Chapter 154: Nightmare
In the dimly lit corridor, the orange lights flickered with each dull rumble, turning on and off from time to time, and in the corridors, the hollow echoes echoed with each crash, making a disturbing echo.
Trembling, everything in the heavens and the earth is shaking, all shaking, everything in the eye is constantly trembling there, and the feeling of the sky shaking and the earth only makes people feel a little dizzy.
What does it smell like?
The turbid and pungent smell of gunpowder, the thick smell of gunpowder in the air, and the stench of burning rubber products, constantly irritated my respiratory tract and eyes.
What's going on?
Finally, after another shock, Chen Moran felt as if he had regained some of his senses, but his vision was still so blurry that he couldn't figure out where it was.
At this time, a person was dangling in front of him, as if he was shouting something at him.
Who is this man and what is he doing?
Chen Moran, who couldn't see everything around him, was full of doubts about everything, he looked around, everything seemed to be filled with thick fog, and his vision was blurred and a little illusory.
"Your Majesty, we must get out of here now......"
The person in front of him was still yelling at him, the familiar voice seemed a little distant, and even had a little echo, it didn't feel so real, but Chen Moran was still happy to finally hear someone else talking, before, he could only hear a rumbling sound.
At the same time, the originally somewhat blurry vision began to slowly become clearer. However, the vision still seemed to be a little distorted, like a distorted picture seen through the heat of a stove in winter.
It is a pine slope......
finally saw the man standing in front of him clearly, but to Chen Moran's surprise, this subordinate who had followed him for many years seemed to have aged a lot overnight, and his white sideburns were exposed under his military hat. The wrinkles at the corners of the eyes are more and deeper, and the most surprising thing is the resolute and clear eyes, at this time only fatigue and helplessness are left, and more is despair, and the despair revealed in the blue eye sockets is more helpless. But it's an indescribable complexity.
The change in Songpa only made Chen Moran feel a little surprised, he didn't know why the Minister of War he was familiar with had become like this.
What happened?
Although he kept asking this question in his heart, his mind was blank, and he had no impression at all.
"Your Majesty, we must get out of here now, and I beg you not to give up. The navy, the main fleet of the navy has not betrayed the royal family, we still have colonies overseas, as long as you withdraw to Zhejiang......"
"What's going on?"
Cai Ye didn't seem to hear Chen Moran's inquiry, and he continued to shout hurriedly.
“…… Able to leave the mainland safely. Then...... We can continue to fight...... Until, until the continent is reconquered. ”
The words he heard only made Chen Moran feel dizzy, what was he talking about?
Leaving here, I still haven't figured out where I am.
And what's going on?
Where is this again?
And what about that dull rumble and this shaking of the earth?
What's going on here?
Why did Songpa become like this?
The main fleet of the Navy has not betrayed the royal family yet?
Did someone betray the royal family? Don't......
"Songpa, what's going on. Why am I here? ”
Chen Moran was eager to get an answer from his subordinates, but what happened next made him really startled. …,
"As the Emperor of the Chinese Empire, I will never leave the capital!"
When I heard this answer. What frightened Chen Moran the most was that this sentence came out of his mouth.
"The Central Guards can save all this, I have given the order, they will never betray me!"
While feeling all this creepy, Chen Moran confirmed that it was his own voice, and even more confirmed that the voice came from his mouth, which couldn't help but make him feel a fear from the bottom of his heart. He felt as if his body had been taken over by another soul. He didn't understand why this was happening, he didn't understand what was going on. What scared him even more was that he didn't even understand what he was talking about right now.
What's going on?
"It's impossible for the Central Guards to get here, Your Majesty. The First Army Corps had been completely annihilated in the Battle of Xu Beng, the Central Guards Corps was fighting hard against the rebels on the front line around Wuhan, there were no formed corps to use near Nanjing, and we had no reserves to mobilize here.
Therefore, I hope that Your Majesty will heed our advice and leave Nanking immediately. We still have 50 million subjects in the colony, and there are at least thirty divisions of colonial troops loyal to Your Majesty, the colonies have not betrayed Your Majesty, they can mobilize at least 200 divisions, the main fleet of the Navy is still loyal to Your Majesty, and now the future of the Empire needs you to command those troops to continue fighting, you will definitely be able to perform miracles again, as long as you withdraw to the colony, Your Majesty, the Empire still has hope. ”
At this time, it was Guan Mingtang's voice, and then Chen Moran saw him.
Guan Mingtang looks the same as Cai Yi, tired and old, Guan Mingtang at this time looks at least seventy years old, his eyes are full of frustration, and what makes people feel even more frightened is that at this time, he is the same as Cai Yi, his face is full of helplessness.
"Your Majesty, we have to leave, time is running out, the naval warships that broke into the Yangtze River are suffering from unprecedented shelling, which can only temporarily stop the footsteps of the rebels, I ask you to leave here as soon as possible while there is still a chance."
Jiang Baili still maintained his respectful attitude, and that kind of respect was also accompanied by the coldness of rejecting people thousands of miles away as always.
"No, I can't get out of here, I can't run away like a wild dog in front of those damned rebels, I am the chosen Majesty of 40,000,000 people. I will never abandon my compatriots, and I will never let my compatriots fall into the hands of bandits."
When he heard this answer, Chen Moran had never known that he would be so stubborn, although he still didn't fully understand what was going on, but he knew that his current situation must be very bad.
Red bandits!
At the time of hearing the word. Chen Moran seems to understand some questions, is it ......
"Your Majesty, now that General Xu Shuzheng has led the last guards to launch a surprise attack on the enemy's defensive line, he will definitely be able to open a passage for you, and we can't let General Xu die in vain. The artillery skills of the rebels were poor. We have every chance of rushing out. ”
At this time, Cai Ye grabbed his arm violently, and Chen Moran clearly felt the power and pain coming from those hands. He felt like he was acting like a stiff master, feeling everything around him, but he couldn't control his decisions.
Perhaps, like a spectator, it seems that he is just here to witness everything. And you can't change everything. Yes, it's just a spectator, it's like a soul out of the body, you can see it, but you can't stop it.
Chen Moran. Seeing that he was dragged out of the room by Cai Ye in a dazed manner, he quickly walked down a narrow corridor. …,
"Long live Your Majesty!"
The corridors were lined with heavily armed soldiers, and the air was mixed with grease, leather, sweat, and rusty blood in addition to the pungent smell of sulfur and burning. The smoke of cigarettes, all sorts of smells that only soldiers have, and the suffocating heat of the air in the aisles.
And at this time. Chen Moran was surprised to notice that most of the soldiers and officers on both sides of the corridor were wearing the "Feather Forest" badge, and the "Feather Forest" on the badge was indeed the logo of the "Feather Forest Battalion", but it was just a "ring", when. It has become a soldier's armband.
Doubt, this doubt is the same as before. Without any explanation, who is going to tell him what the hell is going on?
"You all keep up and protect Your Majesty from breaking through."
Cai Ye issued orders loudly, his hands still clutching his arms tightly. What made Chen Moran puzzled was that the stubborn self before didn't say a word at this time, and walked silently along the corridor like this.
This is a huge underground fortification, larger than all similar fortifications that Chen Moran has ever seen. The large and small passages are like spider webs, and the complexity is like a labyrinth. Each aisle was crowded with soldiers, officers, and many civilians in various costumes, but the clothing of the civilians showed that most of them were decent people, most likely from the upper classes.
When they saw the Emperor, men, women, and children all took the initiative to salute, even though their faces were equally despairing.
As a spectator or spectator, Chen Moran feels as if he is watching a movie about the end of the empire, and everything he sees now is like the scene in his many films about the end of a country in another world, and it is even more chaotic and terrifying.
The reason why it is terrifying is because of this, this is the country that he created!
Every time he walked through an aisle, several or even dozens of heavily armed soldiers and officers would take the initiative to join the team, and when the sign marking the exit appeared in front of Chen Moran's eyes, he found that there were soldiers everywhere in front of and behind him, and the aisle where two trucks could drive side by side was crowded in the vast way, and the huge team seemed to have no end in sight under the dim lights.
This should be an exhilarating scene, and the atmosphere of the scene can almost be called solemn, but as an audience, he still feels only a kind of bitter sadness, which is from the heart, and despair and sorrow are mixed.
The warriors all stood there silently, no longer seeing the pride and confidence in their eyes. Now, the faces of those warriors were only tired, a kind of exhaustion that came from the bottom of the spirit, with a trace of frustration and helplessness, and more despair and sorrow.
However, what made Chen Moran feel very relieved. No matter how tired they looked, no matter how desperate they were, no matter how helpless they were, as soldiers, they still maintained their inherent military posture, they still clutched the weapons in their hands, and their eyes still had a resolute will to fight.
These warriors have not lost their faith, they may have been defeated by a powerful enemy, but they still retain the self-esteem of a soldier. These warriors may have been defeated, they can only be defeated, no one can conquer them, this is still their own soldiers.
At this point, at the exit. More than a dozen soldiers struggled to turn a huge wheel on the wall at the exit, trying with all their might to open the door, which might weigh dozens of tons.
"The electric winch has been blown up, Your Majesty."
Cai Ye whispered to the side, he walked back and forth nervously. From time to time, he looked at the soldiers behind him, as if he was worried about something. …,
Finally, with the efforts of dozens of officers and soldiers, the huge concrete blast door slowly flipped up, and when the first crack was seen in front of people, a burst of hot air also blew into the aisle with the roar of the explosion, so that the two rows of soldiers standing on the outermost could not help but retreat a few steps.
"Attention all. After the exit is opened, rush out quickly, occupy the favorable terrain and spread out a defensive circle, your duty is only one, to protect the safety of Your Majesty! ”
Cai Ye shouted loudly, his voice constantly interrupted by explosions.
"Yes. Sir! ”
The neat answer elicited echoes in the aisle.
While the exit was slowly opened, the soldiers rushed towards the ground under the leadership of the officer, and Chen Moran saw that "himself" struggled to climb the last few steps under the pull of Cai Yi. Then, like the officers and soldiers who rushed out first, they were stunned by the terrible scene in front of them.
Once upon a time, Chen Moran thought that he had watched countless documents about the end of the world and various similar movies, but. He had never seen the real picture of the end times as he did now.
In his eyes, it is a hell that is difficult for anyone to imagine, let alone create. It's a burning hell.
At this point, he was clearly standing on the side of a large mountain, and as far as his eye could see, there was a burning hell, flattened as far as he could see, and there were flames and twisted wreckage and ashes-spitting ruins everywhere.
With the rumbling sound of explosions. There was a constant roar of building collapse in the air, seemingly. It seems that the city market below the mountain has been completely flattened, and the explosions, the flames, everything has been destroyed!
There...... Isn't that the Capitol there? Once that large Western-style building, but it was a landmark in Nanjing, but at this time, it has been completely flattened, and there is ...... A sea of fire is engulfing that once-prosperous capital, and the capital of the empire is destroying and collapsing, like ...... It's like this empire.
And on the Yangtze River in the distance, two combat ships that are constantly bursting flames are struggling on the river, the huge cannon ports are still constantly spitting flames towards the north of the river, they seem to be stopping something, and on the river, one after another, no, not black spots, it is a small boat, all kinds of small boats, those small boats that do not know where to collect, are desperately heading towards the south of the Yangtze River, and on the small boats, it is a red flag. The large and small ships in the middle of the river were constantly broken into pieces by warships or shore guns, and farther away, the tall and imposing bridge that was regarded as a miracle, to be precise, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, which had only existed on drawings or on a model of the building of an office in the palace, was broken into several pieces, apparently blown up by a deliberate explosion.
What's going on? What exactly is this......
In the background of flames and destruction, Chen Moran looked at the red flag on the river in the distance in fear, he looked at the red flag that was constantly rising in the city, at this moment, he seemed to understand something, the most frightening reality finally appeared in front of him ruthlessly,
Yes, finally, he knew what was going on here, and he knew why his empire was destroyed, and he also knew why, the soldiers who would appear with the "Yulin" badge, why in Cai Yi's mouth, always repeated the rebels, yes, they are loyal, they will not betray themselves.
They...... It seems that someone betrayed the Empire, yes, perhaps, created this army by himself, but this army has never been accustomed to fighting with domestic enemies, they are used to fighting with external enemies, yes, they have been defeated, defeated by internal enemies.
Don't...... Is this a nightmare repeated?
Chen Moran, who had a surge of despair in his heart, raised his head, although it seemed to be far away from the battlefield, but it was just a continuous drop of stray bullets, but he still felt the scorching heat in the air around him, he could feel the scorching air, which was burning his skin, and he was trying to absorb the last trace of oxygen in the hot air. He wanted to greet the ministers who were still with him when the end came, but he found that he couldn't make a sound.
This must be a dream!
Because just yesterday, his empire was still intact in the east, and from the bottom of his heart, Chen Moran knew that he must be dreaming now, but it was an extremely real nightmare, a nightmare that he was most afraid of, the most terrifying.
He doesn't know what he's seeing, can he say, this, this is the future? No, it can't be, it can't be the future.
But, why did this nightmare that chilled the bottom of my heart appear in my dream? And what scared him even more was that he found that he couldn't even make it stop.
At this moment, he saw that the sky had turned red, fiery red, fiery red, and that fiery red, as if it was going to devour, devour the whole world, devour this heaven and earth, devour all the living beings in the world......