Damn it, I'm in the garbage book I wrote

Chapter 469: Rising with the Wind
At nightfall, the city of Jinling was filled with a solemn and murderous atmosphere. The originally bustling capital city now seemed as dead as a dead place.

"It's really weird. It was secretly open a few nights ago, but it's so dark these past two days."

Outside the imperial city, two soldiers on night watch were yawning and chatting.

"Your Highness's registration ceremony is coming soon, and he is afraid that something big might happen in the city. So, when this storm is over, I will treat you to a good time at the brothel outside the East Lake."

"Hahaha, okay, okay, then it's a deal."

While the two were talking, a few people slowly walked out from behind them. They looked in the direction of the sound and saw that it was the General of the Central Army here. The two immediately stopped and remained silent.

General Fan Gen walked to the door and waved, "You two can go back today. The guards in the palace need to be strengthened in the next few days and replaced by Yulin Guards."

"Order!"

The two soldiers guarding the gate didn't ask why. When they heard the order to change shifts, they immediately grinned with joy and ran away happily.

Soon, Fan Gen's men guarded the city gate. The whole process was clean and neat. The city gate guard Wu Jichang stood on the city wall and lit the torch in his hand.

At this moment, the Second Prince's family, having received the signal, quickly ran out from their hiding places. Today's curfew was simply a godsend for them.

However, both Xia Lin and Lao Zhang received wrong information about their numbers. The Second Prince was not completely useless. They took into account the risk of information leakage, so they hid the information about some of the death squads.

So the total number of people is not 500, but around 1,200.

These 1,200 men, wearing light armor and holding weapons, quietly sneaked into the palace. At this time, the Imperial Guards guarding the palace also began to contact them. After the two forces merged, they had a size of about 1,500 people. Moreover, the Yulin Army was now wearing armor, so when dealing with the Inner Guards and the Left and Right Thousand Bull Guards, they could be almost invincible with the suppression of numbers.

These 1,500 men quickly controlled all the entrances and exits of the palace, and then moved towards the inner palace in an outflanking manner.

When the process was almost over, the second prince rode a white horse into the palace from the main gate and entered the palace in such a swagger.

He was surrounded by a group of extraordinary people from the martial arts world, each of them possessed unique skills. He was full of energy and vigor on his horse, without any fear at all.

Then with an order, all eight gates of the palace were closed and locked from the inside with heavy bolts. That is to say, even if reinforcements arrived at that moment, by the time they broke through the palace gates, the jade seal symbolizing the imperial power would have fallen into the hands of the second prince.

"Did you steal the egg?" Xia Lin pointed at Lao Zhang. "I was clearly holding back my breath just now, how come you took such a big piece in the blink of an eye?"

"If you are not as skilled as others, just say so. There is no need to resort to such underhanded tactics."

Xia Lin and Lao Zhang are now sitting in a small tower outside the imperial palace. This was originally a place for the royal family to worship Buddha, but since Buddhism was destroyed, this place has been vacant and recently became the official office of the Inspection Department.

The view from the small tower was very good, and one could clearly see what was going on in the palace. The two were playing chess in the moonlight, but the guards from the Investigation Department below were all holding their swords, closing their eyes and resting in unison.

The main responsibility of the Investigation Department this time was to clean up the fish that slipped through the net and handed it over to Zhao Shiyuan for full command. Xia Lin and Lao Zhang were the type who just enjoyed themselves, eating hot pot and singing songs while watching the fun.

At this moment, the palace gates were closed and the entire palace was deathly silent.

The prince was still trying to pretend to be cool, sitting alone in the study, quietly listening to the sounds of fighting outside.

Is he afraid? He is afraid too. It is obvious that there are more than 500 people outside. The intelligence obviously has loopholes. However, Xia Lin and Lao Zhang have told him before that this information may not be accurate. It is relatively easy for the other party to hide people in Jinling City. After all, the second prince has always liked to make friends with people from all walks of life. In this respect, his two brothers are similar, except that the eldest brother likes slutty and cheap literati.

Soon, the invaders entered the harem, and the first thing they did was surround the prince's study.

The prince is showing off and is now playing the piano...

It's no wonder that if this prince had not been an emperor, he would definitely have been a top-notch literary and artistic worker. The sound of his piano is melodious and ethereal, like the cry of a cuckoo or the wailing of a monkey.

"And they're singing about the empty city plan."

The second prince rode forward with a sneer on his face, then pointed his hand forward and said, "Shoot!"

Hearing his own brother's voice shouting so coldly and mercilessly to shoot, the prince just sighed softly. Then countless arrows whizzed in from the window, and the study room was instantly as if it had grown a layer of hair.

But the next moment, the sound of the piano was still there, which made the second prince stunned for a moment. He looked around with difficulty, but he could not care about anything else since things had come to this point. He just stretched out his hand and pointed forward: "Go in and take a look!" The people below immediately kicked open the door of the study and walked in, but they all retreated in a few seconds, because what came out against them were ten shield-armored soldiers in heavy armor. The shield-armored soldier was like an iron turtle, holding a shield in his left hand and a dagger in his right hand, and he remained motionless despite the chopping of knives and axes.

The sound of these iron lumps walking on the road is like thunder, which makes people feel creepy.

"Go! Come on! Come on, everyone!"

The Second Prince's scalp tightened at this moment, but there was no room for maneuver. He raised the knife in his hand and said, "Anyone who kills the fake prince will be rewarded with a thousand gold coins and be made a marquis of ten thousand households!"

There will always be brave men when there is a big reward. Those who followed the second prince in the coup suddenly became furious and rushed forward with weapons in hand.

But suddenly, uniform knocking sounds came from all directions at the same time. Looking back, people began to emerge from the rooms of the eunuchs and palace maids in the harem. These people were wearing hopeless heavy armor, holding long and short weapons, and just standing there they were like an impenetrable wall.

There are only two ways to kill a heavy infantryman on the battlefield. One is to attack him in a group and exhaust his physical strength. Another is for heavy cavalry to knock him down with tremendous force. Another is to kill him with large weapons such as crossbows. Otherwise, no single soldier can kill a heavy infantryman at close range.

A small formation of five heavy infantrymen can charge against three hundred people, and once it reaches three hundred, they will be invincible on the battlefield except for the heavy cavalry.

And now, there are a total of 500 heavy infantry here. Looking at those infantrymen who are armed to the teeth, including 30 shield soldiers, these 1,200 people suddenly panicked.

The shield soldiers slowly surrounded the entire study. They beat their shields as war drums, while other soldiers began to narrow the encirclement to the rhythm of the shield soldiers.

The second prince reacted immediately. He raised his sword and chopped it directly on the neck of the shield soldier closest to him. However, there was a thick armor plate even at the joint of the shield soldier's neck. The sword had no effect except that the shield soldier's head was tilted.

However, as the Second Prince took the brunt of the attack, the people he brought with him also joined the battle. The sounds of weapons and armor colliding and screams were heard continuously.

There is no way to fight, there is really no way to fight. Heavy armor can be said to be a dimensionality reduction attack for people without armor or light armor, and infantry holding bone balls do not have the same impact as cavalry, and cannot break the enemy's defense at all.

No matter chopping, stabbing, picking or sweeping, they had no effect. These heavily armored infantrymen were like walking meat grinders. They didn't even need weapons. They just needed to raise their hands and punch. The collision between steel and flesh could make the opponent know what weakness was.

Some of those martial artists were quite agile. They bypassed these clumsy shield-armored soldiers and charged directly into the prince's study, but they were dumbfounded after entering.

The prince was sitting there leaning against the wall, but beside him stood four shield soldiers and ten top fighters, including two lieutenants of Qianniu Guard, two lieutenants of Jinwu Guard, the lieutenants of the left and right Tunwei, the generals of the left and right Xiaowei, the general of the Prince's Duwei Mansion, and Luo Shixin holding a 60-jin spear...

In other words, the person standing here is the peak of the martial arts of the entire Jinling City. You don’t need to know all of them, as long as you know one, you will know that he is at the same level as this person. There are nine more here...

The fighting outside continued until the fourth watch, when the sky was already daybreak. It must be said that the men under the Second Prince were still very well-trained. They escorted the Second Prince out of the harem and successfully broke through, but the losses were incalculable. There were 1,200 people when they came, and there were all kinds of Yulin guards at the eight gates, but by now there were only 20 to 30 people left when they broke out.

The second prince was hurt on his arm and could no longer lift it. He even lost his horse and could only be supported to the palace gate, which they then hurriedly opened.

But when he opened it, he saw a group of soldiers wearing flying fish costumes holding torches waiting for the emperor to come. The leader was Zhao Shiyuan. He was holding the heads of the second prince's family members who had already been sent out of the city. He said expressionlessly, "Second Prince, I'm sorry."

Seeing this scene, the second prince's pupils trembled, and the adrenaline instantly activated the terrifying upright ape bonus from his weak state. He grabbed the sword of the person next to him and screamed: "Die!"

Maybe Zhao Shiyuan was a completely powerless scholar, but the guards behind him were no pushovers. Amid the flashing of swords and sabers, the second prince fell outside the palace gate in a short while.

Just at this moment, the first ray of sunlight in the morning rose slowly and shone on the corpse dressed in gorgeous clothes, which made people sigh.

When the remaining people behind the second prince saw that the situation was hopeless, they dropped their weapons, knelt on the ground, and prayed to survive.

But how the hell could such a thing leave anyone alive? Zhao Shiyuan turned his back and just waved his hand, and the bandits behind him rushed forward and killed all those people.

The sky was getting dark, cocks were crowing, dogs were barking, and people began to take to the streets. Everything was normal, except that the bell for the morning court did not ring in the palace today, which made people feel a little uncomfortable.

The outside of the palace gate was already as clean as new, and the soldiers who were changing shifts had arrived at their posts as usual, but it was a little strange that the soldiers from the previous shift were not seen. However, when it comes to matters in the palace, the best way to deal with it is to listen less, watch less, and ask less. It is natural not to ask anything.

The vehicles that had been carrying supplies for the coronation ceremony came out of the palace one after another. Deep red marks would occasionally seep out of some of the vehicles, but soon someone would come forward to wipe them off.

No one noticed anything unusual, but not long after, they heard the bad news that there was a fire in the Second Prince's house. It happened to be a curfew that night and the water officials in the city were on leave, so they were unable to put out the fire in time, resulting in all seventeen people in the Second Prince's family being killed in the fire.

Rumor has it among the people that the late emperor loved the second prince so much that he wanted to bring him down to keep him company, but now that things have come to this, all that can be heard is a sigh.
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I have only one chapter today, and will make up for it tomorrow. I feel weak, coughing, and having diarrhea. I heard that to cure diarrhea, you have to cure the cough first, right?
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