Chapter 123: The Change of Xuanwu Gate (Part 1)

"Our general has an order, no one is allowed to enter Dongneiyuan." At the gate of Dongneiyuan, nearly 200 soldiers of the cavalry camp stood with swords and stopped Zhang Potian's carriage. The captain Chen Ping stepped forward and bowed: "My general went out early this morning and left a letter to Zhang Shangshu."

As he said that, he took out a letter, stepped forward and handed it to Zhang Potian's entourage, then took five steps back, pressed his hand on the hilt of the knife, and stared coldly at Zhang Potian's every move.

Zhang Potian's face turned red and white. Zhang Huan left a letter to him, obviously seeing through his intentions. During this period, he had been busy with the affairs of Hedong and ignored the Tianqi Camp. This morning, he went to the homes of two old subordinates of the Tianqi Camp and learned that almost all of his former subordinates were cleansed by Zhang Huan, which means that he could no longer control the army.

In a fit of anger, Zhang Potian drove to Dongneiyuan to investigate the crime. Unexpectedly, he couldn't even enter the gate. Last time he came to find Zhang Huan, the defenders at the gate saluted him together, and none of them dared to stop him. But now, he was greeted by a cold blade and an equally cold gaze.

Zhang Potian shook the letter with a gloomy face, but suddenly he was stunned. There were only four words on the letter: "Three people are for the crowd." This was the note he wrote to Zhang Huan last time.

Zhang Potian stared at Dong Neiyuan with complicated eyes. He had a faint feeling. Zhang Huan was looking at him somewhere. After a while, Zhang Potian finally sighed, "Let's go!"

The carriage slowly started, and under dozens of guards, he gradually disappeared with endless loss. Just as Zhang Potian's carriage was about to disappear at the end of the street, Zhang Huan slowly walked out from behind the gate, looking at a shadow in the distance, he shook his head gently. Compared with the head of the family, Zhang Potian was too far away, indecisive, and always placed his hope on others. Don't he know that the most important thing he should do now is to rush back to Hedong to preside over the overall situation. As long as the roots of the Zhang family are still there, there will always be a day when towering trees grow again. But now? He is still superstitious about the emperor's help, and he is still nostalgic for the prime minister for a day. Even if he can mobilize all the troops in the world to rescue Hedong, can his orders still be passed on to Tongguan?

Thinking of leaving Tongguan, Zhang Huan couldn't help but take out the silver medal from Chu Xingshui in the afternoon. Although Chu Xingshui assured him that the silver medal could be passed freely in the control of the Pei family, Zhang Huan still felt something was wrong. Things seemed to be a little too easy. Things were dead, but people were alive. The problem was not whether he won the silver medal or the gold medal, but whether Pei Jun was willing to let him go out.

I believe Pei Jun is also very clear that he has no sincerity, and the letter is not very useful. To put it bluntly, it is just a hindsight. Unless Cui Yuan is a dog that everyone calls for, the letter will become the last straw that crushes the camel. But now Cui Yuan is powerful, will he still take the initiative to step down?

Since that's the case, why would Pei Jun still give himself a silver medal and let him go? Maybe it was to give Chu Xingshui a face, or maybe it was Pei Jun who wanted to use his Tianqi Camp to resist the Shandong Army's northward advance.

But Zhang Huan thought of another possibility. This silver medal was just a bait. His real purpose was to lead himself out of Chang'an and get all the way through Qianniuwei. Zhang Huan smiled coldly. Pei Jun said that he was one foot taller, so he would be one foot taller.

"General!" A personal soldier rushed from the Dong Neiyuan, holding a scroll of paper in him, "It's Gexin!"

Zhang Huan's face changed, and this was the news of Li Mi, which meant that what he had been worried about had finally become reality. A wrinkled note slipped quietly from Zhang Huan's hand. The head of the family died, and he stood there blankly. At this moment, his heart was blank. Gradually, all kinds of care the head of the family for him slowly poured into his heart over the past year. It was not until he really left that Zhang Huan suddenly felt that it was his father who died.

‘Pu!’ Zhang Huan knelt down, he kowtowed three times northeast, and tears poured into his eyes.

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With Zhang Ruohao's death, the atmosphere became more and more strange. Whether it was Cui Yuan, Zhang Huan, or even Pei Jun, everyone's eyes began to focus on the palace of the Tang Dynasty. Here, a contest between life and death quietly kicked off in a conversation.

The night was dark and there was no moon. Such a night was suitable for planning conspiracies or doing secret things. A man appeared in Zhang Liangdi's bedroom. However, this man was not for an affair. He had no interest in an old woman like Zhang Liangdi. His interest was only the same, power.

He is naturally Zhu Li. He has left a way out for himself. The rest is to disrupt the Tang Dynasty, preferably split up and grow up with all the heroes, so that he can also have a chance to become a generation of heroes.

"It's time to do it!" Zhu Li stopped and looked at Zhang Liangdi coldly. In his eyes, the empress dowager of the Tang Dynasty was no different from the crazy woman on the street. A woman who was frightened by nightmare could not accomplish anything. Gradually, half of the cooperative members who were originally with her had become 30% 70% 70% and Zhang Liangdi took 30% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80% 80%

"Who to do it?" Zhang Liangdi raised her head in surprise and looked at Zhu Li in confusion. Indeed, she had adapted to Zhu Li's tone of order to her, and also forgot that they were originally a relationship between the king and the ministers. Her ideas about Zhu Li gradually changed from exploiting her to rely on her. This was not only because her soldiers were guarding outside the door, but more importantly, no one could help her except him.

Zhu Li's words made Zhang Liangdi ambiguity, whether to attack Zhang Huan, Cui Xiaofu, or Li Shi, the importance of these three people is arranged in her heart, so her first reaction was to attack Zhang Huan.

"Of course, it was a move against the Li family. Have you forgotten our plan?" Zhu Li was a little dissatisfied with her forgetfulness, which shows that she has not considered this matter in the past few days.

Zhang Liangdi then remembered that they planned to poison Li Shi to death, blame Cui Xiaofu, and then Zhu Li killed Cui Xiaofu. In the end, the three-year-old prince ascended the throne, so Zhang Liangdi ruled behind the curtain. Although this was what she had always longed for, the exposure of Zhang Huan's identity disrupted her mind. Zhang Liangdi sighed and whispered: "My heart is very confused these days and I haven't considered this."

"It doesn't matter if you didn't think about it. I just want to ask you, do you still want to do this?"

"Of course I think, but where should I start?" Zhang Liangdi replied casually. Suddenly, she seemed to understand something, and raised her head and stared at him tightly, "Do you have any arrangements?"

"Of course!" Zhu Li took out a small paper bag from his arms and smiled sinisterly: "He only needs to take a sip of this bag of medicine and will be poisoned. He will die of poisoning in an hour. At that time, he should return to the Daming Palace. We will do the rest. Do you understand?"

"But why did I let him come? How could I let him drink this bag of medicine?"

"It's very simple. Just say that you are seriously ill and let him come to visit you." Zhu Li gently pushed the small medicine bag in front of Zhang Liangdi and said coldly: "Our opportunity is when he personally tests the medicine for you."

Zhang Liangdi nodded silently. In the middle of the night, a sharp scream suddenly came from the Queen Mother's bedroom, which was creepy. All the eunuchs and palace maids were awakened. The light was lit. A large group of guards rushed over and around the Queen Mother's bedroom. More than a dozen imperial doctors rushed to come with medicine boxes. The palace people ran nervously in the palace, hanging peach wood swords, mirrors, scissors and other evil-proof objects in every corner of the palace. The news that the Queen Mother met a ghost quickly spread in the Tai Chi Palace.

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The sky was still dark. At this time, it was still three o'clock. The Tianqi Camp in Dongneiyuan was nervously packing things, dry food, water, and blankets. It was already ready. A quarter of an hour later, the two thousand soldiers of the Tianqi Camp were fully armed and waiting to set off. In the coach's tent, Zhang Huan was wearing black bright armor, and the silver helmet on his head was emitting a faint light under the dim light. He stood at the door of the tent, staring at the direction of the Daming Palace with a serious look. An hour ago he received Cui Xiaofu's secret order, and the Tai Chi Palace had undergone a change. He immediately understood that the moment of the confrontation was coming.

When it was time to set off, Zhang Huan waved his hand and whispered: "Go away!"

Teams of cavalry were like black streams gathering into a river, driving quickly outside the camp gate. The four hooves of the war horses were wrapped in thick burlap, and the dense sound of hooves was like hundreds of broken drums ringing at the same time, the sound was low and hoarse and shocking.

There are two gates in the East Neiyuan. The Yanzheng Gate is in the south, and the side gate is in the northeast. After the side gate is a palace imperial road. Walking northward for two miles is the Zuoyintai Gate of the Daming Palace. If you continue to walk north, you will be the Forbidden Garden. After the Forbidden Garden, you will be a low hill. Large areas of dense forests stretch for dozens of miles, which is outside Chang'an City. When the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty Li Longji escaped from Chang'an City.

Zuoyintai Gate is also controlled by the Tianqi Camp, where fifty soldiers are guarded. In addition to these fifty soldiers, there are also a thousand Tianqi Camp soldiers on duty tonight, scattered in every corner of the Daming Palace, led by Li Hengqiu.

Zhang Huan slowly tied the reins, and He Lou Wuji came immediately behind him. He nodded to Zhang Huan. According to the plan, He Lou Wuji led a thousand people to enter the Daming Palace from the Zuoyintai Gate, while Zhang Huan led another thousand people to enter the palace from the Chongxuan Gate behind the Daming Palace. Their mission is not only to protect Cui Xiaofu, but also to control the Xuanwu Gate and prevent the Longwu Army stationed in Xi Neiyuan from entering the Taiji Palace and the Daming Palace from the Xuanwu Gate.

"Let's meet at Xuanwu Gate later!" Zhang Huan smiled and patted He Lou Wuji's shoulder. With a wave of his hand, a thousand soldiers broke open like icebergs, and followed him quickly towards the Forbidden Garden.
Chapter completed!