Princess Yuchang was stunned.
I was surprised: "You mean, give General Meng to..."
Yunxi smiled but said nothing.
Princess Yu looked at the man in front of her with a gentle and elegant smile. For some reason, she suddenly felt a chill on her back.
*
As soon as the city gate opened that day, a burst of hurried horse hooves sounds were heard.
When the soldiers guarding the city gate saw the token held by the man on horseback, they immediately let him pass, and the man on horseback rode his horse straight towards the palace.
In the court.
Emperor Wenyuan was sitting on the dragon throne at this time, with a pair of sunken dark circles under his eyes, and yawning from time to time, as if he had indulged in excessive sexual activities.
"You guys keep telling me these trivial matters that don't matter at all. It's really a waste of my time. Okay, dismiss the court if there's nothing else." Emperor Wenyuan waved his hand impatiently at Eunuch Li.
Eunuch Li just stood up.
But before he could shout out, a shout was heard outside the hall.
"Report—"
Then a guard ran in carrying a pale and bloody messenger on his back.
After being let go, the messenger knelt on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, General Meng had just arrived at Xuanyin Pass in the mountain city when he was suddenly ambushed by thousands of bandits. Before General Meng was seriously injured and besieged, he asked me to take this item back to the capital to present it to Your Majesty..."
The messenger raised something in his hand tremblingly.
The ministers who were watching closely were instantly shocked. "Is this the Yang Family Army's identity badge? Are those bandits the Yang Family Army?"
"Didn't Princess Yu Chang say before that General Yang had lost tens of thousands of his soldiers a few days ago..."
"The Xuanyin Pass in the mountain city is only half a day's journey from the west gate of our capital... If those Yang family soldiers really disguise themselves as bandits and sneak into the capital, our capital will be in danger!"
"What should I do now?"
The court was suddenly filled with various voices of discussion, some angry, some horrified, and some neutral.
Emperor Wenyuan listened to the market-like noise and rubbed his temples with a headache: "Shut up."
With one sound, the whole room fell silent.
Everyone looked at Emperor Wenyuan.
Emperor Wenyuan's sunken and somewhat haggard face now looked somewhat vicissitudes and ugly: "Show me the iron plate."
Eunuch Li immediately went down to get the iron plate.
Emperor Wenyuan took it and looked at it repeatedly, his brows furrowed more and more. The Yang Family Army's personal badge was proposed by Yang Tiejiang back then. It was so that after the soldiers died, they could know the identities of the soldiers by relying on this personal iron plate, so that they could take a handful of ashes back to their hometown to settle down after death.
This iron plate has become a symbol of the Yang family army.
Each iron plate has a special structure. Each name is different, and the special gap is also different. In addition, the iron plate is made of the iron sheet material that Qi Yue tinkered with back then, so no one else can forge it.
Emperor Wenyuan glanced at it for a while, then his face suddenly turned cold and he said, "Well done, great Yang Family Army!"
"Someone, bring Yang Tiejiang up to me."
Yang Tiejiang was brought in soon.
At this moment, he looked even more miserable than a beggar. There were even traces of blood on his body from being tortured. He even walked with a limp, and it was obvious that his legs had been tortured.
This made some generals frown.
However, Yang Tiejiang still looked naive. After entering the hall, he knelt down and saluted.
"Look for yourself what this is!"
An iron plate was thrown in front of Yang Tiejiang.
Yang Tiejiang looked down and saw the iron plate. He picked it up and looked at it before saying, "Your Majesty, this is the identity plate of the Yang Family Army."
"Since you've already admitted it, let's drag you down and chop you off."
Emperor Wenyuan said in a cold voice.
Yang Tiejiang looked up in surprise, his face puzzled. "Your Majesty, what did I do wrong? Why am I going to be beheaded again? Even if you want to convict me, you have to wait until General Meng returns..."
"return?"
Emperor Wenyuan slammed the table and said, "Your Yang army pretended to be bandits and killed General Meng. How can you expect General Meng to come back?"
Yang Tiejiang looked bewildered. "Your Majesty, what do you mean by this? What Yang Family Army? After I returned, I handed over the military power..."
"Don't admit it yet!"
Emperor Wenyuan was so angry that his thin face looked a little ferocious. "As expected, what the princess said is true. The Yang family army only obeys the orders of you Yang family members. You dared to return to the capital without any transfer order, intending to rebel. Yang Tiejiang, you truly deserve to be put to death."
"Come here, drag him down and chop him off."
"His Majesty."
At this time, Marquis Yongbo stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, we still need to investigate whether it is the Yang family army. The messenger just said that General Meng is seriously injured and trapped. This means that General Meng may not be dead yet. The most important thing now is to rescue General Meng. I am willing to go to Xuanyin Pass personally to rescue General Meng and investigate the matter of the bandits."
"Your Majesty, I am also willing to go."
With the Marquis of Yongbo standing up, many people also stood up one after another.
Most of them are military generals.
Moreover, many of them are military generals who have always kept a low profile.
At this time, the Minister of War, Wang Chaoyong, also stood up and said, "Your Majesty, to convict the Marquis of Zhenbei based solely on a plaque is indeed lacking in tenable evidence. I am also willing to go to Xuanyin Pass."
Emperor Wenyuan's face darkened as he looked at the majority of the generals who had come forward.
At least many people felt that the aura of Emperor Wenyuan seemed to become sharper at this moment, more obvious than before.
But just at this moment.
Princess Yuchang appeared again.
Appearing with her was the frail old General Meng, who was supported by the imperial guards and covered in blood.
"Your Majesty, General Meng has been rescued."
The appearance of Princess Yu made many people frown, but after seeing the condition of General Meng, they were all shocked.
General Meng's body was covered in wounds, showing that he had been through a fierce battle. His armor was almost broken, and one could faintly see the bloody wounds under his bloody clothes, with the flesh visible.
General Meng is old.
It's surprising that he was able to hold on without fainting from this injury.
"What's going on?"
Emperor Wenyuan asked with a frown.
General Meng swayed as if unable to stand, then knelt on the ground, his voice hoarse and mournful: "Your Majesty, it is my fault that I am useless. I was not careful for a moment and was ambushed by the Yang family army disguised as bandits. The people I brought with me were completely wiped out. If the princess had not sent people to rescue me in time, I am afraid I would have gone to see the late emperor..."
"Is it really the Yang Family Army?"
"General Meng said it himself, so it can't be false." Xu Chang, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, stood up at this time.
"Yes, Your Majesty. The iron plaque just now said that the evidence was insufficient. Now that General Meng has testified in person, I'm afraid the Yang family army really did sneak into the capital. Your Majesty, this matter must be thoroughly investigated."
"I don't know if there are any Yang Family troops lurking in the capital..."
Hearing this, Emperor Wenyuan finally shouted angrily: "Come here, throw Yang Tiejiang into prison and execute him at noon tomorrow."
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