Guan Kuo sat on the steps of the dormitory, with Qin Kill on his knees, silently looking up at the sky.

Li Xiyun still couldn't sleep tonight.

She leaned on his shoulder, her eyes flashing with fear, despair, blame, relief, pain...... Lots and lots of emotions.

Her heart is not big, the government is ruined, Guan Kuo is unable to sleep, she doesn't think about tea and dinner, the Northern Tang Dynasty is about to perish, and so is she.

It's just that she didn't know what to do, so she could only lean on Guan Kuo's shoulder for comfort.

"I don't know exactly what I'm going to do, but the only thing I know for sure is that I'm here to be with you and protect you." Guan Kuo said.

"Thank you, you're so nice." Li Xiyun's voice trembled slightly, and tonight's events made her very haggard and pale.

They just leaned close to each other and didn't speak for a long time.

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Chang'an City had no possibility of defending, and Li Zenan retreated to the imperial city with a large number of Chang'an people.

There were not many ordinary people in Chang'an, and most of the people who remained here were courtiers and their families, but despite this, not many of them were able to retreat to the imperial city, and many were killed, hiding, missing, or taken prisoner.

At the foot of the imperial city, the Southern Wu army gathered and launched an offensive like a wave, and victory was imminent, but it was always a short distance.

At the Wangxian Gate, Li Zenan Jinma was majestic, no matter how fierce the attack of the Southern Wu people was, he could not enter the city a single step, he firmly blocked there, as if he wanted to turn the imperial city into an indelible fortress.

The imperial dragon never stops, this emperor doesn't seem to know tiredness, and he won't fall, the corpses and bones at Wangxian Gate are like mountains, piled up, and the imperial city has become a nightmare for all Southern Wu people.

After fighting from late night until dawn, the Southern Wu people could not take a single inch, and the casualties in the imperial city had already reached five or six thousand.

An Jin's order came - to stop the attack for the time being.

At this moment, Chang'an City is already devastated, and the casualties on both sides are very heavy, this is a huge catastrophe.

Jin An knew that it would not be good for him to continue fighting, and there was not much grain and grass in the imperial city, if Li Zenan was determined to fight to the death with him, then it would be the best thing to wait for the other party to run out of grain and grass and not have enough to eat.

Now that most of the Northern Tang Dynasty has fallen, a steady stream of grain and grass has been transported from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas of Southern Wu, and if you want to compete who is more patient, Jinan has an absolute advantage.

Time passed without hurry, during which Jin An organized several raids of small scale, but was repelled by the brave Li Zenan, and finally returned to calm.

That calm is very strange, hiding the ultimate destruction, despair, depression.

The imperial city was completely surrounded, and the imperial city was not as strong as Chang'an City, Li Zenan couldn't hold on for long, and the final outcome was waiting for him.

In this battle, he killed many Northern Tang officials, including Xu Jingyi and Xie Jun, but Long Ji and Long Aotian were nowhere to be found.

Xu Mengshan was taken to the Guogong Mansion, and that night, the strong guards of the Guogong Mansion fought several bloody battles with the Southern Wu soldiers who wanted to rush in and make trouble, until Jin An's order was delivered, and they were safe.

Liu Guogong did not let the people in the palace retreat into the imperial city with Li Zenan, they used their own strength to protect themselves, and they achieved ultimate success.

There are several such mansions in Chang'an. But in any case, they were powerless about the future fate of the Northern Tang.

Chang'an City, which was originally fiercely fought, seemed to have turned into a pool of stagnant water, so quietly let time slip away.

It was a very difficult period of more than ten days, and the imperial city began to cut back on food and clothing, and the Southern Wu people simply settled down in the houses in the city.

But in the end, history will move forward slowly.

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A long, long time ago, an envoy set out from Jinling to Chang'an.

Now, she has come to Chang'an.

Negotiating with Li Zenan and letting him surrender is not only for the sake of interests, but also to vaguely give face to the Li royal family.

The country is dead, but life is still alive, and for thousands of years, all parts of the world have passed like this.

Southern Wu's strongest protection squad surrounded the messenger and approached the imperial city.

Guan Liandian, Jin Xiaoyun, Guan Bangyun, Zhang Lianyue......

A full ten peerless powerhouses, as well as more than fifty forbidden soldiers, guarded it.

The gates of the imperial city slowly opened, and a carriage drove out of it.

The carriage was surrounded by dozens of Changliu palace guards, and it was mighty.

In the Changliu Palace Guard, there is a young man who hides a young man, and the sword at his waist is not quite the same as the uniform style of the saber of other people.

That's naturally Guan Kuo.

When the two columns met at the city gate, Guan Kuo was stunned.

He never understood why Li Zenan suddenly agreed to Nanwu's request and let Li Xiyun go out of the city and go to Jin'an as a hostage, but today, he understood.

Guan Bangyun rode on the horse, and his bright eyes glanced at him coldly.

The others were unrecognizable to the Changliu Palace Guards who were dressed the same, but with her keen eyes, she still spotted the guy very quickly. She and Guan Kuo have always had a grudge, in the past, they had common interests, so they had always reluctantly stayed together, but now it seems that the good days are over.

Today is not a good day to deal with these things, though.

But Guan Kuo's most important concern was the carriage on Guan Wanyun's side, which was like an iron wall.

There were huge waves in his heart, he really didn't expect that the envoy sent by Ji Ruhai to Chang'an to negotiate with Li Zenan would actually be Ji Ruyi.

How is this possible? How can this be? This is just nonsense!

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Most of the people who went out with Li Xiyun would only realize that it was a distinguished guest when they saw the carriage opposite, but they would never know that it was Her Royal Highness Ji Rus, the little princess of Nanwu.

So those people looked as usual, only vigilant and solemn.

Beitang is walking at the crossroads of fate, but their manpower is limited, so the only thing they should consider now is to worry about Li Xiyun's safety.

However, Guan Kuo was shocked with a look on his face, and he couldn't take a step for a long time.

No matter what Ji Ruhai's requirements were, but at least, he never felt that Ji Ru would be the best negotiator, one was that he didn't believe in Li Zenan's character, Ji Ru was very likely to be in danger, and the other was that in his opinion, Ji Ru did not belong to this kind of world of negotiation politics, and her world belonged to the vast sky.

After Xiao Yao next to him frowned and pushed his eyebrows, he reacted, and had to keep up with the footsteps of the other Changliu palace guards.