Chapter 952: Capture the traitor Shui Gaoyang!

Chapter 952 Capture the traitor Shui Gaoyang!

"Hong'er!"

Mrs. Shui was shocked and rushed forward, grabbing her unconscious son's shoulders and shaking him.

But she saw bright red blood flowing from her son's head. She was so scared that she quickly took out a silk handkerchief to cover the wound, turned around and shouted:

"Call the doctor! Go call the doctor!"

The servant outside the door quickly dropped the work in his hands and ran out to find a doctor.

"Lian'er, you..."

Shui Gaoyang never expected that his daughter would attack her own brother. Looking at his bleeding and unconscious son, he didn't know what to say for a moment.

Even though he was extremely angry at this ungrateful and stupid son just now, this was still Shui Gaoyang's only son!

"Dad, Mom, I've packed everything, let's go!"

Shui Bailian threw down the long stick in her hand, pulled up the veil that had fluttered because of the force she had used, and without even looking at her brother who had been knocked unconscious on the ground, she urged her parents to leave quickly.

Madam Shui raised her head and looked in disbelief at this daughter whom she had always thought was lively and naughty but kind and filial. She obviously didn't expect her to be so cold-blooded.

"Lian'er, your brother is injured! How can you leave now?"

The palace did not have a palace physician. Doctors in the Northern Frontier could be called up to the battlefield to serve as military doctors at any time, and no one dared to privately hire a palace physician.

If we set off now and there is no doctor on the road, what should we do if something happens to Honger?

However, she did not know the importance of the matter, but Shui Gaoyang knew it.

There was no time to reprimand his daughter for being too harsh. He stepped forward and pulled the lady up, comforting her:

"Don't worry, Madam. When the doctor comes, he will throw the man into the carriage and take him away. We can't waste any more time. If someone finds out that General Duanmu has been poisoned and suspects us, we won't be able to leave!"

He then instructed the housekeeper who had just hurried over:

"Okay, forget about the rest and get going!"

Although Mrs. Shui was worried about her son, she could not disobey her husband's words. She could only watch anxiously as her son, who was still bleeding, was carried into the carriage.

Not long after, a white-haired old doctor and a medicine box were carried back by the guards and stuffed into the carriage and taken away.

More than a dozen horse-drawn carriages from the Water Palace marched out of the front yard and headed towards the south city gate.

Another very ordinary and low-key carriage quietly blended into the pedestrian carriages on the street from the backyard alley and went out of the north gate unnoticed.

After sending his wife and children away, Shui Gaoyang, no longer having any worries, felt that he could finally do something big.

He mounted his horse and hurried out of the South City Gate with the remaining one hundred or so personal soldiers.

However, when he arrived at Wulipu outside the South City Gate, he thought he would see a large group of people waiting for him, and then set off for the capital together.

But what did he see?

There was indeed a large group of people there, but they surrounded the small group inside.

That small group of people were precisely the generals and their subordinates who were persuaded by him to join him in the southern expedition against the capital. However, the army, which was supposed to have 70,000 to 80,000 people, actually only had 10,000 to 20,000 people.

The large group of people insisted on waiting for the old prince to wake up before making any plans. The leader was Duanmu Xiong, who he thought had been poisoned and unconscious!

"General Duanmu, you..."

Shui Gaoyang exclaimed, not understanding why Duanmu Xiong was here for no reason.

"Shui Gaoyang! You have ulterior motives and are inciting civil strife in the Dingbei Army. You want to put them to death. You are so bold! Come, arrest the traitor Shui Gaoyang!"

Duanmu Xiong, whose hair had turned gray, sat on a tall maroon warhorse and looked at Shui Gaoyang angrily.

A team of armored soldiers immediately surrounded Shui Gaoyang and his more than one hundred personal soldiers.

After being shocked, Shui Gaoyang quickly calmed down.

He took out the tiger talisman from his arms, raised it above his head, and shouted:

"Here is the tiger talisman. Do not move rashly! I order you to immediately reorganize your formation and march towards the capital!"

The surrounded generals were very excited. Now that was good, even General Duanmu had to go south with them to attack Beijing.

However, General Duanmu's expression remained unchanged. He looked coldly at the tiger talisman raised by Shui Gaoyang, then raised his left hand and revealed an identical tiger talisman.

"Your tiger talisman is fake. The real one is still with me."

"No! Impossible!"

Shui Gaoyang retorted subconsciously.

Then he suddenly thought of something and looked at the surrounded army of less than 30,000 people who were attacking the capital.

But no matter how he looked, he couldn't find Huang Dabiao among those armored generals.

Could it be that Huang Dabiao's good brother, Lieutenant General Xu, did not poison Duanmu Xiong, and the tiger talisman he gave him was also fake?

While he was busy, he heard Duanmu Xiong's order:

"All soldiers, listen up! I am following the orders of the prince to clean up the Dingbei Army and capture the rebels. Those who were deceived by Shui Gaoyang, lay down your weapons and receive fifty lashes, but I will forgive you for what happened. Those who are stubborn and unyielding will be treated as rebels!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the surrounded soldiers became panicked.

A general stepped forward and argued unconvincedly:

"General Duanmu, how can you slander us like this? The prince was poisoned by the old emperor, and the Dingbei Army is in danger. You don't want to avenge the prince and fight for a way out for the Dingbei Army. I won't call you a coward, but how can you falsely pass on the prince's order to obstruct us and slander us as rebels? I don't accept it!"

"Yes, we don't accept it! Duanmu Xiong, you are a coward! I just can't stand you pretending to be so brave when the prince is awake, but you become a coward when the prince is unconscious, and you want us to follow you and wait for death here as your grandson. You, don't think you can pretend to be powerful just because you have the tiger talisman. For the prince and the Dingbei Army, we are not afraid of death. Don't even think about threatening us!"

General Duanmu's face was as gloomy as ice:

"Do you really want to disobey military orders and follow this traitor to rebel against the Dingbei Army?"

Upon hearing this, the generals were furious:

"What do you mean by betraying the Dingbei Army? We will be the ghosts of the Dingbei Army even if we die. How could we possibly betray the Dingbei Army? Duanmu Xiong, stop talking nonsense!"

"What exactly are you going to do? General Duanmu, I respect you for being a good man in the past. Now that you are unwilling to go to the capital to seek justice for the prince and the Dingbei Army, we will not force you, but please don't stop us."

"You don't need to worry about our life or death, but we are not rebels. I will die for the Dingbei Army. Don't accuse us of any crime that we don't have!"

"Correct!"

Several generals were very angry. They hated General Duanmu's obstruction, and they hated him even more for calling them rebels. This was more painful than killing them.

But General Duanmu just watched them vent quietly, and then said calmly:

"What if I say that Shui Gaoyang has long been colluding with the Northern Desert Barbarians, and that he deliberately took you away from Northern Frontier this time in order to weaken Northern Frontier's defenses and allow the Northern Desert Barbarians to take advantage of the situation and invade?"