Chapter 346: Never pledged loyalty, how can there be betrayal

This might be a conspiracy, a plot to lure him in.

Moreover, they were able to organize so many troops near the capital and ambush him, the commander of the Palace Front Department and the uncle of the emperor.

You don’t have to think about it to know who it is. Who else could it be except Prince Yong and Prince Yan!
Then Chen Guojiu reacted:

"Oh no! They are going to rebel!"

"Retreat, retreat quickly, they are going to rebel!" Thinking of this, Chen Guojiu immediately shouted loudly:
"Quick, go back and inform the guards at the city gates, and tell them that Prince Yan and Prince Yong are here!"

Before Chen Guojiu finished saying the word "rebellion" he heard countless shouts and cries of killing coming from all around. It turned out that they had been surrounded!
"Swish, swish, swish, swish~!" A volley of arrows came flying.

"Puchi~ Puchi~ Puchi~ Puchi~!" With the sound of arrows entering the flesh, the personal guards beside Uncle Chen were hit by arrows one by one, and immediately there were wailing everywhere!
In the end, only Chen Guojiu was left surrounded in the middle, with dozens of archers aiming at him!
Afterwards, four strong men carried a sedan chair and slowly came to the opposite side of Chen Guojiu, and Prince Yong walked down from the sedan chair, even having the leisure to adjust his robe!

"Uncle, surrender!" Prince Yong said slowly.

"Don't even think about it!" Uncle Chen glared at Prince Yong, then looked at everyone with a serious expression, and then shouted loudly:
You...you are rebelling! This is an attempt to usurp the throne. You traitors have disregarded the trust that His Majesty has placed in you!

Chen Guojiu knew that he could not escape today, because others could surrender to Prince Yong and Prince Yan, but he could not, because his nephew was the crown prince and the future emperor of the Song Dynasty.

However, when he saw a man in armor behind King Yong, he was stunned for a moment.

Then Uncle Chen gritted his teeth and said:

"I know why you ambushed me. Isn't it because you want me to help you trick the city gate and the palace gate open?"

Prince Yong thought that this guy reacted very quickly, but since he was exposed, Prince Yong did not hide it and said bluntly:
"Not bad, I didn't expect you to react so quickly~!"

Then the King of Yong advised: "Surrender, as long as you are willing to cooperate with me, I will grant you great wealth after the matter is accomplished. Isn't this better than ~!"

However, before Prince Yong could finish his words, Uncle Chen shouted angrily:
"I'm telling you, forget it~!"

Chen Guojiu was not stupid, so how could he believe the promise of Prince Yong? Then he became ruthless and directly put the sword across his neck, then shouted firmly:
"Don't even think about succeeding. As long as I die, your plan today will definitely fail!"

"Puchi~!" Chen Guojiu drew his sword and committed suicide without hesitation.

Then his consciousness gradually became blurred, and before closing his eyes, he looked at King Yong again...!
At this time, Prince Yong looked at Uncle Chen who had committed suicide in surprise. He did not expect that he had such courage. He said in a low voice with some emotion:

"I didn't expect this guy to react so quickly. What a pity~!"

I don’t know whether Prince Yong feels sorry for someone as loyal as Chen Guojiu, or for Chen Guojiu’s keen intuition and courage!

Then Prince Yong waved his hand, and the soldiers around him raised their swords and attacked the injured imperial guards on the ground!

After a long time, the shouting and killing gradually stopped. After the 100 guards were wiped out, Prince Yong came to the body of Uncle Chen and shook his head and sighed again:

"If we hadn't used the news of his parents being kidnapped to make him lose his composure, it would have been a difficult task to trick the city gates open and seize the palace he was guarding!"

"Your Highness, now is not the time to sigh. We should quickly meet up with Prince Yan. Otherwise, once he starts to act, our plan will be ruined!"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Upon hearing this, Prince Yong stopped sighing and instructed the captain beside him:
"Captain Li, it seems that you have to replace Uncle Chen. Hurry up and change into their clothes and follow me into the palace to clear out the evildoers."

"Yes, sir!" Then a man next to Prince Yong, whose appearance and body shape were very similar to Chen Guojiu, put on Chen Guojiu's armor!
Then Lieutenant Li imitated Uncle Chen's voice and shouted:

"Follow me back to the palace and protect His Majesty!"

Not to mention, even the voices are 80% similar!
"Yes!"

Then the group of people lined up in an orderly manner and went towards the city gate!

However, Prince Yong did not notice that not far from where he was ambushing Uncle Chen, there were several people quietly watching their actions.

Behind these people, a group of people were sharpening their knives.

"The intelligence is correct. Prince Yong and Prince Yan are indeed acting separately. Prince Yong is ambushing and assassinating Uncle Chen, and wants to use Uncle Chen to trick the city gates and the palace gates open!"

At this time, a young general among these people also retracted his gaze and said to Lin Hao excitedly:

"Sir, when do we start?"

After saying this, the young general licked his lips, and his voice trembled a little when he spoke, but he was not scared, but excited. He felt that his master had done so many things and he must be coveting the throne.

If their master succeeds in changing the dynasty, wouldn't they be following in his footsteps?
I feel excited just thinking about it!
However, Lin Hao just smiled slightly: "Haha! The fun has just begun, of course we have to turn the tide at the most critical moment!
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Half an hour later, the sleeping emperor was awakened by the shouting and killing sounds outside the palace. However, the emperor was still in a daze and did not realize the seriousness of the problem.

"Why is there so much noise outside?"

At this time, the emperor's personal eunuch ran to the emperor in a panic and shouted:

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, something bad has happened. Rebels have entered the palace!"

"What?" The emperor suddenly woke up and asked in disbelief, "The rebels broke into the palace?"

The emperor's first reaction was that he was dreaming. Hadn't the Rong Dukes from all over the country already wiped out the rebels near the city of Bianliang?

"Wait, tell me clearly, where did the rebels come from? I received Lin Hao's victory report yesterday!"

"Besides, even if there are rebels, are the guards of the capital and the imperial guards just sitting there doing nothing? How could they possibly allow the rebels to break into the palace?"

However, the next moment, a blood-stained Imperial Guard captain stumbled in and shouted anxiously:
"Your Majesty, Prince Yong and Prince Yan are in rebellion. They have taken down the gates of the imperial palace with their army and are marching towards your Majesty's bedroom. Our people can no longer hold on..."

"Prince Yong and Prince Yan are rebelling?" the emperor muttered to himself.

Then the emperor widened his eyes, and at this moment he finally realized that he was not dreaming.

Concubine Yi, who was holding the prince, also looked at the emperor with fear:

"Your Majesty, what should we do?"

"Where is Uncle Chen?"

The emperor had been emperor for decades after all, and after a brief panic, he quickly calmed down:

"What on earth is Uncle Chen doing? He actually let the Prince of Yan's men break into the palace so easily.

"Your Majesty, Uncle Chen is leading his people in rebellion. He was the one who had the gates of the palace opened. He is now leading the attack on the palace, and many of the imperial guards in the palace have rebelled on the battlefield!"

"Impossible!" Concubine Yi said angrily at this time: "My elder brother will never betray Your Majesty. You must know that he is not only the uncle of the emperor, but also the uncle of the prince. Others may betray Your Majesty, but he will never do so!"

At this time, the eunuch beside the emperor, the Imperial City Envoy in charge of the Imperial City Department, said:
"Your Majesty, this matter is quite strange. As far as I know..."

Afterwards, the Imperial City Envoy briefly recounted what happened today, when Uncle Chen received the news that his parents were kidnapped, and then Uncle Chen secretly took more than a hundred personal guards and left the city during curfew!
Everyone was not stupid. Less than an hour after Chen Guojiu arrived, he suddenly tricked the city gate open, and then led the men of Prince Yong and Prince Yan into the palace.

I'm afraid that Chen Guojiu was deliberately tricked out of the palace by Prince Yong and Prince Yan. I don't know why Chen Guojiu rebelled. It seems that it is related to the kidnapping of his parents. He might have been threatened for this.

Moreover, at least one-third of the imperial guards instantly sided with the two princes. It was obvious that this was premeditated!

Upon hearing this, the emperor angrily scolded Chen Guojiu: "You are a jerk who can't do anything good but always causes trouble!"

Then he said to the guards and eunuchs around him:

"Come here, escort Concubine Yi away from here!"

The emperor knew that he would definitely not be able to escape, and he was old and had become indifferent to life and death. The only thing that worried him was the prince in Concubine Yi's arms.

He is the future heir to the Song Dynasty.

"I won't leave!" Concubine Yi's eyes were firm, and she said stubbornly:
"If your majesty doesn't leave, I won't leave either. I'm not afraid of death. Even if I die, I will stay by your majesty's side!"

The emperor didn't know at this time whether Concubine Yi's words were true or false. Anyway, Concubine Yi's words of living and dying together still moved the emperor deeply.

"Just leave when I tell you to. Why are you talking so much nonsense? You can leave here with my bloodline. As long as the prince is still here, we can turn the tables!"

Before this, the nobles whom he had been guarding against did not betray him, but instead it was the princes of the royal family who rebelled. And whether Concubine Yi's elder brother, Chen Guojiu, also joined the rebellion is still an unsolved mystery!
At this time, the emperor no longer knew who he could trust. The people he could trust were not in Bian Jing, and the people he thought he could trust had already rebelled.

Therefore, he could only try his best to pave the way for the prince, so he said to Concubine Yi:
"I know you are not afraid of death, but you have to think about the prince!"

Thinking of this, the emperor thought of something and prepared to draft a will, but after thinking about it, he stopped!

Then he directly tore off a piece of the dragon robe. Without preparing to use pen and ink, he drew the sword from the knife rack, and then cut his finger with the sharp sword, and blood immediately flowed out!

"Your Majesty!" Everyone exclaimed in surprise at this moment.

The emperor no longer cared about the surprise of the crowd, and turned to the eunuch and said:
"Bring me my imperial seal!"

However, when the emperor heard the shouts and screams getting closer and closer, he didn't care about much else and directly wrote a will with his own blood on his dragon robe!
He then stamped the imperial seal with his own hands and handed the edict to Concubine Yi.

"This is my edict of succession!" the emperor solemnly warned:
"Take the imperial edict to the Duke of Ying's Mansion and ask them to take you to Duke Rong. After he sees the imperial edict, he will definitely support the crown prince to succeed the throne!"

Then the emperor continued, "As long as the Zhang family supports us, Prince Yong and Prince Yan are nothing but clowns!"

"What a pity! I can't grow up with the prince!"

After sighing, the emperor urged again: "Okay, take the imperial edict and take the prince away quickly!"

After receiving the imperial edict, Concubine Yi said without hesitation:

"Your Majesty, I'm leaving now!"

Seeing Concubine Yi leaving without any reluctance, the emperor was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "I am really a lonely man!"

However, just as Concubine Yi walked to the door with the child, she stopped, even took two steps back, then turned her head to look at the emperor!

The emperor thought that Concubine Yi stopped to say her final goodbye to him, but at this moment, loud shouts and cries of killing came from outside the door!
Then several loyal guards were hacked to death and fell at the door of the bedroom!
“Hahahaha…” Just then, Prince Yan walked in with his men, laughing: “Where are you going, Concubine Yi?”

“Hahahahaha!” Then came the voice of King Yong: “It seems we have arrived at the right time!”

The emperor's face was livid at this time, as he watched Prince Yong snatch the imperial edict from Concubine Yi's hand, and Prince Yan snatch his son!

The emperor also looked at Chen Guojiu, but he quickly recognized that this person was not Chen Guojiu at all, but just looked very similar to Chen Guojiu. At the same time, he also knew that Chen Guojiu might be dead!
At this moment, Prince Yong snatched the edict, took a look at the contents of the bloody edict, and then put the edict on the fire and lit it without hesitation.

The imperial edict was immediately burned to ashes, and then Prince Yong said disdainfully:

"In order to make your son the emperor, you are willing to give the Zhang family, a foreign family, the title of king!"

Afterwards, Prince Yong ignored the livid emperor and waved his hand, saying to Lieutenant Li, who looked like Uncle Chen:

"Captain Li! Prepare the writing brush, ink and seal for His Majesty!"

At this moment, when the emperor heard that the man's surname was Li, his previous guess was confirmed. It seemed that Uncle Chen had died, and this impostor replaced Uncle Chen and tricked the city gates and palace gates open!

"Yes, sir!" Captain Li picked up a blank edict and placed it in front of the emperor, then returned behind Prince Yong!

At this time, Prince Yong continued to say to the emperor:

"Father, as long as you write the edict of succession, I swear that I will never make things difficult for you. Then you only need to be the emperor!"

"Hmph~ Stop dreaming!" Then the emperor sneered, "If I write down the edict of succession, I will die on the spot today!"

The emperor was dealing with the two kings verbally, but in his heart he was frantically thinking of ways to break the impasse!

However, just when Prince Yong wanted to speak, Captain Li, who was originally standing behind Prince Yong, saw Prince Yan looking at him, so he stabbed Prince Yong's waist directly with his eyebrow-tipped knife, and then stabbed him several times!

Then Prince Yong fell straight to the ground, looked at Lieutenant Li in disbelief, and said intermittently: "You, why, why did you betray me!"

But Lieutenant Li said calmly: "I have never pledged allegiance, so how can I be a traitor!"

Prince Yong looked at Prince Yan who was standing aside with an indifferent expression, then raised his hand and pointed at Captain Li, wanting to say something but unable to.

Finally, King Yong took a deep breath and shouted with his last bit of strength:

"You all, will suffer~!"

"Puff~!" Captain Li swung his sword without hesitation and chopped off Prince Yong's head with one blow, blocking Prince Yong's last curse in his mouth!

Prince Yong's head rolled directly in front of Concubine Yi. Although Concubine Yi was trembling all over, she showed no intention of retreating.

I don’t know if Concubine Yi was frightened or not, she just stared at Captain Li!
Captain Li wiped the blood off the eyebrow knife on Prince Yong's dragon robe, and then stood beside Prince Yan!
At this time, Prince Yan stepped forward, hugged the prince and said with a smile:
"Father, Prince Yong is ambitious and has attempted to usurp the throne. I have already wiped out this villain for you!"

(End of this chapter)