After dawn, rumors were flying in Jianyou City.

Huaide ordered Wang Xia to go out and go straight, when he saw someone running around on the street.

His face changed and he retreated on the spot.

"Boom!" The gate of the palace was quickly closed.

"Clog the gate tightly." After Wang Xia returned to the central hall, he took out his step bow and sword and ordered.

The servants immediately brought in debris and piled them behind the door, blocking the door tightly.

After blocking the main door, they went to block the small door again.

There was not enough debris, so I just got the table and couch over it, and even went to the back garden to get soil, poured it into sandbags, and piled it up everywhere.

There were more than 30 children and servants in the mansion, and all of them were equipped with equipment, both young and old, strong and weak. Even a few healthy women with big and round waists raised wooden sticks.

The eldest son Wang Ke had practiced some martial arts, and was already wearing iron armor, hanging a bow and a knife on his waist, holding a stepping stone in his hand, standing behind his father.

Wang Yu took another knife and handed it to his second son Wang Zhen, saying, "If you can't do anything, hold this knife and go straight to the back house, kill all the women's relatives, and do not let them fall into the hands of the thief."

"Ah!" As soon as his daughter Wang Jianji came to the front yard to inquire about the news, she heard her father say this.

Wang Xia glanced at her, then looked at Wang Zhen again, and said, "The Wang family in Taiyuan and Shao Zhe have a grudge against the destruction of the family. The Jinyang ancestors have been destroyed. What will happen if the Wang family's female family falls into his hands?"

"Yes." Wang Zhen was stunned for a moment and responded with a stingy forehead.

The father means to kill his sister-in-law and sister together.

He really doubted that he could not do anything.

Wang Jianji's eyes turned red and she turned around and left.

The two words "Father" and "Shao Zhe" kept spinning in her mind, and as they turned, small pearls sprinkled all over the floor.

Wang Xia sighed and asked someone to take a long ladder, climb up the wall, and look around.

It snowed all night last night, and it stopped during the day, and it was covered in white everywhere.

Wang Xia looked carefully.

There were many panicked people on the street. They rushed south to the stone bridge above the Chaodou, trying to enter the boundary between Taicheng and the inner city. The Chaodou was located north of Taicheng, also known as the North Town Chamber. It was dug in the Eastern Wu period and connected with Yundu and Huai River (Qinhuai River) through the lake water systems such as Xuanwu Abyss and Qingxi, and then communicated with the Yangtze River, forming Taicheng's natural moat.

"Walk south, what do you think!" Wang Xia sighed and said, "People's hearts are in chaos."

"Grandpa, when will the Prime Minister come out to take charge of the situation?" Wang Ke asked.

Dao Wang has not been to court recently and has been staying at home for resting because his eldest son Wang Yue died of illness.

The white-haired man sent a black-haired man, and the emperor understood and ordered him to rest at home, but he would still send him to Dao Wang's mansion to see him, even if he did not speak most of the time.

In the past, people might have fought for power and profit, but at this critical moment, people need a backbone.

You can tell who can do it at a glance. This is often something that cannot be seen in peacetime, because many abilities and deficiencies in mind may not necessarily be tested by the life and death situation.

"The Prime Minister should come out." Wang Xia said, "After he stood up, Wang Chuming from Dongfu City should have action."

The East Mansion was the old residence where the late emperor Sima Rui lived when he was appointed as the general of Zhendong. In the past two years, it has been expanded and surrounded the city walls to form a small city. The leader Wang Shu and Wang Chuming lived here. The city was located in the southeast of Taicheng, the inner city.

Between the outer city.

On the other side of Yundu in the southwest corner of Taicheng, there is also Xizhou City.

This is also a newly renovated small city, which is the garrison of the Yangzhou governor.

To the south of Taicheng, the south bank of Huai River, north of Wuyi Lane, and Danyang County City.

These three cities are not big, and it is a huge crowd of people who live in a thousand people on weekdays. However, they are real power agencies other than Taicheng, and they are not easy to be captured by small groups of enemy troops and are difficult to fall into chaos.

They are not confused, and it is not difficult to clean up the situation.

So Wang Xia made the worst plan, but was also optimistic about the overall situation.

As the father and son talked, a light cavalry surged from the north horizon.

They followed the defeated soldiers and fleeing people, and they were neither fast nor slow. They occasionally threw down a round of arrows, causing the crowd to fall into greater panic.

Wherever Wang Xia saw, he didn't know how many people trampled on each other, and how many people were squeezed into the cold trenches.

As the thief was fighting, a group of people dismounted, stood arrogantly on the street, shooting arrows on the buildings on both sides. From time to time, some people fell on the wall, and some people were even more despaired. They were directly caught by more than a dozen or twenty thieves climbed over the wall, and a scream and crying sound suddenly sounded.

"Ah!" Wang Xia sighed.

It's so miserable. If his family is compromised, it will end like this, which he will never accept.

It is better to kill than to let the female relatives be humiliated by the thief.

*******

There are crowds of people in Wuyi Lane.

Soon after, three hundred escorts came out.

They were armoured, each holding swords and shields, stepping on the bow, and long halberds, majestic.

Following closely behind are banners one after another, waving in the cold wind.

Some of the front advocates were walking, some were riding horses, and some were riding cars. As they walked, the bells were ringing, and they could be heard from afar.

After all these were gone, it was a magnificent carriage.

The great feathers and chests, the red and green hubs are beautiful, almost the show of the emperor. In fact, they were also given by the late emperor, and the specifications are the same as those of the emperor.

Next to the carriage were forty swordsmen, all wearing brocade clothes, with their heads raised and their chests raised.

There were two master generals next to the swordsman of the ban. One held the imperial gift of yellow and the other held the gold seal and purple ribbon, symbolizing the prime minister's overwhelming power.

After the car drove, the rear was promoted.

After the rear propaganda, there were three hundred soldiers.

The chariots and horses are in full swing!

The momentum is so powerful!

After leaving Wuyi Lane, the people, officials and soldiers gathered outside were at ease when they saw it.

"The Prime Minister has come to court!"

"The Prime Minister is here to take charge of the overall situation!"

"It's the first time I've seen you in such a show."

Indeed, Director Wang has always had these things, but he never used them, but took a "short calf chariot" to court, which was very simple.

Today's behavior has obvious political considerations, and is intended to stabilize people's hearts and let everyone know that at this chaotic moment, the Prime Minister drove to court.

People's hearts are settled, and some bandits are not worth mentioning.

While Wang Dao went to court with a high profile, he also sent messengers to Dongfu City, Xizhou City and Shitou City to pass on orders.

The commander of the Shitou Water, Land and Military Affairs, King Qiao Sima Wuji led the three lieutenants to defend the Shitou City for 4,000 infantry and cavalry, and were not allowed to act rashly. The navy ships gathered by the river were dispatched as soon as possible to patrol the river surface, so that the bandits could not sneak across.

Wang Shu, the leader of the central commander, inspected the left guard and the right guard's camp, issued rewards to stabilize the morale of the army, and then drove the imperial guards to the streets.

Block all roads, set up barricades, and clean them up layer by layer.

The Yangzhou official immediately went to Xizhou City to name the name, and then divided it to various places to appease the people and let them stay at home and guard themselves. Those who dared to run around were treated as thieves.

After doing all this, Director Wang sat in the cart with peace of mind, without any sorrow or joy.

The convoy went west across the Huai River, turned north, and walked along the Imperial Road.

When passing through the Taimiao, some scattered soldiers gathered over.

When passing through the area where officials lived, officials at all levels gathered and followed them to court.

The door of their house was closed, and the servants climbed onto the wall, unsheathed their swords and bows were skewed, just like Wang Xia's family.

The convoy soon arrived south of Xuanyangmen.

There was chaos in the direction of Qingxi to the east, and it seemed that there were thieves riding on the Qingxi Bridge, unscrupulous and extremely arrogant.

As if he hadn't seen him, he went straight into Xuanyang Gate and entered Taicheng.

He specifically instructed not to close the gates of Taicheng to avoid panic.

The imperial guards guarding Taicheng can add more personnel, set up horse-rejecting and strong crossbows, loose on the outside and tight on the inside.

Everything is in order and busy but not in chaos, which reflects Director Wang’s understanding of the situation and his control over people’s hearts.

This broken court would have to be dispersed without him.

*******

There was also a certain degree of panic in the palace.

After all, rumors are flying everywhere, and all kinds of true and false news are conveyed, it can always amplify people's fear.

The first one to be unable to sit still was Emperor Sima Zhong.

Seeing the whispers in the palace, even the guards turned pale, and it was rumored that Shao thieves "a hundred thousand army crossed the river":

He had already defeated the imperial guards in Qingxi, etc., and he was furious and ordered the execution of many palace servants and military land.
To be continued...