When he took a quick step and came slowly to Jingyang Gate, and saw Xu Jin covered in blood, he immediately understood what had happened.
"Master Xu, how could..."
Hot tears flowed down Xu Jin's red face full of vicissitudes: "Your Majesty, Shu Chen has an injury on his leg and cannot kneel..."
"What the hell happened? Pan Meichen died... died?"
Xu Jin just cried and didn't answer Li Hai's question immediately.
Li Hai stared at the dragon's eyes suddenly, stretched out his hand, and grabbed Xu Jin's collar: "Could it be that Pan Meichen was not killed?"
Xu Jin shook his head, tears and blood mixed together, dripping on the cold ground.
If Pan Meichen is not dead, then he will definitely take revenge on Li Hai for his assassination.
Li Hai's eyes were filled with a hopeless emotion, and he deeply felt that the situation was over, like a discouraged ball, completely devoid of energy.
"It's over! It's over! It seems that the Great Jing Kingdom is about to suffer catastrophe!"
Eunuch Liu looked miserable, and comforted Li Hai and said, "Your Majesty, together with the 10,000 imperial guards brought back by Mr. Xu, we still have 30,000 to 40,000 people. We can completely defend the imperial city and wait for the king's teachers from all walks of life. Your Majesty, you don't have to worry."
Xu Jin's distressed voice made Eunuch Liu and Li Hai completely desperate: "We fell into Pan Meichen's tricks and were heavily surrounded by him. There were only more than a thousand guards who killed me..."
Li Hai staggered and almost fell down: "Eunuch Liu, help me back to the palace! Tell Concubine Ziyan to withdraw the banquet in the Imperial Garden."
"Your majesty, my minister..." Xu Jin waited for Li Hai's decision.
But Li Hai's mind was blank at the moment, as if Xu Jin didn't exist at all. Eunuch Liu supported him and walked into Jingyang Gate step by step.
Suddenly, on the tower to the north, there was a sound of chilling drums and horns, which was rapid and heavy.
"What's that sound?" Li Hai turned to ask Eunuch Liu.
Eunuch Liu looked at Li Hai strangely: "Doesn't the Emperor know? This rapid sound of drums and horns means that there are enemies coming!"
Li Hai stared with panicked eyes, "Why are there always worse things waiting for me! - Then, is that Pan Meichen's army?"
Eunuch Liu said: "Aside from him, who else dares to invade the capital!"
Li Hai's hand trembled suddenly: "He must have come to take revenge on me. I sent someone to assassinate him, and he wants to kill me! Eunuch Liu, let's escape from Nanxun Gate!"
Now Li Hai is in a hurry like a fish slipping through the net.
"Your Majesty, we still have more than 20,000 imperial guards, and we may still be able to guard for half a month." Eunuch Liu said.
Now Li Hai no longer had any hope, and shook his head: "Now there is no one in the imperial court to send. In less than two days, Pan Meichen wiped out more than 10,000 of my imperial guards. How can I fight him! The only one The best way is to run away, to the south, to a county guard who is loyal to me, so that I can live for a few more years. Otherwise, if I am caught by Pan Meichen or my relatives, I will definitely not let me live .Because... because they must think that I killed the queen mother, and they want to avenge the queen mother!"
The night gradually receded, and the morning sun once again shone on the towers of the capital of the Dajing Kingdom, creating a bloody halo. At the north gate, south gate, east gate, and west gate of the capital, the scenes of people coming in and out, and the heavy traffic in the past, are no longer seen. Standing on the city wall, only gold and iron horses can be seen.
The noise of war horses replaced the old voices of buying and selling, mocking the closed city gate. The rising smoke from the fire replaced the curling smoke from the kitchen, holding people's breath.
There are constantly stragglers of the rebel army, riding war horses to the moat, cursing obscenities at the imperial guards by the wall, making gestures constantly, and making various provocations.
These cavalrymen from the north were wild and unruly, and they even bet with each other to see who had the best shooting skills. Not a few Janissaries were shot and wounded for this.
Among the plume arrows shot up, the officer of the Imperial Guard found an arrow with a unique shape. The shaft of the arrow is red, the arrowhead is shovel-shaped, tied to a small wooden barrel, inside the wooden barrel is a piece of oil paper, and inside the oil paper is a piece of apricot yellow paper.
The officer of the Imperial Guard opened it, and saw the words on the first column on the right:
"Pan Meichen, General Protector of the North Yanyun Jiedu, paid tribute to the Emperor Li Yuhai of the Great Jing Kingdom with sincerity and fear. Now the treacherous officials of the court are in power, and women dote on the country, causing the people to be uneasy and displaced. The lifeline of the country is endless. I, Pan Meichen, respect God Punishment, on the side of the Qing emperor, return the country to peace and the world. If there are those who are obsessed with obsession and do not realize it, the sky will destroy them. If Li Hai can take out the Jade Seal of Chuanguo and put it under my horse, the capital will be safe. I pray again!"
The officer of the Imperial Guard saw that it was the letter written by Pan Meichen to Li Hai, so he hurriedly got off the tower, jumped on the horse, and came to the Golden Palace of the Imperial Palace.
Li Hai stayed up all night, his body was weak, and he was very sleepy sitting on the throne, but when he closed his eyes, his mind was thinking about Pan Meichen's approaching the city, and he couldn't fall asleep again.
"What's going on outside now?" Li Hai glanced sideways at the Imperial Guard officer, "Has Pan Meichen started attacking the city?"
The officer of the imperial guards said: "Although the city has not yet been attacked, Pan Meichen has surrounded the capital completely. Just now on the tower, I found a letter written by Pan Meichen to His Majesty. Please read it!"
"Take it up quickly, let me have a look!" Li Hai pointed to the Imperial Guard officer and said.
Eunuch Liu came down from the Jinluan Hall, took the letter, walked up again, and handed it to Li Hai.
Li Hai looked at it and found nothing new, so he put it aside.
"Your Majesty, what is written on it?" Eunuch Liu asked.
Li Hai lowered his eyes, his brows were shrouded in dark clouds.
"It's nothing more than persuading me to accept surrender. Eunuch Liu..." Li Hai looked at Eunuch Liu with pitiful eyes, "You make a choice for me, take out the Jade Seal of Chuanguo, or continue to resist? No matter what you do Choose, I will listen to you."
For such an important decision, Eunuch Liu did not dare to make a choice. If he made a wrong choice, he would be cursed forever.
"Your Majesty, there are so many ministers below, you can refer to their opinions."
Li Hai glanced at all the officials. What he saw in these officials was not hope, but despair, more despair.
"If they really had a good idea, they would have shared my worries." Li Hai snorted contemptuously.
"Lord Liu has a strategy, why don't the emperor ask him?" Eunuch Liu said.
At this time, Liu Yiming's image in Li Hai's heart was not very good. None of the strategies he devised had succeeded.
"I don't want to listen to them, I just want to listen to you. You are the elder of the two dynasties, and you must have faced many important choices. You tell me, and I will listen to you."
Li Hai didn't want to listen to the minister's opinion, but Liu Yiming couldn't bear it and wanted to talk.
"Your Majesty, according to what I want, why don't you just surrender!"
Li Hai was stunned for a moment, then looked at Liu Yiming with a dull expression: "You think so too?"
Liu Yiming said: "The gap between the strength of the enemy and ourselves is too great now, we are no match for Pan Meichen at all. If we continue to fight, we will only die."
The corners of Li Hai's mouth twitched subconsciously, and he smiled on the surface: "You are right. Rather than desperately trying to die, it is better to surrender and live a life of joy."
Li Hai gritted his teeth, and a decisive light flashed in his eyes: "Eunuch Liu, you immediately ask someone to draw up an imperial decree for me, which probably means that I am not qualified to be the emperor of the Great Jing Kingdom again, and I would rather abdicate to let the virtuous and let Pan Meichen do it."
"Your Majesty!" Eunuch Liu knelt down at Li Hai's feet, weeping very sadly, and the officials below heard it and wiped away their tears.
"Don't cry," Li Hai lowered his head, as if he had nothing to love, "Hurry up and draw up an imperial decree for me! Otherwise, Pan Meichen's calling in is no joke, not only my life will be lost, but My concubines were also arrested by him."
"Observe the decree!" Eunuch Liu burst into tears, "this slave will draw up an decree for the emperor."
Amidst the moaning and crying, came a slightly fragile but decisive voice.
"The victory is not yet decided, why did you just surrender? Which minister said that he wanted to surrender just now, the emperor can pull it out and behead it to show the public, as a warning to others!"
Li Hai's eyes flashed, and at the entrance of the hall, Rong Chang'an walked in imposingly, wearing a bright armor with a sword across his waist. Those bright eyes and bright teeth, those red lips and pink face, were very inconsistent with what she was wearing.