Chapter 25: The Final Confrontation
Stepping into Xijing again, unlike leaving with a heavy heart two months ago, Hal slowly walked through the 'familiar' streets, and the scenes before the expedition appeared in front of him again. Only this time, he faced all this with a different mentality.
There were constant battles along the way, but Har didn't care at all, and under the escort of a group of cavalry, he went straight to the tall and magnificent imperial city in the center.
To put it bluntly, the imperial city is also an inner city, and when it first experienced war, it was also used as a military fortress to defend. In the case of a brazen surprise attack by the army, the city gate was lost in a very short time, but it gave the imperial city a short time to react. The Praetorian Guards quickly blocked the seventeen gates of the Imperial City and stood guard in the Imperial City.
Hal went to the Suzaku Gate, the gate of the imperial city. This once magnificent gate is about to be met with war.
"Open the door! There is no point in defending anymore! Hal whispered, and naturally there would be soldiers shouting out his words, but the soldiers guarding the Suzaku Gate were waiting for them and were not moved at all. The new dynasty has only been established for more than ten years, and these Janissaries have not lost their original loyalty, and they still guard the gates of the imperial city, treating Hal under the city as a rebellious minister and thief.
Hal looked at the scene in front of him, he didn't want to burn the war into the imperial city, but at this time, he was already difficult to ride a tiger, and he had no choice. At the same time, he was not satisfied with this uncomfortable feeling, and a trace of cruelty flashed on his indifferent face. With a wave of his small hand, countless soldiers came up from the rear with siege weapons.
As the army advanced, the Suzaku Gate became tense for a while. The follow-up tens of thousands of troops also completely captured the four gates of the entire Xijing in a short period of time, firmly encircling the imperial city. But even so, the Praetorian Guards guarding the Imperial City still had no intention of giving up, raising their bows and crossbows and resisting stubbornly!
When a war was inevitable, I heard a strange shouting and killing sound suddenly erupt in the imperial city, which immediately stunned both sides of the confrontation.
"Attack!" Hal realized that there seemed to be civil unrest inside, and also realized that this was an opportunity, and did not hesitate to order the attack.
Under the internal and external difficulties, the Praetorian Guard, which is known as the first-class combat strength of the DPRK and China, could not hold out even for just five minutes, and was easily broken through the defense line. At this point, Xijing, the capital of the new dynasty, no longer has any power that can stop Hal.
It's hard to imagine that the closer you get to the Imperial Palace, the calmer Hal becomes. As if everything was supposed to be like this, everything was arranged in advance, he was the one who should be on the throne. At the gate of the Imperial City Hall, a group of major generals who rushed to Hal walked in.
The hall was no longer as brightly lit as in Hal's memory, and the so-called civil and military officials, except for the generals who followed him, had long since disappeared. On the high platform that needed to be looked up at in the past, there were three chairs, three people sat each, and two eunuchs trembled with fear, but they did not dare to leave half a step.
In the darkness, Hal couldn't see who was sitting on the high platform at all, but there was one person he could be sure that the one wearing the black royal robe was his own eldest brother and Jie.
"Take! Is it really going to get to this point? The voice came from the darkness of the high platform, and Hal felt very familiar, just frowning and quietly looking at the person sitting on the high platform, his pupils dilated instantly, and he suddenly shouted: "Palm lamp!" β
The firelight soon illuminated the entire hall, and after the darkness was dispelled, Hal finally saw the three men sitting on the high platform. The father who has died in the mouth of the eldest brother, and the queen mother who has always been quite partial, and the eldest brother who has inherited the throne!
"What's going on?" Suddenly I saw my father, and the shadow of many years reappeared in Hal's heart, and the 'memory' was always reprimanded by my father, and the contemptuous past kept reappearing in front of him. made Hal, who was originally quite confident, feel a little weak.
As if he had seen through Hal's weakness, Wang Laohe, the boss who had single-handedly established a new dynasty, stood up and looked at Hal condescendingly with his majestic eyes again: "Wu! What are you doing here? Are you planning to rebel? β
"No... No! Perhaps it was the long-term neglect and exclusion of 'memory', after seeing his father, Hal's tone was subconsciously a little weak, "Son... The son led the troops outside, but he never heard from his father. Fearing that something might happen, he led his troops back. found that the eldest brother had ascended the throne as king, saying that his father had passed away. Erchen didn't believe it, so he led his troops to attack the imperial city! β
Hal lowered his head weakly, but he didn't notice the disappointed eyes of the generals who followed him.
"Then the widow tells you that this throne belongs to your eldest brother by the widow! How did the widow teach you before? What should be given to you, I will give it to you! What is not given to you, you cannot be robbed! Tell the widow, Wu! What are you doing now? As if he had regained his former momentum as the king, Lao He suppressed Hal in a domineering manner.
Hal was drenched in cold sweat and didn't know how to answer.
But at this moment, a group of generals behind him slowly stood to the side, only Gongsun Yu slowly walked to Hal and looked at Wang Laohe, the boss who was standing on the high platform with a smile.
"Your Highness!" Gongsun Yu was just a small staff general, and he didn't even have the qualifications to go to this imperial palace in the past. But at this moment, his forced gaze made the old king's face pale and retreated.
Gongsun Yu's call suddenly made Hal wake up from his fear, he turned his head to look around, and found that all the generals who followed him into this place were all looking at him. He looked at the sword in his hand, and then at the three lonely people on the high platform, and for a brief moment, it seemed as if he had returned to the day when he ordered the killing of 310,000 prisoners.
The fierce and fierce eyes appeared in his eyes without shying away, which made the three people on the high platform see it clearly.
Finally, the eldest prince Jie, who was put on the throne by Lao He, could no longer bear this feeling of hovering between life and death, and completely lost his mind. He laughed maniacally and yelled at Hal under the high stage, "Do you think you won? You're just a clown! You didn't win! Won't win either! You're just a clown... Belch! β
"Jer!"
"Wang'er!"
Two cries of grief rang out, and the eldest king and the old queen wailed and pounced on Hejie, dressed in black royal robes, who had been nailed to the throne where countless people wanted to sit with a feathered arrow.
"The Second Prince Arrives ββ!"
As the eunuch's voice sounded from outside the main hall, the military attachΓ©s on both sides knelt down on one knee and saluted outside the hall without saying a word. The only person standing was Hal, who turned around tremblingly to see a man in golden armor, a grimace helmet, and a short bow in his hand walking in from outside the main hall.
That deep look looked through the grimace helmet, and looked directly at Hal, like... The gaze from the Grim Reaper in general...
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