Chapter 30: The Death of a Beautiful Lady (1)
The Brothers' War is drawing to a close.
Before Zhao Zixi knew it, Zhao Ziheng had already sneaked into the palace and rescued the hostages one by one. His efficiency was unmatched by ordinary people, and it was not entirely because they were well-trained elite soldiers...
When Zhao Ziheng relaxed a little because he had rescued all the hostages, the rain, which had been gradually stopping, suddenly intensified again. For some reason, Zhao Ziheng felt inexplicably irritated and uneasy about the sudden increasing rain. As the saying goes, 'to deceive the enemy, you must first deceive your own people'. Only a few generals including Zhao Ziyin knew the details of Zhao Ziheng's serious injury. In the eyes of others, Zhao Ziheng was still seriously injured and unconscious. Although Zhao Ziheng was unconscious, Wang's army was still moving step by step in an orderly and planned manner under the command of Zhao Ziyin as the commander-in-chief.
On the day the hostages were rescued, the royal army launched another general attack on the royal palace army. At the same time...
"What did you say? The dungeon and the hostages are gone?"
Zhao Zixi, who heard the news of the attack, was just heading towards the palace gate from Zhonghe Hall when he heard the news that the hostages had been completely released. His face suddenly changed.
"When did it happen?"
"At the same time as we received the news that the king's army had launched an attack—"
After hearing the answer from the messenger, Zhao Zixi's face turned pale and he was speechless.
When Zhao Zixi arrived at the high wall of the main gate of the palace, he saw that the news of the king's army's attack had just been received not long ago. Now, they had already broken through the first palace gate like a torrential rain and were approaching the second palace gate where he was...
"When did it become like this—"
It was unbelievable and unwilling to believe that Wang Jun could actually break through the first palace gate in such a short time. Their momentum was like an overwhelming force. It was not at all obvious that Wang Jun's morale was shaken by Zhao Ziheng's fall. On the contrary, it was even better than the previous battle that Zhao Ziheng personally commanded...
Seeing the royal army coming with great momentum and unstoppable force, the generals of the royal palace army on the high wall were speechless. In less than an hour, they broke through the heavily defended first palace gate and had already begun to attack the second palace gate. Because it was too fast, the royal palace army fell into confusion and panic, and no one could respond even when Zhao Zixi asked questions.
"Where exactly is the Han army now? Shouldn't they have arrived? Why haven't they wiped out the Wang army?"
Zhao Zixi grabbed the nearest general and asked angrily.
“No, I don’t know—”
The general who was pulled up by Zhao Zixi was a little too frightened. Compared with the generals under Zhao Ziheng, it was better to say that this general was not as good as the soldiers under Zhao Ziheng rather than being a general.
The Han army should have arrived at the royal city, but at this critical moment, they were still nowhere to be seen. Zhao Zixi looked around the royal city, but still saw no response. If the royal palace was breached now, he would be completely defeated as he had no pawns left. By the time he realized what was happening, the royal army was already attacking the second palace gate where he was...
"Tsk, listen, no matter what, you must hold them back. Don't let them break through the most important second palace gate. You must hold them back until the Han Kingdom's support arrives. If you can't do that, I will kill you immediately—"
“Yes, yes—”
There was no other way but to resist desperately. Zhao Zixi left after giving his orders, leaving behind a group of generals who had no sense of command to command the battle...
In the royal palace, many ministers were shaken by the news that the royal army had broken through the first palace gate. The rebels around the palace also fell into panic after hearing the news. The ministers also fell into varying degrees of panic and discussed...
"What should we do? We've already breached the first palace gate. At this rate, the second and third palace gates will be breached sooner or later. Then we'll—"
"How could this happen? I didn't expect the king's army to launch an offensive so quickly and break through the first palace gate in one fell swoop. They shouldn't have the mobility to do this after losing King Zhao. Why is this happening?"
"The fact that the King of Zhao is seriously injured must be a trap, in order to make us relax our vigilance and take the hostages away. Now that we don't have any hostages, we don't have to worry at all, and we can be annihilated in one fell swoop--"
"What should we do then?"
"What should we do? We can only wait for death. I should have known that King Zhao was not such an easy person to deal with. We knew it from the fact that he was able to suppress the disputes on the border and seize the royal city so quickly. He first attacked the royal city and pretended to be injured and unconscious, but then took the hostages away while we were on guard. Now all he can do is catch us all in one fell swoop . If I had known this would happen, I would have surrendered when King Zhao asked us to surrender. Maybe I could have saved my life. Now—"
Before the official could finish his words, his head was separated from his body with blood splattering everywhere.
The next moment, Zhao Zixi appeared in front of all the ministers with a cold and ruthless face and a sharp sword in his hand. The sword in his hand was stained with blood, which dripped onto the ground. Seeing this scene, the originally noisy and noisy hall immediately became quiet...
After the hall fell silent, Zhao Zixi ignored everyone's reactions, walked straight to the dragon throne and sat down, placed the throne in front of him, placed his hands on it, and then stared at everyone on the scene with his sharp, cold eyes...
"This king does not need people who are afraid of death—"
In the silent hall, Zhao Zixi's words were particularly loud, like an extremely sharp knife on the neck of everyone present.
"I have already seen it before. They are indeed unstoppable, but this does not mean that I have lost!"
"Your Majesty is right. They must be bluffing now, making a last stand before death—"
A minister standing at the front spoke up. Although his words were just a way of psychological comfort, they were at least more hypocritical than those who expressed their fear of the current situation and their fear of death...
"Right, right, that must be the case. The previous King of Zhao must be dying, so they are planning to make a final resistance. As long as the previous King of Zhao dies, they will be defeated immediately, and then we will be the winners—"
Under normal circumstances, when two sides are fighting, once the main general of one side dies, the morale of that side will certainly be greatly weakened until they lose the will to fight. However, Zhao Zixi knew clearly that the main general of Wang's army was not only Zhao Ziheng, but also the brave and experienced Zhao Ziyin and General Shao and many other powerful generals. Even if Zhao Ziheng was really dying, as long as Zhao Ziyin and the others were there, the army would not collapse so easily. But it was impossible to act rashly when Zhao Ziheng was injured and unconscious. Zhao Zixi was puzzled by this.
"They are struggling to survive. As long as we wait until the Han army joins us, we will be able to take them down in one fell swoop. By then, even if the former King of Zhao is still alive, we can kill him. Then the Emperor can officially ascend the throne."
"Yeah, then we won't have anything to worry about—"
These people who are bluffing regardless of the current situation are simply proof that they are cowards and the kind of people who will turn against their own side at the last moment. In this way, they may not even be as good as the minister who was killed by Zhao Zixi before.
While listening to the ministers in front of him speaking words of self-comfort, Zhao Zixi was thinking about something else, something that concerned him greatly.
"Could it be——"
After some analysis, Zhao Zixi suddenly came to his senses and stood up from the dragon chair...
"Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?"
Zhao Zixi was indifferent to the relationship between the ministers, and his expression of surprise and shock was just like his mood at the moment.
(How ridiculous! I didn’t even notice that she had no reaction to anything before. When I went to see her last night, the look in her eyes was obviously very different from before. I didn’t even suspect that she was pretending to be frustrated. Who else could make her change like this except Zhao Ziheng?)
Zhao Zixi analyzed Lin Wei's changes in his mind, and an uncontrollable flame of anger suddenly ignited in his heart.
(He was not injured, he must have sneaked in with the intruders, and he must have visited her, otherwise she would not have changed——)
The ministers below the seat could only look at Zhao Zixi, whose expression was filled with anger, in confusion. No one dared to speak rashly for fear of being implicated.
"How can this be--"
After saying this angrily, Zhao Zixi picked up his sword and quickly disappeared into the hall, leaving behind a group of ministers who had no idea what was going on...
