What these palace servants who escaped death didn't know was that Yu Zizhen was not as kind-hearted as they imagined. Although she didn't kill these people for the time being, she instructed the baby voice system to monitor them around the clock.
If they have any thoughts that harm Yu Zizhen, Yu Zizhen will not let them go.
Guessing that the guards responsible for guarding the palace gates should have heard the news by now, Yu Zizhen, with Yaoguang and the little emperor, waited in Ganyuan Hall for the loyal followers of the Lu family to make their final struggle and counterattack.
The little emperor was confused and didn't quite understand why the person holding him suddenly changed his body shape and had a new face, but when he faced Yaoguang's true appearance, his expression was obviously more relaxed.
The little guy didn't cry or make a fuss when being held by a stranger like Yaoguang. Yaoguang asked him not to make any noise, and he just played with his own stuffed tiger in Yaoguang's arms.
Yu Zizhen was quite fond of this child, but judging from the fact that he was so good at reading people's expressions, it was obvious that Lu Tong and Lu Xueqing had never treated him, the puppet emperor, well.
Patting the little guy's head, Yu Zizhen decided that after things in the capital were over, she would have the child sent to Jiangnan to be raised by his biological father.
She was just wondering who to send to lead the team to escort the child over when she heard the sounds of messy footsteps and heavy breathing outside Ganyuan Hall.
"Madam!" Upon seeing Lu Xueqing's body, a diehard Lu family member cried out in pain, "Madam, who are you? Who killed someone in Ganyuan Hall? If you know what's good for you, get out here right now!"
After turning around twice like a trapped beast, he gritted his teeth and tried to force his way into Ganyuan Palace. However, before he could put both feet into Ganyuan Palace, a tall young woman appeared from the high palace wall of Ganyuan Palace.
The woman was wearing men's clothing, the same navy blue brocade men's clothing that they were very familiar with, the one they had just seen at the palace gate not long ago, the one worn by the person they thought was Lu Tong.
"You!" The man who had just shouted curses kicked one foot inside the door and the other outside. "It was you who killed Lord Lu and his son and Madam Wu?"
Yu Zizhen nodded calmly, "I also killed Lu Tong's nephew, Lu Lin, the Marquis of Wenchang, from the Lu family's main branch."
Although she answered the questions in a very good manner, her good attitude at this moment seemed like she was deliberately trying to irritate people.
The man was so angry that he drew his long knife and said, "You stinky woman, I'm going to fight you!"
Yu Zizhen shook the small medicine bottle in his hand and said, "Then you have to come up first."
The man was actually already retreating. He planned to retreat to a sufficient distance and then use a running start to climb up the palace wall. But after Yu Zizhen said this, if he retreated again, it would seem as if he had done so because of Yu Zizhen's words, which made people very unhappy.
But if he didn't retreat, he really didn't have the ability to climb up the palace wall directly.
He turned and glared at the others, "What are you all standing there for? Round up this bitch!"
Among the guards who came with him, a small number responded without hesitation, but the vast majority of the rest neither said a word nor made any move.
Unlike this violent fellow who has a very close relationship with the Lu family, the other guards basically have no major connection with the Lu family.
The Lu family was powerful, so they naturally had to submit to the Lu family for the sake of their jobs and lives. But now, Lu Tong, his two sons, his eldest nephew, and his eldest granddaughter had all died at the hands of this mysterious woman.
Without these people, the Lu family would have lost its core figures who could take the lead. The remaining playboys and distant branches could not support the entire Lu family.
In this case, is it necessary for them to continue working for the Lu family?
There were many people who thought so. The Imperial Guard, the Five Military Governor's Office, the Five Cities Military Commission... all the officials, yamen runners, and soldiers who could be considered as combat-capable were thinking about the same question.
Even those civil servants who did not need to make a decision for the time being no longer dared to go near the Lu family.
The deaths of Lu Tong and others directly led to the demoralization of the people and the army in the capital.
The capital city, which was originally managed by Lu Tong and others as their own territory, was turned into a leaky sieve under Yu Zizhen's decisive strategy of "capture the leader first".
Not only did Yu Zizhen's subordinates seize the east and west city gates with almost no pressure, but even the two decapitation attempts on Lu Dingchang and Wan Shitai were successful in less than a quarter of an hour after the east and west city gates were captured.
Kaiyang and others in the west and Lu Mingxuan and others in the east, at the moment the east and west gates of the capital were opened, brought most of their soldiers and marched into the capital in a mighty force.
The remaining small half of the soldiers chose a place outside the capital to set up camp.
The purpose of these soldiers who set up camp on the spot was not to capture the city. They stayed outside the city so that they could send scouts to connect with the intelligence personnel under Yu Zizhen at any time. On the one hand, they passed messages back and forth with the capital, and on the other hand, they continued to receive the latest news about the King of Zhenbei and the Duke of Jingguo.
The first thing those soldiers who entered the capital did was to completely eliminate the small remnants of the army that were resisting stubbornly with the assistance of Zhou Zheng, Liu Zhang and others.
Ninety percent of these people who resisted stubbornly had close ties with the Lu family, and even if they wanted to temporarily distance themselves from them, they could not do so. The remaining ten percent were dull-witted people who were forced to participate due to the situation.
The people under Yu Zizhen did not ignore the 10% of people who could be persuaded to rebel just because their number was too small. While they were eliminating the remnants of the Lu family, they also continued to actively recruit them to surrender.
Those soldiers who were passively involved could join Yu Zizhen's camp at any time as long as they were willing.
Yu Zizhen from the Imperial Guard was also using the same surrender strategy as her subordinates. She saw the hesitation and retreat of most of the Imperial Guards, so she immediately went with the flow and calmly persuaded them to surrender.
"The Lu family is doomed. Those who no longer wish to be involved in this mess can turn around and leave now. As long as you are willing to lay down your weapons and no longer be my enemy, I, Yu Zizhen, will not be so petty as to catch and settle accounts with you small fry one by one."
As soon as Yu Zizhen finished speaking, the guards who had already wanted to retreat laid down their weapons and retreated quickly.
The low-ranking military officer who vowed to fight Yu Zizhen to the death was furious. He swung the long sword in his hand vigorously, and the blade pointed directly at the guard who had laid down his weapon and was closest to him.
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