My brother Ying Zheng, who dares to kill me?.

Chapter 927: The kings of all generations have never abandoned me! I have been suffering for the left prime minister for a long time!
Linzi Royal City and ancestral temple.

Under the watchful eyes of Qi's ministers, King Jian of Qi performed the sacrificial ceremony, took off his crown and robes, and placed the sacrificial jade on the wooden tray held by Hou Sheng.

Stroking the seal in his hand - the last object that could prove his identity as the King of Qi, King Jian of Qi was reluctant and felt hopeless.

He has lived in hiding for his whole life! He has endured for his whole life!

The only outbreak resulted in such a tragic ending!

How he wished this moment could go slower, slower, or even turn into eternity!
Although he can no longer use this seal to exercise the power of the King of Qi, he can at least look at this seal and recall his past glory as the King of Qi!

However, the continuous shouts outside the ancestral temple repeatedly ruined King Jian of Qi's mood.

Qi Wang Jian's eyes were still glued to the seal, and he asked in a dissatisfied voice, "What's the noise outside?"

Chunyu Hu hurriedly ran outside the ancestral temple, and then rushed back to the temple even faster, shouting loudly: "Report to the King!"

"It was the soldiers on the city walls who were shouting: Welcome back the Left Prime Minister!"

Qi State officials: !!!
Qi Wang Jian: (▽)

Qi Wangjian immediately perked up and asked loudly with great excitement: "The Left Prime Minister has returned to the court?!"

Although the coalition forces were weak and could not stop Ying Chengjiao from commanding the Earth Dragon to turn over, the coalition forces still had nearly one million soldiers!

That’s nearly a million troops!
With an army of nearly one million at his disposal, even if Ying Chengjiao was very brave, it would have been difficult for him to lead 100,000 Qin troops to escape, let alone capture the city of Linzi!

After escaping from a desperate situation, King Qi Jian laughed crazily: "Hahahaha!!!"

"The heavens do not help our Great Qi, and the earth does not bless our Great Qi, but our Great Qi's previous kings have protected our Great Qi deeply!"

"From now on, I will no longer believe in so-called immortals and gods!"

"After this battle, I will hold a grand ceremony to honor the ancestors!"

Facing the tablets of the previous kings, Qi Wang Jian bowed deeply and shouted excitedly: "My dear ministers, please follow me to welcome the triumphant return of the Left Prime Minister!"

With shouts, King Jian of Qi rushed out of the ancestral temple and ran towards the city wall with his bare chest.

However, the court officials of Qi were not as optimistic as King Jian of Qi.

Tian He looked at Chunyu Hu and asked solemnly, "Which left prime minister are the soldiers calling for?"

Chun Yuhu shook his head helplessly: "I don't know."

"However, our Linzi City has not received any military reports that Zuo Xiang's troops intend to return, and Linzi City's scouts have not found any trace of Zuo Xiang's troops."

Chunyu Hu said he didn't know, but just by listening to his words, one could tell that he already had a guess in his mind.

The Qin army outside the city did not block the gates of Linzi City, nor did they launch a siege on Linzi City, so the messengers could move freely.

But, what about the messengers under Li Mu’s command?

Li Mu was an excellent general. When he made such an important decision to lead his troops south to Linzi, it was impossible for him not to report the military situation to the kings of Dai and Qi.

It is even more impossible that Li Mu did not know that he should first send a messenger to notify the target to be rescued before rushing to the rescue, so as to boost the morale of the target and give the target a better chance to hold out until the reinforcements arrive.

The only reason why Linzi City has not seen Li Mu's messenger soldiers yet is that Li Mu has not returned to help!
The Internal Secretary Sun Ping sighed bitterly: "If the person the soldiers are welcoming is not Zuo Xiang Mu, then it can only be Zuo Xiang Cheng Jiao!"

"I never thought that before the Great Qi Dynasty issued the order to surrender, all the soldiers in the city had already surrendered!"

"Our Great Qi will surely be sneered at by the gentlemen of the future generations!"

Listening to the cheers, Sun Ping felt extremely mocked.

They were just discussing in Wu Palace whether to surrender, and many court officials were still advising King Jian of Qi to fight resolutely.

But in fact, the soldiers had already made the decision with the guns in their hands!

Even if the ruler and his ministers of Da Qi still want to fight to the death, the soldiers of Da Qi will no longer die for them!
A sigh was heard inside the ancestral temple.

Looking at the bare back of King Jian of Qi from afar, he sighed even more.

Hou Sheng clenched the tray in his hand and shouted coldly: "My fellow soldiers, do you want to be the people who surrender, or the prisoners of the defeated army?!"

After scanning the hall full of court officials, Hou Sheng firmly grasped the tray and chased after King Jian of Qi.

After hearing Hou Sheng's reminder, Sun Ping and other court officials quickly suppressed their complicated emotions and caught up with Hou Sheng.

Seeing most of the court officials hurriedly running towards the city wall, Tian He lamented sadly: "If the previous kings of our Great Qi could see what is happening today, they would definitely cover their faces with their sleeves!"

Flicking his sleeves, Tian He strode out of the ancestral temple and shouted in a deep voice: "The king is cowardly, the generals are avoiding fighting, and the soldiers are surrendering."

"Our Great Qi State will perish today!"

"However, how could the former overlord die in such a miserable way!"

"We have been eating Qi grain for generations, how can we live in this world with dignity after the Qi state collapses!"

"Those who wish to live and die with our Great Qi will return with me to reorganize the army!"

There was an obvious struggle on the faces of the Qi courtiers. Finally, Chunyu Hu and more than 20 other courtiers puffed out their chests and strode away in the opposite direction of the other ministers!

"Left Prime Minister!"

Tian Dan was standing on the top of the city wall, looking worriedly in the direction of the Qin army, when he heard a familiar shout.

Tian Dan was startled, turned around in shock, and bowed loudly: "Greetings, Your Majesty!"

Tian Dan never expected that the Qin army would suddenly stop its attack after he offered to surrender. Instead, it was King Jian of Qi who lived in Wu Palace who arrived here first!

With a heart full of fear, Tian Dan raised his head slightly, wanting to observe Qi Wangjian's expression first to decide how he would excuse himself next.

As a result, Tian Dan saw that King Jian of Qi was only wearing a linen skirt, which completely exposed his plump, fair, and shiny upper body to the cold wind!
As the cold wind blew, Qi Wangjian's upper body was obviously covered with goose bumps, and it was even a little red from the cold.

But Qi Wangjian's face was filled with joy and excitement, and he kept shouting: "My left prime minister has finally returned to the court!"

"I have taken all the treasures, and I will give them all to the Left Prime Minister as a reward!"

"All the granaries, arsenals, court officials and common people of the Great Qi can be deployed by the Left Prime Minister!"

"I am willing to use all my great Qi national strength to support Zuo Xiang in attacking Qin to relieve my hatred!" Tian Dan: ???
Is your Majesty...crazy?
He ran half-naked to the battlements of the city wall, held the battlements and looked around, but did not see the familiar flag.

"Left Prime Minister?"

A strong sense of panic suddenly struck his heart. King Jian of Qi looked around in confusion. When he saw the familiar Tian Dan, he immediately asked anxiously: "Where is the left prime minister?!"

"Where is my left prime minister?!"

The disrespectful thought that Tian Dan had just had was instantly extinguished, and was replaced by intense tension and fear.

But now that things have come to this, what else can Tian Dan do?

Lifting his shaking arms, Tian Dan pointed outside the city and said, "Reporting to the king."

"Left Prime Minister, it's right there."

King Jian of Qi followed Tian Dan's gesture and said angrily, "I am asking about the Left Prime Minister of the Great Qi!"

"The banner you pointed to is the banner of the Qin army!"

"Where is my left prime minister?!"

Tian Dan whispered: "I don't know where the left prime minister is."

King Jian of Qi was slightly startled. “I heard the voices in the city shouting to welcome the Left Prime Minister were particularly loud.”

"How could you not know where the Left Prime Minister is?!"

But as soon as the question was asked, King Jian of Qi caught the key words in Tian Dan's words.

The current left prime minister!

Qi Wangjian's pupils suddenly shrank, and he stared at Tian Dan and asked, "Don't you know where the left prime minister is?"

"Then which dynasty was the Left Prime Minister you just welcomed?!"

Tian Dan closed his eyes, hardened his heart, and bowed his hands and whispered: "The one the soldiers are cheering to welcome is the former left prime minister Cheng Jiao!"

King Jian of Qi rushed towards Tian Dan, grabbed Tian Dan's collar tightly and lifted him up, roaring angrily: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"Even if the soldiers of our Great Qi don't know that Qin Chang'an Jun is no longer the left prime minister of our Great Qi, can't the soldiers of our Great Qi see the Qin army flag clearly and don't they know that our Great Qi is at war with Qin?"

"How could the soldiers of our Great Qi call the enemy's commander the Left Prime Minister! Or even respectfully welcome the enemy's Left Prime Minister back to the court!"

Watching this scene, Gao Shuang secretly loosened his collar and silently took a few steps back.

Tian Dan said bitterly: "Your Majesty, this is how people think!"

"The soldiers are all shouting like this, I can't control them at all!"

"and!"

Turning his gaze to the naked upper body of Prince Jian of Qi, Tian Dan had an idea in his mind.

He was shirtless in such bitter cold weather, obviously not because King Qi was too hot, but because King Qi was preparing to surrender!
Although I do not want to fight to the death, Your Majesty, you surrendered first!

Tian Dan's voice was more confident and sincere: "Qin Chang'an Jun is a great wizard favored by heaven and earth. What Qin Chang'an Jun did is the will of heaven and earth!"

"I, the Great Qi, am the king who shepherds the people on behalf of Heaven. Now that the Earth intends to hand over the power of shepherding the people to Qin Chang'an Jun, how can I, the Great Qi, go against Heaven?"

"For the past kings of Great Qi were not condemned by the thick earth in the underworld, I beg Your Majesty to follow the will of heaven!"

King Jian of Qi let go of Tian Dan's clothes and staggered towards the battlements of the city wall.

The rough and hard battlements of the city wall left a red mark on Qi Wangjian's fair skin, but Qi Wangjian did not feel any pain at all, because his heart was hurting even more!

"The soldiers are not welcoming the Left Prime Minister Mu, but the Left Prime Minister Cheng Jiao?!"

King Jian of Qi cried out in a sad voice: "The Left Prime Minister has not yet led his troops to rescue us, but our soldiers of the Great Qi have already surrendered!"

"I am suffering!!!"

The beautiful dream that I just wove was shattered!

In just half an hour, King Qi Jian's heart went from panic to despair, from despair to ecstasy, and from ecstasy to despair again.

If Prince Qi had not been young, the drastic emotional changes in such a short period of time would have been enough to kill him!

"Your Majesty!" Hou Sheng finally ran up to the city wall.

Seeing King Qi Jian sitting on the parapet of the city wall, Hou Sheng hurried to his side and asked anxiously, "My king, are you okay?"

Qi Wangjian raised his head, looked at Hou Sheng with sorrow in his eyes and asked, "Uncle!"

"The left prime minister that the soldiers are welcoming is not the current left prime minister of the Great Qi Dynasty, but Qin Chang'an!"

Hou Sheng sighed softly and nodded, "I already know about this."

"My king, now is not the time to be thinking about these things, nor is it the time to be sad and depressed!"

Hou Sheng said solemnly: "The soldiers have already surrendered. The situation is extremely unfavorable to the king!"

"If the Qin army enters the city before the king surrenders, the king will become a prisoner of defeat!"

"Only if Your Majesty surrenders before the Qin army enters the city, Your Majesty will be able to serve the people who surrender!"

"My lord, time is running out!"

King Jian of Qi came back to his senses, startled, and shouted angrily: "It is fine that my soldiers failed to fight for me and expand my territory."

"And now you are stabbing me in the back again!"

After struggling to get up, King Jian of Qi looked in the direction of the Qin army's banner and shouted loudly:

"I have been waiting for the Left Prime Minister for a long time!"

"Left Prime Minister, it's finally over!"

(End of this chapter)