It was as if time had stopped flowing. In Li Chengzhi's eyes and heart, there was only the knife in Yuanyun's hand.
It's like after all the hard work and suffering, you finally see a glimmer of light. Just when you're about to reap the rewards, suddenly someone wants to destroy the results?
Li Chengzhi will never allow it, not even to death...
The two of them were only ten feet away from Yuan Ke, and Yuan Yi wanted to be so fast, but Li Chengzhi was recovering from a long illness and was unable to walk.
Finally a step too late.
Yuan Yi has already bent down, and the tip of the knife has been extended, aiming at Yuan Ke's neck. Li Chengzhi's knife is still a few feet away from Yuan Yi.
It’s over...
In that moment, Li Chengzhi had no time to feel angry, unwilling or sad. He just used all his strength to thrust the knife forward.
You should die too...
"Swift!"
Yuan Yi's figure was lost in a flash of flowers?
The knife that was originally intended to stab Yuan Yi's lower back missed, but the knife that was originally intended to stab Yuan Ke's neck flew forward and fell on the stone steps with a clang.
Suddenly lowering his head, Yuan Yi fell to his knees, sticking his butt out and pushing the bed hard: "Hurry..."
Come on, come on, come on, come on…
Apart from this word, Li Chengzhi really couldn't imagine any words that could express his mood at this time.
Not to mention Li Chengzhi, the trembling Gao Ying and Yuan Hui holding the rope were all stunned.
Yuan Ke was the only one who not only remained calm, but also had a smile on his face. It was as if he had expected that Yuan Yi would not kill him...
Gao Zhao and Yuan Jia, who followed closely, almost hit Yuan Yi on the head with a knife.
This time, it really broke everyone's waist.
She put all her strength into sucking the milk, but the imperial couch didn't move at all. Yuan Yi's face turned red: "Push..."
Give me a push?
There is a step stuck under the pillar. It is estimated that the emperor is still lying here until dawn.
Li Chengzhi knelt down: "Idiot... lift it up!"
Yuan Yi woke up from a dream and raised the corner of the bed with all his strength.
The head of the bed was on the steps. Yuan Hui and a secret guard pulled hard, and the bed seemed to fly up and hit the pillar heavily.
The emperor and the empress were thrown off the bed like gourds.
Yuan Hui rushed out of the small door like an arrow, with one hand in each hand, grabbing the queen and emperor by the back of their necks, and jumped in like a monkey.
He barely stepped over the stone threshold with his heels. With a "boom", a stone slab slid down and sealed the small door.
Yuan Ke turned over and stood up, picked up the knife, and guarded it tightly outside the small door. Tears were streaming down his face, as if washed by water: "Fifth brother, I have said that I wish he could die. I also said that
, but if I have the chance, I will definitely avenge my third brother and my sixth uncle... But if I really want to kill him, why do I need to wait until the last moment?"
All this happened so fast that Yuan Huai had not yet reacted.
Looking around, where is Yuan Ke’s figure?
Yuan Yi actually pulled such a trick?
If I had known better, I would have let the armored soldiers fire thousands of arrows a moment ago, and they would have shot Yuan Ke into a sieve...
The hatred in my heart reached the extreme, and the anger in my chest was boiling like a volcano about to erupt. The veins on my forehead were bulging, and the handsome facial features were distorted: "Cum for me?"
"Hide?"
Li Chengzhi stumbled and ran behind the stone pillar: "Yuan Yuan, are you a theatergoer? Kill... hack these bastards to death..."
How could Yu Lin in the palace have time to draw his bow and draw his arrow?
Suddenly there were several loud noises, like thunder that made the sky collapse, and the whole hall shook twice.
"Boom...Boom..."
The two palace doors and the left and right palace walls collapsed, and tigers and dogs rushed in like a tide.
The solid wood window lattice seemed to be made of paper, and was pushed open by the bumping wood one by one. Yuan Chen and others climbed up the window sill like monkeys, jumped into the corner of the hall, and protected Li Chengzhi, Yuan Yi, Yuan Jia and others in the middle. p>
Yuan Huai seemed to be stupid.
He forgot for a moment that not only were there a large army outside the palace, but there were also four thousand tiger warriors outside the Qingquan Palace.
And how many rebels were there who sneaked into the main hall from the secret passage?
After all the hard work and planning, I thought everything would be perfect. But who would have thought that it would suddenly take a sudden turn for the worse and be turned into nothing?
"Your Highness...go..."
With red eyes, Yu Zhong pulled Yuan Huai and jumped down the tunnel.
Yu Zuo, Yu Jing, and Yu Hui followed closely behind. Just as Bai Mei was about to follow, he suddenly felt a chill in his chest.
Yuan Ji smiled ferociously and pulled out the knife: "If I hadn't been bewitched by you, this thief, why would I have gotten to where I am now..."
He glanced in the direction of the stone pillar unwillingly. But everywhere he saw were tigers and tigers, where were Yuan Ke and Li Chengzhi?
"Let's go..." Hou Gang pulled Yuan Ji hard, and the two fell into the secret passage.
The palace was in chaos.
The walls of the left and right halls have fallen down, blocking two of the four secret passages. One of them is still tightly guarded by the Yu clan, and is only for the Yu clan's descendants. General Yu Lin can escape. But if ordinary soldiers approach, they will
He raised his knife and chopped randomly.
Those in front couldn't get in, but those behind were pushing hard, and more and more people were escaping. It was like a mountain, squeezing forward.
Finally, Yu's tribe was overwhelmed and fell into the tunnel. The rebels behind were like ants, jumping down like crazy.
Not even two rows after jumping, the secret passage was completely blocked...
However, Tiger Ben was like two iron walls, pressing towards the middle with neat steps from the left and right sides. The anger in his eyes seemed to be able to ignite the enemies. Each of them gritted their teeth and stabbed the gun with all their strength.
"Surrender...I surrender..."
I don't know who shouted, and a harsh cry resounded in the hall, like a tsunami, each wave stronger than the other.
"Surrender...I surrender..."
It’s just now, don’t you think it’s too late?
Yuan Yuan's eyes were red, like a ferocious god: "Kill me, no scraps of armor will be left..."
For a moment, it felt like entering a pig-killing farm. Screams, curses, angry shouts, and the sound of weapons clashing were all louder and louder than the last. They came together and seemed to penetrate the roof of the temple. The tigers in the front row mechanically stabbed their spears, retracted their spears, stabbed their spears again, and retracted their spears... The spearmen didn't care whether they were stabbed to death, as long as they stabbed them down. Then they stepped on the rebels' bodies like they were going uphill and continued to move forward.
, continue to stab the gun.
After the spearmen are the shield soldiers. Each of them is bent at the waist, pushing forward tightly against the back of the soldier in the front row. If he steps on a corpse under his feet, the horizontal knife in his hand will cut it off. If it can hit the neck, it will be cut off.
Cut the neck. If you can't cut the neck, stab it in the face.
After that, there are the sword soldiers, who are only responsible for last-hitting. Regardless of whether they are alive or dead, the heads of all soldiers who fall to the ground will be cut off, and then the bodies will be transported out of the palace.
Gradually, the screams and yells became smaller and smaller until they disappeared. There were fewer and fewer corpses in the temple, including the rebels who fell into the tunnel, who were stabbed to death and dragged up and outside the temple. p>
There was not a single rebel standing in the hall. The blood on the floor tiles gathered in puddles. When the tiger stepped on it, he could hear the sound of treading water.
Outside the palace gate, it was like a Shura field. The ground was full of dead bodies, heads, broken arms, and severed limbs. Blood flowed out from the broken necks and skulls, winding down the stone steps. In a short time, it was filled with more than ten steps.
Stone steps.
The farther it flows, the lower the temperature of the blood becomes, until it gradually solidifies and no longer spreads forward. After a while, it freezes into a layer of blood ice.
The ice accumulated thicker and thicker, until the corpses in the hall were evacuated and no fresh blood flowed down. At this time, inside the huge stone fence, it had been frozen into an ice mirror. As the firelight swayed, it looked like a group of blood-red
The ghostly shadows are dancing, charming and terrifying.
It's a little warm in the hall, and the blood is half coagulated and half dry. Stepping on it is like stepping into mud, making a "squeaking" sound.
Yuan Ying and Yuan Cheng had been on the battlefield for a long time and were used to seeing dead people, but they were still horrified by the scene in front of them. They secretly wondered how critical it must be at that time, so that thousands of tigers were killed and no one was left alive.
Stay?
The corpses in the hall have been cleared, and several groups of tigers and warriors are guarding outside the two secret passages. There are faint footsteps coming from the underground, and there should be other tiger warriors chasing the defeated thieves in the secret passages.
A group of old ministers knelt on the steps, all with their heads on the ground and their bodies trembling slightly.
Under the stone pillar, the emperor was lying on the quilt with his upper body naked, covered in blood. Li Chengzhi and Xu Jian were busy pouring medicine and acupuncture, but after one mouthful, the emperor would spit it out. When they spit it out,
The brown medicinal soup has been dyed dark red by blood.
Yuan Ke's face was like gold paper, as if coated with a layer of wax. Only the two lips were dyed red with blood, which was extremely enchanting.
Yuan Cheng and Yuan Ying's expressions all changed, and they knelt down quietly behind You Zhao and others.
"Don't do it again...it's useless...now you know, I'm not acting, right?"
It turns out that from beginning to end, Yuan Ke vomited real blood. Including the mouthful of vomiting on Li Chengzhi's chest. The reason why there was sheep blood and it was clotted was just because the emperor had sheep blood soup for dinner...
Everything had come to a standstill, but like a dead tree springing back to life, a dry fish finding water, it found a glimmer of hope in the desperate situation, and turned defeat into victory. Extreme anger was followed by extreme joy, just like the intercourse between fire and water, which exhausted the last trace of the emperor's mind and spirit.
Energy.
He worked so hard, narrowly escaped death, and risked his life to save the emperor, but in the end, he ended up feeling lonely?
Li Chengzhi was angry and resentful, and tears fell from his eyes one by one, seemingly in an endless stream: "Why bother... Why do you have to..."
"Brothers can kill each other, and the whole family can be wiped out. Why can he be so cruel that he can kill his legitimate son with his own hands and use his legitimate daughter as a weapon? At that moment, I was like a thousand swords piercing my belly, and I was heartbroken..." p>
The emperor bared his bloody teeth and laughed miserably, "Don't blame yourself... It was only then that I realized that everything from front to back was his handiwork, let alone you?"
Li Chengzhi was choked up and speechless, so he could only nod his head heavily.
The emperor had no backup plan at all. Just like Li Chengzhi, he only suspected Yuan Jia, Gao Zhao, Yuan Yong, Yuan Yi and the like.
But who would have thought that Liu Teng would rebel?
The emperor had doubts about Yu Zhong, but at that time, Yu Zhong's military power had been deprived of his military power and he had been imprisoned. Moreover, Liu Teng secretly covered it up and deliberately misled the emperor, so the suspicion of Yu Zhong was eliminated.
At that time, Yuan Ke was already anxious, paranoid, and frightened to the extreme. His wisdom was less than 23% of normal. He was like a dazed old cow, letting Liu Teng lead him by the nose.
It wasn't until Yuan Huai testified against Yuan Yi that the son in Hu Chonghua's belly was Yuan Yi's fault, that Yuan Ke was so blessed that he figured out all the joints.
But it was too late, and the emperor could only make up for it. He pretended not to know and asked Yuan Hui to take the opportunity of summoning You Zhao, Cui Guang and others to take the Emperor's Seal out of the palace and hand it over to Yuan Cheng and Yuan Ying...
…
"In the morning, you, Wang Xian, and Xu Jian both said: If I use the medicine correctly and take good rest, I can live for another year and a half. But you know, how can anyone calm down when they know they are about to die?
At that time, I knew that whether I could live for more than half a month depended on my fate. So I only died more than ten days early, so why should I panic?"
All the veterans cried out sadly: "Your Majesty...be careful what you say!"
"I'm afraid I can't even wait for the morning light to take another look, so why should I be careless? Stop making noise...Yuan Yi!"
"I... am here!"
"You are good in everything, but you are too naive. If you had told me earlier that you had stayed at Qingquan Palace overnight, how could you have caused such a big disaster today?"
Yuan Yi knocked his head heavily on the stone slab: "I am guilty!"
"For this reason, although you hated me to the core, you did not end up collaborating with Yuan Huai. It is also for this reason that your emotions and anger were all revealed in your appearance, which made Yuan Huai wary in his heart and did not dare to fall for you in advance. But it is also a blessing in disguise. , otherwise how could Yuan Huai let the second son of your family go...that's all, where is the imperial edict?"
"Hidden by the minister under the imperial case of Shiqian Palace."
"Take it and announce it!"
Yuan Yi was shocked and raised his head in disbelief.
The ministers were even more shocked.
The emperor is so crazy that no one wants to use his room?
No wonder the emperor was not afraid at all when Yuan Yi shouted "Yuan Ke is dead"? It turned out that he had already determined that Yuan Yi had not rebelled after all...
"It seems that you have guessed it. Yes, the share that Yu Yuanyun left was originally fake, but now, it is true and true!"
The emperor looked at the ministers again, "Forget it... In order to avoid another accident, I will dictate it: I have no holiday, and I can't wait for the birth of the prince. But the sky cannot live without sun, and the country cannot live without a king. .If I stay in heaven and the throne hangs for a long time, it will be a sign of the country's destruction. Therefore, I have issued an edict to accept Yuan Quan, the eldest son of Yuan Geng, as his heir, and he will be the heir apparent from that day..."
It was as if a gust of wind had blown through the hall, and all the ministers were shocked and horrified, taking in a breath of cold air.
The emperor didn't wait for Hu to give birth to a prince, but instead established an heir and established a heir apparent?
As if he had expected that the ministers would behave like this, the emperor stared at the roof of the palace and sighed quietly: "Didn't you see the lessons learned from my previous mistakes?"
Everyone was shocked, but suddenly realized.
If the late emperor hadn't been worried about gains and losses, wavered and left the edict of "you wait and see and take supplementary measures", why would there have been today's disaster?
Yuan Ke didn't want to make the same mistake again, and he didn't want the Yuan family to fall apart before his bones were cold.
Compared with this, whether one's own blood will inherit the throne has become secondary...
There was silence in the hall, and the sound of breathing could be heard clearly. After a long silence, Gao Zhao kowtowed heavily and cried out sadly: "Your Majesty is wise!"
"Your Majesty is wise!"
It was not until this moment that all the ministers reacted, and they all shouted in unison. But their expressions were different, some were surprised and doubtful, or some were just taking it for granted, they were all making their own calculations in their hearts.