Chapter Seventy-Three: A Glimmer of Life
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Chai Shaoning's mind was also buzzing, the palace was surrounded by the sound of killing, and the enemy could appear from any direction at any time and slaughter his wife and children with the most cruel means. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
For the first time, Chai Shaoning felt the fear from his heart, a feeling of weakness that was dazed and helpless. Home has become more and more a source of strength for Chai Shaoning to stand up and struggle, but it has also become more and more his untouchable weakness.
When he was thinking about whether to bring Shangguan Rou, Gu Xiaoxue, and Chai Bing to escape from the encirclement together, someone came to report that Song Yuanlan told him to go to the main gate of the palace quickly.
Hearing that the situation was far from being as bad as he had imagined, Chai Shaoning suddenly felt at ease, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and instructed Shangguan Rou to protect Gu Xiaoxue and Chai Binglai, and he hurried to the main gate of the Hainan Palace.
Arriving at the head of the palace wall, across the square in front of the door, Chai Shaoning saw countless Fujian people and horses standing with black crows standing, staring at this side with fierce eyes, looking for an opportunity to attack at any time.
This time, Jian Qingyu took sixty secretly trained demon girls to sneak into the city, and received 50,000 elite soldiers led by Li Xiaozu, one of the four marshals of Fujian, outside the city to seize the city.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the confrontation began, Li Xiaozu's number one fierce general Yin Feilong died under the sword of Yu Huansheng, who they thought had lost the power to fight back, and Xu Zijie gave up the useless struggle, so that most of the Wuzhou defenders were not annihilated in the battle to defend the city, nearly 7,000 men and horses successfully retreated into the Hainan Palace, and blocked the impact of the Fujian people with the strong palace walls, completely crushing the expectations of Jian Qingyu and Li Xiaozu who wanted to occupy the whole city in one fell swoop and exterminate Chai Shaoning and others.
As soon as the short period of happiness passed, Chai Shaoning began to feel sad about Yu Huansheng's death, worried about Xu Zijie's whereabouts unknown, and worried about the fate of himself and the nearly 7,000 people trapped in the palace.
As if history repeats itself, the scene of Prince Qing being trapped in the Hainan palace reappeared, but this time the person who fell into the siege was replaced by Chai Shaoning himself. If you can't change the predicament faced by Prince Chu Qing, his wife, children, and thousands of soldiers will go with him.
Chai Shaoning forcibly endured the pain in his heart, passed orders one by one, and strictly guarded every flaw in the palace, beware of the enemy attacking the wall.
However, Chai Shaoning also knew in his heart that if he were himself, he would never be stupid enough to lose his troops and attack the palace, because the food in the palace could only last for three days of supply of 7,000 men and horses, and even if the Fujian people did not attack, Chai Shaoning would have to lead people to forcibly break through, otherwise hunger alone would cut off everyone's way of life.
Princess Jade should know this clearly, it is impossible for her not to tell Jian Qingyu about the situation in the palace.
Chai Shaoning was worried about himself, and even worse news came, after inspection, the sixteen wells distributed in different locations in the palace were all poisoned and could not be drunk!
Chai Shaoning was taken aback when he heard this, but he remembered the well built in the dungeon where Xiao Zhujun was closed.
Because Chai Shaoning felt that it was too yin and evil, he had never gone down since he entered the palace. Prince Qing's defeat was very sudden, and he didn't have time or need to destroy the facilities in the dungeon, so the well must still be there.
Thinking of this, Chai Shaoning said calmly: "It doesn't matter, we still have a well, which is a place that Jian Qingyu will never think of and can't go down, which can solve our danger of water shortage." ”
Everyone listened to the peaks and turns, and they were all overjoyed, and under the deteriorating situation since the city was broken, there was finally a piece of good news, and they were all in good spirits.
Because he guessed that the enemy would not be willing to make senseless sacrifices before the defenders of the palace lost their combat effectiveness, Chai Shaoning was not worried that the enemy would suddenly attack, and after arranging all defensive measures, together with Song Yuanlan, he took several generals down to the dungeon located in the bedroom of Prince Qing in the past.
All the way down, the situation is still the same, Chai Shaoning did not guess wrong, and there was no damage in the dungeon.
When they entered the underground stone hall, the generals all cheered when they saw the well in the center.
Chai Shaoning quickly moved to the door of the prison where the women were being held and looked in through the window.
Seeing that the prison was empty and there were no corpses, Chai Shaoning's heart was suddenly relieved. He had already received the news that Chu Huaiyu had surrendered to the Night Wandering God. The women imprisoned in the dungeon were all stunning, and with Chu Huaiyu's lewdness and lust, they must be reluctant to abandon them, and most of those women were taken to the middle of the river to continue to endure inhuman torture.
That's better than a corpse in this cold dungeon, right? Chai Shaoning secretly comforted himself.
Although the good nature of man does not want to see death, is it really better to live than to die? I am afraid that only those who are really in it have the right to answer this question.
Feeling sighing in his heart, Chai Shaoning turned around and saw that Song Yuanlan had already walked straight to the door of the latrine in the dungeon.
Chai Shaoning's heart moved. Since this thatched latrine built underground can drain water, there must be a cave leading to a deeper underground, with Song Yuanlan's spiritual sense, if she hadn't found anything, how could she break into that kind of dirty place?
By the time Chai Shaoning walked over, Song Yuanlan had already pushed open the wooden door that closed the latrine.
Chai Shaoning was surprised to find that the two bluestone pedals in the latrine had been lifted and thrown aside, and a large black hole appeared on the ground.
Then all the generals who came over also realized what had happened, and they all let out exclamations mixed with joy.
Chai Shaoning took the lead, and everyone went down to the cave in turn.
This cave is connected to a huge underground crack, and there are traces of artificial expansion everywhere it passes, which is obviously the attempt of Prince Qing to escape from here when he was trapped in the palace.
It's just that Prince Qing actually didn't even say anything about Pang Shoujing, otherwise Pang Shoujing would never say a word about it.
But it was Prince Qing's suspicion that hurt him. If Pang Shoujing was in charge of the overall situation at that time, with Pang Shoujing's wisdom and calmness, he would definitely find a way to drag everyone down, open up the tunnel, and take Prince Qing to escape from Wuzhou. In that way, Prince Qing would not be suddenly attacked and killed by Chai Shaoning, and there would be no room for even a trace of return.
But then again, it was the failure of Prince Qing that left Chai Shaoning and everyone a glimmer of life.
After sneaking for a long time of incense, the crack in the ground in front of him disappeared, and the entire underground became a huge solid stone, and the traces of the knife and axe were still covered with the stone wall, but they were all very shallow into the stone, showing that the stone wall here was strong, and it was difficult for manpower to shake it.
Everyone never expected that it would be a desperate path, and when they all let out desperate screams, a smile suddenly appeared on Song Yuanlan's face.
Chai Shaoning knew Song Yuanlan's skills, and when she saw this, she hurriedly asked, "What new discoveries has Lan'er made?"
Song Yuanlan said: "The underground stone cracks still exist, but the wrong cracks are generated here, so that Prince Qing chiseled in the wrong direction, which is time-consuming and laborious but fruitless. After speaking, he didn't say anything more, retreated more than ten feet, and struck the top of the wall violently with the hilt of his sword.
An empty and dull echo was heard, revealing that there was another void behind the wall.
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