Hongfu advised Wu Mei to go out, but Wu Mei didn't go out. She wanted to continue to move the four women, and she seemed to be sincere and willing to help. So the two sides confronted each other inside and outside Hongfu Temple. Not long after, a sharp voice from a distance suddenly shouted: "The emperor is here!"

Li Shimin is here.

Li Shimin had to come.

When he heard that a concubine in the palace was taken hostage, he immediately felt something was wrong. Why did Gao Yang and the women in the palace go to Hongfu Temple? When asked about the lieutenant who reported the news, the lieutenant could not explain clearly.

When Wu Cairen was captured, even Changsun Wuji, Cheng Yaojin, who was indecisive and Li Jing, who was very fragile in combat, had no choice but to kill hostages if you dare to attack, what should you do? The emperor can only decide on this matter in person.

So Li Shimin had to leave the palace while sick and led a group of palace guards to Hongfu Temple in person.

In the future, he was still wondering if Gao Yang was too presumptuous and offended a woman in the palace and was designed by someone?

How dare ordinary people fight against the royal princess? They dare to fight against the royal princess and just capture the concubines as hostages. All of this shows that this is a conspiracy! Since they are possessed of peerless martial arts and dare to cause trouble in Chang'an City, they must have considered the result of the army's siege, so they have made a plan to threaten the hostages.

When he arrived outside Hongfu Temple, he immediately called Princess Gaoyang, Yin Fei, Yang Fei and Xiao Zhaorong to ask about the incident.

In front of the emperor, Yin Fei, Yang Fei and Xiao Meiniang were of course not as good as Princess Gao Yang, and Gao Yang did not want the three concubines to tell the process, so as not to let the father know that this was a dispute caused by his jealousy. So the evil man first complained and made up a lie to tell how arrogant and arrogant the four women were, and took the initiative to provoke the royal majesty.

After Gao Yang's lie, Yin Concubine Yang and Xiao Meiniang could not tell the truth. To be honest, wouldn't it be slapped Gao Yang in the face? So when the emperor listened to Gao Yang's narration and asked them three concubines, they all fit Gao Yang's sentences.

The four women didn't tell the truth, so they missed the most important information that these four women were Li Zhiyun's wife.

Gao Yang didn't know who the other party's husband was from beginning to end. Of course, she didn't bother to know who the other party's husband was. As a noble princess, would she care about who the four civilian women who were about to be crushed to death by herself?

The three concubines including Yin Fengji did not want to tell this fact out of their own ideas.

Concubine Yang didn't want to say that it was because she had seen Li Zhiyun warn Li Yuan, Li Shimin and others when she left Taiyuan. This was something that made Li Yuan and Li Shimin and his son very shameless. Afterwards, Li Yuan issued a ban order in the entire palace. No one was allowed to mention this matter, and he could not even mention Li Zhiyun, otherwise he would be responsible for the consequences.

Although Yin Fei didn't know about the incident that happened in the temporary palace in Taiyuan, she didn't want to tell the truth. She was worried that if Li Shimin thought of his brotherhood and let go of these four women, according to her wish, the best result of this incident today was that Li Shimin was angry and ordered the army to kill these four women.

Xiao Meiniang didn't mention this matter, but felt that it was useless to say it. Since ancient times, father and son turned against each other and brothers were robbed. It was normal, how could she manage such a thing by a woman who had been tossing several men?

After Li Shimin asked about the situation, he ordered the four women to withdraw from the encirclement of the army. At the same time, he summoned all the generals to discuss countermeasures. He called him to the side of Li Jing, Li Ji, Cheng Yaojin and Xue Dingshan.

He called Xue Dingshan over to find out what the opponent's martial arts is, and thus formulate the best attack plan. Only by knowing oneself and the enemy can one never win a battle.

He asked Li Ji to come here to help him solve the problem of Wu Cairen being taken hostage.

Li Ji was the most strategic military genius in the Tang Dynasty. Unlike Li Jing, who was only proficient in placing troops and deploying troops, Li Ji was better at solving some things that could not be solved by soldiers and soldiers.

Li Ji was the Duke of Xu Mao at that time. Xu Mao Gong's real name was Xu Shiji, and was later given the surname Li, named Li Shiji. Because he replicated the word "Shi" with the emperor's name, he was deleted and changed to Li Ji again.

Li Shimin did not arrange for Li Ji to be present at first, but when he heard that Wu Cairen was captured, he immediately sent someone to call Li Ji.

After Xue Dingshan talked about the martial arts of the four wives in the temple in detail, everyone looked at Li Ji. Li Ji said with a serious expression: "For the current plan, only the Weichen will enter the temple to negotiate with him to see if he can replace Wu Cairen. If the other party does not agree, then take a look at the location of Wu Cairen, and then make a plan."

Li Shimin thought for a moment after hearing this, "You can go in, but you can't replace Wu Cairen, because for the Tang Dynasty, you are much more important than you compare Wu Cairen. You can go in and take a look first. If you really can't save Wu Cairen, I have to give up her."

In fact, Li Shimin did not favor Wu Mei very much. An emperor of Li Shimin's age had already seen thousands of sails and rolled in the flowers. How could Wu Mei, who was only seventeen years old, make him obsessed with him?

As the saying goes, there is no harm without comparison. Any man with rich experience in relationships between men and women knows that when women of all ages around him try every means to please men, a young and seventeen-year-old woman is no match for the charming Xu Niang no matter what.

In the eyes of the forty-six-year-old Li Shimin, Wu Mei is far inferior to a mature woman like Xiao Meiniang. In the current Tang Dynasty, only by striving to be a good prince in the eyes of everyone, can he like a woman like Wu Mei.

At the age of Li Zhi, an inexperienced man can only distinguish between appearance, age and common language when choosing a woman. Wu Mei and Li Zhi are similar in age and have common language.

On the other hand, Wu Mei and Li Shimin rarely have a common language. Li Shimin is most interested in expanding territory and ruling the world. Although Wu Mei is also interested in this kind of thing, can this kind of topic be expressed in front of the emperor? It would be superficial and ignorant to say less. If you say too much, it would be a woman who interferes in politics. The hen is a hen, which not only cannot please the emperor, but is killed.

So as long as it is possible to confirm that the suspect in the case in front of him is conspiring to subvert the Tang Dynasty regime, Li Shimin can completely abandon Wu Mei, an insignificant woman. Compared with the foundation of the mountains and rivers, Wu Mei is nothing.

After agreeing to Li Ji's proposal, Li Shimin ordered: "Zhijie, Ding Shan, you two accompany Li Ji in with you. Be careful not to go too deep. You just need to be able to see the scenery inside the temple."

Li Jiwu's achievements are not good, so Li Shimin asked Cheng Yaojin and Xue Dingshan to join him. In the current situation, too many people cannot enter, otherwise there will be no "sincerity" for negotiations.

Li Ji, Cheng Yaojin and Xue Dingshan immediately received the order to enter Hongfu Temple. As soon as they entered the gate, they saw the scene in the yard. Although there were not many lanterns hanging under the eaves of the monk's house, they were enough to see the scenery in the yard. Four women and a boy stood in the middle of the yard, and Wu Mei was there, but she kept a distance from them, as if she was just house arrest.

In addition to these five women in the yard, there was also a monk standing near the monk's house, which was Bian Ji, the abbot of Hongfu Temple.

Li Ji immediately said, "Did you wait for the civilian woman to eat her ambition and swallow the leopard's courage? She dared to hold the concubines in the palace hostage, which is a serious crime that implicated the nine clans. I advise you to let go of the people and be bound by this. Perhaps you can win the favor of the emperor and not implicate your family."

Hongfu immediately retorted: "What are you talking nonsense about what nothing is there? We have not held anyone hostage. Don't you know the best. Do you need to take hostages against you?"

Although Wu Mei expressed her willingness to be a hostage to help the four women get out of trouble, and the four women were quite grateful to Wu Mei, they refused to accept the saying "hostage hostage" no matter what, because they felt that it was too embarrassing. Holding hostages is an act of the weak. Does Li Zhiyun's wife need to take hostages when facing the enemy?

But Hong Fu said this and sold Wu Mei. Sure enough, Li Ji asked back: "Since it is not coercion of hostages, why can't Wu Cairen leave the temple?"

This sentence stopped Hongfu. It was impossible to say that Wu Mei voluntarily left her and asked us to take her as a qualifier, right? That would be too ignorant of being a human being.

Fortunately, Wu Mei reacted quickly and said, "I voluntarily stayed. I think the four of them are rare martial arts masters. They want to persuade them to surrender to the Tang Dynasty and serve the country from now on, so as to avoid casualties among the soldiers outside..."

These words were reasonable and well-founded. Li Ji had to believe them and said, "Since that's the case, please ask Wu Cairen to go out quickly and meet the emperor to explain the reason. Everything depends on the emperor's ruling."

At this point, Wu Mei didn't want to stay in the temple anymore, so she followed Li Ji and others out of Hongfu Temple. During the process, the four women did not say a word.

Wu Mei was so quick to escape from the other party's "control", which surprised Li Shimin very much. After hearing Wu Mei's explanation, she said disapprovingly; "Nothing! They refused to surrender at this time. It was clearly people who were plotting against rebellion. Even if you can conquer such a person, will you dare to use it in the future?"

After saying that, he looked at Li Ji: "Who is their behind-the-scenes commander? Have you ever known?"

Li Ji said: "I just wanted to get Wu Cai to escape from the troubles, and I didn't have time to interrogate."

"Well, even if you ask them, they may not be willing to say it. Forget it, kill it first. It's not too late to try it if there are any living words left." Li Shimin was very decisive and then looked at Li Jing: "Now you can attack."

"Father, let's wait, the debate is still inside." Gao Yang did not go outside the army to surround Yin Yang and Xiao, but stayed by Li Shimin's side. Li Shimin did not drive her away. At this moment, he couldn't help but remind him when he heard his father's order to start attacking.

The crossbow soldiers surrounding the innermost layer of the four directions have set up a total of 300 winch crossbows. Winch crossbows are a powerful weapon for the Tang army to fight tough battles. The crossbow strings of winch crossbows are pulled away by winchs. If they are replaced by human power, seventy strong soldiers will be required to achieve this.

The range of this kind of crossbow can reach almost two miles, so how big is the impact force formed by the crossbow arrows it emits? For example, the walls of ordinary cities cannot withstand a volley of winch crossbows. The adhesive between the bricks and stones of the city wall is not enough to support such a huge bombardment and will be knocked out.

Isn’t such a giant crossbow extremely easy to destroy Hongfu Temple? Even the people in the temple are inseparable.

Li Shimin had been thinking about whether he had to rescue Wu Mei, so he could not care about Bian Ji's life or death. Now, after hearing Gao Yang's reminder, he remembered that there was a great god in the temple. If he killed the great god, he would inevitably offend the gods and Buddhas in the West. So he hurriedly said, "Why didn't Zen Master Bian Ji come out?"

In Hongfu Temple, Bian Ji was already stunned. He did not expect that these four beautiful women were so skilled in martial arts, nor did he expect that things would have evolved to the point of alarming the emperor and dispatching the imperial army.

At this moment, he had no idea how to get the four beautiful women, for fear that their dirty thoughts would be known to the four women, for fear that the four women would communicate with others about Li Zhiyun and then expose their conspiracy. Therefore, he always stayed in the courtyard and did not dare to follow everyone out of the temple. Instead, the other monks in the temple had left with everyone as early as when Li Jing announced the martial law.

Suddenly, Gao Yang shouted outside: "Bian Ji, why don't you come out? If you don't come out, just bury these four women with you!"

When Bian Ji heard this, he looked at the four girls of Hongfu, licked his dry lips and wanted to speak, but Li Rongrong said first: "You can't go anywhere! Just stay here honestly. As long as you dare to take a step, I will cut off your bald head immediately!"

Li Rongrong expressed the thoughts of Su Qianqian and You Cuicui. As long as the dream Su Qianqian was confirmed later, Bian Ji must die. On the contrary, it means that Su Qianqian's dream is fake, so Bian Ji still needs to continue to try to rescue Li Zhiyun, who was "trapped in the gossip furnace".

So they did not allow the defender to leave, but Hongfu said, "Let him go out, he can't escape anyway."

Since Hongfu said that, it would be difficult for the three girls to persevere anymore. Li Rongrong said, "Don't get out of here!"

Since Su Qianqian said that she had communicated with Li Zhiyun in her dream, the four women had become extremely disgusted with the defense machine, and no one was even willing to look at him, let alone talk to him, so Li Rongrong didn't look at the defense machine at all when she spoke.

As if Bian Ji was amnesty, he ran out in two steps. When Li Shimin saw Bian Ji coming out, he turned to look at Li Jing. Li Jing understood and issued an inquiry order, saying: "Zhijie, Dingfang, Yuchi Baolin, Yuchi Baoqing can take his place?"

"Zhijie" means Cheng Zhijie, Cheng Yaojin, Dingfang is Su Dingfang, Yuchi Baolin and Yuchi Baoqing are the two sons of Yuchi Gong. These four generals are the supervisors arranged by Li Jing in four directions arranged by him in the southeast, southwest and northwest directions, responsible for listening to his orders and launching an attack at the same time.

Cheng Yaojin was right next to the main entrance of Hongfu Temple and immediately replied: "It's in place!"

The responses from Su Dingfang and Yuchi brothers also came from the other three directions. Li Jing raised the sword in his hand when he heard the sound. As long as he said "attack", three hundred winch crossbows in four directions would shoot at the same time. At that time, nine hundred giant crossbow arrows would hit the courtyard wall of Hongfu Temple.

At this critical moment, an old voice suddenly said slowly: "Let's wait..."

People looked at the sound, but saw three old men standing in front of the crossbow formation commanded by Cheng Yaojin. The three old men looked naturally different, but they seemed very similar in age. They all had white hair and hair, but they all had childish faces. They were dressed very strangely, as if they were ancient costumes from the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties.

All the soldiers, including Li Jing and Cheng Yaojin, were a little surprised. Where did these three old men come from? When I set up the crossbow formation just now, I didn’t find such three people.

These three old men seemed to appear out of thin air. Standing in front of the crossbow formation blocked the way of several crossbow arrows, Cheng Yaojin was furious and shouted: "Where did you three old men come out? Didn't you hear that we announced the martial law just now?"

The old man who was talking stood on the left of the three old men. After hearing Cheng Yaojin's questioning, he said slowly: "Cheng Yaojin, I taught you the thirty-six ways of opening the sky axe method, which was not something that made you bully the weak woman. You are now gurgling with me. Do you want to use the skills I taught you to deal with me?"
Chapter completed!