Chapter 289: Take your Detachment of Women to rescue the car

In the secret cave in Zhongnan Mountain, the winding entrance is erected with a shield. Of course, this is not to guard against wild beasts or enemies, but to adopt the principle of fire refraction to block the fire in the cave and leave a gap for the charcoal gas to be discharged.

As the bonfire was burning, the bonfire rack was hung upside down as a pot, and hot water was burned in the helmet. The guards of the Qin King's Mansion sat around in front of the bonfire and roasted the fire.

Everyone was depressed and sighed.

Cheng Zhijie held a long axe and stood in front of Li Shimin. At this time, Li Shimin's eyes were closed and sweat was covered with fine beads of sweat on his forehead. Even in the coma, Li Shimin had a ferocious face and murderous aura. He didn't know what he had experienced in his sleep.

Du Ruhui looked at Hou Mo Chenxu and said, "How are you investigating around you?

Hou Mo Chenxu said with a frustration: "It's very bad!"

Du Ruhui coughed and said, "Who else has escaped from the Qin Palace?"

Hou Mo Chenxu smiled bitterly and said, "Maybe Zhang Liang himself. Changsun was arrested for joining the army, Fang Changshi and Gao Zhizhong were also captured. Lao Duan is still in the prison of Dali Temple!"

Du Ruhui didn't say anything, looking at Li Shimin in a coma with a worried look on his face.

Hou Mo Chenxu said: "Mr. Du, it seems that Du Chengjun also escaped from Chang'an!"

"My old uncle?" Du Ruhui smiled bitterly: "He can no longer count on him. Those who are proficient in conspiracy will never put themselves in danger!"

At this moment, Li Shimin suddenly murmured: "Water...water..."

Du Ruhui, Cheng Zhijie, Hou Mo and Chenxu and others hurriedly surrounded him.

Cheng Zhijie quickly snatched a helmet from a personal guard beside him and brought the water from the helmet to Li Shimin's mouth. Li Shimin opened his eyes while drinking the water.

Li Shimin, who had just recovered from a serious illness, was very weak.

However, as Li Shimin woke up, everyone seemed to have a backbone.

Li Shimin drank a full liter of water, and then sat up with Cheng Zhijie's support. Li Shimin looked around and almost everyone was carrying scars of varying degrees, with a look of frustration on his face.

Du Ruhui said: "Your Highness, what should we do now?"

Li Shimin did not directly answer Du Ruhui's words, but instead asked: "How many days have I been in a coma?"

Du Ruhui said aiyi: "Three days, three days!"

Li Shimin thought for a while and said, "It's been three days... This is not right!"

Cheng Zhijie asked in confusion: "Your Highness, what's wrong?"

Li Shimin said: "It's been three days, have they not found us yet?"

Cheng Zhijie shook his head and said, "Of course not. The brothers are short of food and clothing now, and they are already so hungry that they are dizzy and have no strength to hold a knife. If the pursuers chase after him, we can't beat them at all and we can't escape!"

Hou Mo Chenxu thought for a while and said, "I think this is too secret here, they just haven't found it for a while!"

"No, no!" Li Shimin said firmly: "If the 12 Chang'an Guards launch a net-style search, they can dig three feet of land around Chang'an in a maximum of one day and one night. Don't you feel strange?"

Li Shimin didn't talk about this, Du Ruhui hadn't remembered it yet. Of course, now he put all his thoughts on Li Shimin without caring about anything else. Now that Li Shimin's old story is re-introducing, he immediately realized that this is too abnormal.

If something goes wrong, there will be evil. Du Ruhui feels the seriousness of the problem.

In the entire Chang'an City, there was only one person who had the ability to catch Li Shimin, but was indifferent, that was Chen Ying. As the general of the Zuowu Guard, Chen Ying controlled the 108 Fangwu Guard of Chang'an. When Li Shimin escaped from Chang'an, or Hou Mo and Chen Xu suddenly, it was actually quite smooth. The only explanation was that someone secretly let the water go.

This person who secretly lets water go is Chen Ying.

So the question is, what is Chen Ying's intention to let Li Shimin go?

Suddenly, a terrible thought appeared in Du Ruhui's mind. This crazy thought was like a seed with magic, taking root and sprouting in his mind and growing vigorously.

Could it be that Chen Ying wanted to be Cao Cao? He secretly controlled Li Shimin as if Cao Cao was. Once Li Jiancheng could not meet his interests and requirements, Chen Ying would instead support Li Shimin and become the puppet emperor of the Tang Dynasty?

I have to say that people who are good at power have very big ideas.

The reason why Chen Ying secretly let the water go was that he did not want the inheritance of the Tang Dynasty's throne to be contaminated with blood. Once this was the case, he would have a bad idea for future generations.

This was the case with the Tang Dynasty, and in fact the same was true for the Ming Dynasty. Because Zhu Di raised an army and seized the throne by force, there were many such examples in the entire history of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, the later Ming Dynasty vassal kings were far less powerful than Zhu Di. Whether it was Ning or Xin, they were much weaker than Zhu Di.

Folk proverbs: There are chariots in front of you. If the rules formed at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty were difficult to change later, they would be carried forward in this established circle. During the Song Dynasty, because Song Taizu saw the princes of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms fighting for hegemony, blood flowing, he released the military power at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, divided the power into three, using civil and military force to control the military. Therefore, the generals of the Song Dynasty lost the foundation of rebellion.

As for why Taizu of Song was not afraid of the rebellion of civil officials who held power? In fact, it was very simple. A scholar could not rebel for ten years, and a scholar's husband could still be verbally successful, but when he was determined to kill, they would not be able to do so. In fact, using literati to command military officials is not that literati are loyal to the king and the country, loyal and reliable, but because literati are too weak and cannot shake the foundation of ruling.

After turning his head so much, Du Ruhui's face became very ugly. He looked at Li Shimin and said, "Your Highness, have you guessed it too?"

Li Shimin nodded and said, "There is a problem that no pursuers have arrived here for three days. We have been under Chen Ying's surveillance!"

Du Ruhui pondered and said, "But Chen Ying has sinister intentions!"

"Where do you think you are being used, don't be upset or discouraged!" Li Shimin smiled bitterly and said, "Once you lose your value of use, that is the most tragic thing!"

Speaking of this, Li Shimin looked at Cheng Zhijie and said, "Old Cheng, help me out!"

Cheng Zhijie supported Li Shimin and slowly walked out of the cave.

A cold wind blew at the entrance of the cave, and Li Shimin was trembling with coldness.

Outside the entrance of the cave, snow covered, and under the sunset, it looked very magnificent. Li Shimin had no intention of appreciating the beautiful scenery in front of him, and he carefully observed the movements around him and listened with his ears.

However, after watching for a long time, he still found no abnormalities.

Li Shimin took a deep breath and shouted at the empty snow outside: "Come out... come out... I say five numbers. If you don't come out again, I will be here to stop myself. Let's see how you explain to your master!"

Li Shimin became slutty.

"one……"

"two……"

"three……"

Just about thirty steps away in the cave where Li Shimin was standing, there was a bulging snow bag. Of course, this was just a camouflage snow bag, but in fact it was a sheepskin tent. Sheepskin can isolate the cold air flow outside, and at the same time it can also wrap the hot air in the tent in the tent.

Listening to the sound coming from outside, Liu Tong finally couldn't sit still. He knew that Li Shimin was bluffing at this time. Of course, he was not afraid of ten thousand, but afraid of if. If Li Shimin seeks a shortcoming, he really couldn't explain to Chen Ying.

More than a thousand Beiwei Army secretly passed through Qingchuan County, which was in the Bashu area, crossed Motianling, and entered Guanzhong via Yinping Ancient Road. However, Li Shimin launched too hasty, and Chen Ying did not use this secret army, but asked them to be arranged outside Chang'an City to be responsible for temporary access. Once Li Shimin took control of the Nanya and controlled the Political Affairs Hall, Li Jiancheng was unable to turn the situation around, and they needed to escort Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji's children and escape from Chang'an.

However, Chen Ying won. Li Jiancheng also won, so they did not pick up Li Jiancheng's children outside Chang'an City, but found Li Shimin's traces.

The Qin Wangfu Guard under Li Shimin was just a regular army. In terms of hiding whereabouts and following, they were far inferior to the soldiers of the Beiwei Army. When these soldiers were in Tubo, they often touched the tents of the Tubo tribes and put them on the necks of the Tubo people, and even the Tubo people could not find them. Don’t forget that the Tubo people not only had open and secret whistles, but also Ao Quan who was responsible for the warning. Even Ao Quan could not find the traces of the Beiwei Army soldiers, let alone the Qin Wangfu Guard who was in panic all day long.

With Liu Tong's order, the originally silent valley suddenly began to boil. The snow buns on the hillsides on the left and right sides of the cave slowly surged, and the soldiers of the Beiwei Army showed their figures.

Looking at this scene, Cheng Zhijie felt like he was losing his parents, and Hou Mo and Chen Xu were also like he was facing a great enemy.

Du Ruhui was stunned, but he didn't expect that Chen Ying's people had touched their noses. If Chen Ying wanted their lives, they would not even have a chance to struggle.

It was not until this time that Du Ruhui discovered the terribleness of Chen Ying.

Only Li Shimin was normal. In fact, there were also storms in his heart. He originally thought that Chen Ying would send more than a dozen scouts to follow him, but he did not expect that there were as many as thousands of people nearby.

Liu Tong bowed and said, "Liu Tong, the commander of the Beiwei Army under General Chen, will pay homage to the King of Qin!"

Li Shimin said: "Take me to see General Chen!"

Liu Tong nodded and said, "Please please, Your Highness, King of Qin!"

The remnants of Li Shimin followed Liu Tong and others to leave the valley slowly. When they walked to the entrance of the valley, they suddenly found a large group of carriages parked outside. All of these carriages were armoured, and even the wheels were made of steel. The convoy's flag read "Tangli Money House in Datang!"

This is the armored carriage of Tongli Money House in the Tang Dynasty. Any government or defenders in various places have no right to check it. Li Shimin and others entered the armored carriage of the carriage, while other soldiers disguised as armed guards and followed the convoy slowly with knives.

In the wide armored car, Li Shimin leaned against the cold armored car wall and sighed deeply: "I am not wronged to lose..."

Cheng Zhijie asked in confusion: "So many backup plans, Chen should have been prepared for so many things. Our news was leaked too early, right?"

Although Yuchi Gong was from Li Jiancheng and Chen Ying was stationed in the Qin Palace in advance, Yuchi Gong was not a confidant of Li Shimin in this time and space. During the early premeditation period, Li Shimin did not allow him to participate in this matter at all.

Li Shimin thought for a while and said, "It's not surprising that there are our people in the Eastern Palace, and there are theirs in the Qin Palace!"

...

In the Eastern Palace, Li Jiancheng finally made up his mind and gritted his teeth and said, "But Your Majesty will not abdicate. Can you ask this palace to learn Erlang to force the palace? What's more, the six prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall are all old friends of my father, and they will not cooperate with us to force the palace to force the palace!"

Chen Ying shook his head and said, "The so-called loyalty is just that there is not enough bargaining chips for betrayal. We have no choice but to do anything to the six prime ministers, but what about the Li Tang royal family?"

"Are you saying that the royal kings of the royal family forced the palace to my father?" Li Jiancheng thought about it and shook his head and said, "No, no, impossible, the royal kings of the royal family are only three people who hold real power, Li Shentong, Prince Zhao, Li Xiaogong, and Prince Rencheng, Li Daozong, except Prince Zhao, they are all close to Erlang..."

"Your Highness, don't worry!" Chen Ying smiled faintly: "You just need to gather them together, including Dou Dan, Feng Lun and others!"

Li Jiancheng walked out of Xiande Hall, stood in the middle of the street, looking at the numerous palaces of Tai Chi Palace, thinking about something.

Li Jiancheng is not a stupid person, and what Chen Ying said is the truth.

In fact, if he did not take the opportunity to abdicate Li Yuan, the Tang Dynasty would probably face a more serious internal strife. Not only Li Jiancheng himself suffered, but also Chen Ying, who stood up for Li Jiancheng this time and turned the tide, would also be hit.

I'm afraid that when Li Yuan recovers, Chen Ying's dismissal from office and his title will be the lightest punishment, and he may be executed on false charges.

Under the order of Li Jiancheng, a large number of royal kings including Rencheng King Li Daozong, Huai'an King Li Shentong, Zhao County King Li Xiaogong, Guangning County King Li Daoxing, Gaoping County King Li Daoli, Yong County King Li Hui, Xinxing County King Li Xiaoxie, Jinan King Li Zhe, Lujiang King Li Yuan, Jiaodong County King Li Daoyan, Qinghe King Li Xiaojie, Xiangyi King Li Shenfu and other royal royal family kings came to the East Palace for a banquet. (The details may be incorrect, and are compiled according to the old Tang Books.)

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Just as Li Jiancheng was busy holding a banquet, Chen Ying took Li Xiuning to the Ganlu Hall of Tai Chi Palace.

At this time, Li Yuan's body still had not recovered. He was in poor spirits. Pei Ji, who was promoted to Sikong by Li Jiancheng, still stayed with him and stayed by Li Yuan's side and served as the best listener.

At this time, Li Yuan seemed to have become Xianglin Sao, and said to Pei Ji in a nagging manner: "Who is Erlang's temper? Who is he? How can I not know about me, a father?"

Pei Ji smiled and said, "No one knows his son is better than his father!"

Li Yuan sighed and said, "Erlang can't control himself at all, he can't listen to honest advice. From childhood to adulthood, he has always been arrogant. Such a person, as a general, may be able to make full use of his talents and become a monarch, but he must be a disaster for the world."
To be continued...