By the time the army landed on the east bank, a few more days had passed.

In fact, after the defeat of the Northern Sect, especially after withstanding the attack of public opinion, the morale of the army on the east coast has long been extremely low, and it may be easier to let the cultivators of the Four Realms cover the forced landing of the army.

It's just that Zhang Ling still chose a better path for him at this time.

So, when people landed on the East Coast, they were surprised to find that most of the flags that had been hostile had been changed.

This proves that most of them have surrendered.

This made some people in the Northwest Army contempt, especially some war fanatics, but fortunately, the top management was calm enough, and many people also understood that the surrender of the troops on the east bank was not that they were really spineless, and the greater reason was Zhang Ling's identity. So, under Yuan Lai's observation, the co-optation of these people was carried out in an orderly manner.

Of course, it is very difficult to recruit tens of thousands of troops, especially since a considerable part of this group of people is actually unwilling, so subjugation is one thing, and how to appoint is another.

These things were all troubled by a group of officials, and Yuan Lai and other cultivators didn't care about it.

After reaching the east bank, the army marched towards the capital.

The roads leading to this historic city on the continent were numerous and extremely wide and straight, making it easy for the army to march.

Originally, there were more than 100,000 troops in the West Bank, but now a small half of them are busy in charge of those surrendering troops, and the other half is busy stabilizing various places to prevent some careerists from taking advantage of this time to make trouble.

So only 50,000 people rushed to the capital.

This number may not seem like much, but it is already too much.

Without planning to completely destroy the capital, no matter how many people can't kill it, the final battle with the first life will definitely be a duel between cultivators, not a sweep with a large army.

More than ten days passed.

The capital finally appeared on the distant horizon.

As for the citizens of the capital, when the Northwest Army saw this big city, the nervous citizens of the capital also saw a black and oppressive wave surging outside the city.

So they were scared, excited, and talking.

This scene made them feel very surprised and illusory, and some young people watched the black land waves rushing in blankly, and a few remembered that they had laughed at the remarks of this group of northwesterners at the beginning, and then smiled bitterly. More people and young people have long forgotten their original views, and they are full of only one thing, that is, how to keep themselves safe.

However, what makes them desperate is that the citizens of the capital, who have been too far away from the word war, have completely lost the instinct of being born to be a human being, so they can only be like well-dressed pigs, desperately watching the tide of the sea come in, helpless.

The only group of people who are calm are the elderly people, who watch the scene indifferently and leisurely, and then point to the juniors to settle down.

The ignorant part of these old people naturally feel that the big city where they live has experienced hundreds of years and thousands of years of wind and rain, and all dangers will pass.

And some of the Taoists squinted their eyes and walked back and forth under the big locust tree in their small courtyard when they knew the number of troops coming from outside the city, and then said calmly: "Don't panic, the prince will not attack the city." ”

The prince wants to sit in the Dragon Court, where is the reason to break the Dragon Court?

However, compared to the calmness of these people, the defenders of the capital were not so determined.

The defenders of the capital may be the most glamorous group of people on the entire continent, and they are by no means the most capable of fighting, and the most terrible thing is that they are the most difficult group of people to surrender.

If nothing else, if they don't shoot a single shot, the war will subside in the future, and the spitting stars of the citizens of the capital who have settled down will be enough to drown them.

So, when they saw the tide approaching, the officers and soldiers standing on the tower all sweated on their backs.

Xu Jingtang is also on the city tower.

As the commander of the Red Feather Lord, he did not stay in the imperial city at this time, but came to the city wall of the outer city.

This was a bit more than they could do, but the officers of the defending army did not say much about it.

Under the city, the neatly equipped and murderous Yulin cavalry has been lined up.

The officers defending the city occasionally looked down, and always felt that this group of people had come not so much to fight the people outside as to oversee the army.

However, Xu Jingtang, who was expressionless, had no heart to care about the complicated thoughts of this group of officers.

He wasn't actually here to oversee the army.

I'm not here to fight hard.

The reason why I came here is, after all, because I really want to see those who have been killed.

And......

Thinking of the current scene in the imperial city, Xu Jingtang couldn't help frowning.

Those eunuchs who were less courageous than rats had already made a fuss when he came out, but fortunately it was the prince who killed, they were just restless and didn't do anything else, Xu Jingtang even thought that if it wasn't the prince outside, but only Shentu Wojia, then the palace at this time was afraid that everyone would run out.

Xu Jingtang naturally despised this, but what made him even more complicated was the emperor who still did not show up even at this time.

Without the emperor presiding over the overall situation, no one dared to make any decisions in the end.

Xu Jingtang felt that this was really ridiculous, and he couldn't help but think that if His Majesty the Emperor could come out and say a few words at this time, just a few words, the entire chaotic and restless capital could easily calm down.

Even although this group of people has already fought here, if the emperor is willing to show up, if he can have even five or six points of wisdom and determination of the emperor who worked hard at the beginning, it is not necessarily difficult to turn defeat into victory.

But......

He glanced in the direction of the Star Picking Tower, where there was no movement.

His Majesty the Emperor sat in the clouds, calmly overlooking all this, unmoved.

Even if the old ministers of the court jointly signed a letter, and later even knelt down together under the star-picking tower, the emperor still remained indifferent.

Xu Jingtang has a very clear feeling, that is, this emperor is really not the same as before, and the most important thing is that he has completely stopped putting the world in his eyes and heart.

He didn't care what the situation was outside, how bad it was, and he didn't even care about winning or losing, which gave Xu Jingtang a sense of sadness as an ant.

He even felt that in the eyes of His Majesty now, he would not care a little more about the entire capital being burned down.

Indifference, only indifference like a god.

It was so cold that it sent chills through everyone's hearts.

It was so cold that all the blood in the hearts of those who were loyal to the emperor froze.

"Your Excellency. ”

Suddenly, from the bottom of the city tower, a henchman under Xu Jingtang ran up.

"What's wrong?"

Xu Jingtang asked.

This person looked around and found that the rest of the people were standing far away, so he approached Xu Jingtang and said in a very low voice: "There is movement over there in Wuyi Lane. ”