A rebellious minister forced me to be a foolish king

Chapter 570: A Gamble to Win All
"Hey!" Yuan Wuyou was so angry that she hurriedly went to the puddle to fish with her bare hands. While groping in the mud, she looked up and glared at the culprit, Xiao Tongyan.

"What are you doing? You are a person who has entrusted you with a task. How can you destroy the trust? Do you have integrity?"

Xiao Tongyan looked down at him coldly, "Because Ah Xiang died a long time ago. She died three years ago, on the day when Bowang City was captured."

Yuan Wuyou's hand froze as he just took out the black golden hairpin from the mud pit, and he stood up in a daze.

"The soldier just now said...didn't you take her away?"

"I took her away. I also knew that her fiancé's brother was a personal guard of King Ande, but she insisted on going back to protect her parents and live and die with Bowang City. She died under a hail of arrows. Later I learned that her so-called parents were just her parents-in-law. Her uncle and brother threw her body into a dry well and covered it with yellow earth to prevent her body from being insulted."

"Then the man just now still has no idea? Could it be that...his brother concealed this matter?"

"if not?"

……

Before Yuan Wuyou reached the city gate, he saw the scene of some people rushing out and some running in against the flow.

Bowang City had changed hands countless times and had never surrendered. This time, the Zhou State sent garrison soldiers as the vanguard, using human flesh as shields to rush out. Perhaps it was to wear down the tough guys in Bowang City, or perhaps it was to make Qi feel sympathy, but Qi obviously did not have such kindness.

When the two armies faced each other, this group of garrison soldiers who were forced to do the job were shot to death by a hail of arrows from the Qi vanguard's archers as soon as they left the city gate.

The Zhou State stationed its troops at the west gate of Bowang City, but left the soldiers in Bowang City to die, waiting for the Qi State to attack the city from the east gate, thus being attacked from both sides.

This time, the State of Qi had no intention of letting the people of Bowang City go. Both sides even aimed to kill everyone and loot supplies.

Yuan Wuyou watched from afar as arrows rained down from the east gate. The Qi general below the city shouted to the soldiers stationed in Bowang town not to seek death, but to open the gate to receive guests, saying that the Zhou State only recognized the palace soldiers and would not care about their lives.

Before the shouting ended, the tightly closed East Gate was hit by the Qi soldiers outside with battering rams, banging against the city gate! In just a few hits, accompanied by a loud rumbling sound, the East Gate of Bowang City was broken.

The Qi soldiers who attacked and tried to occupy the city were like a swarm of bees, covering the whole sky and earth, shouting and killing, and scraping the ground wherever they went.

Fortunately, the Qi army wore red and the Zhou army wore black, so they were easy to recognize.

Although Yuan Wuyou and Xiao Tongyan were not wearing armor, and one of them injured his left arm and the other injured his right arm, they each carried a sword and a knife, and were both martial artists who were able to go out into the battlefield to fight against enemy generals. It was considered lucky for this group of rabble that they did not join the battle, and naturally they were not afraid of the chaos in the city.

What's more, there is an armor-piercing killing weapon, Gala, behind him.

The three people who were originally watching coldly suddenly saw the armored soldier who was entrusted with the golden hairpin being stabbed in the abdomen by the Qi soldier.

He also slashed Qi Bing's chest with his backhand.

The two of them were talking about something, but Qi Bing suddenly burst into laughter:

"Are you looking for the female prisoner that Yan Tinglei brought back? We brothers had already played with her and asked her to stay as a camp prostitute but she refused. She even went to find her parents-in-law with her legs apart. In the end, wasn't she shot to death by thousands of arrows?"

The armored soldier was so angry that he spat a mouthful of blood on the face of the Qi soldier and roared:

"Princess Ande won't let you go!"

"Where is this Princess Ande? Oh, the woman Huaxu who was having an affair with Prince Lanling and had an affair with his brother-in-law, right? She is just a whore who uses her beauty to seduce men!"

After saying this, he angrily kicked the dead body of the garrison soldier away, and then used the cloth on the dead body to wipe the blood off the blade.

Another Qi soldier was surprised when he heard this, "Empress Huaxu actually had an affair with Prince Ande?"

"You don't know yet? I saw it with my own eyes. I heard that this bastard sneaked into King Ande's military tent every night, and she never hid her movements at night..."

"How shameless! She gave her virginity to another man before marrying Lanling King. No wonder Lanling King doesn't want her anymore. If I were her, I wouldn't want her either."

Several Qi soldiers walked away cursing, completely unaware that the Empress Huaxu, whom they were insulting, was standing behind them.

Xiao Tongyan said with a sigh, "See? Some men are like this, they think all women in the world belong to men. There are always men who get angry because a strange woman didn't keep her virginity for him. It seems that sooner or later a woman will be his."

Yuan Wuyou finally realized Xiao Tongyan's good intentions in letting her see the hardships of people's lives. He clearly wanted her to break away from Yuan's Xianbei identity and return to Huaxu Han. He also wanted her to recognize the situation of the empress and recreate the difficulties of Jiangling.

She was truly shaken.

The bloodbath in Bowang City was a foregone conclusion, and the hundreds of garrison soldiers in the city all fell. The Qi vanguard pushed their well-equipped chariots into the city. It turned out that they were not driven out in the first half of the night, but retreated to advance and used the opponent's strength to fight against the Zhou State.

The Zhou army entered from the west gate, and in the chaos, the once prosperous places were all looted. The Qi army advanced from the east gate, but the Zhou army methodically blocked them from the west gate. The game between the two countries destroyed the chess game of Bowang.

No one can stop it.

At this moment, Yuan Wuyou felt that she was no different from the people of Bowang City, all ants with nowhere to escape. After thinking it over, she felt that she had to know what the two countries were going to do. Should they just confront each other head-on?

Yuan Wuyou decisively took advantage of his proximity to Xiao Tongyan and interrogated her, thinking that even if she didn't tell the truth, at least she had been following Zhou Guo these days and could provide him with ideas.

Xiao Tongyan also told her frankly that the mastermind was her closest relative, and His Majesty would know it if he went to the chariot in front of the Zhou army.

She decisively abandoned Xiao Tongyan and took Jialuo to find out what outcome the Zhou mastermind wanted.

The long night was coming to an end and the night road could be seen clearly. In addition, the surroundings were brightly lit, so Yuan Wuyou was not walking in the dark.

But what he saw was a black-robed female strategist in charge of the chariot of the Zhou State Governor.

Even from a distance of several feet, Yuan Wuyou could tell that the person was her mother.

From afar, they saw a one-armed girl looking over here. The mother and daughter were connected by heart, so the woman in black robe decisively jumped off the open chariot, ignoring the shouts of the guards beside her, and ran straight towards the one-armed girl.

Yuan Mingjing approached her daughter who was standing there, "Who told you that your mother was here? Where were you last night? Did you sleep well?"

"Bowangguanyi." Yuan Wuyou glanced at his injured left arm, thinking, doesn't she care how her arm was injured? Yes, she must have known what Li Mingjian did.

"Thanks to you, I had a very quiet sleep."

Seeing his daughter's unhappy expression, Yuan Mingjing waved his hand and said, "Let's go back to Bowangguan Inn with mother to talk."

Yuan Wuyou glanced at Zhou Jun who was standing ready behind her, "Can you leave?"

Under the hat that covered her eyes and nose, the woman only showed her lips and chin. She suddenly raised her full red lips and smiled, "Let's go. I joined the game with my body just so that you don't have to be driven by this."

The mother and daughter walked far away from the Zhou Kingdom's formation, and Yuan Mingjing asked in a deep voice: "Do you want to be a tyrant?"

Yuan Wuyou shook his head decisively. "No."

"Then watch carefully. The battle before us is a fight between tyrants. You don't need to know who is right or wrong. You just need to become stronger when facing a stronger opponent."

She suddenly saw the shadow of the majestic and domineering female khan in the black-robed woman in front of her. She was only wearing a cloak and her face could not be seen. Yuan Wuyou also had a kind of pious respect for her and could not help but bow down to worship her.

A tiger is still a tiger even in its twilight years and can still scare wild birds and beasts.

Unfortunately, relying solely on imagination, it would be difficult for Yuan Wuyou to cultivate a murderous aura like the empress dowager, who would rebel at any time and show his fangs in an instant, under the stable upbringing of the prosperous times.

She was afraid of disrupting the current stable situation, even if it was only superficial stability, so she was cautious in every step she took and weighed the pros and cons in every decision. She was never as open-minded as her mother's generation.

At the moment, Yuan Wuyou is more afraid of her mother's fuss. She is a dead body with bare feet who is not afraid of those who wear shoes. Shouldn't she be left to clean up the mess?
"Do I have to be a tyrant?"

Yuan Mingjing raised the long sleeves under his black robe and pointed in the direction of the fire outside the city.
"Have you seen what the tyrant of Northern Qi did? Just like the Eastern Wei back then, if you don't kill him, he will kill you. Since someone has become a tyrant, the ones who will attack King Zhou of Shang are the righteous army that follows the will of the people."

"So Zhou State just wants a dead city?"

"The garrison soldiers of Bowang City have never submitted to the imperial court, and now the murderer is from Northern Qi, so Northern Zhou can kill two birds with one stone."

"I'm afraid someone will take advantage of the conflict between the two sides and put the blame on me, making me take the blame for others."

"Those who want to achieve great things must not be tied down. If you only think about being cautious, how can you use the power of others to overcome their power and use the water to float?"

The sky is slightly bright before dawn.

Under the black robe and hat of the heroic woman, the pair of phoenix eyes are as dazzling as stars and as sharp as a sword.

"Since you know that you have a secret banker who is absolutely biased towards you, you still don't dare to gamble and win everything?"

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Salute and thanks to all the babies who are still following the old cat.

See you next month.