The surrounding private houses are connected to the Beiya Forbidden Army Palace and have been transformed into small military camps, which are filled with Forbidden Army soldiers.
If you want to sneak into the Forbidden City secretly, how to bypass these military camps is a big problem.
After nightfall, the Imperial Guards who were resting were suddenly kicked out of their rooms. They put on their armors and gathered in the school grounds. They were then issued with weapons and rushed towards the gate of the Beiya Imperial Palace.
After the chaotic integration, as the last Imperial Guard disappeared from the gate of the military camp, silence returned here again.
The only difference is that there are far fewer soldiers patrolling back and forth. There are not many people in the camp and it is very empty.
Six heads quietly popped out from the high wall. After confirming safety, Zhang Siyuan whispered: "Let's go!"
He opened his arms, one on each side, holding Li Xin'an and Wu Xiang between his arms, swooping down like an eagle, landing lightly on the ground, and then rushed forward.
Not to be outdone, Sanyu and the other three showed off their Qinggong skills and shuttled through the military camp.
The courtyard wall is right in front of you. After climbing over this wall, you will reach the Beiya Imperial Palace!
But Li Xin'an faintly heard the sound of footsteps, just around the corner in front.
"Grandpa Zhang!" Li Xin'an hurriedly reminded.
"I heard it." Zhang Siyuan's forward momentum continued to increase. In Li Xin'an's surprised eyes, his body suddenly rose up. When the patrolling Forbidden Army was about to turn the corner, Zhang Siyuan and his two children steadily stepped forward.
Posted under the eaves.
The patrolling Imperial Guard turned the corner and continued walking in the direction they came from.
Sanyu and others walked out of their respective hiding places, and Zhang Siyuan also fell from the eaves to the ground. There was no obstacle in front of him. He stepped lightly and rushed under the courtyard wall in the blink of an eye.
Without staying too long, Zhang Siyuan turned over and entered the hospital.
He gently put Li Xin'an and Wu Xiang on the ground. The two children shook their bodies, and their minds felt dizzy.
Sanyu and the other three gradually climbed over the wall. Helan's strength was low and it was not easy to avoid the patrols of the imperial guards. At this moment, he was so tired that he almost collapsed on the ground.
The two leaders, Zhang Siyuan and Chang Yu, looked at each other. Zhang Siyuan said softly: "Master, let's hurry up."
"After one stick of incense, whether you find Jiang Kuohai or not, retreat immediately. Otherwise, the imperial army will return, or the palace will be alarmed, and it will be difficult to escape!" Li Xin'an said solemnly.
Several people nodded in agreement, and then Sanyu and the others left quickly, disappearing into the night.
Li Xin'an spread out the map. There was Helan on Sanyu's side, so naturally there was no need for this thing.
"We should be here now." Li Xin'an pointed out their location on the map. "Mrs. Qiuxiang of the third bedroom and Mrs. Jiang Kuohai are both in the north. Senior brother and Sister Helan went there. What we are looking for is
Mrs. Shuyi and Mrs. Yulian from the east."
Zhang Siyuan took the map, silently memorized the location and terrain in his mind, then picked up the two children and said, "Let's go."
The Beiya Forbidden Army Mansion itself is a government government office, and there should not be many scenic spots inside. However, after Jiang Kuohai took office and turned this place into his private residence, he made drastic changes.
Countless precious flowers, plants and trees were moved into the mansion and planted, and the boring and single Forbidden Army Mansion couldn't help but become more pleasing to the eye, but this was not what satisfied Jiang Kuohai the most.
What he is most satisfied with is the lotus pond in the east courtyard.
Ten acres square, with sapphire steps, white jade railings, and nanmu cross bridges, are planted with tribute flowers that can only be found in the palace.
According to Helan, this was specially built by Jiang Kuohai for his once favorite fifth-bedroom wife, Tang Yulian.
Although Tang Yulian is slightly neglected by Jiang Kuohai now, it does not affect Jiang Kuohai's love for this lotus pond. Jiang Kuohai even stayed in the fifth house many times to enjoy the lotus. Many people in the house joked that the fifth lady relied on this lotus pond to win over the master.
heart of.
Helan said this with a look of disdain: "I really didn't expect Jiang Kuohai to be so leisurely and elegant in appreciating lotus."
At this moment, Li Xin'an and three others were walking on the cross bridge above the lotus pond.
"A small commander of the Bei Ya Imperial Army is actually capable of renovating the Bei Ya Imperial Army Palace so luxuriously. I don't know how much dirty money he has embezzled! If the emperor saw it, I'm afraid he would kill him on the spot." Li Xin'an sighed.
They had arrived in front of Tang Yulian's small courtyard. The courtyard door was tightly closed, but this could not stop the first-level master. Zhang Siyuan put his hand on the door and spat out his inner strength, and the door latch inside was broken.
Li Xin'an pushed the door open and walked in. The yard was quiet. The servants and maids seemed to have taken a rest. It was dark, and only a small window in the main room was lit by candlelight.
The shadow of the graceful lady shone clearly on the window paper, and the woman seemed to be holding her forehead and sighing.
Li Xin'an glanced at Zhang Siyuan beside him and said softly: "Grandpa Zhang, Jiang Kuohai shouldn't be here."
"I have to ask if you are there or not." Zhang Siyuan slowly drew out Li Xin'an's "White Rainbow" sword and floated it to the window. With a jolt of internal energy, the candles in the room were extinguished.
Before the woman could react, the sound of a long sword cutting through the window paper was heard, and Tang Yulian exclaimed. It can be imagined that her neck was being held up by Zhang Siyuan's "white rainbow".
"Where is Jiang Kuohai?" Zhang Siyuan asked in a low voice.
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"Who are you?" Tang Yulian asked in shock.
"You don't need to know." Zhang Siyuan said solemnly.
"Do you want to kill me?"
"If you don't say anything, you will be the one killed!"
Zhang Siyuan's hand holding the sword was passed forward again, and Tang Yulian exclaimed again, tremblingly saying: "I don't know, he hasn't been here for a long time..."
Zhang Siyuan took back "Bai Hong" and said in a cold voice: "It's a good idea to stay here tonight, and you are not allowed to call anyone, otherwise I will come back to take your life!"
Tang Yulian nodded in fear, and there was no movement outside. Tang Yulian bravely picked up the window paper that was scratched by the long sword and looked outside. It was pitch black outside, as if that person had never appeared.
"Since Jiang Kuohai is not here with the fifth lady Tang Yulian, then hurry up and find Mrs. Qiuxiang of the second room." Li Xin'an followed the map and ran to the yard of the second room Li Qiuxiang, but how fast could a child run? After a while, he could only look at his face.
With a wry smile, Zhang Siyuan picked him up and drove away.
Compared with the fifth wife Tang Yulian who has a lotus pond, the second wife Li Qiuxiang naturally has something she is proud of.
Her yard is a small garden with a southern flavor.
White bricks and green tiles, rockeries, rocks, and flowing streams filled Li Qiuxiang's yard. When Li Xin'an first saw this building, which was no different from a Gusu garden, she was so surprised that she couldn't open her mouth for a long time.
Following the same pattern, Zhang Siyuan opened the courtyard door using the same method, but it was still dark inside.
"Is Jiang Kuohai not here too?" Li Xin'an was secretly anxious. Time passed by minute by minute, and the time of a stick of incense could pass in the blink of an eye. They didn't have much time to waste.
Zhang Siyuan looked solemn and walked around the rockery towards the main house. Jiang Kuohai may not be here, maybe they have finished their work and rested?
But as soon as they rounded the rockery, a woman's surprised cry came from the darkness, "Oh!"
Li Xin'an's hand holding the sword trembled violently, and "Bai Hong" was unsheathed by him without any explanation.
Zhang Siyuan suddenly reached out and grabbed the woman's throat and lifted her out of the shadows. Li Xin'an looked carefully and found that she was just a maid.
"What should I do?" He was discovered unexpectedly as soon as he entered the door. Li Xin'an was at a loss for a moment.
Zhang Siyuan exerted a slight force on his wrist, and the maid kicked off her legs. She foamed at the mouth, rolled her eyes, and fainted.
"Are they prepared?" Li Xin'an said worriedly.
"Probably not." Zhang Siyuan shook his head, "Where can I ask a maid to come out as a cover? I'm afraid this maid is here because of other things."
He rushed to the main house, and Li Xin'an hurriedly followed.
Before he reached the door, he clearly heard a woman's gasping and a man's excited growl coming out of the room.
The woman suddenly screamed, and after a while, the room fell into silence.
Li Xin'an blushed and touched his face, which was extremely hot.
"If we can't protect everything, the real owner is here." Zhang Siyuan chuckled and slapped out a palm, causing the door to shatter immediately.
A woman screamed in the house, and at the same time there was the sound of rustling clothes and the cries of men and women.
Zhang Siyuan jumped into the house, and under the moonlight, he could clearly see the appearance of the two people.
The woman seems to be a mature woman, but her charm is still there, and she still has a certain charm in her movements. The man looks young and delicate, not the tall and thick Jiang Kuohai.
The two people on the bed were in shock. Originally, the man had climbed out of the bed and was kneeling there, but unexpectedly, a rickety little old man came in. For a moment, the man kneeling on the ground and the woman wrapped in a quilt were stunned.
Li Xin'an recited "See no evil, see no evil" in her heart for thousands of times, and walked into the room. However, she couldn't help but glance curiously in the direction of the bed, feeling that something was wrong with the atmosphere.
"Who are you?" Zhang Siyuan asked in a deep voice, looking at the young and handsome man kneeling on the ground.
"Who are you!" Second Madam Li Qiuxiang's almond-shaped eyes widened. He has a fierce personality, and now he shouted sternly, "What crime do you deserve for breaking into my room without permission!"
Seeing that it was not Jiang Kuohai, she put down the stone in her heart and just thought that the man in front of her was an old servant who did not understand etiquette, so she scared him away.
But Li Qiuxiang was also curious, where was the maid guarding outside? Why did she just let this old man push the door open and come in carelessly?
No! Where is the door?
Li Xin'an instantly understood the reason for the scene in front of him. He never expected that the wife of the dignified commander of the Beiya Imperial Army would steal someone behind his back.
"Do you know...forget it, you don't know either." Zhang Siyuan sighed, turned his hands into claws, and walked slowly towards the man and woman.
"What do you want to do?" Li Qiuxiang keenly sensed a hint of danger and hurriedly kicked the young man who was still dazed. "Hurry up and kill him with a knife!"
The man raised his head blankly and looked at the rickety old man who had walked in front of him, not knowing what to do.
"Trash, I've raised you for nothing, you just know how to kneel down, and you're not even a man at the critical moment!" Li Qiuxiang cursed loudly, and in the next moment, she was slapped on the face, wailed, and passed out.
Just as the young man was about to speak, Zhang Siyuan kicked his knee. The man's vision went dark and he fainted on the ground.
"Time is running out, let's go to the last place." Zhang Siyuan turned around and went out, and Li Xin'an hurriedly followed him out.
The courtyard was still dark and quiet. Perhaps Li Qiuxiang had sent away all the servants in the courtyard in order to steal people, leaving only a personal maid who guarded the door and reported the news.
The stick of incense is about to burn out, and there is only one last place left. If it can't be found again, they have to leave.
But a voice suddenly appeared in Li Xin'an's heart, asking: Are you willing to just leave like this?
…
In front of Beiya Imperial Palace.
The crowd surged up and fell down,
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Almost every step Quan Wanqiu and the other three took, they would be tripped by someone on the ground.
Quan Wanqiu half-crouched on the ground, holding a knife and breathing heavily. In the winter season, water vapor was rising from his body.
He didn't know that this was the first knife he had changed. Facing the elite imperial guards of Beiya who were covered in iron armor, he had to change his knife after cutting a few times.
Yang Chong was stabbed on the shoulder by a spear, and a big hole appeared. Blood was flowing out, and the white bones were vaguely visible. Even so, he did not retreat. He gritted his teeth and endured the severe pain before sending the dagger into the hole of the ferocious soldier in front of him.
heart.
Now that things have come to a point, I have to kill someone even if I don’t want to, otherwise I will be the one lying on the ground.
Fu Bo was covered in blood and floated back to Quan Wanqiu. He had just killed a general commanded by the Forbidden Army. The other party was leaderless and they could get a short respite.
"Quan Shuai, how much internal strength has been restored?" Fu Bo asked.
"Forty to five times out of ten, it's almost this time. You have to leave immediately after that. If you drag me any longer, the three of you will have to answer here!" Quan Wanqiu stood up, holding the knife in front of him, holding it with both hands.
Yang Chong also came back at this time, and he and Uncle Fu were on the left and right, protecting the Dharma for Quan Wanqiu.
A commanding voice soon appeared from the Forbidden Army: "They can't last long, come together!"
The two masters of the Blood Clothes Hall jumped out at the same time, using long knives instead of daggers.
The sword skills were dense and dense, as if there was a curtain covering the people inside. Within three steps of Quan Wanqiu, the weapons he stretched out turned into pieces, and no one could step through.
Quan Wanqiu's sword buzzed, and then slowly floated in Quan Wanqiu's hand. Quan Wanqiu wielded the sword from the air, and used the sword to display the Haoran Zhengqi Sword.
There seemed to be a faint shadow behind Quan Wanqiu, holding the long knife full of sword intent, harvesting the lives of the Beiya Imperial Guards.
The knife flew straight out, piercing the first person it met into pieces, piercing the bodies of dozens of people one after another, and opening up a small passage in the vast sea of people.
"Walk!"
Quan Wanqiu roared and spurted out a mouthful of blood. He stumbled forward and was hugged by Uncle Fu. Yang Chong picked up a long spear from the ground and waved it back to fight off the incoming Forbidden Army to clear the way for the two of them.
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In the winter of the 24th year of Kaiyuan, someone stormed the Beiya Imperial Palace, but to no avail. The thieves retreated, and the Imperial Army suffered 200 and 16 casualties.
But this shocking scandal that happened at the foot of the imperial city is destined not to go down in history.
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Zhang Siyuan took Li Xin'an and Wu Xiang and landed gently in front of the door. That was the last place Jiang Kuohai could be.
The time for a stick of incense has not come yet, and Sanyu and the other three have not come over yet. They must have been wasted on the road because they were too far away.
"I can't wait for them any longer." Zhang Siyuan said in a deep voice, "There are only three of us now, so if Jiang Kuohai is really inside later, I won't hold back. Master, be careful and find the right opportunity to give him a fatal blow!"
Li Xin'an nodded and clenched the "White Rainbow" sword in his hand.
The house was brightly lit, Zhang Siyuan smashed the door to pieces with one palm, and jumped into the house.
The room was filled with aroma, the incense burner was emitting curls of smoke, and there were two teacups and a long sword with a golden scabbard on the table.
There are two people here, or there were two people.
There were not many things in the room, but a large bed particularly caught the eye. The red bed curtain hung down and was gently swayed by the wind blowing in from outside the door.
Under the red bed curtain, a delicate little foot like white jade was exposed.
Zhang Siyuan walked over slowly and lifted up the bed curtain.
A half-naked woman was lying on the bed, with bruises on her neck and bulging eyes. She had been dead for a while.
Zhang Siyuan only took one look and said: "Capturing the Dragon Claw is a Kung Fu practiced by Jiang Kuohai."
Li Xin'an walked over absentmindedly, looked at the female corpse in confusion, and murmured: "How is it possible? Am I wrong? Jiang Kuohai really went to the gate? What will Uncle Fu and the others do?"
Zhang Siyuan reassured: "Not necessarily. This woman died in just half a stick of incense. Jiang Kuohai didn't rush over so quickly. The situation on the other side of the gate is unpredictable, but we can't let anyone stay here. We still have to leave as soon as possible."
Li Xin'an nodded, but in his heart he instinctively didn't want to leave. He had clearly told him to retreat after a stick of incense, but at this moment he just wanted to find Jiang Kuohai's location.
He didn't want tonight's efforts to go to waste.
Zhang Siyuan saw what he was thinking, sighed, and without further explanation, picked him up and walked out the door.
"Grandpa Zhang..." Li Xin'an struggled, but was directly interrupted by Zhang Siyuan: "Sooner or later he will be discovered if he is taken further, and he will be dead by then! I can naturally leave on my own, what about you? Where is Wu Xiang?"
Li Xin'an was silent. Zhang Siyuan was about to use Qinggong to leave when he suddenly realized that a group of forbidden troops were running towards him.
At first, a big man, eight feet tall, with a heavy back and a heavy body, rushed here in a hurry. When he saw Zhang Siyuan and the others, the man was also stunned and froze there.
He has seen this old face before.
"Zhang Siyuan, Mr. Zhang?" Jiang Kuohai sneered, "Or should I call you Hall Master Zhang?"
Li Xin'an never imagined that she and Jiang Kuohai would meet on a narrow road here.