Chapter 421: Adaptability
Cao Zhengxing was completely confused by the word "reliable" from King Huainan.
What is he reliable for? Whatever he does is reliable!
How did these Beijing soldiers get transferred in? They shouldn’t be coming in now!
Wasn't their plan to wait until the banquet was over, when everyone was drunk and poisoned, and then the dancers who came in to perform would turn into killers, and then the elite troops of the capital and the King of Huainan who were hiding in the dark would take control of the palace?
The Beijing troops now were not arranged by him!
As the imperial troops rushed in and surrounded everyone, the Prince of Huainan was still praising Cao Zhengxing, "No wonder Eunuch Cao said we should adapt to the situation."
"We really need to improvise and catch them! Get started!"
Cao Zhengxing slapped the King of Huainan's hand away. This was not his style of improvisation!
Cao Zhengxing did not hesitate for a moment, and the first thing he did was to look at Xixi who was sitting on the dragon throne.
But at this time, there was no trace of Xixi, and even Zhou Yunshu had disappeared long ago.
"grass!"
"Kill them!"
When King Huainan saw Cao Zhengxing's reaction, he finally realized that something was wrong. Those Beijing soldiers simply did not listen to their commands.
But when his face changed drastically and he was about to turn around, the young eunuch who had been standing next to Cao Zhengxing suddenly stabbed a knife into the Prince of Huainan's stomach and turned the handle of the knife.
King Huainan thought he and Cao Zhengxing were in a cooperative relationship, so he was not on guard against Cao Zhengxing at all. When he drew his knife and was about to stab King Huainan's heart, he was kicked away by a close confidant of King Huainan.
Cao Zhengxing ran a few steps before being grabbed by the Huainan King's men. "Cao dog, how dare you betray your master!"
The fighting was fierce, both internally and externally.
If someone observes carefully, they will see that people like Peng Xiang who support the new emperor have been protected and left, while other people who have ulterior motives and ill intentions towards the new emperor are being strangled from the inside out in this encirclement.
Chunque was holding Xixi, and Zhou Yunshu followed beside her with a dagger in her hand. At the same time, there were five or six palace maids in palace costumes around them, and outside them were death warriors wearing black soft armor.
This time they did not return to Fengluan Palace, but went directly to Wuji Palace.
After the previous emperor passed away in Wuji Palace, Wuji Palace became the location of the Black Prison within the palace.
I wonder what the late emperor felt when he knew that his good son had turned his place of pleasure into a place of punishment.
After arriving at the Wuji Palace, Zhou Yunshu relaxed a little. This was Ji Sheng's territory. It would not be easy for King Huainan and Cao Zhengxing to attack, not to mention that Zhou Yunshu felt that it would be difficult for the two of them to even leave the palace banquet hall.
The floor of the palace banquet hall was soaked with blood. Ji Sheng, who had never appeared, just stood outside the hall. All those who escaped from the hall, no matter who they were, were shot to death.
Those who shouldn't have died have been taken away, and now those who are being killed are those who stand in his daughter's way.
Prime Minister Peng frowned as he watched this scene, "Your Highness..."
"If the cards aren't shuffled, where will Peng Xiang's students stand?"
"Your Highness, please be careful with your words. I..."
"Um."
Looking at Ji Sheng who was about to choke him to death, Prime Minister Peng inexplicably thought of Xixi, who was young but had choked the King of Huainan so much that his face turned purple and blue at a palace banquet not long ago.
As expected of a father and daughter, they really know how to chat.
The cries for help in the hall gradually faded away, leaving only the sounds of the imperial soldiers and the imperial guards advancing.
When the imperial guards dragged the corpses out of the hall one by one, the King of Huainan with his white hair and armor stood out particularly.
He still had a breath left in him. When he was dragged in front of Ji Sheng by the imperial guards, he glared at Ji Sheng while gasping for breath.
Ji Sheng smiled, then suddenly turned to the man beside him in a suit of Beijing soldier armor and said, "Want another blow?"
When the man looked up, King Huainan widened his eyes in disbelief, as if he had not expected that someone who should not be in the palace would appear next to Ji Sheng.
“You, you!”
The man stepped forward, drew his sword, swung it, and then put it away.
He looked at the King of Huainan, whose eyes were still open, and said in a deep voice, "I'm sorry, you lived too long."
After saying this, the man stood beside the already dead King Huainan and said to Ji Sheng, "Your Highness, King Wei, my father died protecting the new emperor. Please allow me to take him home."
"certainly."
Until the man took King Huainan away, Prime Minister Peng was in a state of shock.
The man just now was the son of King Huainan. Which son?
This son actually killed his father, and conspired with Ji Sheng to kill his father...
However, the imperial guards who were dragging people out did not give Peng Xiang more time to think. Cao Zhengxing, who wanted to escape but had his legs broken, was dragged in front of Ji Sheng by the imperial guards holding his arms.
"Eunuch Cao, we meet again."
Cao Zhengxing looked down at Ji Sheng and wanted to say something but then shut his mouth.
"It seems that Eunuch Cao and I have nothing to say to each other."
Cao Zhengxing looked at Ji Sheng, who was "a villain who had achieved success," and asked, "Are you sure you want to kill me? I have the twelve battalions of the imperial army under my command..."
"It was in your hands before, but it's gone now."
The Twelve Battalions of the Beijing Army belonged to the Xue family in the capital before they came into the hands of Cao Zhengxing, and are still temporarily handed over to the Xue family by Ji Sheng.
The Beijing soldiers who had just poured into the palace banquet were led by the Xue family.
A new emperor appoints new ministers, and the Xue family also wants to show their loyalty to the new emperor.
Cao Zhengxing has indeed put a lot of effort into the Twelve Battalions of Beijing Soldiers over the years, and he does have many confidants in the Twelve Battalions of Beijing Soldiers.
But more people, even if they believed it on the surface, still felt disgusted in their hearts that a eunuch was their immediate superior.
So when there was internal strife among the Twelve Battalions of the Imperial Army, Ji Sheng took advantage of the situation to add fuel to the fire and successfully forced the Twelve Battalions of the Imperial Army to surrender.
If they don't surrender, they will die. They are still very aware of the current situation.
This was also thanks to Cao Zhengxing who couldn't bear it any longer and left the 12th Battalion of the Beijing Army to come to the palace to seek a sense of presence with Xixi. Otherwise, Ji Sheng would not have found a suitable opportunity to transfer Cao Zhengxing from the 12th Battalion of the Beijing Army.
As for his plan with the Prince of Huainan.
Ji Sheng could only say that there were many people in this world who hated eunuchs, and the Prince of Huainan was one of them.
"Ji Sheng, I am your Majesty's supporter, Yun..."
"Your Majesty has too many supporters."
Before Cao Zhengxing could finish his words, Ji Sheng's neck was cut open by this sentence.
"It seems that when people know they are going to die, they always talk a lot." The knife in Ji Sheng's hand stabbed straight into the back of the head of the dead Cao Zhengxing.
"By the way, let me tell you, the past is over, so please don't disgust others again."
Peng Xiang looked at the people who died one after another in front of him, and with a dry throat, he looked at Ji Sheng and said, "Just kill them like that?"
Ji Sheng put away his sword and looked at Peng Xiang beside him with some confusion, "What else?"
"Save it for the New Year?"
Peng Xiangyu choked. That wasn't what he meant. He just felt that it was indescribable that two powerful people who had been around for so long died so simply in front of him.
But when Peng Xiang saw the blood on the ground stained on his shoes, he couldn't help but take a step back.
Now it feels a little more real.
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