NFBE Chapter 388 Princess's Skirt 34
Chapter 388 Princess's Skirt 34
Emperor Wuchang originally wanted the crown prince to succeed him. As long as the crown prince stayed in the imperial mausoleum peacefully, everything would be his.
The imperial mausoleum is backed by the Changling Mountains. The prince seems to have forgotten that on the other side of the Changling Mountains there is an army of 80,000 soldiers who only obey the emperor's orders and guard the capital.
As long as the military token was in Gu Li's hands, the prince in the imperial mausoleum would be safe. Unfortunately, the prince did not listen to her advice and walked out of the protection circle alone.
Li Jun came to the princess's mansion on the day Mo Yun left.
He ignored the guards' obstruction and broke into the backyard.
"Thirteenth Imperial Sister, my brother has personally brought the imperial physician to check your pulse. Your health cannot continue to decline like this!"
Gu Li sat behind the screen, drinking the flower tea prepared by Cai Yi, and said calmly: "Thirteenth, I thank Seventh Brother, but my father has already arranged for Judge Deng to live in the mansion, so there is no need for you to worry about it."
"Thirteenth Imperial Sister, I will not beat around the bush with you. The sinister villain Li Wei has led a large army to Weizhou and will soon besiege Kyoto. Did the Emperor tell you anything?"
Now that things have come to this, perhaps he has been forced into a desperate situation.
Gu Li put down the teacup in her hand and pretended to be puzzled. "I haven't seen my father since I fell ill. Brother, you are in the palace to take care of the sick. If you encounter any problems that cannot be solved, you can ask my father or discuss it with the ministers. If all else fails -"
"Imperial sister!" Li Jun interrupted Gu Li's pretense of madness. If he couldn't find the tiger talisman of Changling Army in the palace, how could he have the time to come find her.
The East Camp outside the city was in the hands of Li Shao, and the generals of the West Camp were his eldest brother Li Rong's men. Only then did he realize what he lacked most behind him.
Apart from the 60,000 men in the East and West Camps, the only thing he could think of was the Changling Army. Thinking of the Changling Army made him hate Emperor Wuchang even more.
Even though the prince was in such a state, Emperor Wuchang still wanted to protect him.
What a pity. He is now seriously injured and unconscious. He might even die ahead of Emperor Wuchang.
Thinking of this, Li Jun simply asked the question he wanted to know directly: "You have been taking care of your father for so long, and your father loves you so much. Did he tell you where the tiger talisman of the Changling Army is?"
"No." Gu Li paused for a moment before answering, "I'm just a princess who doesn't care about anything else. Why would my father tell me about that thing?"
"Chenxiang." Li Jun took a deep breath and said with suppressed temper, "If I can get 80,000 Changling troops, you will be the distinguished princess in the future, and everything in the princess's mansion will remain the same!"
"Seventh brother, no matter what your future holds, you will always be Chenxiang's seventh brother." Everyone can say nice things.
Li Jun didn't get the information he wanted from Gu Li, so he left like a gust of wind.
The day after Mo Yun left, Li Rong also came to the princess's mansion.
This time, no one stopped Gu Li.
After a lot of twists and turns, Li Rong also left.
Later, Li Yu also came.
Without military support, they panicked and turned their attention to the little princess, who was most favored by the emperor.
It has to be said that the royal family reacted quickly. Even though Emperor Wuchang asked Gu Li not to go to the palace half a month in advance, he still could not escape the suspicion of these people.
Unfortunately, what they wanted should have been delivered to Li Luan by now.
Mo Yun took the token of the princess's mansion and went to Prince Jing's army, but before he could use the token, Shen Xizhou recognized his identity at a glance.
"Mo Yun, why are you here? Did something happen to the princess?"
Mo Yun licked his cracked lips and did not answer Shen Xizhou's question, "I want to see Prince Jing."
Shen Xizhou personally led Mo Yun into Prince Jing's tent, "Can you tell me now, what happened to the princess?"
Li Luan looked puzzled, "Who is he?"
Before Mo Yun handed over the token of the princess's mansion, Shen Xizhou had already answered for him, "He is the Thirteenth Princess's secret guard, Mo Yun!"
Mo Yun:----
He had only met the young master of the Shen family once at Guanshan Temple. How did he know his identity and even his name?
Li Luan was as surprised as Mo Yun. Even he had never seen Thirteen's secret guards before, but Shen Xizhou seemed to be very familiar with them.
The relationship between these two people is not simple.
Mo Yun put the token in his hand back into his arms, took out something wrapped in a white scarf from the secret pocket of his belt, and handed it to Li Luan with both hands, "The princess asked me to give this to Your Highness!"
Li Luan took it and spread it out in his palm, lowering his voice, "It's a tiger talisman!"
He picked it up and carefully identified it, then said, "It's the tiger talisman of the Changling Army!"
Just when he was feeling happy, the handkerchief in his hand was snatched away by Shen Xizhou. Li Luan didn't care, holding the tiger talisman, he asked Mo Yun, "Did your master ask you to bring any message?"
Mo Yun cupped his hands again: "The princess said that Your Highness should put an end to the chaos in the capital as soon as possible. Internal friction is not desirable, and the border defense cannot be left empty for a long time."
Li Luan nodded, this was exactly what he meant.
His spies in the capital brought news that his brother the Crown Prince was on the verge of death and his father did not have much time left, so he had no choice but to fight a quick battle.
"Is the princess okay?" Shen Xizhou asked Mo Yun while holding her handkerchief. He was still worried because he didn't get an answer from Mo Yun.
The information he got from the informant was that the princess claimed to be sick and stayed in the princess's mansion without going out, so no further information could be found out.
Although he had finally placed his own people in the princess's mansion when he returned to Beijing last time, they were only in the outer courtyard. All the people in the inner courtyard were transferred from the palace, and they were all old people who had followed the princess since childhood. He could not get involved in the short term.
Seeing that Prince Jing was also looking at him, wanting to know the answer, Mo Yun replied, "The princess is in good health, and she lied about being sick to avoid being seen by others."
"She sent the tiger talisman here, and it will be known to those people sooner or later. We have to act quickly." Shen Xizhou became even more worried.
Li Luan accepted the tiger talisman and asked Mo Yun to return immediately to protect Thirteen. He and Shen Xizhou rearranged the next deployment of troops.
The day after Mo Yun returned to the princess's mansion, the Changling Army in the Changling Mountains took action.
With Li Luan's 100,000 Northern Frontier troops pursuing from behind and 80,000 Changling troops blocking from the front, Li Wei's 150,000-strong army was trapped in Weizhou, just one city away from the capital, and was in a dilemma.
After two days and one night of fierce fighting, Li Wei was shot dead on the spot. Li Wei's army lost nearly half of its troops, and the rest were reorganized on the spot and surrendered to the Northern Frontier Army.
The Northern Frontier Army was expanded from 100,000 to 190,000 and was ordered to rest in place. Li Luan led a small group of his elite troops and the Changling Army to head straight for the Western Camp of the capital.
The Changling army encountered a strong counterattack from the camp west of the city.
After a day and night of fierce fighting, the camp in the east of the city finally arrived and completely put out the mutiny in the camp in the west of the city.
Li Luan led his army to break through the city gates, marched straight into the palace, and slaughtered the people in the palace where he grew up, with heads rolling and blood flowing everywhere.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Rong fled first.
Li Jun, however, broke into the emperor's bedroom with a sword in hand. The queen blocked the way in front of the dragon bed. The palace was out of control now, and most of her people were executed by Li Rong and Li Jun, the rebellious sons.
For the sake of her son, the queen used her own life to buy time.