Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 509
At the east gate, soldiers from the five loyal armies of the brigade rushed into the city. Dai Zhifan carried a horse spear and urged the horse to enter the east gate. On the street in front of the city gate, two men and horses were fighting.

It was Tang Wenyao, the guard who was in charge of the night patrol, and when he discovered the accident at the east gate, he hurriedly brought troops and horses, and immediately fought with Jiao Lian's troops who were the internal response.

Tang Wenyao led hundreds of people and wanted to block the city gate. They resisted hard, but the five loyal troops of the brigade had already entered the city, and the city gate had already fallen.

At this time, seeing that things were going badly, and Guilin City was about to fall because of internal thieves, Tang Wenyao was furious. He saw Jiao Lian not far away, raised his ax and killed him, "The thief who betrayed the master will die!"

Dai Zhifan reined in his horse, and Lin Yongzhong, who was beside him, saw the situation in front of him, and immediately pointed out: "Daidu Town, the one who turned off the knife is my Lord Hou, and the one who opened the mountain ax is Tang Wenyao, the guard of Guilin."

Dai Zhifan recognized his identity, laughed loudly, and urged his horse to charge towards the battle group. "If you don't surrender at this time, this town will be stabbed to death!"

Hearing the movement, Tang Wenyao looked back, and saw a general, straddling a precious horse, carrying a black long spear, running straight towards him. Knowing that he was no match for the enemy, Tang Wenyao quickly forced Jiao Lian away with an axe, turned the horse's head, and beat the horse. He escaped, but he stepped off the horse and was just an ordinary flattery, but it was not as good as Dai Zhifan's selection from nearly ten thousand horses.

On the battlefield, the generals' favorite things are precious armor and good horses.

Dai Zhifan got off his war horse. It was not a Mongolian horse. I don't know what breed it was, but it was extremely strong, with thick and long hooves.

For a moment, Tang Wenyao was in a panic, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and turn around with the axe, but Dai Zhifan pushed the ax away with a horse lance. The big ax was not sensitive, and when he was about to take the ax back and sweep it back, the horse lance had already gone straight behind him Heart comes.

Dai Zhifan's horse was fast, Tang Wenyao's horse was slow, and he couldn't get rid of it at all. Poor Tang Wenyao couldn't hide, his back was used to being pierced by the horse's lance, and his body was directly pierced on the horse's lance. Fleeing to the city, the five loyal troops poured in, and Guilin City changed hands.

The army quickly controlled Guilin, restored order, and prevented rioters from taking the opportunity to loot and rape women.

At dawn, Wang Yan led the troops into the city and went directly to the palace of King Gui in the northern city. Dai Zhifan led the soldiers and horses to block the water around the palace, but the soldiers did not break in without authorization.

At this time, King Gui's regime was over, and the palace defenders and guards knelt down and surrendered one after another. Wang Yan comforted them one by one, and then asked, "Where is His Royal Highness King Gui?"

A guard tremblingly said: "At night, Li Zhizhou wanted to take His Royal Highness to escape from the palace, but after being blocked back, he seemed to have gone to the West Palace again."

Wang Yan nodded after hearing this, and led five hundred soldiers into the palace with his saber in his hand. At the same time, he ordered that the soldiers must not tamper with the property in the palace, and must not insult the maids and the family members of King Gui's palace.

The palace in Guilin is far more magnificent than the one in Guangjing. First, it was built once when King Jingjiang rebelled, and then built again when King Gui moved to Guilin. Wang Yan had never been to Bauhinia City, but he had a feeling that the palace in Guilin was built according to The palace was built, but it was only one size smaller.

Wang Yan and his party passed through the palace gates, and the eunuchs and maids dodged in panic. They came to a large hall with the words "Qianqing Palace" written on the plaque. It seems that King Gui has already made himself the emperor.

Wang Yan and the others hurried up the steps, and when they were about to enter the hall, they saw a middle-aged man wearing a scarlet official robe, Yunyan Buzi, Yi holding a sword standing in front of the hall gate.He stared at Wang Yan and yelled: "Thief, are you going to kill the king? Do you still have the face to meet the previous emperors of the Ming Dynasty?"

Looking at his official uniform, Wang Yan should be the Li Zhizhou that the guards mentioned before. He squinted his eyes and said, "This is the emperor of Guangjing. King Gui refused to obey the emperor's order. When the country was in turmoil, he conspired to use magic tools to make the northern captives profit. What's wrong with serving the Son of Heaven, begging for disobedience, obeying the will of heaven above and the will of the people below?"

"King Gui is the descendant of Shenzong. How dare Tang Fan call himself the Son of Heaven? Wang Yan, you are acting today and committing crimes against your superiors. You are extremely shameless. It is simply treason~"

"King Gui's matter is small, while the anti-Qing Dynasty is a major matter, Mr. Li should be aware of current affairs." Wang Yan frowned slightly, he didn't want to have a blood dispute with Li Kaiyuan, "At this point, I don't need to tell you the truth. Hand it over!"

"Traitor, see you, if you want to catch His Royal Highness King Gui, you will have to step over my dead body!"

Seeing that it didn't make sense, Wang Yan stopped talking nonsense, turned around and said to the soldier behind him, "Take it for me!"

Dozens of soldiers rushed forward and forced Li Kaiyuan. Before the soldiers could make a move, Li Kaiyuan let out a mournful roar, "Your Highness, go first!"

Seeing this, Wang Yan's face darkened, and he made people bury him generously, so he ignored it. He led the soldiers into the palace, and saw a large group of eunuchs and maids crouching in the corner trembling, but there was no King Gui.

Wang Yan was standing in the hall, when Lu Shikui mentioned a eunuch, he yelled and asked, "Where is King Gui? If you don't tell me, I would have made you look good!"

The little eunuch tremblingly said: "It seems... that he escaped to the apse under the protection of Elder Qu Ge."

Wang Yan heard this, and immediately rushed into the apse with a large group of soldiers holding swords.

King Gui's palace was indeed well built, the apse was spacious and huge, and there were many rooms. Qu Shixu took King Gui to hide in a dark room, and eight guards were holding the Xiuchun knife tightly, staring outside, palms full of sweat.

Gui Wang Zhu Youlang turned pale and trembled with fright, Qu Shixu kept comforting him, but at this moment, there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside, and someone yelled viciously: "Search carefully for me, digging the ground three feet will take you a few feet!" dig it out."

Suddenly another soldier shouted: "Baihu, there is a dark room here!"

The few guards hiding inside turned pale when they heard the words, but they glanced at each other, but all raised their swords and rushed out to fight with the soldiers outside.

Knowing that they had been discovered, Qu Shixu immediately dragged King Gui out of the room while several guards were chasing the people outside.

At this time, several corpses had already fallen outside the house, and several bodyguards of King Gui shouted, "His Royal Highness, the Ministry of the Cabinet, go quickly~"

Qu Shiqi and Zhu Youlang ran wildly, but before they could leave the apse, they bumped into a group of soldiers, who immediately shouted in unison: "Here!"

For a moment, the two were surrounded by nearly a hundred soldiers, staring at them fiercely. Qu Shixu quickly blocked King Gui with his body, and said solemnly: "If you dare to kill the descendants of Shenzong, Wang Yan is the traitor who will be punished by the whole world!" !"

Wang Yan had already issued an order, and the soldiers did not dare to act rashly. At this time, the soldiers stepped aside, and saw Wang Yan walking quickly in armor and helmet. He asked loudly, "Where is King Gui?"

Qu Shixu said coldly: "His Highness King Gui is right in front of you, do you want to be Sima Zhao?"

Wang Yan ignored Qu Shixu at all. He looked at King Gui, whose face was pale with fright, and bowed his hands, "His Royal Highness, don't worry, I have no malicious intentions. I was just ordered to wipe out those treacherous officials who hijacked His Highness, took advantage of His reputation, and disobeyed the court's orders."

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