On the 23rd, King Xiling attacked Sanfu in Gyeonggi.
A man dressed as a general knelt down in the hall. He was covered in blood and blood. A few inches below his shoulder was pierced by an arrow. The blood dripped on the ground, winding like a small dark red snake, "Lord forgive me, the Huns cavalry Brave, we have been fighting with the enemy for too long, with heavy casualties, and our troops are already weak, but the situation is still critical, and I am afraid we will not be able to hold on..."
Chu Mingyun looked down at him and asked, "Zhou Yi has something for you to bring to me?"
"Yes," the lieutenant gasped heavily, raising his hand and pressing down on his bleeding shoulder, "General Zhou said, in order to repay the Lord's appreciation of the past, he must use his body as a shield and fight to the end. I hope the Lord can evacuate as soon as possible to protect myself."
Chu Mingyun was silent.
The seven thousand elite soldiers in the capital have been dispatched to defend the city. The city is almost completely empty, and it is difficult to suppress and maintain stability. Quickly grasped the power to counter the aristocratic Soviet party, and now there is no gain at first sight, and the party has also been executed mercilessly.
It really looks like it's going to happen.
The commander of the Imperial Guard suddenly rushed in and knelt down in haste, "Your Majesty, something bad happened! There was an urgent report just now that General Zhou Yi was killed in battle and Gyeonggi was overrun. Li Chenghua is approaching Chang'an with 10,000 light cavalry!"
The lieutenant was shocked, "General Zhou... General Zhou really..." The voice couldn't help choking.
Chu Mingyun narrowed his brows and did not speak.
At this time, Qin Zhao also hurried in from outside the hall. Seeing this scene, he stopped and did not make a sound.
"Your Majesty!" The commander of the Imperial Guard looked up at Chu Mingyun anxiously, "The Hun army is coming, how should we deal with it?"
"How to deal with it?" Chu Mingyun squinted coldly, "How are you going to deal with it, why don't you go to Kaicheng to welcome him in?"
The commander shrugged and lowered his head, not daring to answer.
Chu Mingyun grabbed the long sword and threw it in front of him, "Refuse to defend!"
"Yes!" The commander picked up his sword and hurriedly retreated. The lieutenant looked back at his retreating back, and said with concern: "My lord, Li Chenghua has 10,000 iron cavalry from the Xiongnu, all of them are brave and arrogant, and there are only 7,000 soldiers outside our city, even if there is a forbidden army, the forbidden army is different after all. Soldiers on the battlefield, I'm afraid I can't stop..."
"I know." Chu Mingyun raised his hand and pressed his eyebrows, closed his eyes, "Go down and deal with the injury, you don't need to worry about the rest."
The lieutenant didn't say much, and after bowing, got up with difficulty and resigned. After they all left the hall, Qin Zhao silently walked to the front.
Chu Mingyun didn't look at him, only said lightly: "You too."
Qin Zhao was taken aback, "Senior brother..."
"Don't leave and wait for death?" He said without emotion, almost without hesitation, "Let the shadow guards go away too."
Qin Zhao suddenly widened his eyes, "What about you?"
"Me?" Chu Mingyun hooked his lips, "I'm not going, isn't it just for all of this that I'm trying my best to live, now I've reached a dead end, it's over, even if I can escape, what's left to live on? mean?"
He slowly spread out his hands and looked down at his palm prints, "It's ridiculous, it took me nine years to get to this point, and it took me just a few days to reach the end of the road." He paused, and folded his fingers, "I It's not because I lost to Li Chenghua, it's because God doesn't allow me."
Qin Zhao was speechless and could only stare at him.
Chu Mingyun glanced at him and wrote lightly: "Du Yue is still in the mansion, what will happen after the Huns enter the city, why don't you take him away?"
He clenched the hand beside him tightly, and the veins on the back of his hand were all visible, but he struggled and didn't move.
Chu Mingyun was calm to the extreme, as if he couldn't be shocked, "You just came in in such a hurry, is there any bad news?"
Qin Zhao looked at him and suddenly couldn't bear to open his mouth.
"Speak."
Qin Zhao opened his mouth a few times, and finally he could only say in a vague voice: "...Li Yanzhen is gone, and the Yulin army is heading towards Miyagi."
Chu Mingyun was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed slowly without warning, the laughter grew louder, and echoed in the hall, "He's here," his tone was actually joyful, and his eyebrows and eyes were full and curved. He got up and couldn't stop laughing, "He's here, he's here..."
Qin Zhao finally couldn't bear it any longer, "Senior brother, Su Shiyu is here to kill you!"
He laughed so much that his body trembled, so he raised his eyes and looked at Qin Zhao, "I'll wait for him to kill me." He smiled, "Li Chenghua is something, if you want to kill me, he should do it."
Qin Zhao gritted his teeth, "You are really hopeless."
Chu Mingyun tilted his head, smiled for a while, and said softly, "I haven't been to Cangwu Mountain for many years. Junior brother, when you go back later, just toast me with a glass of wine in front of the master's tomb and tell him that I don't regret going there. today."
Without waiting for Qin Zhao to answer, he pulled off the imperial robe that was placed on the side and put it on, and walked out of the palace door of the imperial study.
Du Yue in the Taiwei's mansion waited for a long time, and when he saw Qin Zhao appeared, he immediately rushed up, "I'm relying on you two, what's the matter, come here now, walk around, take me to the palace quickly. I have something urgent to…”
He pulled Qin Zhao and hurriedly went out, but Qin Zhao grabbed him with his backhand. He looked up strangely, only to realize that Qin Zhao's expression seemed a little wrong, "What's the matter?"
"I..." Qin Zhao looked at him deeply, wanted to say something but gave up, and said instead, "I'll take you out of the city."
"What, I'm not going out of the city, I'm going into the palace to find the surname Chu!"
"Du Yue," Qin Zhao said seriously, holding his hand tightly, "Chang'an is very dangerous now, I'll take you out of the city."
Du Yue was startled, and his expression changed immediately, "I won't leave."
Qin Zhaozhen felt that he was about to be in a hurry, and he didn't care to explain to him any more, and forced him to go out. Du Yue suddenly threw off his hand in annoyance, "I said I won't leave!"
He stared blankly at his empty hand, unable to respond for a while.
Du Yue also came back to his senses, frowned angrily, stepped forward and held Qin Zhao's hand again, with a barely calm tone, "You sent me out, do you still plan to come back to find Chu by yourself?"
Qin Zhao looked at the hand he was holding and nodded.
A fire rushed up again, Du Yue endured it, and said, "Your uncle, you yourself plan to share weal and woe with him, and it doesn't matter to me to send me away? I'm not worthy of your trust or useless. Is it bothering you to stay here?"
Qin Zhao hurriedly said, "No."
"Then do you think I'm the kind of person who throws you guys alive or dead and runs away with peace of mind?"
"I..." Qin Zhao was speechless, "I don't want you to be in danger..."
"But I'm worried about you too." Du Yue looked at him.
Qin Zhao was stunned for a while, as if he couldn't believe what he heard, Du Yue asked in confusion, and he suddenly hugged Du Yue.
"You..." Du Yue was startled, feeling a little at a loss in his arms, he hesitated but still didn't push away, "Hey, you are like this... I'll take you as a promise to take me... "
Qin Zhao didn't speak, and hugged him tightly.
The huge golden hall was dead silent, Chu Mingyun sat alone on the throne, one hand rested on his chin and glanced aimlessly at the desolate hall, one hand rested on the chair, and his fingertips tapped lightly, knocking out a light sound. With a soft sound, you faintly fell back into the empty hall.
He stopped abruptly, a smile on his lips.
The waiting person came.
He heard the sound of horses' hooves rolling in like muffled thunder outside the gate of the hall, and it stopped in an instant.
Then there was a long "squeak" sound from the door of the rear hall. Several soldiers opened the door and lined up on both sides. The afterglow of the sunset streamed in, against the dark cavalry outside the hall. Someone walked in slowly, with black hair and white shirts. He stopped in front of the temple gate in the distance and looked up.
With that one glance, his hand on the chair couldn't help tightening, as if he heard the sound of his heartbeat, and he felt unreasonably nervous when it fell.
Chu Mingyun felt as if he hadn't seen him for a long time, his eyes fell on those eyebrows, and he couldn't bear to look away. , are you still mad at me?"
"Shiyu," he sighed with a smile, "just like before, give me a sincere smile, right?"
If I ask you to smile again, my life will be handed over to you willingly.
Su Shiyu kept silent and looked at him quietly. For a long time, he closed his eyes and retracted his gaze, but turned to the soldier next to him and instructed: "Keep your majesty."
He turned and left the hall.
Chu Mingyun was stunned on the throne, his eyes were full of Su Shiyu's back. Outside the hall, the sky was like blood. The soldiers pushed the door of the hall closed inch by inch, and Su Shiyu's back disappeared in a line.
The door of the hall was closed, blocking the tidal sunset, and blocking his sweetheart, leaving his eyes full of darkness.
It was extremely quiet again, and I could clearly hear a heavy sound in my heart, and then I trembled uncontrollably.
He suddenly rushed down to the throne like a madman, threw off the blocking soldiers, pushed open the gate of the palace and chased out. The cavalry was hidden in a line in the distance, and the figure in the white shirt had disappeared long ago. He wanted to chase, but stumbled suddenly. Kneeling half-knelt on the ground, hands clenched tightly on his chest, frowning and gasping for breath, the wound in his heart suddenly hurts extremely violently, as if it was torn open by a sharp blade and blood gushing out, it hurts so much. No words, no laughs.
The setting sun fell on his hair, and the fragrance of roses floated on the flower stand in the palace, and the spring breeze was not old.
There was a faint sound of heavy horse hooves from far to near, Chu Mingyun suddenly raised his head.
"World Honor..."
However, they saw that a large group of men in black came running, and Qin Zhao and Du Yue were seated at the head. The other party obviously noticed him and stopped in front of him. Qin Zhao took Du Yue off the horse, and quickly helped Chu Mingyun up, "Brother, what's the matter?"
The men in black behind him also all dismounted, "Lord."
Clearly ordered to disband, but three thousand shadow guards, no one left.
Chu Mingyun took a deep breath and calmed down. He was about to speak when a few birdsongs suddenly sounded in the distance, and several black-feathered birds flew from their wings and landed beside them.
Qin Zhao removed the secret letter on the bird's leg that fell on his shoulder, and was stunned. He looked up at Chu Mingyun in disbelief, and handed the secret letter over.
Chu Mingyun took it, unfolded it, and changed his expression slightly, "... Li Yanzhen ordered me to have a meditation seat?"
"More than that," Qin Zhao unraveled several secret letters in succession, "Brother's previous reform edict was re-issued with annotated notes."
"All the crimes committed by the executed officials in the past have been publicized on the streets of Chang'an."
"The tyrannical dignitaries who made trouble in Beijing received a warning from the imperial court."
"The Su family has expressed its submission to the new king, and other Soviet Party officials, including Lu Shi, have also changed their attitudes..."
Qin Zhao couldn't read it anymore, and looked at Chu Mingyun, "Senior brother..."
Chu Mingyun raised his hand to interrupt him, his eyebrows furrowed, and the meaning of his voice was indistinguishable, "...He should be leading the Yulin army outside the city now."
"Who? The Su family, is it my cousin?" Du Yue finally couldn't help but leaned up, looked at Chu Mingyun and said, "That... I... I'm sorry!"
Chu Mingyun and Qin Zhao looked at him in surprise.
"I'm sorry," Du Yue scratched his head, "I didn't say anything. At that time, you threw my cousin Yupei away. I was so angry that I went to tell my cousin... I, I didn't know that the two of you would have it. This kind of thing happened today, but my cousin is really not so cruel... Really..." He hurriedly explained, and simply poured out all of Su Bai's drunken words, for fear that Chu Mingyun would not believe it.
Unable to tell what he was feeling in his heart, Chu Mingyun interrupted Du Yue and said to Qin Zhao, "You and Du Yue stay here and give me the horse."
He turned on his horse, tightened the reins, the black horse raised its hoofs and neighed. Chu Mingyun glanced at the shadow guards who followed him on the horse. Without saying much, he suddenly turned the horse's head and galloped out of the palace gate. Scattered behind.