Chapter 348 The Sky is Falling

A forced march for a day and a night.

Tongguan, the northeastern gateway of Jingzhou, the center of Daqian, is now within reach.

The general stationed in Tongguan is the newly appointed General Zhengdong, the current regent’s trusted general Changsun Jie. He is from the Changsun family, a top-ranking family in Qingzhou. As a leader of the Mesozoic era, he now has the strength of a master and was once famous throughout the province.

On the top of the city wall, Changsun Jie looked into the distance and saw smoke and dust rolling towards him from the end of his sight.

“General, the Marquis of Suppressing the Rebellion should be here. Please come down from the city first.” The deputy general clasped his fists and said. During the Battle of Wangshu, many defeated soldiers fled to Tongguan. Naturally, he had heard the news.
If the argument that Daming Prefecture fell was a false rumor, then the fact that 120,000 elite troops collapsed overnight was already irrefutable evidence. To avoid the fact that Pingluan Hou was invincible in the world would be tantamount to deceiving oneself and others.

“Open the city gates. King Anbei and all the noble families have surrendered. How can I turn the tide?”

Chang Sun Jie sighed sadly. He was not worried about his own safety. His sister, who had just married into the Marquis’s Mansion, was very beautiful and charming, and was more than qualified to be a Marquis’s concubine.

It’s a pity that the rumor about the Marquis of Pingluan was cold-hearted. Not only did he give the daughter of the Hong family a piece of white silk to commit suicide, he also insisted on liquidating her family and allowed his personal maid to kill someone on the wedding day. When the Princess of Le’an woke up in the morning, she suddenly saw the head of the maid who came with her as a dowry and was so scared that she went crazy. Even so, the Marquis never visited her to comfort her, as if it was just a one-night stand.

Three thousand cavalrymen rushed into the city as if no one was around. They were extremely fierce and their leader was extraordinarily handsome.

Chang Sun Jie originally thought that he could show his hospitality as a good host and mention his sister’s beauty, but he did not expect that the cavalry would rush straight out of the city without stopping for a moment.

“How can this be? How can this be?” The deputy general had an angry look on his face, as if his master had humiliated his servant and wanted him to die. The Marquis of Pingluan was so arrogant to the extreme.

“You are so arrogant. My sister has never found a good match.” Chang Sun Jie also had an ugly expression. This action was equivalent to trampling on his face. Even if Ping Luan Hou was really invincible, he should not be so arrogant and rude.

boom!
The cavalry went away, but the smoke and dust had not yet cleared.

A black light mixed with thunder and fire penetrated Tongguan, spanning more than ten miles, and blasted the front and back city gates together. The violent energy seemed to cut across the city, and the stirred up strong winds collapsed the military houses on both sides, and the whole city was in storm in an instant.

The deputy general fell silent upon seeing this. He turned his head and saw that Changsun Jie had already shown an expression of admiration.

“My Lord, you are a man of true character. Don’t let me hear your slanderous words from now on, or else don’t blame me for being ruthless.”

“Yes.” The deputy general was secretly amazed. This speed of changing his expression was worthy of being from a wealthy family with a profound family background.

……

The cavalry marched straight ahead and stopped in Fufeng County City for half a day to rest.

The governor of Fufeng County firmly closed the city gates, determined to die to prove his integrity and even leave his name in history. Someone generously helped the other party to succeed. According to the prior notice, the garrison generals, civil officials, noble families, and clans were all exterminated. If they allowed the governor to close the city gates, they would also die.

A large amount of thorns entangled the front and back city gates and blocked them. Three thousand cavalrymen dismounted and drew their swords. Zhuang Ya regained his human form and, with the strength of a grandmaster, uprooted the local Fufeng Sect.

While Jiang He was resting and drinking, a middle-aged man came up to him. He had a handsome appearance, a fair face and no beard, and a shrill voice. He was a eunuch in the palace who was skilled in martial arts and was a master. Judging from his footsteps, he must be particularly good at light work.

“My Lord, Fufeng County is already in the capital, and this place is only thirty miles away from the capital. The Regent King deceived and instigated the Imperial Guards and the three states’ aristocratic clans to form an anti-rebellion army, which has roughly 190,000 troops. The Grandmaster did not hesitate to announce to the public that there are 800,000 troops.”

Jiang He nodded without saying anything.

The middle-aged eunuch continued, “I am the emperor’s close attendant. I have been ordered to go out and wait here. The emperor has lived in the palace for a long time and is the pawn of the regent. When I heard that the marquis’ army was coming, I was grateful and wrote this imperial edict.”

After saying this, he tore off a piece of cloth from the inside of his shirt. It was covered with words, all written in blood.

Jiang He didn’t even look at it and said, “‘The thing in your palm?’

These are not the words a servant should use to address the emperor.

The middle-aged eunuch knelt on the ground and said with tears in his eyes: “My Lord, you don’t know that I was originally a close minister of the Crown Prince. Later, when the previous emperor passed away, the emperor launched an uprising to seize the throne. That’s why I had no choice but to serve him. The regent made things difficult for the emperor. The emperor was angry and had to humiliate me and other servants. I also endured it for a long time.”

“When the late emperor was alive, I handled the Taoist elixir manual and lived a peaceful life. That’s why I was able to survive the malice of the regent. Now that I have met a wise ruler, I am willing to serve him as a servant!”

Jiang He thought to himself that fist strength equals power. After he showed his strength as a warrior, even the servants of three families came to join him. However, the secret decree should be true, but the other party had his own ideas.

“Name.” The middle-aged eunuch answered respectfully, “I am Wei Wanzhong, the eunuch. I have been in charge of the Fengdao Division for twenty years. I am familiar with all the affairs of the palace and will definitely not let you down.”

“Stay here and enter the capital with the 20,000 infantrymen in the rear.”

“The monk obeys your order.”

Jiang He didn’t care about it anymore and rode out of the city directly, followed closely by three thousand cavalrymen. After the long journey, each cavalryman had two horses, and most of them had one of their horses die of exhaustion.

……

Twenty miles away.

One hundred and ninety thousand soldiers were arrayed in battle array.

The Imperial Guards, Qingzhou Army, Wuwei Army, and private soldiers of aristocratic families gathered together, and with the resources of the last years of the Daqian Dynasty, they organized a second field battle with more than 100,000 people, which was already considered a reckless act.

The regent was dressed in a dragon robe. He did not choose to hide in the palace, but came to the front line.

“The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit, it’s nothing more than a fight to the death.”

The regent’s eyes were determined. Without the field army, he would lose the hope of sweeping the world and competing for the nine provinces. Once he was defeated this time, living would be worse than death.

“Is he really invincible? I don’t think so.”

On the horizon, smoke and dust are coming.

“The Marquis of Suppressing Rebellion is here!”

Someone in the army couldn’t help but shout.

“Heavily armored infantry, move forward. I am with you!” The Regent rode to the front on horseback. For the sake of power, he had already put life and death aside.

Hundreds of crossbows were ready to go, Taoist soldiers were created one by one, armored soldiers were lined up, and spears were like a forest.

Suddenly, a black dot appeared in the sky ahead and fell rapidly.

Tens of thousands of fireballs suddenly appeared in the originally calm sky.

Before the army could react, the meteor shower created by consuming all the energy fell straight to the ground.

In an instant, a dazzling and brilliant light rose from the earth, and a series of loud noises were heard, like thunder exploding, violently tearing apart the army’s formation. Thick smoke rose into the sky with hot waves. The soldiers’ wails and shouts seemed extremely weak in the face of the layers of loud noises.

It seemed as if the whole earth was shaking. The shock waves were like ferocious beasts, destroying everything around them. Countless soldiers were blown away by this force and fell heavily to the ground.

The battlefield was dusty, filled with smoke, and flames everywhere.

Broken bodies and charred remains were scattered in countless large pits.

Tens of thousands of people died in one encounter.

The army that was fighting against the rebels was completely routed before they could fire a single arrow.

Under the protection of the Grandmaster, the Regent stood up, covered in dust and dirt. His eyes suddenly widened. Not far away, two hundred-meter-tall skeleton giants rose from the ground. The majestic city walls of the capital were only up to the knees of the giants. Including him, countless generals and grandmasters who still had some fighting spirit left were all in despair.

The Marquis who quells rebellion cannot be defeated by force.

“The sky is falling!” The Regent suddenly vomited blood. He stretched his hands towards the sky, grasping with his five fingers as hard as he could, his face grim and painful, and then he fell straight to the ground.

“Your Highness, Your Highness!” The Grand Master was horrified.

(End of this chapter)