The Heavens: From the Long Moon Ember

Chapter 39 The Imperial City (for further reading)

The quiet eastern suburbs of Shengjing.

Li Yu led a partial division and stationed in a valley outside the city.

"Your Majesty, the army has been rested, when will we attack the city?" Erbai Yu climbed up the hillside, came to Li Yu's side, glanced at the capital city that was close at hand in the distance, and asked.

Li Yu looked at the capital city shrouded in night in the distance, was silent for a while, and then said: "There is no rush to attack the city."

"Although most of the Sheng Kingdom's army was brought to the front line by Xiao Lin, there are tens of thousands left in Shengjing. We only have two thousand light cavalry, so we have no advantage in attacking the city."

"Then what should we do?" Twenty White Feather frowned and asked.

Li Yu glanced back at Erbai Yu, then looked back at Shengjing and said: "This trip alone is for the life of King Sheng. If King Sheng dies, Shengguo will be in chaos. If you enter the city again, you will be able to make a final decision.”

"Your Majesty is wise." Erbai Yu thought for a while, and felt very reasonable.

"Okay, stop flattering, you go and make arrangements, and later lead the Moon Shadow Guards and enter Shengjing with Gu."

"Yes." Erbai Yu folded his arms to accept the order, and then retreated.

After Erbai Yu left, Li Yu said to the commanding general on the left: "Old General Wang, after entering Shengjing alone, I will trouble you for the rest of the army. Help Gu lead the army and wait for Gu's order."

"Yes, the old minister will never disappoint His Majesty's trust." Old General Wang bowed his head and clasped his hands in salute and replied respectfully.

Li Yu looked at the 60-year-old general in front of him and nodded with satisfaction.

Although this man is a bit older, he is one of the few generals in Jingguo who can be reused.

This is why Li Yu left so many young generals instead of taking him.

It's not for anything else, it's just because there is no one in Jingguo's army. Everyone in the world says that there is no one in Shengguo, but in fact Jingguo is not much better. Don't look at Jingguo is so brave now. In fact, before this war started, the national power of Jing country was weaker than that of Sheng country. The reason why this battle turned from weak to strong, and then turned into a war of destroying the country, was entirely due to Tantai Jin's personal ability.

The reason why Jingguo was able to defeat Shengguo steadily was because of Tantaijin's ability to control monsters.

How could the mortal army survive the encounter with monsters? Naturally, they were frightened and fled.

Therefore, this is also the reason why Tantai Jin is obsessed with accomplishing his merits in one battle, because Jing Guo's background actually does not support him in launching this war of destroying the country. The country has not collapsed because it has not been defeated.

As long as you lose once, you will fall short, and it will cause backlash.

Tantai Jin was the one who killed his brother, and because he took the position not long ago, he has no foundation at all in Jingguo. In addition, there are many ministers who oppose him to fight this battle. If he keeps winning, then let it go. If things go wrong, there will be turmoil in the country immediately.

As the saying goes, "One effort, then err decline, three exhaustion."

If he can't take advantage of the current momentum and destroy Shengguo in one go, it will be very difficult for him to have another chance in the future.

Now it is because of the disharmony between the monarch and his ministers in the Sheng Kingdom, the frequent tricks of the king, and Tantai Jin's instigation of dissension, so he got this opportunity.

It would be difficult if King Sheng reacted when the other party was free.

Although he can control monsters, it is not unlimited. The main battle is to rely on the army. The monsters only serve as a booster, mainly to scare the courage of the enemy and make them dare not fight against our army.

Therefore, Li Yu must seize the opportunity created by Tantai Jin's painstaking efforts, destroy Shengguo in one fell swoop, and dominate the world.

Li Yu doesn't want to spend too much time fighting for the world. His main purpose now is to practice, not for secular power.

He didn't have time to intrigue for the position of an emperor.

Because he does not belong to this narrow well, he has a wider world.

It is a foolish act to give up the vast world for the throne of the emperor at the bottom of the well.

If this world is an ordinary world, and he doesn't have the ability to travel to other worlds, then he can give it a try.

But now, secular power and position will never tempt him.

"Your Majesty, the Moon Shadow Guards have gathered and are ready to go at any time." Erbai Yu walked out of the forest and came to Li Yu and said.

"Yeah." Li Yu nodded.

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In the middle of the night, Shengjing was completely silent.

Li Yu and others quietly came to the east gate, stuck to the wall, and looked up at the guards on the wall.

Li Yu moved his eyes slightly towards Erbai Yu, and Erbai Yu knew what Li Yu meant, and then said to the Moon Shadow Guard behind him, telling them not to act rashly.

Seeing that his intentions were understood by them, Li Yu took a step back a little later, then suddenly tiptoed on the ground, and his body flew lightly to the ten-meter-high city wall.

After arriving on the city wall, Li Yu immediately stimulated the true energy in his body, and solved more than a hundred guards at the fastest speed, without giving them a chance to ask for help.

After Li Yu killed the guards, he came to the side of the wall and gestured to Erbai Yu and others under the city wall.

Erbai Yu was always paying attention to the city wall above his head, and after receiving Li Yu's message, he immediately ordered the Moon Shadow Guard to act.

More than a hundred moon shadow guards, using the method of stacking arhats, quickly jumped onto the city wall.

After tidying up the guard's body, Li Yu said to Erbai Yu.

"Leave ten people to guard the city gate, and the rest will enter the imperial city alone."

"Yes." Erbai Yu accepted the order with arms folded.

Shengjing is extremely large, and each city wall has eight gates. Li Yu chose the gate with the weakest guard. In addition, his movements were extremely fast. In a short time, the guard guarding the gate It was killed, so the information did not get out.

Next, as long as they guard the city gate, there will be no major problems.

After dealing with the matter of the city gate, Li Yu led 90 people from the Moon Shadow Guards to the imperial city.

Because the Moon Shadow Guards are all masters of martial arts, the journey went very smoothly and they arrived at the foot of the imperial city without disturbing anyone.

According to the method of entering the outer city, Li Yu directly killed the guards above the imperial city, and then left ten people to guard the city gate, and the rest continued to go towards King Sheng's bedroom.

Along the way, he met many eunuchs and maids. Except for those who had to be killed, Li Yu basically did not kill anyone, and came all the way to King Sheng's bedroom.

The guards around the palace were quietly killed under the arrangement of Erbai Yu.

After Moon Shadow Guard finished disposing of the corpse, Li Yu walked up the steps and pushed open the door of the bedroom.

King Sheng's bedroom is large and empty, with many columns in the hall.

Hearing the bang sound of the palace door being pushed open, Sheng Wang who was sleeping on the bed woke up suddenly.

"Who!" Sheng Wang suddenly got up from the bed and looked in the direction of the palace gate.

But because the bedroom was dark, he couldn't see Li Yu's appearance clearly.

"Who's there? Talk." Sheng Wang frowned and shouted loudly.

At this moment, he has not figured out his situation. He thought Li Yu was the eunuch who broke in without long eyes.

But this is not his fault, after all, who would have thought that Tantai Jin, who is the king of a country, would suddenly appear in his bedroom, and it was still so silent.

(End of this chapter)