Chapter 424: The Hongmen Banquet 3
Huang Degong sneered, "I've known for a long time that Gao Jie is a fence-sitter, and I've already prepared a backup plan!"
"Backup plan? Humph! Come here, take the Prince of Liaodong back to Beijing for trial!" said Zhao Xiaokun.
Several soldiers of the Kenan Army immediately appeared behind Zhao Xiaokun, intending to tie up Huang Degong.
"Hahahaha, I think this is the shortest prince in the Ming Dynasty! Hahaha!" Huang Degong drew his sword after saying this. Wu Sangui and Kong Youde immediately drew their swords to prevent him from harming Zhao Xiaokun.
"He can't cause any big trouble! Huang Degong, surrender immediately. I can report to the court and spare your life for your contribution!" Zhao Xiaokun said.
"Since I'm planning to rebel, I'm not going to leave myself a way out. But you think too little of me, Huang Degong!" Huang Degong said as he kicked the table in front of him. Everyone dodged to the side, and Huang Degong took this opportunity to swing his knife at the tent.
A big hole was cut in the tent, and Huang Degong rushed out in the chaos.
"Quick! Catch the traitor Huang Degong!" Wu Sangui and Kong Youde shouted at the same time.
However, Huang Degong did not rush out to kill, but turned around and took out something from his body.
A closer look revealed it was a signal gun, a weapon used by the Kenan Army. It was also given to other Ming troops, and Huang Degong pulled out a signal gun and fired it into the air.
The green flare soared into the sky. Huang Degong watched the flare slowly rise and sneered.
Zhao Xiaokun felt something was not good. Wu Sangui, Kong Youde and others had all crawled out of the pile of dead bodies, and their feelings were more accurate than Zhao Xiaokun's. Wu Sangui and Kong Youde, one on the left and one on the right, carried Zhao Xiaokun and ran out, with Shi Lang following closely behind.
Geng Jingzhong and Shang Zhixin also reacted and followed behind. When the signal flares rose to the highest altitude, they heard several rumbling artillery sounds from the opposite hillside.
Huang Degong laughed loudly and said, "Hahahaha, let's die together! With so many princes and high officials like you accompanying me, it's worth it!"
Boom boom boom, the sound of artillery continued, and the entire camp was engulfed in flames. Huang Degong laughed like a madman, but in the end, he was also blown to pieces by a shrapnel bomb.
Zhao Xiaokun did not die. Fortunately, Kong Youde and Wu Sangui helped him escape early, but all three of them were injured.
Eunuch Gao, Geng Jingzhong, Shang Zhixin, and others were missing. The only one who was still relatively safe was Shi Lang. Shi Lang's face was also scratched by shrapnel, and countless ordinary soldiers in the barracks were killed or wounded. The entire barracks was in chaos!
Zhao Xiaokun was carried back to his own camp, his left leg injured, but fortunately not seriously. Wu Sangui and Kong Youde were both injured in the back, but their lives were not in danger.
Zhao Xiaofei still didn't know that his elder brother was injured. He and Zhou Shuai Wanshan had already passed Xifengkou and the capital was in sight.
The imperial court had already sent someone to welcome them, and the person who came was none other than Jiang Xiaomei.
"Why are you here to greet me?" Zhao Xiaofei asked in surprise when he saw Jiang Xiaomei.
"I'm here to pick up the great hero of our Ming Dynasty! You are the greatest hero of the Ming Dynasty for pacifying the north and suppressing the civil unrest. I came here specifically to ask for an imperial edict!" Jiang Xiaomei said with a smile.
"This job is too tiring. This is not modern times. There are highways and you can get there in a few hours just by stepping on the accelerator. How many days did it take you to walk?" Zhao Xiaofei asked.
"Five days! You are pretty fast. You passed Xifengkou so quickly. Are you missing your wife and children?" Jiang Xiaomei said.
Zhao Xiaofei felt strange when Jiang Xiaomei said this. After all, she was his former lover, and now she was chatting and laughing with him about her wives and children. He felt like a big scumbag. A super scumbag!
Jiang Xiaomei looked at Zhao Xiaofei and said with a smile, "What's wrong? Do you feel weird? It's okay, I don't mind, why should you care? I've moved on from the past a long time ago, and I hope you can too."
"Really? I'm so happy that you can get over it completely! Xiaomei, I'm sorry!" Zhao Xiaofei said.
"What are you sorry for? What's done is done!" Jiang Xiaomei said.
"How are you feeling recently? When do you plan to go back? Your mother and your brother must miss you a lot." Zhao Xiaofei said.
"Yes, I plan to go back next month, but I have got a lot of good things, such as cultural relics! There are a lot of gold, gems and so on. You have to help me get them all back." Jiang Xiaomei said.
"No problem, when you're ready, I can take you back anytime." Zhao Xiaofei said.
After chatting with Jiang Xiaomei for a day, Zhou Shuai and Wan Shan came over. Zhou Shuai said, "Boss, now that the world is stable, you must fulfill your promise to us. We will go to Tianjin to wait for you. You will need to take care of the ship and manpower."
"Okay! You two have worked hard and have done a lot for me in the past two years. Now that the world is stable, I will definitely support you wherever you want to go. Let's say goodbye now and see you later!" Zhao Xiaofei saluted Zhou Shuai and Wan Shan.
Zhou Shuai Wanshan, with more than 2,000 people, separated from Zhao Xiaofei's team and headed south first.
Zhao Xiaofei looked at the two figures, a cold light in his eyes. At this moment, he had already given birth to murderous intentions in his heart. These two people must be eliminated.
First, they hesitated when others were against them, which is unforgivable. Second, they wanted to establish their own faction, which would have been detrimental to the Ming Dynasty. Now their son sat on the throne. If they wanted to conquer the New World, they could only send their own people. If Marshal Zhou Wanshan's son ever returned from the New World and pulled his son off the throne, it would be disastrous.
His thoughts were slowly changing. Since his son was already in that position, Princess Kunxing would never let him down, so he had no choice but to let his son hold on to that position firmly.
I have many children, so there is no need to force my son to be an ordinary person.
"They're gone. Are you planning to kill them?" Jiang Xiaomei walked up to Zhao Xiaofei and asked.
Zhao Xiaofei didn't say anything, just shook his head with a silly smile, then rode away.
Outside Deshengmen, Princess Kunxing brought her wife and children to welcome Zhao Xiaofei's return.
Because Zhao Xiaofei didn't bring Fulin and Bumbutai with him, it wasn't considered a return to the capital. There wouldn't be any welcoming ceremony from the civil and military officials, and Princess Kunxing was still under a lot of pressure. Just as the external threat was resolved, internal troubles arose.
After Zhang Huangyan and Shi Kefa received Yang Tianhe and others, they immediately launched a rebellion in Nanjing to support Tang Wang Zhu Youjian as emperor. Although they also sent spies from the Jinyiwei and Neiwei to assassinate him, they all failed.
When Zhao Xiaofei saw his wives and children, he really wanted to rush over and hug them one by one, but there were too many people at the scene, so he held back.
He simply hugged all the children. When he was holding the daughter born to Princess Zhaoren, Princess Kunxing whispered in his ear: "Go back home first! Something happened at home and outside!"
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