At that time, the people in Chengdu had already slept.

The soldiers in the city were also drowsy. Although the situation has been a little tense recently, the imperial army has not attacked Sichuan so far, so the life of these Qiu Ba is still the same.

If you are a soldier, your head is pinned to the waistband of your pants, and you have to get by! If you want to talk about war, the fucking ghost is willing to fight. There is no way for the border soldiers to fight with the Demon Sect and the Tartars, but the Donglin Party of Lao Shizi, Zhou Yanru and Cao Guozhang of the turtle son, have a good life, but they have to fight with the court, what the hell!

There were no people on the streets, but there were still a lot of soldiers patrolling listlessly, stubble after stubble.

The defense of Chengdu's inner city can be described as impregnable.

First of all, in the inner city there were two patrol battalions, totaling 1,600 men. There are nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses of Cao Guoqing near the walls of the inner city, which makes the entire inner city defense strict and tight, and there is no leakage.

At the same time, in the mansions of the generals who led the troops outside, as well as the mansions of important figures such as the Shu Wang's Mansion, Cao Guozhang also arranged two hundred to three or four hundred people to closely monitor them.

No way, these people are too important.

To put it bluntly, Cao Guozhang still has no bottom in his heart, after all, he confronts the imperial court and does not have a very good mass base. Therefore, for his generals, he can only lure them with profit on the one hand, and threaten them with their families on the other.

Cao Guozhang believes that under such a tight defense, the people in the inner city want to go out unless they put on their wings.

Shu Wangfu.

Zhao Keqing, the commander of the palace, hurried to the door with twenty people, and said to the guards at the door, "Open the door quickly, Lao Tzu has urgent business." ”

Responsible for guarding the gate and periphery of the Shu Palace, Zhou Chong, the deputy commander of the Chengdu Weizuo Association. He was temporarily transferred to the Shu King's Mansion by Cao Guozhang, and the purpose was naturally to closely monitor the King of Shu in the name of protecting the King of Shu.

Zhou Chong brought three hundred and fifty people this time, in addition to the fifty people guarding the gate and the front yard, there were three hundred people distributed around the Shu Palace.

Zhou Chong glanced at Zhao Keqing, and said with a smile, "Commander Zhao, you have to go out so late, what urgent business is so urgent?"

Zhao Keqing said angrily, "Zhou Chong, are you taking too much care of it?

"Hehe, under the orders of the governor, I am responsible for guarding the safety of the palace. Can you ask?"

Zhao Keqing sneered, "I am the commander of the palace guards, but now I can't even get out of the palace, so Cao Futai wants to put the prince under house arrest?

Zhou Chong saw that Zhao Keqing was aggressive, so he changed his face and said with a smile, "Commander Zhao doesn't want to talk nonsense, the governor is loyal to the emperor, how can you slander him for rebelling? ”

Speaking of which, Zhou Chong's job is very difficult to do.

On the one hand, Cao Guozhang asked him to keep a close watch on the King of Shu.

On the other hand, he told him to do things in moderation, as long as the king of Shu did not run, try not to anger the king of Shu.

Why? Because Cao Guozhang's current name is that the emperor was held hostage by Qin Shuhuai, so he refuses to obey the edict, and he wants to use this name to win more support and sympathy, so that Donglin can stand on the commanding heights of morality. And once they make a tough move against the King of Shu, then it is the following offense, which means that they have rebelled.

Refusal to obey the edict and rebellion are two different concepts entirely.

Originally, there were not many people in Sichuan who supported their Donglin self-reliance, but fortunately, after their vigorous propaganda these days, many people began to doubt whether Qin Shuhuai had really kidnapped the emperor. At this juncture, if they moved the king of Shu, wouldn't it tell the world that they had rebelled?

So unless they are forced to do so, they will definitely not move the king of Shu, and they will give in or out.

Zhou Chong took a closer look at these guards and made sure that there was no King of Shu and his family among them, so he went with them. Anyway, as long as the King of Shu doesn't run, it's fine!

Otherwise, if there is a real fight, there will be news that Governor Cao has entered the palace of Shu, and then the whole world will think that Governor Cao is going to rebel, and he Zhou Chong can't afford this consequence.

"Open the door, don't delay Commander Zhao to go out on errands. Zhou Chong said.

The thick gates of the palace opened.

Zhao Keqing arched his hand at Zhou Chong and said, "Commander Zhou, I was in a hurry to offend and offend in the next moment. ”

Zhou Chong said politely, "Hey, it's easy to say!

At this moment, in the darkness, a bunch of people suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

These people clapped the team and ran towards the gate of the palace in a muffled voice.

Zhou Chong looked at the people who came running, his face confused.

I thought to myself, whose subordinate is this? From the patrol battalion? It doesn't look like this dress.

Although it was dark and I couldn't see it clearly, the clothes of the patrol battalion were yellow and black, and the uniform of the commander had copper chest and shoulder pads, which was by no means this dress.

Zhao Keqing and his soldiers were now in the center of the door.

It was right in the middle of the door, so that Zhou Chong's men couldn't close the door.

Zhao Keqing also pretended to be curious and asked, "Hey, Commander Zhou, Governor Cao has gone to the palace again?"

Zhou Chong shook his head in confusion, "I haven't heard of it!"

As far as they could say a word, the group was only thirty or forty meters away from the gate.

Then, they suddenly accelerated, and a gust of wind rushed towards them.

Zhou Chong's face changed, and he hurriedly said, "It's not good! There are assassins! Hurry, close the door!"

saw Zhao Keqing still standing "stupidly" in place, that is, in the middle of the gate.

I saw him pull out his waist knife and shout to his subordinates, "Brothers, there are assassins, protect the prince!"

His soldiers also drew their swords and shouted, "Protect the prince!"

But they were still standing in the middle of the door.

Zhou Chong's eyes were about to bleed, and he hurriedly shouted, "Commander Zhao, get out of the way, close the door!"

When Zhao Keqing heard this, he looked down at the position he was in, and said, "Oh, yes, hurry up, the brothers retreat, let Commander Zhou close the door!"

By the time they scrambled to the back of the door, the centaurs had already been killed!

It's only thirty or forty meters away, and they can say a few words?

The people who rushed in were naturally from the White Lotus Sect!

A total of two hundred people, led by Qi Sheng, the Chengdu rudder master of the ninth rank of Xiaocheng Realm, himself!

In the afternoon, they had quietly gathered at the home of a White Lotus Sect near the palace.

After rushing in, Qi Sheng and the other three masters of the Xuantong Realm immediately killed Zhou Chong. Zhou Chong is no more than a deputy co-commander of the guard, he still relies on his relationship, and his kung fu is only the fifth rank in the Xuantong Realm, and he was quickly killed.

There were only fifty people guarding the door, and the White Lotus Sect had two hundred, so they quickly rushed in.

As for Zhao Keqing and the others, they were "crushed at the touch of a button", and they ran back to the back hall without even fighting the White Lotus Sect, shouting, "There are assassins!

Their "cowardice" also affected Zhou Chong's subordinates.

Zhou Chong died as soon as he came up, and his subordinates saw that Du Nima, the commander of the palace guards, had run away, why didn't we run?

So many people didn't say a word, and they also ran after them.

It stands to reason that among Zhou Chong's fifty subordinates, there are always a few brave ones, but when I saw that there were as many as two or three hundred people on the other side, and more than half of the people on his side had run, wouldn't it be a death to fight again?

So the two sides basically didn't fight much, at most only seven or eight people died, and the guards at the door were all gone.

It only took Qi Sheng and the others three or five minutes from charging to controlling the gate.