Inheriting the Song Dynasty

In 1127 AD, the Northern Song Dynasty fell. Immediately, the ninth imperial prince, Zhao Gou, ascended the throne in Shangqiu amidst widespread anticipation, inheriting the Song imperial line and r...

Chapter 28: Death

"Uncle Talan, General Yin Shuke, and General Taiyu."

For some reason, even though the ambush was successful, Wushu standing on the steps of the Shangshu Terrace did not have the aura to attract people. Instead, he had the same bitterness as he did during the day. "Let me make it clear first... I know your difficulties, and I am not going to hold anyone responsible for breaking into the palace today... But if you feel unwilling and want to try again, we are only a dozen steps away, why don't you come over and kill me with a knife? I am not wearing armor today."

Talan opened his mouth, but no sound came out. Just like Yin Shuke on the other side, he just looked at Heshelie Taiyu.

Hesheli Taiyu held the sword in his hand and remained silent for a long time before he spoke with difficulty: "Fourth Prince...if you wanted to stop the rebellion, why didn't you wait in the palace from the beginning?"

"Because I really didn't intend to stop you at first, and I didn't know you would make such a big fuss." Wushu shook his head. "It was Xianggong Xiyin who came to persuade me for a long time, and then accidentally found out something that I couldn't let go of, so I had to ask General Yelu Mawu to come forward, and add a few private soldiers to help... Even Shangshu Wulinda was stopped outside the palace by Xianggong Xiyin."

Hesheli Taiyu turned his head and glanced at the many people on the steps. He also glanced at his own soldiers who were still unaware of the situation and were still pouring in, as well as Yelu Mawu who was standing by the outer gate. Then he finally became depressed... After all, he did not have the courage to openly attack the King of Wei, the King, the Queen, the Prime Minister of the Capital Province Wanyan Xiyin, and the Minister of Rites Wulinda Zanmo in such a bright and open occasion when the power of both sides was equal.

In other words, from the moment Wuzhu appeared here, everyone knew that they had failed.

"King Wei!"

Tai Yu turned around. "You have to swear in front of me to pardon everyone in the Shangshutai and stop the eldest prince from taking revenge later, then I will trust you..."

"I cannot take this oath."

Wushu sighed. "Because I said before, if I hadn't accidentally learned something that I'm even more worried about today, I wouldn't have come here... Today, everyone here can be pardoned, but there is one person, if you verify that thing, I will kill him without a doubt!"

At this point, Wuzhu looked at a figure standing further down the steps: "Hong Chengzhi... come forward!"

Hong Ya stood there, knowing that today was going to be a difficult day. But for some reason, he was not afraid. Instead, he mustered up inexplicable courage and sneered on the spot: "King Wei, you Jurchens are causing chaos among yourselves, but you want a rootless Han like me to be a scapegoat?! Do you think everyone in Yanjing is blind? After today, the new troops on the periphery will directly turn against you, and you will have no choice but to flee in a hurry. On the way, everyone will inevitably suspect each other and engage in large-scale fighting! And aren't the roots of all these things today all in Huolu and all in you?!"

"Hong Chengzhi, I just want to ask you one question."

Wushu had no intention of refutation. He calmly waited for the other party to finish scolding him before speaking seriously. "Tonight, when Xi Yin and I were discussing you Han people who fled south, we mentioned you... I won't mention the time of Zhending. Tai Shi Nu suddenly remembered something. He said that on that day in Huolu, he was ordered to bring Yu Yunwen to ask for peace. As a result, as soon as he arrived in front of the battle, Yu Yunwen shouted that Yue Fei was coming from the rear... What's going on? How did Yu Yunwen know that Yue Fei had arrived at that time?"

Hong Ya remained silent.

In fact, he could have continued to make some verbal arguments, for example, saying that Yu Yunwen was just imitating the old wisdom of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and said that Wuzhu pardoned the actual rebellion but wanted to kill him because of his words. At worst, he could continue to shout and curse, insisting that Wuzhu was mainly responsible for the defeat... But he may have realized that Wuzhu would never forgive any incident related to Huolu and would never let him go tonight, so he did not do so and just remained silent.

Not only that, in the silence, a strange thought gradually arose in Hong Ya's heart, a strange thought that gradually gave him the courage to face all this.

On the other side, seeing Hong Ya silent, Wushu finally said with a sigh: "I know that Hong Chengzhi will definitely not accept it. I know that you must want to say that it was me, Wushu, who led 16 Wanhu to lose the battle in Huolu, which led to many other incidents. But one thing is one thing. No matter what, you leaked the military information and prevented tens of thousands of scattered soldiers from returning to the north. It's all..."

"good!"

Under the firelight, in front of the main gate of the Shangshutai in Yanjing, among the countless soldiers, Hong Ya's face suddenly turned red and he shouted at each other, but in the face of life and death, he still dared not move. "It was because I saved Yu Yunwen's life and informed him of the battle situation in Hejian that you were unable to return north!"

Wuzhu was startled.

"You are a bunch of barbarians! You are ignorant and immoral! You only know how to kill and plunder! You are so vulgar and ridiculous!" Hong Ya stood where he was, and continued to raise his hand to point at Wuzhu in front of him, then turned to Yin Shuke, Hesheli Taiyu, and even Wanyan Talan. "If it weren't for the sword and the sword, do you really think that I, a dignified Jinshi in the palace, would be willing to flatter you who are full of fishy smell? I have wanted to kill you all a long time ago!"

"This guy actually admitted it." Yin Shuke smiled awkwardly and said something that was obviously a beat late, and no one paid attention to him.

"Kill him!" When Talan heard the last sentence, he actually looked a little sad.

"In the past, you could still talk about the winners and losers, relying on the power of your weapons to brag, and you seemed to have a story for every bad habit and disgusting thing. You even seemed to be able to say that the fishy smell on your body was due to hard work... Who made you so strong? You can say anything! But what about now? What do you have now?! Without the knife on your waist and this mask, what do you have left?! The rat tail behind your head?!"

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