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Chapter 985 Extra Episode 5 Desperate Situation
A cavalry entered the city in panic through the east gate.

The armor on the cavalry was dilapidated and stained with dark red blood.

The prosperous Daxing City in the past has become deserted with the decline of the Great Qin Dynasty, and most of the people and foreign merchants have fled.

There was only the sound of scattered horseshoes on Suzaku Street. Looking at the palace to the north, the young Wei Wang Yang couldn't help but burst into tears, and a great sense of helplessness shrouded his heart.

He joined the army at the age of 13 and moved to war for 11 years. He participated in all the wars in Daqin that tried to regain its glory.

But no matter how much effort he made and how many enemies he defeated on the battlefield, he still couldn't bring back the collapse of Daqin.

On the square, the huge statue of Emperor Wu looked down on this once glorious city. His eyes were pitiful and deep, which made Yang Shen dare not raise his head for a while, "The ancestors are so brave, but the descendants are incompetent. If they die now, what face will they have to see?" Emperor Wu!"

Yang Shen jumped off the horse and knelt down in front of the statue.

"Daxing has [-] defenders, and more than [-] young and strong, enough to resist the Tang people. We will also swear to protect Daqin!" General Wei Xiaokuan also burst into tears.

"If Your Highness had been born ten years earlier, how could the affairs of the world have fallen to this point?" Yang Jian, the general of the clan, looked frustrated.

He is not the blood of Emperor Wu, but the line of Yang Gu, the king of Dongping County.

This branch gradually shined in the middle and late period of the Great Qin Dynasty, and famous officials and generals emerged one after another, becoming the reliance of the Great Qin Empire.

"I swear to follow His Highness to the death, and live and die with Daqin!" More than 20 brave generals roared angrily behind him.

Yang Shen wiped away the tears on his face, "Okay, Daqin is really lucky to have such loyal and brave men as you!"

"Your Majesty has an order to order His Royal Highness King Wei to enter the palace immediately!"

On the dim Suzaku Street, the sharp voice of the eunuch came.

The soldiers had already glared at them. The world of Daqin was ruined by these eunuchs. In their eyes, it was these eunuchs who covered up their superiors and made waves, so that the world fell to this point.

The eunuch also knew the generals' resentment towards him, so he got off his horse after a long distance, "Your Highness..."

"Hmph, it's up to you to destroy the world!" Wei Xiaokuan drew his sword angrily, "Today we shall eradicate thieves from the world!"

The eunuch turned pale with fright, his knees gave way, and he fell to the ground, attracting loud ridicule from the surrounding soldiers.

"Stop!" Yang Shen could shout.

Wei Xiaokuan immediately knelt down.

Yang Shen helped the eunuch up, and suddenly had an intuition in his heart, maybe this is the last side of their father and son. At this moment, it doesn't matter who has harmed the world. The 300-year-old Qin Dynasty has already been completely decayed, and it has staggered to today. , I can't go on anymore.

His father, Emperor Yang Zhe, had also ambitiously wanted to turn the world around when he came to the throne.

Use talents from poor families, reduce taxes for the common people, eliminate the decadent Chinese army, and recruit warriors from all over the world...

But fate seemed to have played a joke on him, the harder he worked, the worse he would lose, and the faster Daqin's defeat would be...

The rioters are like wildfire that will never go out.

The vassals and towns are colluding together, taking the opportunity to get bigger.

So five years after he ascended the throne, the monarch who later became Emperor Gong began to indulge in wine and sex, and sat and watched Daqin slipping into the abyss step by step.

As if knowing his own destiny, he has been on the throne for 21 years, and he has not even been canonized as a prince.

"You wait here, and enter the palace alone to meet the emperor." Yang Shen sighed.

To a large extent, he can understand his father, because he also faced the same despair.

"If these eunuchs have bad intentions, wouldn't your Highness..." Yang Jian was scheming, thinking of He Jin at the end of the Han Dynasty.

Now the spiritual pillar of the city is only the young backer king.

Yang Shen smiled sadly, "It's all here now, what is there to fight for?"

After speaking, he stepped on the horse and entered the palace with the eunuch.

The country declined, and even the imperial palace became dilapidated, the collapsed palace became ruins, and the faces of the palace people were covered with a layer of sadness, as if they were worried about their own fate.

In the Tai Chi Hall, the emperor drank alone.

The thin figure swayed with the mottled lights.

The mottled temples and the wrinkles at the corners of the eyes form a line.

For some reason, when Yang Shen saw his father, all the resentment in his heart disappeared, "Father..."

The father and son made eye contact, with sad smiles on their faces.

"Shen'er has worked hard all these years in fighting north and south, not to lose the prestige of his ancestors."

"My son is not working hard." Yang Shen had a bad feeling.

The emperor has already handed over a piece of yellow silk, "Let's have a look..."

Yang Shen took it, and the first word that came into his head was "surrender", "My son is about to fight to the death with the Tang bandits, why did the father surrender so early?"

"Linjin has been lost, millions of Tang troops are about to enter the pass, Daxing is an isolated city, how long can you defend?" There is no accusation, no anger, only calm.

The calm is chilling.

"We still have Guanzhong, Hanzhong, Shuzhong, and Nanzhong. Maybe we can't fight the bandits!" Yang Shen made his last effort.

"The people are tired, and so is I..." The white hair on the emperor's head looked extremely glaring under the light.

The emperor is only 45 or 81 years old, and he feels as if he is [-] years old.

In fact, the situation in Shuzhong and Hanzhong is not very good.

A Tang army marched from Shangyong to Hanzhong, and after the Tang army defeated Chu, the southern army had captured Yong'an, the gateway to central Shu.

Yang Shen stared at his father, and the emperor also stared at his son.

After a long time, the emperor sighed, "My son is brave, my father toasts you."

The emperor picked up the jug himself, but when pouring the wine, Yang Shen could clearly hear the sound of the mechanism in the jug turning.

This wine pot is called Yin Yang pot, which can store two kinds of wine, one kind of poisonous wine and one kind of fine wine. Just touch the hidden button on the handle of the pot, and the wine in the pot will change.

If the ruler wants his ministers to die, the ministers have to die; if the father wants his sons to die, the sons have to die.

Yang Shen didn't realize that sadness came from it, one side was Da Qin, and the other side was his own father...

Even if he is brave and good at fighting, and has all kinds of clever tricks, he can't break the situation in front of him.

"My son, thank you, Father!" Yang Shen bravely picked up the wine glass without thinking too much.

Forget it, today, it is better to die in front, lest the country be destroyed and the family perish.

Just as he was about to take a gulp, he was stopped by the emperor's hand. An inexplicable expression appeared in his old and tired eyes. This hand moved away from the wine glass again, stroking Yang Shen's hair, just like when he was young, A common thing between father and son.

Suddenly, the emperor knocked over the wine glass with a trembling hand, "Are you really going to fight again?"

"My son is willing to shed the last drop of blood for Great Qin!" Yang Shen resolutely said.

"Hahaha..." the emperor looked up to the sky and laughed loudly, "The greatest honor in my life is to give birth to a son like you!"

"Father?"

"If you want to fight, wait for me to worship Emperor Wu!"

Worship Emperor Wu at this time?

Yang Shen was inexplicable, so Tang Jun's heavy troops were assembled in Linjin, ready to attack Daxing at any time.

But the emperor had to listen to what he said, "My ministers take orders."

(End of this chapter)