On a wide plain.

There's a chase going on.

"Lord Wangjue, you run first, I will be your royal high!"

"Lord Lord, Strong will be loyal to you in the next life!"

"Bang bang~!" The hussars chasing after were armed with wheeled pistols and kept firing.

"Ahhh

The loyal men who followed Lord Bruno were reduced one by one, and the men and horses around him gradually became scarce.

Bruno's face was full of jet black, and the armor on his body had long been thrown away in order to lighten the load, and his image of fleeing in embarrassment was best described as "losing his armor and removing his armor".

Finished.

It's completely finished.

With a huge army of more than two million, there are only thirty or fifty horsemen left.

The good situation that he had carefully prepared for decades had all turned into nothingness in about half a day, under the bombardment of countless heavenly thunder weapons.

Even now, Lord Bruno, who only cares about fleeing, still feels that he is dreaming, having a nightmare, a nightmare that he has not woken up from.

But the cruel thing is that this is not a nightmare, but a tragic reality!

He, Lord Bruno, was in utter ruins.

became a losing gambler.

Seeing the pursuers behind him getting closer and closer, the prince of Bruno, who could not accept this reality, grabbed the dagger at his waist, ready to understand his life the moment he was chased.

"Huhuhuhu~"

"Your Majesty has an order, let Lord Wang Jue have a way to live, and you don't have to chase it anymore!"

When a whistle sounded, there were less than 20 people around him, and the emperor's heralds ran over.

The encirclement, which had already been closed, deliberately opened a hole and let the prince of Bruno out.

Zhou Ming's first pardon took effect in this way.

The noble lords in the empire have suffered an unprecedented blow!

In this rebellion, which lasted less than three months, the number of rebels who had more than 3 million people at the time of the pledge was bombarded by millions of firearms, more than 1.5 million casualties, one million prisoners, and the number of people who returned to their hometowns intact did not exceed 200,000, and the morale dropped to zero.

And after this fiasco.

Seeing the power of the royal legion, the alliance of nobles immediately collapsed, and countless defeated nobles cried and shouted that they would be loyal to the emperor and never participate in the rebellion in the future, asking His Majesty for forgiveness and pardoning them for a while.

However, only the Lucis family had immunity, and the emperor not only had to depose their titles, but also take back their lands and change them to states, counties, and counties for all the other nobles who participated in the rebellion.

After such a purge, the control area of the royal territory in the empire will increase from one-third to two-thirds...... The actual territory has been doubled.

As for the remaining nobles who did not participate in the rebellion, as well as the Lucis family who were pardoned, if they stopped and declared their allegiance to the royal family again, Zhou Ming would be a large number of adults and choose not to blame the past.

Naturally, the remnants of the aristocratic faction, except for the Lucis family, did not express their position, the other families have long been frightened by the strong combat power of the royal legion, and obediently expressed their allegiance, not to mention, the sons-in-law of the family have been sent to the imperial capital as hostages, and every year they ask for a gift from the royal family, they have consciously doubled it at least, and swore that they will never betray the emperor.

What about the Lucis family?

There is still a certain amount of strength left, and the Lucis family, who are desperately licking their wounds at home, what are they going to do?

It is to carry it to the end and insist on confrontation.

Or bow your head and admit your mistakes, and those who know the times are Junjie?

Within the Lucis family, there are two factions of opinion, and there are endless arguments.

But the prince of Bruno, who was unwilling to fail, suppressed the faction that advocated admitting mistakes and giving in, and continued to go his own way despite dissuasion, and soon used up the second chance of pardon.

What did Bruno do?

I used another chance for pardon.

Assassin.

Top assassin.

Bruno sent a team of martial arts warriors to the imperial capital to carry out the plan to assassinate the emperor.

This group of dead soldiers almost succeeded, killing dozens of elite guards, not to mention, they also approached the emperor, and with a short sword full of poison, cut the sleeves of His Majesty the emperor, and almost killed the emperor.

After investigation, it was discovered that the dead soldiers were sent by the Lucis family.

Public opinion throughout the empire immediately changed significantly.

"Is the Lucis family endless? Just because His Majesty is unwilling to marry them, they will rebel, and they will send assassins to assassinate the emperor?"

"The princes of Lucis in the past dynasties, relying on a little merit, are extremely arrogant and domineering, and they have to inch by inch, and even the emperor has to look at their faces. ”

"I think His Majesty's repentance is correct, such a domineering family, who wants to marry them?"

"Your Majesty, the Lucis family is lawless, they can't succeed in plotting to seize the world, and they dare to assassinate Your Majesty, what will they do next is self-evident, Your Majesty, the minister suggests, or withdraw the pardon promise, dispatch the royal legion, and wipe out the Lucis family and clan!"

The minister's proposal drew a lot of approval.

But Zhou Ming shook his head and refused, and said: "A gentleman's word, it is difficult to chase a horse, since I said that I would pardon the Lucis family three times, I will definitely do what I say, and I will never break my word!"

In this way, while the Lucis family only had one chance to pardon, public opinion also fell into a very negative and unfavorable situation.

But even so, King Bruno, who is still unwilling to fail, is still on the road of death and continues to go further and further.

What did he do?

What death did he do the third time?

League of Nobles.

He tried to form a second noble alliance, unite all the noble lords around him, obey his orders, form a noble alliance, and attack the emperor!

This time, though, there wasn't any noble bird for him.

The reply to him was all a refusal.

The royal legion of the imperial court is so powerful, who wants to gamble their lives and hereditary titles and realms, and play a game with Bruno that may not win at all?

In the face of a huge disparity in strength, the number of allies that Bruno can pull is of course 0.

But Bruno was not reconciled, he had a poisonous plan, held a Hongmen banquet, invited hundreds of nobles to this banquet, and then smashed the cup, and the axe hands came out together, controlled these hundreds of nobles, and then forced them to join his noble alliance.

Whoever doesn't join will be killed!

The result was extremely disappointing for Bruno, and of the more than 300 nobles at the banquet, less than 50 agreed to him, and the other 250 or so did not agree no matter how much they were pressed.

You can only kill them all!

After the banquet, he led hundreds of thousands of troops to attack the surrounding noble territories that did not cooperate, and in just two or three months, he swallowed up dozens of territories and strengthened his strength.

But what the Lucis family has done, the court is currently looking at it all.

Nor will they allow the Lucis family to expand their territory in a vain attempt to integrate all the aristocratic forces.

So under Zhou Ming's instructions, about 100,000 firearms were sent to the rebel armies that resisted the invasion of the Lucis family.

In just three or four months, he lost 1 million troops and lost all the land he occupied.

In the later period, it was also pushed back to the mainland by various rebels, coupled with the internal division of the people's hearts, the nobles in the kingdom defected and rebelled, and in the face of the attack of millions of rebels, the Lucis family could only shrink the remnants of their strength into the royal city with tall walls.

The once invincible Lucis family has now come to the end of its rope.

As for the stubborn and stubborn Lord Bruno, he was hit by a bullet in a certain battle, and after the wound became purulent and infected, the flame of life was also on the verge of extinguishing, and he was also abandoned by his family, and when he died, there was no one by his side.

And in the end, the Lucis family still did not perish, but was saved.

Because with the emperor, the Lucis family has one more chance to pardon.

One Last Chance!

In the process of fighting for this pardon opportunity, Elsa became the savior of the Lucis family, and under the desperate protection of the family's dead soldiers, she broke out of the layers of encirclement, got rid of the endless pursuit, entered the imperial capital, and met Zhou Ming.

When they met, they knelt down and said:

"Your Majesty the Emperor, the Lucis family is wrong! The Lucis family is willing to renew their allegiance to His Majesty and never rebel again! I implore Your Majesty to keep his promise and pardon the Lucis family for the last time!"

Looking at Elsa, who was thin and dark, with tears on her face, and greatly reduced her appearance, Zhou Ming nodded.