C670 The Third Prince's Betrayal
C670 The Third Prince's Betrayal
"Yang Xuan, something bad has happened in the capital."
The woman in red had tears at the corner of her eyes. She spoke to Yang Xuan in a hurried tone. Yang Xuan looked at the woman in doubt and asked, "What happened? You can speak slowly, don't be anxious. "
The girl in red was Lan Fenghuang from the Lan family.
Between them... Lan Fenghuang took a few deep breaths and said to Yang Xuan, "The ghost cultivators started a riot in the city. There were tens of thousands of them. Wai Yu even brought troops to betray the country. "
Lan Fenghuang's words shocked everyone.
When the ghost cultivator had just rushed into the prison an hour ago. The old ancestor of Yuh Family, who had received the news, had sent a message to the entire city before rushing to the prison.
Because the most important prison in the capital had been attacked, and the attacker was a spectral cultivator, everyone rushed to the prison in a hurry.
However, on the way here, a sudden change had occurred in the capital. Over ten thousand ghost cultivators had rushed out of nowhere.
These ghost cultivators were extremely powerful. Even the weakest among them was at the Third Stage. Perhaps Third Stage cultivators were nothing to Yang Xuan and the others, but one should know that. There were more than two million ordinary people in the capital, and these spectral cultivators had suddenly appeared. A great threat to these ordinary people.
The cultivators who had moved slightly later naturally discovered this matter and stayed in the capital to exterminate the spectral cultivators.
In Purple Gold Palace, Wai Yu, who had received the news, seemed to be restless. Although he had already heard from Kuan Shu that the ghost cultivators were planning to attack the prison in the capital, but before they attacked... This made Wai Yu feel very awkward. He didn't know what he should do.
However, Wai Yu wasn't a fool. Ghost cultivators were attacking the prison. Most of the experts in the capital ran over. Wai Yu had already roughly learned the strength of the ghost cultivators from Kuan Shu. This battle would not end in a short period of time.
After learning about the appearance of the spectral cultivators in the capital, they were the first to move out. The commander of the city defense army was a young and aggressive soldier who had once gone to the battlefield with Zhou Fengmiao in Profound Gate Pass. He had once killed 300 prisoners of Barbarian Soldier in order to avenge his subordinates. He was also punished because of this.
But in the end, because his backer was too strong, he was still sent to the capital's city defense army. After the old general retired due to illness, he took the position of city defense commander.
The commander's surname was Yan, and his name was Yaen Dan.
After Yaen Dan found out that a spectral cultivator had appeared in the capital, the first reaction in his mind was: A spectral cultivator would definitely attack the Purple Gold Palace. Therefore, after making arrangements for the soldiers to eliminate the ghost cultivators, he led a team of a hundred elite soldiers and ran towards the Purple Gold Palace alone.
However, in front of the Purple Gold Palace's gate, Yaen Dan encountered an army of about 10,000 people. The leader of the army was a short and fat middle-aged man. He was not wearing a military uniform. He was wearing a silk robe and had a smiling face. If the tens of thousands of soldiers behind him did not look like he was the leader, this person would look no different from an ordinary rich man.
Yaen Dan saw this and was puzzled. Although his military rank wasn't high, because of his resume, he had even drank with the Military Minister several times. And why didn't he know that there was an army of ten thousand in the capital?
Yaen Dan rode his horse forward and came to the rich man's side. He asked loudly, "I am the commander of the city defense army. May I ask which army you are from, what is your name, and what is the name of the leader?"
The rich man looked a little surprised, but he did not panic. He said to Yaen Dan with a smile, "General, my name is Zhu Yuan. What orders do you have?"
"Zhu Yuan? I have never heard of your troop. Who is in charge of it?"
Yaen Dan looked confused. He seemed to have heard of this name before, but he could not remember it.
The middle-aged rich man continued, "General, I am a subordinate of His Highness Third Prince."
Yaen Dan suddenly thought of something. He looked terrified. He pointed at Zhu Yuan with the horsewhip in his hand and said, "I remember now. You were the leader of the rebels in Jiangnan."
Yaen Dan's expression became cold as he said that. He was sure that he had not misheard. The news of the rebels in Jiangnan had caused quite a stir in the capital. If he remembered correctly, Zhu Yuan had been handed over to Wai Yu to deal with. And now, Zhu Yuan had once again appeared in the capital, claiming to be Third Prince's subordinate. Even an idiot would be able to guess what was going on.
Thinking of this, Yaen Dan hastily ordered his subordinates, "These are the rebels. Quickly kill them."
"Hehe, at least you're quick to react."
Zhu Yuan's expression became cold. He waved his arm at the soldiers behind him and shouted, "Shoot the arrows."
Among the vast army of ten thousand people, there was actually a square formation of a hundred fully armed archers, which made Yaen Dan panic all of a sudden. Before he could react, an overwhelming rain of arrows flew out from the square formation.
Although Yaen Dan's soldiers were elites, there were only a hundred of them. How could they defend against the thousands of arrows? After a round of arrows, in this group of a hundred people... Apart from the powerful Yaen Dan, who had used the Stellar Energy condensed from his Spiritual Force to forcefully block this volley of arrows... The others have all fallen to the ground.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Yaen Dan naturally turned around and ran. Just as the army that followed Zhu Yuan from Jiangnan to the capital was about to chase after them, Zhu Yuan waved his hand and stopped these soldiers.
"Stop chasing, it's a waste of time."
Zhu Yuan said and turned his eyes to the gate of Purple Gold Palace that was painted with cinnabar and red paint. His eyes were filled with fanaticism as he said to the soldiers, "Men, burn the gate for me."
Zhu Yuan's order shocked the soldiers, but no one had any intention of resisting. The soldiers took out their flint stones one after another. Zhu Yuan took out the oil that he had prepared and gave it to his adjutant.
Although Zhu Yuan did not have much talent in cultivation, he was indeed a smart person at the top. Ever since he was arrested in Jiangnan, in order to survive, Zhu Yuan handed over all the money that he had secretly accumulated over the years, as well as the National Seal of the Lower Tang, to Wai Yu. Although he did not know about Wai Yu's collusion with the ghost cultivators, Zhu Yuan, who knew Third Prince's wild ambitions well. It was the right time to make the right decision.