Chapter 98: Defeated
Everyone was staring at Ru Fei's actions, but no one noticed that Jiang Ran had already broken free from the rope around his wrists.
She picked up the vase on the table, took a step forward, and hit Concubine Ru on the back of the head without hesitation.
Jiang Ran made a desperate move and made the fatal move.
Ru Fei was hit so hard that her body went limp and she was about to fall down. Her hands hung down weakly and the dagger slipped out of her hand.
Lu Zhaoyang reacted immediately, picked up the dagger and stabbed Ru Fei in the neck.
A maid rushed out from nowhere, threw herself in front of Concubine Ru, blocked the attack, and fell down with blood all over her body.
After missing the first attack, they were instantly controlled by the guards who rushed over.
Concubine Ru took a long time to calm down, but when she felt the blood on the back of her head, she became furious.
She was about to attack when a young eunuch stumbled over to report.
"My Lady, here I come——"
"His Royal Highness is here!"
Concubine Ru no longer cared about anything else and had Lu Zhaoyang kidnapped.
Three hundred Jinwu Guards lined up and confronted the two hundred light cavalry led by the prince in front of the palace.
"Your Majesty, your son, invites you to see your father." The prince's cold voice was as usual, and it came clearly through the rain.
Concubine Ru was injured, and her steps were weak and she was out of breath, so she could only ask her attendants to shout for her.
"The palace gates are already closed, yet the Crown Prince leads his troops to force his way in. Is this a rebellion?"
"The Emperor has summoned me, and I am deeply concerned. I will slay the evil concubine and purge the emperor's entourage, even at the cost of my life—"
The prince shouted loudly, and the soldiers under his command responded in unison.
Hearing the words "kill the evil concubine", Concubine Ru showed sarcasm and sneered.
The prince only has two hundred light cavalrymen. She wants to see how these two hundred people can defeat the three hundred Jinwu guards, plus the eight hundred personal guards allocated by the emperor to the third prince?
The autumn rain was cold. Ru Fei raised her foot and kicked Lu Zhaoyang to the ground. Mud and water splashed everywhere, and the cold rain bit her bones.
"Don't worry about me, kill her!" Lu Zhaoyang did not hesitate, immediately struggled to stand up and shouted loudly.
Ru Fei seemed not to hear her cries and kicked her again. When she got up, she kicked her into the mud again.
This happened several times, and Ru Fei stepped hard on Lu Zhaoyang's back to prevent her from getting up again.
Lu Zhaoyang's knees were worn out, but he gritted his teeth and didn't make any sound of pain.
"I heard that the prince was deeply in love with Miss Lu, but now it seems that is not the case..."
Concubine Ru looked at him with a look of utmost mockery.
The prince lowered his head and did not respond to her.
He looked extremely calm on the surface, but in fact, the hilt of the knife he was holding tightly in his hand was deeply embedded in his palm, and blood was splattering.
Faster, faster, he prayed silently.
If Lu Weiqing didn't come, he would almost be unable to hold back and would rush forward regardless of the consequences and cut the old witch into pieces.
Seeing that torturing Lu Zhaoyang had no effect on him, Concubine Ru loosened her foot in disappointment and had someone drag her aside.
The prince breathed a sigh of relief imperceptibly and looked up at her with a stern gaze.
"You keep saying you're here to see the Emperor, but do you know your Emperor is so ill he might not even recognize you?"
"Poisonous woman, did you poison our father?!"
Concubine Ru covered her lips and chuckled, deliberately saying some ambiguous words to provoke the prince.
At this moment, a blue firework streaked across the sky in the distance.
"kill--"
The prince changed his previous attitude of forbearance, raised his sword and shouted, leading a group of soldiers to fight forward.
The battle was close combat and the shouts of killing were deafening.
For a while, the battle was tense, many soldiers on both sides were chopped to the ground, and there was chaos, making it difficult to distinguish between friends and foes.
A triumphant smile appeared on Ru Fei's face.
In a flash, flames shot up into the sky outside the palace wall. The third prince brought 800 personal soldiers and surrounded the two opposing teams.
"The Crown Prince is forcing the emperor to abdicate and seize the throne. I am late in rescuing him. Please forgive me, Father and Mother!"
The third prince gave a high-sounding speech and immediately convicted the crown prince.
He had been fighting for the opportunity to tour the south, waiting for this moment.
Once the eight hundred personal soldiers were in his hands, they would be used by him.
After tonight, the victors will be kings and the losers will be bandits. Who dares to say that he is not legitimate?
In the eyes of the Third Prince and Concubine Ru, the strength gap between the two sides was huge and the outcome was already decided.
They wanted to admire the prince's panic-stricken performance, but they were unable to do so.
"Soldiers, listen up, follow me to capture the thief!"
At the prince's command, the surrounded soldiers not only did not fall into chaos, but instead quickly gathered and rushed towards the third prince's position.
The third prince panicked and quickly ordered his men to shoot arrows in an attempt to stop their attack.
But before they could form a battle line, the archers were shot and killed one after another.
He looked up and saw tiny sparks of fire on the city wall. They were surrounded!
There were waves of vibrations under their feet, as if thousands of troops were charging towards them.
A large crowd of dark figures swayed, and thousands of armored soldiers filed in, led by Lu Weiqing, Jiang Yi, and Chu Li. The momentum was huge, and the murderous aura was overwhelming, far surpassing the third prince's personal soldiers.
"Xuan Ge Army!" Some of his men recognized this army and were so scared that they dropped their weapons.
How could the invincible Xuan Ge Army from southern Xinjiang appear in Chang'an?
Before he could figure it out, half of his head was chopped off and he fell off his horse.
In an instant, the offense and defense switched, and the Third Prince's party had no power to resist, and fell one after another under the weapons of the Xuan Ge army.
More than half of the troops were killed or wounded, and the rest surrendered.
The battle ended quickly. When the sun rose, the third prince had surrendered and knelt before the crown prince's horse.
When Concubine Ru saw that the situation was not going well, she took advantage of the chaos and fled into the palace.
Her hair was disheveled and she looked crazy. She threw herself in front of the dragon bed with a pen and paper in her hand.
"Your Majesty, the Crown Prince is plotting a rebellion. He wants to kill you and seize your throne!"
Concubine Ru screamed heartbreakingly, but the emperor still looked confused, staring at the curtain above his head, without even looking at her.
A few days ago, he was sometimes lucid and sometimes confused.
As soon as he regained consciousness, the emperor shouted that he wanted to pass the throne to the crown prince.
Concubine Ru became even more evil and increased the dosage of the poison, which has now driven the emperor completely insane.
She called out several times, but he still didn't respond. In desperation, she wrote an edict to pass the throne to the third prince, cut the emperor's hand, and forced him to put his fingerprint on it.
Concubine Ru looked at the imperial edict in her hand, laughed crazily, grabbed a eunuch, and yelled at him to go and announce the decree.
As soon as she walked out, she saw the third prince being pressed to his knees on the ground, his eyes bloodshot.
"My son, you are the emperor, the most noble person in the world. How can you kneel?"
"Get up, get up!"
She wanted to rush over and help him up, but she was afraid of the weapons beside him, so she shouted her son's name at the top of her lungs.
The third prince knew that the situation was hopeless, and tears mixed with blood flowed down his face.
"Mother, we've lost..."
When Concubine Ru saw him confess his guilt, she was instantly shocked and immediately turned around and ran into the palace.
Perhaps she was forced into a desperate situation, she burst out with amazing strength and dragged the emperor from the bed to the door by herself.
"Pass the throne, pass the throne, Your Majesty passes the throne to the Third Prince!"
She held a dagger to the emperor's throat, her eyes full of desire for power and complete madness.
A cold light flashed, and an arrow hit the dagger, knocking it down.
Ru Fei looked carefully and couldn't believe it. It was General Xiaowei. It turned out that he was pretending to surrender.
"Traitors, all of them are traitors, hahahaha, traitors..."
She was afraid of being hit by an arrow, so she dragged the emperor in front of her to block it and stumbled back into the hall.
Soon, only a few screams were heard and flames shot up into the sky.
Concubine Ru knocked down all the candlesticks in the hall, setting the curtains on fire.
She wailed like a ghost and died in the sea of fire.
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