Li Fuguo was riding a tall horse, surrounded by his godson and cronies, and was galloping on the official road.
The weather at the end of July was already very hot, but the world is not peaceful now. Li Fuguo and his party were all wearing armor.
The sun was particularly dazzling today. The group had been galloping for an hour, and Li Fuguo was already soaked in sweat.
"General!"
One of Li Fuguo's godson caught up with his horse and reminded Li Fuguo that someone had fallen behind.
Li Fuguo frowned, but still ordered the troops to rest in the woods in front.
Finally, we could rest. There was a small river in the woods. As soon as we entered the woods, a few young guys couldn't help but rush into the river to play in the water.
Li Fuguo also dismounted, took off his helmet, and one of his godsons took out a water bottle and handed it to him.
"Where are you?"
"Godfather, we have arrived near Tongguan."
Li Fuguo nodded with satisfaction. This godson had no other abilities, but his ability to recognize the road was very strong.
I relied on him to guide me along the way, and I never made any mistakes.
Li Fuguo decided to reward him well after returning to Chang'an City.
After setting off from Xiangzhou, Li Fuguo galloped all the way to Chang'an.
It only took three days to reach the vicinity of Tongguan. This speed is already amazing.
But Li Fuguo still felt that it was not fast enough, and he must return to Chang'an as soon as possible!
He had thought a lot along the way, and the way to break the situation now was to return to Chang'an to rescue the emperor, and then follow the emperor's order to let Guo Ziyi serve as king.
Li Heng is the emperor after all, and loyal ministers like Guo Ziyi and Zhang Xun must be loyal to the emperor.
But the closer he got to Chang'an, the worse the news Li Fuguo received, and the worse his mood became.
On July 26, Jing Zhaoyin ordered Chang'an to impose martial law, and county soldiers from Chang'an County and Wannian County occupied the inner city gate of Chang'an.
On July 27, Prime Minister Cui Guangyuan, in his capacity as the prime minister of the current dynasty, issued an order to the prefectures in Guanzhong, requiring soldiers from all prefectures and counties to stay in their local areas. Anyone who tampered with it would be considered traitorous. Now several people who were originally planning to go to King Qin of Chang'an
The local troops did not dare to move.
On July 28, Queen Zhang's younger brother led his servants to forcefully attack the city gate, trying to get out of Chang'an, but was killed on the spot by Shan Tao, the judge of Dali Temple who was guarding the city gate. From the time of the chaos in Chang'an to the present, the palace
Not a word came out.
Li Fuguo's head was buzzing when he saw the news.
Something must have happened in the palace!
Although Li Heng was not a popular emperor, he was an emperor after all.
There are still many people loyal to the emperor in Chang'an City, there are Shence Army outside the city, and there are troops guarding the emperor in the Taiji Palace of Daming Palace. However, these troops are silent at this time, allowing the Chang'an County soldiers to control the city gate.
It shows that the emperor has lost the channel to communicate with the outside world.
Who is isolating the emperor?
Li Fuguo was furious, and several figures flashed in his mind.
Could it be Yu Chaoen?
Impossible, that guy doesn’t have the guts!
Queen Zhang?
impossible!
Empress Zhang is the empress. If she controls the emperor, she can control Chang'an in the name of the emperor and the emperor. This situation will not happen at all!
Mu Rong?
A vague impression flashed through Li Fuguo's mind, but he shook his head. Before he left Chang'an, Mu Rong was just an ordinary eunuch who could not enter the palace. He really didn't know much about Mu Rong.
Li Fuguo secretly regretted that he should not have left Chang'an just for this military merit, and even let the villain take advantage of him.
But it was already too late at this time. Now Li Fuguo just wanted to return to Chang'an as soon as possible, and then, as an envoy of the Shence Army, mobilize the Shence Army outside the city to attack Chang'an City.
As long as we can see the emperor, everything will be easy!
But, is the emperor still alive?
Li Fuguo shook his head quickly to drive this disrespectful thought out of his mind.
The emperor must still be alive!
It's just that there are villains who isolate the inside and outside of the palace! The emperor cannot control Chang'an!
Thinking of this, Li Fuguo felt like returning home.
"It's almost time to rest. Let's inform everyone to get on the road quickly!"
Li Fuguo called his godson again and asked him to inform his subordinates to leave quickly.
Just as Li Fuguo stood up holding on to the big tree, a long arrow passed through the woods and flew past Li Fuguo.
Li Fuguo had been in the army for a long time, and his reaction was not slow. He immediately rolled to the ground without any image, and at the same time shouted to his men:
"There's an assassin!"
Li Fuguo's godson and cronies quickly gathered together to protect Li Fuguo in the middle.
A few brave ones looked for the assassin in the direction where the bows and arrows came from, but found nothing.
Li Fuguo secretly felt frightened, these assassins were coming for him!
This place is close to Tongguan, so there are no bandits at all!
The arrow that almost hit him was shot from a heavy bow, and it was impossible for the bandit to have such a weapon.
Who is it?
Now that the situation is chaotic, who is going to kill him?
Li Fuguo thought for a long time, but couldn't come up with an answer.
If Guo Ziyi wanted to kill him, then it would be impossible for Li Fuguo to leave the Xiangzhou military camp.
King of Yue?
How is that possible! The King of Yue raised troops in the northwest, and he rushed back from Xiangzhou.
Could it be that the King of Yue had clairvoyance and ears? Could he predict his route back to Chang'an and arrange for assassins to assassinate him?
If the King of Yue is so good at predicting things, how can he still play?
Li Fuguo was thinking randomly, and the godson who knew the way best came over and said:
"Godfather, we haven't found the assassin, so..."
"What else?"
"We just did a head count and found that ten brothers who went to wash horses by the river are missing."
Li Fuguo's face turned pale, and he said quickly:
"Let's go! Let's go immediately!"
There is no point in searching for assassins in such a large forest. Li Fuguo knows that the most important thing now is to return to Chang'an City as soon as possible!
As long as we return to Chang'an City and control the emperor, we still have a chance!
Li Fuguo set off in a hurry, but silently, a few knights slowly fell behind and finally left the team.
By the time the group arrived near Tongguan, nearly a hundred riders had secretly left the group.
"I am the general of the auxiliary country who has been conferred by your majesty! The commander of the divine strategy army! Open the city gate quickly!"
Li Fuguo had no time to listen to his cronies reporting on the number of people who had fallen behind. Now that the sky was getting dark, Li Fuguo stood under the rule of Tongguan and shouted to the general at Tongguan to open the door.
Tongguan is the key point in Guanzhong. When he marched from Tongguan to Xiangzhou that day, Li Fuguo specially appointed his cronies as the guards of Tongguan, but he called the pass personally, but there was still no response from Tongguan.
what is going on?
Li Fuguo asked his cronies to knock on the door, and it took a long time before anyone answered:
"The imperial court has ordered the doors to be closed tightly. General Fu Guo, please go around!"
Li Fuguo almost exploded when he heard this. Ask me to go around?
Just when Li Fuguo's followers were preparing to forcefully break through the pass, a row of arrows fell from Tongguan Pass and landed in front of Li Fuguo's retinue.
Now Li Fuguo's cronies did not dare to act rashly. Only then did everyone realize that this was Tongguan! The most powerful pass in the world!
Shi Siming's army of hundreds of thousands had never conquered Tongguan. What could he do with his small skills?
Li Fuguo waved his whip angrily, but finally gave up and continued to call for pass, and asked people to camp far away from Tongguan.
Not far away, Nan Jiyun, who had watched the whole process, asked Zhang Wu who was lying next to him:
"Isn't this General Tongguan a confidant of Li Fuguo? Why don't you open the door for him?"
Zhang Wu said with a smile:
"Birds of a feather flock together, and people are divided into groups. Zhang Liushou is surrounded by righteous men like Brother Nan, and Li Fuguo is surrounded by such villains."
"When Li Fuguo was strong, these villains naturally scrambled to cling to him, but in this situation, villains all want to protect themselves, so naturally no one will sacrifice their lives for him."
Nan Jiyun nodded in understanding, Zhang Wu looked at Li Fuguo's team camping in the distance, showed a smile and said:
"Have a good rest, we have to work at night!"
After finally settling down, it was already completely dark. Li Fuguo ate some solid food and went to bed.
In the middle of the night, Li Fuguo was suddenly shaken awake by his godson.
"Godfather, Godfather!"
"Why are you so nervous?"
"Night attack!"
Hearing these two words, Li Fuguo sat up immediately.
I only heard shouts of killing and the sound of blades clashing outside the camp, but strangely no one entered the camp?
"Be on alert quickly!"
Li Fuguo ordered that everyone in the camp be shaken awake and start to guard with weapons.
But after waiting all night and the sky getting darker, not a single enemy came in.
Li Fuguo stood up with energy and said to his adopted son and cronies:
"Start quickly and bypass Tongguan!"
Because of the whole night's work, the team gathered together for half an hour before setting off. This time, many people tacitly fell behind.
On August 1, when Li Fuguo and his party finally bypassed Tongguan via the nearby waterway, they counted the number of people and found that only more than 300 people were left out of the 1,000 people at the time of departure.
Immediately afterwards, Li Fuguo encountered two more night attacks and encountered a trap. More than 100 of the 300 people fled.
Li Fuguo was so frightened that he did not dare to rest day and night, nor did he dare to take off his armor to sleep at night.
By the time he was two hundred miles away from Chang'an, most of the adopted son's followers had dispersed, leaving only a few dozen mounted guards still following him.
When they were a hundred miles away from Chang'an, only a dozen riders were still following Li Fuguo.
At this time, Li Fuguo looked miserable and his whole body was dirty. He leaned against a big tree and shouted into the air in front of him:
"You timid thief! Come out! General Li Fuguo is here! Come if you have the ability!"
An arrow flew out and hit the roaring Li Fuguo in the face. He twitched all over and fell to the ground with a plop.
"Brother Nan is good at archery!"
Zhang Wu praised him sincerely, not caring that Nan Jiyun had taken away the head and was able to hit a target from a hundred steps away. Nan Jiyun's archery skills had reached the level of magic.
Nan Jiyun asked: "Does it seem unfair to kill people like this?"
Zhang Wu laughed so hard that he couldn't stand up straight, and he said:
"You are being harmed by this eunuch, how can you speak out openly?"
"A gentleman will die in a gentleman's way, a fierce general will die in a fierce general's way, and these villains will also die in a villain's way."
Nan Jiyun nodded, put away his bow and arrows, and got on his horse.
"Let's go to Chang'an to meet the Emperor!"
Several crows circled around Li Fuguo's body, and Li Fuguo's adopted son and his followers snatched their luggage and dispersed in a hurry.
The adopted son who led the way finally stepped forward and cut off Li Fuguo's head with a knife.
In the normal historical line, Li Fuguo, a powerful eunuch who once controlled the palace and oppressed the emperor and officials, died on an unknown hill.
On August 5, the King of Yue entered Fengxiang.
I thought about it all day yesterday, but I still feel uncomfortable