Sima Hongyan smiled: "I know what you want to ask me, but you have heard all my words, and there are no excessive words, it is the old man who has great wisdom to make this decision." ”

Shi Jinyan said faintly: "Hongyan, I find that I can't understand you more and more!" Your mind is much deeper than I do. ”

Sima Hongyan said: "It's not as complicated as you think, what I say is the truth, and there are no secret words." The old man is just a momentary can't get around the loyalty of his courtiers, and I just wake him up. ”

While Sima Hongyan and Shi Jinyan were still talking, the Yanling army and the Dongning defenders were already boiling.

Thinking about what kind of character Zhou Hongde is, no matter who the people in the world are, it is a blessing for three lives to be able to get his teaching and guidance. When it comes to how famous he is, he should also be called a "teacher", and even the emperors of the Five Kingdoms paid tribute to this old man with great virtue and virtue.

But today's experience completely subverted everyone's deep-rooted concepts, and Zhou Hongde was persuaded by Lord Yanling Feng.

Could it be that Lord Yanling Feng's insight is even more clever than that of Mr. Zhou Hongde? It's impossible! Feng is a girl in her twenties, even if she is smart, where can she be smart? But what did she rely on to move this wisest sage in the world?

Everyone fell into confusion, and even the eyes that looked at Sima Hongyan changed.

At this time, Sima Hongyan returned to the Chinese army and gave an order to the army: "Enter the city!" ”

Such a mighty empress shocked the three armies, and all of them were in high spirits. Dongning's qi was exhausted, and even Mr. Zhou Hongde, who had served all his life, abandoned them, which doomed them even more.

The morale of the whole army of Yanling was high, and it was majesticly approaching the imperial city. The Dongning soldiers who were still guarding the city gate had no fighting spirit at the moment when Zhou Hongde left, and their confidence was lost, and they were already full of fear when they looked at the Yanling army that gradually came to their eyes.

I don't know who shouted, the Dongning soldiers instantly disintegrated, threw down their weapons and fled like lost dogs, they knew in their hearts that Dongning was finished.

The Yanling army entered the imperial city without any obstacles, and the forbidden army guarding inside had not had time to escape, seeing the Yanling army coming mightily, they subconsciously threw down their weapons and moved out of the way to both sides, flashing a way for Yanling.

Nan Guying took the lead and shouted to the Dongning soldiers who gave up resistance: "Since you know the general situation, Lord Feng will not hold everyone responsible, you should hurry up and go home with your family." ”

Hearing that Nan Guying actually let them go, the soldiers of the forbidden army looked grateful, and after saluting the Yanling army, they left one after another and left the imperial city.

Entering the imperial city, the Dongning Palace was close at hand, and everyone was shocked by what they saw when they saw the Dongning Palace. Even Sima Hongyan and others were shocked by the luxury of the Dongning Imperial Palace, perhaps Dongning is not the richest country, but they are extremely poor and extravagant in the construction of the Imperial Palace.

Coming all the way from Dongning, Sima Hongyan has a general understanding of Dongning's national conditions, don't look at Dongning's bragging, but the living conditions of their people are much worse than those of Yanling. And when he saw such a splendid palace, Sima Hongyan realized that countless people's fat and ointment had become palaces with carved beams and paintings, relying on sucking the blood of the common people to satisfy their vanity and luxury.

The Dongning royal family, who exploited the people to satisfy their selfish desires, made Sima Hongyan feel angry!

Sima Hongyan beckoned to Guo Zidi and said, "Lead the cavalry to surround the imperial city, and no one is allowed to escape." Guo Zidi shouted the order and mobilized the cavalry to gallop away.

Then Sima Hongyan summoned Xiao Hongying and said, "Take two thousand female troops to search the palace and get rid of all the resistance forces." Xiao Hongying hurriedly took the order to take the female soldiers.

Immediately afterwards, Sima Hongyan summoned Ban Lingruo and said: "The group of faint officials in Dongning who fled into the imperial city must have gathered in the court, brought people over and tied them up, no matter men and women, without exception!" ”

Listening to Lord Feng's orders one after another, anyone could hear Lord Feng's anger. It's no wonder that Lord Feng is angry, the people are poor like that, but this palace is extravagant and wasteful with gold and silver, it seems that this group of imperial magnates in Dongning is really not a good thing.

The army escorted Sima Hongyan and slowly walked towards the palace hall, as soon as she arrived at the door of the main hall, Ban Lingruo ran out of the main hall, seeing that her expression was different, Sima Hongyan stood in place and waited for her.

Coming to Sima Hongyan, Ban Lingruo said in a low voice: "Sister, there is no one in the hall, it is a completely empty hall. ”

Sima Hongyan was stunned for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "Go!" Go inside and have a look. ”

The army stayed outside the hall, and thousands of female soldiers escorted Sima Hongyan and several commanders towards the main hall. When the Yanling army entered the city before, Sima Hongyan got accurate information from the female army, and all the official eunuch families fled into the imperial city with their close family members. Speaking of which, there are also a lot of people, especially courtiers, Lan Shengwen will definitely not arrange them to the harem, except for the main hall, it can be said that there is no other place to place so many people.

Unexpectedly, there was no one in the hall, and this time Sima Hongyan miscalculated.

With doubts, Sima Hongyan came to the main hall, and as soon as Sima Hongyan entered the door, the female soldiers immediately flew out and searched everywhere, including the top of the main hall and the inconspicuous corners. After confirming that there was no one, he let Sima Hongyan walk in.

Sima Hongyan walked unfast, there was no expression on his face, and he walked around the hall for half a circle and returned to the same place. He said to the people behind him: "This place is very clean, it seems that those courtiers and their families have not lived here. ”

Shi Jinyan said: "Maybe they were all arranged to go to the harem." ”

Sima Hongyan showed an esoteric smile, noncommittal.

At this time, Xiao Hongying hurriedly ran over and said to Sima Hongyan: "Sister! The harem is empty, and I haven't even seen a eunuch or maid! ”

Everyone except Sima Hongyan was shocked, and Shi Jinyan asked, "How is this possible, can they still grow wings and fly?" ”

Xiao Hongying said: "I asked the female soldiers and sisters to search the entire harem carefully, it was a mess everywhere, as if it had been robbed by robbers, and the valuable things were gone, it seems that these people have escaped." ”

Shi Jinyan said angrily: "They should not be far away, we will send someone to chase them." ”

Sima Hongyan stopped: "No need! They should have run away a long time ago. Hua Nanlei, immediately go to General Guo and ask him to lead his troops out from the north gate to chase the sea, there should be something to be found! Hua Nanlei immediately turned around and went out to convey.

Everyone thought about all kinds of scenes of meeting with the Dongning royal family, but they didn't guess that the entire palace had become an empty city, and suddenly a huge loss came to everyone's hearts.

Sima Hongyan comforted everyone: "I am responsible for this matter, I ignored the advantage of Dongning by the sea, and did not deploy in advance, it was my mistake!" ”

Shi Jinyan asked, "You mean, they fled to the sea?" ”

Sima Hongyan nodded and said, "The Lan brothers have been running Dongning for many years, so they will naturally leave a way back for themselves. They spy on the world and constantly cause trouble, and it is difficult to guarantee that there will not be a day of retaliation. So in order to save their lives, they will definitely be cunning. The biggest advantage of the Dongning people is the sea, and the sea is the world of the Dongning people, so I guess they must have found a secret island on the sea as their last place to live. ”

Shi Jinyan has always drawn inferences from one another, and immediately continued: "This is why they want to take away their courtiers, family members, and eunuchs and palace maids, they want to continue to be emperors on an isolated island on the sea." Now most of Dongning's wealth has been looted by these people, and it is estimated that they have already been transferred to that isolated island in the sea. ”

Sima Hongyan said: "That's right! Not to mention that there are thousands of islands in the sea, and even if we can find them, I don't think we will be their opponents in naval battles. When Sima Hongyan said this, he said to Shi Jinyan: "Jinyan, you go and ask those forbidden soldiers, whether the soldiers responsible for guarding the imperial city have also disappeared." If so, how many, you can find out. Shi Jinyan understood what Sima Hongyan meant, and went immediately.

At this time, Sima Hongyan thought of something more important, and said to Ban Lingruo: "Little sister, go and find out where King Hong's troops are at once, and send female soldiers and sisters to keep an eye on them, but you must not let King Hong escape again." ”

Ban Lingruo also suddenly woke up and immediately went to arrange.

Nan Guying has been by Sima Hongyan's side, and said to Sima Hongyan at this time: "Since Lan Shengwen has escaped, then let's inform the people of Dongning immediately." I think that since Lan Shengwen is gone this time, then let him not think about coming back in the future. ”

Sima Hongyan nodded and said, "You can do it!" ”

For Lan Shengwen's escape this time, Sima Hongyan blamed himself very much. I could have thought of it in advance, but I ignored it. The most important thing is that in modern times, there has been a case of a regime facing extinction that finally fled overseas and became an island as a country. Others can't think of it, but she Sima Hongyan shouldn't think of it.

Seeing that Sima Hongyan was in a bad mood, Xiao Hongying ordered the Red Sleeves to take care of the Feng Lord, and she went to arrange the affairs of the people.

In any case, today's Dongning is completely finished, and when the people know that the emperor abandoned them and fled, I am afraid that no one will go to serve the Lan clan as the lord in the future.

I thought it would be a tragic battle to subvert the imperial power, but I didn't expect it to end in such a joking way. And the Dongning royal family also ended their centuries-old rule in Dongning with the most humiliating escape.

And now there is only one last question left for Dongning, that is, the Hongwang Lan Shengwu who came after him. Saying nothing this time won't let him escape again.

The matter of appeasing the people went very smoothly under Xiao Hongying's arrangement, and Sima Hongyan had an indescribable disgust for this imperial city. After repeatedly confirming that there was no one in the palace, Sima Hongyan led the army to leave the imperial city, ordered the four inner city gates to be sealed, and then the Yanling army set up camp outside the imperial city.

In the evening of the same day, Guo Zidi returned. Sure enough, as Sima Hongyan expected, Guo Zidi ran out of the city from the north gate for more than ten miles to the seaside, where there was a simple port, it seems that Lan Shengwen and others did board the boat from here to escape, as for where to run, the vast sea is nowhere to be found.

However, Guo Zidi did not run in vain this trip, he also brought back two people. To be exact, there are two corpses, one is Lan Shengwen's original queen, and the other is Lan Shuang, the daughter of King Hong.

It was not surprising that these two people ended up like this, Zhong Liying was next to Sima Hongyan and went up to check it.

She first looked at the queen's corpse and said, "The throat has been cut, and it seems that the person who killed him must have hated her very much." ”