A year ago, Yi Jiuxiao set out from Qi Country and went through a lot of hardships, just to be able to come here as soon as possible and complete the mission.

Today he finally came to the outside of Gyeongju City, but it was no longer for the purpose he once had.

The tall and majestic city walls were also examining him, and that scrutiny carried a strong sense of oppression, trying to shake his confidence.

Now, it seems that there are only two paths in front of him.

One is to storm and not hesitate to exchange the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers for the destruction of the city, and the other is to surround but not fight, waiting for the city to be cut off from food and grass and start a rebellion.

It's just that time waits for no one, and Li Rong reminded Yi Jiuxiao that he must find a way to break the city as soon as possible, otherwise there will be a lot of variables.

There are only two Jin Dan in the Feng family in the city, but there are no less than twenty other Jin Dan realm and above masters.

These masters include the royal elders, Dazai, the deans of the academy, the chief officials of various ministries, etc., a few of them are still in the late stage of Jindan, and there are even Yuanying masters, and their strength should not be underestimated.

They were all centrists before, and they stood by and watched the prince's struggle for the throne, and let the Feng family and the Li family fight each other, but it doesn't mean that they have always been neutral.

If the siege of the city for several months causes civil strife among the people in the city and touches the interests of these people, who knows what the consequences will be.

One of the consequences is to send Feng Qiushui and Wei Tong out of the city and be dealt with by Li Rong, and the other consequence is that these people are angry with the Li family, and then support the Feng family.

Li Rong's idea was to storm and sacrifice the lives of the sergeants, as long as Gyeongju City was broken as soon as possible, the price was worth it.

But Yi Jiuxiao didn't want to, he couldn't bear it, these sergeants also have parents, wives and children, and they are also living people.

If he had to trade the life of a sergeant, he would rather give up the siege and everything in front of him.

After wandering outside for two hours, Yi Jiuxiao returned to the barracks and went straight to find Li Rui and Li Rong.

Then the three of them appeared in the tent, and Li Rong asked, "Prince, are you looking for us to prepare to attack the city?"

"Mother, I still don't want to storm it, because it would be too tragic, and I want to go into the city and spy on it myself. Yi Jiuxiao replied.

Li Rong shook his head, as if he didn't agree with Yi Jiuxiao's idea, but he didn't dare to push him too much.

Because Yi Jiuxiao was not wrong, a strong attack on Gyeongju City would definitely cause a large number of casualties.

At that time, even if the city of Gyeongju is taken, the Wei state will be greatly damaged, and the surrounding countries will wait for the opportunity to move, and the Wei state will inevitably be unable to resist foreign enemies.

"The gates of the city are closed on all sides, how can you enter the city, flying is never prohibited in the imperial city, once you fly, you will be discovered, then you don't have to close the family to do it, the national teacher will also fight with you and force you to fall. ”

This is what Li Rui said, he was afraid that Yi Jiuxiao would not know the rules of the imperial city.

"I don't want to fly straight into the city, I certainly won't. I want to retreat to a distance of 500 miles, and the gates will be opened. ”

"Okay, I promise you, now we will retreat to a distance of five hundred miles, if they don't open the city gate within ten days, or if you can't think of another way within ten days, we will storm Gyeongju City, how about it?"

Yi Jiuxiao saw that Li Rong could agree, and hurriedly said: "Just according to what the queen mother said, if I can't do it, I will attack according to the queen mother's will." ”

The military order was soon issued, and the troops pulled out the camp and set up camp five hundred miles east of Gyeongju Fortress.

Originally, the team was in the north of Gyeongju, but now why did it go to the east of Gyeongju Fortress?

Yi Jiuxiao understood after thinking about it carefully, and couldn't help but secretly admire the queen's strong appearance.

If you retreat to the north, it will inevitably affect the morale of the army, and now it is moving eastward, and the sergeants think that there is a new military situation.

Moreover, the east has always been the sphere of influence of the Feng family, and being stationed here can block the reinforcements of the Feng family.

At the beginning, Yi Jiuxiao also retreated with the army, and the team moved from the north of the city to the east of the city day and night.

When he was a hundred miles away from the east, Yi Jiuxiao suddenly flew out of the barracks and flew east first.

Then, in a large circle in the air, he flew to a dense forest west of Gyeongju City and landed.

This dense forest is fifty miles away from the city gate, and there is no doubt that anyone flying or landing here will be found in Gyeongju City.

Yi Jiuxiao changed his appearance again in the dense forest, and changed the prince's appearance to a middle-aged scholar, a mortal image without any cultivation.

Then he walked out of the jungle and searched for a market town nearby, two days after the army had moved east.

Yi Jiuxiao bought a horse on the market town, and then rode slowly towards the west gate of Gyeongju City, stopping and waiting by the post road ten miles away from the city gate.

The reason why he chose the west of the city was because he wanted to gamble and bet on the west gate of Gyeongju City.

Because the Li family's army was marching five hundred miles to the east, Feng Qiushui would definitely know about it, but the east city gate would definitely not dare to open it.

The west gate can be opened, and the city of Gyeongju itself is hundreds of miles long, and the west gate is not afraid that the Li family's army will suddenly turn around and return.

Sure enough, Yi Jiuxiao was right, just three days after the Li family's army was launched, before they had reached five hundred miles, the West City Gate was opened.

The news of the opening of the west gate was soon learned by Yi Jiuxiao, because he saw that there were people walking on the post road, coming from the direction of Gyeongju City, so he came forward to inquire and knew that the city gate was open.

Slowly outside the city also learned the news of the opening of the city gates, and people began to march towards the city.

Yi Jiuxiao mixed behind a group of people who entered the city and came to the city gate together.

The gate of the city is heavily checked, and several defenders are all foundation building monks, fierce and domineering, and the cultivators who enter the city even have to open the ring to see it.

Fortunately, he was a mortal in the first place, and the defenders glanced at it and let him go.

Yi Jiuxiao did not stop after entering the city, but rode straight towards the center of the city.

He only had ten days, and three days had passed.

If the situation cannot be reversed, you can only storm Gyeongju City according to the arrangement of Empress Li Rong, which will inevitably cause huge casualties. This is what he does not want to see, and he cannot bear to see it.

Although he practiced martial arts, martial arts were not all about war and killing.

The killing of martial arts is actually sharpened in killing, growing up in killing, and more in the hope of stopping the fight with force.

The killing of martial arts is the confrontation between the strong and the strong, and the confrontation between good and evil, so although martial arts are good at killing, they are not demons.

He doesn't like the senseless killings, the killings that don't care about the lives of the weak.

In the evening, Yi Jiuxiao dismounted at the gate of the Fu Ministry's Zuo Shilang's mansion.

When he arrived at the porter's room, he handed over a letter that it was written by a friend of Lord Squire, and asked the guard at the door to bring it in.

This letter was written by Li Rui, Li Rui is the secretary of the Fubu, and Fu Xing, the left waiter, is Li Rui's subordinate and Li Rui's person.

It's just that he has always maintained a neutral posture and has not been affected by the civil war.

After a while, the informant came out and said, "Our adults have a please."

Then he took Yi Jiuxiao into the mansion, walked through the courtyard and came to the door of Fu Xing's study.

Fu Xing stood in front of the study to greet him. Yi Jiuxiao looked at Fu Xing, who was in his thirties, with a handsome face, and was cultivated in the early stage of Jindan.

After entering the study, when the family retreated, I saw Fu Xing bowing down and giving a salute to Yi Jiuxiao: "The ninth master is above, Fu Xing failed to greet him at the door in order to prevent people's eyes and ears, please forgive me!"

Yi Jiuxiao returned the salute and said, "It's okay, those vulgar etiquette are not important, Lord Fu has always been good?"

"Lord Shangshu is not here, I will be the main thing in the ministry, and I will be safe for the time being. I have read Lord Shangshu's letter, and I will fully cooperate with the Ninth Master, and obey the Ninth Master's orders. ”

In his letter to Fu Xing, Li Rui did not explain Yi Jiuxiao's identity, but only called him "Ninth Master", and asked Fu Xing to obey all the arrangements of "Ninth Master".

Fu Xingming is a neutral official on the surface, but he is actually a retainer of the Li family, so he naturally obeys Li Rui's words and respects Yi Jiuxiao very much.

However, Fu Xing was very curious about the "Ninth Master" in front of him, obviously a mortal without any mana, how could he take on such a heavy responsibility.

Yi Jiuxiao has read the content of Li Rui's letter, and using the title "Nine Masters" is to hide people's eyes.

He entered Gyeongju City this time to rebel in the city, let Gyeongju City be chaotic, and break the power of the Feng family from the inside.

But the first time Yi Jiuxiao came to Gyeongju City, his eyes were black, and his personal strength alone was not enough, so he asked Li Rui to find a helper, and Fu Xing was one of them.

At night, Yi Jiuxiao left the Shilang Mansion alone, without horses, and blended into the night after leaving the mansion gate.

After dawn the next day, a notice appeared on the walls of the main market and crowded areas in the center of Gyeongju City.

The above content is: The Feng family, headed by the demon concubine Feng Qiushui, has been secretly cultivating forces for a long time, intending to rebel, taking advantage of the death of the emperor to forcibly occupy the imperial city, forcing away the queen and the prince, and colluding with Zhou and Ning, so that the enemy country will send troops to invade my Shizhou and Hezhou, trying to carve up our Wei country. Fortunately, the queen and the crown prince, with the assistance of the northern state capitals, annihilated the enemy forces of Zhou and Ning, and also killed Feng Xishan and Feng Xihai, the culprits of the Feng family. In the near future, the empress and the crown prince will lead a large army to recover Gyeongju City, and ask all the ministers of the court and China to work together to expel the remnants of the feudal family in Gushin City, so as not to destroy the lives and injure innocents during the siege of the city.

This proclamation spread quickly among the onlookers.

In less than an hour, he was already a household name, and when the Feng family forces found out, they were already powerless.

Originally, the Feng family claimed in Gyeongju that it was the queen and the crown prince who plotted to kill the former emperor, the queen and the crown prince were both rebels, and Concubine Jing and the Feng family were righteous teachers who avenged the former emperor.

The people who didn't know what was going on believed it and cursed the queen and the prince in secret.

Today's article has shaken the psychology of the people, especially the matter of the Feng family's collusion with the enemy country, and the people are the most disgusted.

Although there is no official evidence, many people are willing to believe it.

The people's sentiment began to reverse, and the people who originally hated the queen felt deceived and began to secretly curse Concubine Jing and the Feng family.

The Feng family's army tore up all the notices, but the situation got worse.

Many people who have not seen the notice in person can only listen to rumors, and all kinds of rumors are false, amplifying the content, and adding speculation.

In the end, it turned out that Concubine Jing and the Feng family colluded with the enemy country and killed the first emperor, if the Feng family was not driven out of the city, the million army of the queen and the prince would kill all the people in the city.