The king behind the empress

Chapter 455

There were only tens of thousands of old and weak soldiers in Yanyang County, and Mo Zizai went there himself. It was hard to say whether those soldiers would dare to follow Wang Qianjun in rebellion, so Mo Zizai only brought two thousand red flame dragonriders, which was definitely more than enough.

After leaving Yang Yanzhang behind, Mo Zizai took Tang Weilu, Zhou Qi, and [-] Red Flame Dragon Riders to the nearest city to rest for a day, and then continued to rush towards Yanyang County immediately.

The Red Blood Dragon Cong in the Bone Forging Realm is not only fast, but also has amazing durability. The Wei Guojun marched for several days. Under the full exertion of the Red Blood Dragon Cong, it only took more than a day. It's over.

The first county that entered Yanyang County from Dazhou was Funing County. The guards of this county saw a cavalry troop approaching in the distance, so they didn't dare to be negligent, so they quickly closed the city gate and invited the county magistrate Han Yichao to the city wall above.

"What's the situation? Where are the cavalry from Yanyang County?"

Han Yichao felt a little apprehensive, Xiao Yanbing's army had come out of Funing County before, so he was well aware of the current situation in Yanyang County, so he was a little worried at this moment, whether the cavalry coming now would be the imperial court army.

But logically speaking, it shouldn't be. It hasn't been long since Xiao Yanbing's army set off. Even if the court wants to settle the case, it should defeat Xiao Yanbing's Wei Guojun first, and shouldn't come to Yanyang County first.

Just when Han Yichao was worried, Mo Zizai had already arrived under the city wall with the Chiyan Dragonrider.

After the army stopped, Zhou Qi leaped out, stood in front of the formation, and shook his hand violently towards the top of the city. A token was nailed to the top of the city like a sharp arrow.

"King Zizai is here, don't rush to open the city gate."

Hearing Yang Yanzhang's words, Han Yichao's heart skipped a beat. He was really afraid of something. He didn't expect it to be the imperial army, and it was led by Mo Zizai himself. I heard that this prince is not a good person.

After the masters in the county government took the token out from the top of the city wall, Han Yichao tremblingly took the token over, but after careful confirmation, he found that it was indeed the identity token of King Zizai, and he was ashamed.

"How can this be good...how can this be good..."

Han Yichao kept repeating this sentence, his body was shaking like a sieve. As an official of Wang Qianjun's lineage, now Wang Qianjun has defected to the enemy, and he has also had contact with the enemy generals, and even entertained Xiao Yanbing. If this matter is pursued At a young age, he is greedy for life and afraid of death, and his head will be lost. At an older age, he is surrendering to the enemy and traitorous, and his whole family will lose his head.

And now, Mo Zizai, who is known for his brutality, is here. After he settles his liquidation, can he still have it?

Thinking of the scene where his whole family was beheaded, Han Yichao, the dignified seventh-rank magistrate, was almost scared to pee.

It wasn't until Yang Yanzhang's urging voice came from the bottom of the city that he came back to his senses a little bit, and said tremblingly, "Yi...Yishan, you...you...go and open it for the prince..."

"My lord, don't worry."

Han Yichao's master, Zhu Yishan, saw that Han Yichao was going to let him open the city gate for Mo Zizai, so he hurriedly tried to dissuade him: "I feel that this city gate...can't be opened!"

"Huh? Ah!"

Han Yichao was taken aback for a moment, but when he realized his reaction, he exclaimed, "Then there is the genuine King of Freedom, you don't let him in, is it because you are impatient?"

"The real King of Freedom? Who knows?"

Zhu Yishan sneered, took Mo Zizai's identity token from Han Yichao's hand, and put it in his arms, then he spread his empty hands and said, "Now in this city, anyone who can tell the authenticity of this token is Fake ones are just a few people."

"Now, my lord says that this token is fake, so the King of Freedom below is fake."

"This... how does this work?"

Han Yichao said with some panic: "Deliberately denying the status of a prince is to punish the nine clans!"

"My lord, do you have any other choices?"

Zhu Yishan looked very calm at this time, he looked at Han Yichao, and said lightly: "Your Excellency is deeply involved with the County Sheriff, and now the County Sheriff has betrayed the country and defected to the enemy, and some time ago, the Lord also provided the enemy with food and grass, what do you think? Even if you let King Zizai enter the city, will he let you go?"

After these words, Han Yichao's face was obviously moved, but Zhu Yishan said while the iron was hot: "My lord, since you have already made a choice, you must not waver."

"Zheng Guo's army went straight to the capital, it must not be so easy to solve, and this small cavalry is very likely to be the remnant soldiers who were defeated by General Xiao Yanbing. They have nowhere to go, so they came to Yanyang County, my lord. Don't be confused at this moment!"

"We have the city wall to rely on. If we don't let them enter the city, they can't do anything to us with the cavalry alone. They will leave here in a few days at most. After they leave, it is not too late for us to wait and see what happens."

"Even if Xiao Yanbing's army is really defeated at that time, it would be better if my lord fled with his family than to be killed by Mo Zizai after opening the city gate now, right?"

"This……"

After Zhu Yishan said these words, Han Yichao's heart was moved instantly. After thinking about it for a while, he felt that Zhu Yishan's words made sense. Anyway, opening the city gate means death anyway. If this is the case, then it is better to give it a try. .

At that moment, his heart was overwhelmed, and he immediately made a decision, and said: "Let the soldiers be careful, the thieves in the city are bold, and dare to pretend to be King Zizai, absolutely don't let them in."

"Master is wise."

Hearing what Han Yichao said, Zhu Yishan showed a smile on his face, and after flattering Han Yichao, he took two steps forward, came to the crenel, and shouted to Mo Zizai and the others below: "Wait!" You thief, you are so brave, you dare to use a fake token to pretend to be the King of Zizai."

"I advise you to leave as soon as possible, otherwise when the imperial army arrives, you will surely die without a place to bury you."

Hearing this, Zhou Qi's expression darkened, and he yelled, "How courageous!"

"You dare to deny the identity of the prince, I think you are tired of living!"

"Okay, Saturday, come back."

Mo Zizai called Zhou Qi back with an angry face. He looked at the officials on the top of the city and was not too surprised by their choice.

After all, he was notorious and feared that he would kill them after he entered the city, so he didn't dare to open the city gate, which is understandable.

It's just that they really thought that if they didn't open the city gate, they wouldn't be able to enter the city by themselves.

The city wall in Funing County was only built to guard against bandits, so it was only four or five meters high in total. As for the city gate, it was even simpler. It was made of solid wood like Mo Zizai's ancient times in his previous life.

It's no problem to defend against ordinary troops, but to defend against the Red Flame Dragonriders is simply a dream.

Looking at the tall city gate, Mo Zizai showed a smile on his face. Yang Yanzhang had been obsessed with it before, and wanted to break through the city gate alone, but he didn't have any chance. He didn't expect that he was not here this time, but let himself caught up.

"Red Flame Dragon Knights, line up, charge!"

Mo Zizai shouted loudly, and the Red Flame Dragon Knight lined up behind him, and after finishing the formation, he led the Red Flame Dragon Knight and rushed directly towards the gate of Funing City.

"Are they crazy?"

Seeing Mo Zizai and the others charging towards the city gate, Han Yichao and the people from Zhu Yishan who were standing on the city wall looked dumbfounded. Even if their armor was thicker, they were still mortal bodies under the iron armor. Wouldn't it be possible to commit suicide by crashing into the city gate like this?

Just when they had doubts in their hearts and were considering whether to let the soldiers on the city wall shoot arrows to stop them, they heard a deafening sound suddenly sounded from under the city wall, and they all felt a weak shaking on the top of the city wall feel.

"what's the situation?"

Just when this idea came to the two of them, Mo Zizai in the city gate also came up with this idea with a blank face. Didn't the agreed script smash the city gate by himself?Why did the city gate shatter before I did it myself?

"Kill!"

In front of Mo Zizai, there was a yell. Tang Weilu was excitedly waving the giant knife in her hand and rushing forward, shouting to kill at the same time.

Just now, when she saw that Mo Zizai was about to smash the city gate, she felt itchy for a moment, and couldn't help but slapped it with a knife. As a result, the city gate, which was more than ten centimeters thick, was torn apart by her knife.

"Why are you still robbing me of my life..."

Looking at Tang Weilu who was rushing to the front, Mo Zizai galloped up and followed him resentfully. No need to ask, Tang Weilu must have been the one who smashed the city gate in front of him just now.

Thinking of this, Mo Zizai slapped Chi Yan lightly on the crotch, and complained: "Idiot, don't you usually run very fast? How did Xiao Lu overtake it?"

"Appreciate~"

Chi Yan snorted in disdain, you stupid two-legged beast, what a fart, your wife is riding my daughter-in-law, can I overtake it?
"Forget it, as long as she is happy."

Mo Zizai didn't understand Chi Yan's animal language either, so he gently urged Chi Yan to follow Tang Weilu with the Chi Yan dragonrider, so as not to cause any accidents to her.

Funing County was not a big county in the first place, and there were only one or two thousand soldiers in the garrison. After the Red Flame Dragon Knights smashed the city gate and entered the city like a god descending from the earth, none of the soldiers in the city dared to be urged and threatened by the county magistrate Han Yichao. Stepped forward to do it.

Seeing that no one dared to attack them, Mo Zizai led more than 100 soldiers of the Scarlet Flame Dragon Knight, and directly dismounted to the city wall.

As soon as Mo Zizai climbed up the city wall, those soldiers, Han Yichao and Zhu Yishan all fell to their knees in an instant.

"Here, who is in charge?"

Mo Zizai didn't let them get up, but asked with great interest: "Also, who said that the king's token is fake?"

"Come on, stand up and tell me what's wrong with this king?"

"My lord, please forgive me."

This time, Han Yichao was really scared to pee, the hem of the official uniform had already seen a puddle of water, he replied in a trembling voice: "Han Yichao, magistrate of Funing County, has seen King Zizai. "

"Oh, you are the magistrate."

Mo Zizai nodded with some understanding, and then said: "Just now, you said that this king's token is fake, right? This token has been used by this king for several years, and it is the first time someone said it is fake. Mr. Han is really different."

"Come on, tell me, where is it fake? I can't tell, I will kill you!"

"My lord, please forgive me, please forgive me!!!"

Hearing Mo Zizai's murderous words, Han Yichao hurriedly kowtowed and begged for mercy, "I was so confused by a ghost for a while, I didn't recognize the prince's token, I hope the prince will spare me!"

Han Yichao's voice was out of shape. After kowtowing for a while, he seemed to think of something, and quickly straightened up and pointed at Zhu Yishan and said, "My lord, it's him, he's the one who bewitched the officials to say that the lord's token is fake. of."

"It's all done by him, it has nothing to do with the lower officials!"

Zhu Yishan, who was pointed at by Han Yichao, lost his composure just now, and quickly shied away: "My lord, Caomin is just a master, this matter has nothing to do with me, it's all done by him, it has nothing to do with me!"

Seeing the two pushing each other, Mo Zizai felt a little funny, and didn't bother to scare the two little people any more. He shook his head and said, "Drag them both down and cut them down."

"My lord, forgive me..."

The two still wanted to beg for mercy, but the four Red Flame Dragon Knight soldiers walked over, grabbed the two by the throat, dragged them to a distance, and executed them on the spot.

After solving these two people, Mo Zizai learned about the situation in Funing County, and by the way cut off the county lieutenant, leaving a county magistrate who was not usually involved with the county magistrate to preside over the overall situation in Funing County, waiting for the court Send a new county magistrate.

From breaking the city to appointing the acting county magistrate, Mo Zizai didn't even use it for an hour. After finishing Funing County, he didn't delay at all, and rushed directly to Antong City, the county seat of Yanyang County. After all, if it was too late, the county Shou Wang Qianjun received the news, and might abscond in fear of crime.

And as the chief culprit who led to the fall of Yanyang County so quickly, it was obviously impossible for Mo Zizai to let him go.

Except for Funing County, Mo Zizai didn't enter any other cities. When he encountered a city, he went directly around the city. In just over an hour, he brought the Chiyan Dragonrider to Antong City, the county seat of Yanyang County.

"Yo, this is the news."

After arriving in Antong City, Mo Zizai found that the gates of the entire Antong City were closed, and the city walls were full of guarding soldiers, obviously guarding against their arrival.

"My lord, we have few people, so it may be difficult to attack the city."

Looking at the walls of Antong City, Zhou Qi frowned slightly. He was worried that Mo Zizai would attack the city regardless, so he persuaded him: "Why don't we find a place to station and wait for General Yang to bring the rest of the Red Flame Dragon Knights?" Let's talk when we get there?"

"Need not."

Mo Zizai shook his head, and said, "Yanyang County is the Yanyang County of Dazhou, not his Yanyang County of Wang Qianjun."

"He betrayed the country and turned to the enemy. I don't believe that the entire Antong City has turned to the enemy."

After finishing speaking, Mo Zizai opened his mouth to order: "Send someone to shout out, just say that Wang Qianjun has betrayed the country and surrendered to the enemy, and the crime is unforgivable."

"Let the officials in the city take down Wang Qianjun, and then open the city gate. Otherwise, when the army enters the city, all relevant people in the city will be guilty of the same crime as him."

"I want to see how many people in this city dare to follow Wang Qianjun all the way to the dark."

Unlike the private soldiers of those aristocratic families, the soldiers and officials in this city were all supported by Da Zhou's salary. Mo Zizu didn't believe that those people would defend Wang Qianjun desperately.

"Here."

Seeing that Mo Zizai didn't intend to attack by force, Zhou Qi was slightly relieved, and then asked people to approach the gate of the city, and began to shout.

(End of this chapter)