As the saying goes, people become wiser with age. When Sun Simiao saw that Zong Chuke suddenly had a jade pendant on his waist, he naturally knew what was going on. Moreover, the fact that Zong Chuke followed here quietly and calmly also showed that Zong Chuke was interested in joining the prince's school.
"Immortal Sun, Chuke will not see you off. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is here. As a subject, I cannot care about our friendship at this moment." Although Zong Chuke was talking to Sun Simiao, he was looking at Li Hong's back.
"Okay, then I will leave first. Please be careful, Prince." Sun Simiao smiled, and slowly walked back under the guidance of Fang Zhan and Heng Qiao.
Li Hong led the five of them, including Wufawutian, Jingzhe, Xiaoxue, and Zong Chuke, and they crawled into the small hole.
When Cheetah goes to deploy troops, he will naturally use Fang Zhan and Heng Qiao who have already scouted the terrain, so it doesn't matter much whether he has two more or two less of them.
The six people slowly entered from the back side of Cuiwei Palace. There was no one guarding here all year round, and occasionally someone came to clean it. Now that no one from the royal family came, it naturally looked a bit desolate.
Hanfeng Hall is the main hall of the emperor's bedroom. Li Hong and six others bypassed the lax guards on the periphery and lay blatantly at the railing behind Cuiwei Hall. From top to bottom, they could clearly see shadowy figures in Hanfeng Hall, and the sounds of singing and dancing, laughter and screams could be heard from time to time.
Li Hong was holding a dogtail grass in his mouth. After arriving here, his mood calmed down instead. He looked at everything in the palace with a calm expression on his face.
"Who are you? How dare you trespass into the royal forbidden area!" The three guards did not expect someone to be so bold as to lie on the railing of Cuiwei Palace and look quite leisurely.
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"Leave him alive and bring one here for questioning." Li Hong said calmly, his eyes full of cold murderous intent!
Now, he not only charged the Weiwei Temple, but also the Shaofu Supervisor and others, none of them could escape Li Hong's questioning. But these soldiers were not guilty, they probably didn't even know who they were guarding.
The two men, Wufawutian and others, responded and left. Without waiting for the three men to come forward, they advanced in front of them like a ghost. Their arms were like ghostly shadows, leaving only an afterimage in front of the three men. Two of them were cut in the neck by Wufawutian's hand and fainted immediately.
The other man had his sword snatched from his hand and put on his neck by Wutan. He was pushed towards Li Hong with a pale face.
"Are you soldiers from the Weiwei Temple?" Li Hong asked leisurely while sitting on the railing.
"Who are you? Do you know that this is an important royal place? How dare you barge in? Do you know that this is a capital crime?" With a knife on his neck, although his face was pale and his legs were shaking, the soldier still gritted his teeth and performed his duties faithfully.
"Search the token on his body to see if he is from the Weiwei Temple." Li Hong ignored him and gestured to Jingzhe.
Jingzhe searched for a while and found the token in his hand. He took a look and said, "Sir, it's the soldier guarding the gate."
"Gate guards? The department can mobilize them, right?" Li Hong thought for a moment and asked.
"Yes, sir. The gate guards have always been active in Chang'an and Luoyang, and the Ministry of War can mobilize them directly." Jingzhe continued to reply.
"Do you know who you are guarding?" Li Hong asked the soldier again.
"I don't know. Even if I knew, I wouldn't tell you!" the soldier said confidently, but his face became even paler. He was afraid that his words had angered the young man. What if he killed him in a rage?
But as part of his duty, he still responded honestly and confidently.
Li Hong waved to Xiaoxue, and Xiaoxue took out a token and threw it to the soldier: "Look carefully before you reply."
"Ah...? Your Highness? I don't know..."
"Forget it, just tell me who sent you here..."
Before Li Hong finished speaking, he was interrupted by a voice coming from Hanfeng Palace behind him: "Who are you? You know this is an important place for the royal family. Come on, take those people down."
Li Hong turned his head to look at the people behind him. At this moment, the sound of an arrow suddenly appeared in the sky, and it was accompanied by a long fireworks tail in the daytime.
"Let's go down. Cheetah and the others are almost here. Let's go and see what these idiots are doing." Li Hong jumped down from the railing and slowly walked down the stairs.
Naturally, the soldier was knocked unconscious by Wutan. Wufa and Wutan, each with a drawn sword in their hands, walked on both sides of Li Hong, with Xiaoxue and Jingzhe following behind them.
Zong Chuke was just a scholar. After looking at the situation, he knew that there would definitely not be a situation where people would chat and laugh, or ask about each other's well-being.
Seeing the prince leading a few people away, he hurried to another unconscious soldier, drew the sword from his waist, ran quickly to Li Hong, holding the sword in both hands, staring fiercely at the front, with a look of indifference to life and death.
On the empty square between Hanfeng Hall and Cuiwei Hall, Li Hong and his group of six walked slowly. They looked so small and powerless in the huge square.
A burst of orderly and hurried footsteps sounded from both sides of Hanfeng Palace. About a hundred gate guards stood on both sides of Hanfeng Palace, with swords drawn from their waists, watching the six people walking towards them from the steps with vigilance.
After hearing the footsteps, Helan Minzhi was stunned for a moment and asked, "What's going on? Why are they guarding the door? Can't we just let them block the door?"
The Minister of War held a half-naked Hu woman in his arms and said with a smile: "You will know after you take a look. Who dares to offend Master Helan in Cuiwei Palace now? Who cares who he is? Tie him up first, it will be a good opportunity for us to have some fun!"
"Minister Ning is right. We have singing and dancing, women and fine wine here, but it's missing a little bit of what Minister Ning mentioned. Let's go out and take a look?" Xiao Shougui also held the dancer in his arms, with one hand between the woman's legs, and said happily.
A hint of enchanting brilliance flashed across Helan Minzhi's handsome face. He suddenly smiled and said, "Since everyone is so kind, if Helan doesn't agree, it would ruin everyone's interest. Let's go and take a look!"
So, everyone gathered together, led by Helan Minzhi, including the Japanese envoys, and they slowly walked to the gate, holding the half-naked beauty in their arms.
Looking through the steps at the main hall entrance, several people stood side by side, looking at the tiny people below the steps.
Six people were seen walking slowly forward at the bottom of the stairs. Li Hong was in the middle, with two men holding swords on each side in front of him. Helan Minzhi felt that they looked familiar.
Of course he knew Jingzhe and Xiaoxue, as they were the prince's people. And behind them, there was a middle-aged man in his fifties, holding a sword in his hand and looking around.
"What's going on? Why is it him?" Helan Minzhi's handsome face suddenly turned pale. The wine glass in his hand fell to the ground and shattered, but it didn't attract his attention.
"Ah? It's the prince, this..." Ning Daoming looked at Li Hong's figure, and his legs began to tremble.
Xiao Shoudao and Xiao Shougui looked ashen. At this moment, they seemed to have seen their own end, which was just one word: death!
The beauties in the arms of several men looked at them with some confusion. They were originally chatting and laughing, and looked calm and composed, but in the blink of an eye, they looked as if they had encountered monsters and demons after just one glance at the sparse crowd below the stairs.
"He... Young Master Helan... How... How could it be His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?" Ning Daoming escaped last time, but this time when he was met by the Crown Prince again, he knew that he probably would not be able to escape death!
"Who leaked the news? Why is he here?" Helan Minzhi was also pale and looked uncertain. It was unclear whether he was answering Ning Daoming's words or talking to himself in a panic.
The murderous look on Li Hong's face became more and more intense. He saw that several people were still hugging the Hu women. They were disheveled and their faces were red. It seemed that they were drinking and having fun in the Hanfeng Palace where the emperor grandfather died!
"Stop! If you dare to move forward again, I will kill you without mercy!" The left general who was guarding the gate glanced at Li Hong and others who were still moving forward. Without waiting for Ning Daoming to speak, he waved his hands and rushed down with the soldiers on his left and right.
"Kill without mercy." Li Hong said lightly without even raising his eyelids.
The voice was very soft, but it was not far from Helan Minzhi and the others, so it was easily heard by the few people who were still in a daze.
Wufa, Wutan and Jingzhe were well prepared. Before Li Hong finished his words, the three of them had already rushed over.
Suddenly, General Zuo, the gate guard who rushed down the stairs first, was killed with a single sword by Wu Ban who arrived first!
The head flew high in the air, and a stream of blood gushed out from the neck of the body that slowly fell down, spraying onto the faces and bodies of Helan Minzhi and others.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty is here, why don't the gate guards retreat!" Zong Chuke looked at the soldiers rushing down, and suddenly stood in front of Li Hong with a sword in his hand, shouting loudly!
Although his legs were shaking, he still tried to calm his voice. His throat was a little dry, and he said loudly with difficulty: "Do you want to rebel? This is the royal palace. Are you protecting the royal family or the superiors behind you? Do you also want to be confiscated and questioned along with your superiors? Let's see who dares to step forward!"
Zong Chuke waved the sword in his hand and looked at a soldier who was about to run towards him. He raised the sword with both hands and was about to rush over, but just after taking two steps, he heard a sound of breaking air in his ears. He saw that the soldier was shot in the middle of the eyebrows by a short arrow and immediately fell to the ground.
Li Hong raised his crossbow and shot another soldier who rushed forward, then sneered and slowly moved forward with a calm gait and a peaceful expression.
He stepped on the stairs one by one. The soldiers around him just surrounded him and no one dared to take another step forward.
He wanted to see who among those people above who dared to kill him, especially Helan Minzhi, could save him this time!
"Stop!" Helan Minzhi seemed to have just come to his senses. His handsome face was covered with blood and he exuded a charming charm. He looked at Li Hong approaching step by step with a bow and crossbow in his hand, and suddenly shouted.
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