Episode Forty-four
A disaster is imminent. Yan Xun
What happened
to Brother Yan Xun?
Yan Xun rises in rebellion.
Your Highness.
We should report it to His Majesty
and make preparations soon.
(Sound of scream)
Your Highness, what's going on?
There was a figure passing just now.
Princess.
I... I killed someone!
I killed someone!
- I killed someone! - Princess.
I killed someone!
- I killed someone! - Princess.
He is dead.
Caiwei.
Is he dead?
He is not.
He is in a coma.
That's good.
You go...
You go and tell Brother Yan Xun...
What are you talking about, Princess?
You go and tell him that I will not force him...
I will not force him to marry me.
- Now, I am going to - Princess.
plead to Father.
I shall not marry him.
- You go. - Princess.
Do you hear me? Go!
Step aside! Let me in.
Who is shouting outside?
Father, I have something to say.
Princess must be impatient.
Your Majesty, I'll see her and take her back.
Let her in.
Father,
I don't want to marry Yan Xun.
Please retract your order.
Absurd.
Father,
I am unwilling to
marry him, really.
Please retract your order.
The escort troop of Prince Yan Xun
is arriving.
You ask for His Majesty
for this marrige yourself.
We told the world about it
ten days ago.
Now you say that you don't want to marry him.
Is Sister Imperial Concubine
teaching you like this?
Chun'er.
Is it because that
you don't want to leave Father and Mother?
It's Okay.
Even if you go there,
you can come back and visit us anytime you want.
Today, with masters around,
don't show your bad temper.
Be a good girl and go back to your palace.
Mother, I am not
showing bad temper.
You always don't want me
to marry Brother Yan Xun.
Please beseech Father.
Allow me not to
marry Brother Yan Xun.
Please tell him, Mother.
That's it.
Take Princess back
and do the dressing and making-up.
And wait for the wedding chariot of Prince Yan.
- Father. - Yes, Your Majesty.
Father.
Princess.
I really don't want to marry him.
I don't want to marry him.
- Father. - Princess.
Princess.
Let me go. Let me go.
Let me go!
Princess. Princess.
Princess.
Father.
It is until today that I know
I don't like Yan Xun.
I hate him. I hate him.
I am really unwilling to
marry Yan Xun.
Father, please love me
for one last time.
Retract your order.
I beg you.
Song'er.
Take your sister away.
Father.
Father. Father.
- I am willing to - Chun'er.
marry the prince of Liang State.
I am also willing to marry into Mobei.
I can do anything
as long as I don't marry Yan Xun.
Please retract your order.
I am really unwilling to marry him,
Father.
Chun'er.
Brother.
I can't marry him.
I really can't marry him.
Please beg him
and let him retract his order.
I really can't marry
Yan Xun.
Please beg him.
Father. Father.
Father, I beg you.
Father.
Song'er.
Father.
Chun'er, go with me.
Princess.
- Chun'er. - Father.
- Father. - Go.
Please.
(Sound of crying)
Father.
I beg you, Father.
Father.
Father, I beg you.
Father.
Princess is really showing her filial piety.
There is an old saying of crying marriage.
Princess's action is for the national cause.
Your Majesty shows your kindness
and care to your children.
When they leave home,
they can't no longer listen to
Your Majesty's edification in the future.
They must be sad.
Right. It cannot be otherwise.
(Sound of laughing)
You are escaping.
No need to look. Nobody else is here.
Yan Xun has gone mad.
Fight or leave.
Don't talk rubbish.
Incorrigible and silly.
That's better than your stuipid loyalty
and coldness.
I am not loyal to Yuwen Household.
Instead, I am loyal to Wei State.
The emperor is brutal.
He killed the whole family of Yan Xun.
He can even use
his own daughter as a bait
to kill Yan Xun.
Why should a man like this
be the emperor?
Why should he make decisions for all people?
You can't tell black from white and help the evil.
What's the difference between
you and Wei Shuyou, Zhao Xifeng?
Yuwen Yue, if you insist on stopping me,
don't blame me for show no mercy.
Do you have the ability?
You can try it.
You will die if you follow him.
I don't need you to worry about me.
Mind your own business.
Is there no end of it?
Yes.
Who is it over there?
Still fight? You wanna die?
Don't follow me.
Who is it?
Hurry up.
Boss, you may have misheard.
That's not possible.
It may be a cat.
There are a lot of cats in this garden.
Search this place.
Today is the wedding day of Princess.
There must be no slips.
Yes, sir.
Reckless mad woman.
Mean man who is hard to get rid of.
You will certainly die
if you leave Imperial City now.
Really?
I don't think so.
Do you want to take a bet?
Bet on what?
You want to bet on
whether there will be less death
than that in Yanbei three years ago.
Or you want to bet on
after the war between Wei State and Yanbei is on,
how many innocent people
will lose their lives
by what you have done.
Yan Xun is a different person
from what he was then.
You have no idea
how mad his plan is.
He is a wolf,
a wolf raised by you,
who will rip off all of us.
Even if he is,
you made him that way.
Every one of you
has his family's blood in your hands.
You should take this responsibility.
You will regret it.
I will not.
How is it going
at Zhao Dongting and Yuwen Huai?
How come that
no word has come about Yan Xun's death.
Report!
Your Majesty, Princess Chun...
she...
How is she?
She is gone.
Report!
What is it? What is it?
Your Majesty, Imperial Concubine
and Masters,
please go to the safety zone.
Imperial Palaces catch fire. The fire is raging.
It burns all the way from imperial faiidan.
We can't stop the fire.
Fire? How is that possible?
What is fire brigade doing?
Why don't they put out the fire?
I don't know about that.
But everywhere I go,
there is fire.
Absurd.
Does Sun Yunpu, the head of fire brigade
want to lose his job?
Your Majesty, please don't leave the audience hall,
It is not safe outside.
There are a lot of assassins sneaking into Imperial Palaces.
Sixty-five people are dead.
Imperial Palaces are safely guarded.
How can there be assassins?
They all come from inside.
There are maids, eunuches
and housecarls.
They are all unconspicuous people
who go crazy
and kill everyone they see.
General Song of Palace Guards was killed, too.
Now, General Yuwen Yue from Xiaoqi Camp
is leading people from Palace Guards
to kill those assassins.
However, we don't know
how many of them are escaping.
So it is not safe outside.
Your Majesty,
please don't leave the audience hall for now.
General Yuwen Yue says that
there are more assassins outside the palaces.
The official of Chang'an Office
delivered a letter here.
He was killed
just outside the palaces.
The situation is serious.
Please make early decisions.
Who was killed?
General He of the palace guards.
General Lu of the west gate guards.
Commander Yu of the south gate guards.
Sentries in every signal office.
Master Sun Yunpu, the head of fire brigade.
Soldiers who are on watch at the southwest gate.
Good. Good.
Carefully selected and thoroughly planned.
Your Majesty, in my opinion,
- this is... - Report!
What is it this time?
Report!
Your Majesty,
Yan Xun rises in rebellion!
Xiuli Army broke through the east gate.
Lvying Army,
Xiaoqi Camp,
and Chengfang Camp,
Jingji Big Camp and Chang'an Office
are all closed
and have no message.
Have no message?
How is that possible?
There are more than a hundrud thousand people in these camps.
Are they all killed by the assassins?
General Yuwen Yue says
generals of these camps have no power to send soldiers
so that no one can fight.
Please give orders to send messengers
to let generals of these camps
lead troops to kill the rebels.
Your Majesty, the situation is serious.
We can't procrastinate it any longer.
The rebels have broken through
Celestial Prison and Black Prison at Dali Temple.
The city is in a mess now.
Apart from rebel army,
there are also
escaped prisoner,
some Jianghu people,
and hoodlums
who sack people on the streets.
General Yuwen Yue
has lead palace guards
to the Street of Rosefinch.
Your Majesty,
we can't procrastinate it any longer.
Inurbane Yan Xun.
I command that
whoever kills Yan Xun will be rewarded with ten thousand taels of gold,
and the status of Duke.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Hold the gate and wait for Prince.
Hold on.
We must hold on.
Prince, go out quickly.
We are losing the east gate.
I must find Chu.
Mom.
(Sound of crying)
Mom.
Give it to me.
Let go.
Give me.
Give it to me.
Let go.
Dad.
(Sound of smirking)
Chu, mount the horse.
Let's go.
Brother Yanxun.
I'm not forcing you anymore.
Please don't do this.
I'm not marrying you.
You can just go and tell my father
that I'm not marrying you.
You just go and admit you mistake to my father.
Brother Yanxun.
Please don't do something stupid.
In that case,
my father will really kill you.
Brother Yanxun.
Yanxun.
You are a lunatic.
You are really going so far as to rebel.
I really wasted my time
to treat you as my brother for these years.
Brother, you took it wrong.
Brother Yanxun is not going to rebel.
He just wanted to...
want to present a protest to father.
Chun'er.
The one who stands in front of you
is not your Brother Yanxun
anymore.
He is a traitor of conspiring against the state.
It's not true, brother.
It's not as what you think.
He just don't want to marry Chun'er.
He is taking revenge.
Taking...
Taking revenge?
You can just ask him in person.
Brother Yanxun.
It's not true, isn't it?
You are not taking revenge, aren't you?
You just want to reason things out with my father,
don't you?
You just don't want to marry Chun'er,
do you?
I want to go back to Yanbei.
It has nothing to do with you.
But when you get married with Chun'er,
my father will allow you
to go back to Yanbei.
Chun'er.
Your father has already arranged a large number of troops
at the Imperial Ancestral Temple
to get my head.
So today, no matter I rebelled or not,
I can't attend
this big wedding.
Because he had never planned
to marry you to me.
And I had never planned to marry you.
You are the animal who bite the hand that feeded you.
What are you talking about?
There's no kindheartedness and justice between Wei State and Yanbei.
It's not true.
It's not true. Brother Yanxun.
It couldn't be true.
How could it happen?
It's not true.
My father has treated you as his own son.
He has not only let you inherit the Duke Dingbei,
but also has married you
his beloved daughter.
But how about you?
You have just rebelled against your country and killed the civilians.
You should be killed for your wolfish nature.
The blood on the Jiuyou Platform has not coagulated yet.
The bone on the Mountain Xiuli has not rotted yet.
The whole family of Duke Dingbei has been wiped out.
The bodies of Yanbei clan have been parted from the heads.
Yuan Song.
You father had killed my whole family
and slaughtered my people.
This is your kindheartedness and justice.
Duke Dingbei had conspired against the state.
It's my father's right to lead troops to fight with the enemy.
It's enough.
Considering our old relationship,
I will let you go today.
You just go back and tell your father
the animosity of extermination of the entire family
will be imposed to him sooner or later.
Tell him to be alive
and don't die too early.
You just go back.
Chu.
You are going to be my enemy, aren't you?
I have never planned to be your enemy.
I will never forget your kindness
of protecting me for three years.
Fine.
Come back with me.
I will intercede for you and protect you.
Don't conspire against the state with Yanxun.
However,
I am going to
be the enemy of the Wei State.
Yuan Song, I'm afraid
that I would never get the chance to repay what I owed you.
Great.
I'm the one who was blind.
Today, I, Yuan Song,
make a clean break with you two.
When we meet again in the future,
we will not be friends
but enemies.
Chun'er.
Come with me.
Why is this happening?
Brother Yanxun.
I know it's all my fault.
I know I have made mistake.
I really couldn't do anything at all
when the things happened at the Jiuyou Platform at that time.
I really couldn't
stay with you.
Brother Yanxun, I'm begging you.
Please don't rise in rebellion, okay?
I don't want it.
I want nothing anymore.
I don't want to marry you.
I just want you to be alive.
Even if you are not with me,
I just want to
see you alive.
I really do, Brother Yanxun.
Chun'er.
Yuan Chun.
You are the princess.
Brother Yanxun.
I'm begging you.
Please don't do this.
Chun'er.
I have blood feud with your father.
I can't bear your deep love.
Brother Yanxun.
Please don't.
Your highness.
The four camps have already known it
and are assembling the troops.
Time is running out, let's go.
How about the others?
The others are fighting with the imperial guards
at the east gate.
They can't hold it much longer.
Chu, you just get out of the city first
to defend the floating bridge and arrange the river crossing.
How about you?
I will be there soon.
Okay, I will wait for you.
Your highness.
Are we going to the east gate right now?
Don't be rush.
Yuwen Yue has defended the imperial palace
as impermeable.
The Wei State's constitution has not been greatly injured.
The reason we won this time
is the Emperor of Wei
has been taken by surprise.
The chance like this
will never come up again.
So what do you mean, your highness?
I am going to give the Shang Wu Tang a bloodbath.
So the Emperor of Wei will have no general to use
in the ten years.
And I want the children from the power family of Wei State
to spill blood for return.
Young Master, where are we going?
Yanxun will necessarily go to Shang Wu Tang.
He is going to kill
all the students in there.
Those men
are the foundation to build Wei State.
Yue Qi.
This is the tiger-shaped tally given by the emperor.
You just take it
to assemble forces in the nearest camp.
Yes.
I just knew you would come here.
You are the only one could figure it out.
Do you hate here so much
that you just want to destory it in person?
I don't hate this place.
I just want to cut the weeds and dig up the roots.
This is the place we met each other
for the first time.
I can remember it.
I had a fight with Zhao Xifeng
that day.
And you won.
I can remember
what you said at that time.
A brother for one day...
will be a brother forever.
I, Yuwen Yue,
had never done anything
to disserve my brother.
I have made clear
what happened three years ago.
You had helped me
so I owed you.
So today,
I will let them go
to reward the kindness of protection
I owed you three years ago.
Yuwen Yue.
When we meet again in the future, we will be enemies.
There is no mercy at the battleground.
Report, the troops of Xiaoqi Camp
are coming from the behind.
Your highness.
You are leading the troop to leave through the east gate.
I will bring up the rear for you.
You should take care.
Everyone needs to converge at the east gate
when the clearance signal is received.
Okay.
The troop of Xiuli, come with me
to cover for the evacuation of the prince.
Yes.
Chu.
Miss Yu.
The prince is coming soon.
There is only one floating bridge here.
And it takes time to cross the river.
There are so many soldiers of Xiuli,
could they cross the river before it gets dark?
This is all arranged by the prince,
it should be fine.
Your highness.
The soldiers of Xiuli who guarded here
all died in battle.
We have to get out of the city as soon as possible.
Since you have got off safely,
I will go
and summon He Xiao immediately.
It's not necessary.
The troops of the four camps
have been dispatched out.
The troop of Xiuli has devoted them bravely
to defend the military prowess of Yanbei
and has become the role models of all soldiers.
Pass my order
that the entire army will retreat through the east gate
and block off the gate after evacuation.
- Yes. - Retreat.
East Gate
Commander.
Why hasn't the price order
us to retreat yet?
The troop of Yuwen Huai
is coming soon.
We can't hold on for long time.
The number of the soldiers of Yuwen Huai is 10 times than us.
There is no chance to win.
Let's just go to the east gate to break out
and catch up the prince.
Retreat.
Open the gate.
The gate can't be opened.
Commander.
Our brothers who guarded the gate
have all die in the battle.
The prince has run away.
What did I say?
We have been abandoned.
It's not going to happen. It's not going to happen.
Even if the price has abandoned us,
Coach Chu will not lie to us.
Don't be so naive.
We have been betrayed.
He had said that
we would go back home decently.
He was just lying.
Why are you putting on the long faces?
Didn't you just shout out all day
that you want to risk your lives?
What? When it really comes,
are you all scared?
What are you yelling?
Who is scared?
Yeah, why are you shouting?
Now, like me,
You are just a normal solider.
If you yell again, I will beat you.
Brothers.
Yanxun, where is the troop of Xiuli?
They are right behind me.
Won't we wait for them?
They will catch up.
Let's go first.
The daring traitors
are shameless.
Shoot arrow.
The soldiers of the troop of Xiuli
who are still alive
take the positon
to protect army flag.
The soldiers from Yanbei,
Yanbei didn't abandon you.
Take my order and come with me.
I will bring you home.
Go home. Go home. Go home.
Go home. Go home.