Chapter 269 Killing is Loyalty
Shangguan Sheng sat alone in the Hall of Diligence and Administration, feeling very lonely. He tried to elevate this loneliness into a higher emotion, such as the loneliness of an emperor, but the result was powerless. He couldn't get rid of the little fear in his heart. A little impurity reduced his loneliness to mediocrity.
So when the soldiers brought the King in, he felt heartfelt delight and immediately got up from the stool.
The King of England yawned while rubbing his eyes, sat on the throne, and said listlessly, "Why did you wake me up so early?"
"Because someone wants to take His Majesty's throne." Shangguan Sheng looked serious.
The King of England yawned again and hummed, his indifferent attitude angered Shangguan Sheng, "Does your majesty not care about the throne?"
The King of England was startled, not because he was worried about the throne, but because he was afraid of Shangguansheng's hideous face, his eyes were red, tears were gushing out, his mouth was flat, and he was about to cry loudly.
Shangguan Sheng hurriedly knelt down, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, as long as I am here, Your Majesty will always be the Emperor of Great Chu."
"Okay... ah." King Ying didn't cry out, "You are a loyal minister... Can you let the King of the East Sea and the Marquis of Tien enter the palace?"
"It's these two people who want to seize the throne." Shangguan Sheng had said this a long time ago, but King Ying always listened in and out, and never paid attention to it.
Even now, King Ying doesn't care, tears are still dry, and a smile appears on his face, "The two of them, they are probably joking."
Shangguan Sheng stood up, walked to the steps of the throne, and said softly, "Would Your Majesty go to play somewhere else?"
"Yes!" King Ying jumped up suddenly, without any sleepiness, "The palace is really boring, whoever has more food, let's go and ask for food." In his memory, the most interesting experience was to follow a group of people to the champion Hou's house "I want food".
"East Sea Country."
"East Sea Kingdom? Is it the Kingdom of the East Sea King?" The King of England immediately thought of the connection between the two.
"Well, let's go to the hometown of King Donghai, grab his food and land, and surprise him when he arrives."
The King of England cheered, "Go, go now!"
"Follow the will." Shangguan Sheng needed this verbal "will".
From then on, he no longer let the King of England leave him.
Then, Shangguan Sheng called in more than a dozen important generals under his command. These people were personally promoted and hired after he took office, and should be loyal to him, "How is the battle outside the city?"
"It's still in progress. Taifu Cui's southern army really wants to destroy Marquis Juan. We have used all our strength. We estimate that we will be able to completely defeat Marquis Juan soon after dawn."
"It's about to dawn." Shangguan Sheng murmured, and suddenly asked, "Do you like the capital?"
The generals were at a loss, and no one dared to answer the question.
"Until now, no minister has come out to support the new emperor." Shangguan Sheng said coldly.
A general said: "When the war is over and the new emperor officially ascends the throne, the ministers will rush to kneel and worship."
"Hey..." Shangguan Sheng sneered, "This battle is over, there will be another battle, and there will be another battle. The Houjuan is finished, but the Northern Army is on its way. Do you think the Northern Army will support the Northern Army when it reaches the capital? Which side?"
"Of course it's to support...the Holy One today."
Shangguan Sheng laughed and heard the lie, as well as the tension and lack of confidence in the lie, "The Northern Army will support the Southern Army. Although the two armies compete with each other, they do not like the Su Wei Army. It's been a long time... Your Majesty has just issued a decree to patrol the East China Sea, you should prepare immediately and escort them to set off as soon as the battle outside the city is over."
The generals looked at each other in dismay, and Shangguan Sheng sternly said, "Any questions?"
No one dared to refute, these people came from all over the world, and most of them were not from the capital city. Lang Jiang and the "Emperor" discussed the matter of leaving the city.
An officer rushed in, "General Shangguan, the people in the palace... rebelled."
"Huh? Who rebels? Who dares to rebel?" Shangguan Sheng held the hilt of the sword. He was the only person with weapons in the Qinzheng Hall.
"Those eunuchs and palace maids, they opened the north gate of the palace..."
"The eunuch and the palace maid? Didn't they all arrest them?"
"Arrest some, and when they continue to arrest people, they...they rebelled."
Shangguan Sheng was furious, and suddenly thought of one more thing, "How can a group of servants open the north gate? Where are the guards?"
The officer replied in a panic: "I don't know who stole the key and opened the north gate, and... and the guards at the gate seem to have intentionally let those eunuchs and palace maids escape..."
Shangguan Sheng slapped the table heavily, startling the generals and King Ying, "I knew these people were unreliable."
The Su Guard Army has undergone a major expansion and a major change of blood, but there are still a group of old people left behind, whose main responsibility is to guard the palace gate.
When the second officer who reported the letter arrived, he was even more panicked, "People from outside attacked from the north gate..."
Shangguan Sheng became angry and shouted at the generals: "What are you waiting for? That's a group of rabble, stop them and kill them!"
"Those eunuchs and palace maids..."
"Kill! Kill all of them, and leave no one behind. They have long disagreed. There are also the guards who guard the gate, and they will all be executed!"
Shangguan was furious, and motioned for a general to pick up the King of England and take the lead to go out, "Call your soldiers, as long as they are trustworthy."
There are nearly 10,000 old guard soldiers in the palace, 70% to 80% of them were recruited in the later stage, and the generals immediately executed their orders, and more and more followers behind Shangguan Sheng.
He walked towards the depths of the palace. As long as he met eunuchs and palace maids along the way, no matter whether the other party knelt down and kowtowed, or fled everywhere, they all ordered to kill them. Soon, the soldiers under his command no longer needed his orders. kill.
Shangguan Sheng needed a killing, and he believed that the more killings in the palace, the more loyal the soldiers became to him.
At the entrance of the Queen Mother's palace, Shangguan Sheng ordered the soldiers to stop the killing, but other places, especially the North Gate area, were not restricted.
The queen mother refused to see her nephew, and more than a dozen eunuchs stood guard at the door, all of them trembling with fear.
Shangguan Sheng said loudly through the door: "The palace is difficult to protect. Your Majesty has decided to go to the East China Sea for a hunting tour. Please prepare your car immediately."
After a while, a voice from the door said, "I won't leave the palace, you go."
"Queen Mother, we will be back sooner or later."
"I have made up my mind." The Queen Mother's voice was very cold.
Shangguan Sheng's anger surged again, and the eunuchs on the opposite side probably felt it, and knelt down in unison.
"Empress Dowager, you said that Da Chu needs to start over again, and the East China Sea is the place to start again. It is the hometown of our Shangguan family."
"You shouldn't take my words seriously."
"The Queen Mother..."
"If you don't think I'm the queen mother, you don't need to talk too much. If you don't think I'm the queen mother, why talk too much?"
Shangguan Sheng felt angry and had a sense of humiliation that he had been deceived, but instead of having a seizure, he slowly knelt down, kowtowed, got up and walked out.
A large number of soldiers were lined up outside the gate of the bedroom. The King of England was so frightened that he lay on the shoulders of the person in his arms, not daring to raise his head.
Shangguan Sheng said loudly: "The queen mother will stay in the palace to be loyal to the late emperor, but there are too many monsters and ghosts in the palace. Before we leave, we must clean them up!"
Before that, the soldiers of the Suwei Army only killed people they met on the road. Although they had already killed Red Eyes, there were not many people who really lost their lives. After Shangguan Sheng ordered them, they began to break into the house and slaughter the palace people.
Shangguan Sheng came to a courtyard near the Queen Mother's palace, "The mother and wife of the King of the East Sea, the wife of the Hou Juan, and the son of the Hou of Champion all live here. They are the leaders of the demons and monsters in the palace, and they are all executed."
The soldiers, who have always been obedient, did not immediately execute the order. Shangguan Sheng was slightly taken aback and realized that these people did not dare to do anything. Su Weijun left the capital, and the proclaimed emperor must be one of the King of the East Sea and the Marquis of Juan, and killed them. family, will cause a lot of trouble.
Shangguansheng stepped forward in person, the courtyard door was closed, he raised his hand and slammed it twice, and someone inside said with a trembling voice: "This door will not be opened unless the Queen Mother arrives."
Shangguan Sheng snorted, pulled out his knife, turned around and came to a general, and said coldly, "Set fire."
The general hesitated for a moment, then nodded immediately, summoned his soldiers, and ordered them to collect firewood or cut down nearby trees.
The firewood was quickly found, some were piled up and lit at the door, and the others were distributed to dozens of generals present and turned into torches.
Shangguan Sheng was the first to do it, struggling to throw the torches into the yard, then supervising the generals and watching them throw the torches one by one.
The fire got bigger and bigger, and screams rang out in the yard.
Shangguansheng didn't wait to see the final result. He didn't have much time. He led the soldiers all the way to the North Gate, still seeing who killed who. On the way, he turned to Taizu's clothing room and wanted to kill Yang Feng, but the eunuch who was tied to the pillar was nowhere to be seen.
The mob that had attacked the North Gate had been scattered, leaving behind a corpse. The rest either escaped from the palace or hid elsewhere.
The soldiers of the Suwei Army prepared their horses outside the north gate. Shangguansheng mounted the horse and looked at the city wall. Because the city gate was open, he could hear the sound of fighting outside.
He planned to wait a little longer, and immediately exit through the East City Gate after the Guards returned in victory.
Shangguan Sheng looked west again, and suddenly regretted joining forces with Taifu Cui. If he had planned to escape earlier, he should have brought Marquis Juan into the capital to fight against the King of the East Sea.
"Lin Kunshan!"
The hopeful person was pushed out by the soldiers and came to Shangguan Shengma with a smile.
"you lied to me."
"Caomin dare not, and Caomin have no such ability."
"You persuaded me to go east, why did you persuade me to join forces with Taifu Cui to exterminate Marquis Juan? Wouldn't it be more beneficial for me to let them fight each other for the outcome?"
Lin Kunshan really had nowhere to go, so he could only bite the bullet and said: "Marquis Tien has many tricks, it may not be wiped out this time, it just weakens his strength and makes him and Taifu Cui closer to evenly matched. In this way, they will fight in the future. The more vicious it is, the more beneficial it will be to General Shangguan."
Shangguan Sheng stared at the person who was watching Qi, "If Marquis Tien dies, you will die too."
"General Shangguan's trip to the east is just at the time of hiring people. Lin is incompetent, but...but...he can recruit heroes from all over the world..."
Lin Kunshan was scouring his stomach, and the news of saving his life arrived in time.
A soldier came running on horseback and said loudly from a distance: "The Northern Army is here! The Northern Army is here! The Marquis of Tien is rushing towards the North City Gate."
Lin Kunshan was relieved, and Shangguan Sheng gave an order to the generals around him with a blank face: "Go, take him with you."
There are only a few thousand of the tens of thousands of resident guards left, and Shangguan Sheng has no time to gather more soldiers. He wants to kill some more people in the city, but it is also too late.
When Shangguan Shengchi was leaving the east gate, Han Ruzi was leading his troops into the city. Soon after, he saw the tragic situation in the palace.