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The ministers of Anguo present were speechless. You don't know martial arts, do you really think you can knock down Deng Hui with one punch?
This old man is truly oblivious to everything right now! If it weren't for Deng Hui, you'd still be hanging on the city gate like a turtle! That would be truly shameful!
"Your Majesty, I deserve to die!" Deng Hui was naturally very aggrieved, but he still immediately knelt down to beg for forgiveness.
"Go! Bring Ren Xin back to me immediately! Otherwise, I will take your life!" Emperor An, of course, did not care about Deng Hui's life or death. He glared at the other party and said, "I will also destroy the ancestral graves of your Deng family for three generations!"
Upon hearing Emperor An's words, Deng Hui's eyes turned cold.
The ministers who heard this also lowered their heads and remained silent.
As Deng Hui left with the last few Zhu Yiwei subordinates who were as blindly loyal as he was, Emperor An's tyrannical temper turned on his ministers once again.
"Wang Donglai!" Emperor Anji shouted loudly at the crowd.
"Your Majesty, I pay my respects!" This was the first time Prime Minister Wang Donglai had ever felt so unfamiliar with the emperor before him. He hurriedly ran forward, knelt down, and bowed.
"What happened today was the work of petty villains!" Emperor An glared fiercely at Wang Donglai and said, "You know what you'll say when you get down here."
"Your subject... obeys the decree!" Wang Donglai was taken aback, then nodded shakily and knelt on the ground to answer.
However, the ministers present all showed disdain in their eyes, after all, it seemed that Emperor An was about to use his power to forcibly tamper with the history books again.
However, this also confirms that what Ren Ruyi said earlier was indeed true!
"By imperial decree!" After bowing, Wang Donglai turned to his ministers and ordered, "Today's events were the work of petty villains! No historian is to record this! Anyone who disobeys will be executed!"
"Huh?" Wang Donglai's words shocked all the ministers present, especially some historians who frowned.
“But this…” One of them stepped forward to speak, but before he could finish his sentence, the Duke of Chu grabbed him.
This is a young sergeant! As the saying goes, a newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger, and Duke Chu couldn't bear to see this young man lose his life because of his duty and obsession.
After all, for Anguo, this is the last darkness before dawn, and it would be too much of a waste to lose his life now!
Because of his performance just now, Duke Chu's status in the eyes of the ministers was now very high, even surpassing that of the original Prime Minister Wang Donglai! Seeing him shake his head at him, the young historian could only frown and suppress his anger.
"Your Majesty!" At this moment, a group of guards from the palace guards rushed over in a flurry, many of them bearing injuries.
"Yang Xingyuan... died in the fire!" Upon hearing these reports, Emperor An was even more furious.
He arranged for Emperor Yang Xingyuan to be placed in the Yong'an Pagoda simply to extort more gold, and now he's been burned alive in a fire?!
Now, not only have we forged a life-or-death feud with the Wu Kingdom, but we also won't get any of the gold we wanted before!
"What are you all doing? What exactly happened?" Thinking of this, Emperor An angrily kicked over the palace guard in front of him and asked furiously.
"Originally, two people with extremely high martial arts skills arrived, and we thought they were here to rescue Emperor Wu..."
"Who would have thought... that the enemy would actually use the gunpowder traps we had set up to set a huge fire under the Yong'an Pagoda..."
"They even tried to stop us from putting out the fire, until the flames reached the top of the tower and it was clear that no one could survive..."
"Huh?" Emperor An was stunned when he heard the reply! This person went to the Yong'an Pagoda not to save Emperor Wu, but to set it on fire and burn him to death?
So the other party isn't from the Wu Kingdom's welcoming delegation?
"By the way! Where is Prince Li of Wu Kingdom? Detain him!"
"And that Marquis of Jining from the Central Plains! He must be implicated in this matter as well!"
"Confiscate them all!"
At this moment, Emperor An, Li Sun, was on the verge of going mad! He was already suspicious by nature, and now he was even more confused about who among the people around him could be trusted and who was secretly plotting to harm him. His brain was working at high speed, but he couldn't make sense of the logic in the situation.
He couldn't trust any of the people around him right now, not even those in the highest positions!
"Quickly! Send the order to the eldest son! Tell him to bring the man back to me!" At this moment, the only person he could trust was his son, so he loudly gave the order.
But the eldest prince has been dead for many days, and everyone present knows this! Now that Emperor An has actually issued such an order, they all show expressions of fear.
Because it's very clear that Emperor An has truly gone mad!
And a mad emperor, who is also so suspicious and bloodthirsty... The ministers of Anguo present suddenly felt a chill run down their spines!
"Where is my horn? Where is my horn?" However, Emperor An's madness was not over yet; it had only just begun! He glared and shouted loudly.
At this moment, a palace guard officer immediately took the order, turned around and ran into the palace. It was obvious that he was going to retrieve Emperor An's ox horn!
Upon witnessing this, the ministers' expressions of terror deepened...
Because the royal family of Anguo was originally the chieftains of the largest nomadic tribe, the Shazhong tribe! Therefore, the Shazhong tribe can be considered the maternal clan of Emperor An!
Now he wants the bull horn to summon his mother's forces to come to Andu to protect him! It's clear that he no longer trusts anyone present!
But what kind of scene will it be when those nomadic barbarians who are still herding on the grasslands enter the prosperous land of Andu?
The ministers already had a general idea in mind, but none of them dared to step forward to stop Emperor An!
"Are you deaf?" Li Jun turned his head and saw that the eunuchs kneeling in front of him had not gone to deliver the decree to the eldest prince. He immediately stepped forward and kicked them twice, knocking them to the ground.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me!" The eunuch was also aggrieved; he couldn't very well deliver an imperial decree to a headless corpse! He immediately began to plead guilty, "But His Highness has already..."
He didn't finish his sentence, naturally because he didn't dare to finish it.
However, Emperor Andi had already realized what was happening. His originally furious gaze suddenly cleared up, and his expression changed from confusion to shock, followed by sadness.
It was clear that he had finally remembered the fact that his eldest son was dead!
However, at this moment, the sound of horns had already begun to ring out inside the palace, while the distant horns continued to sound one after another, carrying towards the direction of the distant sandy area.
This is just like a beacon tower, except that the signal is transmitted by sound! I believe that soon the troops in the central desert will receive the summons from Emperor Andu and gather in large numbers to march towards Andu!
"The eldest son... is dead! The second son... has been... exiled by me!" Emperor An turned and slowly walked towards the palace, his desolate figure muttering to himself, "Don't follow me... don't follow me..."
However, his appearance did not evoke any pity from the ministers. After all, the emperor they had always admired had been completely destroyed. He was now just a despicable and shameless scoundrel who had usurped the throne.
Everything he's going through now is his own doing!
Moreover, the troops from the central region will soon arrive in the capital. What everyone is most worried about right now is whether their own families can survive the calamities to come!
……
For the next day, all the gates of Andu City remained closed, even during the day.
The Palace Guards took over the defense of Andu completely, spending the entire day patrolling the streets to search for so-called "spies and villains"!
Of course, their patrols were completely useless.
Aside from scaring the entire city into staying indoors and not daring to go out, it had no other effect.
The Wu Kingdom's camp delegation had naturally disappeared long ago. Wei Tingyu had arranged for Yang Ying to leave the city two days earlier, so it was impossible for her to remain in the city waiting to be captured.
As for Wei Tingyu and Ren Ruyi, although they were still in the city, the ordinary soldiers in the palace guards were not likely to capture them, and it would be impossible for them to even be discovered.
……
"Alas... such a once magnificent capital city, now reduced to this desolate state!"
"This is still considered good. Who knows what will happen after the troops from the central desert enter the capital!"
"I think His Majesty has truly gone mad, otherwise why would he make such a decision?"
"Stop talking! Stop talking! Be careful someone overhears you, or the people from the Central Sands will be dead before they even reach you!"
"This is worse than death! We stood from the morning court session until sunset, but the Emperor didn't show up. We were left waiting all day for nothing!"
Outside the palace gates of Andu, a group of ministers walked out listlessly, looking at the desolate street scene before them and complaining helplessly.
The people of Andu are now in a state of disarray, and everyone is waiting for the moment when this great building will collapse!
"Here they come! Here they come!" Just as the ministers were preparing to disperse in the square in front of the palace, they saw Emperor An riding a fast horse out of the palace with a face full of excitement, shouting loudly as he headed straight for the city gate!
This caused quite a commotion among the ministers, who scrambled to avoid the Emperor's horse. Many even rolled on the ground several times to escape the emperor's hooves.
This guy acted as if no one was in front of him, focusing only on riding forward, his eyes bloodshot and revealing an excited expression!
"They're here? What's here?" The ministers were stunned and looked at each other blankly as they watched Emperor An and his entourage ride away on several fast horses.
"Could it be... the troops from the central desert region?" At this moment, one of the ministers suddenly realized something and spoke up. As soon as he finished speaking, everyone involuntarily shuddered.
Judging by the time, the central part of the desert is indeed not too far from Andu. If you travel day and night, it will take about a day and a night to get there!
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Chapter 203 The Great Battle Begins! Princess Chuyue Returns with Her Army!
Upon realizing this, everyone's faces turned ashen, and they all followed Emperor An towards the city gate.
But when everyone climbed onto the city gate and saw the scene outside, none of them could laugh anymore.
In the distance, billowing dust could be seen, clearly indicating that a large number of cavalry were galloping towards Andu.
They could even hear the enormous roar of tens of thousands of horses' hooves pounding the ground.
"Hahaha! Good!" At this moment, Emperor An was already sitting in the main seat on the city tower, looking excitedly at the army rolling in from afar, his expression even more ferocious and crazy.
"As long as my mother's people come, we can kill all these traitors..." As he spoke, a terrifying smile appeared on his face! He truly looked like a madman!
His words sent chills down the spines of the ministers who had just arrived.
It is obvious that once the troops from the central region enter Andu, not to mention the damage they will cause, even after the situation stabilizes, Emperor An will use them to carry out a massacre in the court.
For a mad emperor, whether he trusts you or not may very well depend entirely on his whim.
If he even slightly harbors such thoughts, he will take the lives of your entire family!