Five thousand soldiers of the Forbidden Army trotted all the way to the East Palace Gate in an orderly queue.
The sound of their armor scraping, footsteps, and the clash of weapons together cut through the quiet night sky in the palace city.
Sima Lun stared at the closed gate of the East Palace, snorted coldly and said: "Seal the surroundings first, and then break through the door."
The Forbidden Army General beside him agreed and started to arrange the arrangements separately.
In a short while, the East Palace was tightly surrounded by five thousand forbidden troops.
After a while, a large group of people came from a distance, and there were soldiers guarding or guarding them.
These people were officials summoned temporarily by Sima Lun, saying that he wanted them to be witnesses.
One of the school captains walked up to the palace gate and started banging on the door with his fist.
But a loud voice came from the top of the courtyard wall: "This is the Prince's Mansion in the East Palace.
Who of you dares to lead troops into the Prince's Mansion at night?
You are planning to rebel."
Sima Lun raised his head and squinted his eyes.
He recognized the head protruding from the wall.
It was Sima Ya, the right-guard governor of the East Palace Forbidden Army.
He shouted loudly: "Young Guard Governor, don't you recognize me?
I am Sima Lun, the prime minister of the country.
Now, the prince Sima Yu has committed the crime of treason and injustice.
He killed the king and his father.
It is a crime that cannot be spared.
Please open the door of the house quickly. , Counterattack, kill Sima Yu to avenge Your Majesty, it will be regarded as a great achievement.
If you are stubborn, you can only be regarded as guilty of the same crime as Sima Yu, and you will be punished by the three tribes."
Sima Ya said sternly: "That's nonsense.
How could His Highness the Crown Prince plot to murder His Majesty, and why is there any need to do so?
It's clear that you, an old man, want to plot rebellion.
Use this as an excuse to harm the Crown Prince."
Sima Yun behind the wall was secretly surprised when he heard Sima Lun's words: According to Sima Lun, Emperor Sima Zhong, who is also his cheap man in this life, has been killed by them.
Sima Lun and Sun Xiu were too courageous.
Dare to kill the king and then put the blame on me.
Thinking of this, Sima Yu climbed onto the sacks stacked at the base of the wall and exposed his head above the wall.
With a frightened expression, he shouted loudly: "Sima Lun, what do you mean?
My father has passed away and is buried in the sky?"
Sima Lun gave a strange sneer and said: "Stop pretending.
Didn't His Majesty ask you to instigate Du Ting to murder?
Du Ting was caught by our imperial army on the spot.
With the witnesses and material evidence, how can we allow you to quibble?
In addition, your The motive is also very clear, it is to seize the talented Wang Yanzhi Wang Ting who did such a treacherous thing.
Now that the king has received the information, Wang Ting will have a tryst with you in your East Palace. " After Sima Lun said this, the officials behind the Forbidden Army formation were whispering and discussing.
After Sima Yu heard this, he thought that this old thief was so thoughtful.
It must have been his confidant Sun Xiu's idea.
Sima Yu deliberately raised his voice an octave and asked Sima Lun frankly: "Today Du Ting was summoned by the eunuch prisoner and did not return.
After sunset, someone pretended to be a member of the palace to seize the eldest daughter of the Wang family.
I summoned you to the East Palace, and then you, Sima Lun, came with your troops.
Is it such a coincidence?
Why was Du Ting captured on the spot by you?
Who was the person who summoned him to the eunuch prison?
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Where is Du Ting now?
Why don't you take him in and confront him now?
You said you have received an informant.
Then please call your informant and let the servants of this palace see if he is the same as the one who sent Wang to the East Palace.
If they are not the same person, how do you, the informant, know the royal daughter who usually does not leave the boudoir, and what is your identity that allows you to squat at the gate of my East Palace to monitor me?"
Sima Yu's series of questions made Sima Lunwen's face turn blue and white, and the ministers were whispering again.
Sima Lun understood that if he continued to entangle and confront Sima Yu like this, more and more flaws would be revealed.
So he ignored Sima Yu and shouted loudly to the imperial soldiers behind him: "Capture the East Palace, kill Sima Yu, and avenge your majesty."
After listening to the order, all the soldiers rushed to the East Palace to kill.
A dozen soldiers carried the giant trees that had been prepared and headed straight for the courtyard gate.
The other soldiers also quickly approached the palace wall on short ladders about as high as Zhan Yu's.
When these soldiers rushed to within three battles of the palace wall, a long row of East Palace soldiers suddenly appeared on top of the wall.
Sima Lun and the ministers present could see clearly that these soldiers were not the Forbidden Army of the East Palace, because the helmets on their heads and the black armor on their bodies were much better than ordinary Forbidden Army soldiers from a visual perspective.
These black-armored iron guards who poked their heads out quickly released a round of arrows, catching the advancing Imperial Army off guard.
In an instant, more than a hundred soldiers fell to the ground after being hit by arrows, and almost all of them were shot in the face, etc.
Critical position.
The Imperial Army's attack on the East Palace was halted.
One arrow even flew over the Forbidden Army formation, narrowly passing by Sima Lun's face.
This frightened him into retreating a few times and jumping off his horse, allowing some soldiers holding shields to protect him.
After the Iron Guards fired a round of arrows, they did not stop and fired out powerful arrows one after another with the recurve bows in their hands.
Each person's shooting speed is about six or seven breaths, and they can release an arrow.
In front of the east palace wall, the screams of arrows could be heard continuously.
Sima Lun said angrily from behind: "The crossbowmen are fighting back, and the sword players are guarding the ladder."
The crossbowmen of the Forbidden Army also organized themselves and kept throwing arrows into the east palace courtyard.
However, the iron guards were protected by courtyard walls, and they were sparsely arranged, and in the dark, so it was extremely difficult for such a shooting to be effective.
The Iron Guards still did not stop shooting, and there were still casualties among the Forbidden Army soldiers falling to the ground one after another.
However, there were still many swordsmen who used their shields to withstand the rain of arrows and approached the courtyard wall carrying ladders and wooden blocks.
After a while, a series of ladders were set up around the courtyard wall.
Some Forbidden soldiers began to climb the ladder and tried to stab the iron guards behind the courtyard wall with their long knives.
An order came from the courtyard, and these black-armored iron guards suddenly disappeared.
Because the people in front had already begun to climb over the courtyard wall, the Forbidden Army's crossbowmen also stopped shooting.
The Custodes soldiers took this opportunity to quickly climb up the ladder, but they had just exposed their heads.
A row of spears stabbed at them.
It turned out that there was a whole row of spearmen from the East Palace Forbidden Army hidden behind the courtyard wall.
Following dozens of continuous screams, the first batch of soldiers who climbed onto the courtyard wall fell from the ladder.
Some had bloody faces, and some had holes in their chests.
Then another row of Forbidden Soldiers climbed up, but the result was the same.
Seeing this situation, the morale of the soldiers behind them was immediately dampened, and the attack rhythm slowed down significantly.
The dozen or so soldiers who hit the gate repeatedly hit it with no effect.
In fact, the pile behind the gate was full of sandbags.
Waves of arrows once again shot out from the courtyard in the form of projectiles.
It turned out that the iron guards had climbed onto the pavilion in the East Palace and were shooting from a high position.
Their bows and arrows originally had a long range, and coupled with the height bonus, the shooting range almost included the entire ranks of the Forbidden Army.
The soldiers of the imperial army were shot and killed in large numbers again.
The civil servants behind had never seen this scene, and they all fled back.
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