Chapter 105: Providence (Continued)
Liu Jingyan felt strange at first when he saw Li Shandu like this. When he heard the other party clearly say "The Imperial Concubine's dream", he also gave him the jade pendant to wear when he was killed. Even though he was knowledgeable, his face changed.
The "Niu Concubine" mentioned by Li Shandu, of course, refers to the late Niu Concubine Zhang Lihua, the biological mother of the crown prince Chen Shen. It is well known that he has died and was posthumously named the queen.
As a result, he actually sent a dream to Li Shandu?
Liu Jingyan believed in Buddhism, so he believed in the sayings of ghosts and gods, so she did not question what Li Shandu said at this time.
Li Shandu had previously said that the imperial concubine had asked him to dream, pointing out that Kong Fan wanted to be an internal supporter of the Zhou army, and led the Zhou army into the city tonight.
Kong Fan's head was sent by Li Shandu not long ago. The accompanying soldiers stated the fact that Kong Fan failed to lead his troops to attack the Longzhoushan military camp. Therefore, Liu Jingyan believed that what Li Shandu said was very credible.
After hearing Li Shandu's words, Prince Chen Shen quickly walked to the empress dowager. After getting the empress dowager's approval, he took the jade pendant and took a closer look, and was very excited: "This is really my mother's jade pendant!"
Chen Shen recognized this jade pendant. After Zhang Lihua was killed, when the palace maids cleaned up the relics, they did not find this jade pendant that the imperial concubine liked to wear. Chen Shen was very familiar with this jade pendant.
According to the survivor, the imperial concubine went out of the palace to worship Buddha that day and wore the jade pendant that could not be found in the relics.
Now that the jade pendant is in your hand, how can you not make Chen Shen excited? Shen Wuhua, who was beside him, was moved by it when he saw it.
Shen Wuhua believed in Buddhism, so he believed in the sayings of ghosts and gods. Zhang Lihua was Chen Shen's biological mother. So when the deceased mother saw her son in danger, she asked her to dream of her son...
Alas? Why didn’t the imperial concubine ask Chen Shen to dream, but instead asked Li Shandu to dream?
When Shen Wuhua thought of this, he was stunned and figured out a reason himself: Chen Shen is the prince and has the blessing of the princely spirit, so Zhang Lihua's soul could not get close to him, so he could only find the eunuch Li Shandu.
Thinking of this, Shen Wuhua sighed.
Liu Jingyan looked at Li Shandu who was crying and then at Chen Shen, whose eyes were red, and suddenly came to his senses: Yes, the Zhou army came floating in the sea, captured Jingkou, and advanced to Jiankang, not from the upstream. The navy stationed in Shitouzhu is intact, and now he can hide in Shitouzhu to take refuge!
Shitou Shu is Shitou City. Shitou City is located west of Jiankang City and on the edge of the Yangtze River. If the situation is wrong, you can take a naval warship into the river to avoid the pursuit, or even sit in Guangling, dispatch troops and confiscate the Zhou army's retreat.
Thinking of this, Liu Jingyan felt that her thoughts suddenly became clear. She was about to issue an order to ask the imperial guards to escort the emperor, the prince, the queen, the concubines and others to evacuate the palace and go to the stone guard west of Jiankang to take refuge, but she saw the white-haired Yuan Xian coming hurriedly, followed by some imperial guards.
Yuan Xian looked anxious. Seeing that the Empress Dowager was not allowed to salute, he spoke, "Empress Dowager, the enemy soldiers are about to attack the palace. The empress dowager dares to ask the Empress Dowager to bring the emperor, the queen, the prince, and the family members out of the palace immediately to avoid it!"
"Well, Yuan Qing's family, why not avoid Shitoujun for the time being?"
"Ah, yes, yes! What the Empress Dowager said is very true!" Yuan Xian was stunned when he heard this, then nodded and said yes.
He was on duty in the palace these two days, and came to an emergency at this time. He wanted to persuade the Empress Dowager to take the emperor and others to temporarily leave Taicheng, hide in the west side of Taicheng, and avoid the Zhou army's edge.
Now I heard from the Empress Dowager that he temporarily avoided the stone guards by the river. Yuan Xian felt that it was better than temporarily avoiding the small town, but the distance was farther.
Now that the enemy is rushing into Taicheng, as long as we can protect the queen mother, prince, prince, queen and other inner relatives, the surrounding officials will come to their senses and drive these enemy troops out of Jiankang.
At that time, the empress dowager, emperor, queen, prince and inner relatives can return to the palace.
There was a loud noise outside the hall, and it was loud. There seemed to be many people shouting. It sounded bad. Yuan Xian didn't care about so many etiquettes and asked the accompanying imperial guards to escort the emperor, queen, queen, prince, concubine, prince, prince, and princess to evacuate.
Liu Jingyan asked the royal family what the situation is now, and Yuan Xian said that the royal family would retreat to Shitouzhu in a while.
There is no problem with retreat, but someone must stop the rear. He should intercept the pursuers as much as possible and delay time. The royal family, King Chen Shuqing of Jian'an, is now fighting bloody battles at the East Gate, and as an official, someone should stand up.
Yuan Xian bowed to the Empress Dowager and said with a firm expression: "Old minister, I am willing to work with King Jian'an to resist the enemy's troops and serve as the queen of the Emperor's Palace!"
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After the violent explosion, the dust was flying, and Chen Shuqing, who was covered in dust, got up from the ground and was about to draw his sword, but saw a Zhou soldier swaying his sword in front of him and chopping him down.
A guard rushed forward and blocked Zhou Bing. Another man tried hard to pull Chen Shuqing back, and at least dragged him out of the fierce battle scene.
Chen Shuqing, who was standing up in a mess, saw Zhou Bing swarming in from the breakout, and looked at the obviously sparse imperial soldiers around him. He knew that the situation was hopeless, but he was sad and angry but helpless.
He had tried his best. When the enemy soldiers attacked Taicheng, they did not run away with their heads in their arms, nor were they so scared that they hid in the corner and shivered. They had tried their best to organize a counterattack, trying to delay time, and wait until the officials and troops elsewhere in the city returned to aid.
But I can no longer make the world come true.
Is this God's will?
Chen Shuqing thought so. Seeing more and more Zhou soldiers pouring into the palace, his side was obviously at a disadvantage, and the soldiers all looked at them. He knew that the most difficult decision had to be made.
That is to give up resistance and surrender.
It is already a perfect end to the imperial guards who can follow him to resist this. If they continue to fight, the soldiers will probably surrender voluntarily and give up resistance. No matter how much he shouts, it will be useless.
The footsteps sounded, and Chen Shuqing looked back and saw that it was Yuan Xian who led his troops to reinforce. However, there were not many soldiers following Yuan Xian. He wanted to block the wolf-like Zhou soldiers and drive them out, but he was afraid that he would dream.
No one expected that the combat effectiveness of this Zhou army was so amazing. I thought it was a partial army. After capturing Jingkou, it was the most striking attack. Unexpectedly, Chen Shuqing could not help but feel bitter when he saw Yuan Xian with white hair.
As soon as he was about to come, all the officials in the court were actually Yuan Pushe was willing to stand up...
Yuan Xian saw the scene in front of him and found that it was worse than he expected. Zhou's soldiers had already attacked the palace and were weak. However, the matter had come to this point, and he could only do his best.
Seeing that Zhou Bing who was rushing into the palace was not in a hurry, he took advantage of the situation and shouted, asking the other party's lord to speak, so that the empress dowager could have enough time to take the emperor and the prince escaped from the west, Taicheng.
I don’t know if these Zhou Bings were really stubborn or too stupid, but they didn’t continue to move forward and confronted the imperial guards like this. It seemed that they were really going to invite the chief general to come over and speak.
Yuan Xian couldn't believe that he was so lucky. When he met such a reasonable enemy soldier, he didn't know how long it took, but a general of the Zhou army separated the crowd and came to the front row under the escort of the sword and shield soldiers.
Somehow, the man had white clothes under his armor, white robe, and a white headband tied around his trouser, as if he was wearing mourning.
Yuan Xian was wearing a regular dress and without a piece of armor. In order to show sincerity, he crossed his own soldiers and stood alone at the front, looking at the Zhou army general, first introduced himself, and then asked:
"Zhou and Chen have always had good friendships, so why did your country not declare a war? They also attacked Jiankang with their troops directly aimed at the palace?"
"Aren't you afraid of leaving a traitor for such a traitor?"
After Yuan Xian finished speaking, the general laughed: "Mr. Yuan is so eloquent, how can you be safe?"
After saying that, he reached out to take off the pony. After he took off the pony, Yuan Xian could not help but exclaim: "It's you?"
"It's me, haha."
Wang Jun smiled and said, seeing that smile in Yuan Xian's eyes, he felt a flash in front of him.
It seemed like I was back thirty-eight years ago, with the same fire as the sky, and in Jiankang City, Liang State was in power, and the Secretary Ling Wang Sengbian, faced the surging soldiers in the fire, took off his pockets.
That year, Chen Baxian, the general of Liang State who was stationed in Jingkou, suddenly led his army to attack Jiankang and captured Shangshu Ling Wang Sengbian. Not long after, Wang Sengbian was killed.
It was winter at that time. Yuan Xian was twenty-six years old and served as the Minister of State. He was in Jiankang City and experienced this incident personally.
This year, Yuan Xian was 64 years old and served as the Minister of Shangshu Pushe. He was also in Jiankang City. It was also winter. He watched Wang Sengbian's son Wang Jun lead his troops to attack Jiankang from Jingkou.
In the light of fire, I took off my pocket and laughed.
The son avenged his father...Is this God's will?
Yuan Xian thought so, even if there were thousands of words, he could not speak. Wang Xu drew his sword and shouted loudly at the imperial guards: "I am Wang Xu, the son of the former Prince of Liang Shangshu Ling. Chen Baxian has a grudge against me for killing my father!"
Chapter completed!