Chapter 113: Suspicion Looms
On the streets, there was a lot of water.
The rain soaked through the clothes, and the rhythm became colder and colder.
Luo Yuan led people to hide in the shadows under the city wall, standing quietly like huge stones.
Luoyang City was pitch black, gloomy and depressing.
Occasionally, soldiers with torches stepped on stagnant water, armor rubbing, weapons colliding, people couldn't help but shiver.
It's on fire!
Suddenly there was a miserable cry in the silent city, and a dark street suddenly burst into flames, and soon a house burst into flames, and the fire was very large, and it quickly spread to both sides.
The people were fed up with the usual repression, and a fire suddenly ignited them.
Nearby residents rushed out of the door in panic, and other people around also went out to watch.
This fire is so strange that it can't be extinguished by a downpour. The woman and the old man hurriedly brought well water with a wooden bucket and poured it bucket by bucket, but to no avail, she could only watch the fire spread.
"Tear down the house!" someone shouted, rushing to help.
"It's on fire!" Not far away, another house was on fire.
One after another, the flames illuminated the oppressive Luoyang City, and they bloomed in the rain one by one like flowers, and soon, the entire Handan City was boiling.
The defenders were uneasy, Luo Yuan quietly touched the city gate, glanced at the trembling defenders, said sorry in his heart, and then drew an iron whip, screamed and rushed forward.
"Kill!"
Rumble!
The drawbridge was lowered, countless torches were raised outside the city, and the soldiers under the command of Ma Quai's men rushed towards this direction with a roar.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the defenders on the city wall hurriedly shot a few arrows and fled in a panic.
The military camp in the city was in chaos, and they hurriedly put on some clothes and armor at random, rushed out of the door with their weapons, and then ran with them.
At the entrance of the city cave, the cold corpse was placed on the ground, allowing the stagnant water to wash away, Luo Yuan led people to step on the corpse, and resisted the impact of waves with a shield.
"Get out of the way!" roared outside the gates.
Ma Zhongyu took the lead, holding a torch in one hand and a gun in the other.
Cavalry into the city!
The defenders who attacked Luo Yuan were defeated, throwing away their weapons and fleeing in panic.
The heavy rain poured down and the black lights blinded the fire, which detonated the fear in people's hearts. Some of the defenders drew their swords and slashed indiscriminately, which allowed the chaos to spread like a plague.
Defeated, the defenders, who had been stubbornly resisting, were crushed, showing people what it means to be defeated.
Some surrendered on their knees, some fled in a panic, some simply found a place to hide, some resisted in vain, and some slashed indiscriminately without distinguishing between friend and foe, and then were killed by others.
Ma Zhongyu led the cavalry to drive a part of the rout along the street like a rabbit, and finally stopped at the gate of the imperial city.
The defenders in the imperial city looked at the situation outside in panic, not knowing what to do, but instinctively bent their bows and arrows and shot everyone who approached the imperial city.
Ma Zhongyu led the cavalry around the imperial city, looking for a weak breakthrough while constantly throwing arrows into it.
"Don't shoot, don't shoot, your own people!" someone inside shouted, and then a group of defenders with red cloth on their arms hurriedly opened the gates of the imperial city.
The army poured in, the eunuchs and palace maids screamed in panic, and some of the guards drew their swords to meet them, and then they were killed mercilessly, and the cold corpse fell to the ground.
"Surrender and don't kill, surrender and don't kill," a hundred members ......of the Imperial Forest Army held high the gold medal and shouted loudly. Seeing that the tide was turning, some of the guards simply threw away their knives and spears and surrendered.
Suddenly, a cold arrow came from the darkness, and hundreds of the Royal Foresters were shot to the ground with an arrow, and his subordinates were furious, and they raised their swords and guns to kill.
The one-year-old eunuch shouted in surrender, and was then slashed to the ground. A palace maid hid under the bed and shivered, and then was dragged out screaming by her feet.
The carcass fell into the clear pond, the red faded and the colored fish chased after it.
The precious flowers in the back garden were ravaged by torrential rain and then trampled into the dirt by panicked people.
The thunder flashed, and in the white world, the panicked people were like ants that had lost their way, running, screaming, falling and getting up, showing madness.
The outlaws broke down the door of the grain shop and robbed it as much as they could.
The princes and nobles trembled under the protection of the guards, hugged their children and whimpered and cried, and their ugliness was fully revealed.
This chaos that swept through the whole process lasted until dawn.
The red-eyed horse showed fatigue on his face, and led the army into the city on horseback, and under the cold blade, the people regained their composure and hid in their houses.
Ma Zhongyu was surrounded by the soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army and walked straight along the avenue, until he entered the palace and arrived at the Qianyang Palace, and then he dismounted.
This place has long been surrounded by people, and inside, it is the main culprits of this rebellion, the crown prince and the queen.
"Zitong, Yun'er. Ma Quzhi took a deep breath, came to the palace gate surrounded by everyone, leaned on it and shouted: "Why do you want to betray Gu?"
Ma Quzhi has never been able to figure this out.
Although there is a little less family affection because of Ma Qu's illness and perennial war, there is no contradiction between them, and the queen can also be called a case with eyebrows, and she has always been very satisfied with the prince, although there is a little fight in the harem, but the position of the queen and the prince has always been as stable as Mount Tai.
Why, then, did they betray him and do such an unwise thing?
"Why?" A sneer came from inside, the palace door slowly opened, and the queen with a phoenix crown walked out of the door alone, her willow eyebrows were upside down, and her originally kind face became extremely hideous: "Your Majesty, why do you want to shoot Yun'er, why do you want to poison Zitong." ”
As she spoke, tears flowed from the queen's eyes.
Ma Qu was shocked, and his face was inexplicable: "When did Lone shoot Yun'er, and when did he poison Zitong." ”
"I've seen it, I've seen it all, and in the future, Your Majesty will do this, and you still want to quibble?"
The queen took a few more steps forward, her legs limped, and she fell to her knees.
Ma Quai's expression changed, and he hurriedly walked forward.
"Mother!"
"Your Majesty, be careful!"
An arrow shot head-on, but it hit the shield in Ma Zhongyu's hand with a bang. Ma Quai's illness pushed Ma Zhongyu away and ran towards the queen quickly.
"Protect Your Majesty!" Ma Zhongyu shouted.
"Mother!" the prince in a python robe rushed out with a gun and a person.
"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows, don't let them get close to Your Majesty!"
"Shoot the arrows!"
"No!" Ma Quai's eyes were red, and the sound of breaking the air passed by his ears, and he watched as arrows pierced through the bodies of the prince and the people around him.
The prince spurted blood, ran two steps, threw down his gun, and fell to the ground.
Ma Quzhi knelt on the ground, picked up the queen with trembling hands, and tears rained down: "Zitong!"
The queen's face was pale, her lips were bloodless, and black blood oozed from the corners of her mouth, but her eyes became much clearer: "Your Majesty... Right... Right... Rise... Zitong was fooled. ”
"Imperial Doctor, Imperial Doctor......" Ma Qu was sick and shouted heartbreakingly.
"Your Majesty......" The queen's miserable white fingers grabbed the collar of Ma Quai's coat hard: "Be careful... Be careful......"
Her eyes passed through Ma Quai's neck, staring directly at the person behind Ma Quai's illness, but her words were never finished, and the hand that grabbed Ma Quai's collar loosened, and with no dryness, her round eyes turned dead gray, and tears slipped from the corners of her eyes.
"Zitong !!"