The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

As he learned more and more news about the coup, Xiao Zhonggong became hesitant and did not dare to move forward. The current emperor has gone crazy and is killing everyone in the capital. Anyone who has the slightest relationship with those who participated in the coup will be punished.

Execution without mercy. Although he did not have a close relationship with Wanyanyong, he

After staying in Liaoyang City for a long time, it would be difficult to convince that lunatic if he claimed that he knew nothing about his "rebellion". In addition, in his reply to the imperial court, he once told Wanyan Yong that he used water as an army to repel the enemy.

If you sing praises about something, at least if you know it and don't report it, it's true, and you will definitely not be classified as one of the party.

Xiao Zhonggong, who has experienced all the rebellions in the Jin Kingdom, understands the power of this. Rebellion is often used by those who seize power as a tool to eliminate dissidents. It is often very involved. Anyone who has nothing to do with it will be labeled as a comrade and sent to the guillotine. What’s more, this time

He really took action. Wanyan Yong was pushed as the successor by accident, and he was definitely destined to die. And he was innocently involved and became a traitor to the party. His return to Beijing was likely to be a failure.

road!

While Xiao Zhonggong was fighting between humans and gods, he suddenly heard that someone was breaking into the post house to conduct a search, saying that they wanted to arrest the coup conspirators. Xiao Zhonggong, who had a conspiracy in his heart, was shocked and escaped through the window, snatched a horse and ran away.

.When he ran out of the city, he found that he had nowhere to go.

After thinking for a long time that Liaoyang City was the only place where he could stay for the time being, he turned his horse and headed back along the original road. In fact, the person who broke into the post house was not the one who caught him. It was just Xiao Zhonggong's guilty conscience that caused the misunderstanding. But it happened to be an accidental incident.

Changed the trajectory of history...

Along the way, Xiao Zhonggong avoided the back roads and hid in various places. He walked day and night and escaped back to Liaoyang City. After entering the city, he immediately asked to see the stayer and said he had something important to tell him. Wan Yanyong was actually waiting anxiously because he heard that Xiao Zhonggong was back.

Very surprised, he even calculated the itinerary

He had just arrived in the capital after traveling day and night. When he saw Xiao Zhonggong's miserable appearance, he was even more surprised. Why did the dignified envoy of the Kingdom of Jin seem to be a different person after not seeing him for a few days?

Can blow him down.

Wan Yanyong wanted someone to help Xiao Zhonggong bathe and change clothes, eat something and drink some water before talking, but Xiao Zhonggong impatiently kicked everyone out of the room and told him what he heard on the way. After Wan Yanyong listened,

It was like five thunders struck the head, and everyone was stunned. When he saw Xiao Zhonggong's nervous look,

At first, I thought that the imperial court might have accepted the peace terms of the Southern Dynasty and ceded Liaoyang Prefecture, or that the imperial court refused to cede the cession or send more reinforcements. I never thought that an unreasonable disaster would come from the sky. He would be involved in the coup and the emperor would not be elected.

That's all, it became a rebellion of the Great Jin Kingdom.

"Commander, I guess the imperial envoy sent by the Central Government is definitely on the way and will arrive soon. You need to make a decision early!" Looking at Wan Yanyong's panic, Xiao Zhonggong tugged on his sleeve and said.

"I...I will immediately write to Your Majesty and the Grand Master to tell the truth. I have no intention of rebellion, let alone usurp the throne. I have always served you loyally, and I also ask Prime Minister Xiao to testify for me." Wan Yanyong grabbed Xiao Zhonggong.

He shook his hand vigorously and said with tears streaming down his face. When he suddenly heard the news, he, who had always been calm, became confused.

"Commander, under such circumstances, His Majesty may not listen to your excuse, but will deepen his suspicions." Xiao Zhonggong shook his head and said in a deep voice.

"Why? Your Majesty and I are known as monarchs and ministers, but we are actually brothers in private. He treats me so kindly. How could you only believe the words of those traitors!" Wanyan Yong asked urgently.

"Commander, Your Majesty is no longer the original Majesty. When we were besieged, Your Majesty had King Wanyan Yuan and Wanyan Zhacha Chu beheaded just because a rebel was under the banner of the emperor's brother. Then he killed him. The empress and the concubines below were hacked to death with their own hands. Zong Xian and others were afraid, so they planned the rebellion and implicated the commander-in-chief. How could he listen to the commander-in-chief's self-defense when he was so crazy?" Xiao Zhonggong He said with a wry smile, secretly thinking that lunatic would even kill his own brother, let alone a brother like you.

"Grand Master, Grand Master must know my loyalty, otherwise he would not let me guard Tokyo. He will definitely intercede with Your Majesty on my behalf." Wan Yanyong thought of his fourth uncle's Wushu again. Since his father was in Yan After Jing's death in battle, Wu Shu treated him like his own son and devoted himself to cultivating him to succeed. How could he stand by and watch when something happened to him now?

"Commander, the one who is in charge of countering the rebellion now is the Grand Master. But when it comes to rebellion, he would rather kill a thousand people in vain than let one go. Even if the Grand Master wants to help the Commander, he cannot completely eliminate His Majesty's remaining worries. Even if Yu Yi dies, his title will be revoked and he will be exiled to a remote and cold place, where he will live a life worse than death." Xiao Zhonggong saw that he still had illusions about the Grand Master, so he could only patiently analyze the situation for him.

"God is trying to kill me..." All escape routes were blocked. Wanyanyong could no longer control his despair and couldn't help but let out a sad cry...

"Now that the Song army is besieging the city outside and being framed by traitors inside, everyone in our Liaoyang Mansion has become rebellious. Let's discuss how to deal with it together with everyone!" It took a while for Wanyan Yong to calm down, but there was no good way at the moment and he wanted to call everyone together. Discuss this matter.

"The commander-in-chief must not do this. Once they learn that the commander-in-chief has become a traitor to the court, their hearts will be in chaos. It is inevitable that some of them will be detrimental to the commander-in-chief!" Xiao Zhonggong quickly stopped him.

"Hey, what Xiao Xiang said makes sense." Xiao Zhonggong woke Wanyan Yong up with one sentence, and he immediately realized the seriousness of the news. There were many civil servants and military generals in the city, but not all of them were his close confidants. In the Song Dynasty, When the army is at the gate of the city, the imperial court sends an army to attack him. Not only will he not be able to catch him, but he will be destroyed by the Song army. The only way is to send a secret imperial envoy here to select one person from Liaoyang City to stay as a guard, and first cut his own Powers and responsibilities, then take action to capture.

"For the current plan, the commander-in-chief should first send his trusted soldiers out of the city to intercept the secret envoys in the capital, and then secretly summon his confidants to discuss the matter, and deprive those who have different intentions of their military power, or simply get rid of them, so as not to leave any trouble for the imperial court. ." Xiao Zhonggong took the opportunity to offer his advice.

"What Xiang Xiang said is absolutely true, but although this can ensure temporary peace, it will also completely fall out with the court. What will happen next?" Wan Yanyong nodded and sighed.

"What does the commander think of the current situation?" Xiao Zhonggong pondered for a moment without answering, but asked instead.

"The current emperor is fatuous and absurd. Although the grand master is very capable, he is already terminally ill. Most of the ministers in the court are in the prime position of corpse food. They just want to sing every night and extort money to satisfy their own greed, which has caused trouble in the Jin Kingdom. The people are in dire straits, complaints are spreading, and wars are raging." Wan Yanyong said with a gloomy face, obviously he was also very disappointed with the court.

"To be honest, what do you think the chances of victory are for the Song Army's Northern Expedition?" Xiao Zhonggong asked again.

"Alas, there is no chance of winning! The two commanders on the left and right are the most elite divisions of our Kingdom of Jin. They were all wiped out in less than a month. Now the only ones who have the strength to fight are the troops of Suwei Capital. But in the face of this,

The sharp firearms of the Song Army may not be able to last for two rounds, and now the Song Army is attacking from two directions. They are also focusing on one thing at the expense of the other, and it is difficult to care about each other.

But now the Khitan people in various places are rebelling, attacking states and plundering their governments, and the Ministry of Five Kingdoms has also invaded the territory on a large scale, attacking from all sides to pin down the troops of the state governments. Even if the capital is in trouble, it will be difficult to raise the army of King Qin." Wanyan Yong sighed again.

He said in a tone that he suddenly seemed more than ten years older. It was obvious that many things had combined to make this young man's spirit collapse.

In fact, after the Song army bombarded the city, Wan Yanyong discovered that the Taishi's strategy of relying on a fortified city to resist the Song army's offensive had completely failed. No matter how high and strong the city was, it could not withstand the Song army's artillery. The artillery fire that day

Not only did it destroy the resistance of the soldiers and civilians in the city,

, and also shattered his confidence. His seemingly strong appearance was just for outsiders to see, but in fact his spirit was on the verge of collapse. Today's "rebellion" incident became the last straw that crushed him.

, and was able to express his true feelings to outsiders for the first time.

"Well, now there are three ways in front of Liaoyang Mansion!" Seeing that the time has come to reveal the truth, Xiao Zhonggong held out three fingers and said, "First, wait for someone from the court to take over the city, and the commander-in-chief and his family will be escorted to the capital for punishment.

, the commander-in-chief should know how it will end; secondly, the ten-day deadline is coming in a blink of an eye, the Song army attacked the city in a large scale, Liaoyang City was destroyed, and everything was lost; thirdly, return to the Song Dynasty..."

"Present the city to surrender?! I have an sworn hatred with that Zhao Er, and I will never surrender to him." Wan Yanyong refused angrily before waiting for him to finish.

"Commander, how can there be no deaths when the two countries are at war with each other as their own masters? Back then, our Dajin army marched south twice and came to Bianjing City, and millions of people died. After entering the city, the royal family of the Southern Dynasty was captured and marched north. Five people were killed along the way.

Six, there are many brothers and sisters of Zhao Er, but they captured Wanyan Xiyin and suddenly joined forces.

Soon, Wanyan Zongqing and others were not killed, and they were later released back to the country. Even in the Battle of Yanjing, Master Zongfu died in the battle, Zhao Er still ordered people to collect the body and return the money with gifts.

The country still builds a temple in the city to offer sacrifices, which is not an act of humiliation." Xiao Zhonggong said leisurely.

"This...this makes some sense." Wanyanyong hesitated and said. The Song and Jin Dynasties had been fighting for more than twenty years, and his father was not the only one who was killed or injured.

"Commander, the matter has come to this, and we should continue to suffer from the chaos. We need to make a decision early, otherwise it will be too late to regret it." Xiao Zhonggong persuaded again when he saw that his tone had softened, and he often traveled between the Song and Jin countries.

, has long since given up hope for the Jin Kingdom to turn around.

"Xiao Xiang, I already know the whole reason, but this matter not only affects my life and fortune, but also involves thousands of people and generals in the city. Let me think about it carefully. You can go down and rest first!" Wanyan

Yong was so confused that he sent Xiao Zhonggong away. He sat alone in the commander's hall without saying a word, thinking about where he would go, whether he would die here, return to Beijing to fight with others, or defect to the Southern Dynasty... (To be continued)