Chapter 34: Bad News Arrives
Zhang Zhong didn't know how long he had been fighting with Ander and the others, and finally gradually exhausted his strength, and he could no longer resist the onslaught of Ander's three sky warriors. Pierced through the chest by Ender's sword, Ender pulled out his sword, blood spurted out, Zhang Zhong could no longer support it, fell from the air, and fell heavily to the ground.
"Hmph, this Zhang Zhong is really difficult, I don't know if he is dead?" Ander flew down from the sky and walked up to Zhang Chong.
"Doesn't seem to be dead. A sky-level lieutenant said.
"Huh?" Ander walked over and kicked Zhang Zhong twice.
"Uh......" Zhang Zhong said weakly, "You won't end well." ”
"I'm still stubborn when I'm dying, let me make up for you!" another lieutenant stabbed Zhang Zhong in the abdomen.
"Marshal, I can't avenge you, so I'm here to apologize to you, I believe the two young marshals will avenge us. Zhang Zhong said to himself, after saying this, his eyes finally slowly lost their luster and left this world.
"Hmph, wasting our time, getting in the way of our work, that's what happened to you. Ander glanced at Zhang Zhong and turned his head to look at the soldiers: "Now go chase the princess immediately, don't let her run to Dragon City!"
When the soldiers heard this, they immediately mounted their horses and chased in the direction of Princess Ming Yao's escape.
Ming Yao had already stepped into the territory of the Hanging Yin Province and came to a city, the first thing she was looking for was the people who had been cursed by the family back then, and these people had now infiltrated all over the Hanging Yin Province, so after Ming Yao arrived, she immediately found the clansmen here and asked them for help. These people are very cooperative, I don't know if it's the effect of the curse, even if it's not the effect of the curse, they feel that they want to help the princess, because what Murong Hei did really makes people indignant. They promised to explain the situation to the city lord here, arranged for the army to intercept Ande and the others who were chasing, and prepared a carriage to send the princess to Dragon City. Now Ming Yao is eager to see Dragon Fist and tell him what happened in the Imperial City recently.
Ming Yao didn't dare to stay for a moment now, because the clansmen who promised to help her intercept Ander might not be able to stop her. Ender is experienced and skilled in martial arts, and may soon find a way to get out of their way.
Soon after the princess left the city in the carriage, Ander quickly chased after him, he was hindered by the army here, although he could have chased the princess in the past, but in this way. The people here will definitely find a way to inform Dragon City immediately, and it will be even more troublesome when a large number of troops arrive. Therefore, he could only stop and explain to the city lord here in a big way, and take out the token of his Imperial City Imperial Forest Army Commander. But the people here follow the Long family to fight, and they have long been arrogant, where to pay attention to the officials of the imperial city, they only recognize Longshan.
Earlier, when they heard the princess say that Long Shan was dead, they were very angry, but they didn't believe it at all, because Long Shan was an invincible god of war in their hearts. Now when I see this so-called person who killed Longshan, I am even more disdainful. Ander is so good at talking, what princess is messing around and playing, making up excuses to deceive them. Why is he a good buddy with Longshan now, Longshan is living a very chic life in Longcheng now, I don't know how long it took to pass here.
And Ming Yao also took this opportunity to rush to Dragon City, asking for help from cursed people in every city he went. She is now getting closer and closer to Dragon City, and Ande is chasing after her, but every time she is blocked, her heart begins to become irritable. There are many masters near this Dragon City, in case Ming Yao convinces Dragon Fist and brings troops to encircle and suppress him, he can't leave if he wants to.
"That's it!" Ander stabbed his sword into the dirt under his feet in anger: "Let's go back, I want the prime minister to explain the situation, the princess can't make any tricks when she arrives in Dragon City, we will have a battle with Dragon City sooner or later, and it is very dangerous to chase it down now!"
"Your Excellency, we will return to the Imperial City immediately?" said one of the lieutenants.
"Yes, let's go back and organize our army, and then we will kill them all!" Ander drew his sword, mounted his warhorse, turned his horse's head, and galloped away.
Long Quan and Long Ming also returned to Dragon City as soon as possible after completing the recruitment matters in Tianxuan Academy, and they also gained a lot from going to Tianxuan Academy this time. Twenty warriors and magicians above level seven have been recruited, and Long Fist and Long Ming have also made new breakthroughs in cultivation, and they all want to tell Long Shan about such good news quickly, but unfortunately Long Shan can no longer hear it.
After Long Ming returned to Dragon City, he began to slowly cultivate the space magic taught by Ren Yuan, and Ren Yuan only gave him simple guidance in Tianxuan Academy, and he still had to slowly comprehend it himself.
As for the Dragon Fist, he was discussing with the generals how to arrange recruits, which were recruited from Tianxuan Academy, so naturally they could not start training like ordinary soldiers recruited from civilians.
Dragon Fist arranged different positions for them according to the different levels of cultivation, from squad leader to partial general, but they still received a certain amount of training when they were new to the army, and Dragon Fist arranged for several generals with rich battlefield experience to train them.
After everything was arranged, Long Fist could finally return to Marshal Longcheng's mansion to accompany his beautiful wife and lovely son. Now that Mei'er is pregnant, she gives him a new experience of being a father, because Longli's son came too quickly, he was at a loss at the time, and he didn't feel anything at all.
Long Fist was holding Mei'er in the back garden to enjoy the flowers, and a guard walked in and reported: "Young marshal, there is a woman outside the door who asks to see her, claiming to be a princess." ”
"What, it's the princess?" Dragon Fist excitedly let go of Mei'er and stood up, "You read that right?"
His reaction immediately caused Mei'er to roll her eyes, and she said angrily, "Why are you so excited, and what bad ideas are you playing?"
"Ahem, Mei'er, the princess has come from thousands of miles away, there must be something urgent, I'll go and see, you go back and have a good rest." Seeing that Mei'er was unhappy, Long Fist adjusted his mood and called two maids to accompany Mei'er.
"Young marshal, the woman is veiled. The guard said.
"Let's go, let's go out and have a look. Then he went out with the guards.
Ming Yao came all the way, tired enough, and it wasn't until she came to the Marshal's Mansion in Dragon City that her mood settled down a little, but she was still anxiously waiting for the Dragon Fist.
"Huh", seeing the door open, Ming Yao's heart began to pound again, the person she was looking forward to seeing these days came out, how to tell him.
Long Fist walked out of the door, Ming Yao had already lifted the veil at this time, the two looked at each other, each with complex emotions welling up in their hearts, they looked at each other for a minute, unable to say a word.
"Ahem!" The guard next to him was a little embarrassed and coughed.
Long Fist immediately woke up and said to Ming Yao, "Yao...... Oh no, Your Highness hasn't seen you for a long time, and you're tired on the road, so please come in quickly. ”
Ming Yao also reacted, adjusted her mood, and said, "Okay, I have something urgent to tell you!"
Ming Yao followed Long Fist into the hall and found that Huamei, Mei'er, Long Ming and his two wives had all arrived here. Because Mei'er heard that the princess was coming, she had already notified everyone to come over.
Princess Ming Yao was very anxious to tell everyone about it, but she didn't know where to start, after all, the person closest to them died. I don't know how they will react when they say it, they can't care so much, and finally Ming Yao simply and quickly told what happened in the imperial city.
Long Quan and the others were speechless after hearing this, and they didn't react, because Ming Yao said too quickly, although he also made the main matters clear, but no one here wanted to believe it. looked at Ming Yao one by one, unable to speak.
"What's the matter, didn't I say it clearly enough?" Ming Yao couldn't imagine that they were reacting like this.
Still no one spoke.
"Well, I'll go into more detail slowly. Princess Ming Yao slowly and carefully said it again this time, of course, ignoring the matter of the red orb and the curse, and completely said that the death of Long Shan was the work of Murong Hei.
This time, everyone really heard clearly, the princess couldn't come all the way to Dragon City alone to joke with them.
"Your Royal Highness Princess, are you telling the truth?" After Huamei listened, she only felt dizzy, and her body leaned back unconsciously. Long Ming hurriedly came over to help him.
"It's true, madam, we can't imagine that Murong Hei is this kind of person, I rushed to Dragon City to ask the young marshal of Dragon Fist to organize troops to deal with him, otherwise the entire empire will fall into his hands. Ming Yao replied regretfully and looked at the Dragon Fist after Hua Mei.
"You said that my father was dead, how could this be possible, someone in the imperial city killed him?"
Ming Yao sighed and said: "Lord Marshal has strong fighting spirit and strong martial arts, it stands to reason that no one killed him, but the internal injuries he suffered in the last battle did not heal, and he was later stabbed by General Zhang Chong, so he ......"
"Why did General Zhang Chong hurt my father?" Long Fist clenched his fist, a little excited.
"All this is a conspiracy of Prime Minister Murong Hei, General Zhang Chong is loyal to His Majesty, when I fled to Dragon City, I was thanks to him for helping me stop Ande and them, otherwise I would definitely be arrested back, he dealt with Ande and them alone, I am afraid it is ...... now" Princess Ming Yao was a little unable to continue.
Long Fist was speechless at this time, originally the tasks that Long Shan gave him and Long Ming had already completed excellently, which could impress Long Shan, but he didn't expect such a thing to happen.
Long Ming said at this time: "This matter is not trivial, give us a little time, you go and rest first." ”
"Okay, Murong Hei will soon lead the army to attack Dragon City, I hope you will prepare early. Ming Yao nodded.
Long Fist immediately ordered the two maids to take Ming Yao to the room to rest.
At this time, Huamei and several of her daughters-in-law were already crying, and Long Quan and Long Ming came to comfort them, but thinking of the cultivation and expectation that Long Shan had been looking forward to them, seeing Huamei crying with grief, her nose couldn't help but feel a little sour.
Although it has not been a long time since I came to this world, I have developed feelings with the people here, and at this time, the memories of Long Shan appeared in the minds of Long Fist and Long Ming one by one, and unconsciously, they were already in tears.
After everyone cried bitterly for a while, Long Fist and Long Ming adjusted their emotions, and after sending Huamei and a few people to rest, they immediately took the princess to the camp. On the way, they had already sent someone to inform Duanmu Minghuo and General Sun Wei to come over.
Duanmu Minghuo and Sun Wei were also very surprised after hearing about the Imperial City, but they immediately adjusted, they were still more experienced in the face of major events.
Duanmu Minghuo said to Long Fist and Long Ming: "The incident has happened, don't be too sad first, the most important thing at the moment is to find a way to deal with Murong Hei, and the marshal also hopes that we will avenge him as soon as possible." ”
"We understand. Long Fist Long Ming said in unison.
"Let's discuss how to arrange the soldiers and horses first, Murong Hei will definitely attack soon, and it will be too late to do so. Sun Wei is also controlling his emotions.
"Your Royal Highness Princess, you have come from the Imperial City, and you have followed Murong Hei to deal with military affairs for many years, do you have any useful information?" Duanmu Minghuo looked at Ming Yao.
"Now except for the Hanging Yin Province, other provinces have Murong Hei's forces, and the governors and military commanders of other provinces have collusion with Murong Hei. In addition, Murong Hei also recruited and trained a group of new soldiers in the province of Linxing, and this time they were going to attack Lailong City, and they would definitely gather the troops of several other provinces to come over together with the Imperial City Imperial Forest Army. Princess Ming Yao said.
"Your Highness, are the armies of the other provinces willing to obey Murong Hei's dispatch, could it be that the entire Minglong Empire has submitted to him except for the Hanging Yin Province where Dragon City is located?"
"General Sun Wei, I don't know if the armies of other provinces are really willing to obey Murong Hei, but judging from their interactions in the past few years, the governors of other provinces will definitely send troops to help him deal with us!" Ming Yao said seriously.
"Just now there was news from the post station, announcing that the Ming Emperor had died, the queen was heartbroken, committed suicide by taking poison, and set up the wise prince as the new Ming Emperor. In my opinion, the wise prince is young, and he will definitely be controlled by Murong Hei, and when the time comes, he will definitely attack him on the charge of stealing the jade seal from the marshal, so that Murong Hei can justifiably find other provinces to attack us together. Duanmu said at this time.
"What! Queen Mother, she ......" Ming Yao heard this, and sat on the stool beside her weakly, the queen's death was another heavy blow to her.
Seeing this, Long Fist hurriedly comforted her and said, "Your Highness, now that the Wise Prince is in Murong Hei's hands, the situation is very unfavorable to us, this time we need you to expose his conspiracy and win over the strength of other provinces!"
When Princess Ming Yao heard this, she looked up at the Dragon Fist, and her eyes suddenly had brilliance again, and said, "Yes, Zhi'er is still young, we can't let him be used by Murong Hei." When the time comes, the armies of the other provinces will come, and I must make it clear to them. ”
Sun Wei said to Long Fist at this time: "Young Marshal of Dragon Fist, then we will immediately arrange for the army to go to the border of the province of Wanting to go to the province, we can first defeat the Rongcheng on the border of the province of wanting to be in the province, that position is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and then we will slowly confront Murong Hei." ”
"General Sun Wei. Long Fist said: "How many men and horses do we have now, if we draw troops to attack Rongcheng, if the Heart Ambition Empire comes to attack, the Hanging Sound Pass is very dangerous." ”
"Young marshal, I have also thought of this question, but young marshal rest assured, we have 300,000 horses in the Longcheng camp and Xuanyin Pass, and Xuanyin Pass is a dangerous place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, we will draw 100,000 elite teams over, leaving 200,000 horses more than enough to defend the barbarians. We are leading an army of 400,000, and we are afraid that we will not be able to defeat Rongcheng?" Sun Wei said.
"Okay, General Sun Wei, you go to Xuanyin Pass to arrange it immediately, I will arrange the army in Longcheng, and when you bring men and horses over, we will attack Rongcheng together!"
"Command!" Sun Wei replied loudly, immediately went out to ride his war horse, and hurried to Xuanyin Pass.