Chapter 289: Aftermath
"You say he's not in Nantang, where is he?"
"He is in Lei Ying's army, I have entrusted him to Lei Ying, as long as something happens to me here, let Lei Ying protect him on the throne!"
Hua Chong found that he couldn't escape Shen Zhongyuan's calculations in this life, and even if he died, he could arrange for the future to die. www.biquge.info Hua Chong felt that what he had done these days was simply useless, even if he killed Shen Zhongyuan, Nantang would still exist!
Shen Zhongyuan saw that Hua Chong was slightly distracted, so he spoke: "What's the matter? Are you hating yourself for not being my opponent? Now as soon as you raise your hand, you can kill me." ”
"So what? Sooner or later, the war will spread all over the world......
"I advise you not to worry about the country and the people, I thought about these things too simply, so I ended up in such a situation, if you can think clearly, how can you be subject to me and Zhao Zhen everywhere?"
Hua Chong looked down at the sword in his hand, he didn't want to kill Shen Zhongyuan anymore, whether he was Shen Zhongyuan or Li Qing, whether he had ever wanted to kill himself, and he had a hatred for a thousand lives with him, all of this didn't seem to matter. Killing him would cause chaos on a much larger scale, and thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people would die in the war, was that what he wanted to see?
"Hua Chong, I know what you're thinking, I brought you here to make it clear to you that what you did is not wrong, and you can be free by killing me, this is what you have been dreaming of for a while. As for the future, why bother thinking about it? This underground palace is for me to rest, and only by lying here can I enjoy a rare kind of relaxation, and I think that time on Tahiti is also the most relaxing day for you, right?"
"Yes. ”
"I can think of your pain, I can also know your confusion, or I want to open up, I can even give up my life, why should you cling to what will happen in a few years, even more than ten years, or decades?"
Hua Chong came to Shen Zhongyuan with a sword in his hand, and the blade of the sword was pressed against his neck: "You are the same as Zhao Zhen with the goal of possessing this world, why are you willing to die under my hands?"
"Because I can't do it, this goal is too big, I like to calculate, everything has to be calculated, I can think of if I want to dominate the world, I can't complete it in my life! Even if Lei Ying can defeat India this time, but three years have passed, what about fighting two rivers? three years, five years? What about fighting with Song Kaifang? What about fighting against the knights of Europe? How long do those tall Europeans need to fight? I want to give up, but this is so unfair to these heroes under my command! Fortunately, God asked Li Xi to help me, I can be free!"
"You ......"
"Don't interrupt me! I have one more important thing to tell you!"
"What's the matter?"
Shen Zhongyuan picked up a brocade box from the bed and handed it to Hua Chong: "This is a special letter cannon, I agreed with them, three letter cannons rang out, it was an accident." When Li Shixian heard the letter cannon, he would think that it was the Song soldiers attacking the city, so I asked him to lead the Imperial Forest Army to help the battle when he heard the cannon. When Cui Bolang's sailors heard the letter cannon, they would think that you had come out of the city, and he would go back to the city gate to intercept it. There is also a secret door in this room, after entering, follow the secret passage, and when you are done, you can go out, it is outside the city, you can escape while there is chaos!"
Hua Chong smiled: "You even designed my escape route for me? I'm here to kill you!"
Shen Zhongyuan also smiled, although the sharp sword was around his neck, he still had no fear, just smiled faintly: "Actually, you are here to free me, you are tired, I will only be more tired than you, I have had enough of this kind of life!"
"Okay, then let me fulfill you!"
Xu Chang's double halberd was already full of blood, and more than 20 of them were besieged by thousands of forbidden troops, although all of them were first-class masters, but there were too many opponents to stand up. It was not yet noon when they entered the palace, and now it was already sunset, and the Song army stationed outside the palace had been wiped out, although they could still hold out for a while, but with such a huge difference in strength, they couldn't resist for long.
In the dark sky, three huge fireworks flying high into the sky were particularly dazzling, Li Shixian looked up at the fireworks in the air, and was shocked, the fireworks were produced by the Jiangnan Thunderbolt Hall, there were not many in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the signal of these three fireworks was the Tang King!
"Quick! Withdraw the troops, go to the city gate!" Li Shixian shouted at several leading generals around him, several generals did not dare to slack off, and arranged for the officers to pass orders and integrate people and horses out of the palace, this palace seems to be no longer important, there is not much time, the soldiers of the forbidden army actually flocked out of the palace, and no one cared about Xu Chang and others.
"What's going on?" Xu Chang was stunned, he didn't know what was going on, why did the army withdraw cleanly?
"I don't know what happened, but that firework must be a signal for them to withdraw their troops!" Although Jiang Ping didn't know what was happening, he could analyze it.
Xu Chang said: "Could it be that Hua Chong has succeeded?"
Bai Yutang said anxiously: "Don't guess, won't it be over if you go and see?"
"Where is he?"
"Whatever, look from room to room!"
By the time they found the main hall, Xia Suiliang and the others in the main hall were also exhausted, Zhan Feng and the others were certainly not their opponents, but the endless forbidden army outside the main hall was a great trouble, and several masters in the main hall were solved, and everyone including Xia Suiliang was fighting against those forbidden soldiers outside the main hall until they retreated just now.
In the hall, the corpses of Pudu, Changming, Zhan Feng, Ermo, Erdao and others were lying on the ground, while Hua Chong was sitting on the dragon chair, his hair down.
"Brother Hua, what's wrong? This is the land of right and wrong, why are you still sitting down? What about Shen Zhongyuan's dog thief?"
Hua Chong raised his head, and there was a look of loss on his face.
"No, he burned himself to death! he doesn't want to die by my sword!"
"Self-immolation?" Bai Yutang was anxious: "Where is the corpse? This one was burned to death, there is no proof of death, what should we do if the Dog Emperor doesn't admit it? If he doesn't give you a pardon, won't our trip be in vain?"
Zhihua said: "Fifth brother, you don't have to worry, with so many of us testifying, long live will definitely believe it, Brother Hua Xian, where is Shen Zhongyuan's body?"
"It's in the tunnel, let's go out of the city from the tunnel in a while!"
Xu Chang said: "Let's go quickly, once they come back, how can we go!"
Hua Chong stood up and said, "We were waiting for you here before, let's go together when we all come, by the way, Brother Xu, what about the soldiers you brought?"
Xu Chang sighed: "All of them have been killed, these soldiers are all the elite I picked! It's a pity that there are too many soldiers in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and they have all sacrificed their lives for the country after fighting for half a day!"
Hua Chong sighed, stood up, led everyone towards the secret passage, and walked straight along the secret passage, and everyone came to Shen Zhongyuan's underground palace, and there was only a charred corpse in the underground palace at this time!
Zhihua looked at the corpse, looked up at Hua Chong and said, "Brother Hua Xian, we will all testify for you in this matter, but you have to tell me one thing first." ”
"What's the matter?"
"Did you let Li Qing go?"