The eldest son of the red mansion

Chapter 585
King Zhongshun was also a little disappointed when he saw Prince Yixiao shaking his head, but he thought it was the same reason. Although Prince Yixiao was close to the Emperor and the Supreme Emperor, such a secret would probably only be in the hands of the Emperor and the Supreme Emperor from ancient times to the present. .

But now it has reached the end of the mountain, and we still have to fight for it, so King Zhongshun turned around and went straight to the small building where the emperor was imprisoned.

Waiting for King Zhongshun to go up, Emperor Lou was still reading a book leisurely there. When he saw King Zhongshun go and return, his eyes showed a trace of surprise, and then he immediately calmed down.

King Zhongshun came to the emperor and cupped his hands and said: "Brother Huang, now we have reached the end of the mountain, please don't be prejudiced anymore, Brother Huang, I heard that the Supreme Emperor left a secret way when he died, please tell me, Brother Huang, Let's also go south through this secret path and regain our strength."

The emperor shook his head with a smile after hearing this, he knew about this secret passage, the Supreme Emperor did explain it when he was dying, but it was the empress dowager who controlled this secret passage.

And the relationship between the emperor and the empress dowager was in dire straits, and the emperor could not force the empress dowager to do anything under Jia Ke's intimidation.

King Zhongshun was still shaking his head angrily when he saw the emperor. He pulled out his sword, pointed at the emperor's throat and said, "Tell me the location of the secret passage, otherwise, don't blame me for being rude."

The emperor felt a little guilty when he saw the sword at the throat. He had already seen that King Zhongshun was crazy now, so he could only say: "Father did leave a secret way before his death, but the secret way is in the hands of the empress dowager. I, the emperor, really don't know."

After King Zhongshun finished listening, he ignored the emperor, turned around and left the small building, heading straight to the front hall.

Now Prince Yixiao is sitting there frowning, looking outside, he is waiting for King Zhongshun to come back to pass the news.

As soon as King Zhongshun entered the hall, Prince Yixiao hurried up and said, "How is it? Any news?"

"The emperor said that only the empress dowager knows where the entrance to the secret passage is. Let's enter the palace now and ask the empress dowager to tell us the location."

The two of them glanced at each other in the hall, and then their eyes became firm. For the sake of their lives, they could no longer care about etiquette.

So these people went straight to the palace with their troops again, and when they entered the palace and arrived at Ningshou Palace, they found that the empress dowager was not here.

King Zhongshun randomly arrested a young eunuch, and after asking, he found out that the Empress Dowager had already left Fengzao Palace.

So this group of people hurried to Fengzao Palace again.

When we got to Fengzao Palace, we saw that it was already empty.

King Zhongshun still didn't give up, and ordered his guards to search inside and outside Fengzao Palace, but they couldn't find the Empress Dowager, Jia Yuanchun and the child.

Prince Yixiao frowned, and said to King Zhongshun with a calm face, "I'm afraid these people have already left."

King Zhongshun still didn't give up, and directly ordered his guards to say, "Go and gather people to search the palace for me again immediately. I don't believe that this secret way can be hidden in the sky."

So thousands of people rushed into the palace and began to search all over the palace. As a result, they searched for a day and a night, but there was no clue.

King Zhongshun arrested the eunuchs and nuns of Ningshou Palace and tortured them severely, but did not get any useful news from them.

Now King Zhongshun has given up his mind.

King Zhongshun and Prince Yixiao returned to Prince Zhongshun's mansion. The two of them sat in the hall silently, thinking about their own results, they couldn't help feeling chills for a while.

In the end, it was Prince Yixiao who spoke, "Nephew, even if we haven't found the tunnel, we must find a way to leave a root for our royal family."

After hearing this, King Zhongshun looked at Prince Yixiao with gloomy eyes, did not say anything, but lowered his head and meditated.

Now it is impossible to get out of the capital. If you want to keep your blood, you can only hide the child among the people.

"Uncle Huang, we are now at the end of our rope. It is impossible to leave the city. We can only hide one or two young children among the people."

Prince Yixiao nodded after listening, and then said: "You are right. The capital is so big and has a population of one million. If we hide a few children, Jia Ke will be looking for a needle in a haystack."

However, King Zhongshun was not as optimistic as Prince Yixiao, "Uncle, Jia Ke has the secret guards established by our imperial court for hundreds of years, which can be said to be pervasive. If those children who have already become governors are sent to the people, I am afraid it will be very soon." will be exposed."

Prince Yixiao was shocked when he heard this, and then he understood what King Zhongshun meant. He wanted to abandon most of his blood, leaving only one or two children under the age of one.

King Zhongshun took a look at Prince Yixiao, and seeing his unbearable face, he said helplessly: "Those children who have already been governors are used to enjoying the glory and wealth, and they must be different from ordinary children when they come to the people. Once there are any clues, let Jia If Ke's minions have caught the handle, I'm afraid our previous efforts will be wasted."

Prince Yixiao nodded after listening, he knew it was true.

King Zhongshun saw that Prince Yixiao had agreed to his request, and continued, "There is a baby in my mansion. I wonder if there are any children under the age of one in the uncle's mansion."

"I have a grandson who was just born, and it seems that his fate is also good."

"Since this is the case, it is not too late. I will send people to secretly send these two children to the folks, and prepare more treasures for their adoptive parents. After the capital is calm, let them take the children to Jiangnan to buy them. Even some fields can make a living, which can be regarded as keeping the last blood of our two families."

After hearing this, Prince Yixiao hurriedly told King Zhongshun, "Don't give them too much money, lest these people have insufficient hearts, and finally use our children to make contributions."

King Zhongshun agreed and went out to make arrangements.

But when King Zhongshun searched the palace, great changes took place outside the city.

Under Fan Kang's order, the Jiedu envoys and general soldiers around the capital led their soldiers to the vicinity of the capital. They joined forces, and the joint camp stretched out for dozens of miles, and the capital was surrounded by water.

Niu Jizong saw this situation on the tower and knew that the situation was over.

As for the old, weak and remnant soldiers under him, it is probably impossible to confront these people below.

Fan Kang summoned all the generals in the big tent of the Chinese army, and discussed several times urgently, whether to attack the capital immediately or not.

Although the generals from all walks of life agreed to attack the city immediately, Fan Kang did not rush to draw conclusions.Instead, Fei Ge sent a letter to Jia Ke to inform Jia Ke of the current situation and let Jia Ke make a decision.

Besides, at the border at this time, Jia Ke had been confronting the Tatars, and it had been a month already.

It can be said that the two sides have confronted several times, and they are all evenly matched.

Arslen Khan also learned the original lesson and deployed two thousand armored cavalry in his four weeks.It was just to prevent Jia Ke from rushing into the camp, but he was frightened by Jia Ke.

Jia Ke is also a little dazed now. He has spent a lot of money and food in the past month, but he has not defeated the Tatars. It seems that the Tatars are smarter than before, and they did not go out to fight with him.

And under such circumstances, Jia Ke received a letter from Fan Kang.

After Jia Ke read the letter, he was silent for a while. The capital was indeed in turmoil as he thought, but he did not expect that this time not only the royal family was involved, but even the relatives and friends of the Jia family, such as the four kings and eight princes, who he was more at ease, Also participated in this rebellion.

But when Jia Ke thought about it carefully, he understood that if he won the world, these people would be close to Jia Ke, and in the end they would be just small officials. Now they all have titles. Who is self-evident.

Jia Ke didn't have the heart to confront Arslen Khan anymore, his heart was now flying to the capital.

So the next day Jia Ke led the whole battalion out of the camp, thinking of fighting the Tatars to the death.

Arslen Khan was in the camp, and when he got the news that Jia Ke had come out in full force, he knew that Jia Ke had become cruel this time.

Arslen Khan did not go out of the camp to fight Jia Ke, but ordered everyone to send out their troops and guard the camp. Anyone who dared to go out of the camp without permission would be immediately punished by military law.

Jia Ke had already expected that the opponent would not fight with him, so he was not disappointed. Instead, he ordered the infantry to keep moving forward, and the cavalry to walk on the left and right wings. This time, he must break through the Tatar camp.

After Jia Ke approached the Tatar camp, he immediately ordered the catapult to throw huge stones at the opponent's camp, and at the same time ordered the English longbowmen to shoot arrows at the opponent.

And the sword player at the front kept approaching with a large shield.

At this time Arslen Khan had come to the forefront to command. He looked at the approaching southern army and hurriedly ordered to release arrows.

However, since the bows and arrows of the Tatars are really a bit weak, they are at an absolute disadvantage when shooting against the English longbowmen.

As a result, those who were suppressed by the English longbowmen did not dare to take the lead at all.

Coupled with the continuous throwing of huge stones by catapults, the Tatar camps began to be damaged everywhere.

Arslen Khan saw that he was indeed inexperienced in defending this side, so he could only order the cavalry to attack the two wings immediately.

And he personally rushed forward with armored cavalry like Jia Ke's infantry, trying to disperse the infantry with the power of the iron armored cavalry.

These armored cavalry under Arslen Khan's command are not Tatars, they are all Westerners from the Western Regions.

These people are all tall and big, even the horses under their crotches are much taller than the oriental horses, and they all wear iron armor and charge like tanks.

Arslen Khan personally led these people and rushed towards the infantry under Jia Ke's command.

Although these people under Jia Ke's command are elite, there is really no way to deal with these iron bastards.

With just a few strokes, Jia Ke's infantry made a big hole in the Tatars.

Jia Ke could see clearly from behind the battle that if he didn't restrain these people, he might not be able to win so easily this time.

Jia Ke immediately ordered the English longbowmen to attack the armored cavalry.

The arrows shot by these successful hands are more than one meter long, and they are very powerful. When the rows of bows and arrows reached the armored cavalry, these armored cavalry were wearing iron armor, and they were caught by surprise by these English longbowmen. It started to get confusing.

(End of this chapter)