The Ancient Martial Witch Arrives

Chapter 316 Entering the Palace (12)
After crossing Bincheng, Changhe took Lan Jiu to a contact point in their Xiaoyao City, replaced all the cavalry with clouded leopards, and the group rushed towards Jianye City at a faster speed.

Walking through the territory of Wu State along the way, Lan Jiu saw the decaying surroundings. The area around Bincheng was looted by Jianglang Xishu Army, and it was full of wounds, just like the declining Wu State.

Even the villages that were not destroyed by the Shu army looked very backward, and they didn't pay attention to it before, but now after noticing this problem, Lan Jiu realized that the state of Wu has become so weak!
How could such a state of Wu resist the attack of Xishu?At this time, Lan Jiu deeply understood Wu Xiang's painstaking efforts. At the same time, he had to admire Wu Xiang's insight. He knew so much about Wu's national conditions. Such a cruel thing happened.

On the way, Lan Jiu and the others did encounter scattered cavalry from the Western Shu Army. Naturally, these scattered cavalry would not pose a threat to Lan Jiu and the others. After killing these scattered cavalry easily, Lan Jiu had an ominous premonition in his heart , since the scattered riders from Western Shu dared to roam in the country of Wu, it means that the city of Jianye has been breached and the country of Wu has perished.

Because the surrounding area of ​​Bincheng is too far away from Jianye City, even if Wu Guoguo has been breached, the people here will not get the news so quickly.

The clouded leopard under his crotch was much faster than the iron cavalry. Originally, it would take three days to reach it in two days, but the closer he was to the capital of Wu State, the more worried Lan Jiu was, because there were more Xishu cavalrymen he could meet. .

Finally, on the morning of the third day, Lan Jiu and the others came to the outskirts of Jianye City. The newborn sun was shining red, reflecting the majestic outline of Jianye City. solemn.

There is a faint smell of blood floating in the air. There are traces of battles everywhere on the grass in the outskirts. Although the corpses have been cleaned up, there are still a lot of bloodstains. Especially gloomy.

What's worse is that Lan Jiu didn't see a single person in the suburbs!At the beginning, countless poor people lived in the outskirts of Jianye City. This is the slum, and the number of poor people is even larger than the population of Jianye City.In fact, it can be seen from the slums outside the city that Wu Guo is really too corrupt.

Lan Jiu rode his horse over, and along the way, he could see the poor houses destroyed by the Western Shu Army. The wood and stone slabs used by the poor people to build the houses were used to build temporary tents, but there were no such houses. Soldier.

Approaching Jianye City, Lan Jiu looked up, but couldn't see any flags on the city wall, neither the military flag of Wu nor the king's flag of Shu, the entire Jianye City was like a dead city.

Chang He was by Lan Jiu's side, and had already ordered several knights to investigate the situation first.Lan Jiu also slowed down his mount and walked slowly towards the gate of Jianye City.

The pathfinding knights in front had returned, and were standing in front of the city gate waving at Lan Jiu and the others, indicating that there was no danger in the city.

Lan Jiu couldn't bear the excitement in his heart, and rushed up on his horse. On the grass in front of the huge city gate, Lan Jiu saw countless corpses, including those from the West Shu Army and Wu Guo soldiers. These corpses fell to the ground in disorder. , everyone maintained a fighting posture, which shows how fiercely they fought during their lifetime.

There were corpses lying all around Jianye City, obviously because there were too many corpses, so no one cleaned them up. Fortunately, it was early winter, and the corpses did not stink, but Lan Jiu was shocked by the scene of countless corpses all over the ground .

The offensive and defensive battles in Jianye City were obviously very tragic. Dead bodies could be seen in every city wall, and stumps and broken arms could be seen in every place.Just when Lan Jiu walked into the city gate, she turned her head and looked back, and saw the person she was going to meet these days on the east wall of the city gate.

The black city wall was stained dark red by blood, mottled with the vicissitudes and solemnity of history. A huge black spear pierced his chest, nailing him firmly to the thick city wall.The golden battle armor was still mighty, his black hair fluttered in the wind, wanton and arrogant, but his cold head was lowered and buried in front of his chest, the flying black hair messily blocked his sight.

Chang He, who was by Lan Jiu's side, also saw this side. He was silent for a while, and could only stand there silently.

"Wu Xiang! Brother..." As the pain spread to his heart, Lan Jiu jumped off his mount with a long cry, and rushed up...

With the mottled blood stains on the hard black city wall as the background, the golden battle armor on Wu Xiang's body is particularly dazzling. The chest nailed him to the city wall.His whole body was hung on the city wall with this spear as the base point, like a hideous banner.

"Wu Xiang!" Lan Jiu rushed to the city wall, looked up at Wu Xiang who was crucified on the city wall, and tears welled up in his eyes.

After all, I still failed to see Wu Xiang for the last time, Jianye City was destroyed, and Wu Xiang died in battle.In front of Wu Xiang lay the corpses of Western Shu soldiers, and even two huge Xuanming beasts.

When Lan Jiu left Jianye City, Wu Xiang was wounded. He led the army to fight with his wounded body, and finally was nailed to death on the city wall. This black long spear is the personal weapon of the king of Xishu The king of Xishu could have taken this weapon away, but he was convinced by Wu Xiang and left this weapon and the battlefield where Wu Xiang fought to show his respect for Wu Xiang.

The King of Western Shu devoted all his power to attacking the Kingdom of Wu. Under the leadership of Lan Ling and Lan Fei, the army bypassed Tanlang Ridge and approached Jianye City. This sneak attack should have been simple, but the casualties were heavy. In the first battle of Jianye City, nearly half of the Xishu army suffered casualties, and it was all because of Wu Xiang's resistance to the death. When the king of Xishu led an army of 30 troops to appear outside Jianye City, there were only less than [-] soldiers in the city, but Wu Xiang But with these [-] soldiers, the price of more than [-] casualties was paid to the King of Western Shu.

After this battle, Xishu was also seriously injured, and could no longer fully govern Wu, and the soldiers and civilians of Wu became more united after learning of their heroic deeds of Wu Huang, which caused a lot of trauma to the Xishu army. At present, most of the Western Shu Army has withdrawn from Wu State, leaving only a small number of light cavalry troops.

(End of this chapter)