After Lu Tong, his two sons, and his nephew Lu Lin, Marquis of Wenchang, died, Chen Qing, hidden in the crowd, released red fireworks to represent the success of the operation.
The others who saw the red smoke in the sky from afar took action immediately. Ji Yinghui took the secret agents left in the capital by Yu Zizhen and spread the news of the death of Lu Tong, his two sons, and his nephew, Wenchang Hou Lu Lin. Zhou Zheng and Liu Zhang led people to attack the city guards at the west gate and east gate of the capital respectively.
At present, the news that Yu Zizhen had captured Tongzhou had not spread yet, and Kaiyang and others in the west did not immediately march to the city, but stationed their troops at a distance that the soldiers in the capital believed was still safe. Therefore, there were not always many people guarding the city gates and walls in the capital.
At this critical moment when the people and the army in the capital were unstable, their chances of success in launching a sneak attack with three times the number of soldiers guarding the gate were still quite high.
At the same time, Lu Huaiyi and other capable fighters were not idle either. They split into two groups and ambushed on the roads that Lu Dingchang and Wan Shitai had to pass, waiting to ambush and kill them later.
These two were the only two generals in the Lu family who were barely capable of taking on the responsibility. After killing them all, Yu Zizhen would not have to worry about any decent commanders in the capital jumping out to oppose them.
Of these two, Lu Dingchang, who had a grudge against Lu Huaiyi's family, was taken over by the father and son, while the remaining Wan Shitai was assigned by Yu Zizhen to a group of bodyguards headed by Chen Qing and Zheng Yuzhi.
As for herself, after killing Lu Tong and other core members of the Lu family, Yu Zizhen quickly disappeared into the crowd and changed her family's image.
When she changed her clothes and came out, the baby voice system told her, "The eastern and western armies have already reached a point about 20 miles away from the capital. They will soon attack the city together at the agreed time."
Yu Zizhen hummed twice, "Then we should go visit the imperial palace we haven't seen for a long time."
The little emperor is still alive, she has to steal the little kid out first.
After all, she didn't really come here to "clear the court". If she didn't let the current emperor disappear first, and wait for her army to enter the capital, wouldn't she have to pretend to be a harmless and virtuous minister for a while for the sake of her own reputation?
If it weren't for the Duke of Jingguo and the Prince of Zhenbei watching closely from outside, she wouldn't mind slowing down the pace of her ascension to the throne, but the problem was that the troops of those two families hadn't been used up much yet.
She was the first to enter the capital and personally killed Lu Tong, the biggest flatterer around the emperor. However, before she could lead the army into the palace to "rescue" the emperor, the wet nurse sent by Lu Tong to raise the emperor suddenly went mad and killed the infant emperor who had no power to fight back.
Oh, this is so regrettable and heartbreaking.
The baby-voiced system despised her hypocrisy and said, "Alright, stop talking nonsense. After this order is completed, you still have to deal with the King of Zhenbei and the Duke of Jingguo."
Even though the two of them are trying to slack off now, once the news of the capital being captured by Yu Zizhen spreads, the Little Baby Voice System believes that they will immediately launch a fierce attack on all the cities that are in their way.
It just so happened that at that time, the generals defending each city would most likely lose their fighting spirit because the capital was breached. The little baby voice system did not want all the hard work they had done to eventually help the King of Zhenbei and the Duke of Jingguo.
Yu Zizhen curled her lips. This is only her, right? If it were anyone else, they would be so arrogant that others would not even be able to catch up with her and eat dust behind her?
She met Yaoguang, who had been waiting for her for a while, in front of the palace gate that she often entered and exited when she went to the palace to accompany her studies. Then the two of them changed their appearance into Lu Tong and his eldest son and swaggered into the palace.
They had all spent a lot of time in this palace. After entering the palace, they didn't need anyone to lead the way. They were familiar with the place and could directly find the Ganyuan Hall where the emperor was.
As the nominal grandfather and uncle of the new emperor of Da Qi, no one dared to stop Lu Tong and his son from going anywhere.
Thanks to their previous arrogance, Yu Zizhen and Yaoguang, who were pretending to be them, had a smooth journey in the palace.
They easily arrived at the Ganyuan Hall where the emperor was. When the two of them walked into the Ganyuan Hall, Lu Xueqing, the eldest granddaughter of Lu Tong who was sent to take care of the little emperor, was about to instruct the palace servants to take the little emperor to play in the imperial garden.
Lu Xueqing was neither a concubine nor a princess. If it weren't for the fact that the current court of Da Qi was completely ruled by Lu Tong, she would not have had the blessing of being named Lady of Wu and living in the palace as the young emperor's wet nurse.
Seeing her grandfather and father coming together, Lu Xueqing stepped forward with a look of surprise, "Grandfather, Dad, why are you two coming to the palace at this time?"
Yu Zizhen, pretending to be Lu Tong, raised his hand and pointed at the little emperor, "Bring His Majesty to me."
The little emperor's real wet nurse did not dare to disobey Lu Tong. Upon hearing this, she immediately carried the little emperor, who really wanted to go out for some fresh air, to "Lu Tong".
Yu Zizhen, who pretended to be Lu Tong, did not hold the child in her arms. She glanced at Yaoguang, who pretended to be Lu Tong's eldest son. Yaoguang understood and immediately stepped forward to hold the child in her arms.
The little emperor was very afraid of Lu Tong and his eldest son. When he was held in Yaoguang's arms, his black eyes met her dark, pretending-to-be-serious eyes, and the little emperor was so scared that he immediately calmed down.
He didn't dare to ask to go out to play again, but Yaoguang, who was pretending to be Lu Tong's eldest son, turned around and took him out of Ganyuan Hall.
Lu Xueqing was completely confused and had no idea what her grandfather and father were going to do.
Yu Zizhen did not give her a chance to figure it out. After Yaoguang left with the child, Yu Zizhen decisively took action against Lu Xueqing and her trusted palace maids.
Lu Xueqing and her trusted palace maids never dreamed that "Lu Tong" would suddenly attack and kill them by surprise.
They were no match for Yu Zizhen in terms of fighting strength, and were soon strangled to death by Yu Zizhen with a thin rope.
The other palace servants were trembling with fear. They wanted to escape, but Yu Zizhen killed people so quickly that they didn't dare to move their legs.
A group of people waited tremblingly for Yu Zizhen to free up his hands to deal with them. However, after killing the palace maids who had fearlessly rushed towards her, Yu Zizhen simply said to them in a casual tone, "Lu Xueqing was shocked to hear the news of Lu Tong and his two sons' deaths. Knowing that the Lu family was doomed, she first suffocated the emperor to death. Then, knowing that she could not escape death, she hanged herself with her trusted palace maids."
Seeing them staring at him stupidly, no one said a word, Yu Zizhen raised his eyebrows, "Do you understand how to talk from now on?"
"Understood." Everyone stammered in response, knowing that at least they would not die for the time being, and could not help but secretly congratulate themselves on their good luck.
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