There are two ways to do now, either to break through the inner garden, and to take Ye Lidulan and the prince as a threat, or to save his life; Either he immediately led his troops out of the city from the north gate, went straight to his northern fiefdom, announced the secret edict to the world, and then made the rebellion of the prince and queen public, and began to rebel, perhaps winning the support of other tribes in the party.

When Pang was hesitant in front of the two methods, the 50,000 Xiangqing army had already broken all the way into the city, and the streets were originally empty, but in an instant, they were filled with heavily armed soldiers, and the footsteps were mixed with people neighing and screaming, making the already frightened people even more shrunk behind the corner cabinet and tremble.

Zhang Yuan and Ren Jingde rode on horses and galloped, Ren Jingde said: "Zhang Zhongshu, do you want to control the camp first?" lest there be any extraneous branches. ”

Zhang Yuandao: "It's too late, the palace must be in a hurry, if the palace is broken, and there is no hidden order from the crown prince and queen, what should you and I do?" The crown prince must not be allowed to fall into the hands of the enemy, this is also a credit to you and me afterwards, the Su Guard army is controlled by the hidden Pang must have participated in the siege of the palace, and those who are not involved will not participate at this moment, so don't provoke them. ”

Ren Jingde laughed and said: "Zhang Zhongshu is calculating, giving orders, and going straight to the palace." ”

50,000 soldiers marched along the streets and alleys to the north of the city, the vanguard soon arrived at the periphery of the palace, the scene in front of them made them stunned, the entire palace has been all on fire, the tall palace is burning to the sky, not only a few halls in the outer garden, hundreds of pavilions and palaces in the inner garden have also been burned red, Zhang Yuan and Ren Jingde, who arrived in a hurry, are cold, it seems that the palace is broken, the queen and the prince are afraid that they are either dead or fall into the hands of the hidden traitor.

But strangely, there was not a single figure in the firelight, and there was no sign of the defenders and besiegers, only the mess and corpses all over the ground.

The soldiers searched around and found a dozen wounded soldiers in the passage between the temples, and brought them all over.

Zhang Yuan saw that they were dressed in the uniforms of the Su Guards, so he shouted and asked, "Didn't you hide it?" ”

The wounded soldiers kowtowed and begged for mercy, and one of them said in a trembling voice: "The minister of state has fled from the north gate with his troops." ”

"The queen and the crown prince have been poisoned?"

"This little man doesn't know, the prime minister ordered a storming of the inner garden, after the inner garden was broken, the prime minister ordered me to wait and set fire to all the places, and we followed the leader to set fire to all the places, but when we came out, we found that the brigade had retreated to the north gate; We were just about to catch up when dozens of people were knocked down by arrows from nowhere, and a few of us were lucky enough to run fast and escape. ”

Zhang Yuanyi said happily: "So there are still people inside? ”

The wounded soldiers nodded again and again: "Yes, there are a lot of them, all near the lotus pond in the back garden." We saw hundreds of people there, but I didn't dare to go there. ”

Zhang Yuan and Ren Jingde glanced at each other, their eyes were full of surprise, the lotus pond is an artificial lake dug by Li Yuanhao in order to enjoy the summer lotus, there are pavilions built on the water, it is the best place to resist the fire, and who is on three sides at the same time, only a nine-curved promenade is connected to the shore, which is an excellent place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

"General Ren, order the blockade of the four cities to start a curfew, let's go to the lotus pond to welcome the queen and the crown prince." Zhang Yuandao.

"You mean the crown prince and queen are not dead?"

"Of course, hundreds of people are there, which means that it is the last place to guard the queen and the prince, and the old thief must have seen me and others come to break the city and make a desperate bet to burn down all parts of the palace, it is best to burn the prince and the queen to death, and escape back to the lair by himself."

"It must be so, it seems that there is no hidden rebellion."

"Yes, but with the prince and the queen here, if you don't hide the old thief, there will be no one to help, you can't jump for a few days, first stabilize the current situation, let him live a few more days."

"What Zhang Zhongshu said is that let's hurry up and welcome the queen and the crown prince."

On the one hand, Ren Jingde ordered a curfew in the whole city and sent troops to block the gates of the four cities, while he and Zhang Yuan led thousands of soldiers to bypass the burning red palace pavilion and go straight to the lotus pond in the northeast.

The fire turned the lake red, and you can clearly see the dense figures on the pavilion in the center of the lake, and the Jiuqu Bridge is also full of soldiers, all of whom are covered with blood, obviously survivors after the bloody battle.

"Is it Lord Zhang in front?" Someone shouted.

"It's this official, this official and General Ren Jingde came to the rescue, is the crown prince okay?"

"Hahaha, there is no injury, due to the prestige of the two adults, the old thief fled in despair." The man laughed, Zhang Yuan heard that it was Su Jin's voice, Su Jin was fine, and Zhang Yuan was also inexplicably happy, he already admired this guy a little.

Ye Li Dulan and Li Ning Ling Ge walked to the shore surrounded by everyone, Ye Li Dulan's face was calm, the panic on Li Ning Ling Ge's face had not subsided, his body was trembling, and the whole person seemed to have collapsed.

"Greetings to the crown prince, I'm too late for help, the queen mother, His Royal Highness the crown prince is frightened."

Brother Li Ning said: "Why did you come, we were almost killed by the old thief, and you are too slow." ”

Ye Lidulan frowned and shouted, "The emperor stops." He turned his head and nodded to Zhang Yuan and Ren Jingde and said: "The two of you have worked hard, the two of you have saved the car in mind, get up, the prince is too frightened, don't take it to heart." ”

Both of them said: "How dare you! It was the fault of the courtiers. ”

Su Jin was secretly amused, this Li Ning Ling brother didn't know what to do, he didn't understand the danger of tonight at all, in terms of time, Zhang Yuan acted at least two hours in advance, otherwise he wouldn't have come so quickly, this guy actually blamed others for coming late; If you start at dawn according to the original plan, you will definitely be able to succeed if you don't hide it, and you won't have the power to return to heaven.

Ye Liduran looked up at the fire around him, the familiar palaces and palaces were engulfed in the skyrocketing fire, thinking about this day and night, his heart was a little sad, his husband was killed by his son, the palace was destroyed, it seemed that there was no place to stand, but it was really like in a dream.

Zhang Yuan saw Queen Yeli's thoughts, and said softly: "Don't worry about the queen's mother, the palace can be rebuilt, as long as the mother and His Royal Highness the prince are well, it will be the blessing of Great Xia, and now we must hurry up to stabilize the situation." ”

Ye Lidulan took a breath and smiled, "That's right." Lord Zhang, General Ren, what do you think should happen next? ”

Zhang Yuanren Jingde said in unison: "Please give me orders." ”

Ye Li Dulan pondered for a moment and said: "Immediately issue an edict: did not hide Pang to kill the monarch and rebel, attacked the palace with the intention of usurping the throne, and all the departments of Great Xia crusaded against the rebels and did not hide the false Pang, immediately search for and arrest the henchmen of the party who did not hide it, and all those who were implicated were killed; The emperor is newly mourned, the country cannot be without a monarch for a day, the prince chooses a day to ascend the throne, and the palace cooperates to listen to the government; Zhang Yuan was promoted to Minister of State, and Ren Jingde, the commander of the Xiangqing Army, was promoted to the rank of privy envoy, and concurrently served as the commander of all the soldiers and horses in Xingqing Prefecture, responsible for all safety inside and outside Gyeonggi, and the rest of the meritorious personnel were rewarded together. ”

Everyone knelt down to thank him, Zhang Yuan and Ren Jingde were happy in their hearts, the bet was won, and a move to win would go straight to the top of the dream.

Both of them invariably thanked one person, that is, Su Jin, the initiator of this bold plan, Ye Lidulan naturally would not forget Su Jin, she looked at Su Jin and said: "Master Su is not from my Great Xia, and he can't be rewarded for official positions, and there is no shortage of gold and silver treasures, so how can I reward him?" ”

Su Jin smiled: "Don't you know what I want?" ”

Yeli Dulan glanced at Ahri, who was snuggled next to Su Jin, sighed and said: "Okay, Ahri will be handed over to you, but this palace can't hold a big wedding for you, I want to announce to the public that Ahri died in chaos tonight, can Ahri understand the queen mother?" ”

Ahri nodded and said: "Ahri knows her mother's hard work, so there is no reason for the Liao people to provoke, thank you to the queen mother." ”

Su Jin smiled: "There is nothing for me here, once my identity is exposed, I will incur the anger of your Xia people, I am going to leave." ”

Zhang Yuan was stunned and said, "Master Su is leaving?" Don't stay for a celebratory drink? ”

Su Jin smiled: "Celebration? Some of you are busy, the officials have to deal with it, the situation needs to be stable, and you haven't hidden the false Pang and haven't died, do you have time to celebrate? Lord Zhang, you owe this wine first, and one day I will ask you for this glass of wine, which is considered as what you owe me. ”

Zhang Yuan arched his hand and said, "Waiting for you at any time." ”

Su Jin said goodbye to everyone, and took the two daughters and Wang Dynasty Mahan and others on the horse.

Ye Li Dulan quietly watched their figures disappear, and sighed softly: "With this person in the Song Kingdom, I'm afraid that my Great Xia territory will not have a chance to expand south." ”

Zhang Yuan nodded slowly and said, "Yes, this son has a lot of wisdom in his chest, and he can be a million soldiers." ”

Ren Jingde suddenly said: "Why don't you take the opportunity to kill him, since he is so powerful, wouldn't he break the arms of the Song people?" ”

Ye Li Dulan and Zhang Yuanjun turned their heads to look at Ren Jingde, their eyes were quite playful, but they didn't dare to pick up on such a topic.