide the outcome. At least four or five thousand soldiers died in battle around Luoyang Palace, and for a moment, the corpses were piled up like mountains.

At dawn, four thousand Tang army cavalry led by Ma Chao arrived first and shouted loudly outside the door: "The defenders in the city open the door quickly, we are the vanguard troops of the Tang Kingdom who came to support."

The soldiers under Ji Huan hurriedly opened the city gate and let the Tang cavalry enter the city. Ma Chao took the lead, and the dragon cavalry in his hand flew up and down, stabbed people when he saw them. The rebels who were killed retreated and the morale of the army was in chaos.

With the assistance of the Tang cavalry led by Ma Chao, the Zhou army loyal to Ji Zheng quickly gained the upper hand and the rebels who were killed retreated step by step towards the Xichengmen.

Just as the rebels were about to be expelled from Luoyang, the five thousand cavalry of Zhai Meng led by Zhai Meng arrived and shouted to join the battle group: "Ha... Our Zhai Kingdom and you Tang Kingdom have no grievances in the past, but why are you enemies with us?"

Ma Chao took the horse first, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, and a dragon came out of the water. He met Zhai Meng head-on in the chaos. He fought with him only three times. He sold a flaw and stabbed Zhai Meng under the horse with one shot.

The sound of horse hooves rumbled, and the five thousand cavalry of Zhai Army plunged into Luoyang City like rushing rivers, killing them together with the cavalry led by Ma Chao and the Zhou army led by Ji Huan.
Chapter completed!