Yongli Ming Dynasty

Chapter 34 Breaking in
The three intersections leading to the Guiwang Mansion were surrounded by soldiers. A total of 300 soldiers from the Governor's Office surrounded the entire Guiwang Mansion tightly.

If the Guiwang Mansion had not dug a tunnel in advance, basically no one would be able to break out from such a heavy siege.

At the main gate of the palace, more than a dozen figures were jostling each other, and a dispute was faintly heard.
Li Chengzhi stood outside with two guards, and opposite them were a dozen soldiers from the city wearing red military uniforms.

"I am a personal guard of the palace, and I am about to return home. What do you want to do?" Li Chengzhi said coldly.

The leader, a short-bearded personal guard, led the soldiers to block the door, with an indifferent look on his face.

"The Governor's Office has ordered that in order to protect the safety of the palace, no one is allowed to enter or leave the palace at this time."

"I don't care whether you are the governor or not. There is chaos in the city. I am the personal guard of the palace. I have to enter the palace to protect the prince. Will you make way?" Li Chengzhi took a few steps forward.

"Sir, please don't bother me. The Governor's Office has issued a military order that no one is allowed to enter or leave the palace today."

The leading guard was indifferent, still standing in front with his arms folded. A dozen soldiers behind him surrounded Cheng Zhi and the three guards of the royal palace, with unfriendly expressions on their faces.
"Okay, very good"

Li Chengzhi's expression suddenly turned cold. He suddenly took a step forward and snatched the whistle stick from a soldier beside him.
The soldier wanted to pull it away, but how could an ordinary person stop Li Chengzhi, a general who had trained since childhood?
The soldier staggered forward, and Li Chengzhi kicked him. The soldier fell backwards, knocking down several soldiers behind him.
"you……"

The leading soldier was shocked and angry, but before he could say anything, a stick hit him and he fell to the ground with blood pouring from his face.

"How dare you, what do you want to do?"

The soldiers nearby reacted quickly, and with a few clangs, they all drew out their long swords from their waists. More than a dozen long swords emitted a fascinating cold light.

Li Chengzhi took a step back, threw the long stick in his hand to the opposite side, and drew out the long sword from his waist. The two guards beside him also drew their swords and pointed them at the dozen soldiers on the opposite side who looked doubtful.
"When I was killing people in Liaodong, you were still fishing in the sea. You dare to scare me with the Governor's Office?"

"That was a whistle just now. If you dare to stop me again, I will kill you," Li Chengzhi sneered.

"I am the personal guard of the palace. Now I am going to enter the palace to protect the prince. Anyone who tries to stop me will be killed without mercy."

"Kill, kill"

Li Chengzhi held a long sword and walked forward. The two guards behind him were also fierce soldiers in the army. At this time, their faces were ferocious and they roared. They protected Li Chengzhi on both sides and walked forward.
Three figures holding knives stepped forward together, and the dozen or so soldiers from Guangdong Province who were transferred from the city's military camp all had panicked expressions on their faces, and kept retreating, about to retreat into the palace gate.

Wu Tai stayed in the dark, looking at the dozen Guangdong soldiers, cursing in his heart, and then he had to come out from the corner.

"What's the fuss?"

Wu Tai hurried to the door, and the dozen soldiers finally breathed a sigh of relief and started talking.
"These three men said they were the palace guards and insisted on entering the palace, but the Lord had issued an order not to allow anyone to enter or leave. The palace guards tried to stop them, but were knocked to the ground by these three men."

Wu Tai looked at the three people holding long swords without restraint, and cursed in his heart. These barbarians are really unreasonable.
As a personal guard of the governor's office, he held a low position, but he was extremely well-informed. Others did not recognize Li Chengzhi, but he recognized him.

This Li Chengzhi was the nephew of Li Mingzhong outside the city. He had even seen him several times when he followed Li Mingzhong to the governor's office to ask for money. These soldiers always made trouble for no reason. Now that he had the truth in his hands, he would definitely make a big fuss.

Li Mingzhong had 6,000 soldiers stationed outside the city. Even Lord Ding couldn't do anything to them and could only withhold their money and food. The situation was uncertain at the moment, so he really didn't dare to do anything to Li Chengzhi.

"You said you were a royal guard, do you have proof?"

Wu Tai's face turned cold as his mind turned. He looked at Li Chengzhi in front of him and said

"This is the token of the palace's personal guards. I go in and out of the palace every day. Everyone in the palace recognizes me."

Li Chengzhi took out a black token from his arms and threw it to Wu Tai.

Wu Tai reached out to take it, as if to examine it carefully. In fact, he didn't need to examine it at all. He already knew Li Chengzhi's identity. He was just checking the token and thinking of a way to deal with it.

"It is indeed the token of the palace, but even if you are the token of the palace, so what? You guard the palace, and we also guard the palace. You hurt people just because of a disagreement. Do you really think we are easy to bully?" Wu Tai threw the token back to Li Chengzhi with a cold look on his face. As he spoke, the guards around Wu Tai also gathered around him. These were not the ordinary soldiers who were temporarily transferred here.
Several personal guards of the governor's office surrounded them from all sides, and the expressions on Li Chengzhi and the other two's faces changed slightly.
These guards were all Ding Kuichu's carefully selected personal soldiers. Each of them was an elite soldier selected from thousands of miles away. Even Ding Kuichu only had more than a hundred people around him.

Li Chengzhi looked solemn, holding his sword tightly, but he had no intention of giving in. However, Wu Tai on the opposite side continued to speak.

"If you don't give an explanation to my soldiers today, none of you will be able to enter."

Li Chengzhi was already prepared for a fight, but when he heard Wu Tai's words, his eyebrows raised. He thought about it and said

"What you said makes sense. In this case, I will give five taels of silver as money for the guard's medicine, so that others won't say that my palace is unreasonable."

Li Chengzhi put away his long sword, took out a gold ingot, and threw it to a guard next to Wu Tai.

"Can I go in now?" Li Chengzhi looked unhappy.

Seeing that Li Chengzhi understood his hint and did not mess around, Wu Tai was slightly relieved, but his face remained expressionless.
Wu Tai snorted coldly and waved his hand, and the soldiers behind him immediately made way.
Li Chengzhi showed a hint of arrogance on his face. He held his head high and walked into the gate of the palace with his guards behind him.
Wu Tai looked at the figure disappearing at the gate of the mansion, his eyes flickering.
He had heard with his own ears that Li Mingzhong had rebelled and was leading his army to attack him. Although he still did not believe it, Ding Kuichu's words were very convincing and did not seem to be false.

The situation in the city was in chaos. Although he had received orders from Ding Kuichu, he only needed to do his job well and not create unnecessary trouble.
If Li Mingzhong hadn't rebelled, he wouldn't have offended Li Chengzhi this time.
If Li Mingzhong really rebelled, that would be great. Now the Guiwang Mansion is surrounded tightly, and Li Chengzhi would be unable to escape if he entered the mansion.
Once there was solid news from the city, he could immediately arrest Li Chengzhi, the nephew of the rebel general. This was a great feat.
If Li Mingzhong didn't rebel in the end, that would be fine. Lord Ding's order to him was not to allow anyone in the palace to leave, but he didn't say that no one was allowed to enter the palace. This didn't count as a violation of the governor's order.
Li Chengzhi led the two of them into the palace with an arrogant look. As soon as they entered the palace, the expression on Li Chengzhi's face suddenly changed.

He was just doing some work at the city gate, and the gate was closed for no reason in broad daylight. How could he not know about such a big thing?

Rumors were spreading everywhere in the city. On the way back to the palace, he had heard several rumors, each more frightening than the last.

Especially since a rumor he heard was actually related to his family, he became even more panicked when he thought of this.

When he returned to the palace, he found that it was surrounded by soldiers from the governor's office. He knew the situation was urgent.

The palace was surrounded, and the prince was trapped in the palace with no news. He had to enter the palace to inform the prince of the news outside.
Li Chengzhi entered the mansion and went directly to the middle courtyard, but found that the front courtyard was already in chaos.

The people from the Governor's Office surrounded the entire palace. Not only were the people in the middle and back yards not allowed to go out, but even the eunuchs and maids sent by the previous dynasty from the front yard were surrounded.
The people in the front yard were immediately panicked when they saw that the outer perimeter was surrounded by soldiers and they could not get in or out. However, they were leaderless and they finally remembered that there was another owner in the mansion, so they all rushed to the middle courtyard.
When Li Chengzhi arrived at the gate of the middle courtyard, a circle of people had already gathered in front of the gate. Two guards from the army were holding long swords and guarding the gate tightly, but they did not allow anyone to enter.
Li Chengzhi squeezed through the crowd, and the guard at the gate naturally recognized Li Chengzhi and let him in directly

The two guards beside Li Chengzhi also stayed at the door, guarding the entrance to the middle courtyard and preventing people from the front courtyard from entering.

Li Chengzhi quickly went to the study courtyard, but found along the way that not only the front courtyard was in chaos, but the people in the middle courtyard were also in chaos.
When he arrived at the courtyard where Zhu Lang's study was located, the courtyard was also crowded with people, all with anxious expressions on their faces.

However, they were old people in the palace after all, and they knew that the prince was in the courtyard, so they did not make a fuss like those people in the front yard.
Deng Mingwu was guarding the door of the study with his men. When Li Chengzhi saw Deng Mingwu, he asked
"Where's the prince?"

"In the study, what's going on outside? Why did the Governor's Office surround the palace?"

Deng Mingwu has always been calm, but when he saw Li Chengzhi coming back from outside, he couldn't help but ask

The Governor's Office suddenly sent people to surround the palace.
When asked what the reason was, the leading guard said that there was a riot outside the city.
When asked who caused the riot, the leader kept denying that he knew nothing.

The prince had just ordered him to go out and investigate, but who would have thought that the soldiers in the governor's mansion would actually prohibit people from entering or leaving the mansion. They said they were protecting the mansion, but it was clear that they were placing everyone in the mansion under house arrest.

Now that he suddenly saw Li Chengzhi coming back from outside, Deng Mingwu couldn't help but

"I will go see the prince first. You guard the door and no one is allowed to come in."

Li Chengzhi did not respond to Deng Mingwu's words. He just said one sentence and walked into the courtyard with a serious expression.
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