Chapter 18

"You?" Shang Chaozong was surprised, "What's going on?"

Lan Ruoting said with a wry smile: "My lord is in prison. I found that the situation is not right. People continue to throw stones into the well. This clearly wants to put the lord to death. The one in the palace is not only afraid of the military power in the hands of the former king, but also worried that the loss of the former king will shock the nations. As a result, I knew what the man in the palace was worried about, so I let out the rumor, saying that the former king secretly selected a hundred thousand loyal souls who died in battle to secretly refine a batch of 'Crow Generals'."

Shang Chaozong suddenly realized, understood, and sneered, "The one in the palace who cared about family affection and didn't kill me originally wanted to get the 100,000 'crow generals'. In this way, if I can get out of prison alive this time, I'm afraid it may be too late." It has something to do with the 100,000 'crow generals', right? How is Dayan's situation now?"

Lan Ruoting nodded: "My lord is wise, I've got to the point! After the late king left, His Majesty has purged the former king's troops over the years, causing the army's morale to be unstable. Shao Dengyun, the guard in the north, was even forced to switch to the city in a fit of anger. , led the South Korean army to invade the northern border of our country, and the momentum was like a broken bamboo. The court spent a huge price to curb the offensive of the South Korean army. Not to mention the loss of a large area of ​​​​the land to the hands of the old enemy, it also attracted the eyes of the surrounding countries. The situation was precarious. His Majesty had to send several The princess got married, and managed to stabilize the situation by attracting some countries to check and balance. However, under the civil strife, some generals gradually developed ambitions. among!"

Boom! Shang Chaozong slammed his fist on the couch, with a ferocious expression on his face: "It's a great shame to send the princess to marry! Shao Dengyun dared to betray the enemy, damn it!"

Lan Ruoting remained silent, what should I say about something? If you don't get along with your relatives, you will be in danger of destroying the country. What can the one in the palace do? If Shao Dengyun doesn't betray the enemy, he will die. What should Shao Dengyun do?

After Shang Chaozong calmed down, he sighed: "I understand, I can be released from prison at this time because of Dayan's internal and external troubles, and the purpose of the one in the palace who is eager to get the hundred thousand crows to stabilize the situation and release me from prison I want to catch those one hundred thousand crow generals! If I can't get it, I'm afraid that one still won't let me go!"

Lan Ruoting: "Now is not the time to think about this. As long as the prince can get out of the capital and leave the capital, he still has a chance. If he can't leave the capital, he will never have a chance..."

At sunrise, another day of hustle and bustle began in the capital. Shops opened one after another, and street vendors came and went. I don't know who is sitting in the seemingly ordinary carriage.

As soon as the carriage arrived at the East City Gate, it received special attention. A group of people and horses dispersed the pedestrians, blocked the entry and exit of people, and surrounded the carriage.

A guard knocked on the carriage with the back of his knife and shouted, "Get out of the carriage! Accept inspection."

Lan Ruoting got out first, and wanted to help the handicapped Shang Chaozong, but the latter still refused and jumped down by himself.

When the two of them saw the surrounding situation, they knew that they had come specially for them.

"Hey, isn't this the little prince of the Shang Dynasty!" The guard suddenly shouted cheerfully, causing the people who were squeezed around to look at it in surprise, and then he joked: "Little prince, why are you dressed so well?" Such a tattered appearance?"

Shang Chaozong glanced at the other party coldly. He had inherited the throne. Although he was demoted from prince to county king, he was already a prince after all. It was obvious that the other party called him "little prince" in a playful sense.

Lan Ruoting cupped his hands and said with a smile: "My lord is going out of the city according to the order, and I hope the general will hold his hands high."

The guard sneered, "There is no conflict between going out of the city by order and being inspected! The little prince can still swagger when he kills good people in broad daylight. Our servants are no match for the little prince, and we have to follow the rules." With a wave of his hand, "Search! "

A group of soldiers swarmed up and groped Shang Chaozong's body in public. The tattered clothes were torn even more torn, and the buttocks were almost torn out.

This was clearly a deliberate humiliation, Shang Chaozong's cheeks were tense and he remained silent, standing where he was and allowed to be searched.

Lan Ruoting watched secretly with emotion, it seems that the young prince's imprisonment for the past few years is not for nothing, he has been honed and matured, if he changed his previous temper, he would have done it long ago, otherwise, how could he have been tricked and beaten to death people? Fortunes come with misfortunes, disasters come with blessings, that's probably what happened!

However, the groom was trembling with rage, staring at him with the urge to be furious, and just as he was about to move his foot, Lan Ruoting grabbed his wrist.

Lan Ruoting shook his head, signaling not to be impulsive.

As soon as I heard that it was a dignitary, and I also heard that good people were killed in broad daylight, the surrounding people didn't care whether Shang Chaozong was wronged and humiliated, most of them were foolish people with erroneous information and no knowledge. Some people even gloated or applauded.

The people who secretly instigated this matter on the tower looked on coldly, only thinking that a group of foolish people were stupid and funny, but they didn't want to think about why these foolish people hated the rich and powerful so much, and wished they could put them all in a pigsty!

There was one person standing in front of each of the two windows, and they all observed the following through a gap in the opened window. One person was Ting Wei Song Jiuming.

As for the other person, he was a thin and thin man with a white face and no beard, frost-white hair on his temples, a jasper hairpin, he was clean and spotless, with a hooked nose, a calm expression, cold eyes, and a suit The black wrap-shoulder cloak has its own introverted grace, giving people a sense of distance that strangers should not get close to.

The person who can accompany Song Jiuming in person is naturally not simple. His name is Ga Miaoshui. The name is a bit strange. The eunuch in the palace, the people around the emperor, and the person who watched the emperor grow up.

"Does this make sense?" Song Jiuming turned around and asked.

Ga Miao said calmly: "Humiliate it, let him think about it, and force him to show Shang Jianbo's hole card as soon as possible."

Song Jiuming thought about it and understood.

The next commotion was finally let go, and Shang Chaozong, whose clothes were torn and tattered so that it was difficult to cover his body, got into the carriage again, and the groom drove forward again.

However, as soon as the carriage left the city gate, someone ran out from the city, pointed at the carriage and shouted: "Officer, stop him quickly, carriage, someone stole my carriage!"

As if rehearsed, the officers and soldiers outside the city quickly surrounded and stopped the carriage again.

The yelling people rushed to the front of the carriage, grabbed the reins, and cried: "This is my carriage, this is my carriage, the Lord is my boss!"

The city defender who made things difficult before led the people over again, walked to the side of the carriage and shouted: "Get out of the carriage!"

Shang Chaozong, who was sitting in the car, sneered, "It seems that I don't even have the qualification to ride in a car. Do you want me to go to the fiefdom? Tao Xin, blow the horn!" The so-called Tao Xin is the name of the driver outside.

"Wait!" Lan Ruoting stopped him a little, and said to Shang Chaozong: "My lord, please be patient!"

Shang Chaozong bent down and got out of the carriage, and stood on the shaft of the carriage, blocking Lan Ruoting from behind, although he was dressed in rags, he stood up straight.

The guard pointed at Shang Chaozong and yelled: "Little prince, it's better to come down and find out this matter!"

Shang Chaozong shouted suddenly in an unquestionable tone: "Blow the horn!"

Tao Xin, the groom who drove the car, found out from nowhere a shiny black horn with a sense of vicissitudes, put it by his mouth and puffed up his cheeks and blew it vigorously.

"woo woo woo woo……"

The sound of the trumpet echoed dully outside the city gate, causing the surrounding soldiers to be stunned, and the guards were even more stunned, bugle!

Immediately afterwards, there was a rumbling sound in the distance, and it was getting closer and closer. Soon, the faces of the guarding soldiers changed drastically.

Ga Miaoshui and Song Jiuming, who were peeping through the gaps in the windows on the tower, frowned, and opened the windows completely, only to see a cavalry galloping from the left and right in front of them. Wearing blue strong clothes, all the way in earthy gray strong clothes, galloping in a group, although there are not many people, they are aggressive and indomitable!

Song Jiuming's pupils shrank suddenly, and he muttered to himself, "Ying Yangwei! Wu Liewei!"

When the first emperor was alive, he commended Ning Wang Shang Jianbo for his military exploits and awarded the four characters "Ying Yang Wu Lie". Shang Jian Bo disassembled these four characters and named his left and right guards. The origin of Wu Liewei.

Five thousand Yingyangwei and five thousand Wuliewei accompanied King Ning Shang Jianbo to fight on the battlefield. The most classic battle is when the current emperor's royal driver was in danger during his personal expedition. Ning Wang Shang Jianbo personally led Yingyang and Wu Lie's two guards to rush to rescue him. A mere ten thousand people attacked the 100,000 Korean army head-on. rescued. That battle made Ying Yang and Wu Lie famous all over the world, but it failed to bring back today's gratitude, instead it brought fear.

Now that the two guards have become a thing of the past, they have almost been cleaned up by the present, and the hundreds of people in front of them are probably some remnants of the gathering.

The two cavalry merged into one, billowing dust and smoke and rushing forward, the guards of the city gate were shocked, and someone exclaimed: "Yingyangwei! Wuliewei!"

"Little prince, do you want to rebel?" the guard standing beside the car asked tremblingly with a pale face.

Standing on the shaft of the chariot, Shang Chaozong ignored him, but looked proudly at the rushing team.

Tao Xin, who was driving, had red eyes. Seeing the rushing men and horses, tears welled up in his eyes. He wiped away the tears, raised the horn and blew the horn again.

Leading the ride was a woman in green shirt, wearing a veil on her head, she couldn't see her face clearly. When the horn sounded, the woman choked and drew her sword in her hand, pointing forward.

The five hundred attacking troops quickly transformed into a cone-shaped attacking battle formation, and one by one drew out their sabers that gleamed in the sun, and rushed forward without hesitation.

Ga Miaoshui, who was standing at the window, glanced at the defenders under the city, and couldn't help frowning. The defenders were already timid without fighting, and subconsciously retreated gradually.

The pawns blocking the carriage were so frightened that they got out of the way and retreated.

Five hundred cavalry rushed to the front of the carriage and quickly reined in their horses to a stop, moving like thunder, motionless like a mountain!

"Brother!" The green-clothed woman who reined in her horse near her trembled. It was Shang Shuqing, the younger sister of Shang Chaozong. She obviously didn't expect that her brother, who was always strong and strong, would turn into such a shapeless figure, and how much he had suffered. It is conceivable that tears are already shed under the gauze hat.