allonlinenovel Chapter 314 Trends
Chapter 314 Trends
After an hour of escape, the sound of pursuit behind him finally stopped.
Zhou Bailin took Xiao Nian and hid in a dilapidated house.
At this moment, Xiao Nian was already extremely weak, with only Zhou Bailin and two trusted guards left by his side.
The mutiny failed, and Xiao Nian no longer had the ability to fight against Prime Minister Liu.
"Your Highness, there are no pursuers behind us."
Zhou Bailin was panting and covered in blood and sweat.
Xiao Nian sat down on the ground weakly, gasping for breath.
"Your Highness, how are you?"
Zhou Bolin said with a worried look on his face.
After this failure, their situation has become extremely dangerous, and it is unknown whether they can leave Jiankang City safely.
"This world will eventually be defeated by Prime Minister Liu..."
Xiao Nian murmured with a look of despair.
"Don't worry, Your Highness. We still have a chance. As long as Your Highness can leave Jiankang City alive, everything is possible."
Zhou Bailin could only comfort her in this way, but he was also very clear that there were dangers lurking both inside and outside the capital.
Xiao Nian remained silent, staring blankly at the mottled wall.
Zhou Bailin sighed in his heart and said, "Your Highness, please take a rest for a while and wait until dark before escaping from Jiankang City. However, the Yan army has already arrived outside Jiankang City. If Your Highness can leave Jiankang City, you must flee to the southeast."
Xiao Nian was silent for a while, then suddenly said, "We can look for the Yan army."
"what?"
Zhou Bailin was slightly stunned and did not understand what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said.
"I am going to meet the Yan army and ask them to attack Jiankang City."
Xiao Nian said again.
Hearing this, Zhou Bolin was a little more surprised and confused, and couldn't help asking: "Your Highness, what do you mean by this?"
If we let the Yan army capture Jiankang City, wouldn't that be a betrayal of the State of Chen?
Xiao Nian's eyes were sharp at this moment, and he said: "Now only the Yan army can attack Jiankang City and destroy Prime Minister Liu's party!"
"But the Yan army is also our enemy. If they capture Jiankang City, won't our Chen Kingdom be destroyed?"
Zhou Bailin was totally unable to understand what the prince meant.
"Giving up Jiankang City and destroying Prime Minister Liu's party is completely acceptable. We still have a large territory in Chen State, which is enough to deal with Yan State."
Xiao Nian said that he did not want to surrender to the State of Yan, but wanted to use the military force of the State of Yan to deal with the enemy, Prime Minister Liu.
Zhou Bailin frowned: "But the people of Yan are not trustworthy..."
"It is impossible for the Yan army to break through Jiankang City in a short time. Only if we cooperate with them, the Yan people will definitely agree."
Xiao Nian said.
Zhou Bolin asked: "Your Highness, do you really want to do this?"
"We have no choice. As the Minister of War, you must be very familiar with the city's defenses and the guards of the capital."
Zhou Bailin nodded but said nothing.
Xiao Nian then said, "The Yan army cannot occupy Jiankang City for a long time. When the Yan army leaves, if they don't leave, we will still have a chance to regain the lost territory. As long as there is only one Chen person alive, Yan will not be able to annex Chen."
At this moment, Prince Xiao Nian had a very special idea in his mind. He wanted to use the Yan army to get rid of Prime Minister Liu, and then he would continue to gather troops and drive the Yan army out of Chen State, hoping to kill someone with a borrowed knife.
After hearing this, Zhou Bailin also fell into hesitation.
"I will stay in Jiankang City and support Your Highness at any time. We still have thousands of imperial guards hiding in the dark, which Prime Minister Liu and his party do not know. If Your Highness really wants to let the Yan army enter the city, in three days, I will lead people to seize the north city and open the city gates to let the Yan army occupy Jiankang City..."
As Zhou Bailin spoke, he couldn't help feeling sad.
He also did not expect that the failure of this mutiny would end up like this, and the prince even wanted to use the power of the Yan army to deal with the Prime Minister Liu who was so powerful that he could cover the sky with one hand.
But no matter what, he must save the life of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
"You stay in Jiankang City. I want to go and talk to the commander of the Yan army in person."
Xiao Nian has made up his mind.
Zhou Bailin nodded silently. For the prince, the safest thing to do now was to leave Jiankang City.
"But the current guards in the capital must be extremely strict. How can we escape from the capital?"
Xiao Nian couldn't help feeling a little more desperate at this moment.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty. Among the soldiers guarding the North City are my trusted men. The city is still in chaos. We can take advantage of the fact that Prime Minister Liu and his party are not paying attention and secretly open the city gate. Then Your Majesty can leave quickly."
Xiao Nian looked up at Zhou Bailin and nodded.
dark.
The palace was in a mess.
Thousands of corpses lay on the ground.
Prime Minister Liu looked solemn as he looked at the bloodstains. He turned his head and asked fiercely, "Where is the prince?"
The imperial guard general's face showed a little more fear, and he whispered back: "Prime Minister, the crown prince... is nowhere to be seen."
"waste!"
Prime Minister Liu immediately became furious and slapped the general in the face.
The general immediately fell to the ground, covered his right face, and knelt down and kowtowed, begging for mercy: "Please spare my life, Prime Minister!"
"I heard that there was a riot in the north city, and someone took the opportunity to open the city gate. Perhaps the prince took the opportunity to escape from Jiankang City..."
Eunuch Wang said with an uneasy look on his face.
If the prince really escaped, then Prime Minister Liu and his men would have lost the mutiny.
Upon hearing this, Prime Minister Liu was filled with anger. He drew the sword from his waist and killed the kneeling general with one blow.
Eunuch Wang was so frightened that his face turned pale and he dared not speak.
"What is the movement of the Yan army?"
Prime Minister Liu calmed down his anger a little and asked.
After all, the enemies inside and outside the capital now are not just the prince's gang.
The Yan army outside the city is also their biggest enemy.
Eunuch Wang replied, "The Yan army has already crossed the Yangtze River and is heading towards Jiankang City."
Prime Minister Liu tightly grasped his sword and ordered, "Then let these Yan people go and never come back!"
He was very confident that he could stop the Yan army outside the city of Jiankang.
……
On the Yan army's side, most of the main forces had already crossed the wide river in a mighty manner using the rafts on the north bank.
After a day and a night of forced crossing, tens of thousands of troops and food and equipment had arrived at the south bank, heading towards the Jiankang City Imperial Guards.
The vanguard troops have already arrived outside Jiankang City.
"What's the situation in Jiankang City?"
Jiang Zuo asked, picking up the telescope and observing the city in the distance.
"Our army doesn't know yet."
The subordinate replied.
As early as a few days ago, Jiankang City had already been under martial law. No one could enter or leave Jiankang City, so the Yan army could not send spies to gather intelligence.
"How many troops does Chen Jun have in Jiankang City?"
Jiang Zuo asked again.
The subordinate replied: "According to the intelligence we got from the front line, the Chen army in Jiankang City may have nearly 100,000 soldiers."
This number of 100,000 is obviously much higher than that of the Yan army.