Hearing these words, Chongzhen, who was already semi-unconscious, trembled slightly, spit out a mouthful of blood, and slowly opened his eyes.

The person in front of him, dressed in luxurious steel armor, wearing a bright red woven flower cloak, with thick eyebrows and heroic eyes, and looking at him intently and with concern, was not it Li Xiao, the king of Tang?

At this moment, Chongzhen had mixed feelings.

He sent out so many messengers for help, and repeatedly summoned soldiers and horses from other places to enter King Qin, but he didn't expect that none of the soldiers and horses who were close to Gyeonggi came. On the contrary, it was Li Xiao, the king of Tang who was far away in Liaodong, who rushed thousands of miles to Beijing. In the end, he was lucky enough to save half of his life from the ghost head of the rogue.

And now, the seriously injured self is lying weakly in the crook of Li Xiao's strong arm. Chongzhen could clearly feel that life was passing rapidly from his body, and he couldn't live long.

Chongzhen coughed sullenly and struggled to sit up, but he didn't have the strength to support his badly injured body. He had to turn his head slightly with difficulty to make it easier to speak to Li Xiao.

"Tang Wang Xian's son-in-law, I, I am really ashamed of you." Chongzhen's bloodshot eyes were flickering, and he gasped and said, "Today, it's too late to say anything." I just want to ask you for one thing, and I hope you can do it. ”

"What does Your Majesty command, but as far as you can say, even if Li Xiao fights for his life, he will do it for His Majesty." Li Xiao looked directly into Chongzhen's confused eyes, his face was as resolute as iron, and his speech was clear and powerful.

Chongzhen squeezed out a smile on his face, and said with difficulty, "King Tang, I have sent Gong Yonggu, a concubine, to lead the three princes from Xizhimen to highlight the capital. I hope you will lead the troops to go quickly, so that they can leave the capital smoothly......"

Before Chongzhen finished his sentence, he suddenly coughed violently again, and a large cloud of blood and bubbles gushed out from his mouth, looking very terrifying.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, the minister will definitely lead the troops as soon as possible, and no matter what is the following, the three princes will be taken out of the capital. Please also ask your Majesty to retreat with our army. ”

After listening to Li Xiao's answer, Chongzhen took a breather, then shook his head slightly with a miserable smile, and replied in a trembling voice, "No need, I am seriously injured, and I am already a dying person, why save it again." I only hope that the Tang King can assist the prince and revitalize the Ming Dynasty, then I will go to the bottom of the nine springs, and I will also be at ease. ”

After Chongzhen finished speaking, a pair of misty eyes tried to widen, and looked at Li Xiao with a solemn face in front of him.

Li Xiao didn't say much, and immediately called his subordinates to take a heavy arrow from the quiver on the horse.

Then, with his left arm supporting Chongzhen, he picked up the arrow with his right hand, and with a strong finger, there was a crisp snap, and the arrow was broken in two from the middle.

"Li Xiao swears by folding arrows here! I will definitely do my best to assist the prince, but your majesty can be relieved. As long as Li is there, he will be able to protect the emperor for thousands of generations. Li Xiao, who was expressionless, answered clearly word by word.

Hearing Li Xiao's words, Chongzhen's face showed a little relief, his eyes widened, and he resisted the increasingly blurred consciousness, just wanted to speak, but coughed violently, and the whole person was like a shrimp in Li Xiao's arms.

Seeing the pitiful appearance of the emperor who was about to die, the remaining eunuchs next to him wept softly, and everyone had a sympathetic look on their faces.

Chongzhen finally stopped coughing, so he hooked his fingers slightly, signaling Li Xiao to come closer and speak.

Li Xiao nodded and put his ear close to Chongzhen's mouth. Chongzhen gasped with difficulty and muttered a word in the world.

"Li Xiao, you remember. If the prince can be administered, then he will be administered. If the crown prince is incompetent, you can replace him......"

Before he finished speaking, Chongzhen's neck twisted, his pupils dilated, and he spit out the last breath.

He's dead.

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty, you can't die!"

The eunuchs next to them began to cry loudly, and the scene was chaotic.

Li Xiao silently stared at Chongzhen who died in the crook of his arm, his face was resolute and cold, without the slightest expression, no one knew what he was thinking.

In the end, Li Xiao gently put down Chongzhen's corpse, and ordered his subordinates to untie Chongzhen's armor and reuse a thick felt cloth that he had covered when he slept outside the city, and wrapped Chongzhen's corpse.

At this time, an old eunuch with a bloody face and wounds on his body slowly leaned over and bowed to Li Xiaochang.

"The old slave king Chengen, meet the king of Tang."

Li Xiao was stunned for a moment, and carefully saw that the person in front of him was indeed Wang Chengen, so he asked in a deep voice, "Princess, the other concubines in the palace, but where are they now?" “

"Dead, they're all dead." Wang Chengen's tone was endlessly sad, and there was a strange look on his face.

He hung his head, not daring to face Li Xiao's burning eyes at all.

However, Wang Chengen still seized the time, quickly and briefly, and told Li Xiao how Queen Zhou Yi'an, Empress Dowager Yuan, Concubine Yang and others were forced to commit suicide by Chongzhen last night, and how they were all hastily buried in the back garden in the end.

After Li Xiao listened, his heart was indescribably sentimental.

Such a tragic and cold reality, only when you face it in person, will you find that it can make people feel heartbroken.

However, Emperor Chongzhen of this world, instead of quietly going to the coal mountain to hang himself as in the history books, was able to lead a group of eunuchs and remnants of soldiers, with a team of more than 200 people, desperately fighting and killing several times the number of rogues, but it was also strong enough to be called the death of the king.

Li Xiao, who originally planned to bury Chongzhen temporarily, suddenly changed his mind in his heart.

He sighed lightly, and coldly ordered the eunuchs who were still crying, "Everyone, the situation is so critical now, you can run for your life on your own, and this king will not blame." If you are willing to leave with this king, please change your clothes immediately and leave as quickly as possible with our army. ”

As soon as Li Xiao finished speaking, Wang Chengen hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "King Tang, the old slave is willing to leave with you." It's just that this majesty's corpse ......"

"Your Majesty's corpse, this king will personally take it out of the capital, and will never let it fall into the hands of the rogue."

After Li Xiao finished speaking, he turned over and got on the horse, and then asked the corpse of Chongzhen, who had been unarmored and wrapped in thick felt, to be carefully tied to his back.

"Your Majesty, Weichen has taken you home."

Feeling the corpse of Chongzhen on his back, the stiffness and coldness that came, Li Xiao had mixed feelings, and he muttered to himself, but his eyes did not feel tears.

Immediately, Li Xiao ordered the whole army to go to the direction of Xizhimen, and they must find the three princes and save them from danger.

The horses' hooves rumbled, the dust and smoke rolled, and the five hundred elite riders passed through the bluestone street all the way, ran out of the noon gate, and then turned around and went straight to the Xizhi Gate.

Li Xiao and the others would never have thought at this moment that Gong Yonggu and the three princes, as well as that group of people, would encounter a big trouble before they arrived at Xizhimen.

It turned out that after seeing the Liukou break the city, Gong Yonggu mustered up the courage and led everyone to flee from their homes, and went to Xizhimen all the way, but he didn't expect that he turned a street and encountered a large number of bandits.

These bandits, when they saw Gong Yonggu and his group, although they deliberately dressed up in tatters and made them look like homeless people, they did not hide everywhere like ordinary people in such a time of war, but gathered together and hurried through the alleys, and they immediately became suspicious.

"Stop!

A rogue who looked like a general secretary shouted at Gong Yonggu, who was walking at the front of the team.

Gong Yong's heart tightened, he subconsciously looked back at the three princes behind him, and found that the three of them were looking at him uneasily.

The general manager stepped forward arrogantly, looked Gong Yonggu up and down first, and then shouted, "The dog entered, what are you running blindly!" What the fuck are you going to do with these people? Quickly recruit from the real thing! ”

Gong Yonggu blinked, a smirk welled up on his face, and replied in an almost flattering tone, "Master Jun, we are all ordinary ordinary people, just because the capital has been besieged by your army for days, and we and other small people have been trapped in the city for a long time, without food and clothing, and life is really difficult. No, taking advantage of the opportunity for your army to enter the capital now, I will leave the capital as soon as possible, in order to find a way to live, and I hope that you will be allowed to go. ”

The rogue always squinted his eyes, looked Gong Yonggu up and down, and then snorted coldly, "You guys talk a lot!" Now that the war is in chaos, who knows where you came from? I don't want to talk nonsense with you, and let us search us one by one, and if there is nothing left, let you wait. ”

Listening to the words of this department chief, Gong Yonggu's face suddenly changed greatly.

He knew that although each man wore tattered clothes on the outside, he had hidden his weapons on the inside, in case of a possible battle. If they are allowed to search their bodies, once they find weapons, they are afraid that it will be difficult to avoid a fight in the end.

Gong Yonggu frowned, he was flustered in his heart, and made the most wrong decision.

He took out a large ingot of silver from his body, and handed it to the general manager of the Kou Department with a sneer, "This military master, why bother with the villain." You just laugh at this silver, raise your hands, and let the little ones have a way to live. ”

Gong Yonggu took out the silver and was snatched away by the head of the department. Then, the man raised his eyebrows and raised his face, and shouted, "Grandma's! You say you're a homeless person, where does this homeless person get so much money?! Fuck, you fucking want to coax me, you really miscalculated, I won't let you go today! ”

After this general said this, he drew a knife in his hand and shouted loudly, "Brothers, give these guys to Lao Tzu to dominate, and then snatch all the silver hidden on their bodies!" ”

A group of rogues, like bloodthirsty wolves, drew their swords and spears, let out a beast-like howl, and surrounded Gong Yonggu and them.

At this moment, Gong Yonggu's face turned pale, as if even his legs were trembling slightly.

Thinking of himself, he swore to Chongzhen last night that he would escape with the three princes and get out of the capital, but he didn't expect that just going out of the street would meet this gang of thieves, and he would have to face such a battle with a huge disparity in strength between the enemy and me, and this luck was really bad.

didn't have time to think carefully, Gong Yonggu tore off the rags on his body, brushed the ground, pulled out his waist knife, and shouted loudly, "Everyone listen to the order and fight with this gang of thieves!" “

In an instant, Gong Yonggu and his group drew their swords and fought with the swarming rogues.

Seeing this sudden change, among the three princes, the crown prince Zhu Cihong and the king of Ding, Zhu Cijiong, were slightly older, and they also pulled out the swords they wore with those family members and soldiers, and fought desperately against the rogues.

The youngest, only ten-year-old Yongwang Zhu Cizhi, was so frightened by this sudden change that he cried, and he hid in the middle of the crowd like a rabbit fleeing in a hurry.

Such a contrasting battle quickly took on a one-sided situation.

One after another, the servants and soldiers fell screaming, and the rogues laughed wildly and surrounded them in the middle, slashing and slashing them one by one, and none of them could escape.

And Gong Yonggu, who was at the front, was stabbed several times in his body, drenched in blood, but he was still gritting his teeth and fighting to the death, he used all his strength to cut down the nearest rogue minions, but suddenly heard a familiar scream from his back.

At the same time, it was the two lamentations of the crown prince and the Yongwang.

"Second brother!"

"Third brother!"

Gong Yonggu turned his head sharply to look back, and he saw painfully that the back of Dingwang Zhu Cijiong was stabbed through with a long knife by a sneak attacker. The sharp tip of the knife, with a surging blood mist, burst out of his chest.

Dingwang Zhu Cijiong fell to the ground like a knocked down noodle bag, twitched slightly, and then did not move again.

Gong Yonggu saw such a tragic situation, and his heart was very sad. It's just that before he could turn back, the head of the department had already rushed fiercely and slashed away with a knife, and Gong Yonggu's head immediately soared into the air like a flying balloon, with a straight column of blood.

"Gong Pony!"

The crowd let out another cry of sorrow, but Gong Yonggu could no longer hear it.

He suddenly felt that he had become very light, and his whole body seemed to have no weight. The whole body is transparent and weightless, and he is swept to the sky by a trace of wind.

And there, my own family is already smiling and waiting with me, to go to a carefree paradise with me......

As soon as the leader of the team, Gong Yonggu, died, the remnants of the team were in chaos, and many frightened family members and soldiers threw down their weapons and knelt down to surrender, but they were killed immediately by the thieves who had already killed the red-eyed thief, and no one was left.

"Brother Huang, I'm so scared!

Yongwang Zhu Cihong, half of his face was splashed with blood, and he crawled to the crown prince Zhu Cihong with tears and crawling, but the current prince Zhu Cihong is already unable to protect himself, and he can still take care of him there.

At this moment, a sinful knife struck with a fierce howling wind, Zhu Cihong couldn't dodge, and was slashed in the right arm by this knife, and the blood soared wildly, and even the dull sound of the bones being cut off inside could be heard!

Zhu Cihong screamed, the waist knife in his hand clanged to the ground, and the whole person almost fainted in pain.

The rogue, who had succeeded in the first blow, deceived him further and slashed him by the neck, intending to slash him immediately. Fortunately, Zhu Cihong was clever enough, and he hurriedly dodged sideways to avoid this fatal blow.

Just when he thought he was going to die, at the end of the street, as if by magic, a large army of ironclad cavalry poured out.

They were well-armoured, sturdy and stubborn, and their wedge-shaped ranks were extremely neat, like a black hurricane rolled up on the ground, and rushed straight towards the large number of rogues on the periphery, screaming loudly and rushing straight at the horses!

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