Becoming a widow for the sake of good fortune? The short-lived prince lived a hundred years

It was like a bolt from the blue, and everyone was stunned in an instant.

Emperor Yongxi's expression suddenly changed. He stood up abruptly and shouted angrily, "Chu Yunyan is so bold!"

His gaze was as sharp as a torch, sweeping across the entire area. He said in a deep voice, "All officers and men, listen up! Stop the autumn hunt immediately and prepare for battle!"

The accompanying guards quickly assembled and moved with agility, the sound of armor clashing was endless.

The princes and court officials also recovered from their shock, but their faces showed different expressions. Some were terrified, while others pretended to be calm.

Emperor Yongxi suddenly asked, "Where are Duke Dingguo's family?"

Commander Jiang reported, "This morning, the wife of Duke Dingguo and the Crown Prince's wife tried to leave under the pretext of something, but were detained by our men."

Emperor Yongxi sneered and went to the temporary palace. Duke Dingguo was originally on the list, but he declined. Only the wife of Duke Dingguo, his two sons, and the wife of the Crown Prince came.

"Bring them closer. If the rebels attack, sacrifice them!"

"Yes!"

At this moment, the atmosphere on Wanfeng Mountain was so solemn that it seemed as if water could drip out of it.

Just two quarters of an hour after the urgent report was issued, Chu Yunyan's private soldiers swept towards Wanfeng Mountain like a surging tide, and the deafening shouts of killing were getting closer.

Obviously, before his private soldiers arrived, he had sent people to assassinate the scouts and patrols along the way, which is why he appeared so quickly.

Halfway up the mountain, Commander Jiang led the imperial guards in the front, while the wife of Duke Dingguo and his two sons were escorted to the front.

Watching the approaching rebels, Commander Jiang shouted, "Sixth Prince, the Emperor has ordered that if you surrender now, he will forgive your past. But if you persist, these men will be sacrificed."

Chu Yunyan glanced at the people in front of the battle. His mother's body was still in Fengyi Palace. Although his grandmother loved him, could she be closer to him than his mother? And his third and fourth uncles, although they were loved by his grandfather, were actually useless playboys.

He left his grandfather behind to guard the palace.

My uncle is helping.

Except for these two uncles and three female relatives, the rest of the family members are all well in the mansion of Duke Dingguo.

He can afford this loss.

His face was filled with sorrow. "Commander Jiang, has the emperor misunderstood? Crown Prince Chu Feici wanted to isolate the emperor from the capital and forcibly ascend the throne. My mother, the queen, was murdered by Chu Feici to protect the dignity of the royal family. He also planted spies around the emperor. I am worried about the emperor's safety, so I hurriedly led the troops here to purge him! Commander Jiang, please inform the emperor that I am late in coming to his rescue. Please forgive me, father!"

Commander Jiang was stunned when he heard this. How could you say that?

Looking at Chu Yunyan and the rebels who were slowly approaching, he sternly said, "Sixth Prince, don't be stubborn. Retreat immediately. There's still time!"

Chu Yunyan raised his voice: "This prince has been wondering who the spy beside the emperor is! I never thought it would be you. Generals, listen to my order! Purge the emperor's side and eliminate the Jiang thief! Kill him!"

Commander Jiang was furious and cursed, "Sixth Prince, you are confusing right and wrong and calling a horse a deer. Don't you have any shame?"

Chu Yunyan just looked at him with contempt, looking down at him with determination.

Commander Jiang knew that the Sixth Prince was determined. He raised his hand and said, "Imperial Guards, form a formation! Kill the enemy!"

Although the imperial guards had only 2,000 men and the rebels had 15,000 men, the mountain roads were narrow and the battlefield was not large.

The imperial guards and the rebels engaged in a fierce battle. For a moment, swords clashed, sparks flew, and shouts and screams of killing intertwined on the mountain path.

Blood flowed all the way, corpses piled up, and there were casualties on both sides.

The wife of Duke Dingguo and his two sons were tied up and unable to break free, and were trampled to death in the chaos of the army.

Although the imperial guards were brave, they were too few in number. Although they blocked wave after wave of attacks, their numbers were constantly decreasing.

The rebels gradually stabilized their position and launched a fierce counterattack. The imperial guards gradually became unable to resist and their defense line began to loosen.

Emperor Yongxi stood on the high platform and watched the battle become stalemate. He took a deep breath, slowly turned around, and walked towards the interior of the palace.

Everyone didn't know what he was going to do and was full of doubts.

When they arrived at a secret room in the backyard of the palace, Emperor Yongxi opened the door of the secret room.

In the secret room, there were no confidential documents or rare antiques, but several generals in armor.

They were sitting together, discussing the battle plan.

If Chu Yunyan were here, he would definitely recognize them as the commander and deputy commander of the Fengling Army, Changtai Army, and Yongji Army. They are experienced and have made great military achievements.

These three military camps guard the capital and are three hundred miles away from the capital.

The reason why Chu Yunyan wanted to take the enemy by surprise and rush straight to Wanfeng Mountain was to prevent the people from the three major military camps from providing assistance in time.

But he probably never dreamed that the people from the three major military camps had already been secretly transferred to Wanfeng Mountain by Emperor Yongxi.

"Your Majesty!" The generals stood up and saluted.

Emperor Yongxi waved his hand and walked straight to the table. Looking at the marching map on the table, he said in a deep voice: "The time has come. Send out the order to mobilize the 50,000 troops in ambush to encircle Chu Yunyan's rebels from both sides. We must wipe them out in one fell swoop!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" all the generals responded in unison.

Fifty thousand strong troops descended from the sky like divine soldiers, charging out from both sides of the forest.

They marched in unison, shouting thunderous slogans as they rushed towards the private soldiers.

Mr. Yu, who was accompanying the army this time, quietly hid in the mountains and forests before the ambush troops from the three camps appeared.

If it succeeds, he will naturally be credited with following the dragon.

But somehow, he always felt a little uneasy.

This feeling gave him the creeps, so even though victory was clearly in sight, he quietly left the team. After all, he was a scholar and didn't need to be on the front lines. The plan was set, so it didn't matter whether he was there or not.

He had to hurry back. His son's leg and hand injuries continued to improve after he spent a lot of money. Even if he couldn't fully recover, he should be able to continue taking the imperial examination. However, his son couldn't be registered under his name for the time being.

The forest was dark, and he heard shouts and cries of killing outside. Something was off about that sound. He poked his head out from a distance and saw the dense ambush of the three camps. His face turned pale with fear, and he ran away in panic, deep into the woods.

He wanted to take a shortcut and go down the mountain along the trail.

Just sneak away and hide outside for a while.

After the incident, who knew that he was an aide to the Sixth Prince?

While he was making plans in his mind, his vision suddenly darkened and a masked man in black appeared in front of him.

"Who are you?" He became alert instantly and stepped back quickly.

The masked man in black seemed to smile and said, "Please come to my house!" Then he knocked him unconscious, carried him on his shoulders and took him away.

All this happened silently, no one noticed him, let alone knew that a mysterious man in black had been there.

Chu Yunyan's private soldiers were attacking the imperial guards' defense line with all their might when they suddenly heard shouts and screams from behind and were horrified.

They all looked back and saw flags fluttering all over the mountains and plains, and the momentum was like Mount Tai pressing down on their heads.

The horse under Chu Yunyan's crotch felt something different and dug the ground with its hooves. He shook his body, his face changed, and an ominous premonition surged in his heart.

"I've fallen into a trap!" He gritted his teeth.

He understood that this was to lure the snake out of its hole, and he was the snake.

The situation on the battlefield reversed in an instant.

The rebels suffered heavy casualties. Chu Yunyan rushed left and right in the battle, trying to fight his way out, but he found himself surrounded.

Emperor Yongxi stood on the high platform, watching the changes in the battle situation, with a barely perceptible smile on his face.

"Commander Jiang, pass the order down. Make sure Chu Yunyan is captured alive. I will interrogate him personally!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Commander Jiang took the order and led a team of elite soldiers to attack in the direction where Chu Yunyan was.

He was also confused. The emperor had actually already dispatched three camps of troops here, and he, as the commander of the imperial guards, had no idea about it.

Chu Yunyan's guards fell one after another, and he was also wounded in many places, his clothes stained with blood. He looked at the enemy troops surging around him like a tide, his heart filled with despair.

At this moment, he felt Chu Feici's mood.

The feeling of being on the verge of victory but failing at the last moment!

He wanted to commit suicide, but someone snatched the sword away when he raised it.

Commander Jiang shouted, "The Emperor has ordered us to capture him alive! Tie him up!"

Commander Jiang forced Chu Yunyan, who was tied up, to kneel before the emperor.

Chu Yunyan's hair was disheveled, his clothes were tattered and soaked in blood, and his face was covered in dust and blood, but it was hard to hide the grief and unwillingness in his eyes.

He knocked his knees hard on the ground, but still straightened his back stubbornly, raised his head and glared at Emperor Yongxi, his eyes seemed to burn a hole in the emperor's body.

"Rebellious son, have I been bad to you? How could you do such a rebellious thing?" Emperor Yongxi smashed an inkstone on his forehead, and blood immediately flowed down.

Chu Yunyan gritted his teeth, his voice slightly hoarse with anger and despair. "Father, have you planned all this long ago? You deliberately appointed Chu Feici as the crown prince and lured this 'snake' out of his hole, just to catch me in one fell swoop today?"

His chest heaved violently, and veins popped out on his forehead.

Emperor Yongxi looked down at him, his voice low but every word sharp as a knife: "Yunyan, you have greatly disappointed me. I gave you a chance, but you were blinded by ambition and took the path of rebellion step by step."

Chu Yunyan sneered, his laughter echoing in the empty hall, with a bit of self-mockery: "Opportunity? Father, I have worked hard for this throne for many years. How can I be inferior to Chu Feici? I attend court affairs and which of the political views I put forward is not for the prosperity of our dynasty? Why are you so partial? I am obviously the legitimate daughter of the Empress Dowager, I am the most qualified one, but you don't make me the emperor! Why?"

"How dare you! I am in my prime, and instead of wishing me a long life, you all hope for my early death."

Chu Yunyan looked at the furious Yongxi Emperor and suddenly laughed. "So, you wish every son who wants to be crowned Crown Prince would die, right? Back then, when you treated me and the Duke Dingguo's Mansion so lightly in the Armory case, were you setting this trap back then, waiting for me to fall into it?"

"It is your greed that has ruined you. If you can be a good Prince Ding in the capital, I will consider you as the crown prince when I am old!"

Emperor Yongxi's gaze was like an eagle, sharp and cold. "But what have you done? Raising private soldiers, arming them with the finest weapons from the Armory! You only care about the throne, and have no regard for the fate of the country. If only you had not secretly transferred your private soldiers to the capital this time, and had not forced the palace to rebel, I would still give you a chance! I would have sent you to a prosperous land and let you live as a prince in peace. All this is your own fault!"

"Father, you supported me and my second brother to compete with each other, which gave me the illusion that you really wanted me to be the crown prince. Since you don't want to appoint a crown prince, why give us false hope?"

Tears and sobs streamed down his face, mixed with the blood, making him look miserable. At this moment, he was no longer the elegant and ambitious Sixth Prince, but just a small prisoner who felt like a clown.

"So, Father, in your heart, we're not father and son, but just your pawns. Back then, the eldest brother was, the second brother was, and so were Chu Feici and me. So, you deliberately made Chu Feici the crown prince. You knew I would smuggle private soldiers into the capital, you knew I would rebel, you knew the first place I would attack would be the palace, and you deliberately left Chu Feici behind just so I could kill him. He's your pawn, too! Hahaha."

Emperor Yongxi's eyes were gloomy. This was the truth, but he couldn't say it out loud. He shouted, "Someone come!"

Commander Jiang came in.

He waved his hand: "Take him out and poison him!"

Chu Yunyan neither struggled nor said anything, allowing the imperial guards to drag him away.

Commander Jiang led his men to clean up the battlefield.

Emperor Yongxi has issued an order: no surrender will be accepted and no one will be left alive!

In this battle, the imperial guards lost 800 men, the five-horse army of the three camps suffered more than 9,000 wounded, and 2,100 men were killed in battle.

However, Chu Yunyan's private soldiers, together with a guard from the Infantry Yamen affiliated with him, the royal palace soldiers, and other personnel, totaling more than 27,000 people, were all killed on the spot.

Among them was the prince of the Duke of Dingguo’s mansion.

Since the autumn hunt was originally a round-up, Emperor Yongxi returned to the capital after the event was completed.

The generals of the three camps reorganized their troops and marched towards the palace again.

In fact, when Chu Yunyan's body was tied to a big flag and appeared at the gate of the palace, the rebels in the palace had already lost their fighting spirit.

Duke Dingguo and his son, who were in charge of guarding the palace, turned pale when they saw this.

The Duke of Dingguo was a good military commander on the battlefield, and his son was also a man of both civil and military talents, but now the entire palace only had 5,000 elite soldiers.

Chu Yunyan is dead. Even if he wants to continue, how can he use 5,000 to deal with the 50,000 outside?

He was destined to be labeled a traitor.

Duke Dingguo's face was filled with grief. He drew his sword and committed suicide by slashing his throat.

The prince of Dingguo shouted, "Dad!" As he listened to the sounds of the siege outside, tears of blood streamed from his eyes. He stabbed the tip of his spear into his chest.

With the death of the father and son, the rebels were leaderless and fled in all directions.

Clean up the harem.

People kept coming to report.

"The Imperial Concubine was killed, and the Minghua Palace was massacred!"

"The Queen's body was found in Fengyi Palace, killed by an arrow!"

"Princess Zhou was murdered! She was... humiliated before her death!"

"Princess Ye was... raped by the rebels..."

"Miss Zhong hanged herself in disarray!"

"Noble Yu committed suicide, and the rebels desecrated her body! The palace maids were also abused!"

"..."

These messages showed that Chu Yunyan's men had completely failed to control their subordinates after occupying the palace. What they did was simply outrageous to both humans and gods.

Emperor Yongxi was furious when he heard this. Suddenly, he felt a sweetness in his throat, and a mouthful of blood spurted out, and he fell backwards.

"Hurry up and call the imperial physician!"

"The Imperial Hospital was looted, medicinal materials were scattered all over the floor, and some of the imperial doctors were injured, and some were missing."

Commander Jiang's expression changed drastically. The entire palace city was in chaos.

Then someone else reported that Chu Yunyan's men had tried to control and imprison the families of court officials and ministers who remained in the capital during the siege.

But most of them were rescued, and the rescuers are still unknown. The whereabouts of those court officials and their families are also missing.

But some were not rescued in time and died at the hands of the rebels.

In short, not only the imperial city was in chaos, the entire capital was in chaos.

Although there was not a river of blood and casualties everywhere, there were still heavy casualties.

Emperor Yongxi became even angrier, and vomited blood again.

Fortunately, after they all returned to the palace, the imperial physician who had been hiding came back tremblingly and was immediately brought to the palace to take the pulse of Emperor Yongxi.

But the imperial physician could not get anything out of him.

Emperor Yongxi felt stuffy and had difficulty breathing, as if a huge rock was pressing on his back, making it difficult to breathe.

He called Yushu over and asked, "Is Sai Bian Que still in the capital?"

Yushu said hurriedly, "I haven't heard that he left the capital. The Fifth Prince is recuperating after getting the medicine. I believe he is still in the capital."

Emperor Yongxi then remembered something: "The rebels are causing chaos in the capital. What about Prince An's mansion?"

"No news has been reported yet."

"Send someone to inquire and report to me immediately!"

The news came back two quarters of an hour later. Prince An's mansion had been closed to visitors due to his illness, and the gates had rarely been opened. During the rebellion, the rebels had also attacked Prince An's mansion. However, Prince An's mansion was the former residence of the Duke of Fuguo, bestowed upon him by the emperor, and was not breached by the rebels.

Everyone in Prince An's mansion stayed inside and never went out.

Emperor Yongxi turned around and said, "Yushu, go there yourself and ask Sai Bian Que to come and take my pulse."

When the rebels attacked the Imperial Hospital, they killed the director of the hospital. The deputy director was also frightened and his hands were shaking so much that he couldn't take the pulse. Emperor Yongxi didn't trust anyone else at all!

Yushu comes and goes quickly.

He was worried about the injury of Emperor Yongxi, so he knocked on the door and saw Prince An and his wife, as well as the old man who was taking Prince An's pulse. He was surprised by the man's identity. He explained his purpose in an urgent tone, and Sai Bian Que readily agreed to go and see him.

But they never expected that what Sai Bian Que said after taking Emperor Yongxi's pulse would almost cause Emperor Yongxi to turn the entire palace upside down.