This situation had been expected by Li Cheng, otherwise he would not have come to Gong Zhen and Ma Liu just after setting up the arrangement. After hearing the news, Li Cheng felt more and more wise and powerful, and couldn't help but smile: "
Two generals, now it’s up to you!”
Gong Zhen pulled out the sword with a "clop" sound and said sternly: "Okay! I'll call the brothers right away!"
There are a hundred guards on duty in the palace tonight. After Empress Xiao returns to the palace, they no longer have to guard Concubine Xiao's bedroom. They are only responsible for regular patrols. The task has become easier. At this moment, they are gathering together to attack the palace.
race.
The so-called gambling is gambling. They are just ordinary guards and do not know many core secrets. Even if the palace changes to a new owner, they can at most kick them out and usually not kill them, so their mentality is better than
Gong Zhen, Ma Liu is much more relaxed.
Of course, Gong Zhen and Ma Liu are still their commanders. After hearing the orders from Gong Zhen and Ma Liu, these guards quickly dropped their gambling equipment and started looking for weapons. Some were looking for armor, and some were looking for armor. There was a mess. There were also people.
He took the opportunity to take away the gambling money on the table. When the others saw it, they immediately started arguing, which made Gong Zhen and Ma Liu bigger than each other.
However, tonight's operation depends on these guards. Ma Liu did not want to be too harsh on them, so he said loudly: "Quick, quick, gather together. When the task is completed, each of you will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver. Let you
Have fun everyone!”
When they heard that there was a silver reward, the guards immediately cheered, and no one stopped arguing about the small amount of money. If the palace was not big enough, the news here would have been spread to Queen Xiao.
Seeing that the team was assembled, Li Cheng showed a smile on his face: "Two generals, we are powerless, so we are just waiting here for the news of the two generals' triumphant return!"
Gong Zhen and Ma Liu were both warriors who were transferred to the palace after Li Yuan took control of Luoyang. They didn't know the cruelty of this kind of struggle. They bowed their hands and led a hundred guards to Jingfan Palace, where Empress Xiao was hosting a banquet for Gao Xiuer.
A place to wait for others.
Just when Gong Zhen and Ma Liu were still a hundred steps away from Jingfan Palace, they heard a voice from the front: "Stop! Password!"
Gong Zhen didn't know the password. Seeing that his whereabouts were exposed, he couldn't help but shouted: "Kill!"
The guards in the palace cannot be equipped with crossbows and rely on a long spear and a waist sword. However, they are all warriors carefully selected from the army and are highly skilled in martial arts. However, no matter how powerful a warrior is in martial arts, they will not be able to do anything without their military spirit.
Although these guards did not know too many secrets, they also knew that the master had changed in the palace today. The former Empress Xiao was now in charge of the palace, and the current Empress Dowager was now the Empress Dowager. The emperor also changed from the infant Yang Gao to a six-year-old
Yang Tan. In this situation, Gong Zhen suddenly started shouting and killing in the palace, which naturally aroused the suspicion of the guards. The guards were confused about the situation for a while and retreated one after another. No one was willing to rush forward.
Ma Liuqing suddenly thought and pushed the guard beside him: "Did you hear that? It was Xiao Bi's confidant who wanted to kidnap the Empress Dowager. Saving the Empress Dowager was a great achievement! Officials were promoted to three levels in a row.
, be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver as a soldier!"
When a soldier sees money, he is like a fly seeing blood. When the guard heard that he was being rewarded with a thousand taels of silver, his eyes turned green, glowing faintly, and he rushed out with a low roar.
There was a "whoosh" sound in the air, and the guard who rushed in front let out a scream and fell down. An iron arrow on his forehead had already been deeply inserted into it, leaving only a small half of it still outside.
It's white, with traces of it oozing out from the wound!
Gong Zhen was shocked: "No, they have crossbows! Get the big shield quickly!"
Ma Liu stretched out his hand to stop them and shouted sternly: "Brothers, they are just women, how strong can they be? Before they have time to continue loading the crossbow, let's rush over together!"
Military crossbows are powerful, but they also have disadvantages, that is, reloading is time-consuming and laborious. These guards are all selected from the army. Although they are not equipped with military crossbows, they also know the advantages and disadvantages of military crossbows. After listening to Ma Liu's words, the guards
As expected, they all swarmed up.
More than a dozen iron arrows were fired from the opposite side, but these guards were already prepared. Coupled with their high martial arts skills and leaping and jumping, only two of them were slightly injured. This result immediately boosted the spirits of the guards and rushed
Got faster.
Suddenly I heard another voice shouting: "Bring me my bow!"
With a "bang" sound from the bowstring, the three guards rushing in front turned over and fell to the ground. They didn't even have time to scream. An arrow was inserted into their throats, and they were all killed with one arrow!
Things have reached this point. Gong Zhen and Ma Liu both know that they can only hope to survive by rushing forward. They can't stop. However, the man opposite is very powerful, and his arrows are always missed. Every time the bowstring rings,
, two or three people fell to the ground, and every arrow hit his throat. A guard protected his throat with his hand, but the arrow passed through his hand, pinning his hand and throat tightly.
Together.
Gong Zhen was also a veteran in the army, and had never seen such miraculous archery skills. When he rushed closer, he saw that the person holding the bow was actually a woman. The woman was extremely beautiful, and Gong Zhen was stunned for a moment.
Ma Liu ignored it and rushed forward with a sword. He relied on his martial arts skills and had already seen the woman's position clearly, so he was confident that he could avoid the woman's cold arrows.
I saw the woman calmly picking up her bow and arrow and shouting: "Attack!"
Ma Liu subconsciously raised his knife to protect his throat. The bowstring sounded, but there was no movement. It turned out that the woman's arrow was a bluff. Ma Liu was furious and jumped up. After two ups and downs, he was only a dozen or so away from the woman.
steps away.
Hearing the sound of the bowstring again, Ma Liu protected his throat again, but felt a pain in his wrist. He had been shot in the wrist by an arrow. The knife could not be held and fell into dust. Ma Liu was shocked and pointed at the woman and said: "You
…”
He originally wanted to say, shouldn't you shoot me in the throat? But before he finished speaking, his throat felt really cold, and he had already been pierced by an arrow!
Gong Zhen could see clearly not far away. The woman clearly shot two arrows in a row. The two arrows were fired at the same time. One arrow struck Ma Liu's wrist, and the other struck Ma Liu's throat. Even in the Sui Dynasty,
Among the top generals, there are very few who know the art of continuous arrows. Unexpectedly, he learned the lesson from this woman. Gong Zhenqing knew that he was not his opponent, so he did not dare to rush forward anymore, so he turned around and left.
But the woman refused to let him go, and shot another arrow, entering Gong Zhen's back of the neck, nailing him to the ground. This showed how powerful the arrow was, and all the guards were frightened. Not only that.
There are hundreds of female guards around, but this woman alone, none of them can be her opponent.
Of course, these guards didn't know that Muduoli was not very strong. The reason why she had such an effect was that she relied on the specially made divine arm bow.
At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps in the distance, and someone was heard shouting: "Quick, take them all down!"
A group of black-robed and black-armored warriors swarmed over and in a blink of an eye beat the dozens of remaining guards to a pulp, before they all abandoned their weapons and surrendered.
A tall young man came over surrounded by several warriors. Mudoli greeted him cheerfully: "Master, you are here."
Liu Ziqiu chuckled and said, "Young people dare to cause trouble, so I didn't scare you."
Mu Duoli curled her lips: "How could it be? I'm worried about my sister."
Liu Ziqiu waved his hand and said, "Madam's nerves are strong."
At this time, Da Leng came over, raised his hands and said: "Back to my lord, those guards said they were ordered by the school captains Gong Zhen and Ma Liu, and they didn't know anything about it! Please order me to torture them severely, if necessary
Get to the bottom of it!"
Liu Ziqiu frowned and said, "Gong Zhen, where is Ma Liu?"
Da stared at Mu Duoli blankly, then cupped his hands and said, "He has been shot to death by Madam!"
Mu Duoli proudly raised the divine arm bow in her hand: "Master, how is your archery skills?"
Liu Ziqiu glared at her angrily: "So what? I don't know how to use my brain to survive. Forget it, take me to see the Empress Dowager."
Hua Yun jumped out from behind: "Second brother, I'm going too!"
Mu Duoli frowned slightly: "General, men are not allowed to enter the palace without permission!"
"Isn't my second brother a man? I don't care about seeing the Empress Dowager. Why don't I go see my sister-in-law?" Hua Yun said while staring at Mu Duoli and looking up and down, which made Mu Duoli's heart tremble.
Liu Ziqiu laughed and said, "Okay, let's go in together."
Daleng raised his hands and asked again: "Lord, what should we do with those guards?"
Liu Ziqiu waved his hand: "Drive them out of the palace and order them to return to their fields!"
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In Jingfan Palace, Queen Xiao's face turned pale with fright. It was not until Liu Ziqiu entered the palace that she breathed a sigh of relief, stroked her chest and said, "Mr. Liu, has the rebellion been subsided?"
Liu Ziqiu smiled and said: "A few guards made a rebellion and have been captured by the ministers. But I don't know what the queen's purpose is when she summoned her late at night?"
"The Ai family has already had enough of these days of worry." Empress Xiao sighed, pulled out a roll of yellow silk from behind her back, and said quietly, "The Ai family has drafted an edict for the emperor. Mr. Liu, please read it yourself."
Gao Xiuer glanced at Queen Xiao in surprise. Just now they were drinking and chatting with Queen Xiao, but they didn't hear Queen Xiao mention that she was going to issue an edict to Liu Ziqiu, and they didn't know what Queen Xiao actually wrote in the edict.
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Liu Ziqiu also took the edict with suspicion, opened it and saw that it was Yang Tan's edict for the Zen position. He hurriedly said: "The Empress Dowager, this is absolutely impossible!"
Empress Xiao had recovered from the fright just now, shook her head, and said: "The Ai family has long figured out that neither Tan'er nor You'er can survive in this country. Instead of letting others compete, it is better to
Let Mr. Liu take care of it."
Before Liu Ziqiu could speak, Empress Xiao waved her hand again and said, "The Ai family has made an appointment with Sister Xiu'er to accompany her to visit Shanglin Xiyuan tomorrow. If Mr. Liu has nothing to do, why don't you accompany me."