Chapter 122:
Jun Huailang and Xue Yan rode their horses all the way, and arrived at Qin County when the day was bright.
Qin County is the last state and county outside Chang'an City. After Qin County, it is Chang'an. As the last pass outside Chang'an, Qin County has always been more heavily fortified than other states and counties, and it has always been much better informed.
They go north all the way, and when they pass through other local prefectures, they can travel unimpeded by virtue of the identity of King Xue Yan Guangling.
But when they arrived in Qin County, Xue Yan was a minister sent to the south by the emperor. Without the edict, he could not return to Chang'an at will, even if the defenders and officials of Qin County could not stop Xue Yan, The news of Xue Yan's return to Beijing will also be sent to Chang'an as soon as possible.
If they guessed correctly, Qinmenguan's army will definitely be entrenched outside Chang'an City. When the news is sent to Chang'an, it will definitely pass through them as soon as possible. At that time, they will be prepared. Whether they will attack or not is another matter. If they are desperate and rush into Chang'an, the consequences will be disastrous.
This is also what Jun Huailang is worried about.
The closer he was to Qin County, the more he worried. However, Chang'an had to go back, and Qin County was a must.
Jun Huailang didn't mention it to Xue Yan, and only thought up a countermeasure in secret.
It is best if you can reach a consensus and move on. If this is not the case, you can also take the opportunity to see if you can persuade or lure. If the other party is an official of the Xu family, he can only take the opportunity to kill him. I think Jin Yiwei has such skills...
Thinking all the way, they arrived outside Qin County.
At this time, it was just dawn, and the city gate of Qin County had already opened. Outside the city gate, people and businessmen come and go, and the front of the city gate is heavily guarded, with a large team of officers and soldiers guarding it.
The group stopped a few feet outside the city gate.
"I see that you didn't speak all the way today, what's on your mind?" Xue Yan pulled his horse and turned his head to ask him.
Jun Huailang shook his head and said with a smile, "I'm just thinking about how to pass this Qin County."
Along the way, he has thought of all kinds of possibilities and coping methods in his mind, and now he has it in mind and can handle it.
Seeing Xue Yan raised her eyebrows suspiciously.
"What's there to think about?" he asked.
Speaking, he lifted the whip and motioned the Jinyiwei beside him to step forward.
Immediately there was a Jinyiwei who rode his horse and trotted all the way to the city gate.
He said a few words to one of the guards, and saw that the guard nodded quickly and trotted up the tower. After a while, a guard led the soldier all the way to Xue Yan's direction.
Xue Yan sat on the horse, quietly waiting for him to approach.
"Your Highness!" When he walked to the horse, the guard clasped his fists at Xue Yan, and performed proper military etiquette. "I haven't seen the prince for a long time, but he is even more handsome than when he was in Yan County!"
Only then did Jun Huailang know why Xue Yan was calm and not at all worried.
This commander of Qin County is his old army in Yan County.
Xue Yan casually hummed: "This king is going back to Chang'an, you can arrange it."
The Qing Ping Emperor just had an accident last night. People in other prefectures and counties didn’t know it, but the upper-level officials in Qin County didn’t know about it. When the guard heard this, his face became solemn and he asked, "Your Highness, do you know what happened in Chang'an last night?"
Jun Huailang was shocked when he heard the words, and quickly looked sideways at Xue Yan.
I saw Xue Yan's brows slowly wrinkle.
"What happened to Chang'an?" He paused and asked.
The guard looked around, Xue Yan approached, and said in a low voice: "The news that just came. The emperor was poisoned, and now the poison is attacking, making the emperor a mere Breathless living dead... Just this morning, the ministers pushed the fourth prince to the throne, and the crown prince is about to be canonized."
Speaking of this, the defender also felt a little strange.
It only happened last night, and Qin County just got the news. Xue Yan was far away in the south of the Yangtze River, so why did he come to Chang'an a few days in advance?
The guard looked at Xue Yan hesitantly: "Your Majesty, you won't be the capital to be recalled by His Majesty, right?"
But Xue Yan did not answer immediately.
He raised his head to look at the horse, and saw Xue Yan sitting on the horse's back, holding the reins, his face expressionless.
You can only see that his lips are pursed, and his jawbone is stretched into a sharp blade.
The guard dared not speak any more.
Jun Huailang followed and was looking at Xue Yan.
He could see that Xue Yan was holding back, holding back a kind of anger and self-blame.
He and Xue Yan have been on the road for the past few days, and they also have some guesses. The Xu family tried every means to get Qinmenguan's army Chen Bing outside Chang'an City, and the only thing they could do was to rely on heavy troops to force the palace. However, it is easy for them to block Chang'an, and if they want to rush into the imperial city, they also need to make arrangements, and it will not be that easy.
No matter how fast it is, it will not be possible to complete the plan in a day or two.
Therefore, they have enough time to arrive, and they can also make preparations at Xu's house. After tearing up their face with Emperor Qingping, when they attacked Chang'an in a big way, they suppressed the rebels.
However, they did not expect that the Xu family would be poisoned.
Poisoning, there is no surety, no one will do it in the palace, let alone the emperor.
They did not expect such a situation at all, and Jun Huailang also knew that Xue Yan blamed himself for this.
He reached out his hand carefully and tugged at Xue Yan's sleeve.
Xue Yan slowed for half a beat before turning around.
Jun Huailang met his eyes, blinked soothingly, and looked at him quietly.
Xue Yan paused and nodded slightly at him.
The guard waiting in front of the horse did not see Jun Huailang's subtle movements, but only saw Xue Yan turn around, as if he exchanged glances with the people behind him, and then turned back At that time, the aura of the whole body seemed to be different.
As a rough general, the defender naturally cannot see the difference. But he felt that the suffocating King Guangling just now had a dangerous aura that dissipated a lot at once.
The sense of oppression that was pressing him so hard also disappeared.
The guard looked up and saw Xue Yan replied to his words.
"The king knows." He said. "This time back to Beijing, I had expected it, and I came here to deal with this matter. You just have to make arrangements, and this king will leave immediately."
The guard immediately understood what Xue Yan was going to do.
The emperor was suddenly poisoned, and the fourth prince, who didn't even enter the courtroom, was suddenly taken the throne. Even if he is not in Chang'an, he has known for more than a year that the most suitable person to sit in that position, besides the prince in front of him, who else can be?
Now, when the prince rushed back to Chang'an, he naturally wanted to take back everything that belonged to him.
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At noon, the group passed through Qin County and arrived outside Chang'an City. Sure enough, walking all the way from a distance, I saw a large number of troops stationed outside the gates of Chang'an.
If you just wait for the time to start, the troops of these armies will definitely gather in one place, rather than spread out like this.
They are guarding the city gates in a mighty manner. Each city gate is tightly closed, and only one corner gate is opened for people to enter and exit. But every person who enters or leaves this city gate will be strictly checked, and their clothes and luggage will also be checked back and forth several times.
Even if there is no problem at all, it will take enough gold and silver to be released.
The garrison was extremely arrogant. When they were stationed at Qinmen Pass, they were not very rich, and they didn't have much to fight, and they all lived on that little food and wages.
Now that they are in Chang'an, their general is the son of the famous Zuo Prime Minister in Beijing. After all, the fourth prince sitting on the dragon chair is still their general's nephew.
Now, as long as they are stationed outside the city, check the people who come and go, and keep the entire Chang'an into an airtight iron barrel, so that the fourth prince can smoothly ascend the throne of the crown prince, then they will have From the dragon's work.
After that, aren't they all beckoning to them?
Because of this, several camps outside Chang'an City are filled with a proud atmosphere.
Xue Yan and Jun Huailang rode their horses calmly, heading north from the outskirts of Chang'an, and finally stopped near a hill.
Xue Yan pulled his horse, and the group slowed down.
"Arrived?" Jun Huailang asked.
Xue Yan looked forward.
In the distance between the hills, there is nothing in the distance, but he knows that the Yanyun Iron Cavalry that survived the three-year Yanyun battle is waiting there.
From the time he can remember, he grew up in the military camp of Yanyun Iron Cavalry.
Yan Yuntie rode black armor and held a black and gold banner. In the vast white snow in Yandi's winter, the black and gold color of the mountains and plains is the scene that Xue Yan has engraved in his memories since he was a child.
He looked sideways at Jun Huailang.
I saw Jun Huailang walking beside him, looking forward, looking for the shadow of the army.
Xue Yan knew that the black and gold team that had been silent for three years was quietly dormant in the hills.
There is a very strange throbbing that spreads in Xue Yan's heart.
He lived in no fixed place since he was a child, but now, he has a feeling of returning to his home with Jun Huailang.
This feeling made his heart beat wildly involuntarily.
"Reach out your hand." He suddenly said to Jun Huailang.
Jun Huailang didn't know what to do, let go of the reins with one hand, and passed a hand over.
Across the distance between the two horses, Xue Yan clasped his hand in the palm of his hand.
Jun Huailang was startled and hurriedly broke free.
Jun Huailang hurriedly retracted his hand and wanted to stare at him, but met Xue Yan's smile.
The ease of finding a place to belong is not deceiving.
Jun Huailang's reproach was taken back.
"...Don't mess around next time." After a moment, he whispered.
Xue Yan responded with a smile.
"I'll show you what my Yanyun Iron Horse looks like." He said.
Jun Huailang nodded in response, and then said the worry in his heart: "I just saw that only the few gates we passed by were very large in number. No less than one hundred thousand."
Xue Yan heard the words and looked back outside Chang'an City.
From a distance, you can see the camp outside the nearest city gate. It was not yet noon, and the camp had already started to fire and cook.
Xue Yan sneered dismissively.
He turned around, and immediately leaned forward and rubbed Jun Huailang's cheek with his knuckles.
"It's nothing to be afraid of," he said.