Chapter 302 Palace Secrets
Feng Ning's cavalry began to attack the city, and very tacitly avoided the corpse of the Sixth Prince on the city wall and the blood flowing from under his body.
The scene was actually quite shocking. A mass of armored soldiers, gleaming with a cold glow, flowed past the corpse of Sixth Prince Xiao Nanjin with a fierce, iron-blooded killing spree... No one approached, not a single horse stepped on him. Their tacit respect preserved the prince's final dignity...
Just as the Fengning cavalry began to attack the city, an alarm sounded at the Xizhimen Gate of the capital.
The soldiers defending the city were about to follow orders to defend Yongding Gate, but suddenly they saw a tide of cavalry appearing outside their own city gate.
Those cavalrymen, full of ferocity and brutality, came charging like thunder and headed straight for Xizhimen... When they got closer, the soldiers defending the city discovered that they were actually Mongolian cavalrymen.
As the Mongolian cavalry came galloping, they raised their hands and threw something black, smoking, onto the city wall... Boom!
Everyone was stunned by the sudden and continuous rumbling sounds, and had almost no time to react when they heard the shouts from the Mongolian cavalry.
"The three Wulan Guards have been summoned by the King of Beihai to help him quell the rebellion!"
Arriving on the huge ship of Beihai Prefecture, the three Wulan guards were like divine soldiers descending from the sky, and they had grenades... It took almost no effort for them to break through Xizhimen, whose defense was not as good as Yongdingmen.
The entire capital is in chaos...
As soon as the three Wulan guards entered the city gate, they began to rush towards another city gate nearby, making it clear that they wanted to destroy the defense of the capital city.
As they advanced to fight the city defenders, Tager, the deputy general beside Shuchi Yan, felt a little uneasy: "Great Khan, if the prince knew about our actions, would he blame us?"
Shuchi Yan chopped down a rebel with a single blow and curled his lips, "If she was afraid of acting flamboyantly, Sister wouldn't have let me come! She knows my temper, but she still let me come. She's deliberately trying to get me to kill people for her Prince Ding and establish his authority!"
Tager opened his eyes wide: "You knew this, but you still did it obediently? What if your reputation in the Great Xuan Dynasty is ruined in the future..."
Shuchi Yan sneered: "Prince Ding wants to be the emperor, so naturally he needs a good reputation. I don't need the people of Daxuan to praise me... I just need them to be afraid of me!"
At this moment, there was a loud bang... Yongding Gate was broken.
Feng Ning's cavalry broke through the city and entered the capital...
When the city gate was broken open, Crown Prince Xiao Nanyu, dressed in a bright yellow dragon robe, stood high at the head of the Taiji Hall. The eunuch who announced the decree had already read the imperial edict of succession. Xiao Nanyu threw off the dragon robe and sat down, waiting to receive the kneeling worship of the court officials.
With this bow, he became the new emperor of Daxuan...
Xiao Nanyu was filled with excitement and subconsciously looked at Lord Xu who had supported him all the way, his eyes full of approval and satisfaction.
However, Xiao Nanyu soon realized something was wrong.
Elder Xu, who was supposed to lead all the civil and military officials in kneeling before him, stood there quietly, showing no intention of kneeling at all...
Xiao Nanyu suddenly felt a bad premonition. The next moment, he saw Lord Xu suddenly take two steps forward, snatch the forged imperial edict from the eunuch announcing it, and display it to the court officials in a loud voice: "This edict of succession is a forgery... The Crown Prince forged the edict with the intention of treason. Forgive me... I will not kneel!"
Xiao Nanyu was struck by lightning and stared at Lord Xu: "Lord, you..."
At this moment, a loud bang was faintly heard in the distance.
A moment later, the attendant screamed, "Oh no! Prince Ding's rebels have broken into the city!"
With just one sentence, Xiao Nanyu, who was already feeling like he was falling into an icy cave, froze there, his face drained of all color, and he actually slid right off the throne...
In the Qianqing Palace, blood was everywhere.
The abandoned guard Jinxiu walked into the Palace of Heavenly Purity step by step, sneering at the stubbornly resisting imperial guards on the opposite side.
The second prince Xiao Nanyong held the sword in both hands and blocked the dragon bed of Emperor Jiaping. He was already injured, but he still did not dodge.
As Wei Jinxiu raised her hand, the people around her rushed forward again.
Seeing several rebels breaking through the imperial guards and rushing to the dragon bed, Xiao Nanyong was unable to stop them, so he turned around and lay directly on Emperor Jiaping to block the falling blade... With a "puff", blood splattered everywhere.
Xiao Nanyong gritted his teeth and groaned, but at that moment, he saw that his father on the dragon bed suddenly opened his eyes.
Just as Emperor Jiaping opened his eyes, several figures suddenly appeared behind the imperial guards, who were already few in number, as if ghosts appeared out of thin air.
Those figures, holding soft swords in their hands, were extremely sharp and flew towards the rebels on the opposite side. Wei Jinxiu's expression suddenly tensed... and she suddenly took a few steps back.
So, was Emperor Jiaping in disguise?
At this moment, there was a sudden commotion outside, and Wei Jinxiu heard someone shouting, "The Crown Prince has been apprehended for forging the imperial edict... The Fengning cavalry has entered the palace..."
In an instant, Wei Jinxiu turned around suddenly, opened her eyes wide, and was filled with shock and disbelief!
How could that happen?
How is that possible!
With Lord Xu's full support, how could anything go wrong with the ascension to the throne?
Wasn’t Xie Fengting leading four battalions to guard Yongding Gate? How could the city be breached so quickly… How could this happen?
She didn't know that, in addition to the Fengning Iron Cavalry, the three Wulan Guards unexpectedly broke through Xizhi Gate. She also didn't know that her plan to label Xiao Nanchen a traitor was averted by the usually weak Sixth Prince's death...
And after witnessing the Sixth Prince, whom he had watched grow up, jumping off the city wall, Xie Fengting completely lost his fighting spirit due to the overwhelming guilt and grief.
The chaotic capital quickly fell silent after the passing of the Fengning Iron Cavalry. The moment the Black Cavalry entered the palace gates, it signaled that the chaos within the palace would soon come to an end...
Beside Emperor Jiaping, Shen Ning was giving him acupuncture.
All the irrelevant people in the hall were cleared out, leaving only Emperor Jiaping, the deposed Queen Wei, the Second Prince who was placed on the couch after being injured, and Shen Ning who was giving acupuncture to Emperor Jiaping.
Soon, the prince was brought in.
The moment he was thrown to the ground, the prince burst into tears and crawled on his knees towards Emperor Jiaping: "Father, Father...I know I was wrong, I know I was wrong!"
He cried bitterly, "I'm just too scared. I'm so scared, Father... Everyone says you want to destroy me. Since ten years ago, people have been saying you want to destroy me. I'm so scared, wuwuwu..."
The deposed Queen Wei sat on the ground in despair. Until now she still didn't understand how she could have lost.
Everything has been arranged properly, and it should be foolproof!
Why did Lord Xu betray her... Isn't he afraid that she would drag the Xu family down with her?
How dare he?
And there is Xie Fengting... The four major camps, the four major camps in the capital, can't even defend Yongding Gate?
At this time, Emperor Jiaping coughed violently and spoke in a hoarse voice.
"Crown Prince Xiao Nanyu, plotting treason, has been deposed and imprisoned in the Imperial Mausoleum, never to be released for life!"
There was no questioning, no condemnation, only one sentence: dethronement, imprisonment in the imperial tomb, and no one allowed to leave for life.
The rest of your life like that is no different from being a ghost!
Crown Prince Xiao Nanyu sat down on the ground, his whole body as if he had been struck by lightning and had lost his soul... Soon someone dragged him out.
Wei Jinxiu seemed to have just come to her senses at this moment, and she stood up and tried to stop him: "No, no, no, it's all my fault. I forced Yu'er to do it. I tricked him into robbing him. It was me..."
But before Wei Jinxiu finished her words, she suddenly opened her eyes wide and looked outside.
Outside the Palace of Heavenly Purity, Xiao Nanyu seemed to go mad the moment he was dragged out. Without warning, he suddenly broke free. Without hesitation, he leaped down the high stone steps outside the Palace of Heavenly Purity... and landed headfirst on the ground...
Wei Jinxiu's eyes seemed to be frozen. She took two steps back and fell to the ground. The next moment, she let out a wail that was not like a human voice.
On the dragon couch, Emperor Jiaping also suddenly froze.
He trembled, closed his eyes, and gasped deeply for a few times. He raised his hand in confusion, not knowing what to do, and unconsciously grabbed the curtain beside him...
“Ah…ah…”
Wei Jinxiu let out a shrill scream, turned around and rushed towards Emperor Jiaping without hesitation: "Give me back my son, give me back my son!"
Before he could take two steps, he was pressed to the ground. He struggled desperately, his facial features almost distorted, and his eyes were filled with deep hatred as he looked at Emperor Jiaping.
When Emperor Jiaping saw the greedy look of his first wife, whom he had carefully cared for and doted on for more than twenty years, tears welled up in his eyes.
"You killed him."
Emperor Jiaping said in a hoarse voice: "You killed my son... your son with my brother!"
Shen Ning was kneeling behind Emperor Jiaping, originally packing up the silver needles. When she heard this, her scalp went numb.
This is driving me crazy... Can't I wait until she gets out before saying these things?
After hearing these palace secrets, how long can she survive...
His Majesty really doesn't treat her as an outsider!
On the ground below, Wei Jinxiu, who had been struggling frantically, froze instantly...
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