When Wu Xie announced that he was going to fight back to Changning City, defeat those who supported the king of Dongshan County, and regain the throne for the crown prince, the fugitives were first surprised, and then cheered.

This night, they have suffered too many losses and accumulated too much resentment. As the saying goes, if there is injustice, they are now full of injustice and want to roar!

The distance from the manor to Changning City is not close, and if you walk on two legs, it will take you about a whole day.

Therefore, horses are necessary, but the horses they rode before are already exhausted and can no longer be ridden at all, even if Wu Xie takes out the Divine Spring from the Heavenly Book World Realm, he has to let them rest for a while.

So it wasn't until after lunch that they returned to Changning City.

The tall and heavy gates of Changning City were tightly closed, and the city was full of heavily armed soldiers. These soldiers are completely different from those who are well-equipped and have a serious temperament in the past, and they reveal a rudeness and ferocity from their bones, and they know at a glance that they are not good.

The soldiers were already uncomfortable to look at, and the heads of those hanging from the towers were even more terrifying.

The blood on the human head had long since dried up, and the face was still faintly recognizable - Wu Xie glanced at it from a distance, then secretly clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.

He forced himself to make a casual expression, but the boiling anger in his chest still radiated a little, turning into sparks around his body, floating uncertainly.

When everyone came to the city gate, the loud Du Yu shouted loudly, asking these soldiers to quickly open the door to greet His Royal Highness the Prince.

Naturally, these shouts were met with ridicule and sharp arrows.

Wu Jie, who was already full of anger, shot before everyone, and with a wave of his hand, dozens of flames flew up, flying directly to the city, making almost everyone of those soldiers suffer a little.

It was this flame that instantly turned into a raging flame when it touched their bodies, enveloping all the soldiers who dared to shoot arrows in the flames, burning mercilessly.

The soldiers' armor could not stop the flames, and they screamed and rolled on the ground, trying to extinguish the flames on their bodies, but instead they allowed the flames to burn down their mouths, burning their throats and burning through their internal organs.

A moment later, a pungent scorching stench wafted from the tower, and the screams died down completely.

"I'll give you two choices." Wu Xie said coldly, "Either open the door for us, or I will burn you to death, and then open the door myself." ”

The surviving soldiers, you look at me, I look at you, hurriedly turned the winch, lifted the huge latch, and ran down to open the city gates.

Of course, they knew that it was an ironclad capital crime to open the city gate to welcome the prince, but compared to being burned to death now, no matter how capital crime was, it would be a matter of the future.

his "later"! If you are burned to death now, where will there be any "future"!

Accompanied by Wu Xie and others, the prince rode in on a horse and walked in from the main gate of Changning City, which usually does not open.

According to the rules, this door could only be opened when the emperor was on patrol, the army was on expedition, or the class was in charge, but today I can't care about it so much - or rather, it's actually right, because the prince's return this time can indeed be regarded as the emperor's return.

When he walked out of the doorway, the prince reined in his horse, looked at the bloodstains on the walls and ground on both sides of the doorway, and asked gloomily, "How is General Qiuye?" ”

"Xiong Qiuye is stubborn—" A soldier was about to answer, but his colleague covered his mouth, and then another clever speaker replied, "General Qiuye fought to the death to defend the city gate in order to break the queen for His Highness, and was hit by more than 50 arrows in his body, and he has been loyal to the country." ”

The crown prince was not surprised by this result, he sighed, and asked, "Then which families are hanging on the city tower?" ”

"Your Majesty, let's get down to business first." Without waiting for the soldiers to answer, Wu Xie persuaded, "Let them take down the heads of these loyal people, wash them and bury them properly, we must now hurry up and defeat the rebels who have usurped the throne!" ”

The prince bowed his head, replied in a low voice, and rode on.

Wu Xie and Xiao Buyi protected him left and right, followed by Du Pre, Lin Lushan and Shi Lei, and next to Lin Lushan were Dan'er and Zhu Huai. And those followers, the prince and his entourage, who fought bloodily and went out of the city, also followed behind.

A family general couldn't help but look back at the head that was being taken down on the castle tower as he walked, and whispered, "Do you see, I think there is one that seems to be a ......?"

"Shut up!" Shi Lei's voice was gloomy and frightening, "If you have the strength to chew your tongue, it's better to save it and fight bravely to kill the enemy later!" ”

The generals were stunned, so they stopped talking, but you look at me, I look at you, their faces are full of grief and indignation, and tears have fallen from the eyes of a white-haired old man.

He was the head of the martial arts sect of the Prime Minister's Mansion, he wandered the rivers and lakes when he was a teenager, and unfortunately he was seriously ill and almost died, and it was Shi Xiangye, who was only a bachelor of Hanlin at the time, who asked a doctor to treat him and saved his life.

Since then, in order to repay his kindness, he stayed in the Prime Minister's Mansion as the head of martial arts, and it has been more than 20 years in the blink of an eye......

He sighed deeply, holding only the hilt of the knife in his hand, and even the edges of his nails were cracked because of the force he was exerting too hard, but he didn't notice it at all.

Shi Lei didn't notice it, he was sitting on horseback, his body trembling slightly, and the corners of his mouth were slowly dripping blood.

The group walked silently on the road, and from time to time someone came out of the houses on either side and silently followed them.

Most of these people were soldiers who surrendered last night, or veterans who had been discharged, and they were supposed to be just a rabble, and they exuded a fierce momentum at the moment, which made everyone who faced them a little frightened.

After walking for a while, a huge amount of blood suddenly appeared on the corner of the road, and almost the entire street was completely stained red.

"Last night, Lord Meng, the left attendant of the military department, found that the patrol soldiers in the city were missing, so he went to call a group of people, and met the army of traitors here." A soldier who knew the situation of the Dao Dao whispered, "More than 200 people below Lord Meng have all died here. ”

The prince was silent for a moment, and bowed deeply to the bloodstains all over the ground.

After walking a short distance, an official with fleshless cheeks and a thin beard on his cheeks, how to look at it, came up with more than a dozen wounded, and bowed to the prince from a distance: "Gongbu Lang Zhongmo Xiaoxian greets Your Majesty!" ”

"I'm not Your Majesty yet." The prince whispered.

"There can be no day without the sky, and no country without a king." The Mo Master said in a slightly airy voice with a bruised and swollen face, "But Your Majesty, you shouldn't come back!" ”

"If you don't come back now, someone will be busy claiming the emperor." The crown prince sighed, "And you see the blood stains everywhere in Changning City, can I not come back?" ”

Mo Xiaoxian sighed, kowtowed a few times, and joined the team with the wounded.

After a while, there was a steady stream of ministers who came to advise and join. Looking down from the sky, you can see a long procession forming.

From the perspective of a cultivator, you can see that there is purple energy rising on the prince's slightly green face, which is combined with the momentum rising on the people behind him, growing and gradually turning into a soaring purple light.

"Remember a poem?" When passing by the Lin Mansion, Wu Xie did not let the team stop, but suddenly said to Lin Lushan, "Kong said Chengren, Meng said to take righteousness......

"Only its righteousness is exhausted, so it is benevolent." Lin Lushan already had an ominous premonition just now, and at this moment, seeing the open gate and the scarlet all over the ground, he didn't know what was going on in the road, and choked up and answered.

"What do you learn when you read the books of the sages? Now and then, you are almost worthy of it! ”