The Jagged Empire of Daqin

Zheng Leduo looked up at Du Xiao on the city tower, and replied with a sad face: "Your Majesty, the heavens can see that the guilty minister has no intention of betraying Dashu, and he has no intention of betraying Dashu. Please learn from Your Majesty!"

"Huh!" Du Xiao snorted coldly, "Zheng Leduo, I misread you, you just plundered food and grass for Qin, and now you have to lead troops to the imperial capital, and now you are even more hypocritically calling for grievances, bah, People like you really deserve to be hacked into pieces and quartered!"

Zheng Leduo hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, let's listen to the explanation of the criminal minister. The criminal minister plundered food and grass for Qin, it is really helpless!"

"Tell me, what a helpless way!" Du Xiao asked expressionlessly.

"Your Majesty, it's like this. Emperor Qin's personal conquest of South Korea failed, and the logistics supplies were insufficient. He urgently needed soldiers and food. However, the Moon Dynasty had no food and soldiers, so it could only transfer food and troops from the Qin army that conquered Shu."

"The Qin army who conquered Shu was unwilling to withdraw from the territory of Shu, but they did not dare to disobey the will of the Emperor Qin. They could only maximize the results of the current battle, so they ordered the criminals to lead some prisoners of war to plunder 500 million shi of grain. Once this was done, the Qin army would release them. Prisoners of war, send troops to attack Han, and completely withdraw from the Shu territory!"

"If the task cannot be completed, the Qin army will kill the prisoners, and all 20 prisoners of war in Dashu will be killed, so as to annihilate the vitality of our Dashu. Looting food and grass, please learn from your Majesty!" Zheng Leduo explained the cause and effect.

Chapter 1042 School Du's decision

"The Qin army is going to retreat?"

There was an unconcealable smile on Xiao Du's face. The news of Qin Jun's retreat was definitely the best news for him.

After all, once the Qin army withdraws, Dashu will be safe!

"So that's the case. No wonder the Qin army didn't continue to invade Sichuan after they captured Taiguang. It turns out that the Qin army is about to retreat." Wang Jiansi suddenly realized.

Li Cha's brows were tightly furrowed, and he stared at Zheng Leduo under the city with suspicious eyes. For some reason, he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

When Zheng Leduo saw the smile on Du Xiao's face, he couldn't help but feel certain, and immediately continued: "Your Majesty, the criminal ministers led the soldiers to the imperial capital, and they simply handed them over to His Majesty, without any other intention!"

"Your Majesty, something is wrong!"

When Li Cha heard this sentence, he immediately became cautious.

Du Xiao couldn't help but frowned, "What does Prime Minister mean?"

Li Cha saluted solemnly and said: "Your Majesty, I said something you don't like to hear. You ordered to destroy the entire Zheng family. According to common sense, Zheng Le must be very angry, but look at Zheng Le. Don't you think it's strange that you haven't mentioned this matter much?"

"Anyone who encounters this matter will complain quite a bit, but Zheng Leduo doesn't seem to know about it, which is too strange. I think this is Zheng Leduo's conspiracy, or Qin Jun's conspiracy , wanting to deceive His Majesty's trust, thus opening the gates of the imperial capital, Zheng Leduo seized the opportunity to seize the imperial capital and destroy our Great Shu Dynasty!"

"Even among these prisoners of war, it is very likely that they are all dressed up by the Qin army. Your Majesty, we have to guard against this!" Li Cha looked worried, and his heart was full of caution.

When Du Xiao and Wang Jiansi heard Li Cha's words, their faces became stiff immediately, and they couldn't help being cautious.

What Li Cha said was unreasonable, even very reasonable. You must know that the whole family was punished, and no one could bear it.

And Zheng Leduo, who was under the city, saw Du Xiaoxiao's face stiff, and his heart that had just settled down began to feel uneasy.

Du Xiao asked in a deep voice: "Then what should we do now?"

Li Cha said with a vicious look: "Let Zheng Leduo enter the city alone, kill Zheng Leduo first, and then shoot the arrows to kill the soldiers in the city!"

"This..." Du Xiao hesitated, with some scruples in his heart.

He was worried that if Zheng Leduo's words were true, wouldn't he become a stupid king who mistakenly killed loyal ministers and brave men?

Li Cha also knew why Principal Du was hesitating, so he said immediately: "Your Majesty, as long as I can make Dashu safe and sound, I would rather kill a thousand mistakes than let one go!"

Du Xiao looked sideways at Wang Jiansi, Wang Jiansi nodded slightly, expressing his agreement with Li Cha's suggestion.

"Okay, then follow the Prime Minister's wishes!" Hesitation is not Du Xiao's style, and Du Xiao quickly made the final decision.

"By the way, where is Zheng Fei?" Du Xiao suddenly noticed that Zheng Fei was nowhere to be seen in the city.

"I don't know, it is very likely that I will hide in the army and wait for an opportunity to harm His Majesty. For His Majesty's consideration, His Majesty should temporarily hide." Li Cha really thought of something to say.

Du Xiao couldn't help being nervous for a while, and immediately nodded in response: "I will go back to the palace first, and leave the following matters to the prime minister!"

"Your Majesty, go slowly!" Li Cha and Wang Jiansi bowed down respectfully and said respectfully!

Soon, Du Xiao left the tower and returned to the palace. When Du Xiao returned to the palace, Li Cha gave his family an order to call in two half-step consummation masters of the family to worship and prepare to attack and kill Zheng Leduo.

After the two worshipers pretended to be pawns who opened the city gate, Li Cha said to Zheng Leduo who had been waiting for a long time under the city: "Zheng Leduo, Your Majesty wants to talk to you alone. You enter the city alone, and the rest are in the city Wait outside."

Zheng Leduo didn't doubt Li Cha's words, and immediately nodded in agreement.

Now he only hopes to have a good talk with Du Xiao, explain the cause and effect, and resolve this crisis, but he doesn't know that the imperial capital has become a prehistoric beast, and it is opening its mouth wide, waiting for him to sneak in.

The city gate opened from the inside, and the heavy city gate made a "creaking" sound when it opened. The city gate did not open wide, but only opened a small opening, which can only accommodate one person in and out. Zheng Leduo knew it when he saw this Du Xiao was still wary of himself.

But he didn't care, and immediately walked towards the city gate.

At this moment, everyone's eyes were on Zheng Leduo. The eyes of the prisoners of war in the city were filled with anticipation, expecting Zheng Leduo to solve the misunderstanding. Look in the eyes of the dead.

After more than ten breaths, Zheng Leduo walked into the city gate, and the city gate was quickly closed.

At this moment, Zheng Leduo felt a deadly sense of crisis, and before he could react, a Shu army soldier rushed towards him holding a dagger.

Although Zheng Leduo is a great general, his martial arts are not very strong, only at the peak level, and now he is suddenly unable to resist the sneak attack of two half-step perfect masters.

"Pfft!"

"Pfft!"

A dagger was pierced into his heart, and a dagger was pierced into the back of his neck, splashing two streams of blood one after another.

Both places were fatal, Zheng Leduo fell to the ground and died on the spot, with his eyes wide open and his face unwilling to die!

"It's so easy!"

"Haha, let's go, take his head and go to the prime minister to get the reward!"

Two priests of the Li family cut off Zheng Leduo's head, carried the latter's head and ran up the tower, behind Li Cha.

"Master Prime Minister, you have already succeeded!" Holding the head of the offering, he handed the head to Li Cha with a smile on his face.

Li Cha turned around, smiled slightly, and reached out to take the head, "You two go to the housekeeper to receive the reward, the reward is 3000 taels!"

"Thank you, Prime Minister!" The two priests thanked each other with smiles on their faces, then turned and left.

After the two priests left, Li Cha put his head on the side of the protective wall, and shouted to the 20 prisoners of war below the city: "Zheng Le Duo treason, he has been killed by this party, you wait for the Qin thief, also It’s time to die, come and shoot the arrow!”

Without saying a word, Li Cha immediately let people shoot arrows!

"Fire arrows!"

"Fire arrows!"

"Boo! Hah! Hah! Hah! Hah!"

Give an order, and the rain of arrows will form a cloud that covers the sky and shoot towards the prisoners not far below the city!

"Pfft!"

"Damn!"

"I don't accept it, I don't accept it, I fight for Dashu, why should you kill me!"

"Pfft!"

Faced with the sudden rain of arrows, the 20 prisoners of war were all angry, but anger could not solve the problem. Under the roar of roars, a large number of prisoners of war fell to the ground with arrows, and many prisoners of war had to retreat.

The city was in chaos, with roars and wailings resounding continuously.

And among the chaotic army four hundred steps away from the city gate, a young man in blue cloth stood motionless. An emotionless killing machine.

Chapter 1043 The Crazy Youth

He was carrying a long strip of cloth on his back, and he took off the long strip of cloth unhurriedly, revealing the item wrapped in the long strip of cloth, which was a bow, a big bow made of python skin in black and white, and there were three more inside. Feather arrows.

He picked up the big bow made of python skin in one hand and two feathered arrows in the other. He put the two feathered arrows on the bowstring and aimed them in the direction of the tower four hundred paces away. Zha He, Minister of the Ministry of War, Wang Jiansi.

Due to the chaos in the city, there were prisoners of war fleeing in a hurry everywhere, but no one found him, and those escaped prisoners of war were only focused on running away and cursing, not paying attention to his actions.

The young man first fully drew the big bow, then let go of the bowstring, and then the two feathered arrows shot towards the tower with a strong speed.

On the other hand, Li Cha and Wang Jiansi on the tower hadn't noticed the danger yet, but in the blink of an eye, the two of them heard the sound of "swoosh" breaking through the air, their hairs stood on end, and they subconsciously opened their eyes, only to see a The sharp feather arrows are constantly expanding in the pupils.

"Do not!!"

"what!!"

Accompanied by two shrill screams, two corpses with arrows in their eyebrows fell to the ground.

"Not good, the prime minister is assassinated!"

"Shangshu of the Ministry of War has been assassinated!"

A prime minister and a minister of the Ministry of War, both of them are top officials in the imperial court and celebrities around the emperor. The death of these two people immediately caused a burst of panic and commotion in the Shu army in the tower, and they couldn't help but ignore the escaped prisoners of war below the city.

Seeing that he had succeeded, the young man four hundred steps away from the city did not show any complacency on his face, nor did he show the slightest smile. The big leather bow and the last feathered arrow disappeared without a trace.

After a stick of incense time!

Shu Imperial Palace, Imperial Study Room!

"Ah~"

"I don't know what's going on now!"

In the imperial study room, Shu Emperor Du Xiao paced back and forth, sighing from time to time, with a look of sadness on his face.

tread... tread...

At this time, there was a sound of hasty footsteps coming from outside the hall. Du Xiao hurriedly looked up and saw a 35-year-old man in military uniform with a sword on his waist walking into the hall. The post of the fifth-rank leader of the imperial guard.

Du Luo is still Du Xiao's royal brother, a real brother!

"Brother Huang, why are you here?" Principal Du was stunned for a while, he thought it was Li Cha or Wang Jiansi, but he didn't expect it to be Du Luo.

Du Luo bowed down with a heavy expression and said: "Your Majesty, Zheng Le Duo has been executed, but..." At this point, Du Luo hesitated to speak, and was unable to speak for a long time.

Seeing Du Luo's expression, Principal Du couldn't help asking nervously, "But what?"

Du Luo took a deep breath, bit the bullet and lowered his head and replied: "But the prime minister and the minister of the Ministry of War were shot by the thief and died!"

Du Xiao stared suddenly, his mind was in a trance for a while, and he almost staggered and fell to the ground, unable to accept the news at all.

In Du Xiao's eyes, both Li Cha and Wang Jiansi were his ministers and one of the few confidantes, but now both of them were killed, and their left and right arms were cut off.

Du Xiao couldn't bear such a huge blow!

"call out!"

In vain, a sharp piercing sound sounded, and before Principal Du could react, Du Luo was hit by an arrow in the back of the head and fell straight forward.

Douro, die!

Du Xiao opened his mouth wide in shock, wanting to shout out, but everything happened too fast, his brain reacted, but his mouth and throat hadn't reacted yet.

At this moment, a black shadow flashed into the hall, and the ten guards guarding outside the hall immediately fell to the ground drinking blood, and the door of the imperial study room was also closed at this moment.

Everything happened so fast, in the blink of an eye, just as Principal Du reacted, he saw a frosty young man standing in front of him. The young man held a big bow made of python skin in one hand, and a three-foot long sword in the other, looking at him coldly. he.

"You...you are Zheng Fei!" Du Xiao turned pale with shock, and hurriedly spit out a name.

"Correct answer, but unfortunately there is no reward, go to hell!"

The sharp sword light flashed along with the icy words, Du Xiao only felt a chill on his neck, hurriedly stretched out his hand to cover his throat, and soon felt the damp heat in his hand,

Blood!is blood!

Blood flowed out like a fountain, Xiao Du's face became paler and weaker, and his body became weaker and weaker.

"The thief is so bold that he dares to assassinate His Majesty!"

"Death!"

At this moment, two shouts of anger came from behind the young man, and with the shouts of anger came two powerful palms!

The youth immediately retreated ten steps!

'Boom! '

'Boom! '

Two faint bursts of air came from where the young man was originally standing. A strong man who can produce a burst of air is nothing more than a perfect strong man. Fortunately, the young man hid quickly, otherwise he would be seriously injured!

Immediately after, two men in black appeared next to Xiao Du. One of the men in black quickly gave Xiao Du acupoints to stop the bleeding with a terrified expression. The man in the clothes gave Du Xiao acupuncture points to stop the bleeding, and a mocking smile could not help but appear on the corner of his mouth.

"It's useless, he will definitely die, even if the gods come, they can't save him!"

In fact, there is no need for the young man to say that the man in black who gave Du Xiao acupuncture points to stop the bleeding also knew that Du Xiao could not be saved, but he always had the attitude of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor. What if it did?