Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 814: Burn after reading (for JJM leader)

When King Li Renyou of Yue first heard about Ren Dejing's rebellion, he was greatly surprised.

Ever since Li Renxiao ascended the throne, the situation of the other three brothers has been very bad.

They were safe and sound because the Western Xia emperor had no children.

It can be imagined that once Li Renxiao had his own biological son, these three kings would probably die young.

Therefore, Li Renyou pretended to be obsessed with poetry, songs, fine wine and beautiful women in order to confuse Li Renxiao.

On the one hand, he secretly recruited assassins and made friends with great Confucian scholars from all over the country in order to accumulate strength to protect himself.

However, he had no power to fight against Li Renxiao, especially Li Renxiao who was supported by Ren Dejing.

Now, Ren Dejing and Li Renxiao have fallen out.

"My king, quickly gather the servants and slaves in the palace and break into the palace to rescue you. There may be a chance to turn the tide!"

Yu Gongtian, the chief secretary of the palace, was still drunk but still holding a sword and making an impassioned speech.

Li Renyou asked in a deep voice: "How many men and horses are available in the mansion?"

The palace's chief steward immediately clasped his fists and reported: "Your Majesty, there are 500 slaves and 300 servants in the palace, all of whom are carefully selected warriors. There are also 80 sets of iron armor hidden in the palace. With the courage of 800 warriors and 80 armored soldiers, we are not without a chance to fight."

Chief Clerk Yu Gongtian was both surprised and delighted: "Your mansion actually has such strength? Wow hahahaha..."

"Pfft!"

Li Renyou stabbed the chief secretary Yu Gongtian through with one knife.

Yu Gongtian stared with eyes wide open, looking at this prince who had always been in the entertainment field in amazement, and said with difficulty: "Great... Great King, why... why?"

Li Renyou drew out his bloody sword and ignored him. Instead, he said to the chief steward, "Quickly gather the troops and horses, go through Qingtong Gorge, leave Xingqing Prefecture, and head to Tiandu Mountain. Send out a letter to all directions to punish the disloyal, and call on the great Confucian scholars from all sides to join in the righteous cause and recruit soldiers to serve the king!"

Yu Gongtian was bewildered after hearing this. The emperor was right in front of him, why should he run so far to serve him?

By the time you gather an army to defend the king, the grass on the king's grave will be more than a foot high.

Then he sobered up.

Then he fell to the ground and fell into an eternal sleep.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Three grenades, iron sheets and nails, flew in all directions with sharp whistles.

The palace guards who came to greet him immediately fell down.

Most of them survived, as the grenade's explosion had limited power.

However, most of them were injured. They fell to the ground, rolled over, screamed, and twisted their bodies, which was more terrifying than death.

Then, the special operations soldiers of the "Tongzhou Society" and the Ren family's death squad rushed into the Prince of Yue's Palace frantically.

"It is difficult for a country to recognize loyal ministers! Rewards are given to reward merits, and titles are given to honor virtues. Today, you have worked together to put an end to the chaos. Your Majesty will certainly not be stingy with titles and rewards in the future..."

Li Renyou turned pale before he finished his mobilization.

Because the special forces of the "Tongzhouhui" rushed to the door of the hall, threw three more grenades in, and then crowded into the crowd.

The expedition failed, and no one in history knew about the great ambitions of Li Renyou, the King of Yue.

No one even knew that he had a hidden ambition and was trying to take advantage of Li Renxiao's difficulty to establish himself and usurp the throne.

Because they lost the opportunity forever before they had the time to do it or say it.

……

Bu Zangku of the Western Xia Imperial Palace.

This is the most important place in the palace except for the emperor and empress's sleeping quarters.

As the battle in the palace broke out, the gate of Bu Zangku was closed tightly.

The strong and burly eunuch Bu Zangku stood on the palace wall holding a crossbow and a sword.

"Open the door!"

"The palace is already in our hands. Open the gate and surrender immediately!"

The eunuchs of Bu Zangku ignored it.

They even began to prepare fire starters to set the Bu Zang Ku on fire.

until……

"Open the door, I'm here!"

"Queen Mother?"

The chief eunuch of Bu Zangku was extremely surprised and quickly leaned over the palace wall to look outside.

Two palace lanterns shone on the left and right, with a beautiful woman standing in the middle, graceful and charming from head to toe.

Seeing someone sticking his head out from the city wall, Queen Mother Ren snatched a lantern and raised it to the side.

Under the palace lantern, a pale face was illuminated. Was that... His Majesty the Emperor?
Li Renxiao said in despair: "Open the door."

The door of Bu Zangku was wide open, and the national seal, tiger talisman, command arrow and other tokens of control over the military and political affairs of Western Xia fell into the hands of Ren Dejing and Yang Yuan.

The fighting outside the palace continued.

Ren Dejing and Yang Yuan have already headed to the palace under heavy guard.

They had to quickly use the jade seal, tiger talisman and command arrow to issue various orders to the military and civilians of Western Xia and transfer power.

Wars continued to break out in various parts of the Western Xia imperial city.

While the officers and soldiers of the Tiger Control Army were fighting, the princes and ministers who wanted to serve the king gathered their family soldiers, servants and slaves and rushed into the streets with weapons.

The troops secretly transferred to the capital by the Ren family, as well as the constables and militiamen of Ren Degong, the prefect of Kaifeng, and the soldiers of Ren Decong's Palace Guard, engaged in a melee with these troops.

At dawn, the fighting in the Western Xia Palace had completely stopped and everything was quiet.

All the important gates and roads of the palace were guarded by soldiers. The eunuchs and maids in the palace had been gathered together and began to carry the corpses and clean the palace gardens.

The eunuchs in charge of the palace knelt respectfully in front of the emperor's Qinzheng Hall, holding the property books they were in charge of and the work books they were responsible for, waiting for Ren Dejing to ask them questions at any time.

In the Qinzheng Hall, Ren Dejing and Yang Yuan sat side by side.

The extremely beautiful Empress Dowager Ren sat on one side, helping to take care of palace affairs, while the Western Xia Emperor Li Renxiao, with a pale face, was detained by four armored soldiers and sat on the other side.

Yang Yuan and Ren Dejing are urgently dealing with the aftermath.

On the streets of Xixia, fully armed and armored soldiers were running and galloping.

The Western Xia ministers, who were supposed to attend the court early in the morning, sent their trusted family guards to carefully peek through the cracks in the door, waiting for the truth to come out.

Some of them were slow to react, and still didn't know who had rebelled, or whether the rebellion had succeeded. The capital had been completely controlled by Ren Dejing's forces, and the final cleansing was now underway.

The Datong Army, one of the emperor's five guards, was stationed only forty miles away from the capital.

At this time, the 5,000 soldiers of the Datong Army had received the news and were rushing to the imperial city.

On the walls of the imperial city, rolling logs, stones, and boxes of arrows were being carried up in preparation for repelling the attack of the Datong army.

The garrisons in many places in the Hetao area have long been controlled by the Ren family, and are now remaining on standby.

The armed forces that were still loyal to the Baba clan were unaware of the dramatic changes in the capital.

After passing Yingli City, Shi Han, Guo Di and other Song troops, with the cooperation of Xixia traitors, attacked in different directions and intercepted and encircled the army that was still loyal to the Xixia emperor.

They wanted to surround these armed forces before they got the news.

Among them, Gao Gan, Yang Wanli, Lu You, Gan Quan and others led the officers and soldiers of the field camp, the firearm camp and the mad camp and rushed to Xingqing Prefecture to take over and control the Western Xia imperial city.

This time, the Xixia coup was unprecedentedly successful in all the previous coups in the Xixia Kingdom, because the accomplice was Ren Dejing, the prime minister of the Great Xia Kingdom, whose power was even greater than that of the Xixia emperor.

By noon the day after the coup, civilians in Xingqing City had basically resumed their daily activities.

Although, in many places there were many more officers and soldiers patrolling with spears and swords.

The Datong Army had no siege equipment, and since the capital had already fallen and the army had sufficient defensive equipment, they had no way of breaking into the city.

They only have 5,000 people, and if they can break into the city they can still do something.

But if it is only used for siege, even if there are siege equipment, it will not be enough to pose a threat.

Therefore, after leaving behind hundreds of corpses, they began to consider retreating.

But at this time, the Western Xia Emperor Li Renxiao was pushed to the top of the city wall.

Accompanying him were three dishevelled, depressed princes...

The Western Xia emperor and the three princes who were the first in line to the throne were all captured alive.

Although the Datong Army was loyal to the Western Xia Emperor, they did not know what to do in the face of this situation.

The generals of the Datong Army held a small meeting in front of the battlefield.

The solutions they developed are as follows:
1. Escape north to the Black Mountain Weifu Military Headquarters.

However, once Hetao is lost, what can the Black Mountain Wei Fu Army do?

After the stalemate, surrender to the Jin Kingdom?
Otherwise, there will be no way to replenish food and supplies.

2. Cross the desert, go to the Hexi Corridor, and seek refuge with Tuoba Hou.

However, the army's existing food and supplies were not enough to cross the desert.

After all, they are the imperial guards garrisoning Xingqing Prefecture, and their daily supplies are allocated from Xingqing Prefecture, so the army does not need long-term reserves.

3. Break out and join the Xuanwei Army, Mingsha Army and Weidi Army.

But when the three armies joined together, there were less than 15,000 people.

It is now known that the emperor of Western Xia, the three princes who were the first in line to the throne, the two empress dowagers, and the imperial palace were all arrested.

The coup d'etat was perpetrated by Prime Minister Ren Dejing, and most military commanders were under Ren Dejing's direct or indirect control.

Also standing on the city wall was Yang Yuan, the Song Dynasty's Sichuan envoy.

Since Yang Yuan appeared here, there are at least 100,000 Song troops who should have advanced into the Hetao Plain.

The families of the Datong Army soldiers were all in Xingqing City.

So, the correct answer is…

They were loyal to the emperor. The emperor ordered them to lay down their weapons and accept the arrangements of the prime minister on the city wall. They had no choice but to obey the imperial order.

……

Luo Cheng'an, Yan Qingyu, Yue Peiying and others were detained by Xixia soldiers in Haoshui Village along with cartloads of Buddha statues.

When being escorted to Xingqing Prefecture and passing through "Moqi Ai", they met troops from the Tiandu Military Supervision Office who were retreating from "Tiandu Mountain".

This group of people was not very large. They were the Xixia officers and soldiers stationed in Tiandu Mountain and were the trusted troops of the Xixia emperor.

Because Tiandu Mountain is the location of the Xixia royal temples and royal cemeteries.

This troop is responsible for guarding the graves.

However, after Shi Han, Guo Di and their troops entered the Hetao Plain, they immediately split up and advanced in different directions.

Among them, Guo Di's troops went straight to Tiandu Mountain.

As a result, the troops guarding the mausoleum were unable to resist the enemy and had to retreat along the "Meiyan Gorge" to the "Moqi Ai".

Here, the two sides fought another fierce battle.

Luo Cheng'an and his group thought that reinforcements had arrived, but the two sides fought each other, and the Western Xia army of the Tiandu Military Supervision Division fled into the Douling Mountains and became scattered soldiers.

Luo Cheng'an and others fell into Guo Di's Song army again.

The Xixia soldiers and generals who were escorting Luo Cheng'an and others quickly revealed their identities.

They learned that they were Ren Dejing's men, and checked the huge Buddha statues, finding that the bellies were full of gold, silver and treasures.

Therefore, Guo Di dispatched another group of troops, led by Murong Qianyu, to escort Luo Cheng'an and others to Xingqing City together with Ren Dejing's troops.

Guo Di led other troops to control the cities and key passes in the Hetao Plain according to the established goals.

Luo Chengan and the others had completely given up hope, and they went all the way from Xiaoguan City, Shangyikou, and Daidailing.

By the time they were escorted to Xingqing Prefecture, the situation in Western Xia had already been settled.

Yang Yuan and Ren Dejing are working together to incorporate and reorganize the entire Western Xia.

The Tuoba clan actually controlled Longyou for nearly three hundred years and established the country for more than one hundred years, but ultimately could not escape the fate of unification.

However, compared to being destroyed by Genghis Khan, they were lucky.

After Genghis Khan conquered Western Xia, the Dangxiang people in Western Xia were almost completely slaughtered, eventually leading to the complete disappearance of this ethnic group in the long river of history.

But in Yang Yuan's hands, they were preserved to the greatest extent possible.

Because Yang Yuan’s “Inner Records Office” sent Yang Yuan the most important analysis report.

To be cautious, Fujiwara Takako, Liu Yanran and Fei Yuye, after jointly drafting this report, asked Ji Xiang to bring Hanane and Xiaonai to escort the report personally to Xingqing City and hand it over to Yang Yuan.

No one knew what was written on it. Yang Yuan burned it after reading it and never let anyone else see it.

(End of this chapter)